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Apps widget missing after reboot

Hi there i wonder why my apps widget went missing every time i reboot my sgs? Is this a bug in froyo when u save it in sd card? Is there any solution for this?
Thanks!
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i think you must let the media scanner complete then you get it back!!

Thanks for the reply. I did that a lot of times and i got nothing even the shortcuts in home screen went missing but the apps are still in applications list though.
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eugene_kee said:
Thanks for the reply. I did that a lot of times and i got nothing even the shortcuts in home screen went missing but the apps are still in applications list though.
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Did you move the applications to the SD card? This happens to me, if the application was moved into SD card, it just disappear whenever I restart the phone.

lenrek said:
Did you move the applications to the SD card? This happens to me, if the application was moved into SD card, it just disappear whenever I restart the phone.
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Yes exactly! Is it a problem with froyo?
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eugene_kee said:
Yes exactly! Is it a problem with froyo?
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No, no it's a problem or bug, is the way Move to SD works. Apps which have widgets can't be moved to SD

Running 2.2, how to install apps to SD card

Did the obligitory search and could only find threads telling people to wait till 2.2, now that I have it how do I install apps to the SD card??
I'm sure its something easy, but I cannot find out how.
Thanks in advance!!
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I just downloaded AppMonster from the market and it's working fine for me.

Go into settings then applications the manage applications click on the app you wan5t to move and if it is possible, the. App will give you the option to move it to the sd card
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socos25 said:
Did the obligitory search and could only find threads telling people to wait till 2.2, now that I have it how do I install apps to the SD card??
I'm sure its something easy, but I cannot find out how.
Thanks in advance!!
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Go to settings, applications, manage applications. Select the application you want to move and if it can be moved to your sd card it will give you that option. I don't recall the names of them but there are applications in the market that list which applications you have that can be moved and will help you do that.
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There's an app called APPS 2SD which automatically install new apps to ur SD card.. & ones that u already have installed, it'll go thru & find them all & all u hav to do is move them...
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Titanium Backup will allow you to move almost all of your user apps onto the SD regardless of whether the developer wanted it or not. Highly recommend you use the "Pro" version or it may take a while to process.

I will have to check out that titanium backup.. Is it a paid app?
Thanks!!

Top Nurse said:
Titanium Backup will allow you to move almost all of your user apps onto the SD regardless of whether the developer wanted it or not. Highly recommend you use the "Pro" version or it may take a while to process.
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Don't supposed you'd be willing to PM me on how to use TB? I've downloaded the most recent version of Pro I could get my hands on, but I'm not sure where to go from there.

m5james said:
Don't supposed you'd be willing to PM me on how to use TB? I've downloaded the most recent version of Pro I could get my hands on, but I'm not sure where to go from there.
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Menu > Batch

What Top Nurse said. You can move many more apps with TB than with the "standard" mechanism in settings.
To move an app individually, press-hold the app in the backup list, and a context menu will pop up. If TB thinks it can move the app, the move to SD button will be available.
Or, as mentioned above, you can have all the eligible apps moved via a batch operation.
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At the moment I'm using 329.17mb of 484.80mb on the phone, then 12.09gb of 14.73mb on my SD card. I recently changed over from Syndicate Frozen to Bonzai4All and my phone is plenty snappy. I've got a handful of apps running via SD through AppMonster telling me that I can have them running from there as I installed them. I don't know if there is a standard or recommendation as to how much memory on the phone itself I should keep free, but as far as I can tell, I'm not experiencing any lagging issues whatsoever. No offense again Syndicate (was running 1.0.1, then 1.0.2 came out after I swtiched to Bonsai) but Bonsai is definately faster and the transition couldn't have been easier.

