Why your home key doesn't respond when you long press it. - Vibrant General

Just wanted to give some people a heads up on WHY this happens
It isn't your kernel or ROM to blame, it happens because of android coding.
Anyone who's ever used WidgetLocker may recall that they call this the "5 second rule."
Basically when you press home, Android disallows any apps to do anything for about 5 seconds, this includes long pressing home to bring up most recently viewed apps.
WidgetLocker has a way to bypass this, and I believe a few other apps do it (ones that rely on the home key... I think QuickDesk might). I'm unaware of any app that's sole purpose is to do this.
Hope this helps someone

Thanks. I was going crazy trying to figure out why long pressing to access the task manager was not consistent.
And yes, this 5 second rule applies to many services, including hidden APIs for shutting down the screen. Apparently there are no official APIs for this but the hidden APIs requires a small delay (about 5 seconds).

wow, I really thought it was the kernel because this only happen to me when I'm with the OS kernel so I'm ending up flashing the stock kernel. nice.
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Thanks for the info. I knew about the 5 second rule through widget locker, but I didn't know it ran that deep in the system.

But i never use widegt locker and b4 bi-winning i was running trigger with tiger kernel and home long press was fine it is the kernel caus when i first swtiched from os to tiger u could tell the difference its so annoying but i love os with bi-winning just wish that didnt happen
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Tested and confirmed. Thank you BT.
This only seems to be noticeable to me on 2.2.1... I never had this thought on roms like Trigger (2.2).

s15274n said:
Tested and confirmed. Thank you BT.
This only seems to be noticeable to me on 2.2.1... I never had this thought on roms like Trigger (2.2).
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Im on a 2.2.1 rom yet i barely have that(only when im on the homepage and it lasts for about 2 secs max).
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The inconsistent long press drives me crazy. So much so that I ended up switching to the task switcher app.

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LauncherPro always hanged in 2.2

