When I moved some apps to the SD card and rebooted the apps completely disappeared, unlike my phone where they just take a split second longer to access because of the searching of the SD card...any reason? Or is it a formatting issue with my SD card?
No, I've seen this issue too, and there have been other threads about it. I think it must have to do with same part of Android that B&N removed.
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Thanks...I must have missed it. I don't see any lag with multiple apps on the tablet (instead of SD card) anyway.
On the Nook COLOR, my apps that were on the SD card disappeared when I installed ICS. I thought it had to do with ICS and reverted back to CM7.
Well, after reinstalling CM7, the apps on my SD card never appeared. So, on a whim, I ran DizzyDen's IMEI generator. Voila! My SD apps appeared.
Not sure what the problem was, only that my SD apps reappeared and left me a happy camper. Not sure if the IMEI generator will work with the tablet, but just wanted to share that it solved my missing SD apps on the Color.
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In the last week, i have lost 2 apps all of a sudden (Angry Birds and Splinter Cell). These apps were moved to the SD storage. After a reboot, the widget greyed out with a small SD on the bottom right corner. The apps disappeared from the 'Manage Applications' menu but the files remain in file explorer.
Does anyone know what this means? I havent done or install anything. Running stock KE7 with root.
Hey there, I have the same issue. I do not have an explanation, that is why I posted here, to find out when someone has a response. Thank you!
I am sure this has to do with the fact that the sgs2 internal memory IS an sd. Putting data on the external sd only messes stuff up. And hey, isn't 16gb enough?
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Well actually for me is more than enough, but WHY should not things work as they are supposed to? And also, it's easier to keep stuff on external SD, just for convenience.
hey,
same problem here.
prodygee said:
I am sure this has to do with the fact that the sgs2 internal memory IS an sd. Putting data on the external sd only messes stuff up. And hey, isn't 16gb enough?
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yes, 16gb is enough, at least for apps. the thing is i didn't copy anything, it just happend out of nowhere
I tried to copy some movies to external SD, everything seemed to work just fine, it took about 7-8 minues (not important), seemed as finished...and when I tried to find them and watch....NOTHING This is a very strange and unfinished phone. But I still like it
just to confirm this is all on the internal SD (11gb). I only have pics, vids, music on the microsd (external). So not sure why its disappearing
OK, naturally Im frustrated with the x2's performance, crashes, reboots, hang ups...etc so i've retored factory defaults several times.
Naturally android does not restore my apps like its supposed to. So I noticed my sd card is full and was wondering if it was full because all the apps I had once "saved to sd card" are still lingering there.
Are they still there? Where on the sd card are they saved? I'd like to try to purge out the old ****.
kegman913 said:
OK, naturally Im frustrated with the x2's performance, crashes, reboots, hang ups...etc so i've retored factory defaults several times.
Naturally android does not restore my apps like its supposed to. So I noticed my sd card is full and was wondering if it was full because all the apps I had once "saved to sd card" are still lingering there.
Are they still there? Where on the sd card are they saved? I'd like to try to purge out the old ****.
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You Could Just Format The SD Card. That's Fastest And Easiest Way To Clean. I'm Not Really Sure What You're Asking.
Other Thought Would Be Get Root Explorer Or Some Other Manager That Allows To Explore Everywhere.
I think the apps you transfer to the sd card go into the android_secure folder, but I maybe wrong...
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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.
Something weird happened yesterday... I'm assuming I hit my phone while it was in my pocket (I work a labor driven job) and I'd imagine I did it very hard if this was a cause.
But I had the notice 'SD card unexpectedly disconnected please unmount before removing' or whatever the notice is... Well any and all apps I had on my SD card show up as present on it but are not recognized; they show up as follows "com.[file name].android" or whatever its root name is I'm assuming... these file names show up in task manager and titanium backup as being on my SD card yet in storage it says my entire SD cards space is free.
Please educate me; does this mean they are on my SD card still or not?
Whats just as weird is that I started re-downloading some of the apps that (were or are) stored on my SD card and it says "This app will replace an existing application on the devise. Do you want to continue?"
Any ideas on what happened?
Here's the side question done what related: I had been experiencing lag if I went awhile with out clearing cache and/or killing apps/ clearing memory that were running in the background that had been stored on the SD card... Could these running in the background which I'm using requires constant communication with the SD card be the cause of the lag? In other words is it better to keep all apps on internal space if I want a snappier/ fluid experience?
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Take your SD out of the phone and stick it in your computer. If it shows up and everything is still on it then you know it's not the SD, but the phone. If it's not showing up on your computer, well.. then it's the SD card that's busted.
Cross your fingers that it's not the phone.
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.