My girlfriend's stock DInc is making apps disappear and reappear. We've done a "hard reset" by pulling the battery. Nothing has helped. And now, some of her apps have randomly been moved to the sdcard showing a silver/gray icon that says SD on it. What can we do to fix this?
Try moving everything back to phone from SD. Problem shouldn't persist. Reboot to confirm. May have to put widgets back. Then move only the largest apps on SD, reboot, set up widgets if needed.
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The apps weren't their normal names and the only option it gave us was to uninstall. The names came up as "com.***.***.***" She found out what apps they were and reinstalled them, then deleting the one off the sdcard. We have one called "com.Google.zxing.client.android" and we don't know what it does. Lol.
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I noticed a strange behavoir. every reboot results in deleting my angry bird shortcut from the desk. But the app ist still there in the apps list (menue) and can dropped again in the desk. It lasts here until the next reboot. This seems to be also happen for a game called "Scooter" or so. even after Kernel patch K7-200 and full wipe this still happens. also reinstall angry birds did not help. At the moment I run JFS lagfix and all tweaks without "misc" on, but think this happened before too.
any ideas?
Was happening to me too. I think because it installs itself to the sd card. Lately the whole program doesn't go just the icon and Im left with the monitor and cog image.
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Any apps that's installed on SD Card won't stay as shortcut in homescreen after reboot. So need to Move App to Phone.
Settings->Applications->Manage Applications->"On SD Card" tab
select your app... then "Move to Phone" button.
yes it was installed on the SD card. moved it to internal MEM and the icon did not disapear after reboot.
Thanks a lot for the hint
Seems rather stupid to me, most people will just use the one SD card so why code that? I think this needs to be addressed pronto
Maybe I'm using the wrong term, "icon", but I've attached a picture of my screen that shows my problem/question. Why do the real icons go away and the default android icons show up? Anything I can do to fix this?
That will happen if your apps are in your sd card, and the card is unmounted from the phone. Or it can happen if your phone is low on memory and kills Sense/whatever homescreen you are using.
Well, the apps are on the sd card for the most part, but perhaps the problem is the "unmounted" issue. Guess I better do some research on that.
I'm using the V6 turbocharger so I don't think it's a low memory deal.
I'm using the SNS gingerbread ROM, but this problem was apparent from day one with the stock rom, too.
I run into the same thing after rebooting the phone from time to time,for some reason it justdoesnt like having some apps on the sd card.
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Same here, using EvoledRoms. The only "icon" after reboot that changes to that would be the xda app. Out of all of my other apps this is the only one that happens.
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If you kill the launcher, the app icons should come back when the launcher reloads. The launcher is up and running before the SD card is fully mounted and readable when you boot the phone. This is the same reason why widgets can't be stored on the SD card.
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Looks like those apps are in a folder. This has been an issue since the Gingerbread update for the Evo. The fix is, after each time you reboot, go to menu/scenes and pick a different scene (doesn't matter which one, as long as it is not the current one you are using). If it asks you to save the current scene, do so. Then, after it finishes loading go to menu/scenes again, and pick your current scene, or the one you just saved. When it finishes loading your app icons in your folder will be back to normal.
Sucks to have to do this every time you reboot, if they ever release another update, I hope they fix this annoying problem, but I am not holding my breath.
Not sure what my phone was doing when this happened tonight but at some point it froze (does that from time to time), I went to turn it on again and for some reason it was taking longer than usual. When the phone finally booted up, my current launcher (Go Launcher EX) was filled with mostly widgets that said app not installed and popups for a dozen or so of FC's. After a little digging, it turns out that the apps on my SD card no longer appear on the phone when I go to the Applications section in the settings. Is there anyway I can see if the apps are on the SD card when I connect my phone to my computer, or through another method to verify that they are there? Has anyone else experienced this issue? Is there another solution to this?
Thank you in advance.
Is it every single app that was on your sd?
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Just about. Seems like any app that I try to open that I've downloaded are force closing instantly. Even market does the same. I'm thinking possibly a corrupted file on the phone. I know that my last chance is to do a complete wipe and reset. Which in that case if I have to, I might as well install a rom since I've been meaning to do so but have been putting off for a while. But before I do this, I'm trying to find the reason for this happening,
What rom are you on? I've had this issue on newt and Joel's Runnymede/Sensation XL 3.5 ports. Not sure what causes it, but the only way I know to avoid it is kind of unacceptable, simply don't put apps on the sdcard.
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phone is unrooted.
hmmmmmmmmmmmm
What about when you look for the app in the market, what does it say? Install/update/ open?
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the market doesn't even open, fc's every time. i ended up rooting the phone anyways, it gave me a reason to finally root. thanks everyone for your posts!
Hmm so he's a weird one .. some of my apps are missing names .. it's not the same ones, everytime i reboot, sometimes they're all fine .. then randomly i'll notice some of the names are missing .. anyone else with this? explanation/solution?
PS .. not an SD card thing, happens even if not plugged in ..
shogun168 said:
Hmm so he's a weird one .. some of my apps are missing names .. it's not the same ones, everytime i reboot, sometimes they're all fine .. then randomly i'll notice some of the names are missing .. anyone else with this? explanation/solution?
PS .. not an SD card thing, happens even if not plugged in ..
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This also happens to me sometimes, you can still access the apps but it's just annoying that it looks broken.. This only happens to my apps that I moved from the internal memory to my phone memory (I do this to save space on my 2GB internal memory - more space for messages and emails).
IMO, if you move an app, and you put it in the homescreen as a shortcut, the next time you boot, when the system rebuilds the apps' information, it does not include the apps that were moved to the SD card.
What I do is remove them then just add them back to the folders, I used to do this after a second reboot, usually a second reboot does restore everything, but now I'd rather fix 1 or 2 apps, than rebooting everytime to let the phone correct itself...
Patiktik said:
This also happens to me sometimes, you can still access the apps but it's just annoying that it looks broken.. This only happens to my apps that I moved from the internal memory to my phone memory (I do this to save space on my 2GB internal memory - more space for messages and emails).
IMO, if you move an app, and you put it in the homescreen as a shortcut, the next time you boot, when the system rebuilds the apps' information, it does not include the apps that were moved to the SD card.
What I do is remove them then just add them back to the folders, I used to do this after a second reboot, usually a second reboot does restore everything, but now I'd rather fix 1 or 2 apps, than rebooting everytime to let the phone correct itself...
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Hmmm an annoying oversight by HTC then...
It's not the worse thing in the world, just a minor nuisance.. Thanks for the tip anyways
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After the recent update to 4.2.2 OTA (reverted to stock Recovery, but still rooted), and Sense 5.4.23 i have a weird problem. I have set up 5 screens, and on each I have a number of folders, typically containing 4 or more app icons. These remain in place fine, however a number then disappear after a restart - probably c. 50%. Only thing I can think of is that as I had rather less than 1 GB out of 6, I moved some of the larger apps like angry birds to the phone memory, and it seems to be these that disappear, although i havent tested this rigorously. Switched to Nova launcher, and had the same behaviour. Very frustrating as takes a while to get a useful layout. Only a selection of the shortcuts disappear - the apps are still there. Tried a factory reset without wiping the data, which seems to have marginally improved wifi reliability (another problem) but still have the problem.
Anyone got any ideas - not sure where the data is kept for the layout, however restoring a titanium backup of HTC Sense does bring back an old layout, although it loses the half dozen or so widgets i use?
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After the recent update to 4.2.2 OTA (reverted to stock Recovery, but still rooted), and Sense 5.4.23 i have a weird problem. I have set up 5 screens, and on each I have a number of folders, typically containing 4 or more app icons. These remain in place fine, however a number then disappear after a restart - probably c. 50%. Only thing I can think of is that as I had rather less than 1 GB out of 6, I moved some of the larger apps like angry birds to the phone memory, and it seems to be these that disappear, although i havent tested this rigorously. Switched to Nova launcher, and had the same behaviour. Very frustrating as takes a while to get a useful layout. Only a selection of the shortcuts disappear - the apps are still there. Tried a factory reset without wiping the data, which seems to have marginally improved wifi reliability (another problem) but still have the problem.
Anyone got any ideas - not sure where the data is kept for the layout, however restoring a titanium backup of HTC Sense does bring back an old layout, although it loses the half dozen or so widgets i use?
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Use search. This is common and frequently asked!
If you move the app to SD, the icons vanish from user-created folders on reboot.
It's a général problems, one issue... waiting a fix for HTC
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Thanks to you both, i did search, atlength on google amd xda fwiw without unearthing anything. I guess i was thrown by the fact that my transformer tf300 didnt exhibit this behaviour...
I am also having problems with the icons disappearing from the home screens after restart since the OTA to 4.2.2 this week and mine are not in folders.
I have found that all the icons that disappear from the home screens are apps that I moved to phone storage (internal SD card) in the previous system.
In the 4.2.2 under settings -> apps -> downloaded if I click on an app there is no option to move it like there was in the previous system. So I cannot even move the apps back to make them stay on the home screen after a restart. The only fix is to uninstall them all and then reinstall them as that will move them back to the internal phone memory. But then I will run out of memory.
From reading other forums it looks like HTC may have removed the move option from 4.2.2 Jelly Bean because users were complaining about their widgets not working. Apparently we need to request it is put back in so I just tried calling Vodafone and when I told the tech rep my problem he hung up on me!
Would rooting the phone allow me to get the move working again and keep the icons on the home screens after a restart?
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I am also having problems with the icons disappearing from the home screens after restart since the OTA to 4.2.2 this week and mine are not in folders.
I have found that all the icons that disappear from the home screens are apps that I moved to phone storage (internal SD card) in the previous system.
In the 4.2.2 under settings -> apps -> downloaded if I click on an app there is no option to move it like there was in the previous system. So I cannot even move the apps back to make them stay on the home screen after a restart. The only fix is to uninstall them all and then reinstall them as that will move them back to the internal phone memory. But then I will run out of memory.
From reading other forums it looks like HTC may have removed the move option from 4.2.2 Jelly Bean because users were complaining about their widgets not working. Apparently we need to request it is put back in so I just tried calling Vodafone and when I told the tech rep my problem he hung up on me!
Would rooting the phone allow me to get the move working again and keep the icons on the home screens after a restart?
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Rooting will allow you to install Titanium Backup which will move any app and allow the uninstallation of bloatware garbage.
focusp said:
I am also having problems with the icons disappearing from the home screens after restart since the OTA to 4.2.2 this week and mine are not in folders.
I have found that all the icons that disappear from the home screens are apps that I moved to phone storage (internal SD card) in the previous system.
In the 4.2.2 under settings -> apps -> downloaded if I click on an app there is no option to move it like there was in the previous system. So I cannot even move the apps back to make them stay on the home screen after a restart. The only fix is to uninstall them all and then reinstall them as that will move them back to the internal phone memory. But then I will run out of memory.
From reading other forums it looks like HTC may have removed the move option from 4.2.2 Jelly Bean because users were complaining about their widgets not working. Apparently we need to request it is put back in so I just tried calling Vodafone and when I told the tech rep my problem he hung up on me!
Would rooting the phone allow me to get the move working again and keep the icons on the home screens after a restart?
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Moving OK, keep The icons after reboot.... NO
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I have spoken to HTC and they say the missing move feature is an issue they are investigating. They don't give any idea of what or when something will be done though.
In the meantime I have done a factory reset and put all the apps back on. Now to check if they stay there after a restart.
Yes they do stay there after a restart now they are not moved.
I am having problems with the Wi-fi too since the OTA update to 4.2.2.
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Someone new?
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I am also having this issue. I created 2 separate games folders, when i restarted my phone, they were all out of the folders. Also some of the app icons on my home screen disappeared. Happens every time i restart. Its really annoying because i am really enjoying the update.
Should this thread really be part of Sense 5 4.2.2 Disscussion at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2419485