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[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dragon135:
I remember I have tried this long time ago:

I list down all the apps I have, I have around 450 apps back then. Then factory reset and flash a clean ROM from Odin. Then I installed the apps one by one from the market. Installed 50 apps then reboot to see problem happens, repeat this step until almost those 450 apps is installed.

But the reboot problem happened when almost all of them is installed.

I have also tried restoring only application (not including data) with Titanium Backup with no luck.

The point is that this is no problem in 2.3.4 ROM, this problem started since 2.3.5 ROM.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] temp9300:
i have the same problem (i'm with 2.3.5), came here looking to see if anyone else had found it too.

First time i fixed it deleting 2 or 3 files from android_secure in sd card but when it occurred i deleted all the files in android_Secure and reinstalled the affected apps.

until a solution exists i'll have to be careful what apps i send to the sd card. :(
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wuffi123:
made a new thread in lg o2x section.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=23066060#post23066060

it seems that there is somebody, who doesn´t have our problem.

maybe it´s the way we move apps to sd? i do it with gimini app manager, or install them direct to sd from pc with 91 mobile pc suite. Or i use titanium backup (but don´t think titanium is the problem, cos the problem is the same if i install all apps manually from the beginning of a clear rom ).
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] essamco:
No one find a fix for this problem!!!

official ICS coming soon I hope it comes without any problems.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] algger:
Today the ics 4.0.3 XXLPJ was released/leaked. Has anybody tested it to know if this annoying bug was fixed now?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] essamco:
Today I tested leaked XXLPQ rom.I moved many apps to SD card then restarted my device. the same problem return back reboot bug comes with official ICS !!! what we do ? they not fix this bad bad problem. we can not move apps to SD then why this option is there.

2 giga internal memory for apps is too small. we need to move apps to SD its very important or if there is a way to move apps to usb Storage but I don't think so.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wuffi123:
guys, i had a new idea

i used to move my apps to sd with titanium or gemini app manager or i installed them directly to sd from pc with 91 mobile pc suite.

but inbuilt android app manager (settings/apps) doesn´t allow to move every app to sd.

so i formatted sd with sd formatter, did a fullwipe and installed all apps from the beginning and let android choose where to install. after that i moved some apps to sd with inbuilt app manager from android, so only those apps which android allowed me to move.

stayed in flight mode and didn´t installed dolphin (cos some guys thaught that could cause the problem).

BUT: problem still remains!!!

so gemini, titanium or force install to sd isn´t the faute!

reboots a still there untill there are more than about 50 apps on sd! it´s so annoying!!!

---------- Post added at 09:45 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:40 AM ----------

but... very strange:

once i hadn´t the reboot problem. before i installed all my apps, when there where ~100 apps on sd, it worked. but don´t know how, i installed a fwe more apps, and problem came back. but it once worked without reboot.

really weird.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] algger:
Did somebody tested this bug in a stock not rooted version of ICS?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] algger:
I thought I was fixed the problem the same way installing from the market clean using the operating system move to sd feature. But when I installed a buch of more app to the sd the reboots started again.... I'm still using the xxlph ics version, I'm going to install xxlpq to test again.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jeff6125:
Its still a problem with LP7 build too. I've seen an app called Link2SD and have tried it on WanamLite rom and so far its ok and no reboots!!

Fingers crossed it stays that way :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] algger:
I installed link2sd and partitioned 2gb of my sd card. Until now it worked perfect no reboots. Until the standard app2sd fix i think this is a good walk around to install all my apps and maintain only a few on satandard apps2sd.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wuffi123:
i got it working too without 2 partititions.

i let android decide where to install apps.

for creating space on phone i moved apps to sd with "app 2 sd free" from market. but there are some apps shown as movable, but with a little grew sd card sign with a cross. those apps (p.e. gosms, navigon, evernote,dolphin etc) i didn´t move.

on sdcard the´re 62 apps and 1,2 GB at the moment and i don´t have reboots.

a few times a had reboots, but pulling out battery and trying again helped.

so for me it´s perfect now.

in the futere i´ll try to move more apps to sd, but at the moment it isn´t necessary and i´m just happy that everything works.

edit: moved some more apps to sd, reboots are back!!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] justmiike:
I'm another victim.

Everything was perfect in 2.3.4.

I installed LP7 and after you install several apps to the SD card, constant reboots. So, obviously something changed from 2.3.4 and not sure what.

Most likely just go back to 2.3.4 then. Such a stupid problem.

