OK it is kinda hard to explain this problem but I will do my best. OK so sometimes when surfing the internet or netflix or whatever sometimes when I use the keyboard it won't work at all or some of the letters won't work. I try to hit the home key and it arts like I'm not even touching it. I close down opera and I try to go to my app drawers and I get no responce but I can swipe home sscreens. So I try to restart it and the would you like to power down screen comes up and I can't hit OK or cancel it just sits there. So the first thing I thought was my touch screen is going out. Well here's the confusing part with the shut down screen up if I swipe the screen I can go to different home pages ans open apps as if the shutdown screen isn't even there. Its like the core system parts lock up like the back home ans recent app button and the app drawer and the shutdown stuff anyone have any idea. I did a full factory reset before installing OTA 3.2 and after, fully stock
I wonder if the browser caused your problem? Opera doesn't work well on the Transformer. I have had all sorts of problems with the stock browser, too. I have switched to Dolphin and (despite the name) it is really the best browser for the Transformer. I can't recall the different problems that each of the other browsers had, but I've tried them all. .. Firefox, Opera, etc, but each had at least one show-stopper issue. Dolphin doesn't crash or quit, can save pages for offline, downloads files, etc... everything you expect a browser to do.
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[Q] HTC Desire "appears" as if it has the home button stuck, since a recent update
One of our HTC Desire is exhibiting very weird behaviour since a recent update (couple of days ago). It only affects one of the phone, the second one is working fine, both were updated within the same day.
** I will try to post the software version on the next post, I think it's triggering the "No outisde link for new user" error, even though there is no outside link!
This phone only started playing up about a day after the update, not immediately. It sometimes wake up on its own and bring up the "Recent Apps" screen, as if you have long-pressed the Home key. It then switches wildly between that screen and the zoom out (helicopter view?) view of all the home screens. Initially I thought it is hardware problem and the phone is 'screwed' but I think it's more software problem, since it can work normally sometimes.
The wild screen switching made it impossible to use the phone and because it is working constantly, it gets hot and drains the battery. The problem started to get worse when we plugged it into a PC to sync and it started to go crazy. Since the screen switching so wildly, I can't get into the menu to soft reset or turn off the phone properly. So had to hard reset it, and done that more than half a dozen times.
We did have an issue when we first downloaded that recent update, both phones didn't have enough space, so the install crashed out. We freed up more space and both phones appear to have installed the update fine. Well, until a day or so after, one of the phone started playing up.
At the end, I found that if I held down the optical cursor button (very hard work), it seems to hold off the wild screen switching. I can then sort of use the phone as per normal, so that I can join WiFi and change settings & install apps etc.
I noticed that the Rosie Utility is always showing on the "Recent apps" screen. I've never seen that on a normal "Recent Apps" screen before. Not knowing what it was, I googled and learnt that it's the SenseUI. I then compared the SenseUI info with AppKik and the crazy phone is showing a different size 1.9MB (laterly 2.0MB) whereas the working phone is showing 3.0MB, althought both said HTC Sense Version 1.0 com.htc.launcher.
So I figured something must have gone wrong with the SenseUI Launcher and hence it's doing crazy thing. So I downloaded couple of other launchers, LauncherPro and ADW Launcher. They initially seem to work then all of a sudden the crazy screen switching will start and they will get worse. It seems worst if I left it on the main home screen, if I was in an App, it sometimes stay calm for a while.
In frustration, I thought I will backup my SenseUI (rosie.apk) from the working phone using Appkik and then install it on the faulty phone, but the install failed. Probably because it's being used. Tried switch the default launcher to LauncherPro, still the same. May be it needed Root access to replace? So I rooted the phone with UnRevoke3 (after a long struggle getting the correct ADB working) but still can't install the rosie.apk.
Anyhow, after rooting the phone, it mysterously settled down. I could use the phone normally for quite a while, then it started again. Although not as crazy and only intermittently. Haven't used the phone later part of today, so not sure what it's doing at the moment. When I tried the phone this morning, I stumbled across an option to un-update the senseUI, so it's now supposedly switched back to the factory default (Eclair 2.1??) version? The info from Appkik is stil lthe same though.
My question to the experts are ...
1. Can I 'update' just the latest Rosie.APK since the phone update said I already got the latest and no more updates available. ? If so, where and how?
2. If not, can I download a working copy of Rosie.apk from somewhere, and how do I write that over the existing 'possibly' faulty version?
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
HTC Desire "appears" as if it has the home button stuck, since a recent update
Attached is the TXT file containing my HTC Desire Software Version details.
For some unknown reason, it won't accept my post if I had the text from this file in the body of the post. It keeps bringing up the error about no 'outside' link for new user.
Update: If I "Cleare Default" on SenseUI in the App2SD settings, then it appears to stop the Screen Switching, but the Home button stops working altogether, the rest of the home screens appear to work normally though. Very weird. I think the problem is definitely to do with corrupted Rosie.apk (com.htc.launcher) .
Hi,
In case it helps anyone else, my home and menu button on an hd desire became intermittently broken in that they would stop working for days.
I followed this and did a clear data on the rosie utility and they work fine now.
Whoop whoop!
So I have GingerDX installed with no issues except this one. I tried wiping and fresh install but it is still an issue for me.
