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Help Could it be the battery?

I do agree that it is suspect that all of that happened after the new battery. However, so many people got that 1800 battery (myself included) with no problems that it doesn't seem likely. Although I'm no battery expert, I don't know what mechanism a battery could affect the OS like that.
 
I have that battery and I've had no issues. I don't think a battery could have that effect but it could be...
 
I have just done a factory reset and reinstalled everything, and i hope it doesn't happen anymore...but I am still concerned about it!
 
Many people have had issues when changing batteries. Some people think that it comes from pulling the battery too quickly after shutdown.

Do a search around here..... you should find a thread or two about it.

I am getting that same battery soon. I plan on waiting 5 mins after turning off phone to put battery in (after doing nandroid, sms and titanium backups)
 
If a battery were to cause any problems, it'd simply be corrupted files if the phone shutdown unexpectedly. Widgets and Apps don't just magically disappear. Nor do text messages. If it were indeed a hardware problem it'd more likely be an SDcard problem (try reseating it) but that would result in freakish random app problems, and wouldn't account for disappearing text messages.

Dollars to donuts says either somebody is playing with your phone (most likely and is usually found to be the culprit when people ask questions like this on forums), or you installed something malicious (less likely but possible).

Couple quick questions... Did you buy your phone new or used? If you bought it new, did you root it?
 
Did you move apps to SD card? If so were the missing apps on the SD card? I've had a couple apps on my SD card go wonky like that before.
 
Bought the phone brand new, did not root. Using popular apps like facebook, angry birds, advanced task killer, espn score-center and nfl mobile. I didn't move anything to my sd card, just let them install however they chose to. When it deleted my widgets and apps it rmoved them from all of my "scenes" so everything was blank but the wallpapers.
 
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