Noob here, I searched for an answer to this question but can't find anything similar.
I successfully installed CM7 and Google Apps on my Nook Color (running from a Sandisk Class 2 16 GB micro SD card). It worked fine, for about a day. Then the Market and Google Apps completely disappeared. So, I started from scratch and got it all working again. That worked for about a day, and the same thing happened again. When I look at the files on the micro SD card on my computer, it seems like the Google Apps file is totally disappearing, even though it's there in the beginning.
If I do a search on the Nook, I can find the previously installed apps (Angry Birds, Kindle, etc), even though there isn't an icon for it. But, the Market is totally gone.
So, I just formatted the card and reinstalled everything again (for the 3rd time). At the moment it's working fine, but if prior history is any indication, the Google Apps will disappear by tomorrow.
Any idea of what is happening here, and how I can fix it please? Thanks for any tips.
You meant Earth, Gmail, Maps, Docs, .... are suddenly disappeared from App Drawer?
If I do a search on the Nook, I can find the previously installed apps (Angry Birds, Kindle, etc), even though there isn't an icon for it. But, the Market is totally gone.
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How do you search for apps on the Nook? You meant search in the Market Place on your NC?
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Why do i lose my widgets when i move an app to my sd card? I read on googles android section, that apps that are moved to sd, that you have to reboot to get your widget back. I rebooted, and still no widgets. Any ideas?
Install the app that contains the widget on your phone. Problem Solved.
Just make it a habit of installing all things that you absolutely need on your phone (things with widgets), and everything else (like games, other stuff) on your sd.
why are the widgets deleted when installed on SD? Whats the point of installing on sd when you dont get all the features of the app? Seems as though google needs to work on this feature quite a bit
The apps also aren't entirely installed to the SD card. Look at them in settings and they'll have a little data on the phone, and usually most of it is on the SD card. I'm sure Google will improve it, but as others said, things with widgets you should leave on your phone, everything else, on the SD card. The only app I have that I use the widget for is Pandora, so all my really large apps sit on my SD card.
Hey all, I checked out some other threads and think I've come across an interesting problem. I'm running CM7 on my Nook Color which is natively installed to internal memory, not SD card boot. I can't seem to load new books now. When I take my own personal DRM free books and paste them into the appropriate folder (emmc\My Files\Books) which I can also do just plugging in on USB, the Nook reader app doesn't update my list. Furthermore, old books Ive deleted still show up in the list, and even stranger, still open!
Am I doing something wrong?
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Yes, ys I was doing something wrong. Should have been putting files under SDCard\Nook\My Documents\Book
I'm having an intermittent problem where the apps which have been moved to the SD card often (but not always) disappear. They do not show up on my launcher (ADW) and I am also unable to install or update any apps. I haven't seen anyone else reporting a similar problem, but the weird thing is that the same thing happens on my daughter's Epic. Here's what I do know:
1. This only happens with Froyo ROMs. It was happening on my phone with SFR 1.1. I installed a Gingerbread ROM (Swiss Cheese Samsprint) and it went away. However, my daughter is on stock (but rooted) EC05 and the same thing is happening with her phone. Additionally, I installed Urban Inception (a GB ROM) and did not have the problem. But I missed the speed of the custom kernels, so I returned my phone to Froyo (this time SFR 1.2) and the problem is again recurring. So, it seems to be 2.2-specific.
2. I have used Odin to return to stock several times, that has not resolved the problem.
3. I have formatted my SD card (once using Windows and again using the format option on my phone) and that has had no effect.
4. When I boot my phone, the apps on the SD card do not show up in the app drawer. After a few minutes, they often appear, but not always. Again this is true on both my daughter's phone and mine, but only with a Froyo ROM.
5. The phone will usually get through two or maybe three new app installs or updates, then all the rest will fail until I reboot. Again, this occurs on both my and my daughter's phones, and only with Froyo. It doesn't matter if these are market apps or Amazon appstore apps. Once one update or install fails, nothing else will install or update until I reboot the phone.
I suppose I could solve my problem by going with GB, but those ROMs are so much slower than the Froyo ones with custom kernels. Also, I like my daughter being as stock as possible, because she won't mess with her phone and can't always give it to me to fix. I doubt it's a hardware issue because we both have it. But, it also doesn't appear to be a ROM issue, since we have different ROMs. Since it's obviously not common, it must be related to either an app we have installed or something strange that I have done (though her phone has nothing done to it but the one-click CWM 3.0.0.5/6).
Anyone have any ideas for me? I suppose my issue will resolve once we have official GB and custom kernels start appearing for it, but I thought it was very strange that I have two phones that both exhibit a problem that nobody else seems to have.
Thanks for reading all this.
This had been happening to me for a while too. I don't have as many apps anymore and keep it all in the phone and noticed better battery life but still want to be able to use apps2sd
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Stock sd's?
cd's or tapes?
