Need suggestions for these apps

Please suggest an exif remover app, from photos/pdfs and other formats, which supports batch removing?

Samsung health app is good it tracks one’s activities really well but everything gets saved in the samsung account. Tried few foss apps available on Fdroid which apparently store everything in device but most of them didn’t work at all even though all permissions were given to them. One or two worked but they did not track steps well. Tried this in 5 different samsung and non samsung devices. Any recommendations for a health app which should atleast track steps?

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For EXIF removal, I use Scrambled Exif | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
I will also recommend: Imagepipe | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

As for tracking health activities, try MediLog | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository or Pain Diary (PFA) | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository (not exactly health tracker), Medito - IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository (old, but works). I would surely move out of Samsung account or even foogle account for that.
For steps specific try: Pedometer (PFA) | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
Paseo | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.tiefensuche.motionmate
Many more are there. You can try them out.

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Thanks. Does the exif removal apps shared by you have a bulk exif removal option?

I have tried all, yes all the steps counter apps, that are here on fdroid. But they do not work on samsung m series, note or s 10 lite series but samsung health app tracks them accurately, installed it just for testing purposes. Why do you think is that? And how to make these step counter apps work?

except them in battery optimisations? see https://dontkillmyapp.com/

Gave them all the premissions + they had unrestricted access to the battery but still either they don’t work at all or their step counting is way off the charts

@vdbhb59 @Licaon_Kter Please suggest some more step counting apps that works in samsung devices. Need it for someone who has to monitor their steps due to some health issues.

which one did you test?

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pedometer, paseo, motionmate, open tracks and almost every option that’s listed here | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

then, where should we find more FOSS apps?

The question not where should we find foss apps, fdroid is great for that. All I am saying is that none of the step tracking apps from that page works correctly or doesn’t work at all in samsung m series and in few of the older s and note series. I thought that maybe there’s a way to correct this.

not sure we can do anything more if you tried all the tricks already, a $hitty device is what it is :frowning:

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Many step counting apps rely on a device’s step counting sensor (the apps do not actually count steps, they just read the value from the sensor). Many low-end devices do not have a step counting sensor. If no step counting sensor exists on the device, these step counting apps will not display steps.

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But if samsung’s own samsung health is installed, then it tracks the steps accurately. How is that possible?

Some heath apps and some step apps deduce steps from changes in the value of the accelerometer sensors (and other motion sensors) on Android devices. This is how some apps do step counting. However, many step counting apps only rely on the values read from a devices step sensor.

I cannot say if this is the case on your device. You might confirm which sensors it has with the Sensor Server app which can list a device’s available sensors.

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Thanks. Won’t a simple app which tells which sensor does a device has do the job or do we really need to use this app?

There are many apps that list the sensors that a device has. I only listed one that is easy to use and seems to work well on the devices on which I have tested it. Search and use the one that seems most compelling to you.