not rooted, running latest Apex Launcher. had only five widgets.
had issue where one or two widgets would randomly disappear once i entered/exited the app drawer. that seemed to have stabilized. but now after rebooting, all my widgets have disappeared.
what gives? any suggestions?
I believe I read yesterday that Widgets getting deleted on reboot or when updating the app, is a KitKat bug.
Not sure there is much you can do, until a fix is made. (Perhaps 4.4.4).
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damn. that is a hugely unfortunate bug.
AM Radio said:
damn. that is a hugely unfortunate bug.
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Actually it may not be the issue, as it seems the bug I was referring to is only for TW.
"With the update to Android 4.4 KitKat, the default TouchWiz launcher introduced a major bug that has yet to be fixed: widgets belonging to paid apps get deleted every time those apps get updated."
Because you are using Apex, it shouldn't be the same bug. So perhaps it's just an Apex issue, you may wish to find the Apex thread and report the issue there.
thanks. have emailed dev.
addendum: not a KK bug.
just tried NOVA, and the widgets reappear after boot.
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I just got a Tab S 8.4 and the bug is still there.
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Widget Locker had been working flawlessly for me for several weeks, but all of a sudden I started having issues with it yesterday. I'm no longer able to add any widgets to my lock screen. I'm able to add custom sliders, applications and shortcuts. Whenever I try adding a widget nothing will happen for about 5 seconds and then the app will close and open itself up again. Can anyone suggest any possible fixes for this? I have already tried uninstalling the applications and re installing it as well as shutting down my phone.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated
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Widget Locker had been working flawlessly for me for several weeks, but all of a sudden I started having issues with it yesterday. I'm no longer able to add any widgets to my lock screen. I'm able to add custom sliders, applications and shortcuts. Whenever I try adding a widget nothing will happen for about 5 seconds and then the app will close and open itself up again. Can anyone suggest any possible fixes for this? I have already tried uninstalling the applications and re installing it as well as shutting down my phone.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated
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Works fine for me. Which rom are u running?
ak29 said:
Works fine for me. Which rom are u running?
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I'm running stock
undergrad said:
I'm running stock
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Only other thing I can think of is resetting your phone. Since you've already tried uninstalling and reinstalling widget locker. Are you using a third party launcher?
Just wanted to add that you aren't alone. I just installed Widgetlocker tonight and I have never been able to add a widget. I get the exact same behavior you describe. I accidentally deleted the LOCK widget and I am unable to add it back. I'm stock rooted.
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Only other thing I can think of is resetting your phone. Since you've already tried uninstalling and reinstalling widget locker. Are you using a third party launcher?
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I'm running Nova Launcher.
I have been making do without widget locker but I will eventually have to try resetting my phone
same here
Exactly the same! stock ROM but cant add a widget! Any help?
Anyone using Nova? Having issues with it?
I installed Nova started setting it up, seemingly no issues adding widgets, moving icons, applying theme etc until I try to use the "Messaging" app (Not Message+). Nova says "App isn't installed". I have no issues getting to it via home launcher and the Messaging app works fine. Haven't had any other issues. I cleared app cache and data, tried uninstalling/reinstalling and even did a factory reset since I've had the thing less than 24 hours all to no avail. Any ideas? Anyone else seeing anything similar?
edit: fwiw, it's the Verizon version.
2nd edit: A temporary workaround - To anyone still having this issue I created a workaround using tasker. I just made a task that was "open messaging app" and placed a widget in nova. I set the icon to be the stock messaging app icon and I don't know any different.
I had the same problem. I gave up and stuck with the stock Launcher. I even tried making an activity short cut in Nova and it still said app not installed.
VZW here too.
Same thing on my VZW G4 as well. I tried the Google Now Launcher and the messaging app loaded just fine. I switched back to stock though because the GNL icons were too big.
Very strange but glad to know I'm not alone. I'm using stock now as well, it's really not that bad, just not as customizable. Hopefully it's just a bug that's easily fixed.
Did you do any kinda of restore, works fine on Nova and Tmobile
having this issue as well. going to try to send a bug report to the devs that make nova.
on verizon g4.
Sent a message to nova people.... We will see.
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Sent a message to nova people.... We will see.
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So is Messages+ ok? just another messages app isn't?
I'm also having the same issue with third party launchers. I left a review on Nova. I don't like Verizon's messaging app. I prefer the stock SMS app.
Remove non-working messaging icon from desktop.
Drag the working messaging icon from the app drawer to the desktop.
Done :good:
Having same issue.
And app doesn't work from App drawer or replacing shortcut on home screen.
Nova does not recognize the LG Messaging app at all.
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Remove non-working messaging icon from desktop.
Drag the working messaging icon from the app drawer to the desktop.
Done :good:
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Doesn't work
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Doesn't work
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Odd, works fine here
Works fine for me too. I'm guessing you guys might be using a US carrier device? Verizon perhaps?