I tried different leak rom before,
and right now I am using official froyo
Every time after starting up the system, or after mounting the SD card,
when the media scanning is finished, launcherpro is not responding and hanging.
Anyone got the same thing?
I dont want to send email to the author if this is an only issue of me
I think another update is coming soon for lp. I sometimes get a lockup and fc in 2.1 with lp
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I have the same thing, it's so annoying that I switched to Zeam. Hopefully a new update will come soon.
Same thing happens to me. I am running official Rogers Froto on my AT&T Captivate. I tried looking in the logs for something, but I couldn't find anything. Send a emails to the developer.
Yea I've tried like 20 roms.always locks up and force closes after reboot. Sometime it sits for like 5 mins before the fc message pops up. I have the plus version and running Axura 2.2.7.1 Voodoo.contacted tech support about it and he said that its my rom.can't be. tried 20 different Roms.pisses me off.
Killing Zombies With My Axura Voodoo Vibrant!
I have had this happen a couple of times as well. However, I have noticed that it only happens when I try to start opening things or moving between home screens before the media scanning has finished. If I let it do its thing, then it doesn't seem to hang ever. Still kind of annoying, and I don't know if that is the case with you all as well, but that seems to be what causes it on mine.
Dbarker 2 said:
I have had this happen a couple of times as well. However, I have noticed that it only happens when I try to start opening things or moving between home screens before the media scanning has finished. If I let it do its thing, then it doesn't seem to hang ever. Still kind of annoying, and I don't know if that is the case with you all as well, but that seems to be what causes it on mine.
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Nope because I always wait till the media scanner is done.but it still locks up and a fc message pops up.even let it sit for like 20 mins before but was still stuck until it errored out and fc again.they need to fix the dam bug.I even got the plus version.
Killing Zombies With My Axura Voodoo Vibrant!
LP runs fine for me, but I'm having a problem having it stick as the default launcher. Whenever I use Titanium Backup or long-press the home button, I'll get the prompt asking me which home application. There are a couple of other apps that result in the same problem, but I can't think of them off the top of my head. I've tried using Home Switcher to see if that fixes it, but no luck. I have the same problem with ADW EX.
This is happening to me as well.
If it locks up, try repeatedly hitting home, usually will give me a prompt to wait or fc. I never get this issue on my galaxy tab and it's running 2.2
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Looks like there is enough evidence to show them launcher pro has some kind of problem in vibrant 2.2
This happens to me as well. Hold the hime button then go to task manager and kill lp.
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When lp acts funny for me I hit the power button then unlock it and that usually works for me.
LauncherPro has worked great on my device with 2.2 (Nero V5) the only time I seem to notice anything is when the media scan is finishing its thing and there are to many apps running at start up in the background. I use advance task killer to kill the apps that do not need to be running and I never seem to have the problem again until I reboot. It doesn't seem to me to be a LauncherPro issue, media scan seems to bring the device to its knees until it is finished. Once my device is running smooth I never seem to have that issue again only after I reboot my device.
Love my Vibrant and LauncherPro Plus is far better then all the other Launchers I have tried (in my humble opinion) but each of us have different needs I guess. I actually use almost everyone of the widgets and can not wait for the update coming when the gmail widget will be added to the Launcher.
cheers
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hitman818 said:
This happens to me as well. Hold the hime button then go to task manager and kill lp.
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Yes this is what i do everytime after starting up...
But still so annoying and the should fix it.
So just to update on the topic I downloaded Launcher Pro again today and everything works well. No hanging after reboot and no other problem from what I've seen. You guys may want to give it a try.
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So just to update on the topic I downloaded Launcher Pro again today and everything works well. No hanging after reboot and no other problem from what I've seen. You guys may want to give it a try.
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Actually i tried reinstall before post: (
Emama said:
I tried different leak rom before,
and right now I am using official froyo
Every time after starting up the system, or after mounting the SD card,
when the media scanning is finished, launcherpro is not responding and hanging.
Anyone got the same thing?
I dont want to send email to the author if this is an only issue of me
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I was using Nero5 and got the same problem FC alot in LauncherPro. I couldn't save the LP settings though. What seemed to fix it is removing LP and reinstall it. After that, things seem to work better and less FC with LP.
I'm using stock Froyo now with fresh LP install from the market, no FC so far. So I would say it's not LP always hanged in 2.2...but something is stuck or got carried over from previous installation/ROM. Just try remove it and reinstall LP again from Market, it should work better - at least for me, it did.
Emama said:
I tried different leak rom before,
and right now I am using official froyo
Every time after starting up the system, or after mounting the SD card,
when the media scanning is finished, launcherpro is not responding and hanging.
Anyone got the same thing?
I dont want to send email to the author if this is an only issue of me
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Same thing happens to mu phone on adw ex... when i turn my phone off and turn it back on, the screen goea blank, i can only see the notification bar scanning, but would hang on black screen then shuts off by itself.. that's with stock ka7.. now im on ka6 kies version and my phone is fine...
or maybe the cause was the lock screen? I used the pin code lock screen.. it could be it? Now im on ka6 official and with pattern lock screen, it seems fine... and i domt wanna try and use any other lock screen besides the pattern one. Ive done countless reflash because o this issue.. so no more flashing, lol.. but i could be wrong though, it could be something else that's causinrit, just speculating..
The only time I've experienced a FC of any kind on LPP, is when I had Colorize running with it. They don't play nice together. Other than that, it's been 100% stable for me with any rom.

