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Sense crashing

Is anyone else having a problem with Sense continually crashing? Almost every other time I go into an app and use it for any length of time, when I exit the app Sense has crashed and I have to watch the stupid loading animation while it restarts. It's happening really regularly.
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ozym said:
Is anyone else having a problem with Sense continually crashing? Almost every other time I go into an app and use it for any length of time, when I exit the app Sense has crashed and I have to watch the stupid loading animation while it restarts. It's happening really regularly.
Cheers.
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Check how much ram is free.
And check the developers options for background tasks.

Yup noticed that too. This needs to be updated not liking sense.
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eeeeeee said:
Check how much ram is free.
And check the developers options for background tasks.
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Used : 772 Free : 204
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Incredible how much ram Sense is taking up.
I figured it would take less considering it's more stream lined to look at compared to say Sense 3.
At times it feels like we've got two operating systems competing with each other for resources but slapped together.

It's definitely not ram related. It just did it again with 313 mb free.
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I initially noticed this too. Then I went and disabled auto updates to HTC sense and voila, no more seemingly crashes in Sense.
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globalgpj said:
I initially noticed this too. Then I went and disabled auto updates to HTC sense and voila, no more seemingly crashes in Sense.
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Hi globalgpj, can you tell me how you disabled auto updates? I got my new device yesterday and I find that my touch screen and buttons become unresponsive fairly often. The only solution is to press the power button briefly to switch off the screen and on again and the response is ok.
Thanks.

I had this problem too 1st time i started my phone.
What helped for me was a complete system restore and skip the setup-wizard and do all that manually one in SENSE.
Here it shows how it was on my phone (look at 0:30)
Goog luck!
http://youtu.be/M1twF1d7srI
Goog luck!

ozym said:
Is anyone else having a problem with Sense continually crashing? Almost every other time I go into an app and use it for any length of time, when I exit the app Sense has crashed and I have to watch the stupid loading animation while it restarts. It's happening really regularly.
Cheers.
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If this bothers you return the phone. Htc has had this issue since the Sensation. It will rear its head at some point. It's because Sense uses too much ram and isn't locked in memory so Android will dump it from ram to make room for other apps and then it has to reload which takes longer than most launchers. This reason alone is why I'm staying away from Sense. Try using an 3rd party launcher and it'll work better.

mobilehavoc said:
If this bothers you return the phone. Htc has had this issue since the Sensation. It will rear its head at some point. It's because Sense uses too much ram and isn't locked in memory so Android will dump it from ram to make room for other apps and then it has to reload which takes longer than most launchers. This reason alone is why I'm staying away from Sense. Try using an 3rd party launcher and it'll work better.
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That's why someone above had it happen with 300mb free right?
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joshnichols189 said:
That's why someone above had it happen with 300mb free right?
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You don't understand. This issue has been confirmed by many people on Sensation running Gingerbread and ICS including me. Adding a line to the build file forcing Sense to be locked in memory. The moment you remove that line (how it is by default) it starts happening.
It's fine, just don't expect this issue to be fixed because to htc its not an issue. It's just the way it is.

Apply V6 Supercharger solve all problems.
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docraj said:
Hi globalgpj, can you tell me how you disabled auto updates? I got my new device yesterday and I find that my touch screen and buttons become unresponsive fairly often. The only solution is to press the power button briefly to switch off the screen and on again and the response is ok.
Thanks.
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I can't remember exactly. But it did solve my problem of sense constantly loading which causes lag or delay in sense loading.
However, check the following:
Go into settings, and at the very bottom is Developer options. Click this option. Then see if this item is ticked :"Show screen updates"... if it is ticked, untick it.
The only thing I have ticked in this option is "Animation", everything else is unticked.
The other thing I also do, is I try not to have my widgets updated constantly. I have my emails checked only every 3 hours, my news reader, greader pro, every 12 hours.
Let me know if this has helped you.
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Apply V6 Supercharger solve all problems.
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I believe you can only use this script with a rooted device. Is that correct ?
Many people with HTC One X may be locked into a carrier for some period of time and therefore on a Stock ROM !

adding echo ro.HOME_APP_ADJ=1 to the local.prop solved the problem on my Desire Z, luckily temproot was enough to edit the file.
I don't suppose there is a way to temproot the One X yet?! I'm not interested in perm rooting my One just yet... I'm too fond of my 2yrs. warranty

The Agenda calendar widget crashes Sense everytime i look at it. My wife has a One S and the same widget crashes sense on that too

sebsal said:
The Agenda calendar widget crashes Sense everytime i look at it. My wife has a One S and the same widget crashes sense on that too
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This is a confirmed bug (countless people reported it).

