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Posted by: pierrot | on April 19, 2018
I recently switched from a Nexus 6P to a Pixel XL. Lightning worked great on the Nexus, and everything seems fine on the Pixel except for one problem: when I install a new app, it doesn’t show up in the Lightning app drawer, and it isn’t added to the home page. However, if I go to the Play Store, the app shows installed and if I click on Open, it launches just fine. It also shows up in the All Apps list under Settings, and can be opened from there. But it’s not in the app drawer and I can’t find any way to add it to the home page.
If I use any the Pixel launcher, the app is in the app drawer, and I can add it to the home screen. I’ve tried uninstalling and reinstalling LL, but it made no difference. Apps that I added before that then show up in the LL app drawer, but new apps I add don’t.
This has happened with every app I have added. Two examples: ToDo Cloud from Appigo, and Soundcloud.
Any suggestions would be most appreciated!
Posted by: pierrot | on December 23, 2015
Hi, I’m not sure if this qualifies as a bug, my apologies if the post is going to the wrong place. I’ve been using LL for between 1 and 2 years, currently on my Galaxy Note 4, and it’s worked great until this problem cropped up. If I long press on the screen, then click on the pencil icon to edit, LL freezes. Eventually I get message that LL has stopped working. I can then select it as the launcher again and it works, until I attempt to press the pencil icon again. I’ve tried uninstalling and reinstalling, and found that it works fine until I restore from my backup, when the problem appears again. I’m not sure how to interpret that, my guess is that there’s a configuration file that’s broken. All other features / functions in LL work fine.
Any thoughts on how to fix this would be much appreciated.
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Posted by: pierrot | on December 20, 2015
I’m having a problem that just cropped up. My Samsung Galaxy Note 4 recently updated the OS to 5.1.1 so it may be related to that. LL works fine unless I try to edit something. When I long press on the screen the menu pops up, and all of the options work except the edit function. When I press on the pencil the screen freezes, and after about 30 seconds or so I get the message “Lightning Launcher isn’t responding. Do you want to close it?”
I’ve tried restarting the phone, switching to the default launcher and back again, but nothing helps. I’ve backed up my configuration. I haven’t tried uninstalling and reinstalling LL because I have quite a bit of configuration, and I’m concerned that it might not all get restored from the backup.
Any thoughts on what would be my best way to address this would be much appreciated.
Posted by: pierrot | on February 27, 2015
I’ve been using LL since October when I got my Samsung Galaxy Note 4 phone. I have LL on that as well as my Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition tablet. It works great with everything except the NY Times widget. I’ve tested the widget on both devices with Nova Launcher and Samsung’s TouchWiz launcher and it’s rock solid all the time. But with LL it often locks up, not responding to refresh attempts or attempts to change the content section being displayed. And, LL crashes periodically when the NY Times widget is on one of my screens, even if I’m not interacting with it. It’s a great widget, and I’d love to use it, though I wouldn’t give up LL for it. I’d be happy to try any suggestions to further figure this out.
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Posted by: pierrot | on February 20, 2015
Can anyone tell me what the difference is between a “sidebar” and a “folder” item? They seem to me to behave exactly the same. I’d like to create a sidebar that slides out from the side, with scrolling bookmarks in it, but I can’t see how to do that.
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Posted by: pierrot | on February 17, 2015
Hi, since the last update LL is crashing frequently on both my Samsung Galaxy Note 4 phone and my Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition tablet. I don’t see a pattern to when or why it happens, but I’ll be doing something – maybe browsing a website, or taking a note with the stylus, or checking email – and suddenly a notice pops up that LL has stopped working. I always click on “Send Report”. Any thoughts on how I can fix this? The version I’m using is 12.0.1 (R2021). If I uninstall and reinstall, will I lose my settings / configuration?
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Posted by: pierrot | on October 21, 2014
I have LL installed on my Galaxy Note 4, and had some problems with the NY Times widget, so I deleted it, rebooted the phone, and re-added the widget. It seemed to work fine. I then added the widget to another part of the screen, and deleted the first instance of the widget. When I hit the Delete option, LL wiped all of my setup – every folder, app and widget that I’d applied disappeared. I tried several things – rebooting the phone, reinstalling LL, and restoring it from a template that I’d saved before the problem, but nothing worked – I just end up with an empty screen. I also created a new template from my tablet, copied that to my phone, and tried restoring, but again, the screen is completely blank except for the background image. Any ideas how I can get LL to start working again and hopefully restore my setup from one of the templates I’ve saved?
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Posted by: pierrot | on October 21, 2014
Hi, I’m new to launchers as well as Google+ groups. I’ve had LL for about 24 hours on my Galaxy Note 4 and Galaxy Note 10.1, and am addicted – what a great tool for expanding the functionality of my phone and tablet. I’ve set up a layout on my phone that I’m happy with and would like to back it up, so I could restore everything to as it is, in case something happens to the phone or I screw up the layout beyond easy recovery. I’d also like to port it to my tablet. But I can’t figure out how to back up the complete layout, so that the folders and app positions are backed up. Is there a way to do that? Any help would be much appreciated.
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