I cant seem to figure out how to get apps that ive downloaded on my external sd card I only have a class 4 16gb sd but everything goes to device instead of card
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This is a major flaw with the note. You can put data on the card, but you cant put apps or cache movies from google play, etc...
It is a limitation with jelly bean, but samsung has not provided a work around. I will research this more before buying my next phone.
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One potential solution is to get a bigger sd card and swap the internal and external storage. For example I have a 64 gig sd card that my note 2 now sees as internal storage. With your current 16 gig card it makes no sense to do this, but if you NEED more storage for apps this may be the only way. As far as I know there is no way to transfer app data to the external sd, but if this is incorrect someone feel free to correct me. If you are interested in swapping the sd card to internal storage this was the thread I followed:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2036796
EDIT: I've heard that some people are having success with an app called "link2sd" from the play store, but it wouldn't work consistently for me. Maybe worth a try though...
Thank you very much for the great info ..I will give that a shot ....xda community Rocks !!!!
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OK...so I download some huge file games and have lots of pics and music etc...I had to clear about 800mb to finalize my Nova 2 install. Now I'm out of space.
My question is...the next time I download and it says there is not enough space...what else can I do? I have an external SD card..but it's not putting files on that one instead.
Ideas?
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Move them to the external?
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this is my solution to the 2GB size problem
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1343187
Well its not the internal 2gb mem.. its the internal 16gb that's running out... it won't let me download directly to the external.. keeps saying I don't have enough room on my USB SD.. and I have an external 16gb with about 5gb ready to use
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then is even easier
just free up space on the internal SD and move it to your external SD
or you can mount the /sdcard/DOWNLOAD into /sdcard/external_sd/DOWNLOAD for stuff to download to your external SD instead of the internal SD
use the Gameloft reference, instead of that do it for download folder
Can you share that script?
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updated the topic http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=19779495&postcount=3
Okay I have owned a few android phones and I've never noticed more then two different storage internal and external.
On the e4gt I have system,USB and SD card.
What exactly is saved on USB, system and SD card what's the defferences?
Is there a way to access and manage them?
I have noticed that switching SD cards does not make transfer everything from on SD to the next as it has in the past with the epic 4g and htc hero.
Please someone could I'm not having low memory problems just a little confused thank you.
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you have USB (16 gb minus the system partition) which is essentially a SD card in the phone. Much like a ipod touch has internal storage.
You have SD card which is what ever SD card you have put in the phone
Internal as far as I have seen is a partition of the SD memory. It is used for your ROM and the 1.5 GB of app storage. this is not accessable without root.
I have never owned your previous phone but I doubt it even transferred data from one SD card to another with out you manually copying to phone and back to SD card? Or you just saved to the phones memory.
The top two memories are almost identical in purpose other than one is removable and one is not.
Okay thank you. And how can I access them? Well I know how to acces the SD card and internal for applications. But the USB...is it only accessible after rooting? Haven't rooted his phone yet.
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crazyninjah1992 said:
Okay thank you. And how can I access them? Well I know how to acces the SD card and internal for applications. But the USB...is it only accessible after rooting? Haven't rooted his phone yet.
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In a file manger like astro. The internal one will be mnt/sdcard...the one you add would be mnt/sdcard/external_sd..
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Okay thank you. And how can I access them? Well I know how to acces the SD card and internal for applications. But the USB...is it only accessible after rooting? Haven't rooted his phone yet.
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Root explorer
Thank you very much guys.
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How do I make my SD card the main use of my memory? I have a 32 gig but every time I try to dl a game like 9mm or even try to send some pics it says memory full I try deleting things I try putting apps on the root of my SD card nothing works please help
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Search "GL to SD" app at Google Play. This app moves your games and some apps from the internal sd memory to your 32gb card- external sd card. Saves you some space.
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Great app to use for all that extra data download that some games require
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Is there any way to make external sd card main storage for all apps
tr1zrus said:
Is there any way to make external sd card main storage for all apps
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That's what I wanna know.. I like the app gl to SD but it doesn't do everything
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I tried that gl app but its limited i wouldn't even use internal storage if it were possible to just use the external
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I tried that gl app but its limited i wouldn't even use internal storage if it were possible to just use the external
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I agree with this statement
I am not able to move any of my apps over to my sd card? Is there something I should do so I can do this? Thanks
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We don't have an apps2sd. I can't remember if that's just the way ics is set up or if its cause the phone is set up that way. But there is a mod in the dev section that lets you swap internal for external
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Thanks I will search for it.
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why do you need to? you have 16gb on internal storage... then an extra sd card for media etc...
Not sure why he needs it, but I would like it as I have two Gameloft apps installed. They're huge and take up gigs of space. Would be nice to move them easily to my 64 gig SD.
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why do you need to? you have 16gb on internal storage... then an extra sd card for media etc...
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Because I could save space on my phone. I have just always moved apps to my sd card
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Why is my 16 gb T-mobile Note 2 only showing 10 gb? Did i get a defective device, or does this particullar device use 6 gb for system? Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Quite a bit is used for the system, and is normal (unfortunately)
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Quite a bit is used for the system, and is normal (unfortunately)
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Thanks for your help! But it really sucks that I only have 10 GB of storage left and most of that is being used on apps
fatannasty said:
Thanks for your help! But it really sucks that I only have 10 GB of storage left and most of that is being used on apps
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You can always buy an sd card, you can add 64gb. At least we have an option to add an sd card. If you need more space there's options.
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Rhiannon224 said:
You can always buy an sd card, you can add 64gb. At least we have an option to add an sd card. If you need more space there's options.
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And if you get a usb OTG cable, you can add a flash drive to add even more storage! I got a 64gb card in the phone and another 64gb flash drive which I've loaded with music and videos.
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You can always buy an sd card, you can add 64gb. At least we have an option to add an sd card. If you need more space there's options.
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I currently have a 32 gb sd card in the note 2, however i do not see a option to transfer apps from the phone storage to the sd card. Any ideas?
fatannasty said:
I currently have a 32 gb sd card in the note 2, however i do not see a option to transfer apps from the phone storage to the sd card. Any ideas?
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There's an option to transfer user apps to sd card in Titanium Backup paid version.
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fatannasty said:
I currently have a 32 gb sd card in the note 2, however i do not see a option to transfer apps from the phone storage to the sd card. Any ideas?
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Gemini app manager will let you transfer to sd card... and it's free.
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There's an option to transfer user apps to sd card in Titanium Backup paid version.
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I was looking for an easy way to do this because I am lazy. Saw scripts and stuff but that seemed like work.I tried this, but I am not certain it works, at least not well. I ran it, and it says it ran successfully, but the device memory didn't change at all. Same amount taken up by applications, same available space over all.
However, I did try to move the apps back and forth again to test this, so maybe it moved once, but then refused to move any more. Not sure...
Do I have to have a rooted phone in order to move stuff to my sd card? This is insane that u can't move apps or music to an sd card. WHY would Samsung do that?
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There's an option to transfer user apps to sd card in Titanium Backup paid version.
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I have the paid version, and every time I move a app to SD card it never works.
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Markor13 said:
I have the paid version, and every time I move a app to SD card it never works.
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They are probably not transferring because they don't run properly from the external sd. There's plenty of room for apps in the internal.
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