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Can't get widgets on home screen

Hi All, Help needed. My Sensation XE phone updated to ICS a few days ago, stock unrooted. Since the update I can't add any widgets to the home screen, and have difficulty adding Apps too .
If I long hold on home screen space, I can choose an App or widget but once selected I get thrown out to the centre home screen without success (even if I was on a different screen).
I am able to pin an App from the App drawer route, but can't get widgets from any method. Existing widgets work fine, but can't add any new ones, not even HTC ones.
I raised a support query with HTC, they said it is a "software glitch", and to do a factory reset. I really don't want to do this, I don't want to go through setting everything up again. And as I'm NOT rooted will lose App and game data. As I have a stock unrooted phone I'm not even convinced a reset will solve the problem.
Has anyone got any ideas on how to solve this or a work around?

1) Root the phone. It's super easy and you'll end up with the ability to back up all your stuff.
but if that's not for you...
2) Get a different launcher. (ADW is nice. Go Launcher is popular. Both are available on the market. Both are free.)
You'd have to reset up your home screens, but all of your data and system settings could be uneffected. And I'd bet that your problem goes away with a new launcher.

I may be forced to root, but not ready to go down that road yet. I like the simplicity and security of stock. And if things are going wrong with a stock phone I don't really want to venture into more complexity.
I may try another launcher but again I actually like Sense UI.
I thought there could be a service or program I could restart that would solve my problem. I get the feeling HTC customer service just get everyone to reset at the first sign of trouble.

allupnow said:
I get the feeling HTC customer service just get everyone to reset at the first sign of trouble.
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There's a very good reason that you get that feeling
Factory resetting will fix 99% of software issues that the average dolt causes by doing something goofy. So they recommend it as the go to solution.
Try this.
Go to the settings. Select apps, then "All" instead of 'downloaded'. Find the launcher and clear the settings. If it works it'll clear off all your home screens. But it should reset the application so it'll work like the first day. You won't lose data or anything, just the placement of your icons. I don't know if it'll work without root though.
As for rooting, you can root the phone and keep the stock ROM. You don't have to change anything or install different ROM's. You'd just have the ability to tweak more of the stock ROM if you needed to, and the ability to fix more problems that you're locked out of now .
And there's a chance that wiping the dalvik and cache once you're rooted would fix the problem you're having with the launcher if the 'clear settings' option doesn't work.

hey, 1. confirm that your ROM originally includes those widgets...
2. go to setting-apps-all-htc sense-clean cache-reboot...

Thanks for your help guys. I found the problem which was a troublesome app that worked fine under gingerbread, but not happy with ics. Quickest. Removed it and problem went away.

Issue resolved - uninstalling certain applications was the solution!
allupnow said:
Thanks for your help guys. I found the problem which was a troublesome app that worked fine under gingerbread, but not happy with ics. Quickest. Removed it and problem went away.
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While I tried almost all the solutions mentioned above, this solution worked for me. I removed all the previously installed applications, that were installed before moving over ICS. Somehow, I couldn't narrow down to the exact application that was causing the problem.
Uninstalling these applications resolved the issue and now I am able to add widgets to HomeScreen.
Thank you very much all of you for your help and suggestions.

[Q] Substratum Theme Broke Phone/ Hot Pink Text Glitch - LG G6

Basically, I have no backups, and today updated to Android Oreo on my LG G6. Installed Substratum and Andromeda, so that I could get a theme installed. Bought a dark theme, and followed the instructions to install. Selected 8.0 (though it only listed 2 phone models neither of which was the g6) and started the process. The installation somehow botched, and it never properly installed the substratum theme at all, and after reboot reverted back to the original system theme I had on (and was mostly happy with).
That said, it left certain things on my phone permanently hot pink. Now I literally have for instance in Quickpic all text is completely bright hot pink and it's absolutely insufferable. I've been trying to fix this, remove the themes, revert the settings somehow, for hours. I'm borderline ripping my hair out and I'm miserable thinking about the only feasible solution being a factory reset at this point.
I literally have no idea what to do, and I've tried absolutely everything. Please someone PLEASE tell me there's a way to revert this horrible mistake I've made and stop substratum from causing my text to be hot pink.

