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Help No desktop after reboot

gamul1

Android Enthusiast
Wow - I have no idea what is happening but I currently have no desktop on my Xoom. After a reboot I just have a black screen.

I do have the bottom bar with the home and back buttons and if an email comes in I get a notification and i can open the email app and read the email. From that I can open a browser link and read the web. In fact I am typing this message from the Xoom.

But if I back out I'll still just have a black screen with no desktop. I have rebooted 4 times with the same results. Once I even did a force reboot in the hopes maybe that did something different. Nope.

What I noticed happen was I was holding the Xoom in my lap in standby having finished reading email about 10 minutes before. All of the sudden the Xoom rebooted on its own. Upon restarting I had the blank screen.

One other note I wonder about: I recently installed the ADWLauncher EX which I got from the market on sale for 10 cents. This may be the first reboot since that install. Not sure if it is related. I would try to uninstall it but I cant figure out how to find the settings with it in this state. I don't have the top bar.

Any ideas?
 
Problem solved. It was the AWDlauncher program. From the browser I hit the home button and i got the choice dialog of which launcher did I want - the As or the normal one. I had not checked off the option to always do that because I thought it could be nice to have both desktop options.

So, hit the home button and got the choice, selected the normal launcher and had my usual desktop. I uninstalled the AW launcher and rebooted and all is fine. So somehow after a reboot the AW launcher had some sort of control but not enough.

Weird. But whatever. Problem is gone and I'm happy.
 
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