Hi,
I just got a HTC One SV and I've installed all of my apps on my previous phone to this phone. But there's a problem... Its running out of memory. I just cant seem to find any way of moving them to the sd card. It just moves it to phone storage and i only have 4gb of memory. My sd card is 16gb so ive got plenty of space on it. Please help me find a way of moving it to the sd card.
Thanks soooo much!!!!
You can try this mod: Swap your internal and external memory (sd card)
old.splatterhand said:
You can try this mod: Swap your internal and external memory (sd card)
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Is there any way without a root?
I don't know.
baba1coolboy said:
Is there any way without a root?
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No, you need root. Unfortunately they made the rom in a way that keeps you from moving apps to the SD card.
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Isn't this made in Android since ICS?
old.splatterhand said:
Isn't this made in Android since ICS?
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No, there isn't an option to move to the actual sd card just between the internal storage and phone storage.
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Mikessv said:
No, there isn't an option to move to the actual sd card just between the internal storage and phone storage.
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I think you misunderstood me. This what you describe is since ICS, isn't it?
old.splatterhand said:
I think you misunderstood me. This what you describe is since ICS, isn't it?
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I might have, I'm not sure exactly what you meant ..I thought you were saying that it has been there since ics that you can't move programs to the SD card. They did bring that feature back in 4.2 though.
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Mikessv said:
I might have, I'm not sure exactly what you meant ..I thought you were saying that it has been there since ics that you can't move programs to the SD card. They did bring that feature back in 4.2 though.
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Ive contacted HTC about this and their saying that you can move apps to the sd card and are giving me lots of different things to try and do. I;ve just hard reset my phone and that hasnt made a difference.
baba1coolboy said:
Ive contacted HTC about this and their saying that you can move apps to the sd card and are giving me lots of different things to try and do. I;ve just hard reset my phone and that hasnt made a difference.
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There's no option to move apps to the actual SD card, just between the internal storage and phone storage ..they call the internal storage the SD card. I've talked to them on the phone too ..most of them don't know what they are talking about.
On a side note a lot of people have this problem with a lot of other phones.
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Mikessv said:
There's no option to move apps to the actual SD card, just between the internal storage and phone storage ..they call the internal storage the SD card. I've talked to them on the phone too ..most of them don't know what they are talking about.
On a side note a lot of people have this problem with a lot of other phones.
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HTC have only just emailed me admitting that you cant move apps to the sd card. I dont really want to root (partly because im not so great it that field) but i reckon im going to do it one day or another.
baba1coolboy said:
HTC have only just emailed me admitting that you cant move apps to the sd card. I dont really want to root (partly because im not so great it that field) but i reckon im going to do it one day or another.
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Yeah and even with root you will run out of space eventually
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OK, I am going from an 8gb sd card to a 16gb, but before I do I need to know if it will break root or if I just need to make the new one a goldcard as well or what in general. I searched for switching sd cards in the forum but it didn't give results so I'm asking here.
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the ONLY reason a goldcard is needed is for downgrading firmware. ROOT is WITHIN the OS and has NOTHING to do with the SDCard. you can freely swap sdcards at will
Cmrune said:
OK, I am going from an 8gb sd card to a 16gb, but before I do I need to know if it will break root or if I just need to make the new one a goldcard as well or what in general. I searched for switching sd cards in the forum but it didn't give results so I'm asking here.
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If you change your SD card nothing will happen except that you will loose your apps and photos in there. Root access has nothing to do with your SD card. Make a copy of the files and folders you want to preserve in your pc and then copy then back in your new SD card....
glevitan said:
...Make a copy of the files and folders you want to preserve in your pc and then copy then back in your new SD card....
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Ok, so a follow-up to that, and this may be a noob question but... Is there anything on the SD card that I have to have? I usually move ROM backups off the card to a computer, but lots if apps seem to make a folder in my SD card. As a rule, am I better off keeping apps in the phone memory if available? My SD cd card seems to be full of cr*p that i don't think I need but am afraid to delete.
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geologistguy said:
Ok, so a follow-up to that, and this may be a noob question but... Is there anything on the SD card that I have to have? I usually move ROM backups off the card to a computer, but lots if apps seem to make a folder in my SD card. As a rule, am I better off keeping apps in the phone memory if available? My SD cd card seems to be full of cr*p that i don't think I need but am afraid to delete.
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Nahh dont copy anything...just the backup and the titanium backup folder...that will do. With those folders you can restore all your missing apps with data...and have a backup of your rom just in case!! Is good to tidy up from time to time!
glevitan said:
Nahh dont copy anything...just the backup and the titanium backup folder...that will do. With those folders you can restore all your missing apps with data...and have a backup of your rom just in case!! Is good to tidy up from time to time!
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Got it, thanks. What about apps, are they better off on the phone or should I move them all (widgets excluded) to the SD card?
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geologistguy said:
Got it, thanks. What about apps, are they better off on the phone or should I move them all (widgets excluded) to the SD card?
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Back them up with the titaniun backup and the copy that folder into your new SD Card. Restore the missing apps and that's it. You need no more...
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geologistguy said:
Got it, thanks. What about apps, are they better off on the phone or should I move them all (widgets excluded) to the SD card?
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In my experience apps don't do so well from the sd card. Leave them in the phone.
Gizmoe said:
In my experience apps don't do so well from the sd card. Leave them in the phone.
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Thank you all. I moved all of my apps back to the phone. I had already culled many that I didn't use when I rooted and flashed a ROM last week. I made new backups and pulled them off the sd card for safe keeping and then erased the SD card. I put music and ringtones back and now I have lots of space and everything still works. Guess all of those other files were just clutter. Thanks again.
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In my experience apps don't do so well from the sd card. Leave them in the phone.
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I rarely have problems with apps on the SD. Maybe one or two out of 100.
I have a 16gb s3 and 16gb SD card I wanted to either move my music or apps but I can't figure out how my phone recognizes the SD but for some reason its seems unusable. Is there some setting I'm missing or is my SD card corrupt?
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not sure i understand your question exactly... but i can say that certain programs are not able to utilize the sd card in our phones. this was new for me coming from a motorola. the way samsung refers to the internal "sd card" vs your added external sd card is different so a number of programs will look at the internal memory as the SD Card instead of your actual SD Card.
that said, you can bypass this with a program the binds the directory on the internal storage that the program is looking for to a directory on your SD Card.
search my posts... i posted the link to the program (not mine) in another thread. it's working great for me with MOG. before, all my music had to be on the internal storage for mog to read it. now, with the directory bind program i have all my music on my external sd card and mog reads the files just fine.
hope that helps!
Well I downloaded app2sd and it says this device does not have a primary external storage. It does not even recognize my sd
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apps2sd does not work on this device...
fenixnr said:
apps2sd does not work on this device...
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that's good to know is there anything like it that works?
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Mark930 said:
that's good to know is there anything like it that works?
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No, since the OS won't allow apps2sd because it uses MTP
Mark930 said:
I have a 16gb s3 and 16gb SD card I wanted to either move my music or apps but I can't figure out how my phone recognizes the SD but for some reason its seems unusable. Is there some setting I'm missing or is my SD card corrupt?
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Read this below.... The device uses MTP so it will not see your external SD card in the slot by ICS design...what you want it the UMS the USB mass storage where the device used the SD card to save data...but the Samsung now has 16GB internal storage so it presents a problem...
This app was written to resolve that issue... Also there is a link to explain this deeper than what I am doing....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1785243
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parcou said:
Read this below.... The device uses MTP so it will not see your external SD card in the slot by ICS design...what you want it the UMS the USB mass storage where the device used the SD card to save data...but the Samsung now has 16GB internal storage so it presents a problem...
This app was written to resolve that issue... Also there is a link to explain this deeper than what I am doing....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1785243
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Is there anyway to do this without rooting really don't feel like rooting right now
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Well I figured out how to get files from my Mac to my sd card using android file transfer. I transferred some videos and the stock video play found them right off. The only problem is that I can find the folder that there in using file manager. Its like a ghost SD card I can't find it anywhere but at least I can transfer and delete them now I just need my computer to do it.
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I am new to Android os and this forum as well so I would be really glad if anyone of you would be kind enough to help.
My Galaxy Grand has 8gb memory of which only 4gb is available to the user and I am left with just 800mb space left, I would like to know if anyone of you can let me know a way to transfer my apps to sd card, also I have hears that one can convert sd card to internal memory after rooting, is that possible, if yes then plese let me know how, also is it possible to transfer apps to sd card without rooting if so plsase let me know how, I would be eagerly looking for a reply.
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I'm not really familiar with that device but on most you can grab App2Sd from Google Play and it's self explanatory from there, but some devices (like mine) don't et you move apps to the SD Card, but you can move everything else there
And I'm no moderator, but I'm not so sure this isn't the right section for your question, I think it belongs in Q and A
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Since my cell runs on Android 4.1.2 Jelly Beans hence App to sd is not working on it, is there any other option to do so.
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COLDPLAY100 said:
Since my cell runs on Android 4.1.2 Jelly Beans hence App to sd is not working on it, is there any other option to do so.
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After rooting you can use Directory Bind to link your internal/external storage, but that's not truly moving them to the SD Card, but I think it's the closest you can get. I don't bother with it, I just move all my big files to my SD Card so I have space for my APK's on my internal storage
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COLDPLAY100 said:
I am new to Android os and this forum as well so I would be really glad if anyone of you would be kind enough to help.
My Galaxy Grand has 8gb memory of which only 4gb is available to the user and I am left with just 800mb space left, I would like to know if anyone of you can let me know a way to transfer my apps to sd card, also I have hears that one can convert sd card to internal memory after rooting, is that possible, if yes then plese let me know how, also is it possible to transfer apps to sd card without rooting if so plsase let me know how, I would be eagerly looking for a reply.
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without rooting u cant have memory swap..root ur grand and install init.d support. and reboot then install this http://d-h.st/AGR and gain reboot. this will convert external memory to internal and internal to external automatically.
use http://galaxygrandcenter.blogspot.in/2013/03/warning-it-will-void-your-warranty-and.html to root.
and this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=39510406&postcount=1 to add init.d
k2wl said:
without rooting u cant have memory swap..root ur grand and install init.d support. and reboot then install this http://d-h.st/AGR and gain reboot. this will convert external memory to internal and internal to external automatically.
use http://galaxygrandcenter.blogspot.in/2013/03/warning-it-will-void-your-warranty-and.html to root.
and this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=39510406&postcount=1 to add init.d
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Thank you sir for the help, I have succesfully rooted my phone throught that guide,though there was a little trouble geeting the Clock Work Mode Recovery but finally got it.
Sir can you tell me the actual usage of CWM, can i get backup of my present status through this mode or do i need to use some app like Titanium Backup pro for that purpose and what info would actually be backed up, like would it store info of the present firmware and is the backup point created in the internal memory or the sd card.
Also sir can you please tell me that if I swap my 32gb ext sd card with 4gb internal memory then when I want to get my phone back to normal mode then how am I gonna do so, I mean the sd card would have let's say some 25gb apps and I want to put the phone back to normal, I mean unswap it then how would it be possible as my internal memory would be only 4 gb, will I have to delete apps or use some recovery option, please make that clear, thank you sir for all your help.
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I came across this today and thought I'd share it. Let me know what you think guys.......
Ooops! Check out thedroidguy(dot)com. I can't post links yet!
The app is called AppMgr Pro III and the article was written yesterday!
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No.
Does not work.
The old name is app2sd.
It is nothing more than a more convenient interface for the normal move to SD feature on android.
For Samsung devices, it will only move to internal SD.
You will need root access to deal with such things properly to the external SD.
Search for link2sd or FolderMount instead, or flash some mod that switches the internal and external SD.
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Is there any application that can move apps to sd card without root permision?
These three above can't do this...
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pileto said:
Is there any application that can move apps to sd card without root permision?
These three above can't do this...
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With the S3 there was a mod, that the micro sd became the "internal" memory and vice versa. Perhaps we will see this for the S4 as well
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I couldn't as I'm just in the learning process, came across it hoping others would (First android device!)
Markuzy said:
No.
Does not work.
The old name is app2sd.
It is nothing more than a more convenient interface for the normal move to SD feature on android.
