I know the TFP doesn't come with an external SD card, but in the internal storage theres an SD card partition set to 27GB - however, I don't seem to be able to move any of my apps to the SD card, is there any way to do this?
It's incredibly frustrating when I'm trying to download my Spotify playlists to get the 'not enough memory left to download more songs' message when I've got 25GB free in the SD card partition.
I'm running ICS.
I thought the SD Card partition was just what the directory name for the internal drive? Are the apps not already downloaded to the internal storage to begin with?
jfrzy said:
I thought the SD Card partition was just what the directory name for the internal drive? Are the apps not already downloaded to the internal storage to begin with?
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That is what I believe too.
so I see the micro sd card in the file manager so how would you put apps on the micro sd card
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PRIME, w/out a memory card, has all of its memory merged basically. The internal/external is merged for complete use for whatever you want. Inserting a memory card would show up as removable memory or ext2 or something. No need to put to apps to a memory card really unless you running out of memory already.
Weird, I'm not sure why I was getting that message then, since I had 25+ GB free.
jackofaiitrades said:
Weird, I'm not sure why I was getting that message then, since I had 25+ GB free.
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Maybe that app needs updating for HC/ICS support. As to why its not recognizing the memory. You could always get a memory card n see if it acts any differently.
Way back on older Android versions and especially phones that had no iinternal memory, android use to have app memory n such separated. ALOT of people became mad because they would run out of memory for apps so fast. SO once phones n tablets came out with built in internal memory, they merged it so that you could use all the memory if you wanted for apps or whatever. PRIME DOES this. Some other devices/phones may be a lil different. ANOTHER reason why Prime doesn't show up as a USB Mass Storage device when hooked up to a computer. Now it uses MTP, I believe.
Install "ZDBox" from XDA Developers.... free from the android market
the tool let you moves apps at will to any location.
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PuroKaibil said:
Install "ZDBox" from XDA Developers.... free from the android market
the tool let you moves apps at will to any location.
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It says only for Android 2.2 or 2.3. Plus it hasn't been updated in the longest time. Read some comments of how it eats up battery and somehow messing up the memory partitions or something. Not sure. I went to the thread for it n read those comments. It says its available in market place but doesn't showbup when I go there.
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It says only for Android 2.2 or 2.3. Plus it hasn't been updated in the longest time. Read some comments of how it eats up battery and somehow messing up the memory partitions or something. Not sure. I went to the thread for it n read those comments. It says its available in market place but doesn't showbup when I go there.
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Maybe they're working on a ICS version **cross my fingers**
But if you want the current version download it from the market using the browser from your PC or android device.. it shows up there, I just tried.
Weird it doesn't show from the market app.
gl to sd
If you are rooted
use it
love it
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1328053
Just install apk
launch data download stop download
open gl to sd make sure /sdcard/Andriod and /sdcar/data are checked marked
click recovery game list
click move data and select game to move it will launch and start the download to sd.
Only downside i have seen is when some one pick up my tablet and click on app and start download on internal due to the fact they dont use the gl to sd link.
I love this app 9mm, lets golf 3, and Back stab and original DH take up over 4 GB of space and i rather have them on sd then internal
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This flashable zip will allow to choose how to mount your internal and external storage.
Your two options are:
Internal storage as /mnt/sdcard and external storage as /mnt/sdcard/ext_sd
Internal storage as /mnt/sdcard/ext_sd and external storage as /mnt/sdcard
I have not been able to successfully mount the internal anywhere else unfortunately but will continue looking into it.
SIDE EFFECTS/ISSUES WITH THIS METHOD
You can not mount the external sdcard to a computer
In storage settings, External storage shows under "Phone storage" and the internal storage shows under "Storage card"
Selecting "Unmount storage card" will unmount the internal storage ("Mount storage card" will remount it though)
If you remove or boot with out the external sdcard neither storage space will be available for use
Possibly others...
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350 views from 2 different threads and not a single PM.
I'm definitely interested, however I am curious about what the reason/benefit of this mod would be.
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I'm definitely interested, however I am curious about what the reason/benefit of this mod would be.
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The benefit would be all the big games will store the game data on the bigger external card. Along with other settings certain apps store. Also, if you have to exchange your phone, you keep all of your data.
