Suddenly I am having a weird screen draw issue. Here is a sample shot. In PIE when I pull up a site it doesnt finish drawing, if I scroll the page at all the rest of the page will suddenly appear. Has anyone seen this kind of issue? Any thoughts on fixing it?
You didn't post the screenshot. But here's a quick tip. Dump PIE. Opera comes preinstalled and it's infinitely better than PIE.
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This also happens with the wallpaper app from windows Marketplace however unlike PIE, that app never redraws the lower portion of the screen.
here is that shot
I've done a hard reset and will see if I can catch the app thats breaking it.
Here is the wallpaper app from windows marketplace,
At this point I have done the following in the order presented;
Hard Reset
Installed MyMobileR(1.23)
Installed Microsoft My Phone
Synced with My Phone
Installed .NetC V3.5
Used Crud Scrapper to delete all junkware
rebooted phone
Installed Marketplace app named Wallpaper
Thats it and now I get only half a screen in PIE and in this wallpaper app.
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Hi All,
I think this deserves a new thread but if I'm wrong, sorry mods..
Anyway, I'm exceedingly happy with my Hero and although I never thought it was particularly slow or laggy I have encountered a bug which has actually sped up my handset. I long pressed the home button to get the recently run apps list up and a message popped up asking me if I wanted to complete the action using Touchflo or Home. I chose home and the phone took me to a screen with my wallpaper but none of my HTC widgets and only three home screens. Since this happened the phone has been zooming along. I have not felt the need to try to restore touchflo at all, although I do miss the toggle widgets.
As a bonus I have also noticed that a lot of the Apps from the market that had been Force Closing are now working perfectly. Maybe this won't matter after the update, but if you feel your Hero is laggy you could try this.
Hope this helps.
spamianspoon said:
Hi All,
I think this deserves a new thread but if I'm wrong, sorry mods..
Anyway, I'm exceedingly happy with my Hero and although I never thought it was particularly slow or laggy I have encountered a bug which has actually sped up my handset. I long pressed the home button to get the recently run apps list up and a message popped up asking me if I wanted to complete the action using Touchflo or Home. I chose home and the phone took me to a screen with my wallpaper but none of my HTC widgets and only three home screens. Since this happened the phone has been zooming along. I have not felt the need to try to restore touchflo at all, although I do miss the toggle widgets.
As a bonus I have also noticed that a lot of the Apps from the market that had been Force Closing are now working perfectly. Maybe this won't matter after the update, but if you feel your Hero is laggy you could try this.
Hope this helps.
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Are you still able to use the hero music player or does it default to the android player now?
I can still use the hero music player and it is still shown on screen when the screen is locked.
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Are you still able to use the hero music player or does it default to the android player now?
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you still use any app the same way you would normally it just brings the home screen back to the basic g1/magic look....
I was thinking of doing this , but really losing the htc widgets is not a solution , so I stopped the google automatic sync , and now the phone is actually fast and there is no lag .
tried yesterday....loosing the 7 screen layout + widgets slows me down much more than TouchFlo slows the Hero down :/ IMO, not worth it :/
I don't think it's a bug. You can do this by holdning down the home button. When the tasklist shows, you press the home button again. From here you can choose to use eather "Android HOME" or "TouchFLO". and you can do the same thing from Android HOME, so it's not permanent! Try it! Play around!
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I don't think it's a bug. You can do this by holdning down the home button. When the tasklist shows, you press the home button again. From here you can choose to use eather "Android HOME" or "TouchFLO". and you can do the same thing from Android HOME, so it's not permanent! Try it! Play around!
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I used to be able to do this but I must have inadvertently changed something and now I can't access the Android Home anymore. I'm quite disappointed since I want to go to the Android Home page to test some things.
So beware. you could potentially lose this function.
lsim001 said:
I used to be able to do this but I must have inadvertently changed something and now I can't access the Android Home anymore. I'm quite disappointed since I want to go to the Android Home page to test some things.
So beware. you could potentially lose this function.
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u guys. to enable android home page. jusy go to settings-applications - from there go to touch flo and clear defaults.
go back to your home screen and press the home button now. u would be able to choose between android and touch flo from there.if you want to select something as default .... just tick it and there u go.
same thing applies for the android page, if you have selected it as default and want5 to revert back to touchflo. samething, setting-application- clear defaults in the home application .................etc etc,
Yeah, I also removed Rosie, and I gotta say, I really like the Hero now!
