I'm having trouble tying to move apps to the MicroSD I've already enabled it in developer options, I know only certain apps can be moved but I'm not getting the option that says: change storage
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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 can goto manage apps and move certain apps to the sd card. But other ones I cannot... Any idea why?
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I can goto manage apps and move certain apps to the sd card. But other ones I cannot... Any idea why?
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the developer hasnt enabled or is choosing not to enable the froyo app2sd for that application
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the developer hasnt enabled or is choosing not to enable the froyo app2sd for that application
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This. There are usually two reasons for an app not allowing you to move it to the SD card: 1.) The developer is lazy or 2.) The app has a widget. Google recommends not allowing apps with widgets to move to the SD card as doing so will cause the widget to be removed as soon as USB storage is enabled. Technically copy protected apps can't be moved either but developers should be using the licensing service instead of the weak copy protection option now anyway.
Hi all, just discovered that cyanogenmod doesn't support app2sd. Is there a simple way to fix this. I want cm but what I really want is more internal space memory. Can't really use a rom without the ability to have lots of internal space. Any help is much appreciated. Thanks.
I'm very confused, just found some information on Apps2SD - CyanogenMod Wiki and it says...CyanogenMod 6 supports application installation on an external SD card, giving users more room for apps, and can benefit certain apps - such as games that use lots of storage. The Application's Info screen (Settings » Applications » Manage Applications) now has either a “Move to SD card” or “Move to phone” button. Copy-protected apps cannot be moved to the SD card, and the button will be grayed out.
The "Manage Applications" screen in the Settings app now has an “On SD Card” tab. The sizes listed in Manage Applications only include the space taken by the application on internal storage.
NOTE: 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.
I must be missing something, can anyone clarify this please, how can i get cm6/7 on my desire and have lots of internal memory, I have a 16gb sandisk sd card.
Thanks for any help.
Try reading these two threads...
[ROM] CyanogenMod-6.1.1 for Desire (GSM/CDMA): V6.1.1 (16/12/2010)
[NIGHTLY][ROM][GRH78C] CyanogenMod 7 for vendor Bravo (HTC Desire GSM)
...post 2 in particular
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.
This is my first phone with more than 8GB internal storage, so the 32GB feels like a giant space with so much room for activities. However, I'm getting greedy and want even more games installed.
I have a 64GB SD card installed, with around 12GB free. I've gone into Settings > Apps and on the Downloaded tab I select a large game, X-Com for example. It says:
Total: 2.94 GB
App: 53.22 MB
App (SD Card): 2.89 GB
Data: 212 KB
Data (SD Card): 0.00 B
So for some reason it already thinks it's on the SD Card, even though it's on the internal memory. It even gives me an option to Move to SD. I tap that, it says it's moving it, and to not remove the SD card. The numbers change slightly as to what is stored where. But when I go into the app DiskUsage, it still shows the huge data files sitting on the internal memory.
I'm assuming that the phone/OS sees the internal memory as an SD card perhaps? So when it says move to SD it's still just moving it to the same location, or perhaps a different location on the internal memory?
So like I said, I'm getting greedy, I can of course just delete some games when I want to install different ones, but this seems like an odd issue. I'm wondering if there's a quick and easy way around it. I know I can root and use something like FolderMount, but I'd rather stay unrooted for now.
Thanks!
Generally, I think that internal memory is regarded now as an SD card. Though I don't think that makes much sense. And your example of "move to SD" just shifting it in internal memory sounds like false advertising on the part of Google. But I can assure you that this is an OS (Android) issue, not a phone (LG) issue, unless someone knows otherwise. But what you want to look for is "External SD" not just SD (as that's internal memory. Since you mentioned "Move to SD," I'm guessing you're using the stock resources in settings. Unfortunately, Google removed the ability for 3rd party apps to write to external SD. And there has been major blowback from Android users, but Google isn't budging. This has been since Kit Kat was released (version 4.4 and on, Lollipop is 5.0 and on). I would recommend looking with the File Manager app since it's stock so it can read and write to External SD, in case you want to manually move anything, but I wouldn't recommend that with any apps since the system won't know that it was moved. Also use the File Manager app to familiarize yourself with the file system. If you select all files, it should show internal memory and External SD, unless that changed with Lolly. But I forgot to ask, have you checked to make sure your External SD card is mounted? You can see in disk usage, I think. Sorry if that was a lit.
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