Hello there
I got android 4.2.2 with 8gb of internal memory I want to move apps to extsd card but when I try to move big apps like shadowgun deadzone it only moves app size and not sdcard and data size so how to move the entire app with all it size to extsdcard?
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After I rooted my phonr I noticed 2 foldrrs with exact same size and files legacy and 0 they were taking double space I only use 1.7 and used is 3.4 double space so how to fix that?
Sorry forgot to mention my phone is samung galaxy s2 plus rooted 4.2.2 original firmware and official android 4.2.2 rom
Why are there no responds yet im really about annoyed about that problem please help me guys
Amir3022 said:
Why are there no responds yet im really about annoyed about that problem please help me guys
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Can you describe your problem again? I can't understand whats exactly going on with your phone.
Iam looking for a way to move applications from phone to extsdcard with all its size look at this pic in the attachments
When I move an app to EXTSDCARD only the app size moves other than that remains in mobile phone so how can I move that entire app to extcard and if there is a way to install apps directly to extsdcard
And about those 2 files legacy and 0 they have same data same size and are taking double space how to fix that
And also realised that some games where running slower than they should like sgdeadzone and they run fine on my brothers s2 is that normal?
Amir3022 said:
Iam looking for a way to move applications from phone to extsdcard with all its size look at this pic in the attachments
When I move an app to EXTSDCARD only the app size moves other than that remains in mobile phone so how can I move that entire app to extcard and if there is a way to install apps directly to extsdcard
And about those 2 files legacy and 0 they have same data same size and are taking double space how to fix that
And also realised that some games where running slower than they should like sgdeadzone and they run fine on my brothers s2 is that normal?
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Moving apps to a low class sdcard will probably slow down the performance. You can use Link2SD to move all parts of the app.
Thanks but what about the other 2 issues
I tried link2sd but it the same only move app not data or obb files any other suggestions
If u have ROOT download this app called GL to SD then u press menu button and then move data. Find Shadow gun dead zone the one with the most megabytes and check that and click on move. Wait and if you want to play that game you will have to press the mount button at the very top or else the game cannot recognize the game data. Now enjoy your game.
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FreezIn said:
If u have ROOT download this app called GL to SD then u press menu button and then move data. Find Shadow gun dead zone the one with the most megabytes and check that and click on move. Wait and if you want to play that game you will have to press the mount button at the very top or else the game cannot recognize the game data. Now enjoy your game.
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Thanks so much that worked like charm thanks again now one problem solved 2 to go
Your welcome . For the 2nd problem I don't understand what you mean. Can you take a screen shot of what you mean?
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FreezIn said:
Your welcome . For the 2nd problem I don't understand what you mean. Can you take a screen shot of what you mean?
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Taken by root explorer
This 2 files can be found in storage/emulated
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Taken by root explorer
This 2 files can be found in storage/emulated
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This is 99.9% normal. Mine is like that too. Why? That's because 0 folder has the same content as legacy folder. Legacy folder has the same content as 0 folder. The content of the two folders are exactly the same so the size of the contents don't change. Depending on how many apps you install and how large are them the size will increase. My 2 folders says 42.37 megabytes because I haven't install anything yet. Yours is 1.74 gigabyte because you probably have a lot of apps or you apps are large. How to decrease them? Un install large games that you don't use anymore. Where does this size mainly come from? From the sdcard/Android/obb. Obb files are large game files that is needed to run your game. This is what increases the 2 folder size mainly. Also those 2 folders do not double. What I mean by this is they aren't 4 gigabytes in total of the 2 folders. So together they are only 1.74 gigabytes. Why? I don't know how to explain it to you.
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FreezIn said:
This is 99.9% normal. Mine is like that too. Why? That's because 0 folder has the same content as legacy folder. Legacy folder has the same content as 0 folder. The content of the two folders are exactly the same so the size of the contents don't change. Depending on how many apps you install and how large are them the size will increase. My 2 folders says 42.37 megabytes because I haven't install anything yet. Yours is 1.74 gigabyte because you probably have a lot of apps or you apps are large. How to decrease them? Un install large games that you don't use anymore. Where does this size mainly come from? From the sdcard/Android/obb. Obb files are large game files that is needed to run your game. This is what increases the 2 folder size mainly. Also those 2 folders do not double. What I mean by this is they aren't 4 gigabytes in total of the 2 folders. So together they are only 1.74 gigabytes. Why? I don't know how to explain it to you.
