I just bought a 16gb micro sd card and installed it. Since then the only thing that seems to recognize it is the camera. I thought I was putting my apps onto the card, but when I look at my storage usage it looks like I haven't put any apps on my card. On "App to SD" I believe that I'm seeing the internal storage stats in the place where I should see my sd space. Any ideas on why it seems like my phone isn't making use of the extra storage?
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If you connect it to your computer it should mount both cards (internal & external).
If you want to acces files from your phone use an explorer program and go to /sdcard-ext.
A2SD and such use the default internal memmory (/sdcard).
I realised that Galaxy W got 3 layers of memory which is phone storage, USB storage and ext sd card, and I found out that most of the apps are saved in internal storage (USB storage), but it has very limited spaces, so I would like to move all the apps to my ext sd card.
Anyone can guide me that how to do so???
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There are 3 storage options on this phone...
ROM aka Device Memory = 1GB = Where apps install to.
Internal SD aka USB Storage = 2GB = Extra space
External SD aka SD Card = upto 32gb microSD card.
So you dont need to use an external SD card until you've used up nearly 3gb of space!
Have you used 3GB already?
Vyker said:
There are 3 storage options on this phone...
ROM aka Device Memory = 1GB = Where apps install to.
Internal SD aka USB Storage = 2GB = Extra space
External SD aka SD Card = upto 32gb microSD card.
So you dont need to use an external SD card until you've used up nearly 3gb of space!
Have you used 3GB already?
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There is no installation of apps on the so-called USB Storage/Internal Storage......This is intended for data associated with apps, and storage for stuff like pics/photos/music.
There is built-in App2SD support in all Androids since Froyo, but it is not automatically invoked....you need to go to Settings/Manage Applications.
Look under Downloaded, where all the d/l Apps are listed, and tap on any app you wish to install on your SD Card, your external SD card, this is not internal so-called SD/USB Storage.
Any App that can be moved, will have a Move to SD card option.....those which are not written to enable movement, will be greyed out.
You could also get App2SD from market, which will give you a notification when an App is downloaded that it can be moved, and allows you to do this when you select the notification. It works well......IMHO. I use it and cannot fault it.
There is also another App 2 SD, which does a similar job, but has a Pro paid-for version......reports on Market that it does not support External SD, which is what we have, so avoid....IMHO
Right so still abit confused over this. Before i installed Kerza'a rom onto the phone.
Under the settings and storage and where is shows sd card, usb storage and Device memory.
On sd card it use to show my 8gb card and in the usb storage it use to show the 1.7gb that came on the phone.
After i installed kerza's rom it switched. But no matter what i do my apps still save to the smaller 1.7gb space.
Is there anything that can be done?
This means that KP's ROM switches mount points for SD's, and your Large SD Card is now considered as Internal SD.......
and no Apps can be moved to Internal, by Samsung design, they move to external SD.
arco says this will change with ICS, when and if we get it......
On the good side, your apps are now on probably faster Internal Storage (now mapped as External SD)......and you have more than enough to cater for apps IMHO. And you can probably force move other apps, maybe with Titanium Backup, or other ways, just be careful, some Apps should not be moved, so trial and error.
Even when I used DT's A2SD, on my previous, the biggest sd-sxt I used was 1GB.
right now, I can't get my apps to install or move onto the External SD card of my S3 running CM10 or AOKP.
the only thing I have been able to do is run a mount script for my Rdio App so it thinks its putting all my data on the internal SD card and not the Ext SD card.
any idea, init.d script to somehting, can i partition my SD card differently?
I have a 16gb sprint galaxy s3. I have a 16gb card in it. Is there a way to seamlessly make the sd be added to the internal so it functions as a 32gb? I need more storage for apps bad. If I could make my sd add to the internal storage I'd be set! Any help would be appreciated.
Try "Droidrail Super App2SD Lite" from the market if you're rooted. It allows you to move almost any app to your SD. I don't believe that you can make the phone recognize the external SD as internal though
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I am rooted. will tis allow me to install apps to the sd card and run them from my android menu like any other app?
i tried this app, thanks but all it does is go to the screen on the manage apps menu for that app when I go to move it. doesn't actually work.
I recently bought a Redmi Note 7 and installed a SD card for extra storage. The system shows that I have the extra storage but when I try to download an app I get a storage error. How do I install and move my installed apps to the SD card. This seems like a very serious flaw in the design.
Same problem, any solution?
I'm having the same problem with my Redmi 7, have you found any solution to it? I can't find any way of moving apps and content to my external SD card. it is getting a bit ridiculous now at this stage.
Install DiskUsage from play store, and see what is taking up space
there are two ways to use SD card to save app data
1. enable adaptive storage (on our device it has to be enabled through adb, google it); when using this option sd card won't be usable on other devices
2. partition your sd card, basically you have to create a second SD card partition where you can save your data, then you can use apps like app2sd or link2sd to move apps to SD card