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"Battery Left" and Swype issues

Hi Bros,
I used Battery Left widget and Swype keyboard. Anytime I restart my Desire, Swype does not enable by default but need to go to settings to enable it and change the input method accordingly, troublesome. And for Battery Left, after restart, the widget disappear, the widget on home screen show that no widget, try to add again the widget also cannot, need to uninstall and install it ... that happens for Battery Watcher also.
Anyone help me to fix it? thank you very much in advance

I don't know about the Battery Left prog, but re Swype you might try this:
Instead of going to Settings etc., when you want to send an email or a text do a long hold in the "Compose Text" area and then click on Input method. Select Touch Input, and then select Swype...
that should get you sorted.

depaor said:
I don't know about the Battery Left prog, but re Swype you might try this:
Instead of going to Settings etc., when you want to send an email or a text do a long hold in the "Compose Text" area and then click on Input method. Select Touch Input, and then select Swype...
that should get you sorted.
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thx bro. But it's not. Any time I restart my Desire, the Swype is not enabled and hence, you got no Input Method when press and hold Compose Text area. You need to enable Swype in Settings first, then press and hold Compose Text, choose Input and switch to Swype ... so troublesome.

Have you tried removing it and installing it again?

Lukehluke said:
Have you tried removing it and installing it again?
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That would be the best bet, esp if you had Swype installed on Android 2.1..and left it there for 2.2. The installation of Froyo on my Desire blew Swype to blazes so I had to un-install and re-install. It's working fine since.

Swype works fine on my 2.2. I had to reinstall first time though but have tried many roms since without having to reinstall. It is always turned on when I reboot

I did uninstall and install again both apps many times, no use ... fed up so I forget about battery left, and only use swype, need to turn it on any time restart my phone.

gnolihp said:
I did uninstall and install again both apps many times, no use ... fed up so I forget about battery left, and only use swype, need to turn it on any time restart my phone.
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The swype app is probably installed by your froyo A2SD settings to the SDcard. Move it back to your phone memory and it will remain as the default keyboard after you reboot.

crasher said:
The swype app is probably installed by your froyo A2SD settings to the SDcard. Move it back to your phone memory and it will remain as the default keyboard after you reboot.
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the same for the battery left widget ;p

Hence one of the reason why A2SD+ is superior to Froyo A2SD.
In addition, no more manual swapping apps to SDcard, no more inability to access the apps when you connect to your PC via Disk Drive mode.

Wallpaper Going Nutty

I am having an issue when I hit the home button, my home screen wallpaper shifts back and forth. Almost like it spazzes out for a sec. From then on, if i am on the home screen, I hit the home button it does the same thing. Sometimes shifts the wallpaper to the right or left, so the remaining half is black, or it will zoom in on the wallpaper.
It doesn't seem to matter if i am using a stock wallpaper or custom. I do not have that many apps installed. All of them are apps that I have used before. This is the odd-er part, A hard reset will stop this issue for couple of days. It then starts ups again. Nothing else will even temporarily solve this except for the factory wipe. I can kill all the running apps, uninstall all downloaded apps, sketchy wallpaper still present. The other issue Ive noticed related to this is when I am in the gallery or quickpic menu, the menu itself is very "glitchy"
I am stock and not rooted. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

nicsneed said:
I am having an issue when I hit the home button, my home screen wallpaper shifts back and forth. Almost like it spazzes out for a sec. From then on, if i am on the home screen, I hit the home button it does the same thing. Sometimes shifts the wallpaper to the right or left, so the remaining half is black, or it will zoom in on the wallpaper.
It doesn't seem to matter if i am using a stock wallpaper or custom. I do not have that many apps installed. All of them are apps that I have used before. This is the odd-er part, A hard reset will stop this issue for couple of days. It then starts ups again. Nothing else will even temporarily solve this except for the factory wipe. I can kill all the running apps, uninstall all downloaded apps, sketchy wallpaper still present. The other issue Ive noticed related to this is when I am in the gallery or quickpic menu, the menu itself is very "glitchy"
I am stock and not rooted. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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Simple solution.. Root it =0)~. I haven't seen the issue (been rooted since i got phone) My best guess would be to restore (Odin) to factory.

