I have a new problem that is affecting me with my paid apps. Everytime I try to install them from the Play Store I get the following error "couldn't install on usb storage or sd card"
I have previously installed the apps fine but this just started and affects old purchases as well. Since this affects multiple devices including fresh wiped devices the problem is not my devices and must be a problem on Googles end.
One device is my Samsung Galaxy S II running a stock 4.1.2 touchwiz based rom and the other is a Genymotion tablet VM that is AOSP 4.2.2 based
I have unmounted my sd card on the S II so it would not try to use it but the tablet uses the combined data/sdcard partition so no unmounting is possible.
I was able to install one paid app (only paid app that has low enough system requirements) on a old Motorola Milestone running 2.3.4 then pulled the apk and sideloaded it on the other devices which also points to a Play Store problem and not the device.
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So I've been having trouble trying to download an app I need. It's available in the stock Barnes & Noble App store as well as on the Android/Amazin marketplace for Honeycomb users. It's called Drawing Pad by Murtha Design and the little kid demands to have it! I've tried installing Froyo, Gingerbread and Honeycomb - my device shows up as "incompatible." I keep getting an error when trying to spoof my build.prop file into thinking it's a Motorola Xoom. I'm getting tired of trying to download this single app - so annoying! Does anyone know if it would be possible to go back to the stock ROM, download it and then save ithe APK onto my PC or SD card? From there install Honeycomb again and then try to install it? Better yet would it be possible for someone to buy it from their Xoom, transfer to SD and share the apk with me? Not sure if that's allowed but I would appreciate it beyond belief -.-
I used the file from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1050520
to flash my rooted NC back to stock with CWM. CWM makes it easy to flash new roms with no need of a bootable SD.
Then I registered and whatnot followed by installing all my Nook apps. Once all the apps were installed I flashed MN 4.5.6
Since then I've flashed the newer MN followed by an overclocked kernel and other stuff.
The market will offer to update Nook apps that are on market, do not let the market update the apps.
Also Once everything is set to your liking avoid archiving Nook apps, there is a chance that it will not reinstall due to application space usage. I found that moving apps to SD helps with this, but do not move Nook apps to SD as they will show up as available to install again in Nook apps.
I have just installed CyanogenMod 7.2 for a while. It's said to be based on Android 2.3 but there seems to be some apps which should be compatible but in fact they're not. Like puzzle retreat, it run smoothly on my old android-4.0 device but it's broken so now I have to uset this app on my htc aria. App was installed successfully but when I opened it, a message error appeared constantly so I had to remove it. Why that happened? This app is supposed to be compatible with android 2.3 and up?
And my contemporary OS version: CyanogenMod-7-20130301-NIGHTLY-liberty.
You will need to post more details about the error or a screenshot in order for anyone to help. If you just moved your sd card to the Aria and are expecting it to work, there could be a problem - maybe clear the apps cache/date before launching it (which will erase any info saved by the app)...
Also, if you're sideloading the app, there's a chance it is not compatible with the older version of android - and should be installed from the play store so you can get the compatible version.
Hi, i'm running a Moto E with android version 5.1, and since updating to this version of android I have had constantly so little space on the internal memory that I can't even update the pre-installed apps even though I have as good as as no other apps installed on the phone as well as zero images, videos, music or any other media files.
Therefore I've spent a few days trying to figure out how I could move the pre-installed apps to my SD-card.
So, I've rooted the phone, installed the program called Link2SD and I tried using that program to move the apps. Yet it gave me a warning:
"Failure
pkg: /data/app/com.google.android.apps.maps-1/base.apk Failure
[INSTALL_FAILED_INVALID_INSTALL_LOCATION]"
Then I found that it seems I also need to create a so-called "second partition" on my SD-card, but I've not yet managed to find a tutorial on the internet that worked for me.
Since then I've tried 6 or 7 other similar programs with no luck, in the process reading somewhere that it actually couldn't even be done on android versions 4.0 or later. Is this true? Could someone be a kind gentleman (or -woman) and guide me through this? That would make me very happy indeed.
Thanks in advance
Simon
wormple12 said:
Hi, i'm running a Moto E with android version 5.1, and since updating to this version of android I have had constantly so little space on the internal memory that I can't even update the pre-installed apps even though I have as good as as no other apps installed on the phone as well as zero images, videos, music or any other media files.
Therefore I've spent a few days trying to figure out how I could move the pre-installed apps to my SD-card.
So, I've rooted the phone, installed the program called Link2SD and I tried using that program to move the apps. Yet it gave me a warning:
"Failure
pkg: /data/app/com.google.android.apps.maps-1/base.apk Failure
[INSTALL_FAILED_INVALID_INSTALL_LOCATION]"
Then I found that it seems I also need to create a so-called "second partition" on my SD-card, but I've not yet managed to find a tutorial on the internet that worked for me.
Since then I've tried 6 or 7 other similar programs with no luck, in the process reading somewhere that it actually couldn't even be done on android versions 4.0 or later. Is this true? Could someone be a kind gentleman (or -woman) and guide me through this? That would make me very happy indeed.
Thanks in advance
Simon
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It's better to install custom rom of android 6.0 + and flash gapps pico or nano and in android 6.0 + you can format your external SD card as internal so, it'll help to use all on external storage and gapps pico also takes minimum space so you definitely saved you internal storage to be full
if you don't know how to do that stuff then you can ask...!
