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Hey guys,
My HTC Desire is not rooted and when I mount the sd card using the usb cable and then I took out the cable. Some of the applications icons are mission, the icon is replaced by the default Android icon. And when I click on them, it says application not found.
How do I solve that problem?
By not putting them on the sd card
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That's not a very helpful response from you.
Anyone else?
Are you trying to install new apps pt placing the .apk files directly on the SD card?
If you want to install new apps from your computer use HTC sync to install the apps instead of mounting your SD card from your phone. HTC sync sends the apps to your system's app directory (can't remember the full path right now) where its installed properly.
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TheGhost1233 said:
By not putting them on the sd card
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He's right though.....
If you're connected to your PC in disk drive mode, then anything on your sd card is unavailable to the phone - including music and any apps you have installed or moved to the sd card. If there's apps you need to use whilst connected in disk drive mode then move them to your device storage - options to do that are in the Applications bit under the system icon.
As in, I mean when I mount the sd card to put in songs and files then after dismounting the sd card, which means I plug off the cable already and the applications do not open.
what, straight away or after a while?
sometimes it takes 30 seconds to a minute for the sd card to remount.
and if you have widgets on the sd card then quite often you need to restart to get them to display again.... widgets on the sd card are a big no-no because of this.
not that I used to worry too much, but I always now use 'safely remove hardware' in windows rather than just unplug - seems to resolve any problems with sd card corruption.
Here's what happened, my phone froze for a few seconds so I hit the power/standby button and it didn't do anything. Waited for a few more seconds then it went back to the home screen and then turned off a split second later. I turned the phone back on and it said "Blank SD card" in the notifications bar. This so damn frustrating I've restarted a few times, mounted, taken th card out and put it back in...I'm at a loss as of what to do. Halp pleez?!?! Thank you!
Try and put the sd card into something else other than the phone, if the data is still missing I would say either your phone had a virus or is perhaps faulty..
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pricey2009 said:
Try and put the sd card into something else other than the phone, if the data is still missing I would say either your phone had a virus or is perhaps faulty..
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At work so I don't have access to a computer. Should all the content show up if the SD card is cool? How do you get rid of phone viruses? Factory reset I assume...? I hope I don't have to go through that hassle.
Erikwithafro said:
At work so I don't have access to a computer. Should all the content show up if the SD card is cool? How do you get rid of phone viruses? Factory reset I assume...? I hope I don't have to go through that hassle.
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Hmm...The phone probably isn't faulty,it's probably the MicroSD card. I've had a debranded 4gig MicroSD that wiped itself while I was uploading songs to it...If it's wiped buy another one,pref. sandisk
Fokezy said:
Hmm...The phone probably isn't faulty,it's probably the MicroSD card. I've had a debranded 4gig MicroSD that wiped itself while I was uploading songs to it...If it's wiped buy another one,pref. sandisk
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I have a 32gb sandisk and it had all my emulator games with the save data. Bah I have no clue how this happened, its really pissed me off losing all that...
Tried plugging the phone in to a computer, and I can't turn on USB connection. Also tried plugging in the SD card with a USB adapter stick and it didn't come up either. Is this memory card boned?
Try a Linux distro, it'll have a better chance of recognising the card even if it's faulty, you might have to make a live cd if you don't already run a Linux distro.
Failing that you could try a program like Recuva for Windows
Just plugged in another SD card I have and it worked...seems like my 32g one is screwed, god dammit!!!!!! RAAAAGE!!!!! Taking this thing back...fuuuuuuuu
I was copying some mp3`s to my phone and the phone froze and i had to pull the battery, my 16gb micro sd, was totally dead, I rang Amazon sent me out a replacement even before i returned the faulty one, now that is good service.
John.
Are you able to mount the card? If not and the phone states it's damaged, you could try this:
forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=4112485&postcount=9
As it's stating it's blank, that may not help, but recovery might. It worked for my card when the phone decided to have a hissy fit and 'damaged'.
If you just need to recover the files and the microsd actually still works, but no files show, try the free file recovery in the link below, RecoveRX, just enter anything for you email address if you dont want spam.
But remember to write protect your microsd to sdcard adaptor so you dont overwrite any files, or they will be gone for good.
http://www.transcend.nl/Support/DLCenter/DLSoftware.asp?ID=59&Func1No=3&Func2No=205
I'm getting the notification "SD card blank or has unsupported file system. What in the world does that mean? This is getting more and more complicated...ugh. And I have no clue how to write the SD card stuff. Also, some files that are gray with the android logo and an SD card logo are showing up when I open my settings and go to applications then see all. I am so damn confused haha.
Erikwithafro said:
I'm getting the notification "SD card blank or has unsupported file system. What in the world does that mean? This is getting more and more complicated...ugh. And I have no clue how to write the SD card stuff. Also, some files that are gray with the android logo and an SD card logo are showing up when I open my settings and go to applications then see all. I am so damn confused haha.
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The android logo and sd card symbol showing instead of the app's icon means that the app was installed on your sd card, so those apps no longer exist (I think their data is stored in internal memory though, so probably try reinstalling them). Android has an annoying habit of auto-installing some apps to sd
Erikwithafro said:
I'm getting the notification "SD card blank or has unsupported file system. What in the world does that mean? This is getting more and more complicated...ugh. And I have no clue how to write the SD card stuff. Also, some files that are gray with the android logo and an SD card logo are showing up when I open my settings and go to applications then see all. I am so damn confused haha.
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Gray android sd card logo has been explained ; the unsupported file system probably means your sd cards file system messed up when your phone bugged out for a second or two ; you're going have to format it which means wiping all data of it completely ; format to fat 32 - can be done through my computer and right clicking on the memory card in windows ; if this fails download a sd card formatter... Before you do this though try recovering the files via your computer as suggested before.
Maybe you can recover it... What essentially happened was that your phone lost power while it was writing to the sd card. That happens with all devices, that's why every game warns not to turn off the console while saving
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Thank you guys for all the suggestions, it means a lot.
Tried recovering, but nothing is on the SD card to recover anymore...so lame. Also tried reformatting after that and it said "windows cannot complete the format". Damn, I'm taking this back and getting a new one. This is ridiculous and frustrating beyond belief...Anywayyyyyyyyy thanks a bunch for the help and tips folks, hopefully I can get a new SD card without any problems. It's been about 6 months since I bought this one, so we'll see........
It would be even more frustrating if they said they cannot give you a new SD card. Hah...
Happened to me with a "Sandisk" 16 GB class 6 bought on eBay. Never again!
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Hi!
I just installed the UK Jelly Bean ROM on my Galaxy Ace 2 and i haven't noticed any issues while using the phone. However, when I try to copy a big file to my sd card connecting the phone to the computer (using mass storage mode), the copy process just freezes. Connecting the SD Card to a normal SD adapter works, there are not any issues copying files that way, but it's imposible to copy files using the phone. Any way to fix this?
Thanks!
Manu270891 said:
Hi!
I just installed the UK Jelly Bean ROM on my Galaxy Ace 2 and i haven't noticed any issues while using the phone. However, when I try to copy a big file to my sd card connecting the phone to the computer (using mass storage mode), the copy process just freezes. Connecting the SD Card to a normal SD adapter works, there are not any issues copying files that way, but it's imposible to copy files using the phone. Any way to fix this?
Thanks!
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there's no problem in it...if you have done partitioning then you may have the problem.Try rebooting the phone
Manu270891 said:
Hi!
I just installed the UK Jelly Bean ROM on my Galaxy Ace 2 and i haven't noticed any issues while using the phone. However, when I try to copy a big file to my sd card connecting the phone to the computer (using mass storage mode), the copy process just freezes. Connecting the SD Card to a normal SD adapter works, there are not any issues copying files that way, but it's imposible to copy files using the phone. Any way to fix this?
