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On Android you have the option of moving the apps to the SD card which will obviously create more internal memory.
But are there any disadvantages in this, will it slow the apps/phone down?
Well, that is a good question
The APPS may work a bit slow - it depends on the class (quality class) of your SD card - if u have a fast one it won't be visible and u won't notice the apps are on your SD.
I don't know the exact SD card class numbers - i suggest googling it never did pay attention on it, because it wasnt my #1 priority
Hope i have helped
Cheers.
Thanks, any other views on this topic?
The class of the SD card is a measure for bandwidth, I don't think android apps require a lot of bandwidth, moreover when you have opened an app it will be stored in the internal RAM, so at that point it shouldn't be an issue anymore. Of course, opening an app can be slower, but I think that access time is a larger bottleneck than the read/write speed in that case. Personally I never noticed it.
for some reason some of the apps are a little more buggy when they are on the SD so just try it and see if it works well for you. If it does there is so big downside of having it on there
Stumbled across this thread. Figured I'd share some info. First off some info on A2SD. Since it would take a lot of space I'll give you some links. You can look HERE for info on what A2SD is, and how it works. You can also check THIS thread for Darktremor's A2SD Beta info. Then there's A2SDGUI (GUI for Darktremor A2SD) which looks interesting. Here is some great information on SD Cards, how they work, and the Classes. Hope that helps shed some light on things .
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Stumbled across this thread. Figured I'd share some info. First off some info on A2SD. Since it would take a lot of space I'll give you some links. You can look HERE for info on what A2SD is, and how it works. You can also check THIS thread for Darktremor's A2SD Beta info. Then there's A2SDGUI (GUI for Darktremor A2SD) which looks interesting. Here is some great information on SD Cards, how they work, and the Classes. Hope that helps shed some light on things .
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There A2SD EXT methods, i was asking about the native Android move to SD option.
I havent got any problems with any apps whenever I move them to the SD Card. I havent moven apps which doesn't allow me to put it on the SD Card. But if you do move an app onto the SD Card, widgets for that app won't work unless the developers released an widget app for that app. For example, I moved Evernote to the SD Card and I couldn't use the widgets but the developers released another app which allowed me to use the widgets.
Hope this helps
325i. said:
There A2SD EXT methods, i was asking about the native Android move to SD option.
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You could run whatever Rom your using through the Kitchen, and Enable A2SD.
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325i. said:
On Android you have the option of moving the apps to the SD card which will obviously create more internal memory.
But are there any disadvantages in this, will it slow the apps/phone down?
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Yes. Longer start up and shut down times because the apps on the sd card has to be monted and unmounted respectively on each boot.
Hello,
I've searched but nobody seems to have my particular problem. I moved a bunch of Apps via App2Sd from my Phone to my SD card, thinking it would help eliminate the "Insufficient storage device" error that kept popping up. It did the trick, but my phone became insanely slow as a response...and it periodically reboots every 1-3 minutes. I'm not quite sure what I did - or rather, how exactly moving Apps to my SD card could wrought such havoc on my phone. My phone is not rooted, and I have not made any effort to modify it beyond the normal means. Could anyone assist me? I'd appreciate it.
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Hello,
I've searched but nobody seems to have my particular problem. I moved a bunch of Apps via App2Sd from my Phone to my SD card, thinking it would help eliminate the "Insufficient storage device" error that kept popping up. It did the trick, but my phone became insanely slow as a response...and it periodically reboots every 1-3 minutes. I'm not quite sure what I did - or rather, how exactly moving Apps to my SD card could wrought such havoc on my phone. My phone is not rooted, and I have not made any effort to modify it beyond the normal means. Could anyone assist me? I'd appreciate it.
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Did you move widgets or launchers?
Nawhdee said:
Hello,
I've searched but nobody seems to have my particular problem. I moved a bunch of Apps via App2Sd from my Phone to my SD card, thinking it would help eliminate the "Insufficient storage device" error that kept popping up. It did the trick, but my phone became insanely slow as a response...and it periodically reboots every 1-3 minutes. I'm not quite sure what I did - or rather, how exactly moving Apps to my SD card could wrought such havoc on my phone. My phone is not rooted, and I have not made any effort to modify it beyond the normal means. Could anyone assist me? I'd appreciate it.
