I am running cool ICS Rom v6 So have ICS and sense 3.6
the frequent apps tab of the application drawer doesn't seem to work consistently, very rarely can I click on an app and have it open. I can move over to the other tabs and click to open there, and i can scroll in any tab, but tapping an app will neither highlight nor open it. Occasionally I can open one, the first time I try in a while, but subsequent attempts fail.
anyone have any clue what is causing this or how to fix it?
thanks much
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I'm running an ICS leaked build on my SGS2 - LP6. I've had two screen freezes (nova) so am going back to touchwiz for a while.
Of course by default touchwiz doesn't sort the apps drawer in grid view. By deleting data it's pseudo sorted. For now. So pre-installed apps are first in order, then user installed, in order
Has anyone co-erced AppZorter to work? Or know how to manipulate touchwiz through APIs or database updates to switch things into order?
I've emailed the AppZorter developer but I'm sure it's too early.
It's the one feature of touchwiz that IMO is a serious omission - otherwise I like it.
in TW4.5 you have alphabetical order of icons but i am not sure that it will work on ICS ROM............on GB it is fantastic.......
appz sorter light works but you have to reboot.. it doesnt restart touchwiz.. or if you have home switcher and temporarily switch to a different shell and run it and then switch back it is done immediately.
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appz sorter light works but you have to reboot.. it doesnt restart touchwiz.. or if you have home switcher and temporarily switch to a different shell and run it and then switch back it is done immediately.
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No just force stop the tw launcher after sort.
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I am on the latest ICS leak and I can't get AppZorter to install, for the obvious reason that it's for older versions. There has to be some other way instead of slowly tapping, dragging and dropping
i have ICS LPQ and sometimes in the app drawer my apps get jumbled up
for example on one screen i have organized some apps by what they do like voice apps all the samsung hubs but then everything gets put on different screens then i have to organise them all again
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i have ICS LPQ and sometimes in the app drawer my apps get jumbled up
for example on one screen i have organized some apps by what they do like voice apps all the samsung hubs but then everything gets put on different screens then i have to organise them all again
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Hmmm Thats strange... If you are using the stock Touchwiz launcher then this should not happen. Try to wipe the data of the touchwiz launcher and re organize and see if this happens again.
Also, not sure if you checked... but what setting is your app drawer set to? Like is it set to sort by Title, Commonly used apps, etc?
thanks guys im gonna try wipe the touchwiz launcher data and retry it doesnt happen often but its annoying
Do you solve the problem yet?
Ok, so I am not exactly a noob with android. But ICS, yes. I just upgraded last week. I flashed Siyah kernel and Omega rom as that was close to what I used to have with GB and UnNamed rom. I then moved Omega to 2nd rom and flashed Task's AOKP rom as primary making it duel boot. I ABSOLUTELY love AOKP!! However, I miss two things that I enjoyed having in Omega and UnNamed and that is the ability to put applications into folders and the Active Applications monitor widget.
Using folders to organize my apps just makes sense to me and it made it easier to put the lesser used apps away. I know that I can organize apps on the homescreens, but that area is reserved for widgets and apps that are used most of the time. My question for this is: why are developers NOT including this feature? Is there something I am missing? Is there an easier way to organize apps that I am not seeing?
As far as the Active Applications widget, I used that widget to tell me what I have left open when navigating away from a program or hitting the home button to go to another app temporally. I would also use it to go back to said apps that I left open. I also used it to kill those apps. The widget would tell me, at a glance, how many programs I left open. This seems like a feature that would be important, yet I cannot find it anywhere!
I did google searches and forum searches to no avail. This worries me as since I am the only person asking, there must be something better or I am missing something. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I would ask Task directly, but I cannot post to his thread.
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Ok, so I am not exactly a noob with android. But ICS, yes. I just upgraded last week. I flashed Siyah kernel and Omega rom as that was close to what I used to have with GB and UnNamed rom. I then moved Omega to 2nd rom and flashed Task's AOKP rom as primary making it duel boot. I ABSOLUTELY love AOKP!! However, I miss two things that I enjoyed having in Omega and UnNamed and that is the ability to put applications into folders and the Active Applications monitor widget.
