I looked around for a thread about this, but couldnt find it. Anyways the clock doesnt seem to change. My prime has done it before, it seems to be stuck on 1:19 when its 5:19... i have a screenshot with my clock widget and my ics notifications bar clock.
EDIT: 1/18/12 update fixed it
Have you set the correct time zone?
FHSPSU67 said:
Have you set the correct time zone?
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yup, triple checked it (us mountain time)the problem is the clock doesnt even move. its not giving me the wrong time, just recieved an update, hopefully it will work now
I've had this issue too this morning. The clock at the bottom of the screen was stuck on the time I sentries bed last night. Only thing that would update it was turning the screen around. A reboot fixed it. Hmmmm.
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I had the same issue. I used the Asus Task Manager to clean all processes. It looks like this also kills the clock process. A reboot and not using the task manager fixed it for me.
something that also worked for me was to go to
settings > date&time > and disable automatic date & time, see it it works
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I had the same issue. I used the Asus Task Manager to clean all processes. It looks like this also kills the clock process. A reboot and not using the task manager fixed it for me.
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this is why 99% of the clock issues exist.
task managers are BAD for android, why asus would include one and let it kill all open processes is beyond me.
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On my home screen I have the "Digital clock" widget running.
Sometimes it shows a wrong (random) time, although the time showing in the topbar (notification area) is right.
Anyone know why this is or how to fix?
Maybe it is related with the "clear memory" function in the task manager as I do this often and seems to reload all the widgets when done.
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It happened to me too. The time just froze. I tried to see if it is connected to the Clear Memory, but it is not. So I simply downloaded another clock widget and replaced it
This happened to me after I started using Launcher Pro.
If I removed and re-added the widget, it would be fine for a while before freezing again.
Try Simi Clock... its great!
I had the same problem as stated in another thread, so I unchecked the automatic provided values from network and its been fine since then
ascariss said:
I had the same problem as stated in another thread, so I unchecked the automatic provided values from network and its been fine since then
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Thank you very much for this suggestion, i'm gonna try this out right away.
Yeah I also have this problem and I just remove widget and re add, it's nothing major though.
Will try disabling automatical provided values as the other poster suggested, afterall you only need it once to set up the clock
So twice now my icons disappeared on me. The only programs I can access will be the ones listed in the recently open list. I have to reboot to get the icons back.
Anyone else getting this? Also, I don't think I am doing much of anything but switching between apps. Thanks.
Little more info please?
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So twice now my icons disappeared on me. The only programs I can access will be the ones listed in the recently open list. I have to reboot to get the icons back.
Anyone else getting this? Also, I don't think I am doing much of anything but switching between apps. Thanks.
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I got this too last night
a lot of times when an app automatically updates, it removes the icon. looks at the icon that disappeared and see if it was automatically updated in the market.
Every icon installed and apps/games, widgets. I mean everything disappears. You can't even swipe left or right to get to your other desktop. The only things you can access are the home (which really doesn't do anything because you are already home), recently opened apps, and the back (which again will not do anything). Settings work too but that's it. To get everything back, you will need to reboot.
Icons also going invisible
Add me to the group of people who lose all their icons. This happens to me several times a day. The icons are still there just invisible. If i touch the right spot I can launch things as normal. I can also change the background if I touch an empty area. But every single icon is gone and the entire background is displayed. Also the app button which I can touch and launch if I pick the right spot simply brings up a blank black background again with no apps/icons.
I do have the video issues on occasion where certain games blink/flash and lock up, but usually don't do this if I restart the tablet and run the game first thing. Also have the random occasional screen tearing especially when using a live background.
I'm looking forward to the February update and hope this fixes the issue. I'd reset the icon cache if I knew how but I'm not sure that's the issue. If anyone has ideas let me know.
Thanks
Possible cause?
Hi guys,
I didn't have this issue after upgrading to 4.0.3, but then sometime last week I did start having the same issue with the stock launcher "crashing" (well, it was still running, but in brain-dead mode where it won't display icons or widgets).
I started un-installing stuff and after about 4 hours of messing around I noticed that the launcher didn't crash when I had disabled "cool tool". (This is a really cool floating CPU graph.) Cool tool _seemed_ to work fine on my prime, and I had it floating over the status/button bar. But apparently it was, after running for a couple hours, causing openGLRenderer to run out of memory which caused the launcher to freak out.