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I have a very vague recollection of the stock recovery but I believe there is a way to wipe CACHE (not DATA) from it. Try that first.
Also, If you're not rooted then that app is not doing anything you can't already do on the stock rom. I would try moving the apps back and then get rid of that app. You can move individual apps through phone settings > applications. That app only moves apps that can already be moved by stock Android.
If all else fails you may be looking at a factory reset. That's the crummy thing about an unrooted phone, if something goes wrong you don't have many options.
122ninjas said:
Did you move widgets or launchers?
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I can't specifically remember, but I moved almost everything. It's likely that I moved my launcher, GoLauncher. As for widgets, I only have one widget, BusinessCalendar, and since that doesn't function from the SD card (as far as I know), I left it there.
In the end I removed my SD card and, predictably, the phone worked just fine. I wanted to avoid it, but I guess I'm just gonna mount and clear my SD card.
Nawhdee said:
Hello,
I've searched but nobody seems to have my particular problem. I moved a bunch of Apps via App2Sd from my Phone to my SD card, thinking it would help eliminate the "Insufficient storage device" error that kept popping up. It did the trick, but my phone became insanely slow as a response...and it periodically reboots every 1-3 minutes. I'm not quite sure what I did - or rather, how exactly moving Apps to my SD card could wrought such havoc on my phone. My phone is not rooted, and I have not made any effort to modify it beyond the normal means. Could anyone assist me? I'd appreciate it.
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For some reason it seems not much people know that if all your apps are on your INTERNAL it will be extremely faster. The UI throughout the phone will significantly increase. Guarantee you that.
The phone has to locate read the app from the SD then boot it save data on SD= lag.
As above, and some apps do not play well on the external sd even though they can be put there. I'm pretty sure the launcher should be on the internal sd.
If you really are out of space on the internal, then only move one, or a small number of apps to external, and then only one at a time, to see the effects. Also, choose the ones you use the least.
I'd suggest you move everything back to the internal memory and see if the phone functions normally again. If so, then move apps to external as I mentioned above. If not, you may have to wipe data/factory reset and set everything up all over again.
What ROM are you running? I recommended flashing something light and tight to improve your overall experience. Try Ethereal, or Vagabond for that matter. Light GB ROMs, and super stable.
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sumeet909 said:
What ROM are you running? I recommended flashing something light and tight to improve your overall experience. Try Ethereal, or Vagabond for that matter. Light GB ROMs, and super stable.
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wrong forum?
Those ROMs dont exist for this device. and GB sucks and is for old phones.
sumeet909 said:
What ROM are you running? I recommended flashing something light and tight to improve your overall experience. Try Ethereal, or Vagabond for that matter. Light GB ROMs, and super stable.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I997 using xda app-developers app
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i don't believe those are available for our device... fail post is fail.
Try out a few things for a few days, maybe one will offer you what you want?
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I'm having a strange issue...file explorer apps and other ones that view your files like Solid Explorer show my SD card as Internal Storage. my SD Card files are viewed under Internal Storage..This is a bit confusing and is possibly leading to problems that i'm having. I would like to know how I can fix this so it displays accurately. Thanks
AOSP/AOKP roms switch the two, and I'm not sure if there is any fix for it. I suppose you're running either CM9 or AOKP?
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AOSP/AOKP roms switch the two, and I'm not sure if there is any fix for it. I suppose you're running either CM9 or AOKP?
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yep. 1.6 AOKP Linaro . So if i ran a sense ROM (ugh) then it would display properly?....say...do you think that the switched labels is why Boot Manager is not working for me?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=33382770#post33382770
Wonder if these problems are linked....
Thanked you for your assistance
stanleyopar2000 said:
yep. 1.6 AOKP Linaro . So if i ran a sense ROM (ugh) then it would display properly?....say...do you think that the switched labels is why Boot Manager is not working for me?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=33382770#post33382770
Wonder if these problems are linked....
