Hi,
I have a SM-t210 with root. I could not move apps to SD card on this tablet.
initially, the "move to SD" button was deactivated.
Then I entered shell and issued following command:
"pm set-installation-location 2"
Now the button for moving to SD is active and it seems to work. But after it completes, I still have same storage on internal and external space.
How can I move them ?
Thanks
Hi,
I'd appreciate any comments/help...
Hi,
Is there no one with the same problem. This device has very low internal storage. I thought that this should be a common problem. And there would be an applicable solution.
No ?
I thought too but can't find any solution here...
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Heya
I've got a HTC desire, and I'm using CyanogenMod-7.2.0.1-bravo. I installed link2sd, and have been letting that do its thing for he past half year.
My SD card has two partitions, a ~2GB one (I had intended to be used as the 'extra RAM') and the ~6GB one for actual SD card use.
By my calculations, I should have about 2.1GB to use for applications, but when using application manager, it only ever shows that I have the 151 MB that I originally had.
(I'm running out of space for my apps now, which is why I'm asking).
Since I started using Link2SD, whenever I use the normal application menu to "Move to SD" (which I know only moves part of the application), the total amount of used space (shown in the bar along the bottom) doesn't decrease.
Link2SD had automatically been installing things to the SD card, but I still eat up the true internal memory whenever I install an application.
Currently, when I look at Storage on Link2SD, I get this:
Internal: 144/151MB used
SD Card (mnt/sdcard): 4.28/5.44GB used
SD Card (data/sdext2): 0.2/1.9 GB used
System: 128/250MB used
Cache: 144/151MB used
When I try to move something to SD card using Link2SD (as in, click the "Create Link" button) I get "Failure: pkg:/path/to/apk Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_INSUFFICIENT_STORAGE]
Essentially I would like to be able to use the whole 2.1GB to install applications on, how do I go about achieving this?
I figured out what the problem was.
Link2SD had the "Install Location" setting set to "Automatic", which meant that when I installed applications they were sometimes getting "linked to sd", and sometimes getting "moved to SD". Setting the "Install Location" to "External" ensured that everything was automatically linked (and so barely took up any internal memory).
When an application is "moved to sd" it takes up more memory internal than when it is "linked to sd".
Also, to change something from "moved to sd" to "linked to sd", the program moves it from the SD card to internal memory, and then moves it to the SD card again. Therefore, if something is "moved to SD" and you want to "link to SD" you must have enough internal memory for that application to be installed normally.
Hello,
I'm using "CM-7.2.0.1-INT2SD-S-signed.zip", with mountsd integrated in.
My µSD (8GB/class 10) has 2 partitions :
1 - FAT32 : 7GB
2 - EXT3 : 1GB.
It works fine : internal memory is about 0,98GB.
Does it work for galaxy Ace too?
TF85 said:
Hello,
I'm using "CM-7.2.0.1-INT2SD-S-signed.zip", with mountsd integrated in.
My µSD (8GB/class 10) has 2 partitions :
1 - FAT32 : 7GB
2 - EXT3 : 1GB.
It works fine : internal memory is about 0,98GB.
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HI,
I have tried with link2sd and was successful in linking the apps to SD card as well.. but don't know how but suddenly my mobile has stopped detecting the card and asked for complete format. My lappy also did not allow me to browse the card. Now i had to format it by force
Can you tell me what could be the problem and can I use Cm 7.2.0.1 mentioned above for my Samsung Galaxy Ace S5830?
Thanks,
Harris
harrissha said:
HI,
I have tried with link2sd and was successful in linking the apps to SD card as well.. but don't know how but suddenly my mobile has stopped detecting the card and asked for complete format. My lappy also did not allow me to browse the card. Now i had to format it by force
Can you tell me what could be the problem and can I use Cm 7.2.0.1 mentioned above for my Samsung Galaxy Ace S5830?
Thanks,
Harris
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What did you use to partition your sd-card?
Hi,
I just bought a HTC wildfire and install severals apps.
After getting warning internal memory are low, I tried to move some (downloaded)apps to my SD card.
But sadly when I select the apps, "move to sd card"(or "move to phone memory") button are not there??? How come?
I tried installed Android Assistance, none of the apps under Moveable tabs have that function?
help please~!
starstone2 said:
Hi,
I just bought a HTC wildfire and install severals apps.
After getting warning internal memory are low, I tried to move some (downloaded)apps to my SD card.
But sadly when I select the apps, "move to sd card"(or "move to phone memory") button are not there??? How come?
