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anybody have issues with widgets?

Yesterday i turned on my iconia and all the Widgets were gone off the home screens. The app shortcuts were still there but no Widgets. Also noticed my YouTube widget is a 1x4 now and looks funky. Anybody else have this issue? Is it the iconia or honeycomb?

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I thought it was just me, but everything came up "problem loading widget."
I am using ADW launcher EX and just blamed it on that. What about you?

I lost mine when I did the upgrade, but no issues since.

I am having issues where the widgets disappear and a 'Loading' message appears; the only way to fix it is to do a reboot.

I'm using the stock launcher. I didn't even have a loading message. Widgets just disappeared. Tried rebooting several times but that didnt work. I ended up reinstalling all the widgets yesterday and everything seems to be alright now. Also my YouTube widget is back to a 3x2 so that's good. I dunno seems like a honeycomb bug or something.

I had the same problem.
Suddenly the widgets were gone, each of them replaced by a grey icon saying "error loading widget".
Rebooting several times didn't fix that.
I use adw es too and i noticed that if i switched to the stock launcher the widget worked but returning again to adw they were still missing.
I had to remove the widgets and reload them.
I think it' related to Adw.
Sorry for my poor english.

I've had the issue as well. When I added the Music (official Google app) icon to the home screen they all reappeared. Likely just adding any icon to the home screen will bring them back up.
goder42 said:
I thought it was just me, but everything came up "problem loading widget."
I am using ADW launcher EX and just blamed it on that. What about you?
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Problem loading widget is an ADW error, likely. I've had it before, usually if I do a wipe then restore my desktop settings via ADW and the widget isn't available.
Now, with know that error is due to the widget not being found, it definitely appears like the Iconia is for some reason not loading the widget, like it can't find them in the system or something. Hope this one gets addressed.

[Q] Missing Icons on Desktop

Ever since I upgraded to ICS 4.0.3. When my tablet goes to sleep and I turn it back on all the Icons on the desktop are missing. The funny part is if I touch the screen in the location where the app Icons would normally be it launches the APP. If I do a soft reset and wait for it to power back on the Icons are there. I can still run apps if there are in the task manager when I press and hold the home button. I am running Acer_AV041_A500_1.033.00_PA_CUST1 w/ root. Any help woud be greatly appreciated

pcsteve said:
Ever since I upgraded to ICS 4.0.3. When my tablet goes to sleep and I turn it back on all the Icons on the desktop are missing. The funny part is if I touch the screen in the location where the app Icons would normally be it launches the APP. If I do a soft reset and wait for it to power back on the Icons are there. I can still run apps if there are in the task manager when I press and hold the home button. I am running Acer_AV041_A500_1.033.00_PA_CUST1 w/ root. Any help woud be greatly appreciated
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Are you running default launcher or third party launcher?
Sent from my A500 using Tapatalk 2

I've had that too on Civato's rooted stock (the one with original odex) using stock launcher (full wipe before installing). It looks like the launcher crashes. If you manage to enter settings and go to apps and kill the launcher it will return back to normal for some time.
I've never seen this error on trebuchet launcher in CM9.

So far I've got this on every ICS bootloader/ROM combo that I have tried. It all started after I flashed the v7 bootloader. I have only tried Civato's Roms other than stock. Mine usually happens during playing 3D games and a lot of the times the screen is flashing like crazy. When I (finally) get to the desktop, I have the same issue as you. No icons visible. But they are still there and can be touched to launch them. I have completed a full wipe, data\media and all. I mean totally erased all data from the tab. Went back to full stock 3.1. OTA'd all the way to ICS and so far I've only seen the issue once. Where by this time with the unlocked bootloader/ROM combo it would have done it many, many times.
I want to believe that it is a hardware issue so I can return it while the warranty is still good. But until I am more sure I am just going to Flash a few more different bootloader/ROMs and see if it helps. While it stinks to have this issue, it is really great to have all of these options for flashing. Makes me happy I chose this tablet.

JdgM3NT4L said:
[...]But until I am more sure I am just going to Flash a few more different bootloader/ROMs and see if it helps.[...]
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Just try installing different launcher to replace original.

Missing Icons
I am using the default launcher. Thanks for the tip. The next time it happens It will try killing the launcher from the settings apps. I have downloaded another launcher to try

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Just try installing different launcher to replace original.
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Thanks man. I'll go back to the worst offender. One was much worse than the rest and I have a full nandroid of it. I'll reload it and add a new launcher this weekend and report back. Still running stock and the issue is much better, but with the JB port incoming I'm definitely going to need the patched bootloader.