Mysterious Screen Shot Theory

I don't have the app and I did these screens using a combo of home and back button. I'm more than positive those are the two to success.
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draikz said:
I don't have the app and I did these screens using a combo of home and back button. I'm more than positive those are the two to success.
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Most people have come to the same consensus but no one (as far as I know) has been able to reproduce the screen shot feature effectively.
yeah, i accidentally took a screen shot somehow when i was running bionix v 1.2 (i think that was the rom i was on). no clue how i did it and couldn't do it again, but it was some key combo...
Any idea how to capture videos with at least 24 fps?
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funeralthirst said:
yeah, i accidentally took a screen shot somehow when i was running bionix v 1.2 (i think that was the rom i was on). no clue how i did it and couldn't do it again, but it was some key combo...
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Same here...
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same here on bionix
I'm fairly certain it's because of lag. On the international galaxy S with froyo, you press the home button (the big thing in the middle of the touch sensitive keys) and back. This happens because the home key is not a touch sensitive key. On the vibrant the keys are all touch sensitive. I believe that they are not multitouch so you cannot hit both the home and back at the same time. So I think that somehow the home command is hanging up and the back key is pressed so it simulates the action that is supposed to give the screen shot. I think that samsung recognized this flaw and redid the commands on the galaxy tab. My tab takes screenshots by pressing the power and back.
nacron said:
I'm fairly certain it's because of lag. On the international galaxy S with froyo, you press the home button (the big thing in the middle of the touch sensitive keys) and back. This happens because the home key is not a touch sensitive key. On the vibrant the keys are all touch sensitive. I believe that they are not multitouch so you cannot hit both the home and back at the same time. So I think that somehow the home command is hanging up and the back key is pressed so it simulates the action that is supposed to give the screen shot. I think that samsung recognized this flaw and redid the commands on the galaxy tab. My tab takes screenshots by pressing the power and back.
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sounds likely because my phone was lagging when i did it, but wouldn't that just cause a race condition? or maybe i running an i9k based kernel (i can't remember).
Your theory is probably fact. There are people with some SGS phones that claim they can take screenshots consistently with back+home while others, myself included took a screenshot accidentally and have been unable to reproduce it since. I recall that I had just upgraded to froyo.ka6 via mini kies and was adding/rearranging shortcuts to one of my home screens. I hit the home key to get back to my main home screen and I got a screen shot. Haven't been able to do it again.
Since my Vibrant came with Eclair and was later upgraded to Froyo I believe that this was a feature that just wasn't meant for Vibrant or just was overlooked when Samsung ported Froyo to Vibrant. This feature probably works reliably on phones that come stock with Froyo, not those that are upgraded to Froyo. It's almost as if Samsung wasn't planning on Froyo for the Vibrant but due to the outcry here and possibly other forums Samsung hastily modified the base Froyo and released it via kies mini.
ScreenCapture service is there, just no documentation exists on how to trigger it for Vibrant.
There is apparently one developer who has figured how to trigger the ScreenCapture service:
http://www.appbrain.com/app/screen-...tomorrowkey.android.screencaptureshortcutfree
The only screen capture app that DOES NOT require root but requires Froyo..It even saves to the same directory as ScreenCapture service. I use the free version and it works better than drocap2 or screenshot it on my Vibrant.
App looks interesting, but I don't agree with some of the permissions it requests..... like location and full internet access.
