I just got a new sd card with more memory space(had 2g now 16g). Now that i have the room i would like to transfer all my apps to sd. The thing is a lot of the apps i have ive made into widgets that way i dont have to scroll thru my app drawer every time. My bf was telling that if it is an app that i made a widget then i cant transfer it to sd. He says that the app ends up failing or having issues. I transferred my titanium a little while ago and have not had any issues. So im wondering if what he told me is true or that i can transfer to sd without encountering issues down the road??
Briteyez83 said:
I just got a new sd card with more memory space(had 2g now 16g). Now that i have the room i would like to transfer all my apps to sd. The thing is a lot of the apps i have ive made into widgets that way i dont have to scroll thru my app drawer every time. My bf was telling that if it is an app that i made a widget then i cant transfer it to sd. He says that the app ends up failing or having issues. I transferred my titanium a little while ago and have not had any issues. So im wondering if what he told me is true or that i can transfer to sd without encountering issues down the road??
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As long as your not using built Widgets but an app shortcut (which is what it sounds like your doing) you maybe OK. But yes apps stored on SD cards with Widgets do get messes up.
If you need the widgets you'll need to leave on the phone memory. Most of these apps state this in their documentation.
Sometimes apps requires you to download a widget if you plan on moving the app to the sd card.
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Hi everyone facing this people from few hours I transfered some files to the mem card and when I removed the phone the applications are not showing at all I had shortcuts of two on the home screen surprisingly they work but have no icons just the name.
The movie I transfered is playing fine so I guess the card is in its place but all of i mean all of the mem card applications are not showing in the menu.
I've launcher pro also just to tell but its also not showing any icons using oi file explorer I'm copying ask the necessary things to memory card but its a pain in a** to instal more that thirty applications again.
Somebody help please.
One more thing when I try to instal an application again it shows it installed and try to replace it there are so many apps that are having data from the internet I don't wish to do it again my wifi's not working.
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Hi everyone facing this people from few hours I transfered some files to the mem card and when I removed the phone the applications are not showing at all I had shortcuts of two on the home screen surprisingly they work but have no icons just the name.
The movie I transfered is playing fine so I guess the card is in its place but all of i mean all of the mem card applications are not showing in the menu.
I've launcher pro also just to tell but its also not showing any icons using oi file explorer I'm copying ask the necessary things to memory card but its a pain in a** to instal more that thirty applications again.
Somebody help please.
One more thing when I try to instal an application again it shows it installed and try to replace it there are so many apps that are having data from the internet I don't wish to do it again my wifi's not working.
Sent from my LG-P500 using XDA App
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You can't just move the android_secure onto a new sd card and to a new rom. you need to use titanium backup. root and then get from market for free.
so this happened with google plus and with scoremobile.
after a reboot it said that there was an error with the gadget (widget) so i deleted it but it wasn't in the list to put it back on.
i reinstalled score mobile and the widget was back.
i reinstalled google plus and still no widget.
ideas?
Did you move these apps to the SD card?? You cannot move apps to the SD card and also use the widget. Whenever you reboot, the phone won't be able to find the widget on the sd card and you will have to remove it from you homescreen and then reapply it. If your using an apps widget, keep it in the internal memory not on the sd card to avoid problems.
nope. google+ wont even let you move it to sd
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
blastindamusic said:
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.
So i have installed about 3 pages of apps, and i decided that it was a lot and i should move them to sd card. I used titanium backup and moved all my apps to my sd card. Rebooted. And these past couple of days I have noticed the following.
I had blue skies live wallpaper after i moved it to sd it would no longer be the wallpaper ater i rebooted my phone. I would manually have to set it over again. this kind of bugged me.
Draw something. Whenever i opened this app it would look like its about to open but then my screen would just go blank, and after a couple of seconds i would have to press the lock button and i would be at the launcher. (there was no force close dialog box)
Speed test- this app would just force close and there would be a dialog box.
So i reinstalled draw something and it seems to work fine now, and i think its because its not on the sd card.
Also the appbrain market just shows a grayed icon and when i click it it just says the application is not installed in your phone. It has sd written on the icon. But my other apps from the sd card are loaded why isnt this one?
My question is should or are there some apps that should/need to be left on the phone to work properly?
There are definitely some apps that should not go to the SD card. Widgets don't usually like getting moved there. I can imagine live wallpapers don't either. Draw Something, ink not sure about, but if you're having performance issues with it then try moving it back.
Apps on the sd card will be loaded last, so if you have them on your homescreen, you may notice the generic Android icon until the phone finishes losing after a reboot and the sd card has been scanned.
