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Hi Guys
I am facing a problem with HTC widgets. The problem is that the widgets keep reloading their content frequently
So as i flip through the 5 pages of widgets (mail, people, calendar, news, etc), the contacts in the people widget or the appointments in the calendar widget for example would disappear and the widget would reload them within 5 seconds
I never faced this problem with my desire HD, I dont know but it looks like a memory shortage/allocation problem that is leading to sense clearing whats held in RAM for those widgets.
Has anyone faced this before ? looks like sense 3.0 is still highly unoptimized from a memory usage perspective. On top of this, my desire HD used to fly as compared to the Sensation, Dual core my Ass.................

This happens for me as well but I never considered it a problem. It seems to me that the widgets actually don't update all the time and instead are updating On-demand so the first time you scroll to it in, an __- hour period (I'm not sure how long the time frame is) it takes a few seconds to populate the widget.
I figured it was a battery saver and didn't don't mind it.
I do get a weird text jump back and forth between contact name/contact number in the text messaging widget though and it happens pretty frequently.

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BonesRed said:
This happens for me as well but I never considered it a problem. It seems to me that the widgets actually don't update all the time and instead are updating On-demand so the first time you scroll to it in, an __- hour period (I'm not sure how long the time frame is) it takes a few seconds to populate the widget.
I figured it was a battery saver and didn't don't mind it.
I do get a weird text jump back and forth between contact name/contact number in the text messaging widget though and it happens pretty frequently.
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Hi BonesRed
does not seem to be an update problem, since not only the friend stream widget does that, but also the contacts/calendar widget
This never happened with the desire HD, and whenever data is being reloaded, the old data is kept displayed until updated with the new data

Apparently the native widgets work good for me, but other ones like pandora, soundhound etc. have pixel glitches, see pic, sometimes only 1 widget sometimes the whole screen.... don't know if anybody else has the same problem and don't know if I should exchange my sensation.

I have the same pixel problem with my Google search bar widget
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My widget content will reload but only after a considerable amount of time without use. After the initial load, flipping through pages has no reloads until it's been in my pocket for awhile again.

puiutzuusa said:
Apparently the native widgets work good for me, but other ones like pandora, soundhound etc. have pixel glitches, see pic, sometimes only 1 widget sometimes the whole screen.... don't know if anybody else has the same problem and don't know if I should exchange my sensation.
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same for me

so, anybody has a solution or we're doomed?!?!?

Doomed.................................

that sucks, mean while the commercial goes on and on- the YOU phone"CAN GET EVERYTHING YOU WANT INSTANTLY"........ like what? if I'm not able to see my home screen...... hopefully an OTA will bring happiness and unlocked bootloader..... don't want to change too much on it, just tweak a little and get rid of bloatware..... HOPES UP HTC!!!

Castle5665 said:
My widget content will reload but only after a considerable amount of time without use. After the initial load, flipping through pages has no reloads until it's been in my pocket for awhile again.
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That never happened with the desire HD..............

I'm actually having the opposite provlem, at least with the friendstream widget. I can't get it to update. I've tried manually synching from the widget and from android settings menu but nothing seems to work, its still stuck on July 18th for some reason. Any one have any suggestions?
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My widgets are causing pixil glitches as well. Any ideas on what the cause is

BonesRed said:
I do get a weird text jump back and forth between contact name/contact number in the text messaging widget though and it happens pretty frequently.
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I experience the same thing. Also inside the messaging app itself sometimes the contact name is displayed and sometimes the contact number.

I have all the issues stated in the thread do far too. I love this phone but it's not as fast as they promote it to be and the pixel glitches only happen on my google search bar and market widget. hopefully they will get it figured out.
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[Q]HTC Widget Graphics Bug (Rainbow lines)

Anyone else having this issue. Several random rainbow colored lines running through non-htc widgets like Pandora widget, Google search widget, etc. It didn't bother me as much as before, but now I can't see any or the widget. Is there a fix available for this issue?
Terribly sorry if this is a repost, I searched, but I could not find anything about this.
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I have only had it with the Google voice mail widget, I tried removing it and replacing the icon however it never stayed line free. Finally I just removed it all together

It's because almost every non-HTC widget hasn't been written for the qHD resolution yet (which isn't very common) and hence the graphical issues.

lianw is right. I informed HTC about the situation and they confirmed exactly what lianw said. They urged me to contact developers to ask them to consider the qHD resolution in their apps.

Thanks a lot, I'm glad it wasn't something to do with my phone specifically. Is there a possible compatibility mode for word we can use similar to the compatibility mode for apps?
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I had the same problem with my non HTC widgets as well. I noticed sometimes it only does this on one pane, and sometimes on all of them. Its happened twice to me so far since I got the phone on release day in the US.
My Doggcatcher and Pandora widgets both exhibited this problem.

