Recently when I put APK's on my SD Card and try to install them I receive the 'Application not Installed' error. When this happens with market apps it's easy enough to unmount the SD and remount after the install. However if the APK is on the SD how can I do this?
Is there a fix for this? Also if it helps I'm running the Wildpuzzle ROM and the APK I'm trying to install at the moment is Angry Birds (getjar).
Have you try settings > application and check Unknown application.
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CoaBalboa said:
Have you try settings > application and check Unknown application.
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Yeah, the application installer shows up, I just receive the error message a few seconds of the scrolling grey progress-style/working bar.
Do you have a USB Cable? Try using "DroidExplorer", an awesome PC client that can directly install apps. Or, try using a File Browser like Root Explorer or Super Manager.
Do you, by chance, have an App2SD Patch? Because I have always found them buggy!
Try to "undo" everything you did up to before it stopped working. Also try formatting your cache partition and/or erasing dalvik cache. Did you do any flashing without making a NANDROID backup first?
Also try "SuperOneClick", there is an option to "Enable Non-Market Apps" for rooted phones.
Second-last resort? Factory reset. Last resort...? Backup all your apps/settings and reflash
jonusc said:
Do you have a USB Cable? Try using "DroidExplorer", an awesome PC client that can directly install apps. Or, try using a File Browser like Root Explorer or Super Manager.
Do you, by chance, have an App2SD Patch? Because I have always found them buggy!
Try to "undo" everything you did up to before it stopped working. Also try formatting your cache partition and/or erasing dalvik cache. Did you do any flashing without making a NANDROID backup first?
Also try "SuperOneClick", there is an option to "Enable Non-Market Apps" for rooted phones.
Second-last resort? Factory reset. Last resort...? Backup all your apps/settings and reflash
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Thanks for this. I'm trying Droidexplorer, explorers on the device wont install the apk as it returns the same error.
How long should the installation take. It's been running 15 mins so far, the internal storage has decreased a little but the installing window (on pc) is still up?
I am assuming you have a rooted phone with unrEVOked3 right? Would you happen to have some kind of App2SD patch installed....? Because I always found them unstable.... what firmware are you using? I am loyal to Sunaabh v1.1 (Froyo) Custom Firmware as it is well supported
Hmmm I've encountered that installing loop before. But only when trying to install an APK that wouldn't normally work, such as an older version of the Market or Flash 10.1. It just means it's waiting for ADB server to do something but ADB has obviously crashed. It should not take more than 30 seconds for an APK to install via DroidExplorer. Just unplug your phone and close DroidExplorer.
Does this happen with all APK's? How many have you tried?
Only thing I can think of is that you did something to damage your package.xml data and/or permissions are corrupted.
Did you try formatting your cache partition in Clockworkmod? Please try this, it will not destroy any data. But it will trigger a long reboot - it will appear frozen at the bootup splash screen but just let it go while it rebuilds the cache.
Also try "Clear Data" under Applications > Manage > Market.
Have you flashed anything in clockworkmod? If you can provide more details of exactly what you've done to your phone that might help, but I really doubt it.... I think the only option is to restore from a Nandroid Backup or Reflash Sorry... but these things do happen and we always learn the hard way lol....
You can use the official HTC Sync software to backup your phone numbers and SMS and stuff I believe, and if you want to backup your installed apps you can use Titanium Backup or many other Backup apps on the Market, Free or Paid.
Make into a zip file and flash via recovery
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Thanks for everyones help, I now have it sorted!
I started an installation through Droid explorer and then cancelled it when the apk was on the phone.
Then I unmounted my SD
Then I used root explorer to browse to the apk on the phones internal memory
It installed with no worries and I remounted the SD!
WillKennerley said:
Thanks for everyones help, I now have it sorted!
I started an installation through Droid explorer and then cancelled it when the apk was on the phone.
Then I unmounted my SD
Then I used root explorer to browse to the apk on the phones internal memory
It installed with no worries and I remounted the SD!
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Haha, how very odd! Regardless, good to hear you got it sorted
EDIT: If it happens again, maybe you could try to format the SD card. Might be possessed with some bad stuff in the .android_secure folder or something.
So last night I decided im tired of the way my Atrix was running so I decided to root it. My plan was to install neutrino 2.2 rom, but first I read to install CWM Recovery which i thought i did correctly.
So I then went to market and tried to download ROM Manager, Insufficient Space Error. So I removed a bunch of apps, Tried again, still same thing.
Formatted my internal and sd card, still had error. Went into recovery and did the stock reset (thinking it may be root causing issue) got phone back to stock and still getting same error.
Can anyone help?
so my boss found an app called marketfix on app brain. I went there only to find i needed to download with market.
seems kind of counter productive if you ask me lol.