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Well If that is really the case then why I have 3.4 gb og used space there must be an explaination
Hmm mine doesn't get double. I am totally stock but just rooted.
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I've noticed that these hd games tend to have low sizes but once you start them they download like huge size data. And after you delete the game that huge size of data is still there. How do delete it?
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Just get a file manger and you should see a folder with the name of the games.or if gameloft games in the gameloft folder.
If you're rooted, try SD Maid
My note is only the 16gb version and im running out of space . How can i transfer my apps to the sd card, if i go to settings apps , there is no option to trasfer to the sd card ?
Lol suppose to be running out internal storage and not disc space.
Root and use titanium backup, I believe that will work.
Or get rid of apps you really don't need...
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How can u fill 16gb of apps only
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Games will fill up space fast..nova3 2gb by itself
mywingtophone said:
My note is only the 16gb version and im running out of space . How can i transfer my apps to the sd card, if i go to settings apps , there is no option to trasfer to the sd card ?
Lol suppose to be running out internal storage and not disc space.
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Return it and get a 32 gb version. Dont be cheap.
Also transfer all your non app data files to your sdcard. Music, movies, backups, photos all can live on sdcard.
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mywingtophone said:
My note is only the 16gb version and im running out of space . How can i transfer my apps to the sd card, if i go to settings apps , there is no option to trasfer to the sd card ?
Lol suppose to be running out internal storage and not disc space.
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Use the apps:
App 2 SD
GL to SD
The first one moves apps that can be stored on your sd to be moved. The second one takes the massive downloads needed by the gigantic games and puts those downloads on your external sd instead of using up your system memory. Those apps saved me several gigs of space!
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What's the point of deciding on the 16GB then complaining about running out of space?
mywingtophone said:
My note is only the 16gb version and im running out of space . How can i transfer my apps to the sd card, if i go to settings apps , there is no option to trasfer to the sd card ?
Lol suppose to be running out internal storage and not disc space.
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use Root Explorer, works well
Open Settings-->Applications-->Choose All tab--> Select any large application --> Move to SD Card
But you have to do one by one though...
use this tool DirectoryBind. move all ur unmovable games data to ur sd card. if will take some time to learn how to use but once u learn it u will find it easy and love this tool!
link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1410262
mi7chy said:
What's the point of deciding on the 16GB then complaining about running out of space?
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I do find it a mystery why just for a short term fix owners are purchasing the 16GB model when shortly after the same will then be complaining of not enough space.
Percentage wise apps are getting bigger quicker than the hardware is increasing.
It's the sole reason why I never went for the Nexus 7.
htainlin said:
Open Settings-->Applications-->Choose All tab--> Select any large application --> Move to SD Card
But you have to do one by one though...
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That doesn't work with ICS...
If you go into apps then open my files i have found that you can point/hold and drag from internal sd to extsd.
I am also looking for a way to change the designation of installed apps and where items are automatically saved to.
I havent attempted to root yet.
Hope this helps
confus-ed said:
If you go into apps then open my files i have found that you can point/hold and drag from internal sd to extsd.
I am also looking for a way to change the designation of installed apps and where items are automatically saved to.
I havent attempted to root yet.
Hope this helps
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Could you be a little more specific? When you say go into apps what do you mean? Also how do you open my files?
Beards said:
I do find it a mystery why just for a short term fix owners are purchasing the 16GB model when shortly after the same will then be complaining of not enough space.
Percentage wise apps are getting bigger quicker than the hardware is increasing.
It's the sole reason why I never went for the Nexus 7.
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Because the 32gb version isn't available here in Oz yet... If they released the 32gb version with the 16gb version they would have no or minimal sale of the 16gb version. REALLY bites...:crying:
donec said:
Could you be a little more specific? When you say go into apps what do you mean? Also how do you open my files?
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Located at the top right of the screen is an icon that resembles a rubix cube, touch that and it will take you to the applications part of the Note. Different than the home screens.
Located in the apps pages is a folder labled my files, touch that and it will open in a file tree manner. At this point you can touch and drag into the extsd folder.
You can also connet to your puter and launch kies and check the box to make the extsd card the default save.
