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Android 4.2, Move apps to SD card

Hi All,
I have a HTC desire w/ Android 4.2. One of the BIG problems with this phone is that the ROM only has 512MB and most of the space is token by the OS and other services.
Also many Apps are installed on the ROM and user cannot move them to the SD card.
Recently I was able to move most of my apps from the phone into the SD card (You just need to download the SDK and execute 2 simple steps having the Phone connected to the PC), Let me know if you need deeper details to do so.
Anyway, this is better but not the best solution since other Apps (native Apps) cannot be moved, and looks like that the other Apps that now I can move to the SD card are not completely moved to the DS card ( some data is kept on the ROM)
Does anyone know how to move the Apps totally into the SD card without rooting the phone?
rooting looks like is very hard, I couldn't find the programs that people use to mention to perform the root!
Thanks!

s-off and rooting is the only guaranteed way to get around memory limits.
it's not that hard, just need to slow down and read a lot. there are guides for everything.
i recommend to start here

And after you s-off with the help of the guide eddiehk mentioned above, follow this guide :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=37383522#post37383522

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Algina said:
Hi All,
I have a HTC desire w/ Android 4.2. One of the BIG problems with this phone is that the ROM only has 512MB and most of the space is token by the OS and other services.
Also many Apps are installed on the ROM and user cannot move them to the SD card.
Recently I was able to move most of my apps from the phone into the SD card (You just need to download the SDK and execute 2 simple steps having the Phone connected to the PC), Let me know if you need deeper details to do so.
Anyway, this is better but not the best solution since other Apps (native Apps) cannot be moved, and looks like that the other Apps that now I can move to the SD card are not completely moved to the DS card ( some data is kept on the ROM)
Does anyone know how to move the Apps totally into the SD card without rooting the phone?
rooting looks like is very hard, I couldn't find the programs that people use to mention to perform the root!
Thanks!
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Hi. I tried doing the thing with the sdk tool but I couldn't do it, I think I'll need deeper details.
Thank you very much.

Htc 310, apps to sd
edwin_Oozaru said:
Hi. I tried doing the thing with the sdk tool but I couldn't do it, I think I'll need deeper details.
Thank you very much.
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Hi,
i am new to Android and HTC.
could someone please provide step-by-step instructions (as simple as possible) to transfer existed apps to SD and install new apps directly to SD?
thanks a lot in advance

Itay_HTC said:
Hi,
i am new to Android and HTC.
could someone please provide step-by-step instructions (as simple as possible) to transfer existed apps to SD and install new apps directly to SD?
thanks a lot in advance
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There's no point moving apps to SD because it will fill up anyway.
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA Free mobile app

Best way to gain more space will be use some ROM without any script.
Create ext partition on SD card and then use CronMod INIT2EXT script.
This way you can have even 1GB of internal storage. Nice and clean.
All you have to remember to obtain SD card with good class, best will be 10.

bl0ndynek said:
Best way to gain more space will be use some ROM without any script.
Create ext partition on SD card and then use CronMod INIT2EXT script.
This way you can have even 1GB of internal storage. Nice and clean.
All you have to remember to obtain SD card with good class, best will be 10.
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But a rom will have a script already no need to change scripts.
Sent from my HTC Desire XS using XDA Free mobile app

[Q] A few questions about this phone

Hey guys, i bought my Galaxy Grand a few days ago and i'm a bit confused with some things.
First of all, i really need to root my phone to move large apps to my SD card?
There is any side effect of using the method mentioned before in this forum? (ext2int if i'm not wrong)
Now i'm using a small sd card (4gb, but i'm going to buy a 16gb class 10 soon), if i change my internal storage to use my sd card i'll still be able to install things into the phone memory?
Could someone point out a tutorial please.
And about rooting, i saw to methods here in the forum, wich one is the best?
There is any difference between the firmware for GT - I9082 and GT - I9082L when trying to flash a pre rooted one?
Last question, i tried the epic citadel benchmark in my phone and a lot of artifacts showed up in my screen, it is a problem with my phone or its application fault?
Thanks in advance.

i rooted mine right after it arrived. i did not use ext2int after all. i find it rather confusing that i cannot replace my sd card.
i am finde with the internal memory. even after installing some bigger games. so i cannot comment on the advantages disadvantages.
i can tell you to not take the 9082L versions if you are having a 9082 phone.
the rooting method in this forum works fine and is not harming your phone.

snudel said:
i rooted mine right after it arrived. i did not use ext2int after all. i find it rather confusing that i cannot replace my sd card.
i am finde with the internal memory. even after installing some bigger games. so i cannot comment on the advantages disadvantages.
i can tell you to not take the 9082L versions if you are having a 9082 phone.
the rooting method in this forum works fine and is not harming your phone.
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4gb ins't much when some games are larger than 2 gbs, thats why i'm asking about it...
What about epic citadel? Anyone else is experiencing graphical problems?

l4mb22 said:
Hey guys, i bought my Galaxy Grand a few days ago and i'm a bit confused with some things.
First of all, i really need to root my phone to move large apps to my SD card?
There is any side effect of using the method mentioned before in this forum? (ext2int if i'm not wrong)
Now i'm using a small sd card (4gb, but i'm going to buy a 16gb class 10 soon), if i change my internal storage to use my sd card i'll still be able to install things into the phone memory?
Could someone point out a tutorial please.
And about rooting, i saw to methods here in the forum, wich one is the best?
There is any difference between the firmware for GT - I9082 and GT - I9082L when trying to flash a pre rooted one?
Last question, i tried the epic citadel benchmark in my phone and a lot of artifacts showed up in my screen, it is a problem with my phone or its application fault?
Thanks in advance.
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1.Yes, your phone HAS to be rooted to move apps.
2. NO side effects, just swaps your int and ext memory so i reccomend a 32 gb ext sd card.
3. For example,In large games, the data will be stored in android/data which is in the phone memory. But after swapping, your phone memory size will be of the size of your sd card, so no issue of space.
4. Rooting- USE CHOTU'S GUIDE(SEARCH THE FORUM)
Rom- k2wl or balli's rom(SEARCH THE FORUM).
PLS HIT THANKS IF I HELPED!!!

athulpmenon said:
1.Yes, your phone HAS to be rooted to move apps.
2. NO side effects, just swaps your int and ext memory so i reccomend a 32 gb ext sd card.
3. For example,In large games, the data will be stored in android/data which is in the phone memory. But after swapping, your phone memory size will be of the size of your sd card, so no issue of space.
4. Rooting- USE CHOTU'S GUIDE(SEARCH THE FORUM)
Rom- k2wl or balli's rom(SEARCH THE FORUM).
PLS HIT THANKS IF I HELPED!!!
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You mentioned two roms in your answer, do i need to flash one of those or can i just flash de Su binaries + CWM and install super su?

May I answer you? He suggested the 2 deodexed roms if you are interested on flashing mods. Just having root is enough for using ext2int or titanium backup for example but you need deodexed to use mods.
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snudel said:
i rooted mine right after it arrived. i did not use ext2int after all. i find it rather confusing that i cannot replace my sd card.
i am finde with the internal memory. even after installing some bigger games. so i cannot comment on the advantages disadvantages.
i can tell you to not take the 9082L versions if you are having a 9082 phone.
the rooting method in this forum works fine and is not harming your phone.
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I wanna ask, since 3+ Gig free space for games + apps. If I mounted sdcard and install apps+games, will it goes to external sdcard? Because new phone up to Galaxy Note 2 will not having the features move to sd. Plus, for that particular phone, internal memory is not a problem as they having at leave 11Gig.

jasonkhoo87 said:
I wanna ask, since 3+ Gig free space for games + apps. If I mounted sdcard and install apps+games, will it goes to external sdcard? Because new phone up to Galaxy Note 2 will not having the features move to sd. Plus, for that particular phone, internal memory is not a problem as they having at leave 11Gig.
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Use GL to sd apps from playstore.. Latest version works supports upto android 4.2.2
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swap storage

thanks God i successfully installed cwm and my phone rooted, now i want to swap my 16g external to internal, thats the prob, is there any easiest way to do that? i used to use same technique for my lated phone, but its failed, and i tried use some apk call external 2 internal, and it dont happend, failed,,, uh, can someone guide me...