So is it confirmed that all have this problem? Even custom roms?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jeff6125:
Was just about to ask how you were getting on :(

Samsung told me its a problem with the way the OS communicates with the SD card. Basically Googles fault. I'm not 100% sure but I've only found people with this issue on the S2 and Note. - Am I wrong? Are there others? I'm tempted to see if Cyanogen works but I've wasted so much time already with this.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] justmiike:
I too would like to know if any custom ROM doesn't have this behaviour which is an ICS build. Might have to wait awhile.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vr90:
Happens when I've got my 8GB card installed, although from what I can tell, only a single app is installed on it, I mainly use it for miscellaneous files. It's only started doing this in the last day or so. IT may have been triggered by an app. I'll keep testing in the meantime.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wuffi123:
no, i got the lg optimus 2x. and the problem is on every rom (miui+cm7+cm9-> all custom roms) higher than 2.34. the higest stock rom is 2.34.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vr90:
EDIT: Great, I mixed up my replies in both threads, how embarrassing.

Anyway, I've been doing some more investigation and I really can't find a root cause for my problem. I removed Opera which apparently might cause a problem, as well as try to unmount, remount trick. Phone doesn't seem to be acting up anymore.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] algger:
Is this bug present in stock phones?

Did somebody test a fresh brand new original not rooted phone with 2.3.5 or above to have this bug? Could it be a kernel bug? (i'm using Chainfire CWM kernel)

Because if this bug is present in every not rooted stock phone how come Google or Samsung didn't fix it in the ICS version? :confused:

I'm seriously thinking buying an Iphone and install everything I want without worrying about where to install the apps..... :p
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] flamepanther:
I've had this exact issue on Droid 1 and Incredible 2. It's not limited to any manufacturer.

Faulty thinking, friend. We have this issue because we run out of internal space and resort to the SD card, and now we hope for a fix from Google. On an iPhone you run out of internal space... and that's that--no hope of anything. In any case, the bug has probably gone unnoticed during testing for so long because it takes SO MANY apps on the SD to trigger it. Most "normal" users (who aren't side-loading tons of apps, or buying huge SD cards) won't ever run into this.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MistahBungle:
You deserve to be perma-banned :X

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[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] codeworks:
So, I have gone back to about 25 apps loaded on my SD card and so far so good. Just curious what others have loaded to their SD. Is their really a threshold as far as the # of apps? Size of apps? Total spaced used overall on the SD?

Thanks.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] algger:
max number of apps

I currently have 45 apps in the my SD and have no reboots, maybe one reboot at most but pulling out the battery wait a minute and start again the phone works well, I know if I install little more SD apps will trigger the bug so now I'm using link2SD manager that recomended another user here. I'm hopping Google will fix this huge issue in a future release because we didn't have it prior the version 2.3.5
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] g1n:
Yeap, I also had this problem once in my SGS2 2.3.6. I've updated to XLP7 4.0.3 and so far no problem for a week. However, the infinite reboot was intermittent and it somehow just disappeared one day.

One method I tried was:

1. Take out MicroSD and put to PC. Transfer all content to a folder. Reformat the card using Windows. Put all content back to the SD card and put it back on the phone.

I think method 1 worked for a couple of days and the phone started to go back to the crazy infinite boot loop. :mad:

The other solution I tried:

2. Connect the phone to the PC using USB cable with USB debugging mode on. When connected, Windows said there was an error or corruption in the SD card and it needed to be checked and fixed and so I did.

I did method 2 and the problem never came back until now. ;)

You can try the methods above and I hope it helps!

FYI: most of the apps in my SD are games and there are about 70 of them.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tolis626:
Holy f*ck,so that's what it was!My last Gingerbread installation got pretty ****ed up with the exact same symptoms,but prior to today I didn't know what it was caused by.I thought it was some faulty app or something,because it happened on ICS when I restored through TiBu.Turns out it's not that,eh? :p

Let's hope that Google or Sammy OR someone here will do something...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] justmiike:
Only 26 comments on the Google page, need more to comment!!

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=25563
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wuffi123:
guys i gave up and use link2sd now for about 2 weeks.

that solves all problems. you only have to create a second partition on sdcard (with minitool partition wizard or something else).

today i wanted to make a cwm backup. didn´t work, don´t know if its cos of link2sd, but doesn´t matter, cos i have titanium backup too.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dragon135:
Is this solution 100% works?

And it does not explain why using link2sd which heats up sd card can solved the problem.

Sent from my GT-I9100
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rocky23:
i got 400+apps right now and iam good i had facd tht prblm but i think install trust go ad way and adaway does solve the issue...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ali.Asgari2006:
hi

I had this problem too (with 2.3.5 , 2.3.6 , 4.0.1 , 4.0.3)

There is only one way to solve this problem

second parttion on sd card and use link2sd (download it from market)

us this thread

androidandme.com/2009/08/news/how-to-manually-partition-your-sd-card-for-android-apps2sd/

1.before use thread you need install Android SDK.(developer.android.com/sdk/index.html)

2.turn on usb debugging setting/developer option

3.open cmd

paste cammand: cd C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools

4.unmount sd card setting/storage

Tips

*replace Step 1 with :

command: adb shell

command: su

*replace mmcblk0 withmmcblk1 in all step.

