Storage Question - Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4

Seems that I have no room left on my phone storage & tons of space left on my SD card. How can I get my phone to put everything on the card, by default??
Would this work: if I hook my phone up to my PC, then just took all the folders on my phone storage, and moved them to the Card. Would my apps & stuff still work or would doing that not be good??
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MissLaniS said:
Seems that I have no room left on my phone storage & tons of space left on my SD card. How can I get my phone to put everything on the card, by default??
Would this work: if I hook my phone up to my PC, then just took all the folders on my phone storage, and moved them to the Card. Would my apps & stuff still work or would doing that not be good??
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I don't think just copying the apps will allow them to work. You can use Application Manager to move some apps to the sd card.

I went thru all my apps & moved whichever ones I was able to move. But I did that a long time ago. So I still have no room on my phone storage.
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MissLaniS said:
I went thru all my apps & moved whichever ones I was able to move. But I did that a long time ago. So I still have no room on my phone storage.
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Move photos, downloads and any music on your phone to your SD card too. Then in your camera app go to settings and change the SD card as default.
Download the free version of SD Maid and use it to clean up old thumbnails and program files still on your phone from before you moved them.
I once deleted 2gb of photo gallery thumbnails from my phone with this app. You can also see which files are the largest on your phone and SD card to see if you can move or delete anything.
I have this app on my phone, tab, and my kids tabs to keep up with their memory and storage usage.

ryant35 said:
Move photos, downloads and any music on your phone to your SD card too. Then in your camera app go to settings and change the SD card as default.
Download the free version of SD Maid and use it to clean up old thumbnails and program files still on your phone from before you moved them.
I once deleted 2gb of photo gallery thumbnails from my phone with this app. You can also see which files are the largest on your phone and SD card to see if you can move or delete anything.
I have this app on my phone, tab, and my kids tabs to keep up with their memory and storage usage.
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Thanks, I'm also running out of space, I'll give this a shot.

Tonight I was gonna try to just backup all my.stuff and then start over. I use GO launcher and I saw that I have GO backup on my phone, so I was gonna try to.use that. I started the app & it said my SD card is corrupted or damaged. I included a screenshot of what it said:
So would this be the reason why everything is on my internal storage instead of my card? Or is that message just something I.should ignore??
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MissLaniS said:
Tonight I was gonna try to just backup all my.stuff and then start over. I use GO launcher and I saw that I have GO backup on my phone, so I was gonna try to.use that. I started the app & it said my SD card is corrupted or damaged. I included a screenshot of what it said:
So would this be the reason why everything is on my internal storage instead of my card? Or is that message just something I.should ignore??
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If you have a card reader unmount your SD card, take it out and try reading it on a computer. If you can read it I would copy everything off and put in a temporary folder on your desktop. Then format the card with the computer and put it back in the phone, format it using the phone and try your back-up again.
If it works put the card back in your computer and copy your files back. Be sure to unmount the card each time. Mine went corrupt once because I didn't.

How do I make the SD card, the default storage for everything? Or is that not possible...
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MissLaniS said:
How do I make the SD card, the default storage for everything? Or is that not possible...
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You would have to change defaults on all your apps, camera is a big one.

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I want stuff like downloads and what not saves tto SD card... they all go on phone memory I hate that my phone memory is 4.Gb left and my internal SD is 11.4.. how do I get all saved stuff to SD card!?!?!
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If you mean things you are saving off from the browser, it is in the browser options.
Not just that how about apps also!?
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You have to move those manually I think. Under settings>apps>manage apps. After that go into a few of them. If they can be moved the move to sd card with be available. I don't think it can be done by default.
I use the app below myself. Every week or so, I'll load up the app and have it move whatever it can over to my SD card. You can set it to do it all in one shot or app by app, whichever you prefer. You can also enable a Notification to alert you when an app can be moved.
https://market.android.com/details?id=mobi.infolife.app2sd&feature=search_result

How do I select my micro SD card as the default place to install stuff on 2.3.6 stock

Well as the post says. I'm running out of memory on my internal and for some reason nothing's going to my SD card
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MysticKing32 said:
Well as the post says. I'm running out of memory on my internal and for some reason nothing's going to my SD card
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And I'm installing Gameloft games so I really need the SD card but if I put the data there the game no longer recognized the data until it was moved back
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https://market.android.com/details?id=mobi.infolife.app2sd
Running ICScrewD ROM
Settings>Applications> Manage Applications> the On SD Card tab at the top, will move capable apps to the sd card.
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Settings>Applications> Manage Applications> the On SD Card tab at the top, will move capable apps to the sd card.
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Thanks for the reply guys but Im not trying to move my apps to the sd card . Im trying to make the data that the apps download go to the sd card
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I don't think you can. The internal storage is mounted to /mnt/sdcard, and apps seem to always put their downloaded data on /mnt/sdcard. Only tip I can give is to move all your music, pics and videos to the external card to make room for the app data.
Or, move game data to the external sd card when you're not using it, then move it back when you want to play that game.
raduque said:
I don't think you can. The internal storage is mounted to /mnt/sdcard, and apps seem to always put their downloaded data on /mnt/sdcard. Only tip I can give is to move all your music, pics and videos to the external card to make room for the app data.
Or, move game data to the external sd card when you're not using it, then move it back when you want to play that game.
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Wow that sucks. But your right. I guess that is my only option
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Hey guys I figured out that cyanogen has that option to use internal or external sd for data storage. Is there a stock rom that offers it?
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No, at least not on any stock based android I've seen. Cyanogenmod was designed to be installed onto the ext sd card. The 'option' it gives is to use the internal, not the other way around. Technical difference, but nonetheless.
I've never seen a stock based 'prom' (that's for you gary) for any phone that had android installed onto the ext sd card.
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Can I access internal SD without booting?

