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[Q] Downloading from android market UK.

Has any one got a solution to why the android market will let you download some apps but not others. This problem only happens with certain apps.
Contacted one of the app developers, and he thinks there may be a problem with my data partition.
I'm on stock rom, latest froyo update, and have not rooted. thanks, in advance, for your help.

Do you get an error message?

I just get the message installation unsuccessful

Try resetting ur phone and clear cach or make a different Google account
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region and ROM version also apply

Go to menu/settings/applications/manage applications click the all tab and scroll down to market. Clear data and cache. That should fix it.
Sent from my Motorola Startac running Atari 2600 software!

pwraggcan said:
Go to menu/settings/applications/manage applications click the all tab and scroll down to market. Clear data and cache. That should fix it.
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+1 for this but if not can you list some example apps so we can see if it's just you (B. East) or not?

The apps i seem to have a problem with are, Cordy the game, storage analyzer, and gun brothers game. I some times have problems with updating from the market. I have to un-install some apps then download them again to update. this happens when the app has been moved to the sd card, but not with all the apps that I have moved to the sd card

B. East said:
The apps i seem to have a problem with are, Cordy the game, storage analyzer, and gun brothers game.
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No problems here. This is going to be something up with your phone.
B. East said:
I some times have problems with updating from the market. I have to un-install some apps then download them again to update. this happens when the app has been moved to the sd card, but not with all the apps that I have moved to the sd card
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Not all apps like being on the SD Card. Do all your apps specifically say they have been updated to allow them to be moved to sd card?
You may have to move them to phone if they continue to cause issues (and to be honest, with a 1GB internal memory, putting apps onto a slow sd card really isn't worth doing.
pwraggcan said:
Go to menu/settings/applications/manage applications click the all tab and scroll down to market. Clear data and cache. That should fix it.
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Did you try this?
If all of the above fails to work you will probably have to factory reset the phone.

I tend to download using wifi, going to try downloading over 3g and see if that makes any difference, if not, will do a factory reset. thanks for the help though.

Before you do that you still haven't said if you cleared the market cache. Did you?

yes, i done that, tried to download again and got a message, "could not install on USB storage or sd card". First time I have seen that message.

Is this whilst trying to update an app or download a new one?
If to update then move the app to the phone first.

this is trying to download a new app.

Had a quick Google and found something to try.
mount the phone so you can access the sdcard.
Set to show hidden files
Go to folder .android_secure
Delete a file in there smdl2tmp1.asec
Then try again.

thanks, I will give it a go. can I use a file explorer to do this, because am not sure how you mount the phone, I am quite new to android, use to use winmo mobiles

you can yes, my favourites are Astro, Linda and ES.

I had a look in android_secure, made sure all hidden files would be visible, and could not find any files at all. checked to make sure that the hidden file visible setting in the file explorer was switched to the correct setting, and could not see any files at all.
Have I lost some files? if i have i have no idea how. do I need to do a factory reset?

B. East said:
I had a look in android_secure, made sure all hidden files would be visible, and could not find any files at all. checked to make sure that the hidden file visible setting in the file explorer was switched to the correct setting, and could not see any files at all.
Have I lost some files? if i have i have no idea how. do I need to do a factory reset?
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Damn. When I found that possible solution I noticed that as many people said they did have it as said they didn't. I was hoping you would be lucky.
In this case the same file (apparently this is a known bug and has been marked for next version fix) is being stored in the system directory of the phone and without root you can't get access to it.
I'm afraid the only way to clear it (without root) is a factory reset, sorry.

thanks for your help, I will factory reset and see what happens.

[Q] No images/videos in gallery

Hello people!
I am having problem with my HTC One V. My phone was working fine but all of a sudden it's gallery is showing "No photos or Videos found" and the Music player is also not scanning any music files. But the fiiles are shown in the ES file explorer.
My phone is not rooted, and neither did I install any app recently. Ya but connected my phone to my laptop.
This problem has occured quite a few times earlier also, but used to rectify on its own in a day. But now it is pissing me off, it's been a week.
Tried restarting, removing the storage card etc. But won't help.
Please help!

