Is there any way to do this at all? And does it save all app data (gamesaves, ect.) And/or ability to run it from the SD card???
Someone can correct me if I'm wrong but I think right now the answer is no. Until Moto gives us TRUE SD card availability, the work around we have with Tiamat Kernel etc etc although welcomed and a great piece of work, won't let you. We need "official" support for SD card before we'll have apps to SD.
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I have been searching for some time and cant find a definite answer on the subject,
is there a way to make android believe your sd card is internal storage? i dont plan on needing to remove my sd card, once i have it in, theres no point in removing it. So is there a hack/mod to allow the OS to believe the sd card is internal storage?
i have a desire so the internal memory is pretty damn low, especially with new games coming out that require 400mb+ of memory, thats almost the full internal drive.
anyways. any information is appreciated thanks
Sounds like you're asking about apps2sd. Yes it is possible, though you'll need a rooted phone and a ROM which supports it.
alright, well i have googles fail of app2sd on android 2.2
but a rooted app2sd+ or other style of app2sd actually allows for the sd card to be treated as though it is internal storage? or i still need to install, and then move to external.
in other words i guess, is there a way to make the sd card be treated similary to how it is in windows phone 7, or is hte conventional install, them move, which would render games with 400mb+ impossible to be installed on phones like the desire and N1?
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alright, well i have googles fail of app2sd on android 2.2
but a rooted app2sd+ or other style of app2sd actually allows for the sd card to be treated as though it is internal storage? or i still need to install, and then move to external.
in other words i guess, is there a way to make the sd card be treated similary to how it is in windows phone 7, or is hte conventional install, them move, which would render games with 400mb+ impossible to be installed on phones like the desire and N1?
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I know that with a custom ROM like Cyanogen there is a system option to install apps (in correlation with app2sd) as default to any location you choose, I have mine to install on External, so any new app's I download from the market are automatically installed to the External storage (SDcard).
So, yes?
Would someone mind explaining to me the the sd card in this phone. Just when I thought I had it figured our I put cm7 #47 on and now I am confused again. Where exactly do the apps go that I move to sd. Do they go to the phone partition still?? Also I noticed a thread about switching the internal and external around. Is there a benefit to that?? I also noticed it looks like a lot more things are going on my actual external card now with cm7 then when it was stock. If someone who understands all this would explain it a little I would appreciate it.
(Edit) if I do switch the cards around, does that mean my apps will be moved to the actual external sd??
I've poked around but I dont think I found what I am trying to do. I want to mount my SD card like it mounts my phone; install the apps to the device, store the data on the sd card... any way to do this?
You can' do it, honeycomb doesn't support installation on external sd cards for now. Vanilla honeycomb can't even write on external sdcards, for exemple on the motorola xoom. You can read/write on some tablets thanks to the respective manufacturer's 'tweak'.
I dont want to store the apps on the SD card, just the data, downloads, photos taken from the camera, ect. all I see is a Removable\MicroSD folder which I can browse to, read/write to, but I want all the data on my apps to go to it too just like on my phone, so when I wipe, all my stuff is still there (In theory)
They won't be deleted even if they are on the internal storage even after wiping. It acts as a sdcard.
I might be mistaken, but thanks to the honeycomb 3.2 OS update, it IS possible now that they've opened up the API to the developers.
Unfortunately, it actually depends on the application developers to make use of it... Leave some comments on the android market for your apps and maybe they will do it.
i'm probably mistaken. post from a random website regarding new features in 3.2:
Media sync from SD cards, allowing users to load media directly from an SD card to applications which use them
I did not realize that the folder was persistent, that's good to know thanks
When I had a P1000, I used a lot the feature of sending applications and games and its data files to my SD CARD with a single purpose: leave the internal 16Gb memory as free as possible for better perfomance.
Now I have a rooted P6200 and I only can use my SD CARD for storing music and videos because I have no option of MOVE TO SD CARD anymore.
I also tried some applications that MOVE TO SD CARD, but none of them work.
I called the SAMSUNG SUPPORT and they told me I should be able to move to SD, but I read somewhere that it's something about the way that Android 3 and 4 manage partitions... what makes me believe I will not be able.
So, I am confused.
Can I move applications to SD CARD or not?
Can I make a application store data on SD CARD? Example: MailDroid or a game that consumes a lot of the memory - I would prefer to store data on the SD card.
Does anybody have a hint for that?
Thank you!
