Help SD card stealing apps from phone memory?!

[crazeedavee]

Hey all! Went to open Candy Crush and my Samsung Galaxy Note 2 (Verizon) reported the app had stopped before it had a chance to open. A couple retries later and still the same message. I restarted my phone and the app icon changed to a blank, with an SD symbol. I think the application moved itself to my SD card? I didn't move it myself, just wondering how and why it did this and if other apps will do the same? Anybody else experience this and how to fix/stop this? Thanks guys!

 

[crazeedavee]

UPDATE***
just tried to switch app back to device storage under the application manager and got a message saying "app doesn't exist". I'm addicted to candy crush, and now my heart is crushed. Helllllpppp :-/

 

[Prepaidguy9081]

When I see icons like that in my circle launcher [a widget that acts like a folder for apps] it means the app has been uninstalled.

This could have been caused by the force closes.

Try looking in app manager and uninstalling the app.
If it is not there try re installing from the play store.
If it says it cant instsll, you can root and go into the app data folder for user data in the root and delete the traces of the app to allow install
Or
Do a factory reset.

I do not suggest playing in the root directory without a backup of your rom. As one mistake may require a reflash of the rom.

 

[tube517]

Could also be an SD card issue. What brand is your sd card?