Activity not saved
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Hi, after a 6 hour hike I put the watch in the wrist of my son for the last 5 mins and told him to NOT TOUCH THE RED BUTTON. Guess the rest. When I got it afterwards the watch face was showing the time screen.
Is there any way of recovering that track?
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@djibarian
Did you check the logbook ? Maybe it was autosaved.If not … you already know
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@sartoric autosaved? Does that option even exists? I know that I didn’t click on Save, but don’t you think that a 6 hour activity record should at least saved without prompt? If you don’t want it, delete it afterwards
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@djibarian
I haven’t seen a discard button after ending an activity -
@djibarian
Afair If you stop the activity and you do nothing in the smiley and then in the summary views (confirm or scroll down to delete) it should autosave the activity after a while.but don’t you think that a 6 hour activity record should at least saved without prompt?
as I said, that’s what usually happen if you do nothing (and neither delete the activity from the summary view)
What is not clear is if you did stop the activity before passing the watch to your son ?
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@sartoric I discovered what happened. As you say, the activity is saved automatically and the only way I found to remove it from the log was scrolling down and deleting it, but I thought there were too many clicks for my son to follow.
So I started an activity, moved to the track screen and gave my son the watch and asked him to do the same he did. And guess what. He clicked to finish, clicked the smile, SCROLLED DOWN TO THE BOTTOM, CLICKED ON DELETE AND CLICKED ON CONFIRM!!! He is 5!!!
How the hell?? If I told him not to touch the red button and he clicked it many times!! What a little evil.
Anyway I always thought there was some kind of bad UX involved as myself got in a similar situation every time I reviewed a track, because you tend to scroll down to see all the activity totals and you always end up in the Delete button, and you have to be very careful to not click it. It shouldn’t be there at all, only if seeing the screen from the log. That would solve the problem.
So my new question is, is there any way to recover a deleted activity?
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I don’t think so.
“If you made a recording you don’t want to keep, you can delete the log entry by scrolling to the bottom of the summary and tapping the delete button. You can also delete logs in the same way from the logbook.” -
@freeheeler I know. My only hope is that the activity is not actually deleted but only flagged so I could get a database dump clicking the About version on Android and recover it from there. Does anyone know if possible?
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@djibarian
For sure you need a rooted Android to access the db.
That said I don’t know if it’s deleted or flagged -
@sartoric
I think Sir @Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos could answer -
@sartoric you don’t need a rooted device to get the db. You can click the version number to get it as explained by another user in my rant about POIs
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@djibarian
So, take it
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@djibarian
If i understand well, your activity has been deleted in the watch itself during the last step of saving process?
Then it has never reached SA and no dump will show you anything in your phone. -
did you try to upgrade your son’s FW? for me seems to be an issue with the listening system or the decision engine
Sorry for that bad joke, here a 8 years old kid father that perfectly understand you
