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[Q] Can't set custom launcher as default

Hello,
I read through most of the posts concerning custom launchers but still can't find an answer to my problem.
I have a Samsung Galaxy S running on Froyo. I am trying to set GoLauncher as my default launcher but there seems to be a hickup somewhere.
When I hit the home button a window always pops up asking me which launcher I want to use (TW or Go) and I always tick the box underneath to use as default and then select GoLauncher but the window keeps popping up again every time I press the home key.
I also tried to clear the defaults in both TW and Go Launcher but the buttons are grayed out...so I guess the phone does not store my default choice.
Any ideas?

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GH057257 said:
Hello,
I read through most of the posts concerning custom launchers but still can't find an answer to my problem.
I have a Samsung Galaxy S running on Froyo. I am trying to set GoLauncher as my default launcher but there seems to be a hickup somewhere.
When I hit the home button a window always pops up asking me which launcher I want to use (TW or Go) and I always tick the box underneath to use as default and then select GoLauncher but the window keeps popping up again every time I press the home key.
I also tried to clear the defaults in both TW and Go Launcher but the buttons are grayed out...so I guess the phone does not store my default choice.
Any ideas?
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**I HAD THE SAME ISSUE**
What Worked For Me Was... Uninstalling, & Reinstalling!!
See If That Works!!
Sent from my HERO200 using XDA App

Thanks for the replies.
I tried market enabler, no effect whatsoever.
Reinstalling GoLauncher just made me lose all my folders

GH057257 said:
Thanks for the replies.
I tried market enabler, no effect whatsoever.
Reinstalling GoLauncher just made me lose all my folders
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LOST ALL YOUR FOLDERS??
SORRY MAN, I DIDN'T MEAN TO GIVE YOU A BIGGER HEADACHE!!
When You Say Folders, What Exactly
Do You Mean....
Basically What Type Of Folders,
Is What I Mean?
Maybe I Can Help??
Seeing I Feel BAD Now!!
Sent from my HERO200 using XDA App

PMGRANDS said:
LOST ALL YOUR FOLDERS??
SORRY MAN, I DIDN'T MEAN TO GIVE YOU A BIGGER HEADACHE!!
When You Say Folders, What Exactly
Do You Mean....
Basically What Type Of Folders,
Is What I Mean?
Maybe I Can Help??
Seeing I Feel BAD Now!!
Sent from my HERO200 using XDA App
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Don't worry about it...took me 15min to reorganize them. It was worth the time for the chance of fixing the problem.

GH057257 said:
Don't worry about it...took me 15min to reorganize them. It was worth the time for the chance of fixing the problem.
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Okay, Sorry Again!!
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I have the same problem using htc desire z running froyo 2.3.. not rooted.
Have tried re installing. Tried home switcher. tried other launcher than go launcher ex. Problem still persists..
If anyone has made it work for them. Please share what to do.
Thx

Well.. for me the problem was with the 3D camera app.. for some reason it showed up on the bottom of the list of launcher.. unistalled and presto.. no constant settings launcher as default
Via HTC Desire Z

Have tried everything in this post and none have worked for very long.
I am going to try seeing if the Estrongs "Suite" is installed and causing a problem, but I definitely know this isn't a launcher problem as this happens with several different launchers...I thought it was a HTC Sense issue, but I have now seen (I think) a couple of posts from a Samsung device.
I have the Thunderbolt and since the 2.3.4 update, I have had the same problem. I have read several posts, but no real solution. The Homesmack didn't work. This Really sounds like an HTC issue, but I am still trying to read more posts.

Did you try doing a battery pull? Or going into settings and clearing the stock launchers data and cache?
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Solution
I have Samsung Galaxy S2 -
Applications - Manage Applications - [All] - TWLauncher - Clear Defaults
I think there's also an App called "Launcher" but look for anything with the word "Launcher" in it and clear the defaults
Or try installing "Go Locker" and it'll ask you again which one you want your default to be

WIZZ Widgets

Anyone tried these? very honeycomb look about them
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1111378

i use them, they're quite nice.
i use the calendar month view, and the twitter feed stack. they're very smooth

Wizz just recently got an update to allow for more customization. I think the developer will continue updates to make this a very nice app. I use the Facebook and calendar widgets.

It is exactly the same app as Colorize Widget for android 2.x.x
Settings, etc is the same, even when I logged in on Twitter it said colorize widget.
Looks like someone just copied that program and made it work for HC...?

dnilsson said:
It is exactly the same app as Colorize Widget for android 2.x.x
Settings, etc is the same, even when I logged in on Twitter it said colorize widget.
Looks like someone just copied that program and made it work for HC...?
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Hehe Only coz it is the same person who created colorize widget.

