So I had this issue in Honeycomb and now in ICS.
Easily repeatable. I launch an app, any app, go into portrait mode. When finished, I hit back or home, change orientation to landscape, and the Launcher crashes. "Unfortunately, Launcher has stopped"
looking at the logs I have a:
threadid-1: thread exiting with uncaught exception. (group=0x40a531f8)
It happens as soon as all the widgets finish loading, but I can get it to replicate on a non-widget screen.
Anyone know how I can track down what is causing this? I was hoping ICS would fix it but its not.
Are you stock ICS?
Yup.. 4.0.3 stock.
I think is "sort of" figured it out. I read something somewhere, can't recall where, that having too many widgets pulling data on your home screens can cause it to error if you rotate before its able to finish loading.
It loads not just the widgets on your current screen, but all screens. So I killed a bunch I don't ever look at, and it seems stable. I'll go back adding one after another to test and see which crashes it.
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So I updated a few apps (colorize widget, Go Launcher, and a news app) shortly after, I start having crashing issues. when the lock screen comes up, it gives me the message to swipe one direction to start using the phones, or swipe down to adjust settings, as if it was the first time I turned on my phone after buying. problem is, after I swipe either way, it freezes halfway through the opening animation, then the screen goes black for several seconds, then I see my home launcher restarting, reloading widgets and all. shortly after that, I re-receive the most recent text message i'd gotten. this repeats and repeats, I've tried a few times now.
I thought the Go Launcher update was the problem, but it happened after switching to Launcher Pro as well. any ideas what's causing?
Falkner09 said:
So I updated a few apps (colorize widget, Go Launcher, and a news app) shortly after, I start having crashing issues. when the lock screen comes up, it gives me the message to swipe one direction to start using the phones, or swipe down to adjust settings, as if it was the first time I turned on my phone after buying. problem is, after I swipe either way, it freezes halfway through the opening animation, then the screen goes black for several seconds, then I see my home launcher restarting, reloading widgets and all. shortly after that, I re-receive the most recent text message i'd gotten. this repeats and repeats, I've tried a few times now.
I thought the Go Launcher update was the problem, but it happened after switching to Launcher Pro as well. any ideas what's causing?
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Having different launchers and a lot of widgets can bog down your system, especially GO launcher. I would suggest heading over to the development section and rooting + custom rom. You can check fawkreview's bible thread for eveything you need to do, it will make your phone twice as fast and you shouldn't have issues like that anymore.
Sense is force closing on me frequently. What is wrong? Will it be related to something I have downloaded?
I have the same issue!
Doesn't really matter what I am doing, I can view facebook or Plume and when I hit back to get the the homescreen if force closes...
Happens almost all of the time if I install or remove an app..
Orange Branded Sensation, 2.3.4, rooted although was happening on 2.3.3 and pre-root.
I haven't had a look to see if the cause is captured in a log file yet.
There are numerous threads on exactly this subject, it's because there's insufficient memory, so when exiting an app it doesn't have enough memory to switch, hence it ends task and restarts instead. Changing to a different launcher fixes it.
I got ADW EX since it is 10 cents today and I don't know how to make it my default. My Xoom is not rooted and running 3.2.1.
After I install ADW EX and press the home key nothing happens. The screen just gets dark, going to neither launchers. I go into Applications and the option to clear defaults for both stock/ADW EX are not highlighted/doable. They are blacked out. I can only clear data on both of them. I installed Launcher Switcher and it says no default set but it won't let me pick either launcher. I then installed Home Switcher and it again said no defaults set but this time I was able to pick ADW EX as my default. BUT, even after doing that, after I press the home key it goes nowhere again, nothing happens, dark screen.
I restarted my Xoom and after boot animation the screen was black, I could only see the bottom bar where the back/home/windows and time are. Neither stock or ADW EX was launched after I restarted. I had to go into Settings, Applications and open ADW EX to get it to come up. I then uninstalled ADW EX and pressed the home key which brought up the stock launcher. Hunky dory. I reinstalled and the same problems happened.
