Very very strange deal here.
So I decided to flash a KangKat rom from Cataclysm after a full wipe and everything went smooth.
However, I noticed I was missing a shortcut in my app drawer for Camera.apk?
I checked settings to see if the actual app was installed, and it was. There just happened to not be an icon for it anywhere on the launcher.
That meant there was no way for me to get to my camera app besides launching it from the gallery.
I flashed back to KangKat and I had the same issue. Then to Cataclysm once more, and you guessed it, no Camera.apk.
Is there something I'm missing?
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I have a problem. The launcher I'm using is crashing after the latest update. I mean, I can't do a single thing about it. Homebutton->force close repeat. Is there any way I can get into settings without a homelauncher? I need to force it to stop being default, uninstall it, something. Any ideas? I have quick settings pinned to long press search, but I can't find a link to the full settings app there either. My phone is completely useless right now. I can make emergency calls from the lockscreen, but that is it.
Can you get to the market?
I had a similar problem the other day and luckily, a notification popped up indicating that I had updates for aps available. I got the to the market from the notification pull down menu. Once there, I DL'd "Launcher Pro" and "Home Switcher". Once they were both installed, I launched "Home Switcher" from the pull down notification menu and switched my default launcher to "Launcher Pro".
If you can get to the market, this might work for you too.
You can use adb to install another launcher or create a cwm zip file to flash in recovery which will copy the apk. Also, as the other poster stated, getting into the market you could dl another. Not sure if using the market website on your computer would work as I haven't used the feature but it may.
Yeah, what those guys said, try going to http://market.android.com on your computer and see if you can push some other launcher to your phone. If you can't and everything else fails, and you want to try repairing your rom without losing your data, you can download the cwm flashable zip of the rom you're running and edit the update script in META-INF to not format the data partition, then reflash the rom. Pretty sure that'd work on any 2.2 based rom, not sure how well that'd go over on CM7.
Thanks for the responses. The web market would probably have worked as well. I ended up remembering I had swipe pad enabled, and just changed a box to settings. Was just coming to update the post. Wish android had a feature that would, if an app launched and closed x number of times, it would stop launching it/clear it from defaults.
Anyone know how to fix Quickpic - when I tap the icon on the home screen it opens up messaging instead of the picture gallery. I tried deleting the icon and replacing it and it does the same thing. I downloaded the latest update from the market and that corrected it for a minute. I closed it and reopened it and it goes back to messaging again.
Are you running a custom rom? try reflashing it if so
Yes I am. Ill reflash and see what I get. Thanks
I've had a few android phones, but so far I have not run into this issue with any of them. I am running stock + root (though the issue was happening before root) and every once in a while I'll notice an icon is missing from one of my home screens.
Typically, it's been my Scrabble icon that goes missing. Sometimes it will be TouchDown or Words With Friends that disappear, or it will be a widget. Has anyone encountered this?
I've tried doing a reset of the phone, but still run into the same thing after a few days. I have checked to make sure that an update was not done to the app, turned off auto-updates for any of the affected programs that I've noticed so far, but still I find that the icon disappears.
I'd appreciate any input as to a way to find out when/how the icon was deleted from the screen. Since I'm the only one that uses my phone, I don't think it's being dropped accidentally by someone else. I do know that I have used an app's icon before going to bed, but when I wake up the next day, it or one of the others that was there is gone.
Have you moved any of these apps to the SD card?
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Nope, not running anything from the SD card. I use it mainly for moving music and the occassional movie between two different devices.
That was happening to me too on stock 2.3.6 but after I flashed sky ics ROM it fixed it
onearmedscissor said:
That was happening to me too on stock 2.3.6 but after I flashed sky ics ROM it fixed it
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it has happened on every single rom. including skyics....skyics does it the least out of any ROM I've used...but it still does it...i have 155 apps installed...every other reboot I end up with 150 or less....
and I could reboot again...and lose more apps...i have to reinstall them...sometimes they will all come back after a reboot
NONE are moved to SD, default install location.
this is the only droid that has done that...it's really weird.
So... I had no problems with my(second) idol 3, all was well and dandy. But recently the colours on the screen became more saturated, almost like an amoled display, followed by a significant decrease in performance. Nothing is changed, no root no nothing. Totally stock, except for the launcher. That would be Nova launcher and I used it since the day I got the phone with no problems. What the hell happened and has anyone else experienced this?
