Annoying Home app refresh - Sony Xperia 5 II Questions & Answers

Hey there, first time posting here.
Recently bought this phone, great piece of tech ( the only smartphone under 6.5" worthy of spending money on)
At the beginning the battery was performing poorly, but after the latest July update it has been quite a pleasurable surprise to get great battery life and not having to charge the phone every day. Everything alright till now, untill the phone occasionally started to freeze straight after unlocking it without the possibility to interact with, unless I would lock\unlock it again (really annoying especially when in a hurry).
But the most frustrating (for some weird reason) is the Home app refresh. I'm currently using Nova launcher Prime, and if I return home, it randomly refreshes the launcher looking like there's a memory management issue. Feels like having a really old android phone...
Anyone else having the same problems?
Any fix? (Please don't tell me to switch to the super boring stock launcher).
Thanks for the attention.

Fox17337 said:
Hey there, first time posting here.
Recently bought this phone, great piece of tech ( the only smartphone under 6.5" worthy of spending money on)
At the beginning the battery was performing poorly, but after the latest July update it has been quite a pleasurable surprise to get great battery life and not having to charge the phone every day. Everything alright till now, untill the phone occasionally started to freeze straight after unlocking it without the possibility to interact with, unless I would lock\unlock it again (really annoying especially when in a hurry).
But the most frustrating (for some weird reason) is the Home app refresh. I'm currently using Nova launcher Prime, and if I return home, it randomly refreshes the launcher looking like there's a memory management issue. Feels like having a really old android phone...
Anyone else having the same problems?
Any fix? (Please don't tell me to switch to the super boring stock launcher).
Thanks for the attention.
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have you tried any other launcher

Godhelpmetofindananswer said:
have you tried any other launcher
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Godhelpmetofindananswer said:
have you tried any other launcher
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Yes I have, lawn launcher 2. Have you got any suggestion? Cheers

Fox17337 said:
Yes I have, lawn launcher 2. Have you got any suggestion? Cheers
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how about rooting your phone removing the stock launcher and install the third party one as a system app

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Lockscreen Response FIX!

