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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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Suddenly Desire can't read mp3, pictures and videos on the SD.

Like the title says, I suddenly found out after I couldn't see any songs or albums in Winamp. Then I tried the stock player, same thing.
They're still there, I can see them with ASTRO and when I connect it to my PC.
I can play the songs through ASTRO, but when the player starts up there's no info on the song at all.
I tried PowerAmp (which does a search on the SD card for mp3s) and that works with most of the albums, some are missing cover artwork.
Also my alarm clock can't detect mp3s, same as my running app cardiotrainer. It's the same when I try to put an mp3 as a ringtone.
Firstly the standard HTC Desire ringtones could not be read either, but I got them to show up again, during my attempt to fix this, which I will go through below.
When I try to open up the mp3s through a program (custom ringtone or stock mp3 player) it says "No musicfiles or SD card is available" (translated from my Danish Desire OS).
I can't see my pictures or videos through my camera or gallery apps, but when I take a new picture it shows up as the only one I got.
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What I've tried:
Rebooting lots of times, of course.
Changing the name of my mp3 folder.
Searching for a ".nomedia" file, or similar "." but finding nothing.
Using the app "SDrescan".
I connected the phone to my PC, right click and select properties. Then tools - error checking. Run with automatically fix file system errors checked.
It ran the error check and said there were some errors and it has been fixed. When I run it again it says no errors were detected.
Did a nandroid restore.
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Possible causes:
I am rooted, running the newest Leedroid.
Yesterday I did a complete nandroid backup and titanium backup, and copied the whole SD to my computer drive. I also wiped my battery stats.
That's all I did.

Do you tried to put some new songs to see if they appear on the music player? Maybe it is just a corrupted database for the older entries.

Maybe the stock android media scanner is broken.. Try a nandroid and a full wipe with a fresh install of your ROM, if it does not fix the problem, restore the nandroid backup..

How much % is free. This can be a problem if it's to little.
R
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I tried to put a brand new mp3 on there, but it can't see that one either. On the other hand, when I take a new picture with the camera, that single new picture is visible.
On the SD card 3,44 GB are free. Internal free is about 71 MB, but I've done the A2SD+.
I've tried to do a nandroid restore, with the nandroid backup I made Tuesday, when it was still working.
I guess there's nothing else to try than to do a complete wipe and install a fresh ROM.
I can't really figure out why it would do this all of a sudden.

If you have a mac use disk utility to repair your card - if not format you card - move all data back on after your done - see if that works

How do I format the card?
Is it the thing where I go into ROM Manager and under utillities, select Patition SD card?

I tried to format the SD card, through menu->settings->sd card->format
After it was formatted I put all the SD stuff back from my backup on my PC, and the mp3 could still not be seen at all.
Something strange with the pictures though. In my gallery app I could see all my picture folders except for the main one where new pictures are saved to.
So I try to connect it to my PC again, and switch one of the pictures from the main folder over to one of my self-made folders to see if it would show up there.
I disconnect from the PC and let the SD card mount again, and now it's back to where I can see no pictures at all. I try to put the picture back again, but still; no pictures at all.

Don't format through phone. .. plug it in ur PC and use gparted for example..
Btw u did backup ur SD and move everything back on yea?
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BigMrB said:
Don't format through phone. .. plug it in ur PC and use gparted for example..
Btw u did backup ur SD and move everything back on yea?
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I have a backup of my SD and moved it all back, no problems.
The only other way of formatting I know (besides doing it through the phone) is using this guide:
1. Go into the ROM Manager app.
2. Under utillities, select Patition SD card.
3. Select 512MB for both cache and EXT3
4. This will re-format your SD card.
Is that the same (as good as) using gparted as you suggested? I don't know about gparted.

danielvago said:
I have a backup of my SD and moved it all back, no problems.
The only other way of formatting I know (besides doing it through the phone) is using this guide:
1. Go into the ROM Manager app.
2. Under utillities, select Patition SD card.
3. Select 512MB for both cache and EXT3
4. This will re-format your SD card.
Is that the same (as good as) using gparted as you suggested? I don't know about gparted.
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I just think that using a PC / Mac gives you more control over the format etc... linux swap etc... No doubt rom mamanger should suffice but if you do have a corrupted SD card often PC's can handle it better
Tbh if you have repaired your card that usually fixes these sorts of problems for me ... have you got another SD card to try!?