Go to Settings - Apps - All - Gallery - Clear data

ckpv5 said:
Go to Settings - Apps - All - Gallery - Clear data
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Yea clear data and unmount sd card and remount it
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JUST UNMOUNT/MOUNT SDCARD even then no photos/videos,reboot.....

ckpv5 said:
Go to Settings - Apps - All - Gallery - Clear data
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cybervibin said:
Yea clear data and unmount sd card and remount it
Sent from my One V
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Won't this delete all my photos and videos?
And will this solve the problem of music player also? It is also not showing any of my songs.
PS: Sorry, its a Noob question, I am new to android

mihirengg19 said:
JUST UNMOUNT/MOUNT SDCARD even then no photos/videos,reboot.....
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Didn't work, tried much earlier

parthjain27 said:
Won't this delete all my photos and videos?
And will this solve the problem of music player also? It is also not showing any of my songs.
PS: Sorry, its a Noob question, I am new to android
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No, it won't delete your files... it just cleared your data/thumbnails and rebuild them. I think this will help your music player too. You can do the same for Music player - settings - apps - all - music - clear data

ckpv5 said:
No, it won't delete your files... it just cleared your data/thumbnails and rebuild them. I think this will help your music player too. You can do the same for Music player - settings - apps - all - music - clear data
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Nothing worked

which ROM?

At you sure that the photos are still on the sd card ??

cybervibin said:
which ROM?
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ICS. It's stock.
donhashem.dh said:
At you sure that the photos are still on the sd card ??
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Yep, everything is on the ad card. I can access it from the file explorer.
I am wondering if I should backup my data and then format my phone.
It is showing up one more problem, I cannot download a single app from the play store. It shows downloading, and downloading and nothing moves on.
EDIT: If I format my phone, I can download all my paid apps again because they are linked to ny google account,right ?

I once had the exact problem ..but Im not able to remember because I'm becoming old ......
This may work
Move all your stuff on your sd card to your pc
Format your sd card and put em back again .....
Maybe the problem is with the sd card

Just WAIT FOR A OTA UPDATE it will fix the bug ,I had that problem too
Sent from my One V

donhashem.dh said:
I once had the exact problem ..but Im not able to remember because I'm becoming old ......
This may work
Move all your stuff on your sd card to your pc
Format your sd card and put em back again .....
Maybe the problem is with the sd card
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I was thinking to do the same, but worried if it could affect my installed apps ??
I'll also try shifting some of my pics to the phone storage, lets see if it is showing the pics in there.. if it works then I'll format the sd card, if not will format the phone!

U can install them again! whats the problem ????

cybervibin said:
Just WAIT FOR A OTA UPDATE it will fix the bug ,I had that problem too
Sent from my One V
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That will be too long I think, not sure when the update will come!
gulsher said:
U can install them again! whats the problem ????
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And what about the data in apps, such as in Notes Lite I have a number of important notes, and it wont even perform a backup

Then don't do a reset just wait until it gets solved by itself ...but if that didn't work ....reset

If u don't have patience do this...move all the data to the pc as in images and all....reboot phone browse gallery
So that the cache is built
Then.move the images back ,reboot browse and try...
Sent from my One V

parthjain27 said:
It is showing up one more problem, I cannot download a single app from the play store. It shows downloading, and downloading and nothing moves on.
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this happened with me....i installed another rom and kernel and then apps could be downloaded......
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if after u have tried everything on earth and nothing works, transfer stuff your PC and use a new SDCard and transfer stuff back to new one....

Problem solved. Backed up my data, did a factory reset and now everything is working fine.
But now I have to install all my apps again :banghead:
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Apps not working after internal/external memory swap

Hi,
I'm using CM10a3 by arco... I did the internal/external memory swapping and it worked.
The problem now is that many apps I had installed do not work anymore!
Apollo crashed - can't open it anymore! - while others say that they are not installed!
How can I repair them?
I tried copying all my folders from my internal memory to the sdcard (after the swap), but I still face the problems mentioned above!

Of course they dont work. Because you didnt move them. So now you have to reinstall them again

talat054 said:
Of course they dont work. Because you didnt move them. So now you have to reinstall them again
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What do you mean?
They were not installed installed in the sdcard!
And also copying them to the sdcard does not solve the problem as I wrote before...
So what do I have to copy exactly and from where to where?
Can I go back maybe by undoing the swap? Would it work?
Tx

[.::MDT::.] said:
What do you mean?
They were not installed installed in the sdcard!
And also copying them to the sdcard does not solve the problem as I wrote before...
So what do I have to copy exactly and from where to where?
Can I go back maybe by undoing the swap? Would it work?
Tx
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Best to swap immediately after flashing rom..try to clear data and reboot..or better to reflash and swap again. Thats d 1st thing i do. After flashing i boot up, open play store and only download root browser lite before swapping and reboot. Den ony install apps
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K&Q said:
Best to swap immediately after flashing rom..try to clear data and reboot..or better to reflash and swap again. Thats d 1st thing i do. After flashing i boot up, open play store and only download root browser lite before swapping and reboot. Den ony install apps
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Are you saying I should swap back and reboot?
I'll try that.

