Hi guys,
My gsm gn on 4.0.2 has a problem...
Any launcher app reloads when going back to home, even the stock one. Currently i'm on nova launcher.
Any solution?
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I have the same problem, Nova Launcher keeps reloading when going to the homescreen (mainly when unlocking).
Same as OP, GSM 4.0.2 stock
my stock launcher doesn't
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Get a home switcher app....clear defaults on your home app from system settings and then go onto your home switcher and set your new launcher as defualt
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I experience the same thing. Looks like system_server leaks memory so after a couple of days of uptime the amount of memory for apps (including launcher) is so low only the current app + services can run at the same time. Only workaround I've found so far is to reboot the phone at least once per week. :\
I've had the same problem on both an old EU HTC hero (andoid 2.1) and now my Sony Xperia pro (android 2.3.4).
It's fairly easy to replicate if you stress the memory management service. Switch (long-press home-key) between stock browser, facebook, and maybe your calendar (any large apps will do). Every once in a while switch back to "manage applications" and check on background processes. At some point most (all?) background apps will vanish, including the home-app. It's like the memory management service itself crashes, taking with it all background apps. Running apps aren't affected-
And it's the exact same thing I've seen on two different major Android revisions and phone brands.
Is this not a known and high priority issue?
I experience this too. But only ever on this nexus so i assumed it was ICS specific. We already have topics on the over aggressive task killing on this device. I just thought it was all the same bug, and that google will tweak it with an update at some point.
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when I got my desire it was super fast (anything is compared to the hero)
however ive noticed that over time it has become a little laggy when live wallpapers are running
i have very little running in the background as far as I can tell
the screen movements dont seem as smooth
ive still got 50+mb of program memory left
the only things i have running in the background are
weather and toggle widgets
seepu (processor monitor program)
Gmail counter (screen widgets)
messaging counter (screen widgets)
I also have the following installed
advanced task killer
appbrain market sync
appremover
explorer
ezcam
google service
google translate
mixzing
moodpaper
navigon
oi file manager
onoff widget pack
places directory
pkt auction ebay
shop savvy
spotify
skype
trafficintel
traintimes
xda
i have done a hard reset and it still is sometimes laggy ... gets worse when i install programs ... ive tried to work out which is causing the lag but have give up
any idea#s
i regularly flush the cache also
its still faster that my hero however its annyoying that it appears to get slow
perhaps ive got use to the speed and now want faster speeds however thought id ask if anyone else is having problems
I never use live wallpapers, it makes it slow. You also have lag without live wallpaper on? And I think its very easy to get used to the speed.
I hope we get some update soon (or even the 2.2 eventually) and see some nice speed improvements.
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Live wallpapers altogether make my phone laggy. The nexus live wallpaper seems OKAY though. And yeah, 2.2 will hopefully fix the lag.
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I would get rid of advanced task killer. In my experience this causes a lot more problems than it solves. It might just be useful if you are a real expert and have a badly behaved program but for the average user it almost always results in worse performance both in speed and battery life. I'm amazed that people continue to use it. Android is NOT like Windows, applications are usually suspended rather than run in the background and use hardly any resources.
The Android system does its own task killing where needed. 2.1 is rather good at it and you will not find many people who know what they are doing trying to improve on it.
scotch whisky said:
I would get rid of advanced task killer. In my experience this causes a lot more problems than it solves. It might just be useful if you are a real expert and have a badly behaved program but for the average user it almost always results in worse performance both in speed and battery life. I'm amazed that people continue to use it. Android is NOT like Windows, applications are usually suspended rather than run in the background and use hardly any resources.
The Android system does its own task killing where needed. 2.1 is rather good at it and you will not find many people who know what they are doing trying to improve on it.
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+1 Completely agree.
ATK is the most likely cause of the slowdown.
yeah mine lags only when a) I use live wallpaper (which I dont anymore)
and b) when its installing an app after downloading (for a few seconds) other than that its fine.although I do wish for a fix in the new 2.2 or something
i agree live wallpapers slow mine down a bit (although nexus one seems ok)
I use the nexus mod live wallpaper off the market. It doesn't slow down my phone and it adds settings for color schemes.
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jonmall1441 said:
I use the nexus mod live wallpaper off the market. It doesn't slow down my phone and it adds settings for color schemes.
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I use it too and I don't feel as if it slows down.
jonmall1441 said:
I use the nexus mod live wallpaper off the market. It doesn't slow down my phone and it adds settings for color schemes.
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where can i find this wallpaper you talk about ????
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where can i find this wallpaper you talk about ????
