so this happened with google plus and with scoremobile.
after a reboot it said that there was an error with the gadget (widget) so i deleted it but it wasn't in the list to put it back on.
i reinstalled score mobile and the widget was back.
i reinstalled google plus and still no widget.
ideas?
Did you move these apps to the SD card?? You cannot move apps to the SD card and also use the widget. Whenever you reboot, the phone won't be able to find the widget on the sd card and you will have to remove it from you homescreen and then reapply it. If your using an apps widget, keep it in the internal memory not on the sd card to avoid problems.
nope. google+ wont even let you move it to sd
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I've never had problems with moving apps back and forth from my phone's internal storage to the SD card. But recently, I've noticed that apps I used to be able to store externally (Shazam, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) have the "move to SD" option greyed out, making it impossible to move them off my phone. I'm running stock 2.3.4. I've combed the internet trying to find a fix to this issue, but have found no results so far. I'm contemplating doing a hard reset to hopefully fix this as a last resort if nothing else works... Anyone have any suggestions?
Unfortunately, not all applications support moving to SD card. This is typically because the developer has good reason for not allowing this. For example, apps like facebook that make use of widgets would error every time your SD card is unmounted. Now you may be thinking: "I never take out my SD card so why would this bother me"
However, every time you plug in your phone to a USB port to transfer files such as photos and videos the SD card automatically unmount.
Download App2SD from the market for an easy way to see a list of apps installed on your phone that are programmed to support moving to SD card.
Conclusion: without manipulating your device, there is no way to transfer the apps you've mentioned to an external storage device.
Having the same problem
blastindamusic said:
Unfortunately, not all applications support moving to SD card. This is typically because the developer has good reason for not allowing this. For example, apps like facebook that make use of widgets would error every time your SD card is unmounted. Now you may be thinking: "I never take out my SD card so why would this bother me"
However, every time you plug in your phone to a USB port to transfer files such as photos and videos the SD card automatically unmount.
Download App2SD from the market for an easy way to see a list of apps installed on your phone that are programmed to support moving to SD card.
Conclusion: without manipulating your device, there is no way to transfer the apps you've mentioned to an external storage device.
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Hmm...that would make sense. But I've had Pandora stored externally on my SD card since I was running 2.3.3 and that has a widget feature as well. I'm assuming that the update to 2.3.4 made it impossible to store apps that have widget functionality to the SD once you move them onto internal storage. Thanks for the help.
I just got a new sd card with more memory space(had 2g now 16g). Now that i have the room i would like to transfer all my apps to sd. The thing is a lot of the apps i have ive made into widgets that way i dont have to scroll thru my app drawer every time. My bf was telling that if it is an app that i made a widget then i cant transfer it to sd. He says that the app ends up failing or having issues. I transferred my titanium a little while ago and have not had any issues. So im wondering if what he told me is true or that i can transfer to sd without encountering issues down the road??
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I just got a new sd card with more memory space(had 2g now 16g). Now that i have the room i would like to transfer all my apps to sd. The thing is a lot of the apps i have ive made into widgets that way i dont have to scroll thru my app drawer every time. My bf was telling that if it is an app that i made a widget then i cant transfer it to sd. He says that the app ends up failing or having issues. I transferred my titanium a little while ago and have not had any issues. So im wondering if what he told me is true or that i can transfer to sd without encountering issues down the road??
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As long as your not using built Widgets but an app shortcut (which is what it sounds like your doing) you maybe OK. But yes apps stored on SD cards with Widgets do get messes up.
If you need the widgets you'll need to leave on the phone memory. Most of these apps state this in their documentation.
Sometimes apps requires you to download a widget if you plan on moving the app to the sd card.
So i have installed about 3 pages of apps, and i decided that it was a lot and i should move them to sd card. I used titanium backup and moved all my apps to my sd card. Rebooted. And these past couple of days I have noticed the following.
