We all know that phones have 3 hard drives. The internal memory, the internal sd, and the external sd.
For those of you that don't, the g2x has an advertised 8gb of internal memory. They did not however, mentioned that it is split up into 2 parts. 1.5 gigs for internal memory, for apps, programs, etc aka phones memory. Then the remaining is called the internal sd card, for all your pictures, movies, files etc. Then you hav the external sd, which is the microsd card you can pick up from future shop, best buy etc also used for files.
So my question is: is it possible to install and app onto your external sd card? IV heard of an app called app2ext but a market search failed to show and results
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I'm really new with android and haven been messing around with different roms to find the one like best. One of the rom had the option setting to let me decide whether external/internal memory for me to install my apps. Now I am using eaglesblood latest rom 2.3.7 and noticed he doesn't have that setting so I was wondering if there is another way to install to internal memory.
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Most, if not all of the custom ROM's allow you to move your apps to your external SD through the Manage Applications menu. If not there, then you should be able to use apps such as:
App 2 SD (move app to SD)
and/or
A2SDGUI - Darktremor A2SD GUI
Both of which allow rooted devices to move application to the external SD card to conserve space.
I tried the two apps you gave me but they both said my apps are already in the internal memory. Idk if this is normal...when I go to storage in settings...there are actually three storage. 1. Is my SD card which is 3.69gb...2. Is internal memory which is only 1.48gb...and 3. Is additional storage: /mnt/emmc and it have 5.21gb...I want to be able to install my apps, especial apps like navigon that requires about 2gb of space for maps into the additional storage.
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Some apps, like navigation,market and a few others will not run after being installed on an external storage as they use other files/system resources to operate properly. The only thing you want to store on the SD card is apps that you install that didn't come with the phone. "Most" apps will run from the external storage as they do not require the use of other system files. To sum it up, installed angry birds? Move it to the SD card/external memory. Installed superuser? Leave that on internal memory.
I think the option you are talking about is a feature of CM7 roms. It actually flips your emmc memory to run as external and then your internal memory to be seen as external. I think this is for people with small Rom space but then still have a large internal memory system like the g2x. By flipping it you can have a large main partion so you don't have to worry about apps2sd. It's only in cm7 for what I know but you look up apps2link to see if that might be something similar
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I have lots of games (most of them 3D) so I have to download a lot of Data.I tried to move the apps to the sd, thinking it might free up some memory in my internal memory of only 16GB ( I have 32GB external SD card). I quickly found that they apps are not installed in my external sd card!? They are all in my internal sd card (which I thought as my phone memory). I realized that samsung phones have an sd card inside as their memory, so the system can only move from phone to internal sd card.
I am trying to figure out how to move an app to external sd card.
Anyone has any clue??
I had the same problem, never found a solution...
BUT, just move all your music, videos, and other files to your external sd card and the 16gb internal sd card should be more then enough to have all your 3d games on... thast what i do.
Don't forget, there's still 2gb of nand memory in there that holds all the pre-installed apps plus any that you don't move to sd. Personally I keep all my games and 3d apps on the phone memory (tip here, nand is faster than flash) and all the less critical apps on the sd.
Ok after a lot of research I found out that you can't do it without ROOTING!!
After rooting there are lot of apps which can move your apps to external sd.
I am not going to root so I guess I am stuck ...
Thanks Android for such options
Bikram said:
Ok after a lot of research I found out that you can't do it without ROOTING!!
After rooting there are lot of apps which can move your apps to external sd.
I am not going to root so I guess I am stuck ...
Thanks Android for such options
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Whining like that makes me say get an iPhone sheep
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My internal storage is getting low. I must be a App download junkie. Any major drawback in moving the Apps from internal storage to an SD card? I did a search but didn't find anything related to the Infuse (and CM10).
As long as the app gives you the option it is usually no problem. There is always a chance of an app not working after a move, if so you can always put it back on the internal.... or just have it go stand in the corner.
Some of the apps are misbehaving but unfortunately I ran out of corners.
