Hi,
First I hope that this is the correct forum for my request.
I have a RAZR i phone. And I cannot make that the apps in google play (like SDrescan, Media Scanner, etc.) scan my SD Card.
The problem I detected is that all the apps scan "mnt/sdcard", and in my phone that is de internal memory. The SD card is in "mnt/external1".
So my question/request is, there is an app that scans "mnt/sdcard" and "mnt/external1"? or, there ir a wat to make the current apps to algo scans "mnt/external1"?
I dont have any knowledge in programing, so I ask if someone can do that modification or new app.
Many thanks in advance.
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Hello I just want to move or copy and paste my applications on to the SD Card on my android device because my phone memory is full. The apps like Astro or Linda or AppMonster don't..I repeat don't do the job I want. If I do the backup and then I go back and check in to manage application and uninstall couple of programs when I back to one of these application like Astro and I check into the Sd card the applications I uninstalled from the phone memory have disappeared also from the SD Card...So! These applications are useless. Until Google don't sort it out this mess it is impossible to have more memory on your device. Can you image Windows Mobile can do this since 2000 and the Iphone at list have big internal Storage...Android in this particular issue sucks!! Don't get me wrong I love my Hero but to me is completely ridicolous that I install 3 games and 50 application and the memory is gone... So what is the object to have a big market if you cannot install what you want? We need to create a group in Facebook an press google to solve the problem.
Have you explored using Apps2SD to install the applications on storage card instead? I don't have experience on this, but understand that some users are able to overcome the memory problem with this approach.
Is it because you do not want to root the phone? What's the concern you have about rooting? Is it because there is noway to relock the bootloader hence there will be warranty issue? Any other reason why you would object to rooting?
I've poked around but I dont think I found what I am trying to do. I want to mount my SD card like it mounts my phone; install the apps to the device, store the data on the sd card... any way to do this?
You can' do it, honeycomb doesn't support installation on external sd cards for now. Vanilla honeycomb can't even write on external sdcards, for exemple on the motorola xoom. You can read/write on some tablets thanks to the respective manufacturer's 'tweak'.
I dont want to store the apps on the SD card, just the data, downloads, photos taken from the camera, ect. all I see is a Removable\MicroSD folder which I can browse to, read/write to, but I want all the data on my apps to go to it too just like on my phone, so when I wipe, all my stuff is still there (In theory)
They won't be deleted even if they are on the internal storage even after wiping. It acts as a sdcard.
I might be mistaken, but thanks to the honeycomb 3.2 OS update, it IS possible now that they've opened up the API to the developers.
Unfortunately, it actually depends on the application developers to make use of it... Leave some comments on the android market for your apps and maybe they will do it.
i'm probably mistaken. post from a random website regarding new features in 3.2:
Media sync from SD cards, allowing users to load media directly from an SD card to applications which use them
I did not realize that the folder was persistent, that's good to know thanks
Hello, I have this question.
I noticed that, with the Titanium Backup free version, I can move almost
every app to SD card, even the apps that Android doesn't allow, for example
Whatsapp.
With some of them, for example Twitter App, I have an additional problem.
When I move the app to SD and I reboot the phone, I notice 2 things:
a) the app's icon is not present anymore in the home screen.
b) I have to login again with e-mail and password, it doesn't store the login.
When the Twitter app is left in internal memory, such problems don't exist.
Is there some way to leave the app in SD card and to solve these problems?
Thanks for advices.
vaiadubai said:
Hello, I have this question.
I noticed that, with the Titanium Backup free version, I can move almost
every app to SD card, even the apps that Android doesn't allow, for example
Whatsapp.
With some of them, for example Twitter App, I have an additional problem.
When I move the app to SD and I reboot the phone, I notice 2 things:
a) the app's icon is not present anymore in the home screen.
b) I have to login again with e-mail and password, it doesn't store the login.
When the Twitter app is left in internal memory, such problems don't exist.
Is there some way to leave the app in SD card and to solve these problems?
Thanks for advices.
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.seasmind.android.gmappmgr use this app it helped me it is the best way to foce move any app to SD card except moving itself :good:
is i helped u press thanks plzzz
Hi my friend, thanks for the answer!
I tried installing your app, but the behaviour is the same,
I think the cause is Android itself or those difficult apps.
Don't mind, I will try in other manner.
Is it possible to move apps and app data to the actual external sd card on my tablet not the internal sd card. I am rooted btw
Hi!
I won't link to any one particular app, as I've not used them myself...so I don't want to recommend any one app.
But, go to the play store, search on "app2sd". Theres many apps that will do that for you.
Good luck! ?
I saw a question here in XDA where a person was asking how his torrent app could save downloads to the external SD card without root, in KitKat. This can actually be done, with many apps.
Surprisingly, there were no answers, except to tell him to root. That is not always the case! I've been saving and writing data to my external SD card since I got my KitKat device and, I am not rooted. I didn't know this was not a well known technique, or I would have posted this information a long time ago. I just did an internet search (to see if it was well known or not) and it came up empty! But, if this method is common knowledge and I just missed it (wrong search criteria, for example), I apologize!
With KitKat, you do not have to be rooted for many apps to be able to write to an external SD card, if you follow Google's guidelines!
Let me explain via an example:
One main requirement is that the app in question can actually see and use the external SD card - some cannot. Also, please be aware, depending upon your device manufacturer, the path examples given in this explanation may vary.
For the example, I am going to use a made-up app called MyTorrent. Let's say MyTorrent has a home-directory of '/storage/emulated/0/Android/data/com.company.mytorrent/files' where it stores its downloads, but you want it to save the downloads to the external SD card instead of internal memory. With many apps, this is easily and completely doable!
To have MyTorrent use the external SD card to save its downloads, you need to first make sure a home-directory was created for MyTorrent on the external SD card. There should be an Android directory on the external SD card, just like there is in internal memory. An app's external home-directory path will look a lot like its internal home-directory path, something like: '/storage/extSdCard/Android/data/com.company.mytorrent/files'. If the app you are setting up does not have a home-directory on the external SD card, just create one manually (use the internal home-directory path as a template).
Finally, just point MyTorrent's download location to its external SD card home-directory! As long as you can select the external home-directory path as the app's download destination, it should work. If this technique doe not work, it is usually because of how the app is written or, you got the external SD card home-directory wrong. Google set KitKat up so that any app has write permission to its own external SD card home-directory.
This is not a perfect answer and does not open up the external SD card for KitKat's use carte blanche, but it will help free up a lot of wasted, limited internal memory.
This method also works for file managers. Unfortunately, only their external home-directory will be available to them, but it is a good place for manual copy-type backups and zips.
Gonna check it out with my torrent. I saw this thing in Snap Camera app, when I wanted to save videos in SD card, but it saved in its directory, not anywhere else.(but I didn't understood that it can only save in its dir)
DarkLTU said:
Gonna check it out with my torrent. I saw this thing in Snap Camera app, when I wanted to save videos in SD card, but it saved in its directory, not anywhere else.(but I didn't understood that it can only save in its dir)
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I use Flud, and it works fine for me. But, like you reiterated, it must use its own home directory.
BTW, it works (in most cases) the same way with Lollipop, too.