on villain rom 2.4.2 and use launcher pro
last few days whatever launcher I choose , the launcher won't stay as default after ive ticked the box.
happens on tw launcher asell so is not launcher pro.
have cleared defaults in mange applications numerous times
have reinstalled launcher pro.
have frozen some apps, so that could be a culprit. but none I would of thought would cause this issue.
anyone got any ideas?
any help much appreciated before I reflash vr.
have also tried home switcher app to clear the defaults and choose but still same issue.
a restart has fixed the issue for about 5 mins before, but it always starts again
this unfortunately happens from time to time with launcher pro. I love the launcher but the application has not been updated in a while. just press the home button and it should automatically bring back launcher pro.
blunted09 said:
this unfortunately happens from time to time with launcher pro. I love the launcher but the application has not been updated in a while. just press the home button and it should automatically bring back launcher pro.
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just pressing the home button leaves the select your launcher window up. I think our problems are different.
launcher pro is working fine, even if I select touch wiz as my default launcher, enter an app, then press the home key it asks me again to select the launcher and the default tick box.
same as when I reboot the phone, first thing it asks me is what launcher I want!
think I'm gonna wipe and reflash, but just wanted to see if anyone else had experienced this problem. as this only started a week after I flashed villain rom, so don't think, its rom related either.
Other than having to change my default launcher on boot, I'm quite happy with my nexus 7. Wonder if the stock launcher can be removed without crippling the system.
So since SPB Shell 3D isn't working correctly for me I downloaded Home Switcher from the market so I can switch back to the Stock Launcher w/o having to uninstall SPB. I opened the program and saw a list of Launchers to pick.
Agile Lock
Home (Moto-Blur)
Launcher Pro
SPB Shell 3D
The top said that SPB was my default. So I chose Home (Motorola) as my new default and clicked launch. It then went to me stock launcher home screen. Everything seemed great. Then the next time I clicked the home key, it defaulted back to SPB. Home Switcher does not allow me to set anything other than SPB as the default launcher. So I uninstalled SPB completely so I can run the stock launcher with no issues. Suddenly, it decides to load Launcher Pro instead. Again, I went back to Home Switcher and set Moto-Blur as my default launcher. I clicked launch and it took me back to my Motorola Homescreen. Again I thought everything was okay until I hit the Home key and it defaulted to Launcher Pro. Wtf! So in a last ditch effort, I uninstalled Launcher Pro also and pressed home to go back to my Motorola Homescreen only to be met with a black screen. My Stock Launcher was gone. I could still see my notofication bar and if I hold the home button I get my recent app list. So I chose Home Switcher and was able to launch the Moto Launcher from there. Then I reinstalled Launcher Pro and it works okay. So it seems that somehow I lost my Stock Motorola Launcher. How could that happen? And how can I fix it? Factory Reset? All these other guys running SPB say they love it and have no issues. Why won't it work correctly on this phone? Even with the stock messaging app, she is still getting the repetition of text messages.
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So since SPB Shell 3D isn't working correctly for me I downloaded Home Switcher from the market so I can switch back to the Stock Launcher w/o having to uninstall SPB. I opened the program and saw a list of Launchers to pick.
Agile Lock
Home (Moto-Blur)
Launcher Pro
SPB Shell 3D
The top said that SPB was my default. So I chose Home (Motorola) as my new default and clicked launch. It then went to me stock launcher home screen. Everything seemed great. Then the next time I clicked the home key, it defaulted back to SPB. Home Switcher does not allow me to set anything other than SPB as the default launcher. So I uninstalled SPB completely so I can run the stock launcher with no issues. Suddenly, it decides to load Launcher Pro instead. Again, I went back to Home Switcher and set Moto-Blur as my default launcher. I clicked launch and it took me back to my Motorola Homescreen. Again I thought everything was okay until I hit the Home key and it defaulted to Launcher Pro. Wtf! So in a last ditch effort, I uninstalled Launcher Pro also and pressed home to go back to my Motorola Homescreen only to be met with a black screen. My Stock Launcher was gone. I could still see my notofication bar and if I hold the home button I get my recent app list. So I chose Home Switcher and was able to launch the Moto Launcher from there. Then I reinstalled Launcher Pro and it works okay. So it seems that somehow I lost my Stock Motorola Launcher. How could that happen? And how can I fix it? Factory Reset? All these other guys running SPB say they love it and have no issues. Why won't it work correctly on this phone? Even with the stock messaging app, she is still getting the repetition of text messages.
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If you go into "manage apps" and the stock launcher app does it give you the option to set it as default? The Home Switcher app may not be setting it properly.
Did you post this in Android Forums as well? I'd try Homesmack to see if you can restore the stock launcher.
anyone experiencing slugginess? my phone seems to lag a little. when i close a app and go to homescreen each icon apprears one at a time sometimes.
That's the TW launcher re-loading after being free'd from memory that was used for other apps.
If you don't want this, you can replace it with Apex Launcher and use the "keep in memory" setting to prevent the re-loading of the launcher.
I got my s3 on wednesday. I noticed that sometimes I press the home button when in an app, nothing happens, then a few seconds later the screen goes black, except for the notification bar. Then it finally shows the homescreen and it redraws all the widgets. It will then work for a while abnd then happen again, probably about 5 or 6 times a day.
I have since rooted it and put a custom rom on, and it did the same thing. i have now gone back to stock rom.
i am using Apex Launcher.
Anyone else had these problems?
