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TouchWiz won't stay on by default!

Randomly when I hit the home buttn I am prompted with the option touchwiz or home. I can pick either on while checking the load default and it still asks again a few min later. What am I missing?
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That's a first, never had that happen.
Have you recently installed any User interface programs like ADW launcher or launcher pro?
How about any programs in general.. please be a little more specific.
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It only happens to me when I hold the home botton and bring up the task manager. When I hit the home botton again it prompt me to choose the launcher.

dukenewt said:
It only happens to me when I hold the home botton and bring up the task manager. When I hit the home botton again it prompt me to choose the launcher.
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Try getting home switcher from the market and tell it to set touchwiz home as you default. See if that works.

I Will try and load my appbrain list but no to launchers. Just goole stuff and a couple widgets.
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I can't post links yet so check out appbrain user: ErlyD I have no launcher apps and I did try that home launcher app recommended. But still have the problem.
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Sgs tools and you go to the bottom menu and choose which launcher you want and bam! Launcher is set to default. I'm using 2.2 quantum and confirm it works.
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bryanfritz1 said:
Sgs tools and you go to the bottom menu and choose which launcher you want and bam! Launcher is set to default. I'm using 2.2 quantum and confirm it works.]
Does my epic have to be rooted? I ran the app and set it yet still get the problem. It randomly asks when I hit home. Each time I set default then select touchwiz.
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Will factory reset help with this problem? What other way can I reset clean?
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I'm having this same issue!
I tried Home Switcher and Home Manager...same exact symptoms.
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Download sgs tools from market. Install. Go to bottom menu upgrade stock apps, then choose laucner you want and follow instructions from there, easy fix.
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Edit: this only works on rooted phones, I'm sorry if I miss read the problem.

Bottom option is:
.prop editor
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I've looked over SGS Tools, over and over again. I do not understand where the option to make this fix is.
Could you give more specific instructions? Thanks!
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Same here only .prop editor do we have to be rooted? To use this correctly?
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I think I got a fix. I went to manage apps and cleared defaults on touchwiz but also cleared tw data. It sucked cause my icons and everything else I took the time to setup cleared but after rebuilding it seems to be working. Been about an hour now and the menu hasn't popped up.
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Sorry guys I must have been way too blazed I swear I read that you guys had the froyo beta and had this problem, as I did have this issue. But it seems some of you are dealing with this on stock, without root and this will only work if you have root.
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I believe that this issue is related to the installation of a certain application. As a matter of fact, I uninstalled several applications after going on a few downloading sprees (yeah, I get bored and have money burning a hole in my PayPal account) in hopes of fixing the issue, to no avail.
Otherwise, could it possibly be related to a glitch caused by setting a certain number of icons or widgets on the homescreen, causing the launcher's data to interfere with its default settings?
Either way, I took ErlyD's advice, cleared the data, and will rebuild my homescreens in hopes it won't happen again. Or else I will figure out what causes it.
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I would love to follow his advice, but TouchWiz isn't listed in my manage applications list...what the heck!
Actually, none of the stuff that came installed is listed....nascar, amazon, etc.
Where do I find these?
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Okay...found it via running programs.
Cleared data.
Didn't solve my problem.
Crap.
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It failed. Sorry for the trouble it lasted longer than before though. I went a few hrs before it popped up. I am going to have to start uninstalling apps to see what happens.
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Will NOT Keep Defaults for Home Button

So...my Epic continually asks me to choose my default home program every time I press the home button.
It asks me to either pick HOME or TWLauncher. So I installed DxTop Pro...now I have 3 to pick from everytime!
I tried Home Switcher and Home Manager - neither of them keep the default home screen either.
It doesn't always clear the default. I have tracked it down to when I press and hold the home button down until the task manager comes up. Once those 6 most recent programs pop up...my default home screen is cleared out.
I tried downloading the samsung task manager apk that I found on xda and installing it...didn't solve the problem.
So, I open it up to you all for ideas.
I could hard reset, but I know the moment I finish setting it back up...the new official ROM will come out and I'll have to do it all again!
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Uh when you choose your homescreen when it gives you the option of the three, do you make sure the check box at the bottom of the popup is checked off...?
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Of course. Still no dice.
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Of course. Still no dice.
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Just checking lol. Which launcher are you trying to run as default and which ROM/Kernel/etc you running?
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Sgs tools from the market will fix this.
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Edit: this does require root, sorry not for stock issues.

I'm on the stock Epic ROM from Sprint. Never rooted.
I was running the default TouchWiz, but once this began I started using DxTop Pro to see if it would correct the issue...it did not.
I'm still using DxTop Pro because I liked it better.
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Did you ever get a fix? I hve same problem. Since I got my epic. On 11/17 touchwiz crashed rebooted and it started. I run stock and have never even rooted. I have done nothing to this device. I'm on appbrain user ErlyD if you want to see my app list. Also tried home switcher and sgs tools (which by the way the menus last options are .prop editor, I say this cause I was told to select an option at the bottom of sgs that would fix it. An option I don't have.)
Anything would help. Starting to not like this. Its happening to often. No matter what I select home or tw and set to default. It will eventually pop up again. As for task managers I fin my self using only samsungs version to avoid any issues from popping up.
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Check my post on another topic I had started about this. I might have found fix.
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Did not work. I have started removing apps to see what might have caused it. Doing things slowly.
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Genius button slow reaction time ?

