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[Q] How often do you get force closes?

I'm getting them quite frequently, maybe three or four times a day.
Is it just me? if it is, I'm happy to wait for HC fixes. I just don't want to have dodgy RAM or something.

RedMist said:
I'm getting them quite frequently, maybe three or four times a day.
Is it just me? if it is, I'm happy to wait for HC fixes. I just don't want to have dodgy RAM or something.
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Showing what apps are affected might have helped
I had it with RAC traffic UK every time i used it, Dolphin HD crashed, but that was about it, i just thought that they were not compatible yet and unistalled them.
I hear that Dolphin now works OK

Not that many at all. That asus widget zine or zein force closes when I use it though.
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Just noticed today that I consistently get FC's when choosing "edit" from the gallery menu.

Get occasional fc from the launcher
And have had some other glitches. Occasionally tapatalk while scrolling here the text streaks into a blur an is unreadable ...

i got it 3-4 times when using Firefox in the first hour after opening it out of the box -- uninstalled firefox and havent seen it .

i get tons of crashes with the stock browser. sadly i like it so much that i'll deal with it for now until miren gets fixed to work with hc.

madsquabbles said:
i get tons of crashes with the stock browser. sadly i like it so much that i'll deal with it for now until miren gets fixed to work with hc.
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is stock browser the one that comes with it by default?, I Like that browser too although i like to use firefox to have adblock plus..but FF crashes too much, i tried twice.

20 times a day plus with the browser.
Not much else crashes, browser all the time, I blame flash.
All stock, but updated.

I get FC pretty often with the USA Today app and once with email, but that's about it.

Browser crashes a couple of times everyday. I hope they fixed it in 3.1

[Q] Transformer browsers force closing

I keep having my browsers stop, they wont finish loading and then when I touch on the address search bar or refresh button on the screen I get the force close message. I'm having problems with the stock browser and also the dolphin hd browser too. It happens after about 10 minutes and I can't find any correlation with certain sites, it's just after a little time no matter what I'm looking at. I did a search and only came across someone saying they were having a problem but it was a xoom and they were also rooted. My transformer is all stock and only about a week old. Does anyone have any suggestions or anything? Besides that I love this thing. Thanks for the help.

some sites are inaccessible without crashing to the desktop. Web browsing is one of the major use cases for the transformer. It will be nice if this geta fixed.

Are you serious? I researched tide tablet for weeks before i decided on it. I knew about the cameras and taking videos not being good, I knee there was a chance for light bleed, and also that there were some problems with hd video playback sometimes. I hadn't read anything however on browsing problems. I tried Firefox and opera along with dolphin and they all stop and crash. I don't understand why someone didn't mention this in their reviews with it being a problem. I've had no problems with light bleed, video playback and the camera is fine for me, but the browsing problem would have dissuaded me from purchasing if I would have known. Is there no fixes at all?

The problem is java script, try to disable java

amstaff72 said:
I keep having my browsers stop, they wont finish loading and then when I touch on the address search bar or refresh button on the screen I get the force close message. I'm having problems with the stock browser and also the dolphin hd browser too. It happens after about 10 minutes and I can't find any correlation with certain sites, it's just after a little time no matter what I'm looking at. I did a search and only came across someone saying they were having a problem but it was a xoom and they were also rooted. My transformer is all stock and only about a week old. Does anyone have any suggestions or anything? Besides that I love this thing. Thanks for the help.
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On Monday I'll have my Transformer for 2 weeks. I just started having browser crashes yesterday only after a couple of minutes of browsing. This has happened on yahoo & xda. At the time I was trying to copy & paste. What I don't understand is I wasn't having problems before.
Also, I am unable to do a search on XDA. The search & keyboard come up monetarily then close.

Are you guys running stock 3.1 honeycomb?

Malandro2011 said:
Are you guys running stock 3.1 honeycomb?
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Yes, stock & not rooted

I never get force closing pop ups but everynow and then the browser just closes... but then it depends on the website
I;m running overclocked prime

Mine is just stock, I haven't rooted mine either. I can usually browse for 10 minutes or so before mine stops then force closes. It seems strange that it just started after 2 weeks for the one person. If the problem is Java and I turn it off won't that limit some of the sites? I hate to be limited on browsing, otherwise you might as well get a dang ipad. I hope we find a fix for this it's driving me crazy.

Stock, 3.1 not rooted. The crashing is site specific. It happens with Dolphin as well. Xscope will handle the site, but it has other usability issues (like no zoom) . Do other tablets (zoom,tab 10.1,etc) have these issues? I love paying to be a beta tester.

