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How do I install a .apk on my Nexus 7 using the browser?
I recently got an Asus Nexus 7 Tablet shipped to me, and want to be able to use all of the .apk files I have saved on my computer (all purchased/downloaded legitimately). Here's the issue:
I'm in the ...
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Cannot install or move Android Apps to SD Card - is it a flaw from the Android or from the phone manufacturer?
From my understanding, while the Galaxy S4 does offer a memory card slot, it's worth mentioning that you can't install apps on the memory card and can only use it for storing movies, music, pictures, ...
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Cannot access all my folders from my SDCard via USB
I plug in the USB cable to my computer. I click on Open Device to view files, I get to the root of my SDCard. The problem is that there is a directory missing.
I can see it with my file manager on ...
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My SD card was removed unexpectedly and won't work anywhere no [duplicate]
I bought a 32gb SD card for my Galaxy Mini long ago. It's never been removed from the phone. But yesterday my phone removed my SD card. I don't know why it happened. I tried to remove the SD and put ...
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Micro SDHC card won't mount on Sylvania SYNET7LP-DS
My new Class 4 PNY 16GB Micro SDHC card won't mount on my Sylvania SYNET7LP-DS 32GB Extended storage Froyo (2.20) Tablet. This is the second new card I returned, and still won't mount. When I press ...
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Losing partition on sd card
I have a 2GB sd card that I have partitioned with minitool partition wizard, Easus partition master and Gparted. Each time I create a 1.5GB fat16 partition set as primary and a 370MB ext2 partition ...
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sd card not mounted after formatting
So, I tried to do a clean wipe of my Galaxy SII I1900 variant and flash in Paranoid Android's latest build, and everything was successful, but I realised the clean wipe wasn't that "clean". It did not ...
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Should I keep my Android tablets' power off or leave them on standby mode?
Should I keep my Android tablets power off or leave them on standby mode? Which option is better?
I have two tablets: Allwinner A10 single core 10 inch (old one) and Allwinner A31 quad core 9.7 inch ...
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Why does my SD data get messed up when i connect to PC with USB?
Every time I connect my phone to my computer via USB (Huawei U8666E, Android 4.0.3) even after I've disconnected my phone, the following 2 things happen (that I can tell): My ringtone goes back to ...
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How to put a ROM on read-only /sdcard, while adb shell not working (HTC One X)
I've been searching my _ off for two days now to find a solution for my problem, but I can't find one working for me.
What I do have right now:
NO working ROM (I believe because of a failed atempt ...
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Reinstall ROM from a new SD from scratch
My HTC Desire (Bravo) rebooted by itself in the middle of the night; the result is that I lost all the apps that were installed on the SD card (that is probably corrupted). Now that I have another SD ...
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Force Google Maps to save cached maps on SD card
I am downloading a large number of map areas in Google Map for offline use. It appears that, by default, Google Map writes its cache to my phone's relatively scarce internal memory. Is there a way to ...
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sluggish performance due to mmcqd CPU usage
I have an older Droid Incredible running Cyanogenmod 7.2. Recently, I've noticed some sluggishness on the phone that doesn't seem limited to a single app. The CPU Usage Plus app (which I think just ...
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Xperia V New SD Card, can't make it recognize it as external
SEARCHED FIRST, WANT TO ASK MYSELF!
So I just bought a new Micro SDHC card, 32gb Samsung, placed it in the turned off phone, then turned it on, the sd card is recognized, but it doesn't appear in the ...
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Internal storage, phone storage and SD card
I am new to Android (v4.0.4) and trying to understand it.
By looking at the storage setting, I found the followings are listed:
Internal storage: total space 807MB
Phone storage: total space ...
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SD card unmounted when HTC Desire is being charged (even with a “wall charger”)
Whenever I plug in the charger into my HTC Desire (2.2) it unmounts the SD card. I can get around it when it's connected to a PC or other device via USB by selecting Charge Only again in the charge ...
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Access Samsung Galaxy S4 storage and SD card directly
I bought a Samsung Galaxy S4 a while ago. One annoying difference compared to my previous Android device that I've noticed on S4 is that I cannot access the internal storage and SD card directly by ...
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What would cause the existence of a /sdcard/logfile.log?
Since quite some time I've been getting a file /sdcard/logfile.log which gets really big quickly, last time I checked it was about 2MB. That file seems a general system log since I remember seeing ...
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Missing application from sdcard
I did factory reset. So, I lost application from sdcard but that application files still exist in sdcard.
How do I recovery my application from sdcard. I do not have back up app data file.
My phone ...
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Automatically un-mount SDCard safely when device is rebooted or turned off?
How can I configure my Galaxy S II so every time my device is either rebooted or turned off the SDCard is safely un-mounted because at the moment if I don't un-mount it, the files on SDCard appear as ...
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LG Optimus Logic Transferring apps to Micro SD instead of internal memory
I recently purchased an LG Optimus Logic Net10 phone which runs Android 2.3.6. The phone was advertised as having 1GB internal Memory and also came with a 4GB Micro SD.
When I download apps, they ...
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How do I store pictures on SD card by default?
How do I move the photos I have in my gallery to my SD card? Someone told me to download an app that allows you to do this, but it didn't.
Also, is it possible to save them to the SD card by default, ...
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Can I store contacts on my SD card? How?
I have 400mb of internal storage on my HTC, 100 of which is consumed by my (extensive) contacts. I am constantly low on storage--is there any way to store my contacts on my SD card?
I looked in the ...
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Run Ubuntu from SD Card on Android Tablet
I'll be acquiring my first tablet in a few weeks, and haven't tinkered with Android much besides my 1st gen Motorola Droid (I had an HTC Sense, but a power surge fried it and turned it into a brick, ...