[.::MDT::.] said:
Are you saying I should swap back and reboot?
I'll try that.
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I mean if u can reflash cm10 it would be better..less chance of bugs..start over. So your process should be..
Wipe data and cache
Flash cm10
Flash Gaaps
Reboot
Then after setting up phone, download any root file browser. I personally dont like d cm10 file manager.
Do the swap. Change 0>1, 1>0
Then REBOOT
And you're done. Can install ur other apps/backups.
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K&Q said:
I mean if u can reflash cm10 it would be better..less chance of bugs..start over. So your process should be..
Wipe data and cache
Flash cm10
Flash Gaaps
Reboot
Then after setting up phone, download any root file browser. I personally dont like d cm10 file manager.
Do the swap. Change 0>1, 1>0
Then REBOOT
And you're done. Can install ur other apps/backups.
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OK, tx for your piece of advice, but I don't want to flash everything from scratch.
I swapped int/ext memory back and now everything works again, of course not the swap anyway...
What's the process of swapping in a not-pristine environment (i.e. with many apps installed)?
Tx.

[.::MDT::.] said:
OK, tx for your piece of advice, but I don't want to flash everything from scratch.
I swapped int/ext memory back and now everything works again, of course not the swap anyway...
What's the process of swapping in a not-pristine environment (i.e. with many apps installed)?
Tx.
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No worries
I haven't tried non-pristine flashing b4 but this should work (its vy similar to the above):
I am not responsible for any mishaps *MAKE NANDROID BACKUP*
Make CWM backup
Wipe data and cache (and dalvik cache, if u want)
Flash cm 10
Flash GAAPS
Reboot
Swap sd card (refer above)
Boot into cwm
Backups and restore > Advance restore > restore data
Wipe cache
Reboot
Pls tell me if it works out=)
If it doesn't jz restore ur backup..
P.s. If some apps FC or have problems after this method, try uninstall and reinstall.
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MDT ...
The apks aren't working because when you did the swap you broke the "file paths" (to use windows terminology).... in other words, the phone OS was unable to locate the apk code/file where it expected to find it and the apk force closing/not working was the end result.
Have you undone the swap and found that everything now works?....
If that's the case, then there's no need to reflash. All you need to do is use an app like Gemini app manager to move all your apps to internal phone storage, then apply the swap and finally use Gemini again to move your apps back to your (now swapped) SD card....it's what I do, and it works perfectly every time.....
Sent from my CM10 powered Wonder with Tapatalk 2......it's all good......

keithross39 said:
MDT ...
The apks aren't working because when you did the swap you broke the "file paths" (to use windows terminology).... in other words, the phone OS was unable to locate the apk code/file where it expected to find it and the apk force closing/not working was the end result.
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Clear, thanks.
keithross39 said:
Have you undone the swap and found that everything now works?....
If that's the case, then there's no need to reflash. All you need to do is use an app like Gemini app manager to move all your apps to internal phone storage, then apply the swap and finally use Gemini again to move your apps back to your (now swapped) SD card....it's what I do, and it works perfectly every time.....
Sent from my CM10 powered Wonder with Tapatalk 2......it's all good......
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Correct: undoing the swap, everything works fine again.
You're right: I can confirm that the apps that the OS does not find - after the swapping - are those now on my SDCARD memory (moved via App2SD).
I had forgotten about these, sorry!
So I assume that following your suggestion, these apps will work after the swapping.
Nevertheless, Apollo - which is NOT on my sdcard - after the swapping FC, whereas it works flawlessly in "normal" (not swapped) environment... any idea how to solve that?
Tx a lot.

[.::MDT::.] said:
Clear, thanks.
So I assume that following your suggestion, these apps will work after the swapping.
Nevertheless, Apollo - which is NOT on my sdcard - after the swapping FC, whereas it works flawlessly in "normal" (not swapped) environment... any idea how to solve that?
Tx a lot.
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Yes, doing the move "post swap" with Gemini will work and has worked several times for me....
As for Apollo, I'm afraid I can't help there......I don't use it, I've frozen it in favour of Google Play Music which I downloaded from a link on XDA.
There are some apps which I keep on phone storage no matter what.... apps which I guess are used during start up.....apps like trebuchet, any themes you might have installed (and are using) and any security apps...(anti virus, permissions managers... that sort of thing).....the reason being that the phone performs a media scan at every startup, and the SD card is always the last storage volume to be mounted and scanned, so if there are any apps stored there that are needed during startup, the phone won't be able to access them until the Mount and scan has been performed......(remember I mentioned about file paths in my previous reply.....same principal applies)
Edit...just had a thought about Apollo, there are *some* apps that will only work if installed in phone memory....Gemini app manager is one of them.....maybe Apollo is another?....just a guess...
Edit 2....just had a similar problem with Google play music....to begin with, I had it in phone memory, then I moved it to SD card and suddenly the "widget" for it stopped working and the playlists I'd created were all empty.....moved it back and no issues other than the fact I had to re create the playlists.....
Sent from my CM10 powered Wonder with Tapatalk 2......it's all good......

