Nearly every time I exit an app, then home screen has to re-draw itself. It just seems very laggy, and I'm not sure what I'm doing to cause this behavior. The worst culprits seem to be my beautiful widgets home clock and my astrid tasks widgets. They take a good second or two before they're re-loaded into the home screen. Is this just an example of TW being terrible? Are others having this problem?
Thanks!
I notice the same thing and I'm not using those widgets. It's kind of sad some of these issues that have plauged android/Samsung since the S1 still exist.
That tends to happen after I am done texting someone, and then hit the home key. The only thing that redraws is the TouchWiz weather widget. Kinda sucks but I imagine another launcher would help.
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That tends to happen after I am done texting someone, and then hit the home key. The only thing that redraws is the TouchWiz weather widget. Kinda sucks but I imagine another launcher would help.
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I notice it after texting also. Especially if I hit the home key while the status of the text is still 'sending'. Very annoying, and kind of frustrating considering the specs of this phone. I can't imagine why the launcher can't be kept in memory, considering there's two gigs of ram on this thing. I guess I'll try moving to a different launcher.
I found that all touchwiz widgets suffer from this (weather, clock, calendar). The problem went away after I installed 3rd party widgets to replace those. I also installed Nova Launcher and I noticed in Nova, the stock calendar widget would still do the annoying refresh.
Stock bloated roms will cause this. Move to synergyRom and the redraws will be gone. FOR-EVER
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I'm using Apex and have not had a single redraw. I'm mostly stock but rooted with a lot of apps frozen or removed.
One issue I do have is with an app called Agenda Widget; it doesn't redraw but occasionally when I return to the home screen it reloads my appointments. It literally takes a fraction of a second but even that annoys me. It's not a redraw because I can see the widget but it says "loading" where my appointments should be.
I used Apex for a long time & recently switched to Nova, both of these can be kept in memory which totally eliminates the redraw problem.
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As we all know when there is not enough RAM to start a new app the OS unloads one from the background. And this is happening all the time with Home. If I open an application, then some other, and maybe other (all from the list of recently ran apps) and then decide to go to Home it turns black, then loads the wallpaper and after some time the icons. While I am waiting for the icons I can't pull the drawer. And this is lasting several seconds!
I am using the ordinary Home, not aHome, dxTop or whatever alternative.
I have 2 and a half pages with icons and no widgets.
That's totally ridiculous! There should be a way to protect Home from reloading!
I get this too, pretty annoying but you just have to wait it out
These two issues are bugging the hell out of me.
1. I have launch Pro, ADW and of course Sense. Then i noticed the home default was reset randomly.
I then narrowed it down to the notification drop down. Everything works fine until I pull the notification down. After this if I press the Home button, I'm presented with the choice of three.
2. In Locale app, the wallpaper setting doesn't work with the HTC gallery.
At least for this I found a workaround. Installed a free 3d gallery app and set the wallpaper that way.
But the first issues is driving me bad. But I', no way using the Sense launcher.
I was just wondering if any of you guys found a workaround or no one but me cares.
I am facing a rather annoying problem with the Nexus S Android 2.3.4. I two separate launchers like Go Launcer EX, and the Launcher Pro as well. The thing is that whenever I go into an app like twitter or something or even the dialer and dial a call and then go back to the main home screen, all the icons keep refreshing and then the phone jitters for about a few seconds and then its fine and doesn't do anything. I have tried using different home screen apps even the stock android one which comes with the darn phone but still the same problem.
I don't know if anyone else is having the same problem with the nexus S, but I have an HTC Desire and that phone flies when compared to the Nexus S whereas it should be the other way around. I'm getting sick of this phone. I paid premium price for this phone of $600 Australia dollars and I get this ****. Someone please help me before I chuck the phone out the window.
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I am facing a rather annoying problem with the Nexus S Android 2.3.4. I two separate launchers like Go Launcer EX, and the Launcher Pro as well. The thing is that whenever I go into an app like twitter or something or even the dialer and dial a call and then go back to the main home screen, all the icons keep refreshing and then the phone jitters for about a few seconds and then its fine and doesn't do anything. I have tried using different home screen apps even the stock android one which comes with the darn phone but still the same problem.
I don't know if anyone else is having the same problem with the nexus S, but I have an HTC Desire and that phone flies when compared to the Nexus S whereas it should be the other way around. I'm getting sick of this phone. I paid premium price for this phone of $600 Australia dollars and I get this ****. Someone please help me before I chuck the phone out the window.
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It sounds like you're running out of memory and the homes creen is getting dumped to run apps - thereby forcing a bit of a reload/redraw when exiting the app. You could try something like LauncherPro and select the "keep in memory" option to see if that helps.
Are you running a lot of heavy widgets or a crazy amount of background services (that are active)?
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It sounds like you're running out of memory and the homes creen is getting dumped to run apps - thereby forcing a bit of a reload/redraw when exiting the app. You could try something like LauncherPro and select the "keep in memory" option to see if that helps.
Are you running a lot of heavy widgets or a crazy amount of background services (that are active)?
