hi i juz bought my X10 last week and i'm wondering where all the apps that i downloaded from market will save to? the phone itself has 1gb memory but when i check the "SD card & phone storage" > internal phone storage available space is only 366mb left.
are all the apps saved to my phone's memory how do i move it to SD card?
thanks for the help.
adanoob said:
hi i juz bought my X10 last week and i'm wondering where all the apps that i downloaded from market will save to?
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They download and install to the phone. If what you're asking is where does the original apk go you can find it in data/app
adanoob said:
are all the apps saved to my phone's memory how do i move it to SD card?
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You don't.
there is a forum on devlopment thread appto sd which might be of some help in case you wanna move ur contacts to sd card, personally i havent tried it coz i never used so many apps, but please refer it in case you want to move ur apps..
The apps all collect together in a little room inside your phone, which is full of thousands of the little green android guys, and the each take a little piece of the app, and then when you touch the screen, or press one of the buttons, they all run around with little torches shining them in the right spots to make what you see on the screen.
If you get a microscope, you can actually see them doing it.
But you've got to be really quiet, cos they're very timid, and they'll try to hide from you.
k1sr said:
But you've got to be really quiet, cos they're very timid, and they'll try to hide from you.
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If your phone has ever locked up, now you know why, you were being too noisy.
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I know i am not a very active member but could anybody please help me out here,
im unrooted for now, but i put an external sd card in my phone because it has all my music and pictures and other items, and when i go to my gallery it only shows what is in the internal memory, same with the music app, it only shows what is in the internal memory, someone please help!
familydude99 said:
I know i am not a very active member but could anybody please help me out here,
im unrooted for now, but i put an external sd card in my phone because it has all my music and pictures and other items, and when i go to my gallery it only shows what is in the internal memory, same with the music app, it only shows what is in the internal memory, someone please help!
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Have you tried restarting your phone yet?
Also check settings>storage and SD>unmount SD card
Did you try restarting the phone? Maybe downloading a file explorer to see if the phone is recognizing the sd card? You could double check to see if the sd card is seated properly. You could look under SD & Phone Storage in Settings to see if it's being recognized there.
Edit: Haha you beat me to it nguyendqh
realitysconcierge said:
Did you try restarting the phone? Maybe downloading a file explorer to see if the phone is recognizing the sd card? You could double check to see if the sd card is seated properly. You could look under SD & Phone Storage in Settings to see if it's being recognized there.
Edit: Haha you beat me to it nguyendqh
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=P lol. and +10...
familydude99 said:
I know i am not a very active member but could anybody please help me out here,
im unrooted for now, but i put an external sd card in my phone because it has all my music and pictures and other items, and when i go to my gallery it only shows what is in the internal memory, same with the music app, it only shows what is in the internal memory, someone please help!
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Make sure you don't have a file called .nomedia anywhere on your external sdcard.
Check the card for errors.
Wow, I didn't know about the .nomedia file. Learn something new everyday
FamilyDude - Have you tried...
From the HD2 forum...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=17785696&postcount=16075
Originally Posted by iivuch View Post
Go to Settings/ Application settings / Development and check on the USB debugging. Now your USB storage should work correctly.
oddly enough, I have a 16GB card in mine but it's saying it's almost 10GB total, I don't think I would lose 6GB somewhere in system. My G2X recognized the same card as the almost full 16GB. I erased everything before installing it to my Amaze so I'm not sure whats happening here.
RZJZA80 said:
oddly enough, I have a 16GB card in mine but it's saying it's almost 10GB total, I don't think I would lose 6GB somewhere in system. My G2X recognized the same card as the almost full 16GB. I erased everything before installing it to my Amaze so I'm not sure whats happening here.
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Are you sure you're not reading the internal memory?
There's 2 sets of info listed. Maybe scroll down?
nguyendqh said:
Are you sure you're not reading the internal memory?
There's 2 sets of info listed. Maybe scroll down?
