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No more waiting for Sense 4.0

OK. Thought I make a new thread so the access to this findings is quick
Got really p. o. with the waiting for sense when I pause a game. so I fiddled in the settings.
in the development section
Don't keep activities
It is unticked by default. Tick it ( I went on recent apps to make sure it would be saved) and untick it again.
Made my laggy sense go away and the fun has really started for me now.
After a total power off it is still working fine.
So that's my finding of my todays birthday. Hope this helps some of you with this monsterphone ... I'm off for partying with my wife and kids now
Edit2:
Backup your device as soon as possible
When you update your os or change your rom you usually get a smoother experience with it after a factory reset.
My device setup:
turn off fast reboot
disable all stupid sounds and vibrations
disable all the developer settings except for the usb-debugging unless you are a developer (make sure you tick and untick the above mentioned "Don't keep activities")
disable 3 finger gesture
and for a new device or a new rom (update etc.):
Several reboot
are always good lol
btw:
many admin and modding tools interfere with each other and can cut down device performance,
so choose wisely...

Happy Birthday by the way Get smashed!

131313 said:
OK. Thought I make a new thread so the access to this findings is quick
Got really p. o. with the waiting for sense when I pause a game. so I fiddled in the settings.
in the development section
Don't keep activities
It is unticked by default. Tick it ( I went on recent apps to make sure it would be saved) and untick it again.
Made my laggy sense go away and the fun has really started for me now.
After a total power off it is still working fine.
So that's my finding of my todays birthday. Hope this helps some of you with this monsterphone ... I'm off for partying with my wife and kids now
Edit: I think someone in the Prime forum mentioned this wrong default setting already don't remember in which context though.
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I noticed a very brief pause while it seemed to reload apps but in the same position (like a specific area of a menu) and it really bugged me considering the hardware. I just gave what you suggested a try and it seems (key word there being seems) to have stopped this. I turned the setting on, went home and oh man that was painfully slow so then I turned it back off. It's almost as if the setting was half way between the two settings, maybe a hybrid setting. I'll keep an eye on this though in case it was just a placebo effect.

@3x13 good tip.
I actually just tried out the feature to see how the phone performed with it on, and thus found the solution myself...by random chance, but it makes a big diff.

Have updated the frontpost

Done the following except that I enabled usb debugging but the "sometimes" unresponsive touch screen still occurs

wcypierre said:
Done the following except that I enabled usb debugging but the "sometimes" unresponsive touch screen still occurs
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If you have updated you unfortunately should do a factory reset. Do a backup through adb first and play your applications back after.

131313 said:
OK. Thought I make a new thread so the access to this findings is quick
Got really p. o. with the waiting for sense when I pause a game. so I fiddled in the settings.
in the development section
Don't keep activities
It is unticked by default. Tick it ( I went on recent apps to make sure it would be saved) and untick it again.
Made my laggy sense go away and the fun has really started for me now.
After a total power off it is still working fine.
So that's my finding of my todays birthday. Hope this helps some of you with this monsterphone ... I'm off for partying with my wife and kids now
Edit2:
turn off fast reboot
disable all stupid sounds and vibrations
disable all the developer settings unless you are a developer
disable 3 finger gesture
and for a new device:
Several reboot
are always good lol
Edit: I think someone in the Prime forum mentioned this wrong default setting already don't remember in which context though.
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Thanks for the tips bro
So if i get this correctly i have to tick "don't keep activities" go back to the home screen and then go back to "don't keep activities" and re-check it?
I think this is the correct way of doing it because if u keep it ticked then Sense always re-loads when u go on the home screen right?
Thanks again

Everytime I check 'don't keep activities' when pressing the home button it takes ages to load the home screen.
I have also got ticked no background processes, what does that actually do? Thought it would of been similar to don't keep activities
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DanteGR said:
Thanks for the tips bro
So if i get this correctly i have to tick "don't keep activities" go back to the home screen and then go back to "don't keep activities" and re-check it?
I think this is the correct way of doing it because if u keep it ticked then Sense always re-loads when u go on the home screen right?
Thanks again
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Correct, you tick it and then untick it. Not spectacular to do but the effects are brilliant.
Kickasskev said:
Everytime I check 'don't keep activities' when pressing the home button it takes ages to load the home screen.
I have also got ticked no background processes, what does that actually do? Thought it would of been similar to don't keep activities
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So untick it again and then you are done. Background processes is another thing I wouldn't bother with.

