I just did a factory reset to try and get better battery life after the 1.28 update (fresh install I guess) and now when I'm using apps, they'll restart when I go back into them.
For example, if I use google play and search for an app, it'll bring up the list of apps, then I'll exit the app (just press home button and not back button), then when I go back into the app for a split second I'll see the app list and it will immediately restart to the main google play page. every app does this.
Any ideas?
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When I m eg in the Market or running Internet and press the Home Button I don t return to the home screen anymore. I must have changed something but don t now what.....
no ideas anyone?
Ideas about what?! You're not describing your problem. What happens when you press Home?
I only see the screen 'flicker' 1 time
Have you tried rebooting the phone? Is your phone rooted? Is it unlocked or branded? C'mon, give some more details if you want help!
You might try installing "Home Switcher" from the Market and see if it helps.
Rebooting does not help. Original 2.1 rom, installing home switcher does not help either. Did I clean install last night, home button worked fine for some hours and after this there s again the same problem => no returning to the home screen and only a short 'screen flicker' when pressing the home button.
I would speak to HTC if that did not work. They should repair it for free because its under warranty.
It's unlikely to be a hardware issue if it sometimes works.
When using Home Switcher, what apps show up in the list? (might be a rogue app that is stealing the home button function by registering itself as a launcher application).
Do you have any apps installed? (you said you have done a clean install but it's not clear if you installed any apps after that; please note that you might have enabled backup to your sd card [Settings -> Privacy] and that even after a clean install some of your settings will he restored from that backup).
sanderh said:
Rebooting does not help. Original 2.1 rom, installing home switcher does not help either. Did I clean install last night, home button worked fine for some hours and after this there s again the same problem => no returning to the home screen and only a short 'screen flicker' when pressing the home button.
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I'd suggest booting into safe mode as this will stop all 3rd party applications from running. If it works from there, it seems pretty likely that the issue is related to an application you have installed.
To get into safe mode, power off your device, and then power back up again whilst holding down the menu button, and keep it held down until the phone has completely booted. Once booted, you should find it says "safe mode" in the bottom left corner of the screen.
Note that if you do this, all your 3rd party widgets on the home screens will stop functioning - even when you have exited safe mode. You will need to delete and re-add them.
Regards,
Dave
foxmeister said:
I'd suggest booting into safe mode as this will stop all 3rd party applications from running. If it works from there, it seems pretty likely that the issue is related to an application you have installed.
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Very good idea/advise.
This worked for me
Reading through this thread made me wonder whether the fact my Home and Search buttons suddenly weren't working could have been caused by an app I installed the day before (No Lock).
Before uninstalling it I decided to give it a test. It was on "Locking Disabled". I set to "Locking Enabled" and tested the Home button - voilà, it worked. Tested the Search button, it worked too.
Set the app back to "Locking Disabled" - Home and Search buttons still working.
My buttons, home and both volume buttons are dying. I think it's just wear and tear really which is bad because I've had it less than a year.
Hello. So I got into a problem this morning while updating Golauncher EX. I updated it and when I pressed home, I accidentally chose to have GoTo (a lockscreen application) the default app for that. Now my phone can't return to launcher at all.
When I reboot I just get a blank screen and can't do anything besides bring the notification bar down.
I know I can easily fix this by going into settings, but I can't get to that without launcher. So I tried to get into safe mode (boot holding vol down, track pad, and menu) and I can get there after the phone vibrates (it says safe mode in bottom corner), but before I can do anything the phone reboots. I don't really want to resort to a factory reset yet, so I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions.
Also I haven't rooted my phone yet.
Thanks for any help you can offer!
The only thing i can think of is press the search button, and see if that brings up the search screen. I would navigate my way to market or something, install adw, then hit home. The pop up for default should come up again, then you can make golauncher ex default?
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Delete it from phone with computer. I think all the files pertaining to the app should be in sdcard/data and data/data...
Thanks for the tips guys. btw I tried using search, but nothing would pop up, but for some reason hitting menu would make a keyboard appear.
