Cannot change from live wallpaper to gallery - EVO Shift 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

On my stock Evo Shift 4G (Gingerbread), I accidentally cleared data from my Settings under all applications, and now only the live wallpapers work. I cannot seem to change away from live wallpapers now. Any suggestions or am I going to have to do a full reset?

Did you try Rebooting the Device?

Yes, I rebooted, and also tried installing other live wallpapers, but only the HTC ones work.
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I can see that I cannot kill the live wallpaper process. If I try from ES task manager, it comes right back. I can switch between live wallpapers, but I can't get rid of them. What are my options here? Reset, root, RUU? Should I backup using Titanium?
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Aestivalis said:
I can see that I cannot kill the live wallpaper process. If I try from ES task manager, it comes right back. I can switch between live wallpapers, but I can't get rid of them. What are my options here? Reset, root, RUU? Should I backup using Titanium?
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If your Dead Stock and do not want to Root try a Factory Reset. But be warned your will lose your Data. It will take your Device to Fresh out of the Box.

That's what I'm worried about. Is there an easy way to back it up? Through Google or Titanium?
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Google will Backup your Contacts & Calendar. Titanium Backup will do all your Apps, and App Data. But you can only if your Rooted.

What happens if you open the gallery, long press on a picture, and choose "set as"?

It doesn't work with the set as, but I was able to get in under running processes, settings. However, the orientation of the picture isn't right because it wouldn't let me crop the picture, just display it as a slideshow.
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Are you having any other issues? Reason I ask is that it seems strange.

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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
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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
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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?
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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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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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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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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

Launcher Pro on Infuse

I am trying launcherpro since my spb shell seems to lag on my Infuse... I going to the preferences so I can set my number of screens to 7... It asks to reset launcher pro...I choose yes... after a reset, I still don't see 7 screens. I am still at the default of 3.
Any suggestions?
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Try to clear data from it, uninstall and reinstall and try it again
Hi im having the same problem. I even bought the plus app and its still not working for me..
I tried clearing the data and reinstalling but it did not fix
re: Launcherpro
garak0410 said:
I am trying launcherpro since my spb shell seems to lag on my Infuse... I going to the preferences so I can set my number of screens to 7... It asks to reset launcher pro...I choose yes... after a reset, I still don't see 7 screens. I am still at the default of 3.
Any suggestions?
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Really strange stuff has happened with LaunchePro, I had the exact same problem a couple weeks ago and no matter what I tried to do launcherPro would not save settings.
Then 2-3 days later when I was really fed up with it and was about to install a different launcher LauncherPro "healed" itself and started working properly so when I made any changes to it, it no longer defaulted to it's defaults.......
same issue with mine, haven't been able to change my grid dimensions from the default and other settings aren't sticking either.
switched to go launcher ex
Factory data reset and don't try to restore backed up LauncherPro settings. Should work fine then.
I uninstalled the launcher. I'm rooted, so I used Root File Explorer to navigate to dbdata/database. I then deleted the launcher pro folder. Reinstall launcher.
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Is there a way I can access the DB database by connecting to the computer.
I had my iPhone jailbroke but I don't know enough about this rooted stuff.
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gtg465x said:
Factory data reset and don't try to restore backed up LauncherPro settings. Should work fine then.
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If I do a factory reset is there a way I can store all my pic, number, apps, etc
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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.
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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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Looking for some cool lock screens. Can anyone help?

