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look here, my phone still has like zero memory for new apps but i have none and i tried that app id fixer under the other option in the recovery menu and it took about 10 minutes and fixed nothing.
what was the last thing you did before this happened, what rom are you using, are you using an apps2sd ext? we need some more specifics here to help you.
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what was the last thing you did before this happened, what rom are you using, are you using an apps2sd ext? we need some more specifics here to help you.
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SD card came out, evil eris 3, ext2
Have you tried removing the sd and putting it back? >_> always best to try that first lol and have you tried rebooting?
Retardedly obvious solution: You have apps2sd on and you removed the sd card. So your apps aren't on the phone, because... they aren't on the phone. Put it back in. Reboot.
Less obvious solution: You have apps2sd on and you pulled the sd card while it's on and everything went crazy because you did something stupid, like removing the sd card when all your apps are stored on it. Then you put it back in and it's being all weird. Again, a reboot will hopefully fix it.
You're ****ed solution: You corrupted your sd card and or ext2 partition. Try to repair it in recovery. Otherwise, format and start over.
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Retardedly obvious solution: You have apps2sd on and you removed the sd card. So your apps aren't on the phone, because... they aren't on the phone. Put it back in. Reboot.
Less obvious solution: You have apps2sd on and you pulled the sd card while it's on and everything went crazy because you did something stupid, like removing the sd card when all your apps are stored on it. Then you put it back in and it's being all weird. Again, a reboot will hopefully fix it.
You're ****ed solution: You corrupted your sd card and or ext2 partition. Try to repair it in recovery. Otherwise, format and start over.
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mhmm i got the ****ed solution downloading all 53 apps again now <3 thanks for the help
Palmbxr said:
mhmm i got the f****d solution downloading all 53 apps again now <3 thanks for the help
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stopxstart said:
Retardedly obvious solution: You have apps2sd on and you removed the sd card. So your apps aren't on the phone, because... they aren't on the phone. Put it back in. Reboot.
Less obvious solution: You have apps2sd on and you pulled the sd card while it's on and everything went crazy because you did something stupid, like removing the sd card when all your apps are stored on it. Then you put it back in and it's being all weird. Again, a reboot will hopefully fix it.
You're f****d solution: You corrupted your sd card and or ext2 partition. Try to repair it in recovery. Otherwise, format and start over.
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language please fellas this is a community that does involve some underage folk.
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
need help. this is quickly going from my favorite phone to a PIECE OF CRAP I WANT TO SMASH ON THE WALL.
there's a thread i made yesterday. short version after rebooting the phone none of the apps in the sd card were accessible, the phone couldn't mount the sd card, and nothing would install in market. i flashed new roms, restored nandroid backups, nothing would fix the issue. finally narrowed it down to some file on the sd card. deleted all the files from the sd card and restored my last good nandroid and got the phone running, just had to re-install my apps.
i've spent all day installing all my apps (200+). everything was working just fine again. until i decide to reboot the phone. and now I'M BACK TO THE SAME ISSUE. none of the sd card apps work, in settings if i try to unmount the sd card i get a FC, switchpro can't change the mount status (says updating status but never changes the icon, so it's either unmounted or mounted, but wont change it), and nothing will install in the market.
i put back my original memory card (that i used yesterday in my testing) and the phone worked fine again. i installed root explorer (was on sd card, now to the phone). put my memory card back.
i am able to browse the sd card with root explorer. gallery sees the images from the sd card. beautiful widgets sees the skin files in the sd card. but the OS wont run any of my apps that are in the sd card and wont let me install anything.
i'm 100% if i delete all the files from the sd card and boot again, everything will work....but what the hell is causing this? i dont have any experimental/alpha apps that would do any damage after being installed. just a few apps and many games.
from my end it feels like there is a file that gets created at one point, that after rebooting the phone makes it so the phone can't mount the sd card, thus not able to install apps, run sd card apps, etc.
please give me some guidance here. i can't use my phone if i can't isntall apps!!!
i got so pissed almost smashed it
i'm using MetroDroid 1.0, rooted (nand too), customized matted blues theme. keep in mind the problem does not go away with a fresh install of the rom, or with a nand restore of cm6....i'm pretty sure it's down to a file issue within the sd card?
There is a file or app being installed on the sd card that is causing the sd card to corrupt.