Using folders to organize my apps just makes sense to me and it made it easier to put the lesser used apps away. I know that I can organize apps on the homescreens, but that area is reserved for widgets and apps that are used most of the time. My question for this is: why are developers NOT including this feature? Is there something I am missing? Is there an easier way to organize apps that I am not seeing?
As far as the Active Applications widget, I used that widget to tell me what I have left open when navigating away from a program or hitting the home button to go to another app temporally. I would also use it to go back to said apps that I left open. I also used it to kill those apps. The widget would tell me, at a glance, how many programs I left open. This seems like a feature that would be important, yet I cannot find it anywhere!
I did google searches and forum searches to no avail. This worries me as since I am the only person asking, there must be something better or I am missing something. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I would ask Task directly, but I cannot post to his thread.
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Tbh you don't need an active application widget. Also, you can put folders on your home screen so I don't know why you think you can't.
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Ok, so I am not exactly a noob with android. But ICS, yes. I just upgraded last week. I flashed Siyah kernel and Omega rom as that was close to what I used to have with GB and UnNamed rom. I then moved Omega to 2nd rom and flashed Task's AOKP rom as primary making it duel boot. I ABSOLUTELY love AOKP!! However, I miss two things that I enjoyed having in Omega and UnNamed and that is the ability to put applications into folders and the Active Applications monitor widget.
Using folders to organize my apps just makes sense to me and it made it easier to put the lesser used apps away. I know that I can organize apps on the homescreens, but that area is reserved for widgets and apps that are used most of the time. My question for this is: why are developers NOT including this feature? Is there something I am missing? Is there an easier way to organize apps that I am not seeing?
As far as the Active Applications widget, I used that widget to tell me what I have left open when navigating away from a program or hitting the home button to go to another app temporally. I would also use it to go back to said apps that I left open. I also used it to kill those apps. The widget would tell me, at a glance, how many programs I left open. This seems like a feature that would be important, yet I cannot find it anywhere!
I did google searches and forum searches to no avail. This worries me as since I am the only person asking, there must be something better or I am missing something. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I would ask Task directly, but I cannot post to his thread.
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For ICS ROMs, I haven't tried many different yet, but at least on the Horny Porny Unicorn, with Apex launcher, free version, you definitely can make folder(s) on the Home screen(s), only on the home screens, not in the App Drawer.
Your other question seems to be called "Program Manager" where it lists how many apps and which app currently opened. In ICS, honestly I couldn't find anything similar to that (note: that Program Manager will only work on Samsung framework). I currently just use Task Manager to deal with it.
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Ok, so I am not exactly a noob with android. But ICS, yes. I just upgraded last week. I flashed Siyah kernel and Omega rom as that was close to what I used to have with GB and UnNamed rom. I then moved Omega to 2nd rom and flashed Task's AOKP rom as primary making it duel boot. I ABSOLUTELY love AOKP!! However, I miss two things that I enjoyed having in Omega and UnNamed and that is the ability to put applications into folders and the Active Applications monitor widget.
Using folders to organize my apps just makes sense to me and it made it easier to put the lesser used apps away. I know that I can organize apps on the homescreens, but that area is reserved for widgets and apps that are used most of the time. My question for this is: why are developers NOT including this feature? Is there something I am missing? Is there an easier way to organize apps that I am not seeing?
As far as the Active Applications widget, I used that widget to tell me what I have left open when navigating away from a program or hitting the home button to go to another app temporally. I would also use it to go back to said apps that I left open. I also used it to kill those apps. The widget would tell me, at a glance, how many programs I left open. This seems like a feature that would be important, yet I cannot find it anywhere!
I did google searches and forum searches to no avail. This worries me as since I am the only person asking, there must be something better or I am missing something. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I would ask Task directly, but I cannot post to his thread.
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Correct me if I'm wrong but I do believe holding down the home button shows you recent apps and is also a built in task killer. Also with folders as previous posts have said to add folders to the home screen just drag one icon on another and ur good to go.