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Hey,
I don't think there are alot of apps running in the background. I just counted that there are only 13 apps running in the background and I am using Go LauncherEx but I think I'm going to try and use Launcer pro now just as you suggested and see if it works. Hope it does. I don't think I'm using alot of home screen widgets as well. There might be just three of them, Facebook, Internet Usage and then the Clock, thats all. I didn't expect such things from phones which have advanced so much, plus my HTC Desire never does this.
So i noticed every time i do some browsing on the Chrome browser it crashes Sense. Every single time. Sense home screen (i have 4 screens) crashes and has to re-load.
Is chrome a memory hog with our phone? Is there a way to not make sense crash? It's annoying because if i have to make a phone call right away, i can't and have to wait for sense to re-load.
I read that the agenda widget causes sense to crash, so i removed all widgets from my home screen and it still crashed!
I like Chrome because i don't like how the default browser tries to center the text after i zoom in. I've disabled the "adjust to fit screen" but it still tries to align the text when zoomed. This is very annoying.
The new dolphin browser HD didn't seem to crash sense but it has the 3 menu dots at the bottom of the screen and that makes the browser an inconvenience due to missing screen space.
Wondering if anybody else is using Chrome and having the same issues.
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So i noticed every time i do some browsing on the Chrome browser it crashes Sense. Every single time. Sense home screen (i have 4 screens) crashes and has to re-load.
Is chrome a memory hog with our phone? Is there a way to not make sense crash? It's annoying because if i have to make a phone call right away, i can't and have to wait for sense to re-load.
I read that the agenda widget causes sense to crash, so i removed all widgets from my home screen and it still crashed!
I like Chrome because i don't like how the default browser tries to center the text after i zoom in. I've disabled the "adjust to fit screen" but it still tries to align the text when zoomed. This is very annoying.
The new dolphin browser HD didn't seem to crash sense but it has the 3 menu dots at the bottom of the screen and that makes the browser an inconvenience due to missing screen space.
Wondering if anybody else is using Chrome and having the same issues.
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is it actually crashing with an error message or is it just reloading?
It is normal if sens restarts for our device. It is because out of memory. Thanks for HTC %)
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is it actually crashing with an error message or is it just reloading?
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Reloading. I'm guessing due to lack of memory. But i'm not familiar with chrome and how much memory it uses. I only have 1 tab open. When i go to task manager while running chrome, it never shows up.
Yep. Did it for me too. Switched to Apex Launcher and it hasn't done it since.
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I am having the same problem with sense but it is also doing it with Apex launcher. I am testing ICS Browser + to see if that works.
I noticed that when my phone drops down to critical i.e. 10% battery, the widgets on my home screens stop updating. Perhaps this is by design in an effort to save battery, but my problem is that even after I fully charge my phone the widgets remain frozen. I'm not running any special widgets, just a basic clock, calendar, a few toggles and battery monitor, but they all freeze just the same . . . I end up having to reboot my phone in order to get the widgets working again, which can be a pain and seems completely unnecessary.
Does anybody else have this kind of trouble? Could my completely stock/non-rooted device be experiencing issues? This is the only problem I've noticed so far with my S5 - everything else works exactly as it should.
Just a quick update: I did a factory reset and that didn't make any difference - two days later and all my home screen widgets freeze and don't start updating until I reboot the phone. List of widgets I'm using:
Fancy Widget
Switch Pro
Android Pro Widgets
BattStatt Pro
These are all widgets I've used for years without any issue, which makes me think that it involves KitKat.
Any suggestions?
I use fancy widget but haven't experienced any problems with it. Have u checked the refresh rate setting? When I put it on this phone and set it back up the refresh rate was set to refresh like every 6 hours
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I use fancy widget but haven't experienced any problems with it. Have u checked the refresh rate setting? When I put it on this phone and set it back up the refresh rate was set to refresh like every 6 hours
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Thanks for the reply - no that is not it, because it affects all of my widgets and not just fancy widgets. Something odd I've noticed is that even after fancy widgets and the rest all freeze, the stock 'weather' widget still works! I've been reading a lot trying to get to the bottom of this issue, and someone on another forum mentioned the following:
"this issue occurs because kitkat has changed the way it manages background alarms. most widgets that update frequently use "alarmmanager" to trigger each update. but in kitkat, the trigger event is intentionally delayed so that android can group processes together, saving battery life and data use. so, for all those clock and weather widgets, the developers have to write a bunch of new code for kitkat devices, so that their widgets update at the intended time."
After reading this, I decided to test a theory and set my alarm to go off 2 minutes later. The alarm went off, and sure enough I checked 5 minutes later and all widgets were frozen . . . So now I'm wondering if it has something to do with the 'Timely alarm clock' app that I'm using... Going to go back to stock Alarm clock and see if that makes a difference.
Just an update for anyone interested: I found other XDA users on Verizon that were having this same issue, and someone suggested that we try installing Nova launcher. Sure enough, after installing Nova two weeks ago and I haven't had one issue with my homescreen widgets freezing.
I highly recommend Nova, especially if you're experiencing some odd quirks with TW.
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Just an update for anyone interested: I found other XDA users on Verizon that were having this same issue, and someone suggested that we try installing Nova launcher. Sure enough, after installing Nova two weeks ago and I haven't had one issue with my homescreen widgets freezing.
I highly recommend Nova, especially if you're experiencing some odd quirks with TW.
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I love nova launcher. Been using it since my epic 4g days.
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