# Android Widget Mixup? **URL:** \ **Category:** Bugabee\ **Created:** [January 4, 2018, 1:53pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/android-widget-mixup/3683 "2018-01-04T13:53:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![adamwolf](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/adamwolf/32/484_2.png) [@adamwolf](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/adamwolf)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2018, 1:53pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/android-widget-mixup/3683/1 "2018-01-04T13:53:27Z")
Hi folks! My Beeminder workflow involves lots of Android Beeminder widgets. While I used to put them all on one screen ([\*Lots\* of Android widgets on one screen](http://forum.beeminder.com/t/lots-of-android-widgets-on-one-screen/2584)), in early 2017 I switched to a logical grouping, where the widgets are right next to an applicable app. I.e. the one measuring my Twitter time is right next to my Twitter app, so I can see my goal before clicking into it. ![Screenshot_20180104-073924](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/beeminder/original/2X/d/d962e4ba72aa69f46c1c4d44b2b297c3359057b1.jpg) ![Screenshot_20180104-073918](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/beeminder/original/2X/f/f5848a7ea9c2a0b832e8a10e2354d93f10c4b5ed.jpg) (I love this and want to write more about it, but first…) This worked amazingly for me for all of 2017, until I replaced my Android phone this month. I have been setting my new phone up up rather slowly, and I noticed that I seemed to have the wrong Android widget on the screen, and I chalked it up to setting my phone up on the bus before my coffee, so I started taking screenshots after I set up each thing. It’s not me setting them up wrong – my widgets are not working right. They’re changing which goal they point to, sometimes they don’t refresh for 7+ hours after the goal changes in the Beeminder app, and sometimes when they change what goal they’re pointing to, they show both goal titles! ![Screenshot_20180104-070628](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/beeminder/original/2X/8/81b60c2b76560b5424c611d9d868f77e8ecd5c83.jpg) For a few more days, I have both phones. I know I am running the latest Beeminder version on both phones. I have never seen this on my Nexus 5X, and I have seen it all week on my Pixel 2. I am running Android 8 on both devices. I do not know if I have set up new widgets on Android 8 on my 5X, rather than just continue to use the old ones. I have been using the stock launchers on both devices. If anyone has any insight, if anyone has heard of widget issues on Android 8 or on the Pixel 2 or whatever fancy launcher Google uses for it, or if anyone has had a similar problem with Beeminder, please let me know. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![adamwolf](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/adamwolf/32/484_2.png) [@adamwolf](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/adamwolf)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2018, 6:47pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/android-widget-mixup/3683/2 "2018-01-04T18:47:54Z")
There have been numerous reports that the first boot after the Android 8.1 is “weird”. I rebooted my phone, and things were fine for a few hours, but then I noticed the widget mixup happening again! ---
**Author:** ![twenty13quarter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@twenty13quarter](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/twenty13quarter)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 5:32pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/android-widget-mixup/3683/3 "2018-01-25T17:32:14Z")
I responded to the beemail about this and @dreev asked if I would post it in the thread, so here it is: > I don’t know about his specific problem (and I mostly use the other android > widget, the list one) but I’ve definitely cleared the app’s data fully and > reinstalled at some point to work around something (although this was a > while ago and I don’t remember what). I think one issue was related to goal archiving / slug changing not being reflected correctly, although it’s been a while since I’ve seen that so possibly it’s resolved or I was just doing something incorrectly. (As an android widget related side note, I think I would actually prefer to use a big collection of the individual ones, since then I could sort them. But I can’t get them to display reasonably on my home screen (which is 6x7, so a lot of widgets bug out a little. e.g. bunch of them will work correctly eventually but require more space to placed initially than they do when being resized).) ---
**Author:** ![adamwolf](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/adamwolf/32/484_2.png) [@adamwolf](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/adamwolf)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 9:07pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/android-widget-mixup/3683/4 "2018-01-25T21:07:19Z")
I bet slug changing breaks the widget! Can you explain the last paragraph a little more? Maybe a screenshot might help? Adam ---
**Author:** ![twenty13quarter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@twenty13quarter](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/twenty13quarter)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2018, 6:11pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/android-widget-mixup/3683/5 "2018-01-26T18:11:31Z")
The widget ends up looking like this: ![Screenshot_20180126-130742](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/beeminder/original/2X/d/d9f2e24c1d357a1171a67dc756b83fe8b05caabe.png) Which is 1x2, which is what the widget asks for. But it doesn’t look quite right. ---
**Author:** ![adamwolf](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/adamwolf/32/484_2.png) [@adamwolf](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/adamwolf)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 10:09pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/android-widget-mixup/3683/6 "2018-01-31T22:09:19Z")
Wow! Is that what happens when you drag the widget out, or is that after a resizing? What device do you have? Do you use the stock launcher on it or something special? ---
**Author:** ![twenty13quarter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@twenty13quarter](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/twenty13quarter)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2018, 2:03am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/android-widget-mixup/3683/7 "2018-02-01T02:03:36Z")
Galaxy s5, trebuchet, that screenshot is with it set to a 7x6 grid. Setting it to a 7x7 grid makes it look a little better (they ask for 2x2 and are a little squarer) but still not quite what I wanted. That’s what I get when I drag the widget out. What I’d like is for them to fit into 1x1 spots so I can have a whole bunch of them organized nicely, but I’m aware the weird grid size is my own fault really. ---
**Author:** ![adamwolf](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/adamwolf/32/484_2.png) [@adamwolf](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/adamwolf)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2018, 3:07am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/android-widget-mixup/3683/8 "2018-02-01T03:07:12Z")
I have never seen that before. I bet there’s a way I can set them to lock at 1x1–i had no idea the smaller ones were sizeable at anything else.