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Home Button Lag

This is driving me crazy...
If I am in any app and press the home button it takes at least 3 seconds to go back to the home screen.
It can be fixed with a restart but it starts happening again?!?!

something is wrong with your phone. Factory reset it and see if it still lag.

Tested and no lag takes about 1 second .
jje

I was having this problem as well. A restart fixed it though. But the restart reset all the configurations I had made to the app draw. The folders were okay, but there were no icons in any folder. I will post if it comes back again.

i had the exact same problem yesterday too - a reboot fixed it too.
will also post if it happens again ...

JJEgan said:
Tested and no lag takes about 1 second .
jje
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+1 less than a second. Have no problems our lags whatsoever.
Are you using Touchwiz? or using done 3rd party launcher?
I suggest you first format sd then go into recovery mode (press home button + vol up + power button together until reboot) and clear cache and factory reset <<- this is what I did from the moment if purchase!!

I had lag too when trying to return to home screen by pressing the home button. I reboot my phone and the lag is reduced by not entirely gone...still takes approx 1 second for it to change.
But after I reboot my phone, I noticed the TW App drawer is messed up. I had a "Games" folder created before...but that folder got filled with other apps instead after reboot.

Elythor said:
I had lag too when trying to return to home screen by pressing the home button. I reboot my phone and the lag is reduced by not entirely gone...still takes approx 1 second for it to change.
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This is due to the double click feature of the home button. Since a double click launches voice control mode the phone needs to wait and check whether there's a second click. Rather annoying IMO.

dbum said:
This is due to the double click feature of the home button. Since a double click launches voice control mode the phone needs to wait and check whether there's a second click. Rather annoying IMO.
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Ah thanx !
That definitely makes a lot of sense, since I noticed hitting back button to go to the homescreen is much faster (but of course doesn't always work). I was pretty sure the delay was intentional but couldn't find a reason why they would do that.
I hope the delay can be removed later on for people like me who never use voice input.

Does disabling VoiceInput solve this issue for anyone?
IIRC is there an option in the settings...

Upz!
Guys.. ya still having problems on this one? I just got my phone last week and I must say the lag is horrible as compared to SGS1. Even the power button takes time to wake up the device. 1 sec is kinda actually if you compare it with other phones...
Was hoping if someone has found a solution..

I just checked my phone without these problems, you may do a factory reset and try it again

In my opinion the suggestion about the bundled Voice Talk app from Vlingo over here makes sense:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=13905528&postcount=8
I did try to eliminate this by freezing Voice Talk in Titanium and rebooting, but did not see a fix in behaviour. Had tried LauncherPro for sometime but saw the same behaviour. Maybe will post this in one of the ROM threads.

jasontschan said:
I just checked my phone without these problems, you may do a factory reset and try it again
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Could you post your firmware? Thanks.

It's either the voice command, screenshot, or a combination of both causing this. I would assume there's a delay so that it can detect a second home press to activate voice command, or a delay to see if the power button is pressed to take a screenshot.
And yes I find it extremely annoying and hope someone can find a fix =(

If its to do with the voice talk double tap you can disable this in the settings. Disabled it on my phone and it seems ok but need to test it out properly. I'm running KF2 by the way.

I've found that whenever i install a lockscreen replacement the phones exhibits home button lag. But when i return to stock lockscreen, the lag is gone, and the home button works just fine.
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[Q] Home button opens multitasking windows

Hey,
I got a i9500 and i have a problem with the home button.
Sometimes when i push the home button it opens the multitasking windows although i didnt do a long push. It happes sometime and it really annoys me.
If someone knows how to solve it please tell me.
Thanks,
Eden
By the way, dont tell i dont know to push a short push beause this is NOT the problem. I gave it to some friends and it happened to them too.

Your button is sticking. When you press it it does not come up fast enough.
Did you get any juice or sweat in the button ?
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Gillion said:
Your button is sticking. When you press it it does not come up fast enough.
Did you get any juice or sweat in the button ?
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Absoultely not. Anyway, what can i do?

eden1108 said:
Absoultely not. Anyway, what can i do?
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If it is trutly a physical defect with the home button your best but most annoying option is to take back the phone and have it changed with a new one.
Another thing to do is to do a factory reset (just in case there is a software bug causing the button to act this way)
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This are my last options. I dont want to replace my phone neither to wipe it.
If you someone encounter this problem please help me.
Thanks

