I can't believe I'm asking one of these "what ROM" questions but what custom ROM/s does XDA have that will have a setting where I can default app installs to the External SD?
My internal 16GB keeps taking a beating & I'm a little tired of the maintenance.
Directory Bind helps for some apps but its not anything close to a complete solution.
Genjinaro said:
I can't believe I'm asking one of these "what ROM" questions but what custom ROM/s does XDA have that will have a setting where I can default app installs to the External SD?
My internal 16GB keeps taking a beating & I'm a little tired of the maintenance.
Directory Bind helps for some apps but its not anything close to a complete solution.
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I take no credit for this, Kaos420 made this mod for cm 10.1, check it out and get ready for some AOSP
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2204277
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i dont have any space on my usb storage and i want do download games that takes a lot of memory (200-700mb) is ther an app that move this apps to the external sd?
thanks for all the helpers!
GOTCHA - u want to play huge games thats why u need OC and all that
since Froyo, user apps can be moved to external SD - go Settings - Manage applications and click on the app u want to move. in the next screen u'll see app details and u have a big button "Move to USB storage".
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dowanrac said:
GOTCHA - u want to play huge games thats why u need OC and all that
since Froyo, user apps can be moved to external SD - go Settings - Manage applications and click on the app u want to move. in the next screen u'll see app details and u have a big button "Move to USB storage".
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yes but not all the apps are moveable is there any way that i can move this app to the external SD?
and i have 2.3.5 android version
kfirbep said:
yes but not all the apps are moveable is there any way that i can move this app to the external SD?
and i have 2.3.5 android version
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You do not want to move all apps to SD... the ones that cannot be moved are greyed out so you can't move them... These apps, I suppose, are designed to run from your phone memory and cannot be moved.
You can try App2SD app but I recommend leaving those apps alone. But if you decide to force move them, do not move the apps with widgets as moving them will break the widgets.
never used such an app im afraid. im sure there are many, search the markets.
i find it odd that an app of the size u mention comes without the possibility to install or move to external sd.
in any case, i recall i saw somewhere thread or posts about using ADB shell to change a system parameter which makes all apps to be installed on SD card instead of phone internal sd.
cvcduty said:
You do not want to move all apps to SD... the ones that cannot be moved are greyed out so you can't move them... These apps, I suppose, are designed to run from your phone memory and cannot be moved.
You can try App2SD app but I recommend leaving those apps alone. But if you decide to force move them, do not move the apps with widgets as moving them will break the widgets.
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but which one of this app2sd?theres some apps that just says which of the apps is a moveable i want app that move every app i want.
dowanrac said:
never used such an app im afraid. im sure there are many, search the markets.
i find it odd that an app of the size u mention comes without the possibility to install or move to external sd.
in any case, i recall i saw somewhere thread or posts about using ADB shell to change a system parameter which makes all apps to be installed on SD card instead of phone internal sd.
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These game apps, from my experience, do install the game related files to the internal sd card... not the phone memory... I think the OP is concerned about the fact that since these players only come with 8GB to start with with about 4GB available to users as internal sd, taking 700MB of that leaves little space for everything else... the thing is... external cards are removable... and the game would not function without these files... so that is probably why they are installed on the internal sdcard and not the ex_sdcard... maybe... someone correct me if I am wrong...
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never used such an app im afraid. im sure there are many, search the markets.
i find it odd that an app of the size u mention comes without the possibility to install or move to external sd.
in any case, i recall i saw somewhere thread or posts about using ADB shell to change a system parameter which makes all apps to be installed on SD card instead of phone internal sd.
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i cant find spb shell on the market do u have a link?
kfirbep said:
i cant find spb shell on the market do u have a link?
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it comes with SuperOneClick and its part of Android SDK. do some research first. ADB shell isnt an app or such.
dowanrac said:
it comes with SuperOneClick and its part of Android SDK. do some research first. ADB shell isnt an app or such.
