Hey I am new to Xda and I want to buy Xperia Z1 but storage seems problem to me ! Only 16 GB internal ?? I know it has SD support but my question is can we move games and some app data to SD card ? Please reply me ! And is this phone worth to buy ??
Kiesport said:
Hey I am new to Xda and I want to buy Xperia Z1 but storage seems problem to me ! Only 16 GB internal ?? I know it has SD support but my question is can we move games and some app data to SD card ? Please reply me ! And is this phone worth to buy ??
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You can If your rooted but not as easy as other phones.
I've had HTC One, Galaxy S4 and Sony Z1 beats them hands down. Only thing I don't like is cant remove screen protector so you need to get a screen protector to cover your screen protector lol!!!!!!!!!!!
dazza7111 said:
You can If your rooted but not as easy as other phones.
I've had HTC One, Galaxy S4 and Sony Z1 beats them hands down. Only thing I don't like is cant remove screen protector so you need to get a screen protector to cover your screen protector lol!!!!!!!!!!!
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So by rooting will i be able to move game data and app data to sd ? and i heard that i cannot browse sd files through file manager is that true ? thanks a lot for quick reply !
Yeah after rooting your phone you will be able to move apps to SD card. And ofcourse you will be able to view any files or folder with your file manager.
But xperia z file manager sucks.. you can use some cool file mangers like es file manager or astro file manager.(I recommend ES file mnager)
Also after rooting you can delet system apps.
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I've been searching around the internet and also XDA looking for a solution but came up with none
Has anyone been able to successfully root their HTC Salsa?
With any method at all??
Or is HTC going to be pushing their unlocked bootloaders for this officially as well???
I've tried Gingerbreak with no luck
ifever said:
I've tried Gingerbreak with no luck
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gingerbreak ruled out i guess
maybe i should try SOC?
am also considering getting a xtc clip but it's pricey and i'm just hoping someone has come up with a method to root this phone
really want to get this phone s-off and rooted
need to move so many apps for my gf from phone to SD
sigh....
Same wish here... no sense having an android smartphone where you can only install a few apps. My GF bought this as replacement for an x10mini pro..
Salsa is a very cool little smartphone but... 123mb of free internal storage seems a joke. Install maps + street view, skype(on SD), vtok (because it has not the latest gtalk and can't make videocalls) and you are done.
I would definitely donate for some development.
to be fair i got rid of my desire as i got bored with after rooting and then s-off, i spent time on getting the most out of the phone but then felt what else can i possibly do to this phone, I moved to blackberry bad move then got the mini x10 pro too and felt the phone was a bit of a joke and only got the salsa cause it seemed pretty similar to other phone and has a dedicated button that can hopefully be remapped, The internal memory is pants but it does let you move apps to sd card which saves graze
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to be fair i got rid of my desire as i got bored with after rooting and then s-off, i spent time on getting the most out of the phone but then felt what else can i possibly do to this phone, I moved to blackberry bad move then got the mini x10 pro too and felt the phone was a bit of a joke and only got the salsa cause it seemed pretty similar to other phone and has a dedicated button that can hopefully be remapped, The internal memory is pants but it does let you move apps to sd card which saves graze
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it does allow movement of apps but not everything
and that's annoying me so much
i hope some developer of the alpharev team come up with something at least
dont really need custom roms on this and just the basic s-off and root
I keep getting low memory remove app. This sucks. This really could have been a really nice phone. As is its either going back or second string till rooted.
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ratchetjaw said:
I keep getting low memory remove app. This sucks. This really could have been a really nice phone. As is its either going back or second string till rooted.
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that's exactly the problem my gf keeps getting
wish it's shown some developer love
have you guys try alpharev to s-off salsa ? http://alpharev.nl/x/beta/
it is quite a hopeless phone, at least the cheaper phones can install their apps to SD cards. Android is sucks . I think I can explore something new, but salsa make me think that I wasted my money on the DUMP PHONE: SALSA
Please have some methods about it. I'm getting crazje!
leonardiw said:
have you guys try alpharev to s-off salsa ? http://alpharev.nl/x/beta/
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salsa is not a supported device, it is annoying cause i have now had to unistall apps due to lack of space
honey_is_angel said:
it is quite a hopeless phone, at least the cheaper phones can install their apps to SD cards. Android is sucks . I think I can explore something new, but salsa make me think that I wasted my money on the DUMP PHONE: SALSA
Please have some methods about it. I'm getting crazje!