I find this very strange.. i have in the last week had one force close on sense, other than that it has been fine

I haven't seen a single force close on anything yet. Had a few random close-without errors on Route 66 and one or two on Sygic, but this is infinitely more stable than my ICS Asus Transformers...
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H-Cim said:
This is a confirmed bug (countless people reported it).
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I have to agree with you . That was my problem in the beginning. So I installed Touch Calendar app, and since then, no more problems.
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PS. I also went into SETTINGS, clicked on "Accounts and Sync" and check under my gmail account to see how many things were auto syncing. I removed most of them and chose to do them when I needed to. This helped conserve battery and possibly a smoother SENSE operation.

HOX Screen flashing

Uh oh. My replacement HOX (first one replaced due to WIFI fault) has started to flash when opening or refreshing apps.
So far I have only noticed it when doing the first refresh on the official Twitter app and on opening the xda app!
Is this a software/programming issue or is it another hardware fault?
What are other people's experiences?
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HTC One X - HT257...

Everything disabled in settings-developer options - user interface ?
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pratik.narkar said:
Everything disabled in settings-developer options - user interface ?
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Correct. At the moment I can't reproduce the problem consistently but I will try to keep this thread updated with what I find.
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PS Can a mod please verify my account to remove the 5 minute rule? Ta.

I had a similar problem when using the camera app. I was walking down the street and pulled my phone out to snap a picture and as I was getting ready to take a picture I noticed the screen kept flickering. Only happened once thought
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Mine happens in stock text messaging app as I type out a text
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dave_heath said:
Uh oh. My replacement HOX (first one replaced due to WIFI fault) has started to flash when opening or refreshing apps.
So far I have only noticed it when doing the first refresh on the official Twitter app and on opening the xda app!
Is this a software/programming issue or is it another hardware fault?
What are other people's experiences?
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Are you talking screen flicker on white and grey backgrounds??
...Then you should read this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1617009
//Allan

Not really, when it happens it is a single flash across the whole screen. The flash has lots of colours in it and ot happend again today as I pressed retweet on a post in tjr normal twitter app
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dave_heath said:
Not really, when it happens it is a single flash across the whole screen. The flash has lots of colours in it and ot happend again today as I pressed retweet on a post in tjr normal twitter app
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That sounds like the screen corruption issue. Was 99% fixed in 1.28 and completely gone in 1.29. What software are you on?

Running 1.29.206.11 and the updater doesn't say there are any updayes available. Since I first posted I have ve only noticed once. So maybe it is a random glitch that I lucky to have noticed
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you screen is back to flash? I since I have it never happened

I've noticed this as well, in 1.29.401.11. Seems to just be displaying some uninitialized data for a frame until the texture/etc. is fully uploaded... has yet to cause any problems, but it seems to just be annoying?

Chrome

Anyone using chrome running into a problem where its fine for a little bit but eventually slows down so Mich you have to pull The battery?
It has only happened after rooting and using ics roms.
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Ajxx16 said:
Anyone using chrome running into a problem where its fine for a little bit but eventually slows down so Mich you have to pull The battery?
It has only happened after rooting and using ics roms.
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I have similar problem but no need pull batery, just a reboot and it will fast again.

Try running a cache cleaner. I have noticed some programs doing that and I run cachecleanerng and it seems to fix it.
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ttyykkee said:
I have similar problem but no need pull batery, just a reboot and it will fast again.
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Can't reboot, its pretty much completely unresponsive.
As for the cache cleaner, doesn't do anything even after full wipe and fresh app install.
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Chrome is bugged on the vision for all ICS roms, don't use it.
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blk_jack said:
Chrome is bugged on the vision for all ICS roms, don't use it.
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Would explain it, thanks.
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Yeah I didn't like the responsiveness of Chrome on my phone, uninstalled it shortly after first using it

yea i heard its more of a beta and thus explains the bugs. i used for it for about a day and back to stock browser for now..

austriker27 said:
yea i heard its more of a beta and thus explains the bugs. i used for it for about a day and back to stock browser for now..
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Simply put Google will ignore any bug reports of chrome on "unofficial" android releases such as ICS on desire Z, and cuz its not for gb, they wouldn't support the G2/DZ are all, so support inquiries are basically ignored.
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I have tested Chrome on my Mimicry 1.4.0, based on ICS 4.0.4.
Chrome didn't run fully functional e.g. Fn key didn't work...

