The reason why this happens is because you most likely went and removed one of the system apps on your phone.
NOTE: DON'T STUFF ABOUT WITH YOUR SYSTEM APPS, THERE IS A REASON WHY THEY ARE SYSTEM APPS, SO THAT YOU CANNOT TOUCH THEM, LEAVE THEM ALONE...!!!
You now sit with a phone with an un-installed app that you are trying to put back, but every time you try to install it, you get the error Application Installation Unsuccessful.
There are solutions mentioned like deleting the .Android_Secure director on your SD-card or clearing your Market Cache or taking your SD Card out. These options will NOT work because the removed application has most likely no entries in the .Android_Secure directory and the problem has nothing to do with the market place. It looks more like a permissions problem, maybe one of the DEVS can shed more ;light on this.
Here is what I did to get the app back on to my phone.
I used an App Manager from the Market place that gives you the ability to REMOVE SYSTEM APPS, it also has the ability to back up apps before you un-install them, although I have not figured out yet how to do that.
Normal backup programs usually create a folder on your SD Card as a destination. From previous experience with Application backups, they usually put the original APK file in the folder and when you want to restore it, it just re-installs the APK from that folder.
The App Manager in question also created a folder on the SD Card but obviously as I haven't done any backups yet, it was empty. With the above mentioned idea in mind, I put the original APK file that I got from the original ROM that I previously flashed to my phone, into the folder. I then ran the Application Manager and tried a restore. It picked up the APK file in the directory and it successfully restore/re-installed the app back onto the phone.
One thing that I did notice is that this specific Application Manager has an option to switch on Busy-Box, I do not know if this is a requirement but I had it switched on, you may have to install Busy-Box if your phone does not have it on already.
Hope this helped all you noobs in your conquest to re-install your apps and learn from your mistake.
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hey guys,
i have the rooted 2.1. i picked up a root file manager and was copying my apps from the phone to the sd card. i did a couple and installed them just to see that it worked. seen that it did work so i started copying a bunch of them from the app file to the sd card and apparently i copied the file manager that i was using. as soon as it happened the file manager disappered. no problem i thought i'll just go to the market and re-load the app and get back to business... didnt happen that way.. my market app is missing!
i'm not sure what to do to get this fixed..
any help would be much appreciated.
j-stang said:
hey guys,
i have the rooted 2.1. i picked up a root file manager and was copying my apps from the phone to the sd card. i did a couple and installed them just to see that it worked. seen that it did work so i started copying a bunch of them from the app file to the sd card and apparently i copied the file manager that i was using. as soon as it happened the file manager disappered. no problem i thought i'll just go to the market and re-load the app and get back to business... didnt happen that way.. my market app is missing!
i'm not sure what to do to get this fixed..
any help would be much appreciated.
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As long as you did a 'nand backup' or a 'nand+ext3 backup' or 'BART backup', you should be able to restore yourself from that point in Recovery.
If you haven't, I'm sure someone can upload a market .apk for you. Are your .apk's alone or do they have matching .odex files?
you can always reflash the custom rom you started out with after Root. No biggie, you just have to set your stuff backup.
funny mistake though =-)
I have found a couple people that have frozen or removed apps and are starting to get issues with their contacts. Not being able to remove, add, update, or anything with them. So I am posting a zip file off all of the apps for people that have removed them without backing them up. You simply need to restore the app that you removed which is most likely a yahoo contacts or email that is tied into the contacts. http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2VU48HSU
Great resource this. I was going to post mine up soon, but you beat me to it. Only had my X2 for a day.
Do you restore these with titanium backup? Because I backed up the bloat ware and later tried to restore it to no luck. However the apps were frozen when backed up so perhaps that caused an issue?
I don't think titanium backup is good at restoring. I've tried it a couple times with no luck. if you place a copy of the zip file extracted on your sd card and open it with files select the application you want to install you can install it from there. I personally only like titanium backup for freezing the application I don't use and cannot remove.
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I have tried to install the apps in your list but some would not be installed. Is there another way I can force them to be installed? By putting them in a location?
The list is:
Backup Assistant
Backup Assistant Client
DLNA
DLNA System Service
Emergency Alerts
All Authenticators
Help Center
Home Screen Tips
IM 3.0.4.6
IM Presence 2.2.2
News
Pico TTS
Social Messaging
Social Messaging Service
Social Networking
Social Status
Sticky Note
Tasks
Video Editor Lite
Voice Commands
Just use root explorer and place them in system/data or push through adb.
Reboot after you place them there.
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Sorry, I'm rather new to this whole root thing. I uninstalled backupassistant with Titanium backup and my contacts got screwed. I downloaded the zip and tried to install Backupassistant.apk but it says "application was not installed". Is there a specific way that I need to reinstall? Root explorer does not allow me to change permissions from read only for "system" so I can't move the apk files in there.
ffejin123 said:
Sorry, I'm rather new to this whole root thing. I uninstalled backupassistant with Titanium backup and my contacts got screwed. I downloaded the zip and tried to install Backupassistant.apk but it says "application was not installed". Is there a specific way that I need to reinstall? Root explorer does not allow me to change permissions from read only for "system" so I can't move the apk files in there.
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Check and see if you are rooted first. You cannot install system files as a normal app. They must be pushed to system/app or placed there using root explorer. Check and see if you are rooted or that you superuser has blocked root explorer.
ffejin123 said:
Sorry, I'm rather new to this whole root thing. I uninstalled backupassistant with Titanium backup and my contacts got screwed. I downloaded the zip and tried to install Backupassistant.apk but it says "application was not installed". Is there a specific way that I need to reinstall? Root explorer does not allow me to change permissions from read only for "system" so I can't move the apk files in there.
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I think I know what your talking about, follow Nitros instructions but when you are at the starting folder in Root Explorer press the Mount R/W button, I believe as long as you stay in the program (or don't press back too many times, because if you are at the base folder and press back it will go back to R/O) any folder you go into will say "R/W" at the top. So just press the button when its available and THEN go into the folder you need to go to and the setting will stick.
Edit: actually I just was messing with my phone and the reason I saw that behavior is because I was in the SD card where its always R/W. If its not showing up then yeah I'd listen to Nitro on this one, though I have no idea how you got rid of Backup assistant without root.
So I just copied the app list you posted onto my phone and now its in a boot loop. I thought that when I copied all of them over it would let me choose to not replace files already there. Now the phone is in a boot loop.
This may sound stupid, but I am kinda hoping its reinstalling the apks, one with each boot? But I kinda have a sneaking suspicious that I just ruined my phone since there is no SBF
Also, the boot times before restarting are not consistent, does this mean anything?
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So I just copied the app list you posted onto my phone and now its in a boot loop. I thought that when I copied all of them over it would let me choose to not replace files already there. Now the phone is in a boot loop.
This may sound stupid, but I am kinda hoping its reinstalling the apks, one with each boot? But I kinda have a sneaking suspicious that I just ruined my phone since there is no SBF
Also, the boot times before restarting are not consistent, does this mean anything?
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If you are in a bootloop but all of your apps are still in place there is a slight chance that you could do a factory reset through recovery and the phone will boot.
nitroglycerine33 said:
Check and see if you are rooted first. You cannot install system files as a normal app. They must be pushed to system/app or placed there using root explorer. Check and see if you are rooted or that you superuser has blocked root explorer.
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Yeah I am rooted with gingerbreak 1.2. As of now Im not really concerned with the contacts anymore because I can still add and save new contacts. My concern now is that when the OTA Gingerbread update is out for the X2, will I be able to install it without the original Bloat.
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If you are in a bootloop but all of your apps are still in place there is a slight chance that you could do a factory reset through recovery and the phone will boot.
