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Rainbow 6 needs more memory

So I bought 3 games on the Gameloft site because I wanted to take advantage of the buy 1 get 1 free deal. All my games except one didn't install correctly. It was Spiderman.
I downloaded and installed Spiderman, but when I go to launch it, it says that the game needs to download extra files. When I click yes the loading status comes on for a second and then I get an error.
Anyway I called Gameloft customer service and having tried some solutions, spiderman still would not download the extra files to initialize.
The next solution was to offer me another game, and I asked if I could get Rainbow 6 Vanguard. They texted me the link to download, and after having downloaded and installed, at the same point right after the Gameloft insignia, it says that I don't have enough external memory and to free space by deleting files.
I tried deleting as many files as I could from my 2 GB memory card and even though it says I have 2 GB available on the stock settings, within Elixir it says that my external memory has only 451 MB available.
I went to get me an 8 GB memory card hoping this would solve the problem, and still the stock settings from home menu would show I had 8 GB free, but in Elixir the external memory would still be at 400 something MBs available.
Does anyone know how to free up memory so I can run Rainbow 6 Vanguard?
Also does anyone know what's going on with Spiderman, and why I can't download the extra files that needs to be downloaded to initialize the game?
Oh and after I called Gameloft back to tell them Rainbow 6 wasn't working they let me choose another game and I got Avatar which installed fine.
I still get to keep Spiderman and Rainbow 6 for free, I just need to find a way to get them to run. Any help I'd appreciate. Thanks.

All gameloft games install on the phones internal memory they dont seem to install on the sd card. make sure you have enough internal phone memory for the games to install properly. You kill off all of the phones internal 8 gigs then your out of luck free up some internal space!

Just a shot in the dark and I could be way off base. But by chance are you sure the "External" memory you are referring to isn't the interal SD for the phone and not your actual swappable SD that you installed? If you are consistently seeing 400MB then It sounds like you've ran out of space on the interal SD storage. You should try patching your Gameloft games to run off of your 8GB SD if you haven't already. It will give you back space on the interal memory to download the rest of the files. Gameloft games can be pretty large.
I found this out the hard way when I got a little too happy with their B1G1 myself hehe. 6 games too happy and 0 space on the interal memory until I found the patch in the Optimus 2X forums to run the game off of the _External SD.

there is a workaround in the themes and apps section that lets you install gameloft games directly to your sd card.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1104551

nine07 said:
Just a shot in the dark and I could be way off base. But by chance are you sure the "External" memory you are referring to isn't the interal SD for the phone and not your actual swappable SD that you installed? If you are consistently seeing 400MB then It sounds like you've ran out of space on the interal SD storage. You should try patching your Gameloft games to run off of your 8GB SD if you haven't already. It will give you back space on the interal memory to download the rest of the files. Gameloft games can be pretty large.
I found this out the hard way when I got a little too happy with their B1G1 myself hehe. 6 games too happy and 0 space on the interal memory until I found the patch in the Optimus 2X forums to run the game off of the _External SD.
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Thanks for the response guys. I'm not sure where it's being installed, if it's on the internal or external memory, but when I move whatever applications that can be moved over to the external SD card and then try and run Rainbow 6 the amount of memory to be freed becomes higher from what was previously being asked, say from 450 MB needed to be free to 540 MB that needs to be free now.
So I'm thinking that the apps that I moved over to the external memory took up more space and that's why the number to be freed has gone up. I don't know.
I've also tried uninstalling every game that I bought hoping that it would free up memory and then I could run just that one game, Rainbow 6, but still I get the not enough space on memory card error and it tells me to delete a certain amount, right now after having reinstalled all my games along with Avatar, it's saying free up 728 MBs.
Anyway can you post a link to that patch you're talking about that's found on the Optimus 2x forums? I really wanna try this game, looks awesome.
On another note has anyone tried Spiderman on their G2x? Or are both Spiderman and Rainbow 6 incompatible with G2x?

jeffreynew23 post the link above your reply. It will tell you what to download and how to move Gameloft data to your swappable SD card to free up space on the internal SD and still play them. I moved 4 of my gameloft games to my external SD. You should move what you already have installed and working first because you will need the internal storage to first download the Game data before you patch the installer and move the files to the External storage.
Because the G2X has internal SD storage along with an External SD slot it can be confusing. By default, the internal SD storage is where your files download too. When you use the 2.2 builtin App2SD function that is also where the files go. The best way to see your interal vs external is to plug it into your PC. When you turn mass USB storage on you will get 2 USB Storage devices (instead one) which will be the Internal SD and your External SD.

