Good day peeps.
About a week ago,i was tweaking my phone(tecno m5).I recall that I accidentally deleted two system apps(clock and one other one),and. I also installed a fonts app.the phone is still on stock rom 4.2.2.but it doesn't install apps and games agAin.I have tried both sideloading and the playstore.so I decided to format my phone but the problem persIsted when I go to the App manager the internal storage part appeArs as a grey box wiTh nothing showing while the pre installed. Apps show 0.00b under each App.the device was rooted and I was using exposed framework.but now am. Confused cos I can't install anything evEn live wallpapers.somebody please. Help me:crying:.So please what can I do To fix this???
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When you install an application you get an icon you can place wherever you want.
The problem is that when I reboot, some icons always appear at the end of the last panel, like when the app was installed for the first time.
I've tried reinstalling, unistalling + deleting cache partition and delviks chace + installing, and whatever I thought It could help like "fixing permisions" in xrecovery.
I'm sure this is not an application problem, because I got it once and when I updated the phone (flashed a newer rom version) it fixed. The problem is I don't want to reflash the phone.
So what can I do? What file stores the apps icons position?
Thank you!
Hi, I'm using galaxy S2 and experiences the same problem.
rather discuss in this thread than open a new thread as it seems the same issue (android not phone)
anyone can help?
(I don't have an SD card, cuz I've searched and seen discussions about apps moved to SD card will make their icons run around)
Hi, sommetime applications that are installed on SD grey out and system say application not installed.
With a reboot applications back to life.
Problem appear sometime, and i don't know how.
Somebody experienced same problem?
Thanks
djboulette said:
Hi, sommetime applications that are installed on SD grey out and system say application not installed.
With a reboot applications back to life.
Problem appear sometime, and i don't know how.
Somebody experienced same problem?
Thanks
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Yes, I saw this on my phone after flashing other ROMs, too.
I think, in my cases, it was caused by changes in the system (apps), which concerned/influenced these apps.
So, I un-installed the "corrupted" apps and re-installed them from the Market.
That was the easiest and fastest way for me.
Maybe there is another way to "repair" those apps by deleting their data and/or wiping their cache. But I have not tried it yet.
Not only will My Galaxy S2 not let me install new apps (trying to install VX Connectbot at a little over 800K) although it has 1.97 GB of internal storage space free, it won't let me update four apps either. They were sitting there trying to update for about half an hour before I gave up.
There's nothing wrong with the (Wifi) Internet Connection, as proved by other apps on the phone as well as by the Google Play Store updater.
If I go into Settings, Apps to look at the Play Store entry, it never finishes updating the Cache and Data storage figures, so the 'Clear Data' button is greyed out. If it wasn't I could clear the data and force the app to re-download it from Google's server. I've also tried rebooting but this makes no difference.
I really don't want to have to do a factory reset to fix this so I'd be grateful for any ideas. The phone is running stock Jelly Bean supplied by Samsung.
garryknight said:
Not only will My Galaxy S2 not let me install new apps (trying to install VX Connectbot at a little over 800K) although it has 1.97 GB of internal storage space free, it won't let me update four apps either. They were sitting there trying to update for about half an hour before I gave up.
There's nothing wrong with the (Wifi) Internet Connection, as proved by other apps on the phone as well as by the Google Play Store updater.
If I go into Settings, Apps to look at the Play Store entry, it never finishes updating the Cache and Data storage figures, so the 'Clear Data' button is greyed out. If it wasn't I could clear the data and force the app to re-download it from Google's server. I've also tried rebooting but this makes no difference.
I really don't want to have to do a factory reset to fix this so I'd be grateful for any ideas. The phone is running stock Jelly Bean supplied by Samsung.
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I don't think Stock JB is rolled out yet by Samsung. But anyways try to clear cache and dalvik cache from recovery. This mostly resolves issues in any ROM.
Secondly, what are you referring to when you mention internal storage? If it's data partition then 1.97 is total size and not free. So please check that.
Lastly what ROM are you coming from? If its ICS then a factory reset is strongly recommended.
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acekay said:
I don't think Stock JB is rolled out yet by Samsung. But anyways try to clear cache and dalvik cache from recovery. This mostly resolves issues in any ROM.
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Sorry for the confusion. I'm trying to handle a million things at the same time, which is always when something else goes wrong. It is, of course, running ICS 4.0.4. I thought about clearing the cache via recovery and I'll do that if I don't find another solution. The phone won't be out of action for too long.
Secondly, what are you referring to when you mention internal storage? If it's data partition then 1.97 is total size and not free. So please check that.
