Hi,
we have the same problem in one of our apps - instead of the
application name the package name gets displayed. Does someone have an
update on this issue?
thx
On Oct 29, 9:46 pm, Greg Donald gdon...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote:
The update from HTC which was out yesterday is supposed to fix this issue
with icons. The problem I have now, after the update, is I cannot see any
of my applications on the Market and I also don't see several that I have
downloaded. If it's not one thing, it's another with this crazy phone.
On
That might be something to do with copy protection. I've heard from
several people that they cannot see copy protected apps in the Market.
However, even if that's the problem, I've no idea why it would change
after the update.
I think its the Market that's more crazy than the phone...
On Nov
Sprint just released a MR update for the htc hero and i have confirmed
that it fixed all these application issues. i restarted and
reinstalled apps and they are still working fine.
SUCCESS!! -
On Nov 14, 8:10 am, AngelOD angelod1...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I would just like to add here, that I
HTC has just pushed an update (1.56.651.2 ) which fixed the problem.
The busted apps now work just fine without reinstalling them.
On Nov 14, 8:10 am, AngelOD angelod1...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I would just like to add here, that I have a Scandinavian HTCHero,
and I've tried to recreate several
Yes - it is an HTC Hero from Sprint.
On Nov 14, 8:12 pm, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote:
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 3:18 PM, ZillCE zillce...@gmail.com wrote:
The icon I was using was the only one on the phone created by the
installation in All Programs. It was not an icon placed on
Hi,
I would just like to add here, that I have a Scandinavian HTC Hero,
and I've tried to recreate several of these errors, without luck, so
whatever it is, that causes it, I'd have to assume it's not in the
Scandinavian release of the firmware. Just in case someone wanted to
note that to HTC
The icon I was using was the only one on the phone created by the
installation in All Programs. It was not an icon placed on the
desktop. Is there is a way to delete and recreate the icons in All
Programs?
=
On Nov 13, 3:19 pm, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote:
On
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 3:18 PM, ZillCE zillce...@gmail.com wrote:
The icon I was using was the only one on the phone created by the
installation in All Programs. It was not an icon placed on the
desktop. Is there is a way to delete and recreate the icons in All
Programs?
Sorry I didn't
Just wanted to update with my current experiences:
A week or so ago, I did a factory reset on my Hero. I went through the
initial settings you have to do and then immediately turned off the Hero
Sense UI and chose to use the stock Android UI by default. Well, yesterday,
after I had updated a
I'm not a dev, but just throwing out some info.
I have a Sprint HTC Hero and this happens when I restart...
Some program's name will change to com.companyname.appname, but will
still work such as:
Astro File Manager (2.1.0)
My Backup Pro (2.1.1)
Google Voice (0.2.6) seems to be unique...it
While not exactly the same issue, after an application upgrade (an
application I wrote) I have experienced the application icon not
working (The linked program is no longer installed on your phone).
After a power down/up the icon works but the program crashes on
startup with a
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 11:02 AM, ZillCE zillce...@gmail.com wrote:
While not exactly the same issue, after an application upgrade (an
application I wrote) I have experienced the application icon not
working (The linked program is no longer installed on your phone).
After a power down/up the
On Nov 13, 7:00 am, Justin Giles jtgi...@gmail.com wrote:
So, there is something amiss here. There were reports that doing a reset
and switching UIs would solve the problem. I have just found evidence that
it doesn't. Is this still a HTC issue? Not sure at this point. Are there
underlying
Is there a way to remove that directory without getting root access?
On Nov 9, 10:47 am, mercado79 murkin.marti...@gmail.com wrote:
A somewhat more drastic step, but it appears to work is removing the /
data/boot-cache directory altogether. The directory is re-populated
the next time you boot
I just released an update to my app and one HTC Hero (UK, unbranded,
latest ROM downloaded from HTC site: HTC Hero_2.73.405.5) has reported
seeing a random app icon and app name in the app list. The icon and
name appear to be chosen at random from the app's resources. The user
has never used his
I'm having the same problem with my HTC Hero. The more I dig, the
more apps I find that
have this problem.
My list:
Astro
APNdroid
Google Voice
Google Finance
Handcent SMS
Locale
Sipdroid
Pandora
Barcode Scanner
Toodle Droid
Voice Recorder
It looks like they actually are the old versions of
http://community.sprint.com/baw/message/131296
gilroykilroy may have identified a fix. I just tried this with
Sipdroid that had appeared to be reverting back to the first version
installed and it appears to have cleared up the problem. I just reset
the phone and haven't been able to try it with
Somewhat more drastic, but it seems to work.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=582176
Simply delete the /data/boot-cache directory and reboot. The cache
directory is re-populated on boot and all appears to be working well
again (correct names, icons, etc.)
