Is there anyone else seeing an issues with widgets not updating themselves? I've got a weather widget, clock and date widget and a couple others and they no longer seem to update themselves.
I have found that if I rotate the phone to go into landscape they will get updated but this is just a one time update until I do that again.
I'm running a rooted version of the GB OTA
nm..... apparently it was just ADW.Launcher, went back to the stock launcher and it works fine now.
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When I install an app that is just a widget or has widgets that come with the program they don't show up in the widget list. This has happened before after I flashed a rom. Only the apps I restored from titanium backup would show up in the widget list. And some widgets that I would add to the home screen would disappear after a reboot. Eventually it just stopped doing all this but it has started happening and I'm not sure what's causing it. Any ideas on how to solve this?
I have a D1, Liquid gingerbread 1.3-update1, and GO launcher.
Hey guys,
I'm trying out a few launchers (Launcher Pro in this case) and I was wondering.. Ultimately if you go for a new launcher, you'll always have the stock launcher installed as well.
What happens with the widgets that are on the launcher that's currently not being used ? Do they still update and take their toll on the system ? Or should you remove all the widgets from all the launchers that are currently not in use ? This is a bit of a pain as you have to set it all up again if you wake up one day feeling like switching launchers.
Thanks for any hints
hmmm
never heard of thet
For example, some widgets are programmed to only do the background updates if the widget "has been installed". By this it means, deployed in a launcher. Now if it's on the launcher that is not currently in used, it may still be doing the updates. Dunno...
mindwalkr said:
For example, some widgets are programmed to only do the background updates if the widget "has been installed". By this it means, deployed in a launcher. Now if it's on the launcher that is not currently in used, it may still be doing the updates. Dunno...
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yes...stupid behaviour..how to get around this? found anything?
As far as i can tell, they are not updating if the launcher isn't the one being used.
Interesting avenue of thought though. You could use a task manager to see if the idle Launcher or Widget app were doing any work, if you want to check for yourself.
well in the meanwhile I resorted to the stock launcher and removed all others so I never got to dig into it too much. But I might just for the sake of curiosity! Battery Monitor Widget writes a history file. It's easy to download it, place it in a launcher, and start using the other launcher without the battery widget. Then after a while check the history file and see if it's been updated lately...
However from an API point of view I'm a complete n00b so I don't know if the Android platform is stopping widgets on unused launchers or if the widgets have to contain code themselves to query if they are in the active launcher and if so... run. This would mean that some widgets might behave as expected and others not..
Also posted this over at Xoom Forums. Problem with ADW-EX and widgets
I have a wi-fi only Xoom that I just rooted, and to which I installed the Moray 2.2.2 ROM. I did not have any issues with the installation and flash, but I'm running the ADW-EX launcher and keep having problems with widgets not loading properly (the dreaded 'Problem Loading Widget' gray box). In fact, in setting up Hubs on my Xoom, I can go from one screen to another, and when I flip back to the first screen, widgets that were just working are now not loading properly. This includes some Minimalistic Text widgets as well as Pure Calendar, Music, Mizuu, Gmail, and others. It's very annoying to have to keep regenerating these widgets every few minutes. I have not tried restarting ADW each time to see if this fixes the issue. Backup and restore of the ADW settings does not. Has anyone else had trouble with widgets and ADW after installing this ROM?
Hey all,
I have noticed ever since the new update that when I have go launcher ex running as my active launcher, at times the widgets on my home screen do not update.
Funny thing is, when I auto rotate the screen and then rotate it back to normal the widgets update. I actually have to do this to update them.
Anyone else have this issue with go launcher ex? I have contacted them but they do not reply so I figured to see if anyone in here has the same issue.
I am using the stock launcher right now. The problem does not appear to happen with the stock. Any good recommendation on a launcher to use momentarily that has no issues with the new 4.0?
I have also noticed that Go SMS has issues as well, it will at times not respond. Again with the stock launcher no issues with Go SMS.
It sounds like a bug in GoLauncherEx.
Try Nova Launcher (my favorite)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1389071
Or Apex Launcher
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1452663
Bummer.... I like go launcher ex cause they don't make me pay for the premium app to categorize my app drawer apps in folders....
I've tried Go Launcher and the Nova and I like better the Nova to ICS
Got a new Nexus S yesterday. Came with Gingerbread 2.3.4 but I received OTA to 4.1.1. Phone is completely stock unrooted, but I am running latest version of Nova Launcher. On homescreens, I have Beautiful Weather widget, Pure Calendar agenda widget, and Audiomanager Pro widget.
Every time I reboot, all of these widgets disappear. I have to re-add them.
I've searched the forum and see various other people having the same problem over the past few months, but never saw a conclusive fix. Anybody know one?
Thanks.
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Got a new Nexus S yesterday. Came with Gingerbread 2.3.4 but I received OTA to 4.1.1. Phone is completely stock unrooted, but I am running latest version of Nova Launcher. On homescreens, I have Beautiful Weather widget, Pure Calendar agenda widget, and Audiomanager Pro widget.
Every time I reboot, all of these widgets disappear. I have to re-add them.
I've searched the forum and see various other people having the same problem over the past few months, but never saw a conclusive fix. Anybody know one?
Thanks.
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See http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1788839
I have the same problem with Beautiful Widgets. My guess is because I'm using skins for the SuperClock it fails to load if the USB storage isn't mounted timely. All my other widgets don't use skins which is why I think that way, but I could be wrong.