Certain apps keep crashing after first reboot

Help Fairphone 2
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Not sure if this is the right category, please move accordingly. Also not sure if I should try to contact the people developing Lineage for FP2 directly, don’t know how.

Bought a used FP2 about a week ago, installed Lineage on it according to the official wiki via TeamWin, no Gapps this time around. Formatted the sd-card from my old phone as „internal“ storage. Everything is working fine except for a few very strange things:

  • Certain apps I install work correctly until I reboot for the first time. When I try to open them after rebooting they keep force closing („[Appname] keeps stopping“ etc.) until I reinstall them.
  • I’m pretty sure these apps are either installed on the sd-card or using them like Kiwix but also Pedometer which I don’t know why it would need the sd-card. Other apps that use the sd-card are working fine (e g. Signal which uses the sd-card for backups/imports etc).
  • All the misbehaving apps I’ve checked so far have „Samsung SD-Card“ as „Storage used“ in the app info. Trying to move to „internal“ storage results in a „Not enough storage space“ message (there’s about 7gb free space on the internal storage, that pedometer app is a few mb). Apps that are working fine can be moved from sd-card to internal without this wrong error message.

Things I’ve tried so far:

  • Clearing the cache/data of misbehaving apps
  • Wiping cache/ART/dalvik-cache
  • Booting the phone without an sd-card an reinstalling the apps. Result: apps crash everytime I try to open them.
  • Reinstalling Lineage (+___+)
  • Using another sd-card

After writing this I feel like this might either be a corrupted sd-card (unlikely that both my sd-card are corrupted and not sure how to check this) or a problem with Android/Lineage (or certain apps?) handling „internal“ and sd-card space.

Any ideas what I could try? (Accept for installing FPOS or FP Open and see if the problem persists…)

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Mh, after reading this it might be that it’s the missing Gapps? Not for Kiwix though … And I’m using lots other apps that are flagged with using Playstore Services that work fine.

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Have you tried using the SD card as “external” storage? Might be worth a shot.

CAUTION: you will lose data / have to reinstall apps when switching, so in any case do a backup of data / app settings you’ll want to keep before trying!

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Argh, yeah I have. Can’t remember what happened though :woman_facepalming: I feel like it was just like when booting without an sd-card, the apps just kept crashing after install. But that’s a thing I could try again, (and write down what happens this time around), thanks!

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I’m gonna jinx it by saying this but: I did’nt to anything (except for a Titanium-backup!?) and the apps are behaving well, atm. Even Signal didn’t need to be re-registered as the default SMS app like after all the other boots …

So, I guess stay tuned until the problems resurface? :thinking: