Home screen forgets apps between reboots - solution?

[Charlie Stross]

Per subject: my Gemini's home screen forgets some (but not all!) of the apps I've added to it every time I reboot. The same ones each time.

I'm guessing that there's some permission that's been flipped to read-only that I need to flip back so that it can save its state.

Any suggestions?

[Varti]

This seems to be a common problem, but I have been so far unable to find a solution. The only thing that seems to be confirmed is that only the apps that are installed on an SD card disappear, while the ones installed on the internal memory don’t have this problem. Is this the same for you too? Are you using any desktop replacement app?

A couple of  related threads:
https://forums.androidcentral.com/moto-g-20...-them-back.html
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#...xus/w1-eFeZZPto
http://www.droidforums.net/threads/phone-n...r-reboot.52175/

Varti

[Charlie Stross]

This seems to be a common problem, but I have been so far unable to find a solution. The only thing that seems to be confirmed is that only the apps that are installed on an SD card disappear, while the ones installed on the internal memory don’t have this problem. Is this the same for you too? Are you using any desktop replacement app?

I'm not using a desktop replacement, but I have shoved a big-ass micro-SDHC card in and told Android to use it as the default for storage. Sigh. Now going through my app settings to move the disappearing ones to internal storage ...
Edit: And yes, moving those apps explicitly to internal storage seems to have fixed the disappearing-on-reboot problem.

[Varti]

I have found a post where it is suggested that the apps won't be shown on the home screen if they have been first installed to the internal memory, then moved to the SD card - you have to directly install them on the external card for this to work:

https://forums.androidcentral.com/showthrea...l=1#post4636503

In alternative, try clearing all the cache data:

https://forums.androidcentral.com/showthrea...l=1#post5014721
https://fossbytes.com/clear-android-cache-d...-quick-methods/

Varti