Hi, On 2 LG optimus G pro phones, the home screen widget items stop updating after some short time.
A phone rotation ( landscape portrait) does re-update the home screen and widgets, but is getting frustrating using that method.
Both phones are stock (AT&T), one has some minor OTA updating done, they are neither rooted nor rom changed. I have no intention at this time of rooting it or changing the rom. Please help with ideas that would work without these changes.
This behaviour has not been any different from a Factory reset , which I did prior to final installs. The issue was present from the first 3rd party widget to the phone having 16 switcher widgets and a few program widgets.
Are there any settings on the phone that would change this home screen from dropping off to sleep ? I am sure it saves battery, and might be the purpose of it, but it does not suit my purposes to have this happen.
I have tried many settings, like keeping core control off , etc. But i have not observed any change in this.
Is there any cheap tricks i can apply to get the home screen to run a refresh?
Is there any apps that could be applied to automate a home screen refresh? Like i am using macrodroid to automate other things, and it knows when i have made a widget switch, some app that would force a screen refresh would be a good workaround at this point.
The behaviour would hardly be noticed by somone using the device as a Phone first, and mostly as a phone. My use of the device is more like a Tablet, watching movies browsing the web and playing music and all.
When placing this question I was presented with many similar questions for other 4+ type phones, none of them were solved only Me-Tooed. Any ideas for workaround or cheap tricking the thing into refreshing would be very interesting to me.
thanks.
Tasker + Greenify would work but you'd have to be rooted in order to use Greenify on system apps. I had the same problem as well. I have tasker set up to hibernate my home screen when turning off the screen and waking it up when the device is unlocked. Adding widgets into that would increase your battery life AND keep the widgets working normally when you unlock the screen.
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Neroga said:
Tasker + Greenify
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Interesting, because greenify updated rescent , so it can do its tricks without root (manually). applied the "accessability" trick on 4.1+ devices. If that would somehow work, it just leaves trying to automate it with some very simple method, so far i avoided tasker because it is more akin to programming (takes too long to learn nuances), where my level is more like simple scripting, which I got done in minutes with macrodroid.
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Hey guys,
I've been having issues with the Widgetlocker lockscreen recently, and was wondering if any of this will ring a bell with someone.
I recently flashed the KJ2 2.3.5 ROM (the XEU non-wipe Frankenstein one), and i've also flashed CF-Root and then the Speedmod kernel. I'm in the UK, on O2 (debranded to XEU) and i have no issues with the phone whatsoever. I even get great battery life. It's just this damn widgetlocker issue that's grating on me!
For some reason when i wake the phone up and try to unlock it by using the slider (i just use the default 'Android' one for unlocking - the only other things i have are a couple of widgets for missed calls & texts and a battery % one) a lot of the time the slider does not repond to touch. It doesn't always happen, but maybe a good one out of every three times it happens. And the weird part is, if i then just wait about 5 seconds, then it suddenly responds and i can unlock the phone. Obviously having another 5 seconds on top of the already present lag when pressing the home button is not good, and because of this i'm thinking of not using WL anymore.
I've been through all of the settings, i'm almost 100% sure it's not something in there. Can anyone help with this?
Cheers guys.
Happens with me too sometimes. Another issue is if you keep pressing Menu button 4-5 times the phone gets unlocked and takes you to the home screen.
Hey, just wanted to post that i finally figured out what the problem was.
I'm using an .apk to help with the touchscreen sensitivity. See vitalij's thread here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=18999801#post18999801
Well it turns out on 2.3.5 vitalij's .apk has some issues with the most up-to-date superuser. The solution, so far, isn't great but gets the job done, is to uninstall the .apk, and then re-install. The important part is not to click on 'enable service' in the app! So basically each time you want to use the app you have to open it and hit 'apply' on whatever setting you need. The setting will work until you next turn the screen off. For me this workaround is actually ok, as the only time i ever really used it was for the odd game, so i'm happy to just do it manually on these occassions.
