Where the hell is my Home button. Running Htcclays Superfly 2.2. Can not get my home button to work. ADW settings-System Preferences-Home button binding- various options come up. No matter which I try I can't get it working. I also looked in CyanogenMod settings for an option, none that I could see.
This happened once before, with the same Rom, between flashes, and magically started working after awhile and a few reboots. Tried rebooting a few times, checked various setting, checked/un-checked stuff, nothing. None of settings have any effect.
It is a pain in my ass using the back button.
Anyone know if this is an issue with the launcher or the Rom ?
Have the same problem when using dxtop also, so I'm guessing it's the rom.
Was using dxtop but had issues with home screen reloading.
Help, suggestions ?
Thanks,
I don't know exactly what the problem is. But I can tell you one thing. If one of these devs that work so hard to throw out a nice rom saw you putting dxtop or openhome or anything of the sort on top of there nice rom. They would probably kick you in your jaw. Try doing a nand restore or wipe and reflash. And leave dxtop in the market!!!!! Tell me how it goes...... can you even get into recovery or no?
Hope this helped a bit
sent from my superfroyo dream
I'm not sure what causes is it, but I've experienced it on multiple roms (CM5 and SuperD to name a few). If you wipe and reflash it should be fine.
Yeah, I wiped and re-flashed, got my home button back, but lost my end key-blank screen. Weird. Oh well, I'll live with that. Strictly using ADW, which came with the rom, only tried dxtop since I already paid/had it. Nice to know it's not just me.
This is a killa rom, 44MB internal left (89MB) w/108 apps. Had 234 on it @ 1 time but it really slowed things waiting for all those to just re-load the icons. Just wanted to see how she behaved. Thx Clay.........
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Yeah, I wiped and re-flashed, got my home button back, but lost my end key-blank screen. Weird. Oh well, I'll live with that. Strictly using ADW, which came with the rom, only tried dxtop since I already paid/had it. Nice to know it's not just me.
This is a killa rom, 44MB internal left (89MB) w/108 apps. Had 234 on it @ 1 time but it really slowed things waiting for all those to just re-load the icons. Just wanted to see how she behaved. Thx Clay.........
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The only thing else I can think of is you might be putting to many apps to much data on it. But what you got left seems good to me. Glad to see you got it somewhat working for ya again.
sent from my superfroyo dream
No doubt to many apps, slimmed down and running good.
Oh yeah, luvin it....
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Hey guys,
Is anyone brave enough to test the full feature 1.5 build of Open Home Full? We know we can always find some brave ones here
It requires that you are running android 1.5 on your phone (aka Cupcake). This build has full supports of 1.5 widgets and also a good amount of stability and performance improvements.
We had not done a lot of testing on this build; also this build will expire in a month (5/30). If you want to test the latest and greatest, feel free to install and try this build.
*Remember safe mode is hold menu button when powering on*, if you see anything wrong, just enter safe mode and then uninstall it.
Do NOT install unless you are running android 1.5
Download the apk at
http://groups.google.com/group/openhome/files
I assume since I'm running the dudes build and it supports widgets it may work. I can always remove if necessary . This doesnt remove open home right? just a different version?
EDIT: it replaces the existing open home
Hmm, I was impressed with the demo of OpenHome when I downloaded it a couple days ago. I'll take a look.
downloading it now. I have just flashed the holiday cupcake build so I assume it'll work with this. I'll let you know.
So far so good. I am glad to have openhome back again in 1.5
I have added all widgets, and they all work as expected. Are some of these the 1.5 "stock" widgets? I assume so because i see 2 music widgets listed, one looks like your own and the other a stock one.
I'll let you know how it goes after some proper usage. great work so far though. thankyou.
oh, p.s .. Will this be a free upgrade for those who had previosly purchased open home full ?
Works well enough. I like it.
Normally use full edition but will keep this until it is updated.
Suggestion: How about that calendar widget from Haykuro's build so those with dude's builds can use it?
Using it. Works well so far. I'm an OH Full user too, will I have any problems going back to the market app when it gets updated/released?
Ps. Is there any way to add support for Jeff Sharky's weather widgets? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=509729
Weather widgets ok here. Problem with battery percentage widget though
Mi|enko said:
Using it. Works well so far. I'm an OH Full user too, will I have any problems going back to the market app when it gets updated/released?
Ps. Is there any way to add support for Jeff Sharky's weather widgets? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=509729
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It's already supported. That weather widget is working fine for me.