I have the same problem with my phone. Runing stock ROM.
The home button will trigger the task manager upon waking up the phone. This is driving me absolutly crazy. I hate lock screens and passwords just to get to the home screen.
Once the home screen is up this behavior stops.
I just tested the time it takes to hold the home button and launch the task manager alongside with my old Galaxy S2 and the latter needs a longer hold on the button.
The home button is not sticky, it has a normal feel and click.
Please help

Actually my problem i not at the waking up of the phone but in the home screen or in any app.
HELP

Just made an account because I'm having the exact same issue and was wondering if you were able to fix it at all because this happened to my phone very suddenly so I'm wondering if it's a software issue.. Please reply.
One thing I noticed is that this never happens when I'm on the home screen, only when have an app open. Also, it doesn't feel like the button is sticking by any means. My phone is a week old..

Mrtnd said:
Just made an account because I'm having the exact same issue and was wondering if you were able to fix it at all because this happened to my phone very suddenly so I'm wondering if it's a software issue.. Please reply.
One thing I noticed is that this never happens when I'm on the home screen, only when have an app open. Also, it doesn't feel like the button is sticking by any means. My phone is a week old..
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I'm having this same issue. When I'm at the home screen it doesn't "stick", but only when I'm in an application. What's up with this behavior? It's a recent development. Could this be a software issue? I have a Verizon S4 and it hasn't had a software update at all yet.
Any solutions, or maybe there's an app we all have that is causing this?
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I've made this happen on the home screen, usually by pressing near the middle of the home button, however this only starts happening after the phone has been on for a while. I'm so confused as to whether this is a hardware or software issue, or maybe a combination of both.

kmedeiros said:
I'm having this same issue. When I'm at the home screen it doesn't "stick", but only when I'm in an application. What's up with this behavior? It's a recent development. Could this be a software issue? I have a Verizon S4 and it hasn't had a software update at all yet.
Any solutions, or maybe there's an app we all have that is causing this?
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I've made this happen on the home screen, usually by pressing near the middle of the home button, however this only starts happening after the phone has been on for a while. I'm so confused as to whether this is a hardware or software issue, or maybe a combination of both.
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The home button problem was gone for a while, but a week ago, it came back and I decided to call T-Mobile. They immediately said it was a software issue and recommended me to do a factory reset. So I did and it seems to be working perfect now, haven't had the home button sticking or giving any problems for about a week now.you should definitely give that a try.hope it helps.

hey guys.
I switched some ROMs after that and it solved the problem. I can only assume it is a software bug.
try upgrading to the newest version(I use 4.3)
Hope you will all solve it as i did.

[Q] Note 3 hanged

Hi guys,
Anyone encountered your Note 3 hanged and you unable to swipe or press the back button.
The only way to swipe again is to press off and on and you be able to do that.
My phone is brand new and even after I factory reset it still hanged.

Same Hangups with me
The same happens to me with an unchanged Note 3 9005, Vodafone Germany branded; Suddenly the especially the screen freezes.
some buttons still work. Sometimes it works again, sometimes only a reboote works.

johrub said:
The same happens to me with an unchanged Note 3 9005, Vodafone Germany branded; Suddenly the especially the screen freezes.
some buttons still work. Sometimes it works again, sometimes only a reboote works.
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And i thought it was a launcher that causing this. Seems like I'm not the only one.

Note 3 hanged
I use the Nova Launcher ...

Anyone facing the same issue?

anyone? no one having this issue?

My T-Mobile Note 3 did it once, so far.
NOT rooted, stock launcher and browser.
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Yes, same problem here with a completely stock and non-rooted international (Germany) Note 3. I have had the device now for a little over a week, and the problem occurs quite frequently several times a day. Very annoying, so any fix would be VERY appreciated!

German Unbranded LTE... Apex Launcher, no such issue so far.
Try cleaning your system cache in Recovery.

I get the same problem.
No response to back, menu, home or power button.
If I wait about 10-20 seconds, it will start responding again.
It happens several times a day.
Very annoying. Never had this problem with the Note 2.
N900 in Thailand, not rooted using Nova launcher.
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Its happened to me, Stock and No root, Its look like touchwiz is suck.
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I have the same problem. My situation is described in my thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2473622
Do have a look and see if it's similar!
I've yet found a solution.. =(

DesmondL said:
I have the same problem. My situation is described in my thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2473622
Do have a look and see if it's similar!
I've yet found a solution.. =(
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Seems like I still have that issue.