Another vote for home+back key combo taking a screenshot, and that functionality being crippled due to the all touch-sensitive vibrant keys as opposed to the physical i9000 home key. I have taken a screenshot before, and it was going back home by hitting the home button, then the app lagging and me hitting the back button to try to get out of the app.
Chalup said:
Any idea how to capture videos with at least 24 fps?
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Bernardos70 said:
App looks interesting, but I don't agree with some of the permissions it requests..... like location and full internet access.
Another vote for home+back key combo taking a screenshot, and that functionality being crippled due to the all touch-sensitive vibrant keys as opposed to the physical i9000 home key. I have taken a screenshot before, and it was going back home by hitting the home button, then the app lagging and me hitting the back button to try to get out of the app.
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I don't agree with the permissions either but it's nothing nefarious. It's ad-supported freeware, and like most adware the internet access and location permissions is to deliver targeted ads to you, such as if you're in New York you will then see ads for places near you. That's what adware is all about, no corporation cares where you are at any given time, they just want your money. There is a higher chance of success that you will respond to an advertisement that is targeted to your interests (that's what tracking cookies are for, if you browse a lot of sports related sites, most of the ads you will see will be sports related.)
The paid version has no ads btw. I wonder how effective ads are since most people I know ignore them entirely.
Anyway, after trying drocap2 and screenshotit screencaptureshortcut is still better for froyo since no root access is require and unlike drocap2 there is no 'screenshot captured' pasted on your images.
So far the best screen capture imo is Android SDK but that requires a PC. Non-PC is screencaptureshortcut.
Anyway now that one developer has figured out how to trigger ScreenCapture service I'm sure we'll be seeing more and better apps soon.
Mysterious screen shot has been happening to me too, I thought I was the only one!
Was searching for an answer to my mystery and I see this old thread, seems like I'm not the only one!!!
Is the mystery solved yet? It's been happening to me too lately, and just happened again about 20 mins ago. I don't know how I did it!
Ok so, I don't have any screen shot or screen capture apps installed on my phone. Yet sometimes mysteriously I take a screen capture. The phone says "screen captured" and it even makes an album in my gallery called "ScreenCapture" with the screen captured picture inside it.
I'm on rooted Froyo 2.2 KB5, and no screen capture apps installed.
I think the mystery involves a combination of the power button with one of the capactive buttons, but I can never reproduce it, it just happens by accident and freaks me out.
The only other time my phone has done something mysterious was when I somehow went into "safemode." Yes, "safemode" similar to Windows safemode. I have never been able to get back into safemode either.
2 mysteries of this phone I would love to solve.
SamsungVibrant said:
Was searching for an answer to my mystery and I see this old thread, seems like I'm not the only one!!!
Is the mystery solved yet? It's been happening to me too lately, and just happened again about 20 mins ago. I don't know how I did it!
Ok so, I don't have any screen shot or screen capture apps installed on my phone. Yet sometimes mysteriously I take a screen capture. The phone says "screen captured" and it even makes an album in my gallery called "ScreenCapture" with the screen captured picture inside it.
I'm on rooted Froyo 2.2 KB5, and no screen capture apps installed.
I think the mystery involves a combination of the power button with one of the capactive buttons, but I can never reproduce it, it just happens by accident and freaks me out.
The only other time my phone has done something mysterious was when I somehow went into "safemode." Yes, "safemode" similar to Windows safemode. I have never been able to get back into safemode either.
2 mysteries of this phone I would love to solve.
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I don't think its been solved
I just downloaded an app to take screenies.