I searched the forums and looked online but I don't know what to do. I can manually go back and forth between launchers but that's not what I want... I just want ADW EX to work when I press the home key! I suck lol. Could someone please help me? Thank you in advance!
There may be two different issues in play, but if you are stuck with the stock launcher as default, go into settings, apps, choose the stock launcher and on the bottom of the page you should be able to uncheck default. Then if you have ADW installed, you should get the dialog box to choose the default launcher. If the screen dims and does nothing, just rotate your Xoom (i.e. landscape to portrait) and the dialog box should popup.
It could be related to another App you have installed. I did a Google search and some one else had a similar problem on an Incredible 2 where they couldn't set a launcher and it turned out to be a keyboard app causing issues.
I have a similar problem too. After installing the adw launcher I can no longer open links or office documents, or execute any other commands that require a selection via a dialog box. I tried uninstalling the launcher app, but that only fixes the home button not the other things. I already tried resetting all the defaults using the several apps in the market, but that doesn't worked. any help would be greatly appreciated.
whenever I click on an internet link or try to open an office document that I downloaded the screen dims down as it would whenever a dialog box appears except no box shows up.
rgloria12 said:
I have a similar problem too. After installing the adw launcher I can no longer open links or office documents, or execute any other commands that require a selection via a dialog box. I tried uninstalling the launcher app, but that only fixes the home button not the other things. I already tried resetting all the defaults using the several apps in the market, but that doesn't worked. any help would be greatly appreciated.
whenever I click on an internet link or try to open an office document that I downloaded the screen dims down as it would whenever a dialog box appears except no box shows up.
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Enable Autorotate and rotate your Xoom when the screen dims. It's a Honeycomb bug.
okantomi said:
Enable Autorotate and rotate your Xoom when the screen dims. It's a Honeycomb bug.
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thank you. It worked like a charm. I feel bad for blaming the adw launcher for this issue, I was about to leave a bad review...
rgloria12 said:
thank you. It worked like a charm. I feel bad for blaming the adw launcher for this issue, I was about to leave a bad review...
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I'm glad you didn't leave a bad review...I love ADW...
Ouch! If only I had read this yesterday before I wiped my Xoom and tried to reload all my launchers, only to find the problem still existed. :-(
The auto rotate worked like a charm.
Geesh.
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I've been having problems with the default ICS launcher sort of crashing. i say "sort of" because it deson't actually crash because if it did...it would restart.
the desktop part of the launcher stops drawing. the wallpaper is still visible, and the dock still functional. i can still scroll, etc. the only problem is that the icons/widgets are gone. it seems like i can still click on them however, they're just not visible.
the only way to fix it is to force stop the launcher. which i don't mind doing once in a while, but it seems once it happens once, the launcher becomes relatively unstable and it happens often. a restart would re-stabilize it until it happens again.
anyone have the same issues and possible workaround?
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finalhit said:
I've been having problems with the default ICS launcher sort of crashing. i say "sort of" because it deson't actually crash because if it did...it would restart.
the desktop part of the launcher stops drawing. the wallpaper is still visible, and the dock still functional. i can still scroll, etc. the only problem is that the icons/widgets are gone. it seems like i can still click on them however, they're just not visible.
the only way to fix it is to force stop the launcher. which i don't mind doing once in a while, but it seems once it happens once, the launcher becomes relatively unstable and it happens often. a restart would re-stabilize it until it happens again.
anyone have the same issues and possible workaround?
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using Tapatalk 2
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I had that issue with go launcher HD, I switched to apex so far no iconless screen. And it is better then stock. You may want to give it a try
Native launcher crashes
I have tha same issue, i really like the native launcher, don't wanna change.
I think it's a widget related issue.
try removing all the widgets from your screens and see if it solves the problem
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?