Root Cant Install Apps- Error 18

[condog]

So ive been rooted for a while now. Almost a year now. Ive been using all sorts of roms but recently(up to 2 months ago) i started getting errors. Games like fruit ninja and angry birds will not install on my phone. I have more than enough memory for them and they are downloaded fine, just fail on install. Ive tried all sorts of roms, wiping data/cache, and fix permissions. The market gives me this message "unknown error-18" any help would be great as this sucks.

 

[istolvampire]

This happens on different roms?

 

[condog]

This happens on different roms?

several. simply stunning, lithium mod, bugless beast

 

[istolvampire]

Don't know if it is coincidence or what but a lot of the problems I have seen the last couple days have all mentioned Fruit Ninja.

 

[condog]

Don't know if it is coincidence or what but a lot of the problems I have seen the last couple days have all mentioned Fruit Ninja.

this has been happening for months. first instance i can remember was an app called "sd move"

 

[condog]

i found the answer. god bless xda! [Q] installation error unknown reason-18 - xda-developers

 

[Lock-N-Load]

well there are like 3 answers in there, which one worked for you?

 

[robert0712]

Alright found a fix. I hooked my phone up to my computer, browsed to .android_secure and deleted the file 'smdl2tmp1.asec'. Problem solved.