[Q] ADW Red - Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi
I tried ADW Red theme, did not like it therefore removed it. In fact it refuses to go.
So now, I cannot change theme on my ADW EX, not even go back to the original one. I get a reddish background from the Red theme.
The most annoying is the fact that it has removed all my widgets, and is disturbing others applications.
I uninstalled it via Market, but it is still there on the screen and icons.
What can I do to rectify this? I am really peeved.
Thanks
T.

ThomasAstor said:
Hi
I tried ADW Red theme, did not like it therefore removed it. In fact it refuses to go.
So now, I cannot change theme on my ADW EX, not even go back to the original one. I get a reddish background from the Red theme.
The most annoying is the fact that it has removed all my widgets, and is disturbing others applications.
I uninstalled it via Market, but it is still there on the screen and icons.
What can I do to rectify this? I am really peeved.
Thanks
T.
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Did you go into the ADW. Settings to change your icons, etc? Next I would suggest that you should delete data and cache from the app. (but you said you uninstalled it). Last I would recommend that you do a factory reset from within your settings menu, which will wipe all of your data and settings but will also let you start over. I'm assuming that you're unrooted stock,

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[Q] oops, trashed out ADW

I have an Optimus M from MetroPCS and I installed ADW. While playing around with the settings, I accidentally deleted the last home screen, so now I'm stuck in a Force Close loop for ADW. I can't get to the home screens (I guess there aren't any), I can't get to the ADW settings, etc. The only thing I can get to is the notification bar. So I can't bring up any programs or anything, including the terminal. USB debugging isn't enabled and I can't get to that setting to enable it, so I don't think I can use adb to help.
Is there anything I can do to get out of this loop? I used to know how to hack my way around a T-Mobile G1 (installing custom recoveries, roms, etc.), but with this Optimus M I don't even know how to flash the stock firmware back on it. I'm not sure how to do a factory reset, but I'm not even sure if that would work anyway, since I may have deleted the custom launcher that came with the phone and I don't know if it has the stock launcher (or any way to enable the stock launcher if the LG launcher isn't there).
Can I get to a terminal from the recovery console and delete the ADW settings file or something to get it to go back to default settings? I even have a good backup of good ADW settings I made before I made the changes but I can't get to a point where I can restore those settings.
Any ideas?
bjquinn said:
I have an Optimus M from MetroPCS and I installed ADW. While playing around with the settings, I accidentally deleted the last home screen, so now I'm stuck in a Force Close loop for ADW. I can't get to the home screens (I guess there aren't any), I can't get to the ADW settings, etc. The only thing I can get to is the notification bar. So I can't bring up any programs or anything, including the terminal. USB debugging isn't enabled and I can't get to that setting to enable it, so I don't think I can use adb to help.
Is there anything I can do to get out of this loop? I used to know how to hack my way around a T-Mobile G1 (installing custom recoveries, roms, etc.), but with this Optimus M I don't even know how to flash the stock firmware back on it. I'm not sure how to do a factory reset, but I'm not even sure if that would work anyway, since I may have deleted the custom launcher that came with the phone and I don't know if it has the stock launcher (or any way to enable the stock launcher if the LG launcher isn't there).
Can I get to a terminal from the recovery console and delete the ADW settings file or something to get it to go back to default settings? I even have a good backup of good ADW settings I made before I made the changes but I can't get to a point where I can restore those settings.
Any ideas?
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Keep pressing home key and check if you have market running. If so, go there and install ADW launcher again or launcherPro
Thanks for the suggestion. In my case, I couldn't get the little "running apps" view to show up while holding down the home button either, but I was able to get to the market a different way. I don't know how many other people will run into this exact issue, but I've fixed it, and here's what I did for posterity's sake.
1. Get out of the force close loop. The way I did this was to pull down the notifications bar and I happened to have Cardio Trainer running in there so I could get to some program OTHER than the launcher itself so the home screen wasn't attempting to load. If you don't have anything running in your notification bar, you might send yourself a text message so you can get in the messaging app through the notification bar.
2. Press and hold the search button, this brings up voice search. Say something (anything), which will bring up a Google search.
3. Now search for ADW Launcher. What you're looking for is a site that will offer you a "download" link, which will load the Market.
4. Uninstall the launcher and immediately reinstall it. Fortunately, ADW wipes out its settings when you do this, and all should be back to normal.
5. Don't delete your last home screen again. In my defense, I clicked the little X to delete my last home screen just to see what it would say, and figured it was safe since it always asked me to confirm before deleting the other home screens. Nope, it just killed ADW forever instead. Lesson learned.

[Q] Sense Woes

I am sorry if this is a repeat post but, I have had to switch from using
sense on my Sensation to Launcher Pro.
Everytime I would end an application or press the home button
I would get a white background with green HTC logo and a
spinning wheel, sometimes as long as 30 seconds before sense
would reload itself....At first it didn't bother me but, yesterday it
did it during a call.
Has anyone else experienced this? or found a solution?
Any Ideas suggestions rants monologues or one sided conversations would
be appreciated..ok maybe not the last one..
Thanks
I suggest you format your phone. Back it up first and then format it. Then install it. I think you should Go Launcher IMO. I use it and it's really good.
Did you make sure go into Application settings and clear the default on HTC Sense then set Launcher Pro as the default launcher?
I use ADW EX btw
It appears to run better now that I have LP as the home launcher.
Just a shame because I like the sense interface.
I used some themes for sense that I downloaded and it did the same thing. It did not like those themes. After uninstalling them and a few reboots, everything is back to normal. Have you used different themes?
Yes, I have... I'll attempt to put it back on the original theme that came
with the phone and reboot..See if that takes care of it.
Thanks

[Q] Issues with apps?

