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[Q] App icons disappear in folder

Just created a folder to put my games in and noticed that some of the icons change after a reboot to a generic market icon.
If I take the app out of the folder and add it again it comes back.
Is there a fix for this or is it a bug with Froyo?

Did you change memory cards in between? I ask because some apps get saved onto the memory card and changing it will obviously mean that ur dhd can't access it......hope that helped
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This seems to happen randomly to me aswell.

yohanpra said:
Did you change memory cards in between?
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No. Same card.

This only seems to happen when you move the apps to SD card moving them back to phone remove and re-adding them fixes it or use folder organiser from the market
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This happened to me with Launcher Pro for apps on memory card, but if you restart launcher pro, the icons should be normal again.

I noticed this too and came to the forums for an answer, however I found my own answer.
I believe it's related to the apps with data stored on your SD card. When your phone boots up it takes awhile to check the SD card, by that time it's already checked for the icons for the programs in your games folder.
A quick solution is to hit the personalise button, then the first option marked Scene, change the scene, change it back and you get your icons back without having to drag them back out

If you connected to PC via USB, this can cause the sdcard un-mount by the DHD. Reboot will solve it.

rarrr said:
I noticed this too and came to the forums for an answer, however I found my own answer.
I believe it's related to the apps with data stored on your SD card. When your phone boots up it takes awhile to check the SD card, by that time it's already checked for the icons for the programs in your games folder.
A quick solution is to hit the personalise button, then the first option marked Scene, change the scene, change it back and you get your icons back without having to drag them back out
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wow udk how greatful i am man xda always fixes these lil annoying issue!!thanks so much mate =D i found this issue so annoying i was going to change from virtuous unity..haha..u saved my life man!=p

[Q] Weird behaviour with menu icons on Arc!

Heyy guys
Has anyone noticed that if you arrange the icons on the arc when the phone is restarted the icons all move around...
Is this just me or has it happened to others?
Thanks,
Jinx13

I got same issue, upon every restart the phone shuffles the icons adding new windows and places 2 or 3 icons on window or so...

What I've noticed is that this only applies to apps stored on the SD card, anything stored on the phone memory will stay in place.

DemonicHawk said:
What I've noticed is that this only applies to apps stored on the SD card, anything stored on the phone memory will stay in place.
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Yeah...
Is it possible to be the low-class SD doing this? The standard default SD Card included in Arc's box is Class 2 I believe.
Could higher class SD card fix this? Can someone with Class 4-6-8-10 share impression please?

It is strange tough, I'm using the SD card provided with the Arc and dont have any problems.
I read some people did have problems with the launcher but that was fixed in SEs latest android version, are you guys on the latest version ?

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Touranaga said:
Regardless the complainings about the Arc I would definitely say that is a faulty phone. I have mine for 2 mounts now and the only problem i experience is when i reboot the phone occasionally it shuffles the icons...no lag, no delay. It's a truly worthy phone.
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Same problem..Sandisk class4..latest firmware

Glad to hear it's not just me lol I also have the latest version 2.3.3
I didn't actually notice that it was only the apps on the SD card that moved till it was mentioned

Using 2.3.3 here as well.
Hope this will be fixed in upcoming updates, cause its annoying...not that i restart my phone often, but nevertheless when you do you need to spend some time to re-arrange all the icons back again or just scrolling arround till you find that you need.
Depends on how many craps you have installed on you phone lol.
Brah.

Have same issue with icons.
2.3.3 did not help at all.

Why is most stuff being saved to internal memory and not SDcard?

Not sure since I'm fairly new to Android, but why does just about everything get saved to internal memory instead of my 32gb memory card? Is that normal? or a setting I can change somewhere?

What exactly are u saving from? Browser?
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imtjnotu said:
What exactly are u saving from? Browser?
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Yeah in general. What brings this up, I downloaded some music using music box, downloaded the avengers movie from mediahub, and several apps using the browser just to name a few items.
I popped out the card to pull off the music, but the memory card was almost empty.. just pictures are being saved there. EVERYTHING else seems to be going to internal memory. I have like 4gb free of 16gb.

Everything is defaulted to the imternal memory. You can set your camera to save to sdcard in the cameras setting. Also open your browser and go to settings, advanced, then set the default storage to memory card. There are somethings you can not change one of which is where the apps are installed. Any app you have that has to do with saving files to the phone open that app and press the menu key and see if you can change the default storage locations.
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Apps default to the internal memory, not all phones have SD card slots
Most apps should have an option to save on SD card, look through the settings

Yup, internal is default in ICS. But in jb it defaults to external if one is detected. Just fyi.
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still searching
I've been trying to find an app that tells JB on my SGH-T999 to default all "save to's" in all apps to the external SD-- I'm still looking, haven't found one yet. If anyone knows of one that does that, please post a link, thanks in advance. VERY frustrating that the system messaging app does not save attachments to my external SD by default-- it goes to the "SDcard0" (internal storage) with no way that I can find to change the setting to save to the external SD.

If you're rooted, look in the development section. On the first page... Maybe second. There's a mod that you're looking for.

KitKat causing SD card problems - woah intentional?

