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[Q] HELP I can't install anymore apps!

I installed my froyo update on 31st Aug. and the same day i forced all of my apps to be installed to SD using ADB shell pm SetInstallLocation.
Since then i have installed numerous apps with a high percentage of the data being taken onboard my SD card as intended.
Today, all of a sudden, i find myself unable to install any apk getting a message 'installation unsuccessful.'
I have 66.61mb of phone storage available and 3.37gb remaining on my SD card.
On my SD card i have a folder '.android_secure' containing 114mb af ASEC files which i assume is the folder for the apps stored on my SD card but i am not really sure about this.
Could anybody advise as to what is the problem as i am really at a loss with this and don't know what to do.

Anybody help please?

Obvious I know but its not connected via USB in disk drive mode to the PC while you are trying to install is it. Sometimes its the simplest things

jamesmcuk said:
Obvious I know but its not connected via USB in disk drive mode to the PC while you are trying to install is it. Sometimes its the simplest things
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Thanks for you're input but no it isn't.
I am not very clever with android so far but, am i correct in assuming no partitions are neccessary for apps to sd using this method.
All that i could think of was that there was no room somehow on the part of the sd card were the apps are installed.
Hope i am making sense as i am not really sure what i am doing but usually learn quickly!

Hmm I have read that some roms haven't been to clever on unmounting the card after a reboot. Did this start happening following a reboot of the phone?
Space wise I think it should say insufficient space if its a space issue.
Maybe try mounting the card through the phone on the PC and then ejecting it properly from the PC. You could also try searching for info about SD cards not being unmounted on android.
Sorry cant be of more help.

jamesmcuk said:
Hmm I have read that some roms haven't been to clever on unmounting the card after a reboot. Did this start happening following a reboot of the phone?
Space wise I think it should say insufficient space if its a space issue.
Maybe try mounting the card through the phone on the PC and then ejecting it properly from the PC. You could also try searching for info about SD cards not being unmounted on android.
Sorry cant be of more help.
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Thanks again for your input.
Yes, this did start after i loaded an apk to my sd card via my pc then tried to install it. This wouldn't work and also i was not able to install from the market.
I have tried your above procedure but it did not make any difference so will now try to investigate what you suggested further.
Thanks again.

bobsie41 said:
I installed my froyo update on 31st Aug.
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Is it because you are from the future?
(sorry - couldn't resist)
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[Q] SD card not being read

SD card won't be read when phone is on. When device is in recovery, I can USB toggle and see everything on my SD card. It's only when I try connecting through USB when on (CM6.1 or Myn TwoPointTwo) is when nothing happens (Myn) or the phone freezes and reboots (CM6.1).
I had my phone plugged in through USB while on CM6.1 RC2 and dropping in the new CM6.1 file into my phone when I forgot to eject and went straight into recovery. Now I can't install anything or mount my SD card. I can use ASTRO or a file manager app to view everything though.
As for nandroid, I deleted all my pre-USB **** up backups and only have the USB **** up RC2 backup. So that won't help. I'm guessing the device is still thinking it's plugged in because of my mistake. Any way to fix this?

I have noticed this as well lately under both Sense and AOSP roms. I can't mount my SDCARD from USB while the rom is running - only in recovery.
Odd. Wonder what is causing this?

I was talking to Shift and we came to the conclusion that my SD card is probably corrupt after shutting down while still mounted to my computer. I just extracted the folders that are important to me (pictures, Titanium Backup, etc) and will transfer them over to a new SD card once I buy one.
If anyone knows any way this might be fixed, I would appreciate it

Did you already try reformatting the card?
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i had the same issue with my 16gb card.
I couldnt get it to read in the computer either unless I put it in the full sized SD adapter and put the "lock" switch on.
Needless to say, i couldnt do anything with it and ended up sending it back for a replacement.

jeriel05 said:
Did you already try reformatting the card?
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I was hoping to exhaust all options before coming across this, but as I have nothing else to try I'm going to just format it. Hopefully I can format through recovery or something because it doesn't even let me unmount my SD card from Settings options.

dadoc04 said:
i had the same issue with my 16gb card.
I couldnt get it to read in the computer either unless I put it in the full sized SD adapter and put the "lock" switch on.
Needless to say, i couldnt do anything with it and ended up sending it back for a replacement.
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Yeah, I figure I'll try my last option of formatting and see if it works. Here's to hoping! Lol.

