The activity log is a stock application that comes with retail units. The application allows you to review various statistics about the step counter and your gaming habits.
The opening screen shows the total number of steps recorded as well as the total number of titles used.
The application is split into two sections, the daily records and the software library.
Daily Records #
The daily records have two submodes, graph view and list view.
Graph view #
The daily records shows on a per hour basis how many steps you took and how much you played. You can group the data into larger time units, but the underlaying data is tracked per hour.
You can also see the most popular title for the given time period.
List view #
The list view is mainly about play times. It lists each title that you have played during the time period and how long in total.
Software Library #
The software library tracks all the applications that you have used on the system. It has an upper limit of 112 applications.
The list shows the total time you have used an application, the number of times that you have launched it, when it was first launched and when it was last launched. It also calculates the mean usage time.
Charts #
The charts submode allows you to sort the data using any of the previously mentioned statistics.
Title name “????????” #
This appears in the play log when Nintendo wants to hide usage of an application. This is seen when some Developer Applications are run as well as when Nintendo Service Center Tools are run. When an application’s usage is hidden like this, it also affects the ‘Friends List’ app. When using a ‘masked’ application the Friends List will not show it in the list of applications to pick as “Favourite Title”, nor will it show up on the 3DS’s friend card if the user is using the application (The user appears to be running no application).
This “icon” is used whenever there’s a title in the playlog where the title isn’t found in the icon cache(as mentioned here), which can be caused by the title not being launched by Home Menu. For example, the Download Play application will be listed like this when it was only ever run by *hax payload without launching from Home Menu. The SMDH icon flag for this appears to only affect icon cache storage, PTM playlog is unaffected.
