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Moving apps to ext. SD card

Hello all
this is my first android phone.
i managed to move some apps to sd card, but only to the internal.
How can i get them to the external sd card ? the ext. card is a mount point inside the internal one, thats what i found out.
Cheers
Lorien

At this stage it cant be done.

Oh, so is it a specific problem with the LG FW or is it the current Android OS ?
Lorien

Lorien25 said:
Oh, so is it a specific problem with the LG FW or is it the current Android OS ?
Lorien
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It's a limitation of the Android File System in general, not of froyo, gingerbread or ice cream sandwich. This is how the OS works.
What you can do is to go the the phone settings then programs then app manager and there click one by one the apps and choose to move to the SD card. You will notice that you will still have a portion of the app running from the phone memory. This is something that you have to live with for the time being but at least the half of the app should have been moved to the SD so at the end of the day you will gain some space.

Yes thats what i already did, worked great, but i do still have a almost empty ext. sd card. All the apps i moved are still on the internal sd card.

How about using apps2ext ? This is a modified version of the original (pre froyo) apps2sd that uses a "hidden" ext2, 3 or 4 partition on the SD card. I can only find it as part of custom roms. I'm sure it needs root to work too?
Anyone know if that would work?
Pete

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How about using apps2ext ? This is a modified version of the original (pre froyo) apps2sd that uses a "hidden" ext2, 3 or 4 partition on the SD card. I can only find it as part of custom roms. I'm sure it needs root to work too?
Anyone know if that would work?
Pete
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I think we might have success with that actually. I will give it a try and I will let you know.

Any progress in this matter ? My internal SD Card is already full ! Have to start removing apps to install others.
I think those Android OS limitations are pretty wierd, so the ext. card slot is just for photos,videos on an android phone then ?

I did try to use darktremor on this phone but it won't work on stock firmware. I think that we need to wait for CM7 before we are able to install the whole app on the external SD.

m33ts4k0z said:
I did try to use darktremor on this phone but it won't work on stock firmware. I think that we need to wait for CM7 before we are able to install the whole app on the external SD.
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The main problem is not the apps themselves. So Darktremor's A2SD would not help. The problem is, the extra files for large games are automatically downloaded to internal sd memory. Which is limited to 7GB. New games require more than 500 MB's each, so 7 Megs would be enough for many of us, but not enough for some of us.
It is certainly enough for me right now, but you cant see what future brings.

Hi guys,
I'm having this problem now.
Basically, my internal memory is being used by don't know what and I have left around 400mb.
The problem is that I cannot download more 3D games, they require around 500mb each!
I have tried to delete photos, videos and apps that I don't use but even like that it's not enough.
So now, I have a empty SD Card of 16GB and a phone/system that doesn't let me use that free space for "nothing".
BTW I did transfer the internal apps to the SD card, but very little changed.
Does anyone managed to find a solution for it? how can they sell android phones claiming that you can expand the memory of it if you are not able to use that memory for apps?
I already feel sorry for those that have the Evo 3D which apparently comes with 1GB internal memory.
And how can I move the 3D games to the SD card?

i think we have to wait until firmware update .. right now still behide 2.2.2 not even on 2.3 yet .. so i think we could move all app to ext card until 2.3 or higher.. i have try all the app out there .. not even one of them working .. you can move to internal memory but not ext sd card ..

you can also resolve this problem by switching internal and external memory. this works fine for the phone but messes up mass storage mode in windows! so you will find problems mounting your sd-card in windows - so you have to use alternatives for file transfer (ssh, ftp, adb) - means this is pretty much for advanced users only

my internal storage only 2 GB in MIUI

Hi guys ,, i installed MIUI in my infuse 4g
as u know the devise has 16 GB internal storage ,But when i go to app management i notice there is only about 1.8 GB total internal storage ,, where is the left 16 GB go !?!!
if there is a way to get back all real storage please tell me ..