I used Rom toolbox and moved the apps to SD card but it didn't go to external SD but the 8GB "internal" card...I need them to go to emmc (the real SD CARD).
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I like rom toolbox... for moving apps I like one called Ap2sd. ( Google Play, free)
Downloaded it but no option to the micro SD card. But its time to go to bed, got to work in the morning.
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The external sd card takes slightly longer for the system to access than the internal sd card, but it shouldn't really make a noticeable difference.
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Some of the apps are misbehaving but unfortunately I ran out of corners.
I used Rom toolbox and moved the apps to SD card but it didn't go to external SD but the 8GB "internal" card...I need them to go to emmc (the real SD CARD).
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I too want to move my media and apps to a newly formatted 32gb external SD drive. App2sd moved them to factory installed SD.
Ok guys I have the Razr Maxx HD and loving it. But im using titanium and noticed I can't move my apps from memory to my SD card. Freezing apps is no problem but once I move an app, exit and reopen titanium it appears the app was never moved. It still shows it sitting on the memory.
Any help with this?:banghead:
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I asked about this at the Verizon store when I was getting a few things resolved. The response I got was that apps cannot be moved to an SD card. Only things like pics, videos, downloads, files, etc. can be stored on the SD card.
Would have been nice to know prior to purchase...
What??!! Wow that's a huge minus. Even using external apps like titanium? Smh
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Yep, word on the streets (or at least from the Verizon broad's mouth) is no apps can be moved.
That's true. We can't move apps to SD Card, i bought a 32 GB SD Card before know it.
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That's true. We can't move apps to SD Card, i bought a 32 GB SD Card before know it.
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I think it has something to do with the stupid reasoning to mount the internal memory as sdcard and the sdcard as external1. If someone modified the mount list to force the sdcard to be mounted as sdcard, it would probably allow apps on the real sdcard.
That's a jelly bean thing... Android removed that ability in 4.1 unfortunately
Not meaning to seem daft, but is there a specific reason that you need/want to move your apps to SD? My understanding of how Android works now means that you can use the entire onboard memory for apps... negating the need that earlier phones had to shift apps across due to lack of space.
Some games have up to1.5 gigs of data. It doesn't take that many to fill the internal memory.
Hey all,
I just rooted my ATT Galaxy S2 first time and I think the first time android phone in general. I have successfully got to where i want to be. I have internet tethering, uninstalled all the junk, I still sticking with base rom, as I am trying to figure out why CM10 would not boot up beyond loading screen, but thats another topic.
What i don't understand is why you would not be able to move apps to external storage sd card. I used to have htc, and was able to do that, but that was before ICS. I have done some research but not as successfully as i wanted to do.
I have come across "ICS SD Binder" on play.google.com. But I dont completely understand what exactly needs to be done. Or rather bit unsure which drop down item to select and how it might effect my sd card as well as how to move apps afterwards. I assume just relocating them into that folder.
So can some one tell me why is it such a pain to have apps on external sd card and may be point me to right threads on how to point to external sd card and move my apps there or how in general i can get my apps on my external sd card.
Much appreciated and thank you in advance everyone.
I just used grooveshark and audible for my listening and educational needs. Though audio books library isnt bad at 2 gigs. Audio files that i offline are about 6-8 gigs. And thats hits my SG2 internal storage limit : /
Much appriciated.
Why do you want them on the external? They're easy to replace. Store other stuff on the external
Edit: you can use tibu to move apps to the external, but they don't always work well there.
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Why do you want them on the external? They're easy to replace. Store other stuff on the external
Edit: you can use tibu to move apps to the external, but they don't always work well there.
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use app to sd on regular basis works great for me
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I want to move audible and grooveshark to extranal sd so all their offline content which is about 8 gigs can reside on my 32 gig external drive.
AppMgr III (App 2 SD) on google play?
Apparently my external sd card not seen by that app only internal sd card. Which is useless....
apps2sd moves apps to internal sd not externl sd. dnt think there's a way to move to ext sd yet without assigning ext sd as internal sd and vice versa.
use search button there was a thread with this topic already
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Actually this is what i was asking about.