So I was just messing about with my phone. Using it, you know? (that's what you're supposed to do with a phone, right?)
When all of a sudden, I realize that when pressing the home button, I get the home button animation that is on Pixel and most Android 8.1 devices.
After searching a bit, it seems to be related to installing and setting up Android Auto.
It also seems to go away after a reboot and come back again when you open Android Auto. A little trick for you all!
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hi guys found a little secret reboot into safe mode option in stock 4.3
if you hold power button until the power off option appears then hold your finger on shut down and rotate the screen to horizontal , it switches to saying:
"reboot into safe mode? all apps disabled until rebooted again"
nice little trick to determined if your apps are causing lag.:good:
chismay said:
hi guys found a little secret reboot into safe mode option in stock 4.3
if you hold power button until the power off option appears then hold your finger on shut down for a moment , it switches to saying:
"reboot into safe mode? all apps disabled until rebooted again"
nice little trick to determined if your apps are causing lag.:good:
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Fixed that for ya.
You don't need to rotate screen, just hold/tap a text a little bit longer.
chismay said:
hi guys found a little secret reboot into safe mode option in stock 4.3
if you hold power button until the power off option appears then hold your finger on shut down and rotate the screen to horizontal , it switches to saying:
"reboot into safe mode? all apps disabled until rebooted again"
nice little trick to determined if your apps are causing lag.:good:
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Hi, chismay...
There are a few half secret undocumented key presses in Android... and you've just stumbled upon one of 'em. Though you can skip the rotate screen part of it.
Two others that I know of, which are sort of half known...
Long press the Home Button in any app, and it will bring up a circular Google Button, swipe up to this button, and it fires up Google Search/Google Now. Very useful if, whilst in the middle of Temple Run, you want to Google the nearest pizza delivery service.
If you have the AOSP browser installed... in the browser, long press on the Back Button, and it brings up the Bookmarks/History/Saved Pages screen. This seems to work on any Android device running the AOSP browser. Sadly, however, it doesn't work with Chrome.
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If I remember correctly, Safe Mode was introduced with Jellybean 4.1. I became aware of it, quite accidentally, whilst running a Custom Jellybean 4.1.2 ROM on my Advent Vega about a year ago.
It's very useful, as you say, for identifying and then uninstalling potentially rogue apps, that might be interfering with the normal running of the tablet... as all user installed apps are temporarily suspended.
The only problem with it is, upon rebooting your tablet again normally, you tend to loose your widget placements... which can be a bit of a nuisance if you have several widgets, and each one has to be re-configured again afterwards. Very time consuming.
Although it's never happened to me, a rogue app could theoretically prevent the tablet from booting properly. In such a scenario, you can access Safe Mode from a fully shut down state, as follows...
QUOTE: "From a cold start boot (press & release Power button), wait 2 seconds after the B&W Google (bootloader) splash screen appears, then press and hold Vol-Down button until the normal OS boot is fully completed (lock screen or home screen appears)."
SOURCE: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=37606945
This requires a degree of precision timing, but it does work on the Nexus 7... and is very similar to how I access Safe Mode on my Samsung Galaxy S3, as the long press on the Power Off option doesn't work as it does on the Nexus 7.
Anyway... just some thoughts.
Rgrds,
Ged.
GedBlake said:
Hi, chismay...
There are a few half secret undocumented key presses in Android... and you've just stumbled upon one of 'em. Though you can skip the rotate screen part of it.
Two others that I know of, which are sort of half known...
Long press the Home Button in any app, and it will bring up a circular Google Button, swipe up to this button, and it fires up Google Search/Google Now. Very useful if, whilst in the middle of Temple Run, you want to Google the nearest pizza delivery service.
If you have the AOSP browser installed... in the browser, long press on the Back Button, and it brings up the Bookmarks/History/Saved Pages screen. This seems to work on any Android device running the AOSP browser. Sadly, however, it doesn't work with Chrome.
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If I remember correctly, Safe Mode was introduced with Jellybean 4.1. I became aware of it, quite accidentally, whilst running a Custom Jellybean 4.1.2 ROM on my Advent Vega about a year ago.
