TW icons disappear after reboot - Vibrant General

Obsidian 4.2, after every reboot some icons disappear from TW desktop. They remain in Applications folder and I can drag it on desktop, but only until the next
reboot.
This is because on Froyo some programs by default are installed to external SD card. And after reboot icons for these programs disappear from TouchWiz, maybe it's a TW bug.
Solution: move programs back from SD to internal memory. Froyo's Settings - Applications - Manage Applications app have useful tab named "On SD card" to manage apps installed on SD card.

i posted about this in the macnut r12 thread, but nobody responded. i wonder if it is the tw launcher or the same happens with adw and launcher pro.

westward said:
Obsidian 4.2, after every reboot some icons disappear from TW desktop. They remain in Applications folder and I can drag it on desktop, but only until the next
reboot.
This is because on Froyo some programs by default are installed to external SD card. And after reboot icons for these programs disappear from TouchWiz, maybe it's a TW bug.
Solution: move programs back from SD to internal memory. Froyo's Settings - Applications - Manage Applications app have useful tab named "On SD card" to manage apps installed on SD card.
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Wow, thanks for the fix!! This has been bothering me ever since JFD was leaked.

Omg :thump up ass: no wonder my neocore shortcut has been dissapearing, ohhh im such an idiot.
Fear the beard...

Since we have near 2 GBs for apps, really no need to move apps to SD is there? I mean, this is something I love on my G1 and N1, but I've never felt the need with the Vibrant. I LOVE having so much memory.

I am having a similar problem with CNN News app. The shortcut and app in app drawer itself disappears every time I reboot. The app drawer icon comes back after few mins, but not the shortcut. I saw this thread and thought the app would be on external SD, but it is in internal.

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I have launcher pro plus and the battstatt, tjam, audio manager widgets installed. I'm running leedroid 1.8b, when I select launcher pro and set my widgets and custom icons and place the phone into sleep or reboot most of the custom icons have gone and where the widgets were there is a box that says unable to load widgets. Can anyone help. Widgets installed to SD card using apps2sd, would this cause the issue or the Rom. Thanks............sudeki300
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move all your widgets to internal memory, this will fix the issue.
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[Q] Problems with Widget Locker and Folder Organizer after rooting

Hi guys,
I'm hoping someone on this forum can help me with 3 unfortunate issues I've been noticing since I rooted last night. I rooted 2.2 on my Droid X and backed up everything with Titanium backup. I removed a bunch of bloatware but I made sure that everything I renamed from .apk to .bak was "safe to remove" based on messages I read on multiple forums. I am also running Launcher Pro Plus. Here are the issues I'm seeing.
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2) Folder Organizer - I have several shortcuts on my homescreen with custom icons. For example, I have a shortcut with an icon that looks like a pair of headphones. Tapping on this icon opens the Folder Organizer shortcut to reveal my music player, Pandora, FM Radio, etc. Everytime I power down the phone and then turn it back on, all of the icons revert back to the default Folder Organizer icon.
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Have you moved any apps to the sd card
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citanes-26 said:
Have you moved any apps to the sd card
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Strange! I didn't think I had but they were on the SD card when I checked. Just moved SwitchPro, Widget Locker and Folder Organizer back to the phone and it looks like it solved all 3 issues!!
I can't thank you enough!!!!!!!
could also try rom managers fix permissions.
glad I could help, keep any apps with widgets on phone. I've had that problem before too.
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Apps from Amazon store don't show up in Launcher

I recently installed CM7 nightly 213 on an SD card using verygreen's size-agnostic installer. This is my first time doing this so forgive me if this is a noob question.
I had a bunch of apps from Amazon that I had already installed on my phone. I installed the appstore on my nook color and I started downloading and installing the apps from my account. However once they are installed, they don't show up in the launcher.
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This isn't really a big deal, but it is kind of odd. Is it a setting I have somewhere, or is this a bug somehow?
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Just whatever the default one is.
Open the "drawer" by tapping the square icon in the bottom center (at least, it's there by default). Icons for all of your apps will be shown.
Scroll until you find the one you want, then long-press it until it lights up. Keep holding it. Drag it downwards, you'll drop back into the default launcher screen, and you can drag it to where you want it and let go.
This is the basic way to organize your launcher screens.
You can long-press any icon and move or remove it; removing doesn't uninstall.
Good luck!
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[Q] Lost icons in TW Apps draw

I have been creating some folders for applications in my app pages - just to keep them organised. Create one called Photo and dropped in Camera and Gallery icons, then created a fe more folders, and suddenly the Folder has disappeared and the icons with it. My Camera and Galery icons are now only visible in the 'frequently used' tab by not the 'All' tab. A reboot has not brought them back. I can use the applications launched from the copy I have on my homescreen, but this seems weird that they have vanished. Device is a stock, unrooted , and no customisations whatsoever. Any help would be appreciated.
I had the same problem, I gave up trying to find a fix and just installed a new launcher (ADW Launcher ex, about $3), if you are looking for a new one I would suggest the new Go Launcher HD (it is free).
Neil
neilcbennett said:
I have been creating some folders for applications in my app pages - just to keep them organised. Create one called Photo and dropped in Camera and Gallery icons, then created a fe more folders, and suddenly the Folder has disappeared and the icons with it. My Camera and Galery icons are now only visible in the 'frequently used' tab by not the 'All' tab. A reboot has not brought them back. I can use the applications launched from the copy I have on my homescreen, but this seems weird that they have vanished. Device is a stock, unrooted , and no customisations whatsoever. Any help would be appreciated.
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Go to Settings>Applications>Manage Applications>All>TWlauncher and clear data. All your icons will be back and the home screen will revert to stock. Drawback is you have to recustomise your home screens again.
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Go to Settings>Applications>Manage Applications>All>TWlauncher and clear data. All your icons will be back and the home screen will revert to stock. Drawback is you have to recustomise your home screens again.
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Thanks, I have been trying to figure this out for a couple of weeks.
I have the sample problem. After creating some folders, some icons disappeared.
It should be a bug.
The icon will lost after made a update
Thanks for the solution, a frustrating bug which has made me try out go launcher HD. Very nice and smooth.

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I moved some of my apps into the SD card. After reboot, the apps inside the app drawer had a grayed out SD card icon. If it's accessed inside a folder inside the app drawer, it says "App not found". But if access outside the folder or search on top via search, it opens. Anyway to have the icons back and be able to access inside the folders, without moving the apps back to the internal memory? Thanks in advance.
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