I need to change my 4GB to 8GB card.
Copying of files from one card to another at PC is enough or shoud I do something more? Do not want to loose anything...
This is fine. Just copy the files from your PC to the root of your new card and it will work as before.
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Thanks!
Class4 is OK for Desire?
Yes, class 4 is fine
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Done. One thing - after changement to new card it took some time to refresh all photos, music etc. At the beginning I had only 1/10 of all of my photos visible.
Kind of scary
after few minutes - all available, rescanned.
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hey there,
I'm using desire with leedroid 2.0 and my cache is very slow for pictures in gallerie, dialer one and in messages...
when I open a gallerie, it takes many seconds to fully load all thumbnails, even if I had this gallerie opened just 2 mins ago.
same in messages: it takes a while until all uesr-pics are loaded, like in dialerone.
but gallerie still is the slowest... aren't thumbnails saved to disk so that they are regenerated each time or whats the prob??
the only thing I could imagine is that I'm using app2sd and only have a class2 sd card so that (when there are already apps running from the sd card) the read-process is to slow... but for some thumbnails this should be enough IMO...
thanks so far!
I'm wanting a new memory card just for this reason alone. Apps, videos, and images often seem sluggish to load up.
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So u did buy another card or what!?
No not had chance to yet, not with the birth of my daughter recently
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Oh nice, okay, thats a big priority But perhaps another guy can help me
Anybody? Thanks!
Here's a noob question for ya: why are applications so much smaller when moved to the SD card? Are they compressed? Or is it just moving part of the application, then reporting the size of that small piece? If they're compressed then they're getting pretty good compression ratios lol...
For example:
Opera Mobile: ~21 MB to 100kb
The number you are seeing is what is left on the phones storage, when you move an app using the built in app2sd it still leaves a small amount on the phones storage, the only way to get the full app removed to the sd card is using a .ext partitioned sd card and a true apps2ext .
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tooshort
Hello guys,
I was wondering if anyone has used app2sd or any others to convert your apps in your internal to external memory
when i tried using app2sd it will put it on my external yes but as soon as i run an application like a game it will re download it and put it onto my internal. Anyone else having this issue?
there is another solution:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2109112
This solution works to swap internal with external but for 64G SD cards people are having issues so I am re framing from doing this method.
don't bother with this; there is so much room in your internal memory, that its a waste of time and effort..you will never fill up your internal app space.
I have 300 apps installed, and still have almost 7 gigs free...
Hi try the rom toolbox from play store to install app on sd card.
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wase4711 said:
don't bother with this; there is so much room in your internal memory, that its a waste of time and effort..you will never fill up your internal app space.
I have 300 apps installed, and still have almost 7 gigs free...
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That's not entirely true. Some people play various games which seemingly chew through storage space for all the media bits and pieces. Look through some of the directory bind threads for examples.
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That's not entirely true. Some people play various games which seemingly chew through storage space for all the media bits and pieces. Look through some of the directory bind threads for examples.
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I totally agree. With my 16gb GN2 I find myself low on internal storage all the time. Yes you can install literally 100's of smaller apps but games such as NFS: Most Wanted, Nova 3, Spider Man and many others nearing 2 gigs each or more, it's hard to have more than a few games installed before having to un install just to try out a new game that you're interested in. If you find a good work-around let me know. I've found that App Mgr III doesn't work with our devices (and many others) and my ROM Toolbox Pro only gives you the option to install all apps to either your internal or external without the option to pick and choose which goes where on an app to app basis.
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I use Directory Bind myself with my 64bg card.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1410262
I like this program because you select which apps you want to move to the sd card. It takes more work to use but once you get it setup it works flawlessly so far. I have like 25gb of games installed on my phone
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Exactly what I need! Looks very promising. Plan on giving it a try tonight or tomorrow. Thanks
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jev3gs said:
I use Directory Bind myself with my 64bg card.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1410262
I like this program because you select which apps you want to move to the sd card. It takes more work to use but once you get it setup it works flawlessly so far. I have like 25gb of games installed on my phone
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So you need to select each app separately then? Is there no way to do a batch select at all?
