Hi
While I was updating so many apps at the same time on the market the last two apps stuck at "installing" i tried stopping them but there was no option to do so.. tried to install another app but the install button only turned grey. So I waited till the two app that were stuck disappeared.
When I looked for those two apps they were not in my device and the "install" button shows on their market page (instead of "uninstall" like other installed apps) as they are not actually installed!
The strange thing is that I noticed few apps missing (like angry birds) even though they were not with the apps I recently updated.
Another strange thing is that I cannot uninstall any app it gets stuck at the uninstalling screen (uninstalling from Settings>>Applications)
Tried rebooting, taking the battery off, taking the SD card off, clearing the cache from the recovery menu... but none of those worked!
Any help please?
EDIT: You might want to know that my phone is rooted. Do you guys thing the problem is related to the SD card?
The disk drive does not show in my computer when I connect the usb cable! (I choose Disk Drive not Charge Only on my phone)
I'm about to wipe the memory.. Does any of you have an idea how to solve this? I really don't want to delete everything!
I had to reset to factory settings when I had the same problem.
Good afternoon, dear xda-developers forum members.
I really hope to find some help here.
In last two months I had the following issues:
1. This one happened two times already: after using my phone as a flash in windows 7 and "safely removal" of it, all my applications which were installed on SD card were saying that "Application is no longer installed" when I tried to run it, although other documents and files were readable from ASTRO File Manager, i.e. SD card was mounted. In Settings->Applications all these applications had black icons with SD card image on it and rather with package name than regular application name(for example com.navitel instead of regular Navitel, etc.). I've restored all these applications from Titanium Backup, but I'm afraid that there is something more disappeared also which I don't know about.
2. My "Android" folder on sd card became a file with weird contents(this folder was used for NFS Shift data only). I couldn't restore it. Again: if this folder corrupted, then there is definitely something else also corrupted.
After I saw these things for the first time, I used Windows checkdisk with auto-fix errors. It found a lot of files and put it into "FOUND.000" directory. I recognized in these files few apk-files of installed applications from SD and also few images from my SD. Then I restored applications to SD card and for some time it seemed ok. But one time it happened again.
My assumption is that Android fails to re-mount SD card after I disconnect it from PC.
I don't know what to do... is it Android bug or is it Desire bug or what? I swear that I ALWAYS make "safe USB removal" in Windows before disconnect the USB-cable and I ALWAYS wait for the message "It's now safe to disconnect your device".
I'm very disappointed with all that Please, advise me something useful...
P.S.: If needed I can give you any debug information you want, I'm a programmer, so I've been around
You could try to format your SD card, just backup the contents first, see if that works. As for Android, it does a pretty good job of mounting straight after. What version of Android are you running?
GoogleJelly said:
You could try to format your SD card, just backup the contents first, see if that works. As for Android, it does a pretty good job of mounting straight after.
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I will, but strange that it happened, because I formatted the flash before using it for the first time...
I have two assumptions:
Maybe I shouldn't press power button to switch the screen off just after disconnecting USB cable from PC. I was doing that as a habit, because every time you disconnect your phone from PC, the screen turns on.
Maybe I shouldn't try to run application which is installed on SD just after disconnecting phone from PC. Maybe I should have waited for a minute. I've tried to do it once, because I wanted to see the result as soon as possible, so the phone said that "Application is no longer installed", I though that Android haven't mount SD yet and tried later. It worked. But next time when I used USB cable, all SD-card apps became uninstalled.
GoogleJelly said:
What version of Android are you running?
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I'm sorry, forgot to mention. I'm using HTC Desire with Android 2.2(2.10.405.2).
Fast Boot option may be the culprit
In case anyone checks this old thread...
CUT TO THE SOLUTION BELOW -- SEARCH FOR ////
Some (not all) of my apps moved to SD (all by Titanium Backup Pro) have begun to disappear and (sometimes) reappear without warning after I began to add and delete large Virtual Machines created in QEMU from my 16GB SanDisc class 10 microSD card on my HTC Droid Incredible running rooted stock Verizon Android Froyo 2.2.3. I know this thread is far from my phone's "home base", but from what I can tell this problem with disappearing apps located on an sdcard is NOT determined by hardware or even Android version.
