Is there anyway to make the apps you download from the market go directly to your SD Card and not to the internal memory on your phone? I am certain it involves a program Apps2SD or something like that but I have never used it so, could anyone point me in the right direction ?
BigWorldJust said:
Is there anyway to make the apps you download from the market go directly to your SD Card and not to the internal memory on your phone? I am certain it involves a program Apps2SD or something like that but I have never used it so, could anyone point me in the right direction ?
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Apps to sd is the only way as of right now
Ah thanks, and that requires me to partition my SD right?
BigWorldJust said:
Ah thanks, and that requires me to partition my SD right?
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yes, but according to your signature, you only have a 1 gb card, which would not be ideal. you could still do it, but you'd have about half as fat32 and half ext. invest in a larger card is my advice
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Hello everyone,
I am new to the hero and just rooted my phone using kitchen. I wanted to get an 8GB card and wanted to know what the process was. I didn't want to mess anything up so how do I change micro sd cards. I did a search but was unable to find the answer.
Are you using apps 2 sd?
If yes there is a guide
If no, then copy your data to your pc.. unmount the card(or turn the phone off) .. insert new card, format... then copy stuff back.
cool, never used apps 2 sd. Thanks! Will wait to get a new rom after.
Just remember its a mounted filesystem, if you just took it out that would be like unhooking your computer's hard drive. Probably going corrupt some data.
So just make sure the phone is off before switching cards?
i just made that mistake last night, burnt up an 8gb card, make sure phone is off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You don't need to turn the phone off. Right in SD Card and Storage Settings, there's a button to unmount the SD card. Hit that button, eject the card, then put the new one in and copy all the data back on via USB.
lv2bll said:
i just made that mistake last night, burnt up an 8gb card, make sure phone is off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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You shouldn't have been able to burn a card doing that. Maybe confuse the filesystem on it. If worse comes to worst, reformat the sdcard.
What items on the SD card are necessary? I did the root and there are two recovery images on there. I haven't done anything else besides rooting the phone.
Sorry dumb question, rooting doesn't change when changing cards right?
Since there is an SDcard discussion. Every time I play music the songs glitch at the beginning of the track and sometimes mid song..but always at the start UNLESS the phone is awake, then it plays fine.
Could it be the class of the card or that the phone wakes up after the end of every track and glitches? I still have the stock 2 gig card and was looking to get a higher class / more capacity to swap if that is the case. if not I'll just stick to my ipod shuffle.. bleh.
vrundmc said:
What items on the SD card are necessary? I did the root and there are two recovery images on there. I haven't done anything else besides rooting the phone.
Sorry dumb question, rooting doesn't change when changing cards right?
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Nothing on the SD card is strictly necessary. Rooting and applying ROMs does not affect the SD card.
vrundmc said:
What items on the SD card are necessary? I did the root and there are two recovery images on there. I haven't done anything else besides rooting the phone.
Sorry dumb question, rooting doesn't change when changing cards right?
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Necessary? Nothing. The phone should run without the sdcard even installed. Some applications aren't going to like it not being there, like the camera.
New card partition question
Stock hero with new 8 gb card. Will be rooting and using fresh 2.0 and apps2sd. Question is: Do i need to partition the card first before rooting or will it happen on its own when i flash new rom? thanks
eydoc said:
Stock hero with new 8 gb card. Will be rooting and using fresh 2.0 and apps2sd. Question is: Do i need to partition the card first before rooting or will it happen on its own when i flash new rom? thanks
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No and no.
You only need to partition the card if you want it partitioned and partitioning it has zero to do with rooting or with applying a new ROM.
posguy99 said:
No and no.
You only need to partition the card if you want it partitioned and partitioning it has zero to do with rooting or with applying a new ROM.
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If i want to run apps2sd do i need to partition the card?
Yes, you'll need a ext partition for a2sd.
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OK, so I just upgraded to a Transcend 8GB Class 6 MicroSD card from the stock card that was included with the phone originally.
Now, my issue is I have it partitioned for APP2SD and such for Nightlys.
If I partition the new card, I know I'll obviously take all the base data off my old card and put it on the new one. Now, all the apps and stuff on my ext3 part of the card....
Should I just:
A) Do nandroid backup +ext, put new card in and restore (I'm just taking a shot in the dark and assuming this would work)
B) Other method?
Any advice would be great
Shoot, my apologies.
I posted this in the development section by mistake. I had too many tabs open!
Well i just recently got a 32GB card. All i done was any apps i had on the sd card i moved back to the phone. Backed-up anything i had on old card (mp3s, photos etc). Plugged in new sd card, formatted it then thats about it.
Only thing that changed was beautiful widgets, but all that had to do is download some little file again.
Also, when partitioning, how much do you suggest for ext3? I was thinking about 32MB SWAP, 256MB Ext3.....ext3 is used for apps, right?
Thanks.
uoY_redruM said:
Also, when partitioning, how much do you suggest for ext3? I was thinking about 32MB SWAP, 256MB Ext3.....ext3 is used for apps, right?
Thanks.
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personally i don't think 256 is enough. i currently have 756 and have 100mb free.
you can just do a nandroid +ext backup and it will restore it correctly as all it does is tar the sd ext directories then extract them on restore. obviously the partition has to be larger or equal in size.
i didnt partition my card at all. Is that bad? Wont the phone do it when you format it?
zok-star said:
i didnt partition my card at all. Is that bad? Wont the phone do it when you format it?
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Are you using the FroYo FAT method or the A2EXT method?
wdfowty said:
Are you using the FroYo FAT method or the A2EXT method?
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?? No idea, i just formatted the card via the phone. so im guessing froyo fat?
i know its a pretty simple question, but it has been bothering me. Why did my card get split and when did i do it and was it done automaticlly when i put it in the bionic. Second why should i have it split up like this I kinda just wanna save all my stuff then format it back to normal. Any good reasons why I shouldnt and what I should be doing with it.
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i know its a pretty simple question, but it has been bothering me. Why did my card get split and when did i do it and was it done automaticlly when i put it in the bionic. Second why should i have it split up like this I kinda just wanna save all my stuff then format it back to normal. Any good reasons why I shouldnt and what I should be doing with it.
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You SD Card is not split. There is built in internal memory and then your SD card which is the Ext (External)
It is weird they way Mot does this. I am use to the TBolt and they do not display like that.
kendive said:
You SD Card is not split. There is built in internal memory and then your SD card which is the Ext (External)
It is weird they way Mot does this. I am use to the TBolt and they do not display like that.
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Im pretty sure the sd card is partitioned when I said split i meant partition. If I go into astro or any other file manager I have to choices sd card and sdcard ext, but its both my sd card its just partitioned. Why it happened I have no idea I never did it but i know it not internal. My question is do all bionics do it automaticlly or did i do it by accident. Why should I keep it?
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Im pretty sure the sd card is partitioned when I said split i meant partition. If I go into astro or any other file manager I have to choices sd card and sdcard ext, but its both my sd card its just partitioned. Why it happened I have no idea I never did it but i know it not internal. My question is do all bionics do it automaticlly or did i do it by accident. Why should I keep it?
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Moto partitions the internal card between system apps and apps. The sdcard-ext is your removable card (as he said above me) and you can partition it if you want, using ROM manager. Don't really see the benefit though...
Recently been issued Lumia 520s at work but only had 2gig sdcards in..
Have played around with it and moved apps to sdcard etc.
Now I copied everything including the hidden folders to an 8gig sdcard and swapped over to in on the 520... Everything seems ok but all apps moved to sdcard now say they are unavailable!!!! Any ideas what am doing wrong and how to over come the issue?
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Lohtse
lohtse said:
Recently been issued Lumia 520s at work but only had 2gig sdcards in..
Have played around with it and moved apps to sdcard etc.
Now I copied everything including the hidden folders to an 8gig sdcard and swapped over to in on the 520... Everything seems ok but all apps moved to sdcard now say they are unavailable!!!! Any ideas what am doing wrong and how to over come the issue?
Regards
Lohtse
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you need to reinstall them again because you can't swap app's from one sd card to another. (its encrypted with the sd card ID )
so just reinstall your app's and all is ok.
ceesheim said:
you need to reinstall them again because you can't swap app's from one sd card to another. (its encrypted with the sd card ID )
so just reinstall your app's and all is ok.
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thats flippin stupid!!!!!!
and I can't even reinstall as there's no option as it says that is one the sdcard even though its unavailable..
any ideas how to over come this?
ceesheim said:
you need to reinstall them again because you can't swap app's from one sd card to another. (its encrypted with the sd card ID )
so just reinstall your app's and all is ok.
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thats flippin stupid!!!!!!
and I can't even reinstall as there's no option as it says that is on the sdcard even though its unavailable..
any ideas how to over come this?
lohtse said:
thats flippin stupid!!!!!!
and I can't even reinstall as there's no option as it says that is on the sdcard even though its unavailable..
any ideas how to over come this?
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just remove it from the sd card ( laptop is the more easy way)
doesn't work lumia still thinks they are installed !!!!!
It's to prevent cheating (or piracy) by copying/modifying the app data; it's not "flippin stupid" at all.
1) Put the old card back in your phone.
2) Move the apps from the card to the phone (if you have to, just uninstall the apps instead).
3) Eject the old card and put in the newer, larger one.
4) Move the apps back to the card (or re-install them to the card).
Yeah, it'll take a few minutes and it would be nice if there was an easier way to do it, but the solution shouldn't be difficult.
I have no issues with the locking down of swapping cards but should at least give us the option to reinstall or reinstall like they do after an update of the os! Thats why its flippin stupid!.
As to moving back to internal its not possible as have moved 60% of apps to cards tonsave space on phone...
Does anybody know a way how i can make my SD CARD as internal memory on this tablet ?
keksas3 said:
Does anybody know a way how i can make my SD CARD as internal memory on this tablet ?
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Same problem here with small amount of storage. I can't just simply change play path to sd card lol if life was simple
Oracle01 said:
Same problem here with small amount of storage. I can't just simply change play path to sd card lol if life was simple
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keksas3 said:
Does anybody know a way how i can make my SD CARD as internal memory on this tablet ?
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Hey if you didn't figure it out yet it's simple you need to format the sd and an option will show to choose for external or internal storage you can also find an app to partition some of the sd for rom expand but it kills the sd fast.
I would really like to do this also... I can move some apps to sd not all the ones I want to.. I have rooted and tried different apps to do this. I do not get the option to use some of sd as internal after formatting. 32gb model with 64gb sd
eldenmisty said:
I would really like to do this also... I can move some apps to sd not all the ones I want to.. I have rooted and tried different apps to do this. I do not get the option to use some of sd as internal after formatting. 32gb model with 64gb sd
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Newer tablets no longer allow this because it is a very bad idea. Internal storage is MANY times faster than the SD cards and allowing apps to run from the SD card would make the device very "laggy".
lewmur said:
Newer tablets no longer allow this because it is a very bad idea. Internal storage is MANY times faster than the SD cards and allowing apps to run from the SD card would make the device very "laggy".
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Well that's just my luck. Have to start remembering to get ones with more memory