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mike.r.olson said:
I'm definitely interested, however I am curious about what the reason/benefit of this mod would be.
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It would make your sd your storage... 16gb built into phone or my 64gb card hmmmm lol
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maxdamage2122 said:
I need a couple people with TWRP/CWM recovery to test out a couple flashable zips for me since I have not unlocked my bootloader yet. If you are interested please PM me and let me know which recovery you are running. PLEASE DO NOT post anything in this thread till I am done testing and have posted the zip. I should have it up late tonight (sadly I have work today) if everything goes as planned.
I have figured out how to mount the external storage as /sdcard and the internal storage as /sdcard/ext_sd. I have not been able to successfully mount the internal anywhere else unfortunately but will continue looking into it.
SIDE EFFECTS/ISSUES WITH THIS METHOD
You can not mount the external sdcard to a computer
In storage settings, External storage shows under "Phone storage" and the internal storage shows under "Storage card"
Selecting "Unmount storage card" will unmount the internal storage ("Mount storage card" will remount it though)
If you remove or boot with out the external sdcard neither storage space will be available for use
Possibly others...
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I'll test it for you, but I would also like a few things changed. Maybe increase app storage? Or could we dedicated some of it to phone ram?
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Updated OP with flashable zip.
Hey, can we PM, we may be on to something, we have the same dilemma lol.
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350 views from 2 different threads and not a single PM.
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I bet not too many people have filled up their internal storage...once they do they will be posting here in drones.
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This is a big benefit thanks cause when flashing roms twrp doesnt see the external sd card
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What I'd really like to see is the ability to have swap.
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This is a big benefit thanks cause when flashing roms twrp doesnt see the external sd card
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TWRP does allow you to view the external sdcard you have to go into mounts and change it. Be sure to change it back though or your back up's wind up on your external card.
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There should be a couple extra steps put in the OP.
And remember original storage is:
Internal storage = the app itself
Phone storage = the apps data
sd card= everything else
1. any apps that (the apk file itself) are installed in the phone storage, should be moved to internal storage.
2. Any of the game data that is on phone storage, should be moved to the actual sd card (sdcard2). This data is in the Android folder on phone storage (sdcard). So it should be moved from /mnt/sdcard/android/data to /mnt sdcard/ext_sdcard/android/data. Really just move the whole folder to the sd card. I moved the whole folder to phone storage from the sd card when I got the phone so I didn't have to sit there and download all the game data for the bigger games and such again.
3. Follow the steps in the OP of this hack.
4. If you want to get some of your 2 GB app storage space back, move the apps as you wish to phone storage. This will be the app apk file not the huge game data. But this time phone storage will be the actual sd card. So it won't take away from your 10 GB it will take away from the sd card.
The apps that get moved will get moved from /data/app to /mnt/sdcard/.android_secure.
also at this step I would say move a couple big apps/games as oppose to many little apps/games. Better to have a couple big ones to load not that often, than to have many little apps to load more often and cause more slowdown. The more little apps you have on the sd card the more possibility the phone gets slowed down, cause no matter what sd card u have, it's gonna be just a little slower than what came on the phone. So moving just a couple 50 mb games should go a long ways.
Now the question is what to do with that 10 GB. If I do this hack, which I eventually will, I would probably fill this space with titanium backups, have the pictures and video saved here, roms and such I will flash I recovery, ringtones, wallpapers. You kinda don't have to many more choices with this space. if I'm gonna take space away from the memory card but don't want to delete any of my 40 GB of music, I would want to move whatever I could in that 10 GB of space so it doesn't get wasted. Remember moving apps or huge game data doesn't go into the 10GB anymore.
There are pluses to this hack and there are minuses. Until I get the exact figures on what I can put where I am going to wait on doing all this, but I hope I helped give a bit of an overview to what is going on with your storage space and how it is used.
I posted this in the other thread too so no one misses it cause moving stuff around is time consuming and annoying.
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What I was thinking is to redo partition sizes. The 2.3gb for internal app storage get increased a little more.
Could we use some space to increase our RAM as seen in task manager? Mount the rest as the /android or /data folder so our apps would load faster instead of ex_sdcard.
Mount the external SD as the sdcard as normal. Sounds crazy I know..
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How does this differ from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1716166??
EarlyMon said:
How does this differ from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1716166??
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It's the same. The OP of that thread didn't see my thread when he made his. Mine is a flashable zip and his is the manual method (good for people that don't have unlocked bootloaders).
The zip failed for me in TWRP
No real error, just says failed!
Weird..
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Spyderekz said:
The zip failed for me in TWRP
No real error, just says failed!
Weird..
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Updated OP with a new version. Try that one out.
Flashed the new zip last night, everything is sweet. In fact I was having a problem moving apps from the internal [2GB) to the phone storage [10GB) and having the moved apps survive a reboot before I did this hack. I would move them, and after next time I would reboot, it would have the storage space taken up but not be installed. This is what made me flash this cause I was only going to have the 2 GB for apps. So after doing this and reboot everything is where it's suppose to be. Fixed my tons of problems with Google music too. storage and ram are a pain in the ass with this phone.
Follow my instructions and everything will be great.
My question is when I do flash new ROM and the swap mounts gets undone, can I flash this after the ROM in the same session or after a fresh install and reboot?
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ryanalan82 said:
My question is when I do flash new ROM and the swap mounts gets undone, can I flash this after the ROM in the same session or after a fresh install and reboot?
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Yes you can.
Edit: Flash in the same session.
Flash after rom
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Hey there guys...
To start with i have my S3 two days now and i absolutely love this phone...:')
But,after installing lots of games my internal memory has gone full and i can't download any data in-game because i have low storage space...
My external sd on the other hand is around 10gb free but when i try to move the data to the same folder on the external the data isn't identified by the game and it asks me to download again?
It has become really frustrating,it seems i can't do anything about it...
Any suggestions to try?
Cheers,George
As the system now uses unified storage all apps will remain on internal memory; moving the data alone to an external SD card will have no use without altering the application to look for that location for its data. i.e. in the GS2 you had a move to SD option since the phone was partitioned. With the S3 however this option is not there which means that when an application is downloaded all of its information needs to be stored on the internal storage. When the "Move to SD" option was selected within the S2 or prior phones, it informs the application that its new location is within x folder rather than the folder it was originally downloaded too. Since this option is no longer there then the application has no way of being told where its new location is.
Maybe move to SD could be an add-on with a mod/hack but I am not sure if this is possible. Maybe check with a developer?
Have you got a prior Android phone? Maybe install the application on to it; use the "Move to SD" option and see if that will allow it? It's just a suggestion; if you don't have a different Android phone I can try it for you.
Edit: Just tried it; the phone itself doesn't even check for applications stored within an external SD. Sorry man - the only way around it would be a mod/custom/hack (if possible).
T__ said:
As the system now uses unified storage all apps will remain on internal memory; moving the data alone to an external SD card will have no use without altering the application to look for that location for its data. i.e. in the GS2 you had a move to SD option since the phone was partitioned. With the S3 however this option is not there which means that when an application is downloaded all of its information needs to be stored on the internal storage. When the "Move to SD" option was selected within the S2 or prior phones, it informs the application that its new location is within x folder rather than the folder it was originally downloaded too. Since this option is no longer there then the application has no way of being told where its new location is.
Maybe move to SD could be an add-on with a mod/hack but I am not sure if this is possible. Maybe check with a developer?
Have you got a prior Android phone? Maybe install the application on to it; use the "Move to SD" option and see if that will allow it? It's just a suggestion; if you don't have a different Android phone I can try it for you.
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Thank's for the answer...
In my galaxy s 1 i had no problem having the games data on the sd card,i havent moved and application to the sd but i had the data on sd and everything worked great...now...i don't get it....:/
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Thank's for the answer...
In my galaxy s 1 i had no problem having the games data on the sd card,i havent moved and application to the sd but i had the data on sd and everything worked great...now...i don't get it....:/
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I did check for you; the S3 physically doesn't look for application data in the external SD (I edited original post after testing few things).. There probably are ways around it as mentioned but you would need to speak with developers for further insight.
If worst comes to worst application developers may have to implement a look in x location first, if no data found, look "here" in to their applications.
As the phone is unified storage you can store applications in the full ~12GB storage space (All the ones I have, have roughly 11.3GB after OS and all is on it) so have you used the phones storage itself for only applications; and the SD for media etc?
