Hi, I recently switched to custom ROMs because I was sick of having to deal with having no space on my internal storage and tons on my SD card because the bulk of it was apps and appdata (podcasts in stitcher, cached music from play music, large games like GTA + bards tale etc) which can't be moved to the SD card.
Since then I miss the camera functions of the stock sony ROMs and I'm wondering if there is any stock-based ROM available with apps2SD or similar funtionality enabled? I have looked through as many different threads on here as I could but none seem to mention it as a feature (although this also seems to be true with the feature listing for most custom ROMs, they just seem to have it enabled by default).
Thanks in advance
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I have had my windows phone for a couple of weeks, the HTC Surround. I went to the AT&T store and was looking at the Captivate. Did some quick browsing and to my surprise everything worked. I loved the icon format, the animated background, the ease of navigation, the multitasking, the sound was ok, it looked like flash was supported. I did not get to view any movies but the screen looked good. So I am thinking about exchanging my Surround. But I need a few questions answered.
1. Are there many available (free) apps
2. Does the software convert movies, and is the movie player included
3. Is there a FM radio built in
4. what is the available storage
thanks for any help
panflute
panflute said:
I have had my windows phone for a couple of weeks, the HTC Surround. I went to the AT&T store and was looking at the Captivate. Did some quick browsing and to my surprise everything worked. I loved the icon format, the animated background, the ease of navigation, the multitasking, the sound was ok, it looked like flash was supported. I did not get to view any movies but the screen looked good. So I am thinking about exchanging my Surround. But I need a few questions answered.
1. Are there many available (free) apps
2. Does the software convert movies, and is the movie player included
3. Is there a FM radio built in
4. what is the available storage
thanks for any help
panflute
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The phone running 2.1 does not support flash 10.1 but there are froyo roms in the development section that do.
The android market has many free apps.
The stock video player supports many formats but if you need to convert I'd suggest handbrake.
Currently there is no FM radio support and I'm not sure if there ever will be.
16GB internal and an external micro sd card slot.
Sent from my Captivate
3rd party apps?
Is the phone open for 3rd party apps or just the apps thru AT&T?
Is there an IRC chat client or a police scanner?
What about video news and AM/FM talk radio apps?
Any GPS apps?
thanks
You can sidelad apps if you read a "how to" here in XDA there are also more than 100,000 apps in the android market and I would say that at least 40,000 are free, switch to android, wp7 will die soon, plus the captivate will have true expandable storage. Seeing as how you can't even get official WP7 SD cards and u can use any SD with android.
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AT&T exchanged my Surround for the Captivate (Galaxy S) today. So far very happy. Better everything except the Surround had more sound, but its an OK tradeoff. I liked this phone the moment I saw it. Plenty of free apps, there's even an IRC client. Thanks for the advice. I'll be hanging around here learning the phone
-panflute
rooting phone
OK I got handbrake...not sure what is the right extension and resolution is best or what it will allow.
Does rooting your phone reset the phone back to default or do your settings and programs remain intact?
I enabled USB debugging mode, and now when i go back to the USB menu I now see 4 options (kies,media player, mass storage, and ask on connection)...is that right?
When i connect and choose media player the phone appears on my PC...if i choose mass storage, a new drive letter appears but i cannot access the phone...maybe it is becasue I dont have an SD card installed?
After rooting, should i delete the update.zip file on my phone?
thanks
Rooting gives you access to system files and folders. Nothing is lost unless you do a factory reset or master clear.
I'm an iPhone user, considering buying a capable Android phone with a small screen size. Xperia Z3 Compact is a serious candidate, it comes with 16GB flash (built in) with possibility to expand up to 128GB microSD. Is microSD extension (from the user point of view) fully equivalent to internal flash, or are there restrictions?
I know if I buy 128GB iPhone6, all that space is instantly available for anything that I want to put there (software, multimedia, in-app data). Moreover, I do not care or use any multimedia files, such as photos, videos, music. The extended memory will be used purely for app's software and in-app data. For example: offline navigation maps, Dropbox offline files, epub books, etc.
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I'm an iPhone user, considering buying a capable Android phone with a small screen size. Xperia Z3 Compact is a serious candidate, it comes with 16GB flash (built in) with possibility to expand up to 128GB microSD. Is microSD extension (from the user point of view) fully equivalent to internal flash, or are there restrictions?
I know if I buy 128GB iPhone6, all that space is instantly available for anything that I want to put there (software, multimedia, in-app data). Moreover, I do not care or use any multimedia files, such as photos, videos, music. The extended memory will be used purely for app's software and in-app data. For example: offline navigation maps, Dropbox offline files, epub books, etc.
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I know you're an iPhone user, but I assume those people can also read?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/z3-compact/general/questions-belong-t2868300
LOL, sarcasm from previous post aside, and to answer the question, currently you can only save photos/videos/music and that depends mostly if the apps you are using allow writing to the sdcard. Sony has added a nice feature in Storage to monitor and manually move the three types above. My Nexus 5 did not have this, so it is nice that Sony stepped up. However, as you stated, you basically want full reign over the sdcard, and that is not going to happen with ICS, unless you root the device. I have read that Google is lightening up its restrictions with the new Lollipop OS re sdcards, so you may want to wait.
Best to check the biggest apps if they support using sd. Sygic offline maps for example can be used from the sd.
Hello All, yes I’m new to this site and my Joying 4.4.4 radio. So far I’m really liking the radio and its features however I have a few questions I hope someone ca help me with. As I’ve started to load my favourite apps its fast running out of internal storage. Simple how do I store downloaded apps and Nav maps to my external 32GB USB. I see the option to move (some) apps to the internal 12GB storage but surely I can run another external storage device. Secod last question for now, how can I set PowerAmp as my default audio player. My navigation won’t announce over PowerAmp. Last question why are my app icons (pics) shrinking
Many Thanks
Hi everyone, new user here.
Just got a couple of 2015 fire's for myself and my 7 year old daughter and been playing around with the setup on mine first (as hers is a christmas present). I had installed rocket player so I could add music and videos to her profile (why the hell don't amazon allow this?!) and it was working well with having completely separate storage partitions essentially so I could have my own music and videos for the main profile but when I load the kids one my files are hidden so she only sees the music and videos that are safe for her.
So far so good except I've now added a 64gb micro sd card as the internal 8gb was disappearing fast - now I still have the two separate storage profiles but the SD card (where I actually want to store everything!) is common across both profiles so anything that's on there is visible to Rocket Player in both profiles (not so good...)
Am I missing something / doing something wrong or is this just a silly limitation of the operating system?
I don't see how it shouldn't be possible to have the same thing on the sd card, afterall it must just be a hidden folder system?
Any help appreciated, it's not a massive issue (as my fire will be for me exclusively eventually) but I was surprised this didn't just work as expected.
Thanks for reading (if you've got this far!), Matt
hi guys.... i bought note 5 32gb .... but this is horrible without microSD....
yes i know we can save our images and videos on wireless Hard drive and cloud storage....but what about applications and games... can i some how change location of my apps and games data; like we used to do in sd cards?
what about changing a destination of camera saving directory?:crying:
thanks a lot
Honestly, I would root the device, install a custom rom. Take out all bloat ware and save all pics and music to a cloud based storage. Apps and games would be saved to internal memory unless you don't mind carrying around the external sd card.