topic Re: Spontaneously losing app shortcuts from your homescreens? in Other/General

Spontaneously losing app shortcuts from your homescreens?

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 10:42:11 GMT

I am running 2.3.4 LT15i and a couple of times when I have swapped SIM cards to use a different number I have, my Arc booted up without any app shortcuts which I had personalised on my home screens.

As far as I can tell they are all apps that I have stored on the SD card. But I can access the SD card just fine.

I don't use any loaders and I power down the handset in the correct way.

Anybody else come across this problem or maybe find a solution for it?

It's a real pain in the ass, having to go re-shortcut my 5 pages of homescreen with the apps I want to have on them.

Thanks.

Re: Spontaneously losing app shortcuts from your homescreens?

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 11:54:23 GMT

Hmm, I suspect that this might have something to do with connecting my Arc to a laptop and the SD card being automatically connected to the hard drive of the laptop...

This is very a connect my Arc to a computer without it screwing up my homescreen shortcuts.

Re: Spontaneously losing app shortcuts from your homescreens?

Sam — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:08:06 GMT

Are the application shortcuts that go missing for applications that are installed on the memory card?

Re: Spontaneously losing app shortcuts from your homescreens?

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:25:06 GMT

Yeah, as far as I can tell.

Re: Spontaneously losing app shortcuts from your homescreens?

Markus1 — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:14:57 GMT

Apps on the SD card won't be available in the phone if the SD card is not mounted. If you e.g. connect the phone to your computer your SD card will be unmounted resulting in your apps disappearing.

Re: Spontaneously losing app shortcuts from your homescreens?

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:30:31 GMT

I get that but what I am querying is that should unmounting the SD card result in the app shortcuts disappearing permanently from my home screens? They don't come back when I remount the SD card, leaving me with the situation shown in the screenshot I uploaded, above.

Re: Spontaneously losing app shortcuts from your homescreens?

Markus1 — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:42:52 GMT

Just did some testing and my app shortcuts did not disappear at all as I thought they would. I could however not open them. When I tried to I got a message saying "not available".

I'm running 4.0.2.A.0.42 in my Xperia ray. Are you running the same software in your arc?

Re: Spontaneously losing app shortcuts from your homescreens?

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:56:58 GMT

4.0.2.A.0.42 on LT15i, Android 2.3.4

Thanks for your help on this Markus.

Re: Spontaneously losing app shortcuts from your homescreens?

Markus1 — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 12:06:27 GMT

Hmm, strange I must say.

Not sure where to go next and I don't know if this makes any difference but have you:

-Unlocked the boot loader? (http://unlockbootloader.sonyericsson.com/)

-Activated USB debugging? (Settings > Applications > Development)

-Tried to connect the phone to a different computer?

One thing you can consider trying is to reset the home screen, add a few shortcuts again and then connect the phone to see if it happens again.

You do this at Settings > Applications > Manage applications > Sony Ericsson Home > Clear data.

Re: Spontaneously losing app shortcuts from your homescreens?

Jawadkhalid89 — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 16:37:42 GMT

I also had had experienced then menu dearrangement and loss of homescreen shortcuts permanently when i just connect my phone to my computer... but this happened before when my usb debugging was off but now i don't have this problem....

Re: Spontaneously losing app shortcuts from your homescreens?

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 21:33:22 GMT

Activating Debugging makes no difference, the moral of the story is to not connect your Arc to a PC. Bloody annoying.

Re: Spontaneously losing app shortcuts from your homescreens?

Uliwooly — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 21:47:07 GMT

you have an unusual bug, you should really consider to repair your phone with SUS or PCC and then check if the bug continues or update to the latest firmware

http://talk.sonyericsson.com/thread/29197

Re: Spontaneously losing app shortcuts from your homescreens?

Wed, 09 May 2012 05:57:08 GMT

I just had the same thing happen with my LT18a.

I connected the phone and then disconnected it after a few seconds, maybe that has something to do with it.

Also i noticed that the all shortcuts that disappeared are for apps installed on the SD card, and in particular apps that i had open or running in the background as a service (e.g. whatsapp, skype, viber)

Re: Spontaneously losing app shortcuts from your homescreens?

Thu, 10 May 2012 00:27:18 GMT

had the same problem with my LT18i, thats the reason i updated to ICS, havent had the phone working properly since so i havent had time to test it as im still trying to sort out other problems due to updating

Re: Spontaneously losing app shortcuts from your homescreens?

Thu, 10 May 2012 02:13:11 GMT

robbo1985 wrote:

I have been thinking about updting to ICS, what issues are you having? is it an official release?

Re: Spontaneously losing app shortcuts from your homescreens?

Thu, 10 May 2012 02:25:31 GMT

its the official, been having problems with the contact not showing facebook profile pictures in my contacts, google play not showing all apps that can be updated eg. youtube not showing in my apps for updating, i have to search for it then go to the googleplay youtube page and update it from there same with most of the apps,liveware manager not abile to update,

im thinking of sending it back to sony to get them to downgrade it back to GB, didnt have any problems apart from the app vanishing from home screen till i upgraded

also lost the fb chat and camera app