Anyways, something weird happened where when I tried booting into safe mode, my phone seemed to wipe all my settings and went into the normal launcher. It didn't delete all my apps, but made the majority of them strangely force close whenever I opened them.
In the end I just rooted my phone and everything is perfect now!
Good to hear.
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Mods please move this thread to Q/A section of Epic 4G touch. noob mistake.
Mods, feel free to delete this thread if posting the same question to two different XDA forum is not allowed. I posted it under the Android Q/A since I see the problem with other Android phone also.
Here is a link to the thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1323338
And the body(feel free to delete if not needed)
First of all I have a Sprint Epic Touch 4G AKA Samsung Galaxy 2 S and not rooted, but I think this is an Android problem after 4 days of trying to find a solution.
I keep getting prompt to select which launcher(launcher or twlauncher) when I press the home button. I would select set as default and then select twlauncher. This would work fine and I could do what I want and the home button acts normally. BUT if I long press the home button to bring up task manager and a list of recent apps, it would break the default setting on twlauncher. I could go to setting and manage app and see that the default on twlauncher is now cleared even though I did not manually clear it. I tried checking set as default and then select launcher. It too won't stick AFTER I long press the home button.
Long story short, I downloaded several launchers from the market and none of them will stay set as default IF I long press the home button. It breaks the default every time and ask me to select the launcher to use when I press the home button. Now this would be great if I could just delete all the other launcher and have only one but I can't delete the stock launcher or twlauncher.
Here are the related threads that are just on XDA alone:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=844975
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=733874&highlight=default+launcher+keeps+resetting
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=838633&highlight=default+launcher+keeps+resetting
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=733874
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=907973&highlight=default+launcher+keeps+resetting
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=955029&highlight=default+launcher+keeps+resetting
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=951833&
highlight=default+launcher+keeps+resetting
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=932197&highlight=default+launcher+keeps+resetting
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=971784&highlight=default+launcher+keeps+resetting
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=972858&highlight=default+launcher+keeps+resetting
http://forum.xda-developers.com/sho...light=default+launcher+keeps+resetting&page=2
So the first time this happen, I was driving down the road using telenav when I see the prompt to select which launcher(something that I've never seen after using the phone for 2 weeks). Did some research elsewhere and found no solutions so here is what I have done in chronological order:
1. Start task manager and kill all active app and clear memory from RAM
2. Clear defaults from manage application....twlauncher
3. Click home button, click set as default and then launcher instead of twlauncher- still does not stick after long press home button.
4. Manage application...twlauncher CLEAR DATA (sure enough my neatly organized homepage and apps folder was reset to stock).
5. Pull battery
6. Cycle power on and off.
7. Gave up after 24 hours and factory reset the phone.
8. Went on my merry way and reinstall apps and customizing home page and apps pages and so on.
9. In hindsight, I should have long press home button every time I installed a new app to see which one will break the default.
10. Phone works fine for 24 hours and then it mysteriously acts up again. It ask me to choose which launcher again.
11. Went back to googling and tried the following which did not work:
a. clear media hub data and default
b. installed Sprint "clean" ID and then later deleting it.
c. installed go launcher and see if it will stick
d. installed launcher pro
e. installed home switcher
f. I don't have Qik or some child lock apps
g. search XDA and found about 15 threads and tried everything in those thread short of using Titanium to freeze one launcher.
Any update on a working solution? Right now I just won't long press the home button to bring up task manager or recent apps and everything will work just fine. Minor annoyance but I guess I can live with it until the ICS update.
I have found out that if I unmounts my storage card, I would not get the message to set the 'Default' launcher. As soon as I mount my storage card, I would be presented again with this message as soon as I long press the 'Home' button or pull down the notification bar. This is on stock HTC EVO 3D.
I fixed it by rooting the phone and disabling the other launcher so that twlauncher is the only launcher on the phone.
One issue I have always had with Android is knowing whether or not pressing the back key will take you to a previous menu or close the program. Now that the back button is dynamic, would it be possible to create a mod where the back button turns into an "x" when it will close the program? I think this is something that should be part of ICS, but I also know that modders can do some incredible things.
