Hi all,
When I first got my moto g 3rd gen I found out the 8gb internal memory was way too little, so I added a 16gb SD card and adopted it as internal thanks to marshmallow.
Now I want to upgrade to a 32gb card but I'm worried about how the apps will be afterwards.
I was planning on moving all back to internal memory but of course I don't have enough space I only have 0.5gb there.
I'm not finding a smooth way of copying from the old 16gb to the new 32gb one and make it become the new adopted as internal
Any body has tried this? Any suggestions?
Thanks
Basically, there is no good way to this if you can't get enough space on your real internal storage... Google hasn't made a simple way to do it, if your rooted you can do a TiBu backup of everything, swap card and restore it, but I seems like a PIA. If your not rooted, probably best to backup what you want, factory reset, setup like normal, then adopt and migrate data to the card. Not a good way but not much choice. At Android Enthusiasts on Stack Exchange, we haven't found a good answer either http://android.stackexchange.com/qu...data-from-an-adopted-sd-card-to-a-new-sd-card
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Hey, I just got a 16gb Verizon s3 and rooted, unlocked boot loader, installed liquid smooth v2 jellybean rom, and I installed maybe 20 apps I always run with on my phone and then tried side loading swype and flash player but my phone is saying there's not enough memory and I need to clear some space. The intended phone shows the I've used maybe 500mb of my 12gb internal capacity and I went to try to move the downloaded apps to the sdcard to see if that might help, but I don't even see an option in settings>apps to move the apps to the sdcard. Used to be a toggle switch to move to SD or back to phone if you wanted a widget to stay on internal memory.
Anyway, I've been googling and trying to figure this out and I can't. Before I rooted and flashed I had all of these apps on my internal storage with no low memory warnings. Can anyone explain why the entire 12gb internal memory is not available to me for apps? And how do you move apps to sd on the s3? I saw in rom brower that my real sd is actually called sd ext and the folder called sdcard doesnt seem attached to my physical sdcard at all but maybe part of the rom's memory? I don't want to always have to move apps to sdext if its even possible, I want the 12gb available to me, not only 500mb of it, and the option to move to SD would be nice for some games and apps but I also want to be able to keep certain apps on phone's internal memory.
Thanks for any help with this!!
Is the card actually full? AFAIK GS3 is kind of weird -- the internal memory will be partitioned such that you'll see the "user" partition as /sdcard, and everything gets saved here, including apps and nandroids. In Settings -> Storage, if you click the internal "sd", it should bring up a sorted list of what's using the most space.
Personally, I'm trying to figure out if there's a good way to utilize an external sd card.
ponyboy82 said:
Is the card actually full? AFAIK GS3 is kind of weird -- the internal memory will be partitioned such that you'll see the "user" partition as /sdcard, and everything gets saved here, including apps and nandroids. In Settings -> Storage, if you click the internal "sd", it should bring up a sorted list of what's using the most space.
Personally, I'm trying to figure out if there's a good way to utilize an external sd card.
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I tried uploading screens on op on my phone but when clicking choose file to upload nothing happened. On my phone in settings it says I have 11.54 of 12.05gb internal memory available and 17.35 of 29.71gb sdcard memory available.
I'm on this ROM: liquid-jb-v2.0-rc5 .. its 4.1.2
I have always liked liquids ROMs (and spjesters) but I might give cm10 a try later when I'm around WiFi and redownload all my apps and then try side loading again and see if I get same low memory error
Still not sure what the deal is with liquids rom but I switched to paranoid android jb rom and no problems with internal memory so far. I've used over a gb of memory on apps from market and sideloaded and really like the way the settings are laid out in 2 columns. only real problem with I've noticed is that for some reason Swype won't autospace in the stock jb rom so I switched to using opera for now
Is there a way to make the internal storage more usable after doing a data2sd (and even a rom2sd) install? I understand that if the card is pulled the tab will want something to fall back on, but it need not be huge. In my case I have under 6 gigs available from internal storage, and that just seems like a waste. There is a link to my old internal storage space I found as well, but is is separate and hard to get to. Anyone have any ideas? (and yes, I have been searching. Everything I find is on partitioning the external SD)
Thank you for all of your excellent work on improving the TF700!