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Ooops! Quoted the wrong figure. There's 834 MB free.
Lastly what ROM are you coming from? If its ICS then a factory reset is strongly recommended.
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It was running Gingerbread when I got it but I did the factory reset before doing an OTA update to ICS.
No issues
Since you are now on 4.0.4 do not do a factory reset since your kernel might have the Brick bug.
There are threads that provide steps on re flashing ROM over 4.0.4. You will need to first flash a custom kernel that does not have this bug like Siyah or cf-root and then flash a ROM.
Just ensure that you follow the steps properly to get a clean install.
Edit: Check below thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1756242
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I powered down and booted into Recovery, wiped the cache, and rebooted. It only took about 40 seconds to reboot which seems strange to me as under 2.2 and, I think, 2.3, it took a few minutes to rebuild the cache. Then the first thing that happens on keying in my pin and reaching the home page, I get the message, "Unfortunately, eBay has stopped." Maybe this has something to do with the problem, maybe it doesn't.
One other thing I noticed earlier but didn't mention as it didn't seem relevant is that some apps have changed their name in Settings, Applications. For example, Picshop Lite is now listed as air.ca.esdot.PicShop.Lite.
Anyway, it has made no difference. I look at any app in the list and it sits there saying "Computing...". I can force-stop running apps but I can't install apps, uninstall apps, or update apps. I'm going to leave this overnight (it's late here) and if I can't think of anything else before tomorrow I'll have to do a factory reset and reinstall everything.
Thanks, acekay, your post appeared while I was still editing mine. I knew absolutely nothing about this bug so you might have saved me from bricking the phone. The page you linked to mentions CWM. Since mine is a Samsung stock ROM it would be the stock recovery I'd be using. Is this likely to brick the phone? I guess it's better to be on the safe side and follow the instructions.
I'm also wondering about my legal position here. I got the phone from Virgin Mobile (UK) on a monthly plan. It was running Gingerbread before I did the OTA update to ICS and the update went OK. If the phone messes up and I do a factory reset and that bricks the phone, who is responsible, I wonder, Virgin Mobile or Samsung...
It took some lateral thinking but I think I've solved it. I powered down the phone, took out the micro-SD card, and powered up again. I went into Settings, Applications, Google Play Store and cleared the Data. I then ran the Play Store app and ran the four updates that were pending and everything went OK, so I tried installing VX Connectbot and that went OK, too, as did uninstalling the original Connectbot. As a precaution I uninstalled the eBay app just in case that was causing the problem. It's possible that somehow the eBay app got installed onto the SD card in error and that might have something to do with it stopping with an error every time I rebooted the phone.
I've noticed that the names in Settings, Applications are all now back to normal so I'm guessing that in fact it was something in Play Store's data that was messed up. Of course, that might have been caused by the eBay app. <Sarah Connor> God, a person could go crazy thinking about this. </Sarah Connor>
Anyway, thanks again, acekay. Working through my problem and your responses led to a solution.
Good to know its solved. So the issue was with moving the apps to SD . Better still that you tried this before a reset.
In case you plan on playing with custom ROMs in future just keep this bug in mind. Better to be cautious than sorry.
Cheers...
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So the issue was with moving the apps to SD .
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Well, I can't be sure. I'm nowhere near needing to move apps to the card yet, and since I've uninstalled the eBay app I've no way of knowing if that's where it was. Or if it was causing the problem. But I do know that I won't be staying on ICS forever. If Samsung ever get round to giving us JB, I'll update to that. If they don't I'll look for a non-stock (and non-Touchwiz, thankfully) ROM. So thanks for telling me about the bug.
Same problem with SGS2 4.1.2, stock rooted rom. No external SD card.
I noticed one thing. When I do the following:
Settings->Application manager->All
it displays about 200M free and 1.7GB used, but after few seconds it changes to about 450M free and 1.5G used.
At the same time it (long pressing home button and select memory usage->storage) shows 1.77GB/1.97GB free memory of system storage. So only about 200M is free. The same result is obtained in Teminal Emulator by inputting DF command. So it is very strange that in Application manager the free system memory is increased from 200M to 450M but in terminal and memory manager system manager is constant 200M.
So what the algorithm to solve the problem of install or update apps from market?
sercherry said:
Same problem with SGS2 4.1.2, stock rooted rom. No external SD card.
I noticed one thing. When I do the following:
Settings->Application manager->All
it displays about 200M free and 1.7GB used, but after few seconds it changes to about 450M free and 1.5G used.
