I'm not really using any huge widgets or a ton of home screens, but lately the system has been killing it. I have it set to be persistent in the app settings and in CM settings. Is there any way to monitor its memory use?
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Got it not to o long ago and having same prob, just thot it was unstable
It needs a lot of work. Although I've finally got things set up in such a way that ADW EX plays nicely with everything else, runs very fast, and never crashes on me. The only remaining problem is that it occassionally gets dumped from memory, even though I've got it set up to "Keep home in memory." So I have to watch it reload when returning to the home screen one out of every ten times. Other than that, it's beast.
Ive been using it for a couple months thru most of the nightlies upto rc2 and for me I was always able to fix every problem by switching to ADW stock and just giving up on the EX I't contantly froze up after more than 20 or so minutes in lock, no matter how long I gave it to setup after coming off lockscreen it would often still Fc or just freeze, there has seemed to be a lil less problems with rc2 though, most of the FCs I was getn could be avoided by not having any screen transition fx other than the stock scroll, this was killing me constantly, when I disabled it it almost ran smooth, almost! With the theme chooser now im so tempted to just toss it.
I think I found out what may have been causing it. I was also using Multitasking Pro, and I had it mapped to a double-click of the home button so the system thought it was my home app and kept it alive instad of ADW. Re-mapping MTP to the genius button and having ADW as my home key app fixed it. No crashes thus far.
Mine just recently started doing this and it was after i flashed RC2. I remembered this thread so I came over. It force closes constantly on a reboot until it seems to settle itself but I also get a force close on every phone call which blocks the caller id until i force close it. It's getting annoying but I love the design of my homescreen so i'm kind of torn. A fix permissions did nothing to rectify it. I guess i'll try to reinstall it and see what happens. Maybe Titanium Backup messed with it, I don't know.
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Do anyone have a problem with lines going through widgets
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I had it too one time but reboot fixed everything, haven't had the lines since.
Ive had the lines, rebooted and everything was fine. They came back again 2 days later, rebooted again, havent seen em since.
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Once, rebooted, never since.
It will occasionally come back. Seems to be related to using 3d then switching.
i'd expect we'll see a fix from HTC soon enough.
Happened to me once, and rebooting did nothing. I had to remove every widget from my home screens and put them back on to fix it.
Had the same problem started last night with just one widget. By today it was two. I had tried rebooting, but didn't seem to fix the problem. Removed the two widgets and immediately put the back. 3+ hours and so far so good.
We'll see. Hopefully this isn't going to be an ongoing thing.
Out of curiosity, do you have widgets from the HTC hub installed? I noticed my "word of the day" widget isn't properly sized when I fling the carousel, but it resizes itself when I go to it. I'm thinking it might be a resolution glitch because they haven't optimized certain widgets for the 960x540 screen? Just a thought.
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Out of curiosity, do you have widgets from the HTC hub installed? I noticed my "word of the day" widget isn't properly sized when I fling the carousel, but it resizes itself when I go to it. I'm thinking it might be a resolution glitch because they haven't optimized certain widgets for the 960x540 screen? Just a thought.
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The two widgets I was seeing the problem on was the "Post" widget for TweekDeck and my Astrid Task widget. I've installed a couple of widgets from the HTC hub, playing around, but I don't have any of them active on the screen.
Let me tell you people...I had them bad, almost returned this thing because of it but in the back of my head I knew it was a software issue that would be fixed (either by HTC or an XDA developer.) I would get them, I would remove and replace the widget and they would eventually come back in a day or two.
Until, I temp rooted, hulu and overclocked, then I did a Zone skin, boom, problem solved! Don't ask me how, but ran for a week and no widget lines...actually lost ROOT today due to a dead battery, fired the phone up and there they were again!! ReRooted and they were gone, so my suspicions are that the HTC skins are the culprit because mine first started when I setup that blue-green HTC skin. Hope that helps.
Actually surprised this hasnt been discussed more, I noticed just a few people talked about it but no real solution.
I have the same problem on my widgets I made with desktop Visualizer. I usually just switch the theme and then switch it back. Always helps. Unfortunately I don't know how to prevent it from happening again.
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I get this problem every so often. I go into setting menu then go back home and it goes away, but it always comes back, very annoying.
