Performance problem with Microsoft Launcher on FP5

Help Fairphone 5
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I know Microsoft Launcher is from MS and is not the privacy-friendliest app, but I have to admit that I like the design and features. And well since I got my FP5, the Microsoft launcher is buggy/laggy. Basically, very regurlarly, when I unlock my phone or press the home button after some long in-app navigation, the launcher items and normal app icons take like 5-7 seconds to load. Sometimes the screen is even frozen, no navigation works, and I have to lock/unlock to unblock the issue. Any similar problems?

I already tried reinstalling the app, emptying the cache, starting my launcher config from scratch. But it’s still the same.

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Another image to visualize the issue. Here the screen navigation is just blocked, I can’t do anything.

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Have you restricted the app in any way? Like the Battery settings or anything, where it might not be drawing enough power to work correctly?

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Nope, I gave it all the authorizations and no battery restrictions. I feel like it’s a RAM problem, as the logos take time to load, but it cannot be normally with the specs (and other apps would have issues too).

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hi @vlstr,

just to be sure, sorry if was unnecessary.

the battery setting is restricted from default.
you need to allow unlimited use manually.

greetings

Tom

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Yes sorry, I already put it into “No restriction”

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Would the app or images be on a SD card? Maybe it’s not fast enough to load them quickly? Just trying to rule everything out! :thinking:

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The problem with the loss of controls: I have that on my FP5 too. I use FastDraw launcher and I am running iodeOS (Android 15 based). I had that on Android 14 too. Unfortunately I never found a fix for that. But I always thought it’s the launchers fault… But now I am not sure anymore.

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Interesting! I also thought it was the launcher’s fault, but after all the reinitializing and considering that it is a very much used one, and perfectly worked fine on my previous S8, I actually really don’t think it is in the end…