Launcher Crash

I've been having problems for a while now, but the issue is that all the apps and widgets disappear from my home screen. It happens when I go to my screen with my email, browser, and calendar widgets on it. If I try to swipe to another screen, the widgets stay where they are and flash, but nothing from the next screen appears. The problem persists when I lock and unlock the tablet. If I rotate the screen, the apps and widgets go away, but my wallpaper remains. I can still press the buttons on the status bar and switch to different apps, but can't open new ones unless I open acer ring and search for them, or open them through settings. I did a bit of poking around and all I've determined the issue is a result of the Launcher crashing. If I do a force stop in settings and then return home, everything is back to normal, unless I go to the page with the widgets on it then i'm screwed again.
Any help?
Running RE-FLEXxx Rev 4 and V8 BL, but I noticed problems after updating to the ICS bootloader.

Have you tried other launchers? Nova is a good option. I use GoLauncherHD for tabs. Try a different launcher and see if it makes a difference.

Went with GoLauncher. I tried it a while ago and liked it, but reverted once I started using more roms. Seems to be working well so far, but I'd still like to know what the original issue was. Or a solution.

Welcome to the club.
Well, you're not the only one. It seems to be an issue with the ICS bootloader (Any flavor. Modified or stock.). If it gets too annoying you can remove scrollable widgets like the gmail and browser widget from your home and that will help. It's quite rare from what I understand. Not many people are having the problem besides a few of us. I think the solution will have to come from Acer... if it comes at all. What would be nice is if there was a searchable term for this. It really needs an acronym... SOF (screen of flashiness) maybe??? Anybody?

Problem persists with go launcher, although the flashiness is much more... interesting. Is FOD taken? Gotta have death in there somewhere.

I like "LOD"... Launcher of Death.
Welcome to third party launchers for tablets

Do you have any idea where the issue is? Is it in the launcher, or is it just the one that gets screwed up? And how does the boot loader effect the way it runs?

That's a very good question. How the hell can a bootloader affect a rom? I've read in several places that the trebuchet launcher had the bug...but since you're saying it happened on GoLauncher, then that throws that out the window. I'm running the JB rom and it works great. It's my DD now. Some games don't work, but who cares...lol.

Is there an easy way to make an widget that will force stop launcher? That'd be less annoying than opening settings and doing the whole process there.

Haha just realized when the launcher doesn't work, a widget is useless...

I wish that I had answers. Here is what I know about this. Launchers don't matter much. Every rom that I've tried when used with an ICS bootloader does this regardless of launcher. Every rom that uses the HC bootloader does not. Even the Flexreaper versions of ICS on the HC bootloader do not have this. It is very likely that I am just missing something more practical and am off base by pointing at the bootloader. But so far it has been the only switch that has worked for me. It does seem like 3d apps and advanced rendered widgets are part of the blame. I took a few logcats when this happened. I think I see where the errors happen, but I don't know enough to say for sure, let alone try to fix whatever it is.

My Gmail app does a similar flashing thing then crashes, but launcher still works. Play Music will also go blank/black. Anyone else having this problem or know if they're related?

(I know, 2012.... but nobody posted a solution and I found it.)
Solution was pretty simple. Go to Launcher in App settings, and wipe stored data,. You will lose some setup stuff but in least it won't crash anymore.

Widgets disappear after reboots

Hi y'all
I'm getting crazy here.
All of the sudden when I reboot or turn on my phone again after it's been turned off, my widgets need to be reloaded again. So I have to press each and every one of them and set them up again.
I use Next Launcher and I have also tried on Go Launcher, both after clearing data and force stopping them.
I use Omega Rom v14 which is tw based and XD6 deodexed rom.
And all the apps of the widgets are installed on internal memory and so is the launcher.
Btw... The only widget I use in Widgetlocker also have this problem.
So I guess it's not a launcher problem?
Please, PLEASE someone tell me how to fix this. It really irritates me!
TYIA
/CK

Nova Launcher switches to One UI when i clear recent apps

Hi, I have a Samsung S10+ running Android 10 and One UI 2.5.
I am constantly getting an issue with Nova Launcher where if i clear my recent apps the screen refreshes and then One UI takes over and it goes to that home screen rather than Nova. If i then press the Home button again it then takes me back to Nova's home screen again and does stay there until i clear my recent apps again.
Nova is definitely set to the default launcher and when this happens i go into the Nova settings and it shows no launcher is set as default, i then set it as default but the same thing keeps happening each time.
I have tried clearing the cache from both Nova and One UI but this didn't fix anything.
Is this a know issue? It has happened for a while but wasn't that annoying but since a recent android update it seems to be happening all the time now.
Does anyone know if i can fix this?
Thanks
James

Did you perhaps got sd card installed? Usually if the app installed on sd card, it will revert back to default launcher whenever you restart.

I have also had this happen to me recently, happens generally when I have recently restarted the phone for a couple of hours and then it won't happen, really odd. It started happening after the November update. And to @Zac3 I don't have a sd card installed.

Same here !!! It bugs even out sometimes, switch automatic to One UI Launcher, and i can not open sometimes my recents Apps, i had cleared so many times data and cache, but nothing seems working.
Also when i got Nova immersive in settings, it shows me the black bar at the top of the screen, that also doesnt seem to work.