Am I the only one with this issue ? After I press the genius button the app pops up but it takes a while until it starts listening...and with this phone I expect little to no lagg...
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I have the same problem.

Mine became much quicker when I deleted its app data. However lag crept back in.
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mine seems to lag, with a message says loading contacts. I feel that should be a background load instead of stopping the app temporarily

I would think it would only load contacts once..but. mine did it a few times in a row and sometimes not at all......
So I wonder what's up with the genius button ?
Why does it lag on such great hArdware ?
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I have the same issue. Takes about 15 seconds on mine ven overclocked to 1.3mhz

Turn load contacts to manual just remember to update when you add new contacts
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Randy.Reid101 said:
Turn load contacts to manual just remember to update when you add new contacts
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Fine. But the lag is present even before the contact database update begins.

After hitting the genius button I have about a one second delay before it says listening. Which is not really a big deal
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Yeah, it happens to all of us. It's annoying, too, because the Genius Button is almost always wrong in understanding voice commands. When using the stock Google Voice Actions, I have a margin of error of like 10%. Using Dragon's engine, I'm accidentally calling phones 75% of the time. :/
I wish they'd just give us the option to toggle between Genius / normal Search.

Jon C said:
Yeah, it happens to all of us. It's annoying, too, because the Genius Button is almost always wrong in understanding voice commands. When using the stock Google Voice Actions, I have a margin of error of like 10%. Using Dragon's engine, I'm accidentally calling phones 75% of the time. :/
I wish they'd just give us the option to toggle between Genius / normal Search.
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If you do the Re-Map genius button mod you can.
Just LONG PRESS to use normal voice search.

Master™ said:
If you do the Re-Map genius button mod you can.
Just LONG PRESS to use normal voice search.
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would it still have lagg, say if I remap it to something like Google Voice Search ?....

Facebook widget problem

For some odd reason I don't seem to be able to login to facebook with any of my Desire's Facebook Widgets. I've tried the GO launcher widget, the Colorize FB widget and now lastly the FriendStream widget.
They all worked previously, but then when I signed out of Facebook via the widget, I couldn't log back in anymore.
The weird thing is that the Facebook app itself works fine.
Any ideas...??

Have you tried throwing it at a wall???
Or force close it via app manager. Then see if that works...not sure if it would but always worth a shot
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problem
This is a problem!

I finally found a solution for the problem!
Or actually Alex-V did.
See here...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1328585

See how much can be done when you use the search button
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hoechstn said:
See how much can be done when you use the search button
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Well actually, I didn't use the search button
I had been looking for the solution for this problem for quite a while over the internet, and accidentally ran into this thread by Alex-V via another site.

Not sure what this is, but my IR scanner isn't working much right.

Don't know if this is anything to do with the recent update of pac rom or possibly my phone getting fixed for a broken camera, but for what ever reason, when I try and use the smart remote app, I would press the up volume button on the remote, and it would work, but then it won't stop working. The volume would go up whenever my phone is pointed at the TV. Even if the app is for closed.
What could this be?
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joeym11 said:
Don't know if this is anything to do with the recent update of pac rom or possibly my phone getting fixed for a broken camera, but for what ever reason, when I try and use the smart remote app, I would press the up volume button on the remote, and it would work, but then it won't stop working. The volume would go up whenever my phone is pointed at the TV. Even if the app is for closed.
What could this be?
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Do you use a specific remote app? Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling the APK?
Does anything with the app function correctly? Do you have another device to test this to rule out possibilities.

I don't have another device to test out because only have this one with ir scanner, but I could test out another app. Any ones that you know of?
Also haven't tried reinstalling apk
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joeym11 said:
I don't have another device to test out because only have this one with ir scanner, but I could test out another app. Any ones that you know of?
Also haven't tried reinstalling apk
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I would try uninstalling to see if that makes a difference.
I don't use one often, only at a certain location: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.freeirtv&hl=en
I've had no problems with that yet, been using it for quite some time.

OK thank you
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I am seeing the same problem with WatchOn app. If continuously pressed Volume up/down key in UI, it will go on (volume up or down) as long as it is pointing towards TV. I am CARBON-JB-NIGHTLY-20130929-0506 rom with 3.4.0-cyanogenmod-g5f9c80 kernel if it matters.
This is not a rom specific issue as when I was using other AROMA ALPHA rom I was seeing the same issue. When on stock rom it worked well without any issue.

raone26 said:
I am seeing the same problem with WatchOn app. If continuously pressed Volume up/down key in UI, it will go on (volume up or down) as long as it is pointing towards TV. I am CARBON-JB-NIGHTLY-20130929-0506 rom with 3.4.0-cyanogenmod-g5f9c80 kernel if it matters.
This is not a rom specific issue as when I was using other AROMA ALPHA rom I was seeing the same issue. When on stock rom it worked well without any issue.
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I dunno, cause it worked fine at one point. And I wasn't stock. I have never been stock rom, cause if I root, I always install a rom