Samsung Fascinate icons rearrange themselves during a hard boot-up

After painstakingly trying to arrange all my icons into page categories, i.e.. all music oriented apps on one or two single pages, game apps on their own page, etc. and whenever my phone freezes for whatever reason that causes me to remove the battery for a few seconds; when powering up the phone again, I notice that all my icons are scattered everywhere on other pages. I first noticed this after I batched my apps and put many of them into the SD card so that my phone's internal RAM wouldn't be so overwhelmed by storing all the apps. Has anyone else come across this situation before?

wardcst24 wrote:
biggrikk wrote:
After painstakingly trying to arrange all my icons into page categories, i.e.. all music oriented apps on one or two single pages, game apps on their own page, etc. and whenever my phone freezes for whatever reason that causes me to remove the battery for a few seconds; when powering up the phone again, I notice that all my icons are scattered everywhere on other pages. I first noticed this after I batched my apps and put many of them into the SD card so that my phone's internal RAM wouldn't be so overwhelmed by storing all the apps. Has anyone else come across this situation before?
If your phone freezes don't pull the battery
Hold the volume up and as you are holding it up hold the power button in
hold them both at the same time your phone will reset
this is a lot easier on your phone and you should not have to reset your icons
Maybe I am not seeing it, but there needs to be a Tips and Tricks section somewhere with all of the different shortcuts and other helpful tips that can easily be looked through....

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