if I long press the home button I get the google now page, if I then press home again it always prompts me to select a launcher.
I've just done a full cse flash of 10i, it happened immediately afterwards.
I tried a full reset of the phone, and it did the same.
any clues how to get rid of this annoying problem ? I seem to be always getting prompted to select my home launcher.
sorry to answer my own question, but it might help someone.
I installed Nova launcher as per a recommendation in another forum, it found that an app I had installed called "apps" had caused an android bug to appear, so I uninstalled it, and all is back to normal now.
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mjb152 said:
sorry to answer my own question, but it might help someone.
I installed Nova launcher as per a recommendation in another forum, it found that an app I had installed called "apps" had caused an android bug to appear, so I uninstalled it, and all is back to normal now.
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maybe a other solution is go into Settings>Home Screen>Select Home and reselect Home.
But I am not sure because I never had this problem
I had this problem with Nova Launcher today, every time I pressed HOME button it would ask me which Launcher to use even with a tick in the remember my choice box. So I selected a different Launcher EASYHome in my case and then back to Nova Launcher and it was fine.
I tried resetting the defaults but it kept asking time and time again , but it was definitely a corrupt app causing the problem..and nova helped me find which one.
I have a similar problem and cant get it to stop, i have a quickcircle case and everytime i open the case to unlock it shows me the screen to select the launcher but disapears right after, im using v10i with Nova on D855 no root.
how to get nova launcher to tell you which app is the issue.
Excuse my ignorance, but how does nova launcher show you which app is the issue. When I click the multitask button and then the home button, every time the select home option comes up.
I had same problem with an LG Escape2 (and replacement one) and now a 3rd cell LG G Vista. Home Select screen keeps popping up when I click to go back to home page! Keeps asking for default home Screen or easy home screen Driving me nuts. Any fixes? This has been a problem mentioned by some Samsung owners
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When I m eg in the Market or running Internet and press the Home Button I don t return to the home screen anymore. I must have changed something but don t now what.....
no ideas anyone?
Ideas about what?! You're not describing your problem. What happens when you press Home?
I only see the screen 'flicker' 1 time
Have you tried rebooting the phone? Is your phone rooted? Is it unlocked or branded? C'mon, give some more details if you want help!
You might try installing "Home Switcher" from the Market and see if it helps.
Rebooting does not help. Original 2.1 rom, installing home switcher does not help either. Did I clean install last night, home button worked fine for some hours and after this there s again the same problem => no returning to the home screen and only a short 'screen flicker' when pressing the home button.
I would speak to HTC if that did not work. They should repair it for free because its under warranty.
It's unlikely to be a hardware issue if it sometimes works.
When using Home Switcher, what apps show up in the list? (might be a rogue app that is stealing the home button function by registering itself as a launcher application).
Do you have any apps installed? (you said you have done a clean install but it's not clear if you installed any apps after that; please note that you might have enabled backup to your sd card [Settings -> Privacy] and that even after a clean install some of your settings will he restored from that backup).
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Rebooting does not help. Original 2.1 rom, installing home switcher does not help either. Did I clean install last night, home button worked fine for some hours and after this there s again the same problem => no returning to the home screen and only a short 'screen flicker' when pressing the home button.
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I'd suggest booting into safe mode as this will stop all 3rd party applications from running. If it works from there, it seems pretty likely that the issue is related to an application you have installed.
To get into safe mode, power off your device, and then power back up again whilst holding down the menu button, and keep it held down until the phone has completely booted. Once booted, you should find it says "safe mode" in the bottom left corner of the screen.
Note that if you do this, all your 3rd party widgets on the home screens will stop functioning - even when you have exited safe mode. You will need to delete and re-add them.
Regards,
Dave
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I'd suggest booting into safe mode as this will stop all 3rd party applications from running. If it works from there, it seems pretty likely that the issue is related to an application you have installed.
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Very good idea/advise.
This worked for me
Reading through this thread made me wonder whether the fact my Home and Search buttons suddenly weren't working could have been caused by an app I installed the day before (No Lock).
Before uninstalling it I decided to give it a test. It was on "Locking Disabled". I set to "Locking Enabled" and tested the Home button - voilà, it worked. Tested the Search button, it worked too.
Set the app back to "Locking Disabled" - Home and Search buttons still working.
My buttons, home and both volume buttons are dying. I think it's just wear and tear really which is bad because I've had it less than a year.
Hello. So I got into a problem this morning while updating Golauncher EX. I updated it and when I pressed home, I accidentally chose to have GoTo (a lockscreen application) the default app for that. Now my phone can't return to launcher at all.
When I reboot I just get a blank screen and can't do anything besides bring the notification bar down.
I know I can easily fix this by going into settings, but I can't get to that without launcher. So I tried to get into safe mode (boot holding vol down, track pad, and menu) and I can get there after the phone vibrates (it says safe mode in bottom corner), but before I can do anything the phone reboots. I don't really want to resort to a factory reset yet, so I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions.
Also I haven't rooted my phone yet.
Thanks for any help you can offer!
The only thing i can think of is press the search button, and see if that brings up the search screen. I would navigate my way to market or something, install adw, then hit home. The pop up for default should come up again, then you can make golauncher ex default?
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Delete it from phone with computer. I think all the files pertaining to the app should be in sdcard/data and data/data...
Thanks for the tips guys. btw I tried using search, but nothing would pop up, but for some reason hitting menu would make a keyboard appear.
Anyways, something weird happened where when I tried booting into safe mode, my phone seemed to wipe all my settings and went into the normal launcher. It didn't delete all my apps, but made the majority of them strangely force close whenever I opened them.
