Dear all,
on my P20 Pro, unbranded, updated to Pie, when I try to use two apps (using half the screen), I often get in a situation where the list of Recent Apps is there but completely invisible:
- I see the button to remove any app (where you see the memory used)
- I can't see any app, but if I swipe and touch, then the app opens (like it is actually there..)
I hope I have been enough clear to explain.
At some point the list is visible again, it does not really require a reboot.
But this is extremely annoying.
Is this a known bug? Do you know how to fix this?
For what it matters, the phone is pretty new (3-4 days) so I think a factory reset will be useless at this point.
Thanks!
My bad.
I forgot to say that I am using SmartLauncher.
Once I switch back to the original Huawei Launcher, that "recent app" bug disappeared.
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Several of my apps does not show up when I hit the recent apps soft key. Of the apps I frequently use that does not show is Facebook, Messenger and Dolphin Browser..
Anybody else experienceing the same issue?
This is quite annoying... Am I the only one who have this issue?
I couldn't tell you (don't remember) what apps were guilty but I've noticed the same thing with several different apps.
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I did a check just now, and actually most of the apps I tried did not show up when touching the recent apps soft key. It's also not consistent which apps does not show ?
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The recent apps is literally the apps that you accessed most recently (not most frequently). Depending on your Chrome setting (if you are using the Chrome browser) you may have your tabs out in the recent screen as well.
The list will always change, depending on what you looked at last and in what order
I just went to the three apps you mentioned in sequence, and they show up on my recent apps screen.
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The recent apps is literally the apps that you accessed most recently (not most frequently). Depending on your Chrome setting (if you are using the Chrome browser) you may have your tabs out in the recent screen as well.
The list will always change, depending on what you looked at last and in what order
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I know how the recent apps view is supposed to work, so that's not the problem.. As I mentioned in my last post theres some inconsistency in wich apps does not show, but some of them never seems to show. It also sometimes happen that I'm unable to remove all apps from the list. They show up the next time I hit the recent apps soft key.
I'm on build number:
MMB29K.G930FXXU1APB4
I see, that's odd. Not sure what to make of it. I am build APB5, maybe that matters. Verizon pushed out an update last week for March security and to fix wifi issues, if you are on Verizon give it a shot and see if it helps.
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I see, that's odd. Not sure what to make of it. I am build APB5, maybe that matters. Verizon pushed out an update last week for March security and to fix wifi issues, if you are on Verizon give it a shot and see if it helps.
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I'm from Norway and my phone is not tied to any operator. I am also on the latest update available in my region. I guess I could try to do a facory reset, and see if it helps. But I don't think I'll bother anytime soon..
Problem solved
It seems like i finally found a solution to my problem
After investing a whole day doing several factory resets and installing of apps and settings in different order each time I tracked the problem down to an app I use, called Sidebar Plus. I installed this app and its settings with the help og Helium and all of a sudden some of my apps refused to show in the recent apps view. I then uninstalled Sidebar Plus, did a reboot, and all of my apps now show up in the recent apps view as they should
I now have installed Side Apps Bar - Edge Sidebar instead, and everything seems fine :good:
Exclude app from "clear all" on Recent Apps screen after 2016-03-15 OTA update?
On the 2016-03-15 OTA update they added the "clear all" button to the Recent Apps screen. Unfortunately it also kills the Alarm Clock Xtreme process and the alarm no longer works.
Is there a way to exclude certain apps from being killed?
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Same thing here! especially with whats app, i do a close all or swipe and it closes the foreground and background task, i just want foreground to be off. This cause me to not receive me notification UNTIL i open the app, i have no issues with this on my lg or galaxy. On the Blu there's a press and hold option on the recent apps, but when you hold it it just goes back to the previous screen. Am I missing something here? Ive had nothing but hell with the phone and especially with the 504 error, which they fixed, but that took WAY too long. And dont let me get started with customer support!
