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Monday, June 13, 2011

I can't update Android apps installed on the sd card anymore

Connect your device to your PC (you may need to have the USB drivers that came with your phone installed)I've recently started having a problem with updating my Android apps.

If they were located on the SD card then the update would fail after it was downloaded.

After searching around for quite a bit, the following did the trick:

  • Connect your phone to your PC
  • When the connection is detected by the phone, it may ask you if you wish to switch to USB storage. Say yes.
  • From your PC, go to the phone's drive (that should have just appeared in Explorer) and navigate to /sdcard/.android_secure/
  • Find the file called smdl2tmp1.asec and delete it
  • Disconnect the phone
  • Done!!

 ps: Comments and/or links to this article are most welcome!

7 comments:

  1. Had the same problem. This also did the trick for me. Thanks!

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  2. Thanks! I had been searching for a solution to this all day. Tried clearing the dalvik cache etc etc etc.. now it works like a charm!

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  3. This was the only thing that worked, I had tried clearing the cache etc etc, I was so disappointed!
    Thank you so much!!

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  4. I'm glad I found this post. Thanks! Works perfectly!

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  5. Thanks my friend!!! i really need that.

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  6. Great tip Nick, linked from my blog - http://usesmallicons.blogspot.com/2012/02/android-unable-to-update-apps-on-sd.html. Copied as well, if that's a problem just let me know.

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