Has anyone loaded another launcher and enabled Ultra Power Save mode? I've loaded Google Now Launcher and when I enable and switch back, all my icons are gone from the home screen except email. Basically have to set everything back up again. Anyone seen this or have a resolution? Maybe I just have to switch back to TouchWiz if I ever want to enable it?
I have no problems using it with Next Launcher 3D.
That happened to me too as soon as I returned from Power Savings mode. All icons gone except a few like you said.
It works with other launchers but the Google Now Launcher.
Any ideas on how to fix it?
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when y enable saving battery or ultra saving
the whole performance of phone decrease.
as responsive on callings
i told you cauze i forgot this morning that i switched on saving battery and calling responsive was awful
Had the same issues. I cannot use the power savings mode without having to add all widgets and shortcuts to my home screen. I even created screenshots of how they look like in case power savings is activated.
Any ideas on how to solve it?
i dont have any issue,try factory reset..maybe resolve yours prob?
Same issue for me. Googled the issue to find this thread, hoping for an answer. Sounds like a bug in Google launcher on galaxy tab S.
More research show problems with Google launcher on Samsung S5 as well using ultra power save mode. But Google launcher not "officially" supported on S5. Not sure if it is supported on Tab S...
2 years later and 3 phones laterl.. same issue
Bump in hopes someone has found a fix. Having the same issue with my galaxy on5, and it keeps deleting my themes. This is through the phone's theme setting no less
This fixed my s6
Originally Posted by Matthew67899
Stumbled across the answer to my problem a little bit ago.
Go into Settings>Application Manager>Disabled Apps
Touch the "dot dot dot" at the top right and a drop down appears saying "Sort by size" and "Reset app preferences"
Touch "Reset app preferences" and it resets everything to default preferences.
It seems to have fixed my problem. It did not restore the apps on my home page to where I had them but that just means adding them from my apps menu again. I can use my apps as before and now I can update, install, and uninstall with Google Play again.
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i decided to find out what the hullabaloo about Beautiful Widgets was and bought it... and then tried their fanciful widgets and weather and stuff. Not sure if I get the deal, (I look at the sky to find out the weather and I dont need more reminders of what time it is) but anyway -- last night I got into some settings in BW and then remember something about "reboot to disable home button" or whatever and I forgot I was not rooted, so I went ahead with it. (Had i been rooted I would have done a data wipe and restore and not needed to make another XDA thread)
But now I cannot use my home button. It goes nowhere. It vibrates but thats it. Doesnt go "Home" and long press doesnt give me my last 6 apps.
I uninstalled BW (both the apk and whatever the widgets were) so now I have no more BW on the phone, and it somehow even reset my system settings so I had to set that all up over again!!!!
I had Launcherpro apk and Zeam and have uninstalled both of those and now I only have ADW launcher. I set the ADW settings to enable the home button to go to "default screen" but now it doesnt do anything.
I havent been able to use home button normally since that Beautiful Widget setting thing last night.
My next step is to go into fastboot and do a data-wipe (the stock settings for data reset doesnt really come close to what a fastboot data wipe does, I think) but then Ill have to deal with restoring a non-rooted phone and not looking forward to that without my beloved Titanium Backup.
So anyone know Beautiful Widgets inside out who can let me know how to get my home button back to normal. Otherwise its a hardware issue and I doubt it because ive been treating this phone like its the queen of england, delicate and carefully.
Im positive this was caused by a Beautiful Widget setting change...
solved
I tried everything possible.... and got so pissed about the home button not working that I did a factory reset off the SPL. That fixed it -- my home button now works.
So something in the Beautiful Widgets settings caused something to become embedded and it made my home button useless. Im 99.9% sure of that -- .01% would go towards "hardware malfunction".
careful in those BW settings. nice widgets, but horrible batt-drain. Too Sense-i for me.
Did you try resetting the default app settings for Beautiful Widgets or the built-in launcher? Menu -> Applications -> Beautiful Widgets -> Reset Defaults.
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Hi Guys,
Hope someone can advise me on the below
Problem 1
Got my Note 4 on the 17th, I’ve come from a Note 3, starting to get used to the using left button to bring up recent apps however a function that I used regularly is no longer there.
On my Note 3 I could hold down the home button to bring up my recent apps, and if you long press on any of the recent apps it would show the option “show app info” which would then take you to the menu to manage that application, (the screen where you can Force Stop the app, Disable it, Clear data and Clear Cache)
I can no longer do this on my note 4, when I open recent apps menu and long press the application it just put’s the app into a pop up window, no such option to directly manage that application.
Am I missing something here? Or is it a case of just having to live with it?
Problem 2
No big deal really but when I plug in my headphones a notification will pop up saying they are plugged in, on my note 3 it would also show recent apps used with headphones and I can quickly choose the app I’d like to use, my note 4 no longer does this, it will only show a notification that they are plugged in, no option to select app.
( I know a lot of people found this annoying but it didn’t really bother me)
Thanks in Advance
martytarty said:
Hi Guys,
Hope someone can advise me on the below
Problem 1
Got my Note 4 on the 17th, I’ve come from a Note 3, starting to get used to the using left button to bring up recent apps however a function that I used regularly is no longer there.
