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App that reloads all Widgets after full wipe!

When I do a full restore with TB, all of my widgets are replaced with the dreaded "Widget Missing" error. Some of my widgets take a bit of formatting so this is a REAL PAIN.
When you nandroid it saves all of your widgets and restores them. Why can't an app be written that does the same? Or can nandroid be configured to replace your homescreens just as they were even if you do a full wipe and flash a new rom?

I know launcher pro and adw both have settings to backup your homescreens. Works great as long as the apps are already installed.
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guys i have hboot 2.02 will this work? and can i use cm6 or cm7 with this? or should i just wait for unrevoked

david279 said:
I know launcher pro and adw both have settings to backup your homescreens. Works great as long as the apps are already installed.
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But these will not reload your widgets, only their positions.

davidc23 said:
guys i have hboot 2.02 will this work? and can i use cm6 or cm7 with this? or should i just wait for unrevoked
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Hijacked!
What does that have to do with this thread?

Thinking it is an OS restriction on Android.

devnulldroid said:
Thinking it is an OS restriction on Android.
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I guess my point is that if Nandroid can save widgets, why can't we write an app that does the same? How does Nandroid save them? There must be a file somewhere that tells Android where to place your widgets. Where is it and how do we save it?

mitchellvii said:
I guess my point is that if Nandroid can save widgets, why can't we write an app that does the same? How does Nandroid save them? There must be a file somewhere that tells Android where to place your widgets. Where is it and how do we save it?
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I think that settings are a part of Rosie.apk for Sense.....when we Nandroid, it takes a dump of the whole system and saves it.....Saving the settings of Rosie is a little more difficult and I think thats why we dont see multiple apps in the bottom Stock Rosie launcher as well
^ to my knowledge

mitchellvii said:
I guess my point is that if Nandroid can save widgets, why can't we write an app that does the same? How does Nandroid save them? There must be a file somewhere that tells Android where to place your widgets. Where is it and how do we save it?
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Nandroid makes an image of various partitions on your phone. It's like taking the bag full of goodies instead of taking them out one by one.
Much less difficult than saving and restoring specific settings.

I restored using adw ex and it put my widgets right back in place. In a sense rom and cm 6.1.1.
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I restored using adw ex and it put my widgets right back in place. In a sense rom and cm 6.1.1.
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You mean no little "Problem Loading Widget" placeholders? That alone would be reason to switch to adw ex.
Mitchell's EVO

david279 said:
I restored using adw ex and it put my widgets right back in place. In a sense rom and cm 6.1.1.
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Don't know which version of ADW Ex you are using but I just tested it and it does NOT reload your widgets. I had 4 widgets on my homescreen and every one got replaced by the "Problem Loading Widget" message.
Damn damn damn and I had such high hopes too. Grrrr.
Why the hell is this so hard?

Idk if this is what you mean. I use tb and after batch restoring apps I use batch restore system data but only select the sense desktop. This restores all widgets and shortcuts. For some reason it will overlay two copies of shortcuts/widgets on top of one another so drag the extra to trash. Is this what you meant?
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devnulldroid said:
Thinking it is an OS restriction on Android.
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This isn't an OS restriction. The real way to correct this is to make your default.xml located in /system/customize/MNS. This file is what presets your Scenes, widgets & shortcuts. I can easily remove things but I haven't figured out how to completely figure out how it all works. If someone does figure it out, let me know.

I too have the same issue as the OP... quite annoying since I flash every few days

What are the best apps to have on a rooted (no roms yet) g2x?

I rooted my g2x earlier
And I have no roms because I don't know how to install them yet
But I want yup know what are the best apps for the g2x
So far I have
Titanium back up
Android booster
Bloat freezer (which I don't think it works)
Adfree
Busybox installer (which I don't know how to use)
Astro
mobile manager
Metamorph (which I really don't know how to use or get themes for it)
So if anyone has any input in what I have so far, knows how to use then correctly or has any apps that I need or works better then what I got, please help me
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Titanium freezes apps so get rid of bloatfreeze. I like rootexplorer better than astro, addfree is also good for blocking adds in apps.
MEXICO U-17 WC CHAMPIONS!!

Root explorer is a fantastic app. I also use beautiful widgets and ring droid. As said before titanium backup is the best to freeze bloatware.
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I installed Go Launcher and all the other Go products (most are free). It really brings the phone to life. I also Have lockscreen widget which helps simulate the cool lock-screen to camera/contacts/Music Player function the Sensation has.

Reboot widget. Much more simple than holding down power + volume down.

I use Droidwall. Simple firewall for your phone. Blocks data/wifi access to applications unless you explicitly allow it.

Any other good apps? and how fo I use metamorph? where do I get thee themes for it?
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I'm going to have to second droidwall. Root call blocker is great, too.
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SetCPU- CPU profile/steps changer
Cache Mate NG- cache cleaner
Root Tools- Build.prop.editor and Boot animation changer
AniMod- changes animation effects when changing menu's etc...Usually i keep all animation off so only the top task bar does the animation of flipping.
VMHeapTool- changes Heap size easily to 40 to give apps more breathing room
Spareparts- gives easy options to turn off certain settings
LG/2x Black- turns your LED buttons on and off when you recieve certain type of notifications.
SD Speed Increase- changes default SD of 46kbs to 2048-4024kbs to allow faster read and write speeds. Mileage varies depending on SD card.
+1 for adfree
+1 droidwall
+1 Go SMS
Freeze all bloatware ...only unistall non-essential programs like Tegrazone app if you don't use it.

