Odd issue with adoptable memory when reinstalling apps

[pdxfisher]

I ran into an odd issue with adoptable memory. Everything worked fine until I tried to reinstall an app that had previously resided on the SD card. I received a -504 error every time I tried to reinstall. I did all the cache cleaning, etc, etc but I could not get the app to reinstall.

I ran experiments to repeat this issue. If I moved an app from the SD part of the memory to the internal part and uninstalled it I could reinstall just fine. If I uninstalled an app that was sitting on the SD card I could not reinstall.

In the end, I just moved everything off the SD card back to internal and reformatted the SD card back to normal (removable) memory.

Has anyone else run into this? I am curious if anyone has seen this problem and then solved it.

This was on an S7 edge.

Thanks.

 

[chanchan05]

Probably depends on how you enabled adoptable storage since that's disabled by default on thr S7. Moving an app to SD card via the app manager is not adoptable storage.

 

[pdxfisher]

I followed Paul OBrien's article MoDaCo on setting up adoptable storage. It worked fine - except when reinstalling an app that ended up on the SD card, was deleted. I was not moving apps anywhere the OS was properly apps on the SD card (indicating proper recognition of the adoptable storage).