FIXED
Issue has been corrected by formatting SD card. Thanks for the replies :]

Odd Problem with SD card.

Today I connected my phone which is running CM7 RC2 to my PC and mounted it as storage so I could remove pictures. I turned off USB storage and thought nothing of it.
But when I got a call later I realised my ringtone wasnt playing, it was silent.
I went into the sound settings, and under notiications or ringtones, I cant find any of my tones. Yet I can explore the SD fine and my apps transferred to SD work fine also. The system just cant find the mp3's anymore but they are there, I havent touched them in any way.
Any thoughts and theories?

X82X said:
Today I connected my phone which is running CM7 RC2 to my PC and mounted it as storage so I could remove pictures. I turned off USB storage and thought nothing of it.
But when I got a call later I realised my ringtone wasnt playing, it was silent.
I went into the sound settings, and under notiications or ringtones, I cant find any of my tones. Yet I can explore the SD fine and my apps transferred to SD work fine also. The system just cant find the mp3's anymore but they are there, I havent touched them in any way.
Any thoughts and theories?
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the only thing i can think of is you didnt unmount your SD card properly i would recomend that you manualy extraxct the Micro SD card and place it back in and also from now on make sure you click unmount on the desktop client as well as the cell phones this could be a future way to prevent such problems from occuring.

I am unable to remove the SD without removing the batter. However, I tried it anyway and still the problem remains. The system just doesn't show my ringtones. Yet I can browse the SD card perfectly otherwise.
I'm at a loss what else to try since the phone has been perfect up until now.

X82X said:
I am unable to remove the SD without removing the batter. However, I tried it anyway and still the problem remains. The system just doesn't show my ringtones. Yet I can browse the SD card perfectly otherwise.
I'm at a loss what else to try since the phone has been perfect up until now.
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well Sorry to say i had this problem with my g1 the only other option i can recomend is that you copy your most important files to your computer and then format the SD card and if that dosent work then sorry your going to have to buy a new one.

I just don't understand how mounting the SD card to get at my photos (which I have done many times in the past) has now rendered my SD card U/S.

Ok. I've used rom manager to format and partition the SD card and copied my stuff back. The problem remains. I've even tried to re-install CM7 RC2 (without wiping cache and data) and still it happens. I thought I would be clever and modify the cm7 rc2 zip file and add my ringtones as ogg manually that way. But they don't show up on the phone either. What should I do now?

try flashing another rom to see if it reads it could be a CM problem, Or go into setting/phone storge and click unmount then mount, if that fails then sorry man your going to have to buy a new sounds to me you currrupetd the SD crad from being able to be recognized.

I think there is more afoot here than previously thought.
Another problem I have is to do with images.
On my SD card there is 2 folders, Wallpapers and DCIM/Camera. In the camera folder there is 10 images which I previously took with the phone and 2 new ones. Yet when I open the gallery app, only the 2 ones I have recently taken appear. And my wallpaper folder is missing also.
furthermore, if I browse the SD card in Astro for example and try to open any of the images in the gallery, they just appear as blank images. But if I open them in the Astro image viewer, they appear perfectly.
Strange things are happening to this phone and Im not 100% sure its the SD card anymore.
How can I sort this out?
Using rom manager last night, I put on the CM7 RC2 again, this time I wiped data and cache and modified the CM7 zip beforehand to manually put my ringtones on. Now they appear. But finding songs/pictures/tones from the SD is not possible. Only if I manually browse for them.
Very frustrating.

Same thing happened here except I can't access any of my SD card.