I had blue skies live wallpaper after i moved it to sd it would no longer be the wallpaper ater i rebooted my phone. I would manually have to set it over again. this kind of bugged me.
Draw something. Whenever i opened this app it would look like its about to open but then my screen would just go blank, and after a couple of seconds i would have to press the lock button and i would be at the launcher. (there was no force close dialog box)
Speed test- this app would just force close and there would be a dialog box.
So i reinstalled draw something and it seems to work fine now, and i think its because its not on the sd card.
Also the appbrain market just shows a grayed icon and when i click it it just says the application is not installed in your phone. It has sd written on the icon. But my other apps from the sd card are loaded why isnt this one?
My question is should or are there some apps that should/need to be left on the phone to work properly?
There are definitely some apps that should not go to the SD card. Widgets don't usually like getting moved there. I can imagine live wallpapers don't either. Draw Something, ink not sure about, but if you're having performance issues with it then try moving it back.
Apps on the sd card will be loaded last, so if you have them on your homescreen, you may notice the generic Android icon until the phone finishes losing after a reboot and the sd card has been scanned.
Generally, if the app is ok to move, it'll be available in settings-> applications-> manage applications-> sd card tab. Check off the box to move an app to the sd card.
Yeah I agree with this method, it's manual, and you have to do it one app at a time, but it's the safest way to put what can be put on your SD card. As for Draw Something, I just tried moving it to my SD card and it still worked. I did it via the method described here and not thru titanium backup.
I would imagine going through titanium backup moved the files but might not make the required links from the phone to the sd card, just a guess though (think shortcuts in windows).
lactardjosh said:
There are definitely some apps that should not go to the SD card. Widgets don't usually like getting moved there. I can imagine live wallpapers don't either. Draw Something, ink not sure about, but if you're having performance issues with it then try moving it back.
Apps on the sd card will be loaded last, so if you have them on your homescreen, you may notice the generic Android icon until the phone finishes losing after a reboot and the sd card has been scanned.
Generally, if the app is ok to move, it'll be available in settings-> applications-> manage applications-> sd card tab. Check off the box to move an app to the sd card.
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Oh okay thanks for the replies guys. Ill try removing the apps from my sd card and trying again with the method above.
Depending on what class your SD card is and what app is on it could affect performance.
Class number = MB/s
So a class 2 sd card would be rated at 2 MB/s, and so on and so forth.
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Depending on what class your SD card is and what app is on it could affect performance.
Class number = MB/s
So a class 2 sd card would be rated at 2 MB/s, and so on and so forth.
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Speed of the card is also a good point.
Hi,
I have htc legend with C7 installed. The USB storage used to run
quite well until some day ago. Now whenever I turn it on, the status bar on
top gets hidden somewhere, and I cannot find anyway to turn it off other then
restarting. But status bar is only one problem, my computer won't show any
USB storage, and there is no way I can access the files in my device.
What could be the problem? Why is my status bar gets hidden? Also I cannot
find turn on/off USB storage option in WIFI settings menu. where is it?
Reflash your rom and everything will be running perfectly again.
Sent from my Legend using xda premium
I think you might have some system apps on your SD card so when that dismounts the phone crashes.
I was hoping to fix it without having to reinstall things. I dont want to do everything again , unless I go for ICS
I have been moving apps to SD card using App mover utlity (only the apps that it suggest). I will have a look again, but I don't think I can move something that systems needs to run.
Here is the list of apps in SD card which i think may be causing some troubles:
Google+
Hotmail
Messages Widget
Google+ was updated a few months after release to have it natively moved to the SD card. The only drawback is you can't use the post widget. (Which really isn't so great)
For Hotmail, you can use Hotmail Exchange ActiveSync with the Android Mail app. It's the mail app you see when you forget to install GApps. Setup: http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/08/windows-live-hotmail-gets-exchange-activesync.ars
Works great.
As for the Messages Widget, I don't know what it is. But since it has the word widget, I'll tell you that Android doesn't support widgets for apps that are moved to the SD card, unless it's on an ext partition. So you'd best leave that alone.