Bill wrote:
A somewhat more drastic step, but it appears to work is removing the /
data/boot-cache directory altogether. The directory is re-populated
the next time you boot up and the names, icons, etc. are all fixed.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=582176
On Nov 9, 1:35 am, Bill
On Nov 3, 10:58 am, gdonald gdon...@gmail.com wrote:
So Diane is saying this is not a generic Android platform bug because
it's only on HTC Heros, and then HTC is denying the bug exists even
though many people in this very thread say they are experiencing it
and can reproduce it.
If the
fadden wrote:
My advice to everyone in this thread is: if
you are experiencing this problem, file a bug report with HTC, with as
much detail as you can manage. Hopefully a pattern will emerge that
will allow them to isolate and reproduce the problem, and if it's in
their stuff, provide a
I have the exact same problem with my application too.
The problem is that it seems to erase the app icon. I don't see the
icon anywhere else in the phone.. menu, application manager etc.
It only happened with my app so far, so it may have something to do
with the process of me debugging with
Yep, same problem here with a Sprint HTC Hero, Build 1.29.651.1.
Any news here?
On Nov 1, 6:47 pm, rooster 808 rich.al...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm seeing this frequently on myHEROHTC, but not my G1 Google Dev
phone.
Almost every power off, I lose the Desktop Icon on the App I'm
developing,
Nope. I followed the instructions that I posted earlier and reset my phone
and IMMEDIATELY disabled the HTC Sense UI. I haven't had these problems
since. Haven't heard anything from HTC on my ticket with them (not even a
thank you for your inquiry email). I'm hoping they know about this and
On Oct 29, 12:58 pm, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote:
If this is only happening on Hero, it needs to be reported to HTC, not as a
generic platform bug.
I reported the issue to HTC and they said they couldn't reproduce it,
didn't ask me a firmware version or anything. See their
This isn't good, fragmentation of the Android platform is already
underway.
It seems to be a fundamental problem with this build's handling of an
application's resource bundle after soft reset. Images, layout XMLs,
strings XMLs, etc, all become jumbled up, rendering your application
useless. If
I got a similar brush off response from HTC just now. Also claiming to
not be able to replicate the problem. I forwarded them links to 3 different
forums that I have been following where several people have been able to
replicate the problem.
I don't expect any fix or recognition of a problem
For what it's worth, I stopped using the Sense UI in favor of the
default home, but did not wipe everything first. Upon entering the
default home for the first time, all my apps had the right names/
icons. After resetting though, they were displaying in their mangled
state in the default home.
I'm seeing this frequently on my HERO HTC, but not my G1 Google Dev
phone.
Almost every power off, I lose the Desktop Icon on the App I'm
developing, just on the Hero.
Rich
On Oct 30, 10:36 pm, James W jpbwebs...@gmail.com wrote:
For what its worth, I cannot reproduce this on a non-Sprint
I have an HTC Hero, have used many of the above apps and have never
seen these problems...
On Nov 1, 11:47 pm, rooster 808 rich.al...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm seeing this frequently on my HERO HTC, but not my G1 Google Dev
phone.
Almost every power off, I lose the Desktop Icon on the App I'm
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 7:14 PM, mscwd01 mscw...@gmail.com wrote:
I have an HTC Hero, have used many of the above apps and have never
seen these problems...
What firmware version do you have?
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For what its worth, I cannot reproduce this on a non-Sprint Hero. I
have had mine for a couple of months now, a European version, and has
been out in Asia for a while with no reported similar errors. I am a
close follower of the XDA Developers board, and it has not been seen
there either. Perhaps
The standard platform doesn't do this. If this is only happening on the
Hero, one possibility is HTC introduced some kind of caching that is broken.
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 9:40 PM, Robert Green rbgrn@gmail.com wrote:
Ok so maybe not cache but the thing that bothers me is that once
If this is a HTC problem, then who has enough arm twisting power to get them
to take notice? Me along with some of my friends have contacted them about
this and we have received no response.
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 1:10 AM, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.comwrote:
The standard platform
Installed, played 1 round, rebooted, icon text looked fine. Game started
with no problems.