DSPmanager -makes speaker soooooooo much louder been doing it for months no damage. Use the e q and turn em all the way up except for the first one, play with it while song is playing
APNsbackup- ur gonna need it for some roms if u like having data connection all the time.

Root Explorer and ROM Manager are MUST!
Root Explorer is one of the very best file manager and you can even backup/restore/transfer personal data on /data/data
ROM Manager is associated with clockworkmod recovery. It is another A MUST if you want to do nandroid backup and install custom ROM.
AnReboot can reset your phone if some persistent problem happens (like no signal)

Add LBE privacy guard to the list. It's handy. Use it with droidwall.
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TatuGrim said:
I rooted my g2x earlier
And I have no roms because I don't know how to install them yet
But I want yup know what are the best apps for the g2x
So far I have
Bloat freezer (which I don't think it works)
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Titanium Backup free does not freeze apps.
Try Anttek App Manager. It does other stuff but I use it for freezing bloatware and it works perfectly.

Icons turning to default after reboot?

Everytime I reboot my icons change to the green uploading icons and not to the normal ones. I have to manually remove them and add them again. Another thing i've notices is once in a while distorted horizontal lines appear across some apps. They will not go away most of the time unless I reboot.?

Sometimes my widgets get colored lines in it and i have to reboot to. My.contacts app disappear and turn into to people app all on its on til i reboot. Hope they fix these issues but no updates in site tmobile and phone companies have bad service.
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chapinrico said:
Everytime I reboot my icons change to the green uploading icons and not to the normal ones. I have to manually remove them and add them again. Another thing i've notices is once in a while distorted horizontal lines appear across some apps. They will not go away most of the time unless I reboot.?
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I have the same problem but it only happens with a few specific games every time. It's annoying but I've just stopped fixing it and leave them as the android icon.

Mine was doing this for SD installed apps... Solved in the last update however...
Change the theme and back to restore the icons... marginally better than deleting and re-adding

You could also change the language, go to the main page, change the language back to what is was and it'll solve the problem.

move the apps that are loosing it's icons from sd to internal memory.
few of my games were doing this on reboot.
soon as I moved them to internal, no more problems.
kinda sucks that we can't take advantage of app2sd feature that comes with some of apps but until we get an update that fixes this bug, this is the only sure way I've found.

Mainspring said:
move the apps that are loosing it's icons from sd to internal memory.
few of my games were doing this on reboot.
soon as I moved them to internal, no more problems.
kinda sucks that we can't take advantage of app2sd feature that comes with some of apps but until we get an update that fixes this bug, this is the only sure way I've found.
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Yep, that fixed it after a restart. Why do some games install on the phone and some on SD? There doesn't seem to be any consistency.

jmazz3 said:
Yep, that fixed it after a restart. Why do some games install on the phone and some on SD? There doesn't seem to be any consistency.
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I don't think apps install on the SD unless specified. As for the icons changing on reboot. This has been a problem on Android since apps to SD was implemented.
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Guys try going to settings then manage applications then all then click on HTC sense and force stop it.
HTC sense will reload and your icons will return .This works for me hope it does for you
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cyrarchy said:
Guys try going to settings then manage applications then all then click on HTC sense and force stop it.
HTC sense will reload and your icons will return .This works for me hope it does for you
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I'm having the same problem as well with my game icons.
That worked, Thanks!

My Facebook app on my main screen does the same thing -- I do have it moved to the SD card. Randomly the correct icon/logo appears on it, but most of the time it's the generic Android icon. I've learned to live with it -- maybe they'll fix it someday.

My icons return after a reboot, when I turn the phone off/on.
Got a 5 min wait for new user to post...
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cyrarchy said:
Guys try going to settings then manage applications then all then click on HTC sense and force stop it.
HTC sense will reload and your icons will return .This works for me hope it does for you
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I tried this and it didn't work, until I realized that there were two Sense applications running and I killed the wrong one...D'oh!

I tried to force stop HTC sense and dashboard.... none of this worked.
So I tried changing the theme and IT WORKED!!!! When I restored my previous theme, all the icons went back to normal.
This the easiest non-frustrating method. From time to time, my phone crashes and restarts by itself and all my icons would change.

Has anyone tried using Rom Manager and run "fix permissions" with any luck?

steve841 said:
Has anyone tried using Rom Manager and run "fix permissions" with any luck?
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It is not a permissions issue. It is quite simple.. the desktop icons are loaded before the sd card is mounted and accessible so it can't load the icons and won't retry later. Causing sense to reload in any way after the SD card is mounted will reload the icons. Changing themes works. Killing sense to force a reload works. Using titanium backup to freeze/unfreeze any of the sense Widgets works. I'm sure there are plenty more ways of making sense reload
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Kupfel said:
I'm sure there are plenty more ways of making sense reload
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No need, crashes and reloads often enough itself, lol.
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Can I safely uninstall htc widgets?