Update - Started seeing issue with 3rd party keyboards, i prefer swiftkey as my go to. And when i swipe the app close, after i have set my keyboard it constantly defaults. this was not present on the previous update. I thought the 504 error was bad but this cuts the cake. Very very frustrating!!! My workaround was to disable every keyboard even system to allow it to run. I guess the recent apps is broke, need to be corrected!
you can install system manager .apk and system manager sdk.apk from gionee E8 ,
I have posted it before on another thread after install it . you can hold on clear buttom it i'll open process white list add any thing want to not close.
Me too i Started seeing issue with 3rd party keyboards, i always use swiftkey. But the dam keyboard set constantly to defaults after the update. Even worst some time the key board set to touchpal that i unable to get rid off, this was not present on the previous update.
All,
First time poster, frequent visitor of XDA Forums. I've come across an odd issue that I don't know how to solve and I'm hoping some of you smarter than me folks can get me squared away.
I have a Galaxy S8+ from AT&T running Android 7.0 and Samsung Experience 8.1.
Problem:
I've recently noticed a delay or completely non-updating interface on my phone. It updates on occasion, but I can't determine what triggers an update. For example, I will pick up my phone from the desk and when I press the power button it shows the accurate time. When I unlock the device, the sense flip clock I use on the main home screen shows an earlier time (could be 30 minutes... could be a few hours). I don't believe it's just the Sense app because I noticed this issue where I checked a facebook messenger app that came and and when I closed the app, it still showed I had 1 notification. I went back in thinking I had another new message, but I didn't. So it was still hanging on to the notification. It happened a couple times with a text message as well. Most importantly, my calendar doesn't alert me prior to an appointment either, even though it's showing in my calendar and an alert is active. If I save an event, and exit, I can normally see the event appear on the on widget immediately as well... but that hasn't been happening. I have to press the widget to open it and confirm it is there (which it always is). Eventually it refreshes and shows up. But that delay is likely the reason why I'm not getting my alerts.
All of this did seem to happen after a recent update Samsung/AT&T pushed out but I don't know for sure. I tried clearing the cache from the boot menu but it doesn't seem there is wide success with that.
And perhaps I'm just not a good enough user, but everything isn't all backed up in the cloud so doing the factory reset to me is always a fairly large task as I have many things to manually transfer out and then back in. Not sure if there are great tools that help with this on a stock phone.
BUMP
try disabling battery optimization for those apps.
It seems that you have several bugs and if they all start happening after you have installed the latest update, then expect a patch coming soon.
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try disabling battery optimization for those apps.
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I have actually done that. Found very limited success. I'm also finding very few results on this topic. Surely it's not just me though.
And I'm dreading the idea of a hard reset as I have many things on my phones, not all of which is sync'd to the cloud so it's a task to back things up appropriate. Specifically regarding "encrypted" apps like my password keeper app etc.
It would be great if there was a software application that allowed you to backup whatever is necessary to not lose data, then wipe the phone and instead of just simply restoring the full phone (which is likely to create the same problem one had before the hard reset), you could simply dump back in app data as needed. It would also help diagnose if the problem lies in a specific app's data.
High level overview of issues...
I have the Ring Doorbell app. I get notifications after "live". Could be 5 minutes, could be 1 hour... or possibly not at all. I have the app setup on my wife's iPhone and she gets them immediately. If I restart the phone, I will get notified right away (it's like it runs the app again and then I get the notification). Keep in mind, this is AFTER i disabled the battery optimization feature for the Ring app.
I also notice it occasionally with texting. I won't have any text notification in the notification panel, nor will my messaging icon have a little red circle indicating a message is there. But if I open the app, a specification conversation will have a red circle indicating a new text is unread.
All of this is leading me to believe the Samsung UI itself is not updating and therefore notifications that actually have arrived (from whatever app), are not displaying because of the UI and not because of their own delay.
Because of this concern I have turned off battery optimization for "System UI", "Themes", and "TouchWiz Home". I have not seen any change however.
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I was able to determine by various other threads around the web (thought for sure I'd find it here, but I didn't) that the culprit might be the Google app. Supposedly it was fixed in some prior release, but it's not on my Galaxy S8+ w/ AT&T.