Hey guys i like the changes the menus are a little more intuitive now! Shame it doesn't seem to maintain your icons from older version, but weirdly kept my fonts theme etc - not sure if that qualigfies as a bug or not really
One problem i have found though is it seems to scrap folder icons the second you open bettercut again, not a huge problem but ....
BUGS!
I have almost 200 apps to SD so it's convenient to have my favorite "few" on the desktop. After I installed the new apk file... everything was GONE! Huge inconvenience! Then when I pull up the app menu I can watch them appear one after another like the app is doing a search for the installed apps. I also tried Picture Frame. It seems like it pulls up the Camera app, then the gallery. I selected my picture. Cropped it. Saved it. Then it went back to "select picture" again. Strange. Also... AnyCut Open Home Edition doesn't work. Definite bugs.
Other then that I love it. Thanks! Is this going to be in an update and when will it be available in Market? I purchased the full version months ago.
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Hey guys i like the changes the menus are a little more intuitive now! Shame it doesn't seem to maintain your icons from older version, but weirdly kept my fonts theme etc - not sure if that qualigfies as a bug or not really
One problem i have found though is it seems to scrap folder icons the second you open bettercut again, not a huge problem but ....
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I don't think it has anything to do with bettercut because I don't have it installed and it still goes back to the default folder icons randomly, sometimes it comes back sometimes it doesn't.
Binary100100 said:
I have almost 200 apps to SD so it's convenient to have my favorite "few" on the desktop. After I installed the new apk file... everything was GONE! Huge inconvenience! Then when I pull up the app menu I can watch them appear one after another like the app is doing a search for the installed apps. I also tried Picture Frame. It seems like it pulls up the Camera app, then the gallery. I selected my picture. Cropped it. Saved it. Then it went back to "select picture" again. Strange. Also... AnyCut Open Home Edition doesn't work. Definite bugs.
Other then that I love it. Thanks! Is this going to be in an update and when will it be available in Market? I purchased the full version months ago.
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Yea that kind of pissed me off when I realized it took all my stuff off the screen and the dock. It works fine besides these few issues though.
betterandroid said:
Hey guys,
Is anyone brave enough to test the full feature 1.5 build of Open Home Full? We know we can always find some brave ones here
It requires that you are running android 1.5 on your phone (aka Cupcake). This build has full supports of 1.5 widgets and also a good amount of stability and performance improvements.
We had not done a lot of testing on this build; also this build will expire in a month (5/30). If you want to test the latest and greatest, feel free to install and try this build.
*Remember safe mode is hold menu button when powering on*, if you see anything wrong, just enter safe mode and then uninstall it.
Do NOT install unless you are running android 1.5
Download the apk at
http://groups.google.com/group/openhome/files
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Hey quick question, is there any way to add a 3d effect on swipe? Like when you swipe to left or right screen, screen shrinks and rotates as a 3d cube. That will be awesome dude, you can name the app something different and charge for it again because I know damn well people will pay for it. I definitely will.
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It's already supported. That weather widget is working fine for me.
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The reguar widget works for me, but not his. It isn't even displayed as an option.
Trying it out on my new Magic
But it's not 'open' in any sense...
Really dissapointed in losing all of my icons on all 7 screens. Glad that "real" widget support was actually added in. Almost went back to dxTop because of this. Please make the full version available on the market as an upgrade to the old full version. It would be nice to make it detect the old settigns and import them in.
Hey guys.. uhh i accidentally set my home to default instead of open home.. any help would be appreciated!
Dcandvolcom1 said:
Hey guys.. uhh i accidentally set my home to default instead of open home.. any help would be appreciated!
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Opps. You have to wipe now.
Just kidding. You deal with it the same way as if you would set the defaults as any other app. Settings>Applications>Manage Applications>Home>Clear defaults.
Been using this app for a few days now.I havent ran into any problems with it pretty smooth.Only down side was losing my icons.But no biggie.
I've had this happen more than a few times and seemingly at random intervals with both stock and custom (Cyanogen) firmware using normal Home and Open Home. I'll go from an app to Home and the screen will flick to the Home screen but with only the app drawer followed two or three seconds later by what is actually on that screen loading then appearing. I thought it would be a RAM issue that would vanish when I started using the linux swap file on custom firmware but no, I still get it. Once or twice a day I could tolerate but not once or twice every four or more app launches.
