So with stock Rom apps all have to stay on internal sd?
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ladle3000 said:
So with stock Rom apps all have to stay on internal sd?
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It looks like it, even game data. Atleast thats how it is with the international version and theres no move to sd option in the setting. I dont see why it would be different for US version. The only other option I can think of is when theres root you can use GL to SD so you can move large game data to micro sd and leave the apps in internal. This is a better solution if you have large game data.
Makes it tough to plug and play a preexisting sd card since apps are looking for saved data in the usual sd location.
Like you said, I'm sure once we custom roms things will be different
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Well as the post says. I'm running out of memory on my internal and for some reason nothing's going to my SD card
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MysticKing32 said:
Well as the post says. I'm running out of memory on my internal and for some reason nothing's going to my SD card
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And I'm installing Gameloft games so I really need the SD card but if I put the data there the game no longer recognized the data until it was moved back
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https://market.android.com/details?id=mobi.infolife.app2sd
Running ICScrewD ROM
Settings>Applications> Manage Applications> the On SD Card tab at the top, will move capable apps to the sd card.
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Settings>Applications> Manage Applications> the On SD Card tab at the top, will move capable apps to the sd card.
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Thanks for the reply guys but Im not trying to move my apps to the sd card . Im trying to make the data that the apps download go to the sd card
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I don't think you can. The internal storage is mounted to /mnt/sdcard, and apps seem to always put their downloaded data on /mnt/sdcard. Only tip I can give is to move all your music, pics and videos to the external card to make room for the app data.
Or, move game data to the external sd card when you're not using it, then move it back when you want to play that game.
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I don't think you can. The internal storage is mounted to /mnt/sdcard, and apps seem to always put their downloaded data on /mnt/sdcard. Only tip I can give is to move all your music, pics and videos to the external card to make room for the app data.
Or, move game data to the external sd card when you're not using it, then move it back when you want to play that game.
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Wow that sucks. But your right. I guess that is my only option
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Hey guys I figured out that cyanogen has that option to use internal or external sd for data storage. Is there a stock rom that offers it?
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No, at least not on any stock based android I've seen. Cyanogenmod was designed to be installed onto the ext sd card. The 'option' it gives is to use the internal, not the other way around. Technical difference, but nonetheless.
I've never seen a stock based 'prom' (that's for you gary) for any phone that had android installed onto the ext sd card.
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It's there a way to get the gameloft games to use an actual sd cards instead of the internal memory for the additional data? I'm running out of space too quickly. Thanks.
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Look for App2SD in the Market. This should have been in Themes and Apps, BTW.
That's not what I mean. Games and apps look to the internal memory, which is labeled sdcard. Our sd card seems to be labeled external sdcard. If an app needs to install extra data, I want to know if there is way to get it to install to the external sdcard?
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That's not what I mean. Games and apps look to the internal memory, which is labeled sdcard. Our sd card seems to be labeled external sdcard. If an app needs to install extra data, I want to know if there is way to get it to install to the external sdcard?
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Im wondering the same thing. The only way I've been able to solve it is to flash cyanogen mod and it has an option there. I moved my modern combat 3 data to the external sd after i checked use external and it worked And it kept my saved data
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Thanks I might look into that. This is the first Android phone I haven't needed to root or install another ROM on it.
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There is a couple workarounds for this situation. Easiest and best way I like to go at it is just download "gl to sd" from the market. Pretty simple directions, basically it allows you to dl your app then for all gameloft games like 9MM, MW3 etc..and even some other huge extra data games it lets you move the huge extra data download to your external sd card and play the games as normal. It You wont notice any difference in speed,graphics, etc... I've saved myself about 8-9gigs so far easily on internal sd. If your a heavy game player or even occosional but dont want to bother copying files back and forth etc.. Make sure you go with a 32gig ext sd card. My 16gig started filling up very quickly once I found this program .
Any questions with the app let me know, the instructions are a little vague, but if you read reviews ppl explain in detail in case any of it confuses you, but its really pretty easy.
Have fun!
I believe tibu has a batch operation that'll move to sd. Not sure if it move to internal or external tho.
Thanks this sounds promising.
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Check out http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1410262
it's proabaly what you want.
[TOOL] DirectoryBind - move data to external_sd (GameLoft, Shadowgun etc.) ROOT req.
Anyone been able to move they apps to sd card?
You should try app2zip app on the market recommend by bfitz26. It make a zip of your apps and you can just flash them to any rom.
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I need to move them to sd cuz the sgs3 only holds a terrible 11 gb of data and some apps now are 1-2 gb so what I can only have 5 games? so dumb... I tried apps 2 sd but for some reason its not working, titanium backup isnt letting me move apps to sd either too
Also I can't even look at my SD Cards files from my phone? Wtf samsung do you not have sd card support?
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Anyone been able to move they apps to sd card?
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It's a much bigger issue than this phone. Read this.... http://www.chainfire.eu/articles/113/Is_Google_blocking_apps_writing_to_SD_cards_
So basically samsung is preventing the sd card from really being very usable on purpose?
hi I have TMobile gs3 I just wonder how can i move some of apps to external sdcard?
I can do it in my gs2 before.
Get the app called App 2 SD
Rom toolbox will help you with that as well and it has a bunch of other cool features like a file explorer, direct downloads of roms, etc.
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I thought you can't use app2sd in honeycomb and ics???
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Get the app called App 2 SD
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thank you for reply
before i post for help I did installed app2card
but it show message below picture
I had a customer come in and ask about this yesterday. Never realized it until the option wasn't there...
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Is because of how Samsung named it, it name it as ext SD card, and most apps look for SD card which internal in our device , meaning we need to get support for it if is possible
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I thought you can't use app2sd in honeycomb and ics???
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Yes you can, just with this S3 it can't. i'm not sure Sammy disabled it or missed it. with S2 I can move apps to sd with 2.3 and 4.0
now i'm almost out of space if Sammy not gonna fix this issue soon i'm selling it
Could you just rename the folders if you are rooted, or would that screw things up?
Would love to know what to do myself. I have the 16 gig and of that 16 gigs I only have 12.05 gigs to put apps on. If I was only putting smaller apps on it would be a lot but with the games I have on my phone like NOVA 3 and Modern combat 3 use a lot of space. I got the 16 gig expecting to be able to move my apps like I have been in the past, now I wish I had the 32.
Idk why Google did away with this feature. I just wanna store my game data to my sd and make it playable from there. I don't wanna swap extsd with internal I don't have big enough memory card for that. I know there are a few options but which one works for you?
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Idk why Google did away with this feature. I just wanna store my game data to my sd and make it playable from there. I don't wanna swap extsd with internal I don't have big enough memory card for that. I know there are a few options but which one works for you?
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Try directbinder.. or GL to SD.. or FolderMount
These apps basically transfer your data to ext SD and create virtual folders (without space!!) in internal memory to mount your app