I also happen to use LauncherPro by Federico Carnales instead of the built-in HTC Sense launcher. I noted elsewhere on XDA that a user had suggested that because at least some (maybe all) launchers start before the SD Card that this may be a problem, especially if changes are made to the sdcard that the launcher did not perform, or was not active during their performance by other apps such as Titanium Backup. That fits my situation, because I unmounted the SD, physically removed it to a PC, and added/deleted large VM files to save (lots) of time. No problems of this sort before I did this, so there must be some connection.
I noted that other users have tried reformatting SD, substituting different brands of SD, using newer/older SD etc. None of these reliably helped. So I skipped these options.
//// The (simple!) solution I tried that SEEMS to work (only time will tell!) is buried in the main Android Settings (accessed from the Menu button while in Home screen). Under "Applications" there is a setting "Fast Boot" that I checked long ago and forgot about (it seemed like a good thing to do at the time). The text warns "Turn off to use some Market apps" (that shows the age of my 2-yr old used phone and Android OS -- ohmygosh!-- because it refers to Market rather than Google Play Store!) Anyway, I unchecked the option and rebooted the phone.
Yes, it took a bit longer to boot (maybe a whole minute!), but after waiting about another minute ALL my home screen apps had normal icons and loaded properly. Titanium Backup Pro batch scenarios confirmed there were no apps in a forced uninstalled state (i.e. I had not done the deed, the system somehow had done it or at least rendered the apps "invisible" to Titanium, which decided they needed reinstallation).
The only odd behaviour was that auto brightness was turned off after I unchecked Fast Boot and rebooted. Going into Android Settings > Display and rechecking "auto brightness" took care of that. No other oddities or strange behaviours thus far (but it has only been about an hour).
I will report back here on this thread only (Samsung Fascinate > Fascinate Q&A > What just happend? apps on sdcard) if anything else requires reporting. Silence implies success!
link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1873670
(I am copying this post to other relevant threads, but will not post anything further elsewhere -- only there. This is a bit arbitrary (although this thread appears to be the most recent active one on this topic), but I hope this approach pleases the XDA sysops/admins) :angel:
Hi all,
I've searched the internet for hours trying to find a solution to this problem but found only similar problems with icons disappearing, not whole apps, icons and all.
I got a new 32GB micro SD card moved all apps that could be moved to it. After reboot all links to those apps disappeared from home screen and from app drawer. Through application manager I was able to see the apps but when trying to move them back to the phone notification appeared that the application is missing.
Some moved applications will run before reboot, some won't but all will disappear after being moved to SD card and phone rebooted.
I tried resetting the phone and starting from scratch but the results were the same.
Does anyone have a work around or an idea?
Thanks.
This happens because the apps that disappear are on MicroSD. When booting the phone the launcher starts before the SD card is scanned. so the launcher doesn't sees the apps and thinks they are missing.
So what you have to do is the following, force close the launcher. you can do the following:
settings>Applications>Manage applications>all>SE Home > and press "Force stop"
this will relaunch the SE home and all the apps will be back
Thanks for a quick reply Comodoor but unfortunately restarting SE Home doesn't fix the issue for me. The apps are all gone. If I go back to application manager and have a look at apps installed on SD I can see an entry like: com.appspot.swisscodemonkey.appbrain taking up total of 32kb (which is kinda too little) and an option to move it to phone but then a notification: Failed to move application. The application does not exist.
Did you changed your SD card without copying everything? Because moving apps to SD card creates a folder where the apps are in. If you delete this folder all the apps will be gone.
In Linux and Mac don't see this folder because it's hidden for them. the folder is called ".android_secure" you have to copy this file to
Thank you commodoor for your help, the mystery seems to be solved for now. I tried my old 8gb card and it seems to be working fine. Obviously the new 32gb card is faulty.
commodoor said:
This happens because the apps that disappear are on MicroSD. When booting the phone the launcher starts before the SD card is scanned. so the launcher doesn't sees the apps and thinks they are missing.
So what you have to do is the following, force close the launcher. you can do the following:
settings>Applications>Manage applications>all>SE Home > and press "Force stop"
this will relaunch the SE home and all the apps will be back
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Thanks a lot commodoor! this issue is annoying me. Never realized that the solution is so easy. Even the SE customer service personnel does not know how to solve this issue. Thanks again=)
ICS403 app disappear after a reboot
Hello all,
I want to reopen a discussion that I consider that is not well concluded or solved, and I don’t see any opinions in XDA, for a problem that I think many people already had in the pass, but because we have handy backups, we restore the things and no need to waste time discussing it.
For some time that I have been reading the problem of apps disappearing, after moving to sdcard followed by a reboot, and the fault always go to the user (forgot to copy something) or to the external sdcard, like the case discussed here in the first posts.
I see here a talk between commodoor, cech and leolion38, blaming a faulty 32gb sdcard, but I don’t understand why the blame, because when we press button <move to sdcard> in application manager, it moves to the USB storage app and not to the external sdcard.
Now going to actual facts, and respective problem:
- My phone details are Galaxy Note with ICS 403 rooted with CF5.6+CWM;
- Everything stable working correctly, any kind of problem;
- I have an external sdcard, but I didn’t moved anything to the external sdcard;
- I moved applications to the sdcard (internal USB) using button <move to SD card> in application manager;
- After I can see that in line “USB storage app” the amount increased from 0 Bytes to whatever Bytes;
Now the conclusion and respective problem:
When I make a phone reboot, the app disappeared and a grey shortcut appears in the place of the previous app shortcut, and in application manager tab “All”, I can see several grey icons beginning with com.whatever, corresponding to the app that disappeared.
This already happened to me in GB236, but I also blamed a cheap copy 32GB sdcard that I had bought in the market. I was an android beginner user and I thought that when we move the app to the sdcard, we were moving to the external and not to the USB (the sdcard was good and I putted it in the garbage, problem of not trusting in hardware copies) .
Can someone help me discover what causes this problem and how to solve it?
Thank you in advance.
Problem also happening moving applications using Titan Backup.
After restored the applications that were missing and before a reboot, I had to move applications again to the internal phone memory.
My opinion is that only the app installation is able to put/install itself in the sdcard, we cannot move it using application manager or other software, even if it says that app can be moved.
The final shot I gave was following the above idea of commodoor, making an FC to SE Home, because I didn’t find it, I made an FC to System UI, I think it’s the similar in ICS. Not worked and the grey icons continued there, I had to delete them.
One detail, if I press the grey icons android says that application is not installed in phone.
I think it’s needed some kind of app refresh in the system, because when I delete the grey icons, android asks me if I want to uninstall the application, of course I do that because if not, when I restore application that garbage continues there.
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I continued my study around my problem, and I read some more XDA threads and I could not find a reason for the disappearance of the applications.
I suggest to the administrators of XDA if possible, maybe an impossible huge work, to compile in only one place all the threads about this subject, with the most important opinions, and in a common place because it happens in several different equipment.
Well the problem now! After erasing USB and the problem continuing, I decided for the Wipe/Factory reset making fingers, because I have the emmc problematic chip.
My congratulations to chainfire and CF56 because everything erased, phone restarted like new with normal questions, and after even the SuperUser was maintained with root. No doubt chainfire knows about development.
The problem was solved with wipe, only one time I had to shutdown phone for the app grey icon appears correctly.
But now other doubts came to me:
- Moving apps to sdcard they are going to the internal or to the external sdcard?
- What are the uses of all the partitions we have?
- We have in Galaxy Note 16GB internal memory, how it’s splited?
- Why USB storage not mixed with the 2GB phone memory?
- What is that Misc inside USB storage, and why all remaining space its affected to?
If someone knows how to answer this doubts, please explain them to me.
Thanks.
:good:
Finally solution found:
Uninstall Stericson permissions pro and Stericson Busybox, crap applications that damage everything, create mysterious crashes, loops, grey icons and applications stop working after phone reboot.
CH SGnote using XDA premium
Fast Boot option may be the culprit
deltinha said:
Finally solution found:
Uninstall Stericson permissions pro and Stericson Busybox, crap applications that damage everything, create mysterious crashes, loops, grey icons and applications stop working after phone reboot.
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I use Busybox by Stericson without any trouble. What follows may help.
CUT TO THE SOLUTION BELOW -- SEARCH FOR ////
Some (not all) of my apps moved to SD (all by Titanium Backup Pro) have begun to disappear and (sometimes) reappear without warning after I began to add and delete large Virtual Machines created in QEMU from my 16GB SanDisc class 10 microSD card on my HTC Droid Incredible running rooted stock Verizon Android Froyo 2.2.3. I know this thread is far from my phone's "home base", but from what I can tell this problem with disappearing apps located on an sdcard is NOT determined by hardware or even Android version.