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Nick281051 said:
Tbh you don't need an active application widget. Also, you can put folders on your home screen so I don't know why you think you can't.
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Your right! I can put folders on my home screen, but like I originality said, you cant put folders in the apps screen where they are needed. The home screen is reserved for things like often used apps and widgets.
As far as holding down the home button to kill programs... seems to work on my Omega but not on the AOKP. I turned it on under rom control to Pre-ICS recent when holding down the Home button (after playing will ALL the settings) and all it allows for is showing you the recent apps... not active ones. Anyone know of a task manager widget or something like what I am talking about???
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Your right! I can put folders on my home screen, but like I originality said, you cant put folders in the apps screen where they are needed. The home screen is reserved for things like often used apps and widgets.
As far as holding down the home button to kill programs... seems to work on my Omega but not on the AOKP. I turned it on under rom control to Pre-ICS recent when holding down the Home button (after playing will ALL the settings) and all it allows for is showing you the recent apps... not active ones. Anyone know of a task manager widget or something like what I am talking about???
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You meant the app drawer, okay yeah that only works with touchwiz. As for the task manager setting it to pre ics removes a lot of functionality. You can set the back button to kill apps but you can have the task manager that is in samsung roms.
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You meant the app drawer, okay yeah that only works with touchwiz. As for the task manager setting it to pre ics removes a lot of functionality. You can set the back button to kill apps but you can have the task manager that is in samsung roms.
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That works... I played around with that, but I thought it was just a way to kill the app you currently were using and had open. If you open a app and navagate away from it or press the home button, holding down the back button will show those apps and then kill them. Works like a charm! I love this mod...
I guess all I need now is touchwiz or something better that will probably never happen and life will be grand! Thank you so much!!!
If you have Nova Launcher Prime you can have folders in the app drawer. I believe is $4.00 in he play store
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Thanks, I will try it out.
Go Launcher Ex will do folders in the app drawer. I use it with Shostock2.
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This is a problem that seems to occur only in ICS, but I don't know more than that. It didn't happen when I was running stock, stock/rooted, or Saurom. I'm using the Apex launcher but a quick Google search shows similar reports from people using Nova.
I'm running Flappjaxxx's ICS IMM76D UCLE2 Base (but I haven't updated to the new release that came out today). I've also noticed this on ICS Objection (with Apex launcher).
So, here's the issue: occasionally widgets will "Freeze" and stop updating. I've seen this with Beautiful Widgets (the clock will stop updating, so it will read 3:05 when it's actually 3:30), Android Pro Widgets (specifically the calendar and bookmark widgets--the calendar will not let you advance to different months, the bookmarks widget will not update to show new bookmarks if you refresh it), and the TweetCaster Pro widget (it will not update to show the latest tweets when you press the refresh button).
There is still some functionality with the widgets--they don't die completely. I can still touch the clock portion of Beautiful Widgets and get to the alarm settings. I can still touch individual days in the APW calendar widget and see appointments, and touch the header to launch the full calendar, and the APW Bookmarks widget is still scrollable, clicking individual bookmarks will launch those pages, and touching the header bar will launch the browser's default page. But for some reason they stop updating.
Things I know
1. Restarting Apex launcher appears to reset the widgets. They start fully functioning again.
That's about it.
RIght now I"m trying to determine if JuiceDefender might have something to do with it. I don't think it would because I've used JD on my other phones with no issues... HOWEVER, none of my other phones have ever run ICS. I don't know. Maybe ICS is different. I know JD had issues working with Gingerbread for a while...
Anyone have any thoughts? Questions? Experience with this? It's a bit mystifying. NOw that I know restarting Apex launcher gets everything working again it's a lot less annoying than it was (rebooting every time was a pain) but I'd still like to figure out how to make it go away.
I had same problem with beautiful widgets. my task killer was my problem.it was to aggressive
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Same problem.
Have this problem both with Omega 7.0 rom and cyanogenmod.
Some widgets freezes after some minutes when phone is in standby mode.
