I had no problem rooting my NT, and was able to restore it to factory also with no problem. I rooted it again, and I've discovered that when I move apps to the SD card, they will not run properly and do not show up properly in various browsers. I planned on using a 32GB SD card to provide plenty of memory for apps, but that seems to be out. AppMonster can backup and restore just fine, Titanium Backup works fine with the SD card, so I can use it for archiving and backing up stuff, but the number of apps I can install is limited to the space left to me by B&N.
I had high hopes for the NT when it was announced, but B&N's decision to lock things down has produced a device that is not nearly as useful as the NC. I wouldn't advise anyone to buy a NT unless all they want is a device to read B&N digital content or watch Netflix (which works well). The B&N app store is a laugh.
trippap said:
I had no problem rooting my NT, and was able to restore it to factory also with no problem. I rooted it again, and I've discovered that when I move apps to the SD card, they will not run properly and do not show up properly in various browsers. I planned on using a 32GB SD card to provide plenty of memory for apps, but that seems to be out. AppMonster can backup and restore just fine, Titanium Backup works fine with the SD card, so I can use it for archiving and backing up stuff, but the number of apps I can install is limited to the space left to me by B&N.
I had high hopes for the NT when it was announced, but B&N's decision to lock things down has produced a device that is not nearly as useful as the NC. I wouldn't advise anyone to buy a NT unless all they want is a device to read B&N digital content or watch Netflix (which works well). The B&N app store is a laugh.
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Are you sure you need to do this? My Application Settings shows 1.7 gig used and 10 gig free. I believe apps install to the B&N partition by default.
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(Not that it isn't a useful feature. Perhaps it will be available once we can run custom Roms.)
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I noticed this issue too; thanks for posting about it.
I purchased a class 4 32GB microSDHC card with my Nook Tab. I have used the "Move to SD" option in the "Manage Applications" menu and while it does move the app, the Nook does not seem to be able to launch the app from the SD. Using ES File Explorer I found the apps on the SD card and when I clicked them, they got reinstalled to the Nook's internal memory.
So what I have is 32GB for Photos, Music, Video, and backup??
Not what I expected...
Looking over my file folder structure on both the NT and the sd card it appears that the primary (application portion) of an app is installed to the NT (B&N memory part) and the database portion is installed on the sd card - i.e. epocrates (a pharmacopia) has the database on the sd card but if I try to copy the whole app to sd it won't run. Overdrive offers me the option of storing epubs I download to either the sd card or the B&N memory part. With over 70 apps (according to TiBackup), 350 mb of photos and 3 gb of movies that I copied over to the /data/usrdata folder I made - Root Explorer shows 4.02 gb used/7.85 gb free.
~ G
trippap said:
I had no problem rooting my NT, and was able to restore it to factory also with no problem. I rooted it again, and I've discovered that when I move apps to the SD card, they will not run properly and do not show up properly in various browsers. I planned on using a 32GB SD card to provide plenty of memory for apps, but that seems to be out. AppMonster can backup and restore just fine, Titanium Backup works fine with the SD card, so I can use it for archiving and backing up stuff, but the number of apps I can install is limited to the space left to me by B&N.
I had high hopes for the NT when it was announced, but B&N's decision to lock things down has produced a device that is not nearly as useful as the NC. I wouldn't advise anyone to buy a NT unless all they want is a device to read B&N digital content or watch Netflix (which works well). The B&N app store is a laugh.
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Same issue here. after apps are moved to 32SD, they either disappear or don't work. My 1g is filling up fast. ....
sirsamiam said:
Same issue here. after apps are moved to 32SD, they either disappear or don't work. My 1g is filling up fast. ....
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I also have a rooted NT via the latest Zerg and have observed the same issue. App2SD I think is a known issue, however using the standard manage apps options from Android also produces the same errors with the apps not being moved properly.
Keep in mind, rooting your device via the method in the development thread indeed does automatically make used of the "locked" B&N storage area that would normally not be available. If the root installed correctly, you should see "## used of 11GB" on the manage applications screen where ## is the space you have already used.
For now I'm using the internal storage for apps and the card for media, but hopefully the developers will find a way to implement proper app moving in the next update.
Hi, i'm having a problem with my installed apps. Some apps disappear from my app drawer, and in menu installed apps this apps have a system logo and system name, they are still installed but do not work.
I guess it might have something to do when I disconnect phone from PC USB, apparently internal storage is not mounted back correctly and corrupts apps, some time after the apps go back to original working state, and some others break. Did this happen to anyone? Does anyone have a clue about what's happening?
Many thanks in advance.
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this happens to me sometimes but after i reboot my phone, everything shows up but ya it does happen time to time
Are you moving apps to the sd card? I've experienced similar problems when doing so....so I just stopped moving apps to the sd card.
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Are you moving apps to the sd card? I've experienced similar problems when doing so....so I just stopped moving apps to the sd card.
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Had the same problem and used the same fix
Had the same problem once, restarting phone or launcher fixes the issue...
This problem is also for Galaxy S2.
I think that the problem born because you have 2 sd on the phone.
This problemi in my Atrix is very annoying.