If you're absolutely certain that these apps are the root of your problem, consider these alternatives. If you're not, still try 'em out. They're worth not risking workarounds for.
On my Samsung Galaxy S2 on Sprint I used Apps2SD by Sam Lu to move many of my apps over to my new 32 gig SD Card. After a bit I realized that I had moved many of the apps over that should have stayed on the main internal storage, mainly because of widgets. So I moved many of them back.
Shortly after doing that I was at a retreat with my phone on airplane mode to preserve battery life. I took some pictures and videos, read my Kindle app and Bible and then plugged it in to charge. The next day several of the pictures and videos I took showed up as a black icon and were not accessible. Then I noticed that all the apps that I had moved to the SD card were "greyed out" and even some of the apps that I had moved back to the internal storage. The phone then told me the SD card needed to be formatted.
Since then I have tried to use file recovery software to recover missing files on the SD card and it finds hundreds of photos and several videos, but nothing else. So the big question is, where are my apps? Does anyone have an idea of how to recover my missing apps? They show up on my phone with "greyed out" icons so the phone thinks they're installed but obviously they're not. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Nathan
The same with me...
NathanCCI said:
On my Samsung Galaxy S2 on Sprint I used Apps2SD by Sam Lu to move many of my apps over to my new 32 gig SD Card. After a bit I realized that I had moved many of the apps over that should have stayed on the main internal storage, mainly because of widgets. So I moved many of them back.
Shortly after doing that I was at a retreat with my phone on airplane mode to preserve battery life. I took some pictures and videos, read my Kindle app and Bible and then plugged it in to charge. The next day several of the pictures and videos I took showed up as a black icon and were not accessible. Then I noticed that all the apps that I had moved to the SD card were "greyed out" and even some of the apps that I had moved back to the internal storage. The phone then told me the SD card needed to be formatted.
Since then I have tried to use file recovery software to recover missing files on the SD card and it finds hundreds of photos and several videos, but nothing else. So the big question is, where are my apps? Does anyone have an idea of how to recover my missing apps? They show up on my phone with "greyed out" icons so the phone thinks they're installed but obviously they're not. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Nathan
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I had the same problem my apps that I had transferred on my SD Card had a grayed icon. This happened when I had plug my USB to store some files on my internal SD Card in my I9000. When I plug my phone and pressed the "Connect USB storage" button it seems that the app had freezed so I unplugged my phone and did it again for several times. When Im fed up I tried to browse my phone and there the icons of the apps I had transferred on my internal SD card had turned gray. I tried to unmount and mount my internal sd card but still no luck. I tried to restart the phone and even remove the battery still no luck. I guess the best solution is to reinstall the apps. Sad to say if i try to plug the phone again as an external drive I can see the files on my phone including the OBB files of the games
glennox said:
I had the same problem my apps that I had transferred on my SD Card had a grayed icon. This happened when I had plug my USB to store some files on my internal SD Card in my I9000. When I plug my phone and pressed the "Connect USB storage" button it seems that the app had freezed so I unplugged my phone and did it again for several times. When Im fed up I tried to browse my phone and there the icons of the apps I had transferred on my internal SD card had turned gray. I tried to unmount and mount my internal sd card but still no luck. I tried to restart the phone and even remove the battery still no luck. I guess the best solution is to reinstall the apps. Sad to say if i try to plug the phone again as an external drive I can see the files on my phone including the OBB files of the games
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in theory, if you re-install the app without clearing the cache, then all your files and settings should be there.
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in theory, if you re-install the app without clearing the cache, then all your files and settings should be there.
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I did reinstall my apps and most of them retained their settings. I later had the SD Card begin reporting as needing to be formatted again so I removed it out of fear I may have gotten a bad SD Card. I don't know if the phone has issues with loosing SD Cards or if I bought a bad card. Haven't had time to trouble-shoot so I'm just going without a card for now.