ios: wake on band prompts instead of holding a 1 Hz HR stream in background - #445
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Pure decisions for the iOS background change: who programs the band's HIGH_FREQ_SYNC prompt (smart wake beats the 15-min background keep-alive, a background lease renews past half-way), a keep-alive fuse that ignores silence accumulated while the process could not run, and a resume verdict that probes a quiet no-stream link instead of tearing it down.
A tick that arrives more than two periods late means the process was suspended (iOS between band prompts); the fuse restarts its clock there and the forced battery poll does the asking. probeLink() sends GET_BATTERY_LEVEL and reports whether a reply correlated, for resume paths that must not guess. Exposes highFreqReason/highFreqUntil for the caller that programs the prompt.
…ground The iosBackgroundKeepalive owner held the realtime-HR stream the whole time the app was backgrounded, purely so the inbound 1 Hz notification kept the suspended process schedulable: ~86,400 wakes a day, 62% of a day's battery with 20 min on screen. Background now owns nothing on either platform; instead the band is asked to prompt us every 15 min via ENTER_HIGH_FREQ_SYNC (2 h lease, renewed from the existing 25-min background tick), and the engine's existing prompt handler runs the offload. Foreground resume and the BG-task catch-up probe a quiet link before reusing it rather than reconnecting on every open.
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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe PR replaces iOS background 1 Hz HR streaming with band-driven prompts. It adds prompt policy and resume probing, makes BLE liveness suspension-aware, removes the iOS background stream owner, and updates AppState resume and foreground handling. ChangesiOS background wake
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~30 minutes Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Medium Suggested reviewers: Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant AppState
participant BandPromptPolicy
participant BleEngine
participant WHOOPBand
AppState->>BandPromptPolicy: plan background or smart-wake request
BandPromptPolicy-->>AppState: return selected prompt request
AppState->>BleEngine: apply the selected wake window
BleEngine->>WHOOPBand: program HIGH_FREQ_SYNC
WHOOPBand-->>BleEngine: emit prompt wake
BleEngine->>WHOOPBand: drain data and send acknowledgement
Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Transient BLE failures can stop background synchronization or leave unnecessary prompt wakes active. Resolve these recovery defects before merging. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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Reviewer's GuideThe PR stops using a 1 Hz realtime-HR stream as an iOS background wake source, instead leasing 15-minute band sync prompts and adapting BLE liveness/resume behavior to process suspension, with focused policy, engine, ownership, documentation, and hardware-validation tests. Sequence diagram for iOS background band-prompt wake and backfillsequenceDiagram
participant AppState
participant BleEngine
participant Band
participant iOS
AppState->>BleEngine: desiredLiveStreams
BleEngine-->>Band: realtime HR stream off
AppState->>BleEngine: applyHighFreqWakeWindow
BleEngine->>Band: ENTER_HIGH_FREQ_SYNC every 900s lease 2h
Note over Band,iOS: Process suspends between prompt notifications
Band-->>iOS: HIGH_FREQ_SYNC_PROMPT BLE notification
iOS->>BleEngine: wake suspended process
BleEngine->>BleEngine: BackfillTrigger.strap
BleEngine->>Band: flash offload request
Band-->>BleEngine: backfill records
BleEngine-->>AppState: backfill complete
Flow diagram for suspension-aware link resumeflowchart TD
A[Resume with connected BLE link] --> B{resumeLinkAction}
B -->|fresh data| C[Reuse link]
B -->|quiet and stream armed| D[Reconnect]
B -->|quiet and no stream armed| E[probeLink]
E --> F{Battery reply received}
F -->|yes| C
F -->|no| D
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Needs a human reviewer. This changes background capture and link-liveness behavior across AppState, the BLE engine, and band prompt programming. If the prompt lease, suspension detection, or probe is wrong, background records may be delayed or missed and the link may reconnect unnecessarily; reverting stops the new behavior, while the affected backlog should generally be recoverable by a later drain or rerun.
