[TESTED] app & games data to external SD card on S3 !!! - Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

How to move applications & games data to external SD card on Samsung Galaxy S3?
I take my Samsung Galaxy S3 as example. It should work on rooted Android phone with external micro SD card.
Old Gameloft games data are stored at /mnt/sdcard/
However, latest Gameloft games data are stored at /mnt/sdcard/Android/data/ just like other Android applications and games.
With Directory Bind, you can move one folder by one folder to external storage at /mnt/extSdCard/
I won’t move all applications and games data in Android/data folder to external micro SD card because it is much slower compare to internal memory.
Therefore, I only move those unimportant or less frequent used applications and games to external storage with Directory Bind.
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This look like Directory symbolic links to another path.

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Do i have to root my Galaxy Note in order to get it done?

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chintu_1717 said:
Do i have to root my Galaxy Note in order to get it done?
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Most likely.

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Worked great - used it to relocate my amazonmp3 folder among other things

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This look like Directory symbolic links to another path.
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No. Symlinks (and hardlinks) only work within a filesystem, not across partitions.
This is a kernel-feature called bind-mount.
The underlying command is: (Make sure the destination exists)
bind -o mount /from/source/folder /to/destination/folder

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I was trying this last night, but couldn't get the settings to persist. I was trying with gta3 and put the exact settings you have above in, ticked the box to move move files, and the files moved but the settings didn't appear on the main screen.

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Hi ,
I would like to know how to delete the bing and restore original app directory.
If I hold down on the blind apper two paths and under these two entries "delete" and "save"
What should I do? I run last version of app "o"
I've read all the page of the topic but I found information only to create a bind and not how to delete it.
Thanks in advance

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Just hold on bind entry & delete. Simples
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Not exactly sure how it works.
Moving seems to be working. But the directory stays on internal sdcard but are files moved because there is more space.
But when I reopen directory bind I can't see binded directory's anymore?
How to unbind then?
And when I delete directory on internal sdcard the game doesn't run anymore!
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Not working for me
Hi Carlos, I'm using the same configurations that you show on your screenshots but when I try to open for example Aura, it wants to download all the data again. This happens also on the games.
I am using a Galaxy S3 Us Version, rooted, with Adama 03 kernel and redruM rom, Android 4.04.
Thanks!

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Awesome!, works perfectly on omega9
Thanks!!!

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I got many application crash or force close when the directory bind running..ex TB,gapps,and many other..how to fix it??

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IT WORKED

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I'm using link2sd app. Works pretty well
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This is done by creating symbolic links.
What you're making is a way to point that any operation into directory /x needs to be done into directory /y. Because of this, you can't delete the original directory or your games won't run as you are deleting it on /y (/x point to /y).
I do this on my computer to use my RAM Disk with browser, temporaries, downloads and such.

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symbolic links and bind mount is two different thing. symlink doesn't supported by the (ex)fat16/32 filesystem, so only the bind mount will work.
great app but a directory browsing feature will be great, writing a long directory name is painfull
edit: found the directory browsing feature

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lpicanco said:
I'm using link2sd app. Works pretty well
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On Galaxy S3?
SkzBR said:
This is done by creating symbolic links.
What you're making is a way to point that any operation into directory /x needs to be done into directory /y. Because of this, you can't delete the original directory or your games won't run as you are deleting it on /y (/x point to /y).
I do this on my computer to use my RAM Disk with browser, temporaries, downloads and such.
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How do you do this on computer?

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This helped a lot !
I just used a terminal emulator on my S3 to bind /extSdCard to /sdcard/external_sd and was wondering how I would go about moving to the external sd. If only I had com across this thread about ten minutes ago...
Thank you!!

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Perfect, just what I needed
Installed and works great on my S3 I9300 with Rooted Stock ICS ROM.:good: