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App installation always hanging...bad sdcard?

I am experiencing some very unusual problems with my froyo installs, specifically when installing/restoring apps.
First the basic info:
Nexus One
Froyo 2.2 FRF 72 stock with root no radio update
Upgraded from FRF 50 stock with root no radio update
I used Titanium Backup (TB) to backup all my apps, I have done this countless times before. Everything was fine on FRF50, but I wanted to try out a modified ROM. Yes I nandroided, but the restore failed THANKS CLOCKWORKMOD!! I should have stuck with amonRA. Anway, I had no choice but to flash again. I tried a few from the forums with all the same results so I gave up on them and just did stock with root but still having the issues.
When I restored the apps with TB, i get about 90% of my apps restored then I get an error saying that my space is full (even tho I enabled the stock apps2sd method) OR TB will suddenly just stop restoring apps, again stuck around 94%. I am thinking, its okay ill just reboot and continue. Well I rebooted and all the apps were gone even tho they are obviously on the sdcard, i checked.
So typical solution:
force stop the launcher. that didnt work. i tried other launchers, nothing worked. i had no choice but to wipe and try again. trust me, i did this way to many times, i dont even wanna think about it.
So i thought there was an issue with TB, yes i clicked "problems", upgraded busybox, trust me, I did all the basic stuff, Im beyond that.
Then I tried installing every app manually, thats over 150+ apps, ya..it was annoying as hell. Then suddenly, I would get stuck at the installing screen....no app would install, not from TB, not from market, not from the sdcard...nothing.
So typical solution:
delete .android_secure
That only works temporarily, then its back to the issue.
The point is, it keeps happening. Like today, I install a fresh ROM, yes I wiped, I even partitioned the sdcard and within installing literally ONE app, I get this problem, no app installs after that. So I went and deleted .android_secure and everything seems to be working okay. But this will happen again, if I try to restore with TB now, the same thing will happen again. I have tried every combination of installing apps, using TB, wiping....nothing seems to work.
On top of all that, my apps wont restore automatically from the market when installing a fresh ROM. So my question, what do I do about this and has anyone else had this problem? Any help would be appreciated.
Update:
I called it. It happened again. Fresh install, installed one app, no apps installed after that, deleted .android_secure, everything was back to normal, started restoring apps with TB, stuck at 93%, nothing will install now...any suggestions? should i delete .android_secure AGAIN!?
Ayman

Decided to install cyanogenmod 6.0.0 final today (didn't flash any of the nightlies/RCs), and now I'm facing the same problem. My titanium backup restores all appeared to be going well, and in fact I can even run the apps that were successfully restored without problems. But at some point in the restore it'll hang, and I won't be able to install anything from then on. In fact, when I tried rebooting the phone, it wouldn't even detect any of the apps installed on the sdcard (although, when I checked /sdcard/.android_secure, all the .asec files were present).
OP/anyone else, did you ever manage to fix this problem?

I've got the exact same problem
Tried 3 different roms after wiping everything and I can't seem to install any app.
TB does not install app and neither does market and this is starting to get very annoying.

Same problem but with specific apps:
Wi-Fi File Explorer Pro (most important as I paid for it)
Angry Birds
Google Sky Map
My other 100+ apps restored from Ti Backup or installed from the Market.
I have logs that say "unable to open secure container" but who do I send them to?

Enom from TheOfficialRom has stated that restoring from Titanium is really not very good practice. I had the exact same thing happen to me when i first installed his rom; enabled apps2sd, restored all apps and data with titanium backup.
Here's the catch, and might help you. I then did a wipe (don't wipe ext too!) and when it came up all of my apps were installed and worked fine. I even went through and manually restored all of the data from the apps and they continued to work fine! Just don't restore "System" data, set that stuff back up by hand. So in this case, the apps are "already installed" and for me worked fine, even after restoring their data (not the apps themselves, as they were already on the ext partition). This fixed my primary issue ("all" apps failed to install or upgrade).
However, I continued to have periodic problems with certain apps as I had also enabled dalvik-cache to /cache which works if you don't have a bazillion apps installed, but I have >115 and my /cache was always 100% full and caused app installs to fail. Some were fine, some were not. Don't know why, but I know (after wiping again) and NOT moving dalvik-cache, zero problems. I even repeated the process back and forth a few times and dalvik-cache to /cache = fail for me. You can check in his Spare Parts if you're using his ROM, or just df in a terminal if you've moved the dalvik to make sure where it's at isn't full.
Hopefully this helps some.

I had this problem earlier on after trying a custom rom moving from FRF91 when it first came out. I had to go through the market to get the apps, but titanium would restore the data after i installed the app... i think.
The Clockword nandroid kept failing on me too. BUT, i found if i tried them a second or third time, they would actually work.

Changed Build.prop and now apps are force-closing...

Alright, didn't find anything related to this elsewhere, so I'm putting it here:
My Bionic is running on 5.9.901, rooted, no issues. I changed the ro.product.manufacturer and ro.product.model values in my build.prop temporarily to test something. Rebooted and the following apps started force closing: Titanium Backup, Swype (latest beta, not built in), Wifi Tether (GoogleCode version, latest alpha), and Flikie Wallpapers HD.
I figure ok, change what I did back to stock and reboot. That should fix the problem.
Nope. These same apps are still force closing on my. Now, here's the twist; I've removed and reinstalled each one with the same results. Somehow, modifying those two variables in my build.prop has changed something that is keeping these apps (and ONLY these apps) from installing/running properly.
Checking the stack traces from the app crashes, Titanium Backup indicates it's unable to find a file located within /data/data/com.keramidas.TitaniumBackup/files. Upon inspection, the entire directory under /data/data for TB contains nothing, even after reinstall. Permissions for /data and /data/data are set to 771. This is as far as I've gotten and I don't know what direction to go next.
Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
EDIT: Forgot to put in here that I've already tried running fix permissions from the bootstrap and that didn't change anything.
EDIT 2: Update. Figured out why the apps are force-closing. For some reason, when they're being reinstalled, the lib files (with the .so extension) are not being created in /data/data. If I open up the APK and copy the .so files to their rightful places, the app will then work fine. If, however, I remove and reinstall again, same thing happens. Something has changed, but I'm unable to figure out what and nothing logical makes sense at this point. Now that TB is working, I might just try a factory reset.

how do you edit build.prop? i have a droid bionic and used rom toolbox to tweak the lcd density and i think it messed something up. i am unable to install pandora or aim as it says my device is not compatible.

[Q] home button and "swipe from the top" has disappeared

Hi everyone,
My home button and the "swipe from the top" has disappeared since my last restart. I really have no idea what's happened and now I am using the apps called "Button Savior" to return the home screen.Maybe thid was because I have deleted some system files from system/data/data/com.android. providers.settings. I have restarted several times and it didn't work for my device.Now its really inconvenient to use the Kindle Fire HD. My current software version is 7.1.13. Could you guys help me to solve this problem? Thank you very much in advance.

maybe pull the rom in the development section and see if you can get the deleted files from it?
the only time my framework dissapeared was when i was trying to install the play store. i got it back by renaming a couple google framework apk's in the system folder and restarting...

Hi adiliyo,
How can I pull the Rom in the development section? As I have deleted many system files, I think I am in a much bigger trouble than yours.
adiliyo said:
maybe pull the rom in the development section and see if you can get the deleted files from it?
the only time my framework dissapeared was when i was trying to install the play store. i got it back by renaming a couple google framework apk's in the system folder and restarting...
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1886189
if you can't get the individual files, maybe reflashing that rom will fix your problems

This happened to me, and some other folks. Look for a thread asking about how to view/run settings.
Anyway, some fixes mentioned were to turn off notifications for Gmail - hard to do if you can't get to settings, though.
What worked for me was to try and side-load an application - copy an APK file to the 'downloads' folder on your KFHD via a connected computer using the windows file explorer, or ADB - and then install the APK. In my case by clicking on it using a file manager. The KFHD told me that I would have to enable foreign application installs to finish the install of the side-loaded APK, and took me to that portion of settings that dealt with that. In that section was the 'Reset to Factory Defaults' button.
I pressed the reset button, and got everything back. Earlier applications (google play store) that I hadn't un-installed in an attempt to fix the problem were still there. Super User was intact. I downloaded & installed everything again, and all is working as it should be.
Until Amazon comes clean with this walking ad-server, details on how to modify it without introducing issues are going to be sketchy . It's just our lot in life, if you'll pardon. I appreciate having super user access, and all the Google apps I love to use, but what's really required is the ability to modify the boot loader. Until that's available, it's going to be try until it fails, and then scramble to recover.
Nice HW, but limited by Amazon's vision of the customers.
Pat

adiliyo said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1886189
if you can't get the individual files, maybe reflashing that rom will fix your problems
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After I installed GO Laucher EX, I was able to access the settings. Download the software from amazon and put it into the file named" kindleupdates". there's nothing change after I updated my kindle. Now the software version's 7.1.15. the home button and return button are still missing.the werid thing is my kindle is still rooted!!! Now I really have no idea...

PMcHargue said:
This happened to me, and some other folks. Look for a thread asking about how to view/run settings.
Anyway, some fixes mentioned were to turn off notifications for Gmail - hard to do if you can't get to settings, though.
What worked for me was to try and side-load an application - copy an APK file to the 'downloads' folder on your KFHD via a connected computer using the windows file explorer, or ADB - and then install the APK. In my case by clicking on it using a file manager. The KFHD told me that I would have to enable foreign application installs to finish the install of the side-loaded APK, and took me to that portion of settings that dealt with that. In that section was the 'Reset to Factory Defaults' button.
I pressed the reset button, and got everything back. Earlier applications (google play store) that I hadn't un-installed in an attempt to fix the problem were still there. Super User was intact. I downloaded & installed everything again, and all is working as it should be.
Until Amazon comes clean with this walking ad-server, details on how to modify it without introducing issues are going to be sketchy . It's just our lot in life, if you'll pardon. I appreciate having super user access, and all the Google apps I love to use, but what's really required is the ability to modify the boot loader. Until that's available, it's going to be try until it fails, and then scramble to recover.
Nice HW, but limited by Amazon's vision of the customers.
Pat
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It works!!!! all the missing parts have come back. the Go launcher EX has saved in Cloud.

solution
download an app called my android, open the app go to my apps and find the settings app then go to device and then go to factory reset. its the only way I found to access settings when drop down didn't work. after resetting to factory my buttons all came back after doing the tooltip for startup

What worked for me on my AF tablet was to uninstall all 4 Google APK files, then uninstall the Launcher Hijack. The tablet swipe down and home button both came back for me. I then re-installed the Google APKs, but didn't re-install Launcher Hijack. Tablet works fine, functions are normal, just have to put up with seeing the default Amazon screen first before tapping the Nova Launcher icon to get to my custom screen, a minor inconvenience, and I didn't have to do a factory reset.

[Q] Problems installing 3rd party apps [Solved]

This may seem like a ridiculous question at first glance but I can't work it out.
I have an international I9305, stock 4.1.2 Rom and no root with over 10Gb storage spare.
For some reason I'm randomly unable to install 3rd party apks. I've checked the box to allow installation from unknown sources. Just now I've downloaded the AirDroid2 beta apk, went into ES file manager, clicked the apk file but can't click install. I get the permissions list and the option to cancel but the install button is greyed out. The cancel button works fine. If I wait a few hours and try again apps will install without issue.
I tried installing another apk that previously installed without issue but that won't either.
Installing apps from the play store work as normal
Reboot didn't solve it.
So: Has anyone else come across this issue? Any idea how to work around it in future?
Edit: Worked it out. Turns out the app Screen Filter stops you installing third party apps when active. Never even considered it would have made a difference.

[resolved] Xposed framework stopped working, now cannot reinstall.

Rebooted my phone today and quickly noticed that my xposed framework stopped, well, doing anything. Some customizations from modules were not there. Went into the xposed installer and it reported that an update was available but the counts were all matched and green. Tried to install it all the same, and it failed. I'm getting the error "Could not extract app_process". I tried uninstalling the framework (along with running the disabler in recovery) thinking maybe it just bugged out. However, I am still unable to install/reinstall the framework, still getting the "Could not extract app_process".
The only thing I did related to xposed was update BubbleUPnP (which just posted an update today). I have since uninstalled it in case it was causing the problem, but it has had no impact. I'm not sure if it's possible for a module to break the framework itself, or to cause an ongoing issue once it is removed.
I'm running rooted stock 4.4.2 on a Galaxy Note 3. Any help would be very appreciated.
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Decided to do a nandroid backup, came across something there. I'm getting I/O errors at the start of the backup (e: error opening '/data/data/de.robv.android.xposed.installer/conf' as well as a couple similar for two modules). Is it possible my internal storage is going bad? I've hardly had the phone a year, would be rather surprised.
Thanks.
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Another update. Following instructions I found to manually install xposed framework (see http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-4/general/diy-manually-installing-xposed-t2369618 ), I was able to get app_process once again installed and recognized by the installer. Shows 58 bundled, 58 active. The XposedBridge.jar, however, still is not being seen though I did set it up per the instructions above. It looks like this is where the problem stems.
Still looking for assistance. Thanks.
------Final Edit
Poked around a bit trying to fix things. Tried deleting the xposed directory in /data/data and was getting I/O errors. I was able to rename the directory, and then able to install the framework normally. Apparently that directory is somehow corrupt. Even after renaming, I cannot delete it. Unsure what's going on with it, but at least I don't have to wipe my phone or replace it (yet).