At the same time it (long pressing home button and select memory usage->storage) shows 1.77GB/1.97GB free memory of system storage. So only about 200M is free. The same result is obtained in Teminal Emulator by inputting DF command. So it is very strange that in Application manager the free system memory is increased from 200M to 450M but in terminal and memory manager system manager is constant 200M.
So what the algorithm to solve the problem of install or update apps from market?
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Try clearing cache using some application like ES Task Manager, I had useless cache data of about 400Mb once and the biggest contributor was chrome at 100Mb.. And try using apps like SD Maid which will help you clean out clutter.
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Hey guys, I'm using the LG Optimus F6 (or D500). I rooted it today and started playing around, and now when I try installing any apk file I get an error saying "[app name] could not be installed. Free up some space and try again", however I have more than enough space on both internal and SD. I have no idea what's going on, and if anyone knows about this I'd thank you forever.
I'm going to list everything I did after rooting just in case it means anything:
Moved a few apps to SD and uninstalled bloatware
Tried to move chrome browser to sd by converting it to user app, and then it disappeared and I can't download it to the market due to "insufficient space"
Changed the boot animation in ROM Toolbox (which didn't work)
I'm not sure what caused it, but the issue appeared after I messed around with chrome with seems like a terrible idea cause I didn't really know very well what I was doing. Has anyone had this issue or know how to fix it? Thank you so much!
What do you mean disappeared? The file must still be there, use es file explorer and search for it.
Otherwise you'll need to flash the kdz for your phone.
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so, the weirdest thing happened to me. I spent the whole day in an attempt to root my Samsung A8 star with Magisk and after many times failed, i have finally rooted my phone. The next thing i did was install the newest Magisk Manager (Safetynet all green) , the EdXposed framework module, BusyBox binaries module , and Titanium backup
I have uninstalled several bloatwares (both Google's and Samsung's Bixby stuffs) via Titanium, everything went smooth, i can either download apps from CH play or upgrade them.
AND when i checked out the Samsung's default file app, my phone's memory capacity just went BELOW ZERO (-44.72 GB/4GB), the storage analysis showed -1111% used , there was nothing there left, it just showed the ram capacity as the internal storage. I also did some restart and power off but nothing changed, i downloaded the google's File app on CH play (the phone can only receive data from CH play, it doesn't work with chrome or via usb cable, or even screenshot), and the memory capacity in the Google's File app is still there, still normal (11/64GB used) but in the default file app isn't.
But it still shows nothing when i connect the phone to my laptop
You guys can take a look at those pics that i took. (sorry guys, newbie here, right now i can't attach any images )
i really hope you guys can help me with this, but now i will flash the OG firmware back to the phone via odin, i will update for you guys if anything back to normal ](btw all the rooting i did was on odin)
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so, the weirdest thing happened to me. I spent the whole in an attempt to root my Samsung A8 star with Magisk and after many times failed, i have finally rooted my phone. The next thing i did was install the newest Magisk Manager (Safetynet all green) , the EdXposed framework module, BusyBox binaries module , and Titanium backup
I have uninstalled several bloatwares (both Google's and Samsung's Bixby stuffs) via Titanium, everything went smooth, i can either download apps from CH play or upgrade them.
AND when i checked out the Samsung's default file app, my phone's memory capacity just went BELOW ZERO (-44.72 GB/4GB), the storage analysis showed -1111% used , there was nothing there left, it just showed the ram capacity as the internal storage. I also did some restart and power off but nothing changed, i downloaded the google's File app on CH play (the phone can only receive data from CH play, it doesn't work with chrome or via usb cable, or even screenshot), and the memory capacity in the Google's File app is still there, still normal (11/64GB used) but in the default file app isn't.
But it still shows nothing when i connect the phone to my laptop
You guys can take a look at those pics that i took. (sorry guys, newbie here, right now i can't attach images )
i really hope you guys can help me with this, but now i will flash the OG firmware back to the phone via odin, i will update for you guys if anything back to normal ](btw all the rooting i did was on odin)
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It just seems to be a bug with the device itself after you've rooted. Does your device give you a notification about it? If not then the filemanager could be bugged out
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It just seems to be a bug with the device itself after you've rooted. Does your device give you a notification about it? If not then the filemanager could be bugged out
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no, it doesn't show anything, i just got back to the OG rom and everthing is back to normal now, although i really enjoy a rooted phone
vinhpool said:
no, it doesn't show anything, i just got back to the OG rom and everthing is back to normal now, although i really enjoy a rooted phone
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It could also be a bug with Magisk as well, but does seem to just be a bug eith the filemanager itself. Try the ROM again and use termux to check the real space that you have (df -h or use df). I think Magisk breaks some Samsung features after rooting though as far as i know so that may have been the problem