I just successfully flashed the phone today, literally a few hours ago. And everything seemed to be working perfectly fine, except when I tried to add a contact shortcut to the desktop.

What exactly happens is this, I got to add contact option, click the contact I want and it reverts back to desktop screen as it should, but the contact does not appear. I wait some time, but still no luck.

So I go to add a contact again, to try again with the same contact and it is not in the contacts list anymore, which means it should be added to the desktop, but I go back and it is still not appearing there.

Tried this a few times with a few contacts and the same happens. Did a reboot and tried again, the contacts now appear in the contacts list as they should, but when I add them, they don't appear on the desktop or in the add list either.

This keeps happening and I honestly can't see why, I have pretty much got a stock n900 right now, ref-flashed a few hours ago and all I did was install theme customizer and awoken icon theme.

Has anyone experienced anything like this? Is there a solution?

try rebooting through TC menu

Tried that as well but didn't work, I then changed to default N series theme and it resolved the problem.

Changed back to Awoken theme and contacts disappeared again.

So I'm not sure why, but it was happening when I was changing themes, doesn't happen with default theme though.

reinstall the Awoken theme?
actually Awoken worked for me, both theme and an icon pack.

Yep soon as I realised it was the themes, that's what I decided to do. It's all fixed now. Strange bug though