Upgrading external memory card.

[captainbob]

Being a newbie at Android, I upgraded my memory card from a 4 gig to a 16 gig yesterday and discovered this problem. If you have moved any apps to the memory card from the phone ( I always thought they moved to the non- removable SD card rather than the ext SD card, but apparently some components of the moved apps are on the ext sd), and then you uninstall the ext card, some of your apps are also removed with it , even though you copied all the folders on the old memory card to the new one.

So after I started up the phone again, I saw that about 8 of my apps had disappeared along with their shortcuts , and I would have needed to re-install them all. So I had to put the original SD in the phone, move all the apps one by one back to the phone back to the original sd card using the apps menu, and then reinstall the new card. Lesson learned.

 

[Frisco]

Nice discovery of a good, basic issue we see reported around the forums now and then, captainbob. The system does need to be assisted by the user sometimes.

 

[sirphilk]

Just updated from a 16gig to a 32gig micro sd. I think one important thing that I did that may have helped is I went into folder options in windows and made sure to check both show all files and show system files before copying. So far I seem to have managed the update without an error for missing files (I waited a week and tried as much as I could before I posted this).