I just realized my Google search bar disappeared from my recent apps screen. Anybody know how to re-enable it? Thanks!
Running stock Lollipop 5 and elementalX kernel
Same happened with me. What might have caused it?
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I just realized the same. I wonder if it was the cause of some of the memory leaks and was therefore removed in 5.0.1 perhaps.
WisdomWolf said:
I just realized the same. I wonder if it was the cause of some of the memory leaks and was therefore removed in 5.0.1 perhaps.
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I'm on 5.0 and there is no search bar in the recents menu.
I have a search bar in my. recent menu
WisdomWolf said:
I just realized the same. I wonder if it was the cause of some of the memory leaks and was therefore removed in 5.0.1 perhaps.
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Nope.
Its a bug if it's not there.
Lethargy said:
Nope.
Its a bug if it's not there.
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Any idea how to solve this bug?
russian392 said:
Any idea how to solve this bug?
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People say to boot with safe mode (long press Power Off in power menu) then reboot and it should work.
Lethargy said:
People say to boot with safe mode (long press Power Off in power menu) then reboot and it should work.
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Worked for me, thanks! But I wonder the reason that it disappeared, usually the safe mode solves problems when it's an app-related bug, but I have no idea why it comes back for real when reboot to normal mode again.
Maybe CyanogenMod can help you..
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Worked for me, thanks! But I wonder the reason that it disappeared, usually the safe mode solves problems when it's an app-related bug, but I have no idea why it comes back for real when reboot to normal mode again.
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It's an issue with the app's widget receiver or something. Dunno.
Gescript said:
Maybe CyanogenMod can help you..
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I just had this issue on CM, so it's not an AOSP-exclusive bug.
Lethargy said:
People say to boot with safe mode (long press Power Off in power menu) then reboot and it should work.
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Thank you for the suggestion. It worked for me as well. This bug was driving me nuts!
I don't have the search bar in Recents on a recent clean flash of 5.1.. I completely forgot about it since it was missing on 5.0.1 as well. This is the only thread anywhere that mentioned it. It returns after booting into Safe Mode & remains after rebooting normally. All my widgets said, "problem with widget"& I had to remove & re-add them all. It must be a common 3rd party app (with widgets?) we have installed interfering with it. Which one, I wonder? Xposed Modules still work in Safe Mode, so that's not it.
The recent apps (now renamed to "overview" in Lollipop) search bar just uses the search bar widget from the Google search app. If it has an issue with loading that widget for whatever reason then it doesn't show up properly. Don't know why a safe mode boot fixes it.
I recently learned I don't have the search bar in my recents menu because I've replaced the long press function on the home button.
By default it opens Google Now but I use an app to rebind it to turn my screen off.
If you rebind the function, or have it altered or disabled in some way then the search bar disappears from the recents menu as it is attempting to open that Widget.
Had the same problem too. Thanks for the safe mode tip!
Has anyone encountered this issue with Marshmallow? I was resigned to not having the search widget in Recent Apps because I liked using Swipeup Utility, but in 6.0 the API for that gesture is completely removed so I uninstalled Swipeup, did a safe mode boot (which on 5.1.1 did work to restore the widget) and cleared cache.. but still don't have the widget back. It's not a big deal, but it's a quirk and I prefer at least knowing the *why* of it, even if it's not something with a feasible solution (for me).
Dunno
Same thing happened in my opt with oxygenOS non rooted device. Thanks to the safe mode tip. But still wondering which app caused the search bar to be removed and how is safe mode fixing it.
Adi_IOT said:
Same thing happened in my opt with oxygenOS non rooted device. Thanks to the safe mode tip. But still wondering which app caused the search bar to be removed and how is safe mode fixing it.
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Safe Mode resets all your widgets. The search bar in Overview is also a widget, so something to do with that. I haven't had the issue on Marshmallow yet.
