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Amazon Appstore Not Installing
- Thread starter Shmooey
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funkylogik
share the love peeps ;)
Have you checked "unknown sources" in settings?
If that doesn't work, download again. I had a bad Amazon download that made me crazy until I gave that a go.
Shmooey
Well-Known Member
Dang. 
Ok, the usual questions - phone model, how much free space for apps, did you get it from Amazon, you know, the usual dumb questions, sorry. Also important, does your phone use an actual sd card, and has it given you any grief lately?
And just thought - I'd had the old one to install. They had an update recently, hope that installer isn't wonky.
Anyway, shoot me back some info, let's see what we come up with.
Ok, the usual questions - phone model, how much free space for apps, did you get it from Amazon, you know, the usual dumb questions, sorry. Also important, does your phone use an actual sd card, and has it given you any grief lately?
And just thought - I'd had the old one to install. They had an update recently, hope that installer isn't wonky.
Anyway, shoot me back some info, let's see what we come up with.
wrichards2009
Newbie
Are you trying to use a shortcut on the launcher.. or app drawer?
funkylogik
share the love peeps ;)
I installed amazon just.. yesterday i think so the instataller is fine :thumbup:
Ok, great phone btw, I rocked one for a long time.
The Amazon app is among the larger ones out there at 18 MB (it's in the top 5 of my apps) but you have enough storage. You got that number from app management I presume?
Okay, so first, please try to install and run Elixer 2, tap the information button. Keep it or not. Should tell you what you already know (it's a great app). It's over 8 MB, I want to see if it installs ok.
If it installs and uninstalls ok, please do a battery pull, leave it out for 60 seconds.
I'll be here.
The Amazon app is among the larger ones out there at 18 MB (it's in the top 5 of my apps) but you have enough storage. You got that number from app management I presume?
Okay, so first, please try to install and run Elixer 2, tap the information button. Keep it or not. Should tell you what you already know (it's a great app). It's over 8 MB, I want to see if it installs ok.
If it installs and uninstalls ok, please do a battery pull, leave it out for 60 seconds.
I'll be here.
K, give me a minute to get to my pc where I can type more easily.
Meanwhile, are you rooted?
Meanwhile, are you rooted?
Oh, fantastic!
Please tell me it's been a while since you've been in recovery and wiped cache and Dalvik.
Because here's the thing - both of those areas are used as temp storage to do app installs and the Market/Play Store has been notorious for not always cleaning up after itself.
Now - wiping cache and Dalvik won't always clear that error.
If it doesn't, you most likely have something tangled in /data/data - in other words, where app data are stored.
To fix that, you'll need to do a factory data reset - but because you're rooted, you should be able to throw a full app/data backup (Titanium Backup I presume?), do the FDR from inside recovery, and then restore.
Which backup do you use? Are you comfy with it?
Which recovery? Same question.
PS to staff - even though this has a device-specific root solution, let's please leave this one here as it's a common enough issue and could help others rooted or not, Evo or not. Thanks!
BTW - do you have Terminal Emulator installed, or are you comfy with adb?
Terminal Emulator, at prompt, enter df then enter (return, whatever you know) and please get me a screen shot.
Get out of it by saying exit then enter.
Get out of it by saying exit then enter.
Ok - you're allocated over 160 MB of space for the cache and the Dalvik cache - of which, you only have 2 MB free.
That's not enough.
Go into recovery, clear cache and Dalvik cache (amon ra may call that wipe instead of clear, I forget, sorry). You may get a message on startup that Android is rebuilding apps (depends on your version) - if you see that, it's normal.
Do that, try to install Amazon again.
You're not using much of your app space, so it's odd that your cache areas are so full.
In any case, if that works, then you'll want to clear those caches on a fairly regular basis.
You won't lose anything just clearing cache and Dalvik - they're just caches, just like your browser uses. They get built up as you go along to make things run smoother, faster.
Ok to clear them at the first sign of any troubles.
That's not enough.
Go into recovery, clear cache and Dalvik cache (amon ra may call that wipe instead of clear, I forget, sorry). You may get a message on startup that Android is rebuilding apps (depends on your version) - if you see that, it's normal.
Do that, try to install Amazon again.
You're not using much of your app space, so it's odd that your cache areas are so full.
In any case, if that works, then you'll want to clear those caches on a fairly regular basis.
You won't lose anything just clearing cache and Dalvik - they're just caches, just like your browser uses. They get built up as you go along to make things run smoother, faster.
Ok to clear them at the first sign of any troubles.
Only thing left then - Titanium Backup, factory data reset, restore from Titanium.
I wonder - are you running apps2sd or anything like that?
That may have some things confused in your space management, not sure.
If you are, I'm too rusty on that, you'll have to ask in the Evo root forum, sorry.
I wonder - are you running apps2sd or anything like that?
That may have some things confused in your space management, not sure.
If you are, I'm too rusty on that, you'll have to ask in the Evo root forum, sorry.
thanks EarlyMon