So I have been reading on all the "problems" that this device has, and I've stayed pretty quiet about all the griping over minor things. (coming from the Vibrant and the G2X makes me pretty resilient to "bugs".
Sadly no one ever really talked about how it is a software problem. Everyone wanted it to be hardware related even though the touchscreen works for every other app.
(hops off soapbox)
Here's the fix, it's quite simple.
1) go to HTC hub and download a new theme (mine was music lover)
2) apply the theme
3) reboot phone
4) pull the ring to unlock
5) go back to XDA and hit the thanks button
I've replaced mine so I don't have it right now.
Unresponsiveness is not just lockscreen issue. It was effecting every apps on mine. I couldn't type, get carousel effect etc. Does this solve all of these?
Figure_desire said:
I've replaced mine so I don't have it right now.
Unresponsiveness is not just lockscreen issue. It was effecting every apps on mine. I couldn't type, get carousel effect etc. Does this solve all of these?
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Give it a try....won't hurt ya one bit to change themes. When ya get your device back of course.
Hoggles said:
Give it a try....won't hurt ya one bit to change themes.
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Looks like you didn't read carrefully As I said I've replaced mine so I don't have this issue on my new device. That means I can't test this.
I never had unresponsiveness in any other app. Maybe I just got a perfect Sensation... well almost perfect (s-on)
Mine is so damn responsive, sometimes when I scroll the application drawer a little bit it opens an application
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G using XDA App
I saw the 'unresonponsive' threads, and was somehwat amused, since my screen appears to behave normally...but for the heck of it, I tried the carousel, and could NOT get it to rotate fast AT ALL! Other regular nav/touches worked fine. I just tried this 'fix', and can now get fast rotation on carousel easily! It was worth clearing defaults (LancherPro) and playing with it to get this 'fix' working. Now, back to LPro!
orells said:
So I have been reading on all the "problems" that this device has, and I've stayed pretty quiet about all the griping over minor things. (coming from the Vibrant and the G2X makes me pretty resilient to "bugs".
Sadly no one ever really talked about how it is a software problem. Everyone wanted it to be hardware related even though the touchscreen works for every other app.
(hops off soapbox)
Here's the fix, it's quite simple.
1) go to HTC hub and download a new theme (mine was music lover)
2) apply the theme
3) reboot phone
4) pull the ring to unlock
5) go back to XDA and hit the thanks button
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I posted this on another thread but I noticed that if you swipe really fast on one screen, without moving between home screens, it will always spin.
Just swipe really fast.
tried this fix and didnt work
orells said:
So I have been reading on all the "problems" that this device has, and I've stayed pretty quiet about all the griping over minor things. (coming from the Vibrant and the G2X makes me pretty resilient to "bugs".
Sadly no one ever really talked about how it is a software problem. Everyone wanted it to be hardware related even though the touchscreen works for every other app.
(hops off soapbox)
Here's the fix, it's quite simple.
1) go to HTC hub and download a new theme (mine was music lover)
2) apply the theme
3) reboot phone
4) pull the ring to unlock
5) go back to XDA and hit the thanks button
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Can you just apply one of the themes already on the phone? busted did not work, no thanks here. Just dloaded and installed music lover, no go. Who said the problem works in every other app? mine does not. Anywhere you try to swipe/scroll. home screens, contacts, pictures, LOCK RING, fruit ninja.. registers as a touch( a lot of touches) instead of a swipe. I dont think a software update will fix it. If it would then it should work when i restore phone to factory defaults, it does not, yet it worked fine at those same settings when it was new.
Xcor3 said:
Mine is so damn responsive, sometimes when I scroll the application drawer a little bit it opens an application
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G using XDA App
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That is the problem! lol that is NON responsive. Swipes are not registering as swipes, instead registers as a tap. Thats why an app opens. I open an app almost every time i try to scroll through the app drawer. NOT how it should be.
a4ol said:
I posted this on another thread but I noticed that if you swipe really fast on one screen, without moving between home screens, it will always spin.
Just swipe really fast.
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No it does not. Not on mine. Yours will get worse untill that doesnt work for you either.
Thank you for this.
Why you always gottqa be freaking negative? Even on the fre3vo thread you freaking out on people. I tested this on mine, 1 swipe and the carousel appears.
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G using XDA App
I have to agree this did make a difference in the 3D carousel spinning. I don't know about other issues as I have not had them yet.
Xcor3 said:
Why you always gottqa be freaking negative? Even on the fre3vo thread you freaking out on people. I tested this on mine, 1 swipe and the carousel appears.
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G using XDA App
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Ok let me be positive and see if that helps. brb.. Nope, still no carousel. All i did was inform you that what you think is actually good, is in fact one of the issues. Our sensations should not be opening apps when swiping. My evo didnt, my N1 didnt, my iphone didnt, but the newest latest and greatest device does. I have a right to be negative. Sorry if i offended you.

Strange overheating problem

Hey guys. A couple of minutes ago something strange happened to my phone. I just don't understand what's going on with it. I'm so disappointed. I mean... this phone costed me some money and experiencing such a thing makes me regret so much I bought my Nexus 5. It is indeed the best phone I've ever had but if this is what it takes to have a phone for such a small period of time and already have so many problems with it then... I think it's just a waste of money.
I don't know what's going on with it - It just overheated horribly while scrolling down on Facebook. Never happened this before. I was just scrolling like normal and using FB like normal and all of a sudden my phone becomes so hot - quickly I opened System Monitor and CPU temp was at 60-67ºC.
Also if I go to the Battery Tab in System Monitor the graph is pretty strange in my opinion, I mean the battery´s temperature is going up and down all over again it's like the graph of a heartbeat record or something.
Don't get me wrong, the Nexus 5 is the best phone but if this is really what it takes to own a phone for straight two months.... I mean, really?
Uninstall Facebook
dicecuber said:
Uninstall Facebook
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I don't think that's the problem... as I said I never had this issue using Facebook and any other app (except Autorun Manager)
What ROM? are you using stock kernel?
a g bell said:
What ROM? are you using stock kernel?
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Stock ROM and Kernel. Only rooted.
KodRoute said:
Stock ROM and Kernel. Only rooted.
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Though it sounds like a app causing you problems there l would recommend trying a custom rom and kernel l have always found the stock ROM to run a little warm. But maybe before doing that have a look at trickster in the play store you change many more things to help keep things cooler.
The stock kernels the culprit I'd say. It's set in a narrow freq towards the top end causing it to run hot. Use Elemental X.
KodRoute said:
I don't know what's going on with it - It just overheated horribly while scrolling down on Facebook. Never happened this before. I was just scrolling like normal and using FB like normal and all of a sudden my phone becomes so hot - quickly I opened System Monitor and CPU temp was at 60-67ºC.
Also if I go to the Battery Tab in System Monitor the graph is pretty strange in my opinion, I mean the battery´s temperature is going up and down all over again it's like the graph of a heartbeat record or something.
Don't get me wrong, the Nexus 5 is the best phone but if this is really what it takes to own a phone for straight two months.... I mean, really?
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Perhaps it's those monitoring apps that you have installed. Just reboot the phone, should be fine.
beekay201 said:
Perhaps it's those monitoring apps that you have installed. Just reboot the phone, should be fine.
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It was indeed because of these apps. Uninstalling them seems to have solved the issue. Thank you for pointing it out! I guess I was a lil bit scared at first.
Sent from my Nexus 5 using XDA Free mobile app

