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Help Why does my Launcher on my LG Volt crash constantly?

cotylee1991

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Hello all. It's been a while since I've been active on here, but I figured I'd make a comeback, and what better way to come back other than asking for help?!
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I recently purchased the LG Volt 4G through Sprint Prepaid last November, and I absolutely love the phone, but I am having a pesky annoyance with it. Sometimes, more times than not, my home launcher will crash, mainly when I'm using an app, like Facebook, Snapchat, or a game. It started crashing a lot with the stock launcher, which is called "Home" version 4.3.38. After finagling with trying to clear appsout of the task manager after I was done with them, and force stopping some unused apps to clear up RAM, it still would crash. Now by crashing I mean, if I were using Facebook for instance, and I hit the home button on my phone to go to my home screen, my phone would freeze, the home screen would be blank, and then my screen would flash and then all the icons on my home screen would show back up, as if the launcher was restarting. So eventually, I downloaded "Apex Launcher" from the Play Store. It's faster than the stock launcher, but now for the past 6+ weeks, it's been crashing as well. I've set the launcher to "Keep in memory" to reduce crashes, but it still happens so much! I can't even open my messaging app without it taking 2-3 seconds to even open.

Do you all have any ideas?
Everything is all up-to-date, including the OS.
Is this a sign that it's time to root and over-clock the device so it stops this crap?!

Thanks for any and all help guys (and gals)!
 
this phone has a hard time keeping both background and foreground tasks (that you actually want) alive due to it's lack of ram, so i would assume while your using an app the launcher gets kill off, then has to reload when you want to access it.

rooting might help in that you can remove to apps you don't want or need, which in turn can free up some ram if the memory sucking persistent ones are removed. i don't think overclocking would do anything in this case if it's the ram to blame, which i know it is for me.
 
Rooting helps some but not completely. I have everything stripped out that I can and still have the issue at times. Not very often but it still happens occasionally. I'm not sure if its a RAM issue or what, all I use my phone for is Facebook Tapatalk and text messaging so I don't do a lot with it.
 
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