I've been stuck two days now trying to change the default launcher on my MIUI ROM. It sounds like a simple task, but for some reason, it isn't. The problem is when I switch to another launcher, pressing home always returns to the MIUI default launcher, no matter what I do.
Some of what I have already tried:
1) I've allowed MIUI to give full root permissions to the launchers. But I cannot clear defaults or manage permissions for MIUI's launcher in settings, as it is greyed out.
2) Tried setting the launchers to set themselves as default (and keep in memory), within their own settings wherever possible.
3) I've tried several apps promising to change defaults to allow for alternative home launchers. None worked.
4) Tried changing BUTTONS (in Android settings) to have the HOME button do nothing or open recent apps. No matter what, it always quits the 3rd party launcher and returns to home of MIUI launcher.
5) I tried freezing MIUI's launcher and running Apex. This finally worked to keep Apex as default! Except after I rebooted, it got stuck on boot and I LOST EVERYTHING.
5) I upgraded MIUI unofficial ROM to 4.2.2, then 4.9.19. No difference.
6) If there is an option to "set default launcher" in a given app, and I try to set it to that launcher, it will only allow the MIUI system launcher as an option, and automatically return me to the MIUI launcher!
As far as I can tell, the problem does not appear to be related to: the phone, the ROM, or the launcher app. Why, because I had ADW working fine for years over a slightly previous version of this MIUI ROM (v4.1.2). I can't remember when things changed, but probably some time after trying Apex. But now, setting the launcher to ADW again changes nothing, the system still returns to MIUI home.
ROM: MIUI v5, (Blackwing182) version: 4.9.19
Android: JB 4.2.2
Phone: Samsung Galaxy S3
Cyanoid said:
I've been stuck two days now trying to change the default launcher on my MIUI ROM. It sounds like a simple task, but for some reason, it isn't. The problem is when I switch to another launcher, pressing home always returns to the MIUI default launcher, no matter what I do.
Some of what I have already tried:
1) I've allowed MIUI to give full root permissions to the launchers. But I cannot clear defaults or manage permissions for MIUI's launcher in settings, as it is greyed out.
2) Tried setting the launchers to set themselves as default (and keep in memory), within their own settings wherever possible.
3) I've tried several apps promising to change defaults to allow for alternative home launchers. None worked.
4) Tried changing BUTTONS (in Android settings) to have the HOME button do nothing or open recent apps. No matter what, it always quits the 3rd party launcher and returns to home of MIUI launcher.
5) I tried freezing MIUI's launcher and running Apex. This finally worked to keep Apex as default! Except after I rebooted, it got stuck on boot and I LOST EVERYTHING.
5) I upgraded MIUI unofficial ROM to 4.2.2, then 4.9.19. No difference.
6) If there is an option to "set default launcher" in a given app, and I try to set it to that launcher, it will only allow the MIUI system launcher as an option, and automatically return me to the MIUI launcher!
As far as I can tell, the problem does not appear to be related to: the phone, the ROM, or the launcher app. Why, because I had ADW working fine for years over a slightly previous version of this MIUI ROM (v4.1.2). I can't remember when things changed, but probably some time after trying Apex. But now, setting the launcher to ADW again changes nothing, the system still returns to MIUI home.
ROM: MIUI v5, (Blackwing182) version: 4.9.19
Android: JB 4.2.2
Phone: Samsung Galaxy S3
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Have you already attempted setting ADW as the default launcher, immediately going into the directory where the MIUI launcher .apk is, deleting it, and then rebooting? Make a full system backup first, of course.
If you do that, I believe your system will have no choice but to use ADW upon booting.
I do not want to use ADW any longer, but yes, I just did that (after installing a third earlier version of the Blackwing MIUI ROM, v3.9.27). I did not remove the MIUI apk, but froze it (same effect). The phone did not boot into ADW. It just froze on the MIUI logo screen. I also can't set ADW as the default launcher, via settings.
I've literally spent an entire day on this problem, and still can't quite pin it down, because all this *used* to work. I had this same ADW app with one of the aforementioned versions of MIUI, running for ages with over 200 apps on the phone. My best guess is it must be a conflict with one of the installed apps, but then..... why is it acting up *now*?!.
On top of everything, I did a back up of my system&apps with ROM Toolbox AND the MIUI Backup app before messing with the MIUI launcher and having to redo the ROM. Now when I try to restore, *both* of those apps no longer have their backups! (insert angry emoticon)
It's looking like I can no longer use MIUI on my Galaxy S3.... the only ROM I ever liked! :crying:
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Brand new to launcherpro and I love it. However when I reboot my phone it always restarts in HTC sense even though I have LP set as the default. I have LP set as the default using HomeSwitcher. I have also cleared all defaults in sense. Is there a way to have my EVO boot straight into LP? How can I avoid sense stuff from wasting resources while I am running LP?
LP+
EVO 2.2
Thanks!!