Move the App to internal memory. That will eliminate the rainbow lines.
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I got the same issue, but it is just from time to time.
do you realy think it is a good idea to move all app from sd to internal memory?
because the google widget (one for which i had that issue) is allready located in internal memory....

Staydown225 said:
Move the App to internal memory. That will eliminate the rainbow lines.
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Don't applications go into internal memory by default?

Staydown225 said:
Move the App to internal memory. That will eliminate the rainbow lines.
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Thats a negative

I've seen this as well, in both 3rd part app widgets and even the HTC power control bar widget (debunking the qHD explanantion) in one case a removal/re-add of the widget fixed it, and in another I had to reboot (just a reboot, not a a reset) the phone.
Additional Info: I've only seen it in "bar" type widgets. HTC Sense power control, tweetdeck bar and post widgets and an app called organizer widget.

Staydown225 said:
Move the App to internal memory. That will eliminate the rainbow lines.
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No, it won't. Widgets won't even work if you move them to the SD card - they have to be in internal memory to begin with.
I've had this problem with a number of widgets - you get horizontal "hash lines" in the widget, and the only way to fix it is to change the scene or skin.
No problem at all with the HTC widgets, but almost every one of the third-party widgets I've tried have this problem eventually.
Hopefully it's some sort of driver issue that will be fixed in an update. Really irritating when it happens.

Hi guys,
Same problem here, it happens with 3rd party apps and also with with stock apps like g search or tips and I think once it was with youtube widget
I hope that it will be fixed soon.

Same problem here, I get them with Elixir widgets. I also agree about the memory placement not being the problem because Elixir won't even show an option for a widget if its on the SD card. My solution has been to remove and replace the widgets.
I have also had problems like the notification bar disappearing, the tray with the apps, phone and personalization button disappearing, and the sense screen getting caught in the initial carousel motion continuously like when the screen is first unlocked. It keeps looping that animation. Or it just spins continuously, from screen to screen like a slot machine sideways.
So, my take is that this version of Sense may not be as refined as others, or the graphics hardware may need a driver tweak.
Maybe its time for them to step up from the GeForce4 MX series of graphics hardware?

I had the same problem with the News and google Search widget. I was asked by HTC to reset my phone and the problem was resolved. havent seen any rainbow lines since then.

I'm having this same issue. Only on non HTC widgets. Doesn't seen to happen all the time. Rebooting helps sometimes and sometimes not. Others reported that installing another home launcher doesn't cause this and I can confirm this also but then there is no access to the HTC widgets :-( I've found no good solution. Hopefully this will be addressed soon....

I have this problem with HTC's own Notes widget and also SwitchPro

I just wanted to also chime in and say I too, am also a victim of this Widget Distortion issue.
My widget distortion happens with the "Power Control Widget" and has also occurred with the "Google Search Widget." Neither are 3rd party widgets, unless anything not HTC is 3rd party?
It would be nice if everyone that posts about this problem could also post a screen shot of their phone with the distortion...?
Mine comes and goes, at the time of this post its not prsent or I'd post a pic... I will edit this post with a pic once it happens again.
UPDATE: I've added pictures of my distorted widgets.
NEW: Now my camera display is distorted with green lines running through it, just like a bad TV screen.

I was just looking at this. Pressing the home button, or pinching the screen, to get all the home screens at once on screen and look very closely the graphics glitch is still visible on the icon which represents the screen the widget is on. Not sure what this means, other than it's not a scanning issue.

Really annoying!
Pictures taken with my Wildfire, Sorry if the quality ain't good.
I think it its a Sense problem. Needs to be fixed ASAP.
EDIT: Sent a message to HTC
"Hi, I have the HTC Sensation and it is a great phone. However, there are problems with some widgets. Third party widgets have some rainbow distortion on them. This happens now and then. To remove it, I have to remove and re-add the widget. Then the problem persists after a few days. Even the official HTC Notes widget has this problem. I have pictures here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=16427960&postcount=20
Many users also have this problem and it is really frustrating.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1169704&page=2"

[Q] Why won't certain widgets appear on the list of widgets?

I've noticed this problem since I bought my Sensation. I immediately started transferring over apps from my G2 and Xoom (the ones I planned on using on my Sensation, at least). I know which apps have a widget and which don't. When I long-press on my screen and choose widgets, I see most of the widgets of apps I just installed but not all of them.
There are times when I flashed custom roms to try them out and then go back to my nand (clean stock backup) and the same widgets that didn't show up before would now appear on the list.
Is anyone else having this issue? Does anyone know why this is happening?

Only thing I can think of is that maybe the parent program for the widget got moved to the sdcard. I know widgets have to be in,main,memory to work.
Forgive me if this is an infantile response, I am still fairly new to android, but eager to help if I can.

