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Apps wont install

As of yesterday, none of the apps I download from either the marketplace or amazon will install. They will download without problem, but they won't actually install.
Anyone else having this problem or know of a fix?

What does the error log say?

it just says install unsuccsessful

virgil1528 said:
it just says install unsuccsessful
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go to applications>Manage Applications>Market>uninstall updates and clear data and cache. then go back into market and sign back in. hopefully that will fix it.

This happened to me, I had to clear some space on hard drive or whatever you want to call it? (Solid state memory, SSD, I'm really not sure) It totally fixed it.

stinkyjoe said:
This happened to me, I had to clear some space on hard drive or whatever you want to call it? (Solid state memory, SSD, I'm really not sure) It totally fixed it.
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how did you fill up 30 gb so quick lol ?

yeah, that was it. Apparently you need at least two gigs of hard drive space to install apps

lol wow. that does stink. guess thats good to know.

znfrazier said:
how did you fill up 30 gb so quick lol ?
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My medical school has lectures online. I d/l them on my desktop computer, transfer them over USB, and watch them on my xoom. I fill up space pretty quickly. Each organ system is only 2 weeks, so I also empty space pretty quickly. This also means I'm waiting pretty impatiently for SD support. WTF is the hold up?
The xoom has been clutch for watching these vids while there's something on TV or while I'm cooking dinner or eating breakfast or.... you know, trying to do stuff that people with free time have the luxury of doing. Sigh....

I had a update today say declined? Does anyone know what may have caused that?

gysgtusmc said:
I had a update today say declined? Does anyone know what may have caused that?
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its because you touch yourself. Or because you bought that app in the amazon store and not the Google store. Google only updates apps bought from its store.

[Q] Please help, assaulted while recording

There was this guy vandalizing some stuff in my street. I told him to stop while recording video of the event. He forced me on the ground bruising my neck and damaging my teeth, let me go when I promised to delete the video. How can I recover the video? Any help is very much appreciated.

You wouldn't happen to have your photos/videos back up to Google do you? That's terrible that happened to you I'm sorry.
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grim489 said:
You wouldn't happen to have your photos/videos back up to Google do you? That's terrible that happened to you I'm sorry.
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I turned that off because mobile data used to be very expensive here...
Thank you for your compassion

84Guzz said:
There was this guy vandalizing some stuff in my street. I told him to stop while recording video of the event. He forced me on the ground bruising my neck and damaging my teeth, let me go when I promised to delete the video. How can I recover the video? Any help is very much appreciated.
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Where this guy at? ima fkin swing my iCrap device at him and crack it and smack it on his face with the glass shards and everything or use like an ipad and smack him repeatedly across the face.
Seriously though i think you should take this to the police first.
Edit: just noticed not in US, umm try Local authorities of what you got there.

markdapimp said:
Where this guy at? ima fkin swing my iCrap device at him and crack it and smack it on his face with the glass shards and everything or use like an ipad and smack him repeatedly across the face.
Seriously though i think you should take this to the police first.
Edit: just noticed not in US, umm try Local authorities of what you got there.
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I did, but they said there's nothing they can do without actually capturing his ass. Thanks for being angry together with me, it helps a lot.

I'm not sure it'd work for you but you could try downloading Dumpster from Google play. The only thing is idk if it recovers deleted files or it recovers files deleted after the app is installed.
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grim489 said:
I'm not sure it'd work for you but you could try downloading Dumpster from Google play. The only thing is idk if it recovers deleted files or it recovers files deleted after the app is installed.
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Just sample .png... Thanks for this, I'll keep it on there, just pushing my teeth back in place now

84Guzz said:
I did, but they said there's nothing they can do without actually capturing his ass. Thanks for being angry together with me, it helps a lot.
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WHATTT!?????????????? You should be mad at your country for not hunting his ass down.

markdapimp said:
WHATTT!?????????????? You should be mad at your country for not hunting his ass down.
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I know, it was just 10 minutes. If you ever come to the Netherlands remember it pays to be a criminal.

84Guzz said:
I know, it was just 10 minutes. If you ever come to the Netherlands remember it pays to be a criminal.
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For all of you wanting to help:
I'm going to go to sleep now, it's 06:30 am over here. If your want to help catch this bastard, reply to this thread with a way to recover deleted videos from a Nexus 5.
I'm sure he was just a dumb kid, as he let me go after deleting the video + some dumb tutorials i shot. I think it would be the best thing to let him know not to do stuff like this again.
Thank you XDA, you're the only place to turn to after paying 1$ a minute trying to reach google, I got more response from you compared to a multi billion dollar company.
Email me at guusvandersluijs at gmail dot com

should have punched him dead in the face!!!

