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Stacked on #261. Nothing here changes a derived number — there is no kAlgoVersion bump, and if one becomes necessary the change is wrong. This is "faster and shorter", nothing else.

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~90 lines of SpO2 diagnostics ran on the calling isolate, per derived day, in release. SpO2 is refused permanently, not parked — the pipeline says so in its own words and odi is a const Metric.absent, so most of what the logger printed was a compile-time constant. It did ~14 full passes over ~28,800-sample arrays plus two HashSets and a growable List<double>, for every day including backfill. Deleting it orphaned DayBundleInput.sleepSpo2Red/sleepSpo2Ir, which deriveDayBundle never read — they were serialized and copied across the isolate boundary purely to be ignored. 8 call sites fixed.
The refusal metric, its tier, inputs_used and note are untouched. This deletes a logger, never an abstention path.

dbCounts cost 13 full-table COUNT(*) pairs and fed one log line. With the writes gone the field would have been written never and read once, printing a permanent raw=0 — a field that exists only to log a lie — so it went too. LocalDb.counts() stays; two tests use it. Every enclosing block survived: five of those sites sit inside if (…) { notifyListeners(); }-shaped blocks, and deleting the block rather than the statement would have re-introduced the staleness bug #261 just fixed.

importEdgeBackup hand-inflated gzip that importFromDbFile already inflates. The duplicate was also the unsafe one: Dart's gzip.decoder returns partial output on a truncated .db.gz without raising, so a half-synced backup restored short and reported success — on the one path where the original is already gone. The downstream inflate reads the CRC32/ISIZE trailer off the file.

the one that is a bug wearing a perf costume

_reanalyzeForOverride never bumped insightsRevision. Every sleep override, nap edit and phone-steps toggle rewrites day_result and no RevisionReload screen noticed. One line.

hot paths

onHistoricalData re-parsed its own hex back into bytes to read one byte the caller already had. It takes revision now; the unused Sample? went with it. Semantics are exact — the caller already computes recType = inner.length > 1 ? inner[1] : -1, so the new revision < 0 guard is the old inner.length < 2 guard. ~6 MB of garbage per gen4 offload (not the 18 MB originally claimed; v20/v21/v26 never reach this path).

The rest countdown rebuilt the entire workout shell once a second, in the file that introduced LiveTick to stop exactly this — ~1,200 full-subtree rebuilds in a strength session. restLeft is a ValueNotifier; only the body branch is wrapped, the footer is untouched, and setState stays at the zero crossing where the shape genuinely changes.
The test asserts the LiveShell instance is identical across a tick, not just that the text moved — a text-only assertion passes on the broken version too. Verified it fails pre-change.

App icons decoded at source resolution. cacheWidth only; the source is a third-party launcher icon and need not be square.

DayBundleInput.fromJson unboxed every array the substrate deliberately packed. dbls returns a Float64List — copied, never aliased, so the synchronous test path cannot hand two repos a shared mutable array. The ints/strs fast paths were skipped on purpose: Smis and Strings box nothing per element, and a strs fast path would hand out a const [] where a growable list goes out today.
Worth a reviewer's eye: Float64List is fixed-length where .toList() was growable. Nothing mutates these and all six deriveDayBundle test callers exercise the typed lists through toJson/fromJson, so if something downstream ever starts growing a caller-owned list it throws rather than corrupts — loud, not silent.

housekeeping

One commit (drop the spo2 diagnostic logger…) also contains the Float64List change; the message only describes the first. The no-amend rule caught it after the fact. Diff is correct, message is incomplete.

DerivationEngine.runDays now has zero production callers — deleting reanalyzeDays took the last one, and only derive_result_protection_test.dart calls it. Left alone deliberately; that is a decision, not a reflex delete.

2795 tests pass, 422 golden skips, analyze clean.


PR Type

Bug fix, Enhancement


Description

  • Remove sleepSpo2Red/sleepSpo2Ir fields and ~90-line SpO2 diagnostic logger that ran per-day on the calling isolate, burning CPU on permanently-refused data

  • Eliminate dbCounts field and all 13 LocalDb.counts() calls; fix sleep-override/nap re-derive not refreshing screens by calling bumpInsights() instead

  • Stop double-inflating gzip backups in importEdgeBackup; importFromDbFile already handles it with trailer validation

  • Convert strength-workout rest countdown from setState field to ValueNotifier, preventing full LiveShell rebuilds on every tick; fix yoga hold timer similarly


