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[Q] Vanishing Apps

I recently bought my wife an Infuse, and have noticed a strange effect. A few apps will vanish after a reboot. I can reinstall them, but they will again vanish leaving only a blank icon, and a search of the apps list on the phone shows they are gone. I did a forum search before this post and did find something on vanishing icons but not whole apps. I use a Dell Streak so have some Android experience but this is weird. Maybe I need to reformat the internal card? Any ideas would be helpful. Thanks.

I've had that happen a couple of times; however, after waiting the app generally reappears. If you're having an issue with the apps actually being uninstalled... Dunno.
Are you running a custom rom? Stock? Rooted? Auto-Delete-My-Apps program? =P

I faced this issue when I backed up on Inspire and restored on Infuse. But well, learnt the hard way. I installed them again from market, and this time they persisted.
I didn't even have a blank icon then -- they just vanished leaving no trace.

diablo009 said:
I faced this issue when I backed up on Inspire and restored on Infuse. But well, learnt the hard way. I installed them again from market, and this time they persisted.
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You are brave. I wouldn't attempt to restore a backup from a diff phone, regardless of OS. Was it intentional?

sometimes this happens because the apps are installed on the sd card which finishes loading after the phone checks for apps.
meaning the apps suddenly disappear since it can't find them because it can't find the sd card.
you have to install them onto the internal memory manually. The phone seems to default to installing them onto the sd card too

Rooted but otherwise stock. I guess I'm looking at a trip back to ATT.

I moved everything off the SD card, removed it, and haven't had this problem since.
Sent from my Infuse 4G

MikeyMike01 said:
I moved everything off the SD card, removed it, and haven't had this problem since.
Sent from my Infuse 4G
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I'm shocked that you only have as many thanks as you do when you look at your post count. Most posts I've seen of yours are helpful. Thanks for this info.

MikeyMike01 said:
I moved everything off the SD card, removed it, and haven't had this problem since.
Sent from my Infuse 4G
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Thanks for your response. So it sounds as though I should remove the external SD card before installing any apps to make sure they go on the phone. Then I can reinstall the SD. Is that what you are suggesting? Thanks

antuus said:
You are brave. I wouldn't attempt to restore a backup from a diff phone, regardless of OS. Was it intentional?
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Let me accept it, Yes. It was intentional. I did the same from Captivate to Inspire too. I love playing with my toys
And well, this time I had to reflash the ROM again

STraver said:
Thanks for your response. So it sounds as though I should remove the external SD card before installing any apps to make sure they go on the phone. Then I can reinstall the SD. Is that what you are suggesting? Thanks
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Basically.
Or transfer them afterwards.
Sent from my Infuse 4G

MikeyMike01 said:
Basically.
Or transfer them afterwards.
Sent from my Infuse 4G
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Thanks for your help. I'll give this method a try tonight.

Tried reinstalling the apps then moving them to phone and it seems to work. None of the apps vanished after several hours and several reboots. Hope this solution helps someone else with the same problem! The only thing I'm still wondering is why others haven't posted the same issue? Could I have something wrong with the phone still?

I think the included SD card just sucks.
It's only 2 GB anyway... Not missing much without it now that my music is in the cloud.
Sent from my Infuse 4G

This happened to me the other day when I plugged in my phone to transfer some files to the SD card. The apps went missing. Then when I unplugged the usb cable, the apps reappeared.

Thanks for this thread!
I thought I had a buggy phone because of what was happening. I was kind of wondering if it had to do with the muiltiple SD cards. I uninstalled everything from my 2GB and took it out. Reinstalling everything to the internal.
Thanks again!

trdsnow said:
This happened to me the other day when I plugged in my phone to transfer some files to the SD card. The apps went missing. Then when I unplugged the usb cable, the apps reappeared.
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Do u have any apps installed on ur SD card?

I am having this issue currently as well and it seems that the device is also not showing my external cards contents. I have a 16gb card with tons of files and music on it (no apps installed to it) and the device isn't showing more then half the content.
I am also missing apps I had installed like Titanium Backup that I used to install my apps. It even removed addon apps like Animation Package for Beautiful Widgets.

[Q] Samsung infuse frequently crashes. Any solution?