I want to uninstall all the widgets that I know for a fact that I don't use. I don't want to freeze them as I rather completely removed them.
Pretty much anything related to
Stocks
Twitter
Music
News
Etc.
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I have and it works. Just go to system/apps and remove what you don't want. Make a backup of ur Rom first in case mistakes are made
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In case I do happen mess up, is fixing the problem as simple so flashing a new rom?
Also, I might use titanium backup to remove them rather than root. Explorer.
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I wouldn't delete - copy them to your sd card... then if all else fails, you copy them back to /system/apps, change permissions to 644 ("busybox chmod -R 644 /system/apps/*"), and reboot... 9 times out of 10 you'll be good to go again.
But any filename that has "widget" in it, you should be ok, as that only affects the actual widget, not the app itself. So as long as you don't want any widgets, it shouldn't hurt anything.
And I wouldn't mess with the lockscreen stuff if you start feeling tempted!

jntdroid said:
I wouldn't delete - copy them to your sd card... then if all else fails, you copy them back to /system/apps, change permissions to 644 ("busybox chmod -R 644 /system/apps/*"), and reboot... 9 times out of 10 you'll be good to go again.
But any filename that has "widget" in it, you should be ok, as that only affects the actual widget, not the app itself. So as long as you don't want any widgets, it shouldn't hurt anything.
And I wouldn't mess with the lockscreen stuff if you start feeling tempted!
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What does that mean if the filename has widget in it?? Then he might as well delete the Widgets on the home screen!
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I basically just meant that any .apk or odex file in /system/apps that has "widget" in the name is tied strictly to a widget. So removing them won't hurt anything at all... unless, that is, you want to use one of the widgets...

Are you rooted running cwm? If so download rom cleaner it is a flashable script to eliminate sense bloat... But keeps sense launcher and lock screen
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Some helpful apps for those who are rooted :)

Bloat Freezer - be careful what you freeze, if you freeze an application that is running you will have to restart your phone up, but otherwise a great app for freezing apps you don't need
ES file explorer- a free version on root explorer that to me works just as well
Rom manager
SD booster
Set PCU
Sqlite editor
Light flow
If anyone else has any they want to add feel free to, just trying to help some people that may be new to this

You can get a app called ROM toolbox that has all of those ^^^^^ built in
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XAviierG said:
You can get a app called ROM toolbox that has all of those ^^^^^ built in
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True, I had just been used to using those apps for so long on my OG that by the time it came out I never played with it that much, a lot of people liked it though!

Don't forget busybox for us command line hackers that are on here.
Jim

jimbridgman said:
Don't forget busybox for us command line hackers that are on here.
Jim
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Busybox is automatically installed with root.

Jimmy273 said:
Busybox is automatically installed with root.
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Only if oneclick is used
I did the manual method with ADB from Llinux, so no busybox with root. Had to install from the market.
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Ah right you are
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quickboot, SQLite Editor, Hex editor, and hackers keyboard!

XAviierG said:
You can get a app called ROM toolbox that has all of those ^^^^^ built in
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That app is super pimp suave. Support the Dev and buy it!!
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Recently rooted. Thanks for the app suggestions!

Bought Rom Toolbox. It is a game changer. I easily spent two hours last night changing fonts, customizing my status bar and tweaking the wifi scan interval. I love, love, LOVE this app.

lordlittlebrooks said:
Bought Rom Toolbox. It is a game changer. I easily spent two hours last night changing fonts, customizing my status bar and tweaking the wifi scan interval. I love, love, LOVE this app.
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That's great to here, because I am in the process of trading my Galaxy S II for an Atrix 2. I missed Motorola too much. I was hoping there was an app to remove the carrier label from the status bar.

I could be wrong, but I don't see anything in Rom Toolbox to get rid of the AT&T wording in the status bar. But what you can do, is change all of the graphic icons (like battery, signal, wifi, just to name a few). Sometimes I would choose a rom just based on these small details! Lol. Now, I can get past that and actually choose a rom based on performance!

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I could be wrong, but I don't see anything in Rom Toolbox to get rid of the AT&T wording in the status bar. But what you can do, is change all of the graphic icons (like battery, signal, wifi, just to name a few). Sometimes I would choose a rom just based on these small details! Lol. Now, I can get past that and actually choose a rom based on performance!
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Thanks for clarifying. There is another app called carrier name that may do it, I assumed Rom Toolbox would do it also. If not I will do it the fun way

Has anyone running lfaber06's ROM attempted to change their CPU values with ROM Toolbox yet? I'm running his ROM/Theme with no issues as of yet. I just changed my SD Boost Value to 2048kb from 1024kb via ROM Toobox (Pro Version) and thus far, no issues as of yet... Anyone else toyed around with this app? If so what have they experimented with? I saw in an earlier post someone changed fonts and notification icons, etc. Anything else? Such as kernal tweaks, etc?