[Q] "Application is not installed on your phone" after restart [G1/SuperCSDI (1.6)]
Hey,
so the other day, out of the blue, I noticed that my desktop shortcuts to Twicca and Google Reader displayed the generic "gears" icon and when I tapped them it says "Application is not installed on your phone". I believe this happened after a restart, but I'm not entirely sure when exactly. I haven't done any major updates to the phone, and I've been using the SuperCSDI (Donut) ROM for a few weeks now without any issues.
The applications are not in the launcher either. In the Market, the option to Open the application is greyed out. If I go to uninstall them in "Manage applications", I get "Application not found". The only way to uninstall them is via another application manager (I'm using ES File Explorer), which has a shortcut to Uninstall, and that works. And after uninstalling, I can install them again through the Market.
But this has happened twice already, and to the same apps (Twicca and Google Reader). What gives?
I ran fix_permissions and that didn't do anything. I'm also using apps2sd, which I heard has had some similar issue.
What causes this and how can I fix it?
Thanks in advance.
MNS
Happened to my roommate, you need a new sd card....his still worked in that he could listen to music but all the apps were f'd.
coolloser said:
Happened to my roommate, you need a new sd card....his still worked in that he could listen to music but all the apps were f'd.
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Really? But how come it happens to the same two apps? Everything else works fine. I'll look into it, but I doubt it's the SD card...
More importantly, WHY does this happen? I don't know much about Android's internals (nor about apps2sd), but is there something that gets corrupted? How can I check this?
Thanks for your help.
Hi, I'm using android Gingerbread (SD) and was downloading some apps from the market when my phone ran out of battery. Now when I reboot there is a constant notification in the notification bar which says that my download is in progress, but the progress bar doesn't move, and I don't know how to get rid of it. Even tried rebooting, but it doesn't change
Go to Market and uninstall those apps and then install it again. If the apps already installed but the Market is still saying it's in downloading progress, then download Easy Uninstaller to uninstall it and then install the apps from the Market.
I went to the market and it shows the apps on 'My Apps' as Free (as opposed to installed, like the rest of the apps). Oddly though, I only tried to download 3 apps, but in the notification bar it shows the apps I was trying to download 'and 8 more' ?!
Anything that you downloaded from the Market will listed under My apps. Sometime the ROM that you installed have preloaded apps and the Market regconized that under My apps as well. Follow the steps on the above post if the Market got confused on the downloading/stuck/updating apps.
Try going into Settings/Applications/Manage Applications/Market and clear data and cache. Then it should stop constantly always downliading those apps.
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huggs said:
Try going into Settings/Applications/Manage Applications/Market and clear data and cache. Then it should stop constantly always downliading those apps.
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I don't quite understand what you mean, but I've left wifi on for a while and it now has reduced the number from 8 to 6 apps to download. I have not got any notifications that they were installed but hopefully it will just clear all the downloads. Only problem is that if the screen turns off it stops downloading, so I have to leave the screen on.
Its in your phones settings under applications. That happens sometimes when ur phone dies with apps being downloaded. Just click on the things i said in the order i listed them and the downliading aops should go away instantly
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I don't have the marketplace thing under manage applications, but I used the app in the first reply to sort it out instead. Thanks
Is it trying to Download the programs backed up to you're Google account....disable backup my phone with my Google account and c if that works...
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I started this topic so we can find a pattern of applications not working so dzo can focus on libs/drivers who cause malfunctions
These aps work with other ICS roms.
List
Hotmail
NDrive
TMN Drive
Lane Splitter
Hotmail sincronize first time but then app keep crashing all the time until i clean data from aplication.
Lane Splitter exit after loading
TMN Drive and NDrive exit after fix and/or when i select Navigation
If someone know more apps with bugs please post.
none of startup managers working
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Anyone else having problems with Pulse (news reader)?
I get a lot of freezing and FC'ing.
camera
In camera, there is no button to turn on/off flash.
Almost every 3D game, i think its because of hw, maybe 3d libs are not working right, Sims free, Death Rally and Gun Bros just to mention a few
IMO doesnt open login window to connect to facebook chat.
All my IM services connect correctly using this same app.
Thanx
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opera mini next is not working for me. it crashes within seconds
Not working: Flick Soccer, Lane Splitter, Minesweeper Pro, Toki Tori
Viber works but the calls ends when the other person answers. Messages and contacts works.
kaza said:
Almost every 3D game, i think its because of hw, maybe 3d libs are not working right, Sims free, Death Rally and Gun Bros just to mention a few
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Sims Free works fine on mine.