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uhh close thread, nothing to see here
RZJZA80 said:
uhh close thread, nothing to see here
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LOL. Was that what it was? =P
nguyendqh said:
LOL. Was that what it was? =P
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I have no comment on the subject...haha
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I have no comment on the subject...haha
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Wow...
Okay... well...
Wow... LOL!
Thread closed.
i dont have any space on my usb storage and i want do download games that takes a lot of memory (200-700mb) is ther an app that move this apps to the external sd?
thanks for all the helpers!
GOTCHA - u want to play huge games thats why u need OC and all that
since Froyo, user apps can be moved to external SD - go Settings - Manage applications and click on the app u want to move. in the next screen u'll see app details and u have a big button "Move to USB storage".
p.s. hit the thanks button also if u say "thanks all..."
dowanrac said:
GOTCHA - u want to play huge games thats why u need OC and all that
since Froyo, user apps can be moved to external SD - go Settings - Manage applications and click on the app u want to move. in the next screen u'll see app details and u have a big button "Move to USB storage".
p.s. hit the thanks button also if u say "thanks all..."
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yes but not all the apps are moveable is there any way that i can move this app to the external SD?
and i have 2.3.5 android version
kfirbep said:
yes but not all the apps are moveable is there any way that i can move this app to the external SD?
and i have 2.3.5 android version
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You do not want to move all apps to SD... the ones that cannot be moved are greyed out so you can't move them... These apps, I suppose, are designed to run from your phone memory and cannot be moved.
You can try App2SD app but I recommend leaving those apps alone. But if you decide to force move them, do not move the apps with widgets as moving them will break the widgets.
never used such an app im afraid. im sure there are many, search the markets.
i find it odd that an app of the size u mention comes without the possibility to install or move to external sd.
in any case, i recall i saw somewhere thread or posts about using ADB shell to change a system parameter which makes all apps to be installed on SD card instead of phone internal sd.
cvcduty said:
You do not want to move all apps to SD... the ones that cannot be moved are greyed out so you can't move them... These apps, I suppose, are designed to run from your phone memory and cannot be moved.
You can try App2SD app but I recommend leaving those apps alone. But if you decide to force move them, do not move the apps with widgets as moving them will break the widgets.
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but which one of this app2sd?theres some apps that just says which of the apps is a moveable i want app that move every app i want.
dowanrac said:
never used such an app im afraid. im sure there are many, search the markets.
i find it odd that an app of the size u mention comes without the possibility to install or move to external sd.
in any case, i recall i saw somewhere thread or posts about using ADB shell to change a system parameter which makes all apps to be installed on SD card instead of phone internal sd.
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These game apps, from my experience, do install the game related files to the internal sd card... not the phone memory... I think the OP is concerned about the fact that since these players only come with 8GB to start with with about 4GB available to users as internal sd, taking 700MB of that leaves little space for everything else... the thing is... external cards are removable... and the game would not function without these files... so that is probably why they are installed on the internal sdcard and not the ex_sdcard... maybe... someone correct me if I am wrong...
dowanrac said:
never used such an app im afraid. im sure there are many, search the markets.
i find it odd that an app of the size u mention comes without the possibility to install or move to external sd.
in any case, i recall i saw somewhere thread or posts about using ADB shell to change a system parameter which makes all apps to be installed on SD card instead of phone internal sd.
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i cant find spb shell on the market do u have a link?
kfirbep said:
i cant find spb shell on the market do u have a link?
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it comes with SuperOneClick and its part of Android SDK. do some research first. ADB shell isnt an app or such.
dowanrac said:
it comes with SuperOneClick and its part of Android SDK. do some research first. ADB shell isnt an app or such.
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ok but where is it in the device?