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you really need 200 apps?
****, i'd say therein lies the root of your problems...
have you tried installing each app one at a time, and rebootung after each one? Eventually you'll run into the same issue, but at least then you'll know which app is causing it.
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fachadick said:
have you tried installing each app one at a time, and rebootung after each one? Eventually you'll run into the same issue, but at least then you'll know which app is causing it.
Sent from my blah blah blah blah
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That's a lot of apps to go through to find the culprit.
I would try reformatting your card. Then go about installing your apps again. Besides that I have no idea, could be an app or a retarded lemon of a phone.
^^ what he said... Don't just delete the files on your memory card, format it!
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That's a lot of apps to go through to find the culprit.
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Well, yeah, its also a lot of rebooting - its more of a last resort kind of suggestion. To be used right before throwing it at the wall.
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please smash it PLEASE !!!
200 + apps FFS why in the hell do you need 200 + apps
i forget the apps 2 sd hack, I used to run it on my hero and nothing but issues cause of it
stangdriverdoug said:
There is a file or app being installed on the sd card that is causing the sd card to corrupt.
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that's my latest theory. i'm going to try renaming all the folders in the sd card and rebooting. seeing if i can pinpoint which folder first...then the file
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you really need 200 apps?
****, i'd say therein lies the root of your problems...
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well according to titanium backup i ahve about 310 apps installed. i have many games, most of which i play. then i have several live wallpapers, widgets, tools, media players, news apps, messaging apps, etc. i have everything organized with app organizer and it doesnt feel like that many.
tek818 said:
^^ what he said... Don't just delete the files on your memory card, format it!
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that's the thing. yesterday i reformatted in-phone and i also formatted in the computer. then put the files back on (made a backup first) and this happened after installing the apps. i think i rebooted maybe 3 times in the process of installing all the apps today. the last reboot was only to test the theory that on MetroDroid data only works if you reboot with Wi-Fi off. so i really wasn't expecting the whole thing to stop working again!
EDIT: where in the memory card exactly are the app files?
XDA will not tolerate this thread. Your profanity is unacceptable and unhealthy to some viewer. Admin please remove this tread and banned this user.
no need for all the pointless swearing. next time post more civil
Unless you have transferred said apps to your SD card they will not show.
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really? thank you for your helpful post. i posted a very detailed and civil thread yesterday and where were you with helpful information? nowhere. and where is your helpful information now? nowhere. so why even come in the thread if you're not going to help?
@toast - thanks for editing the OP. i dont usually make the pissed off kind of threads but this time it served its purpose. the last two days i had a very well written, detailed thread explaining everything asking for help. i renamed it several times. bumped it 2-3 times. all i got was two responses. i post this one with profanity in the title and look at how many answers already. some of which seem to be pointing me somewhere right hopefully!
it's very frustrating to see picture threads and mod threads get useful (and useless) comments every minute and threads asking for help (i've seen this happen with my own threads in the past and many others) get ignored. specially considering by the time I get to ask for help i've spent hours trying to fix it on my own and researching before asking here.
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VOODOOTRIP i put back most of the files that were in the memory card prior to reformatting it. anyways i installed all the apps again today after that and haven't reformatted yet (what's the point?) so the apps are in the sd card. just need to figure out how to get the phone to access the card!
EDIT: i renamed all the folders in the sd card (without reformatting or deleting anything) and booted into the phone. was able to mount/unmount the card and install apps from market. so it is a file in there...now to figure out which one!
You can access the card from root exp. or from Astro? ie it's still showing the extension right? When was the last time it was working properly? What rom were you on when it first started happeneing? Have you downloaded any non market apps since then? Are all your roms on current update? You said you have tried both a sense and AOSP rom right?
i was able to narrow it down....it's a file within .androidsecure...so now i have to sort through 131 files in there. but at least there's a light at the end of the tunnel!
with .androidsecure renamed i am able to install apps, mount/unmount. etc. so it's got to be something in there that is loading when the phone loads...i wonder what?
i'll update when i find out in case anyone comes across this problem too.
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You can access the card from root exp. or from Astro? ie it's still showing the extension right? When was the last time it was working properly? What rom were you on when it first started happeneing? Have you downloaded any non market apps since then? Are all your roms on current update? You said you have tried both a sense and AOSP rom right?
