does anyone else have same issue and how do I fix it. tried doing a cache wipe and deleting folder and reinstalling it. it's the folder on the dock.
I tried switching location of the folder on the doc, but it still does it. it's driving me crazy. I really don't want to do reboot. I have another folder with contacts in the Dock and it's fine.
so i bought a new phone from google since something happened to my last phone. thought i would not have to deal with this any more since it's a brand new phone. nope. new phone, same problem. it has to be a software bug. am i the only one that has an app folder in the doc and that's having this. this is a second phone now with a clean software.
i'm also suspecting that this happens when one of the apps in the folder does auto update. i've already turned it off for the downloaded apps, but can't for the some of the stock apps. after i did this, it still re-arranged. i'm going to try to take out one app at a time to see if i can narrow it down. this is so f'n annoying.
I also have this exact problem. I have no idea why it happens but it is annoying. Hope someone will find a fix for this.
Phone model: ICS 4.0.4 IMM76I
i've figured out what's causing it. basically, i set up one folder with all the apps already in the order that i want and one where i just put the same apps in it and then arranged it. so the folder that was arranged from the beginning by the order of apps added stays the same. the folder that i moved apps around, keeps re-arranging. the same thing happened with the direct dial folder as soon as i removed one person and then re-added it. just that one icon keeps re-arranging. so basically, i set up a new folder by adding the apps in the exact order that i want them in and then added it to the doc. the folder stays as is. the folder that i re-arranged icons, both in doc and in home screen keeps changing. it's still stupid that i have to go through this much trouble, but at least it doesn't shift any more.
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hey,
so my girlfriend has a droid incredible, not rooted, and many times when she switches to her bak up battery AND BACK, her apps delete. many times she has to re-download her apps and they're not even listed under her apps in the market. she turns off the phone before ripping the battery out and changing it, but she still has the issue. the battery is supposedly OEM, and purchased off eBay. its black considering its an evo battery and it reads HTC innovation on the battery. in any case, as i mentioned before, it happens when she switches back to her regular battery as well. in addition the widgets read "problem loading gadget". (obviously because the app has deleted)
anyone have any solutions to solving this or why this might e happening. to my understanding these batteries should yield no problems. also, this is not the first time this has happened it has happened alot. perhaps if there is no direct solution, maybe i can find an app to make sure none of my apps get deleted during the transfer process? let me know,
thanks
if anyone can help i also have minor issue on my dinc with the generic batteries i ordered from ebay that when i plug it in, the battery has an exclamation point. anyway to get rid of this? its not too annoying because i use mini info widget anyway, but id rather have it solved.
thanks again
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If they're on the SD card it'll often take a few minutes for it to load up.
The problem looks like it's from the SD card, maybe it's having some issues or maybe she's accidentally knocking it out of place when she switches batteries.
POQbum said:
If they're on the SD card it'll often take a few minutes for it to load up.
The problem looks like it's from the SD card, maybe it's having some issues or maybe she's accidentally knocking it out of place when she switches batteries.
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the problem seems to be deeper than that. shes definitely not knocking out the sd card cuz its always stable. besides this is a problem for every app thats not stock. she doesnt have ALL apps2sd anyway.
if it helps.. some apps stay some apps go, but for the ones that stay, they force close. ie. hopstop wasnt deleted but FC. in addition she would re download twitter and that would FC. to confuse you even more shazam was not deleted or reinstalled but still works (all data was deleted tho)
Sounds weird. I know this is a long shot that you will actually try it, but it sounds like it'd be a good idea to reinstall that phone.
It's been known that there are a couple of mallicous apps (now removed from the market) but it's *possible* she may have downloaded one of them and that is causing a lot of the issues. It may just be some weird data corruption in important system files, it's hard to tell with just what you're telling me but as long as she doesn't mind it- reinstalling with a fresh ROM and kernel would be a good start and likely will fix the problem.
Apps can still be backed up via titanium backup, and there's apps for backing up messages and you can sync contacts to either verizon or your google account.
Just a thought.
I'm wondering if there is a known best way to swap out a bigger sdcard. I just used tar to back everything up on the old one and to put it all on the new one. That caused some weird issues though.
Car mode likes to pop up all the time randomly now
All my ringtones and alert tones changed to random music tracks
Most, but not all, of the apps that were on the card do not show in ADW
All my widgets are gone
My home screens are all "different", missing shortcuts and showing new ones.