Hey guys,
I would like to buy 16GB version, but it's on long delay on Moto site and I need to ship this phone to my nieces in Ukraine by the end of August. So I bought 8GB version from Amazon to play with it and see how it works and really love the phone. The storage is the only sour point. 8 GB just does not cut it and Moto does not allow to use SD card storage for app installation. Moving apps to SD card works only for some apps and even then most of the storage being used is Internal, so 3-4 large games and this phone would be out of storage.
Is there is a way to force apps to install fully to SD card? Root + App2SD maybe? I do not have much experience with rooting and would like to avoid it, if possible due to desire to stay on OTA updates schedule.
Any advise?
To be honest rooting is your best bet for an optimal experience. I'm using CM and this phone can move more apps of you install the smaller version of google apps if it is really a big problem your only bet is to order the 16 and wait.
Transfer app to SD Card to free up space
Currently, there seems no tool can help you to move apps to SD card to free up space, but there indeed tools can be used to transfer photos, pictures, music,videos, contacts etc. to the SD card. If you are interest in it, you can read some tutorial for help
Transferring music and photos works wonderfully. And Google Play Music as well as Google Photos supports saving files on SD Card as default which makes it even easier to manage your storage. The apps though is a huge issue. I installed yesterday Walking Dead and it ate more then 1GB of storage of the puny 3GB available out of the box. Add here the app cache as well as storage required to do OTA updates and you really will struggle to install any large apps on the phone without running in 'out of memory' error messages.
The phone is wonderful otherwise - light, bright screen with excellent auto-dimming, good speaker and even better camera, responsive, waterproof (yes, I tested ), pure Lollipop Android experience , etc. etc.
All right, I know my phone is kinda old. It's a Samsung Galaxy S4. It's got 16 GB internal. For a long time, I've been using a 64 GB microSD card for everything that I possibly can (apps, photo, video, etc.), but even still the internal storage just isn't enough. The OS & pre-installed apps take up the majority of it, & the remainder is constantly filling up from application data & temporary files. I can't update apps because I need over 500 MB available internal storage & I only have about 30 MB available on a good day. I'm constantly clearing stuff & having to restart my phone. I'm thinking I should merge the memory card to be used as internal storage, rather than external, but I really want to make sure I don't loose anything. I've always been nervous about merging the card as I'm not sure how safe it is if the card were ever to fail, but I think it's really my best bet at this point. I would use a new card; I already have a spare 128 GB Sandisk Ultra Plus card, which claims up to 100 MB/s read speed, so I'm hoping that's fine. I'm also considering rooting my phone at some point, but I'm kinda nervous about that.
What's my best bet to merge a new memory card & move the apps & stuff over from the old card?
Phone name / model number: SCH-1545
Android Version: 5.0.1
Please help! Thanks.
how do i get my sd card to my internal storage or make it so i can atleast move apps to sd card. 64gb just doesnt cut it for storage, need atleast 128gb internal. i cant believe that they made this new model with low storage! you cant even format it to internal or external. i have been reading and trying all can find with no luck considering i dont have access to a windows os, only chromebook with mfg date 2014 and know nothing of linux or any coding. can anyone PLEASE lay it out in terms i can follow and understand....i just got the phone a week or so ago and already wanna smash it!!!!!!Thank you......
You can create a new partition and choose how much of your SD card you want to use as internal storage and all it takes is an adb command. You'll have to do a search for the tutorial but it shouldn't be too hard to find. The main issue is that you need to get the best quality SD card you can afford, or you'll have issues with speed. I did this with my Stylo 5 when I first purchased it.