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moving apps to sd?

Is there a way to move all your apps to the sd card? I have apps2sd but I have so many apps that my internal storage is almost full even after I moved all my apps that will go. But is there a way to trick the phone to install them all to the sd card? Im rooted.

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Bumpity Bump Bump. I would also like to know the answer to this question.

i use move2sd enabler...it's on the market.
what it will do is enable it so you can move ALL apps to sd card...even those that dont let you...just keep in mind not all apps will work from the sd card. but you dont lose anything by trying.
i've moved large files like NFS Shift and other games that dont normally have the move option, and they work just fine. same thing for the fascinate lwps that you flash, etc.
try it out
install move2sd enabler, run it and click i've read, next, and set it to external. click ok. then you move the apps through the Application Management part of the Settings

skittlesV1 said:
Is there a way to move all your apps to the sd card? I have apps2sd but I have so many apps that my internal storage is almost full even after I moved all my apps that will go. But is there a way to trick the phone to install them all to the sd card? Im rooted.
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Titanium backup also always you to move ALL user app to SD.
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quck question on this...i have used the apps2sd and titanium to move apps to my sd...when i do i dont have the icons anymore to use the app...am i doin sumthing wrong ?

jahnile said:
Titanium backup also always you to move ALL user app to SD.
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when I did this first my phone rebooted, tried again, rebooted again, then tried again and it went through like 160 apps in like five min or so, then checked available memory and nothing changed, rebooted to see if anything would change and nothing changed, any word what im doing wrong? fresh 3.3

Isint there something to do where you have to partition your sd card?

[Q] HTC EVO Internal Space Full.

Hi guys I've been messing around with my phone all day. I have been restoring my apps back onto my phone and all that good stuff. I finally fixed my phone and when I was restoring my phone it tells me that my internal space is getting full. How is that possible if I only have 2 apps from the market installed? Any ideas?
thanks!

try clearing cache of your apps. If you have root access, download cachemate and use that. you can also move apps to your SD card to free internal space.
hope this helps
edit: you can also try wiping your phone back to stock if you continue with these issues

Weird I uninstaled Google maps update and and I now have 45MB of internal storage. lol??

Im restoring my apps then going to move them to my SD. Whats a good program to move them?

actually now it's giving me the error again..lol 45mb storage left too. weird

steveojp said:
Im restoring my apps then going to move them to my SD. Whats a good program to move them?
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If you are using a custom ROM and it supports it then apps2sd because you can actually go beyond the 512 MB limit, you can make it as large as your entire SD card if you like... of course it has a trade off: the card must be repartitioned before you can use apps2sd meaning that you need to copy your card over a computer, partition and then copy back your stuff.

I use and would recommend that you use froyo to move apps to SD card. You can also move apps from the SD card back to your internal memory.
You can move most apps to SD Card; but some apps you do not have the option to move to SD card, and must remain on internal phone storage.
Follow these simple steps to move / to know whether the app can be moved or not.
1. Open Settings -> Applications ->Manage Applications and tap on the app you want to move.
2. Tap on the box “Move to SD card”.
3. Now tap on “On SD Card” to know whether your app has been moved or not.
You can also move back the app to phone memory by tapping on application and then selecting “Move to Phone” option.

weaselp1 said:
I use and would recommend that you use froyo to move apps to SD card. You can also move apps from the SD card back to your internal memory.
You can move most apps to SD Card; but some apps you do not have the option to move to SD card, and must remain on internal phone storage.
Follow these simple steps to move / to know whether the app can be moved or not.
1. Open Settings -> Applications ->Manage Applications and tap on the app you want to move.
2. Tap on the box “Move to SD card”.
3. Now tap on “On SD Card” to know whether your app has been moved or not.
You can also move back the app to phone memory by tapping on application and then selecting “Move to Phone” option.
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The thing is..I only have 2 apps installed from the market and it's saying my internal memory is full. That just doesn't make sense.

Sprints stock ROM will give you a low storage warning when you have less than 45MB free space which I think is a little high. Thank god for apps2sd.

do you use the stock HTC mail app? if you do, try this: when you delete mail in the stock HTC mail app, it doesn't delete it, but just moves it to the 'Trash' folder? I've just cleared 6Mb that accumulated of the last month or so myself...
if all else fails, you might have to factory reset the evo.

thanks for all the help. so i needed up booting in recovery and clearing everything now it went to like 300mb and im restoring my apps. do you think i should put them on my SD card?

