Hey guys, got myself into a bit of a problem here. First, an app I'd installed disappeared....I went to the market to redownload it, and it kept saying "Package file has a bad manifest". So I went to the Application settings and uninstalled it.....same problem. So, I figured I'd wipe the system cache to see if that helped. So I booted into recovery (stock recovery, stock rom) and wiped the cache. Rebooted.....and the Market started telling me that I didn't have enough internal storage and all my downloads would fail. I read some things saying to wipe the market cache and data, etc, so I did all that and uninstalled the market updates, leaving me with the old market instead of Google Play. Now, it still wouldn't download anything. I managed to find an apk of a log viewer, since I couldn't download one from the market, and it was saying download aborted - internal storage is full whenever I tried to download an app. I have plenty of storage. From what I could find, the market downloads apps to /cache. I tried to copy some files to /cache, just to see what would happen, and they copied fine. They disappeared a few minutes later. I've tried wiping the cache a few more times. It says it wiped it, and then says it can't mount cache:recovery/log. I found one guy who fixed this by repartitioning his cache. Can I do this? I'd try a hard reset but I'm a little hesitant because if it didn't work, I'd be stuck unable to download any apps. At least now my phone is usable. Amy help would be appreciated. Thank you.
Well, what a surprise. I installed 2ndInit for the Defy, booted into its recovery, wiped the cache, and it's good as new all of a sudden. How strange.
Feel free to lock/delete this. Or leave it in case anyone else happens to have this odd issue..
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Hello. I have a stock 4.5.91 At&t Atrix, unrooted, and with a locked bootloader. When I booted up today, some applications that are in my Media Area had disappeared. In the Manage Apps section, it lists them in com. form. For example, Tank Hero is named com.clapfootgames.tankhero. When I try to move these apps back to the phone or clear their data, the system says they don't exist. Rebooting doesn't help, and I don't want to factory reset, as I have 90+ downloaded apps.
I'd try clearing the dalvik cache and cache partition. Not sure how to without cwm. Faced the same issue couple of times...
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Upon rebooting, the apps were restored, but I know this problem will persist. I'll live with it until I root (which I'm very tempted to do). Thank you for the reply!
After flashing a few kernels yesterday, my phone started randomly FC'ing everywhere: Facebook would close when I clicked something, Gtalk after every other message, etc.
Flashing back didn't fix it and my last nandroid was months ago. I started clearing app data and that didn't do it either. In the past I booted to recovery and wiped cache & dalvik cache a few times and it made things better. This time the FC's kept coming and the best option looked like a factory wipe.
Instead, I found a solution that got me going again, cleared all my random FC's, and my phone is running smooth as new. Launcher Pro doesn't crash any more on startup like it did EVERY time, nothing has crashed all day. Here's what I did:
If you don't already have Amon_RA or TeamWin recovery installed, do that. Unrevoked/Revolutionary installs Clockwork/TeamWin but I prefer Amon_RA
Get Root Explorer or another app that can access /data and /cache with R/W permissions
Delete /data/dalvik-cache (delete, do not rename)
Delete /cache/dalvik-cache (delete, do not rename)
Shut down quickly, you won't be able to boot straight into recovery using Quick Boot because all apps will FC now
Hold volume down+power to get into the bootloader (white screen), then press volume down to get to Recovery and press power to select it
In recovery (black screen), wipe cache and dalvik-cache (I do it twice just in case)
Reboot as normal and let the phone get situated after it's done booting. It will take a while (my boot was about 5 minutes, then another 10 before all my apps showed up and it stopped being choppy)
Post back here and report results!
You have to do both the file manager delete and recovery wipe for this to work.
Doing it also had the additional benefit of freeing up a bunch of space (20mb+ for me). I was expecting some apps to be choppy on first load while rebuilding their caches but they were not. No app preferences were lost.
The reason I said delete, do not rename, is that renaming will get your device to 0mb quickly, apps won't be able to rebuild their caches, and previously working apps will keep FC'ing until you do it the right way. I made this mistake.
Please post back and report if this worked for you!
nice! glad you found out a fix because this has happened to me about 3 times in the past month or so. but the only problem i see is that when ever i try to open apps when they are fc'ing left and right is that they fc as soon as i click them. so root explorer wouldn't work for me haha. but glad it worked for you.
PhxkinMassacre said:
nice! glad you found out a fix because this has happened to me about 3 times in the past month or so. but the only problem i see is that when ever i try to open apps when they are fc'ing left and right is that they fc as soon as i click them. so root explorer wouldn't work for me haha. but glad it worked for you.
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Mine crashed too but only after I deleted the folders. I was lucky enough to at least be able to open most apps but they would crash right after.
An alternative that should work in that case would be to download another app that can access /data and /cache with R/W since it won't have any cache at all. Unfortunately uninstalling the app does not delete its cache from those folders so it has to be a new app.
Both ES File Explorer and SU File Manager should work in that case.
Let me know if you get a chance to try it!
Hey all, If you have the problem of market not downloading, and when your in recovery it cant mount cache/recovery/log etc. Then you have to flash your cache, in the latest flashtool you have to tick flash cache, this fixes this problem. Sometimes ven if you format your cache and data of market it doesnt help the market it still says unsufficient space.
Definetely had to hit the thanks button. This has been doing my head in for ages. i literally just flashed CM7 onto my phone again because with SETweaked i was getting this issue and fomatted the cache and force stopped market etc but no luck. Thanks alot for this, was a great help
I was getting the same problem but I fixed it, did exactly that it worked.
I was flashing CM9 from CM7 on my Motorola Defy, botched it up intially due to a slip of my finger which led to me to Clear the cache first. But then I restarted the entire process by Clearing Data -> Installing -> Flashing Kernel and so on...
But when I tried to clear the Dalvik Cache, the phone didn't delete it. It didn't give me a message that it wiped the cache, but it didn't say otherwise either. This led me to believe that the cache just didn't exist anymore.
As a result, I'm unable to install apps - Says there is no memory and I need to make more. Also, everytime the phone comes on is treated as the first time. It takes me through the whole process of Setting up an account and everything. This has rendered my phone obsolete.
Please help me!
Thanks in advance.
~Bloo (newb) ^_^
EDIT: Solved, just flashed the stock SBF. But is that the only solution?
I have got this issue since I wiped the dalvik cache on Android 4.2.2 to fix a Play Store issue which I should of deleted that dalvik cache file with Titanium Backup or use Lucky Patcher to remove that left over file in /data/app/ but also wiping the cache somehow broke the APN API not allowing me to add the wiped APNs and such.
Since then I had to reflash EVERYTHING using the Nexus Stock Image flasher from Google Developers, since then I had no issues until a recent Android 4.3 update which caused the dalvik cache issue to arise since it wiped the dalvik cache.
I also do not have root because of the update but the su binary and SuperSU is still there so I cannot fix the issues manually.
When I come back on holiday I will root the device to see if I can fix the issue
but if that does not help then I can use the root to backup ALL the user apps, backup ALL the internal SD contents and reflash also rooting it.
Because I paid for the TB licence I can just restore my stuff in a touch of a "button".
I have removed apps which I don't use and the ones which I suspect is causing the issue but that does not help.
It seems that wiping the cache partition now does not break anything.
The dialog box says in the title "Android is upgrading..." and it says below "Starting apps..." and then gets off in a second.
I have seen forums of people having this strange issue but there are no replies.
I am getting back from holiday on the 31/8/13.
I really want this haunting issue to stop so please help so others can fix this issue without going though annoyance caused by this issue.
andyabc said:
I have got this issue since I wiped the dalvik cache on Android 4.2.2 to fix a Play Store issue which I should of deleted that dalvik cache file with Titanium Backup or use Lucky Patcher to remove that left over file in /data/app/ but also wiping the cache somehow broke the APN API not allowing me to add the wiped APNs and such.
Since then I had to reflash EVERYTHING using the Nexus Stock Image flasher from Google Developers, since then I had no issues until a recent Android 4.3 update which caused the dalvik cache issue to arise since it wiped the dalvik cache.
I also do not have root because of the update but the su binary and SuperSU is still there so I cannot fix the issues manually.
When I come back on holiday I will root the device to see if I can fix the issue
but if that does not help then I can use the root to backup ALL the user apps, backup ALL the internal SD contents and reflash also rooting it.
Because I paid for the TB licence I can just restore my stuff in a touch of a "button".
I have removed apps which I don't use and the ones which I suspect is causing the issue but that does not help.
It seems that wiping the cache partition now does not break anything.
The dialog box says in the title "Android is upgrading..." and it says below "Starting apps..." and then gets off in a second.
I have seen forums of people having this strange issue but there are no replies.
I am getting back from holiday on the 31/8/13.
I really want this haunting issue to stop so please help so others can fix this issue without going though annoyance caused by this issue.
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that android is upgrading dialog box is the dalvik getting rebuilt, it get rebuilt after you wipe it, it is SUPPOSED to happen when you wipe your dalvik. it isnt an issue. if not, you wouldnt have a bootable or usable phone. the real issue here is you using lucky patcher. we all know what it is used for, and is disrespectable to the developers that hang out on xda.
simms22 said:
that android is upgrading dialog box is the dalvik getting rebuilt, it get rebuilt after you wipe it, it is SUPPOSED to happen when you wipe your dalvik. it isnt an issue. if not, you wouldnt have a bootable or usable phone. the real issue here is you using lucky patcher. we all know what it is used for, and is disrespectable to the developers that hang out on xda.
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I only use Lucky Patcher for important stuff and not really for what you think so that is NOT the issue what so ever and misleading to this thread and plus, other people use it.
I mean that in EVERY boot it says that it is starting apps, nothing to do with building at all.
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andyabc said:
I only use Lucky Patcher for important stuff and not really for what you think so that is NOT the issue what so ever and misleading to this thread and plus, other people use it.
I mean that in EVERY boot it says that it is starting apps, nothing to do with building at all.
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Late reply, but Lucky Patcher did this to my phone just now and I don't know what to do, other than reflash. Which sucks because I spent all night modding out my phone and was stupid enough to not to a nandoid backup.
Edit: The first boot it upgraded everything then everything force closed, 2nd boot everything upgraded, but seems to be working fine. Woo. Was scared for a moment.
evilpig said:
Late reply, but Lucky Patcher did this to my phone just now and I don't know what to do, other than reflash. Which sucks because I spent all night modding out my phone and was stupid enough to not to a nandoid backup.
Edit: The first boot it upgraded everything then everything force closed, 2nd boot everything upgraded, but seems to be working fine. Woo. Was scared for a moment.
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Well you was LUCKY (pun alert!).
Anyway it seems that the stock rom was always the issue, even reflashing does not fix this issue when you wipe the dalvik cache.
I am on ParanoidAndroid 3.98 at the moment and I am not getting any issues just by wiping the dalvik cache and/or the cache partition.
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I have found fix for this error, it is mainly due to odex files which are created by lucky patcher so deleting these files using lucky patcher itself will surely remove this error with 50 percent success rate. Here's the fix; open lucky patcher, there in lower left section you can see Toolbox, click that Toolbox then select 4th last option i.e Remove all odex files.Thats it android will reboot on itself and vola no android is upgrading. .
Check out attached image for help.
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Garu8 said:
I have found fix for this error, it is mainly due to odex files which are created by lucky patcher so deleting these files using lucky patcher itself will surely remove this error with 50 percent success rate. Here's the fix; open lucky patcher, there in lower left section you can see Toolbox, click that Toolbox then select 4th last option i.e Remove all odex files.Thats it android will reboot on itself and vola no android is upgrading. .
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I just removed the odex files and worked great. Thank you.