It's very useful, as you say, for identifying and then uninstalling potentially rogue apps, that might be interfering with the normal running of the tablet... as all user installed apps are temporarily suspended.
The only problem with it is, upon rebooting your tablet again normally, you tend to loose your widget placements... which can be a bit of a nuisance if you have several widgets, and each one has to be re-configured again afterwards. Very time consuming.
Although it's never happened to me, a rogue app could theoretically prevent the tablet from booting properly. In such a scenario, you can access Safe Mode from a fully shut down state, as follows...
QUOTE: "From a cold start boot (press & release Power button), wait 2 seconds after the B&W Google (bootloader) splash screen appears, then press and hold Vol-Down button until the normal OS boot is fully completed (lock screen or home screen appears)."
SOURCE: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=37606945
This requires a degree of precision timing, but it does work on the Nexus 7... and is very similar to how I access Safe Mode on my Samsung Galaxy S3, as the long press on the Power Off option doesn't work as it does on the Nexus 7.
Anyway... just some thoughts.
Rgrds,
Ged.
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cool i didnt know about the safe reboot from complete shut down, good to know:good:
Here is what has been going on with my phone:
GPS turns on and I haven't been able to determind which app is doing it
Swype Keyboard doesn't work and shows only a white box, All other Keyboards work
Some Apps will cause the back button to become the button that would normally hide the keyboard and then the back button never reappears until after download. Button also doesn't work
Lag when in Recovery
Screen turn on right away after hitting power button
I don't know if it is worth trying to figure out these issues or I should just upgrade to 4.4
While I know there are tons of tutorials out there to do that but I haven't seen any instruction on how to upgrade from where I am since I rooted and locked my phone and am still on the android version that shipped with the phone back in Aug, Pre all Cam updates.
Any Help and or advice?
Have a car dock which triggers car mode as before, only with Lollipop it triggers Android Auto, which hijacks the home screen - if I'm running Google maps and want to go to home to open another app (music player, Sirius, etc.) when I hit the home button I get quick flash of a green Android Auto screen, then it snaps back to maps - can't get to home - if Maps is running and you hit the back button, it closes or stops navigation, which means i would have restart maps again just so can launch another app - this was not an issue on Kit Kat - only choice so far is to exit Car Mode via the drop down screen, but then unless I'm running nav the phone goes to sleep -
As I understand it, Android Auto is meant to allow phone to interface with enabled car radios, and is not needed/usable on radios which are not Android Auto enabled, like mine - any ideas/solutions/work arounds would be much appreciated -
FYI, I'm running Lollipop 5.1 bone stock from OTA update - I have done a factory reset since the upgrade -
Thanks to all -
Having the same problem. Can anyone help?
So, I was yesterday using my phone and everything was OK. This day, I charged my phone because it was dead and couple mins later I turned it on. I unlocked it, everything looked OK, but I discovered some weird things. My recent apps and home buttons aren't working. When I press recent apps button it lits up but it doesn't do anything. Back button works. Then I saw that there are no notifications in the status bar(I have Kaspersky antivirus so there had to be its notification). And then when I swiped down to check notifications, I tried pressing settings, date and show more buttons, they didn't work either. I pressed power button to restart and in that box airplane and emergency modes buttons are not there. Plus, when I close my S View thing, there's no ...(more) and camera buttons.
Yesterday, I was looking at activities(using Nova launcher and adding a widget for activity) and tried couple, so I think I made something there bad.
My phone is G800F running Stock 4.4.2 without root. No viruses on my device.
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This question is solved by myself.
I solved it!
What I did was I went to the Nova Launcher settings and then I changed default launcher to Touchwiz. After it turned on, I got everything that wasn't working now working!
This issue has been driving me mad for the past couple weeks. I'm at my wits' end and I need some expert help to figure this out. Please read this post thoroughly to understand my situation, as this is not a simple matter of uninstalling some apps.