I'll read up on it more.
There is no way to do a batch selection. If you wanted you could select the folder before the game and that would be like doing it via a batch selection.
For example:
Let's say Shadowgun was saved in Android/Data/com.shadowgun/ (again this is not the exact location)
Instead of binding that location you could bind Android/Data/ instead. If you do that you will capture EVERYTHING in that directory now and anything that gets installed there in the future.
The downside of doing it that way is if an app wants to install into that location it will always force it to the sd card which is slower than internal memory. So Games like Asphalt 7 and Nova 3 take longer to load on sd card. So that is why I did one directory (game) at a time so I can choose which games are on the sd while others are on the internal. All games worked though via directory bind that I have tried.
Hope that helps.
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jev3gs said:
There is no way to do a batch selection. If you wanted you could select the folder before the game and that would be like doing it via a batch selection.
For example:
Let's say Shadowgun was saved in Android/Data/com.shadowgun/ (again this is not the exact location)
Instead of binding that location you could bind Android/Data/ instead. If you do that you will capture EVERYTHING in that directory now and anything that gets installed there in the future.
The downside of doing it that way is if an app wants to install into that location it will always force it to the sd card which is slower than internal memory. So Games like Asphalt 7 and Nova 3 take longer to load on sd card. So that is why I did one directory (game) at a time so I can choose which games are on the sd while others are on the internal. All games worked though via directory bind that I have tried.
Hope that helps.
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Thanks, so perhaps this method is not the best scenario for me as I am looking to have all my Apps and data plus music, videos etc out of internal storage on to sd card. Using this method if you update an app I assume it would go to internal and you would need t do the process for that app over again?
I guess I am wanting a seamless way of just swapping internal-external. The script I am using seems to work very well but I am concerned when I go to a 64GB card. I'll keep watching the posts in the _ext2sdcardnote2internal thread.
dsmturbo said:
Thanks, so perhaps this method is not the best scenario for me as I am looking to have all my Apps and data plus music, videos etc out of internal storage on to sd card. Using this method if you update an app I assume it would go to internal and you would need t do the process for that app over again?
I guess I am wanting a seamless way of just swapping internal-external. The script I am using seems to work very well but I am concerned when I go to a 64GB card. I'll keep watching the posts in the _ext2sdcardnote2internal thread.
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Actually when you do app updates it updates the info on the extsdcard and not internal.
So what happens is the software tricks the Os into thinking the data is on the internal card when it really is on the ext card. So everything happens automatically. You do not need to move the info every time there is an update.
I would suggest doing a small app and playing with it before you jump in all the way. Use Deadtrigger for an example, it won't take to long to transfer the data.
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jev3gs said:
Actually when you do app updates it updates the info on the extsdcard and not internal.
So what happens is the software tricks the Os into thinking the data is on the internal card when it really is on the ext card. So everything happens automatically. You do not need to move the info every time there is an update.
I would suggest doing a small app and playing with it before you jump in all the way. Use Deadtrigger for an example, it won't take to long to transfer the data.
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Thanks again. I am keeping an eye on the extsdcard2internalsdnote2 thread as well re: 64GB cards. The App2SDnote2 script I am using works well with 32gb card but unsure about 64gb card.
I'm torn between buying the Tab Pro 8.4 and the 2013 32GB Nexus 7. I like the 8" form factor, but I'm a bit hesitant about only having 16GB of internal storage. I haven't used a device with an SD card slot in quite some time, so I'm wondering how well an Android 4.4 device handles it.
Can the large files that are downloaded by many games to the /Android/obb folder and /Android/data folder be put on the SD card?
Can cached content for Play Music/Play Movies be pushed to the SD card?
Those are my two big ones. Any feedback?
raptir said:
I'm torn between buying the Tab Pro 8.4 and the 2013 32GB Nexus 7. I like the 8" form factor, but I'm a bit hesitant about only having 16GB of internal storage. I haven't used a device with an SD card slot in quite some time, so I'm wondering how well an Android 4.4 device handles it.
