In Phone 8.1 I could select all apps on phone/SD card and easily move them to the other location. In Win10 Mobile I found no way to select all apps and move them, here I have to select each app and select move. This is so slow. Is there any faster way to move all apps (like in 8.1)?
*bump* Nobody an idea? Does anyone know which API is used to move apps?
looks like it is not possible
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Hi guys I've been messing around with my phone all day. I have been restoring my apps back onto my phone and all that good stuff. I finally fixed my phone and when I was restoring my phone it tells me that my internal space is getting full. How is that possible if I only have 2 apps from the market installed? Any ideas?
thanks!
try clearing cache of your apps. If you have root access, download cachemate and use that. you can also move apps to your SD card to free internal space.
hope this helps
edit: you can also try wiping your phone back to stock if you continue with these issues
Weird I uninstaled Google maps update and and I now have 45MB of internal storage. lol??
Im restoring my apps then going to move them to my SD. Whats a good program to move them?
actually now it's giving me the error again..lol 45mb storage left too. weird
steveojp said:
Im restoring my apps then going to move them to my SD. Whats a good program to move them?
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If you are using a custom ROM and it supports it then apps2sd because you can actually go beyond the 512 MB limit, you can make it as large as your entire SD card if you like... of course it has a trade off: the card must be repartitioned before you can use apps2sd meaning that you need to copy your card over a computer, partition and then copy back your stuff.
I use and would recommend that you use froyo to move apps to SD card. You can also move apps from the SD card back to your internal memory.
You can move most apps to SD Card; but some apps you do not have the option to move to SD card, and must remain on internal phone storage.
Follow these simple steps to move / to know whether the app can be moved or not.
1. Open Settings -> Applications ->Manage Applications and tap on the app you want to move.
2. Tap on the box “Move to SD card”.
3. Now tap on “On SD Card” to know whether your app has been moved or not.
You can also move back the app to phone memory by tapping on application and then selecting “Move to Phone” option.
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I use and would recommend that you use froyo to move apps to SD card. You can also move apps from the SD card back to your internal memory.
You can move most apps to SD Card; but some apps you do not have the option to move to SD card, and must remain on internal phone storage.
Follow these simple steps to move / to know whether the app can be moved or not.
1. Open Settings -> Applications ->Manage Applications and tap on the app you want to move.
2. Tap on the box “Move to SD card”.
3. Now tap on “On SD Card” to know whether your app has been moved or not.
You can also move back the app to phone memory by tapping on application and then selecting “Move to Phone” option.
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The thing is..I only have 2 apps installed from the market and it's saying my internal memory is full. That just doesn't make sense.
Sprints stock ROM will give you a low storage warning when you have less than 45MB free space which I think is a little high. Thank god for apps2sd.
do you use the stock HTC mail app? if you do, try this: when you delete mail in the stock HTC mail app, it doesn't delete it, but just moves it to the 'Trash' folder? I've just cleared 6Mb that accumulated of the last month or so myself...
if all else fails, you might have to factory reset the evo.
thanks for all the help. so i needed up booting in recovery and clearing everything now it went to like 300mb and im restoring my apps. do you think i should put them on my SD card?
I would put what you can on your sd card...you can always move them back to the phone if needed
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curious to know what caused that low memory problem in the first place? that's just weird.
i am not sure what causes the memory leak; but others i know with evos have had the same issue and a factory reset has solved the issue every time. good luck!
i dont know whether any of you have noticed or not...that we can force any application to move onto sd card.........
use titanium backup to move any application to sd card
long press the application in TI BACKUP and then select move to sd card
Well there are plenty of apps that can made this. I personally use ZDtoolbox.
I think ZDtoolbox only move those applications that supports movement to sd card.......but with my way,you can even move those application that does not support movement to sd...........
i use titanium to move apps to sd..especially the games that some are big
abhisheak.bansal said:
I think ZDtoolbox only move those applications that supports movement to sd card.......but with my way,you can even move those application that does not support movement to sd...........