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Yeah my office tech support guy took a look at it and tried it, we got an error indicator icon when we tried. I don't think it finished copying, I think everything dying killed the copy process and left something important unfinished.
Now I am a little wiser for my new phone.
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I have tried to install the apps in your list but some would not be installed. Is there another way I can force them to be installed? By putting them in a location?
The list is:
Backup Assistant
Backup Assistant Client
DLNA
DLNA System Service
Emergency Alerts
All Authenticators
Help Center
Home Screen Tips
IM 3.0.4.6
IM Presence 2.2.2
News
Pico TTS
Social Messaging
Social Messaging Service
Social Networking
Social Status
Sticky Note
Tasks
Video Editor Lite
Voice Commands
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So I'm guessing the only way to get these programs reinstalled is if the SBF is available for the X2, which it is not?
Just rooted, installed superuser, ran a full titanium backup. Then started clearing out some apps and accidentally removed 2 instances of clock 1.0 (why are there 2?). I thought it was just the widgets, but apparently it was the whole app/alarm clock etc. I go into titanium backup, find the app, click restore data+app, and it just gets stuck on the restoring screen. I've tried a few times, rebooted the phone, and it'll stay there for 10+ minutes. What's going on? Should I try a different method?
If it makes a difference, the backup file is currently just on my phone. I have no sd card yet so I just backed it up on my phone and was going to transfer to computer/sd card when I get it.
Really? Anyone?
If it helps I now have an sd card and transferred the titanium backup onto my cpu as well.
Copy clock.apk there manually.
diablo009 said:
Copy clock.apk there manually.
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I'm assuming that's a manual Trans from my CPU to my phone...what program can I use? Where can I find the file or should I try again with the I've I backed up
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Need help still.I downloaded an app installer and downloaded two different apps one package one just clock..neither install using the installer. not sure if my issue is with using the installer since its a sys file or wrong apps.... Never done this before so don't know how compatibility works and everything
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Use Root Explorer. Go to the file you backed up, copy it (you may have to unzip it first), click the back button until you see only a "/" in the upper left, the click on system, then app, hit the Mount R/W button on the upper left and paste it. Reboot and you should be good to go...
If not, you may have to set permissions, but I find that they are usually good by default.
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Ok I'm using ES File Explorer (since its free). I found three clock related entries in titanium backup. They all begin with com.sec.android.app.clockpackage.****
one is .apk, one is .properties, one is .tar. Since I'm unsure of what I uninstalled (2 instances of clock 1.0 shows up as being removed in titanium) I tried copying all 3. Using ES I selected all three, copy to, system, app, paste. No other apps showed up under system>app. Not sure if this is standard when copying to or if that means theres an issue. Anyway after trying to move the files, each came up as failed to copy.
In the app also if I just click on one item, such as the .apk, it will load a screen with a clock icon asking if I want to install. That fails as well.
So I was having some issues with my S3. Boiled down to a factory data reset. Used TiBu to back everything up. For some reason decided to re-backup a game cause I wasn't sure if it had been initially. Used Astro for all of this. Had the new game backup on the internal, moved the whole folder (with just the game files in it) to the SD card and merged it with the similarly named folder on my SD card. Popped the SD card out, did the FDR. And here's where everything went wrong.
Firstly the message "Unfortunately, Messages has stopped working" appears every time I start my phone and the Messages app freezes the phone whenever opened, this has caused me to have to get a replacement phone. But the main issue was when I opened TiBu to restore, and none of my backups were there, nor were they on the card itself anymore.
Somehow they were deleted or corrupted or something when I merged the two folders. So I found a data recovery program which was able to find all of the "com.android" blah blah files from the back up. I restored a few of them to test it out, put them back on my phone, I can see them in Astro, but no app installer will detect them. Wtf?? So close...