In Titanium Backup, go into Batch>Move/Integrate and make sure that all user apps are on the Internal memory. Chances are your "disappearing" apps are on the external sd.
So if there is any number other than 0 next to "Move user apps to internal memory," run that batch operation, reboot and you shouldn't have the issue. My XDA app installs to external by default, which is stupid, and I have to redo this process for that app after every titanium restore.
Try going to the android market on a laptop or desktop. If you are loved in it will say if it is compatable with your device.
This problem happens often with ADW launcher for me. For some reason the launcher doesn't update its app list instantly and restarting the launcher is needed. I haven't researched the problem though.
It used to happen on my old phone (dell steak) it was not mounting and un mounting properly, even downloads were disapearing no matter what rom. Or computer I tried it still didn't work and it turned out that my SD card was f#$ked
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disappearing apps
I noticed this on my Atrix when running Titanium backup. Rebooting the phone will restore the missing apps. If there are a lot of apps missing it may take 2 reboots, but they will come back along with their icons.
I just had to restart the launcher, then all is back.
I had similar problems in the past. My solution = Don't restore apps + data from titanium backup. This also caused 'rogue' apps that prevented my phone from sleeping. Would have to charge my phone at least twice a day. Completely wiped my phone and went back to Wet Dream and haven't used Titanium Backup since. Both issues were fixed.
I had this same problem once I started using jokersax's CM9 alphas. It turned out that, for whatever reason, a few apps were being installed to the SD card. Rebooting the phone or connecting to my PC (basically any time the SD card was mounted/unmounted) would break those apps.
So I can confirm that if the app has disappeared from the app tray, but you can still find it in Manage APPs (with a system icon and probably it's pacakge name (like "com.appname.something")) then your best bet is to uninstall the app, reinstall it, and double check from Manage APPs that it's installed to the phone (bottom right button will say "Move to SD card" rather than "Move to phone").
[tl;dr - apps don't like being on SD card, install to phone]
I've been having this problem for a long time now. Searched the web everywhere, xda, lot's of forums. I have not found a solution to this yet, because i have come the conclusion that it's an internal android problem. This happens to everyone that has many apps on their phone, but they don't realise that it's happening until they look for an app they know that is installed but can't find it.
This happened to me with:
Android:
* stock 2.2
* stock 2.3
* blur mod roms
* cyanogenmod
Launchers:
* Launcher pro
* ADW
* SPB Shell
* Go Laucher
* Blur Launcher
Root:
* When rooted
* When not rooted
It seems that the problem is that the internal drive, when mounting does not take the enough time to mount all of the installed apps, that's why if you plug you phone to the USB, after it get's unmounted and mounted back, the status of your apps change (people who had this problem, know what i'm talking about).
The only solution I found so far is with Cyanogenmod, becuase it's the only rom i tried that has the possibility to unmount the internal drive (as you can always do with the external SD card).
If you have this problem that you check the installed apps in the configuration, and you see that some correctly installed apps have the system icon and not the correct one, the unmount the internal drive and mount back, you will see all apps appearing correctly.
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It seems that the problem is that the internal drive, when mounting does not take the enough time to mount all of the installed apps, that's why if you plug you phone to the USB, after it get's unmounted and mounted back, the status of your apps change (people who had this problem, know what i'm talking about).
The only solution I found so far is with Cyanogenmod, becuase it's the only rom i tried that has the possibility to unmount the internal drive (as you can always do with the external SD card).
If you have this problem that you check the installed apps in the configuration, and you see that some correctly installed apps have the system icon and not the correct one, the unmount the internal drive and mount back, you will see all apps appearing correctly.
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Thanks for the advice!!!
Greetings.
Fast Boot option may be the culprit
This is actually a long-standing problem in Android OS, going back at least two years (donkey's years in this technology!)
Something about the interaction of the OS and an sdcard formated for holding apps creates odd behaviours.
Lots of complicated suggestions have been made, including reformatting sdcard, reinstalling ROMs, changing launchers (the one suggested here) and such.
None of these approaches seems really to solve the problem even in most cases.
Mentioned here is internal phone storage -- I NEVER use it for anything related to apps or downloads (from what I can tell it can be much less reliable than an sdcard and much less portable or capable of being backed up in a timely way). I only use phone memory & sdcard, yet I have the same disappearing app problem everyone else has here. Avoiding apps on sdcard is not an option for me -- my phone memory is too limited for that (and again, I don't trust internal phone storage).
Also, worries about Titanium Backup mentioned here. But other backup apps and ROMS that move apps to sdcard appear to have the same problem. I have had no problems myself with Titanium Backup Pro, but I have experienced disappearing apps after mounting sdcard as a disk when USB cabled to a PC. Others have reported the same. I would bet the problem lies with the mounting process, not backups or ROMs
So ... What seems to be working for me (at least for the last week or so) is the following very simple tweak.
CUT TO THE SOLUTION BELOW -- SEARCH FOR ////
Some (not all) of my apps moved to SD (all by Titanium Backup Pro) have begun to disappear and (sometimes) reappear without warning after I began to add and delete large Virtual Machines created in QEMU from my 16GB SanDisc class 10 microSD card on my HTC Droid Incredible running rooted stock Verizon Android Froyo 2.2.3. I know this thread is far from my phone's "home base", but from what I can tell this problem with disappearing apps located on an sdcard is NOT determined by hardware or even Android version.
