Android app icons disappeared? [answered]

asked 2014-07-14 17:18:43 +0200

DJ Henk

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updated 2014-07-24 11:24:35 +0200

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Hi,

I'm a new Jolla user, so forgive me if I ask someting obvious. I installed some Android apps and everything worked perfect, but now the icons are missing so I can't start them anymore. Nor am I able to get them back by reinstalling.

First I tried to install them by using the file browser and selecting install from the pull-menu, but that didn't do anyting. I could see the contents of the apk though, so I assume it is not corrputed or anything.

Later, I followed the steps on this page this page that explains how to install Google Play. (Only with different apk's, of course)

This worked and I was a happy user for a couple of days. But now the icons are missing. The apk's are still present in /opt/alien/system/app

While searching for a solution, I came across some pages that said to use apkd-install xxx.apk. If I try that, I get

method return sender=:1.4 -> dest:1.93 reply_serial=2
boolean true

As you can see, I'm a bit clueless on this. Does anyone have a solution?

Thanks!

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answered 2014-07-16 10:25:47 +0200

DJ Henk

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updated 2014-07-16 14:12:25 +0200

After some trying, I seem to have solved this myself. These were the steps I took. They were probably not all necessary, but it might be handy for future reference to list them all:

Since moments after posting this question a new system update (1.0.8.19) came out and since this was a new phone that I had not done very much with yet, I decided to take the hard route: a factory reset first and then a system update.
Installed Android support and File browser, switched to developer mode and accepted untrusted apps.
Moved apk to phone by usb, tried to install it with the File browser. It was stil not possible to install android apps this way.
Did some reading, discovered that /opt/alien/system/app was not the only directory involved with android apps, /data/app is interesting too.
So I opened the terminal, navigated to /data/app and saw is was empty, except for a subdirectory called incoming
Looked in to /data/app/incoming and lo and behold, there was the apk I tried to install.
Took a guess and moved the apk as root with the mv comand to /data/app. Got a notification that an app was installed.
Went to look in the launcher, app was there and worked.
Then I copied another pak to the home folder and tried to install it with File browser. Succes again!
After this, I installed three more apk's with the File browser. All work perfect.

My very uneducated guess is that the first apk got stuck in the /data/app/incoming directory and blocked the installing of android applications.

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answered 2018-02-23 16:39:41 +0200

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https://together.jolla.com/question/178887/installed-app-here-we-go-not-visible/ helped to solve this problem in my case

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