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[Q] App icon problem

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

Strange lines on the screen

I bought Sensation 2 days ago, and saw these strange lines over the Winamp widget. It was only in the space which was for the Winamp widget, and after I removed widget, the lines were gone.
That happened twice, and the similar lines appeared on the "show me" widget, which was "factory installed", so the problem is not Winamp probably.
Should I return the phone now, or wait to see will this become permanent?

gringooo said:
I bought Sensation 2 days ago, and saw these strange lines over the Winamp widget. It was only in the space which was for the Winamp widget, and after I removed widget, the lines were gone.
That happened twice, and the similar lines appeared on the "show me" widget, which was "factory installed", so the problem is not Winamp probably.
Should I return the phone now, or wait to see will this become permanent?
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Can you force this to be happening? I dont believe they'd take the phone back unless you can prove the fault...
Anyway, I'd give it a go and see what happens, if it gets any worse, you can always request warranty repair, for as long as the phone aint rooted etc.
EDIT: Looked at the pic you posted again, it doesnt seem to be HW fault, its more likely an SW issue... well, obviously 2.3 aint ready for this resolution, I hope devs reacts soon so this can get fixed

If it was the Winamp widget only, that'd be the problem, as I'd say it wasn't set up for qHD, or configured correctly etc
Move either of the widgets that have the issue to another part of the screen, then another homescreen. Just don't keep it in that physical rectangle area of the screen.

I dont know how to force that error again. I would like that it was a software, its easier to fix, I think.
When I was moving the Winamp widget, those lines were moving with the widget.

Same issue here, mostly comming up on the google search widget and the getting started button, restarting the theme solves this for a while.

gringooo said:
I dont know how to force that error again. I would like that it was a software, its easier to fix, I think.
When I was moving the Winamp widget, those lines were moving with the widget.
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If it moves with the widget, it's likely to be a software issue

This happens with a lot of widgets which cannot stretch or scale properly to the qHD screen.
The fact that the lines move around with the widget and then disappear when the widget is removed clarifies this.
Obviously one of HTC's own widgets is unable to cope too.
Might also be related to Sense 3.0. Have you tried the same widgets with a different launcher?

I havent try with the different launcher, because I cant force those lines to appear again. It only happened twice. Winamp widget works perfectly for now.

I have the same issue, with AudioGuru's widget. When i removed the widget the lines are gone!!!!

gringooo said:
When I was moving the Winamp widget, those lines were moving with the widget.
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Clearly, this + the lads arround, this is a SW issue only, not optimised widget for such a big difference... more the qHD displays will be on sale, the faster we get updates... Also, maybe Google will release some update on Android 2.3.5 maybe that might fix most of the problems with the screen

I have to agree with the Software camp on this (though initially I thought for sure it was hardware)
When I look closely at the pic you have the lines start inside of the screen and end inside of the screen with a border of clean pixels before the edge of the screen. (Line is framed inside of screen) If the line went all the way across I would be still be thinking hardware.

If the problem is that the software is not optimized with qHD, then I guess I have nothing to worry about.
Thank you all for your answers.

U was shocked to see my screen is damaged but when i swiped to another page, gone. Tried moving the widget and the lines move too. So yes, its the widgets. On mine, its tweetdeck bar
Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e using XDA App

I have only seen this on non htc widgets.. when your switching slowly..
Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e using XDA App

this happened to me with the amazon mp3 widget, and i had 2 other widgets on the same page. it went away and never came back. that's the only "issue" i've had with this phone.

same thing happened to me with blue facebook app. i restarted phone, hasn't come back since.

Yep I've had the same issues, figured it was software issue due to the way it was working.
I did soft reset that clears it for while anyways.

Same problem here.
A way to fix them all without any reset or removing the widgets is to go into your app settings and restart the Sense app.
It will restart rosie and fixes all the widgets with lines.
Very annoying tho

tombaker1 said:
If the line went all the way across I would be still be thinking hardware.
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Exactly!

Here is the video, how the line (this time only one line) is moving with the widget.
This one appeared after I played few 3D games.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSOVG49CQ4E

[Q] Sense 3.0 People force closing, wallpapers disappearing and skins inconsistency

I recently updated my Desire S to Sense 3.0 via OTA. It arrived down here in Thailand rather late. I almost gave up waiting for it because it has been months since it first rolled out in Europe. OTA went fine. I am very pleased with Sense 3.0. New lock screens are so great I go awwww the first time I unlock my phone. The ability to capture screenshot using power + home button is my most anticipated feature. I have not encountered the issue of power button not bringing up the phone off/airplane/restart menu as reported in other threads. And while on the previous firmware I usually get a complete signal drop about once a day or two which has to be fixed by turning airplane mode on and off again, in this firmware I have not seen that happening so far. But now I'm having some problems which I hadn't have before on Sense 2.1. Here are the things that really keep bugging me:
- People app keep force closing every time when viewing Photo tab of an individual contact that has been linked to facebook. i.e, I can see the contact fine, facebook updates and all. But when sliding the bottom bar to check out the contact's facebook photo albums, People app immediately force close.
- Wallpapers which have been downloaded from HTC Hub keep disappearing after each reboot. They are not sticking. Check in the sdcard\downloads\wallpapers and they are all gone, except the .nomedia file.
- The last one is not really the problem, but it is still bugging me nonetheless. The Blue Sky and Burgundy skins have color inconsistency. After applying either of them, the big Phone button at the bottom of home screen does not change to the appropriate color. i.e, when pressed, they just stay green like the default skin. But while pressing the left (app) and right (personalize) buttons, they do change their colors to go with the skin. When previously on 2.1, the Slate skin (gosh, how I really miss that skin) also act the same way sometimes. But it eventually changed the pressed Phone button color from default green to light blue after the reboot. Tried rebooting but no luck on Sense 3.0.
I'm just curious to know if anyone else are facing these problems. If it's only me I will run factory reset on my phone. If it's common then I will just have to live with it.
Please share other problems you found and I will respond if they are present on my phone or not.

