[Q] The Play Store gives me this error message when I try to install certain apps: "Couldn't install on USB storage or SD card." What can I do to install those apps?
[A] *After receiving the error message*
1) Go to your phone's Settings > Storage
2) Unmount SD Card (your external SD card)
3) Download/install from the app(s) from the Store again
4) Go back to Settings > Storage - then Mount your SD card again (or reboot)
5) Enjoy the app(s)
Background: I thought I was encountering some compatibility issue because the Note 3 was newly released and I had just acquired mine. I had also received the error when trying to update one of my apps. It is still not clear to me why it occurred and this is the only solution that fixed it for me.
Could be SD going bad, check LOST.DIR for any files, if anything there, it is already getting corrupted.
Checked, nothing in LOST.DIR
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Capt. Iv8 said:
[Q] The Play Store gives me this error message when I try to install certain apps: "Couldn't install on USB storage or SD card." What can I do to install those apps?
[A] *After receiving the error message*
1) Go to your phone's Settings > Storage
2) Unmount SD Card (your external SD card)
3) Download/install from the app(s) from the Store again
4) Go back to Settings > Storage - then Mount your SD card again (or reboot)
5) Enjoy the app(s)
Background: I thought I was encountering some compatibility issue because the Note 3 was newly released and I had just acquired mine. I had also received the error when trying to update one of my apps. It is still not clear to me why it occurred and this is the only solution that fixed it for me.
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This totally worked for me! Still trying to get to the root of the problem though...
Have the same problem - removed mSD and Rebooted to get it fixed
This just showed up , and i formated my sd but it fixed nothing . After re mounting it , the problem was still there . I removed it completely and then rebooted . The problem is gone , but could the problem come from the sd ?
Not working for me can't install greenify donate pack from play store
Same problem here...
I did this and it said application cannot be installed in the default location. I have A Galaxy Note 2. Any ideas?
MattDawson1988 said:
I did this and it said application cannot be installed in the default location. I have A Galaxy Note 2. Any ideas?
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Sounds to me like a ROM problem. I started experiencing that problem today when I install NV ROM for M8
The play store is an annoying piece of ******. I can install everything except Zooper Pro (RPC:S-3 error). Thus forcing me to use a cracked apk, simply because nothing else works!
Anyway, as for your errors. Tried deleting the data and cache on the Play Store and Google Play Services? Do you have enough space available?
sollution 2
here is some more info
it seems like it should be easy to fix fo google :/
http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/0...on-usb-storage-or-sd-card-problem-on-android/
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=9593
pete4k said:
Could be SD going bad, check LOST.DIR for any files, if anything there, it is already getting corrupted.
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if i see files in LOST.DIR, what should I do, delete them?
if we dont have a sd card
In my device there is no external memory card. we still facing problem....:crying:
same issue
I've tried unmounted sd card, reinstall play store, flash the older version gapps, reboot the device, clear cache
just doesn't help
Restarting the device works for me
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Same problem. I've noticed the problem isn't the sd card, because i've changed it and could not install certain apps anyway.
I guess it's a rom problem. I'm on Blekota S5 v10 now, that's causing this issue. Yesterday I've flashed my rom stock backup, and every thing was ok.
Although if you are rooted first
1.)Unmount SD Card
2.)Download Link2SD it will requires root get it on play store for free
3.)Download your favorite app that get some errors
4.)Mount SD Card
5.)Put the app from external to SD using Link2SD
6.)Profit
Works
Thanks for the answer!
Just Backup and Format
Capt. Iv8 said:
[Q] The Play Store gives me this error message when I try to install certain apps: "Couldn't install on USB storage or SD card." What can I do to install those apps?
[A] *After receiving the error message*
1) Go to your phone's Settings > Storage
2) Unmount SD Card (your external SD card)
3) Download/install from the app(s) from the Store again
4) Go back to Settings > Storage - then Mount your SD card again (or reboot)
5) Enjoy the app(s)
Background: I thought I was encountering some compatibility issue because the Note 3 was newly released and I had just acquired mine. I had also received the error when trying to update one of my apps. It is still not clear to me why it occurred and this is the only solution that fixed it for me.
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Hi There... The problem with Unmounting and Mounting the SD Card is that since I have my music saved on my SD Card I have to choose a New Ringtone and all my Alarm tones all over again each time I do that... So I backed up all my Music to my Phones Memory, Formatted the SD Card and Voila... Now I don't have to keep Unmounting and Mounting the SD Card every time I want to update an App... more so I only had to go through the hassle of choosing the music once after the format... Hope this helps
Hi all,
I'm running into storage issues on my S5 where I can't download updates because if not enough space.
I've removed a bunch of stuff but still run into it. I noticed in settings under storage that my "miscellaneous files" on internal storage is taking up 5.46GB! What is even stranger to me is that I go in there and if I total up the space of all of the items listed there I see about 2.9MB!
Any ideas what is hiding in my miscellaneous files and how to get rid of it?
TIA for any and all help!
anyone can have inputs about this issue? I have the same question
when i connect my s4 to pc, the internal storage shows 3.92Gb free of 8Gb.
But when i select all the folders and files they amount to only 1.4Gb. so i should have around 6GB OF FREE SPACE.
Pls suggest how to solve this?
Details. Are you rooted? Custom recovery installed? Any large apps installed?
Same issue here:
when I open my phone in Windows explorer it says 396 mb free of 9.24Gb
When I double click on the phone and I see al the folders and hit Ctrl+A and properties it's 2 Gb.
one folder is kinda big: osmand it's 1.6 Gb I moved it allready to my SD card but apperently it's still on my phone storage.
My phone is rooted.
And I have not installed custom recovery, not sure if I can do that, I can't even update anny aps now because of of my storage problem
It's fixed now.
I used custom recovery nad whiped my phone and my phone autmaticly reinstalled my apps and it works fine now
I have a on5 and ive had the problem sence i got the phone and its been about 1 year now that ive had no space, im alway sitting at around 400mb of internal storage and i was wondering if there was a way that i could clear out some of it, i have a 16gb sdcard and all the app that i have downloaded(which is only 5) are moved to my sdcard
The device is also rooted, and i have all of my pictures off of the phones internal storage and on the external or backed up with google photos
Apps i have installed to the device-
-Snapchat
-Messenger
-Instagram
-Pandora
-Titanium Backup
I have the same problem with my Metro edition, and am not getting the entire storage capacity that i should have. If anybody knows how to fix this it would be appreciated.
Hi everyone, I just updated my mcu (provided by the seller) and it wipe out all of my apps and setting. I re-downloaded the apps but some was failed to run. After the update I noticed there's portable storage on my system even though I did not hook up any sd card/usb on it. The reason for some apps failed to run is because every downloaded apps all goes straight into the portable storage instead of the internal ones. Appreciated if any of you could help me find a solution for this issue as the seller is hopeless.
Thank you in advance.
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