Does anyone else have this issue? It is making me nuts to have to keep deleting a folder and re-populating it to get the icons to look right. I would upload a screen shot, but it keeps telling me it's the wrong format.
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YESSSSS....it happened to mine in the first couple days now it seems to have stopped...but it did happen...and since I use folder on my home screen , they would magically reappear inside the folders....when i didnt know that was happening ...I kept just trying to to add the disappearing icon several times...for then to find multiple copies inside my folders. WOW.
It was a launcher pro issue. I just restarted it from preferences and back to normal.
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FWIW this happened to me on both my Nexus One and this phone if I put a folder in the bottom right or left of the main home screen the corresponding corners in the other screens would be unable to take an icon dragged and dropped from the drawer. The icon would instead appear in the folders on the main screen. Stock launcher. Unrooted on both phones. Because it happened on both I assume a bug in android stock launcher in both 2.2 and 2.3.
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This is driving me nuts.....When taking an app icon from my app folder and placing it on a place of my screens that I jsut removed an icon from it goes into "dead space" and I can not long put an app icon in that location. A few days later I will notice all that I have tried to move to that location are in some random folder. So now I have about 3-4 spaces where i would like to put some apps that I use but cannot not use that space any more.........It just started when i flashed the latest version of EB
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G2X - Easleblood 2.0 - Faux DS4.7 kernel.....
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I originally thought this was a bug with Android 1.6 but it's occurring on my Captivate as well.
I typically create a couple folders on my main screen to hold currently used apps and games. However, after a random amount of time the folder won't open. If I reboot the device the folders work as they should but some random time later typically one (just now both) will stop opening. I haven't been able to figure out any trigger for it. I'll just wake it up one time and it won't work.
Has anyone else had this issue? ... and was able to fix it?
Raleran said:
I originally thought this was a bug with Android 1.6 but it's occurring on my Captivate as well.
I typically create a couple folders on my main screen to hold currently used apps and games. However, after a random amount of time the folder won't open. If I reboot the device the folders work as they should but some random time later typically one (just now both) will stop opening. I haven't been able to figure out any trigger for it. I'll just wake it up one time and it won't work.
Has anyone else had this issue? ... and was able to fix it?
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Are you using LauncherPro? I use LauncherPro and this happens to me as well. Like you, I can only get it to open after rebooting.
Same problem here
Yes I am using launcherpro. However I was using motive before so if it is related to the frontend it must be something that both of them are doing.
How else has experienced this? With or without launcherpro?
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This has happened once to me while using launcherpro. The only thing out of the ordinary I was doing was using maps with agps. After awhile I noticed I could no longer slide to different home screens or open folders. Killing everything with ATK didn't fix it either. Worked fine after reboot.
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Happended to me several times while using LauncherPro, never while using ADW.Launcher.
Happened here too, using launcherpro
Same Here - Only Reboot Fixes
Exactly the same symptoms, annoying. Not sure if it's LPro or Samsung / Android issue.. hopefully a bug fix soon.
I just found this forum and am hoping to find some help. I just switched from an iPhone to the Inspire and so far am loving it except for one small issue. Some of the apps I downloaded will have the icon reset from the one installed to the stock android app icon. This only seems to happen when they are in folders. I can reset them by going into the app menu and dragging the original back into the folder and then deleting the one that was set to stock. It's not a deal breaker problem but it is irritating. I check the forums for a solution and couldn't find one. Anyone have any ideas? Oh, this is on a stock phone, no root or hacks have been tried. Thanks in advance
I had this same problem (icons resetting to stock green and white android icons, but only when they are in folders) after doing a battery pull. And it seems like there has to be a way to restore the "app-specific" icons without having to re-drag them to folders etc. Interested to see if there is a more efficient solution.
Mine seems to do it after I unplug it from being mounted to my comp or sometimes after a reboot. I also hope for a quicker solution.
I have one other thing I think is odd. On all of the pictures I see of other peoples Inspire home screen the App/Phone/Personalize dock is radiused. Mine is very square. Is this normal or is mine just odd?
Nobody else has this problem or any information?
I have had this problem after installing/deleting apps. I just long press the power key and hit restart and that seems to fix it.
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I found that choosing a different skin also brings back the icons. This isn't a serious problem but it is irritating. Anyone know why this happens?
Ive had this happen on my dell when using launcher pro when i had the apps hidden in the app draw. I had to open prefs in launcher pro and restart launcher pro to get them fixed, after every reboot or updated apps it seemed to happen
Hi everyone,
It seems when I move downloaded apps to my SD card and then restart the phone, their icons show as the default app icon if they are on one of my home panels.
Their icons do show up properly in the app drawer, but thats the only place. Also, this problem only happens after a restart. If i remove them and then put them back on the panels, the icons show up!
Anyone else have this problem? Anyone have a work around?
I have the same issue, I removed the shortcuts and replaced them, but they go back to the generic Android icon after a little while. I have my shortcuts in folders if that makes any difference.
