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Re: Android starts in an app.

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Bill wrote:

> I wonder if there is anyone here still?

You didn't look at the newsgroup before posting.

> Android 4.2 phone (Cubot GT95) purchased for non-technical wife. We 
> want it to fire up or display the first screen as the home screen, but 
> at the moment it always starts in the messaging app, so she has to 
> navigate to the home screen to make a phone call.
> 
> How does one set an Android device to start from the normal basic menu 
> screen?

Make sure to exit the app(s) you were using before that were displayed
on the screen.  Then when you unlock the phone, you won't be looking at
those same prior apps you used.  Rather than close a bunch of apps one
by one, use the Recent button to show the apps and either swipe them off
the screen or use the "X" button at the bottom to close them all.
However, if you are on a different screen than the home screen, that's
the screen to which you get returned when unlocking the phone.  Pressing
the Home button does NOT exit out of the currently loaded apps.  Their
windows disappearing does not mean they have unloaded.

On powering up (versus just unlocking the device), the default should be
to bring you to the home screen.  You don't mention whether you, er, she
is simply unlocking an already powered-on phone or starts it fresh by
powering it on from a powered-off state.  The Power button doesn't
always (and usually does not) power off the phone but just lock it.

Is it always the same app showing on the screen when you power up the
phone (and not by simply unlocking it)?  Could be Cubot or whomever was
the vendor of that phone (like for locked phones) customized the phone
to always show their app.

Bob mentioned the possiblity of a theme always starting the same app (on
power on).  Not sure this is true.  Themes don't run apps.  They change
the UI.  See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku-e8Hkd4k8, timemark 1:50,
where the author shows changing themes.

There are services or applications that startup when you start the
Android OS.  Just like Windows with its services and startup programs,
Android has those, too.  They should not shove an app window in your
face when you power up your phone (which is not the same as unlocking
your phone).  You never mentioned the app for anyone to check if it
configures itself as a startup program and also shove an app window in
your face.  There are startup managers to let you disable some services
or programs from loading when you power on the phone, like
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=imoblife.startupmanager or
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rs.autorun (lots of
these type of apps).  That's just an example.  I've not use any so
cannot recommend one over the other.  The problem with the vast majority
of free apps is they are riddled with ads, so they are not really free.

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Android starts in an app. Bill <Billaboard@gmail.com> - 2016-11-12 19:40 +0000
  Re: Android starts in an app. Bob Henson <rh547477@gmail.com> - 2016-11-12 19:57 +0000
  Re: Android starts in an app. Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-11-12 20:41 +0000
  Re: Android starts in an app. VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2016-11-12 16:40 -0600
    Re: Android starts in an app. Bill <Billaboard@gmail.com> - 2016-11-13 00:45 +0000
      Re: Android starts in an app. VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2016-11-12 21:15 -0600
        Re: Android starts in an app. Bill <Billaboard@gmail.com> - 2016-11-13 14:22 +0000
          Re: Android starts in an app. Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2016-11-13 14:46 +0000
            Re: Android starts in an app. Bill <Billaboard@gmail.com> - 2016-11-13 15:21 +0000
              Re: Android starts in an app. VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2016-11-13 14:33 -0600
                Re: Android starts in an app. Bill <Billaboard@gmail.com> - 2016-11-21 15:55 +0000
                Re: Android starts in an app. Bill <Billaboard@gmail.com> - 2016-12-10 17:04 +0000

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