hanafi200 said:
thanks God i successfully installed cwm and my phone rooted, now i want to swap my 16g external to internal, thats the prob, is there any easiest way to do that? i used to use same technique for my lated phone, but its failed, and i tried use some apk call external 2 internal, and it dont happend, failed,,, uh, can someone guide me...
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if you want space specifically so that you can play/install more then 1 hd games, then use gl to sd...it will move ur game data from phone to memory card and all you have to do is open gl sd app and Mount game and play...... that way you can have as many games you want.. i have fifa14 mc4 and asphalt 8 @ same time.. thanks to this app ..
hope i helped.....

hanafi200 said:
thanks God i successfully installed cwm and my phone rooted, now i want to swap my 16g external to internal, thats the prob, is there any easiest way to do that? i used to use same technique for my lated phone, but its failed, and i tried use some apk call external 2 internal, and it dont happend, failed,,, uh, can someone guide me...
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swapping method only works in JB 4.1.2 not in 4.4(CM11) or OFFCIAL JB 4.2.2 as the workaround is that you can download GL2SD which actually mounts the particular folder for you to play the game with data on external SD card...but remember before installing any game you have to have to place data FIRST in internal sd card then TRANSFER the data through and only through the APP(gl2sd) and game will work fine..
don't forget the thanks button..

raghavsharmaxda said:
if you want space specifically so that you can play/install more then 1 hd games, then use gl to sd...it will move ur game data from phone to memory card and all you have to do is open gl sd app and Mount game and play...... that way you can have as many games you want.. i have fifa14 mc4 and asphalt 8 @ same time.. thanks to this app ..
hope i helped.....
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thanks a lot, but now im using folder mount, i believe its has same function as gl to sd, where can mount installed hd games to sd card, hehehhee, now i have fifa2014, and 3 more hd games, thanks :laugh:

[Q] New Firmware for Xperia M 1905 without solving storrage problem?

Hello Everybody.
The new firmware (Android 4.3 - firmware 15.4.A.1.9) is still not able to move apps and other data to externel SDcard, isn´t it?
So I have to change the whole system on the Xperia M into antotherone which provides this function?
Which one would this be?
Thank you very much.
Markus

heelium said:
Hello Everybody.
The new firmware (Android 4.3 - firmware 15.4.A.1.9) is still not able to move apps and other data to externel SDcard, isn´t it?
So I have to change the whole system on the Xperia M into antotherone which provides this function?
Which one would this be?
Thank you very much.
Markus
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A bold and noble question, deserving of being in the Q&A forum and not the General forum.
Start out with Link2SD Plus as you've not define any gaming requirements in your question.
I have 73 Google Play apps installed and 1.75GB free on internal storage.
The paid 'plus' version of Link2SD allows app data to be moved to an external partition on the SDcard. Also if using an external partition don't skimp on using a quality SDcard with at least 40MBytes read access.
Link2SD won't help installing the likes of games like Modern Combat 4 and etc in which case you need another solution.
Update - Oh, the above assumes you have root access on your phone. [emoji6]
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Android Bob said:
A bold and noble question, deserving of being in the Q&A forum and not the General forum.
Start out with Link2SD Plus as you've not define any gaming requirements in your question.
I have 73 Google Play apps installed and 1.75GB free on internal storage.
The paid 'plus' version of Link2SD allows app data to be moved to an external partition on the SDcard. Also if using an external partition don't skimp on using a quality SDcard with at least 40MBytes read access.
Link2SD won't help installing the likes of games like Modern Combat 4 and etc in which case you need another solution.
Sent from my LT26i using Tapatalk
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My girlfriend bought this handy with an 32gb external SDcard.
With her old handy Sony-Ericsson Live (Android 2.3) she was able to move apps etc. on the external SDcard and never had problems with space.
She would like to have this function on her Xperia M.
Link2SD, Foldermount etc. are not working proberly or beeing to complicated for her.
I thought with this new update the Xperia will have this function because a lot of users complaint about this problem.
Sorry about asking this question in the wrong area.

