Problem since 4.03r5

tonylee2000 · Sep 30, 2012 at 6:47 PM

Since I updated to r5 last week, I have a problem with App shortcuts disappearing from the home screen every time I power down my tablet. There are 2 games (both from Glu, though other Glu games are fine, strangely enough), and the other one that keeps disappearing is the XDA app!

I add the shortcuts back every time I turn the Tablet back on but whenever I turn it off, the shortcuts for those 3 apps vanish.

Anyone else having similar issues or know how to fix this? Not a critical issue but bloody annoying!

Thx,

L

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stifilz · Sep 30, 2012 at 8:24 PM

tonylee2000 said:
Since I updated to r5 last week, I have a problem with App shortcuts disappearing from the home screen every time I power down my tablet. There are 2 games (both from Glu, though other Glu games are fine, strangely enough), and the other one that keeps disappearing is the XDA app!

I add the shortcuts back every time I turn the Tablet back on but whenever I turn it off, the shortcuts for those 3 apps vanish.

Anyone else having similar issues or know how to fix this? Not a critical issue but bloody annoying!

Thx,

L

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Thought it was just me. My beloved XDA app keeps going awol.

CJHolderUK · Sep 30, 2012 at 9:01 PM

lol, this is too funny. Try clearing the launcher data, you will need to readd all your icons and widgets but should solve the problem. It worked for me.

Cat McGowan · Oct 1, 2012 at 12:25 AM

tonylee2000 said:
Since I updated to r5 last week, I have a problem with App shortcuts disappearing from the home screen every time I power down my tablet. There are 2 games (both from Glu, though other Glu games are fine, strangely enough), and the other one that keeps disappearing is the XDA app! I add the shortcuts back every time I turn the Tablet back on but whenever I turn it off, the shortcuts for those 3 apps vanish. Anyone else having similar issues or know how to fix this? Not a critical issue but bloody annoying!

stifilz said:
Thought it was just me. My beloved XDA app keeps going awol.

For me, the problem exists with user apps that have been moved to sdcard (Move to USB storage in settings). Moving the apps back to internal storage (Move to tablet in settings) stops the user app icons from disappearing. The problem does not seem to effect system apps. Despite CJHolderUK saying it works for him, clearing the Home app's data does not fix the problem. The problem is definitely a 4.0.3r5 bug that needs to be reported to Sony.

Hernan1978 · Oct 1, 2012 at 5:40 AM

Cat McGowan said:
For me, the problem exists with user apps that have been moved to sdcard (Move to USB storage in settings). Moving the apps back to internal storage (Move to tablet in settings) stops the user app icons from disappearing. The problem does not seem to effect system apps. Despite CJHolderUK saying it works for him, clearing the Home app's data does not fix the problem. The problem is definitely a 4.0.3r5 bug that needs to be reported to Sony.

Same here

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tonylee2000 · Oct 1, 2012 at 12:06 PM

CJHolderUK said:
lol, this is too funny. Try clearing the launcher data, you will need to readd all your icons and widgets but should solve the problem. It worked for me.

Didn't work for me

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CoolApps · Oct 1, 2012 at 10:15 PM

Guys, most of the issues are caused by the new update, try a factory reset, most of the issues like the launcher bug and wifi sleep mode shutdown bug should be gone after that, remember, always expect a problem after a update

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SudaDreamS · Oct 2, 2012 at 4:57 PM

I agree with andyabc

factory reset corrected this error

J_B204 · Oct 3, 2012 at 8:17 PM

Thought I was going mad...was sure I'd put a shortcut in a folder but it wasn't there! App is on local storage too...

Only solution is a factory reset? Oh man....not again! lol

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Cat McGowan · Oct 3, 2012 at 10:11 PM

J_B204 said:
Only solution is a factory reset?

Several people, including myself, have performed a factory reset attempting to solve the disappearing icons problem. It does NOT solve the problem. Sony's Tablet Sustaining Engineering (SE) Team has been notified about the problem. No solution has been posted yet.

CoolApps · Oct 3, 2012

Cat McGowan said:
Several people, including myself, have performed a factory reset attempting to solve the disappearing icons problem. It does NOT solve the problem. Sony's Tablet Sustaining Engineering (SE) Team has been notified about the problem. No solution has been posted yet.

Yeah true, a factory reset on the Sony Xperia Tablet S does not do anything to the problems since its not some large update to the framework, kernel and modules.
For the Sony Tablet S, most of the issues are caused by data from the previous version of the OS and also /data/local/tmp/ (I found out some root scripts when i was trying to root my tablet ended up there XD) but you can simply factory reset to restore the factory version but be aware that if you disabled any apps, in the factory reset process the "disabled" apps/files will be renamed to there original file name in /system/app/

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tonylee2000 · Oct 4, 2012 at 3:19 PM

andyabc said:
Yeah true, a factory reset on the Sony Xperia Tablet S does not do anything to the problems since its not some large update to the framework, kernel and modules.
For the Sony Tablet S, most of the issues are caused by data from the previous version of the OS and also /data/local/tmp/ (I found out some root scripts when i was trying to root my tablet ended up there XD) but you can simply factory reset to restore the factory version but be aware that if you disabled any apps, in the factory reset process the "disabled" apps/files will be renamed to there original file name in /system/app/

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Factory reset on Tablet S does not resolve issue either. I tried but the same apps still go missing after you turn the Tablet off. :banghead:

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emgluon · Feb 12, 2012 72 3 0

I find that only apps that have been moved to sdcard will go missing from the homescreen. I simply move everything to the internal storage, there is no more missing apps on the homescreen.
However it is still a annoying bug.