For Samsung devices, it will only move to internal SD.
You will need root access to deal with such things properly to the external SD.
Search for link2sd or FolderMount instead, or flash some mod that switches the internal and external SD.
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OK! I just rooted my Galaxy S4 yesterday so I'm hoping that will broaden my chances of finding something that works!
Solution found!
AlvTellez said:
I hate that Samsung does this crap forcing you to buy the more expensive phone because you can't install apps on the SD card, it's ridiculous to sell several storage options when you can expand with your SD card anyway, it's also ridiculous that you have 9GB available from 16GB.
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There is a working solution which will also update the apps directly on the SD card. Since I can't post links yet the app is called 'FolderMount' search for a thread called '[How to] Moving Apps to SD Card' by Eambo.
So I was on a 4.4 Rom slimkat for the longest time then I switched to a TouchWiz Rom alliance Rom then back to a 4.4 Rom slimkat which in on now, my problem now is that I can't seem to save data to my sd card now like I was able to before.I have read something about this but not sure how to make it to where I can download and save stuff to my sd card instead of my internal storage.any thoughts?
Something about moving/deleting all the files off of the emulated folder?
Anyone?
Droid316 said:
So I was on a 4.4 Rom slimkat for the longest time then I switched to a TouchWiz Rom alliance Rom then back to a 4.4 Rom slimkat which in on now, my problem now is that I can't seem to save data to my sd card now like I was able to before.I have read something about this but not sure how to make it to where I can download and save stuff to my sd card instead of my internal storage.any thoughts?
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KitKat doesn't have write access to the micro SD card, so you have to save to phone memory then cut/copy/paste it to micro SD.
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Oh thanks
Doesn't that mess up the md5 on some files
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Doesn't that mess up the md5 on some files
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Lol no, if this were the case, how would devs ever upload a file for us to download and provide an md5 without it changing? The md5 changes once you modify the zip itself. Cut/copy/paste just moves the file.
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Anyone?
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SlimSnoopOS said:
KitKat doesn't have write access to the micro SD card, so you have to save to phone memory then cut/copy/paste it to micro SD.
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In some cases I ran into issues doing that as well, cutting and pasting resulted in corrupted data.
The workaround is giving the file manager app root permissions, since with root there's some kind of workaround.
I use ES File Manager, had issues before I gave it root, but after I gave it root copying/moving hasn't had issues.
Well hell I probably have to format my sd card I can't even delete stuff off it, keeps saying delete failed
Droid316 said:
Well hell I probably have to format my sd card I can't even delete stuff off it, keeps saying delete failed
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That's pretty weird. What file browsing app are you using?
Droid316 said:
Well hell I probably have to format my sd card I can't even delete stuff off it, keeps saying delete failed
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Get a new SD card, it might be corrupted, might be easier than trying to fix it. Plus SD cards are super cheap as it is
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Yep had a new 16GB laying around the old one was corrupted
Had this happen to two 64GB cards so far. Could read them but couldn't write. Seems to be a GS3 issue with ruining sdcards
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bass0324 said:
Had this happen to two 64GB cards so far. Could read them but couldn't write. Seems to be a GS3 issue with ruining sdcards
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I've had 3 separate SD cards and haven't had any issues. While it may be a known issue I haven't seen any problems myself
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I have been lucky with it until recently lasted me two years the 64GB card did.
Droid316 said:
I have been lucky with it until recently lasted me two years the 64GB card did.
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Out of curiosity which brand is it?
From my CM11 S3
ShapesBlue said:
Out of curiosity which brand is it?
From my CM11 S3
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SanDisk
Droid316 said:
SanDisk
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Oh ok, same as mine is. No problems with mine, :::knock on wood:::
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Ya it did me good
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I ran into this problem when I finally updated my phone to KitKat and a little searching around these forums resulted in the discovery of exactly what causes the problem and what fixes it. It was already mentioned that KitKat doesn't support writing directly to external SD card from apps. There are a few lines of a config file that can be changed to fix this. There is also a free app available in the Play store that does it for you, but it requires root. It's called SD Fix: KitKat and I would have included a link but I haven't posted enough times yet to post outside links.