please lock/delete

please delete or lock this thread. it doesnt make sense anymore.
the biggest problem i had with the XXJPM was the battery drain so i switched to XWJPF which i think is a recent release but i am not so sure. i did not have any issues with the GPS but the sound lag was there when the screen is on sleep mode.
i installed the fugumod kernel and set the minimum core speed to 333 so it does not fall below that. and never had any sound issues and sound was great too. u can also set the core to performance (OC 800 kernel version and the speed stays at 800 all the time) but that will drain your battery in no time. just my experience
i tried kyrillos and its an awesome ROM, the only con was that i could not change themes. i am yet to try the INDROID but as always i dont like a lot of apps in any custom ROM so i remove them. kyrillos only had a few but looks like indroid has a whole load of em
i'd like to see someone build a rom with the
original theme (but able to install themes)
basic apps
newer market
newer map app
deodexed
a2sd
lagfree
CWM recovery
5 lockscreen mod
and all the function that comes with building a custom rom
the rest can be achieved with a custom kernel i guess
this would be awesome!!!!
p.s. the dev's at xda are doing an awesome job keeping us happy, they deserve a lot more than thank you's and i believe we are here today coz the devs here are doing something extraodinary thant the devs at samsung.
you guys are the best of the best.
hmm, interesting, a found a lot of people have trouble about clicking sound when making conversation. OC is ok, but.. why do that, processor itself will work how it must, i mean, if overclock it will drain too much battery, if underclock it will be slow. i only expirienced delay problem when receiving incoming call, it's a little bit slow, but else is ok.
today i got official upgrade for my galaxy 3. it was jp9, 2.2, not 2.2.1. i have problems now with back button when in contacts and when unlocking the phone. i have to press back or menu key few times to turn on the screen, but home key works fine. strange thing.. why they put bugged version of froyo to official update over kies..
clarkkov said:
You haven't searched hard enough. Check out Dahram's collection in dev section, I'm sure he has what you want.
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Oh My GOD! it does exist. 1 week of torture flashing more than 30 times trying to find something to my liking.... ^_^ i did search but never showed up until now when i used the devs name....
clarkkov said:
As for the bugs, there are no bugs in XXJPM, it's perfect. Am using it for 2 months, tried most of the custom ROMs, but came back to XXJPM and customized it to my liking.
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:O ok now thats so strange, i flashed XXJPM the first time around and configured everything background syncing hsdpa gps and so on... battery went down within 16 hours of use :O but well i shouldnt complain.. have in so much power in a 4" device and here i am complaining... stupid me.
I agree with Clarkkov..I too have been using XXJPM for about 2 months now & there are no problems..the battery life is great..I easily get 3 days usage on a full charge. The 2 small issues I saw are:
1. Camera app. sometimes crashes.
2. Back button does not work in Contacts app., you have to click Home button to close it.
Does XXJPN resolve these issues..?
TekkenLaw said:
I agree with Clarkkov..I too have been using XXJPM for about 2 months now & there are no problems..the battery life is great..I easily get 3 days usage on a full charge. The 2 small issues I saw are:
1. Camera app. sometimes crashes.
2. Back button does not work in Contacts app., you have to click Home button to close it.
Does XXJPN resolve these issues..?
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i agree for back button. also when phone is locked, you can turn on the screen only with home key, or key for powering device..
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2. Back button does not work in Contacts app., you have to click Home button to close it.
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I thought this was interesting...
So I turned on my phone...
Opened the Contacts app...
Pressed the back button...
...and it worked just fine.
JPM. Did you remember to do a factory reset?
TekkenLaw said:
1. Camera app. sometimes crashes.
2. Back button does not work in Contacts app., you have to click Home button to close it.
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The camera thing is a known issue (there is also a fixed camera.apk without that problem in the apps section). It has to do with gps/location as it tries to geotag the pictures you take.
I also can't confirm the back-buttons issue. I've been running XXJPM for a while and back button works just fine! Try a wipe (or at least clear cache) and see if that makes a difference...
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2. Back button does not work in Contacts app., you have to click Home button to close it.
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Are you using Launcher Pro?
If yes kill the Contacts app ,and add again the shortcut in your launcher by long-pressing the icon.
Now when you open the app it must work normally.
this thread can be closed.
Closed as requested.
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Home screen sense loading nonsense

