Hello everyone, I am hoping you all can help me with a problem I've been having that I can't seem to figure out. I am having a weird problem with my launchers on my DX. After either entering settings or undocking from my car dock, My launcher will show as blank, with no widgets, icons, or even dock bar.
The part that really gets me is that I am seeing this through multiple SBF's, data wipes, fresh app reinstalls, and multiple ROM's. It has happened on Go Launcher and Launcher Pro Plus while running Shuji (1 and 2), Liberty, and Liberty AOSP. I'm thinking something else has to be causing it but have no idea where to start... any ideas?
When it happens just scroll your finger updown on empty screen, this might help
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Scrolling up and down didn't help, but I think I've isolated the problem. I found out that if I enter settings and then hit back, it makes all widgets/icons/dock disappear. If I leave settings by hitting the home button however; everything is normal. Furthermore, this only happens if I am using a live wallpaper; if I set a static wallpaper, there is no issue. So, it appears that my live wallpapers are misbehaving. Thing is, I'm not sure what to do about it. Any suggestions would be appreciated!
Well it appears I've solved the problem. In case anyone else runs into it, I fixed it by grabbing the LiveWallpapersPicker.apk out of the Liberty 0.8 flashable zip (over at RootzWiki in the DX > Developer > Liberty thread) and replacing the file in my system/apps with the new one using Root Explorer. After a reboot, the problem disappeared and hasn't come back. Hope this can be of help to someone else!
Everytime I try to us an app with a theme, like fancywidgets or beautiful widgets, the theme always resets, and i've noticed my widgets on my Golauncher app also don't refresh even though they're set to, and the same goes for my weather on Fancy, or on beautiful. I have to manually refresh them even though they are set to do to so.
I'm on the stock 2.2 that's rooted, and I've noticed that it does that "media" scanning crap and then the themes are gone and it stops refreshing.
Anyone know how to fix this issues? When I was using MIUI It never happened.
Hi guys!
I´ve just updated my TF101 to ICS and it´s really fast. But I have a problem with the laucher. Some times, when touch the home button to go to the homescreen, the laucher and all the icons desappear.
I can´t go to the apps that are open (with the multi-task button) but the launcher doesn´t appear.
The only solution I know is shuting down the Tf101 or closing the laucher app, but it is quite boring to do ir every 5 or 10 min.
Does it happen to anyone here?
Happens to me as well.
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Same here... needs re-boot to recover...
I only had that if the option to kill tasks as u exit them was checked on. Its under developer options towards the bottom.
Edit: actually that's only the case on my phone. I have the option checked on my tablet and it works just fine.
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I seem to have the same issue.
I had the issue and then I did a factory reset, I haven't seen it since
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Wdustin1 said:
I had the issue and then I did a factory reset, I haven't seen it since
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digger44 said:
Same here... needs re-boot to recover...
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Ok thanks for all I´ll re-boot it, but will I lose all my apps? I´ve never done a hard reset.
Everything that wasn't stock on the tablet will have to be reinstalled.
DammedKiller said:
Ok thanks for all I´ll re-boot it, but will I lose all my apps? I´ve never done a hard reset.
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same here but may be able to narrow it down.
I am having the same problem. The whole screen just displays the wallpaper and removes any icons or buttons. So I can pan sideways and can sometime know what I am clicking on by memory but all icons go until I reboot.
weird thing is.... I have done a factory reset. reloaded my apps and settings. Its all working fine until I pop the Gmail and Calendar widgets on the screen, then boom. Gone again.
At the moment I am running without any widgets and I have not had a repeat. Do any of you clever clogs have any ideas on this one. Seems to be a small percentage of users with the issue.
Same...
I had the same problem however it seems to have stopped now. Perhaps as a result of my app purge that i did the other day.
Anyway for those still having this problem i suggest you use the notification bar to access the settings then from there you can go to the Launcher under apps and do a force close. after a bit it will reopen again with all screen icons and widgets back.
Guys I think this is the same issue, it happens on my tf.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1519943
yep
Happens to me too,
I managed to fix it the latest time without rebooting, by going into settings, running apps and stopping the launcher and anything google. Next time this happen I will make a note of which killed process gives me my app icons back.
also its strange that even with the app icons gone, you can still click around the screen and open things, as if they were there.
same ...
same problem on my tf101
I fixed this by clearing the data for the Launcher in settings. Hasn't happened since but annoying as it meant rebuilding my homescreens :-(
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Nova
you should try Nova Launcher, it looks and acts like the default launcher in ICS. But with a couple functions added. I havent had any troubles with it.