Dr.Mo7d said:
Hi guys ,, i installed MIUI in my infuse 4g
as u know the devise has 16 GB internal storage ,But when i go to app management i notice there is only about 1.8 GB total internal storage ,, where is the left 16 GB go !?!!
if there is a way to get back all real storage please tell me ..
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Device has 16GB.
2GB dedicated to internal (phone)
14GB is recognized by the system as "SDCARD"
any micro SD card you insert is refer to as "external_SD"

Thanks ,, but how can i make the internal to be more than 2 GB ?? cuz it will be full after one week i will install more programs

Dr.Mo7d said:
Thanks ,, but how can i make the internal to be more than 2 GB ?? cuz it will be full after one week i will install more programs
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You cannot. The system is design that way.
New programs are usually installed on the SDCARD.
Some system programs are installed on the internal when it boots up.
If you go to /setting/application/manage and list all programs, you have a list of programs that all installed.
touching each program will show where they are stored. If you want to move them, you can move to internal(phone) or USB(SDcard/external).
Programs that are installed internal or phone will boot up first. The more you have, the longer boot time.
Some application manager from market will let you choose where the app is installed.

^^ thanks ,, now i got the idea

[Q] internal memory issue with my tab 2 p3100

Hello techies.... i have a serious problem with internal memory in tab 2 p3100. From the available internal memory of 11.77 gb i am hardly using 5 gb memory. But the device is showing 10.44 gb used. I have really no idea where the rest of the memory gone. I analyzied with ES file explorer, but not able to find wer the rest of the memory is used. Apps,music and other files are using only 40% of the memory out of 10.44 gb, rest 60% no idea wer gone..plz help me...i dnt want to reset my device...and i am not sure resetting ll solve the issue or not...thanks..manash..
P.S. its runs on Jelly Bean

manash_cmrit said:
Hello techies.... i have a serious problem with internal memory in tab 2 p3100. From the available internal memory of 11.77 gb i am hardly using 5 gb memory. But the device is showing 10.44 gb used. I have really no idea where the rest of the memory gone. I analyzied with ES file explorer, but not able to find wer the rest of the memory is used. Apps,music and other files are using only 40% of the memory out of 10.44 gb, rest 60% no idea wer gone..plz help me...i dnt want to reset my device...and i am not sure resetting ll solve the issue or not...thanks..manash..
P.S. its runs on Jelly Bean
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What does it show when you do settings/storage ? That one is accurate for me.

internal memory issue with my tab 2 p3100
DigitalMD said:
What does it show when you do settings/storage ? That one is accurate for me.
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Here are the complete details which shows about the memory :
In Task Manager it is showing : System Storage -> 10.24GB/11.87GB
From Settings > Storage :
Total Space : 11.77GB
Apps : 1.39GB
Pictures, videos : 213MB
Audio : 0.91 GB
Downloads : 20.01MB
Miss : 1.52 GB
Available : 1.52 GB
From settings > Application Manager :
Device memory : 10GB Used
1.7GB free

cache...
Not sure if you have already tried this... Use a good cache cleaner and check if something is taking up space in cache
Also are you using link2SD ? If yes let us know..
Connect the Tab to computer and check how much free space it shows in explorer...if it too shows 10GB used then definitely somewhere a big file is taking up space...
Last thing that comes to my mind is , install " SD Maid " and there is a option to list Top 50 Biggest size file...please check if that helps

any workaround?
manash_cmrit said:
Hello techies.... i have a serious problem with internal memory in tab 2 p3100. From the available internal memory of 11.77 gb i am hardly using 5 gb memory. But the device is showing 10.44 gb used. I have really no idea where the rest of the memory gone. I analyzied with ES file explorer, but not able to find wer the rest of the memory is used. Apps,music and other files are using only 40% of the memory out of 10.44 gb, rest 60% no idea wer gone..plz help me...i dnt want to reset my device...and i am not sure resetting ll solve the issue or not...thanks..manash..
P.S. its runs on Jelly Bean
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Hi Dude,
I am also facing the same problem.
Could you get the solution to this issue?
Would be great if you can share it.
thanks.
Abhishek.