Fixed it.
I tried a few more things and was finally able to get titanium backup and system recovery back on phone thanks to apk files i found. Tried clearing cache and Dalvik cache.
neither worked.
Put phone in fastboot mode, then connected to computer, went to dos prompt and ran:
moto-fastboot erase cache
I have now successfully installed 2 apps from market. Yay!!!
SDRAKE101085 said:
Fixed it.
I tried a few more things and was finally able to get titanium backup and system recovery back on phone thanks to apk files i found. Tried clearing cache and Dalvik cache.
neither worked.
Put phone in fastboot mode, then connected to computer, went to dos prompt and ran:
moto-fastboot erase cache
I have now successfully installed 2 apps from market. Yay!!!
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Thanks. I tried clearing cache of market but didn't work but "moto-fastboot erase cache" worked for me.
Hey guys! After trying a CM9 nightly, I've restored a CheckRom backup... The problem is that now I can't download anything from the market using my pc to my phone.... So, I connect pc and phone to the same wifi but the download doesn't start or it says that the app isn't compatible(but I can download it from my phone).. I tried to clean market data and cache, uninstalling and reinstalling the market but it didn't work... Even with the new play store doesn't work from pc.. I've also reflashed Checkrom after wiping data, cache partition and dalvik cache.. What should I do??
Thanks in advance!!
PS: in the Checkrom thread nobody answered me...
Pushing Market apps to the phone via PC doesn't work if Talk is frozen/borked, you don't have to be using it, it just has to work. So that's probably the first place I'd look. If it's frozen, unfreeze it. If it's uninstalled, pull it out of a backup & reinstall it. If it's none of the above, try clearing data on it.
before anyone jumps on my ass... i HAVE googled the **** out of this and spent 2 days looking for an answer. NOTHING i've found has worked.
i CANNOT install ANY updates via market. the ones i have tried, end up telling me "insufficient storage available" and then seem to disapear. facebook, maps, gmail, and a few others did this. one by one apps are leaving my phone. NO there is not a virus.
i've tried:
repairing permissions via TWRP
cleared cache/dalvik
deleted TONS of txt msgs
removed lots of apps
moved as many apps to SD as i could
deleted old nandroid backups
deleted old TIbackup backups
used leedriod to fix permissions
installed apps2sd and moved apps
im 5mins from doing a factory reset.
HELP!!!
some info:
nocturnal adrenaline r118
2.17.651.5
sense 3.0
hboot 1.4
You didn't say if you went into 'applications', manage, play store, and then cleared data. I hope you tried that and then rebooted. Same thing has happened to me and this cleared it up.
"We're coming from a pure power source."
tried that as well.
I know you may want to here this but you may need to reflash the Rom and and do a full wipe and a super wipe and wipe dalvik ceche wipe ceche and format system and the list go's on basicly wipe everything and run a super wipe tool and then flash your Rom if that doesn't work then you may want to try another Rom
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I know how you feel my girlfriend phone had the same problem
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Mine did too yesterday. Factory reset was only thing that worked.
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factory wipe work, but in my case, after some time the problem keep reappearing. i can't find a proper solution for this yet.
Try turning the autosync off on your Google accountunder settings(not playstore) then back on. If that fails try signing out if your Google account then readding it.
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Is there no progress regarding this issue?
aagame said:
Is there no progress regarding this issue?
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Try what I said. Want to know if that works
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Try clearing data on google services framework and google partner setup. Then reboot. Then add your account again and try the market.
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Here's a compendium of not working solutions i've tried
repairing permissions via CWM recovery
uninstall market updates/use old market
cleared cache/dalvik
use marketfix
deleted TONS of txt msgs
removed lots of apps
use cache fixer
installed apps2sd and moved apps (ungazedata2sd,darktremor,link2sd)
find corpse app using sdmaid
Flash/reflash various ROMs
deleted old nandroid backups
deleted old TIbackup backups
uninstall/reinstall TIbackup
used Rom Manager to fix permissions
Try turning the autosync off on your Google accountunder settings(not playstore) then back on. If that fails try signing out if your Google account then readding it. (New)
Try clearing data on google services framework and google partner setup. Then reboot. Then add your account again and try the market. (New)
Here's a compendium of temporary working solutions i've tried:
unmount sdcard->install app->mount sd card only work for one download
using logcat to find specific file copy problem only work for that particular file, other download will still display this annoying error.
factory reset only helps for a while, and this annoying error came again.
Repartion/reformat sdcard also provide temporary solution, but soon the error came again.