I am interested to know how you have managed to fill at least 11GB of space with applications; how many do you have? How is the performance of the phone with this many applications on it? Any lag navigating (I know there shouldn't be with quad core processor - but it's interesting to know if hundreds of applications cause lag between screen scrolling).
You can use an app called directory bind to link the game data on the SD to a mounting point on the internal SD. Search for it and you'll find it, not sure if I got it here or the play store.
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Yup, there's directory topic on forum, as well as working 'gl to sd' app in play store. It is not just for gameloft games.
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Thank you all guys!!
Well i filled it with lots of games that's why i don't have much space available!
No the phone is flying,it doesn't lag at all!
I use Dragon Ics rom and Siyah Kernel...no oc....
I'll try directory bind and post back soon!
To put applications on the sdcard, you could use symlinking (confirmed this works myself).
Install the application, then go to /data/app and move the apk file to your sdcard (/mnt/extSdCard) or inside a folder on your sdcard.
Then type ln -s /mnt/extSdCard/your-apk.apk /data/app/your-apk.apk
I was on JB but I didn't like how the internal/external storage was, everything went to the internal so I would run out of space quickly. So I wanted to get back on Sense where the storage issue was not a problem. I followed this guide [Guide] How to Downgrade, Factory Restore, and fully update the Rezound, I'm now rooted on stock 4.03.605.2 710RD.
REV3NT3CH, helped me out a lot but still having some questions.
1. What is the most stable Sense rom out with the best mods? Haven't been on Sense in a while so I've forgotten what is out there.
2. How can I tell if my storage issues are fixed? What should my storage look like on Sense, what folders should I be seeing.
Thanks for the help...
-mac
xXezmacXx said:
I was on JB but I didn't like how the internal/external storage was, everything went to the internal so I would run out of space quickly. So I wanted to get back on Sense where the storage issue was not a problem. I followed this guide [Guide] How to Downgrade, Factory Restore, and fully update the Rezound, I'm now rooted on stock 4.03.605.2 710RD.
REV3NT3CH, helped me out a lot but still having some questions.
1. What is the most stable Sense rom out with the best mods? Haven't been on Sense in a while so I've forgotten what is out there.
2. How can I tell if my storage issues are fixed? What should my storage look like on Sense, what folders should I be seeing.
Thanks for the help...
-mac
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when you go to take a picture does it say internal storade or sd card not found...if not you are golden....also as for best sense rom there is a couple...depends on if you want a desensed sense rom or a full on sense rom...desensed is much faster but still uses the stock sense dependencies and is in no way shape or form aosp
REV3NT3CH said:
when you go to take a picture does it say internal storade or sd card not found...if not you are golden....also as for best sense rom there is a couple...depends on if you want a desensed sense rom or a full on sense rom...desensed is much faster but still uses the stock sense dependencies and is in no way shape or form aosp
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i took a picture and there was no error. i went into settings > storage and there wher 2 options, phone storage & storage card.
anyways, i attached some screenshots of my internal and external, can you let me know what these mean? mnt, sdcard. sdcard 2, ext_sd? since im back on sense now, say if i download game will it now go to my 64gb sd card instead of internal like it did on jellybean? when i was on jb everything went to internal. anyways, i wiped internal and external like you said in amon ra, hopefully this fixes everything.
im guessing sdcard = my rezounds 10gb internal. sdcard 2 = my 64gb external sdcard. what is mnt and ext_sd? if ext_sd is my external sdcard why do i have two paths to it?
and i just installed a game i bought a while back, wanted to see where it installed: im confused on the numbers of internal, phone storage, etc. it says the game 40mb was put on sdcard but i dont see it. i dont want large apps and games left on my phones storage, id like to use my 64gb sdcard, reason i bought it.
do i need to partition my external sdcard or something? i dont see my ext sdcard anywhere below.
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i took a picture and there was no error. i went into settings > storage and there wher 2 options, phone storage & storage card.
anyways, i attached some screenshots of my internal and external, can you let me know what these mean? mnt, sdcard. sdcard 2, ext_sd? since im back on sense now, say if i download game will it now go to my 64gb sd card instead of internal like it did on jellybean? when i was on jb everything went to internal. anyways, i wiped internal and external like you said in amon ra, hopefully this fixes everything.
im guessing sdcard = my rezounds 10gb internal. sdcard 2 = my 64gb external sdcard. what is mnt and ext_sd? if ext_sd is my external sdcard why do i have two paths to it?
and i just installed a game i bought a while back, wanted to see where it installed: im confused on the numbers of internal, phone storage, etc. it says the game 40mb was put on sdcard but i dont see it. i dont want large apps and games left on my phones storage, id like to use my 64gb sdcard, reason i bought it.
do i need to partition my external sdcard or something? i dont see my ext sdcard anywhere below.
