I downloaded a bunch of apps onto my flyer and set them on the homescreen in the Sense UI (running Lee HC). Some of the apps installed in internal and some into sdcard. The ones that installed into the sd are showing a generic android icon after a power down/on. However all that installed in internal show fine.
Anyone know why this is? My phone has internal, sdcard, and ext-sd just like the flyer and no matter where the apps are installed the icons still show correctly. Is it something with Sense UI or the rom? I had all these same apps setup on the flyer running GB and they all showed up fine.
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I have 4 apps that installed to my sdcard. How can I get them off there? Always used Ti~ before to do this but I'm not rooted yet. Waiting to root until it's more stable. When I go into applications it's got the move to SD card lit up but they are already there.
Now it appears that anything I get from the market is going to the sdcard. WTH?
Hi,
It appears that with any Cyanogen ROM (miniCM, GinTonic) applications are being installed on SD even if I disable it in CyanogenMod settings (Allow application moving off, install location - internal).
I'd like to keep some of frequently used programs (such as Go Launcher, whatsapp and more) in internal memory to improve performance (my 32gb card is only class 4).
In order to make sure that this is indeed the case, I installed Go Launcher on freshly installed ROM, turned phone off, removed SD, restarted, surprise surprise -- No Go launcher in apps list, it does appear in "manage programs" with a weird icon..
Thanks in advance
This should not happen as you say you have disabled the move to SD option in settings.
Anyway just unmount you SD card and then try installing the apps...
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Hmmmm.....
This stupid thing did not happen to me. (using GingerDX)
Hi all
I have just installed CyanogenMod 7 on my HTC Desire.
I partitioned my 16GB Class 10 MicroSD card into a 14GB FAT32 partition and a 2GB ext3 partition. I installed DarkTremor's apps2sd scripts, and the apps2sd gui. I set it to save apps to the SD card, and to move the dalvik cache to the SD card.
Everything was working well: I was able to install apps, and they were going to the SD card (had they not, I would have hit the limit of the Desire's internal storage!). Rebooting didn't negatively affect anything - I rebooted several times and the apps were still there.
Then, when I opened the Theme Explorer, the phone just hung. It didn't respond to any input, from the touch screen to pressing or long pressing the power button. Eventually, in desperation, I took the battery out to do a hard reset.
When the phone booted back up, all the apps I had just installed were gone. Their icons remained on the homepage, but with the generic Android icon instead of their actual icon. They were missing from the ADWLauncher panel. The apps are still present in the list of apps, but are missing their icons and proper names. Instead they are displayed with a generic Android icon, and their "long-form" name, for example "com.amazon.kindle".
In addition to all the apps I had installed being missing, certain apps that came with CyanogenMod were also missing, such as: ROM Manager and the program that lists the apps with root permissions (I forget the name). Also, the Market application is missing. However, the calendar, messages, Google Talk, Theme Chooser, etc are all still present and working.
I tried rebooting the phone multiple times, as well as unmounting and remounting the SD card, with no improvement.
Using the terminal emulator, I can see that /sd-ext still has five directories: app, app-private, dalvik-cache, data, lost+found. However, all these directories, including the /sd-ext/app directory, are empty.
Running a2sd reinstall goes through the list of apps, but for each app that is missing, it says that it cannot find the .apk file for that app.
I suppose, then, that I have two questions:
1. Can I restore my apps somehow?
2. If not, and I have to reinstall, how can I prevent this from happening again?
(At the root of both of these is the question "why did this happen?" so if anyone knows that, that would be a great help too!)
Thank you all in advance - please let me know if there's any other information I can provide.
I have a similar problem with 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? I hope you find a solution to your issue because it may be the same solution for my issue.
Sincerely,
Nathan
I installed some apps to the sd-card and linked them to a homescreen.
After rebooting the device, some of those apps disappear from the homescreen.
It looks like this Android version (or HTC Sense) deletes the links if the sd-card is not yet mounted ready.
I never had this problem with my old Froyo phone. This used to show grey symbols while booting and the icons appeared after the sd was mounted.
Is there a solution for this severe problem?
Hello, xda
I have a problem with the new ROM I have installed. I had CM 10 Android 4.1 until I saw what paranoid android 3.1.5 can do like resizing applications, and I wanted to install it. So i did, but there seems to be a problem: the applications that I moved to SD card are not showing in the app drawer. Weren't those applications supposed to remain on the sd card after I have restored to factory settings, wiped cache and dalvik cache and installed the new ROM? The weird thing is that they don't appear in sdcard1/data/app neither. I want to see where the applications that i moved to sd card are located....
There would be a second problem though, the battery drains faster...Is there an application to track the battery usage just to make a comparision with the CM 10.1 ?
Thank you
Hello mlegs,
what tool /app did you use to move your apps to the SD card?
I would assume that your apps should still be there on your SD card, as "apk" files on the file system.
But I suppose that they do not look like "installed" apps on your new ROM, so I would not be surprised if they do not show in the app drawer. In other words, I think that your freshly installed ROM does not "know" those apps.
Did you already search through your SD card with a file manager?
Best regards,
Sirrahzeph
Sirrahzeph said:
Hello mlegs,
what tool /app did you use to move your apps to the SD card?
I would assume that your apps should still be there on your SD card, as "apk" files on the file system.
But I suppose that they do not look like "installed" apps on your new ROM, so I would not be surprised if they do not show in the app drawer. In other words, I think that your freshly installed ROM does not "know" those apps.
Did you already search through your SD card with a file manager?
Best regards,
Sirrahzeph
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Thanks, I used the tool from settings-apps... and selected "move to sd card" one by one
I searched the folder where he usually installs the apps, but there were only the ones that I installed with the new rom.. the ones installed in the old rom (which I moved to sd card before factory reset)weren't there.... Could it be that he removed the apps after I selected wipe data/factory settings ? I saw writing something regarding the sd card data in that process...
The old rom was CM 10 with android 4.1, the new rom is ParanodAndroid 3.1.5 with android 4.2
If have a backup of the old rom, restore only data partition. You can have those apps back.
I think when you reset to factory settings all the applications are getting uninstalled & all userdata wil be cleared.