I've used Task Killer free to close those programs that forget to close / don't want to close but it still happens. Is it something I'm going to have to live with? I've used the Hero ROM floating around quite a lot and that doesn't suffer from this issue half as much.
Cyan's latest (3.9.7) has advanced launcher which need more ram that's why it's happening. Also, openhome is a resource hog, I don't know why would you be using it anyway. How many widgets are you running? Widgets contribute to the problem greatly. All in all, I have that same problem too.. it's just something we have to live with for the time being... I'm sure Cyan will fix it in his next release or two. n If you're inclined to do so... you can push regular launcher.apk from stable rom... that may sort things out.
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Cyan's latest (3.9.7) has advanced launcher which need more ram that's why it's happening. Also, openhome is a resource hog, I don't know why would you be using it anyway. How many widgets are you running? Widgets contribute to the problem greatly. All in all, I have that same problem too.. it's just something we have to live with for the time being... I'm sure Cyan will fix it in his next release or two. n If you're inclined to do so... you can push regular launcher.apk from stable rom... that may sort things out.
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It sounds like a combination of 3.9.7, widgets and open home. I run around six widgets, three of those are photo frames. With regards to Open Home... I was young and naive (pre-root) and couldn't stand the dull look of normal Android. Hero has a much nicer look to me. I know it's odd but on a Hero ROM I run around seven widgets although two of those are to toggle WiFi and GPS. Still, at least I've got some idea of what to check now. Thanks for the heads-up!
I just flashed the CM6-RC1 on phone yesterday, everything looks nice except for the launcher situation. I am used to using panda home on my regular froyo, and didn't like the ADW launcher that much, so i decided to install panda home. However, it seems like the home screen will keep rebooting every couple seconds when running panda home. But when i switched to ADW the flashing stopped. I tried to keep panda home installed on phone instead on SD, but the flashing still continues. Does anyone have any idea what's going on? I would really like to keep panda home, because it's very cute.
Cute launcher, I wouldn't use that word to describe a launcher lol.
You should post in the Cyan thread just to keep it organized because this is a rom specific question.
Also, email the developer of the application and see what he has to say and give him a logcat of what is going on.
Yeah, you should talk to the developer and see if he can help you. Definitely send him the logcat so he can see any errors.
And don't put any launcher on the SD card if you're using the built in FroYo Apps2SD, or CM6.0. Really not a good idea.
Thank you guys for your great suggestions. I will write the developer first and then ask the question on CM rom thread. Can you teach me how to get the logcat? Sorry, i know this is a very dumb question, but i don't know how to do it.
Hi there people. Here's my problem, when I have apps running, like internet, angry bird, etc, and click home button to return to homescreen, what's left is the wallpaper. It takes about 5 seconds to load up, and takes another 5 seconds to respond to scrolling. It gets annoying when I multitask.
I realise it's more laggy after opening apps like asphalt, hungry shark and especially angry bird, and playing movies. But after it's loaded, it's fine.
What can I do? I am currently on Doc's v7.6 XWJPA rom (startup tweaks disabled) with zenkinz's OC kernel and JFS/EXT4 file system. I have autokiller enabled at strict. I tried EXT4, EXT2 but I don't think it's the file system. I think it has something to do with media scanning perhaps?
Thanks for troubleshooting/advice. Really appreciate it if this can be solved.
No replies? my problem is very similar to this guy,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=689728.
And I've done pretty much did what he did too, factory reset, reflash rom, changed kernel, still nothing.
I realise that I don't get the load home screen when I for example,
Angry Bird > Press Back > Exit Game > Home screen pops up immediately usable.
But if I
Angry Bird > Press Home key > Home screen takes 10 seconds to load up and then become scrollable.
What can be done? Really need help guys.
Bump up my thread.
Bump up my post. Really need help.
It's because of your autokiller. Don't believe me? Uninstall it then see what happens. Don't use auto killers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow, wow, chill mate. Okay okay. I'll try that and get back to you.
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Wow, wow, chill mate. Okay okay. I'll try that and get back to you.
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Hehe good luck. You're right, I do need to chill, point taken
Hi, done that and tested for a while. Still restarts home screen when I press home button. Not solved. I wonder if I am the only one having this issue?
You are not alone. I have the same issues, and I have never had any auto killer installed. The problem occurred after the upgrade to Froyo(stock). Any help would be appreciated.
Well time to put my foot in my mouth. My thinking was that the auto killer was removing the launcher from memory. Thus every time you pressed home, the launcher had to start again from scratch.