Everytime I try to us an app with a theme, like fancywidgets or beautiful widgets, the theme always resets, and i've noticed my widgets on my Golauncher app also don't refresh even though they're set to, and the same goes for my weather on Fancy, or on beautiful. I have to manually refresh them even though they are set to do to so.
I'm on the stock 2.2 that's rooted, and I've noticed that it does that "media" scanning crap and then the themes are gone and it stops refreshing.
Anyone know how to fix this issues? When I was using MIUI It never happened.

[Q] ADW EX Help

I got ADW EX since it is 10 cents today and I don't know how to make it my default. My Xoom is not rooted and running 3.2.1.
After I install ADW EX and press the home key nothing happens. The screen just gets dark, going to neither launchers. I go into Applications and the option to clear defaults for both stock/ADW EX are not highlighted/doable. They are blacked out. I can only clear data on both of them. I installed Launcher Switcher and it says no default set but it won't let me pick either launcher. I then installed Home Switcher and it again said no defaults set but this time I was able to pick ADW EX as my default. BUT, even after doing that, after I press the home key it goes nowhere again, nothing happens, dark screen.
I restarted my Xoom and after boot animation the screen was black, I could only see the bottom bar where the back/home/windows and time are. Neither stock or ADW EX was launched after I restarted. I had to go into Settings, Applications and open ADW EX to get it to come up. I then uninstalled ADW EX and pressed the home key which brought up the stock launcher. Hunky dory. I reinstalled and the same problems happened.
I searched the forums and looked online but I don't know what to do. I can manually go back and forth between launchers but that's not what I want... I just want ADW EX to work when I press the home key! I suck lol. Could someone please help me? Thank you in advance!
There may be two different issues in play, but if you are stuck with the stock launcher as default, go into settings, apps, choose the stock launcher and on the bottom of the page you should be able to uncheck default. Then if you have ADW installed, you should get the dialog box to choose the default launcher. If the screen dims and does nothing, just rotate your Xoom (i.e. landscape to portrait) and the dialog box should popup.
It could be related to another App you have installed. I did a Google search and some one else had a similar problem on an Incredible 2 where they couldn't set a launcher and it turned out to be a keyboard app causing issues.
I have a similar problem too. After installing the adw launcher I can no longer open links or office documents, or execute any other commands that require a selection via a dialog box. I tried uninstalling the launcher app, but that only fixes the home button not the other things. I already tried resetting all the defaults using the several apps in the market, but that doesn't worked. any help would be greatly appreciated.
whenever I click on an internet link or try to open an office document that I downloaded the screen dims down as it would whenever a dialog box appears except no box shows up.
rgloria12 said:
I have a similar problem too. After installing the adw launcher I can no longer open links or office documents, or execute any other commands that require a selection via a dialog box. I tried uninstalling the launcher app, but that only fixes the home button not the other things. I already tried resetting all the defaults using the several apps in the market, but that doesn't worked. any help would be greatly appreciated.
whenever I click on an internet link or try to open an office document that I downloaded the screen dims down as it would whenever a dialog box appears except no box shows up.
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Enable Autorotate and rotate your Xoom when the screen dims. It's a Honeycomb bug.
okantomi said:
Enable Autorotate and rotate your Xoom when the screen dims. It's a Honeycomb bug.
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thank you. It worked like a charm. I feel bad for blaming the adw launcher for this issue, I was about to leave a bad review...
rgloria12 said:
thank you. It worked like a charm. I feel bad for blaming the adw launcher for this issue, I was about to leave a bad review...
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I'm glad you didn't leave a bad review...I love ADW...
Ouch! If only I had read this yesterday before I wiped my Xoom and tried to reload all my launchers, only to find the problem still existed. :-(
The auto rotate worked like a charm.
Geesh.
Sent from my Sick Sense EVO 3D!

Lock-screen wallpaper doesn't change anymore after tweaking

Via ADB, I uninstalled some of the bloatware (only the recommended/safe apps) from my brand new Poco X3 NFC. Now the lock-screen wallpaper stays the same, no matter which one I choose. (I already rebooted and shut down the device a couple of times, though.)
I can change the home screen wallpaper normally (using the Wallpaper icon at the bottom left, which appears after tap&hold on home screen), but if I choose to apply the change to both home&lock screens or to lock-screen only, nothing changes.
One interesting thing is that tapping on "Wallpapers" in Settings doesn't do anything anymore.
Any idea about what could have gone wrong?
Did you solve this? the problem is definitely with removing some Xiaomie app, but which one and how can we get it back?
fshuk said:
Did you solve this? the problem is definitely with removing some Xiaomie app, but which one and how can we get it back?
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I had this a few year ago when I changed the launcher. MIUI wouldn't allow me to change the lock screen wallpaper when I used Nova Launcher
I guess it was Nova Launcher then, I think I was experimenting with it as well. But I don't have this phone anymore, though.
I too had the same situation until I reinstall the com.miui.miwallpaper package.
PS: The apk from the sites were not working for me so I got it via my friend who has a Redmi Note 10 Pro.

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