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[Q] GMail and Mail widget not updating themselves?

Anyone else having this issue where the Gmail and mail Widgets just don't update. For gmail I end up scrolling a bit and then it refreshes. For the mail one it sometimes updates and sometimes doesn't. Is there something I'm missing or is this just a bug?

I get the same thing, so it's not just you.

Yup... Same here.
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Thought it was just me.
My phone gives me a notification for a new Gmail, but the XOOM doesn't update. I have to actually go into the Gmail app and hit refresh for it to sync.

arrtoodeetoo said:
Thought it was just me.
My phone gives me a notification for a new Gmail, but the XOOM doesn't update. I have to actually go into the Gmail app and hit refresh for it to sync.
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Notifications themselves are instant and as fast if not faster than my phone BUT the widget doesn't update properly. Sometimes it shows a new email but if I read it it won't show read. It's almost like it refreshes on certain events but not on time based or something odd.
It makes the widget pretty useless since I just use the notification. Hope they fix it soon

Anybody else getting this issue still? I'm trying to figure out if it's a combination of widgets that's causing the problem.

Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. I found that sometimes scrolling helps but that might have been coincidental. Wish I could tell you more.

funnycreature said:
Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. I found that sometimes scrolling helps but that might have been coincidental. Wish I could tell you more.
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Yeah scrolling works every time - when you scroll down it refreshes the GMail app but not the Mail one. That one you have to tap the filters to refresh. I really hope they fix this **** soon - it's annoying for something that's out of the box.

Hey anybody who's reading this
I own a galaxy nexus and am experiencing the exact same issues you're describing.. any luck finding a solution??

You might want to reflash GApps. I had the same issue about a month ago and reflashed and it worked.
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serranom said:
You might want to reflash GApps. I had the same issue about a month ago and reflashed and it worked.
Sent from my Xoom using XDA
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What do you mean by reflashing GApps?... could you explain please?

omricn said:
What do you mean by reflashing GApps?... could you explain please?
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Well let start with are you rooted with custom rom. If you are after flashing the rom you flash GApps (Google app) sometimes you have to reflash again and it fixes the issue.
Sent from my Xoom using XDA

Ok thanks, ill give it a shot
And yeah im rooted, but with stock Rom, so I don't think this is the issue..

Also if rooted there is a GApps fixer
http://goo.im/devs/solarnz/tools/gapps_fixer.zip
Flash that.
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Text Message Issue

So I've noticed that ever since this OTA update from almost 2 months ago happened, my phone has been acting weird with the standard messaging app. When I go to text someone (I know for a fact I'm entering a message to the right person), it automatically sends that message to someone else. Now this hasn't gotten me into huge trouble yet, if you know what I mean lol but its quite annoying! Any advice?
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jumpman1229 said:
So I've noticed that ever since this OTA update from almost 2 months ago happened, my phone has been acting weird with the standard messaging app. When I go to text someone (I know for a fact I'm entering a message to the right person), it automatically sends that message to someone else. Now this hasn't gotten me into huge trouble yet, if you know what I mean lol but its quite annoying! Any advice?
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Yea, this is a problem with the stock mms app. Not sure what causes it though, but i use go sms pro with no problems.
Sent from my TBolt using my f***king thumbs...

yea this happens to me and I am on stock..I got into whole lot of trouble because of it. Go sms fixes the prob?

Either that one or handcent will keep it from happeneing
mbrown3460 said:
yea this happens to me and I am on stock..I got into whole lot of trouble because of it. Go sms fixes the prob?
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got me in alotta trouble... only happend when i ran stock, now im on cm7 and never happends

Thanks going try out go sms

CM_Arcee's ICS Beta ROM Discussion Thread

I feel like it deserves its own thread in the General section as the other one mainly pertains to ICS development.
Anyways, my voice to text was working flawlessly at first but not anymore. Anyone else having the same problem?
And if you're still unsure about running it, here's a short vid on it and how it runs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IInyumYOtu0

anyone have problems receiving SMS after sending one?

jdmcl9 said:
anyone have problems receiving SMS after sending one?
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I haven't. What does it do when you try to send another one?

i get a weird problem that went im in the messenger app, if im typing in landscape and then go back to portrait the screen has a weird black overlay and I cant really see anything... it wont go away unless i restart the app... other than that stuff is running fine
Edit: I think this is a known problem because its an "android 4" app... he mentioned they would be glitchy

mackster248 said:
I haven't. What does it do when you try to send another one?
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Its kind of strange, people can receive my messages but I won't get theirs when they reply. I've tried wiping cache and reflashing but it was still a problem.

