It crashes when I press the home button, not always but too often, reloading my home screen and icons.
On a Nexus 4 running Android 4.4.4 with ART runtime.
Have tried uninstall and reinstall.
Factory reset may well be a good fix candidate but would appreciate help with less radical measures if possible.
Cheers
fdmsaraiva said:
It crashes when I press the home button, not always but too often, reloading my home screen and icons.
On a Nexus 4 running Android 4.4.4 with ART runtime.
Have tried uninstall and reinstall.
Factory reset may well be a good fix candidate but would appreciate help with less radical measures if possible.
Cheers
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Try different launchers. Nova?
fdmsaraiva said:
It crashes when I press the home button, not always but too often, reloading my home screen and icons.
On a Nexus 4 running Android 4.4.4 with ART runtime.
Have tried uninstall and reinstall.
Factory reset may well be a good fix candidate but would appreciate help with less radical measures if possible.
Cheers
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Just use a different launcher. Google now sucks your battery life anyways since the microphone is always on.
Use Nova launcher. You can't go wrong with it.
Or MAYBE try going back to dalvik. Maybe the ART runtime is making a mess with an incompatible app. You never know...
Hope this helps.
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Hi
My home buttom was disable by some apps. it's not working anymore
i can use homebutton to wake up the phone or going into recovery.
but can't use home button to get out of apps or in the homescreen
anyone know how to enable it again? thanks
sorry for my english
Factory reset.
I'm just curious here as I've been on android a long time and never seen an app that disabled the home button.What app(s) did you have that disabled the home button? I'm afraid avetny may be right but before you do a reset uninstall the offending apps if you've not already done it.
avetny said:
Factory reset.
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I know this is an option. but i prefer not, if i can have another option.
thanks
my last option like avetny is factory reset. done. work. i know it's a software.
but for krabman question. I don't know what's apps cause it.
but I was playing. change my android id apps and go locker at the time.
I guess one of those apps cause the trouble. more or less. change my android id was the last use before I restart the phone.
My S4 has randomly reverted to alot of default settings (overnight). For example, it has "forgotten" my default sound settings and default apps. The home button no longer works (presumably because my default launcher was Nova and it has "forgotten" it), my usual notifications are gone (e.g. the weather, Llama profile), and probably alot more that I have not yet noticed. This is not the first time that this has happened in the last 6 months.
I guess a factory reset would be a good idea, but does anyone know why/how this happens? I'm running Phoenix ROM v9 (Android 4.4.2).
I've just noticed that the Notification bar has effectively been disabled - none of my app notifications are appearing as they should
???
It's better to give a Hard reset.. Did you tried it?
Masum56k said:
It's better to give a Hard reset.. Did you tried it?
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By hard reset presumably you mean a factory reset, with a wipe of the cache partition? I'll try that next (I'm re-flashing the ROM in no-wipe mode first to see if that works).
I suppose I know what would "fix" the immediate problem, but I was wondering if anybody knew why this sort of thing happens in the first place?
I have a stock Note 3 and I'm having widget problems. After the phone has been on for a few days all the widgets die. What I mean is that they stop updating and even tapping them doesn't launch the associated app. They're just frozen.
When this happens, I can remove the widgets and add them again, but all that happens is that the outline of the widget is there and nothing loads into the widget, just a grayed out box.
What the heck is going on here? Any ideas on what is causing this to happen or suggestions on things to try to fix this? Unfortunately any troubleshooting suggestion will take days to test because that's how long it takes for the problem to crop up.
TIA
Sounds like an average case of full RAM to me. Tried clearing the RAM when it happens? (Long press Home > Pie icon > RAM > Clear RAM)
ShadowLea said:
Sounds like an average case of full RAM to me. Tried clearing the RAM when it happens? (Long press Home > Pie icon > RAM > Clear RAM)
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I have not tried that but I will give it a shot next time it happens.
Curious that I've never had this problem before with lower end Android phones with even more widgets running. I'd think if it was an average case of full RAM I would have experienced this in the past.
Also, I thought Android was really good at managing RAM so you're not supposed to have memory problems like this.
Anyway, appreciate the suggestion so I'll give it a shot. Just not optimistic that's the problem since I've never had this happen before I got the Note 3.
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Sounds like an average case of full RAM to me. Tried clearing the RAM when it happens? (Long press Home > Pie icon > RAM > Clear RAM)
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Nope. RAM is not the problem.
Right now the one widget I'm using is locked up and clearing the RAM doesn't help.