Sense 4.1 reloading. Normal?

Lately I've experienced an annoying problem. I recently went back to rosie launcher after hox got updated, and I really like it. BUT sometimes when I press the home button leaving an application, I get a screen of my wallpaper "blurred" out and a wheel spinning, saying 'loading'. I guess this is sense reloading, most likely because it had to be shut down to free up some RAM or something (?).
Is there something I should check or do to prevent this from happening?
Thanks!

I'm not 100% this will fix your problem, but if you're on a custom rom you should try clearing your cache/dalvik cache again , i started getting a really laggy rosie on Sense 4.1, until i erased my caches again, i don't know if it will fix your problem, or if you're even on a custom rom, but it's worth a shot right?

It's completely stock 4.0.4, recently updated to 2.17.401.2 Rosie runs really smooth, but it's just this reload that happens randomly. Do you mean clearing cache for HTC Sense in the apps-section in settings ? Or is it a bit more advanced?

Focuz said:
It's completely stock 4.0.4, recently updated to 2.17.401.2 Rosie runs really smooth, but it's just this reload that happens randomly. Do you mean clearing cache for HTC Sense in the apps-section in settings ? Or is it a bit more advanced?
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Oh, sorry i thought you were custom rommed , right you could try clearing that cache as it seems like something is crashing your rosie launcher , Is it the same loading bar, like when you restart your device, little white box with a spiney circle?
Have you installed any third party application lately or even played about with some settings? i'd double check everything and try clear some caches. Did it seem like it lagged a lot then restarted rosie?

smidgeox said:
Oh, sorry i thought you were custom rommed , right you could try clearing that cache as it seems like something is crashing your rosie launcher , Is it the same loading bar, like when you restart your device, little white box with a spiney circle?
Have you installed any third party application lately or even played about with some settings? i'd double check everything and try clear some caches. Did it seem like it lagged a lot then restarted rosie?
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I cleared the cache for sense tho. No lagg before the loading screen. There IS a white box, but the spiney circle and "LOADING" is the only items on screen except wallpaper. Only thing I've done in settings lately is deactivating Locations-widget and twitter-widget because they were draining battery. I don't know if the problem was present when I bought the phone either, cause I changed to Apex launcher quite fast
hmm

Looks like this.
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I had the same problem especially after exiting Flipboard, the 4.1 made it worse, it was reloading pretty often and randomly.
I simply switched the phone off and on and since then it has not happened yet 4-5 days of normal usage. I guess there was something hogging memory. I know it is not very scientific but with stock we don't have many options I'm afraid.
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muc_waldek said:
I had the same problem especially after exiting Flipboard, the 4.1 made it worse, it was reloading pretty often and randomly.
I simply switched the phone off and on and since then it has not happened yet 4-5 days of normal usage. I guess there was something hogging memory. I know it is not very scientific but with stock we don't have many options I'm afraid.
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Already rebooted the device a couple of times, but still there. Thanks for your tip tho
I could of course do a hard reset and just set up the phone again. It's easy to install lots of crap when experimenting with home screens and widgets.

Go settings, developer options, tick don't keep activities, hit the home button, then back into developer options and untick the option.

BenPope said:
Go settings, developer options, tick don't keep activities, hit the home button, then back into developer options and untick the option.
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Thanks, will remember that if it happens again. I did a hard reset today and haven't noticed anything wrong yet

Selecting Security under settings cause Settings to force close

Is anyone having issues with security setting under personal? When I select it, the settings application force closes with Unfortunately, Settings has stopped. Thanks in advance for any suggestions. Standard Verizon note 4. no root.

Played around a bit and decided to do a settings reset which corrected issue.
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I had the same issue, factory reset fixed it but now 2 days later the problem has returned. Can't access the security settings without it force closing.
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Thanks for the feedback. Reset settings worked for me. Only had to change a few things back from default. Did not have to redo apps. I spoke with Verizon and a patch may be coming in Jan. Some apps and wireless charging have been causing an issue with the security setting.
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Yeah just tried resetting the settings and it didn't fix it for me. Thanks for the suggestion though.
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Problem returned for me last night. This time I had to reset. Did the problem come back again for you?

Resetting the settings didn't work for me and I don't feel like factory resetting my phone every couple days so I guess it's gonna stick around a while.
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I had to start in safe mode to get security settings to open up for me. Not a great long term solution but it worked so I could change the unknown sources setting.

Thanks for the reply, how do you start in safe mode?

These are the instructions for the Note 3 but they work:
With the device powered off, press and hold the Power button until the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 logo appears then release.
With the logo on the screen, press and hold the Volume down button until Safe mode appears in the lower left of the screen then release.
Note This may take up to 45 seconds.

Thanks!

plyle said:
These are the instructions for the Note 3 but they work:
With the device powered off, press and hold the Power button until the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 logo appears then release.
With the logo on the screen, press and hold the Volume down button until Safe mode appears in the lower left of the screen then release.
Note This may take up to 45 seconds.
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Thank you. Just got this device today, and one of the first things I tried to do was install an app I am testing. It kept crashing trying to get to security. I tried Safe Mode, and it worked great. Thanks again.

KeylanHalfdan said:
Thank you. Just got this device today, and one of the first things I tried to do was install an app I am testing. It kept crashing trying to get to security. I tried Safe Mode, and it worked great. Thanks again.
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No problem. Glad I could help. I was very frustrated with it. Hope they send an update to fix this soon.
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That kept happening to me and I finally figured out a solution! I kept having my apps reinstalled from Google and, whenever an app that I had previously used that required root access was installed, Settings would crash whenever I tried to open Security. So, it was a long process but I reinstalled only those apps that didn't need root access. Afterwards, I kept testing to make sure I could still access Security without the crash and, when something was installed that caused the crash again, I knew which app it was, uninstalled it, and all was fine again. I had to reset the phone 6 times to figure this out but all's good now!

terryr97 said:
That kept happening to me and I finally figured out a solution! I kept having my apps reinstalled from Google and, whenever an app that I had previously used that required root access was installed, Settings would crash whenever I tried to open Security. So, it was a long process but I reinstalled only those apps that didn't need root access. Afterwards, I kept testing to make sure I could still access Security without the crash and, when something was installed that caused the crash again, I knew which app it was, uninstalled it, and all was fine again. I had to reset the phone 6 times to figure this out but all's good now!
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Glad you got it working. Would you be able to tell me what app it was? I have the same problem.

I had so many apps that needed root that it just made sense to not have Google install my apps after resetting. I really can't recall specifically which one it was. What I do suggest, which will take a while but is so worth the time, is to make a list of what's on there now and only reinstall like 3 at a time and then check to make sure that everything's ok. If it is, install a couple more, etc. That way, if one screws it up, you'll know which one to uninstall rather than having to reset it all over again. At least if you do install one that needs root and, therefore, screws it up for you, you can just uninstall that one program. Good luck! Let me know how it goes. ☺

Was finally able to figure this out (for me anyway). Its my S View cover. With the cover off I have no problem getting into security put it back on and it forcecloses. I went to Best Buy and tried 2 others and they both caused the security to forceclose as well.
Was chatting with a Samsung Rep where they remotely control your phone and she came up with the conclusion that it is a bad app and wants me to do a factory reset and add the apps back 1 at a time. I will wait till I flash a ROM and do it then. I am leaning towards that it is a app. If every Note 4 with a S View cover had this issue then it would be more widely known.

I had the S cover and that wasn't the problem. Like I said, it was cos I was having Google automatically install my old apps, some of which were apps that needed root like Titanium Backup, Rom Toolbox, etc.. I was able to put Apex as my home, just not apps that needed root. Titanium is the reason I want root so much. Being able to clean up or delete apps I don't use.

Yes, i had the same problem with my s view cover. Once i took it off, i was able to go back into the security settings.

skillzo1 said:
Yes, i had the same problem with my s view cover. Once i took it off, i was able to go back into the security settings.
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I figured out the app that was causing the issue for me. I use Nova and also TelsaUnread. I uninstalled Telsa and no more problem even with the S View cover.

Can't press 'Install' when installing an APK

Good evening, just lately I have encountered a bug when trying to install APK's. When I go to install via Package Installer it will open up the screen and when I go to press next it doesn't do anything, I have tried rotating the screen and pressing Next and it just doesn't work whatsoever...
I powered off my device and powered back on and this seemed like it fixed the problem.
Is/has anyone else encountered this? I've also noticed ometimes when typing on the keyboard the sound goes tinny for 5 seconds or so and go back to normal, it's been like this since unboxing too.

I haven't had this issue exactly, but when I install a new app and it asks for permission to access my location/storage/etc.. I can't press Allow.. I can press Deny though no problem at all. Right now I'm manually going into apps/permissions and granting all my apps whatever I think it needs.. Just a pain to do it that way though!

