I am the kind of person who likes to get into an operating system to see what it can really do and have recently rooted my P5110 - I went for the tablet first because I didnt want to "learn" on my more vital device, my S3. After few false starts I got it rooted. However coming across so many things I don't understand, and therefore don't want to touch yet, that I want to find an easy way to learn more about the OS and how it can be tweaked. I realise there is a lot of information here, but mostly you have to know what you are looking for and so a few videos or step by step guides about how and what you can do would be really useful I feel. I also find that that the rooting world seems to have more than a few myths about it- for example one thing I wanted to get around is the crazy and annoying restriction of no longer being able to install apps on, and move apps to, an external SD card. I am finding that although people are saying you can only do this if you are rooted, now that I am rooted I still cant, despite having downloaed apps that claim to do it. They will move to SD but not to extSD which is pretty pointless on the tab because from what I can see apps already go to the internal SD storage. Some people tell me its a Google thing and some say its Samsung.
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I have a Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 Gt-8013, 16gb white. So I've had my note since the end of September and have not really used it much till recently. Downloading large games/apps and coming to realize that I can't move ANYTHING to the SD card what a shame. Now before people just comment and say why didn't you buy a 32gb I thought that I could move the apps to the SD card and managing storage wouldn't be a problem. How wrong was I. So my first thread and I'm asking what have you guys done to solve this annoying problem no matter how easy or hard the method was.Yes, I've searched the threads and I've read a lot of options but I just feel like none of them are Noob friendly.
TIL : What was the easiest method for you to move apps to your SD card?
krazyazz611 said:
I have a Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 Gt-8013, 16gb white. So I've had my note since the end of September and have not really used it much till recently. Downloading large games/apps and coming to realize that I can't move ANYTHING to the SD card what a shame. Now before people just comment and say why didn't you buy a 32gb I thought that I could move the apps to the SD card and managing storage wouldn't be a problem. How wrong was I. So my first thread and I'm asking what have you guys done to solve this annoying problem no matter how easy or hard the method was.Yes, I've searched the threads and I've read a lot of options but I just feel like none of them are Noob friendly.
TIL : What was the easiest method for you to move apps to your SD card?
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Check my thread (one on my signature). Haven't been able to get it working for every android device yet, but it works great for anything with data/media, which includes the note 10.1 Essentially my script makes all apps (and apps only) get installed straight in the external SD. One warning: the process is more advanced than just flashing something in recovery, though not too advanced that You won't be able to do if you follow instructions.
Personally I use directory bind, this requires root. Directory bind will allow you to specify exactly which folders you want to redirect to sd. I currently redirect all my game data to sd, leave plenty of room on internal storage.
The other bonus, since my game data is on sd if I have to wipe I won't have to download all those gigs of data again.
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I dont know why more developers dont give you the option to store large data on the external card. Bards Tale came out and initially stored all data internal (3-4Gb), couple of updates later and it gives you the option to store externally so more developers need to cotton on to this and sort their apps out !
i use zedomax's apps2sd script to swap storage
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Check my thread (one on my signature). Haven't been able to get it working for every android device yet, but it works great for anything with data/media, which includes the note 10.1 Essentially my script makes all apps (and apps only) get installed straight in the external SD. One warning: the process is more advanced than just flashing something in recovery, though not too advanced that You won't be able to do if you follow instructions.
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Will do so, I take it that i have to be rooted for me to apply your script. (sorry for the noob question)
Also, like to thank everyone for help/answers. I wouldn't be able to do half the stuff with out this community. :good:
The one gotten is Galaxy Ace S5830L. I've even already read, learned and installed CM7.2 on it.
However I noticed something. It seems that whenever I install application updates for my installed applications the ram is consumed, until the point that all ram is used and doesn't allow me to download more updates, nor install more applications. Moving some applications to SD just leads to the same result: the ram is eventually saturated again.
I'd have posted this on the corresponding model sub-forum, but it seems to happen to some other smartphones in general, even without root nor CM, nor any other modifications, as a friend showed me. What he did was uninstalling all apps, leave those really useful and avoiding updates at all, but I don't think that as a solution.
What can I do regarding this?
On a second small question, I recently saw Clean File Manager, which allows to also browse phone's internal memory, for the case I installed a game and wanted to backup the savegames. But if I wanted to write on the internal memory, would this app allow me, or would I need to root?
Thanks beforehand.
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I should probably root, but I'm not the most tech savvy and void warranties and bricking actually scare me.
But, my Shield Tablet is only 16 gig and I'd like to store the large many games I have locally so I'm looking for any and all information I can find about storing as much data as possible on SD. I'm on lollipop, so I know the feature was added back in, but my knowledge stops there.
Since I don't know what I don't know, any information on how to free up internal space and move game or game data to my SD would be super helpful.
Thanks!
Go into settings, apps, then click on an app, and "move to SD card"
As he said you can go to settings, and move to SD card. But that only works on select games, and doesn't always move all the data. If you would really like to move large library files for games on your SD card, you do need to root, it's the only way
It's pretty damn difficult to brick this tablet (I think that even if you were to break fastboot, nvflash would still be able to fix it), and afaik nvidia doesn't void warranties for rooting.
This is the exact same question I wanted to ask, I'm about to buy one of these tablets, but in the past, ive used other android devices and the only things you can put on the SD card is music and videos. This is one thing thats stopping me going for this tab or any other Android tab, how does rooting change this then, sorry for my ignorance?
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This is the exact same question I wanted to ask, I'm about to buy one of these tablets, but in the past, ive used other android devices and the only things you can put on the SD card is music and videos. This is one thing thats stopping me going for this tab or any other Android tab, how does rooting change this then, sorry for my ignorance?
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Rooting allows you to put files on the External SD card, and trick android into thinking there on the internal SD card.
That's pretty much it. Simple, but useful for large games and other things, like I believe the VUDU movie app allows you to download movies, but only to the internal SD card.
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This is the exact same question I wanted to ask, I'm about to buy one of these tablets, but in the past, ive used other android devices and the only things you can put on the SD card is music and videos. This is one thing thats stopping me going for this tab or any other Android tab, how does rooting change this then, sorry for my ignorance?
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I see in your sig at *least* three devices that support moving Apps to SD card, using the exact process I described in my post above.
So I've looked around the forums, waiting for several months and finally! Finally! Have the Lollipop arrived to my Sony Xperia Z3 Dual, model D6633 with Build Number 23.1.1.E.0.1.
However! I am literally pissed. The only reason I waited was because it was going to add a move to SD card feature. Moved over 13 apps or so. Only to realize nothing was actually moved to my External SD card but to my "Internal" SD card and am now literally facing the problem I've been longing to get resolved for several months. No more space, want to move apps to my SD card. I've had it and want to root my Z3 so I can move some apps to my External SD card. I've heard tons of different opinions and read this and that about the consequences about rooting your Android. I've so far only jailbroken iPhones and that's about it. Never rooted an Android phone.
This time around, I want to give it a shot. What exactly do I need? I just want to simply be able to keep all features intact, nothing special just be able to move apps to my SD card. Is there anyone willing to help me? What do I need and etc.
Regards,
there are plenty of tutorials on here for this sort of question, use the search feature
Searching can be a bother with all the off topic nonsense included and search can often result with more people commenting with "use search", an infinite loop on some device forums.
OP: I'm not sure if lollipop fully supports it but I had this issue in the past and found the best app was Link2sd, as it provided a proper way to store the app data on the external sd card. It's a little complicated and requires root privilege and it also has many other features.
I'm also shocked by sonys failure to provide a proper solution. Have a look, you might be able to make use of it: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.buak.Link2SD
Hello, I'm new to the forum and I would like to start by thanking anyone that will take the time to read this.
So I've had an xperia E3 d2203 with Android 4.4.4 (factory default) for nearly 2 years now, and I'm quite happy with it, except that given the numerous updates that have been stacking on top af each other, the internal memory is now full and i can't seem to find a way to make it better.
I have no pictures, audio or videos on the internal memory, installed a small numbers of apps on the SD card, and disabled all pre-installed apps I don't use and uninstalled their respective updates.
However, I keep getting a notification the the internal memory is more than 85% full, and I can't figure out a way to free any more memory.
So, is there anything else I could try? I really don't want to give in to planned obsolescence and buy a new phone I can't afford.
I have taken a look in installing a new Android ROM. If this is necessary, which ROM should I install? It seems to me AOSP would be the lightest, since every other ROMs are built off this with more stuff added, but I might be wrong.
Thanks for your input !
Gaazoh said:
Hello, I'm new to the forum and I would like to start by thanking anyone that will take the time to read this.
So I've had an xperia E3 d2203 with Android 4.4.4 (factory default) for nearly 2 years now, and I'm quite happy with it, except that given the numerous updates that have been stacking on top af each other, the internal memory is now full and i can't seem to find a way to make it better.
I have no pictures, audio or videos on the internal memory, installed a small numbers of apps on the SD card, and disabled all pre-installed apps I don't use and uninstalled their respective updates.
However, I keep getting a notification the the internal memory is more than 85% full, and I can't figure out a way to free any more memory.
So, is there anything else I could try? I really don't want to give in to planned obsolescence and buy a new phone I can't afford.
I have taken a look in installing a new Android ROM. If this is necessary, which ROM should I install? It seems to me AOSP would be the lightest, since every other ROMs are built off this with more stuff added, but I might be wrong.
Thanks for your input !
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More info about u bootloader will be necessary, try firs to get root .