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[Q] HTC Launcher Restarts

Recently I've been noticing that the stock launcher always seems to restart when coming out of another app. For instance, I might go into Gmail for a few seconds, and when I press the home button, I get the white HTC screen then a loading screen for the launcher. So I have to wait like 15 seconds before actually seeing my home screen when I was just there seconds before!
Is anyone else having this issue?
I tried switching to Launcher Pro, but I got similar issues there, where all the icons would have to reload individually on the screen when pressing the home button. And it was a big laggy (more so than the stock launcher).

I had that same problem but that was because I accidently moved the sense launcher to my sd, after moving it back it stopped also look to see if any of the sense programs like people, browser etc we moved cause they can also cause Sense to restart if not stored on phone.
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G using Tapatalk

Nope, they're all on my phone. Just double checked.

Having same problem but it's intermittent. I also asked a couple of other people and they are having the same problem.

It's really annoying. I don't always have quick access to apps because of this. And running another launcher doesn't help. Hopefully this is fixed in the OTA update, whenever that'll be.

bretac said:
Recently I've been noticing that the stock launcher always seems to restart when coming out of another app. For instance, I might go into Gmail for a few seconds, and when I press the home button, I get the white HTC screen then a loading screen for the launcher. So I have to wait like 15 seconds before actually seeing my home screen when I was just there seconds before!
Is anyone else having this issue?
I tried switching to Launcher Pro, but I got similar issues there, where all the icons would have to reload individually on the screen when pressing the home button. And it was a big laggy (more so than the stock launcher).
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I have found that turning off the Fast Boot feature and restarting has pretty much eliminated this problem.

Thanks rorycs! That seems to have done the trick.
Any ideas why fast boot was causing the issue in the first place?

bretac said:
Thanks rorycs! That seems to have done the trick.
Any ideas why fast boot was causing the issue in the first place?
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I have no idea... I can only guess that Fast Boot caches some data and that when the data is changed by a new app install/delete or some other saved data it has to rebuild the cached data each time before reloading .... Just a guess....
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rorycs said:
I have no idea... I can only guess that Fast Boot caches some data and that when the data is changed by a new app install/delete or some other saved data it has to rebuild the cached data each time before reloading .... Just a guess....
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G using XDA Premium App
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I've tried and, yes, it helps a little but it still happens!
So, I wonder when HTC's going to fix it? (I don't feel like doing a hard reset!)

I tried reformatting my memory card and also I no longer use the htc task manager to "kill all" seems to be working for me so far.

ak29 said:
I tried reformatting my memory card and also I no longer use the htc task manager to "kill all" seems to be working for me so far.
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Hi since this evening I have the same problem. The first few weeks I did not have any problem with my sensation. This afternoon I applied a display protector and now he is starting up again and again.
Coincidence probably.
Where can I find the fast reboot mode> I can't find it on my (dutch, vodafone branded) phone.
Thanks

Usually the sense UI closes itself when the phone runs out of RAM, that's why it happens when you exit an app. Seems like also the fast boot option uses a bit more RAM so it makes the sense restart more often. Hope I helped.

Yeah mine has started restarting recently also.
I stopped fastboot but still does it. This is extremely annoying as it usually happens when I want to make a call or send a message and have to wait while it restarts.
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I took off my screen protector hoping that that was the cause of all problems but it wasn't. Too bad, also formatted my sd card again. Hoping that that suggestion I found here on XDA works... so far so good...
Edit; so far still good it only rebooted once while it was in my pocket... working trick?

snah65 said:
I took off my screen protector hoping that that was the cause of all problems but it wasn't. Too bad, also formatted my sd card again. Hoping that that suggestion I found here on XDA works... so far so good...
Edit; so far still good it only rebooted once while it was in my pocket... working trick?
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Pffft; I thought it was solved but today all misery started again, reboot after reboot, when i use my video cam it stops working and I have to wait till its working again. That costs me today a lot of footage from my kids at the carnival.
I hate it when things don't work.
So far i tried:
Taking of screen protector
disable fast boot
wipe and format my SD card.
Someone any suggestions? Will a factory reset work?
Thanks

snah65 said:
Pffft; I thought it was solved but today all misery started again, reboot after reboot, when i use my video cam it stops working and I have to wait till its working again. That costs me today a lot of footage from my kids at the carnival.
I hate it when things don't work.
So far i tried:
Taking of screen protector
disable fast boot
wipe and format my SD card.
Someone any suggestions? Will a factory reset work?
Thanks
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Too bad! Brought my sensation to the shop and they did an system update with new software, phone was working for one day and now the **** started all over again, it just stops working randomly.
When i take a picture it stops, when its in my pocket it stops... I hate this!
I will bring it back to the shop again now for a hardware check, probably that will cost me two weeks.... I just have my phone one month......

