topic Re: Xperia Z3C issue after transferring apps to SD card in Z Series

Xperia Z3C issue after transferring apps to SD card

Teevie — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 07:28:04 GMT

Hi guys, hoping you can give me a little help here.

I updated my Xperia Z3C to Lollipop the other day, which has been fine so far, but last night I moved a few apps over to my SD card to free up some of the internal memory in my phone (not using any third party app to do this).

It seems as though something has gone wrong, as my phone restarted itself while one of the apps was transferring and now ALL of them are showing up as a blueprint icon with a little red SD card in the corner, and when you click it it says 'Application not found'. I assume this means the app data on the SD card is corrupt. As I have photos and music on my SD which still work I don't really want to format it, but not sure what to delete to make these icons disappear from my app menu!

I'm not bothered about re-installing the apps, that's not a problem for me at all , but the main issue is opening the app menu and the first page and a half being nothing but these 'app not found' icons! I've attached an image. As they don't show up in the Apps list in settings anymore I can't get rid of them!

Thanks for your time guys, hoping someone can advise!

EDIT: Have just tried removing the SD card and restarting my phone, but these blueprint icons are still showing which is very worrying!

Re: Xperia Z3C issue after transferring apps to SD card

Rickard — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 09:29:34 GMT

Hi and welcome to the community!

Sorry to hear that you have issues moving your apps.

What if you tap the 3 lines and then select uninstall, are you able to remove them then?

If not, gp to Settings -> Xperia Connectivity -> USB Connectivity -> USB connection mode -> MSC, connect it to a computer and delete the folder called ".android_secure" and see if that helps.

Re: Xperia Z3C issue after transferring apps to SD card

Rickard — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 12:36:10 GMT

You may also want to try to reset the home screen from Settings -> Apps -> All -> Xperia Home -> Clear data -> OK but please note that this will reset your home screen to default settings (widgets, shortcuts).

Re: Xperia Z3C issue after transferring apps to SD card

Prabhat_007 — Sat, 13 Jun 2015 14:00:35 GMT

HI,

I am using Xperia ZL which i upgraded to lollipop recently. Even I am also having the same issue. Recently i transferred one app from my internal memory to my SD card. After that I am seeing a blue icon with a small red sd card on it on the top right corner. When i tap on it , it says application not found. Also i m not able to remove the icon from my phone.

Please help here.

Thanks,

Prabhat

Re: Xperia Z3C issue after transferring apps to SD card

YoGem — Sat, 13 Jun 2015 16:08:38 GMT

My best guess is that the memory card got corrupted while you was moving the apps from the phone to the Memory Card. Mind, not all apps can be moved to the memory card. In my own experience all you can do to resolve the problem is either uninstalling the apps, format the SD card/replace the SD card or if system apps are involved, which I think it's not possible to move, a factory reset may help to fix the issue.. Or repairing the device with the Sony Companion app.

Re: Xperia Z3C issue after transferring apps to SD card

YoGem — Sat, 13 Jun 2015 16:15:31 GMT

Regarding the blueprint icons after removing the SD: that's normal. Not all the app are convenient to move as part of it remain inside the device storage and just part of it get moved to the SD card, in fact that's the exact reason why also removing the SD card you still see the blueprint icons.

Why some apps are not convenient to be moved? Because some apps, for example, of 10mb of size will be splitted in two parts, one of 8mb in the device storage and one of 4mb in the SD card so the size will increase instead of decrease, and you'll save just 2mb of internal storage and lose 4 of SD space..

Is it really convenient moving apps to the SD card? No, not really. SD card after long time usage are prone to failure, they are not created to run applications for long time and if a SD card stop to work, you'll have to reinstall all the apps.

Re: Xperia Z3C issue after transferring apps to SD card

SergioPL1 — Sat, 13 Jun 2015 20:16:06 GMT

I would suggest to copy all pictures to computer and reformat SD card. Just to be sure it won't fail on important images or apps when you'll need them most.