Once I disabled the Google app all the odd issues with notifications and clock interfaces and app icons not updating went away. The downside to disabling it is that I lose the Google Assistant functionality which stinks but otherwise there is no impact to using the phone. I re-enabled it at a later date and it worked fine for a few days and then started acting up again. Once I disabled it, the problems all disappeared. Clearly Google app is to blame.
I recently got myself the pixel 2 xl after Leaving my OnePlus 3T and I found myself really miss some of the features and I have also have some weird bugs
Features
Locking recent apps: for example I use Spotify and if I dismiss the app the music stops so in my OnePlus I could lock it and then when I clear all I would stay there.
Floating button or a way to clear the recent apps and notifications without scrolling to the top of list just to be able to clear them all
Gestures when screen is off like turning the flash on or changing songs
Bugs
The double tap to open screen almost never works
The swipe to open sometimes just almost not work and I have to try like 10 times until I just give up and use the fingerprint
And sometimes the phone could just freeze even when not a lot of apps are open until I close the screen for 20 seconds and then it's back to normal
So if anyone knows a way to help fix the bugs or get back those features I would so happy
Since this is the Pixel 2 forum, rather than 2XL, some of your bugs may be better addressed in the other forum. I've no problem double-tapping to wake the ambient display (I don't need "always on"), have never had a problem with swiping and have not had a hang in 6 months with the phone.
As for features, those are presumably One+ additions, so "getting them back" means "adding them". From your description they sound like things that would need root, and I don't know whether anyone has made such mods for rooted phones. But why are you clearing all apps anyway? I don't think I've done that since 2011 or so, and cannot think of any reason to do it.
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Since this is the Pixel 2 forum, rather than 2XL, some of your bugs may be better addressed in the other forum. I've no problem double-tapping to wake the ambient display (I don't need "always on"), have never had a problem with swiping and have not had a hang in 6 months with the phone.
As for features, those are presumably One+ additions, so "getting them back" means "adding them". From your description they sound like things that would need root, and I don't know whether anyone has made such mods for rooted phones. But why are you clearing all apps anyway? I don't think I've done that since 2011 or so, and cannot think of any reason to do it.
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About the root I have hoped to avoid that but I'll see what I do. And the reason i clear the apps is because the phone just freeze when more then 3 apps are open and I don't have any app that should Fu*k up the system'
Something is wrong with your unit then, because I agree with previous poster, clearing apps is not really needed since old android times, and could arguably be even worst ..
But this is the wrong place to ask, should post in Pixel XL 2 QA section
Hi everyone. Recently I have been experiencing random pop ups. Either during normal usage of phone, or after unlocking. The pop up is black screen with x in left upper corner. It looks like an empty add. Looking at the recent app list it shows as camera app. The icon is different than the regular camera icon. It doesn't show in processes, at least not named as camera. Screenshots included. I don't have any additional camera apps installed, just the stock camera app.
Phone is Samsung J5 2017.
Android 8.1
What do you guys think? What could this possibly be? Malware? I did couple of scans with antimalware software, nothing found. Please any suggestions.
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Hi everyone. Recently I have been experiencing random pop ups. Either during normal usage of phone, or after unlocking. The pop up is black screen with x in left upper corner. It looks like an empty add. Looking at the recent app list it shows as camera app. The icon is different than the regular camera icon. It
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Android 8.1
What do you guys think? What could this possibly be? Malware? I did couple of scans with antimalware software, nothing found. Please any suggestions.
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Yeah, that's definitely a malware. And it's inside the other camera app you didn't installed yourself (I suppose it's the one with the "Kamera" name)
What you can do is go to settings, then apps (or whatever it's called) and search for the camera app you didn't installed.
Click on it and try to uninstall it. I you can't then factory reset your phone to get rid of that (make sure you backup your data)
I'm not a pro when it comes to erasing malwares, but that how I do and in most of the case it works.
I advice you to factory reset your phone even if you uninstalled the weird camera app.