Hello,
I have this really slow good for nothing phone. I wanted to convert it into desk dock that basically showed the time, weather and had a few essential apps. I want to leave the phone plugged in all the time and so this desk dock will be up and running on the phone showing the time + weather and these few icons. Which is the best app for that? I did find quite a few time + weather apps but could find any that would let me place apps on it's screen.
You could always try installing a launcher like nova and putting a clock/weather widget and adding the apps and making the screen turn off to never.
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As we all know when there is not enough RAM to start a new app the OS unloads one from the background. And this is happening all the time with Home. If I open an application, then some other, and maybe other (all from the list of recently ran apps) and then decide to go to Home it turns black, then loads the wallpaper and after some time the icons. While I am waiting for the icons I can't pull the drawer. And this is lasting several seconds!
I am using the ordinary Home, not aHome, dxTop or whatever alternative.
I have 2 and a half pages with icons and no widgets.
That's totally ridiculous! There should be a way to protect Home from reloading!
I get this too, pretty annoying but you just have to wait it out
Greetings all,
Newer android user/infuse owner here - finally turning the almighty 3GS into a glorified mp3 player...where it belongs.
So I have a couple issues with the infuse and I wanted to see if anyone else noticed them or could point me in the right direction.
a) While plugged into an AC power source (Not the computer), the device is useless, will not function, or functions so slowly that it's completely unusable. Normal USB to computer works fine.
b) How do I change the main bar buttons. (ie. phone, email, web, apps). I'm a gmail user and would prefer to have the gmail app in place of the factory email app.
Thanks in advance for helping a newbie.
Go to applications then use the menu button and change the ordering to custom. Then with the menu button you can go to edit and drag apps around, including to your bar. Alternatively you could get another launcher which replaces your desktop and applications drawer, use something like adw or launcherpro
Sometimes the device can overheat when on the charger and this can cause slow down but it shouldn't be too bad. Try letting it cool down a bit if it becomes unusable.
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Perfect, thanks for the applications menu tip!
I suppose over-heating could be the issue, but I had just plugged it in and was only reading emails and surfing the web. It wasn't like I was playing angry birds for hours before hand. This unusable while plugged in via AC problem was especially annoying in the airport when I needed to use the phone and also needed to charge it. Thanks for the insight.
I recently installed WidgetLocker to change the look of my lockscreen and slider and the app is FC'ing every time I put the phone in either the Car or Multimedia Dock. It works fine otherwise but doesn't seem to play well with either of the Docks. I am running Darkslide-X, so not sure what impact that may have on this issue. Any help is sincerely appreciated. Thanks!
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Darkslide-X
After messing around with some settings for a bit, it seems that WidgetLocker FCs any time I put my phone into landscape mode, not just with the docks. I normally keep my phone locked in portrait mode as it seems to be a bit smoother, but when I unlocked it and allowed it to flip, WidgetLocker FC'd immediately. Not sure if this make any difference but I figured I would mention it. Thanks!
Nearly every time I exit an app, then home screen has to re-draw itself. It just seems very laggy, and I'm not sure what I'm doing to cause this behavior. The worst culprits seem to be my beautiful widgets home clock and my astrid tasks widgets. They take a good second or two before they're re-loaded into the home screen. Is this just an example of TW being terrible? Are others having this problem?
Thanks!
I notice the same thing and I'm not using those widgets. It's kind of sad some of these issues that have plauged android/Samsung since the S1 still exist.
That tends to happen after I am done texting someone, and then hit the home key. The only thing that redraws is the TouchWiz weather widget. Kinda sucks but I imagine another launcher would help.
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That tends to happen after I am done texting someone, and then hit the home key. The only thing that redraws is the TouchWiz weather widget. Kinda sucks but I imagine another launcher would help.
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I notice it after texting also. Especially if I hit the home key while the status of the text is still 'sending'. Very annoying, and kind of frustrating considering the specs of this phone. I can't imagine why the launcher can't be kept in memory, considering there's two gigs of ram on this thing. I guess I'll try moving to a different launcher.
I found that all touchwiz widgets suffer from this (weather, clock, calendar). The problem went away after I installed 3rd party widgets to replace those. I also installed Nova Launcher and I noticed in Nova, the stock calendar widget would still do the annoying refresh.
Stock bloated roms will cause this. Move to synergyRom and the redraws will be gone. FOR-EVER
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I'm using Apex and have not had a single redraw. I'm mostly stock but rooted with a lot of apps frozen or removed.
One issue I do have is with an app called Agenda Widget; it doesn't redraw but occasionally when I return to the home screen it reloads my appointments. It literally takes a fraction of a second but even that annoys me. It's not a redraw because I can see the widget but it says "loading" where my appointments should be.
I used Apex for a long time & recently switched to Nova, both of these can be kept in memory which totally eliminates the redraw problem.
I noticed that when my phone drops down to critical i.e. 10% battery, the widgets on my home screens stop updating. Perhaps this is by design in an effort to save battery, but my problem is that even after I fully charge my phone the widgets remain frozen. I'm not running any special widgets, just a basic clock, calendar, a few toggles and battery monitor, but they all freeze just the same . . . I end up having to reboot my phone in order to get the widgets working again, which can be a pain and seems completely unnecessary.
Does anybody else have this kind of trouble? Could my completely stock/non-rooted device be experiencing issues? This is the only problem I've noticed so far with my S5 - everything else works exactly as it should.
Just a quick update: I did a factory reset and that didn't make any difference - two days later and all my home screen widgets freeze and don't start updating until I reboot the phone. List of widgets I'm using:
Fancy Widget
Switch Pro
Android Pro Widgets
BattStatt Pro
These are all widgets I've used for years without any issue, which makes me think that it involves KitKat.
Any suggestions?
I use fancy widget but haven't experienced any problems with it. Have u checked the refresh rate setting? When I put it on this phone and set it back up the refresh rate was set to refresh like every 6 hours
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I use fancy widget but haven't experienced any problems with it. Have u checked the refresh rate setting? When I put it on this phone and set it back up the refresh rate was set to refresh like every 6 hours
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Thanks for the reply - no that is not it, because it affects all of my widgets and not just fancy widgets. Something odd I've noticed is that even after fancy widgets and the rest all freeze, the stock 'weather' widget still works! I've been reading a lot trying to get to the bottom of this issue, and someone on another forum mentioned the following:
"this issue occurs because kitkat has changed the way it manages background alarms. most widgets that update frequently use "alarmmanager" to trigger each update. but in kitkat, the trigger event is intentionally delayed so that android can group processes together, saving battery life and data use. so, for all those clock and weather widgets, the developers have to write a bunch of new code for kitkat devices, so that their widgets update at the intended time."
After reading this, I decided to test a theory and set my alarm to go off 2 minutes later. The alarm went off, and sure enough I checked 5 minutes later and all widgets were frozen . . . So now I'm wondering if it has something to do with the 'Timely alarm clock' app that I'm using... Going to go back to stock Alarm clock and see if that makes a difference.
Just an update for anyone interested: I found other XDA users on Verizon that were having this same issue, and someone suggested that we try installing Nova launcher. Sure enough, after installing Nova two weeks ago and I haven't had one issue with my homescreen widgets freezing.
I highly recommend Nova, especially if you're experiencing some odd quirks with TW.
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Just an update for anyone interested: I found other XDA users on Verizon that were having this same issue, and someone suggested that we try installing Nova launcher. Sure enough, after installing Nova two weeks ago and I haven't had one issue with my homescreen widgets freezing.
I highly recommend Nova, especially if you're experiencing some odd quirks with TW.
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I love nova launcher. Been using it since my epic 4g days.
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