Thanks!
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I thought I was the only one! I don't think there's a fix for it, not as if Samsung care. Be careful, because of how many times I've had to re-copy files and the constant freezing my SD card was destroyed!
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Yeah, that is really annoying, you are not the only one. I've noticed that on MB2 as well, I thought it was a problem in the leak version but it seems they did not bother fixing it. I don't think there is a fix apart from using MTP rather than mass storage for now. Or use apps like AirDroid (or similar) to copy files via WiFi/Data.
Jamielawther said:
Be careful, because of how many times I've had to re-copy files and the constant freezing my SD card was destroyed!
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It may not be completely destroyed - have you tried running chkdsk /f (or fsck on linux) on your SD card? That saved my card anyway
I usually just take the SD out now and put it into a card reader, I don't like MTP or the hassle of other apps. Besides, I never use the internal SD anyway.
It's definitely dead, I've tried everything from low level formats to what you mentioned. Completely dead, like the one I had before it.. My last phone and the Ace have went through a 32gb SanDisk, 16gb SanDisk and a temporary 4gb no name card in the space of just over a year.
I've had a SanDisk Mobile Ultra 8gb in for a while now and it appears to be working fine so I'm quite happy atm
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So, just realized that using a Micro SD with the Note 2 isn't as easy as just inserting one in. I'm reading that the phone has to be rooted and some other apps have to be downloaded in order for the SD card to be used with the phone. Is that the case? So, if the phone isn't rooted the SD card is useless?
Pictures and videos and any music you may download all go there keeping them off the internal memory makes the SD card very useful.
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Electroman365 said:
So, just realized that using a Micro SD with the Note 2 isn't as easy as just inserting one in. I'm reading that the phone has to be rooted and some other apps have to be downloaded in order for the SD card to be used with the phone. Is that the case? So, if the phone isn't rooted the SD card is useless?
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I believe you were given some very wrong information. You can use a micro SD card on a non rooted phone and no apps have to be downloaded to use one.
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That's weird and confusing. I found this info on youtube. The other thing, why isn't my phone recognizing the SD card then? Well, it shows on top but I can't store anything on it as if the phone doesn't recognize it's in.
Maybe its upside down..lol
But you'll need to reboot after inserting it. The phone should say preparing SDCard. Or you can mount it in settings.
Open your camera app and set the storage to Memory Card then you can use your file manager to move your other files to the sdcard..
Also, if you use your browser to download things, you can set the default to the sdcard as well.
Electroman365 said:
That's weird and confusing. I found this info on youtube. The other thing, why isn't my phone recognizing the SD card then? Well, it shows on top but I can't store anything on it as if the phone doesn't recognize it's in.
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Try reformatting it on your computer in fat32.
I have the Sprint LG G5 running ZV5 and I'm having a problem where I can't change the Storage settings for any apps (like Snapchat or GoPro app) to use the external SD card. For example, normally in Settings > Apps > GoPro > Storage, I should be able to click on Storage and move the app and it's storage to the external microSD card (app/data/cache). However with this it shows:
"Storage
631.35 MB used in Internal storage"
With no option to move or use the portable/external SD like it normally does on my other phones.
On my older Sprint LG G4 I can move apps this way to use the microSD card so the internal 32GB doesn't get full (both GoPro and Snapchat fill up gigabytes quickly!). Thanks for any help, maybe I'm missing something simple!
PS. Just wanted to clarify that the SD card does work for photos/movies using the default LG camera app, which is fine. So the microSD card is "working". But I want other video/cam apps like Snapchat, GoPro (with it's 4k videos), and my 3DR solo drone app to use the SD card as these apps generate much larger files! This worked normal on the LG G4 and now I'm stumped with the G5. Thanks for any help.