X82X said:
I think there is more afoot here than previously thought.
Another problem I have is to do with images.
On my SD card there is 2 folders, Wallpapers and DCIM/Camera. In the camera folder there is 10 images which I previously took with the phone and 2 new ones. Yet when I open the gallery app, only the 2 ones I have recently taken appear. And my wallpaper folder is missing also.
furthermore, if I browse the SD card in Astro for example and try to open any of the images in the gallery, they just appear as blank images. But if I open them in the Astro image viewer, they appear perfectly.
Strange things are happening to this phone and Im not 100% sure its the SD card anymore.
How can I sort this out?
Using rom manager last night, I put on the CM7 RC2 again, this time I wiped data and cache and modified the CM7 zip beforehand to manually put my ringtones on. Now they appear. But finding songs/pictures/tones from the SD is not possible. Only if I manually browse for them.
Very frustrating.
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have you tried flashing another rom to see if they read on it

I think I've made some progress.
Taking in previous advice given here, I copied my files off the SD card, formatted it and put SOME not all, of the files back. It seems to have fixed it. Because Im not the smartest person in the world, my slapdash approach to problem solving means I can't say for sure if formatting the SD card fixed it, or there was a dodgy file/folder which corrupted things. But now its working as it would.
However, its produced an odd side effect. Every time I connect my phone to my computer via usb, it will always pop up with the USB mass storage menu, where I can tap it to turn on usb storage. Even if the phone is locked and I connect it, it will unlock the phone with a serious of quick clicks and bring up the menu. While the menu is up, if I lock the screen, it will just unlock in front of my eyes. But if I hit home then lock it, its fine. Very odd.
Why has this started to happen all of a sudden?

[Q] Help with SD card prob...

Ok, so I have the stock SD card and lately it's been acting up. I went from Vaelpak to CM7RC2 and it took me a while to get the phone to actually recognize the card... Anytime I use a Sense ROM I never have problems with the card being read/recognized by the phone or my PC
So I'm back on RC2 and the phone reads the card just fine but the computer doesnt recognize it "kinda"..
When I plug the phone in via USB to the PC it usually pops up with a window with several options on how to view the contents of the SD card... No such window pops up and the SD card doesnt register in the Drive slot.. it just doesnt show up at all, like there's nothing in that Drive...
But, I can pull up Windows Media Player and look at some of the files on the SD card... So I'm confused, the computer can see some of the information but I can't read the whole thing...
I've tried USB debuggin on/off, mounting as disk drive and not, mounting/unmounting SD card, etc...
Any ideas? -- should I just get a new card or is there something else I can try?

You can copy the contents to the pc, then reformat it, then copy back...

blakjak220 said:
Ok, so I have the stock SD card and lately it's been acting up. I went from Vaelpak to CM7RC2 and it took me a while to get the phone to actually recognize the card... Anytime I use a Sense ROM I never have problems with the card being read/recognized by the phone or my PC
So I'm back on RC2 and the phone reads the card just fine but the computer doesnt recognize it "kinda"..
When I plug the phone in via USB to the PC it usually pops up with a window with several options on how to view the contents of the SD card... No such window pops up and the SD card doesnt register in the Drive slot.. it just doesnt show up at all, like there's nothing in that Drive...
But, I can pull up Windows Media Player and look at some of the files on the SD card... So I'm confused, the computer can see some of the information but I can't read the whole thing...
I've tried USB debuggin on/off, mounting as disk drive and not, mounting/unmounting SD card, etc...
Any ideas? -- should I just get a new card or is there something else I can try?
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Deleting the LOST_DIR folder has been known to solve the problem with CM7 and SD cards. Having said that, you need to be aware of the recent growing numbers of people boinking their EVOs. All of them were using CM7 and everything had been working as it should. All of a sudden, their device rebooted and have not been able to get into theory homescreen or into recovery. Read the posts the last few days and you will find many instances. I'm just alerting you to what has been happening. That's all so be careful.
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teh roxxorz said:
You can copy the contents to the pc, then reformat it, then copy back...
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I dont guess I explained myself very good... I can't copy anything to the PC if the PC wont recognize that there's a card there.. The PC just sits there and I've looked all over the place but the PC doesnt think there's anything put into the drive
dougjamal said:
Deleting the LOST_DIR folder has been known to solve the problem with CM7 and SD cards. Having said that, you need to be aware of the recent growing numbers of people boinking their EVOs. All of them were using CM7 and everything had been working as it should. All of a sudden, their device rebooted and have not been able to get into theory homescreen or into recovery. Read the posts the last few days and you will find many instances. I'm just alerting you to what has been happening. That's all so be careful.
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I hadn't seen anything about the "boinking"... can you direct me to a thread? The CM7 RC2 thread or what?.. Not even knowing about those instances I was already thinkin about abandoning CM for now.. I've tried CM6 and several versions of CM7 but there's always something that just doesnt work right.. GPS, the SD card, facebook syncing, etc.. Looking at your Sig I'm thinkin I might try Warm again, it's been a while but I liked it alot... Thanks for the heads up