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SDCard frequently unmounts itself with HTC One V
I am using HTC One V running ICS 4.0.3. The issue I often get is that my sd card is disconnected automatically for which I have to restart my device.
Secondly it takes a hell lot of time to load ...
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What does the 'Failed to move application. Not enough memory' error mean when choosing 'Move to SD card'?
When I choose 'Settings - Applications - Manage applications' , and a 'Move to SD card' I get the 'Failed to move application. Not enough memory' error.
Anyone know why ?
I am running Froyo 2.2 on a ...
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Can't mount my sdcard rw
I really messed up my HTC Desire today. I need to copy some files to the sdcard, but my Android phone won't let me mount the SD card with write access.
Here's what I've done in short:
(boot to ...
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Is SD card damaged
I bought 32GB SanDisk class 10/UHS1 SD card from Flipkart.com
Many times it fails to load all apps from SD card and many time it simply says in notifications "Damaged SD card", or suddenly notifies ...
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SD card in Android virtual device
I have created an Android virtual device with sd-card.
Now I want to create another Android virtual device with sd-card with same data.
Where can I find the sd-card image file?
By the way, I'm ...
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Fixing “Couldn't install on USB storage or SD card” issue
I recently had a problem that prevented updating any application installed on the SD card. When trying to update the application in the market, the update failed and the following message was given as ...
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Need to unlock Coby tablet; MicroSD card not formatted
My Coby Kyros MID7024 tablet is locked with a pattern lock. The person who set the pattern lock has unfortunately forgotten it. I tried to unlock the tablet using these methods:
The volume ...
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memory card not working [duplicate]
i bought a new android phone and i inserted a 32gb sdhc card that i used in my htc on it. it works well for 3 days , suddenly it showed me a message unsafe to remove memory card. then i reinserted the ...
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Gallery is displaying three, sometimes even four copies of the same file - why?
I have a non-rooted Android phone running 4.0.4 (ICS). The phone has 3GB of internal storage and I have inserted a 16GB SD card. The SD card contains a number of audio and video files.
When I opened ...
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How do i transfer files from an old memory card to a new one using the Sony Xperia J?
I recently bought the Sony Xperia J and bought a new SD card ive tried to transfer my files over through the USB lead and it says theres a error and wont allow me to do it can anyone help me please?
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Malware has corrupted SD card
I have android phone with SD card. Malware has moved all files to other folder. Then I copied it to previous place. But now it doesn't show applications placed in menu. It shows it in settings. What ...
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selecting a chime in Caynax Hourly Chime
In Caynax Hourly Chime when I select chime option a dialog with a Search button appears. But while I have some sound file in my SD it do not show them. How can I choose chime file in this app?
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Can I install an app directly to my SD card?
I'm trying to install a large application (EA games' Scrabble free), but I have insufficient space on my phone, so I can't complete the installation. I have plenty of space on my SD card though, but I ...
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Use Applications on post-boot mounted SD card?
In order to increase free space on /data , I moved some 15Mb of application files to an ext2 partition on external SD card that is mounted on /data/HWUserData/mnt
Specifically, I moved
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adb “Permission denied” to run a “./configure” file
I need to run a configure file into my android phone so I think the best way to do this is to use the adb shell command.
I'm running an Android emulator onto a Windows-7 platform, and there I'm ...
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Unable to move few Apps to SD Card
I have apps such as Any.DO and AK Notepad installed in My Samsung Galaxy Y Android 2.3.6 phone. I have tried Titanium Backup and App 2 SD (move app to SD) but still not able to move these apps to the ...
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Move Mail storage from phone's internal memory to the SD Card
I am not too concerned with the security aspect of putting my mail on the SD card, I am however very interested in moving the mail storage from the phone's internal memory to the SD card.
I have ...
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I keep getting storage errors but I have plenty of free space, what is safe to remove from internal storage?
I keep getting these errors:
Screenshot #1: install errors (click image to enlarge)
But according to the storage settings I should have plenty of free space:
Screenshot #2: free space (click ...
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How to recover files from SD card on HTC Merge?
So today somehow my phone completely reset itself. I went into my local wireless office and they helped me a bit. My phone has lost all of it's contacts and apps (no biggie) but the employee told me ...
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Does the lock screen on a encrypted device provide different security than an unencrypted device?
I am wanting to encrypt my phone and sd card. I have been reading around about it all week and still don't understand a few things. I though that the encryption was like blackberry encryption, where ...
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Why did /sdcard/ turn into /sdcard/0/ with 4.2?
I've never seen this before so I'm assuming that it happened when I upgraded to 4.2: I'm fairly certain that /sdcard/ used to take me straight to my sdcard, but now when I go to that path (in CWM ...
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Unable to open copied files from computer to device (mount as disk drive) - HTC Desire S
I connected my phone as a disk drive and put some files ( .png ,.jpg ,.swf ) in the sdcard.
I am unable to open those files on the phone. I am unable to find those files in the gallery of the device, ...
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How to save map cache of my city on SD card for use with Google Maps, possibly with no expiry?
I don't have enough rep. to comment under other's post, so I had to open this thread. I read some threads on Google Maps here and the question still persists.
Is there a straightforward method to ...
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How do I stop apps from installing themselves to my SD-card?
It seems that some apps default to saving to SD-card when they're first installed on Froyo rather than defaulting to internal memory, this is annoying because whenever I mount the SD Card as storage ...
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Why can I not assign exec permissions to a file on the SD card?
shell@android:/sdcard/SW # ls -l
-rw-rw-r-- root sdcard_rw 128 2012-09-22 11:42 usb0config.sh
shell@android:/sdcard/SW # chmod 777 usb0config.sh
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