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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.
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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.
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^^ 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?
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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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Just realized I can't install apps to SD like angry birds or minisquadron. I figured I need to unmount SD and then load and it works.
Anyone know how I can fix this issue? I tried searching with no luck
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are you getting error 18? if you are, i had the same problem today and i searched it on google. people said to delete the file smdl2tmp1.asec in the /sdcard/.android_secure/ directory. unfortunately for me, i didnt have the file so another solution suggeted what you did, unmount sd card, install/update app, mount sd and that worked for me
Once you unmount, install, remount you can then move to SD.
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i used to be able to load these items on first try without unmounting.
I think the issue lies with flashing so many roms in the fast few weeks. Going to 322 and back to 318 must have written something to my sd card.
when a new rom comes out, i will move my crap off my sd card, format and try again. That will probably fix it.
i have tried deleting android.secure, data on my external sd, no help.
i also don't have that file on my phone to delete.
OK, this one is new to me. My Nook is running 1.2.0, rooted. Earlier tonight I went to install AngryBirds from the market...it wouldn't install. So I pulled the apk from my vibrant and went to sideload it with ADB and got:
[INSTALL_FAILED_CONTAINER_ERROR]
I've heard of this before, so I tried to remove:
/mnt/secure/asec/smdl2tmp1.asec
only it doesn't exist. I've tried installing it into the internal and external SD thinking maybe it was a file size issue...no go with either one. Any ideas on this one? I'm sure it's something simple, my brain just can't think of it this late.
Edit: I can get it to install by removing the microSD. Hmmmm, can anyone provide a technical explanation for what the hold up is? Is it a function of the app wanting to install to SD natively? I've got plenty of room on the SD card.
Hi,
A while ago (months) I found a script on here that helped me to create a 1gig partition, and then tell the phone that it was phone memory and the used that to store apps.
The last couple of times I tried to update my CM7 nightly (I did my last update in May and haven't had time since) my phone has reverted to it internal storage and not remembering how I got there, I just rolled it back.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can put the 1 gig partition back as phone memory (I tried looking for the script again, but can't remember which one it is. I only need to tell the android it's there right?)
Thanks
Probably Data2Ext. Use the info in this thread to use it again
Thanks, that's exactly what I used the first time. I'll go upgrade.
Cheers
Alright I rooted my Nook a few days ago. I have a 1.2.0 so unfortunately I used an older version of ManualNooter and then installed the latest version on top of it. It worked fine until I downloaded Angry birds from the market, after that NO GOOGLE apps worked, such as Gmail, market, etc.
So I unrooted my Nook. Unfortunately the only apparent stock image out there for unrooting is 1.0.1....but I did it anyway.
It seemed to work but when I looked for the storage on my Nook, it said 0B of 0B used. So it seems that my internal storage has disappeared!
Aside from that....nothing will download and I can't hook my Nook to my computer, it just doesn't recognize it. (believe me I tried everything, I even called support, they just wanted to give me a new USB, but that's not the problem)
I was trying to update it back to 1.2.0 but clearly I can't if I can't even download it on my Nook! What is going on? I never hooked it to my computer before I rooted it, so I don't know if it truly couldn't connect beforehand (but I've heard its a common problem)
Anyone have these issues? I just want to get the storage found, hook up to my computer so I can properly re-root my nook to hopefully cm7 this time because I've heard that is much more stable than ManualNooter.
I'm at the end of my wits, I got this a few days ago, so I'm thinking of trying to exchange or return it if I can't fix it.
Any suggestions?
Looks like two different problems; at least, I've had these symptoms as two different things.
First, losing gapps: did the WiFi indicator go white? Does Settings/Accounts not allow you to add a new Google account? This happens to me, most recently when I flashed a new nightly. My current solution is to reflash gapps and reestablish my google account. Really annoying, but not too painful.
Losing storage, that depends on which chunk of storage is lost; my /emmc (stock /media) partition got corrupted and I had to recreate it, but I'm not certain that's what's happened to you. Which of the options in Settings/Storage shows as empty? SD, emmc, Internal, usbdisk?
If it's the Internal that's gone/full, you may have to format /data from CWR and try to restore.
When I lost /emmc, Settings/Storage wouldn't mount or reformat it, and Linux could see the device but couldn't read, write, or format it. I finally used terminal emulator and dd to copy /boot onto /emmc (re-imaged the partition, really) and then resized the filesystem. Brutal, but it worked.
Edit: maybe this is all useless for a rooted system...