Can the large files that are downloaded by many games to the /Android/obb folder and /Android/data folder be put on the SD card?
Can cached content for Play Music/Play Movies be pushed to the SD card?
Those are my two big ones. Any feedback?
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The latest versions of Android do not play well with SD drives. There is a thread about this here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2656151
Once you do THIS, you can use the SD card for pretty much anything. I'd also note that most, if not all, custom ROM's that will be available in the future will have the media_rw issue patched.
raptir said:
I'm torn between buying the Tab Pro 8.4 and the 2013 32GB Nexus 7. I like the 8" form factor, but I'm a bit hesitant about only having 16GB of internal storage. I haven't used a device with an SD card slot in quite some time, so I'm wondering how well an Android 4.4 device handles it.
Can the large files that are downloaded by many games to the /Android/obb folder and /Android/data folder be put on the SD card?
Can cached content for Play Music/Play Movies be pushed to the SD card?
Those are my two big ones. Any feedback?
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The Samsung My Files can copy and paste to the ext-sd so you can download to sd then transfer. Also from your PC you copy to the ext-sd. As stated above to give all apps access to the ext-sd you will need to root and add the permission.
I have 35 games on my tab 8.4 and i have been able to install almost all of themto my sd card. The only ones i havent been able to move to sd are the grand theft auto games.
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All you have to do is go to application manager and select move to sd. You dont need to mess around with the file manager.
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I loaded quite a number on the SD card as well without a single issue.
It is very simple to do. Using Tab Pro 8.4.
The sdcard non-rewritable problem is getting worse on me, I spent $15 USD buying a movie from Google movie and even their own app has option to save the movie onto sdcard, it couldn't be saved at the end.
will a fix from Samsung put an end to this stupidity? Or we should wait until Google releases 5.0?
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The sdcard non-rewritable problem is getting worse on me, I spent $15 USD buying a movie from Google movie and even their own app has option to save the movie onto sdcard, it couldn't be saved at the end. <br />
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will a fix from Samsung put an end to this stupidity? Or we should wait until Google releases 5.0?<br />
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You won't get any fix from Google. Samsung elected to do their own setup of the external storage rather than the Google recommended config. That's up to Samsung to fix.
The problem is that only about 10% of an app is actually getting moved to the sd card. I installed 4 games. All which can be moved over to the sd card. Very little was moved and my internal storage is full. Took it and my note 8 to best buy and the guys at samsung desk said that was just how samsung does the app to sd. So I returned the 8.4 as I was going to use it for gaming. I need more memory space
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Indeed the one flaw of this great tablet.
You can for now only get the 16gb version, so I topped it up with 64gb. Now only realizing you can hardly move stuff around. What's the logic in that?!?
For once I don't want to go through the hassle of root etc, but it seems we are left no choice...
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Use FolderMount, works great for me
wjharing said:
Indeed the one flaw of this great tablet.
You can for now only get the 16gb version, so I topped it up with 64gb. Now only realizing you can hardly move stuff around. What's the logic in that?!?
For once I don't want to go through the hassle of root etc, but it seems we are left no choice...
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Also was facing this situation with a GPS/NAV program that was taking over 4 GB of "internal" space due to the many maps installed, read about FolderMount and installed the free edition from the android market (you need to be rooted), easy to use and it nicely mapped and moved the folder from internal to SD-card memory, freeing + 4 GB for me ... I guess this will work with most other apps/games as well ...
Marcher
I don't know what's different for me but i have a 32gb card just about maxed out with google all access music and google play movies(6 or 8 HD files). Everything plays fine, no issues.
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manigault said:
I don't know what's different for me but i have a 32gb card just about maxed out with google all access music and google play movies(6 or 8 HD files). Everything plays fine, no issues.
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The media (audio/video/pictures) will automatically start using the external SD, that part is working perfectly by default.
