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.
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Ok so I have been on the phone all afternoon with verizon tech support and HTC support and i have gotten no where I apologize if this problem has been solved b4 i did extensive searches with no luck so here goes.
MY Stock Unrooted Thunderbolt is losing site of the apps that have been moved to my sd card on boot. So basically i have a majority of my apps on my tbolt saved to sd card to save space on the actual phone. Some of the apps were moved manually through the applications and others were moved using ZDbox as they were installed and moved. My phone has been this way for sometime with no problem. Now about 3 days ago my phone was acting really slow and just not working properly showing signs it needed to be rebooted so i rebooted it and once done booting i went to my apps and found several of the apps missing from my app drawer as well as the shortcuts on home screens. So verizon referred me to HTC who is blaming it on ZDbox they claim zdbox corrupted the app files somehow when it moved it to the sd card and if i uninstalled that they claim the problem should be solved. However I cant remove ZDBox due to my sd card not showing up that program seems to still be on the phone its self so it should be able to uninstall it but it just locks up when i try
now i could go on and on and on with what i have done but i was hopeing someone here maybe had a similar situation or knew of a way to fix this problem. I have the SD card backed up and all the app files are showing in the location they are suppose to be in but i just cant understand what would cause his problem.
ANY help would be great and i hope im not coming off as a noob i have been troubleshooting this for several days and do consider my self to be knowledgeable in this area but i have surpassed my experience with no luck and I am here hoeping someone out there has an idea !!!!
thanks again in advance
oh ya almost forgot verizon claimed a htc rep told them its a known problem and to just keep powercycling the phone and eventually it will see the apps but i never got them to say that to me they wanted to point straight to the third party app zdbox even after i told them not all the apps were moved by that app.
I was having a similar problem with my stock vzw galaxy tab I factory reset it and reinstalled only a select applications and seemed to solve it but i dont think i have that many apps on my tbolt (i had over 150 on my tab)
sounds like you have corruption on your sd card. I would pull it out of the phone, connect it to a pc and run a scandisk on it and let it correct any errors. Then I would back it up to the pc. After this I would put it back into the phone and see if the apps show up. If not, I would hound verizon or htc for a new sd card or new phone, their choice.
A friend of mine had the same issue and the only solution was to get rid of zdbox. The issue is:
The phone is not rooted and apps that get moved to the memory card that do not allow it natively will not show up (usually after a reboot) because the original location is not available when the phone or app looks for it.
To move them properly even most apps not meant to move, you have to root.
He also wound up having to reformat the sd card.
I would say to try the suggestion above and maybe you will have luck that way but my friend had to just leave the apps that dont move to sd on the phone. He still wont root even after he sees my phone and loves the things I can do with it.
Not sure why people are obsessed with moving Apps to the SD card. I put games on there but otherwise all the rest of my 100+ Apps are on the phone and I still have 1.7gb of free phone space.
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have you tried doing an sd card rescan?
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.bero.sdrescan
So if you are moving all of your apps to your SD card, what are you actually using your internal storage space for? I think doing that on a phone like the Thunderbolt isn't usually worth it. Combined with the problems moving the apps can cause, there really isn't much point to it.
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.
My partner at work has the Motorola Admiral for a workphone. It is unrooted of course because of work and it is running 2.3.5. He previously had a 1 GB card in the phone with very few apps installed on it (about 8). He wanted a bigger card so he bought an 8GB card and placed it in the phone and formatted it. He gave the 1GB to his daughter who already formatted it.
He assumed like I that he could just go to Google Play and reinstall the apps. However this is not the case. When he downloads the apps he gets an error installing the apps.
Now this is the strange part. The apps do not show up in app drawer. But if he goes to application manager they are still listed there as com.xxx.xxxx with a generic icon and a little sd icon on the corner of each. Selecting them here crashes the phone back to the settings menu.
So he can't uninstall them. He can't reinstall them. SD card was completely formatted. How does he remove them from the application manager and allow for reinstallation? Any ideas? Thanks.
Hey all.
Right, so I have a problem.
I have a Kingston 16 GB Mixro SD Card I purchased from amazon. I recently transferred some .mkv anime fils over to it, using the USB cable and MTP mode. Worked fine, the files played flawlessly in MX Player.
Then I wanted to play them on my Note 10.1, cause of the bigger screen and front facing speakers, I thought it'd be a better experience. I setup MX Player on my Note 10.1, unmounted my SD Card from my S3 and mounted it into the Note 10.1.
The files weren't playing properly, so I unmounted it from the Note and mounted it into my S3 again. All was well. So I thought.
I went to the gallery, only to find that, instead of giving me the folder overviews like it usually did, it gave me black boxes without and folder names either! So I closed it, stopped it using the app manager within settings and I tried to open it again. No luck.
So I cleared the data of both the Gallery and Camera apps and it worked for a brief moment. And froze again. So I decided to search about and found a thread on a forum. The person had similar issues to what I had, but his device was set to unofficial, despite the fact he said he hadn't rooted it or anything. So I looked at my device status.
Lo and behold, it said unofficial, despite the fact I hadn't even installed the damned xda forum app on it, let alone use ChainFire's rooting mastery on it! The forum said that booting without an SD Card fixes this. So I did, and it worked. But I tried to put my SD Card back in, as it contains all my data, but Gallery kept freezing on me.
What the hell is going on?!?!
CONDENSED VERSION:
Wanted to.play some files from my SD on my Note 10.1, didn't play properly. Put the SD Card back in and Gallery freezes and device status is modified. Help?
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does the sdcard work properly on the pc? try formatting it and put it on fat32 file system.
if i were on your place i would just do a factory reset and flash the same stock rom from odin(on both devices). that way you can isolate the problem, the sdcard.
Fixed the issues, backed up my photos, music & text messages and formatted the crap out of the card. Copied data back on, rebooted & voila, Gallery is working again and its back of 'official' status
Thanks for the advice any way Pita
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I see a ton of questions about how to put apps onto your SD Card.
I'm looking for the opposite.
I'm on Android 4.3 Galaxy Note 3 (ATT) and suddenly I started to see one or two recently installed apps turn into grey icons that say SD on them. I removed my SD card and then suddenly I noticed all~ of my recently installed apps turn into grey icons and when I tap on them - it goes to the google play store and says the apps have not been installed. Upon reinserting the card, the apps return.
What gives? I don't want this and it just started happening out of nowhere. Any ideas?
OmegaNemesis28 said:
I see a ton of questions about how to put apps onto your SD Card.
I'm looking for the opposite.
I'm on Android 4.3 Galaxy Note 3 (ATT) and suddenly I started to see one or two recently installed apps turn into grey icons that say SD on them. I removed my SD card and then suddenly I noticed all~ of my recently installed apps turn into grey icons and when I tap on them - it goes to the google play store and says the apps have not been installed. Upon reinserting the card, the apps return.
What gives? I don't want this and it just started happening out of nowhere. Any ideas?
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Download ROM Toolbox from Play Store. It has option in 1st tab called app2sd.
You can choose Internal memory, so apps will be installed there instead of SD Card.
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