I've noticed that the home launcher is being killed after opening apps such as google chrome snapchat or even gallery. It is annoying staying 5 seconds to see the launcher. Multitasking is almost impossible. How can I stop killing the home launcher?
cretu01 said:
I've noticed that the home launcher is being killed after opening apps such as google chrome snapchat or even gallery. It is annoying staying 5 seconds to see the launcher. Multitasking is almost impossible. How can I stop killing the home launcher?
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Welcome to a phone which is poorly optimized, a ui which takes up a lot of memory and so on. And most of all, a discount mini version of a phone.
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It is now 90% solved.. using RAM Manager pro with hard multitasking active, lock launcher in memory and VM heap size to 256. Also tried swap file but after creation it seems that it doesn't work after looking in memory info.
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Can anyone tell me why my Note is lagging so bad now? I have closed all background running apps. Cleared all caches and data. But for some reason when on the web a long time or an app, every time I hit the home button, none of my icons are there. Then they slowly start popping up. I read some on this, but have tried everything. Please help!
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Your launcher had left ram, so when you exit out of a program to go to the home screen, your launcher has to restart and load all over again.
Instead of killing background apps, let Android do its thing and don't wiry about used/free ram. Free ram is wasted ram, and this is the perfect example of that.
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.
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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 developers
i have loading delay on my Sam.GS3
when i use an application or work for 2-3 minutes on setting or ...
and then back to main menu OR press Home key to back to home
i see delay to load shortcuts or widgets, or when wanna back to main menu delay to load apps icons and etc.
i cleared the cache and closed all running apps (but just system apps.)
but still i see delay.
however i had this problem on Xperia Arc, Xperia S but i could free RAM and then i could see that the smartphone work faster and more responsible
BUT now Galaxy S III (however) it has QuadCore processor But i have problem and cannot clear RAM and cache.
what s your opinion and what should i do to have faster mobile and real quadcore access.
Regard
x102x96x
x102x96x said:
Hi developers
i have loading delay on my Sam.GS3
when i use an application or work for 2-3 minutes on setting or ...
and then back to main menu OR press Home key to back to home
i see delay to load shortcuts or widgets, or when wanna back to main menu delay to load apps icons and etc.
i cleared the cache and closed all running apps (but just system apps.)
but still i see delay.
however i had this problem on Xperia Arc, Xperia S but i could free RAM and then i could see that the smartphone work faster and more responsible
BUT now Galaxy S III (however) it has QuadCore processor But i have problem and cannot clear RAM and cache.
what s your opinion and what should i do to have faster mobile and real quadcore access.
Regard
x102x96x
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U got 2 ways to fix this problem:
1) go to setting-->Developer options-->Window animation scale and Transition animation scale set to off or 0.5x (this should be help)
2) Root your device and install titanium backup, it allow u to freeze apps, like some samsung background apps eg: allshare.etc u can close it through there
then it can save ur ram.
Hope this could help u.
It's a problem with the launcher. Samsung is taking a play out of Apple's book here. They've configured the launcher such that when ram demands are high, regardless of how much free ram is left, the launcher closes so that the current app will run smoothly and the user will be unaware of the decrease in ram. Sadly, not everyone likes this.
hi
can i use another kernel or rom to have faster SGS3?
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x102x96x said:
hi
can i use another kernel or rom to have faster SGS3?
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You can use another kernel or another rom if you want to try them.
jje
so changing the kernel and rom can effect on speed and performance of device???
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U can flash OMEGA rom, for example, which has all the tweaks U will ever need, and it comes with omega kitchen preinstalled,and there U can find different kernels, to improve battery life, mods to reduce home button lag, etc..
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pedja381 said:
U can flash OMEGA rom, for example, which has all the tweaks U will ever need, and it comes with omega kitchen preinstalled,and there U can find different kernels, to improve battery life, mods to reduce home button lag, etc..
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But it may not cure your problem 100% .
TRYLag
for the home button lag - disable the home button when pressed for S-voice.