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Yeah, I've been having the same issue for the past couple of CM13 nightlies on my OnePlus One.. There is a button to turn the search widget off for the recent apps menu, but I've turned it on and off hoping to clear up the issue, but to no avail. I booted in to Safe Mode, and voilà! It appeared! But when I rebooted it back to normal, the issue reappears. I'm gonna clear the cache for the Google app, but as of now I'm waiting for this bug to be fixed in CM.
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So i have a Samsung Galaxy S3 with Paranoid Android 3.1 (March 1st build) and I also have Nova Launcher!
My home button used to always take me to the home screen! or main page! but randomly it keeps just opening recent apps! No matter what i do it just keeps opening recent apps i even went into nova launcher and assigned home to go to the home screen and still doesnt work! Any help or ideas!?
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I just reset my phone and i think the problem seems to be Widget Locker which i used to replace my lockscreen, not 100% sure but it seems to be a bit buggy on 4.2 devices... it could even be some setting in it not 100% any help because this might happen again!?
Badouken said:
So i have a Samsung Galaxy S3 with Paranoid Android 3.1 (March 1st build) and I also have Nova Launcher!
My home button used to always take me to the home screen! or main page! but randomly it keeps just opening recent apps! No matter what i do it just keeps opening recent apps i even went into nova launcher and assigned home to go to the home screen and still doesnt work! Any help or ideas!?
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I just reset my phone and i think the problem seems to be Widget Locker which i used to replace my lockscreen, not 100% sure but it seems to be a bit buggy on 4.2 devices... it could even be some setting in it not 100% any help because this might happen again!?
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That happened to me before even on CM10.1; I believe the feedback is sometimes unresponsively accurate.
But if you use Nova Launcher, you can manually take off "recent apps" and replace with "home". But, sometimes it thinks your quick press is a hold, haha. I just know reboot will quickly fix it... for now.
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That happened to me before even on CM10.1; I believe the feedback is sometimes unresponsively accurate.
But if you use Nova Launcher, you can manually take off "recent apps" and replace with "home". But, sometimes it thinks your quick press is a hold, haha. I just know reboot will quickly fix it... for now.
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AGH it happened again! and ya i think it just keeps glitching and thinking that my quick press is a hold! oh well a quick reset every now and then cant be that annoying... Thanks for the input!
What kernal are you running? I've had this issue as well and have wondered if it's kernal related. The only thing I could do to remedy the problem was reboot the phone.
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What kernal are you running? I've had this issue as well and have wondered if it's kernal related. The only thing I could do to remedy the problem was reboot the phone.
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Rebooting the phone seems to always fix it, I was running the included kernel along with Nova launcher and would run into it after about a half day runtime
Android Lollipop 5.0 Stock Factory Image: "Couldn't add widget" on recent apps list
I just installed the Android Lollipop 5.0 factory image on my Nexus 5, thenrooted, and I'm getting a gray box on top of my recent apps list, I guess where the search bar should be, with the error message "Couldn't add widget". Reboot didn't fix the issue. Anyone have any ideas?
You've deleted Google search app
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That's not it because the search bar is there on my home screen. I should also mention that I rooted...
Weird, mine shows and I'm rooted and have removed a load of system apps. Have you removed system apps? If so which?
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I removed no system apps. But I logged in as guest and the search bar is correctly there. So it must be something corrupted for my user..
I have this too. I didn't remove anything, but I am rooted. Dunno if it had that before rooting.
Edit: This worked fine on the last preview and I don't think I did anything different this time. I did a new install (full wipe), rooted (Cf auto root) and restored stuff with Titanium (no system stuff other than text messages). I DID choose to restore my setting and such from Google this time when I logged in the first time. I think that might be the only difference.
Edit #500: Ok, it is working now. Not sure what I did exactly, but this is everything I tried in order more or less:
Cleared data for Google Search
Set Home back to Google Now Launcher (was Nova)
Reboot into safe mode (press power button, long press on "Power off")
Check if it works - it does
Reboot again
Done (set Home back to Nova, still works).
Maybe safe mode fixed it.
jobarr said:
I have this too. I didn't remove anything, but I am rooted. Dunno if it had that before rooting.
Edit: This worked fine on the last preview and I don't think I did anything different this time. I did a new install (full wipe), rooted (Cf auto root) and restored stuff with Titanium (no system stuff other than text messages). I DID choose to restore my setting and such from Google this time when I logged in the first time. I think that might be the only difference.
Edit #500: Ok, it is working now. Not sure what I did exactly, but this is everything I tried in order more or less:
Cleared data for Google Search
Set Home back to Google Now Launcher (was Nova)
Reboot into safe mode (press power button, long press on "Power off")
Check if it works - it does
Reboot again
Done (set Home back to Nova, still works).
Maybe safe mode fixed it.
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I had the same exact issue you described, clean flash and then root, not sure if it was that way before root. I followed the exact same steps you did and it fixed it for me.
Good. I would suggest to anyone else to just try safe mode. Maybe that is all you need to do.
jobarr said:
Good. I would suggest to anyone else to just try safe mode. Maybe that is all you need to do.
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Safe mode fixed it for me. I don't think some of my widgets carried over correctly from the upgrade from 4.4.4 so I was getting that weird error also on the recent apps screen. Safe mode will wipe them out so you can start over again.
Yeah, clearing google search data fixed it for me, but I reset my home screen and all my widgets are unconfigured, if safe mode works like most people have reported it to do, use that instead.
Clearing Google Search data didn't work for me. But booting into safe mode, then booting normally worked for me.
Guys, I have this problem and no of the 2 solution worked for me... Any help, please?
custom launchers
Looks like this is happening when using a different laucher than the default one. The same happens to me with solo launcher. As the new launcher takes care of the widgets it causes the search bar not to be loaded. Hopefully the devs for the custom launchers find a solution soon.
Solved with full wipe...
Fixed with safe mode
A safe mode reboot fixed it for me on a fully stock nexus 6 running 5.0 but, except for the evernote shortcut, every widget on every screen was removed (after the safe mode reboot). The fix remains after adding back all the widgets and after a normal reboot. After another safe mode reboot (just to check), all the widgets were gone again (had to add them back again but the fix remained.)
Safe mode fixed it for me.
Thanks!
NVIDIA Shield tablet, WiFi only version. Android 5.0.1
Safe mode ftw. Thank you.
I HAVE deleted google search app because its not needed and normally that is where the search bar would be... Any way to get rid of this "Couldnt add widget" message?
jobarr said:
I have this too. I didn't remove anything, but I am rooted. Dunno if it had that before rooting.
Edit: This worked fine on the last preview and I don't think I did anything different this time. I did a new install (full wipe), rooted (Cf auto root) and restored stuff with Titanium (no system stuff other than text messages). I DID choose to restore my setting and such from Google this time when I logged in the first time. I think that might be the only difference.
Edit #500: Ok, it is working now. Not sure what I did exactly, but this is everything I tried in order more or less:
Cleared data for Google Search
Set Home back to Google Now Launcher (was Nova)
Reboot into safe mode (press power button, long press on "Power off")
Check if it works - it does
Reboot again
Done (set Home back to Nova, still works).
Maybe safe mode fixed it.
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Work perfectly! Thanks!
I got this same message after a clean 5.0.1 factory install. No root,recover, or 3rd party launcher, just whatever Google thought to backup to my account. I actually enjoy Google's Now Launcher, I left it as is
After a Safe Mode reboot, it worked fine
Hello!!
I have an issue with my Mate8, I really don't know if this is in all phones or just in mine....
It's when a song or a video is playing, and when the power button is pressed to lock the phone, the audio breaks for like half a second, but if you press the button again to unlock, it do it again, and everytime you press the lock button.... it kinda annoys me a lot.
The rare is that this only happens when the audio is coming from the speakers; when i have anything plugged in (headphones or whatever) it dissapear, and with bluetooth headphones dissapears too.
It happens with all apps, spotify, native app, soundcloud, vlc, poweramp...etc
Thanks a lot!!
Best regards, Elías.
Eliassdalgaard said:
...when the power button is pressed to lock the phone, the audio breaks for like half a second, but if you press the button again to unlock, it do it again...