I also happen to use LauncherPro by Federico Carnales instead of the built-in HTC Sense launcher. I noted elsewhere on XDA that a user had suggested that because at least some (maybe all) launchers start before the SD Card that this may be a problem, especially if changes are made to the sdcard that the launcher did not perform, or was not active during their performance by other apps such as Titanium Backup. That fits my situation, because I unmounted the SD, physically removed it to a PC, and added/deleted large VM files to save (lots) of time. No problems of this sort before I did this, so there must be some connection.
I noted that other users have tried reformatting SD, substituting different brands of SD, using newer/older SD etc. None of these reliably helped. So I skipped these options.
//// The (simple!) solution I tried that SEEMS to work (only time will tell!) is buried in the main Android Settings (accessed from the Menu button while in Home screen). Under "Applications" there is a setting "Fast Boot" that I checked long ago and forgot about (it seemed like a good thing to do at the time). The text warns "Turn off to use some Market apps" (that shows the age of my 2-yr old used phone and Android OS -- ohmygosh!-- because it refers to Market rather than Google Play Store!) Anyway, I unchecked the option and rebooted the phone.
Yes, it took a bit longer to boot (maybe a whole minute!), but after waiting about another minute ALL my home screen apps had normal icons and loaded properly. Titanium Backup Pro batch scenarios confirmed there were no apps in a forced uninstalled state (i.e. I had not done the deed, the system somehow had done it or at least rendered the apps "invisible" to Titanium, which decided they needed reinstallation).
The only odd behaviour was that auto brightness was turned off after I unchecked Fast Boot and rebooted. Going into Android Settings > Display and rechecking "auto brightness" took care of that. No other oddities or strange behaviours thus far (but it has only been about an hour).
I will report back here on this thread only (Samsung Fascinate > Fascinate Q&A > What just happend? apps on sdcard) if anything else requires reporting. Silence implies success!
link: https://www.google.com/url?q=http://...f-ou1mn6iyeGVg
(I am copying this post to other relevant threads, but will not post anything further elsewhere -- only there. This is a bit arbitrary (although this thread appears to be the most recent active one on this topic), but I hope this approach pleases the XDA sysops/admins) :angel:
...for what it's worth...
...for what it's worth, in my case...the SD card couldn't hack it...DEAD after 3-4 months. symptoms...phone kept on restarting, apps disappeared/wouldn't run(-that is ALL apps installed to the SD card). card could not be read in the P.C. only through usb card reader. btw...card was meant to be "for android phones", read and grey in colour, 32Gb...oh, similar thing happened to another 32gb card in my HD2, card lost Android OS, which it was booting from. ended up with just WM7.xxx . if i remember somewhere from back in the days, not a good idea to constantly use SD cards for os etc. i have been warned by myself!!:laugh:
android apps moved to sd card disappear
settings>Applications>Manage applications>all>SE Home > and press "Force stop"
The above step Worked
Apps disapeear
commodoor said:
This happens because the apps that disappear are on MicroSD. When booting the phone the launcher starts before the SD card is scanned. so the launcher doesn't sees the apps and thinks they are missing.
So what you have to do is the following, force close the launcher. you can do the following:
settings>Applications>Manage applications>all>SE Home > and press "Force stop"
this will relaunch the SE home and all the apps will be back
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Thanks bro...its working for me.
Scuse me... i have the same problem with a rom in my samsung galaxy s2. i try to force stop "Touchwiz home" (i have touchwiz launcher) but the icons on my app drawer don't reappear.
I try to search fast boot but i don't find it...
how can i do? please help me
Not sure what happened.... camera used to work fine. Now today I keep getting FCs every time I try to launch it:
"The Application Camera (process com.sec.android.app.camera) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again"
I've tried rebooting the phone, did an error scan on both the internal and external sd cards (they were fine), but still it will not launch. I also tried booting the phone without the micro-sd card inserted with the same result.
Any ideas? I really don't want to have to do a hard reset...
Wayno-san said:
Not sure what happened.... camera used to work fine. Now today I keep getting FCs every time I try to launch it:
"The Application Camera (process com.sec.android.app.camera) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again"
I've tried rebooting the phone, did an error scan on both the internal and external sd cards (they were fine), but still it will not launch. I also tried booting the phone without the micro-sd card inserted with the same result.
Any ideas? I really don't want to have to do a hard reset...
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Are you rooted, what ROM if so, also Kernel?
If you are rooted try running fix permissions in recovery.
I am rooted but everything is stock. Camera was working fine with root for a long time. I didn't flash a recovery, just the stock ROM with root.
Not even sure how to clear the dalvik on this phone yet....
This appears the be the only application that is presently crashing although I do notice that there are a couple duplicate app icons (normal +grayed out with "sd" next to it). Even those applications work fine though.
Even some of the other applications that utilize the camera are working (HDR Camera+, Docscanner)
Hmmm, my gallery app is also not showing my photos... I checked the directory and they are there. I think that this is related..
Yes, that would be related. Camera needs access to the SD Card, its not mounting or could possibly be out of space? If thats not the case from the home screen try this...
Menu > Settings > Applications > Manage Applications > Select ALL (at the top) > Scroll to Media Storage and select it > Clear Data.
Then reboot the device and give it a few minutes to rebuild the Media Storage and see if that "did the trick". Nothing will be lost from your storage by clearing data in the media Storage settings.
That did the trick! Thank you so much.
I was thinking along the same lines and cleared the data for the camera and the gallery but I didn't think of the multimedia scanner.
Awesome! I 've had that happen to me a few times, don't know what causes it either but clearing that data fixed it. The other night while at Guns-N-Roses concert my wife was videoing it on her Evo 4g and she maxed the SD Card out. Well the camera and gallery kept FC until we transferred and deleted the videos giving space back to the card. That's why I threw that in there. Anyway, glad it worked!
Sent from my SPH-D710 using xda premium
THANKS SO MUCH! i actually love you! i went to an eminem concert the other day, and could only take crappy photos with something off the market but this solved my problem!
the application camera (process com. android.camera) has stopped unexpectedly. please try again.
Sorry for my english, I got this warning after completing the recording, and does it in the gallery. I own htc desire hd, and installed him sense 3.5 (7.0.4.)
I realized when I open explorer in the DCIM folder it contains clips that I recorded. I noticed that the video clips that were previously recorded in the sense 3.0 they were in 3gp format and now in mp4.
Pleas help!
Probably your from or kernel.
cordell12 said:
Yes, that would be related. Camera needs access to the SD Card, its not mounting or could possibly be out of space? If thats not the case from the home screen try this...
Menu > Settings > Applications > Manage Applications > Select ALL (at the top) > Scroll to Media Storage and select it > Clear Data.
Then reboot the device and give it a few minutes to rebuild the Media Storage and see if that "did the trick". Nothing will be lost from your storage by clearing data in the media Storage settings.
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Hi,
I did the same think but when i reboot the phone, it's working fine for single snap. After again showing "The Application Camera (process com.sec.android.app.camera) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again"..
Please help me...
Thanks...
cordell12 said:
Yes, that would be related. Camera needs access to the SD Card, its not mounting or could possibly be out of space? If thats not the case from the home screen try this...
Menu > Settings > Applications > Manage Applications > Select ALL (at the top) > Scroll to Media Storage and select it > Clear Data.
Then reboot the device and give it a few minutes to rebuild the Media Storage and see if that "did the trick". Nothing will be lost from your storage by clearing data in the media Storage settings.
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I did the same thing. The camra is only working after single restart and then again showing the "process com.sec.android.app.camera has stopped unexpectedly" error....
Can you help me...
Thanks..
I followed the instructions to install supernova up to the point where you have to go in recovery and run Data2sdInstaller.zip. Pressing volume down + power button all of a sudden doesn’t work and just starts the phone normally. What happened and what do I do?
Also when I go to the SD & Phone Settings it says available internal storage only 34.7MB even though the total space of the sd card has been decreased by 1gb (I made the ext4 partition 1gb). Is this related to the previous problem?
Finally I am noticing that even though I click power off, the phone stars instantly once I press the power button again as if it was hibernating but NOT actually being turned off. Is this normal? Is there a way to change this so the phone actually shuts down?
Thanks
Uncheck fastboot. It's found under one of the options on settings. Just look for it. That will probably solve both issues you are having with having trouble accessing recovery and not shutting down completely.
About the space issue or something you are talking about, you have to flash that data2installer zip to make use of the partition you created.
Thank you very much. It finally worked 1000MB for apps now but a little slow. I guess I need a faster sd card than the one that came with the phone.
Another question. I used titanium to backup my apps, but now the market crashes everytime I need to run it.
Code:
The application Market (process com.android.vending) has stopped unexpectedly
I googled it and found out people are saying you should change the language to English (US) which I have but it still crashes. What do I do?
I usually use Titanium to only restore my downloaded apps and never system apps. If I really have to restore system app, I usually restore just the data part. I never had issues with the Market that came with the rom although I believe it's still the old one?