Help all apps being shown as not installed! Please help!

[ares05]

Hi all,

I'm in a big fix! My Galaxy S2 was working perfectly fine until a few hours ago. When I opened the FB app it force closed and assuming it was an error I opened it again but it kept force closing. I then opened the Gmail app and to my surprise that too kept force closing on repeated attempts.

I then restarted the phone and too my surprise all my app including Google Play Store, Gmail etc (except for the Samsung apps) were shown in grey and on clicking a toast message pops up saying the application is not installed!!

I don't have the slightest clue what happened! Has anyone faced this problem before? Any ideas on how I could fix this? Kindly help!

Thanks!

 

[breadnatty08]

First, welcome to the forums!
Have you just upgraded to ICS? I know it's been causing problems with Facebook.
Second, if you're willing to, a factory reset may be in order. I'm assuming you're not rooted. Let us know.

 

[ares05]

Thank you for the quick response.

Yes the phone is very much stock, haven't rooted it. And yes I recently updated to the infamous ICS 4.0.3. Been facing a whole bunch of problems after that but this just tops everything!

Is factory reset the only way forward? Would really like to keep that as a last resort.

Thanks!