BigMrB said:
I just think that using a PC / Mac gives you more control over the format etc... linux swap etc... No doubt rom mamanger should suffice but if you do have a corrupted SD card often PC's can handle it better
Tbh if you have repaired your card that usually fixes these sorts of problems for me ... have you got another SD card to try!?
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Why didn't I think to try this myself?!
I do have another SD card, and just tried it... and it works! I even tried putting in a new mp3 and it can see it.
Do you think I should just do a rom manager format, or should I jump into the PC way of a format?
I am a big noob btw, so if you think the PC way of formatting my SD card is better, could I ask you to write down a noob-friendly guide maybe?

I've just done the rom manager partition format, and tried to put an mp3 and a few pictures on my SD card, and it works!
Now I'm in the process of putting my SD backup back on my SD card, and I'll write back later if it all works after that.

If not ur card is screwed lol.. I'd be surprised if that didn't work!! Formatting usually cures SD card probs ... if u ever get read only error just repair ur card no need for format for that... just for future reference ... I'm a bit nooby too tbh, lots to learn lol
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I just finished copying all of the backup onto my SD card and... now it doesn't work again!!! Same problem!

Why don't you buy a new card? I got a class 6 16 Gb for £20 ... so there cheap enough for all the hassle?
Try formatting on a Mac or PC.. I use gparted from CD I burnt but there are plenty of others around. If not tbh I'm not sure where you go from there.. if you have a backup everything should be fine lol
Edit - so can I clarify do either of your cards work properly?
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Oh my god... I just found a ".nomedia" file in the root of my SD card... if that's it I will feel very stupid.
I have formatted 3 times now, transferring the stuff back again now.

Yup, that was the problem
I feel so stupid, but thanks for all your help.

LOL .... well at least you learnt something

[Q] sd card issue galaxy y

my 2gb sd card was working fine..
i dont know what happened but i copied some apk files on the sd card using pc (usb cable)
but when i unplugged... the files were missing..
i tried several times but still the files are not getting copied
also i of the files i copied was appearing but gave parse error
and it is not being removed.. ie when i delete it and connect to pc..
it appears again..
please help

Khizar Amin said:
my 2gb sd card was working fine..
i dont know what happened but i copied some apk files on the sd card using pc (usb cable)
but when i unplugged... the files were missing..
i tried several times but still the files are not getting copied
also i of the files i copied was appearing but gave parse error
and it is not being removed.. ie when i delete it and connect to pc..
it appears again..
please help
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reformat your sd card to fat32 using your phone or via pc

it seems that your sdcard is corrupt. try to reformat it

SD card removed unexpe.....!! EROR!!!
I hav SGY, and it gives an error "SD card remove"..
plz help me.

read this one..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1576012

That error can be solved if you just update your firmware.(2.3.6.)
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Please ask questions here. Thanks
-Techno

BLANK SDcard.. HELP!!!
plzz help me!!
my 4gb sd card cant recognize anymore in any devices even in pc..
i dont know why??!!
but when i inserted it in my sgy, a notification shows up:
blank sd card.. has an unsupported files something like that and it suggests to format it..
but after sgy formats my sd card.. nothing change
a notification shows up again and so on..
i dont know wat to do.. i cant use my sd card anymore
i hope someone there could help me
plzz, any solution could solve my promblem
thanks..

I.M.G said:
plzz help me!!
my 4gb sd card cant recognize anymore in any devices even in pc..
i dont know why??!!
but when i inserted it in my sgy, a notification shows up:
blank sd card.. has an unsupported files something like that and it suggests to format it..
but after sgy formats my sd card.. nothing change
a notification shows up again and so on..
i dont know wat to do.. i cant use my sd card anymore
i hope someone there could help me
plzz, any solution could solve my promblem
thanks..
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try to format it to fat32
don't use fast formatting

leodasal2 said:
try to format it to fat32
don't use fast formatting
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how could i format it to fat32
the computer cant recognize my sd card..
it say INSERT DISK..

I.M.G said:
how could i format it to fat32
the computer cant recognize my sd card..
it say INSERT DISK..
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right click then format
choose fat32

I.M.G said:
how could i format it to fat32
the computer cant recognize my sd card..
it say INSERT DISK..
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try it with minitool for windows

That happened to me
Khizar Amin said:
my 2gb sd card was working fine..
i dont know what happened but i copied some apk files on the sd card using pc (usb cable)
but when i unplugged... the files were missing..
i tried several times but still the files are not getting copied
also i of the files i copied was appearing but gave parse error
and it is not being removed.. ie when i delete it and connect to pc..
it appears again..
please help
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That problem happened to me for about 3 times (it happened to me last week) , My application got corrupted and they do not show in applications drawer. The solution to your problem is before you unplug your phone to computer make sure you unmounted the USB Storage (SD Card) and make sure you finish the media scanning first before unplugging it to your computer , even you already unmounted the USB Storage make sure to finish the media scanning to make sure that the media scanner has already loaded your applications that is stored on your SD Card , How to get rid of this ?? , Go to Settings>Applications>Manage applications but make sure to clear data them first so it won't leave trash in your SD Card after you uninstalled them
I Hope this won't happen to you anymore
Because once this problem happened again then you lose your data ( Game data's etc.)

