My phone, on rooted 4.4.2 has been fine for a long time. I use Hololocker and the Apex launcher.
But it woke itself up in my pocket a couple of times this morning, for no apparent reason.
Now, Hololocker no longer seems able to permanently select Apex as its launcher, every time I log in, I get the dire Google Now default pages with the stupid search bar at the top.
Apex launcher can be started from its icon, and I get my normal screeens back. But when I run an application, on exit, back comes all the default screens.
Any idea please what is going on? I've checked and both Hololocker and Apex are up to date.
Update: On investigation, the default launcher under 'advanced settings' in the Apex settings had become the standard launcher. No idea why, seems OK now...
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Hi Guys,
The Fiio X7 is an android based DAP, it's recently received an update to Lollipop 5.1.1. The device can be rooted using Kingoroot / kingroot.
It has a default launcher called 'Launcher3' which I believe is the AOSP launcher and is also able to be set to what they call 'Pure Music Mode' where the launcher can be set to their Music application (apparently closes all background processes). This can be toggled in the quick settings pulled down from the top.
I am able to install a new launcher - Nova for instance, but cannot set it as default, when the option is selected within Nova, the default launcher immediately pops back up and Nova seems to be shut down (not in the recent apps list). This occurs with any other launcher.
Checking any Launcher within Apps the 'Launch by defaults' section states 'No defaults set' and the 'Clear Defaults' button is greyed out. Default launcher applications don't seem to work either.
So the launcher lives in /system/Launcher3/Launcher3.apk and I've managed to replace this with the Nova launcher apk after renaming it to Launcher3.apk via adb push. This causes the Launcher 3 to throw up errors as expected, but after rebooting the Nova launcher works fine as the default launcher. Even persists after shutting the device down / rebooting it etc.. at this point I thought I had solved the problem...
However leaving the device on for some time, something happens and the Nova launcher process seems to be killed. After this occurs, it goes into the 'Pure Music Mode' launcher, pressing the home button does nothing, and as this isn't an actual launcher means that no applications or anything can be launched. The only way to get things working properly again is to re-flash the firmware (it is a update.img) using Fiio's application leaving me stuck with the default horrid launcher....
It seems that somehow and for some reason Fiio have baked the launcher into the firmware making it impossible to change it's behaviour. I'm hoping someone here can shed some light on how to eradicate this.
Thanks
Paul
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?
Hey All,
Running Android 7.1.1 on my Google Pixel with Nova Prime. I'm experiencing an issue where if I use the back button to escape an app, or if I swipe my messenger app away to close (signal 3.3, specifically), the Pixel launcher opens instead of Nova Prime. I'm always having to hit the home button to get back into Nova after closing apps. Anyone else experiencing this? Any fixes?
Thanks,
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ShadowClaw32a said:
Hey All,
Running Android 7.1.1 on my Google Pixel with Nova Prime. I'm experiencing an issue where if I use the back button to escape an app, or if I swipe my messenger app away to close (signal 3.3, specifically), the Pixel launcher opens instead of Nova Prime. I'm always having to hit the home button to get back into Nova after closing apps. Anyone else experiencing this? Any fixes?
Thanks,
SC32a
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I use Nova on my PureNexus NOF26W Pixel, but I didn't notice any problem with home returning, when I hit the button. The only issue I have seen is when I open recent apps menu, if I tap on "erase all" then my Pixel automatically go back to Pixel Launcher's home.
But this issue never happens again after first rebooting (after Nova installation).
Don't forget to set correct gestures in Nova's settings, and set Nova as defaut launcher on "Application informations"
Hey thanks for the reply. All I had to do was restart my phone and that fixed the problem! I tried everything else but didn't think to restart, all good now though.
Hello,
I’m having a strange thing with Nova launcher:
When I have used an app (for example Whatsapp) and I go back to the homescreen and I wait 30 seconds (for the backlight goes off) and when I tap the phone it goes directly to the latest app (in this case Whatsapp). It is a little bit annoying because when you hear you get a message, you want to look, but don’t want immediately to answer, you go online. When I use my Xperia launcher I haven’t this problem. Do you know how I can fix this? This happens to all the apps.
Thank you.
Arno Dirks