This seemed like a fairly straightforward process, but the phone thinks otherwise. Any suggestions? Mostly for next time, since I've mostly gotten everything back to normal, although the last time I restored a nandroid backup, all my ringtones changed. Strangely, they changed to the same ones as before, so maybe it wasn't random.
Edit: I'm running CM7 if that makes any difference.
Well all you needed to do was just copy and paste them into folder on the pc. As for some of the widgets, music files, that's normal cuz the location may have changed. In the titanium backup settings, you make have to move applications back to the external/internal memory where you had it before, so it knows 'where' it is. As for the home screen, try going into the settings and do a restore, though it can't restore widgets, so you'll have to add them again anyway.
After some reboots, I noticed that my apps in the app drawer keep messing up.
Not sure what's the caused, and get fedup of having to rearrange it often.
Any idea?
yer i had that issue for the first 1 and 1/2 weeks of use but i found that after installing a few more apps then it shipped with it stopped after about 9 apps
I think some people have said that having the apps moved to the SD card can make the ordering mess up, since they're loaded later than internal apps
It's really irritating, as it seems to occur randomly
I had this problem too, and the easiest way to fix the problem is just set the order to most used, and not "own order" that way u can get to the app's u use most often on the first screen and they don't move around.
It got so bad with mine moving around that at one point I had about 10 screens, some with no or 1 app on each, setting it to "most used" solved it and I haven't had a problem since.
Hope this helps
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I had this problem too, and the easiest way to fix the problem is just set the order to most used, and not "own order" that way u can get to the app's u use most often on the first screen and they don't move around.
It got so bad with mine moving around that at one point I had about 10 screens, some with no or 1 app on each, setting it to "most used" solved it and I haven't had a problem since.
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just to add, if you use another home launcher besides the stock one, this disarrangement or whatever you call it, happens most of the time. So I prefer to use the stock SE home launcher and sort it by "most recently used" as well.
I've noticed that sometimes opening the app tray/drawer before everything's loaded from the sd card (in case of apps moved to sd) can cause their icons to not show in the 'remembered' location and will appear on the last page instead. Solutions is to just give it a little time to fully load everything after a boot.
Edit: also seems to happen if the sd card is connected to the pc in msc mode, i.e. inaccessible and unmounted from the system.
I don't know what happened but I just noticed that my Chrome browser button has changed to an Android figure. Any idea what caused this? I would post a picture but I haven't posted here enough to do so yet.
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That normally means it isn't installed anymore but there is still an existing shortcut to it. Does it still work?
Under the apps menu it showed correctly, so I just replaced my shortcut and all was back to normal.
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That normally means it isn't installed anymore but there is still an existing shortcut to it. Does it still work?
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Yup, or simply a broken short cut. Replace it and you'll be fine.
Or you can have a panic attack and tell Google about it
Sometimes it means the package name changed after a particular update in the Play Store. Some launchers don't keep track of package name changes very well, so an update that changes the package name could cause the icon to vanish from the home screen.
Ok thanks. It works fine, just the icon changed all of a sudden. I thought maybe I had done something to change it and wanted to try and replicate it. I like the icon so I'll leave it be until it stops working.
LOL, and no, I'm not panicing in the slightest. If it wasn't working I'd just uninstall and then reinstall.
Thanks,
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Something similar happened to Maps a few months ago. I think they changed the package name, and it caused my Maps shortcut to vanish from Nova Launcher on both my phone and tablet.
this actually happened to me yesterday as well. i laughed. the droid is cool. but still, wtf?
Just got a Tab S 10.5 LTE the last week, and it's already the third time I'm going to factory reset, because this happens.
At a seemingly random point, widgets like Google search and AquaMail stop working (Tap here to restore, which won't work) and disappear from the widgets list. However rather than having 2 widgets under Google search, I now have one entry (Google Now). Same with AquaMail, only the 4x3 widget disappears, while the 1x1 one is still in the widgets list.
Rebooting won't help, either.
And that's the only thing I could notice anyway, god knows what else has gone missing. It's really frustrating.
I haven't messed around much, more than freezing a few proper bloatware crap, and installing xposed AdAway for Youtube. I'm sure if those are the culprits I'd be able to find similar issues googling, but nope.
Could it be caused by the new Nova version? But doubt so too, since I haven't seen any complaints about this.
It's really driving me crazy.
update: I read somewhere that it could be caused by some wrong permissions managing, and to use the Fix Permissions feature in TWRP. And so I did, and boy did it break the tablet lol. It's completely messed up, won't even let me delete a random file of mine. Yet another factory reset here I go