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When I had a P1000, I used a lot the feature of sending applications and games and its data files to my SD CARD with a single purpose: leave the internal 16Gb memory as free as possible for better perfomance.
Now I have a rooted P6200 and I only can use my SD CARD for storing music and videos because I have no option of MOVE TO SD CARD anymore.
I also tried some applications that MOVE TO SD CARD, but none of them work.
I called the SAMSUNG SUPPORT and they told me I should be able to move to SD, but I read somewhere that it's something about the way that Android 3 and 4 manage partitions... what makes me believe I will not be able.
So, I am confused.
Can I move applications to SD CARD or not?
Can I make a application store data on SD CARD? Example: MailDroid or a game that consumes a lot of the memory - I would prefer to store data on the SD card.
Does anybody have a hint for that?
Thank you!
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There are some apps in the Google Play Market like app 2 sd or move to sd (something like that), you can try one of those.
Personally I have no experience on these apps since I still have plenty of space, but you can read a little the features and see if that works for you
Unfortunately, APP2SD does not work to me
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There are some apps in the Google Play Market like app 2 sd or move to sd (something like that), you can try one of those.
Personally I have no experience on these apps since I still have plenty of space, but you can read a little the features and see if that works for you
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Thank you for your suggestion, but when APP2SD starts, I receive this message:
Your device has no real primary external storage or primary storage is emulated
APP2SD will not support move 2 card.
I dont understand this message. I have the 16Gb internal memory plus a 32Gb SD card as s imple a s it can b e, but it is not moving to S D.
P lease someone help me how to solve it.
By the way, the 32Gb SD is fully recognized by the P6200. I can see all my files regularly.
Link2sd may work, but I don't think there would be any performance gain from moving the apps over.
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Can I get super user access without rooting? Link2SD tells me I have to allow it to move the app.
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Can I get super user access without rooting?
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Super User access is root access. so, no you can't.
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From my point of view, rooting is something relatively easy, both to get and to lose: you just flash a zip from the default recovery. It does not even takes your flash count up. Basically, it's a single file that needs to be placed in "/system/bin/". If you need to send it to support, mount "system" as R/W and delete "su".
I could be wrong though, but you should really look into it. I think it is worth it.
By the way, I think you would have to partition your SD Card to use it with Link2SD...
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I have a Kyocera Rise 5156 with on SD card. I am trying to use offline navigation but all apps look for the SD card. I was wondering if there is a way to confuse Android into thinking that there is a SD card.
Thanks.
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I have a Kyocera Rise 5156 with on SD card. I am trying to use offline navigation but all apps look for the SD card. I was wondering if there is a way to confuse Android into thinking that there is a SD card.
Thanks.
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That's an interesting question.
I had a similar question and I was going to purchase a cable simply to test this theory.
If you have a female micosd cable to connect to the phone with female usb on and connect a usb flash drive it may think the powered usb is a micro sd card
this is a interesting question. never heard anything can do that . maybe a real card would be the best solution
so difficult for me, so i would like to say , use the real card to make your phone believe that:laugh:
What do you mean by a "real card" because the Kyocera Rise does not have a slot for an SD card?
I think i know what he is asking:
Some apps on his phone want his "real" sd card which is insered in his phone. but what he want is that it uses his internal storage.
hope thats right :silly:
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I think i know what he is asking:
Some apps on his phone want his "real" sd card which is insered in his phone. but what he want is that it uses his internal storage.
hope thats right :silly:
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There is no SD card option so I have to use the internal storage.
The whole purpose for trying to fake a SD card was so I could use an offline navigation. Most require a SD card but I finally managed to find one that doesn't require a SD card. The app is call GPS CoPilot. Tried some of the features. Seems to work fine but still have to try use it on a trip.
If you are rooted perhaps you can simply make a system link from the sd card directory to a folder in which you wish to store the data?
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Some phone you can disable internal memory, like the zte v970, not sure about your phone....
Yeah exactly what I wanted to say. Or, a usb female cable would work.. just a few bucks on eBay.
You can't cheat your device. THIS IS NOT FAIR!
I don't know if it helps but my P3100 has an sd storage eventhough I have not inserted an sd card.
I suppose it's done automatically by the os.
You might want to find out why it needs an SD card in the first place. It could be that it uses the SD card to store all of the maps and data. Therefore, if you "fake" having an SD card, you might be able to use offline navigation, however it would be useless as it would not have any resources to pull the information from.
You can create a new partition and mount that as /mnt/emmc or /mnt/storage1 depending on your android version I suppose
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mount it and with a proper drives