i know that you can dictate where you want things saved (SD vs. phone memory) if you are rooted.
but if i'm using stock, where do apps get saved to? what about pics/videos, etc?
how does android determine what gets saved to what?
Apps automatically save to the phone's.memory but some can be moved to your SD card. Pictures and videos etc. get saved to the SD.
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Not in my experience
All of my Angry Birds and a few others defaulted to install on my SD card
As well as other apps
I have no explanation
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That's odd. Maybe it's a thunderbolt thing
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I was looking at the phones memory and saw there was an internal sd which said 13g then theres external which i havent put in ten theres phone storage which shows i think about 1g. How can i use the internal 13g also says i can unmount it for safe removel. I dont see anything i can remove. Thanks for any info about this.
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The internal SD card is not removable. You can store data on it like your photos and videos or documents, but very few apps will install to it. Until we get Froyo there's no way to move apps to SD cards
It's referring to "ejecting" it from your computer before you stop usb connectivity on your phone.
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Thanks for the fast replys. I read somewhere that were getting the 2.2 update. Just dont know when. Thanks again
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I've got 2.2
Get the Phoenix Rising ROM.
I've never messed around with flashing ROMs or anything, but Samsung isn't going to release 2.2 any time soon, so I figured it out, and I'm glad I did.
Sorry if that doesn't make any sense, I've been at work all night.
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I somehow have only 2.44 gbs of internal memory free and I can't figure out how to free more up. I used my back up pro and did a factory reset and I can't figure out whats eating The memory . I don't have many apps. Any help would be awesome. Thanks
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Well you may have plenty of photos and videos in there. Put in the external SD card and go to camera app options. There you should be able to choose where to save the snaps and videos.
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No that's not it. Thanks though
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Maybe it's leftover files from an HD game(Gameloft) they leave like 500mb or more of files behind when you uninstall them. you have to go in and delete the left over manually.
Crgm77 said:
Maybe it's leftover files from an HD game(Gameloft) they leave like 500mg or more of files behind when you uninstall them. you have to go in and delete the left over manually.
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Apparently Gameloft games are so large in size they actually add weight to the phone. (500mg, joke explainer, etc.)
laker666 said:
I somehow have only 2.44 gbs of internal memory free and I can't figure out how to free more up. I used my back up pro and did a factory reset and I can't figure out whats eating The memory . I don't have many apps. Any help would be awesome. Thanks
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2.44??? Your lucky, I just checked my ''internal phone storage'' and i only have 1.28 GB
and for my phone memory, total space is 5.44gb, and available space is 4.55gb
but i also have a 32gb micro sd card.
I posted this in the eaglesblood forum, thought it would he more appropriate here: I know this is a total newb question, but I'd really appreciate an answer. When everyone is talking about this rom as externally mounted, does that mean that the system is actually running off of the external sd card? I tried out Weapon G2x... love how incredibly snappy it is, and I'm wondering if it's because of it being internally mounted. Anyways I want to come back to Eaglesblood just because I can't even really use the gps on weapon, never locks.... my SD card is class 4 so take that into account
Thanks in advance for any help
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Gps is not sd card related.
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That's not at all what I'm asking. I was just noting why I want to switch back to eaglesblood. I really am wondering about whether it runs the system externally or if it just stores data there. That way I know if its just my slower SD card that creates the less snappy experience on eagles.
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Both eagleablood and weapons or pretty much any rom for the G2x are system roms meaning their files and data is in the phones system partition. Although a rom can run from a SD card it hasn't been available for the G2x yet. The purpose of stating if it is being internally or externaly mounted is to describe which memory is mounted (for music, movies, and such) primarily as in which will be used to store camera shots and downloads, even if some apps allow for editing the location of data. You can still load music on the external and the media will be played it just will be linked by a folder usually called EXTERNAL_SD
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How can I move an app to my external SD card rather than the internal 16 GB storage. I cannot find a way to do that. When I choose move to SD card is only goes to the internal 16 GB.
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download astro file manager....its free on the market and has a cut/copy/paste/move function
Thanks for the tips...what changed with this phone? This is my third Android phone and installing to SD card always meant to the microSD card.
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garak0410 said:
Thanks for the tips...what changed with this phone? This is my third Android phone and installing to SD card always meant to the microSD card.
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Its because the phone has internal SD that mounts as mnt/sdcard which is normally external on phones that don't have internal SD storage.
So basically, the expanded slot is mainly for files and media, correct?
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garak0410 said:
So basically, the expanded slot is mainly for files and media, correct?
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yeah, but with the amount of internal storage available on these devices, i see NO benefit to moving apps to sd. that was a benefit with older phones, but it seems all the newer models coming out have ample room for app installs. apps2sd seems like a worthless hassle to me any more.
I have to use apps2sd because the Market seems to want to default all my installs to the system storage rather than what it calls the usb storage...am I missing something here? My Captivate defaulted to the internal storage and I would often move into the external sd. My Infuse loaded all apps on the external sd card. This phone seems to go to the very limited system storage options (only like 1.3 gig free). So I feel like I have no choice but to continue using APPS2SD.
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I have to use apps2sd because the Market seems to want to default all my installs to the system storage rather than what it calls the usb storage...am I missing something here? My Captivate defaulted to the internal storage and I would often move into the external sd. My Infuse loaded all apps on the external sd card. This phone seems to go to the very limited system storage options (only like 1.3 gig free). So I feel like I have no choice but to continue using APPS2SD.
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What apps are you running that you need THAT much internal storage for apps?
Samsung typically leaves 2gb for internal app storage, the 16gb internal SD for media ect..
I've got well over 150 apps on my phone and haven't come close to using my internal storage.
Well, I need more than the 2GB of internal storage but not much more. Just not used to the way this phone handled app storage compared to my past phones.
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garak0410 said:
Well, I need more than the 2GB of internal storage but not much more. Just not used to the way this phone handled app storage compared to my past phones.
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what do you install that requires that much space?
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So basically, the expanded slot is mainly for files and media, correct?
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not correct
you can do sooooo much more with it, that you wont believe
check this out for detail http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1343187
Move apps to ExternalSD
garak0410 said:
How can I move an app to my external SD card rather than the internal 16 GB storage. I cannot find a way to do that. When I choose move to SD card is only goes to the internal 16 GB.
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Give Link2SD a try; it's fantastic and allows you to move apps, one at a time or multiples (under menu button) to the ExternalSD card (plus it allows you to do so much more, see link above). It sees the External card as it should see it, an SD card that can have apps and data on it. App2SD doesn't give you a choice to move to the ExternalSD card, it only moves from phone to InternalSD and vice versa.
Anybody know of an easy way to clean up my sd card, as far as some space. The my phone is slowing down considerably.
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Download a file manager and start deleting what u don't need.
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Download File Analyser from the play store and find out which files are hogging up the most space that aren't useful and delete.
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Anybody know of an easy way to clean up my sd card, as far as some space. The my phone is slowing down considerably.
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Your phone shouldn't slow down "considerably" because of a full sd card... Are you rooted? Do u have anitivirus software? Av softwares are resource hogs and should be used temporarily and uninstalled after scans. If u are using a task killer or RAM manager, you will see adverse affects as well. What apps are running when you hold the home button to view currently running tasks?
If you still do believe it is a result of a full sd card, i like astro file manager. The stock file manager to delete sd contents should suffice though.
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Also any games you don't use,uninstall them, that too take alot of space, as.videos take up a ton too.
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