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with all apps they usually store in internal under system/data....if you want that pushed to external you have to get an app that does that like apps2sd....this is default for any android....also its showing the ext_sd while in sdcard because it mounts to it for lets say that apps2sd and some apps even require and make the directory if needed for easier transfering...if you notice in main root directory it only shows sdcard1 and sdcard 2 just like it should
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with all apps they usually store in internal under system/data....if you want that pushed to external you have to get an app that does that like apps2sd....this is default for any android....also its showing the ext_sd while in sdcard because it mounts to it for lets say that apps2sd and some apps even require and make the directory if needed for easier transfering...if you notice in main root directory it only shows sdcard1 and sdcard 2 just like it should
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should i partition my sdcard? like it is telling me to do.is app2sd the best for this?
xXezmacXx said:
should i partition my sdcard? like it is telling me to do.is app2sd the best for this?
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You have a separate 1.7 GB partition that downloaded apps go to, that doesn't count against the 12GB or so of Internal SD. I wouldn't worry about moving apps to the SD card unless you're filling that 1.7 GB up. If you do fill it up, go through your apps in Settings and use the built in move to SD on any app that it's not grayed out on. Don't move any apps with active widgets or that start on boot.
mjones73 said:
You have a separate 1.7 GB partition that downloaded apps go to, that doesn't count against the 12GB or so of Internal SD. I wouldn't worry about moving apps to the SD card unless you're filling that 1.7 GB up. If you do fill it up, go through your apps in Settings and use the built in move to SD on any app that it's not grayed out on. Don't move any apps with active widgets or that start on boot.
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I'll use that up quickly. I just installed this 40gb game for my son, it says the apk is 40mb and that's it located in /mnt/asec/. What is mnt, is that apk stored on my internal? And how can I get it on my ext sdcard if so? I bought some games that are 300mb+, some even a 1gb. I want to use ny 64gb ext sdcard, whole reason I bought it, want to keep internal free. I have like 12 games and 20+apps that will surely take up all my internal when I re d/l them. By the way I did go into settings and hit the move to sdcard box.
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I'll use that up quickly. I just installed this 40gb game for my son, it says the apk is 40mb and that's it located in /mnt/asec/. What is mnt? And how can I get in on my ext sdcard? I.bought some games that are 300mb+, some even a 1gb. I want to use ny 64gb ext sdcard, whole reason I bought it, want to keep internal free. I have like 12 games and 20+apps that will surely take up all my internal when I re d/l them.
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You can try the Move to SD option, it's up to the developer of the app to configure what can/can't move to SD using that option though. In the case of the app you listed, the .apk part is in the DRM protected app folder and that'll never move off the internal storage using the built in method. If you find that option isn't cutting it, you need to switch to using an apps2SD method where you can move everything.
/mnt is just the mount point for all filesystems regardless of what hardware they are on.
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/mnt.html
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You can try the Move to SD option, it's up to the developer of the app to configure what can/can't move to SD using that option though. In the case of the app you listed, the .apk part is in the DRM protected app folder and that'll never move off the internal storage using the built in method. If you find that option isn't cutting it, you need to switch to using an apps2SD method where you can move everything.
/mnt is just the mount point for all filesystems regardless of what hardware they are on.
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/mnt.html
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I did try the rezounds move to sd option. Maybe I'm doing it wrong. I went into settings - device - apps. I believe the game is already moved b/c it has the "move to phone" button available.
When I click "move to phone" it changes to the ss below, now a "move to phone storage" button is available.
What do these storage terms mean, ex; USB storage app? What's the diff between move to phone and move to phone storage? Im guessing I need to try an apps2sd application, but which one? Could you recommend some, don't mind paying. Also, won't I need to partition my ext sdcard for apps2sd to work, just asking cause all these apps I see talk about partitioning your ext sdcard.
Btw, thanks for all the help I'm starting to understand this a lot better, much appreciated.
