Hi everyone, My Galaxy S II with ICS has recently crashed while installing an app from the Play Store. The app was Messenger WithYou (a Windows Live messenger app, but I don't think the problem was caused by the specific app). After downloading and while installing it, the phone spontaneously rebooted.
Now all my apps that *weren't* installed on the SD card no longer work. On my home screen they are either gone completely, or shown with a generic Android android icon. In the applications menu they are all still there, but displayed with a generic grey app icon with an "SD" in the corner (even though they are not installed on the SD card). Whenever I try to launch one I just get a popup saying (the Dutch equivalent of) "app not installed on phone". One big complication is that the inoperative apps include the Play Store app, so I can't just reinstall the other apps (not that I would want to, it would be a mammoth task). I've already researched the problem online and asked everyone, but nobody seems to have encountered this problem or know how to fix it (including T-Mobile, who want me to send the phone to them), so I thought I would ask here. Many people have encountered the *reverse* problem (apps installed on the SD card not being accessible any more), but not this one. Another data point is that while I can't launch the apps, they still appear to be there and even otherwise functional. For instance the Calendar app is one of them, but I still get calendar alerts, and the widget still works. Does anyone recognize this problem and/or know how I might fix it? What could cause Android to still have all these apps listed as installed, yet be unable to launch them? Is there something I can reset, a cache I can empty, etc.? I'm a developer and have the Android SDK installed. Running shell commands, etc. is not a problem for me. Many thanks in advance for anyone who can help me out! Cheers, Pepijn Schmitz -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