Maybe you can email google and see what they can do in recovering data.
At least they would tell you if that sector has been overwritten or not.

http://www.android-data-recovery.org/google-nexus-5-data-recovery.html
donno if this works,was the first thing that came up after googeling "recover deleted files nexus 5"
and go see a dentist,you dont wanna lose your teeth!
from my CM11 powered Nexus5

You can try this method. I used it on my galaxy nexus, but don't see why it wouldn't work on the nexus 5. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1994705
[GUIDE] Internal Memory Data Recovery - Yes We Can!
sent from my HAMMERHEAD neXus

The first thing to do would be to STOP USING THE PHONE. The more you use it, the higher the chance of the data being overwritten and thus unrecoverable. Remember, "deleting" something only marks it as available on the disk/flash memory.

http://www.icare-recovery.com/free/android-data-recovery-freeware.html
As above, if you carry on using the phone there's a chance you might write over the deleted file, any chance of recovery then becomes much more difficult, maybe even impossible. Try some of the software that's been mentioned above, if the files not been overwritten you should have a good chance of recovery.

84Guzz said:
For all of you wanting to help:
I'm going to go to sleep now, it's 06:30 am over here. If your want to help catch this bastard, reply to this thread with a way to recover deleted videos from a Nexus 5.
I'm sure he was just a dumb kid, as he let me go after deleting the video + some dumb tutorials i shot. I think it would be the best thing to let him know not to do stuff like this again.
Thank you XDA, you're the only place to turn to after paying 1$ a minute trying to reach google, I got more response from you compared to a multi billion dollar company.
Email me at guusvandersluijs at gmail dot com
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correct as the past few posts say if you havnt overwritten that area of your internal storage where the video was saved you should no problem using some recovery tools to get the deleted information. I work as a security analyst doing forensics and e-discovery. I recommend the program r-studio to recovery deleted information. you will have to pay for it unless you can find a free copy on the internet.. lol but you can also get a trial of it which will let you recovery files smaller than like 1mb which might not help you but you can at least use the trial to determine if the video is recoverable.

You can also use diskdigger. The free version should do what you need it to
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Thank all of you for your help. I tried several tools, with varying results.
Sadly I can't seem to get anything watchable back. I got a couple of bruises and my jaw still kinda hurts, but it's nothing permanent.
I got an app that can undo removal of photos and videos for the next time something like this happens, also I should be more carefull not to put myself in harms way again. People are unpredictable.
This thread can be closed.

Are you rooted? If not, we're at the end of the road.

Strange app

I bought my daughter a straight talk s3 it was rooted and running slimi rom.. But when I got it I wiped it and flash all over.. But there is a system of Google like apps that hang around but are not the real thing. And I the extra SD card there is a folder of the slim rom I flashed and inside it is system app private camera2
Another one with pre-built something.. These folders created themselves and looking in the initd folder I see nothing strange. What is going on?

Wrong forum man, this belongs in Q&A

I, for the life of me can not figure this out! Anyone?

evertking said:
I, for the life of me can not figure this out! Anyone?
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I see that they are Google Apps or possibly could be, have you used a root explorer type app to see them or even titanium backup?
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evertking said:
I bought my daughter a straight talk s3 it was rooted and running slimi rom.. But when I got it I wiped it and flash all over.. But there is a system of Google like apps that hang around but are not the real thing. And I the extra SD card there is a folder of the slim rom I flashed and inside it is system app private camera2
Another one with pre-built something.. These folders created themselves and looking in the initd folder I see nothing strange. What is going on?
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Wanna share some screenshots or something?
I've seen camera2 before, I am not sure where. I feel like it was either cyanogenmods camera, or google camera when it first came out. Not sure though. The location seems odd though, I thought I found camera2 elsewhere.
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camera
Actually it called camera 2 camera launcher. She takes screen shots and uses them to do something. I had to pick her up last night for shoplifting! I can't figure out the screen shot thing she has going on. I know she has xposedd installed.

cameraluancher
Whatever it is I can boot into recovery and wipe everything and its still there!

OK..
km can some one look at this log for me of her nexus 5?.

evertking said:
km can some one look at this log for me of her nexus 5?.
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Took a look at the log, unsure what I'm looking for however
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Accidentally reseted the phone and forgot tobacco up the phone. any way to restore it

hey
i reseted the phone thought my google + sync was on.. but it wasn't and all the pics are deleted..
i don't care about anything other then pic and video. there are lots of important family members pics who oolong with us...
will i be able to get it back any of the pics or vid in this situation ?
i was searching on the web and i might have to root the phone and then there is applications that would able to get it back.. is it possible ?
Thanks

Phone was not rooted? How did you reset the phone?

snxda said:
hey
i reseted the phone thought my google + sync was on.. but it wasn't and all the pics are deleted..
i don't care about anything other then pic and video. there are lots of important family members pics who oolong with us...
will i be able to get it back any of the pics or vid in this situation ?
i was searching on the web and i might have to root the phone and then there is applications that would able to get it back.. is it possible ?
Thanks
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First, I don't think this belongs in the development area. Next, there is NO WAY to get your stuff back unless you were rooted, already had a backup, SD card or idk. A factory reset wipes all internal storage, including your personal data. Sorry...