Wasn't working right for me either. Since it really isn't working for anyone which browser do people prefer instead?

psyphris said:
Wasn't working right for me either. Since it really isn't working for anyone which browser do people prefer instead?
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I just use the stock browser and it does well enough.
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psyphris said:
Wasn't working right for me either. Since it really isn't working for anyone which browser do people prefer instead?
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I prefer Dolphin, but Firefox is ok too.
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Moving to Q&A

GS3 with One X Camera app?

Sup guys i just wanted to know if there was a rom out there that happens to use the camera app for the htc one x? i love my GS3 but i actually love the way the camera was on the One X the features were just better but the lack of memory made me switch over. So is there any Roms out there that have the camera app from the One X? if so let me know it will save me the time from trying every rom out.

Ask in the One X section for the pulled camera apk. Really the only option.
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whatiznt said:
Ask in the One X section for the pulled camera apk. Really the only option.
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but will the apk need to be modded for the gs3?

More than likely. It's going to need HTC sense framework.
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damn thats what i figured i hope someone can come up with an apk to mod so we can use that camera its just better prolly the main reason i miss that phone haha.

I don't know if it can be done. We can't use the Sense camera on aosp roms but I'm not sure if it would be the same for Samsung software.
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I can't see this happening in the foreseeable future, as stated we would need the entire sense framework for it to work.
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I've already tried using the Sense 4.0 Camera app on my TW rom. Black screen until crash. You'll have to ask the nice people at sense4all to port a sense rom to our i747. They've already got it booting and partially working on the i9300.

This will never work as one x also has a hardware chip that works with that camera I forgot what it is called but won't work without it.
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Why not try another camera app?
This one will make the phone's camera more like a DSLR. It can be a battery drain if you can't find your settings right away. Camera FV 5. (shoots RAW if you are a photoshop junkie) w
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.flavionet.android.camera.lite
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one x Sense reset it self

my htc one x is still on but the HTC Sense reset it self few times a day
its with 4.04
anyone familiar with this problem?

yuvalgol said:
my htc one x is still on but the HTC Sense reset it self few times a day
its with 4.04
anyone familiar with this problem?
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Mine too has reset itself a few times randomly since the new update, mine is vodafone branded with stock rom.

yuvalgol said:
my htc one x is still on but the HTC Sense reset it self few times a day
its with 4.04
anyone familiar with this problem?
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Mine too.. It just shows 'loading' when I get back to the home screen from an app. Happens a few times a day..
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bingbing88 said:
Mine too.. It just shows 'loading' when I get back to the home screen from an app. Happens a few times a day..
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setting/developer options then unchecked the option under Apps --Don't keep activities--:good:

ramis7 said:
setting/developer options then unchecked the option under Apps --Don't keep activities--:good:
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Well it's unchecked by default.. Still the same..
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Hi
bingbing88 said:
Well it's unchecked by default.. Still the same..
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This is because HTC Sense takes up quite a chunk of memory, so when you are doing other things and memory is low, HTC Sense gets unloaded to free up memory.
When you exit out the application you see this by having to wait for HTC Sense to reload.
I wish HTC would give the option not to use HTC Sense, does it make sense to fill up the phones memory with something that Android has essentially built in already?
Regards
Phil

PhilipL said:
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This is because HTC Sense takes up quite a chunk of memory, so when you are doing other things and memory is low, HTC Sense gets unloaded to free up memory.
When you exit out the application you see this by having to wait for HTC Sense to reload.
I wish HTC would give the option not to use HTC Sense, does it make sense to fill up the phones memory with something that Android has essentially built in already?
Regards
Phil
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Agree.. This is happening too frequently. It actually got worse on 4.0.4 for me on stock. I wonder why nobody else find this issue irritating? Unless I'm the only few unlucky ones..
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I get this problem too. On stock unbranded
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