Home ++ Bug List

[mbeatle]

I've had several FCs with Home++ but I really like the interface and the launcher at the bottom for my frequently used apps. I like a clean home screen and Home++ lets me do that.

I never notice a delay in opening the app page.

 

[victorythagr8]

I think since this is the best Home replacement out there we should help the developer with a bug thread. I know he's on here watching (I Think).

1) I had 7 screens and I deleted all the stuff on screen #6. I changed the settings to 6 screens and screen #7 went away and I was left with the blank screen 6. Now unless I move a whole screens full of stuff over I cant go back to 6 screens... please have it check for blank screens and have it done automatically.

2) Lots of FC's if you have widgets running. Takes a long time for them to load up when you turn on or do a battery pull. Sometimes they stick until you open up the keyboard and go landscape.

3) When hitting the bottom to pull up a list of your applications it takes a LONG time. They come up and then have be put in alphabetical order.

4) Same as 3, many times when I pull up the list of apps it only list a few... typically the last few updated. If I turn the phone to landscape they all load up. (or open the keyboard).

and you call this the "best home" why? gde has none of these problems :icon_eek:

GDE has more lagged the Home+++ i always switch between the two everytime an update breaks one of them. Also Home+++ can have more widget on the homescreen than GDE before it becomse very unstable.

 

[Corinacakes]

Interesting .... i've been using GDE exclusively for about a week and i see no lag on my phone and it hasn't force closed (except for an app called contacts groupU which forced closed constant so i removed it) at all. maybe the latest update fixed it all. or maybe i'm just extra "specialer" lol

 

[Martin030908]

GDE does wallpapers a great injustice if you use the 'cube effect'. GDE ran super smooth for me but after talking to the developer, it became apparent that for the cube effect to work the wallpaper will always have to be split into halves. I'm a wallpaper wh*re so if I can't have a centered view on my home screen I can't deal :icon_eek:

Home++ just does it for me. Love the power strip on the bottom, option to hide the notification bar, and it runs very smooth for me.

 

[Guchi]

I have issues with force close on moto droid

 

[wuyanks]

I narrowed Force Closes down to the App Drawer (not in safe mode). I haven't touched the App Drawer all day, and no force closes, using every other app/widget

 

[Corinacakes]

GDE does wallpapers a great injustice if you use the 'cube effect'. GDE ran super smooth for me but after talking to the developer, it became apparent that for the cube effect to work the wallpaper will always have to be split into halves. I'm a wallpaper wh*re so if I can't have a centered view on my home screen I can't deal :icon_eek:

Home++ just does it for me. Love the power strip on the bottom, option to hide the notification bar, and it runs very smooth for me.

I understand. i spent hours of frustration :icon_cussingn the wallpaper issue too. then i had a brilliant idea and went to the stock home and put the wallpaper on there then went back to GDE and voila' no more split. the wallpaper selector in the stock home has a dif shape than the one in GDE. Just FYI.

 

[tah]

Not sure the proper term........

The little icons across the bottom of the screen.....

On the last update a browser (little globe) button was added which pushed the end all apps button to the second page.

I use the end all apps button too much not to have it on the home page. Surely one of the other buttons could be displaced before this one?

 

[sillyrabbitt123]

I just updated to the latest version anyway to go back to the previous one? I feel home++ is slow now and I had an error where the garbage can came up and I couldnt get rid of it. I wasnt even trying to delete something.

thanks

 

[iSecks]

"Get back to it" from WHAT? From another home application I assume. If you never EXIT Home ++ you don't need persistent mode.

But Home ++ is always running in the background otherwise the normal home would be running.

I don't think persistent mode does what you think. I turned it on and then turned the phone off and on and it had to reload everything.

No, it does exactly what I said. If you bothered to read the app's changelog when he introduced it he gave a description of it:

* Persistent mode. Enabling this in preferences will keep Home++ in memory so you can get back to it without reloading anything. On the other hand, it may reduce the overall system performance.

Get back to it from apps. While you never exit, you do go away from it. During that time some of the memory it was using gets freed up so other applications can use it. If you're running a memory intensive app it will use up a lot of the memory that Home++ was using until you went into that app, so when you go back to it, it might have to enumerate all of the applications on your phone again.

 

[Martin030908]

GDE does wallpapers a great injustice if you use the 'cube effect'. GDE ran super smooth for me but after talking to the developer, it became apparent that for the cube effect to work the wallpaper will always have to be split into halves. I'm a wallpaper wh*re so if I can't have a centered view on my home screen I can't deal :icon_eek:

Home++ just does it for me. Love the power strip on the bottom, option to hide the notification bar, and it runs very smooth for me.

I understand. i spent hours of frustration :icon_cussingn the wallpaper issue too. then i had a brilliant idea and went to the stock home and put the wallpaper on there then went back to GDE and voila' no more split. the wallpaper selector in the stock home has a dif shape than the one in GDE. Just FYI.

I did not know this . Thanks for the find. I am content with Home++ now though... could've used you a few weeks back. :icon_eek:

 

[iSecks]

Not sure the proper term........

The little icons across the bottom of the screen.....

On the last update a browser (little globe) button was added which pushed the end all apps button to the second page.

I use the end all apps button too much not to have it on the home page. Surely one of the other buttons could be displaced before this one?

Hit the menu button and go to preferences. Under "Power Strip Preferences" and then "Button Preferences" you should be able to disable one of the icons you don't use. I got rid of most of them, but for most people, getting rid of the favorite contacts one should work, since getting to it is as simple as hitting the phone button and then switching to that tab.

 

[SSHGuru]

That makes sense - thanks.

I also deleted the widgets from my regular home screen and everything sped up.

"Get back to it" from WHAT? From another home application I assume. If you never EXIT Home ++ you don't need persistent mode.

No, it does exactly what I said. If you bothered to read the app's changelog when he introduced it he gave a description of it:

Get back to it from apps. While you never exit, you do go away from it. During that time some of the memory it was using gets freed up so other applications can use it. If you're running a memory intensive app it will use up a lot of the memory that Home++ was using until you went into that app, so when you go back to it, it might have to enumerate all of the applications on your phone again.

 

[tah]

Hit the menu button and go to preferences. Under "Power Strip Preferences" and then "Button Preferences" you should be able to disable one of the icons you don't use. I got rid of most of them, but for most people, getting rid of the favorite contacts one should work, since getting to it is as simple as hitting the phone button and then switching to that tab.

Nice catch..........and thanks!

Maybe in a future release we'll have the capability to "arrange" these buttons?

That would be cool!

 

[iSecks]

Hit the menu button and go to preferences. Under "Power Strip Preferences" and then "Button Preferences" you should be able to disable one of the icons you don't use. I got rid of most of them, but for most people, getting rid of the favorite contacts one should work, since getting to it is as simple as hitting the phone button and then switching to that tab.

Nice catch..........and thanks!

Maybe in a future release we'll have the capability to "arrange" these buttons?

That would be cool!

Yeah, I'm hoping that too. Right now I'm on 2.1, I really home Home++ gets rewritten for the 2.1 launcher. It looks so much nicer, and the live wallpapers are smexy. =D