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see info above (quickly....yes, no (astro is in sd card), about three days ago, MetroDroid, since then couldn't download/install anything, everything is updated, tried both CM6.0 and this rom. but see above. since problem is a file in the .androidsecure folder, whether i was wiping and going to cm6 or back to sense that file wouldn't be modified by the recovery wipe correct?
I know the problem its the 200 apps or one app not getting along with another app. You are the first person that I have come across that has that many apps 200+ apps is a crazy amount of apps.
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I know the problem its the 200 apps or one app not getting along with another app. You are the first person that I have come across that has that many apps 200+ apps is a crazy amount of apps.
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well there are 131 asec files in that folder. so at least 131 apps + the ones on the phone memory.
but why the surprise with the amount of apps? isn't that why we get 16gb and 32gb memory cards?
the problem file was
se.nena.nenamark1-1.asec
for the benchmark NenaMark
that was the last app i had installed before i overclocked my phone into rebooting. and that's when the problems starting. hindsight is always 20/20
new development. i installed another app and rebooted and the same error happened. NenaMark was off from the android_secure folder but i was back to 131 files. i removed some other apps and booted again and everything is fine. so it looks like 130 .asec files are the limit? at 131 files I get the same problem?
moved 130 of the 131 files back and the phone ran fine. put that one file in, and problems came back. removed the file and all is well again.
I was having problems with my phone and once I accidents ran a check disk via win 7 it found and fixed some corruption, also my symptoms went away. In fact even my video recordings loom much better.
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First off if moderators think this is pointless please move or delete thread!
I've noticed in the many threads for all these android builds people asking about , why I can't install apps like angry birds or such, and many people have answered to unmount and mount after install, well it was brought to my attention today that some people think that because android is running off the sd card , if they unmount something bad will happen, well nothing will happen and it does what everybody says, it will let you install such apps.
Unmount sd card , install, and remount sd card
So here's a fix that ARTO found for anyone not being able to unmount sd card to install apps, thanks ARTO!
Originally Posted by graffitilost
1.you have to down load the terminal emulator from market place
2.open it and type "su" and press enter. allow super user access to it (mine kept freezing so i backed out and re started it. You will need to type "su" again and a window should pop up )
3. then if anything was done right you should see a "#" sign were your about to type the next line.
4.then type "mkdir /data/sd" make sure there is a space between the mkdir and the first /.
5.if everything worked right then nothing should happen except it moves to a fresh line in the emulator .
if you did everything right you should be able to go into settings and unmount your sdcard from there.
hope this helps some people i was going insane trying to figure this one out took me about a week to figure it out.
FYI, I've tried to unmount SD card from settings menu in every Android build I've tested but I still can't get this to work, I still get Application Not Installed...
And when I check the setting again, the unmount SD card setting that was previously greyed out is selectable again...so it doesn't unmount
My response to that is the same lazy ass people that can do a simple search to figure it out, are the same ones who dont read a damn thing on the first page of every thread and just download, then ask questions later to something that is answered in first page.
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My response to that is the same lazy ass people that can do a simple search to figure it out, are the same ones who dont read a damn thing on the first page of every thread and just download, then ask questions later to something that is answered in first page.
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Well MY response to that is perhaps you shouldn't ASSUME that just because I'm asking a question it automatically means that I don't read threads when in actual fact I DO and haven't come across a solution that WORKS.
Do YOU have a WORKING solution for this problem?
ARE you going to post a WORKING solution to this thread for this problem? No, I didn't think so.
harpss1ngh said:
FYI, I've tried to unmount SD card from settings menu in every Android build I've tested but I still can't get this to work, I still get Application Not Installed...
And when I check the setting again, the unmount SD card setting that was previously greyed out is selectable again...so it doesn't unmount
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I don't know what build you're using but I've always been able to unmount sd.
fmedrano1977 said:
My response to that is the same lazy ass people that can do a simple search to figure it out, are the same ones who dont read a damn thing on the first page of every thread and just download, then ask questions later to something that is answered in first page.
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I totally agree, and I posted this hoping for builders to add the info to their threads. I searched to see what I found in the matter , but only threads of builds come up, and some people are too lazy to search within a thread.
harpss1ngh said:
Well MY response to that is perhaps you shouldn't ASSUME that just because I'm asking a question it automatically means that I don't read threads when in actual fact I DO and haven't come across a solution that WORKS.