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I'm probably not the best person to answer this question, but I'll try anyways (take this with a grain of salt). Sense will display the internal and external storage correctly. I believe that the way that AOSP has been done for the Rezound specifically creates the problem of having the two switched. This would mean that the AOSP ROMs are interpreting the storage differently, so it shouldn't affect boot manager because that is something that occurs outside of the ROM. Honestly, I'd say avoid boot manager. If you keep two nandroids (since you're s-off, switching between the two is as simple as hitting 'restore') one sense, and one AOKP it's much easier to switch back and forth without issues. It's good to maintain both if you need them in good working condition. I use an SMS backup program so my switches are seamless.
Hi everyone.
So I have an Android car receiver (DV638A, otherwise known as AN6B01). It runs 2.2 Froyo. I've modded it to improve the Android experience, and it's pretty good I must say. I have root permissions, I froze most of the annoying stock apps, installed a custom launcher and some ICS style visuals, etc.
But there's just ONE thing I haven't been able to do that I really want to. I've been researching and experimenting with it for days!
I use Google Play Music (version 5.2 which is the latest supported version for Froyo) and it stores downloaded music to the internal SD card. On this device, the internal SD card is only 2 GB which is not huge. However, it also has a full-size SD card slot, where I can pop in a 128 GB card, as well as a micro SD card slot where I can plug in yet another.
But while the hardware is there, I CANNOT FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET THE MUSIC TO BE STORED ON THE EXTERNAL STORAGE! I've read all kinds of articles and threads that propose how to do it, but none of the methods have worked.
I tried:
A.
Navigating to the current location of the stored music (on this device it's /sdcard/Android/data/com.google.android.music/cache/music), deleting the 'music' folder and its contents, then making a new 'music' folder on the external SD and creating a symlink to it in the original location. This does not work. My file manager (rootbrowser) tells me that symbolic links are not supported by all filesystems (apparently including this one).
B.
Using the Cache Apps To SD app. The app works, but it does not move the correct files. It takes the cache located at /data/data/com.google.android.music/cache and moves it to the external SD. But that's not where Google Music stores the music, that's only where it stores... other things. The music files at /sdcard/Android/data/com.google.android.music/cache/music remain untouched, so this is useless.
C.
Moving the Google Play Music app itself to the external storage. To do this I tried both Apps2SD and Link2SD. Both do the same. What happens is the .apk file is moved to the external storage, but it doesn't take any of its files with it.
What do I do to make this work? I feel like doing this on 2.2 should be easy considering its friendliness with external storage, but no matter what I try I can't figure it out. I'd really appreciate someone's help with this one.
P.S. please don't make the obvious suggestion to upgrade to a newer version of Android. I would if that were possible, but it isn't.
Anyone? There's got to be someone who knows what to do with this. I know Android 2.2 is fading into the distant past by now, so I don't expect NEW enthusiasts to know how to use it, but aren't there any veterans on here that remember what they were doing in 2010? As far as I can tell this was a problem many people grappled with on their Galaxy S, Droid X, etc. phones.
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Anyone? There's got to be someone who knows what to do with this. I know Android 2.2 is fading into the distant past by now, so I don't expect NEW enthusiasts to know how to use it, but aren't there any veterans on here that remember what they were doing in 2010? As far as I can tell this was a problem many people grappled with on their Galaxy S, Droid X, etc. phones.
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Don't you worry about 2.2 fading to nonexistence - I develop on a device that still only supports 2.1!
I'll do some research on this topic, but I don't know if it's possible. It probably is, though, so don't get your feathers ruffled.
thenookieforlife3 said:
Don't you worry about 2.2 fading to nonexistence - I develop on a device that still only supports 2.1!
I'll do some research on this topic, but I don't know if it's possible. It probably is, though, so don't get your feathers ruffled.
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I appreciate your help on the matter. Have you found anything yet? What do you think about editing the vold.fstab file and switching the mounting points of the internal and external cards?