In the end I just rooted my phone and everything is perfect now!
Good to hear.
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Mods please move this thread to Q/A section of Epic 4G touch. noob mistake.
Mods, feel free to delete this thread if posting the same question to two different XDA forum is not allowed. I posted it under the Android Q/A since I see the problem with other Android phone also.
Here is a link to the thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1323338
And the body(feel free to delete if not needed)
First of all I have a Sprint Epic Touch 4G AKA Samsung Galaxy 2 S and not rooted, but I think this is an Android problem after 4 days of trying to find a solution.
I keep getting prompt to select which launcher(launcher or twlauncher) when I press the home button. I would select set as default and then select twlauncher. This would work fine and I could do what I want and the home button acts normally. BUT if I long press the home button to bring up task manager and a list of recent apps, it would break the default setting on twlauncher. I could go to setting and manage app and see that the default on twlauncher is now cleared even though I did not manually clear it. I tried checking set as default and then select launcher. It too won't stick AFTER I long press the home button.
Long story short, I downloaded several launchers from the market and none of them will stay set as default IF I long press the home button. It breaks the default every time and ask me to select the launcher to use when I press the home button. Now this would be great if I could just delete all the other launcher and have only one but I can't delete the stock launcher or twlauncher.
Here are the related threads that are just on XDA alone:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=844975
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=733874&highlight=default+launcher+keeps+resetting
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=838633&highlight=default+launcher+keeps+resetting
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=733874
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=907973&highlight=default+launcher+keeps+resetting
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=955029&highlight=default+launcher+keeps+resetting
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=951833&
highlight=default+launcher+keeps+resetting
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=932197&highlight=default+launcher+keeps+resetting
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=971784&highlight=default+launcher+keeps+resetting
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=972858&highlight=default+launcher+keeps+resetting
http://forum.xda-developers.com/sho...light=default+launcher+keeps+resetting&page=2
So the first time this happen, I was driving down the road using telenav when I see the prompt to select which launcher(something that I've never seen after using the phone for 2 weeks). Did some research elsewhere and found no solutions so here is what I have done in chronological order:
1. Start task manager and kill all active app and clear memory from RAM
2. Clear defaults from manage application....twlauncher
3. Click home button, click set as default and then launcher instead of twlauncher- still does not stick after long press home button.
4. Manage application...twlauncher CLEAR DATA (sure enough my neatly organized homepage and apps folder was reset to stock).
5. Pull battery
6. Cycle power on and off.
7. Gave up after 24 hours and factory reset the phone.
8. Went on my merry way and reinstall apps and customizing home page and apps pages and so on.
9. In hindsight, I should have long press home button every time I installed a new app to see which one will break the default.
10. Phone works fine for 24 hours and then it mysteriously acts up again. It ask me to choose which launcher again.
11. Went back to googling and tried the following which did not work:
a. clear media hub data and default
b. installed Sprint "clean" ID and then later deleting it.
c. installed go launcher and see if it will stick
d. installed launcher pro
e. installed home switcher
f. I don't have Qik or some child lock apps
g. search XDA and found about 15 threads and tried everything in those thread short of using Titanium to freeze one launcher.
Any update on a working solution? Right now I just won't long press the home button to bring up task manager or recent apps and everything will work just fine. Minor annoyance but I guess I can live with it until the ICS update.
I have found out that if I unmounts my storage card, I would not get the message to set the 'Default' launcher. As soon as I mount my storage card, I would be presented again with this message as soon as I long press the 'Home' button or pull down the notification bar. This is on stock HTC EVO 3D.
I fixed it by rooting the phone and disabling the other launcher so that twlauncher is the only launcher on the phone.
I have cm11 and if i power on the tablet and let it a couple of minutes it is freezed at the lock screen. I cant unlock it by swiping the screen and i cant press on the clock widget. If i press the power button it turns on or off the lock screen but i can still do nothing. Only way to restore it is to keep pressed the power button to hard reset the tab. It boots normally then if i unlock the screen and dont let it auto lock. Is anybody else experiencing this issue? It gets really annoying. Could it be the nova launcher because i cant remember this happening before installing it.
katsika said:
Could it be the nova launcher because i cant remember this happening before installing it.
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Your guess seems to be on the money. Stay away from all those launchers.
mackeev said:
Your guess seems to be on the money. Stay away from all those launchers.
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yep, i disabled the option from nova settings to autolock the desktop and that seemed to fix it. This option prevents any changes to desktop and it looks like that it conflicted with cm11
Hello people,
I just got the phone yesterday and I updated the ROM to the latest v4.23.
Whenever I press the home button, I am automatically sent into the game space.
To exit the game space I have to manually toggle the switch on the side.
Is there anything that I can do to stop the phone from going to the game space from me just trying to hit the home button?
Shauna~ said:
Hello people,
I just got the phone yesterday and I updated the ROM to the latest v4.23.
Whenever I press the home button, I am automatically sent into the game space.
To exit the game space I have to manually toggle the switch on the side.
Is there anything that I can do to stop the phone from going to the game space from me just trying to hit the home button?
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weird i dont have that problem....
The issue has been resolved! I have spoken to the support and they suggested clearing cache for the game space, I did that and I also installed nova launcher and uninstalled it.
I still prefer the original launcher as they have full-screen gestures. So as for now I am not sure which method really solved the issue but I do think it has to do with the mapping of the home button on the initial boot. After I installed the nova launcher the home button seems to be mapped correctly and everything seems to be fine right now.