bug: Jolla app icons "rearranging" by itself

It happened to me once, app icon reshuffling happened while I was trying to recover from a lost wifi connection. I think the phone was not able to detect AP, connection was lost overnight for some reason.

I can confirm it,yesterday happened twice. I also noticed that happened when the phone had long runtime, 5 days or more, and Android runtime didn't work anymore. The number of running processes dropped from about 600 to less than 500, with everything closed. A reboot was needed in this situation.

Last week, I encountered this behavior (Green LED blinks very quickly and then layout in launcher is reset) for the first time. Even with the newest Firmware 1.0.5.15 the problem seems still to exist. Also for me it had something to do with WIFI. I bought a new WLAN router (AVM FritzBox) and when the Jolla phone connected the first time to it, the problem appeared.

Happened to me yesterday, on tahkalampi firmware.

Didn't notice anything with the Wifi, and nothing had changed. But the screen went black and the green led flashed fast before returning to normal. I mostly have the launcher set to default so I didn't notice any changes there

The green led blinking points to the homescreen not responding/restarting. Why this might cause the icon to rearrange I still have no idea.

Yep this happened for me too with Sailfish 2.0.1.7. Phone was connected to charger and in the morning all apps folders were gone. Didn't find any other solution than rearrange apps again manually... I thought that because phone is already over two years old it starts to brake down but I quess age is not the case.

@erinmore thsi strange process seems to happened fast. I loose a contact entry done for 2 days ago too.
What i remarked too, is that some sync tries or event are done, even if the connection to sync accounts are not connected.

@japsi no no , the age is not the case. and that is funny, but it happened with all the software versions that i had.
and every time that the arrangement disappears i'm now sure that i noticed few weeks or days that i missed a calendar or contact entry. I'm not sure if it is bound, or is an hazard, but i noticed it.

happened one time to me with 1.1.9 or 2.0.0 and one time again with the 2.0.1.7.

I had this problem today as well. Green blinking, all apps closed, screen locked. I unlocked the screen and the grid was fine. I was annoyed a bit by the behaviour and manually restarted the device, but after the rebot the grid was messed up. all android apps first, jolla standard aps (mail, maps etc) at the bottom.

I didn't had turned wifi on, only mobile data. I was in the train, bad connection, disconnects to 3G network.

fingers crossed and good luck for the bug hunt.

Same here just happened now. Green lights blinking fast - had to reboot phone and afterwards all my folders were gone and icons rearranged. Since I was traveling with the train and switching between 2G/3G as well as WLAN, it is very well possible that switching between connection caused this crash (like @juju_des_highlands reported here).

Happened to me as well, just now. Was trying to connect to wifi. What happened was that gps and 3G switched on/off opposite to wifi. After a reboot icons were back to default locations and folders gone. v1.0.8.21, approx 700MB free disk space.

I have the exact same problems.

Green blinking, no network connections, rearranged starters.

It is 1.1.27.

I have had a full disk a few weeks before, deleted a few mp3s, no more problems..

BTW. Why is /home the same disk as / ?

UPDATE After a reboot everything is at its place again. Network is working etc.. thats no behavior I expect from a Linux device.. :|

Just teporting this re-arraning of icons in Launcher has never happened in my device that I've been using since the first OS version a year ago until the current 1.1.1.27. During this time naturally the 3g or WLAN connections hace many times been unavailable, unreachable, disconnected and/or reconnected, but the Laumcher icons have stayed where I have positioned them. And very rarely have I seen the green or red light started to blink in normal use and the device has rebooted but no change in icon positioning has resulted. For those who are affected, I hope you find out what causes this, and get it fixed. Very strange bug, indeed :/

Will try this the next time it happens and will report here.

interesting thing. i'll do it too.

ffect happens again today, but the trick didn't work for me :-(

Same here, the trick didn't work for me either. Let's go for 20-30 minutes of rearrangement...

The bug hapened twice since May 13 and that trick did not help. We need to find something, this bug is a real PITA.

Happened this morning with 1.1.2.15 (Yliaavanlampi). After reboot (due to missing ambiences) all apps were back at default positions, and all app folders were gone.

For me, this has happened mostly with 4G on... not with 3G, except pre-Yliaavaanlampi sometimes when using the Tidings apps & surfing with its internal web browser mode for an extended period on the Slashdot site (phone got quite warm).

Somehow, at least when using 4G preferences, the phone doesn't like it when connections switch a lot or go bad - the phone seems to freak out then with the blinking green led-flashes and quick reboots - then you know you're in for trouble :)

Whatever the cause - NO fault should EVER mess with the order of apps I have determined, or the folders I have created. That is simply inexcusable, the OS should NOT EVER be able to change what I have told it to do...

on 2.0.1.7 - similar issue since the update (never before) the only effected icon is the calendar which is moving to tbe very last position several times a day - no wifi no charger no crash ...

@elastic: Do you use the calendar patch that updates the date on the icon? If yes, then this is the problem for the moving. Happens by me too, but strangely after a couple of days it doesn't move anymore it stays where I put the icon

@PatsJolla yes I have installed that patch - thanks for the hint - it might be possible that it alsways moves when the icon is changed to a special day - I'll observe the behaviour the next days (there should be a few changes to the icon on the Easter days ;-) )

I have the same behaviour, only the calendar icon moves. Not sure whether that happens since I installed the patch or if it started before. However I can confirm that changing the icon does not necessarily move it to the bottom of the apps grid. I do have some periods of several days where it doesn't move. Haven't got a clue what could cause the movement.

@cemoi71 do you use any patches / extensions etc?

When you said that a contact entry vanished, do you mean a contact from People app? Did you add it manually on the device, or was it synced from elsewhere?

So I had this phenomenon running version 1.1.4.29 besides the already described symptoms, the app "Weather" (also showing the weather in notification view) lost the configured locations.

Had the same problem yesterday, during day, without any special incidents beforehand. Latest OS version running. Had a crash on the weekend so the device was rather freshly started.

Additional to all app icons rearranged and folders lost the weather app lost its settings, too.