It mostly happens with the keyboard, everytime I bring it up, I get the background and empty screen. When I press back, keyboard goes away and everything goes back to normal. It happens with default keyboard and swype which is the keyboard I want to use.
I have seen it occur at other times occasionally though. Anybody got any ideas? This basically makes the phone unusable if I can't type.
Oh and if I rotate the screen, sometimes, it causes the keyboard to appear with squeezed input box and I can use the phone but other times, this does not work.
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Found problem, theme doesn't work properly on X8. going back to A-Lite resolved isuse.
I've got a weird issue. I'm running the stock T-Mobile ROM with the only real modification being Swype as my keyboard. Sometimes it seems the phone will get very warm and stop responding. I can still open the home screen, go through apps, etc, but Internet/Data will fail to work. I can access the dialer, but it will refuse to dial. When I press a text box for the keyboard to come up to type, nothing registers within the box as I type. Using the home screen widget to turn on and off wireless and GPS, those buttons stop responding as well.
Has this happened to anyone? I'm close to performing a factory reset to hopefully rid this issue. Rebooting the phone seems to fix it, but it has happened about half a dozen times within the past 2 weeks now.
unrealii said:
I've got a weird issue. I'm running the stock T-Mobile ROM with the only real modification being Swype as my keyboard. Sometimes it seems the phone will get very warm and stop responding. I can still open the home screen, go through apps, etc, but Internet/Data will fail to work. I can access the dialer, but it will refuse to dial. When I press a text box for the keyboard to come up to type, nothing registers within the box as I type. Using the home screen widget to turn on and off wireless and GPS, those buttons stop responding as well.
Has this happened to anyone? I'm close to performing a factory reset to hopefully rid this issue. Rebooting the phone seems to fix it, but it has happened about half a dozen times within the past 2 weeks now.
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Best bet is to factory reset which, of course, will dump all your apps, settings, etc etc... An even better bet is to root and install a custom ROM; but that is your call.
Another option is to get a task manager / battery monitor and see if a specific app is causing your phone to act up. Look for things like most time on or most CPU usage or most battery consuming, depending on what app you use.
Agreed. Try a factory reset, or send it to HTC.
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I have owned a Droid X, a htc thunderbolt, an asus transformer original, and my galaxy s3. On all devices I have used multiple e browsers, including stock, chrome, dolphin and maxthon. Always seem to have the same problem across all devices and browsers and on every website. When I hit the device back button, rather than go to the previous page, it just refreshes the current page. It does this over and over every time I press back. Only way to get it to go back with the button is to mash the button really fast over and over for a few seconds, and eventually it does go back. I cannot be the only person to have this issue considering its plagued me on 4 devices over the last few years. What is going on?
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Personally never had this problem but on a few sites I probably shouldn't be on anyways. They like to make it so when you go to their site, the main page is just a redirect script that sends you to the actual main page. Clicking back just reloads the redirect script.
If this happens on every site, then I have no idea - maybe try on a clean system, then once after every change? Also try to disable JavaScript?
Hth
this may be due to some advertisements on the site. It's easier to see on a PC where the history is clear, but sometimes after loading a page, an ad will load. Pressing back will return to the page, going back of the ad, which will then load the ad again. The solution is usually to press back twice before the ad is able to reload. I have seen it happen on a couple of sites but it is not the norm.
Looking around some more, this can also be set in a Meta tag on the site.
No matter which, it still shouldn't happen on every site you visit. Disabling JavaScript should still help you narrow things down, especially if its an ad as armus pointed out, or a script.
sfetaz said:
I have owned a Droid X, a htc thunderbolt, an asus transformer original, and my galaxy s3. On all devices I have used multiple e browsers, including stock, chrome, dolphin and maxthon. Always seem to have the same problem across all devices and browsers and on every website. When I hit the device back button, rather than go to the previous page, it just refreshes the current page. It does this over and over every time I press back. Only way to get it to go back with the button is to mash the button really fast over and over for a few seconds, and eventually it does go back. I cannot be the only person to have this issue considering its plagued me on 4 devices over the last few years. What is going on?
Sent from my unlocked VZW Galaxy S3
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Doubleclick is doing it I think, same thing on PC's also, tho you can see it happen on a PC.
I'm having an issue with my Nexus 5 after the 5.0 updates. I'm currently on 5.0.1 but had the same issue with 5.0. My device is completely stock. Just never felt like doing anything to the nexus 5. First phone I decided not to root. The issue i'm having is that every once in a while during a day I will try to turn on my phone to view any notifications or just refresh some news sites. Instead of getting the lock screen and hearing the unlock click to slide, i'm taking right to the home screen bypassing the slide to unlock. All applications at this point will glitch. For example, if i open hangouts, it will open but be blank. Spotify might open, or just be a dark gray screen. Other apps just behave very strangely. If I try to press the home button, it lights up and won't do anything. If i press the multi-task button it looks like it will show the running apps but then just shows a blank screen. If I press the back button many times, it takes me back to the home screen which might or might not be blank. The only way around this is to reboot my phone. But this is happening a few times a day. Often, i'll also see the home button and multi task button disappear. I've taken two screen shots of what it looks like. Has anyone ever seen this issue? I don't mind downgrading back to 4.x or rooting for a custom rom if that will resolve this glitch. I can also provide a list of installed apps if anyone wants to know. So what do you guys think of this?