Same problem here, browser crashes on certain webpages without a warning, switching java off solves the problem but this shouldn't be a solution

Turning off Java Script does indeed help a lot it seems - faster loading and far less crashes. As a web technology noob what do I lose w/o Java script? I browse mostly news/science/tech blogs and forums. Not to many interactive (save Facebook of course).
Any good tips on what losing JV scrips limits?
Thanks!

This has been discussed before Its a known issues (at least to us that have them) and its pretty annoying to say the least. Turning off javascript helps in two different ways (stops crashes and speeds up browsing), but some pages wont display correctly without it.

i resolved crashes with "adfree"

I've never seen my browser as prone to crash or sluggish on the transformer. The only thing I configured is to start plugins on click only (like poor man flashblock - but I prefer it this way on my desktop Chrome too). Running stock 3.1.

i wwill try the adfree and I will post my results.

I've had my Transformer for about three weeks and besides slowing down quite a bit the stock browser and Dolphin have been crashing regularly as of last week. I'm running stock 3.1 - not rooted or anything. It's gotten bad enough that I've basically stopped using it and am using my Acer W500 and iPad. I can put up with some problems in a new unit but if I had known that Honeycomb was as buggy as it seems to be so far I probably would not have purchased this.

i got mine last week, the default browser performance is unacceptable. It just crashes without any warning. Clicking comboboxes , checkboxes and even links in some cases is far too difficult to get right with one go, there are instances where you simply cant do it at all , even after zooming all the way in. Turning off JavaScript is not an option for me, there are simply too many sites using JavaScript for their manus n stuff. Now using dolphin browser, seemsmuch better, but still unreble.I am a huge android supporter, i have a galaxy s and i love it. But recently i compared this against an ipad 2, i hate to say this but with current firmware (3.1 stock, not rooted) this tablet is far inferior to the ipad when it comes to web browsing. I hate apple products,but at this point id rather have an ipad, over this

bithir said:
I've never seen my browser as prone to crash or sluggish on the transformer. The only thing I configured is to start plugins on click only (like poor man flashblock - but I prefer it this way on my desktop Chrome too). Running stock 3.1.
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Try loading gmail web site and see how sluggish the performance is.

Browser Cache
I cleared my browser cache and this seemed to fix it. can someone test and post results?

Dolphin closes out of nowhere does this happen to anyone else?

It usually happens while I'm typing, dolphin just closes without any force closing notice or anything like that and then when I open the browser again it starts over instead of opening the pages I was on before it closed. It is getting annoying cuz it is my default browser and I've never had any problems with it on my phone so I started wondering if it acts funky on tablets or maybe some apps I'm using on the tablet interferes with it like maybe go launcher which seems a little bit buggy but never have any problems with the 2 apps on my phone...
So I'm just wondering if anyone else had experienced this with dolphin on their tablet? I have a feeling not all apps that have been made for phones are going to go perfect with bigger screened tablets? The tablet is rooted but I'm using the stock ROM.
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Moved to Themes and apps...

kcerica said:
It usually happens while I'm typing, dolphin just closes without any force closing notice or anything like that and then when I open the browser again it starts over instead of opening the pages I was on before it closed. It is getting annoying cuz it is my default browser and I've never had any problems with it on my phone so I started wondering if it acts funky on tablets or maybe some apps I'm using on the tablet interferes with it like maybe go launcher which seems a little bit buggy but never have any problems with the 2 apps on my phone...
So I'm just wondering if anyone else had experienced this with dolphin on their tablet? I have a feeling not all apps that have been made for phones are going to go perfect with bigger screened tablets? The tablet is rooted but I'm using the stock ROM.
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Use ponctuation.
I've that problem too. Dolphin quit on specific Web page (forum) and I discovered that the default android browser has the same problem
It's specific to gtab 7+ and maybe his honeycomb version.
Using an other Brower (Opera Mobile) is a solution.
Envoyé depuis mon Xperia S

I've experienced similar issues with dolphin as well as other browsers. I generally get random closes if I have too many tabs open or load up a thread with too many full sized images. But then I have also experienced random closes when doing light browsing as well, but that occurs much less frequently.
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kcerica said:
It usually happens while I'm typing, dolphin just closes without any force closing ...
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I had a similar issue, rebooting fixed it on wifeys Tab 7plus.
If not uninstalling/reinstalling.
Pp.
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Same here
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Dolphin does it very often so did d stock honeycomb browser. After updating to ICS, stock browser has not closed unexpectedly even once after 2days of usage I guess honeycomb was loaded with bugs.. glad its solved though.

samarth14feb said:
Dolphin does it very often so did d stock honeycomb browser.
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ditto, I have had better luck with Firefox beta. Looking foward to the ICS update, wondering if i should just wait or go downloadI? would like to find a better tap/keyboard. I love my tab 7.0 plus. But typing on my Asus transformer is much easier.

