Hangs on startup due to corrupted track

Using MyTracks-1.1.11.rc1 on a Droid X running Android 2.3.3.

I was recording a track when the battery ran down and the phone shut off. Now, 
when I try to open MyTracks, it shows a black screen with a dark blue bar 
across the top, saying "My Tracks" on the left, and hangs forever. If I try to 
open the menu, after a few seconds the system reports that the app isn't 
responding, and lets me force close it.

It appears that it is trying to parse the data from the track that was being 
recorded when the phone shut down, and some corrupted data is triggering a bug 
which gets it stuck in a loop. I have no way to recover from this, and no way 
ever to use the program again, until someone finds and fixes the bug. I can't 
delete the track, since I can't get into the menu, and have no other way to get 
at the file--and besides, I actually need the track to geotag a bunch of 
photos, so I don't want to lose it.

In my opinion, it's a bad idea to display the last recorded track when the app 
starts, first because it's something I almost never want to do, and second 
because it creates an opportunity to get into this situation. It would be 
better if it didn't display any track unless explicitly told to do so.

I'm attaching a log of the program starting and then force closing. I've 
trimmed everything before the first occurrence of MyTracks and everything after 
the last occurrence. Good luck.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by pderoc...@gmail.com on 17 Nov 2011 at 7:49

Merged into: #287

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log.txt

ayoola-solomon / mytracks

Hangs on startup due to corrupted track #633