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So I am now making Launcher Pro my new Home application. The only issue with this is every so often my icons and widgets on my screen will disappear and re appear. Also maybe like twice a day I get a force close while using the phone. My question to all that use Launcher Pro on the Hero, does any of this happen to you? Also is there a way to fix this?
Rom - NfiniteX45 deoxed.
OC - HoneyBunV3
Did other mods like 270 Degree rotation.
Just putting what I have done on my phone because I do not know if this is the reason why this is happening. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Hit menu > preferences > advanced settings > memory usage settings
there are a lot of settings here to tweak for you problem. first, try the bottom setting "prevent force-closes".
Read these 2 posts to understand what the settings mean:
http://www.launcherpro.com/?p=74
http://www.launcherpro.com/?p=93
Also make sure you save launcher pro as your default home. If you're not sure how, download home switcher from the market.
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Thank you both on your advice. I already had prevent force closing on. As for setting it as my default home, I made sure that was the first thing that I did. I will try to tweak the settings to a lower memory usage. After reading the 2 links it seems like it may help on a lower setting. This whole time I thought leaving it at a moderate setting would make it perform better. I will let you know my results after a day or so on my new settings. If you guys don't mind, can you give me your memory settings since we all have the same device? I know each device can vary but just to give myself a heads up on the scenarios.
While we all have the same device, I doubt we share the same number of homescreens, active widgets, large sized widgets, and shortcuts on the homescreen, if we use the scrollable dock, and if we choose a dock background... all of these affect how much memory LauncherPro takes up, and the more memory it takes up the more likely it is to force-closing / having to reload all icons.
I have 3 homescreens and the following widgets: calendar, music control, digi clock, weather channel (small), some dazzle control widgets, some Apps Organizer widgets, and a few shortcuts to apps. About 50-55% of my availalbe home screen area is full.
I also don't have a scrollable dock or dock background, and I don't use scrollable widgets.
Memory usage preset: medium
Checked: Use homescreen caches and Build caches as needed
Homescreen cache type: normal
I'm running a pretty minimal setup with 3 screens and only 4 widgets, with 1 dock, and sometimes I do get the thing with the screen refresh. I don't see force closes but occasionally do have to tell it to wait for launcherpro. Probably only happens a couple times a week though. I'm currently on the latest nightly 2.2 build, and previously on dd 2.8, and saw this on each. The refresh does seem to occur after closing out of memory intensive things, but comes back quick enough that it doesn't bother me.
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dpeeps74 said:
I'm running a pretty minimal setup with 3 screens and only 4 widgets, with 1 dock, and sometimes I do get the thing with the screen refresh. I don't see force closes but occasionally do have to tell it to wait for launcherpro. Probably only happens a couple times a week though. I'm currently on the latest nightly 2.2 build, and previously on dd 2.8, and saw this on each. The refresh does seem to occur after closing out of memory intensive things, but comes back quick enough that it doesn't bother me.
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Thanks for the reply trying all diffrent settings now. I am thinking about making the jump to 2.2 now that I have launcher pro as my home. I was just waiting for it to have everything working before going to 2.2.
Ever since installing 2.2 I don't get any of the issues I was explaining.
I'm on 2.2, have all the memory settings on launcher pro at maximum performance, with 5 home screens, lots of widgets, etc., with autokiller at strict, and I always have 40-50mb of ram free and no slowdowns/force closes. Just so ya can compare.
Just picked up the HTC One last week. I'm more of an iOS guy, so I'm not very familiar with the Android platform. I bought the dev edition because I needed an unlocked phone and I figured 64GB would be more useful (since my iPhone is practically full all the time with 64GB); also I didn't want any of the AT&T apps.
Anyways, on the home screen there are the 4 applications (phone, messages, browser, camera); can I replace any of those apps with something else? For example, I use Chrome instead of the default browser app. I haven't figured this out.
The next issue is, can I remove the live feed screen? I'm traveling in China, where [China Mobile] only has Edge (and FB, Twitter, etc. are blocked), so it makes that screen pretty useless.
Finally, I don't have any performance issues, but I noticed in the apps section in Settings where it shows running apps, it says I only have 1.5GB of total RAM; is this normal? (For example, right now it's say — RAM 511Mb/1.5GB)
TIA
alphaod said:
Just picked up the HTC One last week. I'm more of an iOS guy, so I'm not very familiar with the Android platform. I bought the dev edition because I needed an unlocked phone and I figured 64GB would be more useful (since my iPhone is practically full all the time with 64GB); also I didn't want any of the AT&T apps.
Anyways, on the home screen there are the 4 applications (phone, messages, browser, camera); can I replace any of those apps with something else? For example, I use Chrome instead of the default browser app. I haven't figured this out.
The next issue is, can I remove the live feed screen? I'm traveling in China, where [China Mobile] only has Edge (and FB, Twitter, etc. are blocked), so it makes that screen pretty useless.
