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When pressing the home screen button to get back to the homescreen, has anyone had the white HTC screen pop and then had to wait several seconds while their phone went back to their homescreen? This happens to me several seconds a day and its very frustrating and makes me consider returning my phone. Do anyone have a suggestion for stopping this?
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sense was forced closed & is restarting. join the discussion & ask a mod to please close this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1128169&highlight=sense

LuLuBaby86 said:
When pressing the home screen button to get back to the homescreen, has anyone had the white HTC screen pop and then had to wait several seconds while their phone went back to their homescreen? This happens to me several seconds a day and its very frustrating and makes me consider returning my phone. Do anyone have a suggestion for stopping this?
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Yes this has happened to me too. I believe it may have something to do where you use an application that uses alot of resources e.g Emulators and video services. A way to minimize the times this happens is by installing an Advanced task manager and clearing your RAM every so often to save battery, speed performance, and prevent that white screen!

It happens to me when I'm switching between ADW Ex and the stock launcher, but other than that it doesn't really happen.
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But my phone I'd not forcing close. None of my applications have forced close yet.
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xnifex said:
sense was forced closed & is restarting. join the discussion & ask a mod to please close this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1128169&highlight=sense
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It was covered even earlier than that:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1125852
So this thread, and the thread in the quoted text, can both be closed!
It's due to the Sense launcher being pushed out of memory and having to reload. A perfectly normal occurrence due to the way Android handles RAM. Memory intensive activities, such as internet browsing with lots of windows, or large games, will cause it to happen.

[Q] Icons for apps not showing up

My icons for apps on my home screens will not load. All it is showing is a generic android icon. Any other known issues or fixes?
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I've found that changing the scene helps. You will have to do this twice to get it back to your original set-up.
Still hoping that this will be fixed with an update. Although no sign of that coming any time soon from HTC.

I've noticed this on any apps moved to the sd card. Any ideas?

When you move your apps to the SD card, this is what happens in Android as a whole. This is not generalized to the Sensation as my last 5 phones have done this. Until Google fixes this, you just going to have to learn to live with it.
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jrwingate6 said:
When you move your apps to the SD card, this is what happens in Android as a whole. This is not generalized to the Sensation as my last 5 phones have done this. Until Google fixes this, you just going to have to learn to live with it.
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Strange...never did it on my Nexus One!

Never did it on my vibrant either but all the apps are on my sdcard that are screwing up.
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galaxys said:
Strange...never did it on my Nexus One!
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It doesn't do it on all phones. It depends on factors that I don't know but I can tell you it did it on my most recent phones like my G2X and Nexus S.
It only does it when the app is on your SD card. The icon should remain until you restart your phone.

I've been having the same issue on the Sensation, but never had this problem on any other Android phone... could the issue be from not formatting the SD card after moving it from my old phone to this one?

Paticakeman said:
My icons for apps on my home screens will not load. All it is showing is a generic android icon. Any other known issues or fixes?
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Quick fix to get app icon picture back:
-Long press the "generic android icon" on home screen and drag to trash/remove on bottom right
-Go to your apps list and long press that same app and replace it to where u had it or wherever else u like

i heard it might have something to do with the speed of the sd card. Only a window of time allowed during boot to let the images to load, after that generic only. maybe moving from the stock class 4 to a 6 or 10 would help? Anyone see this issue with a faster card?

pLAYdOPE said:
Quick fix to get app icon picture back:
-Long press the "generic android icon" on home screen and drag to trash/remove on bottom right
-Go to your apps list and long press that same app and replace it to where u had it or wherever else u like
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I was having the same problem and this worked.

Move the Apps from sd to phone.
The phone loads internal memory first which has all your Apps on your home screens than it loads external. So if they are stored on sd they show up as generic. Download app2sd transfer to phone and your good to go.
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No réal fix then

Hi. I was same problem on old rom. Now after update to 2.3.4 this problem is not present.
You just nead to updeta the phone!
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I tried this on my lock screen and it worked.

Try it at own risk, I am not responsible for any problems. It worked for me
This is my second sensation with the same issue. I got my second sensation approximately 6 days ago, after my first sensation developed the lock screen issues. Well today I started to experience the same lock screen issues that plagued my first sensation. Well I did a little checking around and I think I might have found a solution to the problem. I have an app installed called mybackup pro. I have been using this app for a while and it has come in real handy in restoring my phone. There is a free version available in the market. I used the paid version. I opened mybackup pro, and I just like to say that I DON'T HAVE anything to do with the app in regards to any monetary gain, basically I just use the app. I opened the ap, i clicked on cancel for the password, clicked on back up, data, local (/mnt/sdcard) check all, and let it back up all the settings. Well I went into my settings/applications/manageapplications/all. i then clicked on the first htc sense tab and cleared the data. You will be prompted with something to the pop up stating that all the applications data will be permanently deleted. I clicked ok and then clicked on the second htc sense tab and did the same thing. You will notice that all your widgets and everything will be deleted from your phone. I rebooted my phone and then opened mybackup pro and clicked on restore, data, local (/mnt/sdcard), data and the most resent date, I ONLY CHECKED MARKED SYSTEM SETTINGS, ANDROID HOME, AND CLICKED ON OK. Let it do its thing and when it is finished it will ask you to reboot your phone. Your phone should be extremely close to the way you had it before (widget wise). And in my case my lock screen is working again. I hope this helps anyone else. Again, It worked for me.

