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.
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!
I have had this happen twice now on two different roms over the last few weeks. Phone will not come out of sleep and I have to yank the battery. When it reboots, it acts as a fresh install and apps are gone, no shortcuts to anything. Does not see my google account so all contacts and texts are gone. Everything is there on the SD card when I take a look at it.
Any idea what is going on?
Possibly corrupted NAND, bad wipe or partitions?
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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?
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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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
Moved a few apps to the SD card and am having icon issues with the apps on the SD card. Sometimes they show up like they are supposed to, but, more often than not I get a generic grayed out icon of an SD card. Still shows the right name of the app and apps seem to operate fine, just annoying and looks bad. Anyone else experience this? I'm running 100% stock.
Thanks
telcodave said:
Moved a few apps to the SD card and am having icon issues with the apps on the SD card. Sometimes they show up like they are supposed to, but, more often than not I get a generic grayed out icon of an SD card. Still shows the right name of the app and apps seem to operate fine, just annoying and looks bad. Anyone else experience this? I'm running 100% stock.
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Yes I have that issue too. At first it just stayed like that indefinitely, but lately all the icons re-appear within a minute or so after booting up my Note. Not sure what happenned to cause the icons to now re-appear after a short wait. Anyone else have this problem, or better yet, an explanation or fix? I'm on CivZ 3.4 rom with his 2.0 kernel.
This is happening to me too every now and then. Random times to random apps that are on the sd card
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Anyone have answers yet?
same here.
i found this issue this morning, i was shock all of my shortcut not able to work and the icon is Grey.
but, after a few minutes it back to normal again, but when i tried reboot..it'll happen again and you must wait a few minutes until the icon back (for the function, i found LINE and Line I Love Coffee didn't work first time after ON or Reboot, not trying another program)
what about change the launcher? it'll fix the issue?
I just deleted the icons from the home page and brought it back onto the home screen.
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I just deleted the icons from the home page and brought it back onto the home screen.
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Had the same problem a ways back on my S4 and this is how I fixed it. Annoying but it worked.
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sefrcoko said:
Yes I have that issue too. At first it just stayed like that indefinitely, but lately all the icons re-appear within a minute or so after booting up my Note. Not sure what happenned to cause the icons to now re-appear after a short wait. Anyone else have this problem, or better yet, an explanation or fix? I'm on CivZ 3.4 rom with his 2.0 kernel.
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ok not sure if this helps but here goes... I have this issue too, but all the grey icons re-appear as normal within 2 minutes after a reboot. When CivZ releases a new rom version I download and install it. When I boot with the new rom the icons are grey but DO NOT re-appear, ever.
I also have Foldermount installed by the way. After upgrading the rom from recovery and then booting, the first time I open Foldermount I get an error message about a faulty module. When Foldermount offers to fix it for me I click "yes" and reboot. Now the icons are still grey but DO re-appear within 2 minutes after each reboot.
Seen this behaviour consistently over the last few rom updates. For those whose grey icons always stay grey and never re-appear, it might be worth a shot to install Foldermount from the play store and run it. See if you get a message about a faulty module and if so, have the app fix it, then reboot and see if your icons re-appear after a few minutes. I might be way off here but maybe it will help us get closer to a real solution. If you try this please report your findings. Also, remember to make a nandroid backup first, just in case .
sefrcoko said:
ok not sure if this helps but here goes... I have this issue too, but all the grey icons re-appear as normal within 2 minutes after a reboot. When CivZ releases a new rom version I download and install it. When I boot with the new rom the icons are grey but DO NOT re-appear, ever.
I also have Foldermount installed by the way. After upgrading the rom from recovery and then booting, the first time I open Foldermount I get an error message about a faulty module. When Foldermount offers to fix it for me I click "yes" and reboot. Now the icons are still grey but DO re-appear within 2 minutes after each reboot.
Seen this behaviour consistently over the last few rom updates. For those whose grey icons always stay grey and never re-appear, it might be worth a shot to install Foldermount from the play store and run it. See if you get a message about a faulty module and if so, have the app fix it, then reboot and see if your icons re-appear after a few minutes. I might be way off here but maybe it will help us get closer to a real solution. If you try this please report your findings. Also, remember to make a nandroid backup first, just in case .
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I'm having the exact same issue on my Galaxy S4 on the apps I moved to SD. Some appear normal and others are grey. I can still access all of them. Very annoying. On 4.2, the SD card would take a min to load and the apps would appear as normal. On 4.3 not all reappear.
Android Apps Grayed Out When Moved To SD Card
telcodave said:
Moved a few apps to the SD card and am having icon issues with the apps on the SD card. Sometimes they show up like they are supposed to, but, more often than not I get a generic grayed out icon of an SD card. Still shows the right name of the app and apps seem to operate fine, just annoying and looks bad. Anyone else experience this? I'm running 100% stock.