JHaste said:
i get a weird problem that went im in the messenger app, if im typing in landscape and then go back to portrait the screen has a weird black overlay and I cant really see anything... it wont go away unless i restart the app... other than that stuff is running fine
Edit: I think this is a known problem because its an "android 4" app... he mentioned they would be glitchy
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Yeah hardware acceleration isn't really fully working yet since its just a hack at the moment. That's why apps that utilize it are still weird at the moment. But hopefully he is able to fix that in the near future.
Sent from my LG-P999 using xda premium

jdmcl9 said:
Its kind of strange, people can receive my messages but I won't get theirs when they reply. I've tried wiping cache and reflashing but it was still a problem.
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That's really odd... Its working fine for me. Does it work fine on your GB ROM?
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The brightness only adjusts the capacitive buttons, not the screen.
Sent from my G2X

zoppp said:
The brightness only adjusts the capacitive buttons, not the screen.
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Really? Brightness works fine for me.
Sent from my LG-P999 using xda premium

Boot loop
I posted on General ICS thread before I saw this one, but I used G2x Scrubber and I have tried normal Factory Reset, and Than I flash CM9 and Gapps( for 4.0), but it gets stuck at the Lg screen and goes into bootloop... I can still get to recovery but I cant get CM9 to work any suggestions?

mackster248 said:
That's really odd... Its working fine for me. Does it work fine on your GB ROM?
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Yeah everything works perfectly on my GB rom and I receive my messages when I go back to my old rom which is pretty strange.

mackster248 said:
Really? Brightness works fine for me.
Sent from my LG-P999 using xda premium
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Never mind. Just needed a reboot.
Sent from my G2X

wifi wont turn on

JHaste said:
i get a weird problem that went im in the messenger app, if im typing in landscape and then go back to portrait the screen has a weird black overlay and I cant really see anything... it wont go away unless i restart the app... other than that stuff is running fine
Edit: I think this is a known problem because its an "android 4" app... he mentioned they would be glitchy
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this should fix that http://kan.gd/1g6l
follow RC on G+

ayysir said:
wifi wont turn on
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Try rebooting.
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The only real issue I have is when I tap the screen, sometimes it'll act as if I'm holding down on where I tapped. Camera works for me now, but attempting to take picture make it not respond, asking me to force close. Still, it's good been good enough to use all day for me.
Sent from my CM9 G2x

does gps work correctly??

Camera doesn't work, any suggestions? It will start up and take a picture but then freezes.

get the camera 360 app from the market. it works perfect for me.

GPS works. Not sure if it's more or less stable than Gingerbread though.
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Zeus

Come on man lets release.
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Prometh1216 said:
Come on man lets release.
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We can understand your excitement, but you know the rules.
It'll be ready when it's ready.
I think ETA Decembwer 25, 2025.
Start Counting
In the mean time,

qkster said:
We can understand your excitement, but you know the rules.
It'll be ready when it's ready.
I think ETA Decembwer 25, 2025.
Start Counting
In the mean time,
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LOL...
Sent from Infuse'd with Aeon.

Release is canceled. To many impatient people
Sent from my Zeused up Infuse 4G

Lol qkster i found a home with aeon so far good Rom.
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Thanks dman for ZEUS v6 of course i am waiting for new release
Last weekend installed Zeus v6 and I really liked it Maximum thanks.
Also Thanks qkster for helping me out. As i am very amateur user, didn't got so many problem with ZEUS v6 (I don't know is there any of them)
Some questions (installed Entropy kernel over Original Zeus infusion kernel)
1. when i start using my phone for normal calling, Temperature goes from 30 to 35 on gaming it goes to 43 is it OK?
2. Is it OK if i stay with entropy kernel of go back to Infusion GB?