I had this issue the other night. It seems an invisible overlay gets stuck sometimes. Not sure what app or why, but clearing all the recent apps fixed it for me. Try that if it happens again instead of waiting for the phone to restart.
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Also had this problem two days ago and restarting seemed to fix it. I was disabling some of the stock apps at the time so I wondered if that had something to do with it but I don't know, don't think I re-enabled any of the apps or anything before or after the reboot and so far it's been working since.

mikeandjaimie said:
I haven't had this issue exactly, but when I install a new app and it asks for permission to access my location/storage/etc.. I can't press Allow.. I can press Deny though no problem at all. Right now I'm manually going into apps/permissions and granting all my apps whatever I think it needs.. Just a pain to do it that way though!
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Thanks for your feedback and I have also had that problem too. Of course yes we can go into app settings and enable and like you stated it's a pain haha. I know this isn't the place to point these problems out and get them fixed but it's nice to know I'm not the only one ??
redincali said:
I had this issue the other night. It seems an invisible overlay gets stuck sometimes. Not sure what app or why, but clearing all the recent apps fixed it for me. Try that if it happens again instead of waiting for the phone to restart.
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Yes dude, that's correct and thanks for that valuable information I do clean my cache regularly and can't say I've come across the problem for a while, so thanks again.
exonym said:
Also had this problem two days ago and restarting seemed to fix it. I was disabling some of the stock apps at the time so I wondered if that had something to do with it but I don't know, don't think I re-enabled any of the apps or anything before or after the reboot and so far it's been working since.
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I'd like to mention I have disabled and uninstalled quite a lot too, but I can't say if this adds to the problem. It'd just be really nice to hopefully get the new build of software that was recently announced on Xperia Blog but I can't say if this will fix the problems etc. I don't know? ??
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LevsOG said:
Good evening, just lately I have encountered a bug when trying to install APK's. When I go to install via Package Installer it will open up the screen and when I go to press next it doesn't do anything, I have tried rotating the screen and pressing Next and it just doesn't work whatsoever...
I powered off my device and powered back on and this seemed like it fixed the problem.
Is/has anyone else encountered this? I've also noticed ometimes when typing on the keyboard the sound goes tinny for 5 seconds or so and go back to normal, it's been like this since unboxing too.
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I've experienced this issue as well and the culprit seemed to be an overlay permission from another app. As I'm sure everyone knows, this phone's screen is very bright even at it's lowest setting. I like to read at night and the light bothers my wife so I started using an app called Nightowl that further dims the screen. Nightowl produces a overlay that dims the entire screen. If i happen to be running nightowl and try to install the app, I can't tap install. Once I turn off the app I'm able to install like normal. Hope that helps lead you in the right direction as restarting the phone every time a problem presents itself is kind of a bummer.

Question Solved - Nokia G21 screen switches on automatically

I keep my phone in mobile stand while drinking. However, while driving the when automatically switches on. I have tried disabling multiple options like double tap to wake, wake phone on pick up, disabling notifications etc, but no luck.
Anyone else have this issue.

jaskiratsingh said:
I keep my phone in mobile stand while drinking. However, while driving the when automatically switches on. I have tried disabling multiple options like double tap to wake, wake phone on pick up, disabling notifications etc, but no luck.
Anyone else have this issue.
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It will be fixed with the next system update.

mvikrant97 said:
It will be fixed with the next system update.
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any idea when we will next update,
the issue is very annoying and drains battery

Try this

hitesh.tak said:
any idea when we will next update,
the issue is very annoying and drains battery
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any idea when we would get next update

hitesh.tak said:
any idea when we will next update,
the issue is very annoying and drains battery
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Reset the phone and don't restore the applications or data. Set up fresh. This fixed my problem.

jaskiratsingh said:
Reset the phone and don't restore the applications or data. Set up fresh. This fixed my problem.
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requesting to provide steps
we will have to restoring atleast what's app and other apps data correct

jaskiratsingh said:
Reset the phone and don't restore the applications or data. Set up fresh. This fixed my problem.
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did reset as well , did not fix the issue, just took my 4 to 5 hours

jaskiratsingh said:
Reset the phone and don't restore the applications or data. Set up fresh. This fixed my problem.
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pls could you put the steps, as i did reset, still issue persists and day by day the issue is growing and kind of screen keeps waking up

Reset the device. When you setup, don't add your email and continue. Once you reach the launcher, add your email address, install applications and configure settings.