I have stopped using dolphin actually.. apart from the random closing i have also found that it (or one of the modules that come bundled with it) uses battery a lot in the background and tend to open network connection and transfer data ever when the phone is supposed to be in sleep..
and the random network usage stopped after i uninstalled dolphin..

I haven't had this problem at all. I use dolphin all the time. Also used Floating Browser, Overskreen, Firefox and Chrome. Have not experienced FCs.

In case you decide to stop using Dolphin, have a look at UC browser.
It has nice gesture support and has received a lot of positive reviews recently.

Always asks to set default browser

I can't find this exact problem on here, so I'm risking posting a thread.
I installed Opera mini and mobile on my sidekick and now it always asks what browser to use when I click on any link (or when I search on google and it redirects). It never remembers if I check the box to set the default. Never ever. After a hundred tries. After deleting the default in the settings. Reboots galore. Nothing. Still asks. It's so annoying I can't stand to use web on the phone at all. At least I no longer even come close to my data cap these days.
In the settings it has the built in Web set the default, and none of the other Opera browsers are set as the default. So it's not got two browsers set, which was my theory at first.
I guess I should delete every third party browser.... any other suggestions?

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I can't find this exact problem on here, so I'm risking posting a thread.
I installed Opera mini and mobile on my sidekick and now it always asks what browser to use when I click on any link (or when I search on google and it redirects). It never remembers if I check the box to set the default. Never ever. After a hundred tries. After deleting the default in the settings. Reboots galore. Nothing. Still asks. It's so annoying I can't stand to use web on the phone at all. At least I no longer even come close to my data cap these days.
In the settings it has the built in Web set the default, and none of the other Opera browsers are set as the default. So it's not got two browsers set, which was my theory at first.
I guess I should delete every third party browser.... any other suggestions?
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If you want a good browser with data compression, I've found that UCWebrowser and Ninesky work great. I used to love Opera Mini but then came those damn reboots after the recent updates to the newer versions.
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I have the same problem with Dolphin Browser which updates virtually every week and with every update, the "Default Browser" setting needs to be re-selected. One of those quirky Android things. however if it is between updates, it may be an Opera thing.

de-installed opera, crossing fingers
ncmacasl said:
I have the same problem with Dolphin Browser which updates virtually every week and with every update, the "Default Browser" setting needs to be re-selected. One of those quirky Android things. however if it is between updates, it may be an Opera thing.
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Yes it was in between updates. And yes, opera's updates were annoying me, actually.
I de-installed both operas, then rebooted. Then when I went to a link (whilst already in the default web browser) it then asked about whether it should use Textonly, which is something I'd installed long ago, but it never asked about before on the list of possible browsers.
It seems to be remembering to use just Web now that opera is gone. Thank the goddess! And thanks for your help. The relief I feel really shows how aggravating this had become.

Screen freezing while scrolling

Hi All, I have had three phone for the last 2 weeks. This week the phone has frozen at least 3/4 times a day while browsing. Generally happens when scrolling down, I use the Google Chrome browser. The only way to reactivate the screen is by pressing power button to turn off the screen and turning the screen back on again. I just hope it's not a hardware fault ? O just wondering if there a setting I need to change.

Chrome was having issues.
Try another browser like opera see if that changes anything

Mate, don't use Chrome. It is one of the worst browsers on Android. I recommend using the Brave browser or an older version of Firefox.

frostitomik said:
Mate, don't use Chrome. It is one of the worst browsers on Android. I recommend using the Brave browser or an older version of Firefox.
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Thanks for your replies guys. I take it the concensus is not to use Chrome on Android phones ? Will try out Firefox for now as that seems to be a well known browser.

I was getting it loads on my XZ2 brand new X5II and gutted to still get it.
I've switched to DuckDuckGo browser now, pretty seamless so far.

Also, many websites, even the biggest ones, are poorly optimized for smartphones. Lots of ads or badly implemented scrips, lazyload etc. But most problems are usually caused by a browser.

I've had this issue too, but ironically with Brave, as frostitomik suggested to use instead of Chrome .
Quick fix for me is to use the task switcher soft key, but choose the same browser app again. It seems to unlock it.

Same here in different Apps. Never saw it on my other phones. I think it's a Sony issue.

I am using sony as well, but you could search on Google, people are experiencing the same problem on different phone models that could be dated back to 2019.
A different app is usually still using a chromium base browser, did you try firefox?
Tho, I found the freezing "app" problem would only occurred when u are browsing website with a relatively heavy load in images and videos, or a very long document.
My personal solution is simply pressing the overview button and going back to the browser.
Phoost said:
Same here in different Apps. Never saw it on my other phones. I think it's a Sony issue.
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Use Kiwi