Alex9090 said:
Hehe Only coz it is the same person who created colorize widget.
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I bet he is saying, Ooops!!!!

Alex9090 said:
Hehe Only coz it is the same person who created colorize widget.
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Why make two widget apps with different names???
Well love colorize on my sgs2 and I use this on my Transformer.
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dnilsson said:
Why make two widget apps with different names???
Well love colorize on my sgs2 and I use this on my Transformer.
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using Tapatalk
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So they can make you pay 2 times for the pro version

Does anyone have trouble getting the Facebook or Twitter widgets to update?
I have them both set to update every five minutes. But, even with the launcher screen set to the page on which I have those two widgets, they only update when I force them to manually. Is there some uber-secret setting I've missed?

wow, every 5 min? doesnt that kill your battery?

s0nic69 said:
wow, every 5 min? doesnt that kill your battery?
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I suppose it might if they actually updated.

You mean it actually installs for you. I have tried to install this widget set for months and it always says failed to install five minutes later. I am running stock 3.2 now but tried on 3.1 since the middle of june to install it nearly every day. Emailed the dev but never got a response. I assumed it didn't work on the tf until I found this thread.
I did have a workaround. I sideloaded the colorize widget apk after downloading it on my phone and it worked as long as i wasn't using the stock launcher. Until the update to 3.2 I was using adw ex launcher but the update changed the centering of my circle launcher widgits and as you can no longer access the settings for adw ex in 3.2 for now I went back to the stock launcher.
How did you get Wizz to install. Did you have to sideload the apk? If so do you know where to find it? Colorize Widgits don't work in stock honeycomb launcher. All the other launchers I have tried don't have a way to remove the dock. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

I installed it then reboot. It's working as it should. I like it.

Aranen_Zen said:
You mean it actually installs for you. I have tried to install this widget set for months and it always says failed to install five minutes later. I am running stock 3.2 now but tried on 3.1 since the middle of june to install it nearly every day. Emailed the dev but never got a response. I assumed it didn't work on the tf until I found this thread.
I did have a workaround. I sideloaded the colorize widget apk after downloading it on my phone and it worked as long as i wasn't using the stock launcher. Until the update to 3.2 I was using adw ex launcher but the update changed the centering of my circle launcher widgits and as you can no longer access the settings for adw ex in 3.2 for now I went back to the stock launcher.
How did you get Wizz to install. Did you have to sideload the apk? If so do you know where to find it? Colorize Widgits don't work in stock honeycomb launcher. All the other launchers I have tried don't have a way to remove the dock. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
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I didn't have to do anything special -- just downloaded Wizz from the market and installed. I'm still on 3.1 (Prime 1.6) -- any chance the 3.2 update broke it?

Underwater Mike said:
I didn't have to do anything special -- just downloaded Wizz from the market and installed. I'm still on 3.1 (Prime 1.6) -- any chance the 3.2 update broke it?
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Mine still works on 3.2
Market install on Prime 1.7beta

Just installed on 3.2, it works fine.

It always fails to install. Are you rooted and/or not stock? Mine is completely stock.

Underwater Mike said:
Does anyone have trouble getting the Facebook or Twitter widgets to update?
I have them both set to update every five minutes. But, even with the launcher screen set to the page on which I have those two widgets, they only update when I force them to manually. Is there some uber-secret setting I've missed?
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Yeah, mine aren't updating either. In fact the calendar widget isn't updating either. If it's the 14th it still hasn't rolled over from the 13th. I mean I have the settings set to update once every 3 hours. I even have to manually update twice to get the gReader to update.
I love this app but man, it needs to update.
EDIT: Hrm, I don't know what I did but it's updating now.

Aranen_Zen said:
It always fails to install. Are you rooted and/or not stock? Mine is completely stock.
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Try manual install with this version.
Wizz only require honeycomb and stock launcher

I like the android pro widgets myself.
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Go Launcher Ex - major issue

Last night I was manually updating 4 apps from Google Play and after the 4th updated my Note restarted itself. When it came back to the homescreen it was with a clean install of Go Launcher Ex; 4x4 icons, requests to download Go widgets and none of my icons, folders or widgets to be seen anywhere. Majorly pi$$ed off with it, so much so that I'm back to using TW at the moment. I can't for the life of me remember what the last update before the reboot was but I do know there was a Go Launcher update ready to download after that. Anybody else have this issue, or did I just get 'lucky'?

raines43 said:
Last night I was manually updating 4 apps from Google Play and after the 4th updated my Note restarted itself. When it came back to the homescreen it was with a clean install of Go Launcher Ex; 4x4 icons, requests to download Go widgets and none of my icons, folders or widgets to be seen anywhere. Majorly pi$$ed off with it, so much so that I'm back to using TW at the moment. I can't for the life of me remember what the last update before the reboot was but I do know there was a Go Launcher update ready to download after that. Anybody else have this issue, or did I just get 'lucky'?
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Never faced such issue. But why not use something called "back up", it is exactly for moments like these!

anilisanil said:
Never faced such issue. But why not use something called "back up", it is exactly for moments like these!
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You're absolutely right and it's my bad that I didn't. Still hacked off that it happened though.

Something like this happened to me. The Note restarted on "safe mode". I could read it on the bottom of the screen, a bit transparent so it could be there and you don't see it properly. On safe mode almost all apps that aren't stock are disabled. I had to restart the phone 2 or 3 times in a row to reboot in the normal mode.
When it happened to me I thought that it was a factory reset
Hope this is your case
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rossygnol said:
Something like this happened to me. The Note restarted on "safe mode". I could read it on the bottom of the screen, a bit transparent so it could be there and you don't see it properly. On safe mode almost all apps that aren't stock are disabled. I had to restart the phone 2 or 3 times in a row to reboot in the normal mode.
When it happened to me I thought that it was a factory reset
Hope this is your case
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You sure you dont have a windows Note? Never heard of a safe mode in Linux!
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raines43 said:
You're absolutely right and it's my bad that I didn't. Still hacked off that it happened though.
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I empathize. You don't even have a Titanium back up or something like that? You could restore system settings from that. Just in case. And high time you start having back ups now .

rossygnol said:
Something like this happened to me. The Note restarted on "safe mode". I could read it on the bottom of the screen, a bit transparent so it could be there and you don't see it properly. On safe mode almost all apps that aren't stock are disabled. I had to restart the phone 2 or 3 times in a row to reboot in the normal mode.
When it happened to me I thought that it was a factory reset
Hope this is your case
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Thanks rossygnol, I'll check that out. I'd forgotton how much I don't like using TW!
I empathize. You don't even have a Titanium back up or something like that? You could restore system settings from that. Just in case. And high time you start having back ups now .
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Yep, lesson learned. Always backed up my previous devices but got sloppy with the Note. Starting again today. Empathy appreciated.

only ever had that happen on my old hd2 when go launcher crashed

Go Launcher has now been reinstalled, reconfigured and backed up to the sd card. I best get on and do some work now.

anilisanil said:
You sure you dont have a windows Note? Never heard of a safe mode in Linux!
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I'm not talking abt something I read but something I experimented. It also happened to me on my SGS1

I have a problem even with ADW Launcher EX - lags when you have 3 screens of widgets... Go Launcher isn't my favourite launcher, but has less lags than ADW... I dont know, which launcher shall I use...
Today, I tried SPB Shell - very smooth, fast, no lags and nice - but I don't think it is worth it's price

Problem with last update
Since the last update I cannot use Preferences: the screen shows up one second, then back to the home screen.
Also, some widgets settings do not show up, and I cannot add applications to home screens.

why if i use go launcher ex (active), can't find S-Planner widget in the widget list in home screen, does anyone know?
it works well with TW launcher, widget looks like hidden in go launcher
I think S-planner become one most important app here

TurtlePie said:
why if i use go launcher ex (active), can't find S-Planner widget in the widget list in home screen, does anyone know?
it works well with TW launcher, widget looks like hidden in go launcher
I think S-planner become one most important app here
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I think I read somewhere that the S Planner widget shares some components with the TouchWiz launcher; hence it won't work with 3rd party launchers.

[Q] Changing the Stock launcher to NOVA

Hello,
Today I have flashed Slimbean into Nexus S and it has the Holo Launcher HD as the stock launcher and I dont like it much.
Also I have bought NOVA Prime and its the main launcher I use on all my devices and I want to intergrate it to the system as the stock launcher and remove Holo HD completely. what im trying to achieve is save some ram that native launcher using while its in background.
I have read couple of articles says rename the NOVA apk as the native launcher and place it in system/app folder. but almost everyone replied had said that it leads to force closes. and also I think there's something missing too. what about the app data folder? shouldn't it be replace the native one too?
so can you please guide me on how to achieve this correctly?
Thank you for your time.

