I have a 8gb sd card and want to have everything installed including the firmware on there and use the 16gb storage only for movies/music. Is this possible at all?
not every app can/will run proper from the sd card and the Firmware deffenetly not
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Hi,
As u can see in the title, I own a Samsung Galaxy Ace 2 I8160L.
It has 4gb internal storage but only about 1.1gb user available. Most of the more exciting games have data that are 1.5gb and more.
Is there a way to install these games and have the sd data go to my external micro sd card and not the internal 1.1gb 'sd card'?
Thanks in advance, Nate
Are you root? Because you could try Directory Bind
Im not rooted as yet. And im not familiar with directory bind. Will look it up tho.
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Is there any root free solution tho? I will root but only as a laat resort
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Yeah, I am also looking for some root free method to swap sd card and external card in my galaxy ace 2.
I dont really know why in samsung phones our external sd card is nt treated as an sd card.
I had htc one v prior to this phone and atleast one good thing abt that phone was it would move apps to external sd card not to internal storage like samsung phones.
Now with this phone (galaxy ace 2), external sd card size is quite irrelevant for apps, coz this phone counts the internal usb storage which is only 1GB as sd card.
Anyways if u find any root free method to swap storage, plz post it here too.
Thanks.
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you must root your phone then you could use the lidroid or GL2SD move game data to your SDCARD
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you must root your phone then you could use the lidroid or GL2SD move game data to your SDCARD
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Thanks for your response.
But I donot want to root my phone :-$
I am not expert at it, so dont want to take the risk. Plus this phone has a little community, so in case if something goes wrong with rooting, it might become difficult to find help...
I think I wld have to bear this storage issue. :-S
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I found a way to get the apps to install directly to the ext sd card. But the games sd data still go to the internal storage unfortunately. Il post a link in a bit
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I found a ways to get the apps to install directly to the ext sd cadd. But the games sd date still go to the internal storage unfortunately. Il post a link in a bit
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Great. And yes plz post the link here... Will be helpful for others.
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Great. And yes plz post the link here... Will be helpful for others.
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http://www.howtogeek.com/114667/how...y-default-move-almost-any-app-to-the-sd-card/
here you go^^
I think rooting is my only solution to get sd data to work from my sd card. But im not sure my model is root-able. I have the I8160L, can't even find the original firmware online
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http://www.howtogeek.com/114667/how...y-default-move-almost-any-app-to-the-sd-card/
here you go^^
I think rooting is my only solution to get sd data to work from my sd card. But im not sure my model is root-able. I have the I8160L, can't even find the original firmware online
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Thanks for the link.
Did u try it? Does it move the app to external card? Or to the usb/internal storage?
And i think (not sure) as far as app data is concerned, it does not take too much of storage, so it shd not be an issue.
And i m not an expert in rooting, so i think i wont go for it. But lets see.
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Yea it works for most apps. And if not. When u move them to the sd card thru the app manager they move to the external storage. This doesn't apply to system apps or the large sd data files that accompany those huge games that need additional data.
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Okay right.
Actually the problem is when we go to settings-apps-sd card, it shows the usb/internal storage there, not the actual external sd card. So when i move any app to sd card (which is moveable), it is moves to the internal usb storage (which the phone considers as sd card storage).
But i ll give this trick a try.
And one last thing how did u confirm it that with this trick, apps are now being moved to external storage and not to the internal usb storage?
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Checked the storage before and after moving apps. And also i took my sd card out. Put it in a card reader and found the apps in a folder on the micro sd card called android secure
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Checked the storage before and after moving apps. And also i took my sd card out. Put it in a card reader and found the apps in a folder on the micro sd card called android secure
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Ok...
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but we cant move the game data to external sd because it doesnt fit on our internal in the firstplace
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but we cant move the game data to external sd because it doesnt fit on our internal in the firstplace
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Solution to this is rooting, and using directory bind. I currently have asphalt 7(1.4gb) Real racing 2, Dead Space, Shadow Gun etc installed and running fine from my external sd card
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Jellycream rom will sort that out, it swaps the vold file and you will be able to download bigger files.
can i?
can i play games form external sd card like games 1.8 and .15 gb ?
Nice
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hi guys, wondering is there a way i can move apps to the sd card on a rooted s3 device, i dont want to make my external memory card to the internal i just simple want to move apps to the external sd card. thanks
use DirectoryBind.. you can search it here on XDA on how to use it
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use DirectoryBind.. you can search it here on XDA on how to use it
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cheers was able to do i, thanks again
Points to Note
-Some applications have been modified to perfectly operate on internal storage only. Such applications cannot be moved to external memory storage.
-Not all versions of Android support the movement of apps. Only phones operating on android version 4.0-4.2 support this action. Android 4.3 only supports moving in certain phone models.
Moving of applications from internal storage to an external storage such as an SD card has helped many Android users acquire a much needed space on their devices.
I tried moving some of my applications to an external SD card. The problem is App2SD fails to recognize the external SD, and Link2SD throws an insufficient storage error in my face. The thing is, the external SD is recognized by Android under System Settings -> Storage. There is 4.5 GB of available space.
Helpes me.
This guy's script works very well. Only use it if you have a fast sd class 10.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2108775
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Any chance you can tell us how you got it rooted ?
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I guess not
You can root p769 V10G USA T-Mobile from this link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2173465
it's fairly easy if you read it.
i just finished rooting mine just now haha.
What is mean by cynogen/kernel/clockwork recovery mod please tell me in detail. How Can I unroot my GT B5512 successfully. Ho I can change sd card because I had root this phone b'coz just partitioning sd card to use as internal phone memory & install apps on it now I want to chane that sd card so how I can do that?
So pleaaasse do the needfull.
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What is mean by cynogen/kernel/clockwork recovery mod please tell me in detail. How Can I unroot my GT B5512 successfully. Ho I can change sd card because I had root this phone b'coz just partitioning sd card to use as internal phone memory & install apps on it now I want to chane that sd card so how I can do that?
So pleaaasse do the needfull.
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There are many guides avaliable that explains these terms. Google it. To delete the partition in sd card, you need a computer. Use partition tools manager to format your sd card. Beware, all your data in sd card will get formatted.