On my Note 3 I could hold down the home button to bring up my recent apps, and if you long press on any of the recent apps it would show the option “show app info” which would then take you to the menu to manage that application, (the screen where you can Force Stop the app, Disable it, Clear data and Clear Cache)
I can no longer do this on my note 4, when I open recent apps menu and long press the application it just put’s the app into a pop up window, no such option to directly manage that application.
Am I missing something here? Or is it a case of just having to live with it?
Problem 2
No big deal really but when I plug in my headphones a notification will pop up saying they are plugged in, on my note 3 it would also show recent apps used with headphones and I can quickly choose the app I’d like to use, my note 4 no longer does this, it will only show a notification that they are plugged in, no option to select app.
( I know a lot of people found this annoying but it didn’t really bother me)
Thanks in Advance
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all the little things like the headphone bit are missing from note 4 compared to note 3 they have the features in the hidden settings but even if you turn them on they don't work very odd indeed....
Out of interest where can I find these hidden options?
I'm rooted now if that helps
Cheers
martytarty said:
Out of interest where can I find these hidden options?
I'm rooted now if that helps
Cheers
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you have to install nova launcher(you dont have to use it as main launcher you can still keep touchwiz as main launcher and just have nova in app draw)click on nova hold finger on screen and then chose short cuts,then click activities and scroll all the way to settings and in the settings scroll abit further and you will see air gestures,air view and keep scrolling and theres page buddy and other stuff,to activate them either just click and a gear like icon will go onto nova screen or keep your finger on the setting you want and that will bring the setting up of the option your looking at...hope it makes sense just dont expect much to work just yet as i say it all turns on but i cant get it to work...
After I've installed the 220MB update yesterday, the phone keeps asking for password almost every single time I unlock the phone. Even though I've got fingerprint enabled.
Keeps saying enter password according to device security policy.
Anyone else experiencing this?
Do you have a 3rd party launcher, I read somewhere Samsung made a change to what 3rd party apps are allowed to do, if you set something in the launcher that has to do with unlocking the phone this will be the result.
Thanks for the reply?
Yes, I have Smart Launcher Pro.
But is this new to this update? And is there any way to turn it off??
You can not switch it on and off. The only solution is to go back to the default launcher.
I think I found the solution. It uses Device admin rights to turn off screen on double tap. Disabling that seems to fix it.
i have the same issue
Im running stock launcher and i faced this problem as soon as i updated. nothing else is wrong with the phone except this fail to recognise my fingerprint.
After reading the post about launchers i remembered that i have 3 apps that tweak my phone, 'Galaxy buttons Lights', 'Easy Home' & 'All in one Gestures'. I disabled all and enabled each one and found out that 'All in one Gestures' was causing the issue. I had set up the app to have the top and bottom corners to toggle drop down menu and lock phone. These gestures where also active on the lock screen hence i think it was hindering the fingerprint recognition process. I guess the app has to push an update to fix this.
I now have this problem after update, I'm on stock its driving me mad!
Found my problem, its my screen off/lock widget.
I've now just tried 5 others and they all cause this problem, if I close by physical button then I don't get asked for pin on unlock, only if I use the widget does this happen
Same here. Although it's just S7, without the edges... And my password is over 10 characters long! So if anyone finds a true solution, that would be great... Stock launcher.
same with nova launcher, if you are using gesture to lock sreen, it needs pin/password to unlock, fingerprint is not enough...
samsung.. pls ..stahp..
I have a Galaxy S7. My carrier is Verizon. I recently received the Nougat upgrade for my phone. Everything was going great after the upgrade until I put my phone in Max Power Saving mode.
After turning Max Power Saving Mode off, I noticed that all my apps on the home screen were missing. The shortcut to my camera was missing. Most of my application icons were missing when looking at the full list of installed applications.
On restart, my camera icon returned. None of the shortcut icons I had on the home screen were there. All of my applications were showing up in the full list of applications.
I would like to find a way to restore all the icons I had on my launcher before the upgrade. They were there after the upgrade, but before I put my phone in Max Power Saving mode.
All help is very much appreciated.
Same Verizon Nougat Issues
I upgraded to 7.0 on my Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge. BIG mistake! First, my keyboard became mostly unresponsive. Then after a re-boot nearly every App button left the home screens. Now, I cannot bring them back, because now holding down an APP button to move an App back to the home screen cannot be done. Nothing happens. Other issues are there, but these are the most important.
dqfan2012 said:
I have a Galaxy S7. My carrier is Verizon. I recently received the Nougat upgrade for my phone. Everything was going great after the upgrade until I put my phone in Max Power Saving mode.
After turning Max Power Saving Mode off, I noticed that all my apps on the home screen were missing. The shortcut to my camera was missing. Most of my application icons were missing when looking at the full list of installed applications.
On restart, my camera icon returned. None of the shortcut icons I had on the home screen were there. All of my applications were showing up in the full list of applications.
I would like to find a way to restore all the icons I had on my launcher before the upgrade. They were there after the upgrade, but before I put my phone in Max Power Saving mode.
