Everytime I press the home button, the htc logo comes up. What is this? and is it possible to remove?
Does it then go to your Sense homescreen after the logo?
If so, it sounds like you may have a task killer working and killing the HTC Sense process. Then, when you press the home button, it has to start from scratch and it takes a couple of seconds to load.
Delete any task killer app and see if it still happens. HTH!
(Also this is probably in the wrong sub-forum)
rfarrah said:
Does it then go to your Sense homescreen after the logo?
If so, it sounds like you may have a task killer working and killing the HTC Sense process. Then, when you press the home button, it has to start from scratch and it takes a couple of seconds to load.
Delete any task killer app and see if it still happens. HTH!
(Also this is probably in the wrong sub-forum)
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probably correct on the first account, and if its not that, the next most likely thing is a launcher/homescreen replacement app like launcher pro or something, that doesnt play nicely... definitely correct on the second part
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On all of the 2.2 ROMs that I've tried, when I use the back button to leave the Contacts app it does not close, but stays running in the background. Every other app closes when you exit via the back button.
Anyone else experiencing this?
How do I get Contacts to close when I exit via the back button?
There is no real reason this needs to be closed. If android doesn't feel like it needs to be and it's in the background... I cant see how this possibly could matter.
If it really bothers you, long press on home, task manager, kill it.
Thank you for the lecture, the correction. and for not answering my question
It really does bother me, shouldn't it work like all other applications and close when you exit via the back button?
I want it to close like all other applications when I exit via the back button so when I re-open it I can browse from the beginning of the list.
creeve4 said:
Thank you for the lecture, the correction. and for not answering my question
It really does bother me, shouldn't it work like all other applications and close when you exit via the back button?
I want it to close like all other applications when I exit via the back button so when I re-open it I can browse from the beginning of the list.
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The reason it stays open is because its one of the main apps of your phone.
Once you open it, it stays in the cache, because when you press the app again, it can load instantly and come on.
Whereas, if you exit it, and re-open it... it will tkae about 5 seconds more. depends on how many contacts you have. It doesn't waste more battery, it just saves you the 5 seconds.
creeve4 said:
Thank you for the lecture, the correction. and for not answering my question
It really does bother me, shouldn't it work like all other applications and close when you exit via the back button?
I want it to close like all other applications when I exit via the back button so when I re-open it I can browse from the beginning of the list.
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your question was how do you get contacts to close when you press the back arrow.
Rather than answer with "nobody knows" I thought I would point out that it doesn't matter, and it really should not bother you... BUT IF IT DOES, you can always long press home. Sorry for trying to help.
I think it does that on most 2.2 ROMS. On 2.2.1 it closes once you hit the back button. I have no idea why though.
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The reason it stays open is because its one of the main apps of your phone.
Once you open it, it stays in the cache, because when you press the app again, it can load instantly and come on.
Whereas, if you exit it, and re-open it... it will tkae about 5 seconds more. depends on how many contacts you have. It doesn't waste more battery, it just saves you the 5 seconds.
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I'm not concerned that having it running in the background is wasting battery, in my second post I stated why I want it to close.
Alex9090 said:
I think it does that on most 2.2 ROMS. On 2.2.1 it closes once you hit the back button. I have no idea why though.
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Thank you for the useful information.
Hello flyer users,
This afternoon I managed to get my flyer stuck on the "Red Triangle" with "Exclamation Mark" as I was playing with "adb".
Now to get out of the dreaded screen, you do not need to remove the battery as we do with other devices - especially because, as I have been told, you CANNOT remove it.
What you need to do to leave the red triangle screen is the following:
1. Press Volume up (the "+" sign on the side) and the Power Button.
2. Select "Reboot system now"
That is it, that is you done, and your flyer reboots as normal.
Here's another tip...
I keep activating the keyboard in the notes app or hitting one of the capacitive buttons because my hand always goes down before the stylus.
I found that by putting the thumb of my offhand somewhere on the screen in a non activating area, it stops my hand from triggering the capacitive buttons and the screen. Much easier to start writing. and I don't have to worry about stuff activating if I lift the pen too high either.
-Mike
Good tip. I have the same problem with the capacitive buttons in Notes.
Random launcher reboots?
Several times today, my Flyer would go to a white screen that shows the HTC logo and restart what I belive is called the launcher. All my widgets would read "loading" and reload.
Anyone else seeing this?
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Several times today, my Flyer would go to a white screen that shows the HTC logo and restart what I belive is called the launcher. All my widgets would read "loading" and reload.
Anyone else seeing this?
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Yeah I got this a few times. Usually it is due to low memory and the android OS clearing the launcher from memory... but this thing has 1GB of ram...
I read that perhaps not having the Task Manager auto-load on startup might help, as Android versions like Gingerbread don't really need a Task Manager.
I might try running without it.
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Yeah I got this a few times. Usually it is due to low memory and the android OS clearing the launcher from memory... but this thing has 1GB of ram...
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But upon start up theres only about 150 megs free.
Useless tip,
If you do a long and fast swipe across the home screen, it spins through more than 1 screen. I never noticed this before today
Here is another saver.
The FriendStream widget for some unknown reason would not show all the usual text in twitter and facebook posts.
I tried to recover or repopulate it by rebooting the device, tried re-sync, nothing was doing.
SOLUTION was deleting the widget, and then putting it back on its homescreen, and everything was back.
