Nova launcher problems - Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hey all,
Been having an odd issue with nova launcher on my N7. If I try to move items around, when I try to move anything on my desktop, it immediately goes back to its original location and asks if I want to edit or remove it. Is there a setting that I am missing somewhere that is supposed to stop accidental item moves or is it just because it hasn't been updated for JB?
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Mine does that too. What I found out though is you have to move it fast. Like long press and the second it lets you move it sounds you move it sounds then it's fine.

I had this too but after i flashed a rom/changed laucher (one of these), it disappeared. Now its completely gone and smoooth.

You can fix by going under Nova settings and updating to the latest beta.

Thanks for the replies.
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Definite bug...had this problem on my gnex also.
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beta build 3 had the issue but they fixed it in build 4
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Random reboots

Had the phone for just over 24 hours and have had two random reboots. Anyone else or is it just me?
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Nop' Just you !
Perhaps it's something I've installed.
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Lots of apps haven't updated for 4.2 yet...
And I trust you've installed the OTA update?
Yep, updated almost immediately.
If it keeps doing it I'll start uninstalling stuff.... I suspect something with an active widget, so HD Widgets or Astrid...
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Don't have that problem here
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Have had 3 reboots in 3 days twice while using Dolphin browser and once when using the mini info app.
My first was half way through a YouTube video, the second was just after loading tapatalk I think....
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LargePig said:
Yep, updated almost immediately.
If it keeps doing it I'll start uninstalling stuff.... I suspect something with an active widget, so HD Widgets or Astrid...
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I think its the apps not being updated for 4.2 tbh. I got the launcher to FC on me with Friend caster not long after I posted.
I hope so, but I've not had a single random reboot on my N7. Plenty of FCs mind you!
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I actually had a random reboot about 20 minutes ago. I have an HD Widget clock on my lockscreen. I think mine happened while using Tapatalk though. Glad someone else experienced this. It was my only one so far though but I've had the phone <24 hours
I might try taking my HD Widgets off for a while.
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LargePig said:
Yep, updated almost immediately.
If it keeps doing it I'll start uninstalling stuff.... I suspect something with an active widget, so HD Widgets or Astrid...
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I'm using HD Widgets and have not had any force closes. I have one on my home screen and another on a lock screen. However, it does seem to be using a lot of battery (7% of usage).
Hmm.. I haven't had any reboots yet, working perfectly.
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I had some random reboots. I think about 10 since friday...
Have had 2 random reboots. Once during Netflix testing 20 minutes into Breaking Bad and once when I turned on the phone and the screen was frozen for a few seconds.
I've had the phone since Thursday haven't had any random reebots
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[Q] [q] strange battery life on the n4

Just got my new Nexus 3 days back.. and today was the first day using the phone not plugging it on and off thorough the day.
noticed something odd. I hadn't opened the maps app.. so it makes it even more strange.
any ideas?
Maps always runs itself. I believe this can be remedied by turning off location settings.
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Which app is that by the way? And turn off location settings and latitude.
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I just disabled maps
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droidmakespwn said:
Maps always runs itself. I believe this can be remedied by turning off location settings.
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the even more curious part was that the app had run only for 34seconds!
not faced the problem today, hadn't changed any settings. guess it will remain a mystery until it happens again?
Someone was having a similar problem a few weeks back. Try going from maps to navigation and accepting the user agreements etc. Someone found that this solved the maps battery drain.
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karanrajpal14 said:
Which app is that by the way? And turn off location settings and latitude.
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gsamlabs.bbm.pro
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Endoran said:
Someone was having a similar problem a few weeks back. Try going from maps to navigation and accepting the user agreements etc. Someone found that this solved the maps battery drain.
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+1
This was an issue on galaxy nexus when updating from 4.0 to 4.0.1 .all you had to do is to go to maps accept t&c and that's it.
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Slow Nexus 7..

For some reason my Nexus 7 is strangely slow lately idk why, but I want to know if anyone else has seen there Nexus 7 lagging? And if anyone knows how to speed it up? Posting screen shot of my system info.
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Exactly the same here. Typing's hard work, and tapping icons or buttons can take a couple of tries before it registers. All updated and tried a reboot.
You should upgade to 4.2.2, make full wipe and start from scratch. Then you will see if lag is still there.
grisoxxl said:
You should upgade to 4.2.2, make full wipe and start from scratch. Then you will see if lag is still there.
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Did that and it was even more laggy. Idk what is going on.
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OliverHaslam said:
Exactly the same here. Typing's hard work, and tapping icons or buttons can take a couple of tries before it registers. All updated and tried a reboot.
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That's what mine is doing. When I first bought it it was running super smooth, and I just want my fast nexus 7 back
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Read this guide
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2285328
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Try to have more than 5GB free space then run forevergone (free) many people facing the same problem (include me) but after did that and restart once you'll be wonder what happen.
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why always me said:
Try to have more than 5GB free space then run forevergone (free) many people facing the same problem (include me) but after did that and restart once you'll be wonder what happen.
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I got 17 gb free
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Try lagfix(fstrim) anyway it free and took only a few seconds to finish it's job. Even you're already have more than 5 GB free but in the old kernel seem to have a problem with nand flash controller.
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Just disable auto-brightness (not joking, it works).
CreepyDroid said:
Just disable auto-brightness (not joking, it works).
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Don't use auto brightness.
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Home button not working