The lesson is to use something like Google Photos or even Samsung Backup.
If the photos were on the sdcard AND the card has not been used in the meantime, you can possibly recover some files using R-Studio ($$) or similar free software (testdisk, zero recovery).
If the data was on the internal memory AND you haven't overwritten it by using the phone you can send it to a recovery company for $$$. There is a channel on youtube called HDD Recovery Services where they show how they achieve this.

Up the phone is not necessarily the best place for your tobacco...

How do you 'accidentally' reset your phone?
It asks if you are sure multiple times, and explains what is about to happen first

*Detection* said:
How do you 'accidentally' reset your phone?
It asks if you are sure multiple times, and explains what is about to happen first
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Ain't Nobody Got Time for That... next,next,yes,yes,next. done

copenhagen said:
Up the phone is not necessarily the best place for your tobacco...
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heikis said:
Ain't Nobody Got Time for That... next,next,yes,yes,next. done
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lol true, but what did they think they were saying "next,next,yes,yes,next. done" to? It's in a completely separate part of the settings to anything else

Root the phone, try DiskDigger from the PlayStore.
You'd be surprised.

[Q] Google Photos storage question...

Looking at this Pixel 2 as my next phone and saw that Google Photos backs up to the cloud. Is that able to be turned off?
Would rather not have cloud storage. Also, coming from the HTC One M8 and its photo gallery. Is there not a gallery in this phone?
Thanks.

fjm568 said:
Looking at this Pixel 2 as my next phone and saw that Google Photos backs up to the cloud. Is that able to be turned off?
Would rather not have cloud storage. Also, coming from the HTC One M8 and its photo gallery. Is there not a gallery in this phone?
Thanks.
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You can turn off uploading but the photos is your gallery.
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There is an option to turn off backup & sync within the Photos app. Settings > Backup & Sync.
Photos is the only gallery app but you can always install another (though I haven't).

why would you turn it off? its exclusive to pixel 2 owners that you get until 2021 free original quality storage. you might regret if you dont do the automatic back up some point but then your choice is still your choice. got people complaining where are their photos coming from non nexus or pixel devices after factory data reset, then they blame google because google should give them what they need coz we are google. had hard times explaining.

reyscott said:
why would you turn it off? its exclusive to pixel 2 owners that you get until 2021 free original quality storage. you might regret if you dont do the automatic back up some point but then your choice is still your choice. got people complaining where are their photos coming from non nexus or pixel devices after factory data reset, then they blame google because google should give them what they need coz we are google. had hard times explaining.
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Some people don't want Google to have everything. It is the way it is. What if Google introduced a bug that made it use mobile data and viola high bill because some of these people are on a metered connection.
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Tidbits said:
Some people don't want Google to have everything. It is the way it is. What if Google introduced a bug that made it use mobile data and viola high bill because some of these people are on a metered connection.
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point well taken..

Tidbits said:
Some people don't want Google to have everything. It is the way it is. What if Google introduced a bug that made it use mobile data and viola high bill because some of these people are on a metered connection.
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Although I understand your point, in your specific example, if someone was that worried about metered data, then they would also likely have their phone monitor data usage and provide a warning once it exceeds a certain threshold. It's a basic feature built into android and wouldn't require disabling the key feature in what is probably the greatest FREE photo sync app in the world.

PuffDaddy_d said:
Although I understand your point, in your specific example, if someone was that worried about metered data, then they would also likely have their phone monitor data usage and provide a warning once it exceeds a certain threshold. It's a basic feature built into android and wouldn't require disabling the key feature in what is probably the greatest FREE photo sync app in the world.
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One could also argue protection remember when iCloud got compromised? There's a lot of reasons why just what some people.
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Tidbits said:
One could also argue protection remember when iCloud got compromised? There's a lot of reasons why just what some people.
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Yeah, that's another valid point. But to clarify, the iCloud accounts that got hacked were celebrities. They are much more of a target than the rest of us.

Tidbits said:
Some people don't want Google to have everything. It is the way it is.
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^^This.
A little scepticism is healthy.
I would prefer to control my own data and storage. Too many stories of people either losing their data when the cloud services shut down or having to pay to get their data back. Or the photobucket fiasco.
On a side note, IMO, 2 things would make the Pixel 2 perfect, an sd card, and a removable battery. Hell, if my M8 had a removable battery, I wouldn't be thinking of getting a new phone.
Thanks for the replies. Will most likely be ordering the Pixel 2 soon.

