I bought my sister a Moto E as her HTC Dream (lol) was practically a museum piece. However she's quickly managed to fill up the internal memory. I've advised her to delete all unnecessary junk and move apps to SD card but its still full up. Now I remember when I had a HTC Desire with small internal memory I eventually rooted it an then partitioned it's SD card so part of it became internal memory. Is it possible to do this on the Moto E?
Thanks.
Not exactly as you would have done with HTC dream.
But you can use Link2Sd and partition your sdcard accordingly.
You'll need root.
There are guides for how to use Link2Sd, give a read.
Thanks. Is this guide any good, or is there a better one?
http://www.xposedgeek.net/2014/09/use-link2sd-to-increase-internal-storage-android.html?m=1
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Hi guys I am new to android and I got myself a Micromax A110 running on android ics with 2 gb of internal SD card memory...
As you guys can figure, the internal memory just isn't enough for installing heavy games and storing and downloading large videos and music, so I added a 32 gb external micro SD card.. the card shows in my file manager and its contents are accessible, most apps like ttpod, ttorrent, vlc, chrome etc don't detect my external card. They only access the contents of my internal SD card, download to it.. I can't set the default directory to the external card...
When I installed nfs most wanted to my phone, it asked me to free up data in my SD card or insert another one as there was no space left due to obvious reasons of my internal SD card being filled with other apps.. I uninstalled and reinstalled it after setting the default storage location to the external storage... I found that the game installed in the internal storage this time and on startup, it gave the same message..
Is it a common problem or a limitation to the OS? Is there a work around for this? If so how? Does my phone needs to be rooted for the purpose? Please help as the problem is getting annoying.. my external card is lying almost empty...
Thanks in advance,
Extremely sorry for the long post...
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It's because Google made the stupid decision, starting with Honeycomb (which is why the Motorola Xoom, the first Honeycomb device needed an update to enable use of it's MicroSD card slot) to merge the /data/ and /sdcard/ partitions. What that means is that the SD card becomes a virtual space (a folder, in fact) located in the same place where all your apps are stored. Why is it stupid? If you have a phone that actually has a MicroSD card slot, like yours or the Galaxy S III, the MicroSD card becomes a different "folder" (something like /sdext/, which stands for either extension or external). Only apps that specifically are programmed to look for that mount point/folder will be able to use it. Most music/video/picture players/viewers can, because it makes sense to automatically program to do that. But with large games, like you said, NFS Most Wanted (which I also have), it sucks because the game is like 2GB.
My Galaxy S3 has 16GB internal and a 32GB card. I'm forced to use the internal storage only for large games because they don't see the memory card. It sucks. The good thing about merging /data/ and /sdcard/ is that it simplifies things, like on the iPhone where your space is your space, no matter how you use it. It used to be that you had like 1GB or 2GB for apps (the APK files only, not the files that games download for example) (which the HTC One X does, but still only uses internal storage because there's no card slot), and the rest went to your MicroSD card slot. Now it's all to internal storage because your internal storage IS your MicroSD card slot at system level.
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It's because Google made the stupid decision, starting with Honeycomb (which is why the Motorola Xoom, the first Honeycomb device needed an update to enable use of it's MicroSD card slot) to merge the /data/ and /sdcard/ partitions. What that means is that the SD card becomes a virtual space (a folder, in fact) located in the same place where all your apps are stored. Why is it stupid? If you have a phone that actually has a MicroSD card slot, like yours or the Galaxy S III, the MicroSD card becomes a different "folder" (something like /sdext/, which stands for either extension or external). Only apps that specifically are programmed to look for that mount point/folder will be able to use it. Most music/video/picture players/viewers can, because it makes sense to automatically program to do that. But with large games, like you said, NFS Most Wanted (which I also have), it sucks because the game is like 2GB.
My Galaxy S3 has 16GB internal and a 32GB card. I'm forced to use the internal storage only for large games because they don't see the memory card. It sucks. The good thing about merging /data/ and /sdcard/ is that it simplifies things, like on the iPhone where your space is your space, no matter how you use it. It used to be that you had like 1GB or 2GB for apps (the APK files only, not the files that games download for example) (which the HTC One X does, but still only uses internal storage because there's no card slot), and the rest went to your MicroSD card slot. Now it's all to internal storage because your internal storage IS your MicroSD card slot at system level.
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Hey man! Thanks for the reply....
Can you tell me how to work out a solution for this?
Is directory bind or fstab file hack the only solution?
Is it possible to overcome this without root?
And some apps do detect my Micro SD card... It is in the directory mnt/sdcard2
Please post questions one time only and in the proper Q&A section.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2019921
My wife bought herself Desire X and I found a strange problem. Although internal storage has 1GB free space, DropBox and other apps still insist that an external storage card has to be inserted. Why is that so?
ashrack0 said:
My wife bought herself Desire X and I found a strange problem. Although internal storage has 1GB free space, DropBox and other apps still insist that an external storage card has to be inserted. Why is that so?