I could not find a similar thread so posting this. I have a samsung infuse and its on the stock ROM , baseband version is I997UCKH1. I have over 200 apps installed. A couple of months back I had a problem where in my infuse crashed and booted only after several attempts. After some googling, I figured the problem was because of the SD card, hence i formatted it and installed some apps on the phone memory. But my infuse has not worked properly after that. Everytime I update the apps through google play, the phone crashes. It also crashes while using some apps. I thought it may be because my internal memory was low. So I started moving some apps back to the SD card. The phone crashes even while transferring the apps. I am guessing the problem may still be with SD card, but I do not want to reformat it again and have to install all the apps again. Wanted to know if there is any solution to this problem. If the problem is actually the sd card still, will the apps work if I just transfer all data from my current SD card to a new SD card and use it.

I had similar problems on my first infuse. My solution was a factory reset (since you're on stock). And because you have many apps, definitely back all your data up so you can restore it after.
Also, if your warranty is still up, it might be of use to contact them. I've heard they want a reset before you ship your phone in. Not entirely sure though.
Hope that helps a lil
Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda app-developers app

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Honestly, you probably have too many apps installed. I know running over apx 180 apps on most roms will cause a lot of lag and frequent reboots. If you can, try backing up and then deleting all but your most essential apps and run your infuse like that for a few days and see if the situation is better. You then might want to try restoring either (best) an app at a time or (not as good) a few apps at a time until you find what is causing the problem. Good luck!

thank you for the replies dr_nacho and wd4oay. Sorry i did nit check the forum in sometime. i did clear some unwanted apps from my sd card and now waitin to see hw it goes. also my phone is out of warranty so cant do anything on tht side
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[Q] rooting, battery drain, and SD Card issues

So I have my new verizon SG3, and I wanted to root it to have access to the SD card. As I seem to have already filled up my storage.
So I started reading many threads, starting with this one for Jelly bean:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2046439
I had trouble with the custom recovery stage. ODIN kept failing when trying to flash it. So eventually I came with a prerooted stock flash at this link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=33948598
and that seems to have got me to root status.
Now I am not really sure what I need the custom recoveries for, or if this link includes the boot loader or unlocker, or whatever it is, and if I really need it.
I'm looked at various ROMS and haven't really seen anything I think I need.
All I really want to do is have access to my SD card which I thought I had with the root option. But any apps that I say "Move to SD card" they only move to the internal SD card and not external.
How Do I actually use my external card?
Also, I have noticed that every time I turn the screen on, I see the "preparing SD card" message on the notification bar. and sometimes a message saying it has been removed.
What's going on with that?
And finally, my battery has been draining rather quickly. "MEDIA" seems to be using about 70% of the battery.
This is including two instances of Downloads
com.sec.android.providers.downloads
DRM protected content storage
and media storage
I read somewhere that it may be unwise to delete the preinstalled content, so I tried freezing the DRM as another forum stated that was ok as well as media hub, some of the google apps, and the verizon ringtones.
But in that process, I somehow managed to loose my notifications and ringtone selections, and when I try to reinstate them, it shows unknown ringtone, and the only options when I click to change is my GO SMS and Solid Explorer. I did locate the ringtones in the systems folder, but clicking on them only gives me an error.
I'm not sure how to get the standard selection screen back.
I tried flashing the previous stock rom again, but that did not help any.
So the question is, how do I get things back to working again, while still being rooted? Then how do I get true access to my SD card? And what can I safely remove. If a ROM will accomplish all this, which one is best and easiest to install?
I already used up half my data usage for the month installing all my apps, so I'd prefer not to do anything that would make me have to go through all that again. I have ROM toolbar installed, but it doesnt seem to want to let me do a backup. (I may need a recovery if I can get that working this time)

update
Update:
I managed to get the CWM recovery flashed finally.
How do I know if my bootlocker is unlocked if I installed the prerooted jelly bean rom I linked to before?
I also managed to get the ringtone selection to work again. I had the Media service frozen still. But that was what I think was a big battery drainer, so we will see. Im not sure why it would be draining the battery so much, something is going on.
I'm still having issues with the SD card, and installing anymore apps even after I deleted a few of the big ones. I was going to install a battery calibration tool witch is less than 200 kbs and it still is showing insufficient storage. Let the drive doesnt seem full. Maybe this is a partition issue? If so, how do I verify that and change it?

Ez unlocker in the play store will unlock your bootloader if you are rooted.
Volume up the phone before clicking yes. ;]…
One thing I've always stuck to, if it's messed up, go back to the beginning.
Could be md5 of dl or build of rom/packing of .tar, flash, etc.
Flash pure motives rls 13, works great.
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jam.i.s0n said:
Ez unlocker in the play store will unlock your bootloader if you are rooted.
Volume up the phone before clicking yes. ;]…
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Nah bud, EZ Unlock v.1.2 will properly get you unlocked, it's available on rootzwiki.
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Ok, so I am unable to install any apps now no matter what I uninstall. I'm getting an insufficient storage error now, yet I seem to have plenty of space. This is getting really annoying.
I bought the SD card for apps to save their data to it, yet all apps save to the internal SD CARD, and not the external. I see a few apps i can download to possibly switch this option, but I really shouldnt have to go through all that. Whats the point of having a SD card in the first place if no app uses it.
Regardless, something is messed up. Battery is still draining like crazy which seems to be a common problem, but I have yet to find a fix. I would consider a factory reset, but I need to figure out how to back up first, as I can not afford to go and reinstall all my apps again. Will the back up preserve all my apps and their settings without having to reinstall from the play store? I have less than a GB of data left and I'm only about 6 days in my plan.
I am trying to drain my battery completely now, to see if that may "reset" its calibration or whatever. I'm not sure how that works, but It was suggested in places, so I'm trying.
What are my options for a full data wipe? and what is the best way to get my apps back without using a lot of data to do so? I tried doing a backup with my rom toolbox pro last night but I don't believe it worked. I dont think my phone is connecting to my external SD card. I can see the data on it if I browse, but no app actually saves anything onto it. Also, the phone wont let me delete, rename, paste, or do anything accept maybe open files from the card. I had it reformatted to FAT32 before I loaded anything onto it. So I'm not sure the issue. If Its protected, I'm not sure how to unlock it as micro cards dont have he lock switches like the big ones (which was a whole other issue for me when connecting to my computer)
Any advice? I know I'm not the only one with these issues.

So I am still having insufficient space errors when trying to download apps, though for some reason I did manage to get one random app installed that was in my "All apps" section from my previous phone.
I have tried wiping catch, and dalvik, and battery stats. That did nothing.
I have also tried reflashing the unlocked jelly bean update, with no results.
I think a full wipe may work but once again, since I can't make a back up since I can't install the apps to do so. I'm a bit reluctant to do this because I don't want to have to reinstall everything again and use more of my data connection. I do have a wifi connection, but I'm not sure I want to risk that not working properly.
Is there a way to manually backup my apps and data? what should I make copies of?

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I'm running [GT-P31XX][JB][4.2.2] CyanogenMod 10.1, just fyi
So all of a sudden I can't install any more apps... it keeps saying internal storage full.
I've even uninstalled all the "extra's" I've been running.. I went from like 150 or more apps installed down to (what I consider) hardly any and it just keeps saying it.
It's not talking about the internal SD card is it? I have almost a gig or room on that.
I'm at a loss here.
Any apps to clear my memory or something? I've used Allininetool, doesn't help, SDMaid, doesn't help... a couple other that I can't remember the names of, they didn't help either.
bleh!
Thanks i advance for any help.

donniegalaxy2 said:
I'm running [GT-P31XX][JB][4.2.2] CyanogenMod 10.1, just fyi
So all of a sudden I can't install any more apps... it keeps saying internal storage full.
I've even uninstalled all the "extra's" I've been running.. I went from like 150 or more apps installed down to (what I consider) hardly any and it just keeps saying it.
It's not talking about the internal SD card is it? I have almost a gig or room on that.
I'm at a loss here.
Any apps to clear my memory or something? I've used Allininetool, doesn't help, SDMaid, doesn't help... a couple other that I can't remember the names of, they didn't help either.
bleh!
Thanks i advance for any help.
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same issue is there in my aunts tab 2..on doing a factory reset..all is fine, but after a month only having a bunch apps (consuming max 1gb space), it shows that there is no space! (but doing a factory reset again solves the problem)
planning to take it to the service center!

peRFect! said:
same issue is there in my aunts tab 2..on doing a factory reset..all is fine, but after a month only having a bunch apps (consuming max 1gb space), it shows that there is no space! (but doing a factory reset again solves the problem)
planning to take it to the service center!
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I reflashed the rom and cleared cache and dalvik. seems to be ok now but thats curious as to why it happens.

Can't tell you why this happens and After trying to install some large games and apps i ran in to this. I didn't know that you could only install to the internal SD otherwise i would have got the 16GB version.
After a lot of searching i came across this in the general section, it (so far) has worked like a dream for me.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1961097
[EDIT] This only works on 4.1.x versions.

Actually there is no need to reflash ROMs or even factory reset. I have read about such problems and they are usually related to cache. I do not know the exact name or type of cache which cause the problem, but I recall 2 solutions:
1) Install either Quick System Info Pro or ES Task Manager. Use the 'Clear cache' function inside these apps then restart device.
2) If you do not like to install these apps, then you can boot into Recovery mode & select "Clear cache' from the recovery menu.
I have read these solutions on several forums, including here at XDA Developers. I am not certain if they will work as I myself have not encountered such problems. Maybe if anyone does & needs help, do feel free to try these solutions?

Random Reboots (OG shield tablet)

Hi
Can't remember whether or not this has been asked and answered, but here goes...
Shield tablet
5.1.1
Non-root
For the past 2 months or so I've been plagued with random reboots ( up to 2-3 times a day)
I've tried to
wipe cache 2 times
delete a whole bunch of apps
Change power settings
I have NOT YET tried to do a full wipe, due to the fact that I've got waaaay to many apps that don't sync data with google so it would be a major hassle to fix settings, copy data out and so on.... But am looking at backup solutions that include DATA ( helium)
I haven't been able to ascertain pattern.
Any suggestions on what I can do , or for that mater any way to find out why the hell it restarts.
Thanks in advance!
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That's strange. So just reboots, no shutdowns?
I can only assume, maybe a rogue app with reboot access.

Just reboots
And It seems totally random.... everywhere from 4 times a day to non... Load dosen't seem to matter . From netflix and web to plain and simple spotify. It's driving me up one wall and down the other... can't figure it out, and really don't want to factory reset
Any form for event viewer or something that I can take a look at?
Worst part is I use it to take work notes and on a few occasions it's died (rebooted) on me in the middle of notetaking... starting to really mess with things ... and yes I know, do a factory reset, and I will if I run out of options. But my fear is that after I reinstall all the apps I'm back to square one, and it all starts all over again.

Maybe hibernating all non stock apps with Greenify could solve the riddle; if it's indeed a software issue. Once the problem ceased, activate one app at a time till the reboot bug reoccurs..

Hi
Sry for the slow reply
Been testing the Greenify for about 2 days and the same is still happening. I've more or less put all non stuck apps into hibernating list.. and run it every so often, as well as activated the hibernate at screen off. And it still happens... wish there was an event log or something that could point me in the right direction.

That's too bad. What if it is malware? I'd say make a factory reset. Stay clear of non stock apps and watch and see. If it still reboots, it must be a hardware issue. You still have warranty, aye?

Nope warranty is out, I think. I mean 2 year but got it back in 2014 at some point.
A damn it, was hoping to id the damn offending app and fix it without having to factory reset....
No one knows of any event / log feature in android ( akin to event viewer in windows)...??

I just read on Amazon that someone had the same issue inconsistent reboots and the culprit was a micro SD card.
Do you have on inside your Shield?

I had this problem like 3 months ago. When tablet was charging the led indicator was blinking on green an orange. The problem was that the cable from battery was connected bad, I just had to connect it with solder. (My tablet is replaced )

Niii4 said:
I just read on Amazon that someone had the same issue inconsistent reboots and the culprit was a micro SD card.
Do you have on inside your Shield?
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Yeah, I do have an NTFS formated sd card installed...
Do you know of any easy way to check...or even better fix it?

Replace the SD card with another one or don't use one for now. You can still backup via USB or WiFi.
It may be a incompatible issue or a damaged SD card.

Backup via usb? As in copy paste the content of the SD card?
I have a lot of apps on the SD card, and not enough space on local storage to move back to tablet ....
Was hoping for some software based diagnostic or test to check the sdcard

Yes, you can copy n paste. Or save new data on a new SD card etc.
I presume there are Android SD card checker apps. But I think that won't help if it's an incompatible issue. Anyway, unmounting the current SD card won't erase its data. It's the sour apple you've to try.

Just somehow experienced the same.
Android 7.0 - no root no anything.
It's weird. Now it rebooted with 1% and then died. Before it just rebooted around 40%. Anyone found a solution?
Thanks