Hi,
First, I assume we speak about the same things:
1) Samsung Galaxy S II can have 3 locations for data.
2) Two of them are internal memory, one is the SYSTEM partition of ~2GB (Android calls it "device memory") where all aps are installed by default, and the other are the DATA partition of ~14GB (Android calls it "USB storage") and is mounted on /sdcard mountpoint.
3) If you plug an SD Card (Android calls it SDcard) on your phone, it will be mounted in /sdcard/external_sd storage.
Here is my problem: when I go to Settings/Applications/Manage applications, select one, and click on "Move to SD", I expect it moves the data application (not entirely, just the data, as Android can't move exe files) to the internal DATA partition, so to /sdcard mountpoint.
Actually, "Move to SD" button move data to the external SD (/sdcard/external_sd mountpoint), and this is not what I want.
I tried without SD card plugged in my phone, and the "Move to SD" button is always available, but when I click it, it says "Your phone have no SDcard. Insert a SD Card."
In some others Android phones with internal storage splitted in two partitions (SYSTEM and DATA), this "Move to SD" button is renamed "Move to USB storage" (where USB Storage == internal DATA storage) and it's working.
So, how I can make this "Move to SD" button works like more "Move to USB storage" one to move apps data from internal SYSTEM partition to internal DATA partition instead of External SDCards ?
Install a CM7 or CM9 vanilla ROM, they have an option to switch internal and external storage..
I think there's a thread or two about this precise subject in here but I don't have the adresses on hand. I don't remember anyone trying and being successful at it on stock ROMs though...
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Hello
I have a galaxy s2 and i wonder what is the difference between internal storage and internal SD card.
In the internal storage i see only apps are installed
and in the internal SD card i have only music photos and others.
it already happened to me that i tried to download an app from the google play and i did not have enough space
is there a way to move my apps from Internal storage to Internal SD card?
(i do not have an external sd card) and if you dont understand what i mean i can upload a screenshot.
thank you
Hello,
Yes, internal storage (or system storage in my phone) is where all the apps are installed.
And internal SD card (known better as internal storage) is where photos, videos etc etc are stored.
This is the only thing i know..
About the moving of apps, i recommend you go to settings -> applications and to the app you want to move and check if you actually can move it. (yes, there's an option to move that app to Sd card) My gues it wont since you need an external storage (or known as SD CARD) if you want to move apps.
If you can't install apps from google play, there are mostly two explanations:
1. Actually insufficient storage. To prevent this, free up memory from system storage by deleting apps/games etc.
2. .odex file causes the erroe. To prevent this, (you need to be rooted) goto /data/app in file manager and find <The app you want to install from google play>.odex
Eg. for second alternative.
If you want to install Swiftkey but get an error. Goto /data/app and delete swiftkey.odex
Internal storage, different names
orr77746 said:
Hello
I have a galaxy s2 and i wonder what is the difference between internal storage and internal SD card.
In the internal storage i see only apps are installed
and in the internal SD card i have only music photos and others.
it already happened to me that i tried to download an app from the google play and i did not have enough space
is there a way to move my apps from Internal storage to Internal SD card?
(i do not have an external sd card) and if you dont understand what i mean i can upload a screenshot.
thank you
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There the same thing. You can verify by checking the size of the two & the contents to see if they show the same thing.
It would be helpful to know what version of Android your running since this affects how things are displayed.
To find that information open press the menu or home button (bottom left),
Settings
at the very bottom is "About Device"
Look for Android Version
Within most versions of Android (I have 4.1.2 in front of me) what is called "sdcard" or "internal storage" or "internal sdcard" is actually a partition of the device's total internal storage. Unless you are flashing ROMs or running root, you won't see these other paritions.
The internal storage or sdcard is also called sdcard0 or /storage/sdcard0 depending on your version of Android.
The physical sdcard (external storage) is sometimes called /emmc or /extSdCard In later versions you can also get to it as /storage/sdcard1
Hope that helps
Ed
i am running android 4.0.4
and i understand that i cant move apps to there..
i will just buy an external SD card
you helped me alot
Thanks everybody!!
Hello World!
I have been trying to get an annswer to some questions through searches and searches and searches, somehow I cannot seem to find an explanation that specifically solves this mystery.
I had an Xperia Pro. As you all know it is an older gen phone with mediocre specs and I had a 32 GB card on it. What I understood is that when apps are moved to SD Card, widgets become unavailable. And that the Internal Storage is limited, so bigger apps had to be moved to SD Card anyway. Straight forward, no confusions and no memory wasted.