Random restart happened today and all my wifi passwords are lost.
in which app the colors are saturated? stock gallery app?
All over the phone. Not just the gallery. Perhaps the gallery is the fault for it?
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All over the phone. Not just the gallery. Perhaps the gallery is the fault for it?
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i asked the gallery 'cause on my idol mostly (but not the only one) the gallery app that distorts color badly... have you tried a CM rom? in my case there is no color distortion on CM at all so the stock rom obviously has the wrong color balance settings
check this
https://www.reddit.com/r/idol3/comments/4g9ld9/distorted_colors_in_stock_gallery_app/
Yeah, I know about the gallery app too. Can't really install a CM rom due to warranty, it's only two monts old. I'm sure that the problem can be solved with a full wipe but that is not the answer I'm looking for.
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I'm sure that the problem can be solved with a full wipe but that is not the answer I'm looking for.
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I doubt that a wipe can solve errors like this. I did it a few times, restored firmware with Mobile Q, color distortions on stock ROM never disappeared. Best experience was with Color Balance app from Play Store. It's just too expensive for my budget.
I have tried wiping cash but to no avail. The performance has slightly improved during the day but has returned back to garbage now. This is so annoying. Is there a way to check the "settings" for this without root? Maybe something in build.prop or such?
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I have tried wiping cash but to no avail. The performance has slightly improved during the day but has returned back to garbage now. This is so annoying. Is there a way to check the "settings" for this without root? Maybe something in build.prop or such?
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without root you can't do any really useful. if you don't want to install cm, check this app (earlier i made a mistake with its name):
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.uk.quickdoc.screenbalance&hl=en
If it can stop color distortion, at least you'll know that the phone hardware itself is correct, just the stock rom sucks.
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just read the new symptoms, at first i'd make a full reinstall with mobile upgrade q, if it doesn't solve anything, i'd go to a cm rom.
The problem seems to have fixed itself. I don't know what happened. All it's buttery smoothnes has returned after an accidental tap on the gallery app. The saturation has returned to normal too. I'll check out the app link for good measure. Thanks for all the help. How does one close a thread?
Guess I spoke too soon. The phone just did something of a restart. The whole boot animation happened but none of my open apps(gmail and chrome) have closed once it booted. Very strange.
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The whole boot animation happened but none of my open apps(gmail and chrome) have closed once it booted. Very strange.
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that's normal, opened apps don't disappear from 'recent apps' after a reboot on lollipop.
however a reboot just from nowhere isn't normal.
jani0417 said:
that's normal, opened apps don't disappear from 'recent apps' after a reboot on lollipop.
however a reboot just from nowhere isn't normal.
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I did not know that. Guess I will have to do the mobile upgrade q procedure. I'll give it a few days before I do that though.
Welp. I've given it some days and the problem has not returned. Also, a fun thing i didn't mention. This replacement idol 3 is not exactly the same as the previous one. For example the camera lenses had a green tint on the first one, but on this one they're blue. And the logo niw sits flush with the surface instead of being pushed more inside.
Hey guys. I've had this issue since October, and it's yet to go away. My app drawer in the Pixel Launcher is really choppy as I scroll. Whether I scroll quickly or slowly, it looks terrible. Tons of lag. I was hoping that this would go away with updates, but I'm now on 8.0 and still no difference. The only thing that seems to make it better or worse is the number of installed apps. The less in the drawer, the less it lags.
I've done some Googling, and it doesn't seem like an issue for anyone. Still, I thought I'd ask. Anyone else have this issue? Any idea how to fix it? Thanks.
Nobody?
Other than clearing cache and data under pixel launcher (settings-apps) and rebooting perhaps start with a fresh install
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I know this is old but I figured out on my phone it was a setting for dashlane password manager. Turn off any settings that involve accessibility options for all apps... In dashlane I think it was called auto login for all apps. But I would assume similar options from other apps cause the same issue because it's a service that runs constant in the background.
I had a similar issue. My setup was, I installed the cracked ver. of Pix 2 Launcher on Pix phone all went well until I upgraded with the full OTA with month security patch. I tried going back to Pix launcher but got numerous FCs.
Eventually, I had make a clean wipe with factory image.