Root issue with icons after GB or root?

350zx6r · Aug 26, 2011

I hope im the first one with this issue because I looked around and didnt see anything related to my problems.
Ever since I either upgraded to gingerbread or rooted the phone (i did both around the same time) I noticed that every app that I have on my phone that got moved to SD doesnt have an icon. Actually as soon as you place on your desktop, its there but as soon as you restart the phone they all change to the original android icon. I have also changed rom many times and they all do this. Or is it something related to moving the apps to sd card?

ocnbrze · Aug 26, 2011

350zx6r said:
I hope im the first one with this issue because I looked around and didnt see anything related to my problems.
Ever since I either upgraded to gingerbread or rooted the phone (i did both around the same time) I noticed that every app that I have on my phone that got moved to SD doesnt have an icon. Actually as soon as you place on your desktop, its there but as soon as you restart the phone they all change to the original android icon. I have also changed rom many times and they all do this. Or is it something related to moving the apps to sd card?

it is actually a combo. what you are doing is a thing called apps2sd where part of the app gets moved to the card but the other part stays on the phone. for some reason when you reboot your phone the sets up the cache files it reorganizes where the apps are and you loose those icons. not sure why it does it but it does.

again though you really do not need to keep booting up your phone like that. it is kind of like a computer in that you actually are doing more harm to the phone if you keep rebooting like that. it has to work hard to get the os up and running and it also waste battery if you keep doing it.

really the only time you should be booting up the phone is to flash something or make a nandroid backup. or something like that.

350zx6r · Aug 26, 2011

oh shot. good 2 know. but theres no way around this? if I reboot my phone I lose the them?

mikem0269 · Aug 26, 2011

350zx6r said:
oh shot. good 2 know. but theres no way around this? if I reboot my phone I lose the them?

I had this happen when i did a restore but it was only on some downloaded apps. I just redownloaded them and all has been fine.

ocnbrze · Aug 27, 2011

350zx6r said:
oh shot. good 2 know. but theres no way around this? if I reboot my phone I lose the them?

sometimes it happens some times it doesn't. it will vary. at least for me it does. but like i said i do not reboot very often

DaRayvn · Aug 27, 2011

you can just switch your HTC Scene to something else then just switch it back to the one you were on and all the icons will show back up.....

ocnbrze · Aug 27, 2011

DaRayvn said:
you can just switch your HTC Scene to something else then just switch it back to the one you were on and all the icons will show back up.....

huh never heard of that trick. nice!

Evo · Aug 27, 2011

You can also do whats posted below.

menu > settings > applications > manage > select the "all" tab > scroll down to HTC Sense (there are 2 options, click the one with the clock > force stop > hit OK, then go back to your home screen and Sense will reload with your icons.

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