Hello, I am using a Samsung Evo Plus 128GB card in my 32GB Xiaomi Mi A1 formatted as internal storage.
Today I wanted to do a benchmark because lately the phone is pretty slow and laggy, in particular the apps that I installed in the SD storage, so I unmonted the SD card from settings, but when I restarted the phone all my applications that were installed in the SD completely disappeared. Usually when the SD card was unmounted or not inserted these apps were displayed greyed out and after mounting the card they returned normal, but this time all apps are gone.
I tried unmounting the SD and rebooting again the phone but with no results. I noticed that now the phone doesn't show the notification with progress bar when mounting the SD but it mounts instantly. In storage settings I see used space for apps in the SD but if i tap that it says no apps installed.
The biggest problem is that if I try to install again some of the apps that were installed in the SD I can't because phone's behavior is:
-from play store: the app looks uninstalled, but pressing install results in a loop where play store continuosly download the app again and again.
-from apk files: packet manager tells that the app is already installed, and if I click update prints "app not installed" then crashes.
Can I do something to make these apps visible to the system again without wiping everything?
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This started happening after I've installed a new bigger SD card. I've copied all contents from the old SD card to the new one.
But now I have problems with USB connection as mass storage. It usually resets and after restart, there are many applications missing (blank shortcuts and apps are not in the launcher).
What is going on??
Using your phone as Mass Storage would require the SD Card to be unmounted,if by any chance you reboot in the process,your phone might not automatically mount the SD Card，and therefore you will not be able to access the apps on the card.
You may try to mount the SD card manually,still,that won't fix the icon problem instantly,you might wait or refresh a bit.
But I haven't saved any of those apps on the SD card (if it isn't done automatically somehow).
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I'm using Go launcher EX. I bought a 16GB micro sdhc card for my huawei titan u8800. When i put it in suddenly over half of my apps disapeared from the app list and in my homescreens they only showed the green loading icon. When i try to click on them on the home screen it says that the application is not installed. I think it was the apps that i had moved to the internal storage that disapeared. In the memory info it still says that the internal memory card is almost used up so it doesnt seem to have been deleted. After i took out the card and rebooted they came back after about 10 minutes. Is it any way to get the apps back while i have the sd card in?
which rom are you using? Stock 2.2.2, cm7, miui?
I am using android 2.2.1 that came with the phone.
So, you din't have an external sd card and used the internal sd to install some apps there?
When put the external sd card, the system start to use this card instead of the internal, and the apps which are installed on internal sd card are no longer be installed.
Therefore, you need to copy them from internal sd to external sd.
You need to copy the folders .android_secure and Android(if exists), and also Data(if exists too) from HWUserData folder to external sd' s root directory.
I think this will solve your problem. If this works, you can after delete these folders from internal sd.
It worked! Thank you very much! Glad i didnt have to reinstall all my applications again....
I moved many of my apps to my SD card, and my tablet stopped recognizing some of them. Over half of them still work, but others register as not installed both in the Play Store and on the home screen. If I go to the Play Store and try to reinstall the apps, the Play Store crashes. They show up in the Application manager as 0 B apps, listed with names starting with "com." These apps worked for a while, and one day they stopped. I have tried formatting my SD card (exFAT) and replacing everything, but, while most apps still work, the ones that were not working still do not.
My tablet is not currently rooted, though it was rooted when I was on KitKat. I can provide screenshots of mounted SD card vs unmounted SD card if necessary.
I recently rooted my S7e, and did a factory reset. I tried to restore app data via Helium from an SD Card backup, but the external card is not showing as an option, even though in Settings> Storage, it shows my SD Card mounted and with correct size.
I've also tried music, root explorer, etc and they are not showing the card.
Finally, I took another SD Card from my tablet and it does the same thing--shows in storage settings, but no app will show it.
Any thoughts? Is there a build.prop edit that I can try?
EDIT: Forgot to mention that when I plug my phone into a PC, it shows both the internal and external storage partitions without issue.
Well i think my SD Card is acting strangely since i did the new marshmallow update
When i was still running with 5.1.1 Lollipop i was able to move all apps to sd card with no problems at all,
i did a factory reset to get rid of the root and then updated to marshmallow 6.0.1 and at first i could move apps to sd card normally like i used to do with the lollipop and everything was fine until i restarted the phone, when the phone restarted all apps that were on sd card were greyed out with a small sd card icon bellow each one and when i tap on it it says app not probably installed i knew this was a common problem and leaving the phone for a few minutes would restore it but i left my phone unused for 3 hours and apps remained greyed out so i deleted them and redownloaded them again for play store but this time when i tried to move them it would say not enough space on sd card although there is 6 gbs of free space i thought maybe some leftovers from those apps still remained so i formatted my sd card 2 time once with the android and another time from my laptop ...nothing changed still cant move apps to sd card ...and on plus on that when i connect my phone to my laptop it only reads the internal storage it doesnt show the sd card as if it isnt there
any suggestions?? Any help would be appreciated and sorry for my bad English
MbatauVille:
This has been effected by the new security feature on Android 6.0.1 firmware so as not to alter app system files. You should also check your SD file system (format) for compatibility. Also if your are running a custom kernel, Android security patch prohibits non-trusted apps from making changes to to execute as system files outside the inbuilt storage