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just search for nexus one live wallpaper in the market. it's there.
I can confirm that the browser in all the recent 2.2 leaks has some serious random memory issues causing close of almost all background apps and becoming very laggy and choppy.
Seems like either a serious memory leak or some other memory management issues.
This is not related to flash 10.1 at all as when i disable flash this still happens.
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Crap, I was sort of hoping it was just us so we could figure out a fix. It makes me want to go back to 2.1 just because the browser was so much smoother and didn't push other apps out of memory. Seems like a really serious bug. Not sure why Samsung is allowing it to persist across multiple roms on various devices.
The captivate leak is from the same date as jpk for the i9000 (build date) so i assume it contains the same browser bug.
I did see several other people reporting this issue and they went back to 2.1
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The crashing browser also got me to return to JM(8). Typing in a bug report about it in an xxJPK topic late in the evening and have it crash just before I submitted it was the final straw.
JM8 + Voodoo4 + circle battery mod C + audio equalizer filters off + #*#* gps settings adjusted + minfreemanager (set to aggressive) finally has me happy again: Very responsive, stable, good battery, and Tasker + Titanium work loads better.
Anyone have a problem when using the stock HTC browser and when your done, after hiting the home key, sense is re-booting because it crashed? It will never crash the browser but only crash sense after your done using the browser..?
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Anyone have a problem when using the stock HTC browser and when your done, after hiting the home key, sense is re-booting because it crashed? It will never crash the browser but only crash sense after your done using the browser..?
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Nope, not a single sense reboot yet.
Yes, have had this a couple of times but can put up with it as its been the best phone to date.
The HTC browser is the app that causes a Sense restart most on my One X, but it's not the only app to cause it. I get around 3-6 Sense reboots a day.
these kind of problems are easily solved by Superchrager, but needs root
Sense did not crash. Ics quit sense to free up ram whenever user runs a heavy app. The real problem is ics memory management prefers to kick foreground apps started by user and system process like sense instead of the dozens of cached background apps and bloatware not even started by the user. Htc is partly to blame for not making sense system persistent. But even so this ics behaviour makes smooth multitasking between 2 heavy apps like browser and maps unreliable and slow unless user makes a conscious effort to maximize available free ram on the device.
Edit: oh yes the 2year old nexus one running android 2.2 with 512 mb ram and single core processor multitasks much better than the quad core one x. I not trying to bash. Thats a fact.
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Sense did not crash. Ics quit sense to free up ram whenever user runs a heavy app. The real problem is ics memory management prefers to kick foreground apps started by user and system process like sense instead of the dozens of cached background apps and bloatware not even started by the user. Htc is partly to blame for not making sense system persistent. But even so this ics behaviour makes smooth multitasking between 2 heavy apps like browser and maps unreliable and slow unless user makes a conscious effort to maximize available free ram on the device.
Edit: oh yes the 2year old nexus one running android 2.2 with 512 mb ram and single core processor multitasks much better than the quad core one x. I not trying to bash. Thats a fact.
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Ahh, ok. This makes sense or uhh, no sense..? LOL. Thank you s
I have noticed that the HTC Agenda Widget crashes sense almost all the time.
So far browser is ok for me.
It seems to me flash makes this issue worse
If I go on certain websites that run flash - As the flash is streaming or loading. Both the browser and sense crash - well the browser crashes then when I kill it and go back "Home" I find sense reloading.
If I "Wait" for the browser to come back - it never comes back.
After this has happened once, my flash performance becomes none existant - it wont even stream a low quality video without crashing the browser.
According to HTC I have to factory reset to fix it. Looks like I will be staying away from the problem websites untill a few updates are released.
I used to run this "ROM" not the exact build - but I has ICS sense 4.0 ported onto my Incredible S - I never had this issue - even the website that cause me a problem now work absolutely fine. I presume it's a Tegra optimization issue?
Had the same issue with Sense crashing constantly. However, I resolved by unticking Fast Boot under settings and clearing Sense cashe. Then rebooted the phone and the problem was resolved. It was "crashing" 10x a day, but has not re-occurred since in the last week.
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Had the same issue with Sense crashing constantly. However, I resolved by unticking Fast Boot under settings and clearing Sense cashe. Then rebooted the phone and the problem was resolved. It was "crashing" 10x a day, but has not re-occurred since in the last week.
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I have still had browser crashes. but....
I noticed fast boot was on yesterday I went to boot into recovery and it just booted straight back up. Turned off fastboot .. come to think of it, I haven't had a sense crash since....
I had actually contacted HTC support who advised that there were no known issues with Sense crashing and recommended that I exchange my phone!
