Question Nova Launcher or Android 13 OS problem?

[CZ Eddie]

I'm rooted and have mods installed, so they could be part of the problem too.
Anyone else seeing this? Every once in awhile, I'll press the "home" button on the navbar.
And instead of showing me my home screen with icons & such, it only shows my background.
I have to press the home button a second time before my icons and folders show up.

 

[MarcoReckless]

I'm rooted and have mods installed, so they could be part of the problem too.
Anyone else seeing this? Every once in awhile, I'll press the "home" button on the navbar.
And instead of showing me my home screen with icons & such, it only shows my background.
I have to press the home button a second time before my icons and folders show up.

Plenty of people have this issue, some launchers don't work properly, I'm getting others issues as well like folders showing up in recents.
There's no real fix at the moment, you either change launcher or keep the issues.

 

[CZ Eddie]

Darn. Okay, thanks for letting me know that it's not just me.

 

[Superguy]

I haven't had any issues with Nova Launcher. I'm using the Prime version. Perhaps that makes a difference?

Have you changed the settings within the config utility?

 

[CZ Eddie]

Yep, I've had Prime Nova for many years.
I change a TON of settings in the Nova settings.

It doesn't happen often enough to make troubleshooting easy.

I guess I could try resetting it back to factory defaults for a week or so.

 

[jaseman]

I'm rooted and have mods installed, so they could be part of the problem too.
Anyone else seeing this? Every once in awhile, I'll press the "home" button on the navbar.
And instead of showing me my home screen with icons & such, it only shows my background.
I have to press the home button a second time before my icons and folders show up.

You mention that you're rooted and have mods installed...I would definitely look there first. I say this because I use Nova Prime on my 7 Pro and have zero issues. In fact I have been using Nova Prime on all my phones for years without any problems. YMMV

 

[iRhyiku]

Every single third party launcher and device has this issue (and more) ever since Android 10 came out and tied Recents and Launchers together, it's worse with gesutres but can happen with navbar too.

Those who claim to not have it either ignore it, don't use their device fast or don't mind lag

 

[blackspp]

Lawnchair alpha 4, no issues

 

[p51d007]

Not rooted, qp beta, nova prime, no issues like that on mine.

 

[gubik7]

..certainly no one can have accessibility function for gestures in nova launcher, this is due to google - android 13 security,
double tap would be a bless, so i don't understand why google is providing double tap on the back of the phone, but only strange single tap (lock screen) on the front of the device.. ?

 

[mikebb00]

I ran into a similar issue with Android 12 & 13 - it's a little tricky to get the gestures for Nova to work on the lock screen and provided a couple of screen shots to make things easier for you.

 

[gubik7]

I ran into a similar issue with Android 12 & 13 - it's a little tricky to get the gestures for Nova to work on the lock screen and provided a couple of screen shots to make things easier for you.

..got latest 13 7pro + nova prime beta, except notifications, accessibility (nova launcher) is unavailable for security reasons - as google kindly prompting this in the settings..

 

[Lughnasadh]

..got latest 13 7pro + nova prime beta, except notifications, accessibility (nova launcher) is unavailable for security reasons - as google kindly prompting this in the settings..

To enable accessibility, go to 3 dot menu in app info and bypass the restriction there.

 

[gubik7]

To enable accessibility, go to 3 dot menu in app info and bypass the restriction there.

spot-on thanks!

 

[akhenax]

I followed this advice and Nova is still broken. Oh well. I guess I could try another Rom, but how do we launch the default launcher?

 

[otonieru]

No problem with Nova 8.0.3 here. But i dont use navbar.

And accessibility is working as well. I use it for double tap to sleep.

 

[HipKat]

I followed this advice and Nova is still broken. Oh well. I guess I could try another Rom, but how do we launch the default launcher?

Search default home in settings

 

[K1nsey6]

I'm rooted and have mods installed, so they could be part of the problem too.
Anyone else seeing this? Every once in awhile, I'll press the "home" button on the navbar.
And instead of showing me my home screen with icons & such, it only shows my background.
I have to press the home button a second time before my icons and folders show up.

I only have that occasional issue if I have a **** ton of memory hungry apps running. And I think it started with the January update

 

[chill145]

Using total launcher and something similar happens to me. When I use gestures to pull up recent apps, I'll just see my homescreen instead of the apps themselves. Very weird but the behavior still works in that I can press the screen and it goes to the last app, which is what I want majority of the time.

 

[cogano]

Nova gestures work for me via Accessibility - but only for a few hours. Then, I can't see a note in Accessibility menu for Nova non-malfunctioning. Turning the Allow toggle off and on resolves the problem, temporarily.