Need a fix: "Couldn't install on USB storage or SD"

[mr72]

Yes, I've read the threads. I've done the search.

I have an HTC Aria running liberated FR008.

It's been working brilliantly for as long as I can remember but the error popped up "Couldn't install on USB storage or SD".

There is no "smdl2tmp1.asec" file on my phone, never was that I can tell. That is not related to the problem.

Yesterday, at great expense of time, I removed everything from the 16GB SD card, reformatted it, and put it all back (about 12GB worth of data). This did not fix the problem.

One thing that may be related, I recently was running into the issue of not having enough space, so I moved the dalvik cache to SD using "a2sd cachetosd" or whaver the command is. HTC Aria having limited space for apps is a known major problem that I was trying to fix. Is this related? I don't know. I did this before it began having this new error.

Someone has to know a legit fix for this issue. There is 1.65GB of free space on my SD card and 34.48MB on the internal storage. There should be more than enough space to do updates.

What's the scoop? can someone help?

 

[mr72]

Anyone have a hint on this? My search ninja skills on the net are not giving me any answers.

 

[mr72]

Continuing the theme of one hand clapping:

I found for a couple of apps that could not update due to this problem, they happened to be apps installed on the SD. I moved them back to the phone and they updated successfully. I have not attempted to move them back to the SD.

Perhaps this data point aids in diagnosing this issue. If this proves to be a consistent pattern, then I will just apply this work around as long as I have space on the phone to move apps over one at a time and update them that way. Even though the solution to this bug doesn't seem to be at hand, perhaps this is a work around.