PuffDaddy_d said:
Yeah, that's another valid point. But to clarify, the iCloud accounts that got hacked were celebrities. They are much more of a target than the rest of us.
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Could have been more than that but of course more fanfare for celebrities than the average Joe's.
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fjm568 said:
^^This.
A little scepticism is healthy.
I would prefer to control my own data and storage. Too many stories of people either losing their data when the cloud services shut down or having to pay to get their data back. Or the photobucket fiasco.
On a side note, IMO, 2 things would make the Pixel 2 perfect, an sd card, and a removable battery. Hell, if my M8 had a removable battery, I wouldn't be thinking of getting a new phone.
Thanks for the replies. Will most likely be ordering the Pixel 2 soon.
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Not ideal, but on the subject of SD cards, I think I've read that you can use the adapter that came with the device to attach a flash drive for OTG. Not positive on that, just something I vaguely recall reading over the past week.

DontPushButtons said:
Not ideal, but on the subject of SD cards, I think I've read that you can use the adapter that came with the device to attach a flash drive for OTG. Not positive on that, just something I vaguely recall reading over the past week.
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I figured OTG was possible. Have my M8 set up to save pics and TiBkp backups to my SD card. Have a few apps that I backup regularly. I just hate not having the SD card for the backups in case the phone crashes and I have to do a factory reset or worse, not being able to recover anything from phone. Had a few times with the M8 where battery got too low and phone lost settings and reset itself. Had to reflash OS and restore apps and data. PITA, to say the least.
I know what some of you guys are going to say, that that's why you back up to the cloud. How many times do you hear of people assuming their stuff is backed up to the cloud, when come to find out, it wasn't.
There are times where I have poor cell reception and I put the phone in airplane mode and no Wi-Fi access, then I don't have any cloud backup. It would be so much easier just to have an SD card.

fjm568 said:
I figured OTG was possible. Have my M8 set up to save pics and TiBkp backups to my SD card. Have a few apps that I backup regularly. I just hate not having the SD card for the backups in case the phone crashes and I have to do a factory reset or worse, not being able to recover anything from phone. Had a few times with the M8 where battery got too low and phone lost settings and reset itself. Had to reflash OS and restore apps and data. PITA, to say the least.
I know what some of you guys are going to say, that that's why you back up to the cloud. How many times do you hear of people assuming their stuff is backed up to the cloud, when come to find out, it wasn't.
There are times where I have poor cell reception and I put the phone in airplane mode and no Wi-Fi access, then I don't have any cloud backup. It would be so much easier just to have an SD card.
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I feel ya, I have my own concerns about big data and digitizing all of my own content, so you won't get that from me. Sadly just not going to be a mainstream opinion these days.

fjm568 said:
I figured OTG was possible. Have my M8 set up to save pics and TiBkp backups to my SD card. Have a few apps that I backup regularly. I just hate not having the SD card for the backups in case the phone crashes and I have to do a factory reset or worse, not being able to recover anything from phone. Had a few times with the M8 where battery got too low and phone lost settings and reset itself. Had to reflash OS and restore apps and data. PITA, to say the least.
I know what some of you guys are going to say, that that's why you back up to the cloud. How many times do you hear of people assuming their stuff is backed up to the cloud, when come to find out, it wasn't.
There are times where I have poor cell reception and I put the phone in airplane mode and no Wi-Fi access, then I don't have any cloud backup. It would be so much easier just to have an SD card.
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This is what I have used. Way cheaper now than when I bought mine.
SanDisk Ultra USB Type-C 128GB Flash Drive (SDCZ450-128G-G46) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01BUSN0DO/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_yJO8zbRAJ7YDM
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Just to clarify the data usage issue photos will only back up to the cloud on wifi but default. You have to tell it to use cell data.

DontPushButtons said:
Not ideal, but on the subject of SD cards, I think I've read that you can use the adapter that came with the device to attach a flash drive for OTG. Not positive on that, just something I vaguely recall reading over the past week.
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This is correct. I've just this day used the supplied OTG adapter to backup some photos from my Pixel 2 onto a USB drive.

reyscott said:
why would you turn it off? its exclusive to pixel 2 owners that you get until 2021 free original quality storage. you might regret if you dont do the automatic back up some point but then your choice is still your choice. got people complaining where are their photos coming from non nexus or pixel devices after factory data reset, then they blame google because google should give them what they need coz we are google. had hard times explaining.
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On this topic, What happens in 2021? Do those photos downgrade to a lower quality? Does that storage just stick? Anyone know?

marriedman624 said:
On this topic, What happens in 2021? Do those photos downgrade to a lower quality? Does that storage just stick? Anyone know?
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It stays as how you upload it. Anything after that date gets reduced.
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marriedman624 said:
On this topic, What happens in 2021? Do those photos downgrade to a lower quality? Does that storage just stick? Anyone know?
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will check it for you...