I have a sony live with walkman phone with a 32GD SD HC card (10) and am having problems with transferring apps on to the card. Whenever I try and move an app I get a message that it could not be moved. On a few occasions the app has moved but then cannot be found when I want to use it and the icon changes. I had another of these phones previously and didn't have this problem, however I bought that one second so it may of been modded somehow. Another member on the sony forums told me the issue can be fixed so I was hoping that someone could help me please.
Many thanks
Which apps were you trying to move?Because some apps like Facebook and Gmail can't be moved to SD card but if your phone was rooted try this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/SD_card_partitioning and install Link2SD from PlayStore then you can link many apps that can't be moved to your SD card
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Thank you for your reply. I cannot move any apps to the SD card, not even ones that say they can be. The phone is brand new so not rooted. I had one of these phones previously and was able to move anything I wanted to the SD card, other than as you say apps that have to stay on the phone.
NooK_SU said:
Which apps were you trying to move?Because some apps like Facebook and Gmail can't be moved to SD card but if your phone was rooted try this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/SD_card_partitioning and install Link2SD from PlayStore then you can link many apps that can't be moved to your 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.
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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.
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
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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
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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.
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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.
Hi everyone, I have one question regarding my Xperia Mini Pro sk17i.
1 month back i could have easily moved large amount of my newly installed apps to SD card without any problem. But recently whatever I install, I just cannot move it on SD anymore. I understand there are many apps that cannot be moven, but whatever i tried to install (randomly) from Google store just stays on my phone and option to move it to SD is blank (unavailable). Now, I'm wondering is this something that happens frequently, or have I maybe done something that somehow blocked that function?
I'll note this app (which previously when i had no problem moving apps from phone to SD or other way around wasn't installed):
Disk Defragmenter
another note: I never rooted or flashed my phone in any way, just regular updates. I'm currently on 4.0.4 version ( installed it 5 minutes ago, but still problem with moving to SD).
I have never face a problem like u'r..i'm using 4.0.4 too..
format u'r sd card and try
thanks for reply.
Well, i considered doing that, but i have so much settings on my phone that would take ages to redo once i reinstall all the apps...
Hey bro try link2sd then
Try formatting sd card and reset factory settings. Or you can root and move any app to sd..
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use Link2SD is much better
Thanks for your time guys, I've formated and it looks like it's working now. I'll just have to spend some time to readjust settings like they were before. Thank you again. Lock if needed.
Glad to hear it. Good luck
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Sooooooo...
I recently updated my i9300 to foxhound 0.1, which is android 4.2.2.
It works fine and all BUT sometimes when installing apps or updating them they get installed to sd card automatically!
I did some googling, without much luck though since it seems i'm the only one interested in keeping my apps on the internal storage rather than the micro sd.
I had the doubt this was either the fault of apps like
App2sd/Link2sd so i uninstalled them (i really never actually used them), but i doubt it was their making...
What happened is with this new 4.2.2 now i am able to actually move apps to sd card (while on any other rom i dont even recall being able to) and this is cool, but i don't need it. Problem is my phone WANTS to.
So how can i change the default installation directory before i choose to throw my phone against the wall?:banghead:
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Sooooooo...
I recently updated my i9300 to foxhound 0.1, which is android 4.2.2.
It works fine and all BUT sometimes when installing apps or updating them they get installed to sd card automatically!
I did some googling, without much luck though since it seems i'm the only one interested in keeping my apps on the internal storage rather than the micro sd.
I had the doubt this was either the fault of apps like
App2sd/Link2sd so i uninstalled them (i really never actually used them), but i doubt it was their making...
What happened is with this new 4.2.2 now i am able to actually move apps to sd card (while on any other rom i dont even recall being able to) and this is cool, but i don't need it. Problem is my phone WANTS to.
So how can i change the default installation directory before i choose to throw my phone against the wall?:banghead:
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About what sd are you talking? Internal sd which is actually the internal memory or external sd which is your micro sd?
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He is talking about them going to the micro SD card.
Exactly external sd. They just go there themselvesn it doesn't occur with all apps, so i'm guessing maybe the devs put some preferences in the installation properties? I think i recall reading about android devs being able to do this somewhere in their projects.....
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Try asking in the foxhound threads.
Hi I have a 16gb SD card in my Sony tablet that in the past I have moved a few apps over to, i have nearly filled up the tablets internal memory so decided to move a few more over after only moving one app I tried another which is 600mb but after a while I get a error saying their is not enough space left on the SD card when their is 10gb left anyone have any ideas why it would do this
Thanks in advance
I believe due to lollipop you're not able to move the whole app to the sd card. This ought to be changed in the marshmallows update. Unfortunately, without root, there is nothing you can do about it. Please correct me if I am wrong on this
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Guids said:
I believe due to lollipop you're not able to move the whole app to the sd card. This ought to be changed in the marshmallows update. Unfortunately, without root, there is nothing you can do about it. Please correct me if I am wrong on this
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That might be the case as the first app I tried was the Sonic CD game at 600mb but just tried my ebay app at 685mb and that moved straight over, only other difference between these apps is ebay is from the Google Play Store while Sonic was from the Amazon underground apps app do you know if you can't move the amazon underground apps ?
there are 2 programms which assist moving apps to sd. Link2SD is very good - you re-partition your sd card (e.g. if you have 64, you split it into 48gb fat and +16gb ext4 partition) and then you have extra 16gb for apps. It also can move obb files to sdcard, but wants you to upgrade to PRO version for this. Here, FolderMount app comes handy. It is made just to move obb files (this is what you usually get with big games). So, both apps, when used in parallel, allow you to move pretty much everything to sdcard. Both need root. That's what I use on other devices, and will try to replicate same setup on XZ3CT later today. But if it all sounds too complicated, maybe you need to wait for Android marshmallow couple of weeks, and it will allow you to fully use sdcard for apps.