Almost every time I hit the home button from within an app and it goes to my home screen. It has to completely redraw the touchwiz interface. I'm running 100% stock firmware.
I was curious if anyone else was experiencing this problem. I find it very annoying and i feel that since this phone has 2GB of ram it shouldn't be having a problem keeping the home screen loaded while in another app.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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I'm confused on what exactly your asking. If course if you hit the home button it's going to go to your home screen. If you're talking about your recent apps, hold the home button then you have plenty of apps to choose from.
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Op. For s voice, do you have it set to activate with a double tap of the home key? If you do then that is y get the redraw. S voice is waiting for a second tap to see if it need to activate or just go home. Turn that feature off and it will be snappier
Edit. OK. I see what u mean. Do u have forced 2d hardware acceleration enabled in the development setting?
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Op. For s voice, do you have it set to activate with a double tap of the home key? If you do then that is y get the redraw. S voice is waiting for a second tap to see if it need to activate or just go home. Turn that feature off and it will be snappier
Edit. OK. I see what u mean. Do u have forced 2d hardware acceleration enabled in the development setting?
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Yes I do, i thought that may be the culprit but i wanted to see input from elsewhere. Should I disable that?
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Yes. At the least the 2d thing. The home key to go back to the home screen is a personal preference. I use s voice alot so I like to be able to access it right away
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I know what he is talking about. It is the amount of time it takes to get to the home screen when you are in a app. It does take a sec to long to get to the home screen.
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I know exactly what you're talking about OP, I have the same issue for a while now, and coincidentally I did some research on this just yesterday and found a couple solutions you might be interested in trying:
Solution #1
Solution #2
Solution #3
Solution #4
I skimmed through the solutions and i didn't see the one i believed i helped a friend with. He has the same issue and he had power saving turned on. Once he disabled it, i want to say it was resolved along with other issues. Try this and maybe activate it again and try running one off at a time to see what one it is. Its been a few weeks at least since i talked with the person. Not sure if you have it on or off.
If none of these other solutions work...are you really tied to using the touchwiz launcher? I know launchers like nova and apex give you the option to force the launcher to remain in memory to prevent excessive redraws.
Personally, changing the double tap S memo option made everything a little faster for me.
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Has anyone figured out a way to stop the redrawing of the widgets when coming back to the home screen?
I would love to know this too.
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Yes I would love to know this as well
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most annoying thing on this phone... This thing is perfect otherwise, it really kills the speed of the phone when widgets are redrawing all the time...
Not sure what is being referenced - my WeatherBug, Simple Calendar and Google Search widgets don't flicker or refresh when I switch back to the Home screen (or, to whichever screen I have widgets on).
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This was the main reason that pushed me towards rooting and custom roming.
Couldnt handle the constant redrawing. i guess 2GB of ram wasnt enough
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I do not run the TW launcher but did you guys try disabling the the double tap home button to open up s-voice. I think this is on by default and I think I remember reading a while ago that this caused lag going back to the launcher. Maybe worth a shot to see if it helps.
Without the ability to re-size all widgets in the TW launcher it is kind of a useless launcher to me. I use Apex and the ability to theme the dockbars and everything make it even better then Nova for me.
I dont have this issue like this. As Eman said open s voice and goto settings and uncheck "open via the home key". When you hit the home key it waits a tad for you to hit it again to activate svoice.
Also goto settings developer options and change the animations from 1.0 to 0.5 or off. I run them on off, gets rid of lag.
I had this issue when I turned off animation and transition, when I turned them back on they don't do it anymore.
Also the dev option "do not keep background activities" will cause this too. If you are using Power Saving, the "screen power saving" option lowers the refresh rate of the screen, Disable it if your using powersaver.
My 2 cents.
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I dont have this issue like this. As Eman said open s voice and goto settings and uncheck "open via the home key". When you hit the home key it waits a tad for you to hit it again to activate svoice.
Also goto settings developer options and change the animations from 1.0 to 0.5 or off. I run them on off, gets rid of lag.
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Dude your a genius. Just sped up stock to as fast as aosp. S voice is def the primary cause though. Thanks dude!!!
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I dont have this issue like this. As Eman said open s voice and goto settings and uncheck "open via the home key". When you hit the home key it waits a tad for you to hit it again to activate svoice.
Also goto settings developer options and change the animations from 1.0 to 0.5 or off. I run them on off, gets rid of lag.
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I run those exact settings but still get the redraw after exiting some apps...
With animations on 0.5 the redraw is there. With animations off it works well. Any idea how to accomplish this without turning animations off?
Never mind it still does it even with animations off.
I think people don't understand that isn't lag going into the home screen. The problem is that once we are on the home screen, the widgets basically reload themselves and we have to wait for that
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jkat797 said:
I think people don't understand that isn't lag going into the home screen. The problem is that once we are on the home screen, the widgets basically reload themselves and we have to wait for that
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All I can say is deal with it or use a different launcher lol. That method shown before is as good as it will get sir. Sorry. Unless you can code and fix it lol
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I run stock unrooted, and redraw problem went away when I switched to Nova launcher.
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I think people don't understand that isn't lag going into the home screen. The problem is that once we are on the home screen, the widgets basically reload themselves and we have to wait for that
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Yeah, this is a confusing thread for me.
So, one or more people didn't know that there's a set delay to get back to the home screen when you click the Home button, because it's waiting for a potential double-click to start S-Voice - and, that the double-click feature can be disabled.
The main point seemed to be what you described: moving to a screen with widgets causes them to refresh their contents. I admittedly found this point odd because I have NEVER seen such symptoms on my Galaxy S III (unrooted, stock). Power saving is turned off on my phone and the only Developer option which has been changed is enablement of USB Debugging.