I had feared I lost my twitter and facebook messages.
Had to laugh at this one! Thanks Useless tip,
If you do a long and fast swipe across the home screen, it spins through more than 1 screen. I never noticed this before today
Sometimes when I hit the home button all I get is my background and rosie does not refresh, however, if I go to the task killer and kill all the tasks then click the home button it will work properly. How can I find out what task is causing this? Also sometimes when I wake my phone by pressing the power button the lockscreen is all black. When I slide up where I imagine the ring to be it still unlocks. Any ideas? Also, I've tried multiple roms and this ends up happening to all that I've tried. Not sure what app would be causing this. Also using Net's kernel, not sure if that would cause it.
Idk if its your unit or what but if its that serious just clear the defaults on the sense application and HTC lockscreen application and anything else you'd think is causing this. If its your unit and you care that much then get it replaced
Warning: idk if clearing the sense app will change the homescreens back to default
If all else fails, back everything up and perform a Factory Reset. Then run it with just the basic apps for a while. If it seems fine, then start reinstalling your apps one by one. It may be an app causing your issues.
If that doesn't help, then it might be time for a replacement phone.
I have ICS 4.0.3. and I want to know how to close App?
How do you know for sure this App is closed, without having to go in Settings and close it there every single time manually.
You don't.
Android handles management of apps and will close them when it needs too. It will also pre-launch apps so they are ready to use. So no need to worry about closing them. Just go back to the home screen or whatever and don't worry about it.
If something is misbehaving you can go into your Settings > Apps find you app and hit Force Close, but that should not need to be done often. If you do then find a different app.
Even if you do this to "close apps" Android will probably just relaunch them in a few minutes anyway. You just don't need to "close" apps. That is a traditional PC convention and does not translate to Android.
nixtip said:
I have ICS 4.0.3. and I want to know how to close App?
How do you know for sure this App is closed, without having to go in Settings and close it there every single time manually.
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Click on recent app tab, find the app that you wish to close, swipe left or right to close it. Love this feature so much.
Open the recent apps button at the bottom (3rd from left and looks like 2 boxes) and then swipe the app you want closed to the left or right.
Edit: Crap. Lol someone beat me to it
andyxover said:
Click on recent app tab, find the app that you wish to close, swipe left or right to close it. Love this feature so much.
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Pretty sure that is just a list of apps you opened recently. Swiping them off just removes them from the list, and doesn't stop the application from running. You can test this by swiping it off then going into your Settings > Apps. For me, the app is still running even when swiped from the list. Also things stay there even when an App has actually been forced close.
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Pretty sure that is just a list of apps you opened recently. Swiping them off just removes them from the list, and doesn't stop the application from running. You can test this by swiping it off then going into your Settings > Apps. For me, the app is still running even when swiped from the list. Also things stay there even when an App has actually been forced close.
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Correct this doesn't close the app but just gets rid of it in the list of recent apps.
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Swiping them off just removes them from the list, and doesn't stop the application from running.
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I didn't know this! Thats good to know. I won't bother doing this after hit the home button then!
wgr73 said:
I didn't know this! Thats good to know. I won't bother doing this after hit the home button then!
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LOL. Yeah, when I first saw this I was kinda confused by it. I know how Android manages memory and apps, so I didn't understand what it was for: especially with prominent placement on the System Bar. I guess they just felt they needed something for people used to closing apps.
This would be great for people that run 3 or 4 apps all the time since they would not need to have them on the Home screen or go to the App Drawer.
Android does a good job managing memory, so you should only need to close apps that are having problems. This can be a hard transition from the Windows world.
wgr73 said:
I didn't know this! Thats good to know. I won't bother doing this after hit the home button then!
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Now this isn't necessarily true.
I played w/ this a bit and put the Task Manager widget on the home screen. On some apps, if you remove them from the recent apps list, the task disappears from the Task Manager maybe 5-10 seconds later. Now while I realize that not all running apps necessarily show up on the Task Manager, I've noticed that if an app/process is ended on the Task Manager, it is no longer listed under running apps in the settings.
And when you use the Task Manager to close certain apps, they'll still show up in the Recent Apps list but instead of showing a proper image of app activity, it'll be just a blank black square. When you tap that square, it just opens the app as new.
I used the app called system to verify and swiping does close them....awsome.
One of my favorite features of ics
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So when I enter task manager by pressing and holding home key for a couple seconds from the home page, and clicking task manager, and then clear memory, and exit via the back key, I get the dialer to pop up? Anyone else getting this?
hm
doesn't seem like much of a bug to me but I'll let you know. I was having some issues last night with shostock 1.0 where my phone was stuck in a bootloop so I'm updating to 1.1 as I type this.
EDIT:when I enter task manager by pressing and holding home key for a couple seconds from the home page, then clear memory, and exit through the back button it brings me to stumbleupon. However, if you notice when you push clear memory it says "x applications exited" where x is a number of applications. In my case it was 27 but I'm pretty sure what happens is Apex launcher gets closed. After some evaluation I don't think this is a bug at all, just what happens when you close apex launcher. I had a similar experience using cm7 when I help my back button on the homescreen because it would close adw launcher.
Hmm. Odd. So why would the dialer/other apps open?
For me, Apex doesn't even show up as an active application. So when I go through the process that you mentioned, I get the home screen every time. Not sure why your phone would be doing that.