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[APP] Lock 2.0 unusable on Nexus One

I have had the payed version of Lock 2.0 since there was an option to buy but since I got my Nexus One it has now become pretty much unusable. The sad part is that it is better than the lock button that is on the top of the phone cause it lets you bring up the lock screen by pressing your track ball. I love all the different back grounds and sounds you can download and how they stay in a folder and not in your app draw (which is really annoying). Now the thing I don't like is that when you press the volume buttons when the phone is locked you can and will turn down or up the volume on accident and this is why this app is now unusable. Can it really be that hard to add an option to disable these buttons? I have emailed Android Apps and they say the reason the volume button does that is for when you are listening to music and thats great but whats the use if when you get a call or text and you can't hear it cause you turned the volume down to 0 on accident. I emailed them today again and asked if they could update their app and I hope they do. The reason I started this thread is so anybody could comment on this problem with I have to say is probably my second favorite app on the market. I will also email them a link to this thread so they can see what everybody thinks. One more thing on another lock app LockBot when you press the volume button the sound does not get turned down but I don't want to really pay for two apps that can do the same thing. Edit: OK they fixed it but their is a new problem with the home button.

isjr said:
I have had the payed version of Lock 2.0 since there was an option to buy but since I got my Nexus One it has now become pretty much unusable. The sad part is that it is better than the lock button that is on the top of the phone cause it lets you bring up the lock screen by pressing your track ball. I love all the different back grounds and sounds you can download and how they stay in a folder and not in your app draw (which is really annoying). Now the thing I don't like is that when you press the volume buttons when the phone is locked you can and will turn down or up the volume on accident and this is why this app is now unusable. Can it really be that hard to add an option to disable these buttons? I have emailed Android Apps and they say the reason the volume button does that is for when you are listening to music and thats great but whats the use if when you get a call or text and you can't hear it cause you turned the volume down to 0 on accident. I emailed them today again and asked if they could update their app and I hope they do. The reason I started this thread is so anybody could comment on this problem with I have to say is probably my second favorite app on the market. I will also email them a link to this thread so they can see what everybody thinks. One more thing on another lock app LockBot when you press the volume button the sound does not get turned down but I don't want to really pay for two apps that can do the same thing.
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What rom are you using?
Cyanogens latest has an option for trackball wake-up (and of course that mod can be applied to other roms as well) if that is indeed the biggest thing about it you like. I personally never saw the need to change my lockscreen from stock, but can understand why some people do.

I am using the stock rom, I didn't want to root this phone since you void your warranty and mine is pretty messed up I should get a replacement this week. Also I am glad Cyanogen added that and that tells you it is a problem in the stock or he wouldn't have had to improve on it. So people like me only have the option of downloading an app to get the same results. Also I have used a rooted phone before, I had been using my Google Ion rooted for about 6 months before I got my Nexus One.

Ok I just got an email from the developer and they have disabled the volume buttons by default on the new version that was fast. Now there is a weird problem where even after you set the Launcher as the default for your home button it still keeps opening Lock 2.0, its really annoying but I already told them so I'm sure they will fix it. Now if only Google would respond like this for their "Support Forums" on fixing the 3G and Touchscreen problems the world would be a better place.

I understand the issue with the volume keys. I don't listen to music so i installed the app (ringer mode locker) by kaa from the market. It overrides the system setting and locks on your choose of settings: vibrate, ringer silent etc. If you volume up or down it stays on you set point. I like if because it is not a background app using extra battery trying to monitor a set point.

isjr said:
Ok I just got an email from the developer and they have disabled the volume buttons by default on the new version that was fast. Now there is a weird problem where even after you set the Launcher as the default for your home button it still keeps opening Lock 2.0, its really annoying but I already told them so I'm sure they will fix it. Now if only Google would respond like this for their "Support Forums" on fixing the 3G and Touchscreen problems the world would be a better place.
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Please don't critisize Google like this, 3G issues and Touchscreen problems are not simple applications in which code can be modified to turn off the "Volume" buttons.. I've noticed the employees on their forums try to solve things to the best of their abilities - but Google can not just correct everything as if it takes a small flick of the wrist, or click of a mouse...
Honestly I don't see how they will fix any 3G issue entierly without modifiying the insides of the phone.. guess I dont know enough about phones to make such a conclusion anyways.

