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ALL of the shortcuts for the apps that I installed (not preinstalled ones on a ROM), all of them sudden got corrupt. They all show upd now with "Android Logo" icon and not the icon of the program. T-Mobile TV is installed on a ROM, so the icon for that is fine, but take an app "Movies", the icon for that is corrupt and instead of icon of this program, I have a little "android logo" icon. How do I restore all of messed up icons?

Reboot does not help. I tried SD card mount/unmount with no luck

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Are these apps that you've moved to the SD card? – TomG Feb 22 '12 at 1:41
yes. They are.. – user12363 Feb 22 '12 at 3:10
If you remove one of the apps from the home screen and then add it back manually, does the correct icon show up? – P.T. Feb 22 '12 at 10:27

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If you move an app to/from the sdcard, and you have icons on the home screen, you need to remove and re-add the icon to the home screen. when I have done this, I thought the icons removed themselves from the home screen automatically.

When you move it to/from the sdcard, it is a lot like uninstalling the application (without removing the user data) and re-installing it again in the new location.

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I can not re-drag it on home screen. All of them (about 15) also disappeared from all-apps-overview – user12363 Feb 23 '12 at 12:52
I was hoping for a refresh-all-icons.exe solution – user12363 Feb 23 '12 at 12:52
if you can't even re-add them, then there is another issue. They are not installed correctly once they were moved to the sdcard. maybe they don't support running from the sdcard. – Ryan Conrad Feb 23 '12 at 13:34
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the problem is sometimes fixed when I insert sim card. normaly I do not have sim card in my phone and then it goes back to corrupted when I remove it.

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