So I'm loving my Infuse, but I'm having a problem. Whenever I turn it off and then back on (which so far has only been when it dies) my home screen always gets screwed up. My Pandora widget disappears, and I am not able to add it back unless I reinstall the app. Also I have a firefox icon in the app tray at the bottom, and that disappears too.
What can I do to fix this?
by any chance does you live wallpaper change too?
i haven't noticed icons or widgets disappearing but i noticed my wallpaper goes back to stock after a reboot.
I've had the stock wallpaper all along so I have no idea, ill try it out and see what happens.
You need to install apps on phone not external SD card that will fix it. At least the live wallpaper.
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I put on a live wallpaper and it stayed there after reboot, but my Pandora widget still disappeared, and I had Dolphin browser instead of Firefox in the app tray, but that disappears too.
How do I choose to install apps to the phone?
Go to settings,application, ext SD card in the top right, find application you want to move click it it will say move to phone click it. It will install on phone
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I forgot its settings, applications, manage application, then SD card.
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I don't even get an option to add the Pandora widget after I move the app to the phone.
Did you reboot the phone?
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eroracing, thanks for your posts about this issue - I already exchanged my infuse once, but am too chicken to reboot this new one yet. I followed your instructions about the SD card; my phone came with an external SD card and there's also an internal card listed in the "SD card and phone storage" menu, as well as the phone storage itself. I'm hoping the 'sd card' on the far right in the Applications menu is referring to the external card.
I moved what I could to the phone, but I'm still too chicken to reboot!
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Go to settings,application, ext SD card in the top right, find application you want to move click it it will say move to phone click it. It will install on phone
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Thanks i wasn't sure on how to do this before.
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Yes the one all the way to the right. And I'm not sure what you mean you don't want to reboot your phone. Just power off and back on again.
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Ok, I finally screwed up the courage to power my infuse off and back on, and all is ok. Whew! Because of course once you get this large a screen, you just can't go back to something smaller!
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after reboot(soft) or after I connect the device to my PC(i.e as mass storage)
all the widgets disappear from my home screens...
I'm using go launcher ex.
Does it happen to anyone else?
it s really annoying to set them back after each reboot/connect....
tried to backup configuration with the presences but it doesn't work....
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10x
Alon
You downloaded your icons and themes to your SD card.. go into settings applications manage applications and move them back to phone and that will solve your problem
alon2 said:
after reboot(soft) or after I connect the device to my PC(i.e as mass storage)
all the widgets disappear from my home screens...
I'm using go launcher ex.
Does it happen to anyone else?
it s really annoying to set them back after each reboot/connect....
tried to backup configuration with the presences but it doesn't work....
Suggestions will be accepted happily
10x
Alon
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Your Widgets are on SD too I meant to say lol
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Your Widgets are on SD too I meant to say lol
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its weird cause one of the widgets is : power control - I don't seem to find a way to control it...
another one is picture frame - also can't find anything for it...
I don't find any notification for it beside the widgets menu in the home screen
another one is system info - moved it to phone
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another one is system info - moved it to phone
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so after I moved it to the phone it still doesn't show up after reboot...
any more ideas?
alon2 said:
so after I moved it to the phone it still doesn't show up after reboot...
any more ideas?
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Are you sure it is on the phone not sd card? You can go to settings/applications/manage applications and check each one is on phone or download app2sd and see which apps are on sd card and which are on the phone. Can't think of anything else it could be.
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Are you sure it is on the phone not sd card? You can go to settings/applications/manage applications and check each one is on phone or download app2sd and see which apps are on sd card and which are on the phone. Can't think of anything else it could be.
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100% sure! and also as I mentioned above some I can't find some widgets at all(picture frame,power control)
I can say most of the time im restarting my phone the icons gone on desktop, i remount the sdcard but still no icons, anyone can explain this?
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icons goes away because the apk is installed on the sd card, you must reboot phone in order to view it again, or install apks directly in phone's memory...
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icons goes away because the apk is installed on the sd card, you must reboot phone in order to view it again, or install apks directly in phone's memory...
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so thereis no option without rebooting?
well forgot to mention even with rebot not working!
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I can say most of the time im restarting my phone the icons gone on desktop, i remount the sdcard but still no icons, anyone can explain this?
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Are they widgets or icons? It's well known not to install widgets to the sd card as this is what can happen. Check they haven't and if they have move them back to internal memory.
I have the same problem.But I have to say the icons only are replaced by default icons on startscreens. In All Apps the icons are OK.
I asked HTC Support an got the answer I should try another microSD, which I did before asking. The support thinks maybe my card is not compatible or it can be damaged. As a result I would say answer not so helpful.
So I fixed the problem for me in moving all apps to phone.
@cjm1979: I only had it with icons, don't use many widgets
Are they installed to sd card? If so move them to phone
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I have the same problem.But I have to say the icons only are replaced by default icons on startscreens. In All Apps the icons are OK.
I asked HTC Support an got the answer I should try another microSD, which I did before asking. The support thinks maybe my card is not compatible or it can be damaged. As a result I would say answer not so helpful.
So I fixed the problem for me in moving all apps to phone.
@cjm1979: I only had it with icons, don't use many widgets
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U can fix by reappling ur current skin
Change skin than come back to ur favourite skin and icons will appears
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Music folders album art shows up as well as some other stuff. For example, some apps keep a folder on the sdcard for thumbs etc. I tried copying a .nomedia file from one folder to another and that didn't work. Anyone know?
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Any folder that you don't want to show up in gallery just put a generic file in there named ".nomedia".
Well on Supreme Sense v8, all you have to do is hit menu then the show/hide option and you can select what folders are to stay visible and which ones are to be hidden.
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Any folder that you don't want to show up in gallery just put a generic file in there named ".nomedia".
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Thats what ithought. I tried that. Still showed.
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Well on Supreme Sense v8, all you have to do is hit menu then the show/hide option and you can select what folders are to stay visible and which ones are to be hidden.
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I only use sense when I need to use ## codes. It's just not my preferred flavor.
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Thats what ithought. I tried that. Still showed.
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Did you go into the app called dev tools afterward and run the media scanner? The phone doesn't scan everything immediately and if you force a rescan it will refresh your gallery. This is what I do in cyanogenmod anyway. Rebooting the phone would probably do the same thing.
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Did you go into the app called dev tools afterward and run the media scanner? The phone doesn't scan everything immediately and if you force a rescan it will refresh your gallery. This is what I do in cyanogenmod anyway. Rebooting the phone would probably do the same thing.
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Kinda like going to menu settings sdcard and storage unmounting then remounting
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rebooting did it for me
I notice apps I download sometimes can't be found even though there shown if I go to my app list and I can run them. But there not in the app folder. Sometimes moving them from sd back to phone fixes it sometimes not. I'm on embro 3.2 any easy fixes?
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Some apps won't run from the SD and must be installed internally. Other than that, I'm not sure what you have happening.
Give us some examples of the apps that do this too you. :thumbup:
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Songify the latest app this happened with. It moved to the sd card after bring installed for a few days and I didn't move it. When it moved to the sd card it vanished from the app drawer, so I moved it back to the main storage which didn't fix it then I also ran fix permissions
Along with a reboot and the app restored itself. though when it vanished I could still run it from system settings just not the app drawer. This happens randomly to random apps and always after I used the app a few times. Something moves them to the sd card then they vanish. Don't get what moves then or why I can run them but not see them moving them to the sd card my self doesn't cause the issue.
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Try rebooting the launcher. May not of updated in the app drawer. Also mounting the sd card while apps are on sd cause them to vanish from app drawer.
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I found another problem. When i make restart, all app icons which are on sdcard disappear from home screen. Do you have same problem. I install official kitkat with factory reset.
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You have to wait for your device to read the SD card. Once finishes, the icons will come out.
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They show up in app drawer but no on home screen. For you its working fine?
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I did not move any apps to SD card. But I had the same problem as you did when I tried just now.
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Well is sad. I checking oficial update via ota over week and when is come, its worse for me like 4.3 this problem and sound sync problem + whole thing about write to external sd on android 4.4
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However, overheating and rapid battery drain are fixed.
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Chanic said:
However, overheating and rapid battery drain are fixed.
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Agree!
And the apps that are on your external SD card do not dissapear! Only the shortcuts on the launcher.
I believe that the time the apps load on boot is higher for the one on the sd card. And the launcher see icons without apps and deletes them!
So if you have a lot of sd apps shortcuts on your launcher you will have to put them every boot!
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Agree!
And the apps that are on your external SD card do not dissapear! Only the shortcuts on the launcher.
I believe that the time the apps load on boot is higher for the one on the sd card. And the launcher see icons without apps and deletes them!
So if you have a lot of sd apps shortcuts on your launcher you will have to put them every boot!
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I just bought the Xperia M2 and have the same problem. It is really annoying. I am now considering returning it. I have a 2 year old Acer phone which doesn't have this problem using the same SD card. Not sure why Sony can't handle this.
I am able to temporarily fix the issue by using Go Launcher instead of the stock sony one. Shame that Sony didn't come up with a solution yet.