I.M.G said:
how could i format it to fat32
the computer cant recognize my sd card..
it say INSERT DISK..
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If u have any nokia device or ur friend any one have nokia device ....try in it and format... Most of nokia device recognize curopt sd card...... Try it
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CM10 camera problems

Hi,
I recently changed from sense to cm10, I had some troubles because the boot wasn't working, but after replacing it everything was fine. Now that I have this sweet mod, it feels like using a completely different phone. A newer, better phone. But I still got some issues I'd like to ask you all about.
I can't use my camera anymore, whenever I open up my camera, this error pops up; ' Insert an SD card before using the camera ', my SD card is mounted correctly, and is recognised by my phone. I used to still be able to check my gallery from the SD, but now it's just plain black and empty. I've had some other applications telling me I needed my SD card for old saved conversations. I tried unmounting it, remounting it. Unmounting it, physically removing it, and remounting it again. But nothing works. I've heard formatting it to fat16 might do the trick but I tried both on OSX and my bootcamp windows plus on another computer, none recognises my phone or the SD card.. I have no idea why it isn't being recognised, as the physical USB connection is there because my phone is charging up. Next to having some connection refused problems with my browsers, I have no problems with the cm10 mod what so ever.
I hope someone might enlighten me.
Thank you.

Try another ROM!
Try another ROM and post the results.. Problem didn't occur with my phone..... Try myONEv RC7.0fx+ ROM... You'll love this super fast Sense 4.1!

I think you had a bad flash
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Thank you for replying, but I'm not looking for another sense ROM. I like the stock android.
I'd like to try the formatting of the SD, but can anyone tell me hwo to get acces to it with my computer as it's not being recognised.

Try another sd card, if you face d same problem then d card reader of ur phone is spoilt or also try inserting ur sd card on sum other device, if it doesn't work there then ur sd card is spoiled.

couldn't install on usb storage or sd card

I tried doing the unmount trick, the one with the terminal. Still nothing
The "funny" thing is that I can install free apps without problem, but when I download Swype and Poweramp unlocker (which I bought) i keep getting this error
solutions?

Did you try a Link2SD?

More details please buddy, want to help but need to know as much as you can tell. Rom, flash details, when it first happened, etc.

EmptyArea said:
More details please buddy, want to help but need to know as much as you can tell. Rom, flash details, when it first happened, etc.
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Hello, I have flashed the JellyKat ROM v5 on my NoteII and got a new sd card (ADATA 32GB) from ebay, the card was sealed so I hope I wasn't cheated, but randomly I see these things in my DCIM folder and I can't write to the card and the phone seems to not read the media on it music photos everything, and I can't install any apps on it or update existing app or even create a folder through the default touchwiz My Files.
I tried to format the card on the PC but can only do quick format because it loads and loads and then say windows can't format this, I also formated it via the phone it worked for a while and then stopped working again, now I don't put a card in the phone.

Doomstemplar said:
Hello, I have flashed the JellyKat ROM v5 on my NoteII and got a new sd card (ADATA 32GB) from ebay, the card was sealed so I hope I wasn't cheated, but randomly I see these things in my DCIM folder and I can't write to the card and the phone seems to not read the media on it music photos everything, and I can't install any apps on it or update existing app or even create a folder through the default touchwiz My Files.
I tried to format the card on the PC but can only do quick format because it loads and loads and then say windows can't format this, I also formated it via the phone it worked for a while and then stopped working again, now I don't put a card in the phone.
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Seems like sdcard's memory partitions corrupted.
Try different Sdcard & update info
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optimusPRIME said:
Seems like sdcard's memory partitions corrupted.
Try different Sdcard & update info
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I have been using my old card from my tablet all day now and it is working fine I created a new folder and copied some files from internal storage to it to test it and it worked.
Is there a way to fix the corrupted partitions on the other card?

Jerry69 said:
I tried doing the unmount trick, the one with the terminal. Still nothing
The "funny" thing is that I can install free apps without problem, but when I download Swype and Poweramp unlocker (which I bought) i keep getting this error
solutions?
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Yup, I also faced that kind of problem before, simply run KitKat SD fix, grant root and let the app patch the platform.xml. Reboot and try again. It worked for me. :good: