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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...
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?
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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
I noticed a bug in the "tap to scroll" functionality of the homescreen. Normally (since hc/ics), you can tap on the left or right of the screen edge to switch screens (instead of swiping). This also works in the app drawer. However, since the update, there seems to be a bug in this area. Here's how I duplicate the bug;
On the home screen, see if you can scroll by tapping on the left or right edge of your screen. If you can not, rotate your screen from landscape to portrait and then back.....now you should be able to scroll via tapping. If you could scroll before rotating, go to the next step....
Now, open the app drawer. The tap to scroll works here also. Now, return to the home screen. Try tapping to scroll again. It will not work now.
To regain the ability, you will have to rotate the screen back and fourth again.
The app drawer doesn't seem affected by this issue. Only the homescreen.
Can anyone else duplicate this issue?
(Just for the record, fresh install of the update)
I can tap to scroll just as I could in ICS. Bit of a shame, since I hate that feature.
I can confirm the "tap to scroll" bug. It works fine until you try to do the same thing in the app drawer and then try to do it on the home screen again - just as the above poster stated... Not a big deal for me as I never used it anyway (at least purposely)....
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Although I do use both tap and swipe, its not the end of the world for me either. Just wanted to be sure I'm not the only one.
I'm sure Asus will patch it at some point (although I'm not sure if the intention was to remove it or keep it based on the findings)
Borrowing this thread a bit. I don't have the problem you described however it's related to the home screen.
After the JB update, whenever I swipe to the main screen and the animation is about to end, I get some lag. Always the same kind of lag at the end of the animation and only on the main homescreen... After the JB update I noticed the lag and did a factory reset but now after installing some apps,it's back again. This happens witb all power modes and it doesn't matter if I clean the screen from apps and widgets, still the same laggy partat the end..
Anyone who recognizes this? I'm stock rooted...
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Dezghal said:
Borrowing this thread a bit. I don't have the problem you described however it's related to the home screen.
After the JB update, whenever I swipe to the main screen and the animation is about to end, I get some lag. Always the same kind of lag at the end of the animation and only on the main homescreen... After the JB update I noticed the lag and did a factory reset but now after installing some apps,it's back again. This happens witb all power modes and it doesn't matter if I clean the screen from apps and widgets, still the same laggy partat the end..
Anyone who recognizes this? I'm stock rooted...
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Sounds like you have an app causing problems. Try to figure out which app it is... maybe it'll get patched later.
Dezghal said:
Borrowing this thread a bit. I don't have the problem you described however it's related to the home screen.
After the JB update, whenever I swipe to the main screen and the animation is about to end, I get some lag. Always the same kind of lag at the end of the animation and only on the main homescreen... After the JB update I noticed the lag and did a factory reset but now after installing some apps,it's back again. This happens witb all power modes and it doesn't matter if I clean the screen from apps and widgets, still the same laggy partat the end..
Anyone who recognizes this? I'm stock rooted...
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I've noticed the same thing, using Apex Launcher and Nova Launcher (its a very faint lag, almost not noticeable). What launcher are you using? I tried stock launcher and it didn't happen.
Wallpaper does not scroll after JB update. I am using Apex launcher. Does anyone have the same problem?
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Hm, I have the same tap to scroll bug.
My wallpaper doesn't scroll either. Using apex or nova it's the same.
And more than that, if I turn the tablet to portrait mode the wallpaper sticks to the top of the screen leaving a big portion of the screen black (without wallpaper) on the bottom.
I have this bug too. It kind of bugs me, because that is my primary way of changing home screens while holding a newborn. I too found that simply rotating the screen will fix the issue, but about half the time I do that, my home screen icons are all missing!
I'm guessing a patch will be coming soon to fix this? (like 6-8 weeks )
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I've noticed the same thing, using Apex Launcher and Nova Launcher (its a very faint lag, almost not noticeable). What launcher are you using? I tried stock launcher and it didn't happen.
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Stock launcher.
I have the same bug the OP has too.
Hopefully they can fix this soon.
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I'm also getting that exact same problem as the OP. Glad to see I'm not the only one. Funny that only a few people have this problem. I did a wipe data/ factory reset a couple of times and that didn't help either and I don't have any other apps installed as I only now got my Infinity (its only rooted but still locked and on stock ROM). Hopefully ASUS will send out a fix soon. I really miss the tap/touch to scroll on the home screen.
I think that *everyone* who uses the stock launcher actually has this problem... One possible solution is to install the free "Holo HD" launcher (I just confirmed that the touch to scroll feature works) - it's a nice launcher similar to Nova, Apex, etc. It runs really well. Nova/Apex and or Trebuchet launcher might fix this issue as well. Trebuchet is the most similar to stock (almost can't tell the difference). Holo HD, Apex and Nova have more features though...
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I can confirm the issue as stated in first post. Works in app drawer, not on home screen. Rooted, stock JB.
Resigned
Hello
I bought my wife a Note 10.1 yesterday and when we had set-up her Google account we were greeted with a home screen like the one attached, having cleaned it up a little.
The problem initially appeared to be a form of a weather widget but it is persistent across all the screens, like the Google search bar or the App Drawer icon.
I noticed that the tablet came with ICS so I updated it to JB and it did that fine with no issues. However the weather "widget" (you can't actually select or remove it) remains there stuck on the screen.
I spoke to Samsung and they remotely connected to my tablet but did not know how to resolve the issue.
I then installed Nova Launcher to test if it would then go and it did. But we would prefer, at this stage, to use the default Touchwiz launcher, minus the issue, if possible.
Whilst the Nova launcher was running I cleared the data from the Touchwiz application and then used that as the default launcher. It then placed all the default widgets back to the home screen, as it would when first used, but that weather "thing" still remains.
I can't see any weather or Accu weather type instances running so has anyone got any ideas please how to restore the Touchwiz type launcher to look as it should and not have that persistent non selectable weather thing on the desktop...?
Have you tried a factory reset?
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tselling said:
Have you tried a factory reset?
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Thanks for that
As I was not rooted. and thus could not access any system apps - in case I could have replaced the touchwiz app etc, I felt that I had little choice but to reset the tablet.
That worked...!!!!!
The good thing being is tha twe had not spent too long in building it up.!
This is on an MHA-L09. I would prefer to use Nova or the Google launcher, anything but the Huawei stock launcher, but am having issues.
Nova Prime is crashing, or so it is reported by the Huawei Launcher that Ithen replaces it, with a warning that I should uninstall the Nova Launcher. I cannot see a pattern to when Nova crashes.
I have a seperate issue with the Google Launcher. This sometimes finds itself caught in a desktop refresh loop - the desktop will go black, the background image will be re-drawn, then the icons and widgets, then it will blank again. While this loop is happening, I can draw down the notification shade and the screen will stay on, roll up the shade and the refresh loop continues.
So,
a). has anyone else found the same and has solutions, or
b). are there any crash logs that I can look at to see why this might be happening, for either Nova or Google Launchers?
This has happened over a few versions. I have also done a factory reset and the prblem continues. After the reset I did do a re-install from a back-up, so I may have just reloaded what ever is causing the problem, hence my keeness to find logs to help see where the problem may be.
I used to have this problem also but tried Microsoft launcher and I'm hooked.
Ever since, I haven't gone back to huawei or nova
Mine is a L29, USA version, no issues with Nova Prime here.
This issue is definitely caused by using your backup. If I recall correctly the crashing was a nova bug after an android update and has since been fixed, but if you use a backup created before the fix it will cause the same issue again. Simply do a clean nova install and ditch your backup and it will work like a charm again.