Holy wall of text batman
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Please update this thread periodically even if your method doesn't work.
Did this allow sense to operate more smoothly on your device?

I don't even understand what the issue was meant to be in the first place!!

Sorry for the long entry but i was trying to be as specific as i possibly could for everyone, and yes my lock screen responds perfectly.
This post was meant for anyone experiencing lockscreen unresponsiveness on their phones.
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I already tried clearing the data from both Sense applications and then rebooted my phone. I didn't make a back up of everything so Sense was back to the way it came from the factory. Long story short. It didn't work for me. I still had the lock screen issue.
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also another trick to faulty lockscreen found on another post, when the phone lay flat on table lock seems to be trouble to unlock unless u pick the phone up in ur hands...but if u have it laying on table flat and grab left side of lock and drag it to the left and the up it works everytime for me...seems the left part of the lockscreen is always ok lol (something to do with phone being grounded)

Ok, the only difference is that I restored my settings using mybackup pro. Could that have been the difference.
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jrwingate6 said:
I already tried clearing the data from both Sense applications and then rebooted my phone. I didn't make a back up of everything so Sense was back to the way it came from the factory. Long story short. It didn't work for me. I still had the lock screen issue.
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I think the way the app and ring move together is what causes the lock issue. I think its just the physics of the ring/app moving together causing the issue. Thats my guess. Other than the lockscreen buggy I have no touch screen issues. YOU?

Wifi problem and as of today the lock screen issue started. He lockscreen issue has been resolved.
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So far problem fixed
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justice26 said:
Ok, the only difference is that I restored my settings using mybackup pro. Could that have been the difference.
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I doubt it but I'll sure as hell try if this happens to me again.

smashpunks said:
I think the way the app and ring move together is what causes the lock issue. I think its just the physics of the ring/app moving together causing the issue. Thats my guess. Other than the lockscreen buggy I have no touch screen issues. YOU?
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Yup, I think I agree with that. There are some issues that just don't make any sense though. Why does it become responsive after touching the ring two to three times. It will stay responsive like it should until you turn the display off. I just can't wrap my finger around it.

Could it be something with sense?
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justice26 said:
Could it be something with sense?
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Probably is. I seriously don't know why everyone praises HTC. They are going in the wrong direction with Sense. Instead of making it less intrusive, there making it more intrusive with SENSELESS eye candy. HTC needs to take a page out of Samsung's book in my opinion. There making there UI (Touch Wiz) less intrusive but still keeping the features that make Android better.
Sorry to say but this 3D eye candy isn't making anything better and it's quite obvious HTC half assed Sense 3.0.

LOL, Well comming from 6 G2X this is an upgrade. Hahahaha
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justice26 said:
LOL, Well comming from 6 G2X this is an upgrade. Hahahaha
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Hey, I came from 4 G2X's. Then again, I'm on my 3rd Sensation. Hopefully it doesn't make it to 4.

smashpunks said:
I think the way the app and ring move together is what causes the lock issue. I think its just the physics of the ring/app moving together causing the issue. Thats my guess. Other than the lockscreen buggy I have no touch screen issues. YOU?
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Are you charging this via the stock charger, or via USB pc? If using a wall charger is the outlet grounded or the old two prong style outlet? I had this issue when using the stock charger in an ungrounded outlet when I was at a friends house for the week.
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Yes i am using the stock charger

I don't know if this works for you guys .. but I had that lockscreen issue as well. I noticed that when I play with my wifes phone its perfectly smooth and unlocks with a single swipe. And she can unlock mine easily and never been a problem.The only thing difference is that she didn't take off that screen protector. I have oily skin type so I guess it must be my finger getting sticky. Went to tmobile and got a screen protector and it solves all the problem. Sounds silly but it worked for me and I haven't had a single lockscreen issue in four days as opposed to 4 out of five times before. Hope this helps ..
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[Q] Screen Capture Luck

I found out that the HTC Sensation had this feature but I have yet to get it to work... can any one tell me how it is done? I have tried the power button/home button and just get the turn off option.