All help is very much appreciated.
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dqfan2012 said:
I have a Galaxy S7. My carrier is Verizon. I recently received the Nougat upgrade for my phone. Everything was going great after the upgrade until I put my phone in Max Power Saving mode.
After turning Max Power Saving Mode off, I noticed that all my apps on the home screen were missing. The shortcut to my camera was missing. Most of my application icons were missing when looking at the full list of installed applications.
On restart, my camera icon returned. None of the shortcut icons I had on the home screen were there. All of my applications were showing up in the full list of applications.
I would like to find a way to restore all the icons I had on my launcher before the upgrade. They were there after the upgrade, but before I put my phone in Max Power Saving mode.
All help is very much appreciated.
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Did you install and enable secure folder?
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j0hnh0lmes said:
Did you install and enable secure folder?
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I don't think so.
dqfan2012 said:
I don't think so.
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That's most likely your problem. Just factory reset.
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How do you install and enable secure folder?
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cammeron1978 said:
How do you install and enable secure folder?
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Galaxy apps. It's pre-installed and is updated . Don't use it unless you keep fingerprint unlock on. It causes apps to not show. That's why I asked if you were using it.
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The original main question (where did all my shortcuts go?) was basically caused by doing something that you didn't understand - turning On Max Power Saving. What did you think this would do? It made changes to maximize power saving which included remove other than default Widgets/Shortcuts. So if you like a heavy desktop with your choice of objects all over it that is OK, just turn Off Max Power Saving and then you can add whatever you want. Unless you enjoy these kind of surprises that come from "let me just try this and see what happens" it is best to research what the effects are before flipping the switch.
It's not about what he/she likes, it's about having unexpected behavior after turning USPM off. This was not an issue with previous versions of Android. Please make sure you understand the question.
Just bought the PH-1 and got it updated to 9. Anybody else's bottom row of icons bounce up and down on the home screen?
Got this from Essential support even though my wife's Pixel on Android 9 doesn't do it -
Thanks for reaching out. This happens when you first set up your device, or when you install new apps on your phone. It's Androids (kind of silly) way of showing you that you can swipe up from the bottom of the screen to access the apps that were just installed / updated.
Unfortunately, there's no way to disable this. Hope that answers your question.
Sincerely,
Essential
sether52 said:
Just bought the PH-1 and got it updated to 9. Anybody else's bottom row of icons bounce up and down on the home screen?
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Did you ever resolve the bouncing icons thing? I've got a new Pixel 3 XL and I've got the same thing happening:
EDIT > poo, I don't have enough posts to submit a link. So, I'll try adding spaces to obfuscate it: https:// youtu.be/ rQ8JBw5-95U
This is day 3 with the phone and the darn things are still bouncing.
I chatted with the support people. Their attempts to fix this were:
- Clear cache and storage in Pixel Launcher under Settings > Apps & Notifications > Pixel Launcher > Storage. Reboot.
- When that didn't help, do the same for Google. Reboot.
- When that didn't help, check Safe Mode.
- When that didn't help, they wanted me to reset the phone to factory defaults.
I'm avoiding the reset since the thought of setting everything up again fills me with dread (especially re-registering all my sites in Google Authenticator).
DaveLessnau said:
Did you ever resolve the bouncing icons thing? I've got a new Pixel 3 XL and I've got the same thing happening:
EDIT > poo, I don't have enough posts to submit a link. So, I'll try adding spaces to obfuscate it: https:// youtu.be/ rQ8JBw5-95U
This is day 3 with the phone and the darn things are still bouncing.
I chatted with the support people. Their attempts to fix this were:
- Clear cache and storage in Pixel Launcher under Settings > Apps & Notifications > Pixel Launcher > Storage. Reboot.
- When that didn't help, do the same for Google. Reboot.
- When that didn't help, check Safe Mode.
- When that didn't help, they wanted me to reset the phone to factory defaults.
I'm avoiding the reset since the thought of setting everything up again fills me with dread (especially re-registering all my sites in Google Authenticator).
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I switched the launcher from gestures to the usual app drawer button and that fixed things. Haven't experienced it on my Pixel 3 XL yet. *fingers crossed*
sether52 said:
I switched the launcher from gestures to the usual app drawer button and that fixed things. Haven't experienced it on my Pixel 3 XL yet. *fingers crossed*
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I did a factory reset and it didn't fix things. Since I'm also having issues keeping a Wi-Fi connection, I decided to have Google do a warranty exchange. We'll see what happens with the new phone when it gets here.
sether52 said:
Got this from Essential support even though my wife's Pixel on Android 9 doesn't do it -
Thanks for reaching out. This happens when you first set up your device, or when you install new apps on your phone. It's Androids (kind of silly) way of showing you that you can swipe up from the bottom of the screen to access the apps that were just installed / updated.
Unfortunately, there's no way to disable this. Hope that answers your question.
Sincerely,
Essential
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u can disable it under deveolper option and turn ur animations off
Toggling "Accessibility" > "Remove Animations" seems to have done it for me.
Turning this option on removed all animations (which I didn't want) but then after turning it off again, the animations returned WITHOUT the bounce. Profit!