Note: This is a long one, theres a tl;dr at the bottom of the page.
So, yesterday I bought the XDA Premium app from the market. I installed it, used it for a few hours, rebooted my phone, tried to open it back up, "Failed to load activity" error or something along those lines.
So then I looked it up on the market, it wasn't recognizing that it was installed, so I reinstalled it again. Used for a few hours. Rebooted my phone, same issue. This has happened a few times.
So I figured maybe some data was corrupt. So I installed it from the market, uninstalled it, tried to reinstall it again and it said not enough storage space on my phone. I looked and I have 2.77GB free space on internal storage.
So I figured I'd move some apps to the SD card anyways. Started moving all apps from my phone to SD using the App2SD app (Which I think just redirects to the application's page in settings). Everything seemed to work fine.
Rebooted my phone, and some icons on my screens in LauncherPro didn't load. Tried opening several of them.. all of them "failed to load activity". I'm talking about at least a dozen different programs here that had somehow gotten corrupted? Rebooted again, they didn't come back. Reinstalled a few of them and rebooted and one still wouldn't open.
So I'm restoring from a CWM backup I did just before I went to bed last night. Any opinions on what might have gone wrong or what I could do differently? Is 2.77gb reserved space for texts/cache/etc or was the "not enough storage" error incorrect?
tl;dr: xda premium was corrupting/wouldn't install because I *only* had 2.77gb free internal storage? Tried moving things with app2sd and many, but not all, corrupted after a reboot. Rebooted a second time, didn't solve any issues.
Don't use apps2sd with this phone. Go to settings, applications, media area, click on everything with a check mark, move to phone. This will solve your problem.
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mistawolfe said:
Don't use apps2sd with this phone. Go to settings, applications, media area, click on everything with a check mark, move to phone. This will solve your problem.
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So, as I mentioned above, I performed a recovery using an image I had created in CWM late last night.
Just for kicks I tried moving a single app to SD to see what happens.. Google+ went from 28mb on internal memory, to 8mb on SD. Restarted, it was corrupted and not even showing up in application list.
So whats the deal with our phones? They can't move anything to SD card without corrupting? Hopefully this is patched as I appear to be hitting the artificial 2.77gb cap on apps?
So.. my experiment with JUST moving Google+ to SD failed more miserably than I originally thought. Not only did G+ corrupt as I mentioned above, but my phone also started freezing again and VNC Viewer also corrupted itself.
So I had to perform a second recovery on my phone this morning. Ugh. Having way too many issues with this phone considering I only bought it maybe 2 weeks ago.
One more update.. hope someone can help me with this.
So I performed a recovery with CWM. Since then I have not done ANY App2SD attempts or anything. This is a recovery from before I ever did any of that.
Now, whenever I uninstall any app, when I reboot my phone several apps will corrupt. These are apps that I had used App2SD on before I had done the recovery. Its like, when I uninstall an app it finds some data from prior to the recovery and that corrupts the app...
Any way to fix this? I looked at my SD card and the only data on there is Titanium Backup data, CWM backup data, and a few zip files that I had put on there. I told ES File Manager to show hidden files and there is nothing on my SD that I see that could be making Android corrupt these files...
Any help would be greatly appreciated.. I'm starting to thing I'm going to have to do a fastboot recovery to completely stock and start over again..
If you restored a recovery, wasn't that recovery with apps2sd as well? Does that make sense?
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mistawolfe said:
If you restored a recovery, wasn't that recovery with apps2sd as well? Does that make sense?
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Here, I'll lay it out a bit more clearly:
1) Midnight last night I performed a backup with CWM. Everything was working fine, I hadn't done any changes or App2SD things yet.
2) Woke up at 10AM today and this was when all of the issues covered in this thread started. After 10AM today was when I first attempted to use App2SD Pro to move apps around.
3) I recovered using the recovery from part 1 of this message
4) I'm still having issues with programs corrupting even though I'm using an image from Midnight yesterday.