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Stock sd's?
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Yes, on both phones.
I just noticed this yesterday. I saw Angry Birds had updated but I didn't get notified in my market. The app was still in my launcher though. Don't know if it matters but I hadn't played it in a long time.
Reinstalling worked and didn't lose any data.
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I've had this problem too on the MidnightRom v5.2. It's especially annoying when my kids want to play Angry Birds and they are all installed to the SD card. I have "fixed" the apps not showing up in the App drawer by creating shortcuts on one of my home screens to the apps I have on the SD card. When the apps don't show up in the App drawer, the icon on the home screen looks like a generic "Android installed app". The apps I have on the SD card are: apps that came with my Rom (Video Editor), Apps installed from the Market and Apps installed from the Amazon App store.
*I've noticed* it's more common the icons don't show up in the App drawer or have the wrong icon if I unlock my phone before it completely boots (finishes the Scanning Media twice in the status bar).
edonnelly- if you are "missing" an App, try creating a shortcut for it to see if it's in the Applications list. That way at least you can launch it if you reboot and the app isn't showing up in the app drawer.
schnowdapowda- I'm also using my stock 16gb Samsung microSD card, and I've also formatted it with the same results.
Fast Boot option may be the culprit
This is actually a long-standing problem in Android OS, going back at least two years (donkey's years in this technology!)
Something about the interaction of the OS and an sdcard formated for holding apps creates odd behaviours.
Lots of complicated suggestions have been made, including reformatting sdcard, reinstalling ROMs, changing launchers (the one suggested here) and such.
None of these approaches seems really to solve the problem even in most cases.
What seems to be working for me (at least for the last week or so) is the following very simple tweak.
CUT TO THE SOLUTION BELOW -- SEARCH FOR ////
Some (not all) of my apps moved to SD (all by Titanium Backup Pro) have begun to disappear and (sometimes) reappear without warning after I began to add and delete large Virtual Machines created in QEMU from my 16GB SanDisc class 10 microSD card on my HTC Droid Incredible running rooted stock Verizon Android Froyo 2.2.3. I know this thread is far from my phone's "home base", but from what I can tell this problem with disappearing apps located on an sdcard is NOT determined by hardware or even Android version.
I also happen to use LauncherPro by Federico Carnales instead of the built-in HTC Sense launcher. I noted elsewhere on XDA that a user had suggested that because at least some (maybe all) launchers start before the SD Card that this may be a problem, especially if changes are made to the sdcard that the launcher did not perform, or was not active during their performance by other apps such as Titanium Backup. That fits my situation, because I unmounted the SD, physically removed it to a PC, and added/deleted large VM files to save (lots) of time. No problems of this sort before I did this, so there must be some connection.
I noted that other users have tried reformatting SD, substituting different brands of SD, using newer/older SD etc. None of these reliably helped. So I skipped these options.
//// The (simple!) solution I tried that SEEMS to work (only time will tell!) is buried in the main Android Settings (accessed from the Menu button while in Home screen). Under "Applications" there is a setting "Fast Boot" that I checked long ago and forgot about (it seemed like a good thing to do at the time). The text warns "Turn off to use some Market apps" (that shows the age of my 2-yr old used phone and Android OS -- ohmygosh!-- because it refers to Market rather than Google Play Store!) Anyway, I unchecked the option and rebooted the phone.
Yes, it took a bit longer to boot (maybe a whole minute!), but after waiting about another minute ALL my home screen apps had normal icons and loaded properly. Titanium Backup Pro batch scenarios confirmed there were no apps in a forced uninstalled state (i.e. I had not done the deed, the system somehow had done it or at least rendered the apps "invisible" to Titanium, which decided they needed reinstallation).
The only odd behaviour was that auto brightness was turned off after I unchecked Fast Boot and rebooted. Going into Android Settings > Display and rechecking "auto brightness" took care of that. No other oddities or strange behaviours thus far (but it has only been about an hour).
I will report anything further on this thread only (Samsung Fascinate > Fascinate Q&A > What just happend? apps on sdcard) if anything else requires reporting. Silence implies success!
link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1873670
(I am copying this post to other relevant threads, but will not post anything further elsewhere -- only there. This is a bit arbitrary (especially now that the chosen thread no longer is the most recent active one on this topic), but I hope this approach pleases the XDA sysops/admins) :angel:
I have been having a problem with my 1.4.2 nootered, overclocked Nook Color that I can't find being mentioned anywhere on this board. And since I don't have enough posts to post this in the Manual Nooter thread, I am following GMPower's request and posting here.