I have a p3100 8gb but I can only use 4 so I checked and asked about it and I saw that there is 4gb for system but I am not sure at or condition
Sent from my GT-P3100 using xda app-developers app

You know guys, I already found the answer to this and posted it for all to find. I cannot take credit for this, another fellow got irritated that his kid could not install games anymore, so he figured it out. The answer is not all that bad and is easy, and quick.
Use ClockworkMod ROM Manager to boot into recovery. Use the menu to format your internal SDCard. Reboot. You will loose all of your apps and have to start over, but your Google account will recover and put back everything in fairly short order. Mine completely restored itself in about ½ an hour. Sweet!
Losing all storage on the internal card is a very, very frustrating thing and it drove me nuts for longer than it should have. My girl was SO upset that I would lose all of her game progress that I could not update for a while until I used Titanium Backup to backup all the stuff on the tablet. Titanium Backup restored all of her game data so that she would not have to play Jewels Star from the beginning again, she already cleared all 3 major hard board and gained a bonus board of 100 more levels. Lose that and man I would be dead meat. Titanium put it all back, thank God. Another bad thing is the apps would not even update anymore, no room. Oh, baby is here now, time for bed.
Please, click the Thanks button if this post helps you! Night night everyone.

One question - is formatting internal SD safe? Won't it delete system or something? I don't need to flash rom or anything else after that?

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One question - is formatting internal SD safe? Won't it delete system or something? I don't need to flash rom or anything else after that?
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'Internal SD' is a separate partition of the internal memory away from 'system' partition. So no worries that you will screw anything up by formatting internal SD.

[Q] HELP ME : "Storage almost full"

Hi guys,
My phone has root, SD card is 8Gb has great partition 1Gb for ext3, up rom Sense 5 EX Build#6-V1 of …. or JaggyRom_3.2.1 … that is ok
But few days ago when I up rom sense 5 v3: notification when phone stated is “Storage almost full”. I check Internal Storage: available space is less than 1Mb. I can’t action anything on my phone except call & message. Available space of SD storage is no problem
The first, I think the reason by rom, but when I up any other rom, the problem is the same. I don’t know what to do
Pls help me!
Sorry my bad english

You also need to install a memory script like mounts2sd or int2ext to make the phone move files from internal storage to the ext partition on sdcard. (Although newer ROMs come with built in support)
I assume you've already installed some such app, in which case you might have to configure it to move dalvik cache and data to external.
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asdofindia said:
You also need to install a memory script like mounts2sd or int2ext to make the phone move files from internal storage to the ext partition on sdcard. (Although newer ROMs come with built in support)
I assume you've already installed some such app, in which case you might have to configure it to move dalvik cache and data to external.
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Tks, i has try but it not work

tav2011 said:
Tks, i has try but it not work
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do this now..i think u hav ext partition...
u need to flash the rom again...but wipe evrything excpt sd card...n use memory scripts...

same problem
i m using flyrom v4.. i wanted data to b on internel memory so i moved cache to ext and have only 10 apps installed using mount2sd after restarting it shows in kbs

tav2011 said:
Hi guys,
My phone has root, SD card is 8Gb has great partition 1Gb for ext3, up rom Sense 5 EX Build#6-V1 of …. or JaggyRom_3.2.1 … that is ok
But few days ago when I up rom sense 5 v3: notification when phone stated is “Storage almost full”. I check Internal Storage: available space is less than 1Mb. I can’t action anything on my phone except call & message. Available space of SD storage is no problem
The first, I think the reason by rom, but when I up any other rom, the problem is the same. I don’t know what to do
Pls help me!
Sorry my bad english
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Restart your phone. Dont touch it for 15 mins. Let it load up and try again

[Q] memory problem

HI: I don't know if this has been asked before. What I need to know is the difference between Internal memory-1 and Internal memory-2. On my Freelander SXZ-PDXO-03 when I go to Settings/ Storage I get Internal Storage (which I will call INT Storage-1) all it says is Total Space=504 MB and APPS=409MB and available 62.69MB. Then it says Internal Storage (which I call INT Storage-2) it says Total Space=5.79GB Apps=479mb Pic./Vid.=108MB DwnLds=273MB Available=3.99GB. My Question is what is the difference between the 2 Int.Storage's and when I try to download an App it says out of mem space when I have 62.69MB in Int. Storage-1 and 3.99GB in Int Storage-2. How do I tell the dwnldr to downloader it to Int Storge-2 or my ExtSD card where I have 21.7FGB of Storage space left? I know this along Question but I am confused on the nomanclature of how Memory is Designated. Also another Question is my system is rooted and is there a way to tell the System to Recognize a 64GB,128Gb SD Card where it now only recognize a 32GB card. thanks for any help you can give me on my Questions Dan Mericle Sr (danvdman)

Difference is that your internal (phone) memory is partitioned to 2 parts. 1st part, with only a total of 504mb used to store apps while the 2nd part that acts like an external card with a total of 5.79gb used to store other files like music, pictures, etc. To resolve this, go to settings > storage and select memory card under preffered installation location to allow you to install apps directly to your SD card but be mindful that not all apps can be moved to SD. As for your 2nd question, that i am not aware so lets leave it to the experts.
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Difference is that your internal (phone) memory is partitioned to 2 parts. 1st part, with only a total of 504mb used to store apps while the 2nd part that acts like an external card with a total of 5.79gb used to store other files like music, pictures, etc. To resolve this, go to settings > storage and select memory card under preffered installation location to allow you to install apps directly to your SD card but be mindful that not all apps can be moved to SD. As for your 2nd question, that i am not aware so lets leave it to the experts.
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HI: Thanks that clears up a little bit of confusion:good: I tried your Fix but can't find how to select memory card under preffered. There is no sutch selection offered just the memory stats. Now how do I make more memory available to the apps Internel mem 1.79GB? like make 1.79GB available which would then make Internal memory-2 total=4GB that would take care of out of memory error on downloads. Dan Mericle Sr danvdman

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HI: Thanks that clears up a little bit of confusion:good: I tried your Fix but can't find how to select memory card under preffered. There is no sutch selection offered just the memory stats. Now how do I make more memory available to the apps Internel mem 1.79GB? like make 1.79GB available which would then make Internal memory-2 total=4GB that would take care of out of memory error on downloads. Dan Mericle Sr danvdman
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just reposting Dan Mericle Sr danvidman

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just reposting Dan Mericle Sr danvidman
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HI: I still haven't heard from any one about my Previous problem. Here are the things I tried. I have an old Sony Computer it has Win XP on it. I tried to put UBUNTU 13.10 Fat32 on it as the Sony only has 256 MB Ram and a Pentium III CPU. But it won't load it comes up with a pink screen then goes blank. I can see HDD active light blinking and a cursor blinking in the upper left corner of my monitar screen. I let run for 1-HR + one day and it did nothing. What am I doing wrong? Maybe the Version of UNBUTU is to new. Maybe I need an earlyer version? I was hoping that being that 4EXT is a LINUX file type that I could find a LINUX partition manager and change the 1st partition to Fat 32 do you think that would work?
Dan Mericle Sr
danvidman

Problem is solved
danvdman said:
HI: I still haven't heard from any one about my Previous problem. Here are the things I tried. I have an old Sony Computer it has Win XP on it. I tried to put UBUNTU 13.10 Fat32 on it as the Sony only has 256 MB Ram and a Pentium III CPU. But it won't load it comes up with a pink screen then goes blank. I can see HDD active light blinking and a cursor blinking in the upper left corner of my monitar screen. I let run for 1-HR + one day and it did nothing. What am I doing wrong? Maybe the Version of UNBUTU is to new. Maybe I need an earlyer version? I was hoping that being that 4EXT is a LINUX file type that I could find a LINUX partition manager and change the 1st partition to Fat 32 do you think that would work?
Dan Mericle Sr
danvidman
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HI: I solved the problem :good: I was reading TOM'S Hardware Forum late last night. But they were talking about SD Cards. One of the problems was there SD card was write protected and was wondering how a SD card got that way, and how to un protect it? The narrator said all SD cards and Adapters come with a switch on the right side and some times it gets pushed to the lock posistion.. A lot of people don't know about this switch. Sure enough I checked and my all of my Adapters had the switch in the locked posistion. So I unlocked one of the Adapters and tried Minitool Partition manger and it let me delete and repartition my 32GB CD card to FAT-32. So THANKS stipipoy for your answer it pointed me in the right direction
Dan Mericle Sr.
danvidman