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Apps in the Rezound exist in either the data partition (Phone storage) or the internal Storage (Storage)... apps cannot be moved to the SD card normally with the embedded Settings->Apps tool.
This is usually enough though, it is rare that you would run out space but if you were going to use something that moves the apps to the actual SD card, I would suggest Link2SD... it requires partitioning the SD card and making the secondary partition an Ext3/4 partition, it moves the data to the Ext3/4 partition of the SD Card and creates symbolic links back to the original places, even allowing Widgets and startup apps to be reside on the SD card. It does involve a little finesse if you have to factory default or install a new ROM though. I used to use it all the time on my old HTC Aria, which had about 256M for app storage and it worked brilliantly.
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Apps in the Rezound exist in either the data partition (Phone storage) or the internal Storage (Storage)... apps cannot be moved to the SD card normally with the embedded Settings->Apps tool.
This is usually enough though, it is rare that you would run out space but if you were going to use something that moves the apps to the actual SD card, I would suggest Link2SD... it requires partitioning the SD card and making the secondary partition an Ext3/4 partition, it moves the data to the Ext3/4 partition of the SD Card and creates symbolic links back to the original places, even allowing Widgets and startup apps to be reside on the SD card. It does involve a little finesse if you have to factory default or install a new ROM though. I used to use it all the time on my old HTC Aria, which had about 256M for app storage and it worked brilliantly.
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That's the one thing I wasn't sure of, is it using the Internal or External SD when doing the move to SD option, if it's Internal, forget what I said and just use Link2SD, should be a guide online how to use it.
mjones73 said:
That's the one thing I wasn't sure of, is it using the Internal or External SD when doing the move to SD option, if it's Internal, forget what I said and just use Link2SD, should be a guide online how to use it.
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Start here: http://www.link2sd.info and here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=919326
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acejavelin said:
Start here: http://www.link2sd.info and here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=919326
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I read through the "What you need for linking applications:" from that xda thread. I;m going to follow it to the T, hopefully it'll work for my Rezound. Thanks for the info.
mjones73 said:
That's the one thing I wasn't sure of, is it using the Internal or External SD when doing the move to SD option, if it's Internal, forget what I said and just use Link2SD, should be a guide online how to use it.
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I'm trying to use that Mini Partition application but I have no idea what I'm doing, these directions aren't really detailed. I'm been trying to figure this out for hours now. I'm going nuts!
xXezmacXx said:
I'm trying to use that Mini Partition application but I have no idea what I'm doing, these directions aren't really detailed. I'm been trying to figure this out for hours now. I'm going nuts!
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I always use Partition Magic or EaseUS Partition Manager, but why don't you just partition it in TWRP? It is under Advanced... Set the Swap size to 0 and the EXT size to whatever you want, I always used 2GB (2048) on my Aria but you could use whatever you feel is appropriate, and your choice of partition types and swipe to partition. Then reboot and setup Link2SD. Remember you will lose everything on your SD card, so make sure to back it up to a PC or something.
EDIT: I have not done this on the Rezound, so I am assuming it will work fine, but I don't know anyone who has done it on this device since the embedded space is usually more than sufficient.
acejavelin said:
I always use Partition Magic or EaseUS Partition Manager, but why don't you just partition it in TWRP? It is under Advanced... Set the Swap size to 0 and the EXT size to whatever you want, I always used 2GB (2048) on my Aria but you could use whatever you feel is appropriate, and your choice of partition types and swipe to partition. Then reboot and setup Link2SD. Remember you will lose everything on your SD card, so make sure to back it up to a PC or something.
EDIT: I have not done this on the Rezound, so I am assuming it will work fine, but I don't know anyone who has done it on this device since the embedded space is usually more than sufficient.
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Ok ill use twrp just gotta flash it. For the ext do I select ext 2 3 or 4? Also, is the ext where the apps will be moved to? I have a 64gb card can I make the ext 15-20gb or higher?
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Ok ill use twrp just gotta flash it. For the ext do I select ext 2 3 or 4? Also, is the ext where the apps will be moved to? I have a 64gb card can I make the ext 15-20gb or higher?
