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Ok. I need help and I've looked everywhere and tried everything I know. This is the 3rd Atrix that this has happened to me and I can't imagine it is something I did to 3 separate Atrixes.
My question is what happens to programs that are moved to the SD Card - which for the Atrix is an internal storage area known as the Media Area?
What happens is that I install lots of apps that I find useful and fun. I move the larger ones over to the SD Card(Media Area). Which was all good for a couple of days. Then today I tried to update a couple of apps and one of them hung. Meaning it downloaded and said it was installing but just kept trying to install. From that point on, anything I had moved to the SD Card(Media Area) will not load. When I start a program that tells me the number of apps installed and where, it does not list any on the SD Card. When I go to the app manager in settings menu, ALL the apps that are installed on the main memory keep saying "Computing..." where it should say what size the file is. And of course any that I moved to the SD Card are not listed.
On top of this, I can't install anything from the market. I can press the button to install, but it doesn't do anything. Just sits there. When I try to push an app from the market on the web it downloads, but doesn't install.
I can navigate on the SD Card(Media Area) and move, copy, delete files all I want there so it isn't a problem with the SD Card(Media Area)
Now on my other Atrix phones, I reflashed the original sbf and that didn't help. I also tried the wipe data to restore factory settings. I have it rooted now, so if there is something I can do to it while rooted, that would be nice. I have Root Explorer and can navigate around. Where on the SD Card would the apps have been moved? I can't seem to find them.
Now someone smarter than me must know what is going on to install apps and move them. Is there a database that lists the apps in Android that has gotten corrupt? Can I rebuild it? Is it something else?
Is this an Android problem or an Atrix problem?
I'd appreciate any help before I take the Atrix back. I like the phone and would like to keep it, but this is ridiculous.
EDIT : I should also mention that I installed the Amazon App Store and tried to install something from there. It downloads and asks to install. Then it says that it is installing, but the install progress bar just stays there and nothing happens after that.
EDIT 2 : I also have tried to unmount the Internal SD Card (Media Area) and it hangs the phone. Even though I can access anything in that Media Area. Makes me think a file has gotten corrupted in the Android system, but I wouldn't know which one.
So does anybody has had this error on their phone? Sometimes when I want to take a pic it shows a light blue/cyan screen error, and the picture doesn't get taken. The error says:
Failed to save photo to SD card (error code=2)
The following are fixes for this error:
- make sure your SD card is inserted
- remove the SD card and re-insert, then launch Camera ZOOM FX again
- reboot and try again
If this problem continues, please mail [email protected]
Somebody knows what is going on?
Thanks.
I'm using the same app, but haven't had any problems since switching to a Class 4 SD card (due to the known issue w/Class 10 cards on this device). Can't seem to use video with it though, every time I try to switch to video it force closes.
armyengineer51 said:
I'm using the same app, but haven't had any problems since switching to a Class 4 SD card (due to the known issue w/Class 10 cards on this device). Can't seem to use video with it though, every time I try to switch to video it force closes.
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The weird thing is that if I do a factory reset, then it works fine, but as soon as I begin to install some apps and play around, then it happens again.
Somebody else has another input?
I was having the same issue I also did a Factory Reset then pulled the battery over night and have not had the issue since not sure if it was just a glitch or what.
I just downloaded Camera Zoom FX and got the same thin I took out my sd card and tried the app again, same response. I bought a 16mb class 6 sd card at the suggestion from here on what would work. The camera is a disappointment with the stock app, hope I can get FX working.
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So far no problems with Camera Zoom FX.
OS versions 2.3.5 or 2.3.6.
SDcard is a Sandisk 16G class 6
Any news nahuelarg86 on your situation
I had the same problem with this app. The standard camera app would appear to save the pictures but when you would go into MyGallery, no picture would be there although you wouldn't get an error message like CameraFX. I found this information somewhere else, but if I went and looked at the dcim directory on the sdcard there would be corrupt files in the Camera subdirectory. Deleting these files would then allow pictures to be saved. I was using a class 10 sd card, but switching to class 4 didn't fix the issue. I did the OTA update to 2.3.6 hoping this would correct the issue. This made things worse regarding the camera apps. Every picture file for news pics appeared to be corrupt. I then did a factory reset to 2.3.6 and I haven't had a problem with the camera apps since.
Well, I did a factory reset and I didn't have the problem again. But, I began to download some apps and play around and then I got it again... I deleted all the apps that I installed last time in hope that it would help, and it did. For me it's a pain in the a$$ to do factory resets because of the setting up, re installing of thing, etc.
I still don't know where the problem might be. Seems like it's related to space or the resources an app uses, but I know of the problems of SD cards and everything is stored in the phone's memory. So I have no idea...
I know this thread is old, but it was the first hit on google, so maybe someone else will need the solution: Most of the times the save feature on external sd card is corrupted because of rom change. Backup your data of your external sd on your PC. Then go in android under settings < "space" (Speicher auf deutsch) and format the external sd card. Afterwards you should be able again to save your pictures on your external sd card, because the card is now perfectly formatted to your rom....
Ive had a weird problem the last day or so, when I reboot my device, apps mysteriously go missing. Each time I reboot, like 5 or 6 different apps disappear. This only happens to SD card apps though. This started happening a few days ago but yesterday it got alot worse AFTER I had reformatted my card. Could there be something wrong with my SD card? The apps still appear to be installed in "manage applications" but they look like "com.aac.cachemate.demo" as the name of the app, instead of "Cachemate" and etc...?
did you use link2sd ?
com....whatever in manage applications usually means, that the apk file is missing, while the application data is present
the mess as described, can be seen if your ext partition is mounted too late ...
nadlabak has some fix about it
https://github.com/nadlabak/android...mmit/e5b9b3195687e04af7a7929f8637e77e1efae9a1
but i can't remember where is part of setting the property, after checking and mounting the whole card ...
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did you use link2sd ?
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I did not, I used the standard apps2sd built into CM6. Every time I reboot, different apps are missing and then some come back that were missing the time before...They all still appear in manage applications though so they might be intact but I'm not sure if all are, they show up with the default generic android icon, and weird names. "mobi.mgeek.tunnybrowser." (Dolphin Browser) and "net.flixter.android" (Flixter) etc...The storage sizes of the missing apps appear to be different then they are supposed to be. (Maybe)
(This might have something to do with it) Yesterday for hours (before I reformatted) the phone was stuck at "Preparing SD card, checking for errors" so I went online and followed the suggestion an xda member who suggested in another thread to delete the "fsck_msdos" file from "system /bin" which disables the SD card check to see if the SD card has been properly mounted and checked. It seemed to fix my other SD card issue for the rest of the day. could this be related?
Just share my experience , when I was in 2.1 , I used link2sd , and if I boot without sdcard , all my linked apps will happen like that , I think maybe this is the same case as apps2sd . So , what I do is just uninstalled all those apps , and reinstalled some of it ( it's quite annoying to reinstall over 100 apps ) . As you said , all those apps remained as it's package name , so I'm kinda sure our case is almost the same . But when I was in 2.2 , once I booted with sdcard inserted , but after boot completed , all my user apps dissapear , yes , ALL . But anyway , after scan for sdcard problem in OR , all my apps recovered , with no force close , just like nothing happen during the last boot . So also , try to scan for sdcard problem in OR .
It says my card is mounted (about half of my sd card apps show up) but when I bring up the gallery, it says "SD card unmounted or not present." When I try to unmount it in settings, it never unmounts, I just click "unmount" and nothing happens....
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It says my card is mounted (about half of my sd card apps show up) but when I bring up the gallery, it says "SD card unmounted or not present." When I try to unmount it in settings, it never unmounts, I just click "unmount" and nothing happens....
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It sounds like you have corruption in your sdcard filesystem. I would take your sdcard out, put it directly into a Windows PC and run chkdsk (alternately fsck.msdos on a linux PC).
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It sounds like you have corruption in your sdcard filesystem. I would take your sdcard out, put it directly into a Windows PC and run chkdsk (alternately fsck.msdos on a linux PC).
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Ok I will run a chkdsk when I get some time to sit down at the computer later. I think it probably is corruption.
Mioze7Ae said:
It sounds like you have corruption in your sdcard filesystem. I would take your sdcard out, put it directly into a Windows PC and run chkdsk (alternately fsck.msdos on a linux PC).
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SD card fixed with error checking in windows!! Thanks!
Fast Boot option may be the culprit
The advice about checking SD card on Windows or Linux sounds good and I will keep it in mind, but I did not need to fix this sort of problem. I am not familiar with CyanogenMod (CM) in any version, but if it has a fast boot option, read on...
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:
Sorry for opening up old thread. My HDC Note3 clone phone having the same/similar issue. The phone have 8G ROM which partition into 2 different name, internal phone (1G) and SD card (5G). Whatever Apps that I install on the SD card will disappear from home menu every-time I re-boot using the power button. However, it it still there when the phone do their own reboot due to something
I try unchecked "Fast Boot" but disappearing act still happen. Any suggestion to resolve the issue?
Please delete or close this, I was confused and being a doofus and just noticed the proper thread two links down. Sorry, Noob Alert.
I wanted to post this to the CM 9 for Samasung Galaxy Exhibit, but I'm new and not a developer (thus can't really think of ten posts) so I can't.
Basically I rooted my phone with the most recent port that was in Jocala's thread and after hours of studying (I literally have no background in this) I did it with no issues.
My phone is running fine. All of the apps open, close, and download to what I presume is the internal SD. But as soon as I checked to see the camera, apparently my 4GB micro SD isn't being read. But in settings, it shows that it is there, "mounted" and it shows how much was used, and how much wasn't.
I'm trying not to be lengthy and boring but basically, I can open up the camera, but it will not allow me to take a picture and says "Insert SD card before taking a picture." I can access the gallery, and in the background my pictures show up, but after a second it says "No filles on the device." And finally, I can access my music in Play Music all the way up to selecting the tracks. Then when I play, it says the file can't be accessed.
So far, I've formatted the card in CWM recovery mode. no luck. I have selected "use internal storage" and that did absolutely nothing. Even used another SD. I can however access and install apps on both the internal and external.
I was continuously getting a message to download update but when I tried it told me not enough storage, so I got an SD card but try as I might I cannot see how to transfer apps onto it to free up space. I have searched Google for answers and some talk of a 3 dot drop-down but this doesn't exist in the SD card area. I only have about a dozen photos on the pad so I don't know what's used up all the space also battery life is very poor. I moved over from iOS devices because of the price but I guess you only get what you pay for.
If you've got the 16gb version the os will take up some of the space so you may not have much left. You can't use apps to SD on all tabs but you might find an option if you search in settings.
Also have you checked in developer options? Go system > about > mash the build number 5 or so times.
You should now have a developer options menu and you may be able to enable it there.
Don't have my tab with me right now to check it's possible but give it a go.
There's an option 'force allow apps on external' give that a try
I don't see that either.
perhaps you mean the one found in "Settings -> Storage -> Default location : SD card " ?
It will require a reboot.