This is soooo frustrating man!
aagame said:
Here's a compendium of not working solutions i've tried
repairing permissions via CWM recovery
uninstall market updates/use old market
cleared cache/dalvik
use marketfix
deleted TONS of txt msgs
removed lots of apps
use cache fixer
installed apps2sd and moved apps (ungazedata2sd,darktremor,link2sd)
find corpse app using sdmaid
Flash/reflash various ROMs
deleted old nandroid backups
deleted old TIbackup backups
uninstall/reinstall TIbackup
used Rom Manager to fix permissions
Try turning the autosync off on your Google accountunder settings(not playstore) then back on. If that fails try signing out if your Google account then readding it. (New)
Try clearing data on google services framework and google partner setup. Then reboot. Then add your account again and try the market. (New)
Here's a compendium of temporary working solutions i've tried:
unmount sdcard->install app->mount sd card only work for one download
using logcat to find specific file copy problem only work for that particular file, other download will still display this annoying error.
factory reset only helps for a while, and this annoying error came again.
Repartion/reformat sdcard also provide temporary solution, but soon the error came again.
This is soooo frustrating man!
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Get a new SD card.
Weird how this problem is popping up up left and right.
I just had the same with CoolRom. Play Store AND apk files outsode of it could not be installed anymore.
Had to factory reset and now it works fine again. Pretty weird if you ask me...
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Both times I've had this error I used Cachemate to clear the cache, the apps then installed. Dunno why but suggests not enough RAM rather than storage.
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Get a new SD card.
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Already tried these sd cards:
2GB Class 2
Samsung 2 GB Class 4
2 different Transcend 32 GB Class 10 (New)
stuck again.
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KrewsialNL said:
Weird how this problem is popping up up left and right.
I just had the same with CoolRom. Play Store AND apk files outsode of it could not be installed anymore.
Had to factory reset and now it works fine again. Pretty weird if you ask me...
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Factory reset is a temporary solution, after some time, the bug will come again.:crying:
stevefwt said:
Both times I've had this error I used Cachemate to clear the cache, the apps then installed. Dunno why but suggests not enough RAM rather than storage.
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already tried clearing cache/dalvik, but not working 4 me.:crying:
Had the same problem with my Evo 3D. The problem is that you have to have at least 10% free internal storage in order to install anything. So move some big App to SD card to solve this.
No solutions up until now yet, but the real culprit is the cache created by google playstore in the cache partition when downloading apps.
I found a workaround to use until google sort out this bug. I backed up all of my apps, do a factory reset,and restore the app. In order to prevent google playstore to build up it's cache when downloading new apps, i use an apk leecher, transfer the apk to sdcard, and install from sdcard. Sometimes i have to use market fixer to link some installed apps to playstore. i preserved the cache for updates only.
not very pretty and i don't like this, but at least it worked.
Just verifying...You sound like you know what you are doing, but just in case...
Maybe you really are out of space... when you did apps2sd/Link2SD, did you actually partition the SD card with two partitions? Use that 32GB CL10 and make a 4gb partition (use the recovery formatter, since most align the partitions, don't use winblows/linux), then use Link2SD (my preference, since it's UI manageable, plus apps2sd didn't work for my rom anyhow) and click "Link" (not move to SD). Link moves the .apk, cache, and user data (if I recall correctly) to the "4GB" partition, but move-to-SD just moves user data to the larger USB mountable FAT partition, so this isn't going to move everything, plus it's not as flexible when mounting via USB. Good luck!
Thank you very much for reminding me. I did make 3 partitions which includes 2gb of sd-ext, 1 gb of linux swap, and the rest is fat32. on the sd-ext, i've symlinked data, cache, google play cache, system/app, and user/app partitions. there was still plenty of space left on it (more than 800mb at that time).
Hi everyone,
I am currently having a problem with ROM manager (or me). Recently I was in the process of of using the auto-update feature of cm 10 and after the reboot from the root menu the phone would periodically restart without warning when using apllications, none of which were specific. I then attempted to roll back to previous version of CM 10.1.3 from 10.2-20131102. After rolling the ROM back the phone boot screen would indefinitely cycle, I then cleared the cache, both partition and Dalvik in attempt to reload. Here is where the fun part happens, after all of which the phone (Samsung GS3 Sprint.) would still have the same symptom, i attempted to reload a back-up from ROM Manager but it does not register on the list(there are none available) however the back-up data is stil stored on my sd card and I can still see the them when browsing. I have attempted to go back through the boot menu and manually installing the back-ups but to no avail. I would really like to have my back-up restored so I don't have to reload about 100+ non market apps.
Any help would be appreciated,
Steve.
P.S. Also it sucks that it had deleted GAPPS, so the google market will not load. I however had a apk downloaded of ROM manager (not premium/ and the latest CWM) No matter what I have tried I have been unable to reload my back-up