I've just got myself an oppo pad air 10 inch Android tablet. Does anyone know if there is a way of enabling the option of installing apps to the sdcard? I also can't find a forum section for these.
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It actually depends on specific devices and operating system you're using. Insert the SD card into your device, go to settings, then go to the storage, check for default install location or app install location within the storage settings and see if there is an option that allows you to set the default install location for apps. It will show options like install storage or SD card. If the option to set the install location is available, choose the SD card as the preferred storage location for apps. It's important to note that not all devices or Android versions offer this feature. Additionally, some apps may not be eligible for installation on an SD card due to restrictions imposed by the app developers. If the option to install apps on an SD card is not available on your device, it may be a limitation of the manufacturer or operating system, and alternative methods like using app-specific settings or third-party apps may be required. I hope this helps!
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Hello!
I need to know how android phones handle applications being installed in them?
I didn't know if this is phone specific or software specific, so am posting it in both.
I own a Samsung Ace and hope to own an Xperia Play as well.
Now if I install an application, how can I make sure it goes to the SD card instead of the phones internal memory?
For example:
I recently installed Talking Tom Cat 2 on my Ace, when I opened it the first time, it asked me to download a few more files, only when I did I was able to use the application. After that I uninstalled the application using the Task Manager. But where do I delete the other package, or does it get deleted automatically?
Please reply soon.
Thanks.
In some cases it's phone specific and others, it's software specific. Before I explain this, the answer to your question about if the data is deleted automatically, is: for some games/apps, it is, and others, it's not. The data is usually stored on the sd card so you can check to see if you see a folder which was not there previously. Data for games are usually stored directly on the sd card, or the following folders: data/data, android/data, or gameloft/games. Phone's without an sd card slot will have the directory created for the data storage. Phone specific wise is explained in my previous sentence. Software specific wise is of course based on software. Certain roms allow you to choose the default location for apps to be installed to. On stock roms, apps are usually (if not always) installed directly to the internal memory and if the software is Android 2.2 (Froyo) or higher, you'll have the option to move some apps to the sd card.
Hey there guys...
To start with i have my S3 two days now and i absolutely love this phone...:')
But,after installing lots of games my internal memory has gone full and i can't download any data in-game because i have low storage space...
My external sd on the other hand is around 10gb free but when i try to move the data to the same folder on the external the data isn't identified by the game and it asks me to download again?
It has become really frustrating,it seems i can't do anything about it...
Any suggestions to try?
Cheers,George
As the system now uses unified storage all apps will remain on internal memory; moving the data alone to an external SD card will have no use without altering the application to look for that location for its data. i.e. in the GS2 you had a move to SD option since the phone was partitioned. With the S3 however this option is not there which means that when an application is downloaded all of its information needs to be stored on the internal storage. When the "Move to SD" option was selected within the S2 or prior phones, it informs the application that its new location is within x folder rather than the folder it was originally downloaded too. Since this option is no longer there then the application has no way of being told where its new location is.
Maybe move to SD could be an add-on with a mod/hack but I am not sure if this is possible. Maybe check with a developer?
Have you got a prior Android phone? Maybe install the application on to it; use the "Move to SD" option and see if that will allow it? It's just a suggestion; if you don't have a different Android phone I can try it for you.
Edit: Just tried it; the phone itself doesn't even check for applications stored within an external SD. Sorry man - the only way around it would be a mod/custom/hack (if possible).
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As the system now uses unified storage all apps will remain on internal memory; moving the data alone to an external SD card will have no use without altering the application to look for that location for its data. i.e. in the GS2 you had a move to SD option since the phone was partitioned. With the S3 however this option is not there which means that when an application is downloaded all of its information needs to be stored on the internal storage. When the "Move to SD" option was selected within the S2 or prior phones, it informs the application that its new location is within x folder rather than the folder it was originally downloaded too. Since this option is no longer there then the application has no way of being told where its new location is.
Maybe move to SD could be an add-on with a mod/hack but I am not sure if this is possible. Maybe check with a developer?
Have you got a prior Android phone? Maybe install the application on to it; use the "Move to SD" option and see if that will allow it? It's just a suggestion; if you don't have a different Android phone I can try it for you.
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Thank's for the answer...