My Thunderbolt is rooted, and I have tried several different ROMs (some AOSP even) and different kernels, and still I get this strange problem... I use WidgetLocker and fairly often when I go to unlock my phone, the touch screen doesn't work. I have to turn the screen on and off several times and sometimes that works, but it may take up to several minutes for it to finally register my touch. I even sometimes have to pull the battery because after ten minutes, nothing is responding. At first, I thought it the ROM/kernel - I used BAMF in the beginning and that is when I noticed it. Then I switched to ShiftSense, and I barely noticed the touch screen ever failing on me, but the lack of GPS locking and accuracy made me switch to NonSense, which I enjoy but again the touch screen not working at the WidgetLocker lock screen comes up again. My other theory was maybe the HTC Ring Lock Screen gets in the way, so I downloaded NoLock and disabled it, but that didn't work. Then I tried use the WL HomeHelper, but that didn't work... I tried different settings, but no avail. I really enjoy WidgetLocker and I want to try to keep it, but I am not sure what other things I should try to fix this problem. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks guys!
widget locker did that to me several times so I gave up on it. Its definitely a problem with widget locker and not your phone or ROM. It freezes. I even set it to unlock with long press of back button and that would freeze as well.
my phone does the same thing, i think its a problem with our phone and gingerbread. it happens less with froyo. I believe its a radio issue.
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I have used widget locker on over 10 different android devices I've own. I've never had a freeze issue with it. Reason I've had freeze issue starting with low RAM device. Then voltage to low or cpu frequency to low.
Is there a good alternative with Widget Locker? I just love the use of my own custom slider/widgets/custom background... Does any other app do that? I sort of want to try another app and test to see if it is in fact my phone/RAM/ROM/whatever or Widget Locker.
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Is there a good alternative with Widget Locker? I just love the use of my own custom slider/widgets/custom background... Does any other app do that? I sort of want to try another app and test to see if it is in fact my phone/RAM/ROM/whatever or Widget Locker.
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take off or freeze widget locker for a few days and see how your phone does. If it doesn't freeze, then you know its the app.
As for the guy that has used widget locker on 10 devices without problems, I call BS, I tried it on stock, and several customs and always had problems.
I sort of like the features of WidgetLocker than my default lock screen doesn't have and the look of it, so if I turn it off, I sort of want to try to find a replacement app in the meantime.
I just wanted to chime in and say I have this issue with my Thunderbolt and Widgetlocker as well. I've found that it usually freezes if I let my screen turn off by timing out. I'll turn it back on and the screen doesn't respond at all. I've found that if I let my screen timeout again while on the Widgetlocker screen, my touch screen will be responsive the next time I turn it on again.
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Same problem here, I stopped using widget locker and just use the sense 3 lockscreen now.
I just wanted to put in my two cents - I was have the same problems with WidgetLocker on BAMF Forever (1.0.7 & 1.0.9). I found another thread on here (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1151269) that someone with a BAMF Sense 3 ROM and a custom kernel was having the same issue. Someone else suggested upping the voltage on the kernel to 368 or changing the kernel. It didn't work for him, but it did for me. I'm not using a custom kernel, but there is an option to change that in BAMF Settings. I've been running it at 368 for several days now and I only had one lockup (but that was shortly after bootup and the phone was probably busy doing other things in the background). HTH
Howdy kids,
I noticed today that my screen was flickering off the charts after the most recent update this morning to .15. I'm on a WW prime in Canada. BCOKAS serial. THe only real problem I've had is never-stellar wifi, and a nearly complete dead GPS.
Updated today, and the screen was flickering off the charts. I noticed first it was on the home screen. I had installed multi picture live wallpaper, to apply proper HD walls to my prime last night, but after extensive messing around I've never seen this flicker/tearing before.
Static lines horizontally, the status bar @ the bottom and top (ADW EX) would jitter a bit, and I was starting to freak out! Upon more review of the screen, it WAS in fact only happening on home. SO I disabled Multi pic live, and any transitions I had set last night. No good. Cold boot, Regular reboot, no good.
