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I'm having some trouble with my launcher of choice, Apex.
Every now and then it will crash, leaving me with a black screen. The screen will remain black and the phone unresponsive for around 10 seconds. Then I'm thrown back to my home screen.
I'm assuming that it's Apex crashing, but there is no error message or dialog box of any kind, so I can't be sure.
This often happens if I click the back button multiple times to get out of an app, or when I am using an app and then click my home button. It does this with many different apps.
Is there any way I can start troubleshooting this? Logs of some kind? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Kiahnlliya said:
I'm having some trouble with my launcher of choice, Apex.
Every now and then it will crash, leaving me with a black screen. The screen will remain black and the phone unresponsive for around 10 seconds. Then I'm thrown back to my home screen.
I'm assuming that it's Apex crashing, but there is no error message or dialog box of any kind, so I can't be sure.
This often happens if I click the back button multiple times to get out of an app, or when I am using an app and then click my home button. It does this with many different apps.
Is there any way I can start troubleshooting this? Logs of some kind? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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I'm using apex (pro) and it works fine, maybe you clicking back several times is just making the app FC or just brain-farting android.
I have the Pro version too. And yeah at first I thought it was me causing it, since the last Android phone I had was running Eclair and I thought that maybe ICS doesn't like back button mashing... But the black screen also happens if I background an app using the home key.
It's really a shame because I'm loving Apex.
Kiahnlliya said:
I have the Pro version too. And yeah at first I thought it was me causing it, since the last Android phone I had was running Eclair and I thought that maybe ICS doesn't like back button mashing... But the black screen also happens if I background an app using the home key.
It's really a shame because I'm loving Apex.
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Hmm well that's really weird. Do a backup in apex, then force stop, clear data, uninstall and then reinstall it. See if you still have the problem. Also, see if the "keep in memory" option is checked, this should prevent things like this, or it having to load again when coming back from another app.
I had the same issues with apex, couldn't figure out what exactly caused the problems...for that reason I'm on go launcher for now.
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i have the same problem
bortak said:
Also, see if the "keep in memory" option is checked, this should prevent things like this, or it having to load again when coming back from another app.
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It seems like this has solved my problem! It was unchecked, so I checked it and now it seems fine! You the man!
Didn´t solve it here, as said above, it is already checked. Maybe an update will solve these problems in near future, it is really sad that apex suffers here.
It appears I spoke too soon, Apex still crashes/freezes for me.
I also tried Nova Launcher and it does the same thing.
I keep very few apps backgrounded, and I have removed a lot of bloatware. My phone should be a lean, mean machine... I guess I just have to live with it, maybe in the future a custom ROM will solve it.
If you guys check your logcat logs, you'll see evidence of apex crashing. I already contacted the developers and they said it's a known issue but are still looking into it. For now I'm using go launcher.. not so smooth, but lots of features
Had the exact same issues, switching to Nova solved the problem for me.
Yup same problem, back on touchwiz for now.
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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.
MarkMcLovin said:
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
n1r0k said:
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.
nativestranger said:
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 there.
After the last big update to Nova some weeks ago, this started (see attached SS).
Have anyone tried it before? Sometimes it just appears; this time after I played on N64oid. Another weird thing is that sometimes I can just press System Settings (top right corner) and then press the Nexus 7 home button, and then it sends me back to the home screen, like nothing was ever wrong.
I have tried removing the widgets and replacing them afterwards! It removes the problem, but it returns after a while again.
I'm on JB - Paranoid android 2.56; Franco kernel.
Someone know what to do? Thanks in advance.
Nova Launcher Problem with widgets
Ham duden said:
Hi there.
After the last big update to Nova some weeks ago, this started (see attached SS).
Have anyone tried it before? Sometimes it just appears; this time after I played on N64oid. Another weird thing is that sometimes I can just press System Settings (top right corner) and then press the Nexus 7 home button, and then it sends me back to the home screen, like nothing was ever wrong.
I have tried removing the widgets and replacing them afterwards! It removes the problem, but it returns after a while again.
I'm on JB - Paranoid android 2.56; Franco kernel.
Someone know what to do? Thanks in advance.
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I have the same problem on Note 2 with stock Image, but rooted.
Did you find any solution for this?
I think the problem could be to many widgets or a specific widget that makes the problem.
A reboot solves the problem for me but just for a short time. I did not find any way to reproduce the problem, it seems to be coming up by chance...
I have 22 widgets at the moment, the most are coming because I am useing "App Quarantine" a lot...
lskwl said:
I have the same problem on Note 2 with stock Image, but rooted.
Did you find any solution for this?
I think the problem could be to many widgets or a specific widget that makes the problem.