Hello
I have an Xperia Ray and was running a 4.4.4 ROM based on CyanogenMod till a few weeks ago when I started to realize that many of the newer versions of different apps caused strange troubles. Some of them crashed most file explorers I tried just on loading the icon from the downloaded APK. Some I managed to install nonetheless only to have the same problem with the launcher/drawer itself. Every time it tries to display the icon of the app it dies. Looking for a solution I discovered that CM13 got ported for my phone and was happy to be able to change to Android 6.0.1.
Sadly the troubles did not go away. The apps that showed the above mentioned symptoms on 4.4.4 have similar effects on 6.0.1. Only that now these apps are crashing the whole phone forcing a reboot and that the launcher app does not load at all anymore. Only solution is to uninstall the app manually in recovery mode via adb shell.
After a lot of tinkering, experimenting, talking to other app devs, and rebuilding open source apps I found that the problems appeared with the update to Android Studio 3. It seems that without changing anything code wise for these apps only the update from gradle wrapper 3.5 to 4.1 seems to cause these troubles. On the other hand I can build my own apps with the newest Android Studio with everything up to date without these problems showing up. So I guess it is some library, API, or whatever in combination with the newer gradle versions that causes these troubles.
Well, it seems that there is a bug in the CyanogenMod ROMs, as far as I know by now. It's not a Xperia Ray specific problem as people with other hardware running CyanogenMod have the same problems. For example this thread here. And I got confirmation from an app developer team that they were able to reproduce the problems on a Galaxy S2 running CM13.
It's also not Android version related as updating to 6.0.1 did not help at all.
Have you experienced what I'm talking about and maybe found the solution for that problem? I think there is a bug in the CyanogenMod system somewhere but I'm not skilled enough to find it.
I fear that these problems will render my phone incompatible with more and more upcoming app versions and would really hate to have to switch to a bulky modern phone.
Here are some log files showing the errors. Maybe you can read something useful from them.
Thanks in advance!
EDIT:
Here some additional info that came as answer from a dev team I contacted regarding this issue:
The issue you have reported tends to only occur in devices with the older memory layout used by manufacturers for devices that run Android 2.x onwards, such as the Galaxy S2 - this layout still sticks around even when upgrading to custom ROMs with newer android versions. A unified internal layout for Android devices only started to appear in 2013 and it became the de-facto layout in 2014 or so.
In the old layout, you have both an Internal System Partition (1-2GB) and then an Internal System Memory (the rest of the device's advertised internal memory - its seen as emulated "External memory" - an external SD card then becomes "SD2" in these devices when running a custom ROM). This causes problems for apps that are created and compiled with the unified memory layout in mind, even if the old SDK is the target, because the system will not direct them to an accessible storage area to store user data.
The apps that do not have problems were the ones that have been around since android 2.x; they will instead have their own set of problems for newer devices and versions of Android.
Right now I'm not sure what to think of this...
Push...
push too , if i use a non cyangenmod based rom like paranoid android (6.0 Android MarshMallow Pure AOSP for Google Nexus 7 2012 WIFI), is this prob fixed then ?
i have nexus 7 (2012) wifi only device , i have cyanogenmod 11 (20141112) / android 4.4.4 ( this tablet has no SD card slot so no SD2 assignment )
Not Sony Xperia,..
Only a cheap Haier A16C3H with CM13 Nightly...but..
Yes the trouble is exactly the same in my experience here. I don't know what to do for the solution, except perhaps one of:
# "keep/looking for & install - only the old version of apps, or
# buying a new phone (if I can)
Sad
Nothing new
Push
Nothing new from my side, except that I think twice before updating an APP by now.
So far I've managed to get around with my old Xperia, but would be nice if someone more knowledgable could look into this matter.
Thanks.
Anyone figured out how to fix this? or even a workaround?
My problem was the cm13 based rom I am using on my LG G3 Beat had this problem with newer versions of apps, but someone made a cm14 based rom that fixes this problem but in exchange it created another problem, lag in the touchscreen, playing games where you have to do combo/multiple taps became impossible.
I got so frustrated that I just went back to stock lol.
Hi all, I've just purchased this box and I've had nothing but trouble with it.
Basically, I cannot download, install and update anything from the built in google play store (it appears to be a very old version v15 compared to my Android phone which is V24.9) I cannot even get it to update the version even though I click on version info and it says a new version will be downloaded - it never happens.
So I moved on to sideloading apps such as Firefox, aida64 etc as the version of chrome that comes on the box is ancient and I cannot update it due to the above google play store issue.
This box comes with a custom version of KODI called RKMC which is 18.2 Leia - Obviously we're on 19 Matrix now so I proceeded to uninstall this version and I installed the ARMV7 version of KODI 19 direct from the main KODI website. This installed fine but I was unable to install anything from any REPOs due to an error (the dependency on xbmc.python version 2.1.0 could not be satisfied)
I have now factory reset my box and I'm still encountering all the same issues as above so I've come to the conclusion that the firmware on the box is FUBAR'ED so I'd like to know if anyone can recommend a firmware that is compatible with this box that will allow me to use google play store without having to sideload apps etc
I intend to use this box as a EMUELEC console - I've got as far as booting up to EMUELEC using a micro SD card - however, whenever I reinsert the SD card back into my pc to move some ROMs on to it - it produces a BSOD - probably not the best place to talk about this here but thought I'd mention it as its just another issue in a long list of issues I'm having with this box.
Thanks
Not sure if bumping is allowed but I also have the same issues. It's the first box I've bought and it's kind of frustrating...
Here is the Fix attached for H6 Device for Google Paly store issue