It is there, just reorganized/hidden. That part that tells you how many mb of internal storage used, is actually a menu button. It looks like an item, not a button, but it is actually clickable. Click it and a storage menu opens, under 'Storage Used' click change and select SD card
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PedroDaGr8 said:
It is there, just reorganized/hidden. That part that tells you how many mb of internal storage used, is actually a menu button. It looks like an item, not a button, but it is actually clickable. Click it and a storage menu opens, under 'Storage Used' click change and select SD card
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Hi Pedro, actually that is how I normally would get to it, but it's not working. The screen it takes me to when clicking the Storage used area doesn't have a Move to SD Card option or any reference to where the app is stored (see Screenshots attached). Any idea what's going on here? Are you able to move apps to SD Card? Thanks again!
danboarder said:
Hi Pedro, actually that is how I normally would get to it, but it's not working. The screen it takes me to when clicking the Storage used area doesn't have a Move to SD Card option or any reference to where the app is stored (see Screenshots attached). Any idea what's going on here? Are you able to move apps to SD Card? Thanks again!
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I just tried around three dozen apps and with one exception, the only ones that didn't allow me to move them were system apps and apps that were pre- installed with the device. The one exception is Spotify, I think that is because that app has this setting built into the app itself. Everything else, I could move.
Edit: In fact, just installed Snapchat to test. Sure enough that feature is there.
Which G5 software version are you on (ZV3, ZV4 or ZV5)? I'm on ZV5.
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Wow, thanks! I'm on ZV5. Maybe I need to reformat the microsd card in the phone, I'll try that and see if it works.
EDIT - well, it's still a no go, still the same issue. I took out the card, and on my mac and formatted it as a mac format so the phone would be forced to reformat it. Putting it back in the phone and turning it on, it did pop up with an option to format it. After formatting on the phone there still is no option to Move to SD in the Storage settings (like you have in your screenshot). I'm wondering if I have a dud or if my microSD card is incompatible somehow? Its a fastest I could find Samsung 128gb Pro+. When I get home I'll try a different SD card (I have a Sandisk Extreme Pro 64gb there) and see if that works any better. Thanks for any ideas.
Still a no go
Well the Sandisk Extreme Pro 64gb that worked fine in my other phone (G4) does not work the same in my Sprint LG G5 running the latest update (ZV5). So far I can only save photos/videos to the microSD card, no option to move apps shows up. I did find others that have been experiencing this issue (see this video: "LG G5 cannot save your apps to SD Card" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA9Ix5IVPMI ).
However, with the above reply by @PedroDaGr8 who also has the Sprint LG G5 on ZV5, I have hope that it is possible to move apps to the SD card, and I would like to get to the bottom of this issue of why I can't move any apps to SD! Any ideas of what I can try to further troubleshoot this?
@danboarder I just thought of something. I enabled adoptable storage on my SD card. I have a 128GB SD and I figured it would be good to give the system partition another 32gb. I wonder if this also enabled the move to storage option. I used the command line option that was discovered for the S7 which also works for our phone.
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I used this procedure here:
http://www.modaco.com/news/android/...e-adoptable-storage-on-your-s7-s7-edge-r1632/
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Hi @PedroDaGr8 thanks, I'll try this. Is root required? (is root even an option yet on this G5?)
PedroDaGr8 said:
@danboarder I just thought of something. I enabled adoptable storage on my SD card. I have a 128GB SD and I figured it would be good to give the system partition another 32gb. I wonder if this also enabled the move to storage option. I used the command line option that was discovered for the S7 which also works for our phone.
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I used this procedure here:
http://www.modaco.com/news/android/...e-adoptable-storage-on-your-s7-s7-edge-r1632/
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Hi @PedroDaGr8 thanks, I'll try this. Is root required? (is root even an option yet on this G5?)
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Root is not required nor is it am option yet.
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Root is not required nor is it am option yet.
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@PedroDaGr8 follow up - thanks, it worked! I used the method you linked to using ADB (no root required) and was able to activate adoptable storage, now my Sprint LG G5 can now move apps to SD.