A reboot solves the problem for me but just for a short time. I did not find any way to reproduce the problem, it seems to be coming up by chance...
I have 22 widgets at the moment, the most are coming because I am useing "App Quarantine" a lot...
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I too am having this problem. I have 54 widgets. I was just attributing it to too many widgets, but I think it might be sommat more sinister...Yoyl!
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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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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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
droidkevlar said:
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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Anyone else use Nova Launcher? Seems the phone does not like to keep Nova Launcher as default after a reboot. (Haven't tried others)
Is it a launcher problem or a phone problem?
[edit] OK. Got a response from Nova. Apparently it's a Google/Samsung thing that needs to be worked out. But, trying to restart and keep setting Nova as Default at some point may stick.
Another issue I was having was not being able to press anything right after returning home. That's also a Google issue that can't be fixed on Nova or any other launcher's part.
I see the same thing on my T-Mo S21+. After I reboot the nova home screen comes up as expected but a default home application is gone in settings (none are checked). Using "Close All" takes me to the Samsung home screen instead of the Nova home screen. Setting the default home back to Nova seems to fix the problem (until the next reboot). Fortunately, I rarely reboot...
No idea why.
I had this start on my S20+ after One UI 3 update, I mentioned it on Reddit and someone said it was a known issue and would be fixed in January. Obviously not fixed yet as I too still have this problem, it seems intermitent though, hopefully they will fix it soon.
For what it's worth Nova (6.2.18) works fine for me. Have probably rebooted phone 10 or so times.
Had my S21 last monday, this problem happened during the first hours of use, and has completely disappeared from now on. (Nova 2021 here)
I'm an Action Launcher user, and I haven't had that issue with my device (S21+).
Hurricane Andrew said:
I'm an Action Launcher user, and I haven't had that issue with my device (S21+).
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So probably a Nova issue. Guess will have to wait for an update.
as mentionned above, I don't have the issue anymore with Nova 2021...
What about this other issue? Upon going to home screen from any app. When you immediately press any other icon or do any gestures, nothing but a flash happens.
Upon further inspection. There are little marks on the both lower corners. They disappear after about a second. I think that's what's causing the screen flash. When they disappear, no flash.
Is that a Nova thing or One UI thing? I haven't deviated from how how use/setup the launcher last few years.
[edit] OK. Got a response from Nova. Apparently it's a Google/Samsung thing that needs to be worked out. But, trying to restart and keep setting Nova as Default at some point may stick.
Another issue I was having was not being able to press anything right after returning home. That's also a Google issue that can't be fixed on Nova or any other launcher's part.
I use lawnchairway better than nova for my needs
I didn't have any issues with Nova on my S21 Ultra. I'm giving the stock One UI 3 launcher a try after using Nova for almost 10 years.
SiNJiN76 said:
What about this other issue? Upon going to home screen from any app. When you immediately press any other icon or do any gestures, nothing but a flash happens.
Upon further inspection. There are little marks on the both lower corners. They disappear after about a second. I think that's what's causing the screen flash. When they disappear, no flash.
Is that a Nova thing or One UI thing? I haven't deviated from how how use/setup the launcher last few years.
[edit] OK. Got a response from Nova. Apparently it's a Google/Samsung thing that needs to be worked out. But, trying to restart and keep setting Nova as Default at some point may stick.
Another issue I was having was not being able to press anything right after returning home. That's also a Google issue that can't be fixed on Nova or any other launcher's part.
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The little white marks is google assistant, if you swipe from the corner it will come up. But it's not the cause of the problem unfortunately. Try going to the app switcher first and then going home & pressing something quick. The screen flash doesn't happen on Niagara launcher for me, but the google assistant indicator still comes up. Wish there was a way to fix the screen flash though.
> Another issue I was having was not being able to press anything right after returning home.
This is a gestures + custom launcher issue, it's not solvable by the vendor (Samsung) or the launcher developer (Nova dev) unless Google does something about it.
tvBilly said:
I see the same thing on my T-Mo S21+. After I reboot the nova home screen comes up as expected but a default home application is gone in settings (none are checked). Using "Close All" takes me to the Samsung home screen instead of the Nova home screen. Setting the default home back to Nova seems to fix the problem (until the next reboot). Fortunately, I rarely reboot...
No idea why.
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This is no longer the case for me. My T-Mo S21+ (NYC) updated the firmware yesterday (AUAG), and Nova now remains the default home screen after reboots (and anything else).
fwiw
Nevermind. I just rebooted again, and the default home was no longer set to anything. After resetting it to Nova, it stuck, but whatever the problem is, it still exists. Sorry for the false hope.