Hey guys, so I'm wondering if there is some sort of fix or mod I can do to make my home screen not reload all the time. It's frustrating going into an app for a second and going back to home and having it load which usually takes the majority of the time I have the phone on. Doesn't really matter what app I open, it will even do it coming from settings.
Now I did research this a bit and I don't have any task killers or many widgets on the home screen, to be honest, the stock oem home screen setup has more widgets and whatnot than I do. Can't I increase the cache size or something? Memory space has never been a problem with this phone, in fact I hardly even get over 100mb of used RAM. BTW, every ROM I've flashed has been like this, I'm hoping the stock ROM isn't like this too, its just plain annoying.
Thanks
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Which rom do you want to use? You can possibly fix it with certain setting depending on which rom. Also are you just using the stock laucher that comes with each rom? Or do u install a preferred one?
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He's talking like he's using Sense. To be clear, are you talking about widgets refreshing like with contacts, bookmarks, locations, weather, and the like? The best way to avoid information and widgets being refreshed all the time is to use as much memory as possible all of the time. What's you're looking at is the result of garbage collection... The kernel is tossing out items from memory that haven't been used in a certain amount of time or are assumed to be "stale" information. That kind of garbage collection is set to expire fairy quickly because the first time your calendar widget waits 2 or 3 hours to update and you missed your appointment or date, you'd really wish it didn't wait so long to refresh that data. I'm not sure what can be done to avoid that being the case, but I know it's been a minor irritation to some for a long time. I'm sure if there was an easy fix we'd have seen it by now from HTC themselves. It's commonly sited in reviews as a weakness of the UI compared to iFone.
Hey there,
Was wondering if anyone has found a fix for this yet.
I am having the same problem. If I enter any app and then go back to the home screen, I get the white screen with the green "HTC" logo, then the background appears and reloads everything. It has gotten to the point that every time I open an app it needs to reload. I recently factory reset and changed the SD card to try and fix it, but no luck.
Thanks for taking the time to read my post, hope there is a fix.
its because the sense roms its happening on arent meant for our device
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its because the sense roms its happening on arent meant for our device
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I have stock sense and it happens to me every so often too. Maybe once a day so its barely noticable but I always wonder why it does it. Seems to be random and like other poster says I'm either backing out of settings or an app then the htc screen appears and the home page resets all the app icons. Only started doing this after the OTA so maybe something to do with memory management as previously stated in another post.
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I have stock sense and it happens to me every so often too. Maybe once a day so its barely noticable but I always wonder why it does it. Seems to be random and like other poster says I'm either backing out of settings or an app then the htc screen appears and the home page resets all the app icons. Only started doing this after the OTA so maybe something to do with memory management as previously stated in another post.
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Is it a resource heavy app? Game or something like that? Cause ive never had that on sense 1.0 or cm7 and i push my phone all the time.
-My life is a shooting range, people never change-
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Is it a resource heavy app? Game or something like that? Cause ive never had that on sense 1.0 or cm7 and i push my phone all the time.
-My life is a shooting range, people never change-
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It hasn't done it in a very long time now. At least a week so not sure what was causing it. I did delete some apps, Netflix being one of them, that I no longer used but I never had Netflix running when it did it.
Problem was a task manager/quick launch app that turned my home button into more like an Alt-Tab. I have since reflashed a new Rom and haven't installed a task manager, and no problems at all. Must have been closing launcher causing it to reboot.
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Strange Nexus 4 KitKat 4.4.2 button behaviour (could it be a bug?)