I noticed that the bottom status bar (with the home, back buttons, etc) looks slightly out of proportion, and my icons I had set up at the bottom row were overlapping the bar. I decided to try and switch back to regular Launcher (stock)
After clearing defaults, and switching to ICS launcher, everything returned to normal. Bar at the bottom was back to regular size. I re-loaded ADW EX, and everything APPEARS to be cool again. NO tearing, sizes of bars are good, my bottom row of apps is not overlapping the status bar. I'll report if the issue comes back, I'm at work so I can't play extensively, but I will reboot it now, with a fresh ADW launch and see what happens Hope this helps somebody out there!
I seems to me that maybe you should do the update on the stock launcher (assuming you were running ADW when you installed .15). Maybe the OTA doesn't like non-stock launchers running while doing updates.
I am messing around with ADW EX right now but don't have it activated as my permament launcher yet because I don't have it looking good yet. Thanks for the tips if I run into any problems with ADW.
ADW Ex was causing me problems a while ago, also ... I switched over to ICS Launcher and have not gone back. But, I still hold out hope to go back one day.
I've never had a problem installing updates on ADW before. Here's what I've come up with. I had to remove the Multipic. After rebooting, problem came back. I noticed w/ multipic enabled on ICS, it was weird as well. And I couldn't find the app in the app drawer either in ICS launcher.\
Removed multipic, and have rebooted a few times. ICS and ADW, no problems with flickering so far. Might try to reinstall multi later when I get home, but removing it has adressed the problem... just my wallpaper looks like crap on ADW again
I'm running multipic on ICS right now and when I am in ADW. I'm about to update now and let you know if I have the same issue with it. One thing I've noticed with multipic and ICS is when you come out of sleep mode the lock screen wallpaper would show up, fade out then come back. My home screen wallpaper would do it as well.
It's not unique to .15. Search the forum for triangle, jitter, dancing, flicker, or any other word you'd use to describe it.
I had this issues right after the original ICS update was pushed, and it somehow cleared itself up before I even had any updates. It happened to my friend as well on .14. It never seems to be a daily issues, just something that happens after a recent update, I don't have a clue as to the cause, however.
I've had screen issues since I received the Prime. It actually seems better now. But I also have access to the original Transformer and I noticed that after the ICS update this morning it also would occasionally have the same issues. On both devices I just see it periodically. Funny thing is, this is almost the only issue I've had with the Prime.
It happens once in a while, but certainly not every day. If left alone, it will resolve itself. If you want, you can reboot to make it go away.
No issues for me. I have used .15, with combination and ADW EX and Multipic live wallpaper. Both with random transition settings. Working fine. Stock launcher is what I normally use. No issues with stock launcher either.
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It's not unique to .15. Search the forum for triangle, jitter, dancing, flicker, or any other word you'd use to describe it.
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I did do a search of the forums, but as I mentioned above, I haven't seen it until todays update. And its also odd, that it is happening after today's update, but the direct cause seems to be multipic
You're other comment doesn't make sense either. It'll work itself out? If I've never had the problem, and the cause was software based, how would it work itself out
Still haven't seen the problem come back, still planning on re-installing multipic later to see if something in the firmware doesn't like it.
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I seems to me that maybe you should do the update on the stock launcher (assuming you were running ADW when you installed .15). Maybe the OTA doesn't like non-stock launchers running while doing updates.
I am messing around with ADW EX right now but don't have it activated as my permament launcher yet because I don't have it looking good yet. Thanks for the tips if I run into any problems with ADW.
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My update was done with ADW running and have had no problems. I did a temp. unroot before update but things went smooth here. Serial # BCOKAS1xxxx. This build seems to be the smoothest so far.
Multiplication live wallpaper most likely the culprit. Its not fully optimized for ICS yet. Same thing happened to me several updates back. When I tried to use my adw launcher n multipic. Both caused issues so I uninstalled both n never looked back. No problems since.
Definitely going to chalk this up to Multipic, uninstalled, and have not seen the issue return at all. And agreed with demandarin, this build does seem a little snappier in browsers, I use nightly, and although its crashed a few extra times today, its definitely a lot faster picking up the tiles than it has been!
I also forgot to re-root after the update, which I have since done, thanks to OTA rootkeeper, I don't THINK it should have an issue, as I don't think multipic asked me for root, but just something to throw into the mix.
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I did do a search of the forums, but as I mentioned above, I haven't seen it until todays update. And its also odd, that it is happening after today's update, but the direct cause seems to be multipic
You're other comment doesn't make sense either. It'll work itself out? If I've never had the problem, and the cause was software based, how would it work itself out
Still haven't seen the problem come back, still planning on re-installing multipic later to see if something in the firmware doesn't like it.
