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Root Partitioned new SD card; now several things missing

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Lord Vader

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Here's the scoop...

My sister just got a new SD card, a 16GB, Class 10 card. She copied the contents of her old card to a PC. Then she inserted her new card into her EVO, and I walked her through partitioning it, which appeared to go fine.

After booting the phone, she noticed several things were missing or not working:


  • The Market app itself is totally absent
  • Google search is totally absent
  • A few other apps she uses are also totally absent
  • A search through her entire app list doesn't even show the icon present in the list
  • She has Titanium Backup (free version). When she went to that app to try and restore the missing apps, under Market app, Google search, and the other missing apps was listed "no backup," meaning she was unable to restore the app (which is to be expected--can't restore that which was not backed up)
  • When we signed in to the Market using her gmail log-in, the missing apps are listed as "installed," even though they're nowhere to be found on her phone. Consequently, we're unable to re-install them again via the Cloud.
My questions are:



  1. What could have caused this? The phone seems to be working fine, as do the apps that are present.
  2. How can she re-install missing apps when her basic app Market is not even present to re-download and re-install them?
  3. What can she do to get Market back so she can at least re-install her missing apps? (Of course, WILL they even "re-install" if they show as "installed"? If that's the case, where the heck are they and how does she get them back?)
  4. What "extras" does paid Titanium Backup Pro have over the Titanium Backup free version? It's only six-and-a-half bucks to buy Titanium Backup Pro, but you have to understand, my sister is so cheap it's not even funny. I've been urging her to buy this app ever since I rooted her phone for her 3 months ago, but she has refused. (What she does with her money I'll never know. I mean, she can't afford $6.58 when she's expecting a $4500 tax refund??? :confused: )
 
The previous card was partitioned (it was the original 8GB card that came with the phone). She did not do a nandroid backup with sd ext saved. She did do a nandroid backup after she inserted and partitioned her new card.
 
Lord Vader said:
The previous card was partitioned (it was the original 8GB card that came with the phone). She did not do a nandroid backup with sd ext saved. She did do a nandroid backup after she inserted and partitioned her new card.
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well i think that is the issue. when you changed the card the sym link on your phone telling the phone where to look on the card for the apps is now broken. does tb still work. try and restore the apps and data with tb. i forget with myn's warm if you need to flash darktremors or not.
 
For the google apps after installing a new rom u rather need gapps or the stock apps push script that's located somewhere around this forum lol

Sent from my LG Esteem on Tapatalk pro. 1.8 GHz woooott
 
Just put the old card back into the phone. Do a NAND including the SD ext. Put your new card back in back and flash your NAND.
 
ocnbrze said:
well i think that is the issue. when you changed the card the sym link on your phone telling the phone where to look on the card for the apps is now broken. does tb still work. try and restore the apps and data with tb. i forget with myn's warm if you need to flash darktremors or not.
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If that's the issue, then geewhiz's suggestion below might work, correct? If so, that sounds like a relatively easy fix.

geewhiz said:
Just put the old card back into the phone. Do a NAND including the SD ext. Put your new card back in back and flash your NAND.
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It's worth a shot. I've never had your problem before, but if you didn't go out of your way to install darktremor and your sym links are indeed the only issue. You might have some success. Good luck!
 
Update...

My sister re-inserted her old card then tried to do a nandroid backup with SD-ext checked. The process began, but then the process stopped with this message: "Oops! Something went wrong. Please check the recovery log."

She can do a regular nandroid backup without SD-ext selected, but she cannot do the nandroid backup WITH SD-ext selected.

She has tried it three times but the same error each time. Any suggestions?
 
Lord Vader said:
Update...

My sister re-inserted her old card then tried to do a nandroid backup with SD-ext checked. The process began, but then the process stopped with this message: "Oops! Something went wrong. Please check the recovery log."

She can do a regular nandroid backup without SD-ext selected, but she cannot do the nandroid backup WITH SD-ext selected.

She has tried it three times but the same error each time. Any suggestions?
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That usually means there's no EXT partition. Did you move the recovery log over to the SD card and see what the error was?

P.S. I responded to this post over at Android Central, LOL.
 
Actually, we found the problem--lack of space. I deleted a few things via remote control of her PC, then she was able to do a nandroid backup with SD-ext. One thing to double-check, though--shouldn't she copy this backup to her new card? After all, doing a restore from the new card when the backed up nandroid is on the other card doesn't make sense. ;)
 
Ok, the backup/restore of the nandroid with SD-ext went fine, but there still remains the main problem of these three apps not appearing in her app list:


  • Market
  • Facebook
  • Google (search)

She restored Facebook via Titanium Backup but that doesn't show up in her app list. Also, Market and Google Search are not listed at all. They're also not in the list of apps under the Application Mgmt. area of Settings. When she signed in to her Google account on the Web to try and find these to re-download, she's unable to do so because they're both showing as "installed." Yet anytime she tries to find them on the phone, they're nowhere. No app listed, no icon in the main app list--nothing.



I did manually send her the Market .apk file that she downloaded to the root of her SD card, if that would do anything, but right now she hasn't messed with that.


Any suggestions?
 
Good Lord! You're not asking for much, are you? LOL

I certainly wouldn't have a problem doing that, but my otherwise technologically clueless sister may not want to do that. I will try to convince her, but in the meantime, if anyone can think of a way to get back Market, Google, and Facebook, that'd be ideal. (Facebook "restored" via Titanium, but it doesn't show anywhere.)
 
Lord Vader said:
Ok, the backup/restore of the nandroid with SD-ext went fine, but there still remains the main problem of these three apps not appearing in her app list:


  • Market
  • Facebook
  • Google (search)

She restored Facebook via Titanium Backup but that doesn't show up in her app list. Also, Market and Google Search are not listed at all. They're also not in the list of apps under the Application Mgmt. area of Settings. When she signed in to her Google account on the Web to try and find these to re-download, she's unable to do so because they're both showing as "installed." Yet anytime she tries to find them on the phone, they're nowhere. No app listed, no icon in the main app list--nothing.



I did manually send her the Market .apk file that she downloaded to the root of her SD card, if that would do anything, but right now she hasn't messed with that.


Any suggestions?
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Hopefully there is a file manager program included in the ROM? Just open the file manager, most will open to the root of the SDcard. From there she can select the market .apk that you sent. She should be asked if she wants to execute the file to install or there should be an action menu were you can choose to execute the file. This will install the .apk.
 
She's on Warm2.2, so I'll have to check and ask her which file manager program she may have with that. I'm trying to remember when I rooted it if I installed one myself. I thought I installed Root Explorer or one similar.
 
If shes still on warm 2.2 nows a better time than ever to get her "caught up" and on MikG 3.0.

This will fix all of the SD card issues and she will have all the security fixes of a ROM in active development.
 
I don't think she's going to go that route. In fact, because I had so many freeze-ups with MikG's 3.0, I went back to Warm2.2, which has always been the most stable ROM for me. That's why I left her with Warm2.2.

I'm on NoLimit's new ROM and liking it, but as far as flashing a more "advanced" ROM for my sister, I don't want her to do that for fear she'll experience the same problem I did. I couldn't get Mik's to run stable no matter what I did, and I had a lot of suggestions from folks on his forum--nothing worked.

Interestingly, I put Mik's on my dad's EVO and it's been smooth sailing ever since. I'm wondering if the fact that my EVO and my sister's are much older--we got ours in late 2010; my dad got his mid-December, two months ago--may have something to do with this.
 
Lord Vader said:
I don't think she's going to go that route. In fact, because I had so many freeze-ups with MikG's 3.0, I went back to Warm2.2, which has always been the most stable ROM for me. That's why I left her with Warm2.2.

I'm on NoLimit's new ROM and liking it, but as far as flashing a more "advanced" ROM for my sister, I don't want her to do that for fear she'll experience the same problem I did. I couldn't get Mik's to run stable no matter what I did, and I had a lot of suggestions from folks on his forum--nothing worked.

Interestingly, I put Mik's on my dad's EVO and it's been smooth sailing ever since. I'm wondering if the fact that my EVO and my sister's are much older--we got ours in late 2010; my dad got his mid-December, two months ago--may have something to do with this.
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Ah, I understand your concerns with putting MikG on there then.
Some phones just don't like some ROMS. I'm not sure there's a good explanation for it. I had the same issues with one of Virus's ROMS. I loved the way it looked, but my phone didnt like it.
 
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