Does any1 know how to fix this? Please!!!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=946986
Unmount the SD, install then re-mount it.
I know about the mounting/unmounting thing, but people have had success by deleting the smdl2tmp1.asec file in the "android_secure" folder on the sd card. I have not been able to find this particular file in that folder (connected phone to pc, and found all other .asec files, but not this one).
Has anyone had any success with this? or are there any other solutions for us besides unmounting?
adb install app.apk worked for me with guerilla bob game
im not sure how to unmount sdcard and install
hope this.helps
For some reason some apps won't update properly.
First go to:
Menu->Settings->Applications->Manage Applications
find the app and tap on the name. Then select the "Move to phone" button
Now hit the back button until you are at the main settings menu and then select SD Card & phone and tap on "Unmount SD Card"
Go back and mount your SD Card (same sub-menu).
Now update your app in the market. You can move it back to the SD Card when you are done updating if you wish.
That may work, except, I have uninstalled those programs (e.g Angry Birds) and reinstalled them from the market (after unmounting my SD card), which works, but now when trying to move them to the SD card, it says that it cannot....
This whole thing is getting rather frustrating, and it seems like there should be a deeper fix for this, instead of the hassle of unmounting, them mounting
kaysola378 said:
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This whole thing is getting rather frustrating, and it seems like there should be a deeper fix for this, instead of the hassle of unmounting, them mounting
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You need to contact Google or the app devs then because this issue exists on multiple phones across multiple versions of Android.
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Ok, I have a very peculiar problem which I cant figure out. Here is what happened:
1. Update to 2.1 with Bin4ry flash tool
2. Root with Z4 root tool.
3. Install Apps2SD using following method : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=804574
4. Install Black HTC theme: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=821790
I then noticed that my Market app wouldnt work properly, I could browse and begin downloading apps but it would Force Close evry time just before installing them. Not knowing which step broke it I decide to start over as follows:
1. Restore to 2.1 with SEUS
2. Check Market, all appears fine.
3. Root with Z4 root tool.
4. Check Market, all appears fine.
5. Install Apps2SD as above.
6. Check Market, all appears fine.
7. Install Black HTC theme as above.
8. Check Market, FC issue rears its ugly head again.
I checked through all of the stages in the theme and I cant see one where I could have broken the Market app, very peculiar. I was playing around on my phone and installed a couple of apps from .apk files on my SD card, I then tried to back these up using Appmonster. It told me it couldnt write to the SD card, very odd. I then tried a simple copy and paste with Root Explorer, same problem saying it cant write to SD.
I rebooted and got all sorts of Force Closes so I am pretty sure the SD has got corrupted or mounted Read Only some how, but I cant figure out how.
I dont know if it is related but when I plug my phone in to the computer it cant read it as storage, I have to turn the phone off, remove the card and use a card reader to transfer data. It seems to me something is wrong with how the phone is mounting the card, but i cant see where it was changed. I am pulling what little hair I have left out with frustration at this, any and all help is greatfully welcomed.
Quick update, I put the SD into my Linux computer and tried to change the permissions to 777, no joy. Is this likely to prevent me writing to SD, and hence the problems? I understand that FAT32 filesystem doesnt support permissions, how can I make it work with a FAT32 partition?
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Quick update, I put the SD into my Linux computer and tried to change the permissions to 777, no joy. Is this likely to prevent me writing to SD, and hence the problems? I understand that FAT32 filesystem doesnt support permissions, how can I make it work with a FAT32 partition?
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Your app2sd partition is ext2 right?
Dear All
I can't update the apps that moved on SD card, but has no problem after moving back to phone ? Anyone know the solution ? Thanks
I had the same problem. I was able to resolve the problem by mounting my phone to USB. Then delete the file smdl2tmp1.asec in the /sdcard/.android_secure/ directory.
After deleting the file from the sdcard, I was able to install all apps again
you can do two thgs.
1:delete the file smdl2tmp1.asec in the /sdcard/.android_secure/ directory wt he said if not
2:you may try this, go to setting and choose save to phone instead of sd card. this may allow updates.
cphkelvin said:
you can do two thgs.
1:delete the file smdl2tmp1.asec in the /sdcard/.android_secure/ directory wt he said if not
2:you may try this, go to setting and choose save to phone instead of sd card. this may allow updates.
