I am curious if there is a way to move installed apps the the external storage? Thanks
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Haven't tried but I believe there is an option in titanium backup to move to external... give that a shot
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may i ask why you want to do this? it usually causes more harm than good on the newer devices with HUGE internal memories. it was useful back in teh day of the OG droid with 512MB of internal storage but with the TF300T you have TONS of space.
unless you are doing it for a specific reason other than to save internal storage space, i wouldn't do it.
U can use ZDbox from the market. Has the option to move apps to storage.
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Zdebox does not work with ICS
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For me, the only thing that seems to work is GL to SD. Other applications seem to not recognize the external storage like App to SD. Also to answer the question as to Why we want to do this? I have the 16GB version and still ran out of storage, heavy gaming especially from gameloft applications can take a heavy burden on storage.
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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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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
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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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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.
Total Space - 26.38 GB
How the hell does the tablet use a little less than 6 GB?...
Are there certain files I can delete, like language files, ect.
If you're rooted you might try the sd maid app.
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Is there a script that allows this function?
Q&a will answer your question
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Is there a script that allows this function?
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I have rooted mine and done just about everything listed on the internet and I'm unable to get all the data as well as the apps over to the microSD slot.
I have found apps2sd type programs move everything but the Data and most my games are 200-700mb
I have even emailed Samsung over how upset I am at what they have done/Google have done to this device ( and just about every other one with ics/jelly Bean )
So Im selling mine today and I have traded up to a Playbook 64gb for £129 Brand new LOL....
And I wonder why I'm starting to hate Android OS. But at least my Xperia Play can use most my paid for Android Apps.
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I have rooted mine and done just about everything listed on the internet and I'm unable to get all the data as well as the apps over to the microSD slot.
I have found apps2sd type programs move everything but the Data and most my games are 200-700mb
I have even emailed Samsung over how upset I am at what they have done/Google have done to this device ( and just about every other one with ics/jelly Bean )
So Im selling mine today and I have traded up to a Playbook 64gb for £129 Brand new LOL....
And I wonder why I'm starting to hate Android OS. But at least my Xperia Play can use most my paid for Android Apps.
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Do you really need that much space for games and data? And btw its not just ics and JB that prevents that!! I'm sure the reasoning no one has figured a2sd script for this device is because we have more than one gig ram. But hey if you want to go with the Playbook no one is stopping you. But I promise you didn't trade up. Your taking a loss. Have fun with it though. Heck one day you might trade "up" to a diepad.. good luck. I'm happy with my rooted tab2 running cm9/10 beautifully!!!
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Apps in playbook are small number and suck bb is dying
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Questions should be asked in Q&A forums, not Development forums.
Thread moved.
I still don't understand why the option in the standard form is not here, the GT-I9100 running 4.0.4 has it. Button should be just to the right of the clear data for a selected app in the Applications manager. Only reason I can think for this variation is that with the GT-I9100 you have to shutdown (remove the battery) to remove the Ext SD card while with the GT-P3113 you can remove without a shutdown. But the GT-I9100 still allows unmounting the ExtSD card so the physical variation is almost moot.
Wether or not it is a partition or a Samsung thing, I agree. It is ridicules. Some have argued that it is nothing more than a way to make more money by forcing the consumer to buy a tab with larger storage. I use directory bind and it is a good substitution but I would love a native option.
What is directory bind?
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You can download an APK called APP2SD from play store
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What is directory bind?
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It is an app that links folders on ext to internal sd. You can store the data on the external and make the tablet think it is in the internal. Works great.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1410262
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uTorrent has been released for Android (beta). Unfortunately, at least for me, ANY torrent app completely lags the tablet to the point where I consider it unusable. I don't have an sd card. Has anyone tried any torrent app and downloaded files on to an external sd card? I want to know if it lags like that as well?
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i use Adownloader, and it is capable of downloading to the memory card. While downloading 4 files at one time, i was able to do other things on the tablet without issues.
try ttorrent. Also, when you want to search within the app you will need to dl a plugin, but I've never had problems. It doesn't do a great job of correcting spelling, etc. but more or less solid all around.
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i use Adownloader, and it is capable of downloading to the memory card. While downloading 4 files at one time, i was able to do other things on the tablet without issues.
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What speeds were you getting? My tablet was already unusable when I was downloading at my max speed (6mbit/s). However, when I'm transfering files between my laptop and my tablet (at 20mbit/s) the tablet is not unusable, but not fast either... Is this all because of the IO issues?
Yep, just got the same problem with torrent and internal storage, it's the same with ttorrent btw.
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You should try using aTorrent - i have downloaded stuff onto the tablet without any problems + it's free.
My formula: aTorrent + isohunt.com = works
I haven't downloaded several files at the same time but it worked fine with one file downloading + using a couple of other apps.
I've used every torrent app out there, and they all lag my device when I'm downloading.... Are you downloading to an external sd card?
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I've used tTorrent to save to a microSD card and it worked great for me
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I'm using ttorrent to microSD card and it works great. Before I was using the internal storage but it was making the tablet unusable. I bought the microSD card just for that.
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Alright I am convinced to buy a microSD card just for this reason. Kind of stupid I have to do this, the IO problems really shouldn't be there, but alas. Thanks... Now if only someone could tell me if my Samsung Captivate supported 64gb cards...
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The new version of atorrent allows downloading to the card. And I did not experience any lag.
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Every torrent application will lag your phone/table it you're downloading to your primary SD Card. This is becase Androids needs to preallocate the full size of the downloaded files. So when Android zero filles 2Gb of files, then the read/write speed for other applications on the internal storage will drop, thus you'll get a lot of lag. Once the preallocation is over the phone comes back to live again (that is if you're not downloading with +10Mb/s speed of more).
Only way to avoid the lag is to have an external SD Card and download to it. BTW you can try my new torrent application TDM. Maybe it'll suit your needs better? (it has no problems with downloading to extarnal cards and it has a file manager to allowes you to manage the file on multiple cards with ease).
I installed the JB update without factory resetting my infinity. Im running everything stock but I noticed my ram is using a little over 700mbs and leaving me around 150mbs free. Just wanted to see if this is the norm. Can you guys post ram usage and can you state if you did a factory reset or not. Really trying not to factory reset but if doing so will lower my ram usage then I will. My tab is running smoother but still kinda jerky once in a while so maybe this is the culprit.
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565MB in use, 405BMb free.
Running: Settings, PlayerPro, Transformer Services, NvCPL Service, com.asus.keyboard, Clock, Hacker's Keyboard, Fresh Leaves LWP.
No factory reset, no root, not unlocked. Turned off all bloatware, though. that's probably what's eating your RAM.
Android & Windows utilize RAM differently. While you want to keep more free in Windows, free RAM matters much less in Android. The OS intentionally loads up apps & consumes occupies RAM. I can dig up some technical articles explaining this id you don't want to believe me.
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Android & Windows utilize RAM differently. While you want to keep more free in Windows, free RAM matters much less in Android. The OS intentionally loads up apps & consumes occupies RAM. I can dig up some technical articles explaining this id you don't want to believe me.
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The transformer series (or atleast the tf700) seems to handle it differently, plenty of games will crash unless you free up RAM.
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that was in ics wasnt it? due to a nvidia driver bug or something. I use to crash in plants vs zombies after a few minutes in ics, but now it works fine in jb
Just did a hard reset to have a clean boot and my Infinity is using 640mb.
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565MB in use, 405BMb free.
Running: Settings, PlayerPro, Transformer Services, NvCPL Service, com.asus.keyboard, Clock, Hacker's Keyboard, Fresh Leaves LWP.
No factory reset, no root, not unlocked. Turned off all bloatware, though. that's probably what's eating your RAM.
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Is there a option to turn off bloatware or I just go to apps and turn off each stick app I think I don't use?
I know everyone is diffrent but which apps did you stop?
Thanks
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Is there a option to turn off bloatware or I just go to apps and turn off each stick app I think I don't use?
I know everyone is diffrent but which apps did you stop?
Thanks
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You have to go into Apps and disable each one you won't use, independently...
Some apps won't disable until you go back to factory. So uninstall any updates, to that particular app.
Thanks xRev gonna try that when I get home.
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I noticed with ICS that if my RAM got below 200MB, things would get wonky. I would consistently see hangs in the browser and severe lag on most apps below this threshold. I was using Startup Cleaner on boot and activated the setting to limit to 2 background process at most. This kept my ICS RAM around 300MB and above and things were relatively smooth.
Now with JB, it gets down to around 200MB on a fresh boot. Even with limit background processes to 2 it struggles to get above 300MB. I can see when I launch a Flash and java script heavy web page the whole thing just stalls for several seconds. On some pages I can see the RAM going down below 100MB and this is when the browser will just crash. I am using the Cool Tool RAM monitor to see usage real time.
I have not disabled any apps yet, and that may be the difference. Doing a TB backup now to factory reset and see if I can clean this up. However, ICS or JB, things run smoother when the RAM is at 300MB or above! It does seem like JB is more RAM hungry and this could be an issue.
Just did factory reset and its much smoother and ram is using 580ish and 380ish free.
Factory Rest is a must.
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I was just wondering about the RAM usage, as I have noticed that with the same applications installed, I had about 400-500MB free on average on ICS, and now I'm at 200-300 on Jellybean.
Also, seems to eat up more and more RAM as time goes on, only fixed by restarting the tablet.
I use SystemPanel Lite as a task manager and even that couldn't free up much RAM.
I notice 150 - 200MB increase of RAM consumption after the JB update (last value 680). And I use Android Assistant to kill the unwanted apps..
Guys just factory reset. I know it sucks having to install everything again but it levels out. Runs smoother and more ram free. I know have like 400mbs free and Im running alot more widgets. Its good
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Eroc162 said:
Guys just factory reset. I know it sucks having to install everything again but it levels out. Runs smoother and more ram free. I know have like 400mbs free and Im running alot more widgets. Its good
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I did do a factory reset. Right after I updated to Jelly Bean.
I rebuilt my homescreen to how it was back in ICS, and configured my widgets. From a fresh boot I have around 450MB free memory, over the course of half an hour it drops to around 250MB (and this is with constantly killing all applications too). Seems to stabilize at around 250MB.
In general, it just seems that JB uses more memory than ICS. Hope they address this in a follow-up OTA update or something.
Don't worry about the RAM usage - Android handles it for you - especially with Jelly Bean. Really, there is no need to even worry about it. There was a *bad* bug in ICS with OpenGL "out of memory" issues, but that bug has been resolved in JB and everything runs smoothly now.
It may even be all of the monitoring software you are using to check for "low RAM" that is causing your performance issues!
You actually *want* Jelly Bean to use all of the RAM - that's why it's there! It will cache all sorts of things and then free up some of the cache memory as it needs it for other things.
Just like the old saying goes - if it aint broke, don't fix it!
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579mb used 390mb free after JB and and a factory reset.
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For those who factory reset, did you use asus app backup? Will factory reset wipe all internal storage data, thus deleting all your backups?
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For those who factory reset, did you use asus app backup? Will factory reset wipe all internal storage data, thus deleting all your backups?
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Using Asus app backup I just backed up to the external card prior to the JB update.
All my apps and data showed up.
I have always regularly moved my pics, vids and stuff we don't want to lose onto a PC too for safe keeping.
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Don't worry about the RAM usage - Android handles it for you - especially with Jelly Bean. Really, there is no need to even worry about it. There was a *bad* bug in ICS with OpenGL "out of memory" issues, but that bug has been resolved in JB and everything runs smoothly now.
It may even be all of the monitoring software you are using to check for "low RAM" that is causing your performance issues!
You actually *want* Jelly Bean to use all of the RAM - that's why it's there! It will cache all sorts of things and then free up some of the cache memory as it needs it for other things.
Just like the old saying goes - if it aint broke, don't fix it!
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but it is broke, apps still crash if you have less than 300mb free...
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