[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hinook:
Hello,

I bought Nova Launcher Prime about three days ago, because I absolutely loved the way it handles, well, everything, and everything was going okay, until yesterday.

This is what happened. I was fidgeting around the settings tab (just checking which applications used battery, not really changing anything), and when I was done, I pressed the back key, to return to the home screen. So, I exited the battery tab, and arrived on the main settings page. So I pressed the back button again. However, this time, everything froze for about 5 seconds, and then the screen turned black. That lasted for about 15 seconds, then a dialog appeared, saying Nova Launcher Has Stopped, or something, but before I could select "Report", it disappeared, and I guess it restarted; so I was back on the home screen. The first time, I thought nothing of it, but then it started happening quite often, and it just happened again, 5 minutes ago, as I was exiting my messages "window". Same thing - I pressed the back button, to go back to my home screen... bam - blackness, however no dialog. In fact, the only time the dialog appeared, saying it's stopped working, was the first time.. Anyway, after the blackness, 15 seconds later, I was again, at my home screen, after what I assume was a restart of the launcher.

I downloaded an app, called Catlog and filtered the log to only show entries with the word "Launcher" in there, and here is what came out after the last crash, 5 minutes ago:

01-04 10:48:47.463 V/Mms/ConversationComposer(13649): Launcher task Running

01-04 10:48:50.198 I/SurfaceFlinger(1822): id=4584(8) createSurface 0x276cc (480x800),1 flag=0, Launcher

01-04 10:48:50.213 V/Nova.Launcher(17368): Trying bind

01-04 10:48:50.218 V/Nova.Launcher(17368): bind unread took 2

01-04 10:49:59.253 V/Nova.Launcher(17368): Trying bind

01-04 10:49:59.258 V/Nova.Launcher(17368): bind unread took 6

01-04 10:52:39.088 V/Nova.Launcher(17368): Trying bind

01-04 10:52:39.098 V/Nova.Launcher(17368): bind unread took 11

01-04 10:52:41.083 I/SurfaceFlinger(1822): id=4584 Removed Launcher idx=1 Map Size=4

01-04 10:52:41.083 I/SurfaceFlinger(1822): id=4584 Removed Launcher idx=-2 Map Size=4

01-04 10:55:41.253 V/Mms/ConversationComposer(13649): Launcher task Running

01-04 10:55:41.303 I/SurfaceFlinger(1822): id=4719(9) createSurface 0x276cc (480x800),1 flag=0, Launcher

01-04 10:55:41.818 I/DEBUG (12856): pid: 17368, tid: 17368 >>> com.teslacoilsw.launcher <<<

01-04 10:56:06.338 I/InputDispatcher(1976): Application is not responding: AppWindowToken{41bf4688 token=Token{41bf1798 ActivityRecord{41bf1368 com.teslacoilsw.launcher/com.android.launcher2.Launcher}}} - Window{41d48ff8 com.teslacoilsw.launcher/com.android.launcher2.Launcher paused=false}. 24287.6ms since event, 20020.8ms since wait started

01-04 10:56:06.338 I/WindowManager(1976): Input event dispatching timed out sending to com.teslacoilsw.launcher/com.android.launcher2.Launcher

01-04 10:56:07.623 E/ActivityManager(1976): ANR in com.teslacoilsw.launcher (com.teslacoilsw.launcher/com.android.launcher2.Launcher)

01-04 10:56:13.623 I/ActivityThread(18892): Pub com.teslacoilsw.launcher.settings: com.android.launcher2.LauncherProvider

01-04 10:56:13.638 V/ActivityManager(18892): Start proc com.teslacoilsw.launcher (This is fake for proclogcat on sgs3): pid=18892

01-04 10:56:13.643 D/ACRA (18892): ACRA is enabled for com.teslacoilsw.launcher, intializing...

01-04 10:56:13.658 D/ACRA (18892): Looking for error files in /data/data/com.teslacoilsw.launcher/files

01-04 10:56:13.703 V/IconPack(18892): Icon theme for GO com.go.launcherex.theme.kxnt.glasklart

01-04 10:56:13.783 I/dalvikvm(18892): Could not find method android.app.ActivityOptions.makeScaleUpAnimation, referenced from method com.android.launcher2.Launcher.櫯

01-04 10:56:13.898 I/dalvikvm(18892): Could not find method com.android.launcher2.Workspace.getImportantForAccessibility, referenced from method com.android.launcher2.Workspace.<init>

01-04 10:56:13.898 W/dalvikvm(18892): VFY: unable to resolve virtual method 2169: Lcom/android/launcher2/Workspace;.getImportantForAccessibility ()I

01-04 10:56:14.458 V/Nova.Launcher(18892): First page bound after 609ms

01-04 10:56:14.468 I/SurfaceFlinger(1822): id=4721(1) createSurface 0x30b3c (1x1),1 flag=0, Launcher

01-04 10:56:14.598 V/Nova.Launcher(18892): Trying bind

01-04 10:56:14.608 V/Nova.Launcher(18892): bind unread took 6

01-04 10:56:14.718 V/Nova.Launcher(18892): Finishing binding after 868

01-04 10:56:15.138 I/SurfaceFlinger(1822): id=4719 Removed Launcher idx=3 Map Size=4

01-04 10:56:15.138 I/SurfaceFlinger(1822): id=4719 Removed Launcher idx=-2 Map Size=4

01-04 10:56:15.143 I/SurfaceFlinger(1822): id=4719 Removed Launcher idx=-2 Map Size=4

01-04 10:56:25.998 I/SurfaceFlinger(1822): id=4721 Removed Launcher idx=1 Map Size=4

01-04 10:56:25.998 I/SurfaceFlinger(1822): id=4721 Removed Launcher idx=-2 Map Size=4

I guess it says something there about why it crashed, but I've no idea what it means.. I hope you can help me, these are my specs:

Galaxy SII, Model Number GT-I9100

Android Version: 4.0.4

Baseband Version: I9100BOLP7

Kernel Version: 3.0.15-1056084 dpi@DELL170 #3

It's not rooted, and the apps I've running in the background are Gentle Alarm and Widget Locker (among many others, but those two are the ones that modify the home screen, that's why I think they may be relevant)

I look forward to your answer, or at least some directions on who to turn to for this issue. I apologize if I've made many grammatical mistakes, English isn't my first language. Also, if I am in the wrong forum/board/doing something wrong, please tell me where I can go with this issue; I've already used the search and it has no results that have the same issue as I do; I just wanna use my phone normally.. I'm posting here, because I have a feeling that the bug is exclusive to the Galaxy S2, but if I'm wrong to post here, just please tell me where...