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Works fine for me too. I'm guessing you guys might be using a US carrier device? Verizon perhaps?
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Yessir!
same issue on VS986 with Next launcher, works fine on Go Launcher.
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having this issue as well. going to try to send a bug report to the devs that make nova.
on verizon g4.
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Any word back, Valkyrie? I'm wondering if they'll just say it's a vzw/LG issue.
Having the same problem on Action Launcher and I think I know what it is related to. I had an LG G3 and used the LG Backup app to backup my old phone and restore it to the G4 when I got it last week. Action Launcher had a shortcut on the desktop and in the drawer to the stock Messaging App on the G3, and so when restored, it is looking for that file rather than the new Messaging app on the G4. Of course the stock LG launcher is all new for the G4 and so its shortcuts were not restored from my old backup and so they still work. In fact, if I install a new launcher I've never used it works fine (I just installed Go Launcher and it works) because I'm not restoring data. However, both launchers I previously had on my G3 (Action and Nova ) have this problem. I'd bet that everyone with this problem restored their phone or just their launcher from a backup somehow. I'd bet that if I could somehow remove and reinstall the stock messaging app it might work again, but how could you do that without root? Anyone more knowledgeable than me have a thought about that?
No restore here. Brand new phone and clean installs from play store for the apps. I formatted the sd card so there isnt even any old data on there. I think it's something else. Someone else said they were able to get it to work with go launcher as well.
just to chime in i have the same problem, I got around to fully setting up my device and i use google messenger and it works fine, yet still the LG messaging app still doesn't work. Verizon version here as well.
Got my Fire phone last week and I'm trying to add widgets with no success.
I'm on the latest Fire OS 4.6.1 (461013820), with google apps added successfully. I've tried Nova Launcher, Dodol Launcher, and Everything Me Launcher. Every time I try to drag a widget to the screen, nothing happens. I can add apps and short cuts using these launchers but not widgets. Anyone have any ideas as to what I need to do?
Thanks!
Only certain launchers display widgets. The ones you tried evidently don't. Cheetah, lucid, Zen amongst others do.
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Only certain launchers display widgets. The ones you tried evidently don't. Cheetah, lucid, Zen amongst others do.
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That's interesting. I tried these other launchers based on reports from others in this forum about them working with widgets. Thanks, I'll keep trying.
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That's interesting. I tried these other launchers based on reports from others in this forum about them working with widgets. Thanks, I'll keep trying.
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Still no go. Can't add widgets using these other launchers either. Must be something about my setting that's preventing widgets. :crying:
mogulos said:
Still no go. Can't add widgets using these other launchers either. Must be something about my setting that's preventing widgets. :crying:
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Same situation for me. I'm running the latest firmware and when I add a widget to the launchers listed above, (Nano (formerly Zen), Nova, etc), the launcher crashes and I'm taken to the Fire launcher.
That said, I just tried adding one to Google Now Launcher, and it worked fine... so I guess I'll use that for a while.
Nova with Root
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Same situation for me. I'm running the latest firmware and when I add a widget to the launchers listed above, (Nano (formerly Zen), Nova, etc), the launcher crashes and I'm taken to the Fire launcher.
That said, I just tried adding one to Google Now Launcher, and it worked fine... so I guess I'll use that for a while.
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if you're rooted, you can use Titanium backup to make Nova a system app and then converted it back. Somehow that worked for me. I now have widgets on the front of my phone.
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if you're rooted, you can use Titanium backup to make Nova a system app and then converted it back. Somehow that worked for me. I now have widgets on the front of my phone.
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Dude. That was absolutely brilliant! I'm using Nokia's Z Launcher. So I moved com.nokia.z-2.apk from /data/app to /system/priv-app and rebooted. Now, not only do I finally have widgets...this fixed the issue with AwSMS's count badge not updating!
Thanks!
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Dude. That was absolutely brilliant! I'm using Nokia's Z Launcher. So I moved com.nokia.z-2.apk from /data/app to /system/priv-app and rebooted. Now, not only do I finally have widgets...this fixed the issue with AwSMS's count badge not updating!
Thanks!
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Cool.. I have no problems with badges. I am using a eXdialer pro as my dailer and the stock msg app works fine as well. :good:
Anyone know if making something a system app can get Notifyer Unread Badge Count to work on Google Now Launcher? I tried moving Notifyer and Now Launcer to Priv-Apps but still won't update Notifyer icon widget.
Moving Nova to Priv-App totally fixed widgets and Badge Counts work but I just like Now Launcher so much...
thanks,
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if you're rooted, you can use Titanium backup to make Nova a system app and then converted it back. Somehow that worked for me. I now have widgets on the front of my phone.
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thank you! same worked for me on amazon fire 2015 7" tablet! great job!