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🟠 Major · Arm the prompt after background restore reconciliation. · app_state.dart:2424-2429
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_backfillTimer. Its first callback is deferred, and the background callback refreshes the prompt only on a later periodic tick. iOS can suspend the process before that tick, so the replacement prompt may remain unarmed after the existing lease expires.The adjacent comment is stale. Background iOS owns no live streams;
HIGH_FREQ_SYNCreplaces the former 1 Hz HR stream.Proposed fix
- // Apply the owners' intent to the fresh link: iOS backgrounded - // owns HR (the 1 Hz notification keeps the suspended process - // schedulable); Android backgrounded owns nothing and stays - // stream-less. See [_liveOwners]. + // Apply the owners' intent to the fresh link: backgrounded iOS + // and Android own no live streams. HIGH_FREQ_SYNC wakes the + // suspended iOS process. See [_liveOwners]. await engine.reconcileLiveStreams(); + await _refreshHighFreqWakeWindow(); _startBackfillTimer();🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@docs/superpowers/specs/2026-09-21-ios-background-wake-design.md`:
- Around line 81-98: Update the BandPromptPolicy.plan contract to use duration
instead of intervalSeconds and accept smartWake as a nullable BandPromptRequest
plus String? currentReason instead of the separate smart-wake and current-until
parameters. Ensure currentReason is retained so the policy can distinguish iOS
background leases from smart-wake leases, and keep the return type
BandPromptRequest?.
In `@lib/ble/ble_engine.dart`:
- Around line 1730-1731: Update _teardownSession to clear both _highFreqReason
and _highFreqUntil on every teardown, including unintentional disconnects,
before or while resetting _session. Preserve the existing high-frequency getters
and other teardown behavior.
In `@lib/state/app_state.dart`:
- Line 5355: Update the high-frequency wake refresh flow around
HighFreqWakeWindow.planNow and engine.applyHighFreqWakeWindow to use a refresh
generation token, incrementing it for each newer request and revalidating it
after every await, including before claiming the written state inside
applyHighFreqWakeWindow. Prevent stale background refreshes from applying or
claiming ios_background after a newer foreground refresh has started;
alternatively serialize the full apply operation with latest-request validation.
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In `@lib/state/app_state.dart`:
- Around line 2424-2429: Update the background restore flow after
reconcileLiveStreams to await _refreshHighFreqWakeWindow before starting
_backfillTimer, ensuring the replacement prompt is armed immediately. Revise the
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A restore relaunch after a process kill lands in _init's background branch, not openSession. It reconciled live streams (now: none on iOS) but never programmed the prompt, so a relaunched process had no wake source until a foreground open. Review finding on OpenStrap#445.
…hes, sync spec - _teardownSession clears _highFreqReason/_highFreqUntil/_highFreqModeRequested on unintentional drops too, not only in the next connect's setup. - _refreshHighFreqWakeWindow is single-flight and coalescing (same shape as the engine's live reconciler) so a stale background pass can never outlive a newer foreground pass and leave the band prompting with the engine believing it asked for it. - Spec's BandPromptPolicy contract now matches the implementation.
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🟠 Major · Guard high-frequency state updates by session generation. · ble_engine.dart:4398-4400
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applyHighFreqWakeWindowcan complete its_writeafter_teardownSessionclears the state and a successor session connects. Its continuation can then restore the old lease._disableHighFreqSynccan similarly clear a successor session's state. Capture the session and_linkGenerationbefore each write, pass the session as_write's owner, and update or clear the fields only when that session and generation are still current and connected.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@docs/superpowers/specs/2026-09-21-ios-background-wake-design.md`:
- Around line 98-101: Update the iOS background prompt contract around
_refreshHighFreqWakeWindow and the smartWake/currentReason/currentUntil fields
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4.0. Use a gen4-safe request, or explicitly document and support this degraded
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to capture the current session and _linkGeneration before each _write, pass that
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| required BandPromptRequest? smartWake, | ||
| required bool iosBackgrounded, | ||
| required String? currentReason, // engine.highFreqReason | ||
| required DateTime? currentUntil, // engine.highFreqUntil |
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Make the gen4 contract explicit for the iOS background prompt. _refreshHighFreqWakeWindow sets iosBackgrounded from _background && Platform.isIOS and passes the policy result to the engine without a generation guard. The engine sends the 900-second, two-hour request using the session's band profile, so WHOOP 4.0 can receive values whose gen4 bounds remain unknown. If gen4 rejects either value, prompt-based background sync can stop. The existing BG-task, restore-wake, and foreground fallback avoids total sync loss but does not preserve the proposed prompt cadence. Use a gen4-safe request or make this degraded fallback an explicit supported behavior.