ShadowLea said:
German Unbranded LTE... Apex Launcher, no such issue so far.
Try cleaning your system cache in Recovery.
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I tried this yesterday, but I'm afraid it didn't fix the problem. A couple of hours after cleaning the cache partition I got the next hang.

I gave up on this and decided to ask for a replacement phone. Bummer.
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My non-rooted N9005 crashed several times as described below. However I can't replicate them on purpose. It just happened randomly.
On boot-up, when the lockscreen is shown, the device keeps restarting on its on, non-stop. To resolve, I'll need to quickly unlock the phone when the lockscreen is shown. Sometimes it would just keep restarting before the locksreen is shown. When this happens, I'll need to remove the SIM card and the phone would start normally. Then turn it off, reinsert the SIM card, boot-up and quickly unlock the lockscreen. This occurs randomly, but when it occurs, the would keep restarting. Else, phone would boot-up with no issue.
Recorded a video and stopped the recording. Camera hang. From then onwards, can't use camera until reboot.
Enabled the "one-handed operation - use for all screens". Switched to one-handed mode. Not sure what happened, but camera was started when I exit camera, screen is reverted to fullscreen. It should remain in "one-handed" mode. Touch responded to area where the "one-handed operation" window should be. No response to area outside this area. To resolve, re-enter "one-handed" mode and exit.
Phone just hang when games are started which the audio loop playing repeatingly.

My Note3 got hang when I was using facebook...
I m curious it related with RAM... when I check the RAM (after it responds again) it was 2,4 GB of 2,66 (max available)..
After I clear the Memory, then problem stops...

Same issue here..
i'll be scrolling facebook or browsing and i cannot click on links or scroll
weird thing is i can press the back button to close the app or the home button..
there are some other major glitches as well such as Gallery opening VERY SLOWLY.. quick pic is my work around..
waking up the phone with the power button takes longer then expected as well..
coming from a Z10 with less specs and listening to people bash it.. the 3GB quadcore Snapdragon 800 chip with 4.3 jelly bean is deeming to be disappointing..
don't get me wrong i love the device.. just didn't expect so many glithces and slow downs and hangups

Same issue on exynos.
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I tried something new today, I've been clearing the Ram memory every 15-30 minutes of constant usage and every time I start using the phone and it seems that I haven't had that problem yet. Makes me think it is related to a process.
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[Q] Annoying bug - short press home key and long press power button not working

Hi,
I've encountered an annoying problem with my SM-N9005 (UK SIM unlocked - 02) running firmware XXUDMJ7 (not routed - no mods).
Periodically, the short press of the home key will not return me to the Touchwiz home screen. Long press of the home button will still bring up the task manager. When this problem occurs, long press no longer brings up the Device Options dialogue. A short press will blank the screen and holding the power button down will eventually reset the device.
Following a reboot, the device will work normally for a while until it reoccurs. I can't correlate this with a particular application being installed or used, and it occurs frequently enough to be seriously annoying.
I haven't yet done a factory reset as installing all apps will be a major waste of time. Has anyone encountered this problem and found a resolution?.
All tips or help gratefully recieved..
Regards,
Alex

You can try to flash the exact fw u habe right now with odin v3.09 (no wipe, no fck up knox)
hit 'thanks' if i helped you
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Killberty said:
You can try to flash the exact fw u habe right now with odin v3.09 (no wipe, no fck up knox)
hit 'thanks' if i helped you
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No joy... overwrite with the same firmware doesn't change anything. I can't trace this to specific app to unintelligible (or not reinstall) without a few pointers.. any ideas?
Thanks,
Alex

I also have this exact problem and until I read this thread I had to keep pulling the battery every day or so to reset. At least I know I can hold the power button to reset now!
It usually starts when Com.phone.android crashes after ending a call but has also happened when the youtube app hangs. Sometimes the only way to make the screen come back on when this happens is to plug the charger in when it goes into this buggy state.
Any ideas would be great as this is annoying

Same problem here on the device of my girlfriend today. Never had this on mine (both phones snapdragon version).
Thinking of exchanging it.