literallypissed said:
Basically, I have no backups, and today updated to Android Oreo on my LG G6. Installed Substratum and Andromeda, so that I could get a theme installed. Bought a dark theme, and followed the instructions to install. Selected 8.0 (though it only listed 2 phone models neither of which was the g6) and started the process. The installation somehow botched, and it never properly installed the substratum theme at all, and after reboot reverted back to the original system theme I had on (and was mostly happy with).
That said, it left certain things on my phone permanently hot pink. Now I literally have for instance in Quickpic all text is completely bright hot pink and it's absolutely insufferable. I've been trying to fix this, remove the themes, revert the settings somehow, for hours. I'm borderline ripping my hair out and I'm miserable thinking about the only feasible solution being a factory reset at this point.
I literally have no idea what to do, and I've tried absolutely everything. Please someone PLEASE tell me there's a way to revert this horrible mistake I've made and stop substratum from causing my text to be hot pink.
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I don't have personal experience with Substratum but have you tried this?
https://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/substratum/resource-substratum-rescue-archives-t3652435

Critical Detox said:
I don't have personal experience with Substratum but have you tried this?
https://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/substratum/resource-substratum-rescue-archives-t3652435
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I have not tried that yet and have no experience with TWRP. Could you guide me on what to do, and explain what exactly I'm doing? A brief search made it seem like it required rooting the phone which I can't do on this device, and also seemed like it only really offered full factory reset. Is it somehow supposed to just nuke all traces of Substratum?

literallypissed said:
I have not tried that yet and have no experience with TWRP. Could you guide me on what to do, and explain what exactly I'm doing? A brief search made it seem like it required rooting the phone which I can't do on this device, and also seemed like it only really offered full factory reset. Is it somehow supposed to just nuke all traces of Substratum?
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I didn't know you weren't rooted, Then yea in order to make use of that file you'll need to be rooted as well as having TWRP. What the file would end up doing is uninstalling it completely, Now that I know you can't do that, How did you originally install Substratum?

I looked up some tutorial using another program "Andromeda" that allowed installing and using substratum rootless.
Currently the only thing still affected that I know of is Quickpic the app having all text hot pink. I could get used to it and pretend its just a valve game missing textures... Or somehow someone who knows more than me could find a real solution.

Accessibility Settings Crashes

I "upgraded" to Android 11 and, among the myriad of other issues, I can't open accessibility settings at all. The ROM is stock, not rooted, and opening the accessibility app via the app info screen with the button in the bottom left pulls up a full screen notification that vibrates my phone telling me it detected a baby crying. Accessibility settings don't work at all.
Is anyone else experiencing this? Is there anything I can do that isn't a factory reset in order to fix this? I tried restarting to safe mode and the behavior doesn't change.

WiggleCat said:
I "upgraded" to Android 11 and, among the myriad of other issues, I can't open accessibility settings at all. The ROM is stock, not rooted, and opening the accessibility app via the app info screen with the button in the bottom left pulls up a full screen notification that vibrates my phone telling me it detected a baby crying. Accessibility settings don't work at all.
Is anyone else experiencing this? Is there anything I can do that isn't a factory reset in order to fix this? I tried restarting to safe mode and the behavior doesn't change.
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Prior to your andoid 11 upgrade did you use adb to remove anything?

Limeybastard said:
Prior to your andoid 11 upgrade did you use adb to remove anything?
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Yes, and the accessibility settings were working fine afterwards. I uninstalled things llke Chrome, Facebook services, and the default Samsung browser to name a few. I didn't full on debloat the phone, I only removed things that were actually bloatware I'd never used in the past and won't use in the future. And Facebook. If it matters, I have the unlocked variant of the N20U.
Edit: My next move was going to be pulling up a list of packages somehow that tells me which are installed for user 0 and which aren't to see where the problem lies. But again, I only uninstalled the obvious bloatware such as browsers that other apps would open over my default. Various background services, fonts, themes, etc that are just there but don't use resources, such as the car mode stuff I know I'll never use, was left alone.

WiggleCat said:
Yes, and the accessibility settings were working fine afterwards. I uninstalled things llke Chrome, Facebook services, and the default Samsung browser to name a few. I didn't full on debloat the phone, I only removed things that were actually bloatware I'd never used in the past and won't use in the future. And Facebook. If it matters, I have the unlocked variant of the N20U.
Edit: My next move was going to be pulling up a list of packages somehow that tells me which are installed for user 0 and which aren't to see where the problem lies. But again, I only uninstalled the obvious bloatware such as browsers that other apps would open over my default. Various background services, fonts, themes, etc that are just there but don't use resources, such as the car mode stuff I know I'll never use, was left alone.
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The reason I mentioned this was because I had a similar issue whereby selecting accessibility within the settings menu would result in null,meaning nothing would happen. If memory serves me correctly it was related to samsung keyboard that I had removed, but can't be sure. But I believe you're on the right track to figure it out.

Limeybastard said:
The reason I mentioned this was because I had a similar issue whereby selecting accessibility within the settings menu would result in null,meaning nothing would happen. If memory serves me correctly it was related to samsung keyboard that I had removed, but can't be sure. But I believe you're on the right track to figure it out.
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I did disable the Samsung keyboard. That could be it. I'll give that a go when I get a chance.

Limeybastard said:
The reason I mentioned this was because I had a similar issue whereby selecting accessibility within the settings menu would result in null,meaning nothing would happen. If memory serves me correctly it was related to samsung keyboard that I had removed, but can't be sure. But I believe you're on the right track to figure it out.
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That was it. It was the Samsung keyboard. What a weird outcome for disabling something so trivial. I was trying to reinstall it with the old package name com.sec.android.inputmethod and it took me a while to figure out it is now called com.samsung.android.honeyboard. But once I reinstalled that for user 0 accessibility settings started working again. Thanks for the tip! I guess I'll have to leave that installed then.

WiggleCat said:
That was it. It was the Samsung keyboard. What a weird outcome for disabling something so trivial. I was trying to reinstall it with the old package name com.sec.android.inputmethod and it took me a while to figure out it is now called com.samsung.android.honeyboard. But once I reinstalled that for user 0 accessibility settings started working again. Thanks for the tip! I guess I'll have to leave that installed then.
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Glad it helped. It puzzled me originally also., Found it in the end by backtracking on all the apps I'd uninstalled via adb one by one.

Im having the same problem, how you guys solve this cant install the apk and look like on my case adb is not picking up my ui 3.0 s20+ maybe a complete wipe (which im trying to avoid) thanks in advance

Limeybastard said:
The reason I mentioned this was because I had a similar issue whereby selecting accessibility within the settings menu would result in null,meaning nothing would happen. If memory serves me correctly it was related to samsung keyboard that I had removed, but can't be sure. But I believe you're on the right track to figure it out.
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Made an account just to say thank you so much for this. This was the perfect fix for me and I can use half of my apps again since I can use the accessibility app now. Never expected a keyboard uninstallation to scuff half of my apps.
WiggleCat as well for the honeyboard package name.
For anyone needing an easy copy paste into command prompt, it's:
adb shell
cmd package install-existing com.samsung.android.honeyboard

User1038572 said:
Made an account just to say thank you so much for this. This was the perfect fix for me and I can use half of my apps again since I can use the accessibility app now. Never expected a keyboard uninstallation to scuff half of my apps.
WiggleCat as well for the honeyboard package name.
For anyone needing an easy copy paste into command prompt, it's:
adb shell
cmd package install-existing com.samsung.android.honeyboard
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My pleasure. Enjoy your stay here. Some nice folks.

User1038572 said:
Made an account just to say thank you so much for this. This was the perfect fix for me and I can use half of my apps again since I can use the accessibility app now. Never expected a keyboard uninstallation to scuff half of my apps.
WiggleCat as well for the honeyboard package name.
For anyone needing an easy copy paste into command prompt, it's:
adb shell
cmd package install-existing com.samsung.android.honeyboard
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Thanks for the command. It fixed it for me!

Wow, i fixed successful, thanks thread.

Awesome the command fixed this issue on my S20 FE. Thanks so much for sharing!

Damn! that went smoothly. Accessibility fixed after reinstalling the Samsung keyboard. Anyways if someone still doesn't want that annoying keyboard shown, you can disable it via ADB. The command is
adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 com.samsung.android.honeyboard

Thank you for pointing out that the Samsung Keyboard was the issue.
For those of you without immediate access to ADB, you can also redownload the
Samsung Keyboard via the Galaxy Store.

