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Lockscreen Issues

A day or so after I got my Atrix (the 24th) it began having this weird lockscreen issue where I press the power button and it wont actually turn the screen on until 5-25 seconds later... this doesn't happen everytime I unlock the device but often enough to be concerning and something I don't want to live with. As a dev all I can think of is too many apps running and trying to get them all out of the way before launching.
Should I try a different lockscreen?
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
sipjca
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I think some people reported it had something to do with Launcher Pro. Did you install this app by any chance?

I did. Infact that was one of the first I installed... should I go back to the stock launcher or use ada?
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I think somebody mentioned it has something to do with launcher pro and that it tries to access the external SD memory card. I think they removed the SD card and then LP worked. You could try both and look if it helps until the developer hopefully fixes that.

I don't use launcher pro or any launcher app and I have the same issue.
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I downloaded WidgetLocker and remember reading a section about the "5 second rule" in the settings/tutorial. Don't remember all the details but something about hitting the home button within 5 secs of locking the screen. Sorry I'm short on details.
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I rebooted my phone (it had been running for 5 days) and seemed to have fixed the problem for now. Attic users may just have to reboot more often.
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My wife is having the same issue. She has rebooted several times and it fixes it for a bit, but it eventually comes back. She has never had launcher pro installed or any replacement launcher.

Having this same problem every now and again with ADW free.

I'm having the same problem but am not using any lockscreen widgets or separate launcher. Just stock. The only widgets I've added are beautiful widgets. If I hit the power button twice quickly the screen seems to come on quicker. Such a pain.

Messaging app opens up different app?

Had this happen quite a few times.....sometimes when I click on the messaging app it opens up a random app that I have open in the background.....can't seem to fix it...occured on both launcher pro and adx or w/e the other launcher app is called....any solution?

This has been reported before. I remeber once, someone had set a swipe function accidentaly on their messaging app shortcut in the dock, and that was the culprit. I also remember this happening to people on touchwiz launcher, but it's never happened to me. If the swipe thing isnt the problem, the I would reccomend downloading an app such as Handcent sms, go sms, or chomp sms. Hope something in this post helps you.
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Have you tried restarting? I know it sounds stupid but a lot of weird glitches can be solved by a simple reboot. If that doesn't help a cache/davlik wipe might.
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A restart does fix it....in fact an task manager end all works as well....just kinda annoying. If it happens again ill try a different SMS and see if I have better luck.

Normally this only happened on DI18, I never saw it happened after the 2.2 builds came out.

Whosdaman said:
Normally this only happened on DI18, I never saw it happened after the 2.2 builds came out.
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Really? I never heard that happen to anyone till froyo came. Weird.
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I usually hit back key or kill app ..always work for me... Sometimes opening other other apps causes that to happen to me
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Time to Odin.
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this is quite annoying, sometimes I have to hit the back hit hundreds of times, backing out of my entire history of the day at times. It happens with other apps too. But messaging is my most used one. I think it is related to holding home, and selecting the text app while in another app.

I've had this issue too... welcome to samdroid, the beautiful world where samsung has changed everything and broke it

Happens to me all the time to. Have to reboot. Only started after 2.2 never on 2.1. Wish someone could look into this as I know nothing about phone software. I did not use the ota to update I did a .exe update so it was clean.
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I've experienced inside the messaging app, it'll sometimes open up somebody else's conversation. I believe it's just a glitch or my phone lagged at the time I pressed the screen. Good thing I notice it before I sent unnecessary texts. haha

Icons disappearing from home screens.

Ok I am having a weird issue with my new Atrix.
I am having icons of stuff I downloaded and added to the home screens disappear randomly.
Everything was fine all day, then I just went into my phone and noticed 4 icons on one screen were missing. The apps are still installed, just gone off the home screen. Not all of them on that screen dissappeared, just some of them.
Has anyone else had this happen to them? If so, what did you do to fix it?

I've had my widgets disappear but not shortcuts. This usually only happens after a crash and random reboot. I flash different roms alot though so don't know if this is a stock problem.
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Which launcher do you use? It used to happen to me on Go launcher. If I exited it from setting it would restart fine. Hasn't happened in a long time though.

joemommasfat said:
Which launcher do you use? It used to happen to me on Go launcher. If I exited it from setting it would restart fine. Hasn't happened in a long time though.
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I'm actually just running the stock launcher the Atrix comes with.
I would love to have the stock GB launcher like what comes on the Nexus S. But I don't think you can just download that from the market.