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Use Ext3 or 4, in this situation you won't notice any difference in performance between the two, at one time 3 was considered to be more stable and I use it most of the time but I don't know if it makes any difference anymore. You will not run into the size limitations in those partition types, I believe its in the upper terabyte range . To make it easy and have nice round numbers I always do it in increments of 512 though, so 16384 would probably be appropriate and give you 16 gigabytes of space.
I gotta ask though, what do you need so much application space for? are you running thousands and thousands of apps? The reason I ask is most apps automatically move their data to the SD card if they are very large, like most games and the advantages you see by using a tool like this can be minimal if you're using lots of very large games.
EDIT: one thing to keep in mind that might be confusing the first few times you use this application, the objective is to link the applications, not move. It seems counter intuitive but if you move them you're defeating the purpose and not gaining much, you need to use the link options.
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acejavelin said:
Use Ext3 or 4, in this situation you won't notice any difference in performance between the two, at one time 3 was considered to be more stable and I use it most of the time but I don't know if it makes any difference anymore. You will not run into the size limitations in those partition types, I believe its in the upper terabyte range . To make it easy and have nice round numbers I always do it in increments of 512 though, so 16384 would probably be appropriate and give you 16 gigabytes of space.
I gotta ask though, what do you need so much application space for? are you running thousands and thousands of apps? The reason I ask is most apps automatically move their data to the SD card if they are very large, like most games and the advantages you see by using a tool like this can be minimal if you're using lots of very large games.
EDIT: one thing to keep in mind that might be confusing the first few times you use this application, the objective is to link the applications, not move. It seems counter intuitive but if you move them you're defeating the purpose and not gaining much, you need to use the link options.
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When I get home tonight I will follow your directions on partitioning with twrp. You've been more than helpful, thank you.
To your ?. I use the phone and so does my son. I must of purchased 30+ games this month alone, and apps, well too many to count. I also use it to to store my 5000+ mp3s and movies for my son.
Edit: for example I just downloaded rayman fiesta run and the files it downloaded arent on my external. And when I JB all games were slow, lagged a lot. Now I'm back on sense everything is smooth.
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xXezmacXx said:
When I get home tonight I will follow your directions on partitioning with twrp. You've been more than helpful, thank you.
To your ?. I use the phone and so does my son. I must of purchased 30+ games this month alone, and apps, well too many to count. I also use it to to store my 5000+ mp3s and movies for my son.
Edit: for example I just downloaded rayman fiesta run and the files it downloaded arent on my external. And when I JB all games were slow, lagged a lot. Now I'm back on sense everything is smooth.
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just curious...on JB roms....did you force gpu rendering in dev options.....it will cause that....i run avabel on jellybean....which need i remind you is a very power and graphic hungry game....and runs fine
xXezmacXx said:
When I get home tonight I will follow your directions on partitioning with twrp. You've been more than helpful, thank you.
To your ?. I use the phone and so does my son. I must of purchased 30+ games this month alone, and apps, well too many to count. I also use it to to store my 5000+ mp3s and movies for my son.
Edit: for example I just downloaded rayman fiesta run and the files it downloaded arent on my external. And when I JB all games were slow, lagged a lot. Now I'm back on sense everything is smooth.
Sent from my ADR6425LVW using Tapatalk
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5000 MP3's?!?! I used to go that, just uploaded them all (plus around 10,000 more) to Play Music and use the cloud now since I have WiFi 95% of the time when I play music.
Games will not use your EXTERNAL storage, but most of them install the core of app in the phones app storage area (the 2GB portion) and their data on the internal storage (the ~11GB area). Most of the ones I have do that, for example, Mechs Warfare takes about 80MB of storage in the app data partition, but uses about 450MB of internal storage.
If you have a lot of games that do this, Link2SD, Move2SD, and other similar tools may not help much, all they will do is move the application data to the external storage, but the app controls it's own data being installed on the "sdcard", which is the internal storage. In most of those applications there is no way to tell it to use the external card and there is no way to move the data without swapping mount points between the internal and external storage.
Hi,
I've just updated to Lollipop and had been under the impression that I would now be able to move some game files to my 64gb micro sd card.
However, while the app manager seems to have a 'Move to SD' button, all that seems to do is move files within the internal storage of the device, rather than moving them to the actual SD card. When using ES Explorer, rather than the file manager that comes with the tablet, it has two 'SD cards' one of which is actually part of the 12gb of internal storage.