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ok but where is it in the device?
I'm trying to understand the different storage memory points on this beast. I love to have my device files in my Device to be well organized. However, having a directory named sdcard-ext (external, as I understand) in my sdcard (internal?) directory that apparently mirrors sdcard2 is really throwing me off.
Is anyone able to explain the differences between these?
i.e. If I want to save things to my sdcard, do I bring it to sdcard2 or sdcard-ext?
Apologies if this has been explained on a different thread elsewhere. My searching brought up nothing to answer my question. Thanks in advance everyone.
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sdcard is the internal memory with total capacity of the 16gb. capacity includes system partitions. sdcard2 is actually your external removable memory card. sdcard-ext and other derivatives means an ext partition on external. that refers to a separate partition for installing apps to the memory card. usually don't have to worry about ext partitions since majority of everyone installs apps to internal
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AJMetal87 said:
I'm trying to understand the different storage memory points on this beast. I love to have my device files in my Device to be well organized. However, having a directory named sdcard-ext (external, as I understand) in my sdcard (internal?) directory that apparently mirrors sdcard2 is really throwing me off.
Is anyone able to explain the differences between these?
i.e. If I want to save things to my sdcard, do I bring it to sdcard2 or sdcard-ext?
Apologies if this has been explained on a different thread elsewhere. My searching brought up nothing to answer my question. Thanks in advance everyone.
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As I understand it, ext_sd is just a link (not a physical location) on the sd memory. I would always move your files to sdcard2, but you may encounter some apps that don't recognize it and you will have to use ext_sd to access anything there.
uToTMeH8 said:
As I understand it, ext_sd is just a link (not a physical location) on the sd memory. I would always move your files to sdcard2, but you may encounter some apps that don't recognize it and you will have to use ext_sd to access anything there.
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Either way at the end of the day they get you to the same place. Most apps will use ext_sd and not sdcard2 though. Either way same place.
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Thanks for the help and quick responses. Hopefully it will help others too.
Taking things a step further - As far as application storage goes for apps on the external sd card, is it really that beneficial? Considering (as I understand) we have 3 gee bees of storage specifically for applications and they're data? Especially if I'm running v6 supercharged at 1000hp.
I'm all for optimization. This is just another thing storage related I never completely understood.
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AJMetal87 said:
Thanks for the help and quick responses. Hopefully it will help others too.
Taking things a step further - As far as application storage goes for apps on the external sd card, is it really that beneficial? Considering (as I understand) we have 3 gee bees of storage specifically for applications and they're data? Especially if I'm running v6 supercharged at 1000hp.
I'm all for optimization. This is just another thing storage related I never completely understood.
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internal is usually enough for the majority of your apps unless you have an absurd amount installed. I wouldn't advise using those 3rd party performance scripts and tweaks. usually they do the opposite since the devs who made roms usually tweaked what needed to make the rom perform well so those extras aren't needed. if you still insist just monitor since it could decrease their purpose
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Hi can someone please help me out.
i have just inserted a new sd card in my phone,
ive already transferd a few files to it so i no its working.
well im using the application app 2 sd to move apps , well i have apps that it says can be moved but when i click on them there is no option for sd card and also i get a message saying: the device does not have a real primary external storage, or primary external storage is emulated
can someone help me please
anyone? :/
Could be a copy sdcard card, loads kickin around from China
Also why u need a2sd don't u have enough on phone storage?
No it's proper sand disk I think from ebuyer, well I have about 10 apps and I have around 250-300mb left just wanted to free some up as when I install n.o.v.a 3 it's like 2.gb and that installs to whine storage aswell not sd. I think I've read that none if the apps to sd work yet for sgs3 :/
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There's plenty of open topics about this. Search for them.
Basically Samsung intended the internal, external cards and dropbox to work as one big storage for all apps, app data and user files... or something like that.
