Hi, cant find the answer to this anywhere so hoping someone can help. When downloading mp3's ,photo's etc how can I set phone to give me the option to download to sd card rather than system storage, only "path" available is to the phone? Thanks in advance for any help.
You need to go into the app manager and move that app to the SD card
I've done that today with my PowerAmp app for music; but also for Google Photo's etc...
At least I think that's how I did it!
Hope this helps
Thanks for that but not quite what I'm looking for, have app2sd installed which moves the apps fine, my headache is how to set download path to SD card instead of system storage for things like mp3 downloads etc. Had Sammy's and an oppo 7a previously and they always gave an option of where you downloaded file to. Thanks again for your answer though
Ah; I get what you mean now. Sorry, got the wrong end of the stick!
I haven't figured that out yet; I've just moved to my Swift from a Galaxy Note 5, so still working my way through it!
But it is running 5.1.1 so maybe google your issue and android and see what the net comes up with!
Have you asked on here as well: http://forum.cyanogenmod.org/
Update to cyanogen 13 today has sorted the problem out now
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Hi everyone,
In panic mode right now...
I downloaded an app that helps you find all your apps that can be moved to the sd card. So it found 150 or so. After an hour of manually moving each one, I had over 400mb of free internal space and only like 40 apps left on the main phone storage. Awesome... but then this morning I noticed that things were running real slow... so I rebooted my phone. When it came back up I noticed some of my home screen shortcuts had become generic android icons. I went to my launcher & lots of apps were missing. I have a LOT of apps so I can't quite confirm yet whether its all the apps I moved to sd but it seems that way.
When I go to the market I see apps that I had yesterday as not installed. I have astro but I'm not quite sure what folder to look in to see if the apps are all still there, just not being seen by the android system maybe?
I've been driving all morning so I haven't gotten to research this much yet. Just rebooted a couple times hoping to fix it but no luck yet.
Any help is majorly appreciated. As soon as I'm at a computer ill be working on this all day. Freakin disaster!
Dave
Sent from my T-Mobile G2 using XDA App
update to my question
so now that i'm in to work i can mess with this... quick update...
when i go to manage applications and go to "on SD card" i get a big list of apps that have the names like "cn.miren.browser" instead of Miren Browser and "com.alphonso.pulse" instead of Pulse which is kinda normal except usually they then refresh with the regular name and the size listed underneath. well it's been sitting here for 5 minutes now and hasn't change and it still says "Computing..." under each one and instead of the normal icons, its sort of a grayed out generic Android icon with an SD in the bottom right corner of the icon.
so clearly it still knows that these apps are there. it just maybe can't access them? i dont know. could it be the sd card? this is the original 8gb sd card that came with the g2...
any thoughts?
???
so i found out that the sd card had some errors in the file system. so i let windows fix the errors. no help (although my phone boots WAAAAAYYYYYY faster now).
so then i found that i have an extra 8gb microsd laying around (which also happened to be a better, class 6 one too). so i cleared it off and copied over alllll the files to it. booted up. STILL NO GO.
anyone have any ideas here? i'm really running out of ideas here.
when i boot, everything runs great, but all my apps that are installed to sd are gone. also it never says "preparing sd card" in the status bar when booting. then if i go to manage applications it never finishes "computing" the size of apps. if i go to "on sd" it shows all my apps, but says computing, and i can't access them, uninstall them, move them, etc. i'm totally out of ideas here and i really don't want to have to do a system restore.
anyone?
think im having the same problem . has ur market gone too?
fix?
ok so i ended up getting mine fixed using these steps that someone from a company that makes an apps2sd app sent me... the only difference i had to do was since my phone also wouldn't recognize my pc, i had to pop the sd card into my pc directly to delete the .android_secure folder... i don't want to mess up your phone or anything so make sure to read around a bit more before trying this, but this is what worked for me. after i started adding all my apps back one by one i've been fine ever since.:
"I guess the problem is ".android_secure" is not recognized by Android.
Would you try the following steps (I am not sure if it works)?
1. mount phone with PC
2. backup all files under .android_secure
3. delete .android_secure directory
4. unmount
5. try to move an app (any app) to SD card (it forces Android to
create .android_secure on SD)
6. mount phone with PC
7. restore all backuped .android_secure/* files to .android_secure
8. unmount => check if it recognized the apps that you moved to the SD card"
Hey Guys!
I took over the Wildfire of a friend and he reseted it. Now i wanted to put my SD-Card in it but all the Apps i want to download are safed in the internal storage. By Google search i just found solutions for saving fotos and videos on SD-Card but not Apps and so on.
It runs with 2.3.5 Android. Can you help me?
Thanks
Would it not be easier as it is to put all your apps into an online backup like SOS? (Link here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/...yLDEsImNvbS5zb3NvbmxpbmViYWNrdXAuYW5kcm9pZCJd
Then backup your apps, photos, videos, music etc.. After that download the app onto the other device, sign into your account and redownload everything to the SD. The way you're trying to do it just opens the door to confusion.
Pazens said:
Hey Guys!
I took over the Wildfire of a friend and he reseted it. Now i wanted to put my SD-Card in it but all the Apps i want to download are safed in the internal storage. By Google search i just found solutions for saving fotos and videos on SD-Card but not Apps and so on.
It runs with 2.3.5 Android. Can you help me?
Thanks
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I think you should try the titanium backup(you can find it here "http://www.filecrop.com/77298937/index.html").you can backup almost everything you have...you should definitely give it a try
Neo_92 said:
I think you should try the titanium backup(you can find it here "http://www.filecrop.com/77298937/index.html").you can backup almost everything you have...you should definitely give it a try
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Yeah nice solutions, the problem is i got a new SD. So the only way i can imagine how it could work is to download all the APKs i need, and put them on my SD-Card... but i think it wants to install on the internal storage, or does it install whereever the apk is?
Thanks!
Pazens said:
Yeah nice solutions, the problem is i got a new SD. So the only way i can imagine how it could work is to download all the APKs i need, and put them on my SD-Card... but i think it wants to install on the internal storage, or does it install whereever the apk is?
Thanks!
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No suggestion how it could work?
Pazens said:
No suggestion how it could work?
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Unfortunately for you, mate, the Android is made so that an app is almost always installed on the internal space and, if the developer included this, it could be moved to the sd card. The location of the apk makes no difference and even if you moved it, it leaves parts in the internal storage (like moving only half of it).
I suggest you use Data2SD or Link2SD (I preffer the latter) to install whatever app you need totally to the sd.
Hello,
I did do a search from this, and i can see by my title there is no relevance to this problem on this section. I have just rooted my Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 7.0 [SM-T210R] and whenever i try to install an app i get the "Insufficient Storage Space Available". It's really frustrating and i can't figure out how to get rid of it?
The tablet is 8gb and i have a 32gb SdCard, i am trying to move apps to the sdcard using GL to SD (hoping it works). Can anyone assist me on this, i would really like my Tablet working with Rocket Lite at full potential!
Thanks
Hey there
If GL to SD does not work. @Ripshock was working on folder mount here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=49637122&postcount=723
Other suggestions is to move everything else to your SD, photos, movies, music, everything in the Download and Document folder, any and all backups (which can be big).
Or you can wait a few days till 4.2.2 is released.
Jeremy
The problem i am having though is the device is not allowing me to install any applications, for some reason it seems to let me install large files (around 40mb) but anything thats below 10mb just says "Insufficient Storage Available"... im not sure why tho, i guess i can just drop them into the app folder instead of trying to install..
But would be nice to get a fix, its having that message pop up
You didn't understand my request.
Is it rooted?
If so open lucky patcher and goto toolbox and remove fixes and backups.
Press thanks if I helped
DGoz said:
Hello,
I did do a search from this, and i can see by my title there is no relevance to this problem on this section. I have just rooted my Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 7.0 [SM-T210R] and whenever i try to install an app i get the "Insufficient Storage Space Available". It's really frustrating and i can't figure out how to get rid of it?
The tablet is 8gb and i have a 32gb SdCard, i am trying to move apps to the sdcard using GL to SD (hoping it works). Can anyone assist me on this, i would really like my Tablet working with Rocket Lite at full potential!
Thanks
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I had that problem. I ended up clearing dalvik cache , rebooted and it worked. The proplem started when I flashed rocket tab but forgot to do a system restore before I flashed.
Title basically says it all. This should be a simple task but for the life of me I cannot find how to change the default download location to external storage. Honestly it should be as simple as changing storage options but LG in their infinite wisdom decided to make it either convoluted as hell or something that isn't even possible.
Okay, I've tried the download2sd xposed module and it seemed to be fairly simple and straightforward to change where I wanted my downloaded files to go... BUT when I download files that sound like orrents (XD) my file downloader of choice says I cannot locate the file. So obviously download2sd needs a certain path structure that LG doesn't use.
Can anyone shed some light on any possible solution? I've searched the threads and there are people asking about other issues but not this specific issue. Yes I CAN just manually move the files to my sd card after downloading them but that kind of defeats the purpose of not using the internal drive for this process anymore. The fact we can't just change preferred download location to external storage is derp as hell.
The only way I know of is by using the default browser--> Settings--> Advanced--> "Select download storage", and change it to the SD card.
I actually just downloaded a different downloader client and it had the option to change the path built into the app itself. I had to download the SDFix apk to allow me to even save to external storage since google removed that option in Kit Kat. Good to go now. Thanks for trying to help though
thank you
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The only way I know of is by using the default browser--> Settings--> Advanced--> "Select download storage", and change it to the SD card.
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Thank you so much. This problem has vexed me since the day I got my LG 8.3, and it was driving me crazy. Your suggestion resolved the situation. Thank you again.
finally!
redduc900 said:
The only way I know of is by using the default browser--> Settings--> Advanced--> "Select download storage", and change it to the SD card.
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awesome! spent the day trying to figure this out - what a stupid place for it! It's not even an option on Chrome!
Sorted now - thanks
I did that
DomnnallO said:
Thank you so much. This problem has vexed me since the day I got my LG 8.3, and it was driving me crazy. Your suggestion resolved the situation. Thank you again.
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I did that and it is STILL sending stuff to the "Downloads" folder and there is no way to get it to the SD Drive from there.
I have to send it to the Cloud and I don't want to send it to the cloud. I don't want anything to go there.
I am referring specifically to a PDF I tried to download as an experiment. It was about 12 MG and it reduced the internal storage but not the external storage amount.
It's making me absolutely crazy and I will not be able to do anything else until I figure this out.
works on my LG Stylo thanx for the tip
BreakingVZW said:
I actually just downloaded a different downloader client and it had the option to change the path built into the app itself. I had to download the SDFix apk to allow me to even save to external storage since google removed that option in Kit Kat. Good to go now. Thanks for trying to help though
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Does this need me to root the phone?
If this is the wrong forum please direct me to the correct place but I have a few issues and questions.
I'm running 10166 on a 640, I don't know if I can update to the latest without a PC but I don't have access to one until October 30. Clarify if I can?
Another problem. Is there known issues with SD app installations? I can't seem to find a list of known issues for my older build, it runs great aside from some new problems I discovered since I just got an SD.
If I install an app to the card, which is the default option and is selected on each choice in Storage.. Some apps on the store wont install and tell me to change where I install apps. I do and retry, it says same thing. I'm sure that changing any of those options doesn't work at all. Sometimes the system loses the SD and it basically shows as not inserted, to which makes me restart and once up again, the apps on the card are all broken and tell me to reinstall, if I go to the store and click Open, the app works fine so it's a shortcut bug apparently. I can't even remove the card and try to install some apps that won't go on a card. Messenger is one app I cannot install no matter what I try since I got my memory card.
Other than this card issue and how ugly and slow the store is, everything else is great.
Oh one more thing, when I reset this build recently, it seems like backup and restore doesn't work very well? It definitely lost all my bookmarks how do I save them? It also applied a lock wallpaper I haven't had in 3 months, and I don't know what else it's supposed to back up but nothing else but texts and a couple random apps restored.
Whoever reads all this thank you for your time hopefully someone can help in any way, reddit sucks for adequate help.
sintax0r said:
If this is the wrong forum please direct me to the correct place but I have a few issues and questions.
I'm running 10166 on a 640, I don't know if I can update to the latest without a PC but I don't have access to one until October 30. Clarify if I can?
Another problem. Is there known issues with SD app installations? I can't seem to find a list of known issues for my older build, it runs great aside from some new problems I discovered since I just got an SD.
If I install an app to the card, which is the default option and is selected on each choice in Storage.. Some apps on the store wont install and tell me to change where I install apps. I do and retry, it says same thing. I'm sure that changing any of those options doesn't work at all. Sometimes the system loses the SD and it basically shows as not inserted, to which makes me restart and once up again, the apps on the card are all broken and tell me to reinstall, if I go to the store and click Open, the app works fine so it's a shortcut bug apparently. I can't even remove the card and try to install some apps that won't go on a card. Messenger is one app I cannot install no matter what I try since I got my memory card.
Other than this card issue and how ugly and slow the store is, everything else is great.
Oh one more thing, when I reset this build recently, it seems like backup and restore doesn't work very well? It definitely lost all my bookmarks how do I save them? It also applied a lock wallpaper I haven't had in 3 months, and I don't know what else it's supposed to back up but nothing else but texts and a couple random apps restored.
Whoever reads all this thank you for your time hopefully someone can help in any way, reddit sucks for adequate help.
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First of all, you can update to any preview build without a PC
Later when RMT does release, which will probably be a previous build than the ones we use as insiders.
The SD card has been spoken about in numerous blogs and forums, some apps need to install on the phone and have no permission to install on SD card, in that case, change storage settings to let apps install on phone, install the app from store and them swap it again to SD card.
The store is a lot lot better on build 10536
Theres a bug on 10536 where apps that cant install on SD and only phone, WONT install, its a know bug which Microsoft is fixing