Hi,
I'm running an Alcatel One Touch Mini with Jellybean. I have over 1gb of internal storage space not in use and have the option checked for apps to save to the internal storage, however, apps such as whatsapp still seem to save data on my SD card.
Why is this, and how do I rectify it? I prefer the space on my SD card to be saved for music.
Thanks
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I just got my tab 7 plus. All is fine except for the ability to move applications to SD card. App2sd for example does not recognize the SD! Any solution?
nedal364 said:
I just got my tab 7 plus. All is fine except for the ability to move applications to SD card. App2sd for example does not recognize the SD! Any solution?
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i'm just curious. why would you want to move app to sd? there's already 16/32gb available on the internal storage.
Firstly curious. Secondly to reserve ram for system.
nedal364 said:
Firstly curious. Secondly to reserve ram for system.
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moving apps to sd doesn't affect RAM usage.
Thanks. But is their a method to move applications to SD?
nedal364 said:
Thanks. But is their a method to move applications to SD?
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I don't think there has ever been a safe way to move apps to external SD.
On HC devices, /data and the internal /sdcard are actually just directories on the same partition - so moving from one to another does nothing.
So whats the point
Id like to know how to move apps to sd as well. If not for extra storage room, and ability to move apps to the sd, whats the point of having a micro sd port in the first place? I like moving apps to free up space on the internal drive, it fills up way too quickly.
For media storage, of course. the internal storage is insufficient for people, including me, who love to save tons of media files in their tablet.
I tried to do the same thing today on the P6210 and had little luck. I think it's habit for me to move apps to the sdcard because of my experience with phones, like my Pre, and then my Epic, which bogged down if I didn't move apps to the card.
My Epic has 485MB of internal storage. That's a lot less than 16GB! K.... I won't worry about moving apps as long as the media and files are on the SD card.
I have HTC sensation 4G. I bought a 16 GB SD micro card and also have an 8GB card. Both my cards are full with videos which I need to access often for my exam purposes. But each time I change the cards, the applications don’t run properly and I have to re install the apps. Also I doubt that frequently changing the SD card would age my phone quicker. Does anyone here have any experience with this? What is the best way to keep swapping sd cards frequently without any hassles?
Are your apps located on the SD Card when you go into Settings > Applications > Apps on SD Card?
If so, move them to internal memory.
switching sd cards very often
Like everyone knows HTC Sensation has a very low internal memory which will not be enough to move all apps to internal memory. Moreover I swap sd cards at least twice a day and I don't want to move apps each time. So is there any way I can just swap SD cads without moving apps to internal memory.
switching sd cards very often
k0zmic said:
Are your apps located on the SD Card when you go into Settings > Applications > Apps on SD Card?
If so, move them to internal memory.
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Like everyone knows HTC Sensation has a very low internal memory which will not be enough to move all apps to internal memory. Moreover I swap sd cards at least twice a day and I don't want to move apps each time. So is there any way I can just swap SD cads without moving apps to internal memory.
Gulfcoastowl said:
Like everyone knows HTC Sensation has a very low internal memory which will not be enough to move all apps to internal memory. Moreover I swap sd cards at least twice a day and I don't want to move apps each time. So is there any way I can just swap SD cads without moving apps to internal memory.
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You must have big apps or a lot of apps! I have around 78 and around 50% remaining. 1GB isn't a lot but it's not 'very low' either IMO.
Gulfcoastowl said:
Like everyone knows HTC Sensation has a very low internal memory which will not be enough to move all apps to internal memory. Moreover I swap sd cards at least twice a day and I don't want to move apps each time. So is there any way I can just swap SD cads without moving apps to internal memory.
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Well without magic, no. You have two options. Apps go to the internal memory, or the SD card. If you can't put them on internal and you take out the SD, then they won't be there.
Possible Solution 1: Remove some apps? I use like 12 third party apps total.
Possible Solution 2: Download a converter such as Mobile Media Converter or SUPER and re-encode the videos at a lower quality - allowing for less storage to be used.
Possible Solution 3: Deal with it.
Move the app data to both of your SD cards.
Get a 32GB card? lol
I used to use an 8GB card, then I bought a 16GB one. I just copy all the data from the old card to the new one, insert it in my phone and all the apps works.
I have lots of games (most of them 3D) so I have to download a lot of Data.I tried to move the apps to the sd, thinking it might free up some memory in my internal memory of only 16GB ( I have 32GB external SD card). I quickly found that they apps are not installed in my external sd card!? They are all in my internal sd card (which I thought as my phone memory). I realized that samsung phones have an sd card inside as their memory, so the system can only move from phone to internal sd card.
I am trying to figure out how to move an app to external sd card.
Anyone has any clue??
I had the same problem, never found a solution...
BUT, just move all your music, videos, and other files to your external sd card and the 16gb internal sd card should be more then enough to have all your 3d games on... thast what i do.
Don't forget, there's still 2gb of nand memory in there that holds all the pre-installed apps plus any that you don't move to sd. Personally I keep all my games and 3d apps on the phone memory (tip here, nand is faster than flash) and all the less critical apps on the sd.
Ok after a lot of research I found out that you can't do it without ROOTING!!
After rooting there are lot of apps which can move your apps to external sd.
I am not going to root so I guess I am stuck ...
Thanks Android for such options
Bikram said:
Ok after a lot of research I found out that you can't do it without ROOTING!!
After rooting there are lot of apps which can move your apps to external sd.
I am not going to root so I guess I am stuck ...
Thanks Android for such options
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Whining like that makes me say get an iPhone sheep
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So here I am again with another problem... That I couldn't find any solution for it.
My moto g has 8gb ROM and a sdcard of 128gb formated as internal storage.
Great, almost all apps are installed on internal memory and so is the cached data, for example downloaded musics from Spotify or Google play music, well I hadn't noticed it until today I couldn't update any app because I have no space left....
I found no settings on either the apps or on the storage menu that allows me to select the SD card as preferred storage... The migrate data option on the settings menu wants to move 17gb from the SD to the internal storage (lol).
So anyone with an idea from what went wrong?
Thanks.
I have the same problem. The storage is completely full now, but there's still enough space left on the SD card! The phone is now complaining about limit storage, but there should be more than enough left!
No apps are installing to SD? A lot of your apps aren't going to install to SD plus all the system apps will install to internal.
To move all data and cache to sd...you need to use Link2SD with root access.
Or you could have a look at this, works pretty well for me: http://forum.xda-developers.com/2015-moto-g/general/adoptable-external-storage-time-t3340551
I just have noticed that after update to android 10 I have all my app on internal memory and can not move them to the external SD card like before in Android 9. Is there any way to save apps on external SD card?
I am wondering the same thing
You just want to save a copy of the app?
The SD card data bus is slower than the internal memory one. You don't want the OS to need to access the SD card constantly when running an app.
Q is already hamstrung by its scoped storage as it is...