Hey i just flash cm10.1 on my nexus 4, i've had cm on my nexus before but I've has stock rooted on my phone for the past few weeks.
Anyway the home button is not working and the quick settings are not working and the screen doesn't lock, the screen just switches off but no lock screen.
Anyone else had anything like this?
i've re-downloaded cm and it still doesn't work.
Yes, with CM 10.1.0 over the past day I've noticed that my home button will stop working in the app drawer (that is, it won't dump me back to the main screen). Dunno what is causing it to stop working.
I am not having the lockscreen problem you are describing, everything else is working as expected (except for the Google Now launch animation working).
Have you installed gapps?
Yea have you flashed gapps?
Have you searched the subject first?
Have you tried reflashing it and wiping everything 2 or 3 times?
Have you tried doing anything ?
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Yeah I got to the bottom of it. it seems to have something to do with restoring my android I'd (it stops play music from registering my phone as a new device) i did it with nandroid manager.
I re-freshed it and restored my I'd with titanium backup. All is good now.
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bodom_hc said:
Yea have you flashed gapps?
Have you searched the subject first?
Have you tried reflashing it and wiping everything 2 or 3 times?
Have you tried doing anything ?
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Yes, yes and yes is there any need to be so f*#king rude?
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[Q] Advanced Camera Options

On my nexus 4 I have the attached options.
On my girlfriend's nexus 4 she just has three options: scene options, store location and picture size.
I cannot figure out what I did on my phone so I could do the same on my girlfriends nexus 4. Any ideas?
thanks.
I have the latest aokp nightly, franco m3. She also has those flashed too.
What android version exactly?
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All I managed to do is press and hold both of the volume keys and then let go to burst shoot 2 pictures since any of the volume keys are triggers.
What have you done before discovering this?
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It's 4.2.2.
I upgraded aokp but then again I did on my gfs phone and didn't see it on here
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Did you do anything within the system?
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andyabc said:
Did you do anything within the system?
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GAPPS unofficial flashes and AOKP. But i do them on both devices.
I use a certain unofficial gapps package by BANKs of the theme section but I have flashed on both phones. Only mine has it. I also backed up the camera and data with titanium. This leads me to believe i'm missing some setting or something.
Just wanted to add. I tried to backup the camera app and data from my nexus 4 with titanium and then restore it on the other nexus 4 to no avail. Does anyone know what else I would need to backup and restore to transfer over the camera settings in the main post?
thanks.
thfreedumb said:
Just wanted to add. I tried to backup the camera app and data from my nexus 4 with titanium and then restore it on the other nexus 4 to no avail. Does anyone know what else I would need to backup and restore to transfer over the camera settings in the main post?
thanks.
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Did you try backing up Gallery to see if it works?, Gallery has a linked activity which is camera.
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Were both phones bought together? or one is newer and one is older? I saw same thing when I installed same gapps file on s2 and it came with tonnes option in camera app but nothing on my nexus 4 app. I think older nexus 4's camera hardware doesn't support those software features may be?
arvinchugh said:
Were both phones bought together? or one is newer and one is older? I saw same thing when I installed same gapps file on s2 and it came with tonnes option in camera app but nothing on my nexus 4 app. I think older nexus 4's camera hardware doesn't support those software features may be?
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I should be supported since the SGS3 does support it while the Nexus 4 is newer hardware and software wise.
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I have a white nexus 4 and hers is black. She bought hers a week after I did actually.
I also backed up gallery data and restored on hers and that didn't work either. Would suck if it's a hardware thing.
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stock camera has those 3 options. custom roms like slimbean have modified cameras that have more options like ISO among other options.
That's the cyanogenmod camera (not focal). I'm a big fan of that one. It takes pictures much quicker than the stock camera. The only issue though is that flash doesn't work unless you manually tap to focus before taking the picture.
Oh thank you. Do you, or anyone, have the app package? I assume since its working on my aokp setup, that it's possible. Or what file to transfer over from my phone to my girlfriend's? Like I said, I tried the gallery and camera apps already.
I will say that I did cyanogen mod at one point but have factory set numerous times since then.
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