BTW...here's the link for Google play music...
http://db.tt/ZMQZBzjz
Sent from my CM10 powered Wonder with Tapatalk 2......it's all good......

keithross39 said:
Yes, doing the move "post swap" with Gemini will work and has worked several times for me....
As for Apollo, I'm afraid I can't help there......I don't use it, I've frozen it in favour of Google Play Music which I downloaded from a link on XDA.
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OK... does Google Play Music fully replace Apollo, i.e. can u you use GPM even for your (offline) mp3s?
I thought it was only for listening to music while connected, or for buying new mp3 tracks...
keithross39 said:
There are some apps which I keep on phone storage no matter what.... apps which I guess are used during start up.....apps like trebuchet, any themes you might have installed (and are using) and any security apps...(anti virus, permissions managers... that sort of thing).....the reason being that the phone performs a media scan at every startup, and the SD card is always the last storage volume to be mounted and scanned, so if there are any apps stored there that are needed during startup, the phone won't be able to access them until the Mount and scan has been performed......(remember I mentioned about file paths in my previous reply.....same principal applies)
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Yes I know, but imho it's not a problem waiting those 10 seconds for the SD to be read... every time you reboot your phone (very rarely in my case, like 2-3 times a week).
My policy anyway is to keep everything on phone storage, if possible, and move things to SD when the space is finishing.
keithross39 said:
Edit...just had a thought about Apollo, there are *some* apps that will only work if installed in phone memory....Gemini app manager is one of them.....maybe Apollo is another?....just a guess...
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OK, fair enough, but I did not move Apollo to SD card, so even after the swap it should be in the phone memory and runs flawlessly... I don't understand!
keithross39 said:
Edit 2....just had a similar problem with Google play music....to begin with, I had it in phone memory, then I moved it to SD card and suddenly the "widget" for it stopped working and the playlists I'd created were all empty.....moved it back and no issues other than the fact I had to re create the playlists.....
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Yes, I think for using widgets you need to have apps in phone memory, if I remember correctly.
keithross39 said:
BTW...here's the link for Google play music...
http://db.tt/ZMQZBzjz
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Thanks!

[.::MDT::.] said:
OK... does Google Play Music fully replace Apollo, i.e. can u you use GPM even for your (offline) mp3s?
I thought it was only for listening to music while connected, or for buying new mp3 tracks...
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Yes.
No.
[.::MDT::.] said:
OK, fair enough, but I did not move Apollo to SD card, so even after the swap it should be in the phone memory and runs flawlessly... I don't understand!
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There's a folder called /mnt/sdcard/android/data
If you swap the SDcards, that folder becomes 'shifted' to /mnt/external-sd/android/data.
Apollo dies.
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Yes, I think for using widgets you need to have apps in phone memory, if I remember correctly.
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True. Unless you symlink your apps into SDcard.

pepoluan said:
There's a folder called /mnt/sdcard/android/data
If you swap the SDcards, that folder becomes 'shifted' to /mnt/external-sd/android/data.
Apollo dies.
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Thanks for the info.
So, are you basically saying, there is no way of making Apollo work if you swap your int/sdcard memory?

[.::MDT::.] said:
Thanks for the info.
So, are you basically saying, there is no way of making Apollo work if you swap your int/sdcard memory?
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Swap before you run Apollo for the first time.
If you've run Apollo before, try Clear Data before.

[.::MDT::.] said:
Thanks for the info.
So, are you basically saying, there is no way of making Apollo work if you swap your int/sdcard memory?
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Apollo working find after swap. Yeah lik Pep said, just wipe data..
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GL TO SD problem..

