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recovering apps from SD card
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John Carter
Apr 6, 2016, 1:22:54 PM4/6/16
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My wife just bought a Galaxy S7, but before doing so,
she moved some apps from main device of her Galaxy S3 to the sd card.
She bought the phone, the store transferred all her contents from the
old phone (S3) to the S7. they used Samsung Smart Switch, if that has
any bearing on this discussion. We are also AT&T customers, but she
purchased the phone at Best Buy.
She was told that her sd card was a class 4 card and they had not had
good
luck in inserting these into the S7, as it might not recognize the
class 4 and attempt to initialize it. Whatever?
She came home and asked if I could transfer the SD contents from her
Class 4 card to one of her class 10 cards, so I did, and everything
seemed to be fine.
Upon inserting the class 10 card into the phone, it recognized it OK,
read her photos and muusic, etc. But her apps transferred to the sd
card did not show up on the phone anywhere. Upon inspection of the sd
card by ES File Explorer, we can see the app files there, but don't
know how to move them back to the S& main device or what to do with the
files. I noted they were not .apk files, but some extension I had
never seen before. They are .asec files found in the "Android secure"
folder on the SD card.
So we have the files on the SD card, but don't know what to do with
them. Can someone help or direct us to a reference site or document
that will help ?
Thanks for your assistance.
John Carter
she moved some apps from main device of her Galaxy S3 to the sd card.
She bought the phone, the store transferred all her contents from the
old phone (S3) to the S7. they used Samsung Smart Switch, if that has
any bearing on this discussion. We are also AT&T customers, but she
purchased the phone at Best Buy.
She was told that her sd card was a class 4 card and they had not had
good
luck in inserting these into the S7, as it might not recognize the
class 4 and attempt to initialize it. Whatever?
She came home and asked if I could transfer the SD contents from her
Class 4 card to one of her class 10 cards, so I did, and everything
seemed to be fine.
Upon inserting the class 10 card into the phone, it recognized it OK,
read her photos and muusic, etc. But her apps transferred to the sd
card did not show up on the phone anywhere. Upon inspection of the sd
card by ES File Explorer, we can see the app files there, but don't
know how to move them back to the S& main device or what to do with the
files. I noted they were not .apk files, but some extension I had
never seen before. They are .asec files found in the "Android secure"
folder on the SD card.
So we have the files on the SD card, but don't know what to do with
them. Can someone help or direct us to a reference site or document
that will help ?
Thanks for your assistance.
John Carter
crankypuss
Apr 6, 2016, 4:22:08 PM4/6/16
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in your file explorer, then tell it to "open with installer" or
something like that depending on your file manager, it will then install
them on your primary storage and you'll have them on the sdcard as
backups. You would need to go to... wtf is it, "developer" settings I
think, maybe privacy/security, and tell it to install apps from unknown
locations before opening them (undo that afterward, as if google-apps
doesn't qualify as an "unknown source"). And as I recall, on KitKat you
have to click on the build-number seven times before you "become a
developer" or some such shit, if you can actually find the build-number
wherever they've put it... "about phone", maybe.
At least that's what I'd try, I've been off in BlackBerry land for most
of a year and the Android tablets that I have are being used with pretty
much stock applications.
I hate easter-eggs and crap software, so please pardon the attitude.
--
http://totally-portable-software.blogspot.com
[Sat Mar 26: "Documentation and Portability"]
John Carter
Apr 7, 2016, 9:43:18 PM4/7/16
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crankypuss <inv...@invalid.invalid> wrote in
news:ne3qvb$bp5$1...@dont-email.me:
I have an update...
The ".asec" files are encrypted ".apk" files that were done when they
were "moved" from the device to the SD card.
I believe that if you yourself move them back to the device, Android
will decrypt them back to ".apk" files, which then can be installed.
I am going to give it a try and report back.
news:ne3qvb$bp5$1...@dont-email.me:
The ".asec" files are encrypted ".apk" files that were done when they
were "moved" from the device to the SD card.
I believe that if you yourself move them back to the device, Android
will decrypt them back to ".apk" files, which then can be installed.
I am going to give it a try and report back.
namande...@gmail.com
Jun 25, 2020, 12:42:20 AM6/25/20
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Allodoxaphobia
Jun 25, 2020, 8:41:00 AM6/25/20
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On Wed, 24 Jun 2020 21:42:19 -0700 (PDT), namande...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Thursday, April 7, 2016 at 6:43:18 PM UTC-7, John Carter wrote:
>> -snip-
> On Thursday, April 7, 2016 at 6:43:18 PM UTC-7, John Carter wrote:
>
> Hey, any update on this ?
On a 4+ year old thread?????????
> Hey, any update on this ?
Oh, I see. YAGG Yet Another Google Grooper.
Superhiway
Feb 7, 2024, 10:04:50 PM2/7/24
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(Sorry. Just HAD to do it. My funny bone was triggered with that FOUR year delayed request.)
Carry on... LoL
"Superhiway"
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