Wonder if anyone has same experience after install Google frameworks using the backup restore method.
1. Open website in Chrome incognite mode, not sure how many days, say 2-3 days, at some stage, all the incognite tabs will be closed automatically, but any standard tabs opened will remain there. Don't think Chrome has been updated when this happens. On my other phones like HTC etc, even updates Chrome app, incognite tabs will still be there after app updated.
2. After system update, the screen brightness is always set back to auto-adjust. Not sure if it is some sort of default setting.
Thanks.
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On lollipop, when you had chrome in tabs mode and closed the last tab, chrome would automatically close instead of showing the blank screen with the add tab button. Now since updating, it doesn't automatically close anymore. Does anyone know why?
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.
Rlin5741 said:
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:
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.
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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.
Hello, for example, when I switch from a game to the browser for a few minutes, when I come back to the game it restarts completely, right now the only solution I found to this is to switch back to it regularly to keep it open, which is annoying and ridiculous. I tried dev option to allow 4 background apps, it didn't work, I did read about battery optimization but my phone is only on android 4.1.2 with no way to upgrade it so I don't have this option.
So, is there some app or modification I can do to avoid this ? If it's the only solution, it would even be fine if some autohotkey-like script would automatically switch back and forth to it as a hotfix.
turn off battery optimization
Unfortunately it's not present in android 4 unless I'm mistaken.
If anyone have the same issue here is a workaround I found: I stop absolutely everything, adblock, music player, onedrive (which I even force stop so it doesn't reopen itself half an hour later), even a tiny app that just forces the phone to stay in landscape mode, and I never switch off the screen and avoid to press the home key, this way I have exactly one current and one background app that stay open.
Hi,
after installing MIUI 12 on my Poco F2 Pro, I experience a weird problem with google chrome.
Steps to reproduce:
1. Switch off Auto Brightness (just to make sure, that the screen brightness stays constant) and manually set the brightness slider to a brighter setting and leave it there.
2. Disable Dark Mode (that's at least my setting)
3. Open chrome and go to e.g. google.com (or any other page with a bright background).
4. Wait a couple of seconds (scrolling and clicking is fine, but do not use the on-screen keyboard just for now) and observe the screen brightness. It's getting gradually dimmer and dimmer. It is not the screen time-out dimming (time-out is set to 2 min in my case).
5. Go to home screen and the screen suddenly gets brighter, i.e. it returns to it's normal brightness
6. Something similar can be achieved by opening the on-screen keyboard (google keyboard in my case) while in "chrome's dimmed state". The screen returns to it's normal brightness.
This problem seems to only exist with chrome. I googled and found a similar problem with huawei devices some years ago. But no working solution back then.
And strangely enough, I saw no post for Xiaomi or MIUI. Is it only my device or do you experience the same?
Do you have an idea what I should try in order to solve? I already did the usual stuff (delete cache/data, reinstall).
Thanks.
Nope. Does not do it for me
Thank you for trying it out. That's weird, though.
I will try ADB Fastboot Tools this weekend to delete the system app and reinstall as user app. Hope that makes a difference in my particular case.
Yes! I have the same problem. Really annoying, googled a bit for a fix but nothing worked. Ended up using Firefox browser for now. Hopefully there will be a fix in the future.
So, I deleted chrome (and some other apps and services that I do not need) via Szaki's ADB Fastboot Tools. After rebooting the phone, they were all gone, fine.
However, when I reinstall Chrome via Playstore, it reinstalls as system app (and shows the same dimming problem).
Is there any way to install Chrome as a User App (of course after deleting it via ADB Fastboot Tools)?
Closely related to screen dimming.. just a simple question: when screen dims just before the lock, can a tap be configured to just brighten the screen, and not actual tapping on something on the screen, like the button, or an option, or something that react to tapping? I just want to brighten the screen so it doesn't go off completely. Is that possible with MIUI itself, or by installing some 3rd party app, or xposed module, or whatever? Sorry for off topic. Thanks.
I have exactly the same problem, and as you stated, only with Chrome...any other app works fine. Thanks for starting this thread and trying to fix it...
I now use google chrome beta from play store. It does not show the dimming since it installs as user app. However, I would be very happy if this issue with the "original" chrome could be addressed soon by Xiaomi...