Happened to me yesterday. No idea what triggered it. A reboot made the problem go away.
Maybe it's a coincidence, but my internal storage was beginning to run out due to a weird problem with the Samsung index service creating huge files for no apparent reason.
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Glad someone else has reported this, but mine has disappeared now I've disabled a few xPosed modules, are you guys rooted with xPosed or stock?
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The device where it happens is stock mj7 not rooted.
RavenY2K3 said:
Glad someone else has reported this, but mine has disappeared now I've disabled a few xPosed modules, are you guys rooted with xPosed or stock?
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olympicchicken said:
The device where it happens is stock mj7 not rooted.
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It's happened to me as well and I I'm stock not rooted. It didn't happen with my first device. But has happened with this second one. I've had freezing, crashing, blank home screen, power menu not coming up, screen not locking and few more issues. This phone on both my first and second have been so buggy I've thought about another phone altogether. So glad it's not just me. Tired of constantly monitoring RAM and closing out apps. I haven't even installed all my normal apps due to so many problems. My S3 was 10 times more stable than this phone. Note 2 definitely never had this many issues.
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RavenY2K3 said:
Glad someone else has reported this, but mine has disappeared now I've disabled a few xPosed modules, are you guys rooted with xPosed or stock?
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I'm running a MJ6 stock ROM with MJ4 baseband. It's a Three UK branded one. Unrooted.
I had quite a lot of apps installed at the time. I also had a couple of Home screen replacement apps, namely Apex Launcher and Nova Launcher, and also Toddler Lock. I enabled Nova Launcher to see if it was a problem with the TouchWiz Home app, but the home button still wouldn't work.
In addition, I couldn't get the power menu to appear. I unusually prefer to do a soft reboot via the menu whenever I can, but on this occasion had to do a hard reboot by holding the power button.
I wonder if this is related to that old Sleep of Death (SOD) issue that other Samsung phones have had. That's happened to me on at least one occasion with with phone.
I'm guessing this is firmware related. I would happily try a custom ROM to see if it solve change anything rather than bombard Samsung with tech support requests, but since they've introduced this Knox nonsense, I have fewer options to try and fix things myself. Perhaps if everyone on XDA were to adopt a policy of calling Samsung's helpdesk every time we experience a software problem, Samsung might find themselves so bogged down with issues that they would realise that allowing users to install custom ROMs probably saves them a fortune in tech support costs. (Sorry about the rant.)
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Stock, Sprint MJ7. 2nd phone, last one had bad screen. The last 2 days the clock app stopped and the alarm didn't go off and then I had this behavior.

Go to settings/controls/auto adjust sensibility. Set it out and on. Problem is resolved.

I got a solution.
After a lot of beating around the bush, I called Samsung care. Explained them my inability to operate the Home Key short/single press to go to home screen. I was advised to back up the phone and do a factory reset. I did so and WOLA...... The single press on home key works now.

Quickstep isn't responding Issue

Randomly sometimes phone hangs up and home button and back button stops responding and after a while i get 'Quickstep isn't responding' when i force stop phone starts to work fine. I am getting this issue 4-5 times in a day and is very annoying.
Is anyone else facing similar issue or know how to resolve it permanently?
Using stock Pie v067
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To reproduce this issue
Open an app from Home Screen
minimize it
Open another app and minimize it
Repeat for more than 5 times till phone stops responding.
Firmware 071

I also have the same problem

Im also facing the same problem and it's damn annoying

Im also facing same problem of quick step app isn't working

shubham1358 said:
Randomly sometimes phone hangs up and home button and back button stops responding and after a while i get 'Quickstep isn't responding' when i force stop phone starts to work fine. I am getting this issue 4-5 times in a day and is very annoying.
Is anyone else facing similar issue or know how to resolve it permanently?
Using stock Pie v067
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Use pixel launcher or any other launcher. I used to have this problem on my stock os and I switched it to pixel launcher and it worked fine. The stock os is riddled with bugs if you want it to be bug free I would suggest install a custom ROM. I use havoc os as my daily driver . Works fine.

Dhiraj pinate said:
Im also facing same problem of quick step app isn't working
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On what firmware are you currently on?
If I'm not mistaken, on firmware 071, Asus did release an update about launcher fixes

Still face this issue in 71. I figured out a way to reproduce this issue
Open an app from Home Screen
minimize it
Open another app and minimize it
Repeat for more than 5 times till phone stops responding.

shubham1358 said:
Still face this issue in 71. I figured out a way to reproduce this issue
Open an app from Home Screen
minimize it
Open another app and minimize it
Repeat for more than 5 times till phone stops responding.
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When my phone quickstep stopped responding i close my phone then open it with fingerprint like 3-4 times then my screen will turn black but the nav bar and notification is still visible then the warning will show up