Any way to truly move apps to the external SD card?
I have just recnetly learned that moving apps "to the SD card" in the settings>apps menu doesnt truly move them to the external SD card.
Why is that?
I dont have many apps yet, but it seems the apps i do have slowly get larger and larger as i use them and they save user data. (game progress for example).
Id like to know that I could at least move things that i dont care how fast they load to a truly external SD card (along with my wallpapers, ringtones, etc)
Even if theres a manual way via USB, thats cool. Just hoping someone with more than about a months worth of experience with a captivate glide (or really, i guess any phone that by default wont let you) could give some advice.
thanks!
Pawprints1986 said:
Any way to truly move apps to the external SD card?
I have just recnetly learned that moving apps "to the SD card" in the settings>apps menu doesnt truly move them to the external SD card.
Why is that?
I dont have many apps yet, but it seems the apps i do have slowly get larger and larger as i use them and they save user data. (game progress for example).
Id like to know that I could at least move things that i dont care how fast they load to a truly external SD card (along with my wallpapers, ringtones, etc)
Even if theres a manual way via USB, thats cool. Just hoping someone with more than about a months worth of experience with a captivate glide (or really, i guess any phone that by default wont let you) could give some advice.
thanks!
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You have sd card integrated to the board, its not true sd card. You can swap internal sd to external sd, then you can use same move function to use external micro sd card as application storage.
bubor said:
You have sd card integrated to the board, its not true sd card. You can swap internal sd to external sd, then you can use same move function to use external micro sd card as application storage.
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So theres no way to just manually tell it to move there without messing up whats already on the internal storage?
The Android system still has no option to move app to external sd. You can copy everything from internal (built-in) sd to external and apply change-fstab.zip to make Android think that your external sd is internal and vice versa. Works on every 4.4 rom. No performance drawbacks if using class 10 sd card. Worked for me flawlessly and thanks to bubor for this great feature.
And for manually... There's an app called Link2SD. It's some sort of workaround. You make second partition on your external SD and move apps there, leaving links for Android system on your internal storage. You can find it in google market, be sure to read instructions first.
Makshow said:
The Android system still has no option to move app to external sd. You can copy everything from internal (built-in) sd to external and apply change-fstab.zip to make Android think that your external sd is internal and vice versa. Works on every 4.4 rom. No performance drawbacks if using class 10 sd card. Worked for me flawlessly and thanks to bubor for this great feature.
And for manually... There's an app called Link2SD. It's some sort of workaround. You make second partition on your external SD and move apps there, leaving links for Android system on your internal storage. You can find it in google market, be sure to read instructions first.
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I remember trying link2sd on a friends tablet recently. it recognized certain apps as moveable, but when i actually tried to move them (on an SD that i had already partitioned) it said failure every time.
But im not sure i want to switch my storage entirely. I would just like to allow, say another 4 gigs on my SD card (with the other 4 being for wallpapers, ringtones, etc). i have an 8 gig card right now.
Then you should try link2sd here. Basically, no other options, unless you wish to emulate Link2SD work with some scripts and move apps manually. I saw some patches for Lenovo phones to combine internal storage or something like that, but they will not work on Glide obviously.
LG Tribute running 4.4.2, rooted with Kingo
My understanding is that new security measures keep most apps from being moved from the emulated SD to an external SD. The only options given that I've seen involve partitioning an SD card and linking apps to the SD card. I tried this (using AParted and Link2SD) and while it worked, it just doesn't free up much space at all. I've only got 4 gig external, and that's just so easy to fill up. System data takes over half, and even with moving as much as I can to the SD, apps add up.
But while googling around, I've seen External 2 Internal mentioned a lot. An app that swaps the mount points of internal and external storage, fooling the device into thinking that the huge SD card is internal storage.
Is this still doable with the new security measures? And if so, how?
I've been reading hundreds of forum pages, but can't find anything touching on this.
I jumped from Lollipop right into Nougat, so this may have been the same in MM. I can't figure out the best way to use my SD card on Nougat. If the option is chosen for separate media storage, can that space also be used for apps?
I currently have it set for shared storage, but a couple of my sideloaded apps aren't working correctly. I SHOULD have 32 gb tablet + 64 gb SD card = 96 GB usable (after subtracting a random handful of GB for all the system stuff). When going to the storage tab in the settings menu, it gets really strange:
DEVICE STORAGE SUMMARY
15.39 GB total used of 29.12 GB
INTERNAL SHARED STORAGE
4.07 GB used of 29.12 GB
SD CARD
-16.08 GB used of 29.12 GB
Is this a known Nougat bug, or have I somehow done something wrong? All I did was put in the memory card and make the selection to format as shared storage before starting to use it.
My preference would be to use the card as purely external. Going that route, the PC interface would show both the tablet as well as the card so I could better control what files got put where. As it is, the card is all that shows in the PC file manager. My other preference is to be able to remove the card from this tablet and simply move to another with minimal re-work required. The format process popped a warning about the shared card working ONLY with the current device.
I am WAY confused here. Can someone give me some notes or point to separate thread with some good reading? Thanks!
~Vol
Let me rephrase into a way simpler question.
IF I format my SD as an external media as opposed to internal shared, will I be able to use some of the card's space for apps?
I installed crdroid Android 7.1 to my d855 LG g3 today. Everything was fine until I checked my SD card storage. It gives me two options to use my SD card. First one is external storage which does not allow me to move apps to it, second option is internal. When I choose internal, it shows me a negative storage (-45gb). And apps can't be moved there because phone thinks there is not enough storage in the SD card. My SD card is Samsung evo with 64gb storage. Can anyone help me?
I have a LG G3 running stock M 6.0
I'm trying to increase my 16GB flash size or at least move my big apps to my external SD.
I did OK with Spotify and some others, but few others (like some games) are not moving their data to my external sd.
I have problems with those apps detecting my Internal Storage as my external SD card due to the fact that the Android mounts the internal storage in
/sdcard/
linked to some other folder
/storage/emulated/0
while my real external SD card is actually mounted on
/storage/7FB0-1DEE/
What on the earth is this thing calling my internal storage, sdcard, and my external sdcard to some strange mounted folder with a weird code that of course my apps have no idea wth is that...
Any ideas how to workaround that? Any guidelines will be very much appreciate it.
-- JJ
PD. I don't want to use any App2SD or FolderMount rooted 3rd parties to create logical links/shortcuts and "pretent" or make thing the app the files are on the internal storage, when they are on the external sd. That thing works OK. I rooted my stock FW and tested it that way, but I dont want my phone to have root access.
PD2. I installed RR582-Nougat711 to test this Ext SD adoption (which is not available on G3 Stock M 6.0). It sort of worked OK but I lost my ext sdcard when connecting it to my PC. I'm not willing to make my external sd part of the internal storage anymore. That think is awkward, encrypting my card and losing portability to MTP transfer.