I've had my phone since Friday, I popped in an 8gb SD card to replace the 2gb card that came with the phone (don't know if that's my issue - it's a Samsung phone with a Samsung SD card so I don't know why it would be).
Long story short - after I (properly) disconnect my phone from having it connected via USB as mass storage most of my shortcuts and widgets break. There are three major issues.
1. The Mixzing widget always breaks after disconnecting. I get a white box that says "Problem Loading Widget". I delete the widget, try to re-add it to that screen but it doesn't even show up in my widget list anymore. I have to completely un/reinstall Mixzing to get the widget back.
2. I have eight Folders on one of my screens with custom names (Social, Games, Tools, Shop, etc) and every time I disconnect all of the custom names revert back to 'Folder' for every single folder. Often times the icon for the app shortcuts in these folders will disappear and only the green default Android logo will appear. Sometimes the shortcuts break, sometimes they still work, sometimes they completely disappear, sometimes they show up on the same screen as all of the folders instead of in the folder.
3. I have one page with my 12 most-common contacts (Shortcut > Contact). Similar story to the apps I mentioned above. Some shortcuts break, the contact photo pulled from Facebook often disappears, sometimes the whole shortcut will simply be gone.
I am using GO Launcher, I don't know if that's part of the issue or if this is a major bug. I just spent two hours reformatting everything (internal SD, external SD, reset to factory default) and set everything back up the same way and the problems still occur every time. I'm extremely frustrated at this point, ready to head to the AT&T store tomorrow and return this thing.
Move your apps from sd card to phone. Settings-applications-manage apps-sd card. Move applications to phone. Problems fixed!
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Thanks, I'll do that now and test but I don't see how that would effect folders' names being erased and contact shortcuts being messed up. We'll see what happens.
Did you format the new card first? If so did you format it on your PC or your phone?
Would strongly suggest you run this formatting program on the card (assuming you have a PC). Format it as FAT32. If you have one of those red fruit computers, not sure how they work.
https://www.sdcard.org/consumers/formatter_3/
Is this a legit micro sd card? Because I had a ton of issues because of a fake 32gb I had with apps randomly disappearing even after moving apps to phone.
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I also returned my first infuse before realizing it was that damn sd card. Put the stock 2gb back and see how things go.
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I've been trying to install the Rugby World Cup app from the market, but every time it gets to "installing", I get a message saying the SD card has been removed.
I don't know what's actually been removed, as all my music is still accessible and I can browse the SD card in OI File Manager, but then, some apps aren't working, and I have to reboot to get it back.
Any ideas what might be causing this? I've tried updating existing apps, and that works fine...
Thanks!
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 ...
nikctsh said:
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.
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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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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?
Firstly, sorry for my poor English.
Recently, I found that there was only a little space left of my internal storage of my s7.
So I moved some apps to the SD card and it was still ok yesterday night.
Today my s7 was a bit laggy and I tried to restart my phone but problems occurred.
All the apps moved to SD card became gray icons and showed 'application is not installed' whenever I click them.
I tried to reboot my phone several times but it doesn't work.
I even tried to unmount the SD card in the setting, but it was even worse.
The problem wasn't solved and the Musci app cannot even load all the songs stored in SD card. But the photos can still be loaded in gallery.
I searched for this and formatting the card may be a solution for this but are there any other ways to tackle the problems?
I feel really sad and please can anyone help me T_T? Thanks a lot T_T
same here.
i could not find any solution.
it happened twice.
now i don't move any app on card, aas this happens with apps only.
Rather move all my media, pics and videos onto card
Hi there !
Has anyone experienced this issue?
https://forum.xda-developers.com/mate-20-pro/help/write-to-sd-card-emui-10-t4017037
When I first got my P30, I restored a backup I had on my Galaxy S7 and everything seemed to work fine.
I had set up some 3rd party apps to have access and store things to the Nano Memory card.
For example Pocket to save its downloaded articles to the external card, Flud to store downloads on the memory card, etc.
I was also storing some Nova Launcher backups to the memory card.
The memory card is an original and quite expensive Huawei 128GB NM card.
Two days ago all of a sudden MixPlorer could not copy files from internal storage to the NM card.
Nova Launcher could not access the card either.
Every single 3rd part app could not have access.
Only Huawei apps (and I think Google apps, too) can have access. Huawei Files manager has no issue moving / copying files from internal to the memory card, the Camera app can save photos to the memory card just fine and I think Google News can save articles to the memory card.
Also, plugging P30 via USB to my Windows PC and using Huawei HiSuite has no issues. This way the NM card is accessible.
Yesterday morning I formatted the NM card (via the phone) and then I also did a factory reset to the phone and set it up again from scratch !
I also removed the card to clean it and then inserted it again to the phone sim/nm tray.
These steps did not fix the issue !
Now this might have been a coincidence but in the afternoon I realized that Google backup was stuck to "waiting to backup" so I used ADB commands to fix this known bug. I followed these instructions: https://forum.xda-developers.com/mi-8/how-to/guide-google-backup-waiting-to-backup-t3895101
After that - it might be a coincidence, though - I could write to the NM card ! It seemed that the issue was resolved. Somehow 3rd party apps could have write access permission to the NM card !
I was happy, but today when I woke up the problem had resurfaced !
I tried installing every single Root Explorer there is in the Play Store, but none worked. I also tried with like other 5 File Explorers to see if they could re-enable access to write to the NM card, but nothing worked.
I have enabled Developers options & then enabled "Force allow apps on external storage" but this does not solve the problem, either.
Any ideas what could be happening here ?
Could this be a bug with EMUI 10 and the write permissions to the external storage ?
I'm thinking that if this was a corrupted NM card issue, then neither Huawei Files manager, or Camera app, etc would be able to write on the card, right ?
Any help would be appreciated !