MikeRivers
Newbie
BLU Vivo XL with Android 6.0, Nov 5 2016 security patch level. Fairly new phone for me - a couple of weeks old.
Occasionally I'll see a duplicate app icon appear on the desktop, sometimes on the same page as I put the original icon, sometimes on a different page. I can't just delete the extra icon because both are associated with the same app. If I delete on, both are deleted, and the app gets uninstalled.
I suppose it's possible that I'm not using the proper procedure to arrange icons on the desktop, but there don't seem to be any alternatives. When I long-press an icon that I want to move, an X appears on every icon on every screen - tapping on the X deletes the icon and the app as well, as it no longer appears in the Settings|Applications list. Dragging an icon with an X showing moves it, as expected. The action is the same whether I work on the normal screen or the "pinched" screen. Unlike my old phone which, when a desktop screen is pinched, displays all of the desktop pages on one screen, this just shrinks the page down and pops up a couple of "cleanup" icons below it.
This phone has no "apps grid" that shows all the installed apps on a page or two. As far as I can tell, if you can see an icon, the app is installed. If you can't see an icon, the app isn't installed.
I haven't fully verified this yet, but it seems to occur after a reboot or power-up. The icons that move/duplicate are for apps that I've installed, not the ones that came pre-installed on the phone. I've used all of these apps on my previous phone (a ZTE-740 running Android 4.1) and never saw this problem. The apps with the duplicating icons, so far, are:
PACalculate (Powersoft Audio)
Spectrum Analyzer (Keuwlsoft)
Function Generator (Keuwlsoft)
I'm going to e-mail Keuwlsoft to see if he's ever heard of this. I had his Spirit Level and Compass apps installed and I thing I saw this same duplicate icon behavior with them as well, but I've removed them . I should probalby try them again to see if they have the same disease as the other Keuwl apps, which, by the way, are functionally the best ones of the lot for what they do.
I've seen unfavorable comments about the app launcher that I have, which seems to be the standard Google launcher for this version of the OS. I've looked at alternatives to see if something else works better, but nobody seems to like anything very much.
This is so annoying, I really want to find a solution.
Occasionally I'll see a duplicate app icon appear on the desktop, sometimes on the same page as I put the original icon, sometimes on a different page. I can't just delete the extra icon because both are associated with the same app. If I delete on, both are deleted, and the app gets uninstalled.
I suppose it's possible that I'm not using the proper procedure to arrange icons on the desktop, but there don't seem to be any alternatives. When I long-press an icon that I want to move, an X appears on every icon on every screen - tapping on the X deletes the icon and the app as well, as it no longer appears in the Settings|Applications list. Dragging an icon with an X showing moves it, as expected. The action is the same whether I work on the normal screen or the "pinched" screen. Unlike my old phone which, when a desktop screen is pinched, displays all of the desktop pages on one screen, this just shrinks the page down and pops up a couple of "cleanup" icons below it.
This phone has no "apps grid" that shows all the installed apps on a page or two. As far as I can tell, if you can see an icon, the app is installed. If you can't see an icon, the app isn't installed.
I haven't fully verified this yet, but it seems to occur after a reboot or power-up. The icons that move/duplicate are for apps that I've installed, not the ones that came pre-installed on the phone. I've used all of these apps on my previous phone (a ZTE-740 running Android 4.1) and never saw this problem. The apps with the duplicating icons, so far, are:
PACalculate (Powersoft Audio)
Spectrum Analyzer (Keuwlsoft)
Function Generator (Keuwlsoft)
I'm going to e-mail Keuwlsoft to see if he's ever heard of this. I had his Spirit Level and Compass apps installed and I thing I saw this same duplicate icon behavior with them as well, but I've removed them . I should probalby try them again to see if they have the same disease as the other Keuwl apps, which, by the way, are functionally the best ones of the lot for what they do.
I've seen unfavorable comments about the app launcher that I have, which seems to be the standard Google launcher for this version of the OS. I've looked at alternatives to see if something else works better, but nobody seems to like anything very much.
This is so annoying, I really want to find a solution.