Do YOU have a WORKING solution for this problem?
ARE you going to post a WORKING solution to this thread for this problem? No, I didn't think so.
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I don't know of any other working solution, since unmounting the sd card has worked and I've always been able to install angry birds and any other app.
harpss1ngh said:
FYI, I've tried to unmount SD card from settings menu in every Android build I've tested but I still can't get this to work, I still get Application Not Installed...
And when I check the setting again, the unmount SD card setting that was previously greyed out is selectable again...so it doesn't unmount
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I have tried most of the android builds available. And never once had an issue with unmounting the storage card.
When you select unmount storage card there is nothing that should be greyed out. You should get a response about the card unmounting and it is ready for safe removal. (Although we can't really remove it) You should also see notification in your task bar. The setting then changes to Mount storage card.
So if you can't unmount your card then look to see what might be different with everyone else. Maybe try a different storage card. Also don't have your phone connected to your pc when trying to unmount.
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I have tried most of the android builds available. And never once had an issue with unmounting the storage card.
When you select unmount storage card there is nothing that should be greyed out. You should get a response about the card unmounting and it is ready for safe removal. (Although we can't really remove it) You should also see notification in your task bar. The setting then changes to Mount storage card.
So if you can't unmount your card then look to see what might be different with everyone else. Maybe try a different storage card. Also don't have your phone connected to your pc when trying to unmount.
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I have this problem too, I can't unmount the storage card, when I click on unmount, it appears to work but it revert back at the initial button "unmount sd card" and there are no notifications. I have no idea whats cause this. what I can say is that I use titanium backup pro for restoring my apps, maybe it has something to do with it...
edit : Found the fix !
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=8710979&postcount=23
Arto said:
I have this problem too, I can't unmount the storage card, when I click on unmount, it appears to work but it revert back at the initial button "unmount sd card" and there are no notifications. I have no idea whats cause this. what I can say is that I use titanium backup pro for restoring my apps, maybe it has something to do with it...
edit : Found the fix !
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=8710979&postcount=23
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thanks for the find Arto! I added it to the first post.
Please how do I reverse the "read and write permission" which I granted to root browser to some apps like app installer and Google play store.
I can't install anything on my phone again
It says "cannot mount operation as read and write"
PLEASE help me
ive been trying to figure this out since yesterday but i am completely lost and really need help..
this started yesterday. i had my phone connected with adb and pulled some files (LatinIME.apk, framework-res.apk). i did not push or delete any. around the same time i download fx camera. all the work i did was actually just on the computer. the only thing i did on the phone around that time was use root explorer to check the name of the .apk for fx camera.
im not sure if any of that could possibly mean anything but i thought maybe it was worth mentioning.
here are the symptoms. right after i was done the phone was acting sluggish and crappy (it always does when i disconnect from usb since i switched to froshedyo v10) so i rebooted. upon booting up, 90% of apps were missing. i didnt feel like using titanium backup to manually "ok" each install, so i opted for a fairly recent NAND backup to restore to. i did but upon booting up, the same apps were missing.. very weird right? i know they were there when i made the backup.. so now i decided i had to use titanium. but when i began i noticed that it wouldnt install any app. it would hang on the "installing" screen forever. i rebooted and this time tried an app from the market, only to have the same results.
i did try wiping everything and starting fresh (with froshedyo v10). a strange thing happened. after logging in and setting up the basics i left it alone to restore the apps. when i checked later i had the notification, "applications partially restored". i never had that before.. it seemed like maybe a few more apps were there, but not much. i was mostly in the same boat. and again, titanium backup and market would not install any apps..
please help.. whats going on??
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i wiped everything and tried to start fresh with a brand new copy of nonsensikal 16.1. no apps were restored, and i am unable to install or uninstall any app on the phone. it will just hang on the installing/uninstalling screen.
i have done multiple wipes and flashes, testing each time to see if anything is working, but it has not worked once. i can not install or uninstall any apps.
Were you using Apps2sd? I wonder if it could be something with that. Especially if your rom seems to be fine. Is everything else showing up on your sd card?
the file manager on the phone shows all my sd card contents just fine.
i believe when i first installed this rom about a week ago i did find an option somewhere in settings that said "choose location to install apps" (i chose external) and "allow moving of apps to external" (i chose yes).