Zeus has a lot of mods and tweak, that's the reason I include the infusion kernel.. never ran it with entropys kernel so idk ...plus I don't play games on my phone
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Apps and widgets disappear
I just flashed Zeus 6 last night, and I absolutely love it so far.
I have an issue that I wanted to post in the development section, but I can't (not enough posts).
When I reboot the phone, some apps and widgets that I have on the different home screens disappear. Sometimes a page full of apps is copied to the next page, even over other apps or widgets. Any ideas how I can fix this? Tried reflashing, didn't help. Might just try that again, anyway.
Thanks dman, for such a great ROM. Keep up the great work!

jbilde said:
I just flashed Zeus 6 last night, and I absolutely love it so far.
I have an issue that I wanted to post in the development section, but I can't (not enough posts).
When I reboot the phone, some apps and widgets that I have on the different home screens disappear. Sometimes a page full of apps is copied to the next page, even over other apps or widgets. Any ideas how I can fix this? Tried reflashing, didn't help. Might just try that again, anyway.
Thanks dman, for such a great ROM. Keep up the great work!
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I've had the exact same issue at times with Go Launcher EX on Zeus 6. I switched back to TW Launcher and haven't had that issue. Sucks cause I really like the look and options on Go Launcher EX. Icons kept disappearing and duplicating on mine anytime I did a reboot. Would love to see this issue fixed too.

Uninstall go and reinstall from the market. Fixed it on mine.

bigbob_ftw said:
Uninstall go and reinstall from the market. Fixed it on mine.
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I'll give that a shot later. I downloaded the update after I was still having things disappear after I reflashed Zeus. Worth a try at least. Thanks!

What worked for me was enabling lag fix and a wipe*3 and reflash. Zeus 6 and r3v3l. both did this to me. Any ideas why dman? First rooms that I "had" to enable lag fix for.
You may get away just enabling lag fix. I'm just telling you what I did. I've asked dman and nun a few times but no answers.
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Lagfix is always enabled by default on Zeus... so idk what you did to disable it...
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Yeah, I checked that lagfix was enabled when I did my reflash and it definitely was already enabled like dman said so the icons disappearing has to be caused by something else. Probably will mess around with uninstalling and reinstalling Go Launcher EX this evening. I'll report back with the results I see over the next few days.

It should, I had the same thing.

dman3285 said:
Lagfix is always enabled by default on Zeus... so idk what you did to disable it...
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Probably had the disable-lagfix thing in the voodoo folder? I dunno. 5.2 was happy without. R3v and Zv6 not so much.
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random locks
now this just began after flasing zeus 6 i dont know if anyone has an idea why, every so often like 3 hours or so my screen will turn black the phone will be on i can hear the calls coming in emails messages etc, but the screen wont come back up, i have to pull the battery to get it to work, is it a settting issue maybe i hope..any help will be appriciated.

cubanghost said:
now this just began after flasing zeus 6 i dont know if anyone has an idea why, every so often like 3 hours or so my screen will turn black the phone will be on i can hear the calls coming in emails messages etc, but the screen wont come back up, i have to pull the battery to get it to work, is it a settting issue maybe i hope..any help will be appriciated.
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That's the sod. The issue has been covered. All the lb3 roms seem to have this issue. You don't need to pull the battery just hold down the power button.
Sent from my Zeus powered SGH-I997 using XDA Premium.

ill put my rom to lb1 then

yes i do that sometimes but it just restarts the phone, and sorry usually i read a lot before asking but i use the phone to work, would this be fixed sometime in the future, is this code related or hardware? again sorry for the questionaire i depend a lot on the phone to work.
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[Q] Frequent force closes...lost cause? Help Please!

My girlfriend got her Galaxy S 4G around January and everything was going really great for her. The problems seemed to arise when I updated her phone from Froyo to Gingerbread through Kies. Since then, she constantly sees random force closes, typically while using Navigation, Browser, Contacts, SMS, etc. There is no popup saying "Bla bla has randomly closed...." etc, it just shuts back down to the main screen. Sometimes this will repeat numerous times (trying repeatedly to go to the contacts). I rooted her phone and flashed ICBINB, wiped cache, dalvik, permissions, etc. etc. but the problems have not changed in the least. Has anyone seen or experienced anything like this? It seems like no matter what I do, the phone is just doomed. Only thing I haven't tried (and am seriously considering) is reflashing back to stock Froyo; I don't think she'll mind, as long as she can use her phone peacefully. Thank you for any and all help.