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salsa is not a supported device, it is annoying cause i have now had to unistall apps due to lack of space
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that depends on the type of andro apps installed some of them can be moved to sd card but not all (go to application settings or run wizard to dump cache/move apps to sdcard)... if only they put 1GB memory it would be perfect
s-off coming soon to htc sensation perhaps next build will support salsa
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you may also force unmovable apps to SD card thru ADB, applicable only apps resides on nonROM apps
I was just wondering if anyone has heard any more about a means by which this phone can be rooted. Really, it's pretty much worthless as a smart phone until it can be rooted. You install 4 apps and you're out of memory, meaning email apps stop working properly, the phone runs slowly and text messaging becomes problematic.
I spent good money on this phone and it does nothing really that my old one couldn't do. Make calls, send texts and use 2 or 3 apps at a time max.
I wonder if anyone knows if there is some way to put apps en SD card. I've installed App Manager and it's say that is not possible I have spent several hours searching the internet and have not found any information about it.
Thanks for your help
Noiseblack said:
I wonder if anyone knows if there is some way to put apps en SD card. I've installed App Manager and it's say that is not possible I have spent several hours searching the internet and have not found any information about it.
Thanks for your help
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Theres a guy who made a script for just this purpose and he did it on the Galaxy S3, you could ask in there, it literally swapped the SD for the internal SD. Making my S3 a 64GB version usable for apps and the extra 16GB for whatever i wanted, i personally didn't need it.
I've Used Directory Bind... Though not all apps can be transferred, (mostly huge games can be transferred)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1410262
jpx3m said:
I've Used Directory Bind... Though not all apps can be transferred, (mostly huge games can be transferred)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1410262
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The one i'm referring to swaps internal for external completely m8.
dladz said:
The one i'm referring to swaps internal for external completely m8.
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sorry... didn't mean to quote...
was answering the threadstarter.. :silly:
When will we get this functionality? The S4 has this option on their app manager wherein they can transfer installed apps to their memory card without rooting their unit. I know for a fact that Sony released the Z1 months after the S4 why didn't they include this functionality on our phones considering it is "premium". I bought the this phone because I trust the brand and I have been loyal to them. I beleive not having this functionality is a big draw back given that we only have 16gb of internal memory to use for app, which is pretty low. I hope Sony can resolve this?
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When will we get this functionality? The S4 has this option on their app manager wherein they can transfer installed apps to their memory card without rooting their unit. I know for a fact that Sony released the Z1 months after the S4 why didn't they include this functionality on our phones considering it is "premium". I bought the this phone because I trust the brand and I have been loyal to them. I beleive not having this functionality is a big draw back given that we only have 16gb of internal memory to use for app, which is pretty low. I hope Sony can resolve this?
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I agree. I come from HTC HD2 to Z1 right now and I am disappointed too. I think the solution is to flash some scripts or even a ROM Rooted.
I start searching.
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When will we get this functionality? The S4 has this option on their app manager wherein they can transfer installed apps to their memory card without rooting their unit. I know for a fact that Sony released the Z1 months after the S4 why didn't they include this functionality on our phones considering it is "premium". I bought the this phone because I trust the brand and I have been loyal to them. I beleive not having this functionality is a big draw back given that we only have 16gb of internal memory to use for app, which is pretty low. I hope Sony can resolve this?
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When I got my phones I thought it was kinda weird with how they link their directories. The storage/emulated/0 etc etc and apparently this is the reason APP2SD is not supported.
It's easy to get around this with apps like link2sd etc.. But for non-rooted I don't know. I just wished it was there officially.
I use Note 2 rooted and I can't move apps even with app2sd apps. (10gb on Note 2 is hardly enough)
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if anyone can get this method working on their Z1, do let us know. i posted it a while back but till now, nobody has successfully got it to work.
http://techgage.com/article/moving_your_non-movable_android_apps_to_an_sd_card/
good luck!
Irwenzhao said:
I use Note 2 rooted and I can't move apps even with app2sd apps. (10gb on Note 2 is hardly enough)
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10GB has never been enough, In my honest opinion I think 32GB should be the standard for mid range and hi end phones.
Guys Get Fouler Mount it used to work for me on my Xperia S when i had it i have Z1 now and its not working but i might be just doing something wrong. Its a really good app but you need to be rooted to be able to use it.
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10GB has never been enough, In my honest opinion I think 32GB should be the standard for mid range and hi end phones.
