title: can not launch home from android 4.0
body: <p>I want to launch Home Screen From my application for that I used </p>
  
  <pre><code>Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MAIN);
                  intent.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_HOME);
          intent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
          startActivity(intent);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I also follow this <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4756835/how-to-launch-home-screen-programmatically-in-android">thread</a><br>
  Now I am having problem to launch in ICS(4.0). Problem is that I can't launch home screen while I am in some other application(to check this I created a thread in my app which will sleep for 5 sec and fires the intent so that I get time to go in some other app) it is working fine in 2.2 but failing on 4.0</p>
  
  <p>Is this because of new architecture and way of handling activities in 4.0?</p>
  
  <p>Logs are 
  <strong>for  2.2 log</strong>   </p>
  
  <pre><code>03-13 14:33:18.661: I/ActivityManager(73): Starting activity: Intent { act=android.intent.action.MAIN cat=[android.intent.category.LAUNCHER] flg=0x10200000 cmp=com.examples.notifications/.NotificationsActivity }
  
  03-13 14:33:19.161: I/ActivityManager(73): Displayed activity com.examples.notifications/.NotificationsActivity: 349 ms (total 349 ms)
  
  03-13 13:39:23.601: I/ActivityManager(73): Starting activity: Intent { cmp=com.examples.notifications/.TransparentActivity } 
  
  
  03-13 13:39:23.981: I/ActivityManager(73): Displayed activity com.examples.notifications/.TransparentActivity: 368 ms (total 368 ms)
  
  
  03-13 13:39:29.141: D/dalvikvm(150): GC_EXPLICIT freed 1355 objects / 84488 bytes in 116ms  
  
  
  03-13 13:39:30.834: D/home(317): navigating to home  
  
  
  03-13 13:39:30.851: I/ActivityManager(73): Starting activity: Intent { act=android.intent.action.MAIN cat=[android.intent.category.HOME] flg=0x10000000 cmp=com.android.launcher/com.android.launcher2.Launcher }
  
  
  03-13 13:39:30.941: W/InputManagerService(73): Ignoring hideSoftInput of:   com.android.internal.view.IInputMethodClient$Stub$Proxy@451106e0
  
  
  03-13 13:39:36.612: D/dalvikvm(317): GC_EXPLICIT freed 1704 objects / 109584 bytes in 108ms
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>For 4.0 ICS</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>03-13 13:43:02.343: I/ActivityManager(78): START {act=android.intent.action.MAIN cat=[android.intent.category.LAUNCHER] flg=0x10200000 cmp=com.examples.notifications/.NotificationsActivity} from pid 188
  
  
  03-13 13:43:02.343: W/WindowManager(78): Failure taking screenshot for (120x180) to layer 21010
  
  
  03-13 13:43:02.393: W/NetworkManagementSocketTagger(78): setKernelCountSet(10040, 1) failed with errno -2
  
  
  03-13 13:43:03.333: I/ActivityManager(78): Displayed com.examples.notifications/.NotificationsActivity: +946ms
  
  
  03-13 13:43:03.602: W/InputManagerService(78): Starting input on non-focused client com.android.internal.view.IInputMethodClient$Stub$Proxy@411d4098 (uid=10009 pid=188)
  
  
  03-13 14:13:21.872: I/ActivityManager(78): START {cmp=com.examples.notifications/.TransparentActivity} from pid 557
  
  
  03-13 14:13:21.872: W/WindowManager(78): Failure taking screenshot for (120x180) to layer 21015
  
  
  03-13 14:13:22.012: V/PhoneStatusBar(143): setLightsOn(true)
  
  
  03-13 14:13:22.502: D/dalvikvm(78): GC_CONCURRENT freed 499K, 11% free 8764K/9799K, paused 5ms+10ms
  
  
  03-13 14:13:22.545: W/ThrottleService(78): unable to find stats for iface rmnet0
  
  
  03-13 14:13:22.692: I/ActivityManager(78): Displayed com.examples.notifications/.TransparentActivity: +703ms
  
  
  03-13 14:13:24.802: D/dalvikvm(143): GC_CONCURRENT freed 420K, 19% free 7121K/8775K, paused 15ms+7ms
  
  
  03-13 14:13:25.812: W/WindowManager(78): Failure taking screenshot for (120x180) to layer 21025
  
  
  03-13 14:13:26.192: V/PhoneStatusBar(143): setLightsOn(true)
  
  
  03-13 14:13:26.361: W/ActivityManager(78): Activity pause timeout for ActivityRecord{4124ffb0 com.examples.notifications/.TransparentActivity}
  
  
  03-13 14:13:26.373: W/NetworkManagementSocketTagger(78): setKernelCountSet(1000, 1) failed with errno -2
  
  
  03-13 14:13:28.825: D/home(557): navigating to home
  
  
  03-13 14:13:28.833: I/ActivityManager(78): START {act=android.intent.action.MAIN cat=[android.intent.category.HOME] flg=0x400000 cmp=com.android.launcher/com.android.launcher2.Launcher} from pid 557
  
  
  03-13 14:13:28.864: W/NetworkManagementSocketTagger(78): setKernelCountSet(10040, 0) failed with errno -2
  </code></pre>