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I appreciate your help on the matter. Have you found anything yet? What do you think about editing the vold.fstab file and switching the mounting points of the internal and external cards?
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Actually, haven't done much research yet - been busy with school stuff. Sorry.
Switching the mount points on the sdcards shouldn't be too much of an issue, but we'd need to actually edit init.rc inside uRamdisk to get it to mount properly on boot.
thenookieforlife3 said:
Actually, haven't done much research yet - been busy with school stuff. Sorry.
Switching the mount points on the sdcards shouldn't be too much of an issue, but we'd need to actually edit init.rc inside uRamdisk to get it to mount properly on boot.
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Is that.... less easy? Your words do not inspire confidence.
Take your time though, midterms are going on after all. Let me know when you can help me out.
Raven-6 said:
Is that.... less easy? Your words do not inspire confidence.
Take your time though, midterms are going on after all. Let me know when you can help me out.
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Sorry about my uninspiring speech.
It's not that hard, but it'll take some work.
I'll talk to you later. Have a good day.
Oh, I didn't mean any offense by that, I only meant that what you suggest seems difficult. Speak with you soon!
thenookieforlife3 said:
Sorry about my uninspiring speech.
It's not that hard, but it'll take some work.
I'll talk to you later. Have a good day.
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I guess the guy who was going to help me went and got his account disabled?
Does every Cyanogenmod rom allow that by default, or dit it die with version 11 or 12 being the last one?
If installing directly to SD is a no go, what good apps are there that do the transfer (and keep everything working, of course
I would recommend Link2SD.
I have used it with satisfaction on several low memory devices.
Not sure why, I find Link2SD and its options terribly confusing Well, I guess I'll need to learn.
There are a lot of guides and it's not so complex.
The best way to use it is to create a second partition on sd (consider a backup of your data on pc/otg/cloud/...).
As far as I can remember link2sd will ask you the filesystem type and then it will create some script to use it.
Then you can simply tap on an app from the list and press "link to sd".
From the apps list you can do a lot of operation like convert apps to system/user app, freeze/unfreeze, merge an updated app to rom etc. and using the filter this kind of operation will be very easy and fast.
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On the plus (paid) version you can link also data.
If you really want to maximize the free space on the device, this option is worth the few moneys.
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I've always used it on other devices using AOSP based roms, I don't know if there are problems using it with MIUI.
Thanks a lot! So, if you "link" (strange choice of word, it's not actually linking if it gets completely moved to SD and nothing remaing in main storage is it, that's what confused the hell out of me), app and its data to SD, will it be exactly like it was downloaded and installed on SD right from the store, like it used to be on Android versions that supported such thing? I know Cyanogenmod 11 did that perfectly, wonder if it's CM thing by default, or did they moved to new (stupid) concept of raping the main storage in later versions
EDIT: Any chance of "linking" bloody Whatsapp to SD completely? I'm in continuous maintenance mode of my wife phone because that **** consumes the storage for all it's worth.
C64Ever said:
Thanks a lot! So, if you "link" (strange choice of word, it's not actually linking if it gets completely moved to SD and nothing remaing in main storage is it, that's what confused the hell out of me), app and its data to SD, will it be exactly like it was downloaded and installed on SD right from the store, like it used to be on Android versions that supported such thing?
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Linking is not the same as moving.
For example, if you move to sd and then remove the sd from the device, widgets and app icons will be removed.
Maybe they will be restored when you insert your sd again, but the order could not be the same.
The same doesn't happen linking.
There are also other benefits, try googling for "link2sd faq".
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EDIT: Any chance of "linking" bloody Whatsapp to SD completely? I'm in continuous maintenance mode of my wife phone because that **** consumes the storage for all it's worth.
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I'm not using whatsapp so I don't know if it works.
I guess that your are talking about the "whatapp" directory on which msgs and media are store.
If link2sd can't solve your problem, I think that can try to move the whatsapp directory to sd and then manually create a link (keep the original name) on the original position.
Or you can try with apps like foldermount
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try looking at this thread
Maybe your can try xposed app..xinternalsd..swap sdcard to be phone memory