Hi,
I'm wondering why some apps can't be moved to sd card with Android 6. In my case, I can only move X-Plore to sd card, all other apps don't have the change storage location option.
[EDIT]Found the answer
Apps can be placed on adopted storage media only when the developer has indicated support through the android:installLocation attribute.
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Matthias
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After buying Navigon USA & Canada, I noticed that the application and maps were installed on the phone memory and not on the SD card. I then opened the manage applications function and selected "move to SD card". When I connected the phone to my PC and looked at the SD card, it only has the DCIM folder (for photos) and the Navigon folder and Map subfolder are still in the phone memory. Any way I can move the maps to the SD card and ensure that future maps are installed to the SD card?
(New Info) I'm new to Android and didn't realize that SD Card is part of the phone's internal memory. The micro SD Card I installed is called External SD and cannot be used for applications (at least not that I've found). It is mainly used for photos and music. Some people have said that perhaps future releases of Android (ICS?) willl have the ability to move applications to external SD.
I have problem with moving apps to SD card. In application setting is not button Move to SD card.
In App2SD I have message:
The device does not have a real primary external storage, or the primary external storage is emulated.
Moving app to SD function may not be supported by this device.
Where can be a problem, how I can enable movieng apps to SD?
I have problem in 3.2 firmware, and now I had upgraded device to 4.03 and I have problem on this firmware too.
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Hi to all.
I need some clarification about Android storage, please.
How many storage units Android OS have? Including a possible microSD external Card.
Internal Storage, internal memory?! Whats the difference and location in file system folders?
When an app is installed from market where does it go?
In application manager, in most apps there is an option "Move to SD card"...
If I have an external micro SD Card and choose this apps option "Move to SD card" where the heck is suppose to going the app or some part of it? (Data? Apk? Cache?) It's not in external microSD Card! So what is "Move to SD Card".
I'm confused here need some expert (but simple) explanations.
Thanks.
sammmurai said:
Hi to all.
I need some clarification about Android storage, please.
How many storage units Android OS have? Including a possible microSD external Card.
Internal Storage, internal memory?! Whats the difference and location in file system folders?
When an app is installed from market where does it go?
In application manager, in most apps there is an option "Move to SD card"...
If I have an external micro SD Card and choose this apps option "Move to SD card" where the heck is suppose to going the app or some part of it? (Data? Apk? Cache?) It's not in external microSD Card! So what is "Move to SD Card".
I'm confused here need some expert (but simple) explanations.
Thanks.
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Well in Android you have a couple of partitions. When you install apps from the market their apk files are most commonly found in /data/app/ folder. Their data goes to /data/data/ .You also have the /system/partition where core system files are found along with the system apps. You also have a /cache/ partition and /dalvik-cache one I think. As for moving to SD it moves most of the data and cache I think.
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Commonly, android phones have 3 storage places:
-internal system space (/system)
-internal user space (/data)
-external space (/sdcard and /mnt/asec)
Apps have 4 parts:
-application file (.apk)
-libraries (.so)
-dalvik-cache (.dex)
-data (gane saves, data bases, xml files, text, etc, that the app stores as additional data)
dalvik-cache and data of apps always remain on internal user space (/data).
The application file and libraries are stored on the memory the app is installed to (if moved to sd card, the are stored in the android secure sd partition /mnt/asec)
When dealing with system apps:
-in deodexed systems, application files go to internal system space system/app. dalvik-cache, libraries and data to internal user space (/data).
-in odexed systems, application files and dalvik-cache go to internal system space /system/app. Libraries and data to internal user space (/data).
Thanks for the replies now its more clear.
When you referer external space /sdcard and /mnt/asec are these in the device or in external micro sd card?
Where do micro sdcard enters here?
Thanks
sammmurai said:
Thanks for the replies now its more clear.
When you referer external space /sdcard and /mnt/asec are these in the device or in external micro sd card?
Where do micro sdcard enters here?
Thanks
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Micro SD card is located in /mnt/sdcard/
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Hello
I have a galaxy s2 and i wonder what is the difference between internal storage and internal SD card.
In the internal storage i see only apps are installed
and in the internal SD card i have only music photos and others.
it already happened to me that i tried to download an app from the google play and i did not have enough space
is there a way to move my apps from Internal storage to Internal SD card?
(i do not have an external sd card) and if you dont understand what i mean i can upload a screenshot.
thank you
Hello,
Yes, internal storage (or system storage in my phone) is where all the apps are installed.
And internal SD card (known better as internal storage) is where photos, videos etc etc are stored.
This is the only thing i know..
About the moving of apps, i recommend you go to settings -> applications and to the app you want to move and check if you actually can move it. (yes, there's an option to move that app to Sd card) My gues it wont since you need an external storage (or known as SD CARD) if you want to move apps.
If you can't install apps from google play, there are mostly two explanations:
1. Actually insufficient storage. To prevent this, free up memory from system storage by deleting apps/games etc.
2. .odex file causes the erroe. To prevent this, (you need to be rooted) goto /data/app in file manager and find <The app you want to install from google play>.odex
Eg. for second alternative.
If you want to install Swiftkey but get an error. Goto /data/app and delete swiftkey.odex
Internal storage, different names
orr77746 said:
Hello
I have a galaxy s2 and i wonder what is the difference between internal storage and internal SD card.
In the internal storage i see only apps are installed
and in the internal SD card i have only music photos and others.
it already happened to me that i tried to download an app from the google play and i did not have enough space
is there a way to move my apps from Internal storage to Internal SD card?
(i do not have an external sd card) and if you dont understand what i mean i can upload a screenshot.
thank you
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There the same thing. You can verify by checking the size of the two & the contents to see if they show the same thing.
It would be helpful to know what version of Android your running since this affects how things are displayed.
To find that information open press the menu or home button (bottom left),
Settings
at the very bottom is "About Device"
Look for Android Version
Within most versions of Android (I have 4.1.2 in front of me) what is called "sdcard" or "internal storage" or "internal sdcard" is actually a partition of the device's total internal storage. Unless you are flashing ROMs or running root, you won't see these other paritions.
The internal storage or sdcard is also called sdcard0 or /storage/sdcard0 depending on your version of Android.
The physical sdcard (external storage) is sometimes called /emmc or /extSdCard In later versions you can also get to it as /storage/sdcard1
Hope that helps
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i am running android 4.0.4
and i understand that i cant move apps to there..
i will just buy an external SD card
you helped me alot
Thanks everybody!!
I know that that google has change the permission for external sd card
We can now use iy as internal memory or external memory in android m
But the problem arises when i select as internal meory it formate my sd card and sd card is accessable by any file explorers and if i select use as portable devices then i can access it with file explorer but my app cannot use it
So i request to all dev. Plz make an patch or xposed module which help to access to external sd card like older version of android by apps
Or make any module that any app forces to use doucmentprovider storage ui to access external sd card
Thanks