Bought a Lava Iris 504Q a week ago (now rooted, running CWM recovery) and the phone stated to have 4 GB ROM. Attractive, if you're coming from an Xperia Pro which had close to 300 MB. And my confusion starts here:
Under "storage" in Settings I see 3 divisions:
1. "Internal Storage" - 1 GB (which is where all apps are getting installed)
2. "Phone Storage" (called sdcard0 in file browsers) - 2 GB
3. "External Storage" - My 16 GB mem card (called sdcard1)
The Phone Storage is called Internal SD card, and the external memory is called External SD Card in CWM, I see there is are options to create back up/install zip to/from "Internal SD Card" or "External SD Card". But when I go to Titanium Backup, I do not see this, everything defaults to External SD Card, as I figured by doing a Batch Move of apps to SD Card. So Phone Storage is essentially unused.
Plus, if I use the built in "Move to SD Card" option in Settings->Apps, it is moving it to the External SD Card and not the Phone Storage. Essentially, the Internal SD Card (Phone Storage) is not being used for anything!! Because, when I remove the Mem Card, I do not even get the option to "Move to SD Card".....and by default, the app gets installed in the Internal Storage....invariably leading to a warning of "Low Memory Space" - whatever happened to the 2 GB that is sitting unused as "Phone Storage"?
And, since I cannot now move any app to "Phone Storage" specifically (because there is no option at all, not even in Titanium Backup) and when I did try, nothing really happened thought TB said "Batch Move finished", the next time I looked at the number of apps available to be moved to SD Card, it still said 54 (as when I did the first move). I cannot test if widgets will be available when the app is installed in the "Phone Storage" instead of "Internal Storage", which I presume is "System Storage"
Effectively, the utility of 2 GB of "Phone Storage" is none.....and I want to be able to install apps here, and not cram the 1 GB Internal Storage. Any help please?
I've installed Hyperdrive via SafeStrap today. It seems that when you create that Rom Partition, the OS seems to have been configured so that "SD Card" is actually internal device storage and in order to actually get to the External SD Card I you have to go to Root -> Storage -> ExtSDCard directory.
Also, when I plug it in to the computer, all I can see is the External SD card and this new "fake" SD Card partition in the computer. I can't even get to the Root of the phone.
The problem is things like Pictures and some applications only allow you to choose "Device" or "SD Card" for storage and no matter what you choose it's going to the same place and this virtual SD Card Partition is almost out of space!
Help!
Any help?
jbright44 said:
I've installed Hyperdrive via SafeStrap today. It seems that when you create that Rom Partition, the OS seems to have been configured so that "SD Card" is actually internal device storage and in order to actually get to the External SD Card I you have to go to Root -> Storage -> ExtSDCard directory.
Also, when I plug it in to the computer, all I can see is the External SD card and this new "fake" SD Card partition in the computer. I can't even get to the Root of the phone.
The problem is things like Pictures and some applications only allow you to choose "Device" or "SD Card" for storage and no matter what you choose it's going to the same place and this virtual SD Card Partition is almost out of space!
Help!
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That's the way the Stock ROM works - /mnt/sdcard is the internal storage, /mnt/extSdCard is the external storage.
You can't mount the root because it's a Linux EXT4 filesystem. Windows doesn't understand it. Again, that's normal behavior.
My pictures, music, Ti Backup files, etc. are stored on my external SD card, so it's quite possible to do that.
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Hi I have very weird problem, when I connect to PC via USB I get two partitions Internal storage (or adopted depending which one is primary) and external storage, when I open external storage there is nothing not even the folders but when open internal storage there is a files from external partition and internal merged (Files from all partitions are showed in one) there are folders from internal and external memory, also there is folder called 'storage' with sub-folder 'emulated' with sub-folder '0' I don't get it what gone wrong? One more thing when I paste something in internal partition it goes there the same happens with external partition? I tried clearing cache, clearing data and cache for Media storage an External storage, please help! Phone is Lg k8 running marshmallow 6.0
My phone with Android O has an unfortunate partition table atm - large internal storage, small internal "sd" storage.
To my surprise, many apps insist to put their data on the sd parition like offline maps or email storage. So atm, half my internal storage is empty, and my sd is full :-\
All tools I have found move data/apps from the internal storage to the (external) sd card (apps2sd, link2sd, appmgr), and anything I have tried (Directory Bind, Folder Mount) aren't successful move-linking the "Android" folder on the sd to the internal storage. Moving and symlinking with the shell doesn't work either.
Question: Is there any app/way to make apps use the internal storage instread of the internal sd card (if they offer no config option)? Thanks!
.. Answering my own question:
After another day of fooling around I discovered that apps2sd "Folder Mount" tool can be mis-used to link external to internal with the "bind" option, even though it insists with a warning screen that this very thing shouldn't be done