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i can't find the .android_secure folder. does my phone need to be rooted?
finally!
After reading through a million posts and blogs and pulling out my hair, it was the smdl2tmp1.asec causing all my problems!!! Thanks for the post! Of the hundreds I've read, this is the first reference to the right thing.
any other ideas?
I'm having the same problem. That directory on my phone says it's empty. Yet
, I still can't update apps on the SD card. Any other ideas?
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My .android_secure folder was also empty but other sources said there's another folder to look,
./mnt/secure/asec/
this folder requires root access and using root explorer
I've done something really, really stupid. I know just enough about permissions to hang myself but good.
I have a Nook Tablet 8GB that dual boots either into a Nook, or with the SD card in, into Cyanogenmod 7.2.0-RC0-acclaim-TEAM-B.
I was trying to get my Windows 7 PC to recognize the tablet and the sd card when booted into Android. I have the ROM manager app loaded. Something I read made me think that if I ran the "fix permissions" feature of ROM manager, I could get the Windows PC to see the drives. (It does this just fine when connected via USB while booted as the Nook tablet.) So -- fix permissions ran and did a chmod on a bunch of files. Now half of my apps are gone. I can boot into Nook and I can boot off the SD card. I can start my Wi-Fi and do most other things. I just can't get to all my apps. I did make a copy of the SD card to an external drive before I did this. And, I had moved all the apps to the SD card before I copied it. Can I restore (unfix) my permissions back to where they were and everything was working? I know,I know, - I'm an idiot. Everything was perfect and then I screwed it up. Can anyone help please?
furmans said:
I've done something really, really stupid. I know just enough about permissions to hang myself but good.
I have a Nook Tablet 8GB that dual boots either into a Nook, or with the SD card in, into Cyanogenmod 7.2.0-RC0-acclaim-TEAM-B.
I was trying to get my Windows 7 PC to recognize the tablet and the sd card when booted into Android. I have the ROM manager app loaded. Something I read made me think that if I ran the "fix permissions" feature of ROM manager, I could get the Windows PC to see the drives. (It does this just fine when connected via USB while booted as the Nook tablet.) So -- fix permissions ran and did a chmod on a bunch of files. Now half of my apps are gone. I can boot into Nook and I can boot off the SD card. I can start my Wi-Fi and do most other things. I just can't get to all my apps. I did make a copy of the SD card to an external drive before I did this. And, I had moved all the apps to the SD card before I copied it. Can I restore (unfix) my permissions back to where they were and everything was working? I know,I know, - I'm an idiot. Everything was perfect and then I screwed it up. Can anyone help please?
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hm. usually fix permissions from rom manager "fixes" problems with apps. let me just make sure i understand what you are trying to do...
you want your win 7 pc to recognize the two drives of the NT when connected via usb right? the userdata partition (1GB if you have stock partitions) and the external storage which is your sd card?
am i understanding you correctly?
if so, all you have to do to mount the two drives onto your computer is just to enable usb mass storage from the notifications drop down menu when the NT is connected to your PC by usb.
ShinnAsuka said:
hm. usually fix permissions from rom manager "fixes" problems with apps. let me just make sure i understand what you are trying to do...
you want your win 7 pc to recognize the two drives of the NT when connected via usb right? the userdata partition (1GB if you have stock partitions) and the external storage which is your sd card?
am i understanding you correctly?
if so, all you have to do to mount the two drives onto your computer is just to enable usb mass storage from the notifications drop down menu when the NT is connected to your PC by usb.
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Yes, that was exactly what I was trying to do. And yes, I did figure it out and am able to see my NT and the SD card as drives in Win7. My mistake came in when I somehow thought not seeing the drives was a permissions problem. (From something I was reading.) When I ran the "fix permissions" in ROM manager, I lost half my app icons on my screens. I'm trying to find out how to get all my apps back!
furmans said:
Yes, that was exactly what I was trying to do. And yes, I did figure it out and am able to see my NT and the SD card as drives in Win7. My mistake came in when I somehow thought not seeing the drives was a permissions problem. (From something I was reading.) When I ran the "fix permissions" in ROM manager, I lost half my app icons on my screens. I'm trying to find out how to get all my apps back!
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usually a reboot and reinserting the sdcard after the NT has fully booted up with solve your problems with apps not launching.