Just search it in the market. to get the widgets to work just move it to /system/app
I installed ICS on mine at the weekend. For a couple of days it reasonably stable, though certain apps lagged somewhat. Then it got much, much worse. There's a recurrent problem with the launcher. If you've gone away from it, such as to use an app, and then return, firstly the widgets and stacked/grouped app icons vanish, then all the rest of the icons vanish, and the three squares on the top right of the screen. The icons are still there, as it's possible to stab on the screen in the right place and launch the app that the invisible icon links to. All five screens of the launcher have vanished. The tablet still runs, as the live wallpaper still runs, and the recent apps are accessible.
Other problems include major freezes or lags. It's common to go to launch email or the web browser only to have to wait 20 seconds or so before anything happens. I've had to wait 5 minutes before now for Opera to launch. Eventually the tablet will freeze and I have to reboot it, but even then, apps take an age to launch, and regularly freeze. It's getting to the point of being totally unusable. It's taken many, many attempts to write this email as the app crashes of its own accord, and perish the thought that I copy and paste any text in, including the email address - it's enough to crash the email app.
My TF101 ran Android 3.2 perfectly fine, and very, very quickly. It was gloriously stable. I can't get more than 2 hours of use out of this without having to reboot; this afternoon I've been having to reboot every 10 minutes.
I've drawn Asus' attention to these problems via Twitter and Google+, and I know they've been told about it on Facebook, but there's been a wall of silence.
Richard
I had the problem with a disappearing launcher on ICS on 4 different launchers. Recently I removed a few widgets (NewsRepublic, Bacon Reader, and DroidWidget) and haven't had the problem reoccur. Maybe some widget incompatibility is to blame?
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I had the problem with a disappearing launcher on ICS on 4 different launchers. Recently I removed a few widgets (NewsRepublic, Bacon Reader, and DroidWidget) and haven't had the problem reoccur. Maybe some widget incompatibility is to blame?
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Could be. Mine's more stable (touch wood) since I got rid of both Beautiful Widgets widgets off my home screen.
Guys I´ve finally done a hard reset on my tf and all goes fine.
Thanks for all
Same problem here with the stock ICS launcher. Using ADW Launcher EX without problems.
Some apps seems to be running super fast at times and then others super slow at times with ICS. Guess I'll do a Titanium backup and factory reset and see if that helps. ugh...
Hi guys,
I wondered if anyone had any suggestions for the issue I seem to be experiencing.
Occasionally, when updating the Friendstream, my phone becomes unresponsive and reboots after a few seconds.
Has anyone else noticed this behaviour?
The friend stream is configured to check my Facebook and Twitter accounts.
I haven't noticed the phone freeze on any other screen, only on the one with my Friendstream widget when updating.
I have used the tweak package to install EQS tabbed circle 1% battery, black HTC boot, remove 3 buttom menu and 6x5 rosie. That's all as far as I can remember.
I had the issue in 4.3 and hoped 4.4 would resolve it - unfortunately not.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
Russ
Ask in the general forum, I made a thead there only for TrickDroid users..
BTW, try v5.0
So, I've been having issues with my TF101 for a while now. At first I thought it was ROM related, but I've seen this issue across a couple different ROMs, including the stock ICS update. The issue is that frequently, the launcher will crash and restart when swiping off the main homescreen. Other times, the UI overlay will crash. That is to say, the icons and everything will vanish, but the background will still be there. Sometimes a widget might be frozen on the screen (it's visible regardless of swiping, and you can't interact with it). I can still swipe, the background is still visible scrolling, and if you know where something should be, you can even tap it and it will open. Has anyone else experienced this? I've noticed the issue in the stock ICS launcher, Apex, or Trebuchet. When it happens, I either have to restart or at least re-apply the system them. Even the lock screen UI vanishes.
FWIW, my TF101 is a B60 unit, rooted, running RaymanFX's CM10 (4.1.2) ROM, and TWRP.
So no one's seen this kind of issue before?
I have a similar problem. Hitting the "home" button (it never disappears) solves the problem, no need for other apps or reboot or anything. I just plain hit the home button and everything reappears.
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So no one's seen this kind of issue before?
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Sometimes, my UI vanishes, but if I wait about 10 seconds or so, it comes back. I guess the launcher crashes, but is automatically restarted by the kernel. I use the K.A.T kernel, maybe that is better with the re-launch when it crashes?