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?
therac said:
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
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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.
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.
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
Adam3Sixty said:
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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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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
Hi, im running AndroidNow 6.1 and since i installed ot for the first time(version 3.2) my launcher crushes every once n awhile.
It happens with stock,google,nova or any other launcher - i prefer stock.
What happens really is, when i press home/back to exit an app to the homescreen,there pops the recent apps screen(with no open apps visible)and when i press home again to exit this screen , i see blank home page and then the icons refresh and everything reload. Latet when i open the app drawer i experience a little lag that the icons are reloaded also.
What seems to be the problem? Im rooted and ive got clean master but i dont think its related.
Please help me, thanks.
Am i the only one who experience this?
Happened to me few times. You are using 3rd party launcher?
Ps. You dont need clean master
i use the stock one,but it happned with all . why shouldn't i use it?
Tell me why you should?
This devices does not need that. It does more harm then use.
I love the feature that it prevents apps from starting on boot up.
Do you know how to solve my problem with the launcher crash?
I have the exact same problem.
This happened with the stock ROM and any launcher I tried.
Then I flashed a custom ROM (based on stock though), progressively reinstalled applications and after some time, the problem came again. Then, I progressively froze some applications with Titanium Backup, and now it happens much less than before (2-3 times a day against everytime I press "home").
My conclusion is that, even though that's a launcher crash we see, the fault probably comes from a background application. I'm still searching which one. Did you find something interesting since you opened the topic?
Have you installed hotmail app from play store?
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Have you installed hotmail app from play store?
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No
Any news on this one guys ?
It's happening to me too :crying: (Stock + root)
szafran81 said:
Any news on this one guys ?
It's happening to me too :crying: (Stock + root)
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What I did recently was to :
- Disable the application "LIA Informant"
- Disable the application "LIA MrGDBLogger"
- Disable the application "LIA S4URecommender"
- Clear the cache (click on Settings > Storage > Data in cache)
The problem happened several times in a day before, but only occured a few times in weeks since I did this trick. The workaround was probably clearing the cache. But since the problem gradually came back after the last time I reinitialized the phone, I'm still afraid it comes back sooner or later.
I did clear cache a few times now - it always comes back.
Would be great if someone could find a fix for that, because it's very annoying.
The bad thing is that there is no send error report option. At least there would be a starting point with an error info etc.
Have you tried disabling the applications mentionned above?
I (almost) chose them randomly, but it really made a difference for me and the problem doesn't seem to come back.
Done that just now.
Will post back with the results in some time.
Do you maybe know what those apps do ? (I like to know what I'm turning off in case of any other problems)
GDB (in the Unix world) is a debugger. I have no reason to think that this GDB is the same though, I just guessed the problem should come from a system application and this one may be one.
Turning off those apps made no difference.
Was thinking that it may be one of the widgets on the home screen.
Later today, or maybe tomorrow I'll make a list of what I'm using and post it here - maybe this way we'll get whats causing this.
The only widgets I have now are Zooper Widget and Shuttle+.
But honestly, since the problem makes any launcher crash (and I think any application left in foreground when the screen turns off), I believe the root of the problem a system app/optimization, and likely one from LG since not many people seem to complain.
I hope 5.1.1 will come soon to the G3.
Any news on any update ? (not necessarily to 5.1.1)
Udated to 20p yesterday - clean update (just to be sure I've wiped 3 times - 1 before and 2 after the update).
Had a couple of hours of peace, and then it started again.
szafran81 said:
Udated to 20p yesterday - clean update (just to be sure I've wiped 3 times - 1 before and 2 after the update).
Had a couple of hours of peace, and then it started again.
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I updated to CM 12.1 two weeks ago and never encountered this problem since then.