I came to this thread lookling for a permanent fix to the loading screen but unfortunately i did not find that. I can offer a temporary fix, which certainly is not what we want but something is better than nothing.
Go to manage apps, all then to htc sense and delete data. That will correct the problem for a while. Unfortunately u will look te wallpaper and apps on the screen and u will have to put them back.

Guys, come on you have to search a little better for the answer.... but here you go anyway:
There are 2 options I have found that will work. I have been using the first option for months now with no issue or problem. Sense keeps restarting when it gets low on memory so the system swaps it out. You can choose your fix from the 2 options below. The first one apparently changes the way the system handles the Sense launcher and keeps it loaded much better - it is the option I use (I have found that when you exceed about 420MB used for your apps then the next option will work better). The second option simply stops the system from swapping the Sense launcher out of memory completely. Both of these require you to be rooted and to modify "build.prop" which is found in the /system folder.
If you are not comfortable with this edit make a Nandroid Backup first!!! (If you screw it up your phone may not boot)
1. Make a backup copy of "build.prop" (I simply copied it and renamed the original to "build.prop.old" and left it in the /system folder)
2. Edit "build.prop" with a text editor (you can use Astro or ES File Manager)
3. Scroll all the way to the END and add one of the following lines as the LAST LINE in "build.prop"
Choose ONE of the following lines and add it exactly as typed here:
ro.HOME_APP_ADJ=0
ro.HOME_APP_ADJ=1
4. Save your edited "build.prop" and reboot.
That's it. Enjoy!
*NOTE: I am not responsible for any damage you may do to your phone by attempting this mod or for any errors that may occur as the result of editing system files.
PLEASE hit THANKS if I helped you!

Mine only happen when im using widget sense friend stream. Not sure why it happen only during scroll the widget friend stream others app did not trigger the restart htc launcher..
Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e using XDA App

try ARHD with No sense. Won't have such annoying problem happen again.
although the widget in Sense is nice, but with GO launcher and its widget in custom skin, feel satisfactory. at least it save ram and stop restarting which really annoy me.

[Q] Sensation 4G Loading Issue after ICS update

Hello,
I've tried searching but I cant seem to find anything about this, I recently upgraded my wife's Sensation 4G to ICS but now the phone suffers from the white HTC loading screen for about 5-10 seconds every time I exit any application. Is there a solution for this I'd like to keep this phone as stock as possible.
Thanks in advance.

Not enough ram. Too much is running so to save ram, the Sense launcher is killed. That kind of shouldn't be happening. Without being rooted, you can try remove some of her applications that are running in the background or factory reset the device and try again.
You can also tell her to hold Home and swipe unneeded applications to the left or right to dismiss them, hopefully this will close applications before the Sense launcher is killed.

I have the same phone and I had the same issue happen to me. What I ended up doing (and believe me it works) is I went to Settings>Apps>All>HTC Sense (the one with the green HTC Logo) and click on it and disable that one. Now go back to Settings>Apps>All>HTC Sense (the one with the picture of the home screen but in a tiny version and click on that and "Clear Data" and thats half the problem. For some reason it seems like HTC didnt integrate the "New" HTC Sense with the old one so they keep messing eachother up "allegedly." Well now for the last steps, So now you go back to Settings>Develop Options and scroll to the bottom and you need to uncheck the option that says "Don't Keep Activites" and make sure "Background Process Limit" is set to Standard Limit. Then restart the phone and your phone should be back to normal It took me all day yesterday to figure it out so hope everything works out for anyone having this same issue

P5110 4.2.2 update problems (lags, crash)

I have installed the new official firmware on my p5110 and I have HUGE problems with the device getting unresponsive.
For example if I turn off Wifi over night and switch it back on in the morning. I understand that the device starts syncing stuff etc but the tablet becomes literally unusable for at least 5 minutes, sometimes not even reacting to any touch input as well as home key ... Eventually when you press the power button long enough it doesnt even show you any shutdown dialog but goes straight to the boot animation, rebooting without having shut down properly before.
Really disappointed by this release, not only because of the above mentioned performance problems but also because of the ridiculous phone UI layout that feels really uncomfortable on a 10" device.
Am I the only one with this problem or is it just time for a factory reset (but I don't wanna...)?

Don't waste your time with this build, i have had same problems even after factory reset and wiping internal sd. Rom behaves awful after you install
let's say 30-40 applications. Best thing is to return to stable 4.1.2 build or install AOSP rom.

vault1965 said:
Don't waste your time with this build, i have had same problems even after factory reset and wiping internal sd. Rom behaves awful after you install
let's say 30-40 applications. Best thing is to return to stable 4.1.2 build or install AOSP rom.
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I installed this rom, at the beginning very laggy but after a wipe data & cache it run very well, no lag at all. Better than 4.1.2. To modify the icons in the bottom row just push the edit icon in top right and turn landscape to portrait and it will be possible but little buggy. I did not try with 30-40 app so far.

marco-xda said:
I installed this rom, at the beginning very laggy but after a wipe data & cache it run very well, no lag at all. Better than 4.1.2. To modify the icons in the bottom row just push the edit icon in top right and turn landscape to portrait and it will be possible but little buggy. I did not try with 30-40 app so far.
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What do you mean by " the edit icon in top right"?

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marco-xda said:
To modify the icons in the bottom row just push the edit icon in top right and turn landscape to portrait and it will be possible
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Thx, this is what I was looking for, the update to 4.2 looks good here and all works fine :good:

Mad-Matty said:
What do you mean by " the edit icon in top right"?
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in the right top corner of the screen there is a pen icon used to edit the icon's position, if you press it the bottom row icon disappear until you rotate 90º the tablet, then you will see the icons and you can move or delete it.

marco-xda said:
in the right top corner of the screen there is a pen icon used to edit the icon's position, if you press it the bottom row icon disappear until you rotate 90º the tablet, then you will see the icons and you can move or delete it.
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Oh that explains why I haven't seen that yet: I'm not using the stock launcher.

And this is the result.....
Btw.. my tablet works a lot faster now
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Installed cm now, much faster than any stock rom I tried before

[Q] Far right blank homescreen on GEL

Using the stock launcher, this problem/feature just started popping up recently. I couldn't find any discussion on if this was part of the newer Google Search / GEL updates.
On the homescreen indicator that separates the dock, I now have a plus sign on the far right, which makes the regular indicating dots off center. Swiping left is Google Now like always, but now swiping right after the rightmost homescreen leads to a blank homescreen (screenshots attached). It used to just be that trying to swipe right on the rightmost homescreen would do nothing. How do I go back to this original function?
I'm using Cataclysm Rom [Nov 15] and franco.Kernel r14. I've searched through those threads for more information about this blank homescreen, but no luck. I've also dug through the Cataclysm Settings to see if I've ticked any options, but I can't find anything. I don't have the franco.Kernel app so I don't know if this might be a kernel setting, but again, I couldn't find anything in the franco.Kernel thread.
Thanks for any help!

Move an icon over there and move it back. That fixed it when mine did it.

MisterEff said:
Move an icon over there and move it back. That fixed it when mine did it.
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Thanks, that temporarily got rid of it, but after a reboot, the plus sign and the blank homescreen came back.
Maybe it's just part of GEL now? Haven't found any discussions about it though :/

I too have this, it drives me absolutely nuts! It shows up after reboots and random times! No fix besides putting app there and deleting

It has happened to me twice so far. Can't figure out what it is.
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MisterEff said:
Move an icon over there and move it back. That fixed it when mine did it.
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Only had the problem once and this solved it.

Having the same issue, appears randomly and I have to either restart the phone or use the app move/unmove trick to get rid of it.
I haven't found a correlation to any thing in particular or any app but I'd like to know what's causing this..

I have experienced this as well. I just reboot the phone and it goes away. Pretty minor bug but yea i imagine it will get fixed in the next update.

[Q] Nexus 5 automatically (random) add a new homescreen page

hi all,
on my Nexus5, non-rooted, android 4.4 stock, KRT16M, sometimes randomly it happens that I find a new empty homescreen page.
I'm running with 2 homescreen pages and sometimes I note they are 3 and obviously I didn't add the new third one.
anybody have this same issue?
thanks all

_PeTiT_ said:
hi all,
on my Nexus5, non-rooted, android 4.4 stock, KRT16M, sometimes randomly it happens that I find a new empty homescreen page.
I'm running with 2 homescreen pages and sometimes I note they are 3 and obviously I didn't add the new third one.
anybody have this same issue?
thanks all
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Yes. When you reboot, that blank page disappears. It is one of the many bugs that KitKat has. We have to remember that in a way we are beta testers. :laugh:

thanks mate for your reply: I'll try next time it will happen.

Another way to get rid of it without a reboot is to move an app / widget to the empty screen, then move it back. The page auto deletes when empty.

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dijonemon said:
Another way to get rid of it without a reboot is to move an app / widget to the empty screen, then move it back. The page auto deletes when empty.
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See issue 69966 here:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=69966