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  Updating apps with Marshmallow The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2016-08-24 08:39 -0700
    Re: Updating apps with Marshmallow lew <citrustwosac@google.mailer.company.invalid> - 2016-08-24 19:56 +0000
      Re: Updating apps with Marshmallow Tim <timothybil@yahoo.com> - 2016-08-24 20:16 -0500
    Re: Updating apps with Marshmallow AL <noemail@none.com> - 2016-08-24 13:34 -0700
      Re: Updating apps with Marshmallow The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2016-08-24 20:24 -0700

#33615 — Updating apps with Marshmallow

Motorola Moto G #2.  Whenever an app updates, its icon on the home 
screen disappears without a trace, which I only discover when I need to 
use it again.  Is this normal practice, or is there something I can do 
about it?

-- 
Cheers, Bev
   Little Mary took her skis upon the snow to frisk.
   Wasn't she a silly girl her little * ?

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#33629

On 2016-08-24, The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> wrote:
> Motorola Moto G #2.  Whenever an app updates, its icon on the home 
> screen disappears without a trace, which I only discover when I need to 
> use it again.  Is this normal practice, or is there something I can do 
> about it?
>

I believe that it's a Motorola problem.  My apps don't disappear
on the Nexus 7 2013 or the Samsung Tab Pro (cyanogenmod) or even
the Nook HD+ (cyanogenmod).

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#33636

lew <citrustwosac@google.mailer.company.invalid> wrote in news:npku58$8p0$1
@dont-email.me:

> On 2016-08-24, The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Motorola Moto G #2.  Whenever an app updates, its icon on the home 
>> screen disappears without a trace, which I only discover when I need to 
>> use it again.  Is this normal practice, or is there something I can do 
>> about it?
>>
> 
> I believe that it's a Motorola problem.  My apps don't disappear
> on the Nexus 7 2013 or the Samsung Tab Pro (cyanogenmod) or even
> the Nook HD+ (cyanogenmod).
> 
Me either (Nexus 7 2013). I did have an interesting experiment the other 
day. I had downloaded the Baen mobil app a while ago but hadn' used it for 
several months. When I went to log on again I couldnt, and there was a 
message saying that if one hadn't logged on since Sept. 2015, to go to 
Baen.com and update my password. Well, I did that a couple of times, and 
still couldn't log on to the mobile app. The other day I had a brainstorm, 
and re-downloaded the app from the Google Store. Sure enough, that fixed 
it. The interesting part is that I now had TWO Baen icons on my Home 
screen, and after testing I determined that one pointed to the new version 
and the other to the old. When I uninstalled the old version, its icon 
disappeared, and everything else was fine. That was something I would never 
expect.

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#33631

On 8/24/2016 8:39 AM, The Real Bev wrote:
> Motorola Moto G #2.  Whenever an app updates, its icon on the home
> screen disappears without a trace, which I only discover when I need to
> use it again.  Is this normal practice,

It's not normal. FWIW my Motorola Droid Turbo 2 doesn't do it.


> or is there something I can do
> about it?

Until you find a real solution you could turn off automatic updates and 
do them manually to avoid the surprise and thus reestablish the home 
screen icon.

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#33637

On 08/24/2016 01:34 PM, AL wrote:
> On 8/24/2016 8:39 AM, The Real Bev wrote:
>> Motorola Moto G #2.  Whenever an app updates, its icon on the home
>> screen disappears without a trace, which I only discover when I
>> need to use it again.  Is this normal practice,
>
> It's not normal. FWIW my Motorola Droid Turbo 2 doesn't do it.
>
>> or is there something I can do about it?
>
> Until you find a real solution you could turn off automatic updates
> and do them manually to avoid the surprise and thus reestablish the
> home screen icon.

I did that a week ago or so.  When I deliberately updated today (after
posting, of course) the icons stayed where they were supposed to.   I
HATE when stuff like this happens!

-- 
Cheers, Bev
   "No matter how cynical I get, it's just never enough to keep up."
                                                   --Lily Tomlin

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