heelium said:
My girlfriend bought this handy with an 32gb external SDcard.
With her old handy Sony-Ericsson Live (Android 2.3) she was able to move apps etc. on the external SDcard and never had problems with space.
She would like to have this function on her Xperia M.
Link2SD, Foldermount etc. are not working proberly or beeing to complicated for her.
I thought with this new update the Xperia will have this function because a lot of users complaint about this problem.
Sorry about asking this question in the wrong area.
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Ah, German. [emoji3] re: handy
They stopped providing default move data/app to SDcard circa Android 4.1
You'd need to buy a phone with at least 4gb+ of internal flash such as Xperia L if you want a turn key solution.
There are many how-to tutorials on installing and setting up Link2SD and once setup, it looks after itself. It'll automatically move data to SDcard if app allows it or can be manually linked.
No solutions by default to move data to SDcard on the Xperia M.
You'll need root access and a system mod/application to do that.
In settings ->storage there is an option to move pics , music and videos to SDcard, but it's just a cleanup to recover space.
Camera also has option to store photos on SDcard
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Android Bob said:
Ah, German. [emoji3] re: handy
They stopped providing default move data/app to SDcard circa Android 4.1
You'd need to buy a phone with at least 4gb+ of internal flash such as Xperia L if you want a turn key solution.
There are many how-to tutorials on installing and setting up Link2SD and once setup, it looks after itself. It'll automatically move data to SDcard if app allows it or can be manually linked.
No solutions by default to move data to SDcard on the Xperia M.
You'll need root access and a system mod/application to do that.
In settings ->storage there is an option to move pics , music and videos to SDcard, but it's just a cleanup to recover space.
Camera also has option to store photos on SDcard
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Hey.
Yes German. I´m sorry. Mobile phone .
The option on the camera to store the pics on SD is set and the option to move pics vids ore music on SD shows 0 files.
Ok, no default solution for Xperia M. But other mobile phones/androids are supporting this function further on?
Now I have to check up the possibilities to get this function. Link2SD, App2SD or Swapping the SDcard with internal space?
I don´t know which would be the best way...

Sony does have the option to use the external SD as primary storage in Android 4.3, they just chose not to at this time. KK 4.4 has another approach to storage location again.
I have no idea if there'll be further fw updates for the Xperia M.
I would suggest root access for the handy first and then Link2SD unless your requirements dictate other requirements.
If using the SD card as external storage and the card is not a class10 or better, I'd consider a new 32GB card (e.g. 32GB SanDisk Extreme 45MB read)
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no problem with my storage
i don't have problem with my storages, no need mounter apps (ex: link2sd, gl2sd, app2sd, foldermount), just using this

Swapping SD
inunxelex said:
i don't have problem with my storages, no need mounter apps (ex: link2sd, gl2sd, app2sd, foldermount), just using this
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Hello and thanks a lot for your advice.
The Swapping Tool sounds interessting.
How get i started?
Downloading the .zip, extract it...?
adb and drivers means, the Sony Companion is running and detecting the mobile phone?
To root the handy i use Framaroot, is that ok?
What I have to do else bevor running the install.bat?
Thank you very much for your support.
Markus

heelium said:
Hello and thanks a lot for your advice.
The Swapping Tool sounds interessting.
How get i started?
Downloading the .zip, extract it...?
adb and drivers means, the Sony Companion is running and detecting the mobile phone?
To root the handy i use Framaroot, is that ok?
What I have to do else bevor running the install.bat?
Thank you very much for your support.
Markus
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search button is your friend :good:

How to play save games data on sdcard so that game can detect it through sd card and

So after so much efforts i could hardly free 1.60gb on my internal memory but still the game's data file is of 2 gb....I have already read about foldermount app but according to it, that app is used to move data file from internal to sd cars and then game can be played, but in my case i dont even have sufficient space to use flodermount...so is there any other way to do this....i have already rooted my phone..

danny8866 said:
So after so much efforts i could hardly free 1.60gb on my internal memory but still the game's data file is of 2 gb....I have already read about foldermount app but according to it, that app is used to move data file from internal to sd cars and then game can be played, but in my case i dont even have sufficient space to use flodermount...so is there any other way to do this....i have already rooted my phone..
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Same Problem here , I am using HTC Desire 816G and about 3 GB in internal left.
I am unable to install any game.
Pls help us out.

pruthiviraj71 said:
Same Problem here , I am using HTC Desire 816G and about 3 GB in internal left.
I am unable to install any game.
Pls help us out.
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Hey, i have got a solution,root your phone,install xposed framework and download 2 modules in that- one is savetoexternal and the other one is obbtosd ..this solved my problem regarding playing games through sd card...
Now all my games are able to detect the data file from sd card and not through internal storage..?