This has got to be the worst move ever made by Google (and I'm a Google fanboy). Makes me frustrated. Samsung is one of the only companies providing micro sd card slots, and now this comes and screws that up. What can you even do with a micro sd card now besides read it...?!
Here is the article: http://support.t-mobile.com/thread/65841
Leibeck explains what this means to users, writing,
“If your device has user-accessible internal flash storage, your SD Card is a “secondary external storage device”.
What this means is that with KitKat, applications will no longer be able create, modify, or remove files and folders on your external SD card. As a for-instance, you can no longer use a file manager to copy files from your computer to the SD card over a network. This ability, which has existed since the beginning of Android, has been taken away.”
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Mystery? said:
This has got to be the worst move ever made by Google (and I'm a Google fanboy). Makes me frustrated. Samsung is one of the only companies providing micro sd card slots, and now this comes and screws that up. What can you even do with a micro sd card now besides read it...?!
Here is the article: http://support.t-mobile.com/thread/65841
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This is horrible.....shame on google

I'll be waiting. No need to rush in and be an early adopter. I wonder how the S5 is handling this/going to.

Google mess it up on purpose, to force people to use their cloud services and be bombarded by their advertising, that's how they make money and their official explanation to improve security is so lame. Anyhow, hopefully Samsung will fix it sooner or later, or you can root it and fix it yourself, loosing warranty in the process. I took the high road and will not update, until a) it's all fixed or b) my warranty runs out and won't care about Knox at all.
Google gets on my nerves lately, first they messed up new maps update (at least I got option to stay on old version for now) and now this.

rosedog said:
I'll be waiting. No need to rush in and be an early adopter. I wonder how the S5 is handling this/going to.
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So should I not up date the software.
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Google changed it because a lot of folks were having their app data store on the sdcard, which later on caused stability issues with the apps loading. Some resulted in FCs, crashes etc etc. So in order to increase stability, and possibly even security in Android, Google made the move to allow on app data to be stored internally. You can store and do whatever else you want to do on the sdcard like storing music, photos, other files etc etc. App data can no longer be stored on external...
Personally I don't mind, the Note 3 comes with 32GB minimum... That's plenty for me....

Pajar0913 said:
So should I not up date the software.
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I hear ya. 32gb is more than I need.. makes a lot of sense to do it that way.
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I am not sure I understand correctly. I read the above link also.
When I go to my application manager I can still move apps to SD card?

okay, so I take a picture. The photo is not saved on the sd card?

Exfex21 said:
okay, so I take a picture. The photo is not saved on the sd card?
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I'm guessing it is going to be under your stock gallery app and it's saving to your device.
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Limeybastard said:
I am not sure I understand correctly. I read the above link also.
When I go to my application manager I can still move apps to SD card?
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Yes, you can still move some apps to the SD card.
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Pajar0913 said:
I'm guessing it is going to be under your stock gallery app and it's saving to your device.
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I still can go to settings and change to save the pictures to the SD card. It's the app data, not pictures that you can't move to an SD card.

These SD card problems are a super-dealbreaker for me, does anyone know a way (via root or whatever) to revert kitkat to previous SD card behaviors? If not, I'm going to have to revert back to Jelly Bean.

jax omen said:
These SD card problems are a super-dealbreaker for me, does anyone know a way (via root or whatever) to revert kitkat to previous SD card behaviors? If not, I'm going to have to revert back to Jelly Bean.
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If you're rooted there is a fix. it's in the kitkat qa thread in the dev section. Seems to work fine.

itsmikeramsay said:
Google changed it because a lot of folks were having their app data store on the sdcard, which later on caused stability issues with the apps loading. Some resulted in FCs, crashes etc etc. So in order to increase stability, and possibly even security in Android, Google made the move to allow on app data to be stored internally. You can store and do whatever else you want to do on the sdcard like storing music, photos, other files etc etc. App data can no longer be stored on external...
Personally I don't mind, the Note 3 comes with 32GB minimum... That's plenty for me....
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Why not force apps to be defaulted to internal unless user unchecks that option for people using developers menu and/or root. Sort of like force gpu rendering option.

Apps disappeared

Hello,
So I was using the latest nightly of CyanogenMod 13. If I adopt the SD card as internal storage and move some apps to the SD card, those apps will disappear after reboot. Even the apps list doesn't have the disappeared apps. After a few minutes, these apps appeared back. It's really annoying. Anyone know any workaround for this? Or can @PecanCM fix this?

extremetek said:
Hello,
So I was using the latest nightly of CyanogenMod 13. If I adopt the SD card as internal storage and move some apps to the SD card, those apps will disappear after reboot. Even the apps list doesn't have the disappeared apps. After a few minutes, these apps appeared back. It's really annoying. Anyone know any workaround for this? Or can @PecanCM fix this?
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May be if you change your launcher like nova or something else.

kh34d said:
May be if you change your launcher like nova or something else.
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I already knew that nova launcher fixes the problem, but i'm a student and my teacher doesn't allow us to use the phone during the lessons and I need to quickly access the apps after turning on the phone. Also the battery is worn out and it often gets low really quick and shuts down itself. So I need a full workaround for it or even code patching by PecanCM.