Ivanstein said:
Only thing I can think of is that maybe the parent program for the widget got moved to the sdcard. I know widgets have to be in,main,memory to work.
Forgive me if this is an infantile response, I am still fairly new to android, but eager to help if I can.
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Hmmm... Interesting, if you're right. In my previous Android phones and on my Xoom, I move all the apps that I can to SD every time and never had this problem. But I will give this a try. I'll report back if this is the case with Sensation on stock Sense UI.

I just restored from a previous nand (good thing I happened to backup for no apparent reason just this morning) and it looks like the widget is there. I checked where the app was and it is in fact on my SD card. So there goes that theory. Hehe.
I wonder if others have the same issue and if they found out the culprit. Thanks anyway, Ivanstein.

One thing I've noticed that with no matter what sensation rom I flash first time i download an app the widgets don't show in the widgets menu until i reboot.

Calender widget results in Sense FC

So, I´ve been having the S for almost a week now.
I have the fullscreen calender list widget on a homescreen. And so far everything ran as it should. But yesterday Sense crashed while I was scrolling to that screen.
And since then I seem not be able to get it running as it was before.
Here is what I tried:
- Reboot (of course)
- Remove and add the widget again
- Remove the widget and place it on another homescreen
But the only thing that seems to be working is not showing all used calenders.
So, I suppose it might have somehting to do with the amount of entries in those calenders. Maybe too many or something.
Anyone else has that problem or know a solution?

I've had that in the beginning.
I'm now with the HTC for ~3 weeks and am connected to exchange, Facebook & Google calendars.
I didn't do anything to overcome this so it might be related to some kind of a "broken" meeting in one of those.
Try choosing only one at a time and then scroll and see if it works. if it does continue to add one by one to narrow the problematic one.

Sorry, forgot to mention that.
I can view every single one without any problem.
But when I view all of them together, Sense FCs.
Right now I am viewing all calenders but the weeknumber one.

Just to make things clear for me:
I'm using the agenda widget of there sense, is it the same with you?
Have you tried the Android one vs. The sense one?
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the calendar widget is buggy.
I don't use it anymore since it makes my device to freeze.
I guess we need to wait for an upgrade from htc.

Try resizing it. When it crashes go back to screen that contains widget and quickly put finger on it as though you are going to delete widget. You should now get arrows allowing you to resize. Make the widget smaller. If it is then stable, resize back to full screen again.
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6gex said:
the calendar widget is buggy.
I don't use it anymore since it makes my device to freeze.
I guess we need to wait for an upgrade from htc.
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but again, I used to have it too, but now it's gone, so I suspect it's related to a broken entry in the calendar and not necessarily the application itself.
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absthechatter said:
Try resizing it. When it crashes go back to screen that contains widget and quickly put finger on it as though you are going to delete widget. You should now get arrows allowing you to resize. Make the widget smaller. If it is then stable, resize back to full screen again.
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Holy cow! That really did work!
Well, at least it´s not instantly FCing. So, let´s see if the problem will come back.
Thank you very much.

Yeah the calendar widget is buggy for me also. Resizing did not helped. I ended up using ICS calendar widget..

Happened to me on day one. You can remove the screen in the helicopter mode and then just readd it again.
HTC should really release an update.
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Until there is an update available you might use Business Calendar: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=netgenius.bizcal

I installed the update today, Software numer 1.78.401.2 and so far it seems the issue has been resolved. Haven't tested it for very long yet, but previously it would crash within one minute. I'll report back after at least a full day of use.
Update: The calendar widget hasn't crashed once since I installed the update so I can confirm the issue has been fixed.

[Q] Widgets gone upon deleting temporary HTC files

I have the stock HTC ICS ROM on the Desire S. I was trying to free up some space from the SD card, and deleted the "Temporary files from HTC apps", which was amounting to more than 2 GB. After that the widgets are no more there in the Personalization menu, neither are app shortcuts. The widgets that are already added to some screens are still working, so I suppose they aren't actually deleted, but if I remove a widget I can't get it back.
There is also a horrible lag to display the home screen when exiting from an app, or even pressing the home button.
What could be the problem?

mgpt said:
I have the stock HTC ICS ROM on the Desire S. I was trying to free up some space from the SD card, and deleted the "Temporary files from HTC apps", which was amounting to more than 2 GB. After that the widgets are no more there in the Personalization menu, neither are app shortcuts. The widgets that are already added to some screens are still working, so I suppose they aren't actually deleted, but if I remove a widget I can't get it back.
There is also a horrible lag to display the home screen when exiting from an app, or even pressing the home button.
What could be the problem?
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Firstly, the Stock ICS ROM is awful - it was released more for developers than for daily use.
Secondly, if you insist on using it, then reflash and don't delete files unless you understand what you are deleting and what the damage could be.