I was devastated with this loss, so much data in there. So when this program was able to find it all again, a sparkle of hope appeared. Please tell me I'm just missing some crucial little step here, the files look exactly like the original backup files. Same size, combination of numbers, everything. Non-Market Installation is checked and I'm rooted on stock. Please someone be my savior!!
well..... you can go back completely to square one by flashing a stock firmware you can get them from sammobile.com
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Hm, well your response is much appreciated. However, that's pretty much the exact opposite of what I want to do. I'm trying to restore .apk files that I can see in Astro but AppInstaller won't detect, not flash back to stock.
Thanks anyways...
Hey there!
I have a I9300 and a I9305 and I don't have write access on my sd-cards. I tried both phones, different cards...so I guess it is s software problem. The only place where I can create or delete files and folders on them is in TWRP. No app, with or without root, can write on it under a running Android. But I can connect it to the pc and copy files on it which I can read then. But no writing. I did an update as always with a clean flash. Flashed only system gapps and root (tried magisk and SuperSU). On the 9300 it's exactly the same thing! Old ROM was RR, January also. Everything worked fine. No write access on new ROMs. I tried several ROMs (RR, LOS, AICP) on both phones but it's always the same.
Thanks in advance for any ideas.
Check the apps permissions within apps manager and make sure they have the permission set to allow access to storage.
You could try the sd fix.
Check to see if you can read/write/delete a file from /data/media/0/. It is just another way of accessing the internal sd without the excessive permissions.
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shivadow said:
Check the apps permissions within apps manager and make sure they have the permission set to allow access to storage.
Beamed in by telepathy.
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Sorry, forgot to mention: Of course I did that.
Sadly to no effect. :|
I edited with other ideas too..
Have you tried browsing the developer settings?.
Have you ever reset the permissions from recovery? (don't actually do it, just answer the question!).
Have you tried the internal file browser?. If that doesn't work you have permissions problems. You'll need to flash a stock firmware and start over.
Beamed in by telepathy.
Thank you! I searched for it and found this thread. Version 1.9 worked perfectly except for one reboot when I first tried to create a folder on the sd card. But after the restart it worked for apps, too.
Only new thing is, I can see the sd card twice. One is named "Media Card" and the other one is an XXXX-XXXX-like name. Numbers and letters mixed. But who cares.
You are very welcome!. Enjoy!.
Beamed in by telepathy.
Hey..I'm back. :|
The problem has expanded somehow. I had access to the sd card but many apps couldn't access the internal storage. for example whatsapp and threema were not able to access any media file or even restore backups. and another app couldn't record an audio file. So I made a backup from everything and installed the stock rom again. After rooting and flashing a custom rom I thought the problem was gone since I could create folders with the built in file manager. But now it's the same problem again and FX File Explorer can't get any access to internal or external SD, same with all the apps. Only thing with access is the internal file browser. But to restore backups in some apps I need access and I can't even play media files or anything on the internal or external card...something is wrong here. The fix I tried before only helped with the external card but not the internal storage. Any idea what could be the problem?
Just tested: If I send a Video to that phone over WhatsApp for example it show the preview picture but when I try to open it WA says "cannot play media". Pictures seem to work in WA and Threema (it's kind of like WhatsApp), Audio Message works n WA not in Threema and videos don't work anywhere.
Do you have busybox installed?. Can you create a new file in /data/media/0?
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Yes, busybox was installed at all tries. Always installing it first before anything else (TB etc.)
I could create any folder with TWRP and the internal file browser. FX always had a "No access" warning and couldn't even list the items. Except I applied the above mentioned sd-fix. But the other apps still had problems I mentioned. No access to media in WA and so forth.
I just tested and everything works when I'm using stock rom. Does that help?
With the internal file manager it is no problem at all to create folders.
I have to enable the "KitKat SD Workaround" in FX to be able to write folders instead of the sd-fix, but then it works too.
The problem is definitely permissions related.
You didn't answer whether you can create a new "file" in /data/media/0 when using the custom rom. A text file will do. Use fx to create the file.
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