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I did have this problem previously after flashing a pre-rooted rom of version B320, but it went away after I flashed the stock rom back.
Since you haven't mentioned anything about custom roms and/or rooting, I'm going to assume you're on a stock rom at the moment, in which case I'd suggest a factory reset (backup data 1st of course)
If you're running a customized rom I'd suggest discussing it in whichever thread you got that rom from as the issue may be specific to that rom
MuPp3t33r said:
I did have this problem previously after flashing a pre-rooted rom of version B320, but it went away after I flashed the stock rom back.
Since you haven't mentioned anything about custom roms and/or rooting, I'm going to assume you're on a stock rom at the moment, in which case I'd suggest a factory reset (backup data 1st of course)
If you're running a customized rom I'd suggest discussing it in whichever thread you got that rom from as the issue may be specific to that rom
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Hi!
Yes, i'm on stock right now, i'm really amazed by this phone, and i didn't think that was normal, gonna try that!
Thanks a lot!
Eliassdalgaard said:
Hi!
Yes, i'm on stock right now, i'm really amazed by this phone, and i didn't think that was normal, gonna try that!
Thanks a lot!
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No problem, please leave feedback after if it worked or not, may just help someone else down the line...
I'm on B320 and this happens to me too! Please come back and tell us if it disappeared after a factory reset because I might do one as well.
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No problem, please leave feedback after if it worked or not, may just help someone else down the line...
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Skytop said:
I'm on B320 and this happens to me too! Please come back and tell us if it disappeared after a factory reset because I might do one as well.
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It worked!!! it was very annoying! now it's gone, just a factory reset. :good:
I did a factory reset and it worked fine! but now the problem is back again..... but in a different way, the first time it happened when the lock/unlock button was hitten, but now, is when the home button & recent apps button, is now even more annoying and when i lock/unlock doesn't have the problem.... it's like the problem traslade to the home/recent apps buttons........ what can i do??
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...it's like the problem traslade to the home/recent apps buttons........ what can i do??
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I'm wondering if that might be a CPU usage issue, try go to settings - advanced - battery manager - power plan, and set it to performance mode to see if the problem still occurs
MuPp3t33r said:
I'm wondering if that might be a CPU usage issue, try go to settings - advanced - battery manager - power plan, and set it to performance mode to see if the problem still occurs
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Just did that, same... what more can I do? it's so rare that this phone could run everything so fast and that happens...
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I'm wondering if that might be a CPU usage issue, try go to settings - advanced - battery manager - power plan, and set it to performance mode to see if the problem still occurs
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Anything else I can do?? thanks a lot!!
SOLVED!
It appears to be some setting in Nova launcher that caused this, i have to install/uninstall a lot to get into this, but 100% sure is some setting in nova, just did a clean reset of the phone and everything superb! reinstalled nova but this time, trying not to modify a lot like before and it's working perfectly.
Very strange one... My wife's VZW Pixel (I have one too) suddenly experience a bunch of changes that we can't find the trigger for. I just spent a hour troubleshooting every possible thing and I am stumped...hoping for some guidance.
Known facts
1. She changed nothing
2. At least one app (siwftkey) auto-updated... I uninstalled it but that didn't fix it
3. She was on the December patch when this happened. I updated to Jan but that did nothing.
4. Device is stock, unrooted with Nova launcher (I tried the pixel launcher and the same issues appear)
Symptoms:
1. Home and recents buttons do not work on any screen... Back button still works
2. No notifications appear on the NAV bar and nothing appears when you swipe down. Sound notifications do work however. No apps are blocking notifications and the individual app notifications are set up properly
3. Double press the power button no longer goes to camera even though that gesture is toggled on
Factory reset is my next step but I am traveling right now and she will need me to set everything back up so I am hoping there might be a fix short of a full reset.
And suggestions greatly appreciated.
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tfly212 said:
Very strange one... My wife's VZW Pixel (I have one too) suddenly experience a bunch of changes that we can't find the trigger for. I just spent a hour troubleshooting every possible thing and I am stumped...hoping for some guidance.
Known facts
1. She changed nothing
2. At least one app (siwftkey) auto-updated... I uninstalled it but that didn't fix it
3. She was on the December patch when this happened. I updated to Jan but that did nothing.
4. Device is stock, unrooted with Nova launcher (I tried the pixel launcher and the same issues appear)
Symptoms:
1. Home and recents buttons do not work on any screen... Back button still works
2. No notifications appear on the NAV bar and nothing appears when you swipe down. Sound notifications do work however. No apps are blocking notifications and the individual app notifications are set up properly
3. Double press the power button no longer goes to camera even though that gesture is toggled on
Factory reset is my next step but I am traveling right now and she will need me to set everything back up so I am hoping there might be a fix short of a full reset.
And suggestions greatly appreciated.
Sent from my Pixel using Tapatalk
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Last resort, you can backup apps and data using Helium, then factory reset it. Then restore with Helium. To use Helium, you'll need a PC though.
Any other results on this?? My pixel just hit the same problem! It is in an area that has no internet so it is causing all sorts of issues. I don't know if the two are related at all.
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Any other results on this?? My pixel just hit the same problem! It is in an area that has no internet so it is causing all sorts of issues. I don't know if the two are related at all.
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Unfortunately not... Did a factory reset and that cured it. Not one issue since then. Must have been so random app she downloaded that created a conflict.
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Happens with me today. I was messing around with the device and when I clicked in a YouTube video link on notification shade the device suddenly soft reboot.
Since them, home and recentes buttons won't perform their actions. They still vibrate and home button animates on touch. Status bar shows none notification, even I knowing they are arriving via notification sound and quick settings shade won't pull down completely. My tiles was rearranged as well. No mobile connection either.
I'm running lattes official Oreo. Never unlocked and never rooted my pixel XL 128.
For me a factory reset through settings did the trick.
Would be very good if Google could light us about this issue. No rouge apps on my device. In fact I'm using a few
his is an Android issue.
Step instructions:
- Download Nova Launcher. If you cannot from the google play store, search for it on Chrome and download an apk version
- Install it (you may get a pop up advising you need to let apps installed from chrome, go to settings and allow it)
- Once installed, click on Open. This should launch the Nova Launcher
- Long press anywhere on the screen
- Choose Widgets.
- Look for the Activities widget and hold and place it anywhere on the screen.
- Scroll down to Setup Wizard. There's two, one that's "Setup Wizard" and the other "SetupWizard" without a space. Choose the first. There should be an option under it called ".SetupWizardUpgradeActivity". It might be slightly different for you pending the version OS you have but that's what came up for me.
- Select that to create the widget shortcut then click to open.
- This will bring you to the setup wizard and then just click Next all the way through (turn off any preferences you may have in the past)
You can uninstall Nova Launcher afterwards if you want. You don't need to set it as default.
Perfect!!! Thanks.
Hi, just ago my setting button is gone on my phone. I have tried through menu and slide menu but, nothing anyone know this bug?
enshiu said:
Hi, just ago my setting button is gone on my phone. I have tried through menu and slide menu but, nothing anyone know this bug?
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What setting button?
And which rom?
I had never heard this issue before some users are reporting such issue that my settings app is gone because android showing its a harmful app just like miexplorer actually its not harmful but android security system showing its harmful and asking about to unistall it. Like the same i think android setting is an inbuilt application so its asking about to disable it and if someone done that then its getting invisible.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/on...sabled-t3583203?_e_pi_=7,PAGE_ID10,5751158744
I have the same problem.
Would someone tell me solution?
https://forum.xda-developers.com/on...s-accidentally-disabled-t3583203#post71953941
I have backed up all my files and went to 33R.
Seems Google settings is seeing 'Settings'' as harmful??
So I used Kingo Root to root and Myandroidtools to look at the shut down apps to restore it. A must have to root to fix this.
And also these functions will prevent future notifications.
sorted so can be locked.