[Android Central Question]

The apps were all working fine in the AM and then they all were gray and a pop up notification said my SD card was not installed. I took the SD card out and back in, shut the phone off and back on with no results

[mustang7757]

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[belodion]

Card failure? Card reader failure?

[methodman89]

Card failure? Card reader failure?

Yup. Where's that post about not putting apps on the SD card and doing backups?

[B. Diddy]

Welcome to Android Central! belodion and methodman89 are almost certainly correct. You most likely either used a Move to SD feature to move portions of those apps to the SD card, which then got corrupted, thus breaking those apps; or you formatted the card as Internal Storage, started installing apps to the SD card that way, and then the card got corrupted. This is not that unusual, since SD cards are inherently less reliable than internal memory. We all recommend against trying to move apps or install apps to the SD card.