I've been looking the past day, at threads for the new Tab 2 7.0 and other devices, and I'm lost. I was able to use windows to create the 2 partitions for my microsd and use Link2SD to attempt to move apps to the SD, but it still doesn't work.
I'm honestly most concerned of apps like Rdio, where the music that is saved offline is currently taking up valuable internal storage and not on my microsd.
Is this going to be possible? I am rooted, running stock ROM. Thanks!
Stock ROM does not have move2sd capability AFAIK. I think we'll have ot wait for a custom rom.
From what i herd The storage is emulate (sdext) So maby there's a was to redirect or combinevforvmore storage
p-3113 Puff, Puff, Puff,...... just sende'n smoke signals
you can use an app called directory Bind
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you can use an app called directory Bind
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Thanks for pointing out these app, never heard of it. Unfortunately I cannot get it to work for my scenario (Rdio synced music). I can setup the directories (bind them) but then Rdio won't sync music.
I am in the same boat as you slopokdave I want to use the external for Rdio.
I guess I will have to root my device and figure out a why from there.. I am just stuck as I use mac and there is still no method to do so with it :/
I found a app that works. It's called GL to sd. I think your tab have to be rooted. This app is free on the market.
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I can access the card with root explorer. I can see media on it. But i cant save to it on some apps. Apps that capture pics or save stuff..in options allows you to choose directory you want to save in. But it stays in internal storage only.
I cant go up to main system root directory to choose the external card for a folder location...
Is there a way to do it?
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From what I've read it has to do with the way ICS handles everything which sucks not the phone itself. If I had known that only certain apps like the camera can save content to the external sd card I would've bought the 32gb version of the S3. Instagram saves to internal memory and so does Evernote which is going to turn into a hassel quickly for me and a lot of people.
Look in the Galaxy SII forums for an app called Directory Bind. I think I read somewhere else it's working on the GS3...
badseed767 said:
Look in the Galaxy SII forums for an app called Directory Bind. I think I read somewhere else it's working on the GS3...
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Thanks.
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.
I just got my new SGT 2 7.0" and was wondering how to to increase applications/data storage on this unit. I know it has to be rooted. But then I got confused: there are different methods out there that are compatible with only certain ROMs, some sorts of scripts that you have to maintain/change manually and etc.
What I want is to install certain applications (Like Sygic Navigation) on external SD card (32Gb) and use internal memory for regular/small apps. The reason is that that navigation app has huge map files that cannot be stored on internal memory - no room..
Another thing I got confused is the way those scripts work: some of them allow to completely swap internal memory for external, some allow data files to be installed on the external card. Can you guys advise what is the best and easiest way to make this happen? Are there any custom ROM's that already support it? My tablet is not rooted yet and it is Android v 4.1.1 (build P3113UECLK7).
As far as I see it, being a great tablet by design - it has a HUGE functional limitation - low memory capacity - only 8Gb for 7 inch tablet. Or Am I missing something
I juat got one of those too I'd have thought 8Gb is plenty for apps. Just get a decent-sized SD card for your data (music, videos etc), preferably a class 10 card. Good luck.
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I juat got one of those too I'd have thought 8Gb is plenty for apps. Just get a decent-sized SD card for your data (music, videos etc), preferably a class 10 card. Good luck.
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The problem is that out of 8Gb we have only 4Gb available to use. The rest is already used by the system. And that is very, very limiting:crying:
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The problem is that out of 8Gb we have only 4Gb available to use. The rest is already used by the system. And that is very, very limiting:crying:
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You can use gl2sd app or the foldermount app, both of which require root.the first one allows you to move some apps to the sdcard and the second allows you to link and move large game/app folders to the sdcard(which is what i do, because the swap scripts do not work past4.1.2). I'm not sure if any of the external/internal swap scripts work on the p3100.
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You can use gl2sd app or the foldermount app, both of which require root.the first one allows you to move some apps to the sdcard and the second allows you to link and move large game/app folders to the sdcard(which is what i do, because the swap scripts do not work past4.1.2). I'm not sure if any of the external/internal swap scripts work on the p3100.
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What is that "foldermount application" you are referring to?
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What is that "foldermount application" you are referring to?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=39178981
You can get it in the play store too, but with this app you can choose what to put on your card.
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Hi. I'm on a rooted Nexus 5, stock ROM and kernel. I have a Micro USB SD card reader and since I have many GBs of music I'd like to put the music on the SD card (which is mounted on the device using StickMount) and then symlink it to the internal memory so that I can play it using Google Play Music and other apps. How can I do that? Thank you.
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Hi. I'm on a rooted Nexus 5, stock ROM and kernel. I have a Micro USB SD card reader and since I have many GBs of music I'd like to put the music on the SD card (which is mounted on the device using StickMount) and then symlink it to the internal memory so that I can play it using Google Play Music and other apps. How can I do that? Thank you.
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Look here for info https://www.google.nl/search?q=goog...7&sourceid=chrome&espv=210&es_sm=122&ie=UTF-8.
The problem is Google play music only looks in the music directory for songs.
Also you cannot create symlinks in the fused sdcard.
You could try the following in a terminal emulator.
(Note you may have to change the following paths as I can't remember the exact path stickmount mounts your device to)
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mount -o bind /sdcard/music/sd /sdcard/usbdisk/sda1
This should create a folder called sd in the music folder which Google play music is looking in. It should be then linked to your mounted storage in stick mount.
But beware this may crash your phone when you remove the card requiring a reboot.
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mount -o bind /sdcard/music/sd /sdcard/usbdisk/sda1
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Have you tested this? The reason I ask is that unless something has changed which I don't know about, this will not be possible. Since 4.2, Google changed how android handles mounts and this is no longer possible with root (root does not have elevated enough permissions).
Hence why I created this script back in the 4.2 days:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2178863
*Note, I no longer support that script so do NOT use it...
...which in turn lead to this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2192122
I myself use FolderMount as it works well and scripts are just a bit too clunky (hence why I ceased working on and supporting my script).
The only issue is you will need to move everything in your current music folder (which foldermount will do nicely for you) so you must always have your external media with you to play music. You cannot simply expand your current folder, its all or nothing (unless you can mount a subfolder of your music directory and music will see that? Not sure, you'll have to test).
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Have you tested this? The reason I ask is that unless something has changed which I don't know about, this will not be possible. Since 4.2, Google changed how android handles mounts and this is no longer possible with root (root does not have elevated enough permissions).
Hence why I created this script back in the 4.2 days:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2178863
*Note, I no longer support that script so do NOT use it...
...which in turn lead to this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2192122
I myself use FolderMount as it works well and scripts are just a bit too clunky (hence why I ceased working on and supporting my script).
The only issue is you will need to move everything in your current music folder (which foldermount will do nicely for you) so you must always have your external media with you to play music. You cannot simply expand your current folder, its all or nothing (unless you can mount a subfolder of your music directory and music will see that? Not sure, you'll have to test).
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I'm now trying foldermount, but it seems it's moving all my music from the external SD do the internal memory... Then what? Is it supposed to move all the music back to the SD card before unmounting? I can see no point to this...
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I'm now trying foldermount, but it seems it's moving all my music from the external SD do the internal memory... Then what? Is it supposed to move all the music back to the SD card before unmounting? I can see no point to this...
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Sounds like you've done it backwards.
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Sounds like you've done it backwards.
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Woops So now it does make sense
Well yeah, It works perfectly and it did what I wanted, thank you!
No probs
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Have you tested this? The reason I ask is that unless something has changed which I don't know about, this will not be possible. Since 4.2, Google changed how android handles mounts and this is no longer possible with root (root does not have elevated enough permissions).
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No I hadn't tested this. I just knew it was an alternative to symlinking which worked on the one x. I didn't realise that they had killed this in 4.2.
I also didn't know about foldermounts which should be a great alternative.
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Yeah its a good app. Use it for games myself
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Seems like the only downfall of this phone is the lack of an external SD card slot. Is any one oiy there working on an app similar to link to SD but utilizing a micro USB.card reader like the Meenova? What about a script that would swap the internal memory with the externally mounted micro SD reader? Anybody?
How about connecting our brain by spinal cord lol.... Yes there are some otg device which can help you as a external storage and no need of swap internal memory since moto G is best working at this moment
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All solutions are for media only none of them provide app apk or app data support. I have been scouring the internet for days. There is no way as of yet to implement link2sd, app2sd, data2sd support for within app usage. But thanks for your sarcastic remark!
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All solutions are for media only none of them provide app apk or app data support. I have been scouring the internet for days. There is no way as of yet to implement link2sd, app2sd, data2sd support for within app usage. But thanks for your sarcastic remark!
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There are apps to link apps to external sd (both apk and data) via otg. You can do it manually via busybox+mount -bind or all automatic via some apps that are in this forum (I swear they are in moto-g/general, so give it a try). If I see the link again I will come back and link it to you, but I remember at least two apps available in the play store to do it.
you can try folder mount or directory bind for moving big data games to usb otg
I wouldn't see a problem with mounting your external sd card wherever you want in the filesystem.
However I would suggest to just mount the external sd card to /sdcard
Filling the 8gb with apps seems pretty impossible to me. Data stored by the app is stored in /sdcard, so that's where you actually would need more space.
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Seems like the only downfall of this phone is the lack of an external SD card slot. Is any one oiy there working on an app similar to link to SD but utilizing a micro USB.card reader like the Meenova? What about a script that would swap the internal memory with the externally mounted micro SD reader? Anybody?
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Just out of curiosity, which apps do you plan to install that require more than 12.5 gb?? I do agree though that the space restriction makes it difficult to keep multiple cwm backups..
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Just out of curiosity, which apps do you plan to install that require more than 12.5 gb?? I do agree though that the space restriction makes it difficult to keep multiple cwm backups..
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Multiple CWM backups are always annoying, no matter if you have sd card or not.
This thread on the other hand makes no sense, there are apps that do the job out there, but if you can't mange your space, then probably you ain't for Nexus-like device.
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Multiple CWM backups are always annoying, no matter if you have sd card or not.
This thread on the other hand makes no sense, there are apps that do the job out there, but if you can't mange your space, then probably you ain't for Nexus-like device.
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Well i like to keep a couple of backups while moving from rom to rom.. but not an option on this device!
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I was wondering if it's possible do something like this one http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2046178