Mine does it as well and I am rooted. I don't know what it is and only happens when it wants and does not do it every time. I noticed it a few days ago when I pressed the home button or unlocking the phone, the wallpaper jumps a little in one direction and then another and stops. Weird, haven't really looked into it as it really isn't a big deal.

milky1112 said:
Simple solution.. Root it =0)~. I haven't seen the issue (been rooted since i got phone) My best guess would be to restore (Odin) to factory.
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Even after I restore to factory, the issue still comes back. Thanks for the feedback.

nicsneed said:
Even after I restore to factory, the issue still comes back. Thanks for the feedback.
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No worries.. I don't know Tbh.. I've been rooted on the peoples rom since day one lol.

Wallpaper Wizardrii appears to be the culprit. Added apps one by one until the problem came back. Uninstalled wizardrii, problem has stopped. Too bad because I liked the app.

nicsneed said:
Wallpaper Wizardrii appears to be the culprit. Added apps one by one until the problem came back. Uninstalled wizardrii, problem has stopped. Too bad because I liked the app.
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I thought that was the problem as well, never individually tried them. Really liked that app too.
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[Q] Unknown Launcher/Widget and I can't get rid of it?

As of last weekend I started getting some unknown launcher or widget that was taking over my home screen. I use Go Launcher EX and this is overriding it's setting as Default. I can't get to phone settings or installed apps and I can't figure out where this is coming from. I uninstalled Go Launcher and it didn't go away. I'm using JediMindtrick JB5 and I even wiped everything and installed JellyBeast and manually installed each and every app from the playstore and it reappeared. I can't use screen capture when it's active so I had to take a picture of my phone and I attached a copy of that hoping someone would recognize it.
I'm stumped and very frustrated. I want this thing gone so any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,

pamulli said:
As of last weekend I started getting some unknown launcher or widget that was taking over my home screen. I use Go Launcher EX and this is overriding it's setting as Default. I can't get to phone settings or installed apps and I can't figure out where this is coming from. I uninstalled Go Launcher and it didn't go away. I'm using JediMindtrick JB5 and I even wiped everything and installed JellyBeast and manually installed each and every app from the playstore and it reappeared. I can't use screen capture when it's active so I had to take a picture of my phone and I attached a copy of that hoping someone would recognize it.
I'm stumped and very frustrated. I want this thing gone so any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
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I also just tried uninstalling Go Launcher and installing Nova Launcher and this thing is still the dominant home screen. After installing Nova I'd expect to get a prompt when I hit home asking which launcher to use, but not the case here.

Figured it out...Dock Mode
Thanks to WildfireDEV in the general Android Help forum I found out this is the dock mode. I searched around and found this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1161875 and apparently the microUSB connection can cause it to go into dock mode, which would explain why it's doing it on every ROM I've tried. Glad to know it isn't malware, but I sure wish I had figured this out before I completely wiped every partition on the phone. At least I can go back to my nandroid backup now.
Thanks,

Home and recents buttons not working

A very strange thing happens to me today.
My Pixel XL 128 (never rooted, with bootloader locked and running the lastest official Oreo) suffered a soft reboot when I clicked a YouTube link in the notification shade. After that, I ended up with home and recent buttons, not performing their actions. They still vibrated and the Home button kept the animation. The status bar did not showed notifications, even when they arrived (notification sounds continue to ring), and notification shade pulldown stops working. No mobile network either.
Has anyone else faced this thing?
I had to factory reset (through settings) to use my phone again.

The exact same thing happened to me today. I too am not rooted, all oem, 128gb too, have phone since January, upgraded to oreo several days ago.
Today, I was about to open an email from the notification shade, then the phone rebooted itself on its own, now after the reboot I am limited and can only use the back button. Home and Recents buttons are registering my touch (they both vibrate when I press them) but they don't do their jobs. And what's also strange is that before this happening I had 'vibrate on touch' off. Furthermore, I also can't bring down the notification shade past the first step where it shows the quick settings icons,and notifications no longer show up in the notification shade - it's always clear at the top. When I go into settings>developer options, it says 'this user has no developer options (something like that).
I went to Google's support chat via phone and they couldn't help me either, the same behavior in safe mode, only back button works. I asked support if they could help me troubleshoot the problem without having to do a factory reset and they ended up going down that street and said it's the only thing they could recommend to do.
Any recommendations?

Yep same thing has happened with me as well. I didn't factory reset but I did have to do a reboot for my buttons to work again. Also I get a lot of reboots when I'm using PiP for about 5 mins.

Green_Laser said:
The exact same thing happened to me today. I too am not rooted, all oem, 128gb too, have phone since January, upgraded to oreo several days ago.
Today, I was about to open an email from the notification shade, then the phone rebooted itself on its own, now after the reboot I am limited and can only use the back button. Home and Recents buttons are registering my touch (they both vibrate when I press them) but they don't do their jobs. And what's also strange is that before this happening I had 'vibrate on touch' off. Furthermore, I also can't bring down the notification shade past the first step where it shows the quick settings icons,and notifications no longer show up in the notification shade - it's always clear at the top. When I go into settings>developer options, it says 'this user has no developer options (something like that).
I went to Google's support chat via phone and they couldn't help me either, the same behavior in safe mode, only back button works. I asked support if they could help me troubleshoot the problem without having to do a factory reset and they ended up going down that street and said it's the only thing they could recommend to do.
Any recommendations?
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Exact same symptoms for me on a Nexus 6P with Oreo.

Same happened to me. Stock Pixel XL, 128GB, Oreo. Even applied the latest September update but no dice.
Do the "Nova Launcher" fix.
1. Install Nova Launcer. nb. Play Store not installing anything for me, so downloaded the apk with Chrome (google for Nova Launcher.apk).
2. Allowed from unknown Sources
3. Opened Nova from App drawer (or can set as default launcher).
4. Hold down on empty space -> Widgets -> scroll the bar across to Activities. Hold down and drag onto home screen somewhere.
5. Scroll down to Setup Wizard and hold down on "SetupWizardUpgradeActivity".
6. Complete the setup options and candy!

ozvic said:
Same happened to me. Stock Pixel XL, 128GB, Oreo. Even applied the latest September update but no dice.
Do the "Nova Launcher" fix.
1. Install Nova Launcer. nb. Play Store not installing anything for me, so downloaded the apk with Chrome (google for Nova Launcher.apk).
2. Allowed from unknown Sources
3. Opened Nova from App drawer (or can set as default launcher).
4. Hold down on empty space -> Widgets -> scroll the bar across to Activities. Hold down and drag onto home screen somewhere.
5. Scroll down to Setup Wizard and hold down on "SetupWizardUpgradeActivity".
6. Complete the setup options and candy!
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Wowzers. That worked! :good: Thank-you! What led you to finding that solution?

WillyBorgChuck said:
Wowzers. That worked! :good: Thank-you! What led you to finding that solution?
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Lots of Googling! I did not want to factory reset!!
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ozvic said:
Lots of Googling! I did not want to factory reset!!
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Interesting. That's fixed the UI issues in their entirety, and Developer Options are now available again too. And apps are once again downloading and installing/updating from Google Play. I wonder what on Earth got wedged and how? Bizarre.
Thanks again.

I got the same with my stock XL 128 seemed to just happen for no reason, after messing around with none of the bottom buttons working the square changed to two rectangles on top of each other as the screen went split screen again for no reason after that I could press the "recent" now split screen button to get the options up to select what I wanted on the second half of the screen when I canceled out of that everything was normal.
seems to be a problem with the picture in picture or the split screen, I don't know how I got into it or out of it but just messing around eventually did it for me. it did have me worried at first as at the time I was in google maps and couldn't get out or even use google maps, the bottom buttons reacted as if they worked but ultimately did nothing until the recent button changed.

WillyBorgChuck said:
Interesting. That's fixed the UI issues in their entirety, and Developer Options are now available again too. And apps are once again downloading and installing/updating from Google Play. I wonder what on Earth got wedged and how? Bizarre.
Thanks again.
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Apparently it thinks initial setup is running (or maybe it is in background). During setup it stops you from pressing home, or switching apps, or doing anything of significance. I guess running the setup to completion clears that flag.
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Same here: Needed reboot to get "recent apps" button working (although it did "light up" when i used it).

THANK YOU!
I've had a lot of Google phones issues lately and woke up to this and was getting ready to be annoyed all day. Super easy fix as I run Nova Full anyway!

Saviour
You my friend are amazing. Google were absolutely useless, this fixed the problem and introduced me to Nova, double bonus

Thank you - Just the solution that I was looking for.
Thank you! I registered at xdadevelopers just to say that. I too did not want to do a factory reset and the change User to Guest option was not available. I also tried the enable screen lock to Pattern and rebooted.
Going to Nova Launcher and following your instructions to a T fixed the issue.
Grateful for your effort and time.

ozvic said:
Same happened to me. Stock Pixel XL, 128GB, Oreo. Even applied the latest September update but no dice.
Do the "Nova Launcher" fix.
1. Install Nova Launcer. nb. Play Store not installing anything for me, so downloaded the apk with Chrome (google for Nova Launcher.apk).
2. Allowed from unknown Sources
3. Opened Nova from App drawer (or can set as default launcher).
4. Hold down on empty space -> Widgets -> scroll the bar across to Activities. Hold down and drag onto home screen somewhere.
5. Scroll down to Setup Wizard and hold down on "SetupWizardUpgradeActivity".
6. Complete the setup options and candy!
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Thank you soooooooo much for your solution which worked flawlessly and saved me a lot of hassles!!!

Same story, pixel xl 128 GB , stock, no rooted, just reboot , talk with Google , did reset, and yesterday reboot again just laid on my chair.... I don't now what is the problem ....

Pixel XL home button
WillyBorgChuck said:
Wowzers. That worked! :good: Thank-you! What led you to finding that solution?
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Hi, I've tried downloading Nova and Nova Prime, so desperate with this issue, I paid for it. Of course, it won't download, when I hit install, I get "install pending" or "downloading" this is going on for 4 days now. Please help!!!!

had my screen freeze again today with it being non responsive, it seems to be every time I leave chrome open and chuck it in my pocket, forcing the phone off and turning it back on fixed the problem this time, no clue what is going on with it as it only seems to happen with chrome.

You need to download the apk file through chrome, not through the google play store.
I have to say, thank you for posting that solution! I had this exact thing happen to my phone today, no idea why, but it sure was annoying!

All the same stuff happened to my Pixel XL original. Even lost "ok Google" spoken activation of assistant, and the night light failed to operate even though turned on in settings. Followed Google's advise and did the factory reset. Worked for about 3 days then bang, soft rebooted on its own while switching apps, and then all problems returned. Had the phone for just 6 months so Verizon sent me a replacement. Will see if it holds up. I told Verizon that if it fails again I want a Pixel 2!!!

Maximum Battery Save Mode/ No Keyboard

So My phone was @ 8% battery and I wanted to save what life my phone had until I got home. So I put it into battery saving mode at maximum saver. Well then I lost my Keyboard to get back out of it when I got home I'm using the gboard keyboard and have Package disable Pro on my phone with the Samsung keyboard disabled so I'm not sure if that's why or not but I really don't wanna have to factory reset my phone unless that's my only option. I have Nova on my phone as well so i know I can backup my settings I have from that cause I do a backup and send it to myself every 2-3 weeks I have also done a google back up and Samsung back up recently
Please Help
Newbie to Android
Hrein

I never put it in maximize power savings because it goofs settings up but nothing that can't be undone.
Try disabling the 3rd party launcher, they can cause a lot of trouble. One cost me 2 back to back reloads.
You say you lost the Samsung Keyboard completely?
Try a forced reset ie simulate pulling battery. Try clearing the system cache on the boot menu.
Probably a settings glitch.
If that doesn't work in PD MDM clear the Samsung keyboard data. The corrupted data maybe in another app if that doesn't work. Last resort Google it as someone with another galaxy device has probably had this happen too. If it's running on Pie your chances of a Google search cure is better.
Last resort after that is to do a Settings reset.
If the OS is old and especially if it wasn't reloaded after the firmware update it's reload time.
You can get a fast .5 tb Lexar SD card for $75. If you have a lot of music files, vids etc on the internal memory like me, transfer them to the card to save space and reload time.
Get the app APK Export and make a copy of all the apps you have loaded and save to the SD card rather than reload it off Playstore or whatever.
I have copies of my system apks as well for backup. APK Export allows batch processing, it's free with no adware on Playstore.
Lol save a copy of that too in case Playstore cans it.
I'm on my 3rd reload and this 10+ runs the best it ever has. Rock solid stable and fast.
Watch what apps you reload.
I highly recommend using the Samsung launcher for best stability and performance... it's that good.
Use the Samsung Icon packs, themes and the Samsung Good Lock family of apps. Use these customize it instead of the 3rd party launcher.
They run very well, look great and use little resources/ battery.
Reloads are good as you'll find new settings and features you never knew were there. You lose the problems caused by crapware that uninstalled poorly.
You come out with a better 10+... nothing beats a minty fresh clean OS load.

re-enable keyboard in package disabler?

raul6 said:
re-enable keyboard in package disabler?
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This, only the Samsung keyboard works in the Maximum power saving mode.

willhemmens said:
This, only the Samsung keyboard works in the Maximum power saving mode.
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WTF? Clear Device Manager updates and go with the factory load version. The updated version sucks.