So they disabled the Move To SD option in the app manager. Unfortunately it doesn't quite work like they intended and the external SD is practically useless as most apps (99%) can't read or write to it.
I'm reading around now to see if anything new happened but it's looking grim.
This thread should be closed.
Any updates on this? I still want to move my App Data to the external SD card. In this way my new SGS3 is even worse than my Galaxy Y -.-
as far as I know it does not work with S3. maybe an update coming soon
vimto25 said:
Hi can someone please help me out.
i have just inserted a new sd card in my phone,
ive already transferd a few files to it so i no its working.
well im using the application app 2 sd to move apps , well i have apps that it says can be moved but when i click on them there is no option for sd card and also i get a message saying: the device does not have a real primary external storage, or primary external storage is emulated
can someone help me please
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you cant do it again. samsung wont allow this option anymore. you can close this thread
It works. It requires some handywork though on the shelll.
maybe there will be a noob friendly mod soon for those that want to use .sd card for apps?
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I'm just hoping for a custom Rom with App moving, UMS mode and fixed user dictionary so I'm not having to patch up the f**k ups that Samsung made and have it all built in like it should be.
phre5k said:
Any updates on this? I still want to move my App Data to the external SD card. In this way my new SGS3 is even worse than my Galaxy Y -.-
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I used Directory Bind App to move my big data esp. game data to my external Sd.It worked perfectly.
bump. having same issue.
Doesn't work for crap? Is it just me? Do I need to reflash it? I have the rooted version that's available and when I move something to the sd, it movies basically just the apk and says it moves the data yet the data stays on the internal SD
skydeaner said:
Doesn't work for crap? Is it just me? Do I need to reflash it? I have the rooted version that's available and when I move something to the sd, it movies basically just the apk and says it moves the data yet the data stays on the internal SD
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The integration will move the apk.
An app that is 100mb in size will free 100mb of space and move that application to the sd card.
An app that is 50mb for the apk and upon opening you are prompted with a 1gb data downoad will only free 50mb of space when you move it. Any external data downloads are not moved.
barnacles10 said:
The integration will move the apk.
An app that is 100mb in size will free 100mb of space and move that application to the sd card.
An app that is 50mb for the apk and upon opening you are prompted with a 1gb data downoad will only free 50mb of space when you move it. Any external data downloads are not moved.
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Spotify stores data on the external. The app has to support it. Most apps moved away from doing it because apps 2 sd hasnt been used since gingerbread.
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Man, so really since I want to house more than 1 or 2 large games, I am still waiting for a dev to give us a way to swap storages like on my tablet :*(
skydeaner said:
Man, so really since I want to house more than 1 or 2 large games, I am still waiting for a dev to give us a way to swap storages like on my tablet :*(
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Symlinks are a pretty easy way to throw data on the sdcard. If you're looking for a GUI though check out folder mount.
barnacles10 said:
Symlinks are a pretty easy way to throw data on the sdcard. If you're looking for a GUI though check out folder mount.
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see I tried foldermount and it didnt work for me on gta vc so I figured it wasnt going to work on anything else either and I got rid of it. maybe I will give it another shot
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woot, sorry about that. I started out thinking i was going to make a comment, and then decided to change it to a question. Anywhoser... anyone else have bad luck with foldermount and games?
Folder mount works fine for me. Just patiently waiting for an me7 root + recovery method.
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Hello,
I am currently running on Android 6.0
I am trying to move apps to SD card but for some reason I can't see the option.
I have tried going to settings and apps and tapping on the app and can't see an option.
I have tried a few apps as well to move to SD card but all the apps do is take me to the settings menu. They don't actually move the app themselves even though the app I am trying to move is movable according to the app.
Any ideas anyone?
Anyone?
Please?
Everyone's lack of response does not encourage me to contribute to this forum. Thanks for nothing! Crap community!
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You are probably looking for what is native to Nougat on up. I'd suggest trying APP2SD and before you use it read the tutorials on XDA here.