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madrano, can you expand on what you mean by this? i have tried enabling & disabling root helper but if i remember correctly the problem was still there.
My wife has a Galaxy Note 8.0 and has noted that recently the screen has been freezing on her.
The symptoms that she showed me was after the screen saver kicked in there was no response to get out of the screen saver. This is the default Android screen saver. It appears in such a state the screen does not sense her finger touch. Her Tablet is setup with a password to unlock in such a case and the screen not registering the finger touch would not allow any password entry. She believes this pin/password setup is not related to the problem.
The only recovery method when this non-responsive / freeze occurs (which is fairly frequent) is to hold down the power button and force a restart.
She has the tablet rooted.
Can anyone provide investigate methods and / or a solution to the problem? Possibly apps to provide log files which may log what the problem could be ? Or other approaches as to try as a fix. We checked her settings and did not notice anything untoward.
Many thanks for any or all for suggestions/help.
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Ever try the spen to wake it out of screen saver?
You can disable screen saver and reboot, then enable it with no security and see of the tablet wakes and goes into home screen.
Being rooted, you must have installed a developer app or two, or even messed with system files at one time. Rooting usually does not cause problems, what causes them is the root utility or uncertified apps. I only recommend two root utilities, one is saferoot and the other is philz recovery. I have been through a lot of developer roms and utilities, and it was very hard to keep a stable tablet after customizing either factory os or tweaking builds.
If the problem does not clear out after my suggestion then a full wipe with cache format and load stock firmware. If running 4.2.2 do not upgrade ro 4.4.2 and if running 4.4.2 don't downgrade to 4.2.2
My wife currently thinks a 'facebook' app is the culpret
Thanks for the suggestions and I'll keep them in my mind.
My wife went on a large app removal effort, in case one of her apps was causing this problem. Yesterday afternoon she remove 'facebook' app and she has not yet since seen this freeze behaviour. Hence she is thinking the Android facebook app caused the problem . . . although its really too early to say at this time.
She plans to monitor for a re-occurence of the freeze, and if the bad behaviour continues then I'll sit down with her and chat wrt some of your recommendations.
I've had my 7T for about a week now. Its such a dang good phone. I love it. But I've one issue I'm looking for help with.
Apps that I expect to do things in the background don't work.
Example 1: Spottily is set to auto play when the bluetooth connects. On my Samsung as long as the app was in the background I didn't even have to unlock the phone. On the 7T I have to wake up the phone and bring the app into the foreground before it will start playing.
Example 2: I have an app that will let me download from instagram, it sits in the background and intercepts clip board links. Works great on my samsung but on this phone I have to switch to the app before it will do its thing.
Its as if its heavily throttling apps in the background and I've found now way to change that. Any advice?
edit: I have tried the following with no effect.
1. Tried locking the app in multitasking
2. Turning off battery optimization for the apps in questions
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I've had my 7T for about a week now. Its such a dang good phone. I love it. But I've one issue I'm looking for help with.
Apps that I expect to do things in the background don't work.
Example 1: Spottily is set to auto play when the bluetooth connects. On my Samsung as long as the app was in the background I didn't even have to unlock the phone. On the 7T I have to wake up the phone and bring the app into the foreground before it will start playing.
Example 2: I have an app that will let me download from instagram, it sits in the background and intercepts clip board links. Works great on my samsung but on this phone I have to switch to the app before it will do its thing.
Its as if its heavily throttling apps in the background and I've found now way to change that. Any advice?
edit: I have tried the following with no effect.
1. Tried locking the app in multitasking
2. Turning off battery optimization for the apps in questions
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I have no such issues. Whatever app I want to keep running in the background is always running. I've had such an issue with my previous huawei phone, and the button mapper app. I don't experience any of those. I have a 7T HD1903 on OOS 10.0.8.
Currently using the Note 10+.
