Apps that lose their settings after reboot

[holidayidol]

I have the Sprint Hero, and this is my ROM history throughout the month I've used it...
Stock --> Fresh 1.0 --> Fresh 1.1 --> Full Wipe --> RUU Stock 1.56 --> Gumbo 1.5b --> +Gumbo Kernel beta

I have partitioned the SD card with each ROM to FAT32+swap+ext3. Apps2SD appears to be functioning fine.

I've noticed that I have a couple apps that lose their settings after every single reboot. This hasn't changed across any of the configurations I've been through, except for on stock. It behaved the same on both Fresh ROMS and still does this on Gumbo.

The 2 apps in particular that annoy me the most with this issue are Weather Widget 3.5 (I paid for the official app), and GTalk Quick Status (I paid for the official app). I'm more interested in these since I keep them both on my home screen. They function perfectly after they are setup, and are very useful apps.

But sure enough, every time I reboot the phone, they have to be re-configured (or widget removed/replaced) and enter the settings again for them to work.

The apps creators and other customers have provided no other feedback of anyone else seeing this issue, and I'm believing that it is something on my end.

Would anyone have any idea why some apps do not retain their settings after reboot? And any advice on what I could do to fix this issue?

 

[jonnythan]

Weather Widget is an incompatibility with Sense. If you stop using Sense and use the vanilla home screen, it remembers its settings. Very annoying, but it's the developer's fault.

 

[mkhopper]

The apps creators and other customers have provided no other feedback of anyone else seeing this issue, and I'm believing that it is something on my end.

Would anyone have any idea why some apps do not retain their settings after reboot? And any advice on what I could do to fix this issue?

Weather Forecast v2 and MoreIcons are two widgets I know of that have started to add an extra configuration to their setup screens to workaround the Sprint Hero widget bug.

With the fix in place though, you can only have one instance of the widget running at any given time. Makes the MoreIcons widget somewhat useless, but at least some devs are acknowledging that the bug exists and are doing what they can to make it easier for the end user.

The problem does seem to be with the Sense UI only though because I'm using the SweeterHome UI now and don't have any issues.