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Froyo App2SD which applications can moved to SD card

I installed [ROM-FroYo] DeFroST 0.5 Desire
Most apps I've installed are gone after reboot if stored on the SD card. Can anyone can tell me which applications would work if stored on SD card.
I even tried some games but only works if they on the phone memory.

If you are using launcher pro then there is a bug. I don't know if it with the launcher or ROM but it happens to me and a couple of other people I have read. If you restart your phone then just force close launcherpro, press home button and when it restarts it will see all your apps. I am guessing it is something to do with it loading before the SD card has initialised so it doesn't pick them up. Small price to pay for a great from and a blazing fast launcher though IMO!
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despite the apps going missing from the app drawer in Launcher Pro, it's still possible to add shortcuts to the 'missing' apps on your homescreens

only if you use usb storage they dissapear and dont reappear... go into advanced task killer and kill launcher pro ... press home and all will be fixed

Thnx for info just force close launcher pro and they all back. Also, when you install widgets if they go to sd first then move them to phone and restart the phone only then you can see them.

Hey guys,
no need to 'kill' LauncherPro. Just go to manage apps and clear the defaults for the app. Then press your home button, and reapply the default choice to use LauncherPro. That fixed it for me

[Q] CM7 and widgets

I just installed CM7 due to some random reboots/freezes with Evervolv (that I attribute to kernel issues since I flashed a new one...nevermind that part right now)
Anyway, I'm having a problem with some widgets. My SetCPU widget works fine, but some aren't - my Juice Plotter widget isn't available to select, nor is my SimiClock widget. I've verified that they are both installed, but they just don't show up when I go to add widgets. Any suggestions?
I use Launcher Pro as my app launcher with two rows of dock buttons that lets me access all my vital apps. On my home screen I like to run the SimiClock widget since it gives me a clock, weather, and battery percent. Below that, I have the SetCPU widget just to keep an eye on frequencies and temp (but I use CM to set the frequencies...) next to that, I run juice plotter to see how much battery I have left - it's a very zen type layout for me, and not having this is screwing with me...

Go to settings>application>manage apps and click on the downloaded tab. From there scroll down to each app you want to have a widget for and make sure they are not installed to the sdcard. If they are move them to the phone. No app widgets will work if the app is installed to the sdcard. After you move the apps to the phone, you may need to reboot to get them to show up in the LP widgets.

housry23 said:
Go to settings>application>manage apps and click on the downloaded tab. From there scroll down to each app you want to have a widget for and make sure they are not installed to the sdcard. If they are move them to the phone. No app widgets will work if the app is installed to the sdcard. After you move the apps to the phone, you may need to reboot to get them to show up in the LP widgets.
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Thank you so much - that was exactly it! Got my beautiful home screen back now

Just something to keep in mind if you continue having issues with launcherpro and cm7..I basically had to dump launcherpro while running cm7. Launcherpro was my first non-stock launcher and it was what I was happy and familiar with...but once I moved to cm7 it became a nightmare. Constant lockups and forcecloses, my homescreens would lag up..
Now, I know full well it could just be a problem more with my phone and the way I use it than a cm7 or LP issue, but it was a consistent issue that came back any time I tried to move back to LP and went away whenever I moved to another launcher (using GOlauncher now).

If you want to store apps on the sd with functional widgets and all, you'll need to go the ext3 route. Look for the darktremor a2sd thread on here. You'll also need to repartition your sd to create this ext3 partition, so make sure to backup your sd first.

why are ICS launchers painfully slow?

I often get the circling arrow type of refresh notification when trying to open the drawer in launchers like Apex and Nova. I have the latest radio and set my build.prop to keep launcher in memory. I have almost 200 apps. Is there any way to make ameliorate the problem? It "refreshes" way too often and takes way too much time. I've been using Smart Task Bar and even when installing new apps, as far as I can recall, it has never made me wait to show all apps. What do you guys think is the problem here? Would moving apps to SD help? I vaguely recall it makes the startup slower.