Re: Xperia Z3C issue after transferring apps to SD card

_alexdon_ — Sat, 13 Jun 2015 20:38:58 GMT

Someone else is having a similar issue:

/t5/Xperia-Z2/Z2-Deletes-SD-Card-Content-after-Reboot-HELP/m-p/1000122

Re: Xperia Z3C issue after transferring apps to SD card

ahamed1 — Sun, 26 Jul 2015 05:41:51 GMT

I also recently upgraded my z2 to lollipop 5.0.2,after the update I've been experiencing same problem,the apps which is moved to sd card,it works fine until I restart it,after restarting it shows a blue print icon with red sd card symbol above it.will it be fixed by any options or will it be corrected in next update 5.1.1 lollipop,please help sony

Re: Xperia Z3C issue after transferring apps to SD card

chrishassony — Fri, 07 Aug 2015 11:07:57 GMT

I also have this problem on xperia tablet z2. If I install the app from the market it seems to work okay but the problem is I can't rmemeber what they all are. Anyone know a way to find out?

When external pendrive(USB) is attached

Azreff — Tue, 11 Aug 2015 09:19:06 GMT

Hi, I'm using my z2 with the latest firmware 5.1 lollipop.
There is a big problem to me, when i attach a pendrive on my phone, all my apps in my SD card will not be functioning. I can't use any apps. I can only transfer files using the 'file commander'. Is this usual? Why does this happen? I've already repair it with PCC. The problem doesn't solved.

Re: Xperia Z3C issue after transferring apps to SD card

chrishassony — Tue, 11 Aug 2015 23:42:07 GMT

Anyone had any luck with this problem. Really want to get rid of these broken apps without having to factory reset and lose everything else.

Re: Xperia Z3C issue after transferring apps to SD card

Garibald — Thu, 13 Aug 2015 11:56:46 GMT

Clearing the data for Xperia Home got rid off the broken app links. However I had to reconfigure my home screen again, since it was reverted back to standard. Took me a couple of minutes but it was worth it.

Go to Settings->Apps->All apps and then Xperia Home. Choose Clear Data and it should solve the problem.

Re: Xperia Z3C issue after transferring apps to SD card

Sergioss — Thu, 13 Aug 2015 18:18:15 GMT

Just go to Google Play, log in and go to apps / My apps. You'll see all the applications installed in your device

Re: Xperia Z3C issue after transferring apps to SD card

Amie_ll — Wed, 19 Aug 2015 13:55:46 GMT

Hi,
How to identify the missing app of an blueprint app?

I want to avoid to install all apps installed every to see what application is missing. Or is there a way to de-install/ fix app inventory for blueprint apps without knowing the missing app?

Missing App Icon , One left.

Jayyyy — Tue, 01 Sep 2015 23:02:13 GMT

Hi,

I know this topic has been done to death, but I am pretty sure there is an easier way to find out the missing app and reinstall it to delete it properly.

I used APP 2 SD to move various apps around, and I ended up with 5 missing app icons, 4 of which I have recovered and removed sucessfully.

I have one left, and I have been through all my downloads off the play store yet I cannot get it.

Now I know this is residual from the internal storage, so I assume it is being picked up on boot , or at least some files are . I have located what I think is the folder on the internal storage, but is there any way of definitely finding it and removing it so the icon disappears ? The icon is not on the home screen, its in the full app list. Thanks in advance.

Re: Missing App Icon , One left.

Thommo — Wed, 02 Sep 2015 00:06:48 GMT

Simple answer is no - All you can do is a factory reset or system repair and start a fresh

Re: Xperia Z3C issue after transferring apps to SD card

FFA — Thu, 03 Sep 2015 08:52:44 GMT

THANK you! It's been driving me nuts - now resolved 🙂

New microSD card, application not found

Lianne — Mon, 07 Sep 2015 10:01:23 GMT

Hi,

I have a problem with my new microSD card. I copied all the files from my current card to the new one. But now some of the applications can't be found. Those applications show a red icon with a microSD card in it (see below). According to File Commander the same files are on the new card as on the old one.

The new card has 32 GB, class 10, it is brandless.

Does anyone know how to fix this?

Thanks!

EDIT: I tried formatting the new card and copying the files again, it's still the same. The apps work normal when I put in the old card.

Re: New microSD card, application not found

Thommo — Mon, 07 Sep 2015 10:50:47 GMT

There will have been hidden files which help in the reading and writing of files to SD cards just like a Pc has hidden folder and files which are needed for all Pc's to boot up and run programs