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In `@docs/superpowers/specs/2026-09-21-ios-background-wake-design.md` around lines
98 - 101, Update the iOS background prompt contract around
_refreshHighFreqWakeWindow and the smartWake/currentReason/currentUntil fields
so the engine never sends unsupported 900-second or two-hour values for WHOOP
4.0. Use a gen4-safe request, or explicitly document and support this degraded
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Capture the session and link generation before each write, pass the session as the write owner, and only mutate the high-frequency state if that link is still the live one — a continuation resuming after a reconnect must neither claim the mode on a successor that never got the ENTER nor clear what the successor has since programmed. Review finding on OpenStrap#445.
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This PR makes a lot of sense and should help solve the battery issues on both the band and mobile. It also addresses the longstanding discussion around whether we should maintain a high-frequency active connection or not. That said, it might affect quite a few other features as well. Please allow me enough time to review it thoroughly. Thanks! |
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In `@lib/ble/ble_engine.dart`:
- Around line 7713-7720: The battery-level request flow around _pollBatteryIfDue
and probeLink must serialize or coalesce concurrent Cmd.getBatteryLevel calls so
only one _sendAwaited wait is pending at a time. Reuse the existing in-flight
request for overlapping callers, or guard creation with an equivalent
synchronization mechanism, while preserving the current reply and timeout
handling.
- Around line 4735-4738: Update _disableHighFreqSync to capture the boolean
result from _write and, after the _liveStale check, return without clearing
_highFreqModeRequested when the write fails; log that the exit failed and
remains pending, and only clear the requested state after a successful write.
In `@lib/state/app_state.dart`:
- Around line 5515-5516: Update the high-frequency wake-window flow around
_write, applyHighFreqWakeWindow, and _refreshHighFreqWakeWindow so an explicit
ENTER failure is propagated instead of swallowed. Ensure background-entry and
cold-restore callers retain a wake source or transfer ownership to
_armRecovery() before continuing, while handling fire-and-forget foreground
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| await _write( | ||
| cmdExitHighFreqSync(_seq.nextLive(), profile: session.band), | ||
| owner: session, | ||
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Keep the high-frequency state when _write returns false.
_write converts GATT timeouts and errors to false. _disableHighFreqSync ignores that result and clears _highFreqModeRequested, so later disabled policy passes skip the EXIT retry. This can leave the band in high-frequency mode until another EXIT succeeds or the lease expires.
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+ final ok = await _write(
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+ if (!ok) {
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+ return;
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In `@lib/ble/ble_engine.dart` around lines 4735 - 4738, Update
_disableHighFreqSync to capture the boolean result from _write and, after the
_liveStale check, return without clearing _highFreqModeRequested when the write
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| final out = await _sendAwaited( | ||
| Cmd.getBatteryLevel, | ||
| const <int>[], | ||
| timeout: timeout, | ||
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| if (!out.written) return false; | ||
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Serialize concurrent GET_BATTERY_LEVEL requests.
_keepAliveFire starts _pollBatteryIfDue without awaiting it. probeLink can register another Cmd.getBatteryLevel request before the poll completes. If the band returns sequence zero, CommandAwaiter rejects the fallback when multiple requests have the same opcode. Both waits can time out, so probeLink can report a live link as dead.
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In `@lib/ble/ble_engine.dart` around lines 7713 - 7720, The battery-level request
flow around _pollBatteryIfDue and probeLink must serialize or coalesce
concurrent Cmd.getBatteryLevel calls so only one _sendAwaited wait is pending at
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| _log('[SYNC] HighFreq wake window skipped: $e'); | ||
| _log('[SYNC] Band prompt refresh skipped: $e'); |
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sed -n '3008,3030p' lib/state/app_state.dart
printf '%s\n' '--- restore ownership declarations and implementations ---'
rg -n -C 8 'class IosBleRestore|IosBleRestore\.|setOwnsBand|foregroundActive|armRecoveryNow|Future.*arm|void arm' libRepository: OpenStrap/edge
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Do not swallow a failed background prompt arm.