At least that's my take on what was happening. Anyway, I'm using SeePU now, and I haven't had a launcher "crash" in a couple days. Maybe this isn't your problem, but I used "System Info Pro" (or something like that) to view the android log. Might help in troubleshooting? If this IS the root cause, I guess somebody should tell the developer...
Getting this thing loaded with apps & widgets AND staying stable and fast has been a challenge to say the least. But a fun one. I think?!
-Tim
Same bug here. It happened to me a couple of time. I reported it to Asus Canada yesterday... But no news yet.
It looks like the "foreground" become transparent/invisible. The System bar still works. For me, I can even click on the invisible icons to start the apps.
The only work-around I found is to reboot my device.
I experienced the bug once more this morning. I tought it was related to "force GPU rendering", I had it enabled and since I disabled it, most of my bugs are gone.
But this morning again, the foreground became "transparent" and I was only seeing the background.
BTW, you could rename the thread: "Icons disappearing/transparent desktop".
Also, does version .13 fix this?
Same problem here.
Problem occus now a few times a day. All Icons/Widgets and app drawer icon are invisible but still clickable! Only a restart solves the problem or going to settings->apps->force close for the homescreen-app will solve it for some time.
Any Ideas or a statement from ASUS?
kiffi12 said:
Same problem here.
Problem occus now a few times a day. All Icons/Widgets and app drawer icon are invisible but still clickable! Only a restart solves the problem or going to settings->apps->force close for the homescreen-app will solve it for some time.
Any Ideas or a statement from ASUS?
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I reported the problem to Asus.
You should do the same, if it's not already done.
I have seen this 3 times in day or so...any one had any update on cause or fix other than reboot
Same here
Add me to the list as well... all icons go transparent ... only see the background ... can tap "invisible" icons and they work ...
I confirm it is still present in WW .15.
Sometime a "force close" of the Launcher is enough, but other time it happens again and again, only a reboot fix it (for a while). Beside this (annoying) bug, I consider my Prime very stable. Gmail sometimes crash, but it seems to be fixed (or less prominent in .15).
Asus Tech. Support suggested me to do a factory reset... Haven't tried it yet. I may also try an alternate Launcher (Trebuchet...) to see if it's only related to the Launcher or the system.
PS: Don't forget to report it to Asus Tech. Support.
I saw this for the first time today on the non-Prime TF101. I upgraded to the FOTA ICS update a couple of weeks ago (for which I've observed the same occasional resets as others) but this is the first time I've had this app problem.
Different desktops can be accessed, but they're all blank. Apps can be run from their invisible icons. The top-right app menu also has invisible apps which can be run.
I have a small (2.5MB 30s) video, if I manage to upload it.
I had a similar thing again since, but this time the icons returned when moving between desktops. I think the common thing I was doing was grouping apps together into single composite icons.
I'm not 100% sure, but since I cleaned up my home screens it does not happen anymore. I removed all my widgets except for gmail and calendar. And all my stuff is on one screen (thanks to folders).
You may try this too to see if it makes a difference.
Thanks. My screens were almost completely full. But I never saw this issue until I started using folders!
I got it the other day for the first time.
I had just downloaded Simplistic Text.
Rebooted, everything was fine--just assumed it had something to do with some file cleanup or something that didn't get done after the download.
Ah, and fyi, I'm running Honeycomb on the Japanese build. (They still haven't given us the damned ICS yet over here.)
All the icons disappearing used to happen to me a couple of times a day, with only a reboot fixing the issue.
Whilst trying to fix a constantly crashing GMail I removed the Beautiful Widgets home screen weather/clock widget and this amazingly fixed the disappearing icons and hasn't happened since. One down only another 101 bugs left to fix!
Hope this helps someone.
Just a word to the wise: if you're having any Launcher crashes and screen brightness changes, it might be due to having the ASUS Task Manager widget running. I noticed that whenever I switched to the screen containing that widget, the screen dimmed, then returned to normal when I switched to another screen. Also, my Launcher was crashing, and I just today noticed it was only crashing when I switched to that screen.
I've since removed the widget, and those problems went away.
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I haven't had any of this, but I have noticed that at low brightness settings just about any ASUS widget causes an annoying sputter of the brightness.
I also have the ASUS Task Manager fc all the time, so I just don't use it. Android isn't supposed to need such things anyway and I have faith lol
Task manager does fc pretty often. Thing is I find it so useful. Ill see things running and be like wtf is that doing running. I have no plans on using that app or process n has no business being in active tasks. Lol. I might go a similar route and get rid of it for a while. But its really the only way tl truly close an app out. You can back out of browser n think its closed but its still actually running in background burning up ram unless you manually close it through task manager or system panel.