Rosie slowed the Hero to a crawl, now it's running again.
I'm eagerly waiting for the update, but if the Rosie update isn't significant, I'll probably end up removing it again..
Losing the HTC widgets is a bummer, but the speed-up it gave me is SO worth it
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I keep pressing the home and get the choice of recent programs but pressing the home again gets me to home. Secondly, In settings and application I dont get any such option for touch flo etc. Any other way of trying out the phoe without touchflo?
kamirza said:
I keep pressing the home and get the choice of recent programs but pressing the home again gets me to home. Secondly, In settings and application I dont get any such option for touch flo etc. Any other way of trying out the phoe without touchflo?
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I second that.. Is there anyway to work around that..?
bar control or home switcher should do the trick....
bar control allows you to add a shortcut to home or touchflo on the notification bar permanently, and home switcher just jumps between the two i believe.
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Yeah, I also removed Rosie, and I gotta say, I really like the Hero now!
Rosie slowed the Hero to a crawl, now it's running again.
I'm eagerly waiting for the update, but if the Rosie update isn't significant, I'll probably end up removing it again..
Losing the HTC widgets is a bummer, but the speed-up it gave me is SO worth it
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I agree. Love the speed without Rosie.
I've recently installed the January 1st build of PA 4.0+ on my G Pad, and I've been having some relatively minor issues with it.
When opening a new tab in Chrome while having a tab already open, and then switching back to the first, only a fully black webpage is displayed. Touching the screen makes the correct page reappear.
While browsing the library in Komik Reader, the screen flickers and nothing is displayed. Touching the screen to scroll through the titles makes the content visible, but it disappears again as soon as I lift my finger off the screen. Once a title is opened everything works as expected.
In both cases, only the content of the app go missing— navigation and status bars always remain visible, as do the address bar in Chrome and the ads displayed at the bottom of Komik Reader while browsing the library. I imagine it's something wrong with the display drivers, as I didn't have either issue on stock, but is it an issue with the ROM, or with my device/install specifically?
I also have a weirder problem still: using the Google Experience Launcher, every time I reboot the first app shortcut on the right of the favorites tray disappears. Any app I put there, I always find an empty space after a reboot. None of the other shortcuts are affected, only the rightmost one. What could be the cause?
I have the same issue with both chrome and chrome beta. A tap on the screen brings the screen back. I've been putting the blame on chrome and am waiting for an update.
I tried all the roms released to date and I've had the problem on all of them.
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Ok just got me one of these crazy things and really love it. . But i have a couple of problems. It comes with 3 hone screens. The first thing I usually do is delete all the stuff of the hone screens so I cam make them my way. Here is my issues
1) there is a home screen with the calendar on it and I cannot seem to remove it. Try dragging it off the screen like ed very thing else bit nope.
2) I down loaded some apps and they went to one of the hone screens. . Didn't want it there so I dragged it off and now the app is nowhere to be seen. It is still installed as when I go to play store it says open. But it is not in apps or downloaded apps (I had to uninstall it and re install it.
3) I tried to create folders and they went into apps instead if the hone screen and I couldn't delete them or move them to the hone screens. Oddly enough when I restarted the tablet this am they were gone. .
Thanks for any help in these matters
1 That is the magazine widget page drag two fingers together on the page and it will go to the edit screen
2 there is an icon which appears at the top of the homescreen when you move an app icon, it says something like 'hide app'. If you have hit that icon you will probably find the app in app manager.
3 create folders in the app drawer then drag them onto the homescreen
So apparently there is a page just for widgets and it cannot be blank.. not sure I like this
No the app was not hidden..I dunno what the deal is
On another note I see no way to add other widgets.. like fancy widgets or any widgets downloaded from play store???
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Press and hold on an empty spot on the homescreen
I was excited to find out what a "hone screen" could be. New uber-flat screen tech perhaps?
This thread was a letdown.
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Press and hold on an empty spot on the homescreen
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Well after some playing it appears you csnnot put normal widgets on the widget home screen and you cannot remove all the widgets off the widget screen. . That sucks. So now that widget screen is just going to be wasted. . Why have they made all these changes to normal android. For the first time since running android I guess I'll have to rim a launcher program. . I hate that. Unless someone has a solution to these issues
This just showed up today, or at least I just noticed. Two concentric circles for the capacitive home key. There's a 'Google' primary color starburst when you touch it.. I haven't found that the Google app was updated showing the reason and haven't noticed any different functionality associated with it... Strange..