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When I bought my Note 2, they claimed I would get 16gb. When I brought it home and used it, there's only 10gb. So:
1) where's that 6gb?
2)It's not the os. (I'm using Illusion ROM which uses 200+mb while stock needs 1gb)
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You are right for that part for unrooted devices.
But if you are root you have endless combination and ideas.
You can even use Xposed modules to tell your camera (stock/snap/better) to store your pict to sdcard.
As I said - I agree with that part - it would be great to have that without rooting but that's the way it is.
I always root my phones - to get adaway and remove that stupid baners from apps
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funky0308 said:
You are right for that part for unrooted devices.
But if you are root you have endless combination and ideas.
You can even use Xposed modules to tell your camera (stock/snap/better) to store your pict to sdcard.
As I said - I agree with that part - it would be great to have that without rooting but that's the way it is.
I always root my phones - to get adaway and remove that stupid baners from apps
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My camera app (from Illusion ROM) has the feature to take pics to SD cards by default.
Irwenzhao said:
My camera app (from Illusion ROM) has the feature to take pics to SD cards by default.
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Yeah, many 3rd party apps has that option.
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Irwenzhao said:
My camera app (from Illusion ROM) has the feature to take pics to SD cards by default.
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On Xperia Z1 too. We are talking about app data which can be moved to the SDcard instead of internal storage of the phone.
ex: game apk on the phone, game data on sd.
I use GL to SD root App. Needs a fix though. There's a post about it some where on here.
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I haven't even noticed the option was missing. Even my old Arc on Gingerbread had the App to SD card option.
Guys does anyone here solved this problem in xperia z1 to move applications in SD card because i dont want to fully loaded my internal memory which is only 16GB..
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I would like to know about that also. Since my phone is not rooted, how do you get apps to install directly to the SD card. thanks
Me too.
bhagiratha said:
I would like to know about that also. Since my phone is not rooted, how do you get apps to install directly to the SD card. thanks
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Still my apps is installed in my internal memory...i hope in the next release of their firmware or android kitkat it supports moving apps to sd card.
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gaboh24 said:
Guys does anyone here solved this problem in xperia z1 to move applications in SD card because i dont want to fully loaded my internal memory which is only 16GB..
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I don't think we can install apps on the SD card yet ):
The OS is unix based, you can create symbolic links in the internal memory to point to the External SD card. These links tell the OS to look in the location you specified whenever something requests that folder, pretty much seamless.
There are other tools that have been developed which automate some of this for you, if you are not comfortable typing in a terminal window.
There is already a thread about this, conclusion is that mattiad is not going to be doing an internal2external mod, been using his mod for years and I asked him, told me that without the device in his hands (probably donated as he isn't going to be buying it) it isn't going to be happening, mount points and code are different from the s3 apparently.
I've personally been using folder mount, it's a paid app but allows you to mount the larger games and apps found in android/obb or anywhere from one location to another.
Upped my memory to 5GB from 2GB, I've got about 4 large games and around 100 apps installed so it does work.
Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.devasque.fmount&hl=en_GB
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There is already a thread about this, conclusion is that mattiad is not going to be doing an internal2external mod, been using his mod for years and I asked him, told me that without the device in his hands (probably donated as he isn't going to be buying it) it isn't going to be happening, mount points and code are different from the s3 apparently.
I've personally been using folder mount, it's a paid app but allows you to mount the larger games and apps found in android/obb or anywhere from one location to another.
Upped my memory to 5GB from 2GB, I've got about 4 large games and around 100 apps installed so it does work.
Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.devasque.fmount&hl=en_GB
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Thanks mate!
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dladz said:
There is already a thread about this, conclusion is that mattiad is not going to be doing an internal2external mod, been using his mod for years and I asked him, told me that without the device in his hands (probably donated as he isn't going to be buying it) it isn't going to be happening, mount points and code are different from the s3 apparently.
I've personally been using folder mount, it's a paid app but allows you to mount the larger games and apps found in android/obb or anywhere from one location to another.
Upped my memory to 5GB from 2GB, I've got about 4 large games and around 100 apps installed so it does work.
Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.devasque.fmount&hl=en_GB
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Thank you for the hint. I hope, that after upgrading to 14.2.A.0.290 root will not be remove and rooting will not be so difficult.
schickel said:
Thank you for the hint. I hope, that after upgrading to 14.2.A.0.290 root will not be remove and rooting will not be so difficult.
