Help "Damaged SD Card" and buggy application menu

[xMikey123]

Hi there- first post to the forum. Hello all.

Yesterday I picked up my mobile and it said 'damaged SD card' and that I had to reformat it. After taking it out various times, wiping the chip etc. it still was damaged so I formatted it through the phone as instructed by on-screen instructions. It seems to be working okay now although obviously I lost all the data on it.

Whilst it was 'damaged' when I went on the application menu some of the applications icon's were greyed out with an SD icon covering the logo. When clicking on them it said 'this application is not installed'.

Now that it is working again, the apps remain like that. Having reinstalled them from the market, new applications have appeared so I have various duplicate apps in the menu, one of which is greyed out.

In addition to this, there are various 'spaces' in my application menu. An empty space where an application icon should be. It is not a dissappeared icon as such- its just that an empty space has been created and all icons shifted along one.

I hope this makes sense.

Does anybody have any advice?

Thank you.

 

[Russell Ng]

What happen was that some of the app files were on the microSD. Its located in the folder Android_secure which could only be viewed through PC. When you format the microSD, files that were necessary to run the apps were gone.

You need to uninstall the greyed out apps. Go to settings/manage applications and either under the downloaded or On SD tab, uninstall/remove all the greyed out apps. You would then have to reinstall the apps that you want.

My suggestion is that as long as your phone memory is adequate, you should keep the apps fully in the phone memory. Just a suggestion really. Specially since you never know if the microSD will get damaged again after it happen once.

Cheers

 

[xMikey123]

Thanks for the fast response.

okay then. Thanks I shall do so. I thought they were all on the phone memory originally because I always left it as default and never specified to put it on the sd card. How do I ensure thaf in the future they will all go into the internal memory.
Thank you.

 

[Russell Ng]

Some files of some apps do get installed into the external microSD if you have any. You can check in Settings/Manage Applications under the ON SD tab. If there is a tick beside the app, some of the files will be in the external microSD. Just tap on the app and move it back.

Cheers

 

[xMikey123]

Awesome thanks have done that now. Now at least if my card breaks I won't lose any apps.

Fortunately Amazon have agreed to replace my card so all is well.

Thank you!