Is there a way now, without rooting, of moving files to the 'real' sd card rather than this fake virtual one? What is it with the whole fake SD card anyway? What a crap and deliberately misleading way to do it.
Cheers.
woffle99 said:
Hi,
I've just updated to Lollipop and had been under the impression that I would now be able to move some game files to my 64gb micro sd card.
However, while the app manager seems to have a 'Move to SD' button, all that seems to do is move files within the internal storage of the device, rather than moving them to the actual SD card. When using ES Explorer, rather than the file manager that comes with the tablet, it has two 'SD cards' one of which is actually part of the 12gb of internal storage.
Is there a way now, without rooting, of moving files to the 'real' sd card rather than this fake virtual one? What is it with the whole fake SD card anyway? What a crap and deliberately misleading way to do it.
Cheers.
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I updated my stock z2 tablet to lollipop yesterday, happy as hell for the return of app2sd, and sadly a few moments after installing the first few apps I noticed precisely this. All of the apps I moved to the sd card do not transfer to the external sd, but to the internal "fake" sd partition (not visible on the file explorer that comes in the device, but es explorer shows it). I mean, this totally defeats the purpose, I still can't use my 32gb card to store app data after all, and everything is where it was on kit kat: inside the limited internal storage (16gb wifi version here). Why on earth do I get the option to transfer to sd if stuff isnt rly being transfered to sd?
I've spent the entire afternoon looking for ppl with similar issues, and even though I found a few, I haven't found a solution or an answer anywhere. Does this happen to only a few ppl? Or is it that most ppl just root/unlock/flash roms and nvr notice this?
Is there anyone around here that can shed some light over this? Goin crazy here :/
There is a new update from Sony which fixes that.
A. 1.28 for 521 or A. 1.30 for 511.
mru55 said:
There is a new update from Sony which fixes that.
A. 1.28 for 521 or A. 1.30 for 511.
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Now, that I didnt know, and it is awesome news. Thx for the info!
mru55 said:
There is a new update from Sony which fixes that.
A. 1.28 for 521 or A. 1.30 for 511.
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Only just seen this, but it does indeed seem to work properly having tested just now after the update. Thanks for the info
mru55 said:
There is a new update from Sony which fixes that.
A. 1.28 for 521 or A. 1.30 for 511.
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Where did you find this A.1.30 build ?
I'm under A.1.28 rooted and still can't move entire app to SD
Slight bump - but I'm also still afflicted by this, despite my 521 being on 1.28. Can anyone confirm if it should be necessary to factory reset before being able to correctly push apps to the SD card? I use my tablet mainly for games and streaming, so I have a pretty much useless 64GB SD card which is 99.9% empty even after "moving" all my apps and games to the "SD card".
I certainly didn't have to factory reset mine before I could move to SD - it just worked after doing the latest update.
OK, thanks! Looks like something's gone wrong for me then as I still can't do this.
According to Solid Explorer, I've got the following symlinks in my device root:
/sdcard (-> /storage/emulated/legacy)
/sdcard1 (-> /storage/sdcard1)
In /storage, I have a symlink called sdcard0 which also links to /storage/emulated/legacy.
/storage/emulated/legacy, of course, just takes me to my "internal memory". So when an app gets "moved to SD" it ends up staying exactly where it was.
Is there any way to fix this? Can I remove the symlinks safely, or recreate them pointing to the correct place?
Hello everybody,
I have a dumb question about downloading apps and games to directly SD card.
Because phone have 2 gb memory and can't install apps or games due to less memory. So I got the SanDisk 32 gb SD card. Still have same problem and can't find the solution to download directly Google Play apps to SD.
For your info, I haven't rooted my phone yet and software version is 4.4.4.
What can I do to fix? Thanks in advance.
Nothing you can do to fix it. The sdcard integration was not introduced untill android 6.0 and even then it doesn't work completely right.
So, what shall i do for downloading apps? I moved all apps what i can move to the sd memory. Still cant download apps due to less memory.
asdasdas said:
So, what shall i do for downloading apps? I moved all apps what i can move to the sd memory. Still cant download apps due to less memory.
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There is nothing you can do except uninstall some apps. Even moving the apps to the sdcard doesn't move the app data which takes up the most rom.
To be honest the next time you get a device make sure it has at least 32gb of storage.
Thank you so much for the fast replies.