[Q] Shield tablet falls asleep

I'm a new user of the Nvidia Shield Tablet (32gb+LTE. Baseband e1729.4.05_0.6.4 @815584, kernel 3.10.33-gf9fe8be)
I have made all the upgrade/fix available via OTA and now I have Lollipop 5.01.
I'm experiencing strange and very annoying slow down (and occasionally blocks), expecially when the tablet wake after a standby.
Applications open very slowly, games are slowed (even simple ones like Clash of Clans) and the interface is poorly responsive.
I bought this tablet to have one of the faster available but I'm not having the user experience I sought.
Do you have some suggestions?
I'm also thinking of reinstalling from scratch the last rom available but I don't know how to do this and where to download it.
(In this case is there a way to reinstall all apps and customizations from a backup )
HELPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!
MadGrin said:
I'm a new user of the Nvidia Shield Tablet (32gb+LTE. Baseband e1729.4.05_0.6.4 @815584, kernel 3.10.33-gf9fe8be)
I have made all the upgrade/fix available via OTA and now I have Lollipop 5.01.
I'm experiencing strange and very annoying slow down (and occasionally blocks), expecially when the tablet wake after a standby.
Applications open very slowly, games are slowed (even simple ones like Clash of Clans) and the interface is poorly responsive.
I bought this tablet to have one of the faster available but I'm not having the user experience I sought.
Do you have some suggestions?
I'm also thinking of reinstalling from scratch the last rom available but I don't know how to do this and where to download it.
(In this case is there a way to reinstall all apps and customizations from a backup )
HELPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!
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You should post this on Nvidia´s forum mate.
I have a few slowdowns on my tablet as well but I´m pretty sure that´s Lollipop related.
Hoping Android 5.1 solves this bad experience most of us are having.
AldoMC said:
You should post this on Nvidia´s forum mate.
I have a few slowdowns on my tablet as well but I´m pretty sure that´s Lollipop related.
Hoping Android 5.1 solves this bad experience most of us are having.
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I crossposted also on their forum
I'm not sure about a Lollipop issue because I bought TWO shield tablet and the other one works well :-|
MadGrin said:
I crossposted also on their forum
I'm not sure about a Lollipop issue because I bought TWO shield tablet and the other one works well :-|
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I'm on my second shield tablet and both are just like you experienced. Especially if chrome or FB is not force closed first. Chrome is the biggest app that freezes for me. Sometimes it gets so bad I have to hard reboot the tablet.
jdenman03 said:
I'm on my second shield tablet and both are just like you experienced. Especially if chrome or FB is not force closed first. Chrome is the biggest app that freezes for me. Sometimes it gets so bad I have to hard reboot the tablet.
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Thanks jdenman03 but Why did you bought again this tablet if you experienced this big issues also in the first one and how can I reduce them?
MadGrin said:
Thanks jdenman03 but Why did you bought again this tablet if you experienced this big issues also in the first one and how can I reduce them?
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I didn't buy again. I just exchanged because I thought mine was just bad. Im seriously disappointed with this tablet because of all the bugs.
jdenman03 said:
I'm on my second shield tablet and both are just like you experienced. Especially if chrome or FB is not force closed first. Chrome is the biggest app that freezes for me. Sometimes it gets so bad I have to hard reboot the tablet.
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jdenman03 said:
I didn't buy again. I just exchanged because I thought mine was just bad. Im seriously disappointed with this tablet because of all the bugs.
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I haven't had any of these issues except the one with chrome since upgrade 2.2. I uninstalled facebook, that app is a piece of crap on all android devices.
CeeJayII said:
I haven't had any of these issues except the one with chrome since upgrade 2.2. I uninstalled facebook, that app is a piece of crap on all android devices.
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Do you have the same mine version? (hw/sw?)
Sounds like your issue is based on some of the memory leak issues in Lollipop that will hopefully be fixed with 5.1. It's not only a shield issue, it happens on my HTCone GPE also. With the list of bug fixes within 5.1 i can imagine and hope this will get fixed after update.
CeeJayII said:
I haven't had any of these issues except the one with chrome since upgrade 2.2. I uninstalled facebook, that app is a piece of crap on all android devices.
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ronni.rasmussen said:
Sounds like your issue is based on some of the memory leak issues in Lollipop that will hopefully be fixed with 5.1. It's not only a shield issue, it happens on my HTCone GPE also. With the list of bug fixes within 5.1 i can imagine and hope this will get fixed after update.
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Probably I'm going to return it ...
It doesn't have the performance that I expected ... unless it is broken!