I would put what you can on your sd card...you can always move them back to the phone if needed
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curious to know what caused that low memory problem in the first place? that's just weird.

i am not sure what causes the memory leak; but others i know with evos have had the same issue and a factory reset has solved the issue every time. good luck!

[Q] Apps installed but gone from app drawer and cannot be launched.

2.2 Stock Rom, rooted, S-OFF
Apps are visible in the Settings-Applications-Manage Applications-Downloaded section, but there are no icons. Just a grayed out icon with a micro-sd card on it. Showing, what I assume to be, that it is on the SD card, but cannot be launched. The apps are not available via the app drawer.
Ideas?

Help anyone?

Have you tried uninstalling and then reinstalling them through the Market?

The market won't allow me to install anything. Whether it be a new app or a replacement for these. And starting over is not really a course I am looking to take unless absolutely necessary. Uninstalling and reinstalling 150+ apps does not sound like an entertaining time.
Also if it provides any clue, when in the setting-manage applications area, the sizes of the apps, that usually updates quickly, is forever stuck in the "computing..." phase.

150+ apps? Do you have any storage left? LOL

Sounds like you might have a SD Card problem.
A couple of suggestions -
1. Scan your SD Card (mounted in Windows) for errors. From "My Computer", right-click on the drive and go to Tools. Select the Disk Check.
2. Uninstall the "missing" applications. Go to Settings->SD & Phone Storage and Unmount SD Card. Try to install the applications. If this works, remount the SD Card when you are done. You can use this method to try to install new apps as well.
3. Some people have had luck with deleting the .android_secure folder from the SD Card (this is where Android stores your apps on the SD Card).
If you still can't download any new apps, you might want to go to Settings->Applications->All and clear try to clear the cache (and then the data if needed) and Force Close Market. This may help. If you notice that all of your downloaded apps disappear from the Market, downloading a new app usually fixes that problem for me.
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The market won't allow me to install anything. Whether it be a new app or a replacement for these. And starting over is not really a course I am looking to take unless absolutely necessary. Uninstalling and reinstalling 150+ apps does not sound like an entertaining time.
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subcypher said:
150+ apps? Do you have any storage left? LOL
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185 actually (just did a quick count). And yes, plenty of storage. 32gb (with only 8gb taken up) sd card, and 200mb left on the internal.

nivron said:
Sounds like you might have a SD Card problem.
A couple of suggestions -
1. Scan your SD Card (mounted in Windows) for errors. From "My Computer", right-click on the drive and go to Tools. Select the Disk Check.
2. Uninstall the "missing" applications. Go to Settings->SD & Phone Storage and Unmount SD Card. Try to install the applications. If this works, remount the SD Card when you are done. You can use this method to try to install new apps as well.
3. Some people have had luck with deleting the .android_secure folder from the SD Card (this is where Android stores your apps on the SD Card).
If you still can't download any new apps, you might want to go to Settings->Applications->All and clear try to clear the cache (and then the data if needed) and Force Close Market. This may help. If you notice that all of your downloaded apps disappear from the Market, downloading a new app usually fixes that problem for me.
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1. Done, and done. No errors. I'm used to external and flash media, so this was one of the first things I did.
2. Unmounting the card gets a force close. I select it like normal, but it gives no confirmation, and after a bit gives me the force close message. Going to have to power off and remove the SD card for this option.
3. Noted, will look into that option shortly.
While I can force close and clear data from the market, the clear cache button does nothing. Trying option 2 now.

What ROM are you using? Is it possible that your launcher, widget, or some other system application is on the SD card?
Also, if you clear the Data, it automatically clears the cache, which is why it is grayed out.
If you have a terminal emulator application or access to adb, you can unmount the SD card from a shell and see if that helps.
FIT-Performance said:
1. Done, and done. No errors. I'm used to external and flash media, so this was one of the first things I did.
2. Unmounting the card gets a force close. I select it like normal, but it gives no confirmation, and after a bit gives me the force close message. Going to have to power off and remove the SD card for this option.
3. Noted, will look into that option shortly.
While I can force close and clear data from the market, the clear cache button does nothing. Trying option 2 now.
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FIT-Performance said:
2.2 Stock Rom, rooted, S-OFF
Apps are visible in the Settings-Applications-Manage Applications-Downloaded section, but there are no icons. Just a grayed out icon with a micro-sd card on it. Showing, what I assume to be, that it is on the SD card, but cannot be launched. The apps are not available via the app drawer.
Ideas?
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Use a file manager to look for one of your apps, which I imagine you moved into the apps2sd "folder" on the sdcard. That should tell you the state of the sd card as well. When apps2sd is used it only moves part of the apk to the sdcard, that's why the system still sees the part not on the sdcard.
Get an apk from market ( except you can't ) to fix the symlinks.
If you do a nandroid restore, the issue will still be there cause you did use the ext partition, in apps2sd.
You do get one chance in market to reload all your missing apks, but if you close market it won't remember the missing apks.