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I have a 4 gig card in the phone, but i tried Drop Box, and once you have got around the yadda yadda its a breeze.
I have been thinking about this phone compared to others that have extra storage 60gigs etc.
What happens if you loose the phone, all that info on all the cards are lost.
So an external type storage, might not be a bad idea.
It seems those apps need to be installed on external sdcard
And my problem is "app2sd"
At just can move apps to external sdcard,but my internal sdcard still have 0.9GB free,and I want to move apps to internal sdcard,is there any method to do?
15154389 said:
It seems those apps need to be installed on external sdcard
And my problem is "app2sd"
At just can move apps to external sdcard,but my internal sdcard still have 0.9GB free,and I want to move apps to internal sdcard,is there any method to do?
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but that does not make any sense. So this phone is kinda useless if you don't have an external SDCARD? My Nexus phone also doesn't have external card and there are no such problems.
Also don't get this, move apps to sd but moves apps to external sd card it's strange I can't install to the internal memory, anyone know how ?
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ashrack0 said:
but that does not make any sense. So this phone is kinda useless if you don't have an external SDCARD? My Nexus phone also doesn't have external card and there are no such problems.
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Your neXus phone hasn't an sd card. It relies on the internal storage only...
Flowed from my HTC branded muffin...
Read somewhere that the Moto E actually supports 64GB (and even 128GB) MicroSD cards BUT only when they're formatted to FAT32, 'cause the device also prompts the user to do it when inserted. As we know in order to use Link2SD we need to format the card with EXT partitions and stuff like that, that should render the card uncompatible, or am I wrong?
Yeah, 64GB sdcard is working smoothly.
But I think you mixed something up. For Link2SD you have to create a 2nd partition on the SDCard. And this 2nd partition needs to be EXT formatted, while the main partition stays FAT32.
I recommend to not more thank 1,4 GB for the 2nd partition as Link2SD only moves apk and dex-files which isn't really that much.
Now I got it.
Is there any other way, with any other app, that can actually move the entire app from the internal memory to the SD Card, or at least move a significantly part of it in order to save some internal space? I thought Link2SD was able to do it, but you said it's not so useful since it only moves dex and apk files...
I bought a Moto E 1st Gen for my sister and she's managed to fill up the internal memory and his having issue fitting more apps on it.
I remember when I had a HTC Desire years ago I used 4EXT recovery to partition the sd card, so a portion of it behaved as if it were internal memory. Is it possible to use this or any other method to do the same with the Moto E 1st Gen?
Thanks.
Zammo76 said:
I bought a Moto E 1st Gen for my sister and she's managed to fill up the internal memory and his having issue fitting more apps on it.
I remember when I had a HTC Desire years ago I used 4EXT recovery to partition the sd card, so a portion of it behaved as if it were internal memory. Is it possible to use this or any other method to do the same with the Moto E 1st Gen?
Thanks.
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You can partition sd card using mini partition tool on pc.
Alternatively for internal memory issue you can use xinstallerSD.
Thanks for the advise. How can does xinstaller help with the internal memory issue, does it allow you to move apps you normally wouldn't to the SD card?
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Thanks for the advise. How can does xinstaller help with the internal memory issue, does it allow you to move apps you normally wouldn't to the SD card?
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ohh sorry its xinternalSD not xinstaller.
By using it your ext_sd will act as intnl mem
means apps can store their data and obb files on sd card.
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ohh sorry its xinternalSD not xinstaller.
By using it your ext_sd will act as intnl mem
means apps can store their data and obb files on sd card.
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Does it need xposed pre-installed? Anyone tested on moto e?
You can also partition SD card in twrp recovery
And use link2sd pro to move system as well as internal apps to SD card.
Hit thanks if I helped
I'm in much the same position as the OP; mother-in-law has a full Moto E, and I've got an HTC Desire so, given that X Install SD requires Root and the XPosed framework (as far as I can tell), why would I want to do this rather than going down a custom ROM route? I guess My mother-in-law isn't very tech savvy so I'd be hoping to make sure the phone works reliably but allows system updates (currently she's got loads of apps that need updating but they can't because there's insufficient storage), and allows her to install a few more apps etc.
Just for the record, I've looked through the FAQ section and find it a little bizarre that "How can I get more app storage space on my Moto E?" isn't a FAQ!
Thanks for any advice/help
John
Hello ,
i both a Moto e XT1021 few days ago. I didn't want to spend a lot of money so i booth the one with 4gb internal memory.
SInceraly speaking i supposed to save all my app inside the external microsd card.... but it seems not.
How can i decide to save my app on my external micro SD. I have readen it s possible .
Could you help me?
Marco
sturzio said:
Hello ,
i both a Moto e XT1021 few days ago. I didn't want to spend a lot of money so i booth the one with 4gb internal memory.
SInceraly speaking i supposed to save all my app inside the external microsd card.... but it seems not.
How can i decide to save my app on my external micro SD. I have readen it s possible .
Could you help me?
Marco
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If you unlocked bootloader and you did root permission you could try link2sd after partitioning your sd card