Thanks
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:MAD:
I migrated from a DROID to a Note II just now to a Note 3 - So, I have run all of the Android Releases from Frodo to Jelly Bean and have KitKat on my tablet. My Note II and my Note 3 both have the same Jelly Bean 4.3 and are both waiting for Verizon to upgrade to KitKat 4.4.2
I never had any problems running my Apps on the SD Card on the Note II, Jelly Bean 4.3
The Note 3 changes my Icons to Grayed Out SD Icons. The programs work perfectly on the SD Card. To get my Icons back, I had to move the App back to the device, uninstall it and then reinstall it. (Yes, I did try moving a program back to the SD and get the same grayed out result. Moved back, un-installed, installed.)
This is obviously a common bug that has recently been introduced. My solution? Avoid SD at all cost until Android sorts this out.
Since my Note 3 has 32GB on Device, I was moving Apps to SD out of habit from the old device days. Hopefully there will be a fix for this before I run out of Device Memory.
Isaac.5708 said:
:MAD:
I migrated from a DROID to a Note II just now to a Note 3 - So, I have run all of the Android Releases from Frodo to Jelly Bean and have KitKat on my tablet. My Note II and my Note 3 both have the same Jelly Bean 4.3 and are both waiting for Verizon to upgrade to KitKat 4.4.2
I never had any problems running my Apps on the SD Card on the Note II, Jelly Bean 4.3
The Note 3 changes my Icons to Grayed Out SD Icons. The programs work perfectly on the SD Card. To get my Icons back, I had to move the App back to the device, uninstall it and then reinstall it. (Yes, I did try moving a program back to the SD and get the same grayed out result. Moved back, un-installed, installed.)
This is obviously a common bug that has recently been introduced. My solution? Avoid SD at all cost until Android sorts this out.
Since my Note 3 has 32GB on Device, I was moving Apps to SD out of habit from the old device days. Hopefully there will be a fix for this before I run out of Device Memory.
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You don't have to reinstall.
Remove from the screen and put it back if from Apps - that should do it.
Greyed Out Icon Fix Works Perfectly
Shofar1 said:
You don't have to reinstall.
Remove from the screen and put it back if from Apps - that should do it.
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Thanks! The work around is annoying, but I only have to do it once for each migrated App.
I can live with that.
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The problem is from using a slow SD card, and quickly going from lock screen after reboot.
I have a 633x SD card, and only found one app that does not like being moved to SD, and it was a paid game.
gooberdude said:
The problem is from using a slow SD card, and quickly going from lock screen after reboot.
I have a 633x SD card, and only found one app that does not like being moved to SD, and it was a paid game.
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I've had a couple that seemed to respond badly to being moved to my SD Card. Put them back and all is well.
This happened on my original Samsung Note. Applications on the SD card would show generic grey icons for a few minutes after a reboot. I found that it also did this when I unmounted the SD card and then mounted it again. I attributed this to perhaps the OS taking a bit of time to read the files on the SD card. I found that the larger the card, the longer the icons stayed grey.
Note 8 app not showing the proper icon when moved to SD card
telcodave said:
Moved a few apps to the SD card and am having icon issues with the apps on the SD card. Sometimes they show up like they are supposed to, but, more often than not I get a generic grayed out icon of an SD card. Still shows the right name of the app and apps seem to operate fine, just annoying and looks bad. Anyone else experience this? I'm running 100% stock.
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The problem of Apps not showing proper icons, when moved to SD card can be solved as follows:
I have a Note 8 with a Samsung 256 GB SD Card.
When I move eligible apps to the SD card, the icons show up as greyed out, with the annotation "SD".
Eligible Apps are those that, when using the App: "Move Apps" and selecting "MOVABLE", do NOT move the ones that show the warning that the app listens to the "boot completed" event, in which case it is adviseable to keep it in the phone memory. All other moveable apps can be moved.
To get the proper icon display again proceed as follows:
1. Go to Settings/Device maintenance/Storage
2. Click on the "3 dots" at the upper right of the screen
3. Select: Storage settings
4. Select "SD card", then click on "UNMOUNT"
5. Wait a few minutes until the SD card is unmounted. A message will show it to be finished.
6. When the SD card is unmounted: Select and click on: "Mount SD card" and wait a small time.
7. When the SD card is mounted again, all the apps should show up again in the app dra
wer(s), with their proper icons.
8. Copy missing icons on the Home screen from the corresponding app icons in the app drawer.
9. If it does not work properly, repeat steps: 1 through 8.
Good luck, for me this worked fine every time.....
Peter