Whenever I reboot the phone, all of my home page widgets are reset and I have to reload them. This is also happenning after I unount the phone after mounting it as a disk drive. What's also wierd is that some of my preferences, like launcherpro or swiftkey, have to be reset after rebooting or unmounting also. Swiftkey specifically is wierd, because I can't just hold a text box and change the imput settings, I have to relaod the app, and go through the process from scratch.
I've been loading a bunch of roms lately, and I originally thought it was a rom issue, but its happenning on any rom I load (and I always do a full wipe before loading a rom). Is there something on the sdcard that I should clear?
It's hugely frustrating - any help would be appreciated.
fachadick said:
Whenever I reboot the phone, all of my home page widgets are reset and I have to reload them. This is also happenning after I unount the phone after mounting it as a disk drive. What's also wierd is that some of my preferences, like launcherpro or swiftkey, have to be reset after rebooting or unmounting also. Swiftkey specifically is wierd, because I can't just hold a text box and change the imput settings, I have to relaod the app, and go through the process from scratch.
I've been loading a bunch of roms lately, and I originally thought it was a rom issue, but its happenning on any rom I load (and I always do a full wipe before loading a rom). Is there something on the sdcard that I should clear?
It's hugely frustrating - any help would be appreciated.
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anyone? Bueller?
Are you running FroYo with the widgets installed to the SDCard?
Move all the widgets to the phone off of the SD card for smoother performance and less hassle. You might benefit from a faster microSDHC card other than the Class 2 card that came with the phone. I am purchasing a 16GB Class 10 card for 90 dollars but a Class 6 card will be leaps and bounds faster than your Class 2 card.
Thanks guys - that was exactly it. I moved the problem widgets to the phone from the sdcard, set them all up again, rebooted, and everything was still there!
Thanks again!
Hi ,
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
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!
Hello, My brother recently got the Xperia Play, he has had a little problem with it, it has the latest stock Rom on it, nothing changed (yet) but when loading certain apps (Bruce Lee game is the worst, it has never worked) it crashes, saying the phone has crashed and has a loading bar which takes a while to load and reboot, anyone know the cause of this? thanks in advance.
That post is just vague enough that.... I got nothing.
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That post is just vague enough that.... I got nothing.
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well there isn't much else I can say, it crashes on certain apps, Not like a typical android crash were the phone resets, but it instead has a purple loading bar and purple flashing notification l.e.d and says not to turn the phone off while it saves.
Normally it just says phone has crashed, but this time said about needing 200mb free on SDCARD, but there is over 1gb spare on the SDcard
http://imageshack.us/a/img526/7770/imag0007mr.jpg
Freaky. Never come across anything like that, myself. I hope you get it figured out
Looks like an in-game error rather than a system one. While you may have enough space on the sd card, maybe some of the sectors are corrupted? if you have a spare sd card, try that and then you can at least determine if its the sd card. If it isn't then you know its either the game, system or device.
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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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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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 .
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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 .
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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.
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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.
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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.
Thanks
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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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.
Thanks
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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