I don't know how to get it back. I use Nova Launcher.
I reset the phone fresh and that fixed it. I guess I accidentally deleted some Motorola thing that controlled the recent apps.
how did you 'reset'? i got same problem, whenever i use a new launcher, recents button stop working.
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some reason my senseui wont stay as default home button action... whenever i open the quick menu then click the home again... it will ask me to use htc sense or launcher... and i checked the default use for htc sense ui... is there anyway to fix this?
if you click set as default it should work, you can always just go uninstall launcher, or download home switch(er) from market.
i checked, and looks like it was an app, b/c i even reflashed and same issue right when i installed the newest qik
Weird, this happens to me too. Anytime I long press the home button and open one of the recent apps I lose my default launcher and have to re-select it...
You think it may be Qik?
*edit- It's definitely the qik update. I just uninstalled it and the bug went away, reinstalled and its back.
yea... qik updates are ****ty for some reason...
has anyone noticed how the evo battery will hold a charge at certain percentages... and drop quickly at other percentages quickly?
this issue just happened to me, thanks for the tip about qik, uninstalled and all is fine.
Same problem and solution here.
Qik sucks. I hope a GTalk app with video chat and facetime/skype support is in the works.
Uninstalled Qik.. Home button keeps defaults again.
Just wanted to give my 2 cents that I have had this issue also.
When I hold down the home button to switch apps.. I see the sense ui icon listed and this effectively resets/loses my default behavior for my home button.
As soon as I uninstalled Qik.. I dont see the Sense UI icon listed anymore while doing home long press. It also remembers my home default behavior.
I googled it and found that this may be what many people were looking for but I don't know why it started to behave like this.
I do find the swiping up from home button gesture useful for me to launch Google search but somehow it stop working. There usually should be a semicircle with 'Google' on top when halfway swiping up but what I get now is a search icon that function as it will launch last used app (if swiping gesture is done in launcher) or will do nothing (when gesture done in any app other than launcher). I did not disable Google Search, reboot didn't help, and clearing cache of Google search didn't help too.
I don't know what I did to get this as a result. Any clue on what's happening? Nexus 7 2013 stock kitkat
solution found
Dolphin browser causing this. Uninstalled it and everything is back to normal
"Select Home" dialogue keeps popping up very frequently when I'm pressing the home button even though I've selected Home as default.
Anyone knows what causes this or how I can remove EasyHome?
I had the same problem when I had a widget for Smart Calendar Pro on my home screen. I've reported it to the makers of the app
Kentarii said:
"Select Home" dialogue keeps popping up very frequently when I'm pressing the home button even though I've selected Home as default.
Anyone knows what causes this or how I can remove EasyHome?
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I was having this issue too and the culprit was the Hotmail app... It's a bug in the Android system if any app has a language call Mata data (or something like that) it will forget your default settings of your home launcher.
I remove the Hotmail app and haven't had a problem ever since. If it wasn't for Nova launcher telling me which app was causing it, I would have probably returned my perfectly good running device.
If you don't have the Hotmail app installed, I recommend you use nova launcher and let it alert you which app is causing the issue. Uninstall that app reboot your phone and you should be good to go and then remove nova launcher if you so choose to.
Thanks for the suggestions guys.
I installed Nova Launcher (used it earlier but decided to give the default launcher a go for this new phone), but didn't really see where it could tell me what the culprit was.
Anyways, I managed to reproduce it pretty effectively.
Long press home button
Opens up Google Now
Short press home button
Select Home dialogue appears
I had the Google Home widget on my main home screen, removed that now.
Looks like the dialogue does not appear anymore, guess I'll know by the end of the day.
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I installed Nova Launcher (used it earlier but decided to give the default launcher a go for this new phone), but didn't really see where it could tell me what the culprit was.
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Found it under Nova Settings:
The 'Netcom Apps' may cause your selection for the default launcher to be reset frequently
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Uninstalled this app and now it works!! Thanks shook187!!
The long press home button works as well now without any side effects.
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Found it under Nova Settings:
Uninstalled this app and now it works!! Thanks shook187!!
The long press home button works as well now without any side effects.
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Uninstalling the app worked, thanks guys!
it appeared on mine after installing the 10j 'leaked' kdz.
could initiate the prompt as per the above steps above to long press hold to open google now then quick press home
removed it by uninstalling "Apps" application that appeared with 10j.
Shook187 u r awesome man
Thank you
Removing Netcom Apps solved the problem for me as well!
Thank you so much @shook187 and @Kentarii
Great suggestion!
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I was having this issue too and the culprit was the Hotmail app... It's a bug in the Android system if any app has a language call Mata data (or something like that) it will forget your default settings of your home launcher.
I remove the Hotmail app and haven't had a problem ever since. If it wasn't for Nova launcher telling me which app was causing it, I would have probably returned my perfectly good running device.
If you don't have the Hotmail app installed, I recommend you use nova launcher and let it alert you which app is causing the issue. Uninstall that app reboot your phone and you should be good to go and then remove nova launcher if you so choose to.
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Nova launcher pointed at the culprit.
Thank you.
Kentarii said:
"Select Home" dialogue keeps popping up very frequently when I'm pressing the home button even though I've selected Home as default.
Anyone knows what causes this or how I can remove EasyHome?
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I get the same thing.....had my phone rest twice. Didn't work. They sent me a new phone and not it does same thing. Love the phone except for this problem. THeir tech support sucks & all they say is send phone in with no loner for 7-9 days!! THey need to send a fix out in an update!!
Thank you so much shook187 for your suggestion. It worked for my LG G4.
1. I've installed the Nova launcher.
2. Then tried to press the home button number of times choosing the Nova Launcher.
3. Next I clicked on the Nova Launcher home screen and kept my finger until the setting wheel appeared.
4. I clicked on the setting and at the top was displayed notification ' Fix it app causing a problem'.
5. I clicked on the notification and selected uninstall.
I noticed that certain apps do not let me use the menu key/button. When i hold down the recents key for the menu on things like google search, drive or nova launcher, nothing happens. I feel it vibrate like it registered, but no menu pops up. I tried uninstalling exposed, using gravity box to add a nav bar, lmt/pie launcher, and still no menu commands work.
there are workarounds to access the menu on all of these, but it's just kind of annoying. Like these apps are on a blacklist somewhere saying to ignore the menu input.
Can anyone confirm if this is the case with them as well? I noticed this on stock and on iron rom. i have the 8.4.
thanks!!!!
Saw a post I think that was in here about getting the US S10 rooted with a link to a telegram chat. After everything was said and done my device is rooted. However Im left with out to use of that button at the lower left that opens the recent used apps to switch to or close them. I get vibration and it highlights but that's it. Is that a normal after effect? Or is there a fix that I'm hoping that not a factory reset?
It's a normal effect that you didn't enable Google assistant and there is no use of factory reset
Didn't know that had to do anything with Google assistant when before I rooted it opened the recent apps let me pick an app to go to or close them all. On the navigation bar at the bottom. Not the Bixby button which before I even rooted that was the first thing I changed