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Samsung galaxy 8 - apps went gray -when moved to sd card

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userz7cYFV7cch
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Appa went gray when moved to sd card how do i get them back?

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jspenceolson
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You will need to return them to system storage so they can properly boot.
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realaud
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You can no longer run apps of an SD card.  They must reside on the phone's SSD.  You will have to reinstall them to your phone. SD cards were not meant for running apps, and even if they were, you can't just move them, you'd have to install them there as the installation files creates pointers to the app location and data files, which will not change just because you moved files over.  So, since there is no longer an option to format an SD card as internal storage, you cannot install an app to an SD card.  Your SD card should only be used for storing audio files, photographs and documents.

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