Sorry, wish I could be of more help :/
No worries Chalup, thanks anyway.
Yeah, since Froyo I've been getting that. I hope this can be solved.
Hey iamsatan, I think I found the "cure." Do you have quickdesk pro installed? I uninstalled it and now it's working fine. Maybe partly because I flashed a new modem. I flashed JPD modem instead of JPP.
Still testing.
I have the same problem after upgrading to Froyo there is occasionaly very long wait when returning to home screen.
When this is happening also applications are reloading, it looks that the launcher crashes or it is killed.
Any solution?
New launcher I been using this morning on my tablet, it uses adw coding so that means adw themes can be used from the market.
Here the link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1046302
Great launcher. It says its not ready for Honeycomb but it runs fine on mine with Tiamat 2.2.1 rom.
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Sorry.. don't know how I messed the link up.
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Xoom now wont boot after install of VTL
Hi, installed this launcher earlier.. had a play then turned off xoom. Now when I turn it on, it hangs at the flashing m logo. Any ideas? Even to just boot would be nice!
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Hi, installed this launcher earlier.. had a play then turned off xoom. Now when I turn it on, it hangs at the flashing m logo. Any ideas? Even to just boot would be nice!
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You my sir are going to have to wipe (or restore your backup)! Boot into recovery by rebooting device and 3 seconds after red M shows up hold volume down button until lettering is displayed on top left of screen. Navigate with volume down button until Android Recovery is displayed then hit volume up. Navigate to wipe date/factory reset.
This launcher is for the most part ADW, but its missing the screen switcher under custom shortcuts. It has all other features but that, and thats the one I want.
Also on the far left screen and far right, the screen freezes and won't fully turn to the screen until I scroll back. Rather annoying. Back to ADW. And no swipe up/down to open/hide ANY dock bar.
There are some nice features though and am sure someone will enjoy it.
I tried that but as soon as i go into Android Recovery i get the green android with a triangle (From desire work i know thats not right - not rooted as yet!)
I cant believe that i have to wipe simply after installing an apk! - Not impressed and wife is gonna go ballistic when she finds out that she will lose 2 months of "My Country" work!
I dont think VTL launcher will be on her shopping list! Will start a new thread in Q&A as might as well root now if gonna lose everything! Cheers
I have rebooted many times with it instaled and have no issues... I didnt set it as the default launcher because its not completely readt for honeycomb devices. but other than that it shouldnt have had anything to do with the boot process of the tablet.. im just as confused as you are on that. ... What rom are you running? I have tiamatt 2.2.1 hammerhead..
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I tried that but as soon as i go into Android Recovery i get the green android with a triangle (From desire work i know thats not right - not rooted as yet!)
I cant believe that i have to wipe simply after installing an apk! - Not impressed and wife is gonna go ballistic when she finds out that she will lose 2 months of "My Country" work!
I dont think VTL launcher will be on her shopping list! Will start a new thread in Q&A as might as well root now if gonna lose everything! Cheers
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I used this launcher a few months ago and ran into the same bootloop issue. As strange as it may sound I was able to pull it out of the bootloop by giving it time to boot up and then repeatedly tapping the screen (boot xoom, wait until you feel it should be operational, start tapping screen, uninstall vtl). Worth a shot before wiping, hope it works for you. I dont know what caused it, dont know why tapping fixed it, DO know it hasnt happened again!
mscott998 said:
New launcher I been using this morning on my tablet, it uses adw coding so that means adw themes can be used from the market.
Here the link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1046302
Great launcher. It says its not ready for Honeycomb but it runs fine on mine with Tiamat 2.2.1 rom.
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Was thinking about trying this...any issues with it? Are you still using it? Comments/thoughts?
I used it for a month or so and really liked it, but it wouldn't work after the 3.2 update, as I recall. Tried for a long time to reach the dev, but it seems he disappeared. The website he/she setup for it was (maybe still is) totally stagnant for a long time. Its a shame, because I really liked the VTL launcher, but I think it is dead (at least for now). Was hopeful when I saw this thread it had been resurrected, but I guess not.
To bad, I was a little leery of trying it after hearing about the boot loop issues. Really want a decent launcher for the Xoom, launcher pro looks to big for me.
tragicremedy said:
To bad, I was a little leery of trying it after hearing about the boot loop issues. Really want a decent launcher for the Xoom, launcher pro looks to big for me.
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have you tried ADW ex? I currently use that and love it
I have heard of multiple people getting boot loops from this launcher...