blakjak220 said:
I hadn't seen anything about the "boinking"... can you direct me to a thread? The CM7 RC2 thread or what?.. Not even knowing about those instances I was already thinkin about abandoning CM for now.. I've tried CM6 and several versions of CM7 but there's always something that just doesnt work right.. GPS, the SD card, facebook syncing, etc.. Looking at your Sig I'm thinkin I might try Warm again, it's been a while but I liked it alot... Thanks for the heads up
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1009672
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Here's more:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1007375
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dougjamal said:
Here's more:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1007375
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Yeah, that sucks... I was already about to give up on CM7 for now and that's just enough to push me back to Sense.. thanks

WOW! I'm glad I went back to Sense when I did.
Bricking my phone would end me!

[Q] Phone no longer working /SD card

Greetings XDA,
I would love help with my current situation. I am in the military and really need my phone working so my soldiers can contact me ^^;.
I have an HTC Evo, the older (original) version, and followed the steps here:
http: // htcevohacks <dot> com/htc-evo-hacks/root-for-htc-evo-4g-gingerbread-is-here/
It seemed to work just fine, and so I connected my phone to my computer to transfer some files. However, after about a minute, the my computer didn't recognize that my phone was connected anymore and I didn't even have the option for "disk drive" on my drop down list. Apparently, my SD card was unmounting itself. After rebooting and trying again about a dozen times, I decided to bypass the phone/usb deal and connect the sd card directly thought an adaptor. My computer recognized it and opened the drive, but once I tried to delete or move any file, the drive would dismount.
Becoming fustrated, I decided to try and wipe the SD card/format it, but because my phone won't recognize it and it dismounts itself from my computer, I can't do either.
Now my phone only boots into the bootloader and doesn't recognize the SD card at all.
I thank you for taking the time to read my post, and appreciate any help you can provide.

I would try swapping in another sd card
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I don't currently have another SD card, nor do I really want to spend money on another one; if I can avoid it.
I've tried formatting the SD card several different ways:
Through basic windows means (Right Click > Format)
Through CMD Prompt
Through Admin Tools - Comp Mgmnt - Disk Mgmnt
Through 3rd party programs, etc
However, whenever I try to move a file to the sd card, move something out of, delete, format, or any other type of specific access, my computer can then no longer recognize it.
Is there any way for me to get my phone past bootloader, without the sd card? I've tried resetting all user data in recovery, but it seems that no matter what I do, I can't get past the bootloader.
Is there anyone out there with a solution?
Perhaps there are other details I can provide, just inquire.

So you can get into recovery? Have you tried formating the sd card with recovery?

Evilone69tmg said:
So you can get into recovery? Have you tried formating the sd card with recovery?
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Yes, I have, but my phone doesn't recognize that the sd card is mounted.

Cardioes said:
Yes, I have, but my phone doesn't recognize that the sd card is mounted.
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What happens when you try to mount sd card in recovery? All in all it may be a bad sd card. And you might have to get a new one. Or if you got a friend that has a spare one you can use.

Evilone69tmg said:
What happens when you try to mount sd card in recovery? All in all it may be a bad sd card. And you might have to get a new one. Or if you got a friend that has a spare one you can use.
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Thank you for your prompt replies.
Whenever I try to mount/access my sd card on the phone, it simply doesn't find it. I am using the same 8gb sd card that came with the phone, and I've had the phone since day 1 release.
The more and more I try to fix or find a solution to this problem, the more frustrated I am getting; and the more it is seemingly looking hopeless =/.