When I first made the account (in Damus), and was presented my private key, I briefly switched to another app for a couple seconds to paste my key for safekeeping, yes. I never closed Damus though. Only multi-task-switched to another app for a moment. Is that what you mean?
yes we suspect that when you get back to damus the relays are disconnected, so when you click continue to create the user account it just fails to send the contact list to relays and then the account gets bugged. We are going to fix this. Thanks for confirming!