CoolApps · Oct 5, 2012 at 7:44 AM

tonylee2000 said:
Factory reset on Tablet S does not resolve issue either. I tried but the same apps still go missing after you turn the Tablet off. :banghead:

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You don't say.

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stifilz · Oct 5, 2012 at 7:39 PM

Another problem

WARNING: (Can multiple people please confirm)
Confirmed: stifilz, biablo

When you update to R5 the recovery is also 'upgraded'.

See

Your prob thinking BIG WOOP.... Well with this recovery you CAN NOT run shell in recovery.....

Therfore you CAN NOT decrypt updates nor disable signature check. So we (for now) CAN NOT flash custom ROMS.

If/when Sony/Google patch this root method (adb restore) we will no longer be future proof i.e. pre-rooting

Stifilz

P.S Sorry wasn't worth making a new thread && it is a PROBLEM

CoolApps · Oct 6, 2012 at 8:36 AM

stifilz said:
WARNING: (Can multiple people please confirm)
Confirmed: stifilz, biablo

When you update to R5 the recovery is also 'upgraded'.

See

Your prob thinking BIG WOOP.... Well with this recovery you CAN NOT run shell in recovery.....

Therfore you CAN NOT decrypt updates nor disable signature check. So we (for now) CAN NOT flash custom ROMS.

If/when Sony/Google patch this root method (adb restore) we will no longer be future proof i.e. pre-rooting

Stifilz

P.S Sorry wasn't worth making a new thread && it is a PROBLEM

Why sony why?!

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Cat McGowan · Oct 7, 2012 at 2:35 AM

stifilz said:
WARNING: (Can multiple people please confirm)
Confirmed: stifilz, biablo

When you update to R5 the recovery is also 'upgraded'.

Yes, I can confirmed Recovery was upgrade on my tablet with 4.0.3r5 update. My recovery screen looks the same as the one you posted.

stifilz · Oct 7, 2012

Cat McGowan said:
Yes, I can confirmed Recovery was upgrade on my tablet with 4.0.3r5 update. My recovery screen looks the same as the one you posted.

Thank you, can you confirm that adb shell no longer works and becuase of that AIO does no work for decrypting / disabling full signature check?

Stifilz

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

ALSO

Can anyone with Xperia Tab with update R5 confirm if their recovery has changed???? An try to use "adb shell" in recovery.

Stifilz

Cat McGowan · Oct 7, 2012 at 7:38 AM

stifilz said:
Thank you, can you confirm that adb shell no longer works and becuase of that AIO does no work for decrypting / disabling full signature check?

Yes, I can confirm ADB shell does not work with tablet in Recovery Mode after update to Android 4.0.3r5. I notice that when tablet is in Normal Mode, ADB correctly returns the tablet's serial number, but when tablet is in Recovery Mode, ADB incorrectly returns the tablet's serial number as 0123456789ABCDEF. Did ADB always do this or is this something new?

Tablet in Normal Mode

Code:

C:\ADB>adb start-server
* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully *

C:\ADB>adb devices
List of devices attached
27550101******* device  [COLOR="Red"]<-- [I]I hid the last 7 digits of serial number.[/I][/COLOR]

C:\ADB>adb shell
[email protected]:/ $ exit
exit

C:\ADB>

Tablet in Recovery Mode

Code:

C:\ADB>adb start-server
* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully *

C:\ADB>adb devices
List of devices attached
0123456789ABCDEF        recovery

C:\ADB>adb shell
error: closed

C:\ADB>

CoolApps · Oct 7, 2012 at 9:51 AM

Cat McGowan said:
Yes, I can confirm ADB shell does not work with tablet in Recovery Mode after update to Android 4.0.3r5. I notice that when tablet is in Normal Mode, ADB correctly returns the tablet's serial number, but when tablet is in Recovery Mode, ADB incorrectly returns the tablet's serial number as 0123456789ABCDEF. Did ADB always do this or is this something new?

Tablet in Normal Mode

Code:

C:\ADB>adb start-server * daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 * * daemon started successfully * C:\ADB>adb devices List of devices attached 27550101******* device [COLOR="Red"]<-- [I]I hid the last 7 digits of serial number.[/I][/COLOR] C:\ADB>adb shell [email protected]:/ $ exit exit C:\ADB>

Tablet in Recovery Mode

Code:

C:\ADB>adb start-server * daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 * * daemon started successfully * C:\ADB>adb devices List of devices attached 0123456789ABCDEF recovery C:\ADB>adb shell error: closed C:\ADB>

ADB Shell has been blocked O.e

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