As you can see in the image that there are 2 files for GTA ..
Now even if I move both of them then also the game wont start (after mounting).. Also, after moving the data it doesn't show up in the list..
I was able to move the data and even the game worked fine earlier but now this problem occurs..
I tried restart, reinstalled the whole game, reinstalled gl to sd ..
Please help!

taka no me said:
As you can see in the image that there are 2 files for GTA ..
Now even if I move both of them then also the game wont start (after mounting).. Also, after moving the data it doesn't show up in the list..
I was able to move the data and even the game worked fine earlier but now this problem occurs..
I tried restart, reinstalled the whole game, reinstalled gl to sd ..
Please help!
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Install xposed, in the xoosed modules download obb on sd and then you can move any app data or obb easily on sdcard, now you don't to folder mount or gl to sd

Ferhat78 said:
Install xposed, in the xoosed modules download obb on sd and then you can move any app data or obb easily on sdcard, now you don't to folder mount or gl to sd
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But i read somewhere that it can lead to softbrick..
So should i go for it?
Btw i'm on mokee rom

taka no me said:
But i read somewhere that it can lead to softbrick..
So should i go for it?
Btw i'm on mokee rom
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You can have a softbreak if you are on miui rom but you are on mokee so they are not probleme, juste after installation of xposed, do a soft reboot for the 1st time, i have installed xposed and it's working perfectly

Ferhat78 said:
You can have a softbreak if you are on miui rom but you are on mokee so they are not probleme, juste after installation of xposed, do a soft reboot for the 1st time, i have installed xposed and it's working perfectly
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Okay installed xposed, soft reboot done, also installed Obb on SD..
So now i have to enable that in modules right?
Then what?

taka no me said:
As you can see in the image that there are 2 files for GTA ..
Now even if I move both of them then also the game wont start (after mounting).. Also, after moving the data it doesn't show up in the list..
I was able to move the data and even the game worked fine earlier but now this problem occurs..
I tried restart, reinstalled the whole game, reinstalled gl to sd ..
Please help!
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I think gta is of 2.1 or 2.5 gb or something how can u get it on 800 mb . I think thats not the real one or incomplete one thats why it cant load its not gl to sd fault

eswarvf said:
I think gta is of 2.1 or 2.5 gb or something how can u get it on 800 mb . I think thats not the real one or incomplete one thats why it cant load its not gl to sd fault
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That's GTA Chinatown war..
It was released about 10 days back..

taka no me said:
Okay installed xposed, soft reboot done, also installed Obb on SD..
So now i have to enable that in modules right?
Then what?
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Right, now you can move any apps data Or any app obb on your sd card with file explorer or es explorer, don't forget to delete gl to sd, and now you can play your games

Ferhat78 said:
Right, now you can move any apps data Or any app obb on your sd card with file explorer or es explorer, don't forget to delete gl to sd, and now you can play your games
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Thanks a lot!
It works great!
I have another question..
I want to update mokee rom to new nightly version which is of about 7 mb..
I transferred the zip to my phone via pc..
But do i need to delete Obb On Sd module before flashing?
Or should I flash it without doing anything?!

taka no me said:
Thanks a lot!
It works great!
I have another question..
I want to update mokee rom to new nightly version which is of about 7 mb..
I transferred the zip to my phone via pc..
But do i need to delete Obb On Sd module before flashing?
Or should I flash it without doing anything?!
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You can flash without doing anything, and your welcome

Apps not working

Helko friends!!
I am new to nokia x... Actually recently bought it and it was too slow as to three needs of today...
So i searched the xda and found stock tweaked...
I flashed it through recovery.... And guess what??
My sd card was set as default storage...
I tried installing need for speed most wanted...
Copied data to the data sub folder inside the android folder but the app says need to download additional data.....
I don't know what to do....
Can't play the game!!! May be because the apps are installed in internal memory!!!! But when i open the app info it shows sd data as 2 gb....
I need help....
Any help will be appreciated!!

Xial Xahab said:
Helko friends!!
I am new to nokia x... Actually recently bought it and it was too slow as to three needs of today...
So i searched the xda and found stock tweaked...
I flashed it through recovery.... And guess what??
My sd card was set as default storage...
I tried installing need for speed most wanted...
Copied data to the data sub folder inside the android folder but the app says need to download additional data.....
I don't know what to do....
Can't play the game!!! May be because the apps are installed in internal memory!!!! But when i open the app info it shows sd data as 2 gb....
I need help....
Any help will be appreciated!!
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asphalt is a device specific game..even if you copy data, it will download additional files...maybe it's same case with nfs

ani00 said:
asphalt is a device specific game..even if you copy data, it will download additional files...maybe it's same case with nfs
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But it's working on my lg g3by the same procedure