Suddenly having extremely weird system issues/resets.

Hello there everyone. I've had my HTC Sensation since September and so far it has been a very enjoyable experience, with only one abnormal reset. However, in the past two days, some weird stuff has happened.
Every once in a while, I see the stock lockscreen flicker over my current screen (Even in an app). It is currently disabled by WidgetLocker as well.
The first day I had installed SweeterHome 2, StatusBar +, and also the application Faster Drawer. The first reset happened as I went to open Faster Drawer (Not for the first time, however). It then rebooted, but things seemed to work fine. Also, the app Profile Scheduler was no longer able to change the screen brightness when I clicked on a profile, just the other settings. I had to go into Android settings to do it manually. (There I found the slider down to 0 as I wanted it, and when I touched it, the screen brightness lowered to where it was supposed to be)
The second reset happened today and was even weirder. I was looking through my Minimal Reader widget when I was interrupted by the white and green HTC boot logo, and the phone took a few minutes to reset. When it came to, all of my widgets were gone, and replaced by "Tap to restore" squares (On both WidgetLocker and SweeterHome 2)
I really have no clue what is going on, though I am very disappointed by the reboots, especially for losing the widgets (Basically my entire homescreen was made of them, it will take a long time to restore). The only thing I messed with was the Accessibility applications; I had to check the one for StatusBar + and I clicked the one for WidgetSoid Notifications, but then disabled it. (Which by the way, the WidgetSoid notification toggles no longer work until I use the system toggle for data, then I can start using them)
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am using a stock, unrooted HTC Sensation 4G on T-Mobile, running 2.3.4, and it had that firmware update by T-Mobile a few months ago.

SensationNation said:
Hello there everyone. I've had my HTC Sensation since September and so far it has been a very enjoyable experience, with only one abnormal reset. However, in the past two days, some weird stuff has happened.
Every once in a while, I see the stock lockscreen flicker over my current screen (Even in an app). It is currently disabled by WidgetLocker as well.
The first day I had installed SweeterHome 2, StatusBar +, and also the application Faster Drawer. The first reset happened as I went to open Faster Drawer (Not for the first time, however). It then rebooted, but things seemed to work fine. Also, the app Profile Scheduler was no longer able to change the screen brightness when I clicked on a profile, just the other settings. I had to go into Android settings to do it manually. (There I found the slider down to 0 as I wanted it, and when I touched it, the screen brightness lowered to where it was supposed to be)
The second reset happened today and was even weirder. I was looking through my Minimal Reader widget when I was interrupted by the white and green HTC boot logo, and the phone took a few minutes to reset. When it came to, all of my widgets were gone, and replaced by "Tap to restore" squares (On both WidgetLocker and SweeterHome 2)
I really have no clue what is going on, though I am very disappointed by the reboots, especially for losing the widgets (Basically my entire homescreen was made of them, it will take a long time to restore). The only thing I messed with was the Accessibility applications; I had to check the one for StatusBar + and I clicked the one for WidgetSoid Notifications, but then disabled it. (Which by the way, the WidgetSoid notification toggles no longer work until I use the system toggle for data, then I can start using them)
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am using a stock, unrooted HTC Sensation 4G on T-Mobile, running 2.3.4, and it had that firmware update by T-Mobile a few months ago.
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the most ugly thing is i saw it with another sensation user in my famely to before i bought my phone. it got sended away by warrenty got back prob solved but more arised it began also after couple months. mine started doing it i rooted/s-off mine and started testing roms wich one feld like i wanted to use. because of quick changing i cound watch that after an rom from here the prob got solved so here are my suggestions:
1 send it and maybe get a worse phone back(telling from experience)
2 root/s-off test some roms and away goes problem

The issue just became worse. This time, without a reset, my WidgetLocker widgets were lost again, and replaced by the "Tap to restore" dialog. I was playing music at the time with the screen off (no other apps running), and it was not interrupted. When I went to unlock the phone, they were gone.

Any thoughts? This seems like a pretty serious issue to me. I'd like to stay stock since I don't have the money to replace the phone if something were to go wrong.

Try removin the apps and see if that helps,you seem to have alot on there that removes or modifies functionality

Tmobile 4g ICS and Screenshot

Hello, just did ICS update the other day and ran into an issue. I decided to take a screenshot of a music video while using the default player. Paused video held power and clicked home button. All worked great, did a couple and returned to home screen. i have the new smaller clock widget and a bible app widget and message and mail icons on home screen. when i clicked either message or mail the google voice mail app opened. even taping in the area of the icons opened google voice. it would not let me delete the icons either and being the home screen, i couldn't remove it and clear it that way. all the other desktops worked fine. i had tried the google voice widget earlier but it would install behind the app icons and acted weird so removed it. things had worked fine up until the screen shots. i tried force closing google voice but did not fix.
restarting and removeing battery did not work either. ended up factory reseting. just wanted to share, incase there is something else i could have tried and to let others know.
sorry for bad typing, using ps3 controller to type
stock never rooted htc sensation 4g. i factory reset before and after the ics update