Just got my new s2, seems like i can't move google translate, dolphin or whatever is movable to the internal storage. anyone have any problems? or do i need to install a real microsd card to be able to move the apps to sd? can't i just use the 16gb built in memory as sd for the apps?
Thanks
nvm, got it to work by inserting sd card.
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i just rooted my sgs2 and i got 16gb external sd card, i have seen lots of good apps and i want to install them but before that i have read that some people recomend to install apps2sd to save space on the phone but other said that with that amount of space you dont need to install this app, also i readed that some roms dont support the app, so its good idea to install apps2sd???
I really like apps and i will check 3 or 5 roms. If its a good a idea, should i install first, before any other app??
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skaarax said:
Hi
i just rooted my sgs2 and i got 16gb external sd card, i have seen lots of good apps and i want to install them but before that i have read that some people recomend to install apps2sd to save space on the phone but other said that with that amount of space you dont need to install this app, also i readed that some roms dont support the app, so its good idea to install apps2sd???
I really like apps and i will check 3 or 5 roms. If its a good a idea, should i install first, before any other app??
Greetings from MX
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I don't know apps2sd.
But it sounds like it moves your apps to the external sd card.
That can also be done with stock Android system: Setting > Applications > SD card.
Then click on the app you want to move and say move to sd card.
I had some apps on my external sd card, but some apps are loaded a little bit later/slower, when they are on the external sd card.
So, I recommend that all apps, which you need very often and especially direct after booting the phone, should stay on the internal sd card.
And after flashing some "early" ICS Rom versions, I lost my apps which were on the external sd card.
I had to re-install them from Play store.
But this was only an issue of some ICS ROMs/kernels, and should be fixed now.
Anyway, that caused me to move all apps back to the internal sd card.
I just want to be on the "safe side" ;-)
you should absolutely not install app2sd (the app of that name), because the functionality is already present in all roms.
in settings -> apps you can move apps.
however, in contrast to the previous post, apps are moved between the /data/ partition of the internal sd card and the /sdcard/ partition of the internal sd card.
as you might know, /data/ has 2GB, /sdcard/ has about 12GB. You can check on your current storage space occupation in settings -> storage.
if you have enough free space on data, leave your apps there, as sdcard is a universal storage space, that can also contain music, photos, videos and so on and since this space is also accessible to users that are not rooted, it is more versatile and therefor more valuable.
Since both partitions are on the same sd card, you don't have to worry about speed differences.
After moving some apps using apps2sd I had to restore a nandroid because it messed up my system.
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great i wont install apps2sd, but now what kind of files or info is recommended to be in the external SDcard?
I have on the external sd card my movies, music, photos and videos recorded with the phone camera, my titanium backup folder, few custom rom zip files, nandroids etc.
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^Ditto. Keep your media and big files on external SD, keep your apps on the internal app memory if you can (its around 2gb in size, unless you go over that there is no need to put apps on SD).
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Pretty much a obvious question for most people . Do install it ! It moves apps to SD ( wow ) , clearing space for many many other stuff . So , why not install it ?
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well iam fully loaded an my opinion is the app notifies u wen u install a app,but on the hard core side wen many apps r moved to sd ,ive crashd sometimes..i think it was better if there was a option to store apps directly on the ext sd card instead of phone or int sd card...
Try GL to SD from the market, posted a threat like this a month ago and someone recommend me this.
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question is in the topic.
how can i do this in the previews of cm10? im really afraid that i cant use my sd card. i like to play "big" games like dead space, ff3 etc and i have only the 16gb version from the s3
CM10 doesn't seem to have the option either, which is understandable.
While some may have hacked it to use the external SDcard it was ever only intended to work on the internal SD card to bypass the small size of /data and especially /data/data.
This is irrelevant with Samsung's new partition layout so the option has been discarded too.
To move it to the external SD card just use the Directory Bind APK here on Xda and you'll be fine.
I know not all apps can be moved to SD natively but even those that can don't seem to move the large obb files (I'm talking about games mostly here, which are what tends to use those and what I really need to move, as the other app files aren't that big). Neither does Link2SD (which seems to require a secondary ext partition on the SD, it can't move apps to the main FAT32 partition as far as I understand, so I created a 4GB partition for that but that wouldn't fit many game obb files on it and it's much easier if I can keep the FAT32 partition as big as possible and decide whether to use the space for obbs or other stuff like music, videos, photos, etc).
I did use this http://forum.xda-developers.com/xposed/modules/mod-obb-sd-v0-1-t2884004 which lets me move the obb folder to the SD FAT32 partition but I still have to move the files manually and although it works for most games I've tried, it doesn't seem to for Assassin's Creed Pirates and one other (can't recall at the moment but it's a gameloft game). I would have thought if it's just symlinking the original obb folder to the SD card, that should be transparent to and thus work for everything , so I don't know why it doesn't.
Anyway, I'm just wondering if I'm overlooking some easier method of moving specific apps that will automatically move all files to the SD card and work for everything? I only want to move games (and maybe some other large files, such as maps downloaded for navigation apps), as the SD isn't encrypted so I wouldn't want any personal or sensitive data sitting on the unencrypted SD but so far I've only seen games use the obb folder and even if other apps do use it, if it only contains app data rather than user data it shouldn't matter from a security point of view. I'm running KitKat on a Moto G2 Dual SIM if that matters.
I recently rooted my phone because his internal storage is too small and my sd card has 8gb and is not used at all.
But, I don't know which apps to use, I've tried few like Link2SD but i need to buy it so I can link my games...
Suggest me an free app to use for moving games to sd card (moving whole games or just most of data)
Btw, I heard that I need to partition my sd card, could you tell me is this it
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2142844
Thanks!