Is this happening for particular widgets, perhaps?
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Yeah, this is a confusing thread for me.
So, one or more people didn't know that there's a set delay to get back to the home screen when you click the Home button, because it's waiting for a potential double-click to start S-Voice - and, that the double-click feature can be disabled.
The main point seemed to be what you described: moving to a screen with widgets causes them to refresh their contents. I admittedly found this point odd because I have NEVER seen such symptoms on my Galaxy S III (unrooted, stock). Power saving is turned off on my phone and the only Developer option which has been changed is enablement of USB Debugging.
Is this happening for particular widgets, perhaps?
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No idea. Unless their widgets are set to update every time it's viewed as opposes to every four hours? That's my best guess is people having it set to update constantly
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my homescreen does this too, I'll be browsing the web or something, and if I do it for more than a few mins, press the home button and at the homescreen the widgets redraw, only takes a split second but a little annoying
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my homescreen does this too, I'll be browsing the web or something, and if I do it for more than a few mins, press the home button and at the homescreen the widgets redraw, only takes a split second but a little annoying
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Same here... there are links all over Google about this. I was just hoping someone here figured out a fix...
Hi I was wondering if someone can help me, when i press the home button after sending a text , than go back into messaging app it goes to that same message and not to default text thread of all your texts, is there a hack or a workaround for the text messaging app? because all the 3rd party apps seem to interfere and make it impossible to get texts? hope somebody can help thanks,
You have to press the back button to have that happen. If you press the home button it leaves whatever app you left in the exact state. Call it a staple of multitasking.
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You have to press the back button to have that happen. If you press the home button it leaves whatever app you left in the exact state. Call it a staple of multitasking.
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Yea i understand i can do that, but other android phones with ics dont need to do that,
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Yea i understand i can do that, but other android phones with ics dont need to do that,
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It is set up like that so the apps are available for multi-tasking and don't have to be reopened. If you close with home button they are running and will eat your battery. Back button kills app and sends it to muti-task for easy retrieval as a recent app.
Hey, so in my opinion Google Now is waaay better than S Voice... and I have actually removed S Voice all together from my device.
I am looking for a way to bind my double tap to Google Now without using a launcher.
I was using home2 for it and it worked like a charm... but, I want to use Apex Launcher and that conflicts with it.
So, is there any other work around for this?
i do it with nova.
i know that doesnt help you, but maybe nova wont conflict.
Does Nova let you bind the home key to double tap for google now?
If thats the case I might switch to Nova... I just hear it drains battery life rapidly compared to Apex.
oh you mean with the home button, sorry. I thought you meant doubletap on the screen. i dont think nova can do that. ill report back if i can fnd that setting.
In apex settings behavior bind home key to Google search. I have show primary screen and this and it works great
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I'm using Apex and I have GN set on double tap of the home screen. Works great
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Does Nova let you bind the home key to double tap for google now?
If thats the case I might switch to Nova... I just hear it drains battery life rapidly compared to Apex.
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I just set up nova to where I double tap the screen and it opens Google now
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In apex settings behavior bind home key to Google search. I have show primary screen and this and it works great
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This. Home button to get to primary screen, then home button again for Google Now.
I use "pie" so I can launch it from anywhere. In or out of apps, anywhere.
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Hey, so in my opinion Google Now is waaay better than S Voice... and I have actually removed S Voice all together from my device.
I am looking for a way to bind my double tap to Google Now without using a launcher.
I was using home2 for it and it worked like a charm... but, I want to use Apex Launcher and that conflicts with it.
So, is there any other work around for this?
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Nova does let you set the home button to activate google now (single click though on the home screen only). Home button still takes you to the home screen when you are not on it. So if you are off the home page two clicks starts google now.
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I use home 2 with apex and it works flawlessly. What exactly is the problem you encounter?
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All you have to do is go into the S Voice app, go to settings, and uncheck "Open via the home key".
Try it yourself, the before and after. Simply open the app drawer and press the home button. You will see a speed increase after disabling the S-voice shortcut.
Also another way to increase speed is going into developer options in settings and turning off Window animation scale, transitions animation scale and animator duration scale.
Why are you so smart?
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This has been posted many times already.
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I didn't really even notice that much of a problem with the reactive speed of the home button...
Did what you did, and damn, did that make a significant difference. A GOOD significant difference too
or just disable S-voice totally and see a HUGE improvement all around.
That's new..tried it and it did go faster. Thanks ha
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or just disable S-voice totally and see a HUGE improvement all around.
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did this with tibu the first moment I got it rooted.
no i mean disable it via the phone, then freeze it. i also froze touchwiz home and a bunch of other crap i dont use. my phone is lightning quick compared to stock.
I just got my samsung galaxy s5 today, and I cant seem to get my magezine to update or even show any news.
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I just got my samsung galaxy s5 today, and I cant seem to get my magezine to update or even show any news.
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that my magazine thing is dumb....its basically a flipboard widget....i disabled it and turned it off
Agree with the above poster. I got annoyed with it, so I disabled it and have flipboard running instead. You can use it's widget to perform much the same way if you want to, but I'd rather not waste a home screen
By the way, to disable it, long press on an empty area of a home screen, hit home screen settings and you can disable it in there.
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Agree with the above poster. I got annoyed with it, so I disabled it and have flipboard running instead. You can use it's widget to perform much the same way if you want to, but I'd rather not waste a home screen
By the way, to disable it, long press on an empty area of a home screen, hit home screen settings and you can disable it in there.
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After doing what you did, I then went into application manager and disabled it permanently
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I did end of disabling it but I am still wondering why it would not load any of the sections. They all just say, "content will be available later" so can anyone help with my issue?
Edit: weirdest thing, it started working today.
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