My ROM is corrupt, but i need to access the internal SD so I can remove my TiBu data and pictures, music, etc. Is there ANY way that I can access the internal storage without booting into Android? The CWM does not allow mounting of USB Storage yet.
Your pictures and TiBu shouldn't be effected by wiping your rom.
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Kromatrix said:
Your pictures and TiBu shouldn't be effected by wiping your rom.
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true
or worse case just pull out SD card to preserve
put back in when fixed, or put in friends phone and pull off data
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or worse case just pull out SD card to preserve
put back in when fixed, or put in friends phone and pull off data
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He wants the memory of the phone which is called internal sd. Then an sd card is an external sd.
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You can do wipes and re-flash roms without erasing the internal storage.
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He wants the memory of the phone which is called internal sd. Then an sd card is an external sd.
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Sorry
I stand corrected
But yesterday I did factory reset but my pictures where still there (checking format option too)

GL 2 scard app (can you show me)

I am running out of space dye ti gameloft and EA sports games so there's a app to moved SD Data to external SD card but i cant figure it out for the life me
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thatruth132 said:
I am running out of space dye ti gameloft and EA sports games so there's a app to moved SD Data to external SD card but i cant figure it out for the life me
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Get storage analyzer. It's a free app that will tell you where all of your storage is being used.
Trust me...it will be your best friend.
You can choose between viewing files in the internal storage, the external, or the whole device. In your case, make sure your internal storage isn't full...and check for appears that was left behind even though you uninstalled the app for it.
Also, I'd check to make sure that your internal storage, is in fact full, and that it's not just your 2GB space alloyed for apps.
Jamesyboy said:
Get storage analyzer. It's a free app that will tell you where all of your storage is being used.
Trust me...it will be your best friend.
You can choose between viewing files in the internal storage, the external, or the whole device. In your case, make sure your internal storage isn't full...and check for appears that was left behind even though you uninstalled the app for it.
Also, I'd check to make sure that your internal storage, is in fact full, and that it's not just your 2GB space alloyed for apps.
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Stop spamming
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move to sd card
this app works great:
ZDbox (All-In-One toolbox)
ZDworks Co.,Ltd.
from the google play store.
Allows you to move many apps at once. It scans your phone at well tell you what all apps you can move your sd card, then lets you select and move them.
I hate game loft games. They leave all of the post-downloaded data behind after an uninstall.
Ok let me be clear there is a app to move gameloft data to external.sd for devices with built in sdcard and external sd to you move over to external
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The point of an SD card ?

I bought an SD card a couple weeks ago and its pretty much useless since everything I download always goes into my internal storage. Maybe I am doing something wrong here? So what's the point of having one
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420haxr said:
I bought an SD card a couple weeks ago and its pretty much useless since everything I download always goes into my internal storage. Maybe I am doing something wrong here? So what's the point of having one
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Picture, videos, music and transfer some apps.
riker147 said:
Picture, videos, music and transfer some apps.
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Yet none of those things actually download to my SD card. My SD card has like 9 gigs free space and internal only has 500mb left .
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Go into your camera settings and tell it to save to SD card and free up some of your phones space
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420haxr said:
Yet none of those things actually download to my SD card. My SD card has like 9 gigs free space and internal only has 500mb left .
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Copy the folders from internal card to extsd...
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decaturbob said:
Copy the folders from internal card to extsd...
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The specific media folders..then delete the contents on internal memory....
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Or use something like ES File Explorer File Manager from the Play Store or am alternative browser like Dolphin. ES has a downloader that is one of the choices when downloading a file from the web. In the ES settings you can set its default download location to the external card. Dolphin lets you pick the download location at each download. The TouchWiz camera and some others let you specify where to store photos.
Also, Titanium backup and other backup apps let you back up to the external card.
And most important of all, especially if you are crack flashing TouchWiz ROMs, keep your TWRP or CWM backups on the external card. They can be 2 GB+ each if you don't use compression, and not much better if you do. I have a 16 GB Nexus 7 and its a constant battle with backup space. I usually keep one solid reference backup and my latest only. I would love to be able to throw a 64GB card in it.
420haxr said:
I bought an SD card a couple weeks ago and its pretty much useless since everything I download always goes into my internal storage. Maybe I am doing something wrong here? So what's the point of having one
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Also you can use Folder Mount app to move pretty much whatever you want to you're external SD card
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420haxr said:
I bought an SD card a couple weeks ago and its pretty much useless since everything I download always goes into my internal storage. Maybe I am doing something wrong here? So what's the point of having one
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Best thing for you to do is educate yourself. ...As the extsd card is invaluable and something many other phone manufacturers don't even offer any more..
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