Try downloading Eris market fix from the market. See if that works.
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Try downloading Eris market fix from the market. See if that works.
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oooh, i would love to download that app from the market if it might fix my inability to download and install apps. if only i was able to download and install apps..
Oops, my bad. I just skimmed over your post and saw 90% of apps gone. So even if you had an apk on your sdcard it wont let you install it?
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U could flash the vending.apk that should bring back your market
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Oops, my bad. I just skimmed over your post and saw 90% of apps gone. So even if you had an apk on your sdcard it wont let you install it?
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HTC Incredible 2.3.1
flash this through recovery
mindnumbinglyfun said:
ive been trying to figure this out since yesterday but i am completely lost and really need help..
this started yesterday. i had my phone connected with adb and pulled some files (LatinIME.apk, framework-res.apk). i did not push or delete any. around the same time i download fx camera. all the work i did was actually just on the computer. the only thing i did on the phone around that time was use root explorer to check the name of the .apk for fx camera.
im not sure if any of that could possibly mean anything but i thought maybe it was worth mentioning.
here are the symptoms. right after i was done the phone was acting sluggish and crappy (it always does when i disconnect from usb since i switched to froshedyo v10) so i rebooted. upon booting up, 90% of apps were missing. i didnt feel like using titanium backup to manually "ok" each install, so i opted for a fairly recent NAND backup to restore to. i did but upon booting up, the same apps were missing.. very weird right? i know they were there when i made the backup.. so now i decided i had to use titanium. but when i began i noticed that it wouldnt install any app. it would hang on the "installing" screen forever. i rebooted and this time tried an app from the market, only to have the same results.
i did try wiping everything and starting fresh (with froshedyo v10). a strange thing happened. after logging in and setting up the basics i left it alone to restore the apps. when i checked later i had the notification, "applications partially restored". i never had that before.. it seemed like maybe a few more apps were there, but not much. i was mostly in the same boat. and again, titanium backup and market would not install any apps..
please help.. whats going on??
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I don't think you have a market problem...it sounds like an sd card issue which would explain alot of the symptoms including issues when unmounting from pc. If all your apps are installed on the sd and the card doesn't mount right they will "dissapear" as you have described. Try changing the setting to install apps back to internal and then apps should install. If apps install after you do that it probably means the sdcard is corrupted so you will need to back up the files on your sd and then reformat the card. PLEASE remember to back up the sd card before reformatting since it has your nand backups on it. The market fix is only a fix for apps not showing in the market not on the phone.
lol its ok rhamej.
i think i should clarify though that i do have a market. it may be worth noting that i used to have a blue themed market, which during this problem seems to have reverted to the stock green market. but i do have a market.
when i try to install from the market, it just kind of stalls when i accept the terms and permissions needed by the app. like, when i click the final "ok" which should then lead to the app actually beginning to download, it just stops. doesnt freeze the market or FC, its almost like the button is unresponsive.
when i try to install an app via file manager from sd card, it hangs on the "installing" screen. same with titanium backup.
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i couldnt stand not having my apps so i did a NAND back to nonsensikal. my apps were all restored this time but im still having problems installing.
from the sd card: hangs on install.
from the market: now will download, but hangs on install.
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I don't think you have a market problem...it sounds like an sd card issue which would explain alot of the symptoms including issues when unmounting from pc. If all your apps are installed on the sd and the card doesn't mount right they will "dissapear" as you have described. Try changing the setting to install apps back to internal and then apps should install. If apps install after you do that it probably means the sdcard is corrupted so you will need to back up the files on your sd and then reformat the card. PLEASE remember to back up the sd card before reformatting since it has your nand backups on it. The market fix is only a fix for apps not showing in the market not on the phone.
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i did change that one setting back to internal, and disallowed moving apps to external. it didnt seem to make a difference though. i will take your advice on backing up the data and reformatting though. thanks.
mindnumbinglyfun said:
lol its ok rhamej.
i think i should clarify though that i do have a market. it may be worth noting that i used to have a blue themed market, which during this problem seems to have reverted to the stock green market. but i do have a market.
when i try to install from the market, it just kind of stalls when i accept the terms and permissions needed by the app. like, when i click the final "ok" which should then lead to the app actually beginning to download, it just stops. doesnt freeze the market or FC, its almost like the button is unresponsive.
when i try to install an app via file manager from sd card, it hangs on the "installing" screen. same with titanium backup.