m5james said:
At the moment I'm using 329.17mb of 484.80mb on the phone, then 12.09gb of 14.73mb on my SD card. I recently changed over from Syndicate Frozen to Bonzai4All and my phone is plenty snappy. I've got a handful of apps running via SD through AppMonster telling me that I can have them running from there as I installed them. I don't know if there is a standard or recommendation as to how much memory on the phone itself I should keep free, but as far as I can tell, I'm not experiencing any lagging issues whatsoever. No offense again Syndicate (was running 1.0.1, then 1.0.2 came out after I swtiched to Bonsai) but Bonsai is definately faster and the transition couldn't have been easier.
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I just installed my first custom rom on my epic. It was Bonsaii4all 3.01. It is a wonderful rom.
I was a flashaholic with my Touch Pro2 (Go EnergyRoms) but have had trouble rooting my Epic. Finally got the drivers to recognize my phone and I'm lovin the change. I use App2sd to put apps on SD but I'mm going to try Titanium as I have that already. Rom Manager sometimes freezes my phone.

Dumb question: when you install apps to the sd card, if/when you wipe your phone, will it automatically find them and set them up, or do they have to be reinstalled or restored?
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Disapearing widgets

Has any one had a problem with widgets not showing after moving an app 2 sd? The widgets r still there if u long press where they should b but u can't see them :/ this usually happens for a few seconds after mounting the sd but now they not comin back even after reboot. It's a decent quality card too
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Leave them in phone storage, Widgets don't work properly from sd

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Leave them in phone storage, Widgets don't work properly from sd
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That's the thing, they r in phone storage
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Your first post says they are in SD, and your third post says they are in phone memory? I am a bit confused?
Further, which widget are you referring to in this case?

3xeno said:
Your first post says they are in SD, and your third post says they are in phone memory? I am a bit confused?
Further, which widget are you referring to in this case?
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Lol, sorry the disapearing widgets are phone memory things like power control, they became 'invisible' after moving unrelated apps like opera to the sd.
I had to remove the invisible widgets from the home screen and add them again. Guess its not important, just wondered why
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Why installed applications not shown??

I've installed applications on my atrix and those applicatons were there shown on my menu for sometime until now suddenly those apps are not shown on my menu! Why is that? Those apps are there in the installed apps catagory with a grey icon and a small sd card icon. Pls tell me how to fix this? This application is shown in the media area in the manage applications section.
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Jazor28 said:
I've installed applications on my atrix and those applicatons were there shown on my menu for sometime until now suddenly those apps are not shown on my menu! Why is that? Those apps are there in the installed apps catagory with a grey icon and a small sd card icon. Pls tell me how to fix this? This application is shown in the media area in the manage applications section.
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More info please. Rooted? P-ROM? Which application/s?
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If it's all apps that you installed to the SD card instead of internal storage, it might be that the SD card got unmounted. I get similar behavior sometimes after using USB mass storage mode...every once in a while it won't remount properly when I unplug USB and SD card apps will show installed but won't launch.
Reboot clears it up for me, but wouldn't be surprised if there's another way to fix.
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I'm using the stock rom rooted with ginger break. The app is samurai vengence and angrybirds ..... angry birds through market and samurai through sideloading ..... its not that my memory card is unmounted. Its there .....
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Same problem!
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I'm using the stock rom rooted with ginger break. The app is samurai vengence and angrybirds ..... angry birds through market and samurai through sideloading ..... its not that my memory card is unmounted. Its there .....
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Well,
this problem even I am facing! and its driving me nuts!
For me, I see, all the sideloaded apps are not showing up in "My Apps" menu.
There are solutions given in "Android Market" discussions.
tried them all! none works for me!
you can try them too! (but, they look like may or may not work kinds)
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Android+Market/thread?tid=107aea64cc0efdd5&hl=en
Another solution:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Android+Market/thread?tid=107aea64cc0efdd5&hl=en
This one is pretty elaborate:
http://www.google.ru/support/forum/p/Android+Market/thread?tid=6c697aef456091c7&hl=en&start=40
Still didnt work for me!
Please let me know if any of these work for you.
also do let me know, if any other solution worked!
Thanks,
sony.

I had to reinstall some apps after I rooted with gingerbreak on my Atrix...

I've had that happen too, not rooted.
Kind of annoying.

I tend to see this problem with Angry Birds. It installs to /sdcard. Once the phone formated my /sdcard partition, probably after it thought it was corrupt.

App Ops available without Root!

Thanks to ragingredbull for pointing out you can shortcut to App Ops on the G4. App Ops won't officially be released until Android M but has been in AOSP since 4.3. Google hid it in 4.4 and it was no longer accessible without root. The G4 has it available. Props to LG for allowing this!!
App Ops allows you to restrict access permissions such as GPS, contacts or Keep awake for individual apps. It is basically a privacy control that the iPhone has had for a bit and is sorely lacking in Android. The G4 version works for downloaded apps only unlike a root version. It is, however, still very useful and gets you most of the way. If you find that disabling permissions for an app causes it to force close then the app is written poorly to handle null data and you will have to turn the permission back on if you want to use that app.
To access the menu, Download "Any cut" or "Quick shortcut maker" from the play store. You want to create a short cut for "Access Lock" from the app.
Open it, change 'incremental search' to ' normal search' and search for Access .
You should get a Settings option that you can expand. Look for one labeled Access Lock and click on it.
It's possible that some App Ops enabling apps may also point to the proper Activity and work the same way.
After you have made the shortcut, clicking on it will open a menu allowing you to restrict app permissions.
(now we just need a hosts blocker and firewall...)

Hm, which variant of the G4 do you have? I have a EU carrier H815 and can't find it. I scrolled through the whole list manually, but only can find the Hidden Menu Accesspoint stuff.

Only works for downloaded apps.

VS896 CDMA Verizon
Right between About phone and APNs on mine

Awesome. It's working great. Thanks for the heads up!

Awesome. Thanks!
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Edit: I got it.
Thank you for the info. Awesome job!
Vs986

Thanks, also found this using the app Activity Launcher. Under Settings -> Access lock. The activity is com.android.settings.Settings$AccessLockSummaryActivity

Nice dude thanks!
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can it allow full access to MicroSD for some apps?

I haven't tried but this is supposed to fix SD card on the g4.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vinny.intsdfixer
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larsdennert said:
I haven't tried but this is supposed to fix SD card on the g4.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vinny.intsdfixer
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That app is for internal "sd card" aka the internal memory. I think the above poster is referring to the fact that some apps can't save to sd card. But that's a lollipop thing that the devs have to add to their code for it to work.

frigidazzi said:
That app is for internal "sd card" aka the internal memory. I think the above poster is referring to the fact that some apps can't save to sd card. But that's a lollipop thing that the devs have to add to their code for it to work.
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yes, that's what i mean but sadly not every apps that support that. is either root the phone or *some other way*?

looknsee said:
yes, that's what i mean but sadly not every apps that support that. is either root the phone or *some other way*?
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I've heard that it's fixed with root, but this is the first one I've had in a few years with a sd card, so I haven't personally tried it.

Nice find!! Thanks....

Nice feature. Thanks op
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This is awesome tips.. Thanks

tripex2k said:
Hm, which variant of the G4 do you have? I have a EU carrier H815 and can't find it. I scrolled through the whole list manually, but only can find the Hidden Menu Accesspoint stuff.
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The setting variable name is in your local language.
I have a EU H815 too and I found it by searching for "lock" in my local language and picking the right activity from the listed "Settings" menu items. It's supposed to be the locally translated shortcut for the activity
"com.android.settings/com.android.settings.Settings$AccessLockSummaryActivity"
The QuickQuickShortCutMaker app only searches the translated names...

if somebody can't find access lock at another language try to change phone language to english =)
try this app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.greyshirts.firewall to use fariwall without root

For those using Nova.
Tap and hold the homescreen (or any landing page screen), select widgets, under Nova Launcher Widgets select Activity.
From there scroll down to settings, expand settings, and select Access Lock.