All self installed application went missing!

[bri]

Hi there.
Do you have any idea why after i tried to install another pkg file, all of a sudden the other installed applications went missing. Except for the pre install like alarm and Bluetooth.
When i browse in the phone, all the files for the missing applications are still there...its like the applications are there but no icons for me to click on it..
Do i need to delete it manually and reinstalled all?

TQ

[swifty]

do you have a backup of your PlugCardDB(located in /mmc/mmca1/.system/java)?
i can't give you more, because i don't know "another pkg"

[indiacam]

someone made a TrojanHorse virus in "another.pkg" or what? lol

Master reset and go ahead

[bri]

someone made a TrojanHorse virus in "another.pkg" or what? lol

Master reset and go ahead

Master reset? that is e only way ? OMG

do you have a backup of your PlugCardDB(located in /mmc/mmca1/.system/java)?
i can't give you more, because i don't know "another pkg"

I dont, sadly...why do you think this happened? i would like to warn the rest motofans.

[swifty]

@bri
can you tell me what program you have installed?

[bri]

@bri
can you tell me what program you have installed?

last installed program is Mclean.
you want to know all ?

call volume combo, emulator,
i have just master reset and master clear everything.
after i backup all e phonebook and sms..
the problem is the motorola phone tool software is corrupted and now i could restore back my phonebook..ive search everywhere but couldnt manage to find it.
i think i wanna commit suicide!

[bri]

One more thing, i couldnt find the plugcardDB in the transflash...
gone...what should i do ?

[Who]

Hi there.
Do you have any idea why after i tried to install another pkg file, all of a sudden the other installed applications went missing. Except for the pre install like alarm and Bluetooth.
When i browse in the phone, all the files for the missing applications are still there...its like the applications are there but no icons for me to click on it..
Do i need to delete it manually and reinstalled all?

TQ

EDIT: You posted while I was writing this that you couldn't find the PlugCardDB file - so it looks like this won't help at all - doh!

It would be nice if someone more knowledgeable than me could chime in on whether this is solution might work/is safe - I've not even had this type of problem and I've only had my phone a few days - aaaanyway. Consider this a pointer to the solution and not a complete answer please!

===**this is really me just speculating - in some ways I think I shouldn't write it because I am not an expert and you could do something to damage your phone. on the other hand - if I had the same problem I would probably try this. Only follow this if you agree it seems sensible - I cannot be responsible for any damage you may do**===

From the things I've been looking at doing to my phone it looks like the list of installed apps is stored in a file called
PlugCardDB (the apps on the SD card, at least) - if the installation you just ran corrupted or damaged that file when it tried to edit it (in order to insert itself) then it seems likely to me that the apps would not show up anymore (after all, what a file giveth, it can take away!).

So, perhaps the thing to do is to look at that file with a unix text editor (I hear Notepad on Windows doesn't work because it uses a different text encoding to the phone) and look to see what's there.

I am assuming the apps you can't find were on the SD card not the phone - is that right? if NOT then these steps might still work, but you will probably not be working with the same PlugCardDB file (i.e it might be a similar file in the .system/java folder of the phone, not the sdcard)

Where you actually find this file will depend on things like your operating system, and how you mount the device (eg whether you use a card reader for the transflash or a phone). It is on the SD card and lives in

[sdcardroot]/.system/java/PlugCardDB

On some systems .systems will be a hidden folder. [sdcardroot] means the transflash card 'base' directory - it might me F:\ or 'sdcard' or /media/disk or something else system dependent!

If this file has all the apps you _used_ to have installed listed in it then you probably don't have to run a full re-install - you just need to make it readable by the phone again. If I had this problem I would try

0. Backup PluginCardDB file - just in case
1. Just save the file with the unix compatible text editor, reboot phone (this is in case the app install did something to the text encoding).

2. Has the new app added a section for itself (see http://www.troodon.org/a780/a780-linux-howto.htm for some details on what a 'section' might look like) - if so does it look 'right' (compared to the other sections). If it doesn't look 'right' then correct it as best you can (from that guide)

3. If you can't do that but the new app HAS added a section for itself then MOVE the offending section out of the PluginCardDB file into somewhere else safe, save the pluincardDB and then restart the phone. IF that works then you know that the new app added something wrong and you won't have access to the new app. To fix this don't run the installer again but try to work out what is wrong with the entry the new app put in.

4. Look for a file similar to the PluginCardDB file on the _phone_ not the sd card. If you find one, open it (but be careful not to save it - we don't want to damage it if, for example, we have an incompatible editor) - is the syntax and layout different? If something is, you could _probably!_ (I have never done this, it just seems to me that it MIGHT work) 'fix' your PluginCardDB file to look like the working phone version and reboot to try and make it work - maybe then your apps will start working. Maybe this is impossible - I don't know

Good luck, please be aware of what I have said about my inexperience! Hope it helps,

Who

[bri]

Thanks Who. but it didnt help. mmmm.

[swifty]

last installed program is Mclean.

i could not find a program with the name Mclean.
can you give me a download link?
so i can check if the program has something to do with your problem.

if you have no backup copy of your mmc you have to install all your programs again.