I don't know what happened but I just noticed that my Chrome browser button has changed to an Android figure. Any idea what caused this? I would post a picture but I haven't posted here enough to do so yet.
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That normally means it isn't installed anymore but there is still an existing shortcut to it. Does it still work?
Under the apps menu it showed correctly, so I just replaced my shortcut and all was back to normal.
EvilDobe said:
That normally means it isn't installed anymore but there is still an existing shortcut to it. Does it still work?
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Yup, or simply a broken short cut. Replace it and you'll be fine.
Or you can have a panic attack and tell Google about it
Sometimes it means the package name changed after a particular update in the Play Store. Some launchers don't keep track of package name changes very well, so an update that changes the package name could cause the icon to vanish from the home screen.
Ok thanks. It works fine, just the icon changed all of a sudden. I thought maybe I had done something to change it and wanted to try and replicate it. I like the icon so I'll leave it be until it stops working.
LOL, and no, I'm not panicing in the slightest. If it wasn't working I'd just uninstall and then reinstall.
Thanks,
A.
Something similar happened to Maps a few months ago. I think they changed the package name, and it caused my Maps shortcut to vanish from Nova Launcher on both my phone and tablet.
this actually happened to me yesterday as well. i laughed. the droid is cool. but still, wtf?
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Just received my phone today. I toyed around with the phone and I noticed everytime I select something : task manager, program, volume. When the phone returns to the home screen the clock shows a time of 6:24 then it flips to the correct time. I had the Original Tilt and have never used Touchflo 3D. Is this the norm? It was cute the first time now it's aggrevating.
PS- I'm running stock rom.
Yep it's my location time running behind your normal clock.
I noticed the same thing too. The clock appears to start an hour behind and then flips to the correct time.
Its slightly annoying. =/
Happens on the stock AT&T rom. Don't know if it happens on other ROMs.
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Yep it's my location time running behind your normal clock.
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Ok you lost me. Can you explain?
Actually, mine starts 1:02:00 behind, then it switches to my current time. So I see the hour flip once and the minute flip twice. If you want to recreate this, just tap the notifications up top, close them, and then you'll see the time change. It's as if ATT wanted the clock to flip once when changing focus to it...
im using the tilt with a cooked rom and i have the same "issue. mildly annoying; would be nice to get rid of it
Unfortunately, it's working as designed. I believe it's supposed to be a "coolness" feature of the clock flipping everytime you go to the page.
I'm not sure I agree - you can see the behavior with the digital clock on device lock as well. There, it's not so cool. It really looks like it's doing something wrong.
Anyone know where to set 'my location' if you've gotten rid of TF3D?
me too
I noticed that the first day I got it on the Wednesday. I agree it is annoying and would like to prevent it if possible. I will keep looking to see if anyone comes up with a fix.
The other thing that I have noticed is that the SMS and or Email will just pop up for no apparent reason. I have it set to check my Email accounts every 15 minutes but I dont think it is on that time frame. It seems fairly random. Let me know if anyone else has noticed this that way I can see if it is something I have installed causing the problem.
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It's the Time Zone Auto Fix package that is causing it...Just the way HTC is keeping your time accurate. Try disabling auto time check.
BG4 all also fixes it
Background For All includes a couple of flip clocks (clear and white) and also "fixes" this behavior. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=572166
At0mAng said:
It's the Time Zone Auto Fix package that is causing it...Just the way HTC is keeping your time accurate. Try disabling auto time check.
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Where is that setting at?
At0mAng said:
It's the Time Zone Auto Fix package that is causing it...Just the way HTC is keeping your time accurate. Try disabling auto time check.
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Assuming you meant the settings under 'Phone', this had no effect for me. Still flips. Going to try the Background 4 All & Flip Clock next. Thanks
The time between what's first shown and what it is flipped to / skipped to is about 75 minutes apart (I caught it enough times to see it happen). It's a very odd time to be off / different...
I've got this issue too, and I'm running the stock att rom for now. I agree, very irritating. I thought something was wrong with my phone until I found this thread.
It appears that the time is when I last looked at my phone, as if it's cached (either the time or what seems more likely - the screen) and then is updated and refreshed. I wonder if there's a way to disable this caching, if that's what it actually is...
Probably handled in the LUA scripts as they describe how the page is rendered & what action do what. My suggestion is try to find the Home Page from one of the other TP versions. They don't have the flip clock.
EDIT: The newer Sense 2.1 TF3D does this as well as animated the whole BG with the Weather on the Home page anytime TF3D looses focus & gains focus back. This means when you go to a screen that is not TF3D. An example is just opening & closing the start menu on a 6.5 ROM.
A fix for the clock issue
Here is the manila file to fix the clock issue...To istall you must disable manila and then total commander this file into the windows directory of your phone
gramsey1911 said:
Here is the manila file to fix the clock issue...To istall you must disable manila and then total commander this file into the windows directory of your phone
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You're on to something there. Fixed the flip but screwed up the clock. Digits are all screwed up.
Any ideas?
Thanks for working on this.
(copied from the tilt2 tips/problems thread)
hey guys.
i just got a strange problem pop up on my phone. i uninstalled some htc stuff that i never used. also uninstalled some programs i had that wasnt really using. restarted the phone and everything was working well.
i started trying all the apps i have shortcuts for (in LPP) just to make sure everything still works.
the phone rebooted in the middle of all that...and when it was done with the bootanimation rather than a lockscreen i got
"Sorry!
System process is not responding
Force close Wait"
i force closed it and it's been on a black screen until now. i can press the screen off button and the backlight turns off. i press it again, backlight comes on. same for the capacitative buttons. but no other response from the phone?!?!
what the heck can cause this?
last things i did was dial my wife to make sure the dialer was working. hung up as soon as her phone started ringing. then opened volume button controller, and finally setcpu. went back to homescreen and before i could open another app the phone restarted. and this happened.
could this be from opening setcpu?! but why? i've had it for months and never had a problem with it before? i have a nandroid from about a week ago but i've so many improvements since that i'd rather try to fix this first before restoring nandroid.
any idea what happened?!
for now i'm going to try to uninstall setcpu and reflash the kernel through adb in case it's that...
please give me ideas!!!
EDIT: adb sees the phone and i can see the phone's files without going into recovery...in that black screen/not working mode that it's on right now?!
What stuff exactly (and I mean exactly) did you delete? You will be surprised at what is important.
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What stuff exactly (and I mean exactly) did you delete? You will be surprised at what is important.
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nothing that i didnt know what it was. only apps and widgets like calculator, browser, friendstream etc.
i rebooted the phone through adb shell and it loaded fine this time. i'm reading on some posts elsewhere as to what can cause this. i dont want this happening while i'm not home and i dont have adb shell to reboot the phone!
EDIT: i also deleted some of the sense stuff, like the sense launcher. i have LPP set to default.
also a couple of minutes before this happened i lost signal for a while and opera would refuse to see a connection even though i was connected to my wifi? dont know if this is related as it felt like a bunch of weird things happening at once when then phone is typically very well behaved...
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nothing that i didnt know what it was. only apps and widgets like calculator, browser, friendstream etc.
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I read in one thread that FriendStream is needed to handle a lot of the background synching. I would try reinstalling that and see if things clear up.
Granted, I could be completely off, so...
does anyone else have same issue and how do I fix it. tried doing a cache wipe and deleting folder and reinstalling it. it's the folder on the dock.
I tried switching location of the folder on the doc, but it still does it. it's driving me crazy. I really don't want to do reboot. I have another folder with contacts in the Dock and it's fine.
so i bought a new phone from google since something happened to my last phone. thought i would not have to deal with this any more since it's a brand new phone. nope. new phone, same problem. it has to be a software bug. am i the only one that has an app folder in the doc and that's having this. this is a second phone now with a clean software.
i'm also suspecting that this happens when one of the apps in the folder does auto update. i've already turned it off for the downloaded apps, but can't for the some of the stock apps. after i did this, it still re-arranged. i'm going to try to take out one app at a time to see if i can narrow it down. this is so f'n annoying.
I also have this exact problem. I have no idea why it happens but it is annoying. Hope someone will find a fix for this.
Phone model: ICS 4.0.4 IMM76I
i've figured out what's causing it. basically, i set up one folder with all the apps already in the order that i want and one where i just put the same apps in it and then arranged it. so the folder that was arranged from the beginning by the order of apps added stays the same. the folder that i moved apps around, keeps re-arranging. the same thing happened with the direct dial folder as soon as i removed one person and then re-added it. just that one icon keeps re-arranging. so basically, i set up a new folder by adding the apps in the exact order that i want them in and then added it to the doc. the folder stays as is. the folder that i re-arranged icons, both in doc and in home screen keeps changing. it's still stupid that i have to go through this much trouble, but at least it doesn't shift any more.
I can't seem to get "OK google" from any screen settings to appear. I only get the standard option from the home screen. A week ago I installed the launcher and it worked. I did a system restore and updated now it doesn't. Anybody know what causes this. I know I have the latest app and GPS.
From what I've seen inside the app, you need English US activated.
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From what I've seen inside the app, you need English US activated.
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It is....any other suggestions? It worked a week ago now not....very weird issue.
The clearing the app's data, force stop it, and restart.
A very strange thing happens to me today.
My Pixel XL 128 (never rooted, with bootloader locked and running the lastest official Oreo) suffered a soft reboot when I clicked a YouTube link in the notification shade. After that, I ended up with home and recent buttons, not performing their actions. They still vibrated and the Home button kept the animation. The status bar did not showed notifications, even when they arrived (notification sounds continue to ring), and notification shade pulldown stops working. No mobile network either.
Has anyone else faced this thing?
I had to factory reset (through settings) to use my phone again.
The exact same thing happened to me today. I too am not rooted, all oem, 128gb too, have phone since January, upgraded to oreo several days ago.
Today, I was about to open an email from the notification shade, then the phone rebooted itself on its own, now after the reboot I am limited and can only use the back button. Home and Recents buttons are registering my touch (they both vibrate when I press them) but they don't do their jobs. And what's also strange is that before this happening I had 'vibrate on touch' off. Furthermore, I also can't bring down the notification shade past the first step where it shows the quick settings icons,and notifications no longer show up in the notification shade - it's always clear at the top. When I go into settings>developer options, it says 'this user has no developer options (something like that).
I went to Google's support chat via phone and they couldn't help me either, the same behavior in safe mode, only back button works. I asked support if they could help me troubleshoot the problem without having to do a factory reset and they ended up going down that street and said it's the only thing they could recommend to do.
Any recommendations?
Yep same thing has happened with me as well. I didn't factory reset but I did have to do a reboot for my buttons to work again. Also I get a lot of reboots when I'm using PiP for about 5 mins.
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The exact same thing happened to me today. I too am not rooted, all oem, 128gb too, have phone since January, upgraded to oreo several days ago.
Today, I was about to open an email from the notification shade, then the phone rebooted itself on its own, now after the reboot I am limited and can only use the back button. Home and Recents buttons are registering my touch (they both vibrate when I press them) but they don't do their jobs. And what's also strange is that before this happening I had 'vibrate on touch' off. Furthermore, I also can't bring down the notification shade past the first step where it shows the quick settings icons,and notifications no longer show up in the notification shade - it's always clear at the top. When I go into settings>developer options, it says 'this user has no developer options (something like that).
I went to Google's support chat via phone and they couldn't help me either, the same behavior in safe mode, only back button works. I asked support if they could help me troubleshoot the problem without having to do a factory reset and they ended up going down that street and said it's the only thing they could recommend to do.
Any recommendations?
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Exact same symptoms for me on a Nexus 6P with Oreo.
Same happened to me. Stock Pixel XL, 128GB, Oreo. Even applied the latest September update but no dice.
Do the "Nova Launcher" fix.
1. Install Nova Launcer. nb. Play Store not installing anything for me, so downloaded the apk with Chrome (google for Nova Launcher.apk).
2. Allowed from unknown Sources
3. Opened Nova from App drawer (or can set as default launcher).
4. Hold down on empty space -> Widgets -> scroll the bar across to Activities. Hold down and drag onto home screen somewhere.
5. Scroll down to Setup Wizard and hold down on "SetupWizardUpgradeActivity".
6. Complete the setup options and candy!
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Same happened to me. Stock Pixel XL, 128GB, Oreo. Even applied the latest September update but no dice.
Do the "Nova Launcher" fix.
1. Install Nova Launcer. nb. Play Store not installing anything for me, so downloaded the apk with Chrome (google for Nova Launcher.apk).
2. Allowed from unknown Sources
3. Opened Nova from App drawer (or can set as default launcher).
4. Hold down on empty space -> Widgets -> scroll the bar across to Activities. Hold down and drag onto home screen somewhere.
5. Scroll down to Setup Wizard and hold down on "SetupWizardUpgradeActivity".
6. Complete the setup options and candy!
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Wowzers. That worked! :good: Thank-you! What led you to finding that solution?
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Wowzers. That worked! :good: Thank-you! What led you to finding that solution?
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Lots of Googling! I did not want to factory reset!!
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Lots of Googling! I did not want to factory reset!!
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Interesting. That's fixed the UI issues in their entirety, and Developer Options are now available again too. And apps are once again downloading and installing/updating from Google Play. I wonder what on Earth got wedged and how? Bizarre.
Thanks again.
I got the same with my stock XL 128 seemed to just happen for no reason, after messing around with none of the bottom buttons working the square changed to two rectangles on top of each other as the screen went split screen again for no reason after that I could press the "recent" now split screen button to get the options up to select what I wanted on the second half of the screen when I canceled out of that everything was normal.
seems to be a problem with the picture in picture or the split screen, I don't know how I got into it or out of it but just messing around eventually did it for me. it did have me worried at first as at the time I was in google maps and couldn't get out or even use google maps, the bottom buttons reacted as if they worked but ultimately did nothing until the recent button changed.
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Interesting. That's fixed the UI issues in their entirety, and Developer Options are now available again too. And apps are once again downloading and installing/updating from Google Play. I wonder what on Earth got wedged and how? Bizarre.
Thanks again.
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Apparently it thinks initial setup is running (or maybe it is in background). During setup it stops you from pressing home, or switching apps, or doing anything of significance. I guess running the setup to completion clears that flag.
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Same here: Needed reboot to get "recent apps" button working (although it did "light up" when i used it).
THANK YOU!
I've had a lot of Google phones issues lately and woke up to this and was getting ready to be annoyed all day. Super easy fix as I run Nova Full anyway!
Saviour
You my friend are amazing. Google were absolutely useless, this fixed the problem and introduced me to Nova, double bonus
Thank you - Just the solution that I was looking for.
Thank you! I registered at xdadevelopers just to say that. I too did not want to do a factory reset and the change User to Guest option was not available. I also tried the enable screen lock to Pattern and rebooted.
Going to Nova Launcher and following your instructions to a T fixed the issue.
Grateful for your effort and time.
ozvic said:
Same happened to me. Stock Pixel XL, 128GB, Oreo. Even applied the latest September update but no dice.
Do the "Nova Launcher" fix.
1. Install Nova Launcer. nb. Play Store not installing anything for me, so downloaded the apk with Chrome (google for Nova Launcher.apk).
2. Allowed from unknown Sources
3. Opened Nova from App drawer (or can set as default launcher).
4. Hold down on empty space -> Widgets -> scroll the bar across to Activities. Hold down and drag onto home screen somewhere.
5. Scroll down to Setup Wizard and hold down on "SetupWizardUpgradeActivity".
6. Complete the setup options and candy!
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Thank you soooooooo much for your solution which worked flawlessly and saved me a lot of hassles!!!
Same story, pixel xl 128 GB , stock, no rooted, just reboot , talk with Google , did reset, and yesterday reboot again just laid on my chair.... I don't now what is the problem ....
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Wowzers. That worked! :good: Thank-you! What led you to finding that solution?
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Hi, I've tried downloading Nova and Nova Prime, so desperate with this issue, I paid for it. Of course, it won't download, when I hit install, I get "install pending" or "downloading" this is going on for 4 days now. Please help!!!!
had my screen freeze again today with it being non responsive, it seems to be every time I leave chrome open and chuck it in my pocket, forcing the phone off and turning it back on fixed the problem this time, no clue what is going on with it as it only seems to happen with chrome.
You need to download the apk file through chrome, not through the google play store.
I have to say, thank you for posting that solution! I had this exact thing happen to my phone today, no idea why, but it sure was annoying!
All the same stuff happened to my Pixel XL original. Even lost "ok Google" spoken activation of assistant, and the night light failed to operate even though turned on in settings. Followed Google's advise and did the factory reset. Worked for about 3 days then bang, soft rebooted on its own while switching apps, and then all problems returned. Had the phone for just 6 months so Verizon sent me a replacement. Will see if it holds up. I told Verizon that if it fails again I want a Pixel 2!!!