Any other ideas on how to fix this very annoying problem?
uscpsycho said:
Nope. RAM is not the problem.
Right now the one widget I'm using is locked up and clearing the RAM doesn't help.
Any other ideas on how to fix this very annoying problem?
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Have you tried a different launcher?
ShadowLea said:
Have you tried a different launcher?
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No. I'm using the stock launcher.
Going into the app manager and clearing cache and data for Touchwiz Home seems to have solved the problem.
I should point out for the benefit of anyone trying this in the future, clearing out Touchwiz Home will return your launcher back to all default settings. So any shortcuts or widgets you put on your launcher screens will be gone.
If I had known I would have taken some screenshots of my launcher screens before doing this so I could set them back up again exactly as I had them.
Hello,
With Smart Launcher, when I'm in an app and I use the recent apps button and then the back button, I go to the desktop instead of returning back to the app.
As soon as I change launcher or freeze Samsung launcher OneUI, it works. (But freezing OneUI brings some features disappear like contextual and split screen)
Did you notice that?
The strange thing is that it used to work before I change the order of the navigation bar buttons. Now I delete data of these 2 apps but no way to repair that. Any idea?
It works fine for me. Double tap recent app will switch me between two apps. And recent apps button and then back button - it is taking me back to the app not desktop.
Try to reset launcher settings, cache etc.
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Try wiping Cache Partition in Recovery Mode
Kruk07 said:
And recent apps button and then back button - it is taking me back to the app not desktop.
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Mmm, now I also have this problem with other launchers... Maybe I have "unbloat" too much and remove something useful for this feature.
I have tried to clean cache and data, I will try to full wipe cache in Recovery Mode but I don't have too much expectations. Thanks anyway.
PS: Is there an Android standard app to replace the Samsung's launcher One UI for split screen and contextual windows? Maybe this is too much "system" to be replaced!
Hello,
No, wipe cache partition does not repair.... Do you think this could be linked to a system app I have disabled? I try to reactivate several that might be related, but still no back button in recent apps.
(It's not a HUGE problem but sometimes useful.)
I took the update last night and did not notice until today that the recents button no longer works. There is animation when I press the button and swapping the buttons doesn't help so I do not believe it is a hardward issue. I also tried using gestures instead of the buttons and still cannot see my recent apps. I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced this?
PieceKeepr said:
I took the update last night and did not notice until today that the recents button no longer works. There is animation when I press the button and swapping the buttons doesn't help so I do not believe it is a hardward issue. I also tried using gestures instead of the buttons and still cannot see my recent apps. I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced this?
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I'm on.4.4 and it works fine in gestures, do you have magisk and did you have any modules enabled?
Also try a different home app
LOGMD said:
I'm on.4.4 and it works fine in gestures, do you have magisk and did you have any modules enabled?
Also try a different home app
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I tried all of that and it still wouldn't work. I ended up going back to 11.0.2.2 and then upgrading again and the buttons work now.
PieceKeepr said:
I tried all of that and it still wouldn't work. I ended up going back to 11.0.2.2 and then upgrading again and the buttons work now.
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How are you upgrading and downgrading? Twrp? Or wipe using full OTA? V strange behaviour that going back down and up solved it lol
LOGMD said:
How are you upgrading and downgrading?
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I used the msmtool. There's a thread here on it.
PieceKeepr said:
I used the msmtool. There's a thread here on it.
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Was going to suggest wiping system in recovery before going back a firmware, would have saved you losing storage..
dladz said:
Was going to suggest wiping system in recovery before going back a firmware, would have saved you losing storage..
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I did not think about that but I'll give it a shot in the event I ever have another system related problem. I do miss having everything on a SD card.
PieceKeepr said:
I did not think about that but I'll give it a shot in the event I ever have another system related problem. I do miss having everything on a SD card.
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Yep I've used system wipe before, keeps the storage intact which is nice..
If you have titanium or swift back ups then you can just restore.
Same problem. Do you disabled or uninstalled oneplus launcher? If yes, restore it, and it will fix.
Marcyvee said:
Same problem. Do you disabled or uninstalled oneplus launcher? If yes, restore it, and it will fix.
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Embarrassed to say that was it for me too. I froze the OnePlus launcher because I prefer Nova. I've never seen nav bar buttons tied to a launcher before but I wish I had figured it out before I wiped everything and started over.
I had some similar problems before, with different devices and aosp roms. It seems there's some link between launchers and recents apps.