When I first got my Note 9, the screen lock button worked perfectly. The screen would immediately turn on when I pressed the button, and it would immediately turn off when I pressed it again. However, once I got the Android Pie update, the screen lock button stopped working properly. The screen still turns on immediately, but there's about a 0.5 second delay after I press the button to turn it off. It's a relatively small issue, but it's enough to bother me.
I attempted to fix this by performing a system reset. But this did not help. In fact, this issue is still present even before completing initial setup of the phone.
When you perform a system reset, the first screen you see when your phone restarts is the welcome screen. It contains a "start" button that you press to begin setup. On this screen, the lock button issue does not happen. My phone locks and unlocks correctly. On the next screen, you connect to a wifi network. After connecting to a wifi network, the lock button issue becomes present. In other words, this issue with the lock button is present before I even start using the OS, or install any apps, or really do anything at all. It seems to be triggered by connecting to a wifi network during setup.
So I figured there must be something wrong with the firmware. So I used Odin to flash an earlier firmware version. This did not solve the issue. I even tried installing an unlocked firmware version, on the offchance that my carrier (AT&T) was doing something weird. This did not help either.
I have no idea where to go from here. I thought that a system reset is supposed to completely wipe everything from your phone, so that it behaves exactly how it did when I first got it. But that's not the case. It seems like something is carrying over that's causing this issue. Does anybody have any idea what I should do?
Do you have lock instantly with power key on?
funkyverb said:
This issue has been driving me mad for the past couple weeks. I'm at my wits' end and I need some expert help to figure this out. Please read this post thoroughly to understand my situation, as this is not a simple matter of uninstalling some apps.
When I first got my Note 9, the screen lock button worked perfectly. The screen would immediately turn on when I pressed the button, and it would immediately turn off when I pressed it again. However, once I got the Android Pie update, the screen lock button stopped working properly. The screen still turns on immediately, but there's about a 0.5 second delay after I press the button to turn it off. It's a relatively small issue, but it's enough to bother me.
I attempted to fix this by performing a system reset. But this did not help. In fact, this issue is still present even before completing initial setup of the phone.
When you perform a system reset, the first screen you see when your phone restarts is the welcome screen. It contains a "start" button that you press to begin setup. On this screen, the lock button issue does not happen. My phone locks and unlocks correctly. On the next screen, you connect to a wifi network. After connecting to a wifi network, the lock button issue becomes present. In other words, this issue with the lock button is present before I even start using the OS, or install any apps, or really do anything at all. It seems to be triggered by connecting to a wifi network during setup.
So I figured there must be something wrong with the firmware. So I used Odin to flash an earlier firmware version. This did not solve the issue. I even tried installing an unlocked firmware version, on the offchance that my carrier (AT&T) was doing something weird. This did not help either.
I have no idea where to go from here. I thought that a system reset is supposed to completely wipe everything from your phone, so that it behaves exactly how it did when I first got it. But that's not the case. It seems like something is carrying over that's causing this issue. Does anybody have any idea what I should do?
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It is probably the double tap power button to open camera feature. You can toggle it off and locking will be instant.
If its already off, there my be an accessibility service listening key presses.
xantrk said:
It is probably the double tap power button to open camera feature. You can toggle it off and locking will be instant.
If its already off, there my be an accessibility service listening key presses.
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Oh my god, that fixed it... Can't believe I spent so much time trying to diagnose this. Thanks!
funkyverb said:
Oh my god, that fixed it... Can't believe I spent so much time trying to diagnose this. Thanks!
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This delay issue is so silly but it annoys the hell out of me. Where did you turn off this feature in Pie?
Update: Found it. Just use the search box in settings and type in "camera" (or whatever it is in your language). The "double tap power" setting will get listed.
Thanks alot,
Watz
I even turned off the double press for camera app but I'm still noticing a 0.5 sec lag when i press the side key
I even restarted after changing the setting
Nothing is happening
Please help
xantrk said:
It is probably the double tap power button to open camera feature. You can toggle it off and locking will be instant.
If its already off, there my be an accessibility service listening key presses.
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Thank you bro.