_write converts GATT errors and timeouts to false. applyHighFreqWakeWindow logs that failure and returns normally. _refreshHighFreqWakeWindow then catches any remaining error without rethrowing.
After live streams are disabled, the connected background-entry path logs success, and the cold-restore path starts its backfill timer. Neither path arms recovery. IosBleRestore also ignores restore wakes while foregroundActive is true, so it is not a fallback wake source.
Propagate an explicit ENTER failure. Make the background callers retain a wake source or transfer ownership to _armRecovery() before they continue. Add separate error handling for fire-and-forget foreground refreshes.
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In `@lib/state/app_state.dart` around lines 5515 - 5516, Update the high-frequency
wake-window flow around _write, applyHighFreqWakeWindow, and
_refreshHighFreqWakeWindow so an explicit ENTER failure is propagated instead of
swallowed. Ensure background-entry and cold-restore callers retain a wake source
or transfer ownership to _armRecovery() before continuing, while handling
fire-and-forget foreground refresh errors separately.
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Why
On iOS the app kept the band's realtime-HR stream on the whole time it was backgrounded, purely so the inbound 1 Hz notification would keep the suspended process schedulable (
_liveOwners→iosBackgroundKeepalive). That is ~86,400 process wakes a day. On a real phone: Edge at 62 % of the day's battery with 20 min on screen and 16 h 35 min "Background". Android hit the same drain in #200 and already runs with the stream off in background.Nothing in background consumes the frames: realtime frames go to an in-memory sink only, the derive scheduler is already deferred to foreground on iOS, and
wristOn/liveHrhave no background consumer. The stream was purely a wake source.What
ENTER_HIGH_FREQ_SYNCis sent for a 900 s interval on a 2 h lease (renewed past half-way from the existing 25-min background tick). The engine already turned the band'sHIGH_FREQ_SYNC_PROMPTevent into aBackfillTrigger.strapflash offload; that event is a BLE notification, so it is now also what wakes the suspended process. The decision lives inBandPromptPolicy(sync_policy.dart), which also owns the smart-wake window's existing 61 s request — that one always wins and its bytes are unchanged. 900 s equalsBackfillPolicy.periodicFloorSeconds, so the engine's own periodic timer and the prompt coalesce on_lastBackfillAt.livenessSilence) and lets the forced battery poll do the asking; foreground resume and the BG-task catch-up probe a quiet link with no stream armed (resumeLinkAction+BleEngine.probeLink) instead of tearing it down on every foreground open. One helper (_linkUsableAfterResume) serves both sites.No native change, no protocol change, no
kAlgoVersionbump (nothing derived changes). Design and plan:docs/superpowers/specs/2026-09-21-ios-background-wake-design.md,docs/superpowers/plans/2026-09-21-ios-background-wake.md.Before / after (user-visible)
How I verified it
flutter analyze: no issues.flutter test --concurrency=1(Flutter 3.41.6): 3991 passed. The one failure,health_workout_export_delete_gate_test.dart("a failed delete does not write a duplicate"), fails identically onmainwith this branch's changes stashed, so it is pre-existing and untouched here.band_prompt_policy_test.dart(9),link_liveness_policy_test.dart(10),keepalive_resume_test.dart(3, engine rig: an overdue tick after 15 min of silence probes instead of bouncing; an on-cadence tick with the same silence still bounces),link_probe_test.dart(4).Hardware run — in progress
An overnight run on an iPhone + WHOOP 4.0 is being done with a CI-built
.ipaof this branch; results will be posted as a comment here (log excerpt, battery screen, one smart-wake night, foreground reopen). What each looks like when it works, and when it doesn't, is in the spec's §4.6.Open question for maintainers
gen4's accepted range for the 0x60 interval/duration is undocumented (protocol only pins gen5's
> 60 s/< 28800 s). If a band drops the link or rejects the values,kIosBackgroundPromptIntervalSeconds/kIosBackgroundPromptLeaseinsync_policy.dartare the two knobs; the spec's §4.6 lists the log signatures for each failure mode.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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Reduce iOS background battery usage by replacing the continuous 1 Hz heart-rate stream with band-driven sync prompts while retaining reliable backfill and link recovery.
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