It's taking up 11 mb of space on my phone
I don't wish to export it/delete my contacts. I want to free up my internal memory!
Please help
open contacts (people ) > click menu (three lines ) > choose import/export > choose export to SD card
Hey,
I don't wish to export it/delete my contacts. I want to free up my internal memory!
contacts/people memory usage - move to sd?
Just been looking at the memory usage, and getting a reading of 14mb for contacts.
Used the method to export contacts as above, and the files are coming out at 115kb (x2 phone contacts + gmail contacts).
I also have facebook & twitter contacts synced.
Is there any way to reduce the space the contacts take up, or as suggested by the OP, move them to the SD card.
If you have
1) unlocked, s-off-ed, rooted your phone
2) created an ext (1,2 or 3) partition on your SD card
3) a2sd(+) in your ROM, or installed some other app2sd -type set-up,
the you can move the contact storage data to SD card and replace it with a symbolic link (symlink) in the internal memory.
Have a look here:
http://android.modaco.com/topic/327625-contacts-storage/
I am also keen to know if there is any app which can simply move Contacts Storage to SD card and perhaps create a symlink in the process of doing so. Thanks!
easiest ways to move contacts to SD Card
The easiest ways to move contacts to SD Card is to use this free good tool (Apowersoft Phone Manager) As long as one click, you can make it come ture.
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I've been able to successfully so far move 'Barcode Scanner' & 'Titanium Backup' to "run" from my sd card. Certain apps fail when trying to move them to the sd card; it almost looks as if currently there is a size limitation - can only move apps under 1mb.
My question is, where exactly are these apps being stored on the sd card? I've searched '/mnt/sdcard' and haven't came up with anything.
I noticed this too.. I had about 3 apps that were all over 1mb that failed when trying to move them to the SD card... is this just a feature that isn't fully supported yet maybe?
Hi,
I noticed that some apps, for example droid comic viewer, camera 360, etc. would make a new folder in my SD card. Everytime I deleted those folders, the apps get deleted too.
All other 75+ apps I had, did not make new folders in my sd card.
There are also apps such as "vintage comic droid" that makes a new folder with a "." before it. This . means it is system files right ? Why do this one apps make system folder instead of regular folder like any other apps?
Does this means some apps are being installed directly to sd card, instead of EXT3 partition that I purposely setup for A2SD ?
through trial and errors, I now knows what has caused this. It was because application install settings in spare parts. When set to external, apps would go to SD card, instead of ext3 partition.
btw, can I delete these folders inside SD ?
.android_secure
.bookmark_thumb1
.footprints
Just got my GS2 today and I must say this is the easiest phone I have rooted to date! I have been working my way around the OS and found that apps are not seeing my files on my External SD Card. Is there a way to sort of sync these? I guess I dont mean sync, but have apps search both internal and external storage for files? Take beautiful widgets, I have a ton of images on the ex sd card. When I launch the app to apply one of those images it looks in phone storage and gives no option to search the ex sd card.
Thanks
cordell12 said:
Just got my GS2 today and I must say this is the easiest phone I have rooted to date! I have been working my way around the OS and found that apps are not seeing my files on my External SD Card. Is there a way to sort of sync these? I guess I dont mean sync, but have apps search both internal and external storage for files? Take beautiful widgets, I have a ton of images on the ex sd card. When I launch the app to apply one of those images it looks in phone storage and gives no option to search the ex sd card.
Thanks
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easiest thing would to move everything to the internal sd card. i dont like how the phone sees SD card (internal) then from there i have to navigate to the folder called 'external sd' to look at my microSD files.
tool2269 said:
easiest thing would to move everything to the internal sd card. i dont like how the phone sees SD card (internal) then from there i have to navigate to the folder called 'external sd' to look at my microSD files.