I would try this rom here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1598561
Its using the most recent build of a stable kernel.
Or install sgs kernel flasher and flash the latest kernel from this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1610528
You can find the flasher here.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=neldar.sgs.kernel.flasher

eollie said:
I would try this rom here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1598561
Its using the most recent build of a stable kernel.
Or install sgs kernel flasher and flash the latest kernel from this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1610528
You can find the flasher here.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=neldar.sgs.kernel.flasher
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Thanks! I think I will try that. At first I was kinda waiting for things to iron themselves out but now I'm kinda in desperation mode...plus after telling her how great droids were and convincing her not to get another blackberry, it kinda sucks to have her experience be so poor lol.
Sent from my SCH-I500 using XDA

Hey installed FBs Valhalla mod..all is well so far! Only thing is when she tries to unlock into messaging the phone kinda stutters, media scanner restarts and it says something like "ROM author is so lame he broke voodoo sound app"? Familiar to anyone? Other than that so far so good knock on wood.
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andymetoo28 said:
Hey installed FBs Valhalla mod..all is well so far! Only thing is when she tries to unlock into messaging the phone kinda stutters, media scanner restarts and it says something like "ROM author is so lame he broke voodoo sound app"? Familiar to anyone? Other than that so far so good knock on wood.
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For the voodoo sound bit go to settings, then applications, manage applications, find the voodoo app and click it clear data and then uninstall the voodoo sound app. Reboot the phone and reinstall from the play store.

eollie said:
For the voodoo sound bit go to settings, then applications, manage applications, find the voodoo app and click it clear data and then uninstall the voodoo sound app. Reboot the phone and reinstall from the play store.
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Thanks! Did that and unlocking into SMS still causes the jitter/ media scanner thing... but no more message. Either way better than before...no random force closes knock on wood.
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andymetoo28 said:
unlocking into SMS still causes the jitter/ media scanner thing...
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You have to go in settings under tweaks and set the custom app to messenger. It will stop soft booting then.
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twystn said:
You have to go in settings under tweaks and set the custom app to messenger. It will stop soft booting then.
Sent from my toaster.
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Bingo. Appreciate all the help.
Sent from my SCH-I500 using XDA

Just an update: new from is great and she loves it. Still experiencing force closes, however. Seems the biggest culprit is opening the phone app and clicking on either the contacts or call log tabs. Those love to shut down (with no message) all the time.
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It's actually not force closing...i had that problem before and it would happen randomly. It got to the point where i was trying to quickly select a contact or start a message before it would return to the home screen. I never found out what was causing it though. Try a new kernel. I think it happened less or went away. I haven't had the problem in awhile and i think that was the only difference. I'm on erikmm's miui now and haven't had that problem.
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Or try something like GoContacts EX from the market. It is a dialer and contacts. Theme it. Customize it. I find it a lot better than stock.

Maybe reboot to recovery and fix permissions. Only use a third party app once you get the stock working. That's like putting a bandaide on a cut that needs sutures.

eollie said:
Maybe reboot to recovery and fix permissions. Only use a third party app once you get the stock working. That's like putting a bandaide on a cut that needs sutures.
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If you don't use stock stock dialer or contacts - it is not a bandaide. It's a replacement.

lumin30 said:
If you don't use stock stock dialer or contacts - it is not a bandaide. It's a replacement.
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He stated the forces closes is when opening dialer and contacts. He has been pretty good at giving info on what he is using. So it's safe to assume it's the stock dialer/contacts app.
I don't disagree that using a third party app can/is nice. But if there is a problem with the stock it needs fixed first. Eventually it will create bigger issues if not fixed. Plus the Rom he is on there shouldn't be any problems.
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I appreciate all of your help and suggestions regarding the matter so far. As it stands I haven't had a spare second to flash a new kernel on her phone, but she hasn't seemed to have any problems (knock on wood) since that day; I'm sure it's only a matter of time before it comes back to haunt her, though. I'll try fixing permission for the heck of it, but I did that when she was running ICBINB to no avail.
I'll post an update as soon as I flash a different kernel, but despite all the drama she loves it more than ever!