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So the stock "move app to SD" app in 2.2 isn't the greatest. It's selective in the apps it let's you move, and it doesn't move your cache, which sometimes is larger than the program you're tying to move.
I know there's a few different apps to SD programs. From experience, which is best?
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DarkkEnergy said:
Titanium backup
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Hah! I didnt even see that feature!
Bonus...
Ti backup is best for app2sd.
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TiBackup aside, there are several Apps2SD apps on the market. All perform the same basic function, so it would come down to your aesthetic preferences as to which one you like. Before I discovered the feature in Ti, I used MoveToSD
So this may be a dumb question...
Is it pretty much safe then to move any app that is not part of Android to your SD?
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So this may be a dumb question...
Is it pretty much safe then to move any app that is not part of Android to your SD?
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Short answer: Yes.
Longer answer: Use one of the many apps2sd apps available to do so.
The only apps that CANT be moved are services, widgets and apps that don't have it compiled in. If you move an app to SD, any widgets will be disabled (if a dev factors this in, they will not enable apps2sd support in their application)
The aforementioned apps2sd apps will take care of the 'can it or can't it?' for you.
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Short answer: Yes.
Longer answer: Use one of the many apps2sd apps available to do so.
The only apps that CANT be moved are services, widgets and apps that don't have it compiled in. If you move an app to SD, any widgets will be disabled (if a dev factors this in, they will not enable apps2sd support in their application)
The aforementioned apps2sd apps will take care of the 'can it or can't it?' for you.
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Well I have Titanium Back up. When I moved my apps using the built in Apps2SD I got the idea that it was usually apps that used personal information that I could not move to my SD. But when I read above that TiBackup could move apps, I gave it a look. It looks like it can move most of my apps over and double my amount of free space on my phone. So I was just trying to make sure lol.
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Well I have Titanium Back up. When I moved my apps using the built in Apps2SD I got the idea that it was usually apps that used personal information that I could not move to my SD. But when I read above that TiBackup could move apps, I gave it a look. It looks like it can move most of my apps over and double my amount of free space on my phone. So I was just trying to make sure lol.
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I tell ya, since we finally got Froyo, I'm less conservative w/ the apps I install now. Stuck on Donut, I'd uninstall this app and that app, to make room for another, then swap back n forth. Rinse. Repeat.
Now I'm only limited by the size of my SD card w00t!
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I tell ya, since we finally got Froyo, I'm less conservative w/ the apps I install now. Stuck on Donut, I'd uninstall this app and that app, to make room for another, then swap back n forth. Rinse. Repeat.
Now I'm only limited by the size of my SD card w00t!
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Oh yeah, I went from the stock 1Gb SD card to a class 4 8Gb a while back and felt it was basically useless except to store DVD rips to watch on my phone. Now that I can move my apps to my SD card I am going to go back and look for all the ones I liked but had no room for lol.
I forced all user apps with Titanium to SD. Only lost GMail. Not sure if anyone tried. Tons of room. Any idea why dropbox won't register on Ti? Its installed.
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Nevermind. I'm a noob.
Kyo M6000 Rooted with NoAds or Bloatware.
Has anyone had any issues with apps using the internal storage instead of the sd card? Any app I download it uses my internal storage to save. How do I change this so out users my external automatically?
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Yea I'm having the same phucking problem and I'm totally fed up with it. I'm about ready to return this POS because Motorola in their phucking infinite wisdom decided to partition the internal memory the way only an idiot would
Wtf? Are you freaking serious Moto? For real. I'd like to meet the idiot who's idea it was to come up with this.
Now we are all limited to a non removable 8gb SD card basically. I can piss 8gb. Where do I freaking put my music Motorola you dumb asses?
Every app I've installed and wanted to use can not have the default location for music changed. So I'm stuck with this tiny ass partition, and an empty 32gb card.
Why the hell even include an External SD card Motorola, why. Its useless
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Download App2SD from the market. You can move almost all the apps to the SD card.
