[Problem and Solution] After GB Update, missing apps? Avoid reinstalling, try this...

[powdbyrice]

Funny... I STILL can't update to this. I'm on the 5th, 6th, maybe 10th time where it prompts me "System Update - Install Now? Install Later? Cancel?"

I click "install now", it counts down from 10, and then just sits there. No installation or reboot takes place. "System Update" in settings says "up to date", but the version is still the old 4.06.605.3, and so it repeats every couple of days, with another update prompt.

Any fix for this? (though from the sounds of it, this "fixes" things I'd rather not have fixed... kinda got used to the phone being able to use the internal storage space for apps)

i dunno if you found the solution to this, but here it is:
OTA Update 4.08.605.2 this morning - Verizon Wireless Community

wont erase anything on your phone. i did it on my inc and my wife's inc with no problems.

 

[RobCash]

Think we are a little mixed up here which is most likely my fault sorry.

1. I updated without moving any apps

2. I still havent moved any apps (from sd to internal)

3. When first turning my phone back on after the upgrade I had missing apps.

4. To get them back in settings, sd/storage, I unmounted then mounted the SD card that brought the apps back.

5. When shutting the phone off and turning it back on as long as fast boot is checked the apps always come back. I dont think fast boot unmount/mounts the sd card on shut down/restart.

6. If I uncheck fast boot and shut down, when I turn the phone back on the apps are gone again, to fix this I can again go into settings, sd/storage and unmount the sd card and then mount in again.

I am doing all this from the phone.

I was saying it seems fast boot seems like a work around to not having the apps going away again.

If not using fast boot the apps will all go away, so it seems moving them to the phone is the best option. Sorry if I am not making sense.

This worked for me. Thanks!