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Yes, but not all will work correctly if moved to SD...
but many of them works............and even if they dont u can move them back to phone memory
I have an application called "Copilot GPS" that uses 15 MB in data/data
Upon close consideration most of that is a single file - libcopilot.so
It is located in /data/data/com.alk.copilot/mapviewer/files folder
In "Manage Applications" "Move to SD card" is enabled for this app.
If I move it to SD - will the libcopilot.so be moved? The reason I am asking is that this page:
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/Apps2SD
says:
Not all of the application's data is actually moved to the SD card; the dex files, private data directories, and native shared libraries remain in internal storage.
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As far as I know .SO files are libraries
If I move it to SD and app doesn't work - can I reverse "Move to SD card' process? I also own full version of Titanium backup, so I can take a backup as well. I never mover any apps to SD before.
JoeSchmoe007 said:
I have an application called "Copilot GPS" that uses 15 MB in data/data
Upon close consideration most of that is a single file - libcopilot.so
It is located in /data/data/com.alk.copilot/mapviewer/files folder
In "Manage Applications" "Move to SD card" is enabled for this app.
If I move it to SD - will the libcopilot.so be moved? The reason I am asking is that this page:
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/Apps2SD
says:
As far as I know .SO files are libraries
If I move it to SD and app doesn't work - can I reverse "Move to SD card' process? I also own full version of Titanium backup, so I can take a backup as well. I never mover any apps to SD before.
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If you move the app to the SD card then you can always move it back to the phone if it doesn't work anymore. However, developers usually denote whether the app can be moved from internal storage to the SD without causing a problem to the functionality of the app and if not then the option won't show up on your phone. Newer versions of android have made apps like "app 2 SD pro" obsolete by adding the feature you are referring to with the check boxes to denote whether the app can be moved but even on stock version 2.2 you can go to app details and move the app manually. Most apps can exist on the SD card without causing problems with functionality anyway, most of them that are marked for not being able to be moved are ones that are either system apps or third party versions of system apps where your phone could lose overall functionality if your SD were to be removed or go defunct. I hope this helps!
Moving the app as you describe will not move the lib file to the sd card. It will only move the .apk from /data. You need to use an app like link2sd to move the data files and libs to the sd card.
Hello,
My device sm p605 rooted by de la vega root method.
I m looking for a method to move my app+data on my external sd card. I tried many methods but no one is working with my device.
I tried:
- link2sd partioning external sd card into 1st partition fat32 + 2nd in ext2: It generates a script with shortcut linking but after reboot when I launch linked app It collapses with message of incompatible device blablabla.
- mount folder: doesnt work and not free
- Directory bind doesn t work?
So if someone succeeded in moving app + data on external card, It would be very helpfull he explain the good method. Thank you.
FolderMount works for me.
Try settings -> General -> Application manager -> (swipe left) SD CARD -> Checkbox any app you with to move.
If it is check marked, it should now on the SD card instead. I know for fact this moves the app itself, but haven't tested to see if it moves the data too. This is the native App2SD introduced in 4.3, hope that helps.
kornfake said:
Hello,
My device sm p605 rooted by de la vega root method.
I m looking for a method to move my app+data on my external sd card. I tried many methods but no one is working with my device.
I tried:
- link2sd partioning external sd card into 1st partition fat32 + 2nd in ext2: It generates a script with shortcut linking but after reboot when I launch linked app It collapses with message of incompatible device blablabla.
- mount folder: doesnt work and not free
- Directory bind doesn t work?
So if someone succeeded in moving app + data on external card, It would be very helpfull he explain the good method. Thank you.
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Vaygr said:
Try settings -> General -> Application manager -> (swipe left) SD CARD -> Checkbox any app you with to move.
If it is check marked, it should now on the SD card instead. I know for fact this moves the app itself, but haven't tested to see if it moves the data too. This is the native App2SD introduced in 4.3, hope that helps.
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That only moves the app & data to the /sdcard/ partition, which is on internal memory, not on the actual microSD card, which is mounted as /extSDcard/.