Since unticking Fast Boot, the phone has been perfect.
I'm unsure how much "news" this is, but my GS III kept redrawing the homescreen, if I stayed in another app for longer than 30 seconds (even opening Settings!).
After some Google'ing, I saw that widgets may be an issue. I was just using two small ones, the built-in calendar (2x1) and email (4x2): nothing for a 1.4GHz dual-core with 2GB of RAM, right? Well, I removed both of those and now my GS III is as zippy as I got it. Everything is faster: the Apps menu loads faster, no homescreen redraw, everything is way more fluid.
This "tip" might be uber-common knowledge, but coming off an iPhone, I had no idea widgets were so draining. I'm just really happy and I thought I would share my happiness, just in case someone else is trying to diagnose their GS III.
~Ibrahim~
Or just install the v6 supercharger script. It modifies how android handles memory. Also, using nova launcher I almost never have home screen redraws.
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I run about 3 times the widgets you were with no issue, but neither of the ones you did. Perhaps the issue isn't with widgets entirely but one of those widgets malfunctioning. Have you tried other widgets to test your thesis? Did any combination of two regardless of the widget cause redraw? I would test it further if I were you, I'll run those two also and see if I can recreate it.
Additionally, are you running stock Rom? Rooted? Custom Rom/which? Uv or oc?etc...
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I run about 3 times the widgets you were with no issue, but neither of the ones you did. Perhaps the issue isn't with widgets entirely but one of those widgets malfunctioning. Have you tried other widgets to test your thesis? Did any combination of two regardless of the widget cause redraw? I would test it further if I were you, I'll run those two also and see if I can recreate it.
Additionally, are you running stock Rom? Rooted? Custom Rom/which? Uv or oc?etc...
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Well, the homescreen redraw is a little sporadic. I just know that for the few hours I removed the two widgets, the phone felt faster and I experienced no homescreen redraws (in comparison to the weeks where I had many homescreen redraws and a bit of lagginess). I placed 9 widgets on for about 10 minutes (but did not include the two "bad' ones): no redraws. I then put the two "bad" ones again and I had a homescreen redraw after about 3 minutes of using Boat Browser.
Stock as can be: i747 running UCALG1. No root, no custom ROM, no UV/OC, nothing. Just bought it out the store and took that one OTA update that removed universal search.
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Or just install the v6 supercharger script. It modifies how android handles memory. Also, using nova launcher I almost never have home screen redraws.
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I tried Nova and Apex, too, but I didn't like their style and they didn't seem quite as smooth as TW. But, I did see the V6 Supercharger script as a fix (I think it lowered the OOM priority of the TW launcher?)
And I eat my words!
I needed those two "bad" widgets and the redraws were slowing my mojo. Tried a few launchers apprehensively, but pleasantly surprised. Currently a fan of Nova which-unlike my previous try-is blazing!
You may think stock should be faster because Samsung should know more about their device than an app developer...but my experience is beginning to show that is not true. Already replaced the SMS app because of bugs and now the launcher, too.
I have been experiencing some slow down and launcher refresh (when I come back from apps like flipboard, xda , g+etc) for last few days.
I don't think I had this issue with 4.1.1. To eliminate some possibilities I switched to stock launcher (from Holo launcher HD) and stopped using live wall paper but I still see this issue (launcher refreshes when I close some apps so probably launcher was earlier purged from the memory).
I used to face this issue on galaxyS with CM9 & CM10 but it was tolerable for galaxy S as it had less RAM (512 MB) but I don't expect this issue with gnex which has 1 GB ram.
I am using rooted stock 4.1.2 (I upgraded by flashing system and boot image on top of 4.1.1) with only one developer option on (usb debugging).
I haven't really started using any new app in this period (but I did upgrade my existing apps to the newer version). Most of the time my background running services are google location services,media, good application, betterbatterystats, notification toggle, battery widget and exDialer. I always keep google apps sync on. So my usage hasn't really changed between 4.1.1 and 4.1.2.
Could this be an issue with RAM management in 4.1.2 ?
Am I the only one facing this issue ?
If its just me then it must be some app that's causing this issue ?
Any help in narrowing down this ?
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ive never had browser reload on my gnex. maybe you have a bad app(s) using too much ram?
I have uploaded two logs (at https://www.box.com/s/j7nxvt2s4am6hbd82ppq ) of 2 instacnes where my launcher refreshed as it was purged from memory (look for holo launcher in the log). I have faced this issue with stock launcher too but probably with less frequency.
Please let me know if someone can advise based on the uploaded catlogs.