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Icons position mess up

Hi
Every time I reboot my SGS, my icons/programs have rearranged so that they are not in the same position as I have put them. I try to organize my icons so that I have games in one window and musicrelated stuff in another an so on...
Any idea what's going on?
I have updated to lastest firmware, but it also happend prior the update.
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Not even one with the same issue?
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Yes, I have the same problem. Also want to organize icons in seperate windows but sometimes they move.
Same problem on JPA and JPO (not sure if I had this on JM1)
EDIT: It seems to also happen when I install new applications, don't even have to reboot to see the problem.

same problem here
Hi My girlfriend has the same problem with messing up the icons, anyone a solution for this?

Me too.. i have this problem. But no big deal =)
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Pierreken said:
Yes, I have the same problem. Also want to organize icons in seperate windows but sometimes they move.
Same problem on JPA and JPO (not sure if I had this on JM1)
EDIT: It seems to also happen when I install new applications, don't even have to reboot to see the problem.
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Do you by any chance use the customized TWLauncher (tgt)?
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g00ndu said:
Do you by any chance use the customized TWLauncher (tgt)?
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nope ootb official android on galaxy s with the app "apps organizer"

Just for info are these the apps which are on the SD card? If yes, then move these to phone. Just a shot in the dark. Thought it might work.
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no, all installed apps get mixied up...

Hi,
having the exact same problem as described. Tried different versions of Darky's ROM, currently running on 9.3. Extreme. But also experienced on 9.2. Can't remember if it occured on preinstalled Samsung Froyo.
Isn't there really any solution to this ? It's really annoying not to have an option to sort your icons when they keeps messing up after reboot.
What ROMs are you having, guys ?

Hi,
having the exact same problem as described. Tried different versions of Darky's ROM, currently running on 9.3. Extreme. But also experienced on 9.2. Can't remember if it occured on preinstalled Samsung Froyo.
Isn't there really any solution to this ? It's really annoying not to have an option to sort your icons when they keeps messing up after reboot.
What ROMs are you having, guys ?

Looks like lots of things can move your icons update of apps can shift stuff around .
But if you are not updating> factory resetting etc then the apps should stay where they are on a stock rom after a reboot .
jje

Solution
Guys, this issue has a relatively simple solution, the problem is with your touchwiz not saving correctly setting, do the following:
Go to Settings > Applications > All
In here, go find TwLauncher and click it, DON'T click force stop now just click the "clear data" button.
After this, your icons will mess around again, ordered alphabetically, just restart phone.
That should do it, next time you organize your apps they should stay where you left them.
I hope it help you guys, cheers!
EDIT:
If the above wasn't enough (in most cases it should), you can try to get Root Explorer and go to:
/dbdata/databases/
find the com.sec.android.app.twlauncher folder and delete it.
This is harmless, but it will again order alphabetically your apps, this folder will be restored again on next boot, so restart phone after.

gtluis said:
Solution
Guys, this issue has a relatively simple solution, the problem is with your touchwiz not saving correctly setting, do the following:
Go to Settings > Applications > All
In here, go find TwLauncher and click it, DON'T click force stop now just click the "clear data" button.
After this, your icons will mess around again, ordered alphabetically, just restart phone.
That should do it, next time you organize your apps they should stay where you left them.
I hope it help you guys, cheers!
EDIT:
If the above wasn't enough (in most cases it should), you can try to get Root Explorer and go to:
/dbdata/databases/
find the com.sec.android.app.twlauncher folder and delete it.
This is harmless, but it will again order alphabetically your apps, this folder will be restored again on next boot, so restart phone after.
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Did this work for anybody?

Guys, this issue has a relatively simple solution, the problem is with your touchwiz not saving correctly setting, do the following:
Go to Settings > Applications > All
In here, go find TwLauncher and click it, DON'T click force stop now just click the "clear data" button.
After this, your icons will mess around again, ordered alphabetically, just restart phone.
Tried that phone froze switched off powered on and it factory reset wiping some of my apps and all my contacts .
Not a problem cook another rom in Rom kitchin .
jje

Clearing the data worked for me! Thank you very much!

Didn't try deleting com.sec.android.app.twlauncher but instead clearing works. More feedback pls

I had the problem, changed ROM and solved.

[GB 2.3.4 HKTW Bug Thread]

I for one would like a thread where I can go to see what bugs people are encountering with this build. So far since yesterday things got kinda crazy here and I know it's gonna be a while before it calms down but please post all bug encounters here.
I think it would tidy up a bit of off topic posts
Current CONFIRMED bugs:
Fingerprint scanner not working
Front facing camera always sideways
*If there is another thread for this please remove

my gps would not lock.

Entertainment center not working

Fingerprint scanner force closes as well as "Battery & data manager" for some reason.

LayzeeEyez said:
Fingerprint scanner force closes as well as "Battery & data manager" for some reason.
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Did you restore system apps with TiBu? That caused alot of FC for me, including Battery & Data manager...

jiggytom said:
Did you restore system apps with TiBu? That caused alot of FC for me, including Battery & Data manager...
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I did with some system apps but those weren't included, TiBu shows I have the 2.3.4 versions of both Battery/data manger and Fingerprint sensor.

does gps work for anyone else?

GPS works perfect, even faster lock-on with 2.3.4 versus 2.2.2.

Anyone try searching a contact and selecting one to make a call? I get a force close

mms doesnt work.

rdubyah said:
GPS works perfect, even faster lock-on with 2.3.4 versus 2.2.2.
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you do anything special to get it to work? mine would just search for a location the whole time and not come up with one.

stratax said:
mms doesnt work.
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Did you set up your APN's? mms works for me but every time I receive one I get a force close. Handcentstays open and I receive the mms but aforce close window comes up for Text Messaging

geishroy said:
you do anything special to get it to work? mine would just search for a location the whole time and not come up with one.
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Is web working? I had the same problem on 3g until I realized I didn't have my apn set up.

SolidHelix said:
Anyone try searching a contact and selecting one to make a call? I get a force close
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Worked fine for me, was able to call and everything.

Car Dock Force Close
Webtop broken (use web top fix in development section)
HTTP Music Streaming still broken (Stream HTTP from like Plex)

SolidHelix said:
Did you set up your APN's? mms works for me but every time I receive one I get a force close. Handcentstays open and I receive the mms but aforce close window comes up for Text Messaging
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I would do further research into it but i dont really feel like it atm. my phone isnt rooted for some reason even though after i installed gb i re rooted it so right now im too lazy to redo that then titanium backup lol. text work fine though. yeah my APN seems to be fine, its same as it was on greyblur.

Everything works perfect!!!!
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Exchange account cant be saved, loss everytime reboot

Car dock does FC (using car dock ultra for now) - Have not tested home dock yet.
MMS works out , have not tried in yet.
Facebook can't sync contacts since I cant have it add in accounts.
Had a time when it vibrated for a few minutes for no reason.
Autolock when in pocket did not work from the looks of it.
Notifcation quick launch not showing anything
no ringtones included in the img

I restored back to 1.8.3 due to issues:
- fingerprint scanner not working
- no 3G data connection
- can't signin motorblur

I am at wits end....

Typically i don't ask for help but this time i'm going to throw it out there.
Every time i receive a SMS message my phone reads it out loud. Like "text message from 134-123-7654, _____________" no alert no nothing just reads it out loud.
I do not have "talk back", or "sound back" installed on my phone. And i've fixed permission and verified all of the settings under the SMS app and "voice input/output" in the main menu....
any other ideas.
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1) What SMS app are you using?
2) Don't tell your friends about this problem or you are certain to get 100 ill timed text messages that say things like "I love gay porn!" and "Man, it sure is roomy in these pants!"
Off hand my first guess is to completely uninstall the SMS app, make sure all the directories that save settings are deleted too, and reinstall. That's the first thing I'd do. If that doesn't work....I dunno....call a priest for an exorcism?

Skipjacks said:
1) What SMS app are you using?
2) Don't tell your friends about this problem or you are certain to get 100 ill timed text messages that say things like "I love gay porn!" and "Man, it sure is roomy in these pants!"
Off hand my first guess is to completely uninstall the SMS app, make sure all the directories that save settings are deleted too, and reinstall. That's the first thing I'd do. If that doesn't work....I dunno....call a priest for an exorcism?
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1) stock SMS app,
2) yea. i have yet to tell anyone, other than this post about it.
Yea i might try to reinstall the OS and see if that fixes my problem.

i had this same problem it got so bad when my friends found out so i factory reset every thing and it worked..

neidlinger said:
1) stock SMS app,
2) yea. i have yet to tell anyone, other than this post about it.
Yea i might try to reinstall the OS and see if that fixes my problem.
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do you have any apps installed like vlingo, genius or anything else similar?

eqjunkie829 said:
do you have any apps installed like vlingo, genius or anything else similar?
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nope. The only thing i can think of is i installed that new cluzee app, the Siri knockoff.
Edit :
I think i may of found the problem. There is a "cluzee reader" setting that is on by default. I turned it off, i'll see what happens.