But "Draw Something" does not work..
quickoffice only works with PDF's everything else FC
Skype video calls don't work properly, video shows very laggy and green. audio works fine
gStrings - not working :-(
Latest version works.
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You should remove the hotmail app from that list as it is working flawlessly on 1.13 ...
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Pretty much all gps apps work now (from 1.13), list should be updated.
Tested and working gps apps:
-TMN Drive
- Ndrive
- SportyPal
-Sports-Tracker
- Gps Status
I'd like to add 'Beautiful Widgets' to the list of applications that don't work properly under Aurora.
Several people have commented on other threads in this regard.
The clock widget freezes after some time and cannot be restored except by rebooting the phone.
When the widget freezes it also seems to freeze other widgets.
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I'd like to add 'Beautiful Widgets' to the list of applications that don't work properly under Aurora.
Several people have commented on other threads in this regard.
The clock widget freezes after some time and cannot be restored except by rebooting the phone.
When the widget freezes it also seems to freeze other widgets.
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Well in have to say that is use beautiful Widgets and the Widgets work fine on my end...
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Najnesoog said:
I'd like to add 'Beautiful Widgets' to the list of applications that don't work properly under Aurora.
Several people have commented on other threads in this regard.
The clock widget freezes after some time and cannot be restored except by rebooting the phone.
When the widget freezes it also seems to freeze other widgets.
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I'm also using Beautiful Widgets without any problems.
Camera: if you set zoom, taken photos are not zoomed.
The games I had problems with are now working, in fact are working since 1.13 update
olfyboy said:
I'm also using Beautiful Widgets without any problems.
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I don't understand what could be causing the problem on my phone. I've tried installing the app from the market and restoring it from a local save using MyBackUp Pro and problems occur with both methods.
The last set of problems begain when I updated Aurora 1.11 to 1.13. After updating I only wiped the 2 caches, but did not do a full system wipe. perhaps this is contributing to the problem.
Interestingly, I have removed Beautiful Widgets in the interim and other widgets are now behaving okay.
Picture editing at the gallery crashes after first modification.
I don't think many uses this feature, but sometimes it's good to brighten pictures before sending mms.
Hello,
Yesterday, several apps I downloaded through the google play store (sideloaded weeks ago, never had any issues) and one from the amazon app store are grayed out and I get an error when I try opening them that says "SD card not available" and goes on to tell me the SD card where the app installed isn't available. I've never had an SD card in the tablet. I can click "download again," but of course that brings me to the amazon app store.
I have tried re-installing, force stopping and clearing caches, restarting, and updating apps. The weird thing is I can get to the apps if I take another route in ie. if I go on google maps (not affected by issue) and go to a restaurant's website, it opens in Chrome (app affected by issue). Then, Chrome runs normal.
If it makes any difference, the apps that don't work are Chrome, Gmail, YouTube, Memrise, Hulu, and Google Sheets.
Thanks in advance for any help!
ksnorris said:
Hello,
Yesterday, several apps I downloaded through the google play store (sideloaded weeks ago, never had any issues) and one from the amazon app store are grayed out and I get an error when I try opening them that says "SD card not available" and goes on to tell me the SD card where the app installed isn't available. I've never had an SD card in the tablet. I can click "download again," but of course that brings me to the amazon app store.
I have tried re-installing, force stopping and clearing caches, restarting, and updating apps. The weird thing is I can get to the apps if I take another route in ie. if I go on google maps (not affected by issue) and go to a restaurant's website, it opens in Chrome (app affected by issue). Then, Chrome runs normal.
If it makes any difference, the apps that don't work are Chrome, Gmail, YouTube, Memrise, Hulu, and Google Sheets.
Thanks in advance for any help!
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I had the same problem today with Aquamail. I went to another launcher that I had installed through the Play Store, and uninstalled it from there. Then a reinstall worked. And then the icon for the app appeared in both launchers. I have no idea why it said it was an error with the SD card. There's just some bug with whatever new update they gave us. But that's the only app I had it occur on.
sga999 said:
I had the same problem today with Aquamail. I went to another launcher that I had installed through the Play Store, and uninstalled it from there. Then a reinstall worked. And then the icon for the app appeared in both launchers. I have no idea why it said it was an error with the SD card. There's just some bug with whatever new update they gave us. But that's the only app I had it occur on.
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Hmm, I tried uninstalling the app in every way I can think of - including through the play store - and no dice. I have also found that when I uninstall the app, the icon doesn't go away. When I uninstall from the play store and try to uninstall from the home screen, it says the app wasn't found in the list of installed apps. But when I tap to open, it gives the same SD card error.
I'm still really puzzled by the fact this isn't limited to google play apps...does that mean it's something with the OS?
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Hmm, I tried uninstalling the app in every way I can think of - including through the play store - and no dice. I have also found that when I uninstall the app, the icon doesn't go away. When I uninstall from the play store and try to uninstall from the home screen, it says the app wasn't found in the list of installed apps. But when I tap to open, it gives the same SD card error.
I'm still really puzzled by the fact this isn't limited to google play apps...does that mean it's something with the OS?
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The way I uninstalled was by going to another launcher (total launcher) . You tried that also? I only had it happen with that one app, and it was from the Google Play Store. As far as why it's happening, I really don't know. But it seems to have happened to me today, which makes me think it had something to do with an update either yesterday or today.
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The way I uninstalled was by going to another launcher (total launcher) . You tried that also? I only had it happen with that one app, and it was from the Google Play Store. As far as why it's happening, I really don't know. But it seems to have happened to me today, which makes me think it had something to do with an update either yesterday or today.
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Oh no I haven't tried another launcher - didn't know what that was until I just looked.
I also notice that every app I update grays out now. Newly installed apps don't appear on the home screen. However, they all open fine if I open it through the app store or another functioning app. So I'm wondering if I uninstall it through total launcher if it won't even appear on the home screen once re-installed.
How do you install a launcher? I installed one, but when I hit the home button, it brings me back to the default Amazon launcher.
spooky71 said:
How do you install a launcher? I installed one, but when I hit the home button, it brings me back to the default Amazon launcher.
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I just did it through the play store.
Unfortunately, this didn't solve my problem either.
ksnorris said:
I just did it through the play store.
Unfortunately, this didn't solve my problem either.
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It sounds like this won't help you, but I'll point you to it anyway. Look for the XDA thread called New: Any Launcher, No Root (Launcher Hijack V3). This talks about installing other launchers and hijacking the home button. Sorry that I can't think of anything else. You might try I factory reset and start over, but you may not want to do that, and it may not solve your problem.
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Sorry, I didn't see one of your posts. I have also had the problem where anything I install does not show on the fire launcher home screen. But it will show on other launchers. This started yesterday or today for me, so something in one of the updates caused this. If you use another launcher it will probably solve the problem of not seeing the apps on a home screen. But you said it did not help your problem with those that you cannot delete. Evie is a nice launcher that is simple to use, so you might start with that one.
I think I was wrong in what I told you before. I thought I was able to uninstall aquamail which said something about requiring the SD card. But it just happened to me with a different app, and I get that sd card error. So I think I was misled because I uninstalled it and then reinstalled over in the other launcher. Then when I looked back on the fire launcher, the icon was there and it could be clicked. But if you really want to get rid of it and not reinstall, I don't see a way to do that yet. Sorry to have been on the wrong track.
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I think I was wrong in what I told you before. I thought I was able to uninstall aquamail which said something about requiring the SD card. But it just happened to me with a different app, and I get that sd card error. So I think I was misled because I uninstalled it and then reinstalled over in the other launcher. Then when I looked back on the fire launcher, the icon was there and it could be clicked. But if you really want to get rid of it and not reinstall, I don't see a way to do that yet. Sorry to have been on the wrong track.
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Okay, I learned a little more. I'm not sure if all of these steps are necessary. But I went to settings, apps and games, All, Home Pages. That's the fire launcher. I cleared its cache and data and force stopped. Then when it is launched again, the apps that couldn't be deleted are now no longer showing. However, if you had arranged all the icons in some kind of order, now it is all alphabetical. I also think that newly installed apps do show, but I haven't really done much testing with it yet. I'm mostly sticking with another launcher. So I don't really care about the fire launcher, but once in awhile, I might like to use it. So it's good to see that we can clean these things up.
EDIT: Ignore what I said about it now being alphabetical. It seems to be in the order that apps are added.
Got the same Problem now, but on a new Fire HD8!
Apps were running fine yesterday or a day before and now 3 apps installed from Google Play Store are Grayed out and give the error "SD-Card not Available" and i should insert the same SD-Card... (never had extra any inside). And its only Apps from Play Store. All three Apps are Smarthome apps: Philips HUE, Kasa and Yonomi. The funny Thing.. If I open The Google Playstore and and search my app, then i can either deinstall or open app. And if i open app from there it works...he starts app with no Problem.
Curious this happens to others at the same time...
Maybe helpful for determining Problem: Files i Used to install the Google Playstore:
com.google.android.gsf.login_5.1-1743759-22_minAPI21(nodpi)_apkmirror.com.apk
com.google.android.gsf_5.1-1743759-22_minAPI22(nodpi)_apkmirror.com.apk
com.google.android.gms_11.5.09_(240-164803921)-11509240_minAPI21(arm64-v8a,armeabi-v7a)(nodpi)_apkmirror.com.apk
com.android.vending_8.3.41.U-all_0_FP_170066753-80834100_minAPI14(armeabi-v7a)(240,320,480dpi)_apkmirror.com.apk
Would be great if someone found out the Problem and a Fix for that.
Thnx
ch1ller
ch1ller said:
Got the same Problem now, Apps were running fine yesterday or a day before and now 3 apps installed from Google Play Store are Grayed out and give the error "SD-Card not Available" and i should insert the same SD-Card... (never had extra any inside). And its only Apps from Play Store. All three Apps are Smarthome apps: Philips HUE, Kasa and Yonomi. The funny Thing.. If I open The Google Playstore and and search my app, then i can either deinstall or open app. And if i open app from there it works...he starts app with no Problem.
Curious this happens to others at the same time...
Maybe helpful for determining Problem: Files i Used to install the Google Playstore:
com.google.android.gsf.login_5.1-1743759-22_minAPI21(nodpi)_apkmirror.com.apk
com.google.android.gsf_5.1-1743759-22_minAPI22(nodpi)_apkmirror.com.apk
com.google.android.gms_11.5.09_(240-164803921)-11509240_minAPI21(arm64-v8a,armeabi-v7a)(nodpi)_apkmirror.com.apk
com.android.vending_8.3.41.U-all_0_FP_170066753-80834100_minAPI14(armeabi-v7a)(240,320,480dpi)_apkmirror.com.apk
Would be great if someone found out the Problem and a Fix for that.
Thnx
ch1ller
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Did you try the steps I mentioned in the previous post for the Home Pages app?
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Did you try the steps I mentioned in the previous post for the Home Pages app?
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No, i am using the Stock Launcher and didnt do any changes to that. Besides that i do have the Option to deinstall the Apps and the Apps are still running fine, but only when opened from Play Store.
And i dont think deleting cache or forcing stop of App will do any good as long as the Apps itslf still work.
Yea, there must have been some minor update. He showed me something in system updates, but OS is still 5.6.0.0
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No, i am using the Stock Launcher and didnt do any changes to that. Besides that i do have the Option to deinstall the Apps and the Apps are still running fine, but only when opened from Play Store.
And i dont think deleting cache or forcing stop of App will do any good as long as the Apps itslf still work.
Yea, there must have been some minor update. He showed me something in system updates, but OS is still 5.6.0.0
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I'm talking about clearing cache, data, and force stop of the Home Pages app itself. I'm not talking about the apps that you installed. Try it and see what happens.
Looked around and found this from User "Ms_Carla":
https://www.amazonforum.com/forums/devices/fire-tablets/467136-strange-sd-card-error
> I had this sd error message pop up when I tried to open a couple of apps. This is what I did to get things working okay:
> 1. Went to Settings > Apps & Games > Manage All Applications > Swiped to the 'All' tab > Scrolled to Appstore.
> 2. I clicked on Force Stop > Selected Ok on message that popped up > Clicked on clear cache > Clicked on clear Data.
> 3. I then shutdown the normal way and restarted my tablet. Today, so far, I have not had the sd card error message or anymore greyed out icons.
Did exactly the same steps above and now works fine again. Grayed out Apps are back. <3
Lets hope the best and that it stays like that
ch1ller said:
Looked around and found this from User "Ms_Carla":
https://www.amazonforum.com/forums/devices/fire-tablets/467136-strange-sd-card-error
> I had this sd error message pop up when I tried to open a couple of apps. This is what I did to get things working okay:
> 1. Went to Settings > Apps & Games > Manage All Applications > Swiped to the 'All' tab > Scrolled to Appstore.
> 2. I clicked on Force Stop > Selected Ok on message that popped up > Clicked on clear cache > Clicked on clear Data.
> 3. I then shutdown the normal way and restarted my tablet. Today, so far, I have not had the sd card error message or anymore greyed out icons.
Did exactly the same steps above and now works fine again. Grayed out Apps are back. <3
Lets hope the best and that it stays like that
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That post was doing the exact same thing that I was suggesting that you do. Not sure why you wanted to act on that one and did not do what I was telling you.
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That post was doing the exact same thing that I was suggesting that you do. Not sure why you wanted to act on that one and did not do what I was telling you.
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Well not exactly the same... In Your Post you say to Stop/End the Launcher.. Thats different to Appstore.
I dont like fondling around with launchers... And i dont want other Launchers than Stock or missing/deleted Icons And Installing other Launcher to fix a problem is no alternative
You are right that I overlooked the part about App Store. I assumed that person was telling you to do the same thing that I did.
You don't have to install other launchers. I was just giving an example of how you could see the apps and do what you needed to do by installing another launcher. I wrote that part before I realized what the "fix" was for the stock launcher. But if you want the original stock launcher to work, you will need to do the steps that I mentioned. Clear cache and data and then force stop for Home Pages, which is the name of the stock launcher
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I think I was wrong in what I told you before. I thought I was able to uninstall aquamail which said something about requiring the SD card. But it just happened to me with a different app, and I get that sd card error. So I think I was misled because I uninstalled it and then reinstalled over in the other launcher. Then when I looked back on the fire launcher, the icon was there and it could be clicked. But if you really want to get rid of it and not reinstall, I don't see a way to do that yet. Sorry to have been on the wrong track.
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Okay, I learned a little more. I'm not sure if all of these steps are necessary. But I went to settings, apps and games, All, Home Pages. That's the fire launcher. I cleared its cache and data and force stopped. Then when it is launched again, the apps that couldn't be deleted are now no longer showing. However, if you had arranged all the icons in some kind of order, now it is all alphabetical. I also think that newly installed apps do show, but I haven't really done much testing with it yet. I'm mostly sticking with another launcher. So I don't really care about the fire launcher, but once in awhile, I might like to use it. So it's good to see that we can clean these things up.
EDIT: Ignore what I said about it now being alphabetical. It seems to be in the order that apps are added.
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I had the same problem, your advice:
"settings, apps and games, All, Home Pages. That's the fire launcher. I cleared its cache and data"
pulled out all the problems, thank you. I had three programs, including PLAY STORE, give that error message and then grey out and become unclickable and unable to be removed. I had did a factory reset three times in two days, and then couldn't get PLAY STORE or any apps downloaded through it to show up on the HOME screen. your suggestion of clearing the "Home Pages" cache and data brought everything working properly. Thank you.
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I had the same problem, your advice:
"settings, apps and games, All, Home Pages. That's the fire launcher. I cleared its cache and data"
pulled out all the problems, thank you. I had three programs, including PLAY STORE, give that error message and then grey out and become unclickable and unable to be removed. I had did a factory reset three times in two days, and then couldn't get PLAY STORE or any apps downloaded through it to show up on the HOME screen. your suggestion of clearing the "Home Pages" cache and data brought everything working properly. Thank you.
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Glad I could help. It's happened to me a couple more times. I learned that the easiest way is just doing a force stop on the Home Pages app. Clearing cache and data means a little more work when the launcher comes back up (it wants you to step through some instructional screens, but I think you can exit out of them) . But if you don't have another launcher to switch to, I don't think you can do the force stop while you are actually using Home Pages as the home launcher. I can't be sure about that because I am rooted now, so the behavior might be different if I was not rooted.
Clearing cache and data probably works for all cases, so maybe that's the way to go. I've made it a little more confusing by adding the detail that I just did in that first paragraph!
Slowly does it
ksnorris said:
Hello,
Yesterday, several apps I downloaded through the google play store (sideloaded weeks ago, never had any issues) and one from the amazon app store are grayed out and I get an error when I try opening them that says "SD card not available" and goes on to tell me the SD card where the app installed isn't available. I've never had an SD card in the tablet. I can click "download again," but of course that brings me to the amazon app store.
I have tried re-installing, force stopping and clearing caches, restarting, and updating apps. The weird thing is I can get to the apps if I take another route in ie. if I go on google maps (not affected by issue) and go to a restaurant's website, it opens in Chrome (app affected by issue). Then, Chrome runs normal.
If it makes any difference, the apps that don't work are Chrome, Gmail, YouTube, Memrise, Hulu, and Google Sheets.
Thanks in advance for any help!
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I had this problem. Tried everything to no avail
But I left my fire 10 on all day as I use alexa a lot and the greyed out icons slowly came back.
Restarted the tablet and they where greyed out again but they came back quicker this time.
I know it's a pain to leave it on but something seems to be running slow in the os,
Not a permanent fix but it may help until an update os comes out