*replace Step 7 with:

command: quit (exit parted and return to # prompt)

command: make_ext4fs /dev/block/mmcblk1p2 (upgrade from ext2 to ext4)

* dont need step 8

done

install link2sd and select ext4 for second parttion.

after restart just select app and link2sd

u can use this thread too

madteam.co/2011/09/30/link2sd-guide-and-usage-tutorial/

Second parttion make your phone faster startup

______________________________________________

my sd card

samsung micro sdhc 32GB class 10

pic: s14.postimage.org/q9ykqwae9/image.jpg

(sorry for my bad english and sorry for links)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ahmednn:
I have the same continuous rebooting issue with my Galaxy Note N7000

it disappears only when I turn off wifi and remove the SD card it is really annoying problem
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] the_desperado:
same issue here with LPQ and LPS firmware, stock and rooted with respective CF kernels. same issue with Siyah kernel as well.

Anyone managed to find a solution? do we know what is exactly the reason ? size? number of apps?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] curioct:
This works perfectly I created a 3GB ext 4 partition. I used links I have over 800MB free in the primary app partition and we'll over 700apps and games installed found a couple that don't like the linked state (probably because my sdcard is class 2) but move them to the primary or use native move to sd on them and they work fine very very happy
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kersh:
I have the same problem with my galaxy note, and I was thinking if it could be possible to repartition the data partition from the 2gb default to 4 or 6 gb for example but nobody knows if its possible or how to do that in any post or thread that i make.

Any idea for that?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] curioct:
What's wrong with using the method above and an sd card?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kersh:
The sdcards are slower than internal memory and you need to make partitions and use other programs, it is not a "clean" solution to the user.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rocky23:
so is ur prblm of bootloop solved???
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kentsmithnz:
Fixed!

OK Guys I've fixed this prob on my phone. Basically I found it was caused by App 2 SD (Free). I uninstalled the app and haven't had infinite reboot loop since.

I have around 100 apps on my SD card.

I initially got this problem under Gingerbread, then upgraded to ICS with same prob. SD card is fine - passed every performance and capacity test I could chuck at it. Is a Lexar 32GB Calss 10.

Disabling WIFI and putting in Flight Mode didn't make a difference for me.

I think this app must have worked fine for a while until I gradually started to put more apps onto the card and got past some theoretical limit where it's begun to cause contention with the O/S on startup - seems to be about 70 from reading previous posts. Either that or it was working and then the App2SD devs cocked it up with a upgrade.

It's also probably the reason Link2SD works too - you're just not using App2SD anymore?

Can someone else please confirm this fix works for them too. Then I can post a nasty review on the app page. :P

Regards

-KENT
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jeff6125:
Is that the one by Sam Lu? I've also got that installed, will try it when I get home (don't want to be wo a phone all day).

Not really sure what it'd be doing that would cause the boot loop but its worth trying!!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] curioct:
It works at least until Google fix it!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dragon135:
Interesting.. Which app2sd app u used? Sam Lu? How many apps do u have now on sd card? I also have app2sd, but doubt that it is the culprit. Can anyone else confirm about this?

Sent from my GT-I9100
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rocky23:
logically its not the prblm of apps2sd or link2sd ,its a sexy tool......no ones got a exact s100% soolotion there is workaround but needs time and patience....anywayz if some r happy an sorted the prblm..then thts good :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] algger:
I don't have APPS2SD App installed and still have the problem, the only walk around I found is not use the native operating system move to SD functionality. Instead I'm using Link2SD using a 3GB partition and everithing is ok. I'm currently using XXLPQ BaseBand.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anthonypiccolo:
Has Google fixed this issue yet? If not, I guess the only fix is to use the SD card for media and move any apps back to the phone. :mad:
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dragon135:
The only workaround that works 100% is using link2sd but u have to be rooted.

Or u can downgrade to gingerbread 2.3.4

Sent from my GT-I9100
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dragon135:
I doubt google will fix this issue. Looking the trend of no sd card slot in the new phone now, I suspect that google is forcing all OEM to drop external sd support. So this issue will be also non existence.

If this prediction is correct, then sgs3 won't have external sd slot.

Sent from my GT-I9100
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] curioct:
That's a totally irrelevant point, since this discussion is about app's being installed to external cards in the first place.

I would go as far as to say the link2sd model of creating native Linux partitions is the way Google should have implemented it in the first place.

For me it is not a work around it is a superior solution. The ability to use all your apps while usb connected alone makes it better.

The phone is no longer limited in any meaningful way as to how many applications you may have.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] A|ex:
This is what i originally had but it didnt work at all, the only solution which i know works is to disable wifi and remove sd card. Bug still present on 4.0.3
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] curioct:
The solution above over complicates things simply download minitool partition wizard home edition, create a primary ext4 partition. Pop the card back in the phone and it works a charm on 4.0.3

I even did this on a card with existing data worked great and I didn't lose a single byte.

Link2sd with this is fantastic. Obviously you have to manually move apps over. By the way don't move apps straight from the native android sd method to linked you get some odd results. Move them back to the phone then link them a little tedious uf like me you have alot but obviously only a one time job
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] galle:
Having same very annoying problem on my HTC Desire HD with Root and CyanogenMod 7.1.0

Android version 2.3.7 (???) has described in system info on the phone.

Once I find a stability of the system...every updates of apps could make this bug come back again. Usually I need to open folder "android_secure" on my SD and delete/move last updates files. This usually solve the problem, than I need to reinstall removed apps and try moving them to SD again one at time...until I find the one causing the crash. Than I finally can have some stability again.

On my HTC Desire HD I don't have so much internal memory so I NEED to move apps on SD!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] curioct:
I really don't think it's and individual one thing, but seems to me more like a critical mass. I seemed to peek around 600MB on a 32GB class 2 card.

Today I got a 64Gb card and copied my 10GB ext amp partition to it worked a charm first time really can't speak highly enough about the link2sd app and a good ext partition new lease of life to my phone not a single problem with over 600apps including some of the biggest games :)

Genuinely the way Google should have implemented it.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] A|ex:
Ok i am totally baffled by this, i do not run any apps or move any apps to SD at all, there is data on the SD card (standard files android puts on) phone restarts.

So now i create a seperate ext4 partition without the intent to move anything to SD and install link2sd. No apps are on the SD but the SD card is present in the phone.

Random reboots have dropped massively, i have only seen one but that might have been due to app error.

So i remove the ext4 partition and link2sd with the same data on the SD and reboots start.

I am puzzled over why link2sd and ext4 partition must be present for me to even have a SD to store data (pictures etc).
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Steve.P:
Same issue here on SGS2 running stock ICS 4.0.3:

PDA: I9100XWLP7

PHONE: I9100XXLPS

CSC: I9100XEULP5

I also never had a problem when I was running stock GB 2.3.4

I'm trying to move the apps back to the phone from SD but it's damn tricky as the OS reboots every two to three minutes.

I read about moving .asec files from the android.secure folder on the SD card to stop the boot looping but is there a way to move these files to the phone so that I don't loose the apps from the app drawer?

Moving one app at a time in a two minute window is a real pain and seems to be taking forever.

S.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] curioct:
Plug the sdcard into you computer move a bunch of asec files from the .android_secure folder put the card back in the phone reboot and it will boot normally move the apps back onto the phone.

Then plug the card back in the computer put the asec file back into the .android_secure folder reboot and repeat. Job done!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Steve.P:
Thanks! :D

Worked like a charm.

S.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dragon135:
Anyone have tried this issue on HTC OX or SGS3?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dodfr:
As many here I have been impacted (HTC Desire S 2.3.5 non-rooted).

After 3 days of tests (found this thread only today) I found also that it was not a specific app that caused the porblem but thenumber of apps moved into SD card.

In fact I did it because the system asked me to ! it showed an "low memory" alert and opened the standard app 2 SD interface of Android 2.3.x

But now I do have a question about moving back apps from SD into Internal memory.

Is there any tool that permit to do it in "batch" mode (multi-select) without having to do it manually each app after other ?

Thank you.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dodfr:
I have an idea, do somebody tried to check if the number limit of installed SD apps can change depending the number of services/autorun apps installed into SD ?

I mean if there are only non services/auto-start apps on SDCard do it also crash near 50 apps limit ?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] A|ex:
Its not a number of apps limit it is a storage size
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dodfr:
OK I missed that information (there are a lot of messages in this thread), can you tell me what is this size limit ? is it precise or more-or-less limit ?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] umair1201:
reboot problem

Hey guys..

I am new to this custom rom stuff.

I was on stock GB 2.3.5 before rooting and moving on to different custom roms.

I am facing a weird problem which comes on every custom rom I install.

Even if the ROM is fresh without any apps installed or whatsoever, I get a reboot after around 10-15 mins.. tried everything.. different kernls, roms..... need your help..

My phone details as of now are:

GT-i9100

ANdroid version: 4.0.3

Baseband: i9100XXKI4

Kernel: 3.0.31-Siyah-v3.2.4+gm@gm-mint # 32

Build: MIUI-RGUI 2.5.28
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dodfr:
This thread is about people that encoutered crashes because of too many apps moved to SDCard, if you have a crash with a fresh "clean" phone this thread may not be the one to ask your question, but just in case of, you could check inside your /sdcard/.android-secure/ folder to verify you really have no apps inside it.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] umair1201:
I have checked my sd card.. there is nothing inside it..

Can you guide me to a thread where I can ask my question??

Thanks..