Holding home button won't bring up recent apps

**thirsy1258** · 12-18-2012, 09:53 AM

Anyone else having an issue with this? Never happened with my s3 but sometimes it works but most it does not. I'll get a haptic feedback but nothing on screen

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**machin576** · 12-18-2012, 12:27 PM

I am having the same issue.

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**Johnly** · 12-18-2012, 12:37 PM

You are holding it wrong:-p Kidding! Never had that one. Try a reboot? Not using any task apps are you?

**thirsy1258** · 12-18-2012, 01:55 PM

Nope stock everything. For a second I was like how else can you press it

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**jennnyy** · 12-18-2012, 06:17 PM

Happens to me sometimes. I just restart my phone.

**ImmaGhost** · 12-18-2012, 07:05 PM

silly question..is it safe to delete those "recent apps" boxes. Only asking because I heard it's bad to force quit apps.

**Podgorica** · 12-18-2012, 07:51 PM

Happens to me too sometimes, I just reboot.

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**Johnly** · 12-18-2012, 11:56 PM

Originally Posted by ImmaGhost

silly question..is it safe to delete those "recent apps" boxes. Only asking because I heard it's bad to force quit apps.

I do periodically without any ill effects. It is baked into the os...so it should be fine. Once a day I kill em all.

**Nabooly** · 12-19-2012, 11:45 AM

Wtf lol you guys jinxed my note....it's been working perfectly and I just tried it and nothing is coming up :s

**thirsy1258** · 12-19-2012, 01:07 PM

Originally Posted by Nabooly

Wtf lol you guys jinxed my note....it's been working perfectly and I just tried it and nothing is coming up :s

That's my diabolical plan is slowly make everyone's home button break

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**Nabooly** · 12-19-2012, 08:01 PM

Originally Posted by thirsty1258

That's my diabolical plan is slowly make everyone's home button break

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haha well i restarted it and it's back to working condition

**cdf3** · 02-07-2013, 04:28 PM

Originally Posted by thirsty1258

Nope stock everything. For a second I was like how else can you press it

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This is happening to me a lot lately. Seems to happen at least every other day.
Are you running the stock launcher?
I'm running a 3rd party launcher and was about to do a factory reset. If others are having the same issue, then a factory reset probably won't help much.
Rebooting my phone will bring it back, but I'm finding myself having to do that too often.

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**Jacob Reckhard** · 06-10-2013, 05:24 PM

When this happens I restart my phone this works on my note 2

**tuffy100** · 06-11-2013, 03:05 AM

Originally Posted by jennnyy

Happens to me sometimes. I just restart my phone.

Same here.

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**cdf3** · 06-11-2013, 11:20 PM

It's been happening to me off and on since I've owned the device (December 2012 - June 2013 ).
I did a Hard Reset the other day and decided to leave off a few apps I felt may be a little buggy.
What apps do you all have installed that you feel might be the cause.
If it's a 3rd party app that's causing this, then maybe we can pinpoint it.

**maxburn** · 06-13-2013, 05:55 AM

On my international version this happened to me quite a bit. There was a system update and it went away for a while but eventually came back. There was another system update not long after that and ever sense then it hasn't been a problem for me.

I'm guessing if you have this problem you are all on carrier versions of the note 2?

**cdf3** · 06-13-2013, 08:41 AM

Originally Posted by maxburn

On my international version this happened to me quite a bit. There was a system update and it went away for a while but eventually came back. There was another system update not long after that and ever sense then it hasn't been a problem for me.

I'm guessing if you have this problem you are all on carrier versions of the note 2?

Yes, I have a carrier version (Verizon).

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