Hi!
I'm new to the XDA forums.
I have noticed a strange behaviour using buttons while exit applications on KitKat. The issue was not present in Jelly Bean, while I can notice it in KitKat. I thought it was a minor 4.4 bug, but it's still present in 4.4.2 too.
I am running Android 4.4.2 on a Nexus 4, no root, no system modifications at all.
Steps to reproduce the bug:
- Go to your home screen.
- Tap on battery settings from the quick settings dropdown menu;
- Use home button to come back to the home screen;
- Once again, tap on battery settings from the quick settings dropdown menu;
- This time, use back button to go back;
- Enjoy another background app opening for a second with no reason before going back to your home screen.
I cannot post videos since I'm a new user, but if you wanna check, the youtube code for it is 40Rs6vnx_Wc
Thanks in advance!
No one?
Yes, I've reproduced that but why should it be a bug? Or may be you should learn how the back button in android works? Why do you use it at all when you have the home button and the fast app switching button? It's a matter of time for the back button to be dropped down. Unless of course the "only one home button" thing is not patented by Apple so that back button has to stay. Remember what happened with the search button? It's gone for good. And really that back button is only useful in browsers or if you want to go backwards a sequence of actions inside a single app. Most apps use the back button to quit or run in the background.
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evdrmr said:
Yes, I've reproduced that but why should it be a bug? Or may be you should learn how the back button in android works? Why do you use it at all when you have the home button and the fast app switching button? It's a matter of time for the back button to be dropped down. Unless of course the "only one home button" thing is not patented by Apple so that back button has to stay. Remember what happened with the search button? It's gone for good. And really that back button is only useful in browsers or if you want to go backwards a sequence of actions inside a single app. Most apps use the back button to quit or run in the background.
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@evdrmr, thanks for the feedback.
I still don't get the hatred, but thank you for the time spent in reproducing the bug and confirming that I'm not the only one affected by this issue.
Yeah...der for me too... noticed it some time back while i was on 4.0 too... don't think its caused by 4.4.2 (rather not fixed by 4.4.2)...
And somehow, its always the gallery app for me...
quarara said:
Hi!
I'm new to the XDA forums.
I have noticed a strange behaviour using buttons while exit applications on KitKat. The issue was not present in Jelly Bean, while I can notice it in KitKat. I thought it was a minor 4.4 bug, but it's still present in 4.4.2 too.
I am running Android 4.4.2 on a Nexus 4, no root, no system modifications at all.
Steps to reproduce the bug:
- Go to your home screen.
- Tap on battery settings from the quick settings dropdown menu;
- Use home button to come back to the home screen;
- Once again, tap on battery settings from the quick settings dropdown menu;
- This time, use back button to go back;
- Enjoy another background app opening for a second with no reason before going back to your home screen.
I cannot post videos since I'm a new user, but if you wanna check, the youtube code for it is 40Rs6vnx_Wc
Thanks in advance!
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mananbond007 said:
Yeah...der for me too... noticed it some time back while i was on 4.0 too... don't think its caused by 4.4.2 (rather not fixed by 4.4.2)...
And somehow, its always the gallery app for me...
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@mananbond007, thanks for taking the time to checking it out
No hatred matey. It's just one of those days... You know. Last night I went to the cinema and watched The Hobbit, had only a couple of hours to sleep, woke up early... Usual stuff.
Oh, and do you know what? It could be a bug... Why don't you report it to Google or to a bug tracker? Have you checked all available 4.4.2 ROMs if they are infected with it or someone has already found a cure? Or why don't you exploit it further and write a dirty little app to gain control over people's phones through this flaw? And how the f*ck did you even find it? Sounds like an incredible amount of spare time on your hands to me. Or just a pattern based repetitive clicks due to lack of "some more important things to do"?
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Good catch. Same here on Stock 4.4.2
andr0idfreak said:
Good catch. Same here on Stock 4.4.2
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Thank you, @andr0idfreak
In the meantime, I have filed a bug in the AOSP issue tracker. Its number is 63570.
quarara said:
Thank you, @andr0idfreak
In the meantime, I have filed a bug in the AOSP issue tracker. Its number is 63570.
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Yes. Me too. For me it was my last opened app that appear and then gone.
evdrmr said:
No hatred matey. It's just one of those days... You know. Last night I went to the cinema and watched The Hobbit, had only a couple of hours to sleep, woke up early... Usual stuff.
Oh, and do you know what? It could be a bug... Why don't you report it to Google or to a bug tracker? Have you checked all available 4.4.2 ROMs if they are infected with it or someone has already found a cure? Or why don't you exploit it further and write a dirty little app to gain control over people's phones through this flaw? And how the f*ck did you even find it? Sounds like an incredible amount of spare time on your hands to me. Or just a pattern based repetitive clicks due to lack of "some more important things to do"?
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You my friend, are a pathetic douchebag. I need not say more.
AlwaysDroid said:
You my friend, are a pathetic douchebag. I need not say more.
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Thank you so much about that comparison. I like it and I wouldn't be able to think of a better phrase to describe myself. And do you know why I like it so much??? ...OFC you don't. Because Kuoshik Dutta used to be called exactly the same by many people recently and still he is one of the best developers out there. That makes me feel one step closer to the gods. Off the off-topic.
Sorry but I couldn't understand what's your opinion about the bug?
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Same here, it opens the last app. Can someone provide a link so I can report the bug with that number? 63570
Same happens here. On stock 4.4.2. Hope this is get fixed.
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I don't have that bug!
According to the bug report, it looks like the bug has been assigned to a Google engineer.
Same bug here but it happens often and with many apps. Going back and a cached app appears for a second

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