You cannot lock the home launcher process in memory via the build.prop like you can with GB in ICS.
Second, I feel like Smart Taskbar is hijacking the launcher process and as such your home launcher is not getting the appropriate priority it needs to stay in memory. Every time you see the app reloading animation that means your launcher has been killed and has reloaded.
You should try V6 Supercharger to reprioritize your home launcher and unfortunately, uninstall Smart Taskbar since if it's using the launcher priority you will always have to deal with a reloading launcher since it'll be killed very often.
On a different device (and possibly Android version) I'm sure Smart Taskbar would be great, but if it's sitting behind all your tasks, all the time, it's using up memory, which is why your launcher keeps getting killed.
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Apex launcher has been fine for me, and I'm at around 160 apps now.
"Move to SD" moves the app to the FAT32 portion of the SD card, which would be much slower overall. I'm using SD-ext which still shows as installed to internal, but all the apps are on an sd-ext partition of the SD card (moving to SD would be pointless from there as it's already on the SD just on a faster/leaner ext4 partition). Besides some applications simply do not like being stored/run from a FAT32 partition.

Thanks for the replies. Although when flashing andromo I picked to have supercharger installed, following your advice, I chose to reinstall via directions from the supercharger thread with script manager and the .sh file. Works better now with less refreshing of launcher. Added bonus, global touch responsiveness significantly improved.
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[Q] Problem with widget restart after exiting app.

Hi.
just got a new LG g3, ( auro 2Gb version).
and mostly it`s working really good. But comming from a old Note 2, i`m a little dissapointed in how "laggy" it is in some parts..
When i get the different apps up and running it`s seamless, and launching them is about the same speed as the old note 2.
Screen responce is also good,
But the problem is when exiting a app ( facebook,game,sms or any other app that stays open for more than 2 min. )
It seems like it is closing the "background" apps like widgets and the launcher in general, so when i exit, the launcher is empty for about 2-5 sec ( it acts just as when you restart your phone, it just takes a few sec for all apps\widgets to start)
this only happens if i`m using a app for a few min, if i just go into one and exit within a shirt time it acts normal. ( with my note 2, if i pressed the home butten, it was back into the launcher within 1 sec with the launcher screen fully populated. )
Is this something others are seeing to? I might not be used to the phone yet, but my old note 2 seems more "seamless" in user interface...= better software. )

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seeing it's the 2gb version it's mostly because of your other apps that run in the background and take up RAM, so the launcher has to be shut down everytime whenever the system feels like there isn't enough free RAM and decides to free some. afterwards (when you return to the homescreen) it restarts itself and it may take some time like a full restart as you mentioned because let's face it, it's not a fast launcher. the launcher is kind of a hog in my opinion. both RAM-wise and speedwise. I find that most of the people who are complaining about sluggishness use stock launcher. try using nova launcher (you can adjust it to shut off the screen on double tap with a small app called screen off and lock), it's much snappier and offers lots of extra customization options (like faster and/or different transition animations, different icon/homescreen row and column counts, label/icon changing, app hiding etc.), on top of it all it uses only about 1/3-4 amount of RAM compared to the stock launcher while allowing you to customize bunch of stuff. you can find also same-looking widgets if you use something like zooper widget, and get a g3 icon pack (there's a huge and good one in the playstore already) if you like the original looks like I do, but without all the lag and waiting.

[Root][question]force keep apps in memory

Hi! I have an lg d850 running fulmics Rom 6.9 and sometimes when I go to the stock "home and app drawer" launcher, the status bar and nav bar turn white and the rest of the screen turns black. I believe this to be because android might be closing it because of low memory(which is weird because I rarely run into low memory situations as I have the 3gb ram model) is there any way to stop android from closing apps? Any help is appreciated. And sorry if I'm in the wrong category.