I'm looking to move apps to my memory card, especially an offline wikipedia but I can't see any option. Also any third party apps don't seem to work.
I'm rooted. Running slimkat
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Install sd card fix KK, and some app2sd app from google play and try again
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Is it the norm to move/install apps (that support it) to the SD? I'm thinking moving mine, but does moving disturb anything? Will I be able to update the apps regularly still?
Sorry for the noob question
You can move any App that has the ability to be moved. They will update regularly and you should not have any problems. That being said there are a few Apps out there that will lose some features if moved to the external like the jorte calender when moved to external you will lose the capacity to use the widgets. Hope this helped!
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Hm. I use Jorte...I guess I'll leave my widget apps alone just in case.
If I were to change my SD card (for a bigger one) I guess I'd have to move them back to the phone and then back to the new card?
It is my understanding that you would not have to but I am sure that if I am wrong that someone more experienced than me will post a correction. I have taken my sd card out when the phone had been worked on by at&t and the Apps that were on sd still worked
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a few catches do exist. you can't create a widget for an app that is on SD. Also some apps don't work reliably when on SD, e.g. sms backup's auto backup feature doesn't work if the app is on SD.
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Apps are all in phone memory. I have 1.5+ available app storage.
Does anyone have a fix to prevent my Droid 3 from uninstalling my apps for no apparent reason?
Try rebooting the phone a few times to see if they come back. I had this problem before with certain apps. Sometimes they wouldn't show up but a reboot often brought them back
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Generally only happens when you have apps on the external sd card, a lot of apps default to this when installing or even updating. A restart will fix this as Andoroid said but just move the apps to the internal memory, you may be surprised you still have some on external.
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somemadcaaant said:
Generally only happens when you have apps on the external sd card, a lot of apps default to this when installing or even updating. A restart will fix this as Andoroid said but just move the apps to the internal memory, you may be surprised you still have some on external.
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Especially ones with widgets. Widgets don't play well from the sd-ext card.
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Is it possible to make your external SD card your main storage source when installing apps and downloadng files?
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Pure+ said:
Is it possible to make your external SD card your main storage source when installing apps and downloadng files?
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Unfortunately, nope. As far as I can tell, most of that will be fixed once we can root and install the SDFix, but until then...we're SOL. The most you can do right now is use the SD card as the main storage for the camera and music that you transfer to it. For apps, you're limited only to the apps that specifically comply to the new SD restrictions and even then all you can do is move most the app data.
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Unfortunately, nope. As far as I can tell, most of that will be fixed once we can root and install the SDFix, but until then...we're SOL. The most you can do right now is use the SD card as the main storage for the camera and music that you transfer to it. For apps, you're limited only to the apps that specifically comply to the new SD restrictions and even then all you can do is move most the app data.
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Well that's a real downer. =(
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Yeah, definitely sucks. I'm using doubleTwist as my music/podcast app and it won't let me use the SD card as my main storage. So now I have to go through the annoying task of manually moving the downloaded podcasts to my SD card. Not really that annoying, but it's just an extra step that I shouldn't need to do
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.
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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.
I am having trouble with getting SD-EXT or else i'm misunderstanding its use....I downloaded an app that needs Google Play services.....but when I try to download Google Play services, it says insufficient space....now granted, I don't have anything but what the ROM comes with and one app I downloaded from Google Play (12MB) and it won't allow me to download Google Play Services update......
Answered you in your other post, sounds like you have a bad SD card, which may be why you can get those ROMs working in the threads you posted in. Try a new SD card, if you still have issues be sure to write down all info from bootloader screen here as well
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