Justin
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:35 PM, Robert Green rbgrn@gmail.com wrote:
Ah ha!
Ok, that at least shows something. Before I changed the raw string to
@string/app_name, it was causing the
Oh, forgot to include my firmware build number:
1.29.651.1 CL69164 release-keys
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 7:20 AM, Justin Giles jtgi...@gmail.com wrote:
Installed, played 1 round, rebooted, icon text looked fine. Game started
with no problems.
Justin
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:35 PM,
Justin,
Thank you SO MUCH for testing this! I can now say with certainty that
I have fixed the problem going forward and have identified at least
one thing that triggers this problem. Hero doesn't like raw string
app labels. It was probably developed with the assumption that app
labels are
I'm not entirely sure the raw string vs resource string is the full issue
here though. It might be part of the problem, but not the whole
explanation. As Greg mentioned earlier, he never had his app name set as a
raw string and he is experiencing the problem. On one of my applications
I'm
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Justin Giles jtgi...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm not entirely sure the raw string vs resource string is the full issue
here though. It might be part of the problem, but not the whole
explanation. As Greg mentioned earlier, he never had his app name set as a
raw
Isn't this easy enough to create a reproducible test? Install a small
test app with a raw string label. Then change it to a resource label
and reinstall. The problem is provable or the cause is not that clear
cut...
On Oct 30, 8:14 am, Greg Donald gdon...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Oct 30,
From a user standpoint, I ran across this thread on the Hero
phandroids.comforum:
http://androidforums.com/sprint-htc-hero/12549-handcent-shortcut-icon-missing.html#post77129
Basically you wipe the phone sd card, reinitialize the phone, then
IMMEDIATELY turn off HTC Sense UI in favor of the
My application started having this problem after I updated the
launcher activity with a different root package. Here's the sequence:
1) Install application on the phone with [com.package] as the path to
my launcher activity.
2) Changed the path to be [com.package2] and updated the
On Oct 28, 6:51 pm, Arron La arron...@gmail.com wrote:
My application started having this problem after I updated the
launcher activity with a different root package. Here's the sequence:
1) Install application on the phone with [com.package] as the path to
my launcher activity.
2)
What phones are people seeing this on? Just the HTC Hero, or is this also
happening on stock Android?
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 7:18 AM, gdonald gdon...@gmail.com wrote:
On Oct 28, 6:51 pm, Arron La arron...@gmail.com wrote:
My application started having this problem after I updated the
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote:
What phones are people seeing this on? Just the HTC Hero, or is this also
happening on stock Android?
For me, I personally have seen two Heros it's happening on.
I don't have access to stock Android, unless you count
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 9:18 AM, gdonald gdon...@gmail.com wrote:
Other apps on my phone are having the same problem now. Google Sky is
now broken after this morning's update for example.
After more app upgrades and reboots/testing today I've found the
following apps are all broken the same
Where is the Android bug reporting site?
b.android.com
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On Oct 29, 5:40 pm, Greg Donald gdon...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 9:18 AM, gdonald gdon...@gmail.com wrote:
Other apps on my phone are having the same problem now. Google Sky is
now broken after this
I apologize for not responding to one of your earlier posts:
Mine has: 1.29.651.1 CL69164 release-keys
Since I haven't seen this problem to date on my test Hero, running an
older firmware, I'm suspecting they broke something in that newer
firmware.
I have a second test Hero now and will do a
I've only had one user report my app's label showing up as #ff
and they are also using a Hero.
I have not seen any of these problems on my own G1 or the emulator.
On Oct 29, 9:32 am, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote:
What phones are people seeing this on? Just the HTC Hero, or is
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 1:03 PM, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote:
I've only had one user report my app's label showing up as #ff
and they are also using a Hero.
Yes, I've seen that too, it's unpredictable what the app icon's new
(broken) title will be. Occasionally it's something like
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 10:52 AM, RichardC
richard.crit...@googlemail.comwrote:
Where is the Android bug reporting site?
b.android.com
If this is only happening on Hero, it needs to be reported to HTC, not as a
generic platform bug.
Has anyone tried installing an alternate home app and
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote:
If this is only happening on Hero, it needs to be reported to HTC, not as a
generic platform bug.
Do you know where the HTC bug reporting site is? All I can find is a
simple support form that doesn't even confirm I
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote:
Has anyone tried installing an alternate home app and seeing if it still
happens there? I wonder if this is something in their custom home app.
