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?
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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?
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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
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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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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.
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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
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k i read about an app called spare parts on here so i figured hey i'll try it out. i did saw what extra setting were there and decided i wasn't gonna use it didn't even change any settings.
after opening the app and then pressing home something wierd happened i saw a white screen with HTC in green in the center for about 3-5 seconds my backround with a loading pop-up and nothing else for about another 3-5 seconds. this is happening every time i press the home button or exit out of an app. it's getting infuriating, i'm also getting wicked bad lagg in sense and lot's of hang up's and force closes. also wicked bad battery life. i don't know what to do to fix it.
i have the OTA and rooted last night with unrevoked method, this morning is when i tried the app around 10 or 11 not sure last couple days is a blur.
can anyone help, how can i restore what i had previously, do i have to do a full wipe.
nobody...... anyone plz, it is cripling my evo
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k i read about an app called spare parts on here so i figured hey i'll try it out. i did saw what extra setting were there and decided i wasn't gonna use it didn't even change any settings.
after opening the app and then pressing home something wierd happened i saw a white screen with HTC in green in the center for about 3-5 seconds my backround with a loading pop-up and nothing else for about another 3-5 seconds. this is happening every time i press the home button or exit out of an app. it's getting infuriating, i'm also getting wicked bad lagg in sense and lot's of hang up's and force closes. also wicked bad battery life. i don't know what to do to fix it.
i have the OTA and rooted last night with unrevoked method, this morning is when i tried the app around 10 or 11 not sure last couple days is a blur.
can anyone help, how can i restore what i had previously, do i have to do a full wipe.
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get used to it if you intend to use sense, the screen you speak of is sort of like the htc sense/rosie intro. If you dont like it you can go vanilla and use another launcher, like adw froyo,launcherpro, or even the extra launcher thats included....
Sounds like you enabled aggressive handling of apps. Can you get in there to turn it off?
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Sounds like you enabled aggressive handling of apps. Can you get in there to turn it off?
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Or just do a factory reset.
also, you are experiencing some isolated problems which leads me to beleive the issue is software related rather than hardware.I have experienced NOT ONE of the issues you speak of. Make sure you update prl. I can vouch for that one. My data was 90% broken till i did. Also try and wipe data, that would prolly fix everything as well.....FYI, i cannot gurantee the problem lies with your hardware OR software. Thats just my diagnosis. Good luck
Thats what it was the agressive handling of processes thanks alot guys feel like a fool.....
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thorpe24 said:
Thats what it was the agressive handling of processes thanks alot guys feel like a fool.....
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Heh...I did that once on my hero. I know the feeling.
some versions of spare parts come with a launcher. the problem is that when you press the home button now, it's trying to goof with /system, which is forcing the reboot. even though you may be rooted, you don't have rw privileges in /system while messing with android.
you may be able to get away with accessing /system and erasing your goofy installed spare parts app. you'll have to do that through adb shell, and the custom recovery. do a search for 'remove apps', you should find it easily enough. i think the thread was moved from dev to general, or q and a.
anything that will call a write to /system (i.e. a rooted app that needs access to it to work right) has the potential to cause the phone to reboot. when i installed adfree, it had the same effect. trying to install hosts (which write to /system/etc) caused a reboot. i had to install hosts through recovery with a push after remount.
hope that helps
Hmm I installed autokiller and it appears to work doesn't mess with anything that is
I really dunno a way of testing that its actually working though if you where looking for a way to manage memory
I was using a task killer but read up on stuff and turned it off just keeping it in case I need it for something that wont close and the phone is running great and battery life keeps getting better and better.
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People you need to be careful with autokillers!
Make sure that you are not closing down sense items.
Put anything that says htc or sense on ignore.
If not you are shutting down parts of sense. Then sense has to reboot. Witch is why you see the white screen with the htc logo in the middle.
This is my first time posting. I know how annoying reposts are, so I tried to find if anyone else had the same problems I have. Unable to find an answer, I seek a solution to my strange problem...
I flashed CM7 three days ago. Before flashing, I did a full factory reset, wiped cache, etc. I also performed a backup of rom, which was at the time CM6. Everything worked without a hitch for these past three days. I installed new programs, really enjoyed the new features. However, today, the screen suddenly became unresponsive.
It acts as though I am long-pressing something when I am not. It will not register even hard taps and when I try to hit the home key it brings up the most recent apps list as though I long-pressed. I have reset, but it keeps doing this. When I try to use an app where scrolling is required, it bounces back to the spot I started scrolling. Very frustrating. Any solutions?
At first I thought it was from installing swype beta, but after removing it completely, resetting, and reflashing, the screen continues to act up.
Flash your backup and see if you still have the same problem
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Spastic909 said:
Flash your backup and see if you still have the same problem
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Hey thanks for your suggestion. I've tried it but the screen problem continues. I even tried going back to the stock rom. Do you think it's a hardware issue?
Having the same problem using MexDroid for the G2...have to resort to the trackball half the time because the touchscreen doesn't work right or at all.
I reinstalled the ROM twice already and it keeps acting up at some random point after installing a few apps (none of which affect the touchscreen as far as I know). Tried clearing cache, dalvik cache, and fixing permissions...nothing. Happens regardless of overclock settings too.
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Having the same problem using MexDroid for the G2...have to resort to the trackball half the time because the touchscreen doesn't work right or at all.
I reinstalled the ROM twice already and it keeps acting up at some random point after installing a few apps (none of which affect the touchscreen as far as I know). Tried clearing cache, dalvik cache, and fixing permissions...nothing. Happens regardless of overclock settings too.
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It's nice to know I'm not the only one with this problem... i.e. misery likes company... but I'm also sorry to hear that you have the problem, as well. There seems to be nothing that I can do at the moment. Since the phone is still under warranty, I guess I could just flash the original rom, factory reset, and send it back for a new one. I'd rather find a solution, though, in case it happens again.
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It's nice to know I'm not the only one with this problem... i.e. misery likes company... but I'm also sorry to hear that you have the problem, as well. There seems to be nothing that I can do at the moment. Since the phone is still under warranty, I guess I could just flash the original rom, factory reset, and send it back for a new one. I'd rather find a solution, though, in case it happens again.
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The weird thing is that it only happens sometimes...like, sometimes I'll get 100% accurate/responsive touchscreen use, while other times I can pinch all I want and never zoom in. I think it might have something to do with my lowering the screen density - right now I have it at 140, and earlier at 190, and it seems that when I have the stock 240 or the 190, I have better luck with the touchscreen than with at 140...but the usefulness of the lower screen density outweighs the better touchscreen for me.
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The weird thing is that it only happens sometimes...like, sometimes I'll get 100% accurate/responsive touchscreen use, while other times I can pinch all I want and never zoom in. I think it might have something to do with my lowering the screen density - right now I have it at 140, and earlier at 190, and it seems that when I have the stock 240 or the 190, I have better luck with the touchscreen than with at 140...but the usefulness of the lower screen density outweighs the better touchscreen for me.
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How do you change the screen density?
Running stock ICS haven't touched anything.
Every time I am in an app and click the home button it loads a blank home screen then takes a while to load everything on my home screen. It didn't use to do this, only started in the past few days. Any ideas?
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Crazy CS said:
Running stock ICS haven't touched anything.
Every time I am in an app and click the home button it loads a blank home screen then takes a while to load everything on my home screen. It didn't use to do this, only started in the past few days. Any ideas?
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I was having that issue after I installed a live wallpaper (Microbes). Got rid of that and it went back to normal.
Don't have a live wallpaper installed.
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Are you using a custom launcher?Did you touch anything in developer options?
Did you install an app before it started acting up? It may not be fully compatible with 4.0 and causing issues. Also, have you tried to do a simple restart?
Found the issue. It was easy battery saver. Got rid of it and its fine now.
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it case it happens again, what your experiencing is home screen redraw. it happens when the android system kills the launcher to save up memory.
this means that when you press home to go back to the launcher, it has to refresh, and redraw everything. and the more you have on your homescreens, and the more apps/widgets you have installed the longer it takes.
i've noticed it happening a lot on my phone when i'm switching between apps and then press home. It's normal for third party launchers but very strange for the stock one to have this so often.
I've had the exact same problem of late (also with the stock app-draw), I imagine it's a case of pinpointing the suspect app that's causing this. It's pretty serious though, a good 2 or 3 seconds and even then it's super choppy until the home screens are redrawn... The joys of early adoption :\
I was just searching to see if anyone else was experiencing this. I get the same over here.
I had similar issue. Something ate all my RAM, but it wasn't listed in 'running apps' in settings . Reboot fixed it
well folks, the sooner you go onto custom ROM the better. I tried ignoring these (and several other issues you are about to encounter) but the list was getting endless
I've bigxie and franco kernel now (4.0.3), not difficult to install, and now most of the STOCK issues are gone...
Hello.
I have had my One X since its release and have had no problem with it. But now all of the sudden the homescreen has started loading all the time.
At one point today it loaded every singel time I backed out of the browser with the home button. Is there any fix to this other than a factory reset and hoping for the best?
thanks!
Did u change any seting in developer options? Namely the "dont keep activities". If so, uncheck it.
Developer options, don't keep activities.
Tick it, back out, go back, untick it. Job done.
thanks for your suggestions, but it did not solve the problem...
WarheadNOR said:
thanks for your suggestions, but it did not solve the problem...
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A simple restart of your phone should fix it.
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WarheadNOR said:
Hello.
I have had my One X since its release and have had no problem with it. But now all of the sudden the homescreen has started loading all the time.
At one point today it loaded every singel time I backed out of the browser with the home button. Is there any fix to this other than a factory reset and hoping for the best?
thanks!
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Try check your RAM usage. If the RAM usage high this might be the problem.
Cause i had this problem also. I remove some games that use high volume of RAM and reset the phone. And the problem solve...
if you have rooted your phone try going to cwm and go to advance and fix permissions....
For some reason im constantly using over 800mb of ram, but nothing is using anywhere close to that... No root, and I would really love to not have to do a factory reset, tried removing some games and stuff now. But if it dosent help, its factory reset next
that worked
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Developer options, don't keep activities.
Tick it, back out, go back, untick it. Job done.
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That seems to have worked for me, at least for the time being. Thanks. Now I just need Root and a tasty rom.
This worked for me! Cache may be the issue.
Download and install Android Assistant. Go to tools/cache cleaner/ and clear the cache. Then click the monitor tab and click the quick boost button. Bingo, problem solved for me at least and for a while I guess that's is until the cache gets full again. Good luck.
It worked for me
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Did u change any seting in developer options? Namely the "dont keep activities". If so, uncheck it.
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Thanks. IT worked for me. I unchecked "dont keep activities" and now my home screen is back to normal.
I have exactly the same issue. My RAM gets full and it keeps restarting apps. When I push the home button it looks like home screen restarts and needs to load again. Verry annoying! Tried the developper setting thingy now. Did already a factory reset but the problem was there again after a week or so.
I notice whenever I reboot my phone, the Developer Options always disables itself, meaning I must turn it back ON and tick "keep screen awake" and adjust any other features there as well such as window animation speed, etc.
Does this happen for anyone else and how can I fix it?
Also, sometimes the chosen font won't apply it to everything. I'll have to change the font and back again in order for icons and SMS to have it again.
Another thing is when I freshly boot my phone, I'll have somewhere around over 1000-1200 MB of memory available. Over the course of my phone being on, it keeps lowering to near 600. Even if I close running applications and other stuff running in the background. Why does this happen?
I can't think of anything else at the moment.
Are you on stock or custom ROM?
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Memory loss over time is a typical memory leak situation. Comes from bad coding, or more precisely, code that isn't gced.
Hayzie said:
I notice whenever I reboot my phone, the Developer Options always disables itself, meaning I must turn it back ON and tick "keep screen awake" and adjust any other features there as well such as window animation speed, etc.
Does this happen for anyone else and how can I fix it?
Also, sometimes the chosen font won't apply it to everything. I'll have to change the font and back again in order for icons and SMS to have it again.
Another thing is when I freshly boot my phone, I'll have somewhere around over 1000-1200 MB of memory available. Over the course of my phone being on, it keeps lowering to near 600. Even if I close running applications and other stuff running in the background. Why does this happen?
I can't think of anything else at the moment.
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I don't have this problem... either on stock or CM10.1
Hayzie said:
I notice whenever I reboot my phone, the Developer Options always disables itself, meaning I must turn it back ON and tick "keep screen awake" and adjust any other features there as well such as window animation speed, etc.
Does this happen for anyone else and how can I fix it?
Also, sometimes the chosen font won't apply it to everything. I'll have to change the font and back again in order for icons and SMS to have it again.
Another thing is when I freshly boot my phone, I'll have somewhere around over 1000-1200 MB of memory available. Over the course of my phone being on, it keeps lowering to near 600. Even if I close running applications and other stuff running in the background. Why does this happen?
I can't think of anything else at the moment.
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Around 600MB free RAM is typical for GS3 touchwiz. Did you try to clear the recent apps (holding down the Home button then hit the trash can icon on the lower right corner), that will free up some memory as well.
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Also you really shouldn't be micro managing what you have running all the time, even when you have about 600 to 800 mb free chances are you won't be using probably 1/3 of that. Android always been good with multitasking especially this 2gb ram phone.
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Are you on stock or custom ROM?
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As far as the fonts go, it happened on stock, but rooted stock. Also happened on a few custom roms. I don't think it seems to be doing it anymore, though... probably a few reboots cleared that up. But the Developer Options thing still happens.
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Around 600MB free RAM is typical for GS3 touchwiz. Did you try to clear the recent apps (holding down the Home button then hit the trash can icon on the lower right corner), that will free up some memory as well.
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Yep. Probably a memory leak like mentioned, but it's still weird. Probably because it's a custom rom with a dev's own coding, huh?
These problems aren't a huge deal, but they do happen. Everything little bit fixing would be nice. I'm really liking this phone!
Thanks everyone for the replies.
Has anyone else had problems with an intermittent screen flicker when opening the keyboard? I remember the problem when using custom roms, but I never thought it would happen on stock unrooted...
Well, the last rebooting didn't turn off Developer Options, nor the Windows animation scale/speed. But the Stay Awake was still unchecked.
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Has anyone else had problems with an intermittent screen flicker when opening the keyboard? I remember the problem when using custom roms, but I never thought it would happen on stock unrooted...
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Yes, I do. It's a quick flicker, but it's noticeable.
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Has anyone else had problems with an intermittent screen flicker when opening the keyboard? I remember the problem when using custom roms, but I never thought it would happen on stock unrooted...
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Had this problem when I was unrooted and stock as soon as I updated to jelly bean ota, rooted now and on aokp and is fine.
edit: didn't answer op's question, I have not been having these problems
NaviJ95 said:
Had this problem when I was unrooted and stock as soon as I updated to jelly bean ota, rooted now and on aokp and is fine.
edit: didn't answer op's question, I have not been having these problems
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