What does core dump on Sense mean?

[Heykid]

Replacement Sense Keeps telling me I started a coredump and will not show watch or other information

Moderator Edit: Clarified subject

[LZeeW]

Hello @Heykid and welcome to the Community.  A coredump is part of the FWDebug app that is on the Sense and Versa 3.  The FWDebug app description says it enables extra debugging and bug reporting features, such as Coredumps.  I've seen this on my Versa 3 when it unexpectedly restarted.  It hasn't happened in a while.  I remember that I pushed the button and I went back to my clock face.

Did you have this replacement on your account or is this screen keeping you from adding it to your account?   You should contact Support if pushing the button doesn't help or if this is keeping you from adding it to your account.

[Guy_]

Coredump was a term first used when mainframe computers came into being in the 1950s as a means of dumping the contents of the computer memory so that developers could see what was going on exactly.

It contained the contents of the registers and computer conditions and also memory and was generally produced when something had gone wrong and the running program couldn't continue, which was known as abended.

[Acceptable]

If a computer program crashes, the OS can try to write out the memory of the program's crashed state into a file which is called is a core dump. The core dump can be useful for developers because it contains evidence of what happened during the crash.