suspect008 said:
Hello,
Today I have flashed Slimbean into Nexus S and it has the Holo Launcher HD as the stock launcher and I dont like it much.
Also I have bought NOVA Prime and its the main launcher I use on all my devices and I want to intergrate it to the system as the stock launcher and remove Holo HD completely. what im trying to achieve is save some ram that native launcher using while its in background.
I have read couple of articles says rename the NOVA apk as the native launcher and place it in system/app folder. but almost everyone replied had said that it leads to force closes. and also I think there's something missing too. what about the app data folder? shouldn't it be replace the native one too?
so can you please guide me on how to achieve this correctly?
Thank you for your time.
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If you go to "slimcenter" in the phone settings, there is a place where you can delete system apps. There should be one that is called "launcher2.apk" that you can remove, then you should only be left with nova.

Force Closes repeatedly
123go! said:
If you go to "slimcenter" in the phone settings, there is a place where you can delete system apps. There should be one that is called "launcher2.apk" that you can remove, then you should only be left with nova.
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Thank you very much for your reply. Slim 3.1 didnt have that slim center. but I managed to do this from using aroma file manager in CWM.
but as every other one said, it leads to force closes every time. After the boot, nova repeatedly closing itself.
is this the only method? what about the data folder? would it be the reason?

suspect008 said:
Thank you very much for your reply. Slim 3.1 didnt have that slim center. but I managed to do this from using aroma file manager in CWM.
but as every other one said, it leads to force closes every time. After the boot, nova repeatedly closing itself.
is this the only method? what about the data folder? would it be the reason?
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I have no idea what could be causing the FC's. I have not done this myself. Maybe what I would suggest, is to leave that launcher there, and just disable it from the app menu. I don't think that program uses too much space if its just sitting there.

123go! said:
I have no idea what could be causing the FC's. I have not done this myself. Maybe what I would suggest, is to leave that launcher there, and just disable it from the app menu. I don't think that program uses too much space if its just sitting there.
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for now yeah I replaced it and now working fine and nova set as default. you know our nexus dont have much ram. with marmite bigmem and after disabling all the unnecessary google apps and even by disabling hangouts, moving youtube like those to sdcard, I only free ram around 160 at startup. however thank you very much for your advices.

suspect008 said:
for now yeah I replaced it and now working fine and nova set as default. you know our nexus dont have much ram. with marmite bigmem and after disabling all the unnecessary google apps and even by disabling hangouts, moving youtube like those to sdcard, I only free ram around 160 at startup. however thank you very much for your advices.
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no problem! this phone is showing its age sometimes thats for sure! But its still great, and I would be sad if I upgraded. This thing has treated me well for over 2 years!

Nexus 5 - widgets sync issues

Hi all,
I have had my Nexus 5 phone for a few weeks now and I love it.
Before that I owned a Galaxy S2, running on CM10.2 with Dorimanx Kernel with Nova Launcher.
I really love the N5, it really is a beast and answers most of my expectations.
However, I have recently been confronted to a problem : my homescreen widgets are not syncing/updating anymore...
Not much of them though :
- Beautiful Weather 4 x 2
- Stock Agenda 2 x 3 redimensioned at 4 x 3
- Today 4 x 2 redimensioned at 4 x 3
Before that I also tried on my N5 : Dashclock + Widget Locker and some extensions for Whatsapp, Google Music, Hangouts, Gmail, etc...
Lockscreen widgets worked fine and were correctly synced and updated.
I have noticed that my homescreen widgets are only updated once : when I set them up or when I turn on my device. After a few seconds they stop updating. Even the update button in some widgets does not work.
This is really annoying as I really like my N5 and this is really bothering me.
I have searched through all the web and through the forum and I have not found anything useful. I have tried uninstalling all these apps and reinstall them. I have tried installing them one at a time and it does not work.
I have seen your N5 homescreens in the forum and it makes me jealous as they are really looking good and rely on synced widgets.
Has anyone got a clue ?
Thank you all very much.
Marc

Hi all,
Just a quick update : I have installed Nova Launcher 2.3 Beta and all my widgets seem to be working fine in Nova Environment. Well synced and updated.
Has anyone kept the default Nexus 5 launcher (Google Experience) and observed the widgets are not syncing ?
I have tried to reset the Launcher by going into the app details and stopping the app and resetting the cache and data. It still does not work.
The weird thing is that I seem to be the only one experiencing this issue as I really have not found the problem stated elsewhere. Or maybe for other devices and particular widgets but I have tried all the solutions and none worked.
Are you running Google Experience on your N5 and are you having these issues ?
I do like Google Experience feel and is there another way to reset it ?
Do you have any clues on how to debug this ?
Otherwise, do you know where I can post this problem and find help ? Is there any Google support for this Launcher ?
Thank you all so much for your help !!