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Yea I'm having the same phucking problem and I'm totally fed up with it. I'm about ready to return this POS because Motorola in their phucking infinite wisdom decided to partition the internal memory the way only an idiot would
Wtf? Are you freaking serious Moto? For real. I'd like to meet the idiot who's idea it was to come up with this.
Now we are all limited to a non removable 8gb SD card basically. I can piss 8gb. Where do I freaking put my music Motorola you dumb asses?
Every app I've installed and wanted to use can not have the default location for music changed. So I'm stuck with this tiny ass partition, and an empty 32gb card.
Why the hell even include an External SD card Motorola, why. Its useless
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I noticed this too when I installed the Amazon MP3 store although If you create a file on the External SD card and manually move your files there the music app will see it and play it from there. You can alse mount the phone on your computer and manually move them or use Astro File Manager to move them on the phone. It does suck though to have to jump through those hoops. Why you can't just change the default location is ludicrous.
Obviously, you guys got your Bionic very very recently.
DO NOT TRANSFER APPS TO SDCARD. IF YOU DO, YOU WILL LOSE THE APPS AND YOU NEED TO REINSTALL THEM!
MOTO configured Bionic differently (stupid!), and forces all apps to be installed in internal memory.
However, you can still save your media files on the external sdcard.
p.s. Don't use APP2SD on Bionic.
Why is their a better app? Is their a fix
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Obviously, you guys got your Bionic very very recently.
DO NOT TRANSFER APPS TO SDCARD. IF YOU DO, YOU WILL LOSE THE APPS AND YOU NEED TO REINSTALL THEM!
MOTO configured Bionic differently (stupid!), and forces all apps to be installed in internal memory.
However, you can still save your media files on the external sdcard.
p.s. Don't use APP2SD on Bionic.
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Why the hell would moto do that. Hopefully a ROM can fix this issue.
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Invixtus said:
Why the hell would moto do that. Hopefully a ROM can fix this issue.
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mngdew said:
Obviously, you guys got your Bionic very very recently.
DO NOT TRANSFER APPS TO SDCARD. IF YOU DO, YOU WILL LOSE THE APPS AND YOU NEED TO REINSTALL THEM!
MOTO configured Bionic differently (stupid!), and forces all apps to be installed in internal memory.
However, you can still save your media files on the external sdcard.
p.s. Don't use APP2SD on Bionic.
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I've been using since day one and it works fine. I haven't lost any apps and haven't had to re-install any of them.
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I've been using since day one and it works fine. I haven't lost any apps and haven't had to re-install any of them.
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You can use the program to move apps to the media area without issue. As for moving them to the microSD, it won't let you do that, even with root. So, I'm not sure what the fuss is about?
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I've been using since day one and it works fine. I haven't lost any apps and haven't had to re-install any of them.
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When your phone boots up, it fails to properly recognize apps saved to the media area.
To prevent it, just keep all your apps saved to phone until an OTA arrives addressing it.
Search the forums for disappearing apps to get filled in.
OK I thought the media area was the SD card. But I still haven't had a problem with the apps disappearing.
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OK I thought the media area was the SD card. But I still haven't had a problem with the apps disappearing.
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Neither have I, and I've been using it for almost a week. FWIW, I haven't seen any of the reports of this problem mention Gingerbread or the Bionic. Not saying it can't happen, but I think app updates have fixed the problem.
UPDATED: Been losing apps left and right today. This isn't an APP2SD issue, but a Bionic issue stemming from the way those tards at MOT decided to partition the internal storage. Why do companies do stupid crap like this?
While I was playing around with my lapdock I discovered something intersting.
I was installing some apk files from my back and discovered that my lapdock had several partitions mounted which started with "com."
It didn't take me long to realize that they were the programs moved to my media area.
They apeared as Ian drives and couldn't be innounted.
I devices to test out a suspicion and restarted only to find that those apparatus disappeared.
After some more testing I realized that by moving the files on the phone between the storage and phone until it no longer loads that app as a drive, then that app won't disappear when the phone is powered off or rebooted.
I know that not everyone has a lapdock to get around the disapearing apps, but this is a temporary solution until a fix is actually released.