Ill see how long I can go without needing to use it or look at it and see how things go. Still been getting annoying android.androidprocess.media has stopped message. Need to figure out what is constantly causing that. Hopefully getting rid of Asus task manager will solve that.
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Task manager does fc pretty often. Thing is I find it so useful. Ill see things running and be like wtf is that doing running. I have no plans on using that app or process n has no business being in active tasks. Lol. I might go a similar route and get rid of it for a while. But its really the only way tl truly close an app out. You can back out of browser n think its closed but its still actually running in background burning up ram unless you manually close it through task manager or system panel.
Ill see how long I can go without needing to use it or look at it and see how things go. Still been getting annoying android.androidprocess.media has stopped message. Need to figure out what is constantly causing that. Hopefully getting rid of Asus task manager will solve that.
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As for the browser, don't back out. Just close all the tabs, and it'll close the tab and the browser absolutely.
As for all the other processes, I know what you mean, but my battery is much less affected ignoring them than killing them (using the screen and sensors) and just having them return with time.
The task manager is about junk.
FC often.
Stops keeping up to date often.
Sizing makes it contract to center versus close up from bottom.
Wont accept interactions.
There's no need to kill the Internet browser task. RAM uses the same amount of battery all the time as it requires a constant charge to prevent it losing its data. If you fill RAM up, the power usage stays constant. Android will close background tasks if a foreground task requires more memory.
Only ever kill tasks if they're inexplicably using CPU.
I dont think the merits of task killers is at question. The lame task killer is.
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I dont think the merits of task killers is at question. The lame task killer is.
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Both really.
I mean, this is certainly the more useless of the ones I've tried. But even the best of them are generally useless considering the platform we're on. The only decent ones are those that watch your CPU usage per app (like watchdog or whatever).
I guess it gives people peace of mind, but the only time it is actually good to use one is like danieldeanhodge said, when there are run-away processes sucking CPU usage. That's what gives you battery drain as the RAM stays pretty consistent on its consumption: that's why the TF700t is going to have worse battery life under all circumstances, it has more hungry RAM.
Crashes for me all the time too. I removed it.
Do note that I'm not specifically talking about the Task Manager widget itself crashing. I actually didn't get that very often. What was happening to me is that the Launcher was crashing--it would throw up the "Wait or Close" dialog and then all icons and widgets would disappear from the home screens. I'd have to go into Settings and force close Launcher to get them to come back. After too many times of that, I'd have to reboot to resolve.
Getting rid of the Task Manager not only solved that problem, but it also resolved the issue of the screen brightness being inconsistent as I changed home screens, and also my UI is much smoother as well.
Bottom line is: I think the ASUS Task Manager is just really badly done and turning it off made a world of difference in how my Prime is performing.
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Do note that I'm not specifically talking about the Task Manager widget itself crashing. I actually didn't get that very often. What was happening to me is that the Launcher was crashing--it would throw up the "Wait or Close" dialog and then all icons and widgets would disappear from the home screens. I'd have to go into Settings and force close Launcher to get them to come back. After too many times of that, I'd have to reboot to resolve.
Getting rid of the Task Manager not only solved that problem, but it also resolved the issue of the screen brightness being inconsistent as I changed home screens, and also my UI is much smoother as well.
Bottom line is: I think the ASUS Task Manager is just really badly done and turning it off made a world of difference in how my Prime is performing.
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That's nuts, the launcher crashing...
I think all the ASUS widgets are this way with regards to the changing brightness (only happens to me on lower settings). I've noticed it with the Task Manager and the Weather anyway.
I appreciate their work, but ASUS is a h/w manufacturer: I don't understand why they're trying to be another closed system or why they're trying to push themselves as a major developing team or whatever, but they don't seem to be doing well with it.
Hello, I installed the app after receiving my beta key and I have to say this is the best app I have installed yet. I'm just having a few issues. The first is that whenever I set the weather widget to display the temperature in celcius is always changes back to fahrenheit after a few minutes. Secondly sometimes, not always whenever I reboot my phone no widgets will load so I have to reapply the theme. These aren't big problems and I know the app is still in beta, so these are bound to get fixed. Just wondering if there is anyway to fix them.
Thanks:fingers-crossed:
I can't even get the weather working, I did set up my location on the widget settings but it shows nothing at all.
Same goes for me. I think Ill wait for the next update.