How can I completely wipe my phone then restore with Fastboot? Wipe SD, internal, everything.
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So it appears I fixed my problem.. even though I have run two complete restores using a backup from prior to my issues, some apps were still set to go on my SD card. So I guess a CWM backup doesn't store all file system data.
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Also some apps try to load on SD card watch out amazon apps. I've put 300plus sized various apps on my phone and didn't crack 2gb. And really 200apps or more your not going to have time for them.
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Yea, the XDA Developers app tries to load on the SD card by default. That was the entire root problem that caused all the above posts...
Hopefully Motorola fixes this SD card issue in the next patch.
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Don't why happen from last week, my N1 can't do update in market, it can download it but can't setup....
When i go to "Applications"-->"Manage Applications"--> all information are show "Computing"
I can't setup and uninstall all the apps.....Anyone help me
also when i plugin the usb cable, still not have notice on the status bar.....
Please HELP.....i'm so sad now
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Don't why happen from last week, my N1 can't do update in market, it can download it but can't setup....
When i go to "Applications"-->"Manage Applications"--> all information are show "Computing"
I can't setup and uninstall all the apps.....Anyone help me
also when i plugin the usb cable, still not have notice on the status bar.....
Please HELP.....i'm so sad now
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Me too. Please somebody help us.
LEF32 said:
Me too. Please somebody help us.
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Seems something crash but don't which part, somebody help us
I recently have experienced the same problem and I spent nearly 3 days to get my phone back to work.
The issue is probably caused by broken app file on SD card.
I'm sure there's one way to replay the issue: get more than 100 apps on SD card, then use Titanium Backup to move all apps from internal storage to SD card, before it finishes (near the end) force close Titanium Backup. On next boot, Android won't be able to load all apps on SD card anymore.
My solution was:
Connect the sd card onto a computer using a card reader. Go to .android_secure folder, then sort by modifying date. Delete few latest apps then put the SD back to your phone but you have to re-install the apps which you deleted.
Good luck!
If you use apps to ext, you can just restore your nandroid...
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Thanks! I did what you said only I deleted all the apps in the android secure folder to be sure. And so far is working well for a couple of days. Thank you again.
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I cannot find the topic when I search. But I seem to remember someone saying the internal SD card has to be re-formatted using nvflash. But I am not sure how to do that. And is it possible to make a copy of the entire card on my PC, then after re formatting the card, bringing back the folders, etc? I was with TnT 5.0.2, when it happened, and so I went back to Tnt 4.2.5, and it still did it. So I am at a loss. LauncherPro is the main one that keeps FC ing on me.
The frustrating thing with our gTablet is not knowing each time we boot up, if we will be greeted with love or with nasty surprizes.
There's this thread, but it refers to this issue with the "stock tablet" and doing a factory reset:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=896395
The solution requires wiping and repartioning the sd card.
This thread recommends a total wipe and reflashing:
http://goo.gl/NytVa
This one recommends flashing the vanilla TnT restore update to solve abootloop problem:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=9439414&postcount=7
I'm still looking. Many apps are force closing on my g-tab after running Pandora a couple of hours a few days ago. If you find something, please post.
UPDATE:
I repartitioned my sd card as suggested in the first link, then fixed permissions before rebooting. Backed up the sd card to my PC first, of course.
Repartitioning seems to have worked. So far, at least.
Thanks..
... for the leads. I'll give it a try. I do have one more question....
When you make a back up of the device on your PC, can you just copy everything, all the files and folders you can get your hands on on the device? Or is there a more sophisticated way to do it?
Just want to be sure before I take the plunge.
I just copied everything. You can pull route TI backup folder back to the tablet and restore your apps. Any clockwork backups can also be piled back over. You can sync up Titanium to dropbox too.
Yes. Just copy everything. Just as thedoctorisin ordered.
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I noticed some file corruptions with LauncherPro and ADWlauncher but Zeam launcher has been problem free so far.