I just tried Panda Home and still have the same broken app issues on
Dianne, it's happening to me on 3 out of the 5 apps I have published.
All apps work fine on:
Emulator 1.1, 1.5, 1.6
G1 1.1, 1.5, 1.6
Mytouch 1.5, 1.6
Droid 2.0
The 3 apps have the issue on
Hero 1.5
I had originally assumed it had something to do with the manifest,
specifically the way the app
I just encountered a similar problem with my Sprint Hero (US).
Yesterday I updated several applications (include Google Sky!) and I
just rebooted my phone and now that application along with several
others have either the incorrect launcher icon or the launcher name
under the icon is all screwy.
I installed pandahome (assuming that's what you meant by installing a
different home app) and I get the same results. Messed up launcher icons
after reboot.
Justin
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Greg Donald gdon...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Dianne Hackborn
Justin, would you be willing to install Light Racer, reboot and check
for me? That will show if I've figured out part of the problem or
not.
Thanks!
On Oct 29, 3:14 pm, Justin Giles jtgi...@gmail.com wrote:
I installed pandahome (assuming that's what you meant by installing a
different home
Greg Donald wrote:
After more app upgrades and reboots/testing today I've found the
following apps are all broken the same way as my own app:
Pandora
Coin Flip
FWIW, I can tell you that Coin Flip (free edition) works fine on my HTC
Hero even after a reboot. Note that I am running the older
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote:
FWIW, I can tell you that Coin Flip (free edition) works fine on my HTC
Hero even after a reboot. Note that I am running the older ROM than yours.
That's great to hear.
So how would I go about reverting to an older
Greg Donald wrote:
So how would I go about reverting to an older firmware, while also
preventing Sprint from pushing the broken version to my phone
automatically later?
Beats me, short of finding some rooting instructions.
I recall clearly, my firmware upgraded itself in
the Sprint store
I just downloaded it, played a round, rebooted and everything seems fine
with it. Icon looks good and the game loads. Swhat's amiss with
the rest of us? Sheer dumb luck? Poorly coded apps?
Justin
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Robert Green rbgrn@gmail.com wrote:
Justin,
Justin,
Did the app name say Light Racer or net.rbgrn.lightracer after the
reboot? That was the problem with it.
I had a version out that used a raw string as the app label in the
manifest. This updated one uses @string/app_name. If you confirm
that it's the correct name and not the package
There is -no- cached data for applications, at least in the standard
platform. We rescan and collect all of this data at each boot.
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Robert Green rbgrn@gmail.com wrote:
Justin,
Did the app name say Light Racer or net.rbgrn.lightracer after the
reboot?
It says Light Racer. Cacheit's good if it's in your wallet...not so
good when it causes bugs.
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 8:58 PM, Robert Green rbgrn@gmail.com wrote:
Justin,
Did the app name say Light Racer or net.rbgrn.lightracer after the
reboot? That was the problem with it.
I
Ah ha!
Ok, that at least shows something. Before I changed the raw string to
@string/app_name, it was causing the game to display as the package
name instead of the label after a reboot. Now, if you've never
installed it before, it works fine, but for those have already
installed it, it keeps
Ok so maybe not cache but the thing that bothers me is that once
broken, it's unfixable. That says persistence to me. My update
doesn't fix it phones that had the bad one installed ever (though it
was never bad, just bugs on hero), but people who have never installed
before don't have any
I just installed Light Racer on my Sprint Hero. Had never installed it
before. Rebooted and it was fine, still named Light Racer, still with
the same icon. I assume this is because you updated Light Racer and I
had never installed it before.
However, I am having this problem with several other
On Oct 26, 10:13 pm, Robert Green rbgrn@gmail.com wrote:
Uninstall, reboot, install - Works correctly, reboot - breaks
Yeah, that's it exactly.
Got my app all ready to go, all polished and ready to sell, but I
can't go forward until this issue is resolved.
Anyone know a work-around?
On Oct 27, 9:35 am, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote:
1. Is this test phone a Sprint Hero (US), or a different Hero?
Mine is a US Hero.
2. What firmware are you running? The build number on my devices is:
1.22.651.1 146733 CL62456 release-keys
Mine has: 1.29.651.1 CL69164
Yes, the test phone is running 1.5.
We've tested a manifest that has @string/app_name for both the app
label and launch activity label and it doesn't seem to be fixing it.
Uninstall, reboot, install - Works correctly, reboot - breaks
I am not seeing this with the app I used for last
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