Text Corruption with Launcher and/or Apps

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Opening up apps
2. Turning on the device
3. Swiping between app pages

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Clear text is expected, but it jumbles up and looks like hieroglyphics or 
letters of a word disappear completely. 

What version of the product are you using?
AR18

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Original issue reported on code.google.com by derek.k....@gmail.com on 16 Feb 2012 at 4:25

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Just kill/or restart whatever is messed up, in this case the launcher.. This 
happens on all ICS roms ATM, theres still alot of graphical glitches that need 
to be fixed. But easiest way to get around this, is to enable long press back 
to kill (under developer settings), then whenever it does this just long press 
back to kill/reload it and it will be fine then.

Original comment by robbe...@gmail.com on 16 Feb 2012 at 4:33

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A quick reboot will fix the problem as well.

Original comment by KennethS...@gmail.com on 6 Jun 2012 at 9:32

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I am still seeing this in BR2.

Original comment by jonny.he...@gmail.com on 26 Jun 2012 at 5:41

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I noticed this issue came up after I tried to record a video from the stock 
camera app. It crashed out after about 30 seconds of recording and then all the 
fonts were fubar until a reboot.

Original comment by tony.tha...@gmail.com on 1 Jul 2012 at 4:28

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This issue is occurring more frequently. Today it happened in Gmail app also. 
all the letters went crazy.

Original comment by jitender...@gmail.com on 6 Jul 2012 at 3:01

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So this issue is not device specific, or even aospX specific...it happens on 
Galaxy Nexus with stock ICS (and custom roms). So im leaning towards something 
in AOSP Launcher, but im not 100%..its just an initial thought. If i was able 
to find a way to trigger this where a certain task or whatever will make it 
happen every time, then it would help speed up finding a fix/cause of the 
issue. So if anyone finds a way to make this happen every time let me know.

http://www.galaxynexusforum.com/forum/galaxy-nexus-help/2355-text-unreadable.htm
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Original comment by robbe...@gmail.com on 11 Jul 2012 at 6:36

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Assigning this ticket to Google, official Android bug report is found here:

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=25393

Original comment by robbe...@gmail.com on 11 Jul 2012 at 6:59

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Original comment by robbe...@gmail.com on 20 Jul 2012 at 10:35

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Issue 100 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by robbe...@gmail.com on 15 Aug 2012 at 2:32

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For me it only happens in twitter and gmail

Original comment by htcdesir...@gmail.com on 15 Aug 2012 at 2:35

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Renamed ticket to something more generalized since it does happen in some apps 
as well.

Original comment by robbe...@gmail.com on 15 Aug 2012 at 3:14

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It has happened to me once on Apex Launcher, but it seems to happen more often 
in apps with long lists of things, such as in Gmail, Twitter, Titanium Backup, 
and BaconReader. Especially when I scroll through things fast, the text tends 
to jumble up more often.

Original comment by WindyCit...@gmail.com on 16 Aug 2012 at 2:05

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Yes this happens with me when I scroll fast

Original comment by htcdesir...@gmail.com on 16 Aug 2012 at 9:38

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Issue 100 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by robbe...@gmail.com on 16 Aug 2012 at 9:01

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After BR6 it isn't happening 

Original comment by htcdesir...@gmail.com on 18 Aug 2012 at 1:47

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It is possible that one of the backported JB fixes fixed it (there was quite a 
few). So hopefully we did get lucky and it accidentally fixed this. But i need 
quite a few people to verify this since its so random. I personally havent had 
it happen in quite a while so we need to make 100% it doesnt pop back up. Which 
those of you who had it happen when scrolling in apps, that shouldnt be to hard 
to reproduce...but the launcher part is the one that might take awhile before 
it happens.

Original comment by robbe...@gmail.com on 18 Aug 2012 at 3:17

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I have had it happen to me a bunch since flashing BR6, so unfortunately I don't 
think the JB fixes fixed it. :(

Original comment by WindyCit...@gmail.com on 19 Aug 2012 at 3:45

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With full wipe?

Original comment by robbe...@gmail.com on 19 Aug 2012 at 3:57

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Yeah, I did full wipe, then installed Apex Launcher, and it almost instantly 
borked out on me. So far, it's only happened to me when scrolling on apps and 
on the launcher.

Original comment by WindyCit...@gmail.com on 19 Aug 2012 at 4:01

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I think I found it's solution if you clears app from task manager that you 
don't wanna use than this will be solved it works for me

Original comment by htcdesir...@gmail.com on 19 Aug 2012 at 9:24

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According to http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=35072 this is a 
problem in FontRender.cpp

Original comment by jrlo...@gmail.com on 22 Aug 2012 at 9:04

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I've seen this, infrequently, also in BR7 (app names in home screen), after 
full wipe. Also, it once happened to Google navigation. To me: a really minor 
issue, I don't think I ever rebooted because of this.

Original comment by s.imph...@gmail.com on 29 Sep 2012 at 6:08

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I haven't encountered this issue on jellytime 

Original comment by htcdesir...@gmail.com on 29 Sep 2012 at 6:37

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As per the AOSP bug reports, its an ICS issue, doesnt happen with JB

Original comment by robbe...@gmail.com on 29 Sep 2012 at 9:37

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Moving to "backlog" since the cause is still not clear and a fix seems unlikely 
for near/upcoming releases. Per AOSP bug reports it seems that a possible cause 
for this is in FontRender.cpp, but the exact problem has not been determined 
yet. 

Original comment by robbe...@gmail.com on 27 Oct 2012 at 7:30

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I encountered this problem a few times too. Don't remember exactly how to 
reproduce it but last time I was switching back and forth between the Apps 
drawer and Home screen (using Apps and back button quickly) while having 
animation turned on.

I am using MR1, clean install, no restore, just the pure ROM.

Reboot will surely fix it.

However, changing font size from Settings/Display will fix it as well, just 
make sure you change to all font sizes available and go back to the home screen 
after each change (change font size, go to home screen, back to change 
different font size, go to home screen...) and the corrupt text will be fixed.

So, maybe a font refresher will fix? I don't know, just a thought...

Other than that, thanks for the good work.

Original comment by vbco...@gmail.com on 6 Dec 2012 at 5:36

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This happens very often to me as well, several times a day. 
For what matters the '
This happens on all ICS roms ATM' 
part,  I tried plenty and no one was affected by this issue. 

Thanks for caring

Original comment by spe...@gmail.com on 15 May 2013 at 6:28

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As mentioned above this is an AOSP ICS bug, and it does happen on other ICS 
roms (including stock AOSP 4.0)

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=35072
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=25393

You can enable Long Press Back to Kill under Developer Settings and when this 
issue happens just long press back to kill/restart the app. It seems AOSP 
narrowed the issue down to something in FontRender.cpp, but no fix has been 
pushed to any ICS branch AFAIK (this issue does not exist on JB), and also it 
seems to only happen with hardware accelerated apps. But I no longer support 
aospX and/or DHD/Inspire, so I will not be looking into these issues any 
further. Although im open to any experienced dev wanting to take over aospX 
(but the dev must be highly experienced and know what he/she is doing. I do not 
have time to work on this rom, let alone teach someone the basics of developing 
an AOSP rom) So hopefully someone takes over and is able to fix this issue in 
the future. 

Original comment by robbe...@gmail.com on 15 May 2013 at 6:39