I also happen to use LauncherPro by Federico Carnales instead of the built-in HTC Sense launcher. I noted elsewhere on XDA that a user had suggested that because at least some (maybe all) launchers start before the SD Card that this may be a problem, especially if changes are made to the sdcard that the launcher did not perform, or was not active during their performance by other apps such as Titanium Backup. That fits my situation, because I unmounted the SD, physically removed it to a PC, and added/deleted large VM files to save (lots) of time. No problems of this sort before I did this, so there must be some connection.
I noted that other users have tried reformatting SD, substituting different brands of SD, using newer/older SD etc. None of these reliably helped. So I skipped these options.
//// The (simple!) solution I tried that SEEMS to work (only time will tell!) is buried in the main Android Settings (accessed from the Menu button while in Home screen). Under "Applications" there is a setting "Fast Boot" that I checked long ago and forgot about (it seemed like a good thing to do at the time). The text warns "Turn off to use some Market apps" (that shows the age of my 2-yr old used phone and Android OS -- ohmygosh!-- because it refers to Market rather than Google Play Store!) Anyway, I unchecked the option and rebooted the phone.
Yes, it took a bit longer to boot (maybe a whole minute!), but after waiting about another minute ALL my home screen apps had normal icons and loaded properly. Titanium Backup Pro batch scenarios confirmed there were no apps in a forced uninstalled state (i.e. I had not done the deed, the system somehow had done it or at least rendered the apps "invisible" to Titanium, which decided they needed reinstallation).
The only odd behaviour was that auto brightness was turned off after I unchecked Fast Boot and rebooted. Going into Android Settings > Display and rechecking "auto brightness" took care of that. No other oddities or strange behaviours thus far (but it has only been about an hour).
I will report anything further on this thread only (Samsung Fascinate > Fascinate Q&A > What just happend? apps on sdcard) if anything else requires reporting. Silence implies success!
link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1873670
(I am copying this post to other relevant threads, but will not post anything further elsewhere -- only there. This is a bit arbitrary (especially now that the chosen thread no longer is the most recent active one on this topic), but I hope this approach pleases the XDA sysops/admins) :angel:
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I have not posted it here but before I forgot. I have found an app that has solved this issue at least the 95% of the time. Also if an app disappears, reboot, when comes back, move to internal and back to sd with this app, always. This app moves apps differently from other app2sd's apps.
It's called link2sd.
Can be found in Google play store and XDA forum.
A great life saver, for an unsolvable problem. Not the super solution, but the best I found so far.
Regards
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Hi I just got a second hand SGS3 (Australian, stock build etc)
I was using 'My Backup' by rerware to transfer everything from my HTC Legend over to the S3. Some of the apps would install fine and some it just says could not install due to insufficient storage, but then then next one might work etc. One is Whats App, one is my banking app etc.
I have 10GB on the phone and a 12 GB free on SD card... BUT, when i opened up App2SD app, it sayd there is no SD card (see screen shot).
(I also think i messed up by importing some settings from my legend home screen because now i cant add shortcuts to the quick access panel?)
i'm thinking of doing a hard reset and trying again.
Any help?
Has anyone got any recommendations on the best way to move my app data to SD Card on the Z2? For example the 1-2GB of data that many larger games download to internal storage, I'd like to put that onto the SD Card. I know there'll be a performance hit, but I want to be able to play around with it and at least give it a try to see how the performance is anyway.
I'm currently running the .402 firmware and am rooted without unlocking the bootloader.
I've tried FolderMount but the UI is rather sparse/counter-intuitive and the three apps I tried with on the free version seemed to either break entirely, or just re-downloaded their data back to internal storage.
I've checked out the ROM Toolbox, but the options to move to SD card are greyed out on every game I check, as is the convert to user app option (as I assume games downloaded from the Play Store are already set as User apps).
Folder mount should work fine, the problem is if you haven't set it to auto mount after boot, or you open the app before mounting is complete it won't find the data and thus redownloads it. Working fine with Co-pilot for me.
I did have it set to Auto-Mount after boot and was waiting for the progress bar to finish saying it had moved the data before trying to open the apps.
I think one of the main things I didn't like about the app was also the interface. It seemed impossible to actually undo anything once it was done, in the free version at least. Does the full version have a more fleshed out interface?
No, only difference is the limit on number of pairs is removed, long click on the pair should allow you to amend details of pairing. Yes UI is spare but it does work.
Hello,
I have a Galaxy s2 lte currently with 4.1.2 . Just purchased a Kingston 16gb micro sd,
Formatted it.
Went through the settings selecting 'move app to sd and the app would open the close on start up.
Restarted phone, they would show up as grey stating they were not installed
I have redone this by uninstalling, installing and re-moving multiple times.
Yet non of the apps will stay functional.
I have never rooted my phone nor do I wish to
So far I haven't found other forum posts about it.
Since my problem is not just the home page but the app pages as well.