I tried installed Android Assistance, none of the apps under Moveable tabs have that function?
help please~!
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1) your phone in non rooted.
Some apps like Facebook etc dont move to Sdcard. For that you have to increase internal memory by using ext 3 partition of your sdcard.
Put simply, you will need to Root your phone. But before that, do some research if u really want to do it.
Best of luck
Sent from my HTC Wildfire using xda app-developers app
Hi guys, i tried some tutorial founded around the forums, but still not able to swap the internal memory of my device (Samsung Galaxy J100H already rooted) with the external sd memory card that has a second partition in vfat32.
I tried with "external 2 internal sd" app, but nothing happens.
I tried to look after the Vold.fstab in system/etc/ but this file doesn't exist on my model, probably mounting point etc. are located differently so i don't know how to find e modify the script.
Someone could help with this? Thank you for now. (hope this is the right section to post)
Hi there,
I have a question, which I've not been able to figure out. Maybe someone here is able to help me.
I am using ViperOne (v 6.1.0) on my HTC One M8. For a long time I have used a 64GB Micro SD card (SanDisk Extreme U3) as external storage. However, I am now finding that my internal 16GB of storage just isn't quite enough. I thought I had two options:
1) Create a second partition on the SD Card, and use that, along with an app such as Link2SD, or Apps2SD, to allow me to create symbolic links, and shift some of my installed apps onto the SD card. Or
2) "Adopt" the entire SD Card as internal storage.
Whenever I tried doing option 2--adopting the SD Card as internal storage--once the reformatting of the card completed, my phone would reboot itself (maybe there was a "kernel panic" type error, which caused the reboot??), and then it would get stuck in a continual reboot cycle. The phone would reboot, and then Android would report it was initialising X of Y apps... and when that had completed, it would reboot itself, and attempt to re-initialise all the apps...
I tried option 1) above--creating a second partition. This was generally OK, except that the second partition did not seem to get mounted when the phone was rebooted. This meant that apps which had been linked to the SD card would no longer work. Link2SD would offer to do a "quick reboot" (which, maybe is just a restart of the Android shell??), and after that, things seemed to be OK.
I wonder whether it is possible to create a script that is executed on *every* reboot, which will correctly mount the second partition. My basic Linux knowledge would suggest that a script in /etc/init.d should do the trick... except I don't think init.d is used/supported in ViperOne.
So... does anyone know a way to get things going for me?
Many thanks for your time,
Jon
Hi guys! First of all, I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this question.
I have a Samsung Galaxy J2 Prime, with 8GB of internal memory. But 8GB is not enough in any way for android, upgrades & apps.
Ok, I read that Android v6.0 has support for merging internal and external memory in the way that Android reconizes it as single storage. My problem is that my phone doesn't show me that option. Just says "Format as portable storage", not “Format as internal” as I read at a forum. I have installed a SD card class 10 but this is not the problem.
This is a Samsung custom setting? I need to root my phone? It's possible to do it?
Thanks for any help!
gezanoletti said:
Hi guys! First of all, I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this question.
I have a Samsung Galaxy J2 Prime, with 8GB of internal memory. But 8GB is not enough in any way for android, upgrades & apps.
Ok, I read that Android v6.0 has support for merging internal and external memory in the way that Android reconizes it as single storage. My problem is that my phone doesn't show me that option. Just says "Format as portable storage", not “Format as internal” as I read at a forum. I have installed a SD card class 10 but this is not the problem.
This is a Samsung custom setting? I need to root my phone? It's possible to do it?
Thanks for any help!
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Yes, Samsung disables this option from all their devices with the excuse being: "If your MicroSD card fails, which is totally common to fail, you will lose all your apps and apps' data" (but in my opinion and a lot of people's opinion, they disable it to force you to buy a device with bigger storage )
There are two ways to do this, with root and without
If you have root, you can use the app "Root Essentials" from the PlayStore. It'll show you step by step on how to set up adoptable storage.
If you do not have root, you have to input some commands via adb, which I do not know how to do. You will have to research this on your own.
But, just as an advice. Even with adoptable storage, it doesn't work as you would expect it to work. Not all apps will be transferred to the external memory and you'll still get the message that you are running out of memory even if you have 7 out of 16 GB used up. It's not that great.
Hello, i would like to ask about this too.
I have adopted a 16Gb sandisk UHS-I SD Card to my 8Gb Samsung J2 Prime G532G, but the storage at file manager is still 8Gb and no SD Card access. BUT at storage settings it shows 13.40Gb used out of 22.80Gb. So, where did the rest go at file manager?