Sooooo... I just discovered that this stoooopid-ass phone of mine is storing downloaded photos to the phone's internal storage instead of the SD card. Is there anyway to fix this? I don't even think it's possible to move those photos from the phone to the SD card since my laptop can't even find the phone's internal photo storage folder. Seriously? WTF?!?!
carlos64030 said:
Sooooo... I just discovered that this stoooopid-ass phone of mine is storing downloaded photos to the phone's internal storage instead of the SD card. Is there anyway to fix this? I don't even think it's possible to move those photos from the phone to the SD card since my laptop can't even find the phone's internal photo storage folder. Seriously? WTF?!?!
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Please read the stickies and search before starting pointless threads. All of your issues are because you don't know what you're doing, and not the fault of the phone.
Here's the first one, answered in a thread conveniently titled "F.A.Q.s - Massive Question Round Up Thread".
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Q: Why are my pictures saved to the internal phone storage and how can I force it to save to the SD card?
A: When you first launched your camera app (assuming you had an SD card in) it should have asked you if you wanted to save to the SD card. Either way, the problem is easily fixed within the camera settings or by going to Settings> Storage> App storage locations and choosing Storage card for each option.
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When you connect your phone to your computer, if you select media sync instead of hard drive, it will give you access to both internal and external sdcard from your computer.
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Please read the stickies and search before starting pointless threads. All of your issues are because you don't know what you're doing, and not the fault of the phone.
Here's the first one, answered in a thread conveniently titled "F.A.Q.s - Massive Question Round Up Thread".
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Thanks, Einstein, but apparently YOU'RE the one that can't read. My issue has NOTHING to do with pictures that's been taken with the camera. Read my post again and then come back with another smart-ass and useless post. Thanks.
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When you connect your phone to your computer, if you select media sync instead of hard drive, it will give you access to both internal and external sdcard from your computer.
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Thanks... that takes care of that problem. I never even thought about using that 'Media Sync' option to find files. I still can't find a way to force downloading photos to the SD card though.
carlos64030 said:
Thanks, Einstein, but apparently YOU'RE the one that can't read. My issue has NOTHING to do with pictures that's been taken with the camera. Read my post again and then come back with another smart-ass and useless post. Thanks.
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Hahaha, totally missed the word downloaded. Gotta stop visiting the site after a drink. My bad bro, sorry about that. The media Sync thing though you could have searched for.
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Hahaha, totally missed the word downloaded. Gotta stop visiting the site after a drink. My bad bro, sorry about that. The media Sync thing though you could have searched for.
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No biggie. I really wasn't too concerned with the 'Media Sync' thingy since I ended up deleting the downloaded photos from the phone's internal memory. That wasn't that big of a deal, however... I have bigger fish to fry with my original issue.
carlos64030 said:
No biggie. I really wasn't too concerned with the 'Media Sync' thingy since I ended up deleting the downloaded photos from the phone's internal memory. That wasn't that big of a deal, however... I have bigger fish to fry with my original issue.
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thanks for being cool - so where are you downloading the photos from? if you're downloading with the stock browser, you can go to settings, advanced, download storage, and change phone storage to storage card. Is that what you meant?
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thanks for being cool - so where are you downloading the photos from? if you're downloading with the stock browser, you can go to settings, advanced, download storage, and change phone storage to storage card. Is that what you meant?
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Yes, that's what I'm talking about. I use the Dolphin HD browser and SOMETIMES Google Chrome (which still has a lot of bugs). I have all of the settings set in the Dolphin HD browser to download photos to the SD card, but they still go to the phone's internal storage. If I remember correctly, Google Chrome doesn't even offer that option. It really doesn't offer it's users that many adjustments at all, actually.
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Yes, that's what I'm talking about. I use the Dolphin HD browser and SOMETIMES Google Chrome (which still has a lot of bugs). I have all of the settings set in the Dolphin HD browser to download photos to the SD card, but they still go to the phone's internal storage. If I remember correctly, Google Chrome doesn't even offer that option. It really doesn't offer it's users that many adjustments at all, actually.