I wouldn't get your hopes up. Every application is coded differently and it depends on the developer to what function the back button does. I think for this to work, hypothetically, you would need specially designed applications to include this feature.
You could have the button linked to environmental variable that always takes you back home, bypassing any specific app uses, however that would be redundant since you already have a home button. Other than that, I don't think there's another way to do it, definitely not dynamic since its up to the specific App. However, I remember on CM7, there was an option for SMS so that the back button always took you to the inbox, and not just quit, which I miss.
The application controls whether the back button moves you to a previous screen, home screen, or even exits the program.
Edit: Just noticed I repeated what everyone else said
If it were possible to mod Android so that the back button was unable to close apps, I would be very happy. Could this be done?
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If it were possible to mod Android so that the back button was unable to close apps, I would be very happy. Could this be done?
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Don't think of the back button as closing the applications. Think of it more like the button triggering the app to close itself. It's an app specific issue, but not really an issue... Just use the home key!
RTContent said:
Don't think of the back button as closing the applications. Think of it more like the button triggering the app to close itself. It's an app specific issue, but not really an issue... Just use the home key!
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Just an example using Google Music:
Listening to music, I want to go into the app using the widget or icon on a home screen. Sometimes it goes to the Now Playing screen, other times it will go to the Recent/Artist/Albums view. (Which is a whole 'nother issue I have with Android)
I don't wan't the back button to go back to the home screen, I want the back button to back within the app. If the system can be modded so that the back button never navigates to home, I think that would work for me.
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Just an example using Google Music:
Listening to music, I want to go into the app using the widget or icon on a home screen. Sometimes it goes to the Now Playing screen, other times it will go to the Recent/Artist/Albums view. (Which is a whole 'nother issue I have with Android)
I don't wan't the back button to go back to the home screen, I want the back button to back within the app. If the system can be modded so that the back button never navigates to home, I think that would work for me.
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Yeah I have noticed this with Google music. Hopefully Google will update this with a fix but understand it's not an 'android' issue its a apk issue.
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Something peculiar happened to my LG G3 recently. It seems that Settings is permanently stuck open. I can see it when I press the recent apps button, but I cannot swipe it away. It doesn't go away...ever. Even after reboot. I've tried clearing the cache. Rebooting the phone. Going into apps and force closing settings. Nothing works. If I have other apps shown when I press the recent apps button, and I choose to "clear all", they will all close EXCEPT settings. Like I said, I can shut down phone, pull the battery, reboot the phone and upon a fresh boot, without having opened ANY apps, I'll push the recent apps button, and settings will show up and I cannot swipe it away. If I push the settings image, it takes me right to settings, as it normally should. But I can't clear it away.
This is driving me nuts. Has anyone seen this before? I've searched Google and can't find a single other occurrence of this behavior.
Oh, btw, I'm completely stock/unrooted and am using the latest update of Marshmallow.
Thanks,
Xphyle
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Something peculiar happened to my LG G3 recently. It seems that Settings is permanently stuck open. I can see it when I press the recent apps button, but I cannot swipe it away. It doesn't go away...ever. Even after reboot. I've tried clearing the cache. Rebooting the phone. Going into apps and force closing settings. Nothing works. If I have other apps shown when I press the recent apps button, and I choose to "clear all", they will all close EXCEPT settings. Like I said, I can shut down phone, pull the battery, reboot the phone and upon a fresh boot, without having opened ANY apps, I'll push the recent apps button, and settings will show up and I cannot swipe it away. If I push the settings image, it takes me right to settings, as it normally should. But I can't clear it away.
This is driving me nuts. Has anyone seen this before? I've searched Google and can't find a single other occurrence of this behavior.
Oh, btw, I'm completely stock/unrooted and am using the latest update of Marshmallow.
Thanks,
Xphyle
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you have setting "pinned" which means you cant clear them from recents. Un pin it and you'll be fine