In my galaxy s 1 i had no problem having the games data on the sd card,i havent moved and application to the sd but i had the data on sd and everything worked great...now...i don't get it....:/
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Thank's for the answer...
In my galaxy s 1 i had no problem having the games data on the sd card,i havent moved and application to the sd but i had the data on sd and everything worked great...now...i don't get it....:/
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I did check for you; the S3 physically doesn't look for application data in the external SD (I edited original post after testing few things).. There probably are ways around it as mentioned but you would need to speak with developers for further insight.
If worst comes to worst application developers may have to implement a look in x location first, if no data found, look "here" in to their applications.
As the phone is unified storage you can store applications in the full ~12GB storage space (All the ones I have, have roughly 11.3GB after OS and all is on it) so have you used the phones storage itself for only applications; and the SD for media etc?
I am interested to know how you have managed to fill at least 11GB of space with applications; how many do you have? How is the performance of the phone with this many applications on it? Any lag navigating (I know there shouldn't be with quad core processor - but it's interesting to know if hundreds of applications cause lag between screen scrolling).
You can use an app called directory bind to link the game data on the SD to a mounting point on the internal SD. Search for it and you'll find it, not sure if I got it here or the play store.
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Yup, there's directory topic on forum, as well as working 'gl to sd' app in play store. It is not just for gameloft games.
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Thank you all guys!!
Well i filled it with lots of games that's why i don't have much space available!
No the phone is flying,it doesn't lag at all!
I use Dragon Ics rom and Siyah Kernel...no oc....
I'll try directory bind and post back soon!
To put applications on the sdcard, you could use symlinking (confirmed this works myself).
Install the application, then go to /data/app and move the apk file to your sdcard (/mnt/extSdCard) or inside a folder on your sdcard.
Then type ln -s /mnt/extSdCard/your-apk.apk /data/app/your-apk.apk
Hi,
I went back to the basic and installed the official P228 ROW that comes as a system upgrade.
Problem:-
None of the apps are able to detect any bluetooth device. Although I can find them when I search it from the bluetooth menu in the settings.
I cannot move any of the apps to SD card. The option is not available even for the non-system apps
Can you please help?
Dear all,
I have just bought a Huawei MediaPad T3 BG2-W09 and unfortunately, the internal memory (8gb) is too small for what I want to do because I cannot install some applications. How could I solve that?
I am aware that usually on tablets you can use the sd card as internal storage but apparently in the rom of Huawei there is not such an option.
How can I solve it?
I purchase the same tablet to my son. Go to application management in settings and choose those apps you want to move to sd card.
In addition to this there's an option, I don't recall it exactly where, but it allows you to select default storage device for new apps. Any new application will be installed there.
Anyone know how to bypass google account of this tab ?? its been 5 months .. I cant use my tab beacuse of google account ..
this tablet is trash; i've the same
I'm looking for an useful application of it, but don't know what...
yes, (dead brained) android developers again broken the file-system access....
as lot of users that have an old device, I use app2sd app to move my app to sdcard (because adoptable storage is a sh..t, that don´t even care about partitioning a sdcard to still allow to use it to store data that I want to access from a pc when the phone has problems... again, theses "clever" google engineer didn't even asked themselves why user created app2sd like app... why they chosen to use dedicated partition and still allow to have a shareable storage... ) , my sdcard speed is fast enough to not see any difference between internal storage and sd card stored app, and I worry more about emmc aging than a few ms....
BUT, seems that the APP_DATA_DIRECTORY_ISOLATION feature prevent moving the data to sdcard, I use lineageos, in developper settings there is override per application compatibility, when I uncheck APP_DATA_DIRECTORY_ISOLATION in this for a particular app linked to sdcard, this solve the issue, and a sd card stored app can be used...
however, this settings isn't persistent... so on next reboot I have to do it again for every app linked to sdcard....
and you know what? it was reported to android dev, that replied... to buy a new phone!!! because emmc storage is much more faster.... I begin to really get upset at android, they took a nice system (linux) and made it s....t, and more, how many cpu power is lost by android checks (since it can be desactivated on the fly per app... this isn't something that rely on kernel....)
so my question, is it possible to have this option set to off by default on boot? how?
thanks