Investigate the connection between active watchface and HR crashing the app / watch about sleep-as-android-garmin-addon

[rodrigoarratia]

Not sure if it was this or the last update, but today I got all the data + heart rate with the Forerunner 235. Previously it was failing.

I removed all the watchfaces I had installed but weren't used, so I only have the one called "Rails" now, and worked perfectly last night.

[TheNetStriker]

Thank for the hint. I had the same problem with the TimeStyle watchface. I also had to uninstall the watch completely to fix the problem.

I will try to contact the developer of the watchface. There must be some kind of background service that is causing this problem.

[TheNetStriker]

Update: I still have the problem, even when no other apps are installed. I guess it just happens more often if other apps are installed.

I've tried to find out what is stopping the application by adding a debug log in the onStop method and logged the state. Here is the value of the state dictionary when the app is stopped:

{symbol (8391788)=>true}

Sadly I have no idea what this means and I also did not find anthing about this in the documentation from Garmin. Does anyone have an idea what this means?

Edit: I just found out that this number is the :suspend symbol. Also when the app is started again the number 8391787 is passed to the onStart state dictionary which is the :resume flag.

The only thing I found regarding this suspend symbol is the following from the API docs:

If true, the app has been suspended and the current state can be resumed at a later time.

But I've found no information how the app can be started again.

[TheNetStriker]

I guess I found out what is causing the app to close.

Apparently the watch has a touchscreen gesture that closes the app when the touchscreen is covered completely with the hand. So when I place my arm on the screen during sleep the app just closes because of this gesture.

I've already disabled the touchscreen during activity, but then this gesture is still working. I have to disable the touchscreen compleletey to disable this.

Is it somehow possible to disable this specific gesture only?