It doesn't.
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As has been said in every other screen shot thread, HTC disabled it in the build.prop

Well I saw that the htc website said it does but it doesn't? That's wired.
Adam
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xnifex said:
As has been said in every other screen shot thread, HTC disabled it in the build.prop
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Sorry I went looking for the sensation phone not the htc in general. If I root the phone could I do it? Or is the something else I could do? I see that members that make the themes are doing it.
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stunod85 said:
Sorry I went looking for the sensation phone not the htc in general. If I root the phone could I do it? Or is the something else I could do? I see that members that make the themes are doing it.
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Yes. Root and the use drocap2.

secano said:
Yes. Root and the use drocap2.
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my question about his method: do you need to do more than just fre3vo? I tried it that way & drocap2 doesn't work still. I've noticed that some of the auto-redo methods some people have made has the batch script installing other apps called Superuser, sqlite2, & busybox. What are those & are they needed for drocap2 to work?

xnifex said:
my question about his method: do you need to do more than just fre3vo? I tried it that way & drocap2 doesn't work still. I've noticed that some of the auto-redo methods some people have made has the batch script installing other apps called Superuser, sqlite2, & busybox. What are those & are they needed for drocap2 to work?
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I guess they ARE needed, for it to run.
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All the screenshots made other than the lockscreen reveals lines on the screen. I've used dropcap2, android sdk, screenshotit, etc....all can screenshot the lockscreen ok but when I try to screenshot the home screen or any other screen, black lines show up on the pic across the icons and screen.

kpjimmy said:
All the screenshots made other than the lockscreen reveals lines on the screen. I've used dropcap2, android sdk, screenshotit, etc....all can screenshot the lockscreen ok but when I try to screenshot the home screen or any other screen, black lines show up on the pic across the icons and screen.
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drocap2 does that on the first screenshot each time you launch the program (every time it's granted su permissions). Second screenshot should be perfectly fine. Just long press the home button to access drocap2 easily.
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secano said:
drocap2 does that on the first screenshot each time you launch the program (every time it's granted su permissions). Second screenshot should be perfectly fine. Just long press the home button to access drocap2 easily.
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Two threads or so above this one has the same issue. They seem to think it's a sense issue being the sense widgets being animated.
Can you take screenshots without the lines? After the first one as you mentioned.

kpjimmy said:
Two threads or so above this one has the same issue. They seem to think it's a sense issue being the sense widgets being animated.
Can you take screenshots without the lines? After the first one as you mentioned.
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Sure.
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secano said:
Sure.
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Thanks but do you have any that show the home screens?

kpjimmy said:
Thanks but do you have any that show the home screens?
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There...
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secano said:
drocap2 does that on the first screenshot each time you launch the program (every time it's granted su permissions). Second screenshot should be perfectly fine. Just long press the home button to access drocap2 easily.
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Thanks for suggesting the "long press" solution.
The way I had done it was using drocap2 via notification trigger.
I did have to disable SU notification setting else the "toast" or "notification bar" gets into the screen shot.
I used shake trigger for the lock screen captures since notification bar trigger won't work for that screen.

Drocap2 is getting these images whenever I take screenshots after the second and third. No changes I am still getting the lines.
I currently have use the notification bar to "take" the pic in 5 seconds. Is there something I am missing??

Are those lines on your screen when you transition from 1 screen to another? Like, does it flicker?
I have the flicker issue sometimes and either a "Force Stop" HTC Sense or use Fast Reboot app to make Sense reload.
Try drocap2 on it after that.

No it doesn't flicker or anything. And no I am not transitioning from another screen. I just tried the fast boot app and it worked slightly on the first pic but then the lines come back in the second.
Maybe it's a lwp issue? I am going to try to get a static lwp to test.

Confirmed-LWP (for me) causes lines
LWP when doing a screenshot will cause lines. I tried a different lwp and a static one.
The htc sense lwp
Static wallpaper-No lines.

Yeah, I'm getting those lines using lwp too.
Galaxy LWP doesn't show lines.

White HTC screen after exiting to home

As the subject says, whenever I exit an app or the browser, it goes to the white htc screen and then it says loading for abt 15 second and it'll take me back home. Anyone know what causes this?
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Are you using a task killer?
Sounds suspiciously like rosie is being killed by something every time it goes to the background.
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the1n0nlykingd said:
As the subject says, whenever I exit an app or the browser, it goes to the white htc screen and then it says loading for abt 15 second and it'll take me back home. Anyone know what causes this?
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it's a RAM issue! I solved it by uninstalling the new Market App (I cannot use the new functionality here in Europe, anyway) and other services that I didn't used that I had running in the background!
Problem solved!
With all the love I have for my Sensation, I feel HTC should have gone with more memory!!

How can I get the old market back?
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mcarmona said:
With all the love I have for my Sensation, I feel HTC should have gone with more memory!!
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I would have to say it's HTC's over-bloated Sense that is the problem. With CM7 I always have 300-200 Mb of unused memory. I can run games, videos, anything memory intensive and still never use it all.
As for the white screen when hitting home... It's a memory issue with Sense. I would get that back when I ran stock ROM.