S8+ being laggy?

So my wife and I both got s8+ when they first got released. It seemed as if when we first got the phones, they were running flawlessly and fast as hell. Now a month or so later, both our phones seem laggy and sluggish. I always run device maintenance on both to keep things cleared up. Dunno what else to try. Wish we had root already so I can get rid of all this bloat and unnecessary stuff. Any recommendations from anyone? Dunno if maybe debloating apps or programs with a app is possible without root?
Same problem here !
albaniandroid said:
Same problem here !
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Idk what else to try. Wonder if anyone else is having this problem
powerstroke said:
Idk what else to try. Wonder if anyone else is having this problem
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Idk , i tried hard reset but still nothing its like im using galaxy s3
albaniandroid said:
Idk , i tried hard reset but still nothing its like im using galaxy s3
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So doing a factory reset didn't help? I've tried wiping cache in recovery several times and it doesn't seem to help much.
I'm just waiting for the OnePlus 5 . This lag isn't horrible but unacceptable at this point.
Tw has always been laggy sluggish.
powerstroke said:
So doing a factory reset didn't help? I've tried wiping cache in recovery several times and it doesn't seem to help much.
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It didnt help at all
Have you checked who the offenders are in your phone? Which apps/processes are running the most and see if they are 3rd party apps that ruin the experience.
Have you tried changing launchers, maybe try Nova
powerstroke said:
So my wife and I both got s8+ when they first got released. It seemed as if when we first got the phones, they were running flawlessly and fast as hell. Now a month or so later, both our phones seem laggy and sluggish. I always run device maintenance on both to keep things cleared up. Dunno what else to try. Wish we had root already so I can get rid of all this bloat and unnecessary stuff. Any recommendations from anyone? Dunno if maybe debloating apps or programs with a app is possible without root?
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I never faced any issues or lag except *bixby* for sure. I am using the exynos variant here i am not sure if it's something related to snapdragon chipset or not but
* we encountered lots of problems with note 4 snapdragon variants with emmc bug failure. The nand seems to be corrupted within 2 years and no solution for this kind of problem unless you buy a new motherboard
I bought this phone month a go and it runs as fast as it should
* my only advice for you is to try enabling debug GPU overdraw under developer option google it, definitely it's a 3rd party app causing this problem but in both phones i doubt.
Sent from my SM-G955F using Tapatalk
powerstroke said:
So my wife and I both got s8+ when they first got released. It seemed as if when we first got the phones, they were running flawlessly and fast as hell. Now a month or so later, both our phones seem laggy and sluggish. I always run device maintenance on both to keep things cleared up. Dunno what else to try. Wish we had root already so I can get rid of all this bloat and unnecessary stuff. Any recommendations from anyone? Dunno if maybe debloating apps or programs with a app is possible without root?
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albaniandroid said:
Same problem here !
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Are you guys using any of the Bye Bixby remapping apps? I had a slight lag but after uninstalling the app it's completely gone. By slight I mean I notice a little stutter when scrolling through my apps in settings, other than that nothing to complain about.
ggrant3876 said:
Are you guys using any of the Bye Bixby remapping apps? I had a slight lag but after uninstalling the app it's completely gone. By slight I mean I notice a little stutter when scrolling through my apps in settings, other than that nothing to complain about.
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No never used any of these apps !
powerstroke said:
So my wife and I both got s8+ when they first got released. It seemed as if when we first got the phones, they were running flawlessly and fast as hell. Now a month or so later, both our phones seem laggy and sluggish. I always run device maintenance on both to keep things cleared up. Dunno what else to try. Wish we had root already so I can get rid of all this bloat and unnecessary stuff. Any recommendations from anyone? Dunno if maybe debloating apps or programs with a app is possible without root?
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Try this...
https://r.tapatalk.com/shareLink?ur...share_tid=3616562&share_fid=3793&share_type=t
[Possible fix] Stuttering with the notification pull down and app switcher.
Disable the animations in developers​ options​
You'll see the change !
NexuStar said:
Disable the animations in developers​ options​
You'll see the change !
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That just hides it.
Galaxy S8+ Black
For me also it's the same...the shutters and lags are more when I unlock the phone after few hrours of inactivity and after using the phone for a while they seem to reduce...my one plus3 was way smoother than this phone...
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mine will randomly start lagging sometimes after long uptime i think, a reboot fixes it though
Yeah see how much free space you have left... on your internal memory? I have noticed that my phone is filling up with all sorts of crap from a couple games I play and stuff the little advert videos and stuff it's taking up gigs of space...
The only place I see lag in the UI was when using the stock launcher. On the Snapdragon S8+ that i have the launcher that came with the phone is the worst performing launcher I've had out of the box in my 5 years of buying Samsung phones.