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Located at the top right of the screen is an icon that resembles a rubix cube, touch that and it will take you to the applications part of the Note. Different than the home screens.
Located in the apps pages is a folder labled my files, touch that and it will open in a file tree manner. At this point you can touch and drag into the extsd folder.
You can also connet to your puter and launch kies and check the box to make the extsd card the default save.
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Thanks! I was doing that with pictures and music, never occurred to try apps, i thought ics didn't allow it. There were some apps i couldn't move but did move some, seems too easy but it worked
Using Kies to copy data files (not the apps) to the Note will also make them smaller and save space. I remember copying some using the windows browser and they were converted (made smaller) IF you copy first to the Note then move them to the Extsd. There may be even more ways to save space with transferring. Photos for example that don't need to be 2-5 mb each could be shrunk with a photo editor on your desktop, then transferred to the Note.
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Thanks! I was doing that with pictures and music, never occurred to try apps, i thought ics didn't allow it. There were some apps i couldn't move but did move some, seems too easy but it worked
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No problem, if you discover anything that allows you to use the extsd as more of a partition rather than storage only keep us posted.:good:
Edit: I read in the note forums that someone had written a kernel to swap the priority of the storage, making the extsd64gb act as the internal storage and vice versa. I dont have the link for it
Are they game data too?
I have 2 big games installed, Gangster Rio and NFS Most Wanted, and I think they are like more than 1 GB. Surprisingly, the temporary files are also showing as 1.5 GB. So, can I say that the game data is in temporary files, and that if I clear temporary files, I will lose that data?
Additional info:
I have 8 GB memory card and have around 800 MB left. No music in memory card, the photos are shown as a little more than 100 MB, 4 one-minute camera videos, and as I mentioned, two big (not too much big) games.
So, where did my free space go?
Wad u do backup temp file somwhere n delet it from sd card try playing the games and check if you have all your save data and necessary files for it if yes then delete delet the temp files if not restore them
Let me knw too
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Hi all,
I am running out of storage on my note and was wondering if there was a way of saving my games obb files to the memory card and still being able to play the games?. I know I could do the switch hack to swap the memory over but don't fancy doing that.
any ideas?
Hmm ,
Make a Folder Directory in External SD Card, Similar to the Internal SD Card.
And Try this,
It worked for me some time ago,
You can have a try too...
P.S : Make a Backup before you took any step....
Because once you lost your obb , game is lost ... as well this may affect your Game Progress
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Just search for directory bind i n the forums, easy to use, been using it since i ngot my not note and iot has allowed me to store countless app data o my sd
fallensoldier said:
Just search for directory bind i n the forums, easy to use, been using it since i ngot my not note and iot has allowed me to store countless app data o my sd
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You will need root to use the app.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1410262
Better use FolderMount instead of DirectoryBind, easier to use and is still supported, so it also works with Android 4.2.2.
Kamairo said:
Better use FolderMount instead of DirectoryBind, easier to use and is still supported, so it also works with Android 4.2.2.
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I tried to use FolderMount and it moved the obb files ok but then when I went to play the games (Modern Combat 4 and GTA Vice City) they no longer work. With MC4 it's starts to load like normal then just jumps back to my homescreen, with GTA it says each time additional files successfully downloaded but then freezes the Note.
Any ideas??
Well I give up!.
I have tried to use both programs to get my games saved to ext SD but I must be doing something wrong cuz I can't get either to work right.
Why o why did Samsung feel the need to stop you saving games to external SD???.
I only swapped from my Tab 8.9 cuz I was always filling the 16GB memory, I thought buying a tablet that could take an SD card would solve my problems.
Oh well never mind, thanks for all the suggestions....
hi, if i move dungeon hunter 4 obb file to external sd card temporarily to free up some space for internal memory, after that i put the obb file back to internal memory, will the game still have have the saved game progress?
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hi, if i move dungeon hunter 4 obb file to external sd card temporarily to free up some space for internal memory, after that i put the obb file back to internal memory, will the game still have have the saved game progress?
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of course you can, I've often done that for a few games which has quite large obb or data, gameloft, glu, or ea games, when I want to play the game, just return the obb or the data back to the original folder, then the games ready to be played back with no loss game progress, and the good again, the device does not need diroot
The longer I have my Shield Tablet, the internal storage space seems to slowly vanish more and more. I have been constantly clearing cache, as well as uninstalling more and more apps. The entire internal storage folder (labeled storage/sdcard0), takes up a total of only 3.77 GB according to ES File Explorer, yet I have less than 2 GB free. I have noticed there is a folder labeled: storage/emulated. Within this folder are "0" and "legacy"... Both of these folders appear to be complete clones of the sdcard0 folder (each are exactly 3.77 GB as well). All three of these folders add up to equal the total storage used on the internal storage. So can I really only use a third of the internal storage since everything is duplicated 3 times? Is it safe to delete the contents of either of the 2 folders within storage/emulated? What is the purpose of these folders?
They are all the same directory - they're legacy ways of accessing the storage and are kept for backwards compatibility. Erasing any one of them will erase them all.
If you are on lollipop, the reason for shrinking space is usually the linking of apps to sdcard1 either using android, link2sd, Folder Mount, or the like. The lollipop system apparently reads the storage incorrectly, counting the linked files as still being on the sdcard.
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ailima said:
They are all the same directory - they're legacy ways of accessing the storage and are kept for backwards compatibility. Erasing any one of them will erase them all.
If you are on lollipop, the reason for shrinking space is usually the linking of apps to sdcard1 either using android, link2sd, Folder Mount, or the like. The lollipop system apparently reads the storage incorrectly, counting the linked files as still being on the sdcard.
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This is exactly right. I am using FolderMount for all of my big games, and my "storage" tab in settings shows that I am using 18GB (when we all know you only get about 12 usable), yet when I look in TitaniumBackup, SDMaid, or the like, it shows that I still have over 9GB free.
I'd use a different method of checking how much storage you're using, because (like the battery stats) the storage stats are totally broken in Lollipop.
ailima said:
They are all the same directory - they're legacy ways of accessing the storage and are kept for backwards compatibility. Erasing any one of them will erase them all.
If you are on lollipop, the reason for shrinking space is usually the linking of apps to sdcard1 either using android, link2sd, Folder Mount, or the like. The lollipop system apparently reads the storage incorrectly, counting the linked files as still being on the sdcard.
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My tablet is no longer rooted since I've been on Lollipop so I no longer use Folder Mount. I have moved as many apps as I can to the SD card through the stock app manager. I did use Folder Mount on KitKat, and noticed the weird storage usage, but I did a factory reset after updating to Lollipop. I have installed LOTS of apps, but I reached a point where I wasn't installing any new apps and my storage is slowly disappearing, and now I'm starting to have to uninstall apps... I've had this same issue on every android device I've owned, I eventually have to back up my data and do a factory reset, then reinstall all my apps again, then I suddenly have more free space then before with all the same apps installed...
Is it possible one of the apps you have installed is the culprit? (I.e. filling up your storage?)
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Can you run Disk Usage and Storage Analyzer from the play store?
Apps like Google Plus tend to use a lot of cache and data. Have you checked up on them using something like a disk usage analyzer or 1Tap cleaner?
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I noticed disk usage app even shows some game data that is not moved but just copied to SD.
Also this helps save me up to half a GB.
Its a hidden folder, in DCIM named thumbnails, it keeps a db on all your pictures an can get big quickly if you have a fair amount of pictures an wallpapers.
I found trick here on XDA, sorry can't remember who to credit but, delete that thumbnail folder an contents an make a new file not folder in the DCIM folder named,
.thumbnails an that is gone for good.
WR
ailima said:
Can you run Disk Usage and Storage Analyzer from the play store?
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Yes, I used the app DiskUsage and a large chunk of used data is "System data"... It seems to fluctuate is size very much, but overall, it keeps increasing in size...
CaleTheKing said:
This is exactly right. I am using FolderMount for all of my big games, and my "storage" tab in settings shows that I am using 18GB (when we all know you only get about 12 usable), yet when I look in TitaniumBackup, SDMaid, or the like, it shows that I still have over 9GB free.
I'd use a different method of checking how much storage you're using, because (like the battery stats) the storage stats are totally broken in Lollipop.
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Hi guys, I'd loveto know that differentmethod of checking used storage
Also, if i keep installing games and moving to sd, won't it give me a "Not enough disk space" due to those wrong stats?
Thanks!