At The first time when i have installed it, i had the option to select between the standard and the launcher pro screen.
I checked the "always use this" and selected launcher pro, now i have it forever even when i restart my phone. i love it =3
try to reinstall it, push the home button and select it as default.
You can also download Home Switcher, open it and select Launcher Pro as default, also handy app to switch from one launcher to another
I am already using Home Switcher and have LP set as the default. Any other ideas?
Still cant seem to figure this one out. Rebooting keeps coming back to sense even though LP is my default set in Home Switcher.
what ROM are you running?
Have you tried re-installing LP?
Yes I have tried reinstalling LP twice now. When I press the home key I hit the check mark to always use LP and in Home Switcher I have LP set as the default. However it continues to boot to sense.
I am running an unrooted stock EVO.
I noticed the same thing on my Desire stock 2.1. Sense always runa in the background. If you kill it then it restarts itself.
I'm planning on installing CM6 soon so I'm not bothering with it. But you might be able to keep Sense killed with a task killer app.
Sent from my HTC Desire via Tapatalk Pro
You might need to root your phone, install "Autostarts", and then kill Sense during the phone's startup routine.
First off I need to state that All of my experience with modding android devices is exclusively with the Samsung Vibrant.
A buddy at work just got the Motorola Droid-X for verizon.
I helped him out through the menus and settings and the standards of Android OS and the apps and yada yada yada.............
His phone is Stock and has never been rooted or modded in any way.
In seeing that My phone looked different I told him about home launcher replacements and that I was using Launcher pro. He wanted this for his phone as well and I installed it.
After I installed it I wanted to show him how to revert back to his original stock launcher (as i do on my vibrant) but to my surprise in pressing the home button it did not show me the choose launcher popup as my vibrant does.
I immediately went into settings/applications/manage applications/launcherPro to clear defaults and again to my surprise the clear defaults button was grayed out.
He is now having reboot issues he did not have before. He states he notices this when launcher pro rotates the home screen.
My questions for this forum is, (sorry it took so long)
How do I get his phone back to the stock launcher?
If I un-install Launcher pro,
Will I un-install the what seems to be the only home launcher and Brick his phone?
If I install a different launcher(Zeam) Will it possible give me the Choose default popup again?
I honestly did not think this simple install would cause this kind of issues.
I hate to think he needs to do a factory reset.
Please help me??
Big Dog KMc said:
First off I need to state that All of my experience with modding android devices is exclusively with the Samsung Vibrant.
A buddy at work just got the Motorola Droid-X for verizon.
I helped him out through the menus and settings and the standards of Android OS and the apps and yada yada yada.............
His phone is Stock and has never been rooted or modded in any way.
In seeing that My phone looked different I told him about home launcher replacements and that I was using Launcher pro. He wanted this for his phone as well and I installed it.
After I installed it I wanted to show him how to revert back to his original stock launcher (as i do on my vibrant) but to my surprise in pressing the home button it did not show me the choose launcher popup as my vibrant does.
I immediately went into settings/applications/manage applications/launcherPro to clear defaults and again to my surprise the clear defaults button was grayed out.
He is now having reboot issues he did not have before. He states he notices this when launcher pro rotates the home screen.
My questions for this forum is, (sorry it took so long)
How do I get his phone back to the stock launcher?
If I un-install Launcher pro,
Will I un-install the what seems to be the only home launcher and Brick his phone?
If I install a different launcher(Zeam) Will it possible give me the Choose default popup again?
I honestly did not think this simple install would cause this kind of issues.
I hate to think he needs to do a factory reset.
Please help me??
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Settings -> Applications -> Manage Applications -> All -> Home -> Clear Defaults, not hard...
Go to the market and search for home switcher. That should do the trick.
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You can also downlaod HomeSmack which is like Home Switcher but Homesmack is way better for Motorola phones. I downloaded it on my Droid X and it works best if you enable MotoHomeHelper on the app.
P.S. If you are getting an install error take out your SD card and try to download the app again. Then when the app is done downloading you can put your SD card back in your phone.
You can try any of the home switching apps that people have suggested... Or if you just uninstall the Launcher Pro app, his original launcher will return. I have done this several times on my X.
all you have to do is uninstall laucher pro
Launchers
Thank you all for your replies.
When I went to him to to preform the fix's He had already turned off rotate within launcher pro and it stopped his reboot issues, so now he is happy.
Thanks again to all.
Hi Guys,
The Fiio X7 is an android based DAP, it's recently received an update to Lollipop 5.1.1. The device can be rooted using Kingoroot / kingroot.
It has a default launcher called 'Launcher3' which I believe is the AOSP launcher and is also able to be set to what they call 'Pure Music Mode' where the launcher can be set to their Music application (apparently closes all background processes). This can be toggled in the quick settings pulled down from the top.
I am able to install a new launcher - Nova for instance, but cannot set it as default, when the option is selected within Nova, the default launcher immediately pops back up and Nova seems to be shut down (not in the recent apps list). This occurs with any other launcher.