C my post on speed + batt calibration + apps....its explained there
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1159184
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I am not sure of a permanent fix but if you change the scene (long press on an empty bit of a home screen) choose the scene menu and choose a new scene, Then just go back to your original scene. Quicker than recreating your icons...
-Paul
Are you guys still on GB 2.3.3? I had the same problem before the update to 2.3.4
With 2.3.4, the icons always go back to normal after a few seconds.
Had this strange behaviour too. But after moving the apps to SD you have to remove the icons and put them afterwards back on the home screen. This always worked for me.
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Are you guys still on GB 2.3.3? I had the same problem before the update to 2.3.4
With 2.3.4, the icons always go back to normal after a few seconds.
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Running OTA GB 2.3.4. It happen every time I reboot. Normal icons persist on the homescreen but inside any folder the icon lose their mojo. They work perfectly but have the generic icons. I have had this sporadic issue through multiple ROMs including the OTA. That what I like about the "scene" fix. A few click and you are done without recreating the whole folder. (I have a folder full of games for my kids, about 20 items)
I have searched the threads on XDA and found nothing helpful for a permanent fix. (Perhaps my google-fu is weak?) It seems to happen on a lot of HTC devices. I personally have a DINC but I posted here because it was a nice fix that works on all HTC sense ROMs.
Apparently the official answer is to restart sense: http://androidforums.com/htc-evo-3d/361453-icon-bug-apps2sd-solution-post-47-here.html#post2907016
I have seen threads where this happens with other Launchers as well.
It's because when the phone reboots it has to wait for the SD card. Why are you moving apps anyway? You using more than 1GB of apps?!?!
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It's because when the phone reboots it has to wait for the SD card. Why are you moving apps anyway? You using more than 1GB of apps?!?!
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In my case I currently have a DINC, my data/data is considerably smaller and I have not A2SD+ yet. I just found this thread through a search and added a suggestion that worked for me. 1 GB Data partition for phone storage! Man you guys have a nice piece of kit there.
I've had a few android phones, but so far I have not run into this issue with any of them. I am running stock + root (though the issue was happening before root) and every once in a while I'll notice an icon is missing from one of my home screens.
Typically, it's been my Scrabble icon that goes missing. Sometimes it will be TouchDown or Words With Friends that disappear, or it will be a widget. Has anyone encountered this?
I've tried doing a reset of the phone, but still run into the same thing after a few days. I have checked to make sure that an update was not done to the app, turned off auto-updates for any of the affected programs that I've noticed so far, but still I find that the icon disappears.
I'd appreciate any input as to a way to find out when/how the icon was deleted from the screen. Since I'm the only one that uses my phone, I don't think it's being dropped accidentally by someone else. I do know that I have used an app's icon before going to bed, but when I wake up the next day, it or one of the others that was there is gone.
Have you moved any of these apps to the SD card?
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Nope, not running anything from the SD card. I use it mainly for moving music and the occassional movie between two different devices.
That was happening to me too on stock 2.3.6 but after I flashed sky ics ROM it fixed it
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That was happening to me too on stock 2.3.6 but after I flashed sky ics ROM it fixed it
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it has happened on every single rom. including skyics....skyics does it the least out of any ROM I've used...but it still does it...i have 155 apps installed...every other reboot I end up with 150 or less....
and I could reboot again...and lose more apps...i have to reinstall them...sometimes they will all come back after a reboot
NONE are moved to SD, default install location.
this is the only droid that has done that...it's really weird.
Using the stock launcher, this problem/feature just started popping up recently. I couldn't find any discussion on if this was part of the newer Google Search / GEL updates.
On the homescreen indicator that separates the dock, I now have a plus sign on the far right, which makes the regular indicating dots off center. Swiping left is Google Now like always, but now swiping right after the rightmost homescreen leads to a blank homescreen (screenshots attached). It used to just be that trying to swipe right on the rightmost homescreen would do nothing. How do I go back to this original function?
I'm using Cataclysm Rom [Nov 15] and franco.Kernel r14. I've searched through those threads for more information about this blank homescreen, but no luck. I've also dug through the Cataclysm Settings to see if I've ticked any options, but I can't find anything. I don't have the franco.Kernel app so I don't know if this might be a kernel setting, but again, I couldn't find anything in the franco.Kernel thread.
Thanks for any help!
Move an icon over there and move it back. That fixed it when mine did it.
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Move an icon over there and move it back. That fixed it when mine did it.
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Thanks, that temporarily got rid of it, but after a reboot, the plus sign and the blank homescreen came back.
Maybe it's just part of GEL now? Haven't found any discussions about it though :/
I too have this, it drives me absolutely nuts! It shows up after reboots and random times! No fix besides putting app there and deleting
It has happened to me twice so far. Can't figure out what it is.
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Move an icon over there and move it back. That fixed it when mine did it.
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Only had the problem once and this solved it.
Having the same issue, appears randomly and I have to either restart the phone or use the app move/unmove trick to get rid of it.
I haven't found a correlation to any thing in particular or any app but I'd like to know what's causing this..
I have experienced this as well. I just reboot the phone and it goes away. Pretty minor bug but yea i imagine it will get fixed in the next update.