by default... your gameloft files will install to the g2x internal memeory.. NOT your memory card.
HOWEVER.. a frriendly member of the xda forums has discovered a hack that will mod your gameloft apks to install to your external sd card.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1104551
Now.. to solve your 2gb sd card issue... i just so happen to own 3 8gb cards.. i only use 2... which means i have 1 lying around.... if you're interested in buying it off me for a very reasonable price PM me. OR... they're dirt cheap all over the net. if you're buying one.. I'd actually suggest you part with the $20 or so it would cost to get a 16gb... which is what i'll be doing very soon.. then I'll have TWO 8gb cards for your consideration.... LOL

Oh thanks again guys, but I've already read that and it seems complicated and tedious, also it doesn't seem stable and I don't wanna brick my phone since I'm still noob at modifying phone files and hacking.
Oh btate I also tried buying a 8 GB card yesterday to test to see if I could get more free memory that way and no go with Rainbow 6 or Spiderman, although on the LG Optimus 2x forums I see users of that model are playing Spiderman, so I'm not sure why I can't download the extra files?
Also I think it's those particular games that has errors because I just downloaded and installed Galaxy on Fire and it did ask me to download the additional files of I believe 580 something MBs and it installed fine along with Dungeon Defender.
One more thing though, I noticed when I uninstall the games then reinstall them they no longer need to download the extra files. Are they somehow left on your phone even after you uninstall the games taking up precious space and leaving traces of files?
Finally, if anyone wants to download a free movie here's a code that came with the micro SD card I bought. It's a free promo that came with the purchase and a 1 time use, so whoever wants to and does it first you score.
Just go to http://www1.movie-promo.com/PNY-US and then follow instructions and enter this code MZRJ5QR2Y5V9TNW5

[Q] Question about external card

as some people may know when you download a game made by gameloft it takes a alot of Megabits to play....every time i download whats neccesary to play the game it goes to the external memory wich is the 8 GB limit I have an sd card but nothing goes to it when i download stuff my question is there a way to make everythin that i download go to my SD card rather than the 8GB extercal memory??

[Q] Galaxy Blaze

Hey, I got the galaxy blaze, and I have 2 questions.
1) Does anybody know how to root it, and when will ETA of it being rooted, sooooo much bloatware, and need super user rights
2) Since the blaze only has a 1gb of system memory how can i change the path where data is used.
ex: when i download a gameloft game it needs 300mb of additional data, then i have my music, and my videos, and pics.
I have a 8gb micro, and want to be able to play the vast amount of games the market has.
Thanks guys

Got mine yesterday think I goin to take it back no support for it

Got mine on Tuesday and love the feel and build. It's not as 'snappy' as the t989, but thats not what I was looking for. I wanted a high speed bandwidth capable device to feed an internet connection to an iPad 3.
Battery life out of the box is superb compared to the t989, Amaze, etc.
Jones'n for development support for root access.
Can't wait.

We got root today. Need a blaze forum though...

johnrbell said:
We got root today. Need a blaze forum though...
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Link me to how to root! Please, of course. ;-)
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johnrbell said:
We got root today. Need a blaze forum though...
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Can you link or PM me on how?

Add me to the list of new Galaxy Blaze owners anxiously awaiting root access. Insane amount of bloatware on this phone.

Gameloft games
Well, I just got a blaze and I too wanted to figure out how to play gameloft games on there without hogging up the internal memory. After a bit of googling, I came across an app in the play store called Gl to SD (Gameloft games to SD card) and it's an app that will move the data that gameloft games download to your external sd card. However, if you're downloading a game like MC3, which is 1.37 GB, you won't have enough space to download it first and then move it to the SD card since internal mem. is only 1 GB. So, what you do is open up GL to SD and tap on the menu button on your phone and the click move data. MC3 should show up and you should select it. Then, go into MC3 through the app itself and it'll download to your SD card. It also works with any other app that does in app downloads and downloads it's files to /sdcard/Android/ or /sdcard/data/ if you go into the setting and enable that. It worked wonders for me. I have a 32 GB SD card with MC3, Asphalt 6, N.O.V.A. 2, Fifa 12, Hot Pursuit, Shadowgun, and a couple others.
Hope this helps.

Help!
appu1232 said:
Well, I just got a blaze and I too wanted to figure out how to play gameloft games on there without hogging up the internal memory. After a bit of googling, I came across an app in the play store called Gl to SD (Gameloft games to SD card) and it's an app that will move the data that gameloft games download to your external sd card. However, if you're downloading a game like MC3, which is 1.37 GB, you won't have enough space to download it first and then move it to the SD card since internal mem. is only 1 GB. So, what you do is open up GL to SD and tap on the menu button on your phone and the click move data. MC3 should show up and you should select it. Then, go into MC3 through the app itself and it'll download to your SD card. It also works with any other app that does in app downloads and downloads it's files to /sdcard/Android/ or /sdcard/data/ if you go into the setting and enable that. It worked wonders for me. I have a 32 GB SD card with MC3, Asphalt 6, N.O.V.A. 2, Fifa 12, Hot Pursuit, Shadowgun, and a couple others.
Hope this helps.
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I did everything, but still get to the window "INSUFFICIENT MEMORY(1685MB is requiered for your game. Insert or clear space on your SD memory card to begin download)"
Funny thing I have like 5 gigs free on my external sd card, hw did you finally install FIFA 12, please help!!!