mlastra said:
Hi all,
Just a quick update : I have installed Nova Launcher 2.3 Beta and all my widgets seem to be working fine in Nova Environment. Well synced and updated.
Has anyone kept the default Nexus 5 launcher (Google Experience) and observed the widgets are not syncing ?
I have tried to reset the Launcher by going into the app details and stopping the app and resetting the cache and data. It still does not work.
The weird thing is that I seem to be the only one experiencing this issue as I really have not found the problem stated elsewhere. Or maybe for other devices and particular widgets but I have tried all the solutions and none worked.
Are you running Google Experience on your N5 and are you having these issues ?
I do like Google Experience feel and is there another way to reset it ?
Do you have any clues on how to debug this ?
Otherwise, do you know where I can post this problem and find help ? Is there any Google support for this Launcher ?
Thank you all so much for your help !!
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Same issue here...
EDIT
After fighting that problem for 2 days without any luck (tried restarts, reinstalled beautiful widgts, widgetoid etc.) the problem is gone now after posting yesterday into this thread.
Nice.
The only thing that changed since then is that i deinstalled tapatalk - but I can hardly reproduce the problem or solution...
Really a small chance but maybe the OP has tapatalk installed too?

Hi licht,
Thanks for your feedback though you are right, I don't know how I can reproduce your solution.
And by the way, after a successful day on Nova the problem has appeared on Nova now !!
So I guess this isn't launcher related...
There is a pb with Kit Kat somewhere...
How could I debug this ? What is the process responsible for updating home screen widgets ?
Thanks to the community !

OK I've had this problem too.. Very occasionally.. But it's happened in holo launcher..
A restart fixes it..
And I do have tapatalk installed too though am not sure it's related
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Hi letmedanz,
Thanks for sharing.
I have done the restart, of the widgets, of the launcher and of the phone...
I just don't get why it works and then just stops working...
I wish I could find the process responsible for the update and my monitor it.
Thanks anyway.

Having the same issue, i guess it's only a few of us. Have you tried reflashing stock img? i might give that a go.

Actually, on Nova it runs just fine. I think I'll just keep Nova. I'm too lazy to reflash...

mlastra said:
Actually, on Nova it runs just fine. I think I'll just keep Nova. I'm too lazy to reflash...
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Hmmmm don't care for nova, unnecessary memory usage. I thought you said earlier it wasn't a launcher issue?
Will try to solve it tomorrow, perhaps it is as simple as wiping cache? Will keep you guys' updated.

You are right to point that out because I thought it was also not t refreshing on Nova. But it actually did, and for some time now it runs fine.
Thanks for trying it. I'll be checking your results in here.

The only modification i have done is installed AdAway other than that i am stock. Oh i also have gravity screen off installed.

I found out I had this app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=spinninghead.talkingstopwatchlite running in the background still doing a timer, so many hours! =]
Exited it and now my widgets refresh. Can anyone explain how this app would get in the way of the widgets updating?? =\

problem solved
My nexus 5 block sync all widgets:
The solution is, deinstall phone weaver!
Sören

What is Phone Weaver ? Is it a specific program ? Because I don't have it.

I thought it was the stopwatch app i had running causing widget freezes, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
Widgets are still refusing to refresh. Will flash 4.4.2 (clean install) hopefully that helps.
Issue is well documented here http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=28216

See if this works for you guys https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/nexus/uu27aDrcwFs/9L9JRo6kXqkJ
Vladimir Vakhromeev
I've found solution which works for me. I hope it could help others as well.
all that I did is ran in CMD:
adb shell am start -n com.google.android.setupwizard/.SetupWizardTestActivity
after this nexus asked for locale and name again. Then I've put back my widgets.
I had no problems about a week.
Please, notice that it could be done at your own risk!

I tried the above and it seems to be working so far. Post your results =]

So i have found a temporary fix without needing to reboot.
I used https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nextapp.systempanel.r1 to kill all processes and tasks, the widgets start to work! The bug will occur again most likely.
Now when the bug does occur again i just have to go kill the process/task 1 by 1 to figure out which one resets the widgets, probably google search (launcher)
This must confirm there is conflict with ram! any insight?!

Anyone figured out a solution that does not involve booting, restarting the phone or manually running an app? that is no permanent fix. and this is extremely disappointing.