Hi everyone, i want to ask this because i'm curious
Why everytime after an app has been installed android restarts the launcher? I've owned a Nexus One, a Desire Z and now a Nexus S but it seem to happen on every Android phone, and i think google has to fix it as soon as they can, for me it's really an annoying thing, on iOS and windows phone it doesn't happen and it makes the overall experience a lot better and fluid.
I can understand that when i'm playing some games android kills the launcher to free some ram and that's ok, but after installing an app is something that shouldn't happen at all.
Is there a technical reason for this?
Thanks!
I don't face problem like yours, can you tell me your rom, version, and launcher app (if u use launcher app like go launcher wx etc)
Sorry for my english
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Hello, i'm using ICS Stock (4.0.4), i'm almost sure that happens to you too, but maybe with custom roms reloading the launcher is faster and you don't even notice that
Oh, and i use Nova Launcher
Hello
Yeah i'm using custom rom now, but before i use custom rom, i used the stock 4.0.4 from samfirmware but never face problem like yours...
Have you tried when nova laucher off?
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Yes, it happens with the stock launcher too
Where u get the stock 4.0.4?
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try full wipe (clean dalvik-cache, wipe cache, wipe data) or reflashing the ics...
remember to backup your data such contacts and messages
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i get this every now and then when installing big apps. Im thinking it has to do with the phone caching the app in ram as it installs it and since the nexus only has 512 mb of ram, the launcher is killed at times. My phone also get a bit laggy when installing apps. This doesnt happen on ios because ios handles multitasking and memory management differently than android.
My nexus s also get a bit laggy when installing apps, but only for big app... but my laucher does not restart...
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Well i have this too when i modify any of launchers options... i understand this normal as launcher apply changes, and also when u install app some changes also have to be made right ?? Just the way i think about it and i dont see this as problem at all coz i dont think u install new app every 5 min... why bother with such a little thing compared to how amazing ns is ...
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Hi all,
My question is, is it possible to change the stock look of the icons in the app drawer, I want them to look like the original icons as that show up in ADW, CM7, Sense launchers. Don't like the background square coloured box effect put by default by samsung on all icons.
I know I can use a different launcher to over come this issue but is it possible to have this mod with the stock samsung touch wiz launcher?
Using XXKMP, ext4, deodexed, CF Root & 3 other mods.
Thanks
You can do it if you mod the touchWIZ launcher apk
Is there a customised version of the touch wiz apk available for the SL? If not can someone please guide me to the guide to modify the same.
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Some help please. Anyone?
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I think this will help u. But its for froyo.
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1184040
vishal24387 said:
I think this will help u. But its for froyo.
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1184040
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Thanks for replying and the link, looks like it for Froyo only by the comments.
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Have managed to remove the tiles using TW 4.5 launcher.
My post below from the following thread -
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=19296478&postcount=208
For all that are curious about touchwiz 4.5 working on our phones, it does. Just download the TW4 manager app from the thread and install, in the menu select latest check for updates & uninstall -> latest stable version, it will check and download the latest stable version and give you an option to install it to system or data, I selected system. Once done if you press the home button, you will get a option to select the launcher you want to use just as when you install custom launchers. Did not need to make any backups of the current launcher, it still works. Use a home switcher app to toggle or set to default between the TW launchers and use whichever one you want.
Have personally not used the 4 version, hence can't comment on differences, my choice was totally based on comments I read in different threads.
It works perfectly well with good customization and for me i got what I was looking for - to remove the tiles behind the icons in the app drawer. Thank God!!!
It's very smooth as well.
My phone details - I9003DDKP3, CF-Root, ext4, deodexed, mods + now TW 4.5
harshs23 said:
Have managed to remove the tiles using TW 4.5 launcher.
My post below from the following thread -
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=19296478&postcount=208
For all that are curious about touchwiz 4.5 working on our phones, it does. Just download the TW4 manager app from the thread and install, in the menu select latest check for updates & uninstall -> latest stable version, it will check and download the latest stable version and give you an option to install it to system or data, I selected system. Once done if you press the home button, you will get a option to select the launcher you want to use just as when you install custom launchers. Did not need to make any backups of the current launcher, it still works. Use a home switcher app to toggle or set to default between the TW launchers and use whichever one you want.
Have personally not used the 4 version, hence can't comment on differences, my choice was totally based on comments I read in different threads.
It works perfectly well with good customization and for me i got what I was looking for - to remove the tiles behind the icons in the app drawer. Thank God!!!
It's very smooth as well.
My phone details - I9003DDKP3, CF-Root, ext4, deodexed, mods + now TW 4.5
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but touch wizard 4.5 eats ur ram alot.
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but touch wizard 4.5 eats ur ram alot.
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Unused ram is wasted ram. What do you plan to so with the unused ram? It's not there to sit and look pretty, it's meant to be used.
People also stop using task killers, they are not meant for GB, it manages itself. If you kill a program it just restarts till it's background work is done and shuts itself off. You end up using more battery just in. this process.
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harshs23 said:
Unused ram is wasted ram. What do you plan to so with the unused ram? It's not there to sit and look pretty, it's meant to be used.
People also stop using task killers, they are not meant for GB, it manages itself. If you kill a program it just restarts till it's background work is done and shuts itself off. You end up using more battery just in. this process.
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i know that buddy. I am trying to tell u that if u want a good launcher which will not have icon backdrop then use go launcher. Its super smooth than tw4.5. Also I am telling u to avoid tw4.5 because it will slow down ur phone. U will experience lag while doing multi tasking. I have used many launchers that why I told u. Anyway its ur choice.
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i know that buddy. I am trying to tell u that if u want a good launcher which will not have icon backdrop then use go launcher. Its super smooth than tw4.5. Also I am telling u to avoid tw4.5 because it will slow down ur phone. U will experience lag while doing multi tasking. I have used many launchers that why I told u. Anyway its ur choice.
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Tried Go launcher, fount it to be laggy especially on home home screens changeover.
As an update, I have removed 4.5 and am currently testing the version 4, it seems alright too, definitely smoother than 4.5 but you lose out on a lot of customization and infinite loop scrolling on home screens.
Anyone else keep getting sense restarting after coming out of an app?
Nope... Not got any other launchers installed have you?
I'm sure this question gets asked daily. It's because the sensation doesn't have that much memory, and sense 3.0 is hogging too much of it. A change of launcher bypasses the issue.
StuartTheFish said:
I'm sure this question gets asked daily. It's because the sensation doesn't have that much memory, and sense 3.0 is hogging too much of it. A change of launcher bypasses the issue.
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strange, my device always has 150+mb free when idle, and 200mb+ when i clean my prog-list,
do you actualy close any programs, or only just use the home-icon.
only a different launcher would not change much, sense will still be present.
No, it's the sense launcher itself that causes the issues, and it's that which keeps restarting, hence seeing the HTC screen while it starts up again. Using a different launcher bypasses the issue entirely, though you do lose the ability to use sense widgets. You still use the sense keyboard and can use HTC's apps though.
I never use the home icon as I don't like leaving apps running, I always quit out of them properly if I can help it. Sense takes up too much of the phone's memory, so when you try to change or exit tasks it runs out of memory and can't do it, hence sense stops and restarts from scratch. Seems to happen more the more apps you have on the phone.
Are you rooted?
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I am now, but it was doing it beforehand too. Hence why I use a different launcher.
I have noticed that on my Sensation the Sense interface restarts every time I close the market using the "Back" key after installing or upgrading one or more apps.
It does not happen if I go back home using the "Home" button...Can anyone else confirm this trend?
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Anyone else keep getting sense restarting after coming out of an app?
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Do you have spareparts installed and if you do is app management set to aggressive?
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I used to have the same problem on stock ROM not-rooted so I rooted my phone and installed a custom ROM. This solved my problem and i have no more random reboots.
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I had this same issue and just removed spare parts and bingo it's not crashing any more. Spare parts was kinda pointless on gingerbread as the battery history was the main thing I used it for but that doesn't work on gb.
Thanks d3vilskid
Edit: spoke too soon.... Stopped happening with browser and home key. But still happening with market place and back button.
If u have root u can try the market app ram manager it balances ram for everyday. Use and the paid version can free ram for multitasking And gaming
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You can add HOME_APP_ADJ=1 to the build.prop file, and that will prevent Rosie (the launcher) from being killed/restarted by the memory manager.
pakraider said:
You can add HOME_APP_ADJ=1 to the build.prop file, and that will prevent Rosie (the launcher) from being killed/restarted by the memory manager.
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True! Just did it yesterday and problem solved! Not a single reload since. And I had a LOT of them. Unfortunately you have to be rooted...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1151771&page=2
search for rorycs post, he explained it .
Hi guys,
Since the AOSP ICS builds I noticed that when the Phone app is not in memory it opens very slow. The next time you open it is almost instant. I thought that it would be fixed in the OTA, and even if it is a little faster it is still quite frustrating sometimes. Tried many roms/kernels and even if in some configurations it open faster, it is still slow.
Since I dont use the Phone that much, almost every time that I use it it is not in the memory and it is slow. Anyone has an idea to fix it, like a hack to make it persistent in the memory?
Thanks.
Bump. Is there a way to keep it in memory ? Maybe giving it a special permission like the launcher will help. I will take a look...
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This is my only problem with ICS - I've tried a few memory management programs to see if I could keep the dialer, or contacts, persistent in memory, but nothing works. When I launch the dialer, the application 'Contacts' ('com.android.contacts', which seems to be the new ICS 'People' app) is shown as an 'active application' in my 'SystemPanel' app off the Market, and as long as that stays as an active app then the dialer usually re-launches straight away when pressed the next time, sometimes with only a small bit of lag if the screen has been of for a minute or two. When the 'contacts' app is shut down by the system, I guess when you open other apps up that need memory, the dialer lags again.
All the time, the process 'Phone' ('com.android.phone') seem to be sitting there as an 'Internal System Process' and seems to be persistent, but that alone doesn't make the dialer launch quickly, the 'contacts' app needs to be active as well.
My observations, but I am not a techie.
actually i recently read a thread here on XDA that addressed this issue. it involved a command on the terminal that allowed you to prioritize certain apps. too bad i can't seem to find that thread anymore!
found it! it involves using the Renice command. you can run it as an init.d script
or demo it out using the prioritzer apk (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1224125) kind thanks to this developer for creating the app. it works great!
all i did, was set the phone and contact app to -20 priority. it loads MUCH faster... try it and report back.
here are more links related to renice
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1271637#17746874
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1401858
Great, thanks for coming back on this, this sounds interesting - I'm not rooted at the moment, I will look into doing this as I think it would be worth it just to sort out this problem, as well as the other benefits. I will report back with my results!
I decided not to root in order to fix this, I've gone a different way with the dialer - exDialer has a polished looking ICS theme and I installed that to see how it would work, and it works great. It opens up consistently quicker, maybe due to the 'Keep in Memory' option that it has. I haven't had one laggy episode with it yet. Most other third party dialers don't look so good but this has a great ICS look, has smart dial, and a great call history function, and it's free (or you can donate as I did). Worth a look for anyone having similar problems.
I would still go back to the stock dialer if it worked properly, maybe a future update will solve this without having to root.
Hi guys,
an old thread, but i would like to now if there is something new about the "bug" that the Phone app opens slow if it is not in memory.
I'm new to the nexus s and running the newest skank Version.
On my Desire S the phone app opens much faster .
Cheers
EbiEre said:
Hi guys,
an old thread, but i would like to now if there is something new about the "bug" that the Phone app opens slow if it is not in memory.
I'm new to the nexus s and running the newest skank Version.
On my Desire S the phone app opens much faster .
Cheers
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One thing to keep in mind is that the Desire S has more RAM.
Mine opens up instantly however. Have you rebooted after installing the rom?
I remember on GB it was instant! On ICS it is indeed very slow. Hopefully JB fixes it...
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I remember on GB it was instant! On ICS it is indeed very slow. Hopefully JB fixes it...
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That's funny because mine doesn't even take a second. :silly:
Same here if not in memory, i can easily notice certain lag on ics roms on my phone, when opening certain apps.
Yeah i did.
Hm Sounds like i have to live with it, or does someone have an alternative way to Set the priority for apps. The one mentioned earlier does Not work for me.
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Thanks for the suggestion to try exDialer. The phone lag was really irritating me and this did the trick. With ics dark theme, it's a perfect complement to bugles beast. Hopefully this will be fixed in 4.1, but till then ...
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Hi, I'm totally new to smartphone/android and this is the first one I currently have.
It works pretty fine but friends told me that if it lags that means the original rom is not good I should flash another rom for the phone but I have no idea how and which is good for my phone. One told me to flash it to jelly bean which I searched around but people are using prof words (at least they are to me) and I don't quite understand esp. when it says during the procedure I might brick my phone so I want to have more idea how things are done so and so.
Some info about my razr hd are
Model: TX925
Carrier: Fido (got it from fido, in bc)
Android version: 4.0.4
I believe I already rooted my phone because one of the app called screenshot need the phone to be rooted so I tried that but nothing further.
Thanks in advance for helping me out. ^_^
Not intending to seem condescending, but it's probably safer to not attempt to install a custom ROM. My experience with the ICS stock ROM was that it was mainly lagging in the home screens which can mostly be remedied by installing Nova or Apex.
Ruxin said:
Not intending to seem condescending, but it's probably safer to not attempt to install a custom ROM. My experience with the ICS stock ROM was that it was mainly lagging in the home screens which can mostly be remedied by installing Nova or Apex.
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Nova and apex is an app?
et4891 said:
Nova and apex is an app?
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Nova and Apex are launcher replacements that can be downloaded in Google Play. Each has a free version, and a premium version with the only difference between the paid and free version being some missing features in the free versions.
Launcher replacements are great as they allow you to customise your home screens a fair bit more: number of home screens, grid size, scrolling animations, ability to hide apps in the app drawer, etc. If you're curious I'd recommend downloading one of them and play around, if you don't like you can just uninstall.
The downsides on the RAZR HD are that you can't have the Motorola circles widget on 3rd party launchers which is disappointing because it's quite nice - and the swipe to left screen quick settings is also lost. The latter I resolved by installing Widgetsoid (free in Play Store) and setting up quick settings in my notification blind.
Ruxin said:
Nova and Apex are launcher replacements that can be downloaded in Google Play. Each has a free version, and a premium version with the only difference between the paid and free version being some missing features in the free versions.
Launcher replacements are great as they allow you to customise your home screens a fair bit more: number of home screens, grid size, scrolling animations, ability to hide apps in the app drawer, etc. If you're curious I'd recommend downloading one of them and play around, if you don't like you can just uninstall.
The downsides on the RAZR HD are that you can't have the Motorola circles widget on 3rd party launchers which is disappointing because it's quite nice - and the swipe to left screen quick settings is also lost. The latter I resolved by installing Widgetsoid (free in Play Store) and setting up quick settings in my notification blind.
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Thanks for the respond....just another quick question so I guess it's not a recommendation to flash a different rom for razr hd it's just that lots people are saying flashing a different rom would be better than the stock one is it because razr hd is still new or it's just somehow not good for razr hd to have other rom?
P.S. for the stock TX925 are there any applications I can uninstall? I checked there are lots that runs in background even if I stopped it but it'll somehow start again and some that I just don't know if I should stop it from running.....*as I know sometimes there are apps that can be deleted but comes with the phone and I'm not sure which I can uninstall/delete*
It's not that it's bad to flash a different ROM, but as it was mentioned it's safer to start with installing Nova or Apex and trying those out first.
With respect to what can or can't be uninstalled, you can start by freezing an app first to see what kind of impact it will have on your phone (I would also do a Google search on that app). Typically if the app came with your system but can also be installed from the play store, then I would say it is safe to at least freeze it (others may disagree).
One other way to decide which app to freeze/uninstall is look at some of the custom ROMs and see what apps were removex there.
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shoryuken_2020 said:
It's not that it's bad to flash a different ROM, but as it was mentioned it's safer to start with installing Nova or Apex and trying those out first.
With respect to what can or can't be uninstalled, you can start by freezing an app first to see what kind of impact it will have on your phone (I would also do a Google search on that app). Typically if the app came with your system but can also be installed from the play store, then I would say it is safe to at least freeze it (others may disagree).
One other way to decide which app to freeze/uninstall is look at some of the custom ROMs and see what apps were removex there.
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Just played around with those two launchers ^_^
If I do want to try flashing a different ROM is there any to recommend?
Also I kept on seeing people posting firmware updates or change firmware what do those actually do?
Flashing another Rom will unlock the verizon razr hd for others carriers?
I have this problem on my phone, when I play some game or browsing or open any app and go back to home screan or exit app my sense launcher restart it self like when phone turning on. I hade this problem before and I factory reset my phone but after 5 days problem is back. Is any one have same problem or solution for it?
Hi,
This is because you don't have enough ram available while browsing or playing games, so android is stopping sense in order to free some ram. I had this problem with sense 4+ because i was having around 150mb of free ram when on the homescreen. Since I use MaximusHD (and therefore sense 5) i have almost 300mb ram available and therefore this problem is almost gone for me.
You can also try to use Greenify on the play store which avoid to have apps running on the background when you don't need them
I assumed that lack of ram making this problem. I will just change in settings how many apps can be open at same time.
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