I have had the same thing happen to me sometimes with Apex, but not with any other launcher. I believe it's a bug in Apex. Try checking the "keep in memory" option, although that didn't help me.
I did wonder if it was Apex, I thought it happened with touchwiz as well, but thinking about it I cant be sure. i will give keep in memory atry, or ill switch to Nova for now. Ill keep you updated
Its because you have too man apps running in the background. Then your homescreen gets kicked out of RAM to free RAM. So it has to redraw. Maybe your launcher uses a Lot of memory?
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I have used Apex launcher on the s2 and its fine. Its only on the S3 with 1Gb Ram, with not a lot running. Almost certain its not out of RAM unless its a bug with Apex and the s3.
Just seen on the APEX app xda forum there are others with the same problem on their s3s. SO it must just be an Apex bug with the S3
I use the paid version of apex and I don't have the problem where the screen goes black. I do have the redraw issue with the option to keep in memory on.
But apex redraws really quickly, much quicker than the redraw of touchwiz.
Stock rom
I have the paid version too. The guy on this page half way down posted about the same problem:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1452663&page=393
I get this when using the stock launcher. Sometimes after pressing the home button, it'll go black for a split second, then the icons and widgets do then appear 1 by 1 but pretty quickly. It's as if the launcher is doing a quick restart.
Doesn't happen often, but it does happen.
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I get this when using the stock launcher. Sometimes after pressing the home button, it'll go black for a split second, then the icons and widgets do then appear 1 by 1 but pretty quickly. It's as if the launcher is doing a quick restart.
Doesn't happen often, but it does happen.
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Yea same here. Its been mentioned before in this section, and possible solutions has been mentioned. Not sure they ever foudn one, that worked 100%
never had such issue try disabling the 2 time press from s voice i mean when you press 2 times the home button to open the s voice app
Pretty sure its just Apex, Im using stock launcher and so problems what so ever so far
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Pretty sure its just Apex, Im using stock launcher and so problems what so ever so far
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I am using stock launcher and its fine mostly But when I load up a few tabs of heavy webpages in browser the home screen redraws. It's definitely a memory issue and not just specific to any particular launcher.
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I am using stock launcher and its fine mostly But when I load up a few tabs of heavy webpages in browser the home screen redraws. It's definitely a memory issue and not just specific to any particular launcher.
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black screen is just apex, it's a different and far more annoying problem than redraw.
Tapatalked.
Yeah Im talking about the current app/screen freezing for about a second or two, then a black screen appearing with just the notification bar visiable, for about 2-3 seconds, then finally the home screen loads and redraws.
This has only happened to me with Apex and I have seen others with the same problem.
I do find it strange that its not more of a well known issue, considering Apex is one of the most common launchers on ICS and the S3 has been out comign up to a month.
well, tried apex, stock, nova. somehow all have same problem. more or less. try removing your big widgets, like the clock. think they are causing the redraw problem.
coz i also have this problem. but soon realised that it doesn't happen on pages with no widgets.
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I had the same problem with apex launcher, the screen goes black as if it was frozen and then its started to redraw, I switched back to the stock launcher, it still redraws, but it only takes 0.5 seconds comparing to apex of 3-5
Hope that they fix it soon ( Samsung or apex team).
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i heard that rom update has fixed the issue of redrawing, didn,t try it yet. I m still on le8
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Same problem here. Let me know if someone finds a fix!
i'm on LEA rom and this still happens to me, gets very frustrating since this issue occurs randomly, will try nova launcher for now and see how it goes.
Its definitely occurring when the home screen redraws and is down to lack of ram and system not protecting the launcher from closing.
I am testing Go Launcher and so far, an hour of testing I have had no redraws so I'm gonna stick with that and see what happens.
Phone has killed apps but not go launcher so far
Hi Guys,
The Fiio X7 is an android based DAP, it's recently received an update to Lollipop 5.1.1. The device can be rooted using Kingoroot / kingroot.
It has a default launcher called 'Launcher3' which I believe is the AOSP launcher and is also able to be set to what they call 'Pure Music Mode' where the launcher can be set to their Music application (apparently closes all background processes). This can be toggled in the quick settings pulled down from the top.
I am able to install a new launcher - Nova for instance, but cannot set it as default, when the option is selected within Nova, the default launcher immediately pops back up and Nova seems to be shut down (not in the recent apps list). This occurs with any other launcher.
Checking any Launcher within Apps the 'Launch by defaults' section states 'No defaults set' and the 'Clear Defaults' button is greyed out. Default launcher applications don't seem to work either.
So the launcher lives in /system/Launcher3/Launcher3.apk and I've managed to replace this with the Nova launcher apk after renaming it to Launcher3.apk via adb push. This causes the Launcher 3 to throw up errors as expected, but after rebooting the Nova launcher works fine as the default launcher. Even persists after shutting the device down / rebooting it etc.. at this point I thought I had solved the problem...
However leaving the device on for some time, something happens and the Nova launcher process seems to be killed. After this occurs, it goes into the 'Pure Music Mode' launcher, pressing the home button does nothing, and as this isn't an actual launcher means that no applications or anything can be launched. The only way to get things working properly again is to re-flash the firmware (it is a update.img) using Fiio's application leaving me stuck with the default horrid launcher....
It seems that somehow and for some reason Fiio have baked the launcher into the firmware making it impossible to change it's behaviour. I'm hoping someone here can shed some light on how to eradicate this.
Thanks
Paul
Really sorry to bump this, i'm sure someone on here will know the answer to this.
Thanks