Try saving as widget after finish changing. Auto save seems not working properly.
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Try saving as widget after finish changing. Auto save seems not working properly.
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How do you do that?
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How do you do that?
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After edit, there is 3 dot button on right corner. Click > Save > Set widget style name.
Mine works fine with this.
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penreturns said:
After edit, there is 3 dot button on right corner. Click > Save > Set widget style name.
Mine works fine with this.
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Im having some refresh issue's.
Using the calendar widget, it shows todays date, however Ive noticed it hasnt updated today, and still shows todays date as yesterdays
Also, using the missed calls, unread text etc, I replied to a text, and the counter stayed at 1. it eventually went to 0, not sure when, but I was using my phone for a good 30 mins or so, and the counter never changed.
The weather thing isn't that big of an issue, but the widgets disappearing after reboot is really annoying. I have a Nexus 4 and after reboot it asks me if I want to allow themer to create widgets. Even If I choose allow it will never create them again, so I have to reapply the theme.
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Hello, I installed the app after receiving my beta key and I have to say this is the best app I have installed yet. I'm just having a few issues. The first is that whenever I set the weather widget to display the temperature in celcius is always changes back to fahrenheit after a few minutes. Secondly sometimes, not always whenever I reboot my phone no widgets will load so I have to reapply the theme. These aren't big problems and I know the app is still in beta, so these are bound to get fixed. Just wondering if there is anyway to fix them.
Thanks:fingers-crossed:
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In an upcoming version (very soon) we have put the weather temperature setting within the main Settings of the app, so that issue will be resolved.
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Widgets dissapearing for me also on a reboot, I dont want to re-apply the theme as a workaround, as I have made changes, and if I apply the theme again, I assume it will overwrite my changes with the default theme I am going to apply again?
Something I noticed about a week ago, and that I've yet to figure out the cause of, is that trying to switch the app drawer icon's image while running Nova is no longer working. It does when you first install Nova, or after clearing the data, however it eventually stops working. Instead, holding down the icon's image in the edit pop-up makes the screen hang for a second (like it's going to open the icon preview screen) then revert back to the edit pop-up. A few others mentioned this over on Droid Life, so thankfully I don't appear to be the only one.
Any idea what may be causing this little glitch over time?
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Something I noticed about a week ago, and that I've yet to figure out the cause of, is that trying to switch the app drawer icon's image while running Nova is no longer working. It does when you first install Nova, or after clearing the data, however it eventually stops working. Instead, holding down the icon's image in the edit pop-up makes the screen hang for a second (like it's going to open the icon preview screen) then revert back to the edit pop-up. A few others mentioned this over on Droid Life, so thankfully I don't appear to be the only one.
Any idea what may be causing this little glitch over time?
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Hmm that's strange.. No problems at all here with Nova Prime. I've switched the app drawer icon many times and doesn't happen.
Maybe try clearing cache/Dalvic for the entire phone not just Nova data, may help may not
- Tapatalked from the G3
Been running Nova since day 3 so 3 and a half weeks at least (later upgraded to Nova Prime) and no such issue...
If it were happening constantly I think it'd be a little easier to pinpoint an issue. Best I can tell though, it only crops up after changing the icon pack a few times. Also, adding another app drawer shortcut to the home screen does not alleviate the problem either. Something is causing it to randomly lock up, and I believe it may have something to do with LG's stock software. Granted the only evidence I have to back that up stems from never having issues with any of my other devices and the fact that there is little to no reference of this in conjunction with Nova to be found on the web.
Tillmorn said:
Something I noticed about a week ago, and that I've yet to figure out the cause of, is that trying to switch the app drawer icon's image while running Nova is no longer working. It does when you first install Nova, or after clearing the data, however it eventually stops working. Instead, holding down the icon's image in the edit pop-up makes the screen hang for a second (like it's going to open the icon preview screen) then revert back to the edit pop-up. A few others mentioned this over on Droid Life, so thankfully I don't appear to be the only one.
Any idea what may be causing this little glitch over time?
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Search is your friend
http://forum.xda-developers.com/verizon-lg-g3/help/change-app-launcher-icon-nova-t2826053
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Search is your friend
http://forum.xda-developers.com/verizon-lg-g3/help/change-app-launcher-icon-nova-t2826053
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This is what I get for posting a topic after not searching for another answer since mid July when I first noticed it xD. Curious that it would require moving back to stock. That makes me believe it really is something in the code on LG's part that is causing it. Hopefully Nova can find a workaround for it.
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