Go launcher is way better, I suggest you try it. ADW and Launcher pro also have free versions which are much better than motoblur.

Ive had this happen as well. My snes emulator was missing. My phone actually uninstalled it. Hadto reinstall through titanium backup.
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This happens on my stock Atrix every now and then.
Between 1 and 4 icons disappear, always from the same screen.

B3ATTY said:
This happens on my stock Atrix every now and then.
Between 1 and 4 icons disappear, always from the same screen.
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Ya mine is happening on the screen one right from center. I am curious, the next time it happens I am going to move them to another screen and see if it still does it.
It doesn't happen all the time, just every once in awhile, but annoying just the same.

Just curious but are you removing your sd card or have these apps on the external sd card?
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DarrellRaines said:
Just curious but are you removing your sd card or have these apps on the external sd card?
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Actually I don't even have an external SD card in the phone.

my phone does the same thing its always pandora, dolphin hd, netflix, apps 2 sd

twayneo said:
my phone does the same thing its always pandora, dolphin hd, netflix, apps 2 sd
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ya for me it's the same 3 icons in the same place.
Today I moved all my stuff to a different home screen to see what would happen, and it still did the same thing.
I don't know if this is a GB issue or not. My Atrix already had GB on it when I got it.
I wonder if trying a different launcher would help. I was hoping to avoid using a different run cause I am fine with the stock launcher. I am not sure what launcher to try out. I used to use LauncherPro when I still had a Captivate cause I think TouchWiz looks like it was designed by a 10 year old. But LP seems a bit dated, hasn't been updated in awhile and it just too plain.
I was looking at Go Launcher, that seems like a popular one which offers alot.

Go Launcher used to do this to me all the time. figured out it was happening when the screen was being redrawn going from landscape to portrait mode. each time I would switch modes some icons would be gone and some would come back. theyve fixed this bug finally though in the last couple of versions...

I think when you update an app there's a chance it does this. Im sure there's more to the story but I am stock and its doing as you described but on the left screen from center
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I had this problem and it happened fairly often on reboots/power on. Mine wouldnt even show in the app drawer. Tracked it down to apps that were either installed in the Media Area (internal sd card) or External sd card. It usually happened if i started messing with the phone before everything fully loaded. If i waited a little they would eventually show up, sometimes.
If the problem apps are in the Media try moving them back and see if it still happens. I had a lot of apps in Media and external so I ended up doing a back up and then reformatting internal/external storage, then restoring. I haven't had the problem since, but i did move to GB and custom rom about 2 weeks afterwards, so that could have helped also.

I had a similar issue after unlocking my phone and installing a custom kernel. Revert to a lower version of pudding (unlock sbf file) and restore original kernel if u have one
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LordNuminus said:
Go Launcher used to do this to me all the time. figured out it was happening when the screen was being redrawn going from landscape to portrait mode. each time I would switch modes some icons would be gone and some would come back. theyve fixed this bug finally though in the last couple of versions...
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I have version 2.35, and I'm having this exact problem. I checked for an update, but it's the most current version. Anyone know if a new one is on the way?
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this has happened to me as well.
I noticed that it would happen after certain apps would automatically update.
once the apps update, they're gone from my home screens.
then it drives me crazy trying to figure out what shortcuts were where.
completely stock Atrix.
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Same here.....these random reboots are killing me...
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Ok some news to report.
I exchanged my Atrix for another one, and set up a new Motoblur account when I first booted the new phone.
Now for some reason my icons are not disappearing. It's been a day so far and everything is fine.
I don't now if it was the new phone or the new Motoblur account which made the difference. I am thinking it might be the new phone though.
If it starts happening again I'll post another reply.

[Q] Why is this happening and is there a way to fix it?

Okay so whenever I'm done texting or have to close an app to go back to my home screen all of the apps and widgets don't show up and I have wait for them to reload again.. it gets annoying cause this happens about 90% of the time I close an app. Is there a way to fix this thing or preventing from happening? >.<

Which launcher are you using?
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abby_nitewolf said:
Which launcher are you using?
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TwLauncher. The default one..