OBB files to external sd

Hi all,
I am running out of storage on my note and was wondering if there was a way of saving my games obb files to the memory card and still being able to play the games?. I know I could do the switch hack to swap the memory over but don't fancy doing that.
any ideas?

Hmm ,
Make a Folder Directory in External SD Card, Similar to the Internal SD Card.
And Try this,
It worked for me some time ago,
You can have a try too...
P.S : Make a Backup before you took any step....
Because once you lost your obb , game is lost ... as well this may affect your Game Progress
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Just search for directory bind i n the forums, easy to use, been using it since i ngot my not note and iot has allowed me to store countless app data o my sd

fallensoldier said:
Just search for directory bind i n the forums, easy to use, been using it since i ngot my not note and iot has allowed me to store countless app data o my sd
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You will need root to use the app.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1410262

Better use FolderMount instead of DirectoryBind, easier to use and is still supported, so it also works with Android 4.2.2.

Kamairo said:
Better use FolderMount instead of DirectoryBind, easier to use and is still supported, so it also works with Android 4.2.2.
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I tried to use FolderMount and it moved the obb files ok but then when I went to play the games (Modern Combat 4 and GTA Vice City) they no longer work. With MC4 it's starts to load like normal then just jumps back to my homescreen, with GTA it says each time additional files successfully downloaded but then freezes the Note.
Any ideas??

Well I give up!.
I have tried to use both programs to get my games saved to ext SD but I must be doing something wrong cuz I can't get either to work right.
Why o why did Samsung feel the need to stop you saving games to external SD???.
I only swapped from my Tab 8.9 cuz I was always filling the 16GB memory, I thought buying a tablet that could take an SD card would solve my problems.
Oh well never mind, thanks for all the suggestions....

hi, if i move dungeon hunter 4 obb file to external sd card temporarily to free up some space for internal memory, after that i put the obb file back to internal memory, will the game still have have the saved game progress?

ray_J13 said:
hi, if i move dungeon hunter 4 obb file to external sd card temporarily to free up some space for internal memory, after that i put the obb file back to internal memory, will the game still have have the saved game progress?
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of course you can, I've often done that for a few games which has quite large obb or data, gameloft, glu, or ea games, when I want to play the game, just return the obb or the data back to the original folder, then the games ready to be played back with no loss game progress, and the good again, the device does not need diroot

Utilizing SD Card. G flex 2

Not rooted. How can I move low priority programs & Data to SD Card.
Why have a SD Card if you can't use it. Lollipop.
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I Have same Problem . and still now I dont find apps or mods that can move datas to SD .
Folder mount , Gl2sd . Link2SD not working by this phone ! only way is await for Xposet and install Mods like InternalXsd or obbtosd .

Like in Gingerbread, what you can move or not to SD is entirely up to the app developper.
I'll take example of games as many are really big. For One Piece Treasure Cruise, you don't have the option to move to SD and it take 500Mb on the internal memory.
For Batman Arkham Origins, it takes 800Mb but most of it is directly installed on SD.
For Marvel Puzzle Quest, it install first on internal memory but you can move most part to SD. But when you launch the game, it download additional data and they are on internal memory, it's the most annoying. Puzzle & Dragons is the same but Deadman Cross have the additional data on SD.
And of course you can't move system app to SD.
It's entirely up to the developpers.

Le_Zouave said:
Like in Gingerbread, what you can move or not to SD is entirely up to the app developper.
I'll take example of games as many are really big. For One Piece Treasure Cruise, you don't have the option to move to SD and it take 500Mb on the internal memory.
For Batman Arkham Origins, it takes 800Mb but most of it is directly installed on SD.
For Marvel Puzzle Quest, it install first on internal memory but you can move most part to SD. But when you launch the game, it download additional data and they are on internal memory, it's the most annoying. Puzzle & Dragons is the same but Deadman Cross have the additional data on SD.
And of course you can't move system app to SD.
It's entirely up to the developpers.
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Hi, when trying to move not critical apps & related data to SD Card, I am comparing to 1) Asus 7" FonePad and 2) Samsung Note 3.
So, in the case of LF G2 flex it is not the downloaded Apps from Play store, nor Libraries etc that are causing the restriction !!! It is LG ?
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Does both device are on lollipop 5.1.1?
Because I have another device that have Kitkat 4.4.3 with a SD card and you can't simply move to SD card. My previous phone didn't have SD card (Nexus 4) so I can't say if the "move to SD" was really disabled in all kitkat roms.