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Root will happen and there will always be a way around things, the problem Z1 users are facing is a lack of dev's to accomplish these things. Just compare the note 3 forum with this one, huge difference.
The camera bug has obviously played a part in this but it's causing irreparable damage to the Z1 community and has probably put off some dev's we could sorely do with.
Hopefully it'll change withe new releases but as time goes on i'm losing faith to be honest.
dladz said:
Root will happen and there will always be a way around things, the problem Z1 users are facing is a lack of dev's to accomplish these things. Just compare the note 3 forum with this one, huge difference.
The camera bug has obviously played a part in this but it's causing irreparable damage to the Z1 community and has probably put off some dev's we could sorely do with.
Hopefully it'll change withe new releases but as time goes on i'm losing faith to be honest.
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Haha! Dont loose faith mate it's just a phone we people are more intellegent than technology, because humans created it..
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gaboh24 said:
Haha! Dont loose faith mate it's just a phone we people are more intellegent than technology, because humans created it..
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Wearing very thin my friend
Hi All, newb here, please forgive my question which can probably be answered by searching, but I am having a hard time deciphering a lot of this...
I have a Note 3 that I updated to 4.4.2 yesterday. It has never been rooted.
My biggest gripe is the SD card restrictions - namely the camera unable to save to SD card.
How can I root this phone?
Additionally, if I decide to go ahead with a new ROM, which ones are available and recommended. The 2 things I would like to retain are S-Pen functions and WatchON remote (i have a samsung smart TV and it works beautifully).
Before this I had a SG3 on slimbean, and loved it. When I moved to the Note 3, I was overall very happy and didn't have a desire to root after installing Nova Launcher.
Thanks!
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Hi All, newb here, please forgive my question which can probably be answered by searching, but I am having a hard time deciphering a lot of this...
I have a Note 3 that I updated to 4.4.2 yesterday. It has never been rooted.
My biggest gripe is the SD card restrictions - namely the camera unable to save to SD card.
How can I root this phone?
Additionally, if I decide to go ahead with a new ROM, which ones are available and recommended. The 2 things I would like to retain are S-Pen functions and WatchON remote (i have a samsung smart TV and it works beautifully).
Before this I had a SG3 on slimbean, and loved it. When I moved to the Note 3, I was overall very happy and didn't have a desire to root after installing Nova Launcher.
Thanks!
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no root yet
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no root yet
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ugh. So i'm stuck with a phone that doesn't save pictures to the SD card?
the same SD card that had an android on the packaging?
Thanks google.
I just upgraded to 4.4 and I'm able to take pictures and they save to my SD with no problem. I went into the setting and I have the choice of saving to the "Device" or "Card".
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I just upgraded to 4.4 and I'm able to take pictures and they save to my SD with no problem. I went into the setting and I have the choice of saving to the "Device" or "Card".
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unfortunately mine won't save to card. It's always been set to "card" but now when i snap a pic, it tells me it can't save to card and it has switched it to device for me.
This is a known issue with 4.4.2 and the only fixes are inserting some new code... which requires root. So I'm wondering how to root.... some say it can be done, other say it can't.....
aceniza said:
unfortunately mine won't save to card. It's always been set to "card" but now when i snap a pic, it tells me it can't save to card and it has switched it to device for me.
This is a known issue with 4.4.2 and the only fixes are inserting some new code... which requires root. So I'm wondering how to root.... some say it can be done, other say it can't.....
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Sorry to hear that Aceniza. After reading your post, I quickly took a picture, then immediately went to the My Files app, and verified that it saved the pic to my sdcard. I hope your not the only one with this issue.
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Here's the weird part -
Last night I pulled the battery and reset... it saved to SD card a few times before giving me the error message.
Today I backed up my SD card and pulled it in preparation of a root that may or may not exist....
Upon reinstalling, it is saving to SD card.
I have it pulled again right now. Trying to root via Kingo, although it's reported not working.
Supposedly Chainfire (firechain? i forget) works, however trips the KNOX detector thing.
Cross your fingers!
Kingo is not supported... Oh well.... was worth a shot
Please remember that questions belong in the QA section.
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i gave up. called att and requested for a new phone to be warrantied. its a big deal to me not being able to store photos on my sd card directly from the camera.
only downside is they don't know whether the replacement will have JB or kitkat
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Wow...
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graydiggy said:
Wow...
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why wow?