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Motorola! Fix your crap and quit slipping!
i'm so confused about this, i had noticed when i loaded my sd card nothing was getting recognized like widget locker themes stuff like that. then i notice that everything is getting downloaded to the internal memory. i went into settings> storage and changed download location to sd card, but everything is still downloading to internal memory. i just don't understand why it isn't looking at my sd card automatically like all of my other phones did, droid x, t-bolt, og. it's driving me effing crazy though. can someone maybe explain in dummy terms what is going on?
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i'm so confused about this, i had noticed when i loaded my sd card nothing was getting recognized like widget locker themes stuff like that. then i notice that everything is getting downloaded to the internal memory. i went into settings> storage and changed download location to sd card, but everything is still downloading to internal memory. i just don't understand why it isn't looking at my sd card automatically like all of my other phones did, droid x, t-bolt, og. it's driving me effing crazy though. can someone maybe explain in dummy terms what is going on?
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Look at it like this...
Your phone has 16GB of internal memory.
4GB you never see. The system uses that 4GB
8GB is read as internal storage. Motorola designed that for media. That means your videos, pictures and documents.
4GB is for apps. This is where it gets complicated. These 4GB is dedicated to your apps. It was designed to be unintrusive with your main partition.
You shouldn't have to move to SD. Not needed.
Some wishets will only be recognized when the app is on your phone partition.
Does this answered your question?
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Just go into "settings, applications, manage applications" and click the "media area" tab. Any apps that have a "check mark" in them are stored to what is called the "media area." If it reads "com.*" then it has already been uninstalled. Just go reinstall it. Then go in there and all the apps with the check mark... click on the app, and then click the "move to phone" button. Wait a few seconds while it transfers it.
Sadly this is annoying and also sometimes makes the market think that the apps are not installed.
Freaking Motorola. They make such good hardware, it's a pity they put such crap inside.
Hi there,
I'm pretty new to using Android so forgive me for any noobiness. I have a Sony Xperia T which I haven't rooted. Lately, when apps are trying to go through an update, I get a message telling me that there is insufficient internal storage. When I check my phone, I find that the device memory is almost full (with only 232 MB left) but the internal storage actually has 8.17GB left. So what I'd like to ask is whether there's a way for me to either move stuff to the internal storage (without affecting how my apps, etc. work) or, better still, to make the phone save things in the internal storage.
Kind regards,
Chrissy
You can move apps to SD to get some more storage, but imho 232MB is still quite a lot. You can also choose to remove the notification by long-pressing it and choose app-info or something like that.
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Mad Marty said:
You can move apps to SD to get some more storage, but imho 232MB is still quite a lot. You can also choose to remove the notification by long-pressing it and choose app-info or something like that.
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I don't have an SD card on my phone and there's still supposed to be 8.17GB worth of free storage that's actually on my phone. And 232MB is apparently not enough for my phone to allow the Google search app to update itself nor is it enough for me to download new apps, so removing the notification isn't gonna help...
The 8.17GB is all yours and cannot be utilized to install apps. The app installation space is limited. But what you can do is move some heavy apps such as games to internal storage and try your update.
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The 8.17GB is all yours and cannot be utilized to install apps. The app installation space is limited. But what you can do is move some heavy apps such as games to internal storage and try your update.
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How do I move the stuff to internal storage (as opposed to it being saved on the device memory)? Is there a folder?
Settings -> Apps -> swipe to the right for Internal -> select apps that you want to move to Internal. That is actually also what I meant by move to SD
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Mad Marty said:
Settings -> Apps -> swipe to the right for Internal -> select apps that you want to move to Internal. That is actually also what I meant by move to SD
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Hello...I have installed some game.Game's Data is stored at Android/Obb in internal storage.But I also have an microSD with 16GB capacity,I want to move all data game to microSD card but no luck.So result is my phone always display notification about full storage....How can I move data game to microSD??? Thanks!