isjr said:
Now there is a weird problem where even after you set the Launcher as the default for your home button it still keeps opening Lock 2.0, its really annoying but I already told them so I'm sure they will fix it.
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I emailed them about this a couple of weeks ago. I told them exactly that and I got a "Steve Jobs-like" response lol..
"Something is wrong with your phone."
I even posted about it a couple of times in the Q&A section but got no responses. I'm glad to see someone on a stock ROM is experiencing the same issue because I thought it was due to using CM. Are you using an auto task-killer?

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I want to get rid of my lockscreen! its anoying having to press the power button then unlock the screen!

frankzua77 said:
I want to get rid of my lockscreen! its anoying having to press the power button then unlock the screen!
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Get "KeyGuard disabler" from the market. It costs 1.49 but does exactly what you want. I'm sure there are free versions of similar software too but this is only one i've ever tried.

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gIMpSTa said:
Get "KeyGuard disabler" from the market. It costs 1.49 but does exactly what you want. I'm sure there are free versions of similar software too but this is only one i've ever tried.
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wow dude just tried it! works perfect! thanks man!

Meh....
After installing and trying to use it, I finally gave up. It has the potential to be by far one of the best android apps. The developer has designed programs that mesh with android so natively that I am jealous of his understanding. But even after a few reinstallations, this program never delivered. A replacement lockscreen must be more than just pretty. It wasn't sized right for the Nexus One screen and constantly froze "Updating List", even when I was just trying to unlock. The "Updating List" freeze causes a loop that just recalled the freeze when I hit home. There is no escape short of hitting menu, more, home, then selecting my home screen program. I would consider that a lock screen fail if I have to navigate a menu to select a home screen instead of sliding the sexy little slider over. I hate taking refunds from the market, but Lock 2.0 needs more work. If I see anyone saying it has been adjusted for the N1 screen and the home bug has been fixed, I'll buy it again, but until then, I'll stick with the just weather and toggle widgets.

I hear that Lock 2.0 disables notifications on the Nexus One. Does anybody know of any apps thats just as attractive as Lock 2.0 that doesn't disable notifications or freeze.. etc.. (something iphone-ish i guess)

Any news about the home button bug bypassing the lock screen in Lock 2.0?

As far as a can tell its been working good and the dev added the option to clear the home screen default if it does it again. Its pretty sad that he left it messed up for months until I sent him the link to this thread.
Sent from my Nexus One

isjr said:
As far as a can tell its been working good and the dev added the option to clear the home screen default if it does it again. Its pretty sad that he left it messed up for months until I sent him the link to this thread.
Sent from my Nexus One
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Thanks, but I was referring to another bug (unless I'm totally mistaken):
When you turn on your nexus and you're still on Lock 2.0 lock screen, if you press the home button, it unlocks the phone without having to use the slider.
Hope this was clear...

Battery Widget -> Show what is using it up

I had a battery widget on my screen, which I swear was on the phone before I downloaded any apps. Maybe I am going nuts. It did not show %, but it showed bars.
The nice thing was when I clicked on it it would open up a page showing what apps were using the battery.
I pulled it off the screen, and now cannot find it to put back.
Anyone see anything like that?

It was on the phone when you got it? I just got it yesterday and never saw anything like that....hmmm...

Are you sure you're thinking of a widget rather than going to Settings, About Phone, then Battery Use?

Well, since posting a few min ago, I found that. But I did have an icon on my desktop that I could call that very thing with. But darned if I know how I got it there.
I've been messing with this thing so much, I'm going brain dead.I was having problems a bit ago remembering which app I used to check on available memory. But finally remembered it was Advanced Task Killer.

Long press on the desktop like you were going to add a widget or wallpaper. Choose Shortcut instead, then scroll down to Settings, click it, then choose Battery Use.
That'll put a nice little battery/magnifying glass icon on your desktop, click it and it does what it says, just like you'd went into Settings/About Phone/Battery Use.
And notice some of the other quick and handy shortcuts you can make, besides the wealth of those found in the Settings part.