Folder Mount works great and is free. I haven't tried to move the APK's folder with it, as I'm pretty sure that would break stuff badly (boot-loops when apps try to launch during startup), but the APK's are usually not that big and you can have tons of apps installed on even the S4 16GB which only gives you 9GB to start with (I have something like 30GB of apps installed on mine). The majority of the data used by apps lives in /android/data/obb/ and /android/data/data/ which you can move. I have ran into boot-loops moving some folders because an app (especially GameLoft ones) try to launch on boot but they launch before FolderMount has a chance to mount folders, so they crash the OS and send you into a boot-loop until you remove the SD card. That's on my Note 10.1 (2014). On my Galaxy S4, I don't have any boot-loops and I'm redirecting more than I am on my Note. You can stop apps from starting on boot using Gemini App Manager or Autorun Manager (can only control up to 10 apps with free version), so that's a good solution for the boot-loop. Not sure why so many folders cause boot-loops on my Note when they don't on my S4, but whatever. Maybe the S4 mounts the SD card and the FolderMounts faster, or it has something to do with the JellyBean's ROM on the S4.
Anyway, use Folder Mount. I don't know of any other valid solutions.
snake2332 said:
I have ran into boot-loops moving some folders because an app (especially GameLoft ones) try to launch on boot but they launch before FolderMount has a chance to mount folders, so they crash the OS and send you into a boot-loop until you remove the SD card. That's on my Note 10.1 (2014).
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If you have Xposed Framework installed, Boot Manager is the best autorun manager. Simple and to the point.
good day to all
can someone help me?
i have a tab 7.0, rooted, and im using the costom rom rocket tab v2.0
my tab is only 8gb, i have to many apps in the internal storage
now, i want to move them to sd card so i go to application manager and select an application and tap the move to sd card
but the problem is, a window appering "Unable to move app. Not enought storage space" even though my SD card has a huge space
i try using the app. link2SD, but here is the message appear when i try to move it to sd card:
"App2SD is not supported by your device. Because your device has a primary external storage which is emulated from the internal storage. You can link the app in order to move it's files to your SD card."
i understand what it means, but the problem is, how can i make my primary external storage to original internal storage? is there anyway for that? so that my sd card can be the external storage?
or any way arround to install from my sd card?
I use RomToolbox Pro on all my android devices to move apps to my sd card. There's a utility called configure apps to sd, that helps to direct apps to install on the external sd. There is also a utility called root browser within rom toolbox pro where you can simply move files from your internal to external sd card. It does take a little while to figure out but it does work well in my experience. There is also the app manager, in rom toolbox, where you can move them one at a time. The only thing I would say as a word of caution is first make a backup, then start tweaking, and remember that when some apps are moved to the external sd they will lose their widget capabilities.
I'm probably leaving out some of the finer points, but hopefully you get the idea and it helps you.
Sent from my SM-T310 using xda app-developers app
samalama76 said:
I use RomToolbox Pro on all my android devices to move apps to my sd card. There's a utility called configure apps to sd, that helps to direct apps to install on the external sd. There is also a utility called root browser within rom toolbox pro where you can simply move files from your internal to external sd card. It does take a little while to figure out but it does work well in my experience. There is also the app manager, in rom toolbox, where you can move them one at a time. The only thing I would say as a word of caution is first make a backup, then start tweaking, and remember that when some apps are moved to the external sd they will lose their widget capabilities.
I'm probably leaving out some of the finer points, but hopefully you get the idea and it helps you.
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I will be trying this. I was told by Samsung that 4.2.2 would let us do that but if this works I can keep my current install.
samalama76 said:
I use RomToolbox Pro on all my android devices to move apps to my sd card. There's a utility called configure apps to sd, that helps to direct apps to install on the external sd. There is also a utility called root browser within rom toolbox pro where you can simply move files from your internal to external sd card. It does take a little while to figure out but it does work well in my experience. There is also the app manager, in rom toolbox, where you can move them one at a time. The only thing I would say as a word of caution is first make a backup, then start tweaking, and remember that when some apps are moved to the external sd they will lose their widget capabilities.
I'm probably leaving out some of the finer points, but hopefully you get the idea and it helps you.
Sent from my SM-T310 using xda app-developers app
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i will try this, thanks mate!! :good: