Is there any hack/workaround so that I can move apps to the external SD card on my rooted Verizon SG3?
android94301 said:
Is there any hack/workaround so that I can move apps to the external SD card on my rooted Verizon SG3?
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Can't move apps, but you can move the app data. check out this app, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1410262. I used v2.0o. I used it to move the downloaded content from Rdio off my internal storage and onto my external sd. Just know that the top line is the destination line and the bottom line is where the files are coming from. Also make sure the destination folder location exists before placing files there via the second line.
EDIT: I have to say that while it works I had difficulty downloading new music to my moved location on the extSD card as a result of the app. The music that I had moved worked fine, but I just could not sync new music to my phone after using this app.
Solar257 said:
Can't move apps, but you can move the app data. check out this app, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1410262. I used v2.0o. I used it to move the downloaded content from Rdio off my internal storage and onto my external sd. Just know that the top line is the destination line and the bottom line is where the files are coming from. Also make sure the destination folder location exists before placing files there via the second line.
EDIT: I have to say that while it works I had difficulty downloading new music to my moved location on the extSD card as a result of the app. The music that I had moved worked fine, but I just could not sync new music to my phone after using this app.
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Thanks. It's not exactly my dreams come true, but it will help with Camscanner and a few others.
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i'm new to android so please bear with me.
i have a 32GB SD class 4 in my phone. it's been formatted so all it has is the lost.dir (i'm on a mac)
since there are no folders there - how do i gets apps to use it? where do i put music and other files? i have podcasts and other stuff i'd like to drag over but i'm not understanding how the different apps would see it.
i can move some apps to SD card but i think it just moves them to the internal SD card.
it seems that there are 2 SD cards in the phone but no way to differentiate between the 2.
also it sometimes takes forever for the gx2 to recognize the card, its kind of annoying. is having a class 10 better for this?
I use filemanager from the market and it recognizes my external as........"_externalSD" also allows me to transfer files between the two.
ecpht said:
i'm new to android so please bear with me.
i have a 32GB SD class 4 in my phone. it's been formatted so all it has is the lost.dir (i'm on a mac)
since there are no folders there - how do i gets apps to use it? where do i put music and other files? i have podcasts and other stuff i'd like to drag over but i'm not understanding how the different apps would see it.
i can move some apps to SD card but i think it just moves them to the internal SD card.
it seems that there are 2 SD cards in the phone but no way to differentiate between the 2.
also it sometimes takes forever for the gx2 to recognize the card, its kind of annoying. is having a class 10 better for this?
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When you have your phone plugged in pull down the alert bar on the top of the screen and press the "USB Connection" option. It should ask you if you want to turn USB mode on and have a picture of an Android. This will allow you to mount your internal and external sd as if they were regular flash sticks. You can then copy whatever you want to them. I also like to use drop box in combination with Astro for moving things to and from the cloud.
ecpht said:
i'm new to android so please bear with me.
i have a 32GB SD class 4 in my phone. it's been formatted so all it has is the lost.dir (i'm on a mac)
since there are no folders there - how do i gets apps to use it? where do i put music and other files? i have podcasts and other stuff i'd like to drag over but i'm not understanding how the different apps would see it.
i can move some apps to SD card but i think it just moves them to the internal SD card.
it seems that there are 2 SD cards in the phone but no way to differentiate between the 2.
also it sometimes takes forever for the gx2 to recognize the card, its kind of annoying. is having a class 10 better for this?
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1. G2x has the internal sd card partitioned into 2 parts (1 for OS & apps & other for storage & apps).
2. Sd card's class does help but it is not something important until you're running a high def video.
3. Use any file explorer app (File expert etc) for copying files from Internal SD Card to External SD Card.
4. Most of the app's setting menu gives you an option to physically select the storage destination folder i.e. external sd card.
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so say i have podcasts and other files on my computer i want to copy to the 32GB SD card - do i just make folders on the card and copy the files over from my computer?
ecpht said:
so say i have podcasts and other files on my computer i want to copy to the 32GB SD card - do i just make folders on the card and copy the files over from my computer?