WiggleCat said:
That was it. It was the Samsung keyboard. What a weird outcome for disabling something so trivial. I was trying to reinstall it with the old package name com.sec.android.inputmethod and it took me a while to figure out it is now called com.samsung.android.honeyboard. But once I reinstalled that for user 0 accessibility settings started working again. Thanks for the tip! I guess I'll have to leave that installed then.
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This saved me by inches from factory resetting my phone. However not long enough to save my whole Macrodroid macros library that i had already uninstalled because it was no longer working since it depends on accessibility services and i was desperate to get a solution. However, i have learnt a big lesson that debloating need to be done carefully if not at all. some apps are critical bindles of other critical functions

Lock Screen Not Working After Debloat

Hey everyone, like an idiot I was disabling some bloatware via ADB (through ADB App Control) and was not careful enough...I'm now facing a serious problem.
For my lock screen, I am still using the old school method of a pattern and after rebooting the lock screen comes up. The problem lies with the fact there is no area in order to enter in the pattern and am locked out of my phone.
Some of the packages I got rid of are overlays which I'm guessing is where the problem came from. Does anyone know exactly what packages I need to restore to get the lock screen back up and running again? Thanks in advance

I'd just undo everything you did, then you'll be sure to get it back.
otherwise just flash the firmware over itself to restore all those system packages that you disabled.
This is why I never debloat. it's just not worth it, and it more often than not causes problems.

I never made a note of the actual packages I disabled because I just did it though ADB App Control. You can easily restore them back but only if the phone is unlocked which I can't do now because of this issue.
Is there a list of all of OnePlus8T's preinstalled packages? Can't find one online anywhere....
Though I know flashing the firmware is the sure way to fix this, I'm looking to only do this as a last resort with all the work to setup the phone would take me again.

Is there a way to flash firmware over the top without wiping data on OnePlus? I know there is for most other OEMs.

Question OneUI crashes

Does anyone else have crashes for oneUI ? Fort me it happens like twice a week on my exynos model.
I'm so disappointed with this phone to be honest. It's stutters now and than and to many crashes in various apps.
I'm assuming must of it is due to Samsung chip.
I have also whacked for nightly restart even thought it's stupid i think.

Did this happen from day one?
If not it's likely an app, update or settings issue.
Still that's pretty unstable... it could be a hardware issue.

vampyren said:
Does anyone else have crashes for oneUI ? Fort me it happens like twice a week on my exynos model.
I'm so disappointed with this phone to be honest. It's stutters now and than and to many crashes in various apps.
I'm assuming must of it is due to Samsung chip.
I have also whacked for nightly restart even thought it's stupid i think.
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try factory reset with disabling of trashy preinstalled apps (disabled 144 on mine ), then install your apps (not restore)
adb app control

It wasn't happened on mine ( SD variant). Try to factory reset the phone, download and re-install all of your app instead of restore them (even with the phone setting). It may help to solve issues

I appreciate the tips but seriously guys, factory reset and redownload of this many apps i have is like a weeks work! I only download the stuff i use (and 99% payed apps as i hate ads). Not to mention i might loose some data thanks to how Android save data. This is not 2010. I hope modern phones are more stable then that.
If this was iPhone then i could simply restore easy but with Android its not as simple.
If there is no other way i wait for some more samsung firmware updates.
It has not happened this week so lets see.
I notice some specific apps are specially bad like LinkedIn hangs allot. Tapatalk wont work even with this forum and gives error. Maybe some of these apps make the launcher go nuts....

Try using a different launcher, to see if that stops the crashing

jhericurls said:
Try using a different launcher, to see if that stops the crashing
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No thank you. I like Nova but i really like to use stock now so i get all my folders and settings saved properly
But i might go to Nova again. It has so much great tweaking...

vampyren said:
No thank you. I like Nova but i really like to use stock now so i get all my folders and settings saved properly
But i might go to Nova again. It has so much great tweaking...
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Only saying it to see if its the launcher that's causing the crashes.

Install latest updates, seems that they finally fixed the problem

peetereczek said:
Install latest updates, seems that they finally fixed the problem
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Yes there has been 2-3 updates since last time and so far it has not crashed so it seems to be fixed. Cheers