It's due to Google's Android Auto app.
Have you installed it?
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This just showed up today, or at least I just noticed. Two concentric circles for the capacitive home key. There's a 'Google' primary color starburst when you touch it.. I haven't found that the Google app was updated showing the reason and haven't noticed any different functionality associated with it... Strange..
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Aaaaand, now it's gone.. anyone?..
Yeah it's pretty weird. Haven't updated myself so can't test but I hear it stays that way if you just open Android Auto then exit. Who'd have thought that Auto, of all apps, would suddenly give us Pixel-like navbar animations lol.
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Yeah it's pretty weird. Haven't updated myself so can't test but I hear it stays that way if you just open Android Auto then exit. Who'd have thought that Auto, of all apps, would suddenly give us Pixel-like navbar animations lol.
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happens to me every time i use android auto, it disappear when reboot
Yup, just opened and closed Android Auto and it's back. Hmmm.. for awhile, at least... Glitch...
Another thing about Android Auto, I don't understand the do-not-disturb activation that it causes when it's in use. I'd use it if that wasn't an issue
I have A Pixel 2 XL. It is up to date with all patches installed. No custom ROM. I am using Nova Launcher.
About a week ago, a persistent floating circular search icon appeared on my home screen. As I swipe from screen to screen, the icon goes with each screen.
When I tap the icon, it expands to to a transparent search bar showing the bing icon. I can type into the search bar, but it does not link to any search engine. It does nothing. I can type in another search term with the same result.
When I tap the arrow at the end of the search bar, it reverts back to the circular icon.
I can move the icon around the screen. If I tap and hold the icon, instead of giving me the opportunity to delete it like with any other icon, nothing happens.
I've deleted all Microsoft products except Office, refreshed the cache, run AVG Antivirus, and still nothing.
Nothing obvious shows in the Apps and Notifications area.
I'm wondering if it's related to Nova Launcher, but I can't see anything obvious in the settings.
I'm totally mystified.
Any ideas?
Alright, so here we go.
First I'd like to state that any antivirus on Android isn't a bad idea per-se, but with Play Protect it is pretty pointless. All apps are verified upon downloading them from the Play Store. Apps like AVG and Avast are renown for collecting data that they shouldn't be and add a lot of unnecessary features on top. You wanted an antivirus right? Not some app that can also detect through deranged means when your password is being used?
If you want something more effective (totally not an antivirus though), there is SD Maid. It will remove any files that are left behind by other applications, and clear out deprecated databases that are no longer being used. That's all it has ever done, and why I went out of my way to support the developer in their initiative.
Now, on to that bing search bar. I'd imagine that if the only MS app you have installed is in fact office, it may very well be the source of it all. Another possibility is an invasive application that might have been installed after allowing the installation of unknown sources.
Are there any apps you installed outside of the Play Store?
i dont have nova laucher, but i got the same problem.
this search-floating-icon, is always on top of all apps. it can not be deleted/hide.
i got this problem from yesterday,
since i installed some non reputable apps on google play
I have never installed an app outside the play store. Thanks for the detailed answer.
anonymous2312 said:
i dont have nova laucher, but i got the same problem.
this search-floating-icon, is always on top of all apps. it can not be deleted/hide.
i got this problem from yesterday,
since i installed some non reputable apps on google play
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I'm sorry about your problem, but I'm glad it's not just me.
PeekRhol said:
I'm sorry about your problem, but I'm glad it's not just me.
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I think this is malware / virus.
open google play store, click the uninstall button in any application that you have installed.
this search-floating-icon automatically disappears, as if it was also uninstalled.
then 30 minutes laters its appear again..
dammmn @#$%^&
I have the same problem on my samsung tablet and I share your frustration. I think it comes with the software upgrade...chrome version xxxxx143. The icon temporarily disappear when you do an apps force stop but it comes back again. I have chrome on my other android devices but not this latest problem.
Can you post a screenshot of this thing?
Figured it out
Faced the same problem. It was an app Free VPN proxy master com.free.fast.master.unblock.proxy.vpn
After its removal button disappeared