I also got transitions & pop-ups set to 0.5x rather than 1x (in dev options under settings)
Surfing the net pressing home button and find the home screen reloads. So bit of a lag which is very annoying, until samsung sort this out with a software update there is a work around. Simply disable s-voice from.settings that's it. I haven't actually experienced screen reload since.
Let me know if this works for you or not.
Try this
Untick under s-voice settings the following:
Launch S Voice
Wake up command
Under application manager go to running select s-voice and stop all services.
Go to all and disable s-voice. This will remove the app from app draw list too, you can also disable chat on app too.
This should stop the app running in the background.
jje
JJEgan said:
But it may not cure your problem 100% .
TRYLag
for the home button lag - disable the home button when pressed for S-voice.
I also got transitions & pop-ups set to 0.5x rather than 1x (in dev options under settings)
Surfing the net pressing home button and find the home screen reloads. So bit of a lag which is very annoying, until samsung sort this out with a software update there is a work around. Simply disable s-voice from.settings that's it. I haven't actually experienced screen reload since.
Let me know if this works for you or not.
Try this
Untick under s-voice settings the following:
Launch S Voice
Wake up command
Under application manager go to running select s-voice and stop all services.
Go to all and disable s-voice. This will remove the app from app draw list too, you can also disable chat on app too.
This should stop the app running in the background.
jje
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i did and also disabled allshare of samsung but still i have delay to reload home screen.
it s too little delay to load widgets and shortcuts on my home screens.
and maybe it s normal ?! is it?
(but with Quad core processor and delay, it s annoying!)
Hi, I am wondering if it is possible to force the launcher into memory. Sometimes when I unlock my phone it jumps into Touchwiz instead of the default launcher which is themer. It also happens sometimes when I close games and it jumps right into Touchwiz, so I have to double tap home button to get into themer again. I am currently using Galaxy S4 so RAM should not be a problem, but I do not know why it is getting killed all the time.
aerce said:
Hi, I am wondering if it is possible to force the launcher into memory. Sometimes when I unlock my phone it jumps into Touchwiz instead of the default launcher which is themer. It also happens sometimes when I close games and it jumps right into Touchwiz, so I have to double tap home button to get into themer again. I am currently using Galaxy S4 so RAM should not be a problem, but I do not know why it is getting killed all the time.
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ro.HOME_APP_ADJ=1
Copy paste the above at the end of your build.prop file using root explorer which can be found
here:
system/build.prop
My V30 randomly gets laggy on the home screen but doesn't lag anywhere else. I tried enabling "Force GPU Rendering" and even tried closing all apps, and refreshing the ram. The only way to fix it is to reboot the phone, until it happens again later on. I'm not rooted, my AT&T Variant doesn't have root available, and I haven't downloaded any sketchy apps.
What widgets/apps are on your home screen? Are you using the default launcher or something else (i.e. Nova, Action, Microsoft...). What is your background set to (static picture, live wallpaper, custom)?
SHosp said:
What widgets/apps are on your home screen? Are you using the default launcher or something else (i.e. Nova, Action, Microsoft...). What is your background set to (static picture, live wallpaper, custom)?
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Clock widget, Google Widget, and a ram bar that lets me refresh it when i close an app, however i tried removing each widget one at a time, and then all of them and it didnt solve it.
As for the launcher, I've been using Evie Launcher since i had a V20. Because it's easy to run, I even run it on my girlfriends Moto Z.
Wallpaper is a static image, however the lag started recently, and when i was messing around with live wallpapers, there was no lag.
Just installed Evie on my phone and everything was running buttery smooth. May need to run it for longer to see if it starts to slow down. One thing that jumped out at me was it wanted access to location services to provide suggestions which made me wonder if the lag is actually caused by poor data speed or location information. Does the lag persist on WiFi?
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Just installed Evie on my phone and everything was running buttery smooth. May need to run it for longer to see if it starts to slow down. One thing that jumped out at me was it wanted access to location services to provide suggestions which made me wonder if the lag is actually caused by poor data speed or location information. Does the lag persist on WiFi?
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Yes. However i feel this isnt really relevant to me as i have extremely fast cell data, Faster then my 150MB's down and 10 up on my wifi.