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I don't know why it works itself out, but at certain points I've just left it alone because I didn't feel like rebooting at that moment. When I brought it out of sleep afterwards, the jitter had stopped of its own volition. I don't use any live wallpapers, fwiw. That doesn't mean it won't come back, but it went away on its own without my intervention. That's what I meant by "work itself out".
So today I found out that my phone isn't running well.
I'm not expecting the Sony UI to be perfect, lag-proof and anything, but I think the problem hasn't gone out and there's something wrong.
My phone constantly stutters and you get a bit of lag whenever I swipe from left to right, in the app drawer, the notification menu and when I'm opening apps. I've set the animation speed to 0.5x and it still stutters, paired with bits of lag. I'm looking for the smooth and fluidic transitions and animations but I'm just not getting it.
This happens each time I put my phone to sleep and wake it up after. It isn't the screen wake up lagging, but the UI itself. The animations start to stutter and lag then.
The solutions I have made are; restarting the device, which can get annoying every now and then; and freeing up space, which worked once and the problem went back again.
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Is there a solution to this? I have installed more than 80 apps and I think it's one of the contributions to the problem.
And to be honest I have some OCD and it quite annoys me.
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So today I found out that my phone isn't running well.
I'm not expecting the Sony UI to be perfect, lag-proof and anything, but I think the problem hasn't gone out and there's something wrong.
My phone constantly stutters and you get a bit of lag whenever I swipe from left to right, in the app drawer, the notification menu and when I'm opening apps. I've set the animation speed to 0.5x and it still stutters, paired with bits of lag. I'm looking for the smooth and fluidic transitions and animations but I'm just not getting it.
This happens each time I put my phone to sleep and wake it up after. It isn't the screen wake up lagging, but the UI itself. The animations start to stutter and lag then.
The solutions I have made are; restarting the device, which can get annoying every now and then; and freeing up space, which worked once and the problem went back again.
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Is there a solution to this? I have installed more than 80 apps and I think it's one of the contributions to the problem.
And to be honest I have some OCD and it quite annoys me.
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Do a clean flash via Flashtool (wipe everything), try with latest Lollipop update. After that install your apps one by one and try to figure it out which one is cause of your problems. :good:
Hey guys, I stupidly updated my S4 to Lollipop and I've been having some pretty annoying problems.
-When I attempt to use the "Close All" button in the Task Manager(long home press):
-If running Nova Launcher - it freezes and goes to a black screen. Pressing home brings me back to the launcher and seems to fix it. I've also had it bring me back to TouchWiz, even though that isn't my default launcher.
-If running TouchWiz - Works fine.
-With both launchers, after clearing everything in the Task Manager list (manually, since close all barely works) and without opening anything else, if I reopen the Task Manager, there is always some random app running. Which is extremely confusing, since I just closed everything and nothing should be running.
I've also been having some other problems, such as my battery dying almost 5x faster than KitKat and my Mobile Data turning itself off randomly during the day. The switch in the notification panel shows that its on, and it even shows the correct amount of 4G bars, but if I try running an app that needs internet, it tells me that I don't have a connection. This is pretty annoying, mainly because there is no way for me to tell if it is working or not.
I have tried factory resets and clearing the system caches from recovery, neither worked. Really not sure what else to try, anyone have a solution? Really wished I stuck with KitKat, hopefully there will be a way to root sometime soon.
I noted the same conceren, close all will not return to Nova Launcher. Not a big deal to me.
The workaround I use is by removing each app individually by swiping or hitting the X in the right top of the displayed app.
Battery life has been good for me. I use Tasker to turn W-Fi/Data ON/OFF based on location and Screen ON/OFF.
That's what I have been doing but I was hoping that there was a solution. When everything is closed, does Task Manager also create random processes for you?
I shouldn't have to enable/disable data just to get the phone to keep a charge, especially since KitKat was so much better with battery. I left wifi/data one all the time and I still got better battery life than I do now.
Maybe Try this?!?
If you would like to try and go back to KitKat?!?!
TESTING Revert to KitKat on SCH-I545
That would be great, if I have the time I will try it. Has it been successful for anyone else but you?