working always on edge lightning for 10

Plus beat was not updated since June, and it's not working on Android 10. Which other app works? Thx
peteus said:
Plus beat was not updated since June, and it's not working on Android 10. Which other app works? Thx
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I have been using this for several weeks on 10 and I think it works great. It is a little confusing on the setup, but not too bad.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.used.aoe
jaseman said:
I have been using this for several weeks on 10 and I think it works great. It is a little confusing on the setup, but not too bad.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.used.aoe
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How you finding the battery drain? I've heard some say it's fine and others say that it's a hog.
hallo dare said:
How you finding the battery drain? I've heard some say it's fine and others say that it's a hog.
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No battery drain at all! Now if you left your phone with the edge lighting going for a "long" time....not sure. But as it is I have no battery drain at all from this app.
jaseman said:
No battery drain at all! Now if you left your phone with the edge lighting going for a "long" time....not sure. But as it is I have no battery drain at all from this app.
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Good stuff. Does Google assistant work when you say "ok google"? It's a problem with a lot of apks like NotifyBuddy etc, so looking for an alternative.
hallo dare said:
Good stuff. Does Google assistant work when you say "ok google"? It's a problem with a lot of apks like NotifyBuddy etc, so looking for an alternative.
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Sorry but I don't ever talk to my phone...seems silly to me... unless I am driving and "need" to reply to a text, then Textra with Gboard does it for me.
jaseman said:
Sorry but I don't ever talk to my phone...seems silly to me... unless I am driving and "need" to reply to a text, then Textra with Gboard does it for me.
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Fair enough. I find it extremely handy when on the go.
jaseman said:
I have been using this for several weeks on 10 and I think it works great. It is a little confusing on the setup, but not too bad.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.used.aoe
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Edit: Resolved - For over 10 years, I have been using the BACK button to close activities. All of them. When I want to return to the launcher, I just press BACK from withing the given app until I get 'back' to the launcher. Why wouldn't I do this? It's how you close an app. Well, I hit the HOME button instead of using BACK to exit the app gracefully like I do for all other apps I run.. and.. AOE works. I don't get it. I'm not much of an Android developer, and I hate everything Google has done to Android in the last 5 years, but what gives here? I assume (and I can see) that the backgroud service still runs after the activity closes, so why would I want to leave the activity open and return to the launcher without gracefully closing the current activity? Anyway.. if I leave the activity open, it seems to work as expected, but not if I close the activity. Go figure.
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I am using Resurrection Remix 8.6.7 on OnePlus 7 Pro. I've tried Plus Beat, True Edge, and now Always On Edge. I can't get any of them to work. Plus Beat came the closest by repeatedly flashing the lock screen, but I really want to use AOE and I would like to see the edge 'horizon' lights. I've given AOE every permission and accessibility service I know how to, and it still does not work.
Is it possible to use AOE on One Plus 7 Pro with Resurrection Remix 8.6.7 (Android Q10 based, and goes on top of OOS 10.3.8)?

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