Generally, if the app is ok to move, it'll be available in settings-> applications-> manage applications-> sd card tab. Check off the box to move an app to the sd card.
Yeah I agree with this method, it's manual, and you have to do it one app at a time, but it's the safest way to put what can be put on your SD card. As for Draw Something, I just tried moving it to my SD card and it still worked. I did it via the method described here and not thru titanium backup.
I would imagine going through titanium backup moved the files but might not make the required links from the phone to the sd card, just a guess though (think shortcuts in windows).
lactardjosh said:
There are definitely some apps that should not go to the SD card. Widgets don't usually like getting moved there. I can imagine live wallpapers don't either. Draw Something, ink not sure about, but if you're having performance issues with it then try moving it back.
Apps on the sd card will be loaded last, so if you have them on your homescreen, you may notice the generic Android icon until the phone finishes losing after a reboot and the sd card has been scanned.
Generally, if the app is ok to move, it'll be available in settings-> applications-> manage applications-> sd card tab. Check off the box to move an app to the sd card.
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Oh okay thanks for the replies guys. Ill try removing the apps from my sd card and trying again with the method above.
Depending on what class your SD card is and what app is on it could affect performance.
Class number = MB/s
So a class 2 sd card would be rated at 2 MB/s, and so on and so forth.
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Depending on what class your SD card is and what app is on it could affect performance.
Class number = MB/s
So a class 2 sd card would be rated at 2 MB/s, and so on and so forth.
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Speed of the card is also a good point.
I just stumbled upon it and I though it might be useful. In order to move an app from your phone's internal storage to your SD card, you just need to
1) open Settings -> Apps
2) Tap on an app
3) Tap on Storage
4) Tap Change
5) Tap SD card
PS: Obviously apps will take more time to open (the delay is noticable in facebook).
jsalatas said:
I just stumbled upon it and I though it might be useful. In order to move an app from your phone's internal storage to your SD card, you just need to
1) open Settings -> Apps
2) Tap on an app
3) Tap on Storage
4) Tap Change
5) Tap SD card
PS: Obviously apps will take more time to open (the delay is noticable in facebook).
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You don't even need to do that. Just long press any app then >app info>storage etc...
jsalatas said:
I just stumbled upon it and I though it might be useful. In order to move an app from your phone's internal storage to your SD card, you just need to
1) open Settings -> Apps
2) Tap on an app
3) Tap on Storage
4) Tap Change
5) Tap SD card
PS: Obviously apps will take more time to open (the delay is noticable in facebook).
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Welcome to Android! :silly:
And for anyone tempted to try, the onboard 64 gig is far faster than any SD card you can currently buy. Many apps will run poorly, if at all. Moving apps to the SD card should be an absolute last resort, right after you've figured out which apps you really didn't need in the first place.
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And for anyone tempted to try, the onboard 64 gig is far faster than any SD card you can currently buy. Many apps will run poorly, if at all. Moving apps to the SD card should be an absolute last resort, right after you've figured out which apps you really didn't need in the first place.
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I tend to agree, I moved a much of apps to my SD now things run much slower I regret doing so.
Moving apps to SD is soooo kit kat....
Depends on what apps you moved i guess.
Ive notified NO CHANGE on the apps ive moved. WhatsApp is on the SSD card and behaves just as it did on internal.
Let's see.. samsung internet , Firefox, textra, all amazon apps, google drive, instagram, Snapchat, outlook, pandora, OneDrive...
NO DIFFERENCE at all.
Now there was one app, samsung gear 360, it did NOT like to be on storage card (kept force closing even though i was not using it when this was happening) so i moved it back to internal.
Also not ALL of the apps data is moved to the SD card. Some data of the app still lives on the SD.
EDIT: i dont use crackbook aka Facebook, so i cant speak on that, but i use WhatsApp, for example, and it opens up normally. No lag. None of the apps i moved are behaving out of normal. Again this is dependent on other factors, but in my daily use environment i dont notice any lag.
I also dont use the memory and storage optimizer (killing apps in the background from running)...
The internal storage is faster than sd unless you can find one of their new faster sd cards...if you move a lot of apps you may see performance loss...
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Depends on what apps you moved i guess.
Ive notified NO CHANGE on the apps ive moved. WhatsApp is on the SSD card and behaves just as it did on internal.
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I can't move WhatsApp on my S7 edge. Being wanting to. I get my N8 tomorrow, so even happier if I can now move it
Hey liquid guru
I can't move any apps with my 8.1 rooted phone ...
Is there a thread I'm not able to find on this.
Thanks