Well, I am pretty sure that is how I got it there. It has disappeared from the list, so I can no longer install it.
So I guess the real question is what determines what is in that list.
Hmmm....I wonder if that is a Samsung widget, which won't work with Launcher Pro.
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Nope, I don't see it no matter which launcher I select. I wonder what else is missing.

ewingr said:
Well, I am pretty sure that is how I got it there. It has disappeared from the list, so I can no longer install it.
So I guess the real question is what determines what is in that list.
Hmmm....I wonder if that is a Samsung widget, which won't work with Launcher Pro.
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Nope, I don't see it no matter which launcher I select. I wonder what else is missing.
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i have it working with launcher pro

I'm a dork today. I found it. And if I had slowed down and read Croak's reply and paid attention he had the answer.
What I was skipping was selecting Settings after going into the shortcuts. I was thinking that was the settings ICON to open general settings.

ADW.Launcher Issue

Having a strange issue with ADW.Launcher. From time to time, I will get a white dialog box in the upper right hand corner, almost like it is announcing a notification of some sort, but it's just an empty write box. I think it's triggered by me moving an icon around, but letting it "slip" and not moving it enough, but I'm not really sure. In any case, once that one dialog box appears, nothing short of a reboot will get rid of it. Moreover, I notice that the tablet will freeze up for a few moments at a time as well.
This is on a stock tablet with the Enhancement Pack. Thanks in advance for any help!

festivus said:
Having a strange issue with ADW.Launcher. From time to time, I will get a white dialog box in the upper right hand corner, almost like it is announcing a notification of some sort, but it's just an empty write box. I think it's triggered by me moving an icon around, but letting it "slip" and not moving it enough, but I'm not really sure. In any case, once that one dialog box appears, nothing short of a reboot will get rid of it. Moreover, I notice that the tablet will freeze up for a few moments at a time as well.
This is on a stock tablet with the Enhancement Pack. Thanks in advance for any help!
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I'm having it too with stock+enh pack 2. It looked as you said like a dialog box, so I tried to press anything that would usually make one - turning the wifi off seems to fix it. Don't ask me why. For now I think I'll switch back to LauncherPro until this is worked out.

This happened to me as well. I currently have adw.launcher EX 1.2.2 running on Tntlite 5.0.0
There is a launcher action called "open notifications" that is the default action associated with one of the launcher gestures -- either up swipe or down swipe (sorry, i don't have the gtab in front of me at the moment). I just made sure i changed that configuration to use a different action.
I have found that when the empty open notification window is there, weird things happen. Setup seems to not work consistently for example.
Also, I swear that I have seen this issue on previous versions of ROMs and not just tntlite 5.0.0.
I don't have a reasonable fix for this other than "don't open notifications". I did try the latest ADW Notifier but that didn't work.

poymeister said:
This happened to me as well. I currently have adw.launcher EX 1.2.2 running on Tntlite 5.0.0
There is a launcher action called "open notifications" that is the default action associated with one of the launcher gestures -- either up swipe or down swipe (sorry, i don't have the gtab in front of me at the moment). I just made sure i changed that configuration to use a different action.
I have found that when the empty open notification window is there, weird things happen. Setup seems to not work consistently for example.
Also, I swear that I have seen this issue on previous versions of ROMs and not just tntlite 5.0.0.
I don't have a reasonable fix for this other than "don't open notifications". I did try the latest ADW Notifier but that didn't work.
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I've seen this too. That's a great explanation of what it is.
Turning off that gesture makes perfect sense.

GO Launcher EX users beware

I love my Thunderbolt. And, until yesterday I loved Go Launcher EX. But that changed.
I had an emergency. I won't go into details but if any of you have been in an emergency then you know that you need to act quick to quell the onset of panic.
I pulled out my Thunderbolt. It was bright daylight. Hard to see the display. I normally have the brightness set at 30% to save battery. So it took a few seconds for me to find the icon I keep on the home page to change the brightness from the normal 30% to the full 100%.
Whew! I found it and could now see the screen clearly. I need to call 911 as panic is starting to build up.
I have Go Launcher Ex installed and love its flexibility. On the bottom of the phone Go Launcher EX installs 5 icons. The first one is phone, the next one contacts, etc.
I look at the bottom row. Instead of phone, contacts, etc. I see 5 icons but they are all the same. They are all just a large + sign. (That's Plus Sign).
Pressing on them takes me to, I think, a configuration screen of some kind. I don't really remember now because panic is starting to set in since I can't dial 911, or anything else for that matter. I CAN'T GET TO MY FRIGGIN' PHONE. HELP ME, I'm thinking. What the eff is going on here. How do I solve this? Quick, think of something! FAST! NOW! HELP ME!
I do the only thing I know how to do to fix the phone. I hold down the power button and press RESET. Panic is swelling. I know it will take a minute or so for the phone to reset but the worst fear is that I still won't be able to use the phone if GO Launcher EX is still acting up.
During the reboot time I try to calm myself. I try to think of how to kill Go Launcher EX and get back to the HTC stock page. Do I go into settings and delete in the app? How the heck do I get into settings if the buttons don't work? HELP ME!
Finally, after what seemed to be an hour but was only probably 90 seconds or so, the phone lock screen is displayed. I swipe it down with anxiety hoping I don't see five plus signs and hoping it's back to normal. I can see the normal icons including the phone icon. Whew! what a relief. I press the phone icon but it says no coverage. I try to stay calm. I press the phone icon again and now I have coverage. I can make the call.
I gotta tell you that my hands were shaking and I was a nervous wreck for about an hour but everything turned out OK.
It did make me think of how dangerous it is to rely upon third party apps on such a critical piece of equipment. Having said that I'm hoping this was just one oddball anomaly and, for now, I'm keeping Go Launcher EX installed and running. But, I gotta ask, has anyone else seen this with Go Launcher EX?

It sounds like you accidently swiped the dock. Go Launcher by default includes three docks. When I slide between them, the other two show as a row full of "+"'s

That's correct u can go to dock settings in go launcher and set the number of docks from 3 to 1 then u won't have that problem again

Yeah sorry but sounds like user error in your panic, not sure how you used go launcher very long and never found that feature. Launcher Pro has same feature and you could put your dialer in every slot if you wanted
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jersey_609 said:
That's correct u can go to dock settings in go launcher and set the number of docks from 3 to 1 then u won't have that problem again
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Thanks so much for your reply. I just reread my post and my heart rate went up again. Your suggestion has a calming effect.
Hopefully, this thread will make back to the developers of Go Launcher EX and they'll set the default to 1 instead of 3.
Whew!
Edit: It's crystal clear what happened now that I can reproduce it. However, I didn't know about the dock and during a time of crisis couldn't fix it. I've now set my dock rows to 1 and that corrected the behavior. I wouldn't want anyone that needed to use my phone to save ME in an emergency to run into the same problem.

TabGuy said:
Thanks so much for your reply. I just reread my post and my heart rate went up again. Your suggestion has a calming effect.
Hopefully, this thread will make back to the developers of Go Launcher EX and they'll set the default to 1 instead of 3.
Whew!
Edit: It's crystal clear what happened now that I can reproduce it. However, I didn't know about the dock and during a time of crisis couldn't fix it. I've now set my dock rows to 1 and that corrected the behavior. I wouldn't want anyone that needed to use my phone to save ME in an emergency to run into the same problem.
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The first time this happened to me w/Launcher Pro I had ZERO clue wtf just happened to my icons, lol, full on panic, but not during a 911 crisis thank goodness.

My friend had the same issue. He accidentally swiped and was pulling his hair out trying to fix it.

This is why I stopped using ADW, the launcher would randomly disappear (I must have bumped it wrong) and could *NOT* figure out how to bring it back (even resetting wouldn't). I haven't had this issue with Launcher Pro thankfully.

pdxphreek said:
This is why I stopped using ADW, the launcher would randomly disappear (I must have bumped it wrong) and could *NOT* figure out how to bring it back (even resetting wouldn't). I haven't had this issue with Launcher Pro thankfully.
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thats a feature, it happens when you swipe up on the middle of the dock bar. my fiancee does it on her tbolt all the time and calls me from work screaming I CANT SEE MY APPS!!!!!!!!!!!!! and i tell her calmly to swipe down at the very bottom of the screen and she goes "ohhhhhhhhh i know what i did......." but yea the first time it happened to me i was like zomg wheres my dock bar?!?!

krickatthedisco said:
thats a feature, it happens when you swipe up on the middle of the dock bar. my fiancee does it on her tbolt all the time and calls me from work screaming I CANT SEE MY APPS!!!!!!!!!!!!! and i tell her calmly to swipe down at the very bottom of the screen and she goes "ohhhhhhhhh i know what i did......." but yea the first time it happened to me i was like zomg wheres my dock bar?!?!
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I tried swing around where it should be to bring it back and it never did come back up. I couldn't find an option to disable it either. At this point I paid for Launcher Pro anyways so I wouldn't go back to ADW.

You can always hold down the search button to get the voice prompt and say "Call 911"

yblaser said:
You can always hold down the search button to get the voice prompt and say "Call 911"
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Thanks, that's a good tip.
Unfortunately, in the heat of panic somehow all logic and learned tips just seem to fly out the window.
I have a "feature phone" (non smart phone) that was sitting in the center console of my car. I use it exclusively to connect to my Ford Sync. It never occurred to me, during the heat of panic, to open up the center console and use that phone. A couple of days later I slapped my forehead with the palm of my hand when I thought about that.

TabGuy said:
Thanks, that's a good tip.
Unfortunately, in the heat of panic somehow all logic and learned tips just seem to fly out the window.
I have a "feature phone" (non smart phone) that was sitting in the center console of my car. I use it exclusively to connect to my Ford Sync. It never occurred to me, during the heat of panic, to open up the center console and use that phone. A couple of days later I slapped my forehead with the palm of my hand when I thought about that.
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That happens to the best of us, glad to hear everything is okay for you.

If you go into the GoLauncher preferences and select Exit or Restart (can't remember which) it automatically removes itself as the default launcher. So you can hit the home button and select another launcher.

A few observations on the google pixel 4a

I've had the Pixel 4a since tuesday and I like it. I've a few observations I thought I'd put here in case anyone else agrees; there's a fix/workaround etc:
1) The speaker isn't too loud and it's only in the last 20% or so of the volume bar that you can hear the difference. They should change the linearity such that there's more control over the sound difference of the last 20% of the range, if that makes sense. Not a big deal.
2) It's annoying that I can't swipe back (ie swipe left from the right edge of the screen) to get rid of the keyboard. Instead a large percentage (10?) of the bottom of the screen is black except for the arrow which closes the keyboard. Waste of space.
3) On a similar note, there's a white line near the bottom of the screen. I guess it's to show that you can swipe up, but I'm not sure. Why would anyone who wasn't sure if they could swipe up see a white line and go "ah - I bet I could swipe up here"? But that's my best guess. And this is on most screens. It's the worst, and the most noticeable, on chrome. You have a full screen site, curving nicely at the top of the screen, and at the bottom the screen starts to curve but then there's the black rectangle, which exists purely to highlight the mystery-white-line-which-might-mean-you-can-swipe-up-here, cuts in, ending the curve and wasting around 5% of the height of the screen. This line doesn't appear in 3 button mode. But isn't the point of gestures that you don't need to waste space on buttons. So...don't waste the space showing me you can swipe up then. There's no swipe down hint, or swiping left/right hint. I don't get it at all. It knows I know you can swipe up, because I've swiped up.
4) Nova launcher problem. It just doesn't stick. Every once in a while it stops being the default launcher and you have to run it again. This has happened on other phones and eventually they fix it. I guess I have to try nova launcher again every month or so. The stock launcher isn't too bad, but:
5) Stock launcher is quite unconfigurable. The 5 icons at the bottom of the screen are sort of like the nova launcher dock (which i always turn off) and are there on every screen.
6) There's a notification history, which is a great idea. If you swiped away a message but then forgot if it was an email, or which whatsapp contact it was, you can see quickly what the most recent message was. You access it via a button under the notification shade which you can press to get at it. But...get this: That button only exists if you currently have unread notifications. If you swiped the last one away, the history button vanishes. You now have to go into settings to read it (why settings? my photos aren't in settings). Why? Who thought that was a good idea? That's when you're most likely to want the history! Doh!
7) Aggressive app killer. This will never change - no matter what google says about ai and machine learning, there's something too complicated about "ok, there's a music player running, playing music, and there are headphones attached, and the headphones are playing music...but...oh, the screen is turned off, which apps can I kill to save battery...well, there's this music player nobody's looking at, that'll do" to ever fix. Really? You're not checking if an app gets reloaded immediately after it gets killed every time it's killed and learning "hmm... it's as if.....he was listening to music and didn't want the app killed?" I guess it's true what they say - most machine learning is just a regex, and this isn't something which can be solved with a regex, so... I've disabled the battery optimisation for this app; time will tell whether that does the trick.
8) Can't disable the sound it makes when taking a screenshot.
9) Google photos can't keep up with quickly deleting a number of photos. To be fair, this happens on the website too. It's odd - you'd think it would be easy. You're not actually doing anything other than marking the fact that a photo is deleted. You're just moving it to the bin; it still exists locally. It's an offline-operation. Why doesn't it just defer until later, or do asynchronously - whatever it's doing. On both web and phone it's so laggy and disorienting that it's easy to end up deleting the wrong photo, the only workaround being to delete literally one picture every 5 seconds. Annoying if you're been taking pics of kids and took a bunch so as to ensure you have at least one without a blur or closed eyes etc.
Well, sounds quite ranty I guess. It's a great phone though - highly recommended. I really bought it for the camera and the fact it's quite a small phone. I recommend the spigen tough armor (sic) case; nice and grippy and feels like it's going to keep it pretty safe.

Maybe these things will be fixed in future updates. I reverted back to 10 and flashed Dirty Unicorns, just a better overall user experience compared to stock at the moment.

I would like to add something: do you also the "bubbles" always appear on the left of the screen even if you have moved them to the right before closing them?

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...Well, sounds quite ranty I guess. It's a great phone though - highly recommended. I really bought it for the camera and the fact it's quite a small phone. I recommend the spigen tough armor (sic) case; nice and grippy and feels like it's going to keep it pretty safe.
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Most observations in original post pertain to Android 11 (AOSP) and have little to do with the device itself. My experience on a couple items:
- Nova has yet to crash since updating to Android 11 (stable on A10 too). That said, you likely interact with the launcher in different ways not to mention app portfolio interactions. Should submit a bug report to developer via contact link in Nova settings.
- Not experiencing the same nonlinearity in volume adjustment. Max volume is fine for my tastes but probably would work well as the sole audio source at an Italian wedding

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Most observations in original post pertain to Android 11 (AOSP) and have little to do with the device itself. My experience on a couple items:
- Nova has yet to crash since updating to Android 11 (stable on A10 too). That said, you likely interact with the launcher in different ways not to mention app portfolio interactions. Should submit a bug report to developer via contact link in Nova settings.
- Not experiencing the same nonlinearity in volume adjustment. Max volume is fine for my tastes but probably would work well as the sole audio source at an Italian wedding
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The device runs Android 11, so that's all I can talk about, not what might happen if it ran a different operating system.
I never said nova launcher crashed; just that it stopped being a default launcher by itself a few times.

The white line at the bottom of the screen is annoying! I liked having the option in Oxygen OS to hide it, hopefully that becomes an option on future updates.
Overall I'm really enjoying the phone after coming from the Nord.

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The device runs Android 11, so that's all I can talk about, not what might happen if it ran a different operating system.
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Not what I said; no reference to an alternate OS
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I never said nova launcher crashed; just that it stopped being a default launcher by itself a few times.
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Almost always the result of excessive memory pressure (also has nothing to do with the device assuming memory is adequate...which it is on the 4a)

For your issue 4 I guess there's bug in Nova launcher. I had similar issue with Nova, but after switching to Lawnchair it sticks permanently.
Default gesture navigation is surely ****ty. I prefer using old 3-buttons navigation.