Every time I add, or update, an app my screen, and I assume my system, will keep refreshing, from anywhere from 10 to over 50 times, and can take over 5 minutes to finish. The only thing I can do while it is doing this, is go into settings until it finishes. None of my widgets, or screen shortcuts are visible, and the app drawer is empty while this is going on
I am using Zeam launcher, MN 5.02.19 apps2sd with dalingrin's 091111 OC kernel, which I have been using without a problem since it was released, and my Nook is 1.4.2 software.
I have rerooted, following the instructions, multiple times, redownloaded all of the files, just in case they were the problem, and completely reset the Nook, using the 8 failed reboots, and started from scratch, with no improvement.
As of right now it is just a (major) annoyance, but I can't show off how cool my rooted Nook is to other Nook owners for fear that it will be refreshing itself and be unusable.
Is anyone else having this problem, and/or does anyone know how to fix it?
Thanks, Rick
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I have been having a problem with my 1.4.2 nootered, overclocked Nook Color that I can't find being mentioned anywhere on this board. And since I don't have enough posts to post this in the Manual Nooter thread, I am following GMPower's request and posting here.
Every time I add, or update, an app my screen, and I assume my system, will keep refreshing, from anywhere from 10 to over 50 times, and can take over 5 minutes to finish. The only thing I can do while it is doing this, is go into settings until it finishes. None of my widgets, or screen shortcuts are visible, and the app drawer is empty while this is going on
I am using Zeam launcher, MN 5.02.19 apps2sd with dalingrin's 091111 OC kernel, which I have been using without a problem since it was released, and my Nook is 1.4.2 software.
I have rerooted, following the instructions, multiple times, redownloaded all of the files, just in case they were the problem, and completely reset the Nook, using the 8 failed reboots, and started from scratch, with no improvement.
As of right now it is just a (major) annoyance, but I can't show off how cool my rooted Nook is to other Nook owners for fear that it will be refreshing itself and be unusable.
Is anyone else having this problem, and/or does anyone know how to fix it?
Thanks, Rick
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First off, thank you for following my request in the post, it makes it so much easier for me to quickly get on here and address this question for you. What it sounds like your describing, is a little issue that I have seen with the apps2sd support. The system is taking longer than it should to scan and remount the SD card.
I have been too busy with other stuff to get around to looking into the problem. I have never heard of anything as severe as yours. I personally have only had one screen refresh upon system startup, and again after removing the USB cable. I have a total of 13 apps that are installed on the SD card, and run a class 10 SD card. You can try moving all apps that are installed on the SD card to the device, then plug the device into the computer and delete any leftover files in the /sdcard/.android_secure folder.
If the issue continues to be a problem, and you want to remove the apps2sd support, feel free to send me a PM, and I can send you a file to flash that will remove it.
GM thanks for the quick reply. I moved most of my apps off of the sd card, and so far it looks promising. I will update after more experimenting. Looks like the problem could've been too many apps on the sd card. Thanks for your help, and for all you have done to make our Nooks better.
Rick
Well it looked promising, I downloaded an app from the amazon app store, and only one, very quick refresh and all was well. I just updated 3 apps from google play, wifi analyzer, google earth, and PvM, once done my nook started to refresh, the screen went black, except for the button savior buttons, and the notification bar. It stayed black and I had to reboot, and during the reboot I got stuck at the Nook Color by NookDevs portion of the boot up, and had to reboot again. It did reboot normally, and no refresh and appears to be acting normally now. I will keep experimenting.
Rick
I just upgraded from CM7.2 to stable 10.1 (on emmc via CWM ROM manager) – overall absolutely fantastic update, with one problem that might be sd card permissions.
I tried to restore an app (Aldiko) from Titanium back but it would not install from there, nor would it from the Play Store, nor by side loading it. The only way to get it installed was to unmount the sd cards. Now it still can’t write to sdcard1.
Similar problems with FB Reader and 920 Text Editor. I get various messages relating to the sd card. FB Reader will work if I set it to cache to sdcard0 not sdcard1. Other apps install from backup or play store ok. There is lots of room available (several G’s).
A couple other apps install but do not work correctly (MultiPicture Live Wallpaper and PhotoFrame Live DayDream). These apps download and display picasa or flickr images as wallpaper or “daydream” (screen saver). Here’s the kicker, the daydream app WILL work if I’m allowing USB access from my computer when docked. It all felt like a permissions issue, so I did some digging and tried this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=20869996&postcount=7 but no joy was found. ES reader suggests everything on the card is rw.
12 hours put into troubleshooting so far. Oh, also tried to fix permissions with CWM but nothing changed. Found some posts implying maybe vold.fstab edits, but nothing concrete that I feel comfortable with trying.
Any idea if it is permissions or how to fix?
TIA
CM10 on NC is very finicky about SD cards, lots of post about it. The consensus seems to be that Sandisk class 4 is your best bet. I have 9 cards, only tht Sandisks work on my NC, but the others work on all our phones, cameras, etc.