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Can't go wrong with WidgetLocker (it's worth it).
Went to the play store to get Widgetlocker and I get a message stating that my device is not compatible.
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I'm running qqlauncher, not many themes or widgets, but you can get widgets else where.
Well any who, also comes with a very good lockscreen.
ATRIX 2 / Victory Rom
fss421077 said:
Went to the play store to get Widgetlocker and I get a message stating that my device is not compatible.
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LCD Density changed on your device?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=24411305
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Hmm... odd thing. Widgetlocker is not even showing up in a search at the Play Store. I have it installed so it shows up in my installed list with the "device incompatible" msg as well. I installed it from a Titanium Backup.
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I use Swiftkey for my keyboard; something is happening to me with Swiftkey.
ATRIX 2 / Victory Rom
Go Locker is free and has a lot of themes available. I use it (I've even made a couple themes for the market...er..."play store"). And I think you may be able to use it without needing to have go launcher as your default home. As long as you set it up while using go launcher/ go locker, you might be able to switch to whatever other launcher you prefer. I may be mistaken since I haven't tried it myself (I use go launcher), but friends with samsung phones have tried it and can use it with other launchers.
i have the miui rom for mb865,you can go
://bbs.gfan. com/android-3940 556-1-1. html
One of my favorites.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jiubang.goscreenlock.theme.dark&hl=en
Calundle said:
One of my favorites.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jiubang.goscreenlock.theme.dark&hl=en
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I like that one too.
I like being able to change which shortcuts I have available and have more than 3 or 4. That's why I made my own that has 4 app shortcuts and the home unlock. If anyone wants to try it out and let me know what they think, it's free on the market here:
Pentagon Go Locker Theme
KEB64 said:
LCD Density changed on your device?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=24411305
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Thank you!! My LCD density was set at 256. I changed it back to 240; still didn't work. So then I cleared the Dalvik cache and the data from Goggle Play Store and now I can download apps once again!!
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I've installed go locker but the default screen lock from atrix is still active, so i always have to slide open the default first then slide open go locker..
how to disable atrix default locker?
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Go Locker is free and has a lot of themes available. I use it (I've even made a couple themes for the market...er..."play store"). And I think you may be able to use it without needing to have go launcher as your default home. As long as you set it up while using go launcher/ go locker, you might be able to switch to whatever other launcher you prefer. I may be mistaken since I haven't tried it myself (I use go launcher), but friends with samsung phones have tried it and can use it with other launchers.
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ari197 said:
I've installed go locker but the default screen lock from atrix is still active, so i always have to slide open the default first then slide open go locker..
how to disable atrix default locker?
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I think what you need to do is set the "Go Switch Widget" as a Device Administrator. Go to menu>settings>location & security>Select device administrators and then check the go switch widget.
The stock moto locker should not come up (except for when your phone boots up from a shutdown/restart). Let us know if that's what fixes it.
Also, just as a side note, make sure when you install a different theme for Go Locker that you do NOT hit "open" after the install. It will give you an error. After you install a theme, you just need to select it from the Go Locker menu. I've had a few friends complain that a new theme doesn't work, but it's because they didn't read the directions .
hmm..i can't find "Go Switch Widget" under device administrator.
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ari197 said:
hmm..i can't find "Go Switch Widget" under device administrator.
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You might need to download/install it then. The only reason I did is because it told me to. Strange that you didn't get the same message.
If you don't mind, try it out and report back.
Lock Screen Opinion
I would have to say Go Locker. Has a lot of themes IMO and if use the pin to get into the phone don't even have to type the enter key. I just want my phone unlocked faster.
found this cool lockscreen Active Lock Screen on play store.. its pretty neat, got loads of customisations for shortcuts and also a few themes..
Calundle said:
One of my favorites.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jiubang.goscreenlock.theme.dark&hl=en
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Very nice
do i have to use the go launcher to use the go locker? im happy with apex

Missing S Planner APK

Well, the title sorta describes it all. I'm missing the S Planner APK after installing a new ROM.
I think the S Planners actually really good and would like it back, because I use it quite a bit.
Sadly, I can't find it anywhere on the internet. Would anyone be kind enough to upload for me their APK file for it?
Please and thank you.
I think this is what you are looking for...
Thanks for that. Unfortunately it refuses to install. At first it was a conflict with the google calander, and now it just refuses to. I'll probably try and find a way to push it, or manually move it in.
zaslamel42 said:
Thanks for that. Unfortunately it refuses to install. At first it was a conflict with the google calander, and now it just refuses to. I'll probably try and find a way to push it, or manually move it in.
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Have you tried to remove google calendar or "force stop", then install?
Do you use Titanium backup? I can prob pull the export back up files and you could try that way?
copc said:
Have you tried to remove google calendar or "force stop", then install?
Do you use Titanium backup? I can prob pull the export back up files and you could try that way?
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Yeah I uninstalled it with Root Uninstaller. I don't use titanium backup. I've tried using an adb terminal but they don't seem to work the way they should, and I can't find the one I used before haha.
WhatnROM are you using? Does it have touchwiz?
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WhatnROM are you using? Does it have touchwiz?
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No, actually. It doesn't. That never occurred to me, and explains a lot. It's a heavily deoxed stock ROM. But I use X-Note Zero Edition. I'll just find the touchwiz launcher from somewhere and use that.
I am not 100 percent sure but the launcher is part of the whole Samsung experience and hooked into the OS though more than just the launcher.
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alperin1 said:
I am not 100 percent sure but the launcher is part of the whole Samsung experience and hooked into the OS though more than just the launcher.
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Well, I know that you can't use any of the S Widgets on launchers other than the Touchwiz one - even if TW is installed. The dev of the ROM said that the framework hasn't been touched, and that he only removed all the bloat and themed the ROM. So, it could be that Touchwiz is a prerequisite for the S-Apps. Although, S-Note still works fine.
If you have s note then you should be able to get s planner
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splanner
i can't post url.
splanner.zip
S Planner_1.1版.zip
i can e-mail to you.

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