Doing a fresh ROM install or even reverting back to a working save are guaranteed fixes. I figured you'd rather not have to reset everything though.
I'd bet the cluzee setting you found fixes it though.

agg! this started happening to me yesterday... i did recently install cluzee and llama, but last i looked the "reader" was set to "off" in cluzee.... and none of my "accessability" things are trned on..... i see that unsder <settings><voice input and output> under output that pico TTS is installed but "always use my settings" box is unchecked.... really annoying at work when i get a text.... thank goodness it wasnt a personal message or what not... aside from reloading everything - is there any other settign i should check. im useing the factory "messaging" app on my MTS4G...

neidlinger said:
Typically i don't ask for help but this time i'm going to throw it out there.
Every time i receive a SMS message my phone reads it out loud. Like "text message from 134-123-7654, _____________" no alert no nothing just reads it out loud.
I do not have "talk back", or "sound back" installed on my phone. And i've fixed permission and verified all of the settings under the SMS app and "voice input/output" in the main menu....
any other ideas.
CMNightly 252.
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Just gonna 10 char this cause you got stumped ;-)
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My mom's Charm does that with calls, idk why and have never looked, since she kind of likes it.
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mark manning said:
Just gonna 10 char this cause you got stumped ;-)
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IT randomly stop doing it. i have no clue, this one has be bugged out a little bit.

If all else fails... LOWER THE VOLUME!

Boat browser was working great....

Boat Browser was working great for me until recently. Now I am finding that it is hanging quite a bit when loading web pages. I'll type in a web address and/or click on a favorite. It will start to load the page as that little blue bar will start to go across the top of the screen, then it just stops and hangs there and nothing else happens with the drawing of the page. Sometimes I let it sit there for a couple of minutes and nothing happens. Then I'll pop over to the Chrome browser, enter the same exact website, and it pops up on Chrome quickly.
Any advice on how to fix Boat. I realize there are other browsers out there, but I really liked Boat (umtil recently!)

I also use Boat as my default browser. Luckily, I read some of the reviews on the latest update and have avoided upgrading. I can't suggest a fix to your problems but I've posted a copy of of the previous version of Boat Browser (v. 5.1) which is still working great. You could uninstall the latest and revert to 5.1 until they release another update.

brGabriel said:
I also use Boat as my default browser. Luckily, I read some of the reviews on the latest update and have avoided upgrading. I can't suggest a fix to your problems but I've posted a copy of of the previous version of Boat Browser (v. 5.1) which is still working great. You could uninstall the latest and revert to 5.1 until they release another update.
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Thank you very much for that. I didn't realize the update was causing problems. If I use your zip to install, how do I prevent Boat from automatically updating?

ualdriver said:
Thank you very much for that. I didn't realize the update was causing problems. If I use your zip to install, how do I prevent Boat from automatically updating?
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It shouldn't update atuomatically unless you've set it up to do so. You can disable this by unchecking "Auto update apps" under Settings inside the PlayStore. After that, you may receive a popup from Boat every once in awhile asking to update but just ignore it and check for updates manually.
P.S. I can't say with 100% certainty that the newer version of Boat is the issue, but by testing the former you can at least narrow down the problem.

brGabriel said:
It shouldn't update atuomatically unless you've set it up to do so. You can disable this by unchecking "Auto update apps" under Settings inside the PlayStore. After that, you may receive a popup from Boat every once in awhile asking to update but just ignore it and check for updates manually.
P.S. I can't say with 100% certainty that the newer version of Boat is the issue, but by testing the former you can at least narrow down the problem.
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The user may also wish to clear all browser cache. Settings > Clear Data (clear everything). This may help with slowdown and/or browser crashes.
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brGabriel said:
It shouldn't update atuomatically unless you've set it up to do so. You can disable this by unchecking "Auto update apps" under Settings inside the PlayStore. After that, you may receive a popup from Boat every once in awhile asking to update but just ignore it and check for updates manually.
P.S. I can't say with 100% certainty that the newer version of Boat is the issue, but by testing the former you can at least narrow down the problem.
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Thanks.... Will do.
ljg600 said:
The user may also wish to clear all browser cache. Settings > Clear Data (clear everything). This may help with slowdown and/or browser crashes.
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Will give this a try as well, thanks.

Hangouts SMS crash [solved]

Problem
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Hangouts crashes trying to send SMS after 4.4.3 upgrade. 3rd Party apps do the same. As soon as you start typing hangouts crashes.
You disabled "Messaging" before the upgrade and can't re-enable it. "Enable" is grayed out in the Settings->Apps menu.
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In the Settings->apps menu - the 3 dots menu has a "Reset App Preferences" option. It re-enables ALL disabled apps. This will fix sending SMS/MMS. You can't have it disabled in 4.4.3 safely.

superm1 said:
Anyone else noticing hangouts crashing whenever you try to type out an SMS? I can't seem to send them at all now. It crashes as soon as I start to type.
Happened right after 4.4.3 upgrade. I tried to clear hangouts data but to no avail.
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Please post questions in Q&A for the sake of consistency =)

superm1 said:
Anyone else noticing hangouts crashing whenever you try to type out an SMS? I can't seem to send them at all now. It crashes as soon as I start to type.
Happened right after 4.4.3 upgrade. I tried to clear hangouts data but to no avail.
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Also it sounds just like this here: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/hangouts/4i6nKG-d2_M
But I don't have delivery reports and I can't enable messaging. It's disabled in settings->apps.

scorpion667 said:
Please post questions in Q&A for the sake of consistency =)
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Sorry, can you move this to Q/A? My bad.

OK I found a fix. In the apps menu - the 3 dots menu has a "Reset App Preferences" option. It re-enables ALL disabled apps. Not ideal since I'll have to re-disable the others I don't want. But at least it gets messaging re-enabled.
That makes SMS work again oddly enough. Just need to deal with having a "messaging" app in the drawer that I don't use I guess.

superm1 said:
OK I found a fix. In the apps menu - the 3 dots menu has a "Reset App Preferences" option. It re-enables ALL disabled apps. Not ideal since I'll have to re-disable the others I don't want. But at least it gets messaging re-enabled.
That makes SMS work again oddly enough. Just need to deal with having a "messaging" app in the drawer that I don't use I guess.
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Nice! Thanks for posting the fix, could come in handy for me once I switch to 4.4.3 as I have 68 services/apps frozen =P

I also had this issue. I factory reset, which is usually a decent idea after updates. It definitely had something to do with messaging being disabled and I couldn't reenable it either. Glad you found an alternate fix, loving the update so far

SymbioticGenius said:
I also had this issue. I factory reset, which is usually a decent idea after updates. It definitely had something to do with messaging being disabled and I couldn't reenable it either. Glad you found an alternate fix, loving the update so far
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Yeah if I had been rooted and done titantium backup recently, that would have been my approach too. I didn't want to have to redo all my apps and settings etc. Glad I didn't have to.

I didn't use TiBu to restore. It's weird but this phone is the first that I don't really back things up like I used to. Mostly cause I have no risk of breaking stuff via flashing nightlies and the like. I've had iffy experiences restoring old data on to new builds so I started from scratch. So far so good.

Yeah I had this too. After the update, i could receive but not send SMS/MMS. Had the stock app previously disabled and then the enable button was gone. Drove me absolutely crazy last night and most of today. Tried half a dozen SMS apps and even downloaded two entire Roms to get their MMS.apk and try to install them (which did not work at all). Even deleted all my messages with an SMS backup app. Nada. Moto support (obviously bad idea) said to clear cache for entire phone, which totally could have worked but was completely unhelpful. I did dozens of Google searches about it and came up empty every time. I was just about to give in to a factory reset, which I consider the my last resort, and I checked the action overflow in the disabled apps section and found the "reset app preferences". Then just browsing XDA for battery tips a few minutes later, I came across then. I even checked the Dev section earlier. But I guess I should have checked general. Thanks for putting this out there for others to find.

Thanks for this solution. Made life better for me. I guess 4.4.3 doesn't allow us to disable the messaging app.

You are the man! I thought I was the only one having the problem. Thank you! :good:

me too. I can't believe it took me this long to find this thread. Not being able to send texts was a bummer. I was using some feature called "voicemal.":silly: