All Apps was accessible without crashing, so I went to settings and restored backup, but I could not restore the latest backup from 2-3 hours ago (this death-of-launcher crash could’ve happened way earlier than this, my phone was charging and not with me). It just kept crashing again and again when trying to restore it. So I had to restore an older backup from more than a day ago, and I lost so many changes.

This is the second time this exact thing has happened in two days. I believe it started when I started making backups of the launcher (manually). Somehow it crashes soon after a backup has been made? Makes no sense to me. And I can’t restore that backup.

Here’s the scene to understand better why I think it has to do with backups:

I have five backups.

The oldest one – the fifth one – is the one I made before this death-of-launcher happened for the first time. I couldn’t restore that backup and kept crashing.

Then the three in the middle are fine. They can be restored successfully.

The latest one from 5 hours ago cannot be restored. (The launcher crashes while trying to restore it.)

After the first crash I couldn’t restore the fifth backup, and I still can’t after this crash. So that backup was always created corrupt. Same as the latest one. And the death-of-launcher crash occurred a few hours after their creation.

So if a corrupt backup file is created these events occur? My evaluation could be completely wrong too because I don’t know much about how the backup and restore system functions.

SO. Thoughts?

I have obviously reported crashes often, but since there is no response from Pierre I thought I’d post here. I really require some answers to this problem.

Whether the crashes are related to creating backups or not, I really need this to not happen.

I create backups to make sure my data (read: my time, money, sanity) is saved, but in this case the opposite has happened, twice.

Setting a variable to 0 works, but setting it to 1 doesn’t.

Replicate:

Go to Bindings of an item, and set the Visibility property to $aVariable.

Go to Tasker, create a Task to set $aVariable to 0 (with Lightning Launcher Variable plugin).

Play the Task. The item should now be hidden.

Go back to Tasker, change the Task to set $aVariable to 1.

Play the Task. Nothing will have changed.

Tested with the following values: 0, 1, 2, 5. Works only with 0.

The animation of showing a folder to close occurs at a normal speed, but the actual process of closing the folder doesn’t. Whenever I close a folder and then tap on a space outside the folder (which the folder was occupying when it was open), it clicks inside the folder and opens whatever app was there.

REPLICATE:

Create a folder.

Put some apps in it.

Now, open the folder.

Close the folder, and tap on a spot where the folder was before it was closed.

It will click inside the folder even though the user is shown that the folder has closed.

Open app drawer

long press any app and choose add to launcher

Toast should say it was added

check your homescreen you won’t see the app there check the heirachy you will see its not listed in there either.