For quite some time I've been using Nova Launcher (Prime) to my full satisfaction.
Unfortunately, today I noticed that the widgets on my homescreen have ceased to update properly. The widgets affected are Zooper Widget and Simple RSS Widget. The former updates extremely slowly and the latter refuses to update at all.
Now, of course I contacted the developers of those apps first but a quick search on Google informed me that the problem seems to lie within the launcher in use. So, I tried clearing Nova Launcher's cache and restarting the launcher, but unfortunately to no avail. The widgets update only once after but cease to update subsequently.
Anybody here got any suggestions? I'm at a loss.
Do you have greenify running at all? if you are, itll be a good idea to put Nova, Zooper etc all under the exceptions list. this will ensure that they do not hibernate therefore eliminating the possibility of the widgets not updating.
also, you may want to look into other (Task/Ram) cleaner apps such as CM Cleaner where you again may need to put these respective apps into the exceptions list. This is of course if you have this sort of app installed and running.
Worth a shot.
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Do you have greenify running at all? if you are, itll be a good idea to put Nova, Zooper etc all under the exceptions list. this will ensure that they do not hibernate therefore eliminating the possibility of the widgets not updating.
also, you may want to look into other (Task/Ram) cleaner apps such as CM Cleaner where you again may need to put these respective apps into the exceptions list. This is of course if you have this sort of app installed and running.
Worth a shot.
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Thank you for your quick response!
Good thinking! I have no task killer installed, though, so that could not be the problem.
It does look like a hibernating issue, I just don't know what causes it.
Items like temperature, date etc. do update in Zooper. Also the 'on-click action' works. But if I try to move an item, the widget seems to be non-responsive.
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Thank you for your quick response!
Good thinking! I have no task killer installed, though, so that could not be the problem.
It does look like a hibernating issue, I just don't know what causes it.
Items like temperature, date etc. do update in Zooper. Also the 'on-click action' works. But if I try to move an item, the widget seems to be non-responsive.
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You're welcome.
I once had a similar issue Nova when trying to move widgets around....although that was a long time ago. If I remember correctly, I just cleared cache and data for Nova and even went into nova setting and reset everything to default. That worked for me. But I think you mentioned that you have already tried that right?
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You're welcome.
I once had a similar issue Nova when trying to move widgets around....although that was a long time ago. If I remember correctly, I just cleared cache and data for Nova and even went into nova setting and reset everything to default. That worked for me. But I think you mentioned that you have already tried that right?
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Thanks for the tip, but as you said, I've already tried that to no avail.
Update: What seems to happen now is that widgets do update, but it takes about 15 min.
Have you updated the apps recently? Have you tried to clear cache for those apps?
same problem here.
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no ubdate to the widgets at all
have you find any solution ?
Don't know if still relevant or not but the way I fixed this is going to settings/apps/nova launcher/permissions and enabling all permissions.
Open Nova Settings. Click and hold volume down button for few seconds. Labs option will be enabled. Goto Labs and there you will find restart widgets on resume.
Solved The Problem Myself
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I am facing an issue with my Samsung Galaxy F41, I am trying to set a custom launcher as my default launcher but I keep getting prompted to select between my custom launcher and the Samsung pre-built one.
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I have already specified the custom launcher as my default in the default apps settings, but it keeps asking me to choose between the two. I have attached a video that shows the exact problem I am facing.
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I am not aware of any API changes made by Samsung in their latest update (Someone told me that it's something related api and i don't know what was he wanted to tell me), but I have tried all the ways I know to fix the problem and I still can't figure it out. I have tried multiple famous launchers available in the Play Store, but the problem remains.
If you have any solution to this issue, please let me know in the comments section. I would really appreciate your help in resolving this issue as I am eager to use my custom launcher as my default.
For example, Nova Launcher defends itself from being removed as the main launcher in its own settings.
Where did you get this "Kwaesltso" from?
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For example, Nova Launcher defends itself from being removed as the main launcher in its own settings.
Where did you get this "Kwaesltso" from?
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Kvaesitso is a search focused, free and open source launcher for Android.
> GitHub - Kvaesitso
Btw I tried Nova launcher as well but getting same issue.
Before selecting a launcher app, try tapping on "Always" first.
I'm using One UI 2.5 with Nova and it works OK, but Kvaesitso doesn't work well because except for the home screen with clock and notifications I can't open the app panel.
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Before selecting a launcher app, try tapping on "Always" first.
I'm using One UI 2.5 with Nova and it works OK, but Kvaesitso doesn't work well because except for the home screen with clock and notifications I can't open the app panel.
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Tried it before you told and it's won't worked for me and I'm damn sure it's not problem from Kvaesitso.
Thank you for your time and effort but problem is now solved.
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Thank you for your time and effort but problem is now solved.
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Try to write a solution so that it will be useful to others.