The problem is when you install those large games (or indeed satnav maps). All that game data should ideally be saved on the external SD, but this is not working properly. I have some of those Gameloft 1gb games, and when I press 'move to sd', all it moves is the 25mb application, while I would like to have seen the whole 1gb of data to be moved across.
Installed a 64gb card and moved what I could over to it...how do I refresh my menu icons as the ones that got moved are now dark ghost ones.
Thanks,
KC
htc one m9 completely stock using 10 gb of data... After installing 15 apps memory is now using 17.75 gb of 32.
My 16 gb s3 with no sd card and 31 apps downloaded is only using 6.87 gb. What's everyone's take on this? This is a deal breaker for me.
bigp951 said:
htc one m9 completely stock using 10 gb of data... After installing 15 apps memory is now using 17.75 gb of 32.
My 16 gb s3 with no sd card and 31 apps downloaded is only using 6.87 gb. What's everyone's take on this? This is a deal breaker for me.
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stock rom on an S3 is 700MB
stock rom on an M9 is 1200MB
Nandroid on an S3 is 1100MB
Nandroid on an M9 is 7200MB
The S3 uses very old and poor graphics (720x1280 ? ) .. your M9 is using everything in FULL HD
the graphics alone on one game would equal 5 - S3 games
I'm pretty sure your going to see the same thing in any 2015 flagship phone
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Just going to be learning curve as this is my first phone with unlocked boot loader as well as
my first htc.
downloaded sdmaid and am positive that 540 duplicate files adding up to 16.86 gigs of memory has nothing to do with graphics.
(I was down to 3 gigs available storage after watching a couple of youtube videos and casting a couple of movies to my tv.)
First thing I will do is put my nandroids onto my pc, and external drive (for 2nd backup), and then just do some house cleaning. Not really sure after that.
I read somewhere something about ELF data linker?? Not really too sure if that is the issue nor how I will correct this issue. But I am persistent.
This is why this phone has an sd card slot. First thing I did was put in a 32gb card.
I'm 24/32gb on internal storage (all system/apps/random) and 16/32 on the card (music/photos/backups).
iElvis said:
This is why this phone has an sd card slot. First thing I did was put in a 32gb card.
I'm 24/32gb on internal storage (all system/apps/random) and 16/32 on the card (music/photos/backups).
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well having an sd card slot really has nothing to do with 16 gigs of duplicate files. But I did invest in a 128 gb sd card today. It is just going to drive me insane because I am a little ocd when it comes to files on my phone as well as data leakage.
bigp951 said:
well having an sd card slot really has nothing to do with 16 gigs of duplicate files. But I did invest in a 128 gb sd card today. It is just going to drive me insane because I am a little ocd when it comes to files on my phone as well as data leakage. Not that I care if the whole world knows that I watch porn on my phone. Just don't need the 'suggested ads' popping up while sitting in a classroom at school.
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So what were the 16 gigs of duplicates ? ..I'm not paying for the full version of SD maid just to see what files it finds
if it's all cache files from youtube a simple reboot will clear them out ? No ?
and what does suggested ads popping up have to do with phone storage ?
bigp951 said:
htc one m9 completely stock using 10 gb of data... After installing 15 apps memory is now using 17.75 gb of 32.
My 16 gb s3 with no sd card and 31 apps downloaded is only using 6.87 gb. What's everyone's take on this? This is a deal breaker for me.
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Buy and install folder mount and install all your games and large apps to your SD card. Problem solved.
There was a lot of cached files, duplicates in the help application, failed downloads from play store in the form of obb files (mortal kombat wouldn't download unless I unmounted my sd card), and sd maid said there were 4 twrp nandroids when I had 2 (that I knew of). I put my nandroids on my PC and then just ran sd maid. current available storage after installing mortal kombat (a 1gb game) is 17 gigs.
All other things aside I'm starting to love this phone. The graphics on mortal kombat combined with the boom sound make this phone awesome. Theming is easy, boot animations are cake. Once I find a mod to view videos while surfing the web (like Samsung) and another for split window I think I'll be content.