EDIT: well since you are booting cm7 through an sd card then i am not sure why your apps aren't showing up... have you tried the "move to phone" option under maange applications in the applications settings?
furmans said:
... And, I had moved all the apps to the SD card before I copied it. ...
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This may have been the problem. Not all apps can run when moved to the "SD" card (which is really just another partition on the actual SD card). You should be able to simply reload the apps from their source (Google Play, etc.). An app call ZDBox can be configured to tell you, when you install an app, if that app can be moved to the SD card. The ability to move and app and have it function properly is based o the app itself and limitations therein. Again, all apps cans be moved, but not all will work when moved.
ShinnAsuka said:
usually a reboot and reinserting the sdcard after the NT has fully booted up with solve your problems with apps not launching.
EDIT: well since you are booting cm7 through an sd card then i am not sure why your apps aren't showing up... have you tried the "move to phone" option under maange applications in the applications settings?
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I took out the SD card, booted into Nook, powered down. Then I reinserted the SD card and booted into Android. The apps are all back. It's still a little wonky; if I move too fast for the OS, the whole things seizes up and I lose some apps again, but the above steps get every thing going again. Thanks for the ideas.
I have a weird and it seems like a common problem too, i have found some threads about it but either they are a little different from mine or they dont have a real solution for it.
So yesterday i decided to download a bunch of games, i never used enough applications to need to move them to my sd, but since i downloaded a lot of them some started to get installed to the sd and i manually moved some of them too to the sd card. But while i was still downloading more apps, some of them started to show the android icon, and when i tried to run them they crashed. The weird part is that it was just some of them.
After that i tried rebooting my phone hoping that would help the phone to reload and see the apps, but that just made it worst since those, and some others went totally missing from the drawer. Is not because the launcher loads before the sd card is read because i already checked that.
So i went to settings>applications and discovered that all those applications are listed there but listed with their other name (dont know how to call it, but is like "com.developer.app" ). All of the missing apps are like that and i cant run them.
- I have formatted the sd using gparted, same behavior
- I have formatted the sd and the internal (sd?) with the phone
- I have done a factory reset with no luck
- I have runned fsck in both internal and external sd's
- The files of the applications are in the .android_secure folder in the external sd card "app.asec"
- The sd card is working (files music, everything else is working)
- I dont know what else to do, I want to be able to use my sd card to install apps
Thanks for your help
Simple Answer
Just Install Nd Run The Apk First Nd Play now simply move To SD
It Will Work.
Same Problem In Galaxy Y .
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I dont fully understand you, but i think you are telling me to install, then run the app and then move it to the sd card, i did that to almost all of them (i was trying the games ) but that didnt make any difference. Thank you anyway!
looks like it was a faulty micro sd card switched to another one and problem solved
So i have been having this problem for a few months now, and its driving me crazy.. I've read every thread on XDA about sdcards, but nothing seems to apply here
When I reboot, my phone launches External2Internal so my 32GB SD can be used as my internal drive, and I've used it fine for a very long time.. but recently the sd card just disappears after some period of time. it seems to happen whenever my phone goes to sleep or the screen goes off and is locked, i suppose
after I reboot the phone it works fine again..
I quite think its from a malicious program.. but I cant be sure
recently, I installed a bunch of sd card tools to rescan, remount, test etc.. and I also installed an External2Internal update... and after all that, the sdcard contents appear to have been deleted, even after multiple reboots, when viewed with ES File Explorer.. However all the contents appear in good condition when viewed with Total Commander.. .
and since all that tinkering, because the sd card seems on some level to be deleted, programs like avast are getting corrupted errors on their virus scans, such as "invalid context during scan".. an error it doesnt get when the sdcard is unmounted completely, but only now that it mounts as appearing mostly empty to es file explorer and probably most other programs.
so it seems like one of the USB tools or the External2Internal update has done something malicious to my card... or maybe it was a last ditch effort by some dorks malicious code from a program i deleted in trying to get this all sorted out
anyone else having this problem or know how it can be fixed?
and I prefer to try and find out what is causing the problem and fix that problem, rather than just reformatting the card or buying a new card, since i'm sure it will just happen again someday
thanks
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This happens to me as well, the only difference is that I don't use External2Internal but the jellybean option "default write disk: SD card"