Quick question. Will doing a factory reset in CWM wipe my internal SD card? My phone has been horribly buggy since the update. Tethering app is acting really flaky. I think I need to wipe it and just start anew. I just don't know if when i do that if it will wipe the internal SD too. Cause i don't want that. I have no idea if ill keep root either. But I can always find a way to get that back I hope. I'm at work for 6 more hours. Would love to just wipe it and have it keep SD intact and root and I could be back in action in 20 minutes. But I'm afraid it will wipe internal SD too and then I'd be borked
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Doing a factory data reset will not affect the SD card. It will affect the internal memory on the phone however.
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Yes internal SD card is wiped. External aka actual SD card safe
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Thank you for the reply. I ended up just wiping my cache and davilk cache and now everything seems to be running smoothly. The stock tether app now functions fine without needing to reboot it. My cache must have been really over loaded. It took like 7-10 seconds to clear. Usually takes 1/3 the time. I'm happy now stuff works again.
If i do end up wiping later now I know I have to back it up first on my laptop. Thanks again.
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Internal sdcard is not touched. Factory reset affects the data and partition and if in cwr you might also wipe system. You can wipe. Sdcard with an option but it doesn't by default.
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I had to do a factory reset from stock recovery awhile back and my internal card was not touched.
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Ya I totally mispoke my b. Internal card not touched. Sorry!
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Well I ended up wiping because it was still acting funky. Now my phone is worse off. Ended up wiping 3 times. Forgo to make a clockwork backup. The titanium backup I made failed miserably and any apps I tried to restore it would hang up on. End up force closing after 20 min of trying tto restore the first app. Wiped again because it wouldn't boot. Sat there for 30 min, booted but still showing boot animation. Wouldn't show normal screen until I powered it down.
Now I have 7he bare bones apps on that I need. However tether it totally broken. Nothing can connect to it now. Not my xoom or 4 other laptops. None can get an IP address. Rebooted everything. I'm incredibly ticked off. Wiping it made the phone function worse. How does that happen?
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I have about 100 APPs moved to SD. Worked fine until I upgraded to GB. Now my phone stuck in a definite soft reboot if I put the SD card in. I can't even move a single APPs back to phone. Is it possible that I can still copy those APPs back to phone through computer? Thanks in advance.
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Probably easier to flash back to kb2 (rooted) and move them back to the phone. Then, do the upgrade again. To use a computer to move them, you would need to be rooted to use adb to push them back to the phone.
easy.
download titanium backup. open it. press menu > batch > move all apps to internal storage. select all. then run batch.
done.
or go to android system menu > applications > manage apps > apps on SD > select each one with a checkmark. and push the button for move to internal. (takes a while)
Need root for Tibu. No mention of root status by op.
What happens if you insert sd after phone has booted up?
Thanks, guys. My phone was rooted before GB upgrade and rooted again afterwards. I also installed TiBackup this afternoon. The only problem is I never have any time to move a single APP back to phone before it reboots again. I tried both TB and setting without any luck. Looks like nothing you can do before the phone finishes media scanning, but the phone will reboot before or right after the scan. Insert the SD card after the phone finishes booting results the samething.
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Looks quite common :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1328191&page=3
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1328191
But no fix yet.
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You can use adb to push them to your phone.
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You can use adb to push them to your phone.
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I guess that's the only way in my case. But I know nothing about the adb pushing . Could you please give me a link showing the detail procedure?
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The guide >>HERE<< will help you out with all of your adb needs. It's not as intimidating as it looks, just go through it slowly. Honestly, I think it woulod be easier to flash back to KB2 (rooted) and do it there, then go back to GB.
I am experiencing the same thing as you but on a Galaxy S2. I have tried a bazillion things to try and figure out what has been going on too. I am curious though, what does your phone do with a completely blank SD card?
I have a list of things I have tried and I have definitely found that it is related to the SD card in the phone. My phone also gets far hotter than normal when the rebooting starts to happen.
Just deleted all the files in .android_secure folder on computer. Worked fine now without reboot for half an our.
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Copied 20 back to SD. Put it onto the phone, no reboot. Moved back to phone. Will move more back.
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Copied 20 back to SD. Put it onto the phone, no reboot. Moved back to phone. Will move more back.
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Keeping a few them on SD still has issue, random shutdown, especially at night. Moving all of them back to phone led to 'phone storage space is getting low' error. WTF. I need to get rid of whole bunch of junks.
Ok so I've posted this elsewhere and there was no resolution, but I have new info.
So I know there are several others experiencing this problem. Today I flashed every one of the current 4.2.2 roms. I figured I'd install my apps a few at a time to try to determine which app was causing the internal SD to stop mounting. Strangely though when I would boot into the ROM for the first time it did not mount. So I went back farther and only installed the ROM zip and no gapps. Bam it mounted. Rebooted several times, both into recovery and into the system. Each time it mounted. Then I would get excited and install the gapps. Bam no internal SD mount. I tried all the current gapps on here and the insomnia forums. I even downloaded the 03/01 gapps from goo .im.
So obviously this is not all conclusive, but I flashed and wiped and flashed about 25-30 times today trying to figure this out. I confirmed this in my mind for the latest BBB and linereo 10.1.
Those of you wondering I used cwm and tw(the awesome custom insomnia version). My procedure is factory reset/ROM wipe, then I wipe, system, cache, dav cache, internal SD, and Android secure...2 times each. Then I reinstall the ROM.
After install fixing permissions does not fix the problem either.
Also I'm not really expecting any developers to work on solving this since it is also caused by the goo gapps, just thought it might help some of us struggling with this problem.
Swap sd is currently solving my problem, it mounts the internal as external, but it mounts.
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I'm haviing the same problem with rootbox 4.2
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Using twrp , wipe everything 2x including internal SD, flash ROM and fix permission. Make sure yp back up what you need
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Using twrp , wipe everything 2x including internal SD, flash ROM and fix permission. Make sure yp back up what you need
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Did it but nothing, same problem
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Did it but nothing, same problem
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what exactly is your problem? cant mount on phone or on the computer
On the phone
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I don't think it's really a ROM issue as much as a compatibility issue with some hardware variance with some exhibits. I know we've had other issues that only some people have and no amount of wiping and flashing fixed those.
I bet if we opened up my exhibit, which is only 4 months old, and say camcory or tims we could find differences when we compared them component by component...I believe this is the reason for the varied compatibility.
Hope that helps!
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Using twrp , wipe everything 2x including internal SD, flash ROM and fix permission. Make sure yp back up what you need
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That's the steps I described above and it didn't solve my problem.
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Hey, try this......
I swear to you it works guy and I hope it helps:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=41958928#post41958928
This solution is easier than replacing the system board...
Connect the phone to your computer via USB (this works on tablets with USB as well). When it pops up to ask you to turn on USB storage for the computer, do it. Give it a minute or two to mount the SD and one internal user partition to the computer desktop, then unmount/eject the drives from the computer and turn off USB storage. The other internal partition will be mounted, and will remain so until the next phone reboot.
I've hooked my T679 to both my Hackintosh laptop and my TF101 in this manner, and it works every time.
Thank you red_five_1976 so much for your help. I followed your instruction and voila, it worked !! I like many others, am scratching my head on how exactly to get my external micro SD card to work after installing Android 4.2.2, you method worked for me and I'm a happy man !!
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Connect the phone to your computer via USB (this works on tablets with USB as well). When it pops up to ask you to turn on USB storage for the computer, do it. Give it a minute or two to mount the SD and one internal user partition to the computer desktop, then unmount/eject the drives from the computer and turn off USB storage. The other internal partition will be mounted, and will remain so until the next phone reboot.
I've hooked my T679 to both my Hackintosh laptop and my TF101 in this manner, and it works every time.
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I've also found that if it didn't mount on a reboot, if I reboot to recovery and wipe davlic and cache, then reboot back into ROM that solves the problem.
Btw I'm using the 6/3 AIOP at the moment, best this phone has ever been in every way.
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