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Hello...I have installed some game.Game's Data is stored at Android/Obb in internal storage.But I also have an microSD with 16GB capacity,I want to move all data game to microSD card but no luck.So result is my phone always display notification about full storage....How can I move data game to microSD??? Thanks!
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I havent tried this but for phones which come with large internal storage, I don't think it is possible to move to the SD card. You can remove the internal storage full notification if you want. Google for it.
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Settings -> Apps -> swipe to the right for Internal -> select apps that you want to move to Internal. That is actually also what I meant by move to SD
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OH THAT IS FANTASTIC! Thank youuuuuuuu!! I wish there was some sort of 'select all' rather than having to tick every one but still, AWESOME! Thank you thank you!!
I usually move all the google apps to sd via TB. But i noticed that i cannot do that in Z1. Any reason why? Also i dont see the move to SD within Settings>Apps.
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I usually move all the google apps to sd via TB. But i noticed that i cannot do that in Z1. Any reason why? Also i dont see the move to SD within Settings>Apps.
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i was disappointed with this too, currently that option is not available for some reason with z1, its supposed to be like that. you will have to use apps like link2sd if you want to move apps
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i was disappointed with this too, currently that option is not available for some reason with z1, its supposed to be like that. you will have to use apps like link2sd if you want to move apps
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Thats sad, I wonder if this has something to do with locked boot loader?
I tried freeing up space on internal memory by moving pictures,videos and apps to external card when I fix I lost pictures and apps show up in the app drawer but they are greyed out and say not installed. Anyone no why
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I tried freeing up space on internal memory by moving pictures,videos and apps to external card when I fix I lost pictures and apps show up in the app drawer but they are greyed out and say not installed. Anyone no why
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What are you using to move them? Is this just on stock ROM? Are you rooted? More details, please.
slimbrady said:
What are you using to move them? Is this just on stock ROM? Are you rooted? More details, please.
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rooted S-off and on stock rom. ive used es file explorer and htc free space to move the items.
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rooted S-off and on stock rom. ive used es file explorer and htc free space to move the items.
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Ok so you're not using an app designed specifically for moving other apps/etc to your SD then. With that being the case you'll need to be very careful in where you're pulling the data from if you expect it to continue functioning as it used to.
You mentioned initially that your moved pictures and videos still show up in the app drawer but are greyed out and say not installed....this is a bit confusing as pictures and videos are usually just single file images or single file video clips and would not ever actually show up in the app drawer and are instead accessed via an app from the app drawer like Gallery or Google Photos, etc. Generally speaking, the apps themselves are usually much smaller than the total amount of space taken up by your videos or (if you have a lot) pictures....you don't even need that many pictures to start adding up to a respectable size if they are all High Quality images.
So, I would recommend you attempt to undo the moves you've made thus far (though if you can't get the apps to show back up as normal then just reinstall them then clean your SD card and internal memory with a junk cleaner) and focus solely on ".img, .png, .mov, .mp3, .gif, .jpeg, .mp4" or any other similarly formatted files if you're doing the moves freely with a root explorer like ES.
If you really want to move your apps over, or at least some of them, try using an app specifically designed for that purpose as this will hopefully ensure they continue to function after the move.....If you're on the stock ROM you should be able to move the apps just by going to Settings > Storage I think or Settings > Apps. One of those two (pretty sure it's storage but I'm on AOSP rom atm so can't check sry) and then click on one of your apps you should get options to Force Quit, Clear Cache, Clear Data then below those you should see a Move to SD option.
Hope this helps! Let me know if I wasn't clear enough or you have further questions^^
No you were very clear I wasn't clear when I said the pictures and videos in the app drawer I should have said from the gallery they where showing up as an empty space Now I believe my card was just going corrupt because it's corrupted now
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i have this issue as well. When i transfer files like pictures and music from my internal to my external it says its transferred which is cool but when i reboot the device the files are gone. I have tried the sd card fix apps in the play store and it says its fixed but obviously not. It wont let me format either on the computer or on the phone or it says it does but it actually doesnt. So i have lost all hope on what to do i dont want to buy another card if this is going to happen to it.