Help Please help me - Irritating widget problem

[BlackTigress]

My boyfriend just gave me his old phone - a Kyocera Hydro Life that was on Metro PCS. It runs 4.3.

I don't know why, but for some unknown reason, I cannot add widgets to any part of the home screen. I can only add a very Few widgets, such as Facebook's status widget. Any other widget I try to add - whether it's a part of a system app or not, will freeze up the home screen launcher, reset it, and refuse to add the widget.

I've rooted it, yet it still had problem before I did that. I've cleared the cache of the launcher and everything, and it still has this problem.

Can someone Please help me with fixing this? I'd really like to use my widgets.

 

[Mr. Lucky]

It would help to know what Launcher you're using. Many launchers allow all widgets to be resized. However, not all widgets are designed to be resized, and doing so only expands the widget border (thus creating a large invisible space on your homescreen where nothing else can be placed). If you think that's a possibility, long-pressing an existing widget will usually (depending on the launcher) reveal the outline of the widget and an option to drag the borders for resizing.