Finally, I don't have any performance issues, but I noticed in the apps section in Settings where it shows running apps, it says I only have 1.5GB of total RAM; is this normal? (For example, right now it's say — RAM 511Mb/1.5GB)
TIA
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I think you cant disable blinkfeed but you can tell it not to update automatically
If you want to change the default 4 icon on the dock, simply hold and drag any app in to replace them
Yes your ram is normal, that's alot of free ram, and also app you dont use they just freeze in the background, unless they sometimes auto sync/ auto update, which is also normal. no worries
To remove apps from the bar you need to open the app drawer, then press and hold the icon you want to remove and drag it into the app drawer. Then do the reverse to put them back on the bar.
As for the home screen Blinkfeed can't be disabled but you can make a different screen as the home screen. To do this press and hold on one of the screens as if you were adding a widget, you can then select the default home screen from the top.
The memory in the phone is 2 gig but I believe some space is reserved for the Android system.
mrhahn98 said:
I think you cant disable blinkfeed but you can tell it not to update automatically
If you want to change the default 4 icon on the dock, simply hold and drag any app in to replace them
Yes your ram is normal, that's alot of free ram, and also app you dont use they just freeze in the background, unless they sometimes auto sync/ auto update, which is also normal. no worries
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Thanks for answering…
I don't see an option to disable updates altogether, but it does let me set it to update only over WiFi.
As the dock, thanks for that, but the issue is when I drag an app in into the dock, it creates a folder, when I drag the app I don't want out, it creates a shortcut instead of clearing it from the dock.
For the RAM, I know I have a lot of free RAM, but the issue is the phone is suppose to have 2GB of total RAM right? So why does it say only 1.5GB total in the app manager in settings?
livetag said:
To remove apps from the bar you need to open the app drawer, then press and hold the icon you want to remove and drag it into the app drawer. Then do the reverse to put them back on the bar.
As for the home screen Blinkfeed can't be disabled but you can make a different screen as the home screen. To do this press and hold on one of the screens as if you were adding a widget, you can then select the default home screen from the top.
The memory in the phone is 2 gig but I believe some space is reserved for the Android system.
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So I need to be in app drawer to add/remove apps from the dock, not the home screen? I think that's what I've been missing.
I have now selected a new home screen. That's a good start.
Yeah I hope I haven't been shafted with the RAM issue.
GPU uses that same RAM and that part is not visible for apps of course.
Ram is reserved for gpu.
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Only way to remove blinkfeed is by using a launcher I think
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If you want to get rid of blink feed use something like Nova or Apex Launcher. Both can be customised to your liking, both are fast and memory efficient. You can add gestures to the screen and change swipe animations and lots more. Give them a look
Galactus said:
If you want to get rid of blink feed use something like Nova or Apex Launcher. Both can be customised to your liking, both are fast and memory efficient. You can add gestures to the screen and change swipe animations and lots more. Give them a look
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Excellent. Using Nova launcher did exactly what I wanted.
Can I disable HTC Sense? Or do I have to use Sense to get to my new launcher?
(Totally irrelevant, but this 5 minute limit also extends to editing one's post—which is silly)
alphaod said:
Excellent. Using Nova launcher did exactly what I wanted.
Can I disable HTC Sense? Or do I have to use Sense to get to my new launcher?
(Totally irrelevant, but this 5 minute limit also extends to editing one's post—which is silly)
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I haven't used a HTC device since the HD2. The stock HTC launcher can be disabled. Might need root or you could close it if its still in ram. Shouldn't start up till you decide to switch launchers.
Hello, I just got a P9 and found that notifications on the lock screen must be enabled on per-app base. Is there a way to allow all applications at once? Thank you.
From memory I think you can only do it 1 app at a time.
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I know that yesterday I had more than 5 apps locked in the recent menu app but now I can only pin 1 app. (Running DTH7 and I tried to downgrade to CTF4 this morning but it failed)
They stupidly removed the "lock this app" feature (a feature which only pinned apps and didnt keep them in the ram) in One UI 2.5 and replaced it with "keep open for quick launching" a full keep in ram option that's limited it to 1 app at a time.
What beats me is they could have added that 1 app keep in ram option and still kept the unlimited pin app options (the old lock this app feature) as I the same as many used it to keep Google Maps, and Spotify or the likes immune to being closed automatically accidently by clicking close all apps.
There is a work around is to install Goodlock and the Task Changer mod but then the only bad thing is that once you lock them you are unable to close them at all.
I usually use it for spotify, gmail and linkedin, since I have issue with getting notifications from both gmail and linkedin like the system is killing them or something.
Thanks for the Goodlock heads up!
Hi there. Just a quick question for anyone who has 12.5 or higher installed. Is there now a way of minimising (without removing) persistent notifications? Coming from a Galaxy Note 8 I really miss this feature since I have like six or seven apps running in the background with persistent notifications. On the Note 8, minimising the notifications makes them take up less space in the notification drop down and hides their icons from the status bar too.
any solution?
drdedus said:
any solution?
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AOSP Rom only