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i couldnt stand not having my apps so i did a NAND back to nonsensikal. my apps were all restored this time but im still having problems installing.
from the sd card: hangs on install.
from the market: now will download, but hangs on install.
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we must have been posting at the same time but these all still sound like what i mentioned in my above post. Your apps are back with nonsensikal because they probably weren't installed on sd when you made the nand for that rom.
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i did change that one setting back to internal, and disallowed moving apps to external. it didnt seem to make a difference though. i will take your advice on backing up the data and reformatting though. thanks.
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lol posting at same time again...you are probably typing right now...try rebooting the phone also after the setting has been changed....for some reason froyo depends too much in my opinion on the sd card and really can cause issues with it.
quick question. what format should my micro sd card be in? i know i formatted it right around the time i got it, to FAT32. im assuming thats correct but i would like to double check. google isnt answering my question fast enough..
still no progress.
i wiped everything, flashed a new nonsensikal 16.1. apps didnt automatically come back. i can not install or uninstall apps on the phone. they all hang on the installing/uninstalling screen.
how could this have happened? how can i fix it? i will gladly do a more thorough wipe. i wiped data and davlick. what else could i do to completely reset my phone to fix this problem? that is assuming that there is no other ideas of options.. i hope there is!
edit: in regards to previous ideas, i reformatted my sd card (FAT32) and replaced all the files.
mindnumbinglyfun said:
still no progress.
i wiped everything, flashed a new nonsensikal 16.1. apps didnt automatically come back. i can not install or uninstall apps on the phone. they all hang on the installing/uninstalling screen.
how could this have happened? how can i fix it? i will gladly do a more thorough wipe. i wiped data and davlick. what else could i do to completely reset my phone to fix this problem? that is assuming that there is no other ideas of options.. i hope there is!
edit: in regards to previous ideas, i reformatted my sd card (FAT32) and replaced all the files.
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You could try the flashback 21 file here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=792026
That should take you back to stock and replace your custom recovery with the default one. You could then re-root. I don't know if that's what you want, but that would be about as complete of a reset as you could get as far as I know.
Does anyone else know if this is the best option? I would hate to mislead...
I had a problem similar to this after I dropped my phone. I could not install any apps (market or .apk) and reading of my SD card was spotty at best. What fixed it for me was first deleting the .android-secure folder on the sd card. [NOTE!: this may delete some/all apps/app data you have so I hope you have a backup]. I have no idea why but the .android-secure was not happy at all ;] I believe you have to delete it on a computer because android file managers just can't do it.
mindnumbinglyfun said:
still no progress.
i wiped everything, flashed a new nonsensikal 16.1. apps didnt automatically come back. i can not install or uninstall apps on the phone. they all hang on the installing/uninstalling screen.
how could this have happened? how can i fix it? i will gladly do a more thorough wipe. i wiped data and davlick. what else could i do to completely reset my phone to fix this problem? that is assuming that there is no other ideas of options.. i hope there is!
edit: in regards to previous ideas, i reformatted my sd card (FAT32) and replaced all the files.
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Did you put all your files back on your sd card after reformatting it? I would try reformatting the card and then see if it works before you put your files back on. Like the previous poster said the android_secure folder could be messed up and if your copying it back could still cause issues.
dbnaruto said:
I had a problem similar to this after I dropped my phone. I could not install any apps (market or .apk) and reading of my SD card was spotty at best. What fixed it for me was first deleting the .android-secure folder on the sd card. [NOTE!: this may delete some/all apps/app data you have so I hope you have a backup]. I have no idea why but the .android-secure was not happy at all ;] I believe you have to delete it on a computer because android file managers just can't do it.
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There is a link talking about doing this on the op of my floyo rom thread
well that android_secure thing seems to have been the problem! thank you guys very much! i just deleted it and rebooted and i am now able to install and uninstall apps, both from the sd card and market.
it got to the point where i couldnt connect via usb unless i was in recovery so things were getting pretty frustrating. im glad its over. any guesses what might have caused this craziness?