Just by tilting the phone and let the window be landscape and then tilt it back again will activate the widget.
But it is annoying....
i had the same problem with widgets freezing; i uninstall go weather widget and go launcher and now it s fine again !!
edit: oops it came back...no freeze with Apex but it's still freezing with Tsf..
reedit: i found my problem: it was "clever contact widget "that froze the others widgets but only with TSF shell (not with Apex!!!)
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This is a problem that seems to occur only in ICS, but I don't know more than that. It didn't happen when I was running stock, stock/rooted, or Saurom. I'm using the Apex launcher but a quick Google search shows similar reports from people using Nova.
I'm running Flappjaxxx's ICS IMM76D UCLE2 Base (but I haven't updated to the new release that came out today). I've also noticed this on ICS Objection (with Apex launcher).
So, here's the issue: occasionally widgets will "Freeze" and stop updating. I've seen this with Beautiful Widgets (the clock will stop updating, so it will read 3:05 when it's actually 3:30), Android Pro Widgets (specifically the calendar and bookmark widgets--the calendar will not let you advance to different months, the bookmarks widget will not update to show new bookmarks if you refresh it), and the TweetCaster Pro widget (it will not update to show the latest tweets when you press the refresh button).
There is still some functionality with the widgets--they don't die completely. I can still touch the clock portion of Beautiful Widgets and get to the alarm settings. I can still touch individual days in the APW calendar widget and see appointments, and touch the header to launch the full calendar, and the APW Bookmarks widget is still scrollable, clicking individual bookmarks will launch those pages, and touching the header bar will launch the browser's default page. But for some reason they stop updating.
Things I know
1. Restarting Apex launcher appears to reset the widgets. They start fully functioning again.
That's about it.
RIght now I"m trying to determine if JuiceDefender might have something to do with it. I don't think it would because I've used JD on my other phones with no issues... HOWEVER, none of my other phones have ever run ICS. I don't know. Maybe ICS is different. I know JD had issues working with Gingerbread for a while...
Anyone have any thoughts? Questions? Experience with this? It's a bit mystifying. NOw that I know restarting Apex launcher gets everything working again it's a lot less annoying than it was (rebooting every time was a pain) but I'd still like to figure out how to make it go away.
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i'm using a motorola atrix 2 with stock ics and this's happening to me also , it's not any app that's causing this problem , it's a bug in ics as to many .. searched gooogle .. no launcher can help , i tried nova prime and apex but same happens to both , but now i'm on stock blur again and it doesn't happen so frequently but still happens, they say that only google can help in this case , they have to give an update .. so we have to hopw that they'll give us one soon .. until then we have to restart the launcher
note- try an anlog clock on your home screen , or anlaog and digital both home screens in a one home screen , you might notice that digital clock freezes when the analog clock works fine , i don't know why but that's happening to me ..
Hello,
I'm running Jelly Beans build 11 with the regular beans kernel. For a new user to ROMS, I am very impressed with the built in mods. So far I have found these mods very useful: dropbox mod, google play fix, native hotspot fix, multi-window support for all apps, customizable toggles on status bar, nova launcher, and built-in call/sms blocker.
My main issue with this ROM is when I hold down the home button to access my latest applications. I am able to scroll through my most recently used applications. But, when I select an app my phone freezes and then I get the message "Unfortunately, system UI has stopped". I tried looking around in system settings for an alternative app switcher and was not able to figure it out. Is anyone else having this problem? :crying:
I had this problem on build 9 when using Sense recents. I reflasfed the rom and went back to using stock recents and everything worked.
All right!
I just reflashed JB b11. The first setting in the jelly beans installation is "recent apps". Hahaha! I picked stock for recent apps instead of Sense for recent apps like you said. Now the recent app selector is stable. It's too bad the Sense recent app selector doesn't work. I think the horizontal scroll is nicer than the vertical scroll. But, stable is better than unstable.Thanks for the quick reply!
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Yeah this is a problem with the sense recents. You can also try fixing permissions if you want to use the sense recents.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=38747683&postcount=8217