Hi @ all,
More a general question: I regordnized that every app which is saving something on the SD card, is just bumping the date there. Is there any option to use subfolders while saving something? I.e. one for Titan ("TitanBackups") one for Expenses ("Expenses")...and so on. Or is the only option to keep the SD card clean, doing al this manually time by time?
BR & Thanks!
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I'm doing some searches with no luck. Best I've found (for another device) is that the speed of Microdrive may be faster then a Storage Card - but for battery life the storage card is better.
Anyway, I now have in my greedy hands two (!) 16 gig micro sd (with mini sleeve) that works in the Advantage (don't ask how). I still have my old 4 gig card.
My thought was when I switched out my storage card, all the installed programs would temporarily not work.
One solution would be to duplicate the Program Files folder on all cards - but I assume that will mess up some programs that write to the card.
..the other solution would be to install all programs to the Microdrive (and keep a backup of the drive on 1 of the storage cards). This way I can just put pure data (movies, music, pix, etc) on the Storage Card and swap them without problems.
What are the ill effects of doing this?
Phil
Oh - in theory, if I move my program files from my storage card to my microdrive and update all my shortcuts ... would that work? I'm thinking it's a good time to clean out the Microdrive & hard reset and re-install everything except for the week it will take to get everything happy again.
In typical fashion, I was re-running my searches from last night & found a couple of threads on this subject. Anything new?
(I blame lack of sleep from newborns)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=353010&highlight=install+programs
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=296483&highlight=install+programs
polstein said:
..the other solution would be to install all programs to the Microdrive (and keep a backup of the drive on 1 of the storage cards). This way I can just put pure data (movies, music, pix, etc) on the Storage Card and swap them without problems.
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This is how I setup my X7510. So far it is working flawlessly.
polstein said:
Oh - in theory, if I move my program files from my storage card to my microdrive and update all my shortcuts ... would that work? I'm thinking it's a good time to clean out the Microdrive & hard reset and re-install everything except for the week it will take to get everything happy again.
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Just use SK Tools. It has an option to move not just the files or folders but also fix all the registry related to the files or folders being moved. This would save you time and effort specially if your device is running perfectly now.
Okay, first of all, I have done a lot of search on this topic over various forums and google. Some topic pops up occasionally, but never got answered, strange...
Basically I am trying to figure out two things:
1. How to move apps to microSD card? Not a single definitive answer or tutorial would allow me to move apps to external SD card. I've tried app2sd, link2sd also the stock CM7 application manager, which all of them would only allow to move apps to internal storage of the phone which is called SD card for Galaxy SII. Also the microsd card is under the diretory of mnt/emmc. Some other tutorials suggesting moving game data over /sdcard/external_sd/, I tried as well, but my microSD's storage doens't go down so I assume the data is still on internal SD card.
2. How to enable apps to save user data automatically on micro sd card? For example, I have lots of camera apps, which automatically save photos that I took on /sdcard/DCIM, I want them to be on my micro SD card AUTOMATICALLY, is there a way of doing this?
Many thanks, oh btw, I am using cyanogenmod 7 on Galaxy SII
I cannot see much reason to move apps to external sd card with a sgs2, that is something for inferior phones , there is a lot of space on application storage and internal sd card for that.
Most people are fine by just moving media files to the external card.
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how about my second question, i shot a lot of photos and hd videos daily, i know i can manully move them to external, but that Kinda make my gallery look clustered if you know what i mean.
Have you tried doin it internally via your phone:settings-applications-running services.On the top left touch on "downloaded" and all your downloaded apps will appear.Touch on whatever app you like and you will get the option to move,uninstall or clear data.Remember that not all downloaded apps are able to be moved to external sd and if the app you would like to move is unmovable by default then you will see that.
The problem is Android only likes one sd card. So when you have an internal SD card like the sg2 the system doesn't take advantage of your external sd card.
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how about my second question, i shot a lot of photos and hd videos daily, i know i can manully move them to external, but that Kinda make my gallery look clustered if you know what i mean.
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You can change storage area in camera settings (with stock camera app).
I've never had problems with moving apps back and forth from my phone's internal storage to the SD card. But recently, I've noticed that apps I used to be able to store externally (Shazam, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) have the "move to SD" option greyed out, making it impossible to move them off my phone. I'm running stock 2.3.4. I've combed the internet trying to find a fix to this issue, but have found no results so far. I'm contemplating doing a hard reset to hopefully fix this as a last resort if nothing else works... Anyone have any suggestions?
Unfortunately, not all applications support moving to SD card. This is typically because the developer has good reason for not allowing this. For example, apps like facebook that make use of widgets would error every time your SD card is unmounted. Now you may be thinking: "I never take out my SD card so why would this bother me"
However, every time you plug in your phone to a USB port to transfer files such as photos and videos the SD card automatically unmount.
Download App2SD from the market for an easy way to see a list of apps installed on your phone that are programmed to support moving to SD card.
Conclusion: without manipulating your device, there is no way to transfer the apps you've mentioned to an external storage device.
Having the same problem
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Unfortunately, not all applications support moving to SD card. This is typically because the developer has good reason for not allowing this. For example, apps like facebook that make use of widgets would error every time your SD card is unmounted. Now you may be thinking: "I never take out my SD card so why would this bother me"
However, every time you plug in your phone to a USB port to transfer files such as photos and videos the SD card automatically unmount.
Download App2SD from the market for an easy way to see a list of apps installed on your phone that are programmed to support moving to SD card.
Conclusion: without manipulating your device, there is no way to transfer the apps you've mentioned to an external storage device.
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Hmm...that would make sense. But I've had Pandora stored externally on my SD card since I was running 2.3.3 and that has a widget feature as well. I'm assuming that the update to 2.3.4 made it impossible to store apps that have widget functionality to the SD once you move them onto internal storage. Thanks for the help.
Hi guys I'm getting a bigger SD card and I was wondering if it was possible to move my game SD data to the microsd card saving space on the the internal memory any ideas on how to do it
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I'm wondering about this too.. don't have the data allowance to really download any new data... and just effed up the Dead Space data.
I was just cleaning up my phone files and sd card files, kept all the android>data>.com.ea.deaspace etc files intact (as well as all the other). I may have moved them to the phone storage in the process. Then half my apps lost their icons and showed a greyed out icon saying "sd" in the corner. And trying to load them resulted in a message like "app not installed".
So now I have put the data on both the phone and sd card, re-installed Dead Space from the market, but all it wants to do is re download the data.. So frustrating .
Any ideas anyone ? .
In your case though, should be as simple as copying the entire sd card from one to the other. And if the bigger card with the copies doesn't work, you'll still have the original to fall back on till you can figure out a work around.
Hi.
My sister has been using a phone for the last six months. it's a sony xperia SP, but my question is general for Android phones. She has been using the phone for a lot of months and so, it's full of photos, messages and similar files.
I have just discovered that the phone doesn't have an sd card. I have bought an sd card to insert it. But there is an issue.
What is going to happen with all the stuff inside the phone and not in the card? I guess that most apps are going to switch to the new external sd card but are they going to move their files to the new location? is the Android system the one to do that or it depends in the app? are the apps going to loose access to the old files? are they going to be deleted? the change is going to take place only to newly installed apps?
My sister has just had a baby and the phone is crowded with quite important photos and videos. I have been seeking in the forums but I haven't been able to find this specific issue.
does anyone knows something about this topic?
Thanks in advance