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Exactly, but what good is it to have an external card if the apps dont use it? If I have to move everything to the internal card, what can I put on the external card and be able to use/access? None of my apps recognize the external card, lol.
i use my external sdcard for music & movie business and use the internal for everything else. i sync back & forth between pc & cell a lot so having a CLEAN (aka, none of those extra android folders) sdcard makes browsing and syncing much easier, cleaner, and organized. also, without that android bloat i can tell exactly how much goodies i have just by looking at the size of external sdcard
ps: external sdcard is more or less just a subdir on the internal sdcard.... its /sdcard/external_sd if i remember correctly.
i just slap my movie files onto thte internal sd since i delete them afterwards... didnt realize 16 gb is a lot of space lol
I removed some movies from the internal memory but when i go to storage, the available free space is the same as when the movies where there. I held the movie file down and selected delete when the pop up menu came up.
Any suggestions to clear the inetrnal memory or do i need to format the usb storage which will delete everything from internal memory?
Thanks,
Ian B
Hello. I have I have installed on my S4 the rom hyperdrive RLS 10.2 and I have few questions.
1.-My phone showme a nag screen again and again : "memory storage left 2.8 GB" so, I see and have in "other files" the total 11.7GB , and view this "other files" , I see :
---Memory System 6.4 GB
--TRWP 3.21 GB
--TITANIUMBACKUP 1.27 GB
my question on this its: can I move manually this 2 folders from my memory to my External SD Card? and when I want to apply via restore ( If I need it ) the backup from TRWP the app can point to my External SD Card, where I left or move this backup ?
2.- I have two folders called "TRWP" one in memory phone and other in External SD Card... I dont know if in the past I copy from memory and past to External SD Card, so please can any tellme what its the last correctly backup?
thanks for all your repplys on this....
boni7010 said:
Hello. I have I have installed on my S4 the rom hyperdrive RLS 10.2 and I have few questions.
1.-My phone showme a nag screen again and again : "memory storage left 2.8 GB" so, I see and have in "other files" the total 11.7GB , and view this "other files" , I see :
---Memory System 6.4 GB
--TRWP 3.21 GB
--TITANIUMBACKUP 1.27 GB
my question on this its: can I move manually this 2 folders from my memory to my External SD Card? and when I want to apply via restore ( If I need it ) the backup from TRWP the app can point to my External SD Card, where I left or move this backup ?
2.- I have two folders called "TRWP" one in memory phone and other in External SD Card... I dont know if in the past I copy from memory and past to External SD Card, so please can any tellme what its the last correctly backup?
thanks for all your repplys on this....
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Yes, you can move TWRP and the Titanium Backup folder to your SD card. TWRP has an option up at the top that tells you if you're on the SD card or internal storage. Once you move those folders to your SD card, simply toggle that setting to the SD card and it will use your SD for your backups.
As for Titanium Backup, you'll have to manually set your backup location; just open the preferences -> backup folder location and point that to your SD card.
Hi, so got my M8 a few days and is my first time with kitkat, which is giving me some problems.
First is where has all my storage space gone, installed some and games and now only have 4gb left on 16gb phone?
A quick at storage settings and it usage shows
Apps 7gb
Other 5gb
Music and phones just a few hundred mb.
So what is this other category?
I have installed NFS most wanted, but i used to be able to store the data files on ext SDcard, same for MC4!
I tried moving NFC to ext sdcard, it moves the app, but it does not move the data?
If use the HTC Make more Space feature it shows apps at taking only 0.9 gb
I know kitkat has screwed up ext sdcard access, but why can't it move data to sdcard when i moves app ok?
The other issue i have with storage on ext sdcard is organising files, i have edited storage setting so everything is stored on ext sdcard.
I am photographer so being able to organise my images into folders is important, but how the hell can this be done with kitkat for files on ext sdcard as now file and photo mangers cannot write to ext sdcard?
If use the HTC Make more space available feature under storage it just moves all photos to one big folder on ext sdcard?
I tried the HTC Sync software on OSX and can create a new album and add photos stored ext sdcard to it, but it just creates the new album on internal memory and not ext scard?
This is so f***Up
There is not even any rime or reason with google apps, snapseed writes edited files to its own folder outside of gallery or dcim folder, and there is no way selecting what folder you want to write to?
I really don't want to root phone as need to be able to use banking apps that won't work with rooted phones.
Aside from having to remove sdcard every time to want to add or organise files on sdcard i am at a loss as to what to do?
really not happy with this new write restriction, even though the intention are good.
Any ideas welcome
thanks