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Yes, just simply copy the entire FOLDER of the particular file to your External SD Card & if in future, if u download something directly from your phone then simply just copy/paste it from your using any file manager app.
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so i have the phone connected to the computer and I see 2 No Name disks. That's fine. I put a folder called music at the root level of the 32GB card. Now I find that folder in File Expert and I go to play something and it says that file isn't supported. I tried Google Music and Doubletwist. Just mp3's from a CD. are there certain settings for android i need to know about? and do i need to go to File Expert to play this music everytime? Or should I be going through doubletwist on my mac and using it like itunes?
thanks you any help, i'm pretty clueless with this aspect of android right now, trying to catch up.
also both SD cards randomly unmount themselves. is there a reason for this or a way to prevent this?
ecpht said:
so i have the phone connected to the computer and I see 2 No Name disks. That's fine. I put a folder called music at the root level of the 32GB card. Now I find that folder in File Expert and I go to play something and it says that file isn't supported. I tried Google Music and Doubletwist. Just mp3's from a CD. are there certain settings for android i need to know about? and do i need to go to File Expert to play this music everytime? Or should I be going through doubletwist on my mac and using it like itunes?
thanks you any help, i'm pretty clueless with this aspect of android right now, trying to catch up.
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Ok. After reading your problems, here are my suggestions:
1) Copy your 32 GB SD Card files on your computer.
2) Format your 32 GB card. Replace all files back in it.
3) Stop worrying about putting certain files (pics, music) in a root folder. Simply just put any files OR folders inside the Sd card.
4) When it comes to File sharing, think of Android in the same category as Windows.
I hope I helped.
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Hello, I have an AT&T HTC ONE X running AOKP Jellybean. I currently have 1.64gb of internal storage available on the phone and about 4gb on the "external" storage. The phone is claimed to have 16gb of total storage. I believe they just partition the card into two sections to create internal and external storage.
My music files account for exactly 1.55gb of storage on the external portion of the SD. I have been attempting to move that music into the 1.65gb of free space on the internal portion. I have been unable to do this. Most folders are read only and while I can use root explorer to move files into these folders, or create new ones, I am unable to get my syncing program to access the folders because they are technically read only. I have a program that syncs all my music files in the cloud so I can share multiple devices.
Some of the folders in the internal SD are not read only and I can actually move files into them, but for whatever reason, these same folders wont sync properly with my program. The program (foldersync) will see the folder and claim to be downloading music to the folder, but nothing appears. And other folders which are not read only, won't evcen appear in the selection list to choose from within the foldersync app. I've even tried storing the music in a non read only folder on the internal SD and creating a link to it thats on the external SD to trick the foldersync program. The trick works and everything syncs perfectly, but the amount of available storage on the EXTERNAL SD is affected when everything appears to be on the internal.
All I'm trying to do is sync some stuff to the internal SD with the foldersync application, can anyone tell me how to do this? Haha sorry for the wall of text!
Also, I thought about using Google Music but it appears that Google Music stores everything on the external SD and there are no options in the app to change it.
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Hello, I have an AT&T HTC ONE X running AOKP Jellybean. I currently have 1.64gb of internal storage available on the phone and about 4gb on the "external" storage. The phone is claimed to have 16gb of total storage. I believe they just partition the card into two sections to create internal and external storage.
My music files account for exactly 1.55gb of storage on the external portion of the SD. I have been attempting to move that music into the 1.65gb of free space on the internal portion. I have been unable to do this. Most folders are read only and while I can use root explorer to move files into these folders, or create new ones, I am unable to get my syncing program to access the folders because they are technically read only. I have a program that syncs all my music files in the cloud so I can share multiple devices.
Some of the folders in the internal SD are not read only and I can actually move files into them, but for whatever reason, these same folders wont sync properly with my program. The program (foldersync) will see the folder and claim to be downloading music to the folder, but nothing appears. And other folders which are not read only, won't evcen appear in the selection list to choose from within the foldersync app. I've even tried storing the music in a non read only folder on the internal SD and creating a link to it thats on the external SD to trick the foldersync program. The trick works and everything syncs perfectly, but the amount of available storage on the EXTERNAL SD is affected when everything appears to be on the internal.
All I'm trying to do is sync some stuff to the internal SD with the foldersync application, can anyone tell me how to do this? Haha sorry for the wall of text!
Also, I thought about using Google Music but it appears that Google Music stores everything on the external SD and there are no options in the app to change it.
Never owned a phone that came with microsd and this new Sony phone intrigues me. Biggest bummer about this phone is that it only comes with 16 GB internal storage. I don't know how this work since the kit-kat upgrade came out but my question is that say I'm a heavy Whatsapp user and and have lots of photos and convos saved onto my phone so can that automatically transfer to my sdcard? With this little memory im scared I might run out of room with all my other apps as well. Btw i'm not a guy that roots my phone so that would be out of the question unless that was the only last option to make this work. Hope to get some detailed feedback from you guys. :fingers-crossed::laugh:
I don't think you would need to root the Z3 to do what you want. I haven't had an expandable memory slot since my old HD2. Nexus 4 for the last few years, working with limited memory is something I wish to finally again leave behind.
I don't know how it works on the Z3, but with KitKat this is the gist:
Apps can write to the sdcard, but only to their "approved" folders. E.g. After 4.3 or so we got an /Android/data/ folder inside the root of our sdcards. Inside that are app package names. So if a developer calls getExternalFilesDirs() it will list an array, one being the internal Android/data folder and the other being the SDcard Android/data folder. However, no change is needed on the app developer if they let you browse directories (you can just point the save location to the proper data folder package name). So, for example, I use FX File Explorer and move files to /extSdCard/Android/data/nextapp.fx/files from my internal memory on my S4.
Currently the only negative are games like Baldur's Gate. They only install to the internal memory and at 2.3GB can not be moved to the sdcard. If you root you might be able to swap the directories, but I haven't tried as I prefer to not root. But as it stands, that 2.3GB would go against the 16GB internal storage.
jonshipman said:
I don't know how it works on the Z3, but with KitKat this is the gist:
Apps can write to the sdcard, but only to their "approved" folders. E.g. After 4.3 or so we got an /Android/data/ folder inside the root of our sdcards. Inside that are app package names. So if a developer calls getExternalFilesDirs() it will list an array, one being the internal Android/data folder and the other being the SDcard Android/data folder. However, no change is needed on the app developer if they let you browse directories (you can just point the save location to the proper data folder package name). So, for example, I use FX File Explorer and move files to /extSdCard/Android/data/nextapp.fx/files from my internal memory on my S4.
Currently the only negative are games like Baldur's Gate. They only install to the internal memory and at 2.3GB can not be moved to the sdcard. If you root you might be able to swap the directories, but I haven't tried as I prefer to not root. But as it stands, that 2.3GB would go against the 16GB internal storage.
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Yea Iike the what's app itself is only cpl MB and I don't mind that on my internal but within what's app I have 3GB worth of photos videos from my group chats that I like to keep so I need to know if that can automatically be saved to sdcard or I have to find a different phone.
ms54 said:
Yea Iike the what's app itself is only cpl MB and I don't mind that on my internal but within what's app I have 3GB worth of photos videos from my group chats that I like to keep so I need to know if that can automatically be saved to sdcard or I have to find a different phone.
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Where is WhatsApp saving the pictures? To tell you the truth, no phone post 4.4.4 without rooting will do what you need. So you may need to look for something with larger internal storage.
Ok i just switched over to a S7 from iPhone after a few years and from what I remember to moves apps over to the SD card so there not taking up phone memory you just went into app manager and moved them over. But with this phone I don't see that option in that or in Storage. Any help would be grateful. Thanx
Goto settings/storage/internal storage/used space/apps here you will see all your installed apps, click on some game you installed and click on "change" under storage used and then send it to the sd card.
You cant move every app to the sdcard, most majority of the ones you downloaded should be able to be moved.
The feature doesn't work though. It makes a folder on the sd, but doesn't move the content
jonboyuk said:
The feature doesn't work though. It makes a folder on the sd, but doesn't move the content
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It works in some cases it seems, if you have a 2gig game it seems it wont move the whole thing, but if you have a 100meg game/app it will.
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