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Help freezing widgets

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L33r0y

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I'm having a problem with my widgets freezing up. Its not just clock and battery its all of them. They still function properly ie. If I touch my power block widget to turn on plane mode the widget doesn't indicate its on but it does in notification bar. Its all widgets even stock messaging. It won't load new messages but if I tap on it it functions an opens app to text contact. My G+ widget won't refresh but I can tap it to open the app. I did not do the update to 4.3 it has only been doing it for a coupke weeks. Very frustrating to open phone and clock be hours behind and no updated messages. I have to remove the battery to reset it all. Any suggestions?
I'm on virgin mobile and I'm rooted.
If any more info is needed please let me know.
 
Too many widgets? too many screens? Try reducing the amount and see if they will work as they should. Maybe start at one then add until you know how many is too much.

Also look into the running apps and see if you have some that are loading into resources on boot. You can see about uninstalling things that you may have unknowingly accumulated. Android does manager the memory with background apps there are finite resources.
 
Ty for the advice. I'm a widget freak. I use a lot of them. It seems to happen when I use certain apps. When I close these apps I see that clock widget has stopped. Ty again legalkill.
 
Yes, the phone can hold only so many "running" processes in memory. When it needs more memory, it dumps a held app to release it for a currently running app. Looks like it is dumping the process for your widgets when you run large resource needing apps.

If you look at your running tab in application manager, you can see the total process you are using and how much ram its taking up currently. If you see certain apps that are running that you do not use that auto load (right after a fresh boot), you may want to consider disabling notifications or uninstalling the app that is running in background that you do no use. The closer you are to using your memory, then the more likely that android will kill off older processes to make way for currently running ones.
 
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