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don't know about chrome, but I use dolphin hd also, and I was able to change the download directory to the sdcard by going to settings, privacy and personal data, download directory, and changing that entry to /mnt/sdcard/ext_sd/download. Is that how yours is set up? I just tested it and its working correctly on my end.
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don't know about chrome, but I use dolphin hd also, and I was able to change the download directory to the sdcard by going to settings, privacy and personal data, download directory, and changing that entry to /mnt/sdcard/ext_sd/download. Is that how yours is set up? I just tested it and its working correctly on my end.
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Yeah, that's how mine's read. I don't see any other settings in the browser OR on the phone to change the directory path. I don't have this problem on any of my other phones. All the downloaded photos goes straight to the SD card. Oh well...
Hello all..
I just switched to Android. I got the LG G PRO 2 runs Kitkat, and I was wondering if there any way to move apps to the SD card. I tried "Move to SD card" option but we all know this is useless.
I read that it could be done by rooting the phone (not yet sure what or how is that). but should this be done every time I need to move an app or what?
Also, is there any way to easily control the placement of the apps on storage, specially large apps like games and such, one by one like in old Android?
Any piece of info related to the subject will be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Does every Cyanogenmod rom allow that by default, or dit it die with version 11 or 12 being the last one?
If installing directly to SD is a no go, what good apps are there that do the transfer (and keep everything working, of course
I would recommend Link2SD.
I have used it with satisfaction on several low memory devices.
Not sure why, I find Link2SD and its options terribly confusing Well, I guess I'll need to learn.
There are a lot of guides and it's not so complex.
The best way to use it is to create a second partition on sd (consider a backup of your data on pc/otg/cloud/...).
As far as I can remember link2sd will ask you the filesystem type and then it will create some script to use it.
Then you can simply tap on an app from the list and press "link to sd".
From the apps list you can do a lot of operation like convert apps to system/user app, freeze/unfreeze, merge an updated app to rom etc. and using the filter this kind of operation will be very easy and fast.
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On the plus (paid) version you can link also data.
If you really want to maximize the free space on the device, this option is worth the few moneys.
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I've always used it on other devices using AOSP based roms, I don't know if there are problems using it with MIUI.
Thanks a lot! So, if you "link" (strange choice of word, it's not actually linking if it gets completely moved to SD and nothing remaing in main storage is it, that's what confused the hell out of me), app and its data to SD, will it be exactly like it was downloaded and installed on SD right from the store, like it used to be on Android versions that supported such thing? I know Cyanogenmod 11 did that perfectly, wonder if it's CM thing by default, or did they moved to new (stupid) concept of raping the main storage in later versions
EDIT: Any chance of "linking" bloody Whatsapp to SD completely? I'm in continuous maintenance mode of my wife phone because that **** consumes the storage for all it's worth.
C64Ever said:
Thanks a lot! So, if you "link" (strange choice of word, it's not actually linking if it gets completely moved to SD and nothing remaing in main storage is it, that's what confused the hell out of me), app and its data to SD, will it be exactly like it was downloaded and installed on SD right from the store, like it used to be on Android versions that supported such thing?
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Linking is not the same as moving.
For example, if you move to sd and then remove the sd from the device, widgets and app icons will be removed.
Maybe they will be restored when you insert your sd again, but the order could not be the same.
The same doesn't happen linking.
There are also other benefits, try googling for "link2sd faq".
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EDIT: Any chance of "linking" bloody Whatsapp to SD completely? I'm in continuous maintenance mode of my wife phone because that **** consumes the storage for all it's worth.
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I'm not using whatsapp so I don't know if it works.
I guess that your are talking about the "whatapp" directory on which msgs and media are store.
If link2sd can't solve your problem, I think that can try to move the whatsapp directory to sd and then manually create a link (keep the original name) on the original position.
Or you can try with apps like foldermount
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try looking at this thread
Maybe your can try xposed app..xinternalsd..swap sdcard to be phone memory