Diagram Walkthrough

flowchart LR
  A["BLE ingest\n(ble_engine.dart)"] -- "passes revision int\n(not raw hex)" --> B["BurstStats.onHistoricalData"]
  C["importEdgeBackup\n(app_state.dart)"] -- "removed hand-rolled\ngzip inflate" --> D["LocalDb.importFromDbFile\n(handles gzip internally)"]
  E["_reanalyzeForOverride\n_reanalyzeDays\nstopWorkout"] -- "replaced _bumpInsightsRevision\nalias" --> F["bumpInsights()"]
  G["DayBundleInput"] -- "removed sleepSpo2Red\nsleepSpo2Ir fields" --> H["deriveDayBundle\n(isolate boundary)"]
  I["_LiveStrengthState\nrestLeft field + setState"] -- "converted to" --> J["ValueNotifier<int>\n+ ValueListenableBuilder"]
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Relevant files
Enhancement
3 files
ble_engine.dart
Pass revision int to BurstStats, drop hex re-parse             
+11/-12 
onehz_pipeline.dart
Drop sleepSpo2Red/Ir fields; optimize dbls() with Float64List
+16/-13 
band_notifications.dart
Decode notification app icons at display size only             
+9/-1     
Bug fix
3 files
derivation_engine.dart
Remove SpO2 diagnostic logger and spo2Red/spo2Ir inputs   
+0/-83   
app_state.dart
Remove dbCounts, fix override re-derive screen refresh, drop
double-gzip
+14/-88 
live.dart
Rest countdown to ValueNotifier; fix yoga hold timer rebuild
+39/-15 
Tests
7 files
ble_safe_trim_test.dart
Update onHistoricalRecord calls to pass revision int         
+16/-15 
daily_energy_consistency_test.dart
Remove sleepSpo2Red/Ir from DayBundleInput test fixture   
+0/-2     
derivation_pipeline_test.dart
Remove spo2 arrays from pipeline test fixtures                     
+1/-9     
hr_ceiling_zones_test.dart
Remove sleepSpo2Red/Ir from HR ceiling zones test fixture
+0/-2     
resting_hr_nocturnal_only_test.dart
Remove sleepSpo2Red/Ir from resting HR test fixture           
+0/-2     
strain_resting_hr_source_test.dart
Remove sleepSpo2Red/Ir from strain/RHR test fixture           
+0/-2     
ui2_activity_test.dart
Add test: rest countdown does not rebuild LiveShell           
+30/-0   
Miscellaneous
1 files
derive_probe.dart
Remove sleepSpo2Red/Ir from derive probe tool                       
+0/-2     

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved historical data processing by preserving packet revision information and handling invalid values safely.
    • Resolved a data-type issue that could cause derivation failures.
    • Simplified backup imports for more reliable database restoration.
  • Performance

    • Reduced unnecessary payload parsing and database-count refreshes.
    • Improved countdown updates for smoother exercise screens.
    • Optimized notification icon loading.
  • Changes

    • Removed internal SpO₂ diagnostics and related serialized fields.
    • Replaced database-count updates with insight refresh notifications.
    • Removed the selected-day reanalysis option.

overrides rewrote day_result and nothing told the screens, so an edit only
showed up after a restart. also dropped reanalyzeDays and the
_bumpInsightsRevision alias — no callers.
importFromDbFile already sniffs and inflates, and unlike gzip.decoder it
checks the trailer — the hand-rolled block would restore a truncated
backup short and call it a success.
the notification-relay list decodes every app icon at whatever the launcher
shipped — up to 512 px — to paint a 32 pt row. cacheWidth only: these are
third-party icons and not all of them are square, so pinning both dimensions
would squash them.

same reasoning as _IconChoice in settings.dart.
BurstStats.onHistoricalData took the record hex and ran the whole thing back
through hexToBytes just to reach inner[1] — the revision — which the ingest
path had already read as recType two hundred lines earlier. one throwaway
buffer per record, on every record of every offload: roughly 6 MB of garbage
for a full gen4 backfill.

pass the revision, drop the Sample the function never looked at.
restLeft was a field behind setState, so each of the ninety ticks between sets
rebuilt _LiveStrengthState and with it a fresh LiveShell — header, transport,
footer, body — in the file that added LiveTick to stop exactly this. a session
with twenty sets does it well over a thousand times.

it's a ValueNotifier now, with only the rest ring listening. setState stays at
the zero crossing, where the footer and the body branch genuinely change.

the yoga hold timer had the same wrapper for nothing — that body already
rebuilds at 1 Hz through the shell clock, so the setState just bought a second
rebuild of the same subtree. deleted.

test pumps a set, ticks a second, and checks the LiveShell instance is the
same one while the countdown moved. fails on the old code.
13 sites each ran a full-table COUNT(*) over every table just to feed one
'raw=' in the session-start log. counts() stays, two tests use it.
spo2 is refused permanently, so the logger was printing compile-time
constants — 14 passes over the sleep arrays on the calling isolate,
unconditionally, for every derived day. sleepSpo2Red/Ir went with it:
deriveDayBundle never read them, they were only serialized and copied
across the isolate boundary to be ignored. substrate keeps its raw
channels, and the refusal metric is untouched.
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stacked on #261 so it targets that branch rather than main — review it anyway please. everything here is meant to be output-identical, so anything that looks like it changes a number is a real finding.

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The PR updates historical packet revision flow, removes raw sleep SpO₂ inputs and diagnostics, simplifies AppState synchronization, localizes activity countdown rebuilds, and adjusts launcher icon decoding.

Changes

Packet revision handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Direct revision propagation
lib/ble/ble_engine.dart
Historical packet revisions pass from ingestion through DrainController to BurstStats, which no longer reparses hexadecimal payloads.

Compute input and diagnostics

Layer / File(s) Summary
Day-bundle input contract
lib/compute/onehz_pipeline.dart
DayBundleInput removes raw sleep SpO₂ channels and deserializes numeric lists into copied Float64List values.
SpO₂ diagnostic removal
lib/compute/derivation_engine.dart
Derivation no longer supplies raw sleep SpO₂ channels or emits SpO₂ diagnostic logs.

Application state and synchronization

Layer / File(s) Summary
Backup import delegation
lib/state/app_state.dart
Edge backup imports delegate path handling to LocalDb.importFromDbFile.
Insight signaling and synchronization
lib/state/app_state.dart
dbCounts refreshes are removed, and durable data changes use the public bumpInsights() signal while derivation scheduling remains.

Activity countdown rendering

Layer / File(s) Summary
Countdown state updates
lib/ui2/activity/live.dart
Strength rest countdown updates use a ValueNotifier; flow hold countdown updates state directly while the shell clock rebuilds the body.

Notification icon decoding

Layer / File(s) Summary
Launcher icon cache sizing
lib/ui2/profile/band_notifications.dart
Launcher icons use a device-pixel-ratio-based cacheWidth with fixed 32×32 rendering.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to f95d9

The change improves reanalysis refresh behavior, but progress updates can still leave revision-based screens showing stale derived data until processing completes. This should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging.

Suggested reviewers: dannymcc

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@abdulsaheel I will review #263 against its stacked base, #261. I will treat any change to derived output as a finding. I will also check the relevant analytics-version and recomputation invariants from the repository guidance.


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Timestamp: 2026-07-26T08:43:35.363Z
Learning: Applies to lib/compute/derivation_engine.dart : Bump kAlgoVersion and add a changelog entry whenever analytics output changes, including changes caused by a sibling analytics re-pin.

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File: AGENTS.md:0-0
Timestamp: 2026-07-26T08:43:35.363Z
Learning: Applies to lib/**/*.{dart} : Recomputation must be idempotent: repeated derivation with additional data must not duplicate baseline entries, drift persisted scalars, or append where replacement is required; use trailingSeriesValues for trailing windows.
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 _rest = Timer.periodic(Motion.tick, (t) {
   if (!mounted) return;
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     t.cancel();
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merged main in — this now sits on top of the audit + ux rounds rather than a stacked branch, and the full suite is green (2827 pass, goldens skipped).

worth knowing what this pr is: everything here is meant to be output-identical. no kAlgoVersion bump, no derived number moves. so anything you spot that changes a stored or computed value is a real defect, not a tradeoff — that is the thing i most want checked.

the three places it would be easiest to have broken that silently:

  • DayBundleInput.fromJson now returns a Float64List for the doubles. it copies rather than aliases on purpose — if the diff ever hands back the caller-owned list, two repos share a mutable array.
  • _reanalyzeForOverride gained a bumpInsights() it was missing, which is a behaviour fix wearing a perf costume.
  • the spo2 diagnostic logger deletion also removed two DayBundleInput fields the isolate never read. eight call sites had to change.

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I will treat changes to stored values or derived values as defects. I will check DayBundleInput.fromJson copy ownership, _reanalyzeForOverride revision notification behavior, and all removed SpO2 input paths.

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1383-1386: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Bump the durable-data revision during progress updates.

Line 1385 and Line 1820 call notifyListeners(), but RevisionReload reloads only after insightsRevision changes. Long derivations therefore do not update insight screens at the documented progress checkpoints. Call bumpInsights() in both throttled callback branches.

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 if (index == total || index == 1 || index % 3 == 0) {
+  bumpInsights();
   notifyListeners();
 }

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In `@lib/state/app_state.dart` around lines 1383 - 1386, Update both throttled
progress callback branches around onDayDone and the corresponding callback near
the second notifyListeners call to invoke bumpInsights() alongside
notifyListeners(), ensuring insightsRevision advances at each documented
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In `@lib/state/app_state.dart`:
- Around line 1918-1923: Update deleteDays to call bumpInsights() after the
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In `@lib/ui2/activity/live.dart`:
- Around line 1808-1813: Keep the _hold timer and Hold label synchronized while
the activity is paused: prevent the periodic _hold update when paused, or make
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notifyListeners alone left a RevisionReload screen showing days that are gone
until some unrelated bump — and this is the one write where the stale copy is
data the user asked to destroy.
paused stops advancing elapsedSec, so the shell stops repainting and a hold
still counting behind a frozen screen sat wrong then jumped on resume. a
paused session isn't holding a pose.
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