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Mate 9 occasionally defaults to stock launcher even though using Nova.

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?

Mate 9 and nova launcher

Still no fix for this, can't use it it crash and returns to stock launcher already try agressive Mode and lock from the recent apps. I own the chinnese model

Kenshin1870 said:
Still no fix for this, can't use it it crash and returns to stock launcher already try agressive Mode and lock from the recent apps. I own the chinnese model
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No problems with nova on the l29 usa one.. Open nova launcher then go back to home then Try opening ur recent apps and hitting the lock on nova launcher. Also make sure nova launcher is set to not close on phone lock.

No problems with nova. L29 western Europe model.

Must just be a Nova setting you need to check....

I have the AL00, and it works just fine. Did you install it from the play store? I have found some of the widgets from EMUI clashes with Nova, but if you stick to widgets from Google play, you should be fine.

Yes, do not use any of the widgets of EMUI. I have had no issues since doing that.

That's it. Stock weather widget was the problem.
Thanks everyone

Kenshin1870 said:
Still no fix for this, can't use it it crash and returns to stock launcher already try agressive Mode and lock from the recent apps. I own the chinnese model
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I have the same problem. I give to nova all permission but The problem persists.
Also, if I use the emui the hot word ok Google does not work. someone help me

I have nova latest version running on AL00 without any issues even after restart nova continues as my default home also notification are working with no issues. I did give full permissions to all nova apps and full notification access.

The issue is Bluetooth bug. Toggle the Bluetooth connection with another device resets the default home. If you don't use bluetooth then you won't have that issue.

azukayx said:
The issue is Bluetooth bug. Toggle the Bluetooth connection with another device resets the default home. If you don't use bluetooth then you won't have that issue.
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I've been using Bluetooth with my car, my fitbit and echo without any issues and still nova stays as default

if rooted, use titanium backup to freeze the "launcher" the stock one. hit the home button and set nova as the default.
Inscribed via LG v20 (iOS 11.1.0 Aplha)

Do you know if there is a fix for Bluetooth bug ?

I have the same model. You have to ensure nova has all the relevant permissions activated under settings. Storage, voice, etc etc. Nova works fine on my Mate 9. It initially kept crashing then I had a look at the settings and it's worked flawlessly since.

[Q] Pie and Nova Launcher - repeatedly prompted about default launcher?

Has anyone else been repeatedly prompted about which launcher you want to use, even after selecting "always"?
I've been getting this occasionally since upgrading to Pie on a non-rooted Pixel 1 running the latest Nova Launcher on the Play store.

I too have the same setup but have not ran into that issue. Have you tried clearing app info, uninstall and reboot phone and setup nova again?
I paid for nova prime.

I should have tried that first. Five days so far, and it hasn't happened again. :good:

Nova Launcher and Recent Button

Hi guys,
So I installed Nova Launcher, my to go launcher.
However, what I noticed is that if I disable Samsung One UI through Package Disabler, Nova Launcher wont do anything when Recents button is pressed . Home and Back buttons are working fine though.
The only way of getting Recents button work is to re-enable Samsung One UI but in this case it works on the background and consumes battery.
Is this a known issue? Is there a workaround? Thanks.

You will lose other things too, like notification badges, etc.
Not much you can do but leave one ui enabled.
You can disable background data, remove all widgets and such from one ui so there isn't background updates happening tho.
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Same issue here... it's been bugging me for months now ... it's hard to use MFA apps as I can't switch to recent apps ..
is there any app I can install that will give me the ability to call recent apps some other way? This is my work phone .. if it was mine I would toss it in a blender and get a google phone these god forsaken carrier apps,work apps and phone providers apps make my blood boil!!!!
I almost miss the days of having two non working rooted phones....at least it was MY fault they were not working because I had control of what apps!!!

VirtualWaver said:
Hi guys,
So I installed Nova Launcher, my to go launcher.
However, what I noticed is that if I disable Samsung One UI through Package Disabler, Nova Launcher wont do anything when Recents button is pressed . Home and Back buttons are working fine though.
The only way of getting Recents button work is to re-enable Samsung One UI but in this case it works on the background and consumes battery.
Is this a known issue? Is there a workaround? Thanks.
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Just wanted to say.
I have been using Nova Prime launcher for many years.
Who knows how long 10...15 years maybe?
From my Note 2....3. 4. etc.. upwards!
Nova was and is, always my default launcher.
I have left Samsung launcher, to run in the background.
Never ever disabled it.
Never ever, have I found that Samsung launcher using excess /noticeably, battery .
or that it was an issue for me.
It's your choice, but why create problems for yourself.?
Good luck.

Also, try Nova gestures to bring up recent apps - see if it works using this way

Same issue, Pixel 6 Pro, Pixel Launcher, Nova Prime, Android 12.
Nova's gestures don't call up the recent apps either
No way around it, even being rooted?

Third party launchers like nova and nigara not showing recent apps after the android 11 miui12.1.2 update.

Any idea how to fix it? Show recent apps working fine when menu button is pressed with poco launcher. How to fix this?

NeoWick said:
Any idea how to fix it? Show recent apps working fine when menu button is pressed with poco launcher. How to fix this?
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This is deliberate. You can get around this by setting default launcher to poco and restarting. Then set it back to whatever launcher you were using priorly but do not force stop poco launcher afterward or you'll be back to square one. I have the same problem and I'm going to try using a custom OS. So done with miui.