Samsung messages app and specific other apps keep waking up the screen when there's a notification.
I have searched and tried every method that I have found so far and none of them work.
What am I missing here? Why is there no option to prevent ALL apps from waking up the screen upon a notification? How is it that certain apps like Samsung messages and Realtor (real estate app) and a few others keep waking up the screen?
AOD is on. I receive notifications from other apps perfectly fine and an icon will appear in AOD, but these other ones will wake the screen.
If you have screen saver on and you receive a message through the night, guess what, your phone screen will go into screensaver all night with the screen on.
I have to say I am amazed at the fact that this isn't an easy question to answer unless I'm missing something completely, and what's even more amazing is that this same question has been open LITERALLY since 2015 amongst other Android devices without a working solution.
If you know the answer to this, and I don't mean you kind of sort of want to suggest things, trust me I've taken every suggestion at this point to no avail, I mean if you TRULY know the answer to this, please chime in.
Suggestions like use other apps and whatever is not an option considering this happens to multiple apps and seems random meaning you can't keep replacing apps. Suggestions like turn off notifications entirely OBVIOUSLY is not an option.
My 2 N10+'s don't behave like this.
What OS version?
That 3rd party real estate app may have caused it. I don't allow trash apps on my phones because of multiple issues they can cause. Sometimes they will permanently alter hidden settings that will remain even after uninstalled. A poorly written app can cause a lot of trouble...
Clear system cache.
Try clearing lock screen data.
Check all notification settings... again, including lock screen, edge lighting and associated 3rd party apps (turn off background battery/data usage).
Try running it in safe mode at night to see if this stops it. If so, it's a likely 3rd party app.
Find the root cause otherwise it will likely reoccur if you do a factory reset... play with it.
Anyone else have their Fold 3 keep on freezing for a few seconds at times, ever since the last update? It has done it when using Facebook Messenger via Chat Heads, opening the list of open apps (via the three lines button ||| ) to switch/close an app, Facebook app, Samsung Browser, tapping the back button, and possibly other times. Really annoying!
My screen will go blank when I close a app sometimes. The screen is powered on but all my app icons won't be there. Just the background.
I've had this issue since I got the device. It happens whenever I unfold the device from using the outer screen and it's not an immediate switch, it takes a couple seconds like it hangs. And I've tried 6 different launchers and tons of different apps and nothing changes it. I've debloated my device as much as I can without losing the functionality I need and followed the oneui optimization guide with a bunch of adb commands to make it better and I've had no luck BUT my battery life is amazing and the overall performance is good so I'm at a loss.
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My screen will go blank when I close a app sometimes. The screen is powered on but all my app icons won't be there. Just the background.
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Oh, that's an odd one! I haven't had that one happen. It was getting frozen right after the opened app view came up, so I couldn't swipe an app closed or switch to another one right away.
Thankfully, the phone seems to be working better now after I reset the phone earlier, so here's hoping it stays that way.
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I've had this issue since I got the device. It happens whenever I unfold the device from using the outer screen and it's not an immediate switch, it takes a couple seconds like it hangs. And I've tried 6 different launchers and tons of different apps and nothing changes it. I've debloated my device as much as I can without losing the functionality I need and followed the oneui optimization guide with a bunch of adb commands to make it better and I've had no luck BUT my battery life is amazing and the overall performance is good so I'm at a loss.
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I don't use the front screen much, so only have done that switch a few times over the year plus I've had the phone. I think it does take a second or two to switch, but not too bad since you're getting it set in your hands anyway, IME.
Okay, well it still does the freezing thing, but not as bad as it did before the reboot. I'd report it to Samsung, but their customer service can't understand English so can't understand problems correctly. I have an issue with scrolling screenshots not saving and they told me to reset my app settings, including network settings, and I separately gave a suggestion for the Bubbles feature to be able to open Bubbles (for texting) instead of waiting for that person to text me, and they told me to reset my network settings.