nivron said:
What ROM are you using? Is it possible that your launcher, widget, or some other system application is on the SD card?
Also, if you clear the Data, it automatically clears the cache, which is why it is grayed out.
If you have a terminal emulator application or access to adb, you can unmount the SD card from a shell and see if that helps.
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Stock 2.2, rooted, s-off. Using LauncherPro, and no it is not on the SD card. I can navigate it easily and launch any applications from it that are not on the SD card.
Good to know about the data/cache link. Although the cache never acutally gets grayed out. I press the clear data button, confirm the decisions, and it stays in the "recalculating size" (might not be verbatim there) message and never goes away.
Good idea. Although I am going to report that the problem is fixed now, as I took a little more direct route. Steps are below for anyone that has the same problem as I:
Problem: Apps on the SD card are not loading. Visible in the Settings-Manage Applications area, but not unable to actually launch via shortcuts on home screen and do not appear in the app drawer. Unmounting the SD card via the settings gets a force close. Restarts do nothing, clearing the Data/Cache from the market app does nothing. This occurred randomly and has also occurred after apps that were installing/being updated from the market and got stuck in an "install loop", as in they said they were "installing" but never did.
My Solution: Power down, remove SD card, power up, force close market, clear data, power down, install SD card, power up, enjoy.
As stated above unmounting the SD card via terminal or adb might work as well. I cannot confirm as I went the more "direct" route. I thank everyone for their help. This community, quite simple, rules.

apps to sd after switching roms

If I have the app on the sd card before switching roms, does that app data stay on the sd card taking up space when putting the app back on the new rom and moving to the sd card?
I just started using mybackup root to reinstall my apps since I like to switch roms alot. I noticed my sd card was losing space when I wopuld just go to the market and reinstall everything from scratch using appbrain to reinstall my apps.

vader4633 said:
If I have the app on the sd card before switching roms, does that app data stay on the sd card taking up space when putting the app back on the new rom and moving to the sd card?
I just started using mybackup root to reinstall my apps since I like to switch roms alot. I noticed my sd card was losing space when I wopuld just go to the market and reinstall everything from scratch using appbrain to reinstall my apps.
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My experience has been that the new rom won't see any apps you moved to the SD card. Plus, you won't be able to move any restored apps to the SD card because of the old copy.What I do is delete the .android_secure directory. That's where the apps are stored. It may look empty but if you connect to a PC and look in the directory all the apps will be there.
I think deleting the .android_secure directory should be standard practice when restoring a backup.

Thanks, I'll try that.

vader4633 said:
Thanks, I'll try that.
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This doesn't belong in development. Post questions in Q&A.
Apps to SD apps will only show up on the Rom they were moved on.

I don't know if this helps. but when i switch roms. i install easy installer from the market and all the apps show up and i can choose what to install on the new rom. i thought this might help. or you can remove it from there as well.....

So something strange just happened...

I Odined back to bone stock non rooted. I go to marketplace and download a few apps I need to get back up and running. One is Navigon, which I made a copy of all its downloaded maps and transferred them to my sdcard earlier. Also another app is My Backup Pro, same thing, backed everything up on to my sdcard. Now before I tried to move the maps and backups to the sdcard through the apps themselves, but they wouldnt ever find the sdcard. Now I was going to copy everything back to the internal memory, but the apps find the back ups on their own! I dont need to transfer anything over, its like the apps all of a sudden can use the external card.
Why now? What happened?

Many times apps that need additional data don't really get rid of it from the internal storage even after uninstalling the app. I guess the data was retained in the internal storage through ur rom change and so the apps are just able to find it. But its really annoying that certain apps don't get rid of all associated data during uninstallation.
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I think what I'm trying to say in my ramblings is I thought Samsung took away the ability to read/write to the sd card for apps?

I think Samsung disabled many sdcard functions. See this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1807824
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stevessvt said:
I think what I'm trying to say in my ramblings is I thought Samsung took away the ability to read/write to the sd card for apps?
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Yea I have navigon and downloaded all the state maps. Then I copied them to the sd, then deleted maps on internal sd, navigon still has the maps. ??
thank me if I helped

Yes! Exactly. So, I guess in a round about way we can move app data to the external card. At least for some apps.