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Rickna

Rickna

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Hello, I'm new here & I've had my EVO Design 4G for about 2 months. First, I have to say that this forum is a great source and friendly.
Now to my issue. For an example; I've been looking at pics in the HTC gallery, deleting some for around 5 min. When I'm going back to the home screen a white screen comes up with the HTC logo. After about 7 seconds or so the home screen comes up with a window that says "Loading". It takes just over 1 minute for the home screen to fully come up. It reminds me of the Windows hour glass-you just have to wait. So, is this common, is there something I can do about it?
Thanks
 
How did you get the evo design 2 months ago, because Boost just released it May 31. Or did you get a Sprint version flashed to Boost.

Anyway that only happens when I'm playing a game that uses alot of resources. Everytime I exit ShadowGun Sense restarts and the loading shows for 10 seconds
 
Ok maybe a month or so, it's not all that important. I've been suhutting off some services and uninstalling some apps. There's little improvment.
 
Rickna said:
Hello, I'm new here & I've had my EVO Design 4G for about 2 months. First, I have to say that this forum is a great source and friendly.
Now to my issue. For an example; I've been looking at pics in the HTC gallery, deleting some for around 5 min. When I'm going back to the home screen a white screen comes up with the HTC logo. After about 7 seconds or so the home screen comes up with a window that says "Loading". It takes just over 1 minute for the home screen to fully come up. It reminds me of the Windows hour glass-you just have to wait. So, is this common, is there something I can do about it?
Thanks
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It sounds to me like that's HTC Sense re-drawing. Sense is a bit of a resource hog, and there are ways around that. You can try a different launcher -- there are several different ones in the play story. I've used Go Launcher EX for a while and liked that and am now using Nova Launcher and like it a lot.

You can also get rid of sense altogether if you want by rooting and uninstalling it from your device. I did that and mine seems to be a lot more responsive.
 
I understand what you're saying about HTC sense. I don't understand what a launched is or does. I'll read up on that. I'm not comfortable with rooting right now, I just don't know enough about it yet.
 
That's fine. You don't need to root to use a different launcher. A launcher is just a program that you can download from the play store like any other. It just basically acts as a new home screen and user interface, but if you don't like it you can uninstall it just like any other program. You should give it a try and see if that doesn't fix your lagging issues.
 
I read up on launchers. Interesting. Back to my issue, it was Norton Utilities-Uninstalled it, things are running much smoother. Thanks to all for the help.
 
My phone started doing the same thing after I tried to put it in DM. now it hoes to the htc white screen after I close any app. I'm ready to root it and start clean anyways...
 
sirkris said:
My phone started doing the same thing after I tried to put it in DM. now it hoes to the htc white screen after I close any app. I'm ready to root it and start clean anyways...
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Is there some kind of DIY on how to do this? I know my phone shouldn't be this slow. It reminds me of Windows-a new install is always fast in the begining, then the more you use it the slower it gets.
 
Rickna said:
Hello, I'm new here & I've had my EVO Design 4G for about 2 months. First, I have to say that this forum is a great source and friendly.
Now to my issue. For an example; I've been looking at pics in the HTC gallery, deleting some for around 5 min. When I'm going back to the home screen a white screen comes up with the HTC logo. After about 7 seconds or so the home screen comes up with a window that says "Loading". It takes just over 1 minute for the home screen to fully come up. It reminds me of the Windows hour glass-you just have to wait. So, is this common, is there something I can do about it?
Thanks
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Go to settings, Develope Option, and uncheck Don't keep activities. If it's checked it closes every app you leave, that's why it says loading.
 
Rickna said:
Does my phone need to be rooted?
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Nope. Menu - System Settings - Develop option - (setting you want is towards the bottom).
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Looks like your phone is on gingerbread. Look under system settings - about phone - software. If it says 2.3.4, then it's gingerbread. Also, you can tell by pulling down your notification. If it has a white background then it's gingerbread. If black background, then ice cream Sandwich.
 
You will not have that option. I don't remember what I did to fix the htc sense restart, as I had it too when I got my phone back in Sept of 2011. I'll ask around or you can just Google gingerbread 2.3.4 sense 3.0, then your issue (shorter the description, the better).
 
grad061980 said:
You will not have that option. I don't remember what I did to fix the htc sense restart, as I had it too when I got my phone back in Sept of 2011. I'll ask around or you can just Google gingerbread 2.3.4 sense 3.0, then your issue (shorter the description, the better).
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Grad, I appreciate your help! I admit I'm a total noob at this.
 
The informant said:
My phone is doing the exact same thing and I'm sure it's because of HTC Sense
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I believe you're right. I am now using the Go Launcher and associated plug ins. My phone is responding much better. There are a few things that I'm not liking about Go, but I can live with them.
 
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