XjokiX7 said:
TwLauncher. The default one..
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For some reason, you have an app that is running that is taking enough cache memory that it is causing TW to close, anytime you are leaving it, instead of staying in memory. This is causing a 'respawn' (everything has to reload.). You have 2 choices here.
1. Figure out what app, or apps are running that you don't need, and shut them down.
2. switch to a lighter launcher. On the surface, zeam and adw are two of the lightest out there, but I've had the best luck in low memory situations with go launcher, myself.
In order to find which apps are doing this, my recommendation is to get rom toolbox (free is fine), and look in the 'auto start manager'. I'm sure there are several apps that do the same thing, but RTb is my preference. Once you get into that section, look at the list of what is starting on boot, and disable the ones you don't need. This won't make the app useless, but it will keep it from running in the background until you open it yourself.

Txwolf1980 said:
For some reason, you have an app that is running that is taking enough cache memory that it is causing TW to close, anytime you are leaving it, instead of staying in memory. This is causing a 'respawn' (everything has to reload.). You have 2 choices here.
1. Figure out what app, or apps are running that you don't need, and shut them down.
2. switch to a lighter launcher. On the surface, zeam and adw are two of the lightest out there, but I've had the best luck in low memory situations with go launcher, myself.
In order to find which apps are doing this, my recommendation is to get rom toolbox (free is fine), and look in the 'auto start manager'. I'm sure there are several apps that do the same thing, but RTb is my preference. Once you get into that section, look at the list of what is starting on boot, and disable the ones you don't need. This won't make the app useless, but it will keep it from running in the background until you open it yourself.
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Well that worked. Thank you sir.

A little off the main topic but speaking of rom toolbox or Tibu for that matter, anytime I use them to either, say, freeze or uninstall anything , both apps just sit there with box showing me there uninstalling or freezing. Only way to stop is to go into manage apps and stop them but they end up doing what wanted to do. Anyone else have this happen, any fix,annoying if anything.
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KJW979 said:
A little off the main topic but speaking of rom toolbox or Tibu for that matter, anytime I use them to either, say, freeze or uninstall anything , both apps just sit there with box showing me there uninstalling or freezing. Only way to stop is to go into manage apps and stop them but they end up doing what wanted to do. Anyone else have this happen, any fix,annoying if anything.
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I recommend using Titanium backup.. it's easier to use and easy to understand. Won't have to deal with this whole freezing crap.

XjokiX7 said:
I recommend using Titanium backup.. it's easier to use and easy to understand. Won't have to deal with this whole freezing crap.
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Have it, happens with that also.
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KJW979 said:
A little off the main topic but speaking of rom toolbox or Tibu for that matter, anytime I use them to either, say, freeze or uninstall anything , both apps just sit there with box showing me there uninstalling or freezing. Only way to stop is to go into manage apps and stop them but they end up doing what wanted to do. Anyone else have this happen, any fix,annoying if anything.
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I know exactly what you mean. I've been occasionally having the same problem with Titanium Backup. It doesn't happen every time, but enough lately that I've noticed it. Not sure of any fix, but I'll post if I find one. I guess it's not that big of a problem considering it ultimately uninstalls/freezes whatever it's supposed to, but it sure is annoying.

XjokiX7 said:
Okay so whenever I'm done texting or have to close an app to go back to my home screen all of the apps and widgets don't show up and I have wait for them to reload again.. it gets annoying cause this happens about 90% of the time I close an app. Is there a way to fix this thing or preventing from happening? >.<
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You should try zeam or apex
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Just found a new launcher(for me anyway). Lightening launcher, very lite and fast. No redraw.
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"Unfortunately, Launcher has stopped

"Unfortunately, Launcher has stopped pop up>>?? any fix ?? this happen every day once or twice

We need more info, rom/kernel/launcher/extra mods?

Having similar problem
calanizzle said:
We need more info, rom/kernel/launcher/extra mods?
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I'm running a Samsung GS3 (SGH-T999) stock and it happens with both the original Baseband T999UVDLJC and the DLAC which I think I was using previously. I believe this only started recently since my last update of the Nova Launcher. When it crashes, pressing the "<-" key seems to "unwind" from several apps. For exsample it will show a browser and exit it to Kindle App then exit to another app etc. Hope this helps.
Brian

I'm also having this similar issue sometimes it pop up this message out of sudden , using PA rom with PA build stock kernel and stock launcher, any solutions to this?

Try Apex then? I'm on Apex and I haven't experienced a FC on the launcher yet (although I probably just jinxed it) and Apex has all of the features you'll ever want.

Nigeldg said:
Try Apex then? I'm on Apex and I haven't experienced a FC on the launcher yet (although I probably just jinxed it) and Apex has all of the features you'll ever want.
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Yep apex seems to be the best launcher. Only launcher I've never had an issue with/or disliked
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