Checking any Launcher within Apps the 'Launch by defaults' section states 'No defaults set' and the 'Clear Defaults' button is greyed out. Default launcher applications don't seem to work either.
So the launcher lives in /system/Launcher3/Launcher3.apk and I've managed to replace this with the Nova launcher apk after renaming it to Launcher3.apk via adb push. This causes the Launcher 3 to throw up errors as expected, but after rebooting the Nova launcher works fine as the default launcher. Even persists after shutting the device down / rebooting it etc.. at this point I thought I had solved the problem...
However leaving the device on for some time, something happens and the Nova launcher process seems to be killed. After this occurs, it goes into the 'Pure Music Mode' launcher, pressing the home button does nothing, and as this isn't an actual launcher means that no applications or anything can be launched. The only way to get things working properly again is to re-flash the firmware (it is a update.img) using Fiio's application leaving me stuck with the default horrid launcher....
It seems that somehow and for some reason Fiio have baked the launcher into the firmware making it impossible to change it's behaviour. I'm hoping someone here can shed some light on how to eradicate this.
Thanks
Paul
Hi all,
I've had a strange experience recently where at least once or twice a day whenever I close an app the phone defaults to stock launcher rather than Nova ( Nova is selected as default launcher)
I then have to manually go into settings and reselect Nova as default launcher.
Anyone having this issue or have any idea how to fix?
Thanks.
Me. mAny many many and many times. I give up of using nova launcher and I am using the horrible native launcher. Completely annoyed.
I am using nova for the past week. The only time I had this issue was when I tried to add a widget that is specific to the native launcher. I supposed you have added the launcher to ignore optimization?
I've got the same problem. Do you have the MHA-AL00? On the AL00 I definitely have this problem, but I don't remember having this problem on the L29. Yesterday, I set it for Nova to ignore battery optimizations, and it's been okay since then, though. Not sure how much that matters.
Edit: Literally ten seconds after typing this message, my phone went back to default launcher, so that's not how it's solved unfortunately.
There is a Nova setting called "Agressive Desktop". Enabling it seems to have fixed the issue.
A day later: Confirming that it works!!
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This is Chinese model MHA-AL00
I've selected the aggressive desktop option...Will see what happens. I think this is specific to the Chinese ROM ( my handset is Chinese )
As an aside I dont see an option for a daydream clock in my ROM?
Smart Launcher here, no probs!
Didn't work for me. Still switches back despite enabling aggressive desktop.
There is one thing you can try, and that is to lock it in the recent apps list. Nova launcher settings won't show up if you are currently using the launcher. So set the default launcher to Huawei Home first. Then open Nova launcher and goto nova settings.
Press the home button, which should take you back to Huawei Home. Press recent apps. Nova settings should now show up in the recent apps. Press the little lock icon and lock it.
Not sure if it will work for you. So far it is okay for me.
Have tried the recent app lock mate... Thanks for the tip!
I just find all the Chinese android versions have super aggressive app kill properties, even after you go through all the optimisation and turning it off it still does it. The final jigsaw always seem to be locking the app into memory in the recent apps list. I had a xiaomi previously and that phone used to kill things even locked in recent apps -.-
Also was using the phone with Assistance & voice input setting changed to launcher 3 and trusted agent set to Smart Lock (Google). Today Smart Lock randomly popped up with my home address.
So right now I also have it auto unlocked while at home (not via bluetooth only). Now the problem is I cannot access the setting again
I agree. I did stop buying their phones for this reason but couldn't resist the mate 9
Hmmm... This was an issue that really bugged me, but it works now. Nova stays as default, and it's solid. Besides the Aggressive Desktop, I gave Nova all the possible permissions, so re-check that.
Tried aggressive desktop as well as locking in recent but nothing seems to work. Any other ideas?
Does someone know how to change or better replace the standard launcher of the iqoo7 PERMANENTLY? I tried so many times but it always turns back to the standard launcher. I want the Evie launcher. I can change it but when I go back to the homescreen the original is there again. Who has the answer?
Go to Settings - > Apps & Notifications - > Default Apps
Choose your desired launcher and restart your phone.
Thta should fix it.
I'm using Nova Launcher since almost 2 months now without any issue.
Hi. I only have apps and permissions and under permissions I can't designate an app for a launcher. Seems I have an Indian version of the iqoo 7.
I found it!!! But...... When I perform a restart it returns to the standard homescreen, . Only solution is I think, restart as less as possible. Thanks for the help.
i use nova launcher permanently & it doesn't switch back to the default quickstep launcher even if i restart the device, update the device or switch users.
You need to change an extra option. Go to Security and privacy> more security settings>change system launcher>allow change system launcher.
Every time you power on your phone it will remind you to change back to original, just press cancel.
(options name may be different cuz I'm on Spanish language)
May thanks Kone, it finally works after weeks of trying. Cheers