I've spent a few months on this forum and would like to give back...thus I am creating a guide on how to completely wipe your Droid X in order to start 100% fresh.
Disclaimer: I hold no responsibility if anything happens to your phone. Anything you do is your choice, not mine.
This Guide is mainly meant for ROOTED Droid X's.
First step is to follow this guide: http://androidforums.com/droid-x-all-things-root/254605-update-2-3-340-easily.html#post2241194
After rerooting, turn on the phone, plug it in, and copy your SD Card to your computer desktop. Unplug the phone from the computer and Bootstrap Recovery.
In the Bootstrap Recovery, scroll to Wipe Data/Factory Reset and Confirm.
Scroll Back and click mounts and storage, for anything that has a mount in front of it, click it and click confirm.
Navigate back to main menu and then to advanced. Scroll down to advanced and select Wipe Battery Stats and Wipe Dalvich Cache.
Reboot and plug in your phone to computer.
Copy anything important back to your SD Card (launcher backups, photos, music, clockwordmod, etc.)
Boot back into Bootstrap Recovery and wipe data/factory reset once again, and then mount cache and data again, and then wipe Dalvich Cache Again.
Next, flash a custom Rom by "install .zip from SD)
You should now have a fresh phone and fresh SD Card(SD cards are known to cause problems sometimes such and freezing/locking up so this is a good way to start over.)
If I left anything out or made any mistakes please correct me.
Um
Thanks?
I feel like this would be common knowledge for anyone browsing the Development forum and trying out custom ROMs.
Nice writeup for the ubernewbs though.
EDIT: You reposted this from another forum and didn't even make the hyperlink to update to 2.3.340, so this guide is almost useless.
http://androidforums.com/droid-x-tips-tricks/272219-how-make-your-droid-x-freshhh.html
Sunblood said:
Um
Thanks?
I feel like this would be common knowledge for anyone browsing the Development forum and trying out custom ROMs.
Nice writeup for the ubernewbs though.
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I see people ask about how to start over again all the time, and honestly I doubt many people know about clearing everything, most people just know about clearing the cache an data.
Thanks for the snarky comment
EDIT: No I fixed that already.
there's no mention of formatting the SD card in your write up, so there'd really be no need to back it up. And the SD card doesn't get touched when formatting data everything stays on there still so when the market starts reinstalling apps the app data is still available from the SD card
although i still recommend backing up your SD card every now and again, just in case of emergency
davidukfl said:
there's no mention of formatting the SD card in your write up, so there'd really be no need to back it up. And the SD card doesn't get touched when formatting data everything stays on there still so when the market starts reinstalling apps the app data is still available from the SD card
although i still recommend backing up your SD card every now and again, just in case of emergency
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+1 on the periodic backup of the SD card.
SD cards do fail!!
The main cause is shifting gears too fast (going from PC to Mass Storage),give it 8 seconds and pulling the USB cord.
davidukfl said:
there's no mention of formatting the SD card in your write up, so there'd really be no need to back it up. And the SD card doesn't get touched when formatting data everything stays on there still so when the market starts reinstalling apps the app data is still available from the SD card
although i still recommend backing up your SD card every now and again, just in case of emergency
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When I say, scroll down and click everything with mount in front of it, SD Card is included and your SD gets reformatted.
I think it'd be faster to flash the maderstcok 2.3.340 update zip. It is essentailly an SBF run through cwm. It will truly get you started from scratch.
Yea, if its an elected return to stock maderstock340.zip is a much simpler option. Also sd card backup is essential for anyone with music, files, photos they want to keep. I burned up one card already due to a faulty card and lost the contents. I will also add several roms now add folders to the sd card so it really isn't bad practice to delete those folders or wipe the card.
+1 also that YES, tons of people put roms on every day without the proper knowledge of how to revert to stock via sbf or update.zip. So I think this should be a sticky personally.
Droid-Xer said:
I think it'd be faster to flash the maderstcok 2.3.340 update zip. It is essentailly an SBF run through cwm. It will truly get you started from scratch.
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Agreed! Maderstock is the way to go for getting back to stock! Easy flash and you're fresh and clean!
This guide includes the maderstock guide...thanks to the one guy who supported me. This covers full SBF with maderstock as well as SD card.
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