Is there a reason my phone doesnt give me the option to move an app to the Sd card?
I dont wanna fill up my internal space again, like I did on my last phone. But no apps have the "move to sd card" option.
How do I put apps on the external sd card??
Just got the phone two days ago. Im not rooted.
Verizon phone.
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MissLaniS said:
Is there a reason my phone doesnt give me the option to move an app to the Sd card?
I dont wanna fill up my internal space again, like I did on my last phone. But no apps have the "move to sd card" option.
How do I put apps on the external sd card??
Just got the phone two days ago. Im not rooted.
Verizon phone.
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The ability to move apps to SD was removed in Jelly Bean by Google. Samsung has recognized this limitation and has developed a way to do just that. The Samsung fix is rolling out to the international variants first and hopefully soon to the various US ones.
Really? Thats lame. So there is no way to put my apps on the sd card? I have a lot of apps & have taken up almost half of the internal memory already.
So no way to do this at all?
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zeb carter said:
The ability to move apps to SD was removed in Jelly Bean by Google. Samsung has recognized this limitation and has developed a way to do just that. The Samsung fix is rolling out to the international variants first and hopefully soon to the various US ones.
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The Samsung fix only moves the apk. App data is still internal.
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MissLaniS said:
Really? Thats lame. So there is no way to put my apps on the sd card? I have a lot of apps & have taken up almost half of the internal memory already.
So no way to do this at all?
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Use the Folder Mount app to move data to your external SD card and create symlinks to the internal storage.
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Hello, apps to sd would be an option for people who don't want to do an sd swap but still want to save space on their internal memory. My question is, has anyone used Titanium Backup to put all their huge apps onto their external sd card? If so, how's it going, is it working ok?
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Bill Idol said:
Hello, apps to sd would be an option for people who don't want to do an sd swap but still want to save space on their internal memory. My question is, has anyone used Titanium Backup to put all their huge apps onto their external sd card? If so, how's it going, is it working ok?
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Doesn't work even though it says it works.
Only option would be to backup to SD, delete app, and restore when needed.
kimdoocheol said:
Doesn't work even though it says it works.
Only option would be to backup to SD, delete app, and restore when needed.
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Cool, thanks. Glad to know is not working for someone else than me.
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Hah. I've been wrestling with this for the last hour. Glad to see that I'm not crazy.
Hi.
I just found out that the S 4 did not have an SD card built into the slot. So I recently added one. From adding this, I found out that it didn't do much but add SD space. I'm a bit confused coming from the Xperia Play, which was using the SD card a lot more. Could someone explain what the SD Card can do? Thanks in advanced.
Hold movies, music, pictures, and other files.
There are work arounds to load your apps onto it if you really needed to.
But it already held my photos
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But it already held my photos
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What are you expecting it to do?
Good point. So, before, all my info like photos was on internal or the built in?
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HwaA18 said:
Hi.
I just found out that the S 4 did not have an SD card built into the slot.
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HwaA18 said:
But it already held my photos
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How did it hold photos if you didn't have one?
The reason they give you a slot for an SD card, is to give you the option for more storage. I'm not sure I understand what you're asking.
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HwaA18 said:
Good point. So, before, all my info like photos was on internal or the built in?
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Yes. You can now store your photos on the external, and leave room on your internal for apps.
So, there already is a SD card built-in? That's all I want to know
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Your phone came from the factory with 16gb. Roughly 9 is available to you with no external sdcard in the external sd slot. You'll see a folder named /sdcard, even though its your available internal memory. When you "add" your external sdcard, your folder in your filesystem where it mounts will be something like /sdcardext or similar.
So, there is technically no "built in" sdcard, just an internal memory chip, depending on how you look at it....
I have had my galaxy s4 for about a week and a half now and love this phone. I still have 7 GB of space left, but tutorials online that show apps could be moves to the SD card. I have a Verizon Gs4 and when i go to application manager i do not see the option to move apps to the SD for all of my apps. I even tried installing a app that the tutorial shows was installed on the SD card and i could not move it. Has Verizon not launched the update for the S4 to install Apps to the SD card? It would be nice to move some apps to the SD card.
There should be an update soon. It is rolling out in Germany first.
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At this point, we're unable to move apps to SD card. As you mentioned there is an update slated for the int'l version S4 - will be obviously after that b4 the Verizon mods are implemented. These is a app in the play store "folder mount" that could definitely help to maintain internal space: must be rooted
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...251bGwsMSwyLDEsImNvbS5kZXZhc3F1ZS5mbW91bnQiXQ.
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There should be an update soon. It is rolling out in Germany first.
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ok thanks for the reply
The update will be useless in regards to reclaiming space. You're better off buying the pro version of Folder Mount and using it to symlink Android/OBB.
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I have had my galaxy s4 for about a week and a half now and love this phone. I still have 7 GB of space left, but tutorials online that show apps could be moves to the SD card. I have a Verizon Gs4 and when i go to application manager i do not see the option to move apps to the SD for all of my apps. I even tried installing a app that the tutorial shows was installed on the SD card and i could not move it. Has Verizon not launched the update for the S4 to install Apps to the SD card? It would be nice to move some apps to the SD card.
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If your comfortable with rooting, romming, etc... Most custom roms cut out a lot of the pre installed jazz. Off a fresh install of Clean Rom 1.9 I'm using less than 1gb of my internal storage.
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There should be an update soon. It is rolling out in Germany first.
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Has there been any news on this?
If I'm running a custom ROM will my phone be able receive this update, or will I have to wait for the ROM to be updated as well? TIA
There is a nice program to perform this task ..You can Also transfer basic programs to external memory, but they need root...
Might I be so bold as to ask the name of said program?
I downloaded this app in anticipation of moving data from my S III to my S4 when it arrives next week.
It looked like a really easy tool to use until I opened it & found that you must agree to sharing data regarding your existing apps, etc. That stopped me cold.
Other thoughts?
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Don't you already do this with accepting to Play Store EULA? Same with 1/2 the free apps in it.
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bigblue95z said:
Don't you already do this with accepting to Play Store EULA? Same with 1/2 the free apps in it.
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Yup, guess you nailed it. We'll see if it actually works.
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Okay, I now have my S4 & am ready to use Smart Switch.
However I have an important question that I don't see addressed in the documentation. I have a great deal of data on my micro SD card on the S III. Since there is no SD card in the S4, how does that data get transferred?
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randun said:
Okay, I now have my S4 & am ready to use Smart Switch.
However I have an important question that I don't see addressed in the documentation. I have a great deal of data on my micro SD card on the S III. Since there is no SD card in the S4, how does that data get transferred?
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I'm pretty sure all variants of the S4 have an SD card slot underneath the battery cover?
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I'm pretty sure all variants of the S4 have an SD card slot underneath the battery cover?
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Right, it does. However do I perform an initial transfer with the SD card in the S III then move it to the S4?
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randun said:
Right, it does. However do I perform an initial transfer with the SD card in the S III then move it to the S4?
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Depending on what version of android you have(I think it's 4.2.2) you can move apps right to the SD card. Well some can't however, you can find out through Application Manager in settings. As far as contacts, if you have your contacts synced to your Google account then when the S4 comes in and you do the initial setup and log in with your Google account it will sync your contacts to the new phone.
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Depending on what version of android you have(I think it's 4.2.2) you can move apps right to the SD card. Well some can't however, you can find out through Application Manager in settings. As far as contacts, if you have your contacts synced to your Google account then when the S4 comes in and you do the initial setup and log in with your Google account it will sync your contacts to the new phone.
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Sorry to sound like a clutz but I don't want to screw this up.
My S4 Is running 4.2.2. However I don't have an SD card for it. I'll be using the one currently in my S III.
I'll check what data is actually residing on my current card.
I don't sync contacts with Google.
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I use Helium. You do not have to be rooted to transfer data from one phone to another. It also is just as easy as backing up apps plus data then transfering the helium folder to new phone and restoring. Works with contacts and text messages too. U will need to connect to computer to enable the backup and restore if your not rooted every reboot.
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In our case all you need to do is backup to ext SD card of old phone then put SD in new phone aka s4. Install Helium enable and restore.
I bought an SD card a couple weeks ago and its pretty much useless since everything I download always goes into my internal storage. Maybe I am doing something wrong here? So what's the point of having one
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420haxr said:
I bought an SD card a couple weeks ago and its pretty much useless since everything I download always goes into my internal storage. Maybe I am doing something wrong here? So what's the point of having one
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Picture, videos, music and transfer some apps.
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Picture, videos, music and transfer some apps.
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Yet none of those things actually download to my SD card. My SD card has like 9 gigs free space and internal only has 500mb left .
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Go into your camera settings and tell it to save to SD card and free up some of your phones space
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420haxr said:
Yet none of those things actually download to my SD card. My SD card has like 9 gigs free space and internal only has 500mb left .
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Copy the folders from internal card to extsd...
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Copy the folders from internal card to extsd...
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The specific media folders..then delete the contents on internal memory....
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Or use something like ES File Explorer File Manager from the Play Store or am alternative browser like Dolphin. ES has a downloader that is one of the choices when downloading a file from the web. In the ES settings you can set its default download location to the external card. Dolphin lets you pick the download location at each download. The TouchWiz camera and some others let you specify where to store photos.
Also, Titanium backup and other backup apps let you back up to the external card.
And most important of all, especially if you are crack flashing TouchWiz ROMs, keep your TWRP or CWM backups on the external card. They can be 2 GB+ each if you don't use compression, and not much better if you do. I have a 16 GB Nexus 7 and its a constant battle with backup space. I usually keep one solid reference backup and my latest only. I would love to be able to throw a 64GB card in it.
420haxr said:
I bought an SD card a couple weeks ago and its pretty much useless since everything I download always goes into my internal storage. Maybe I am doing something wrong here? So what's the point of having one
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Also you can use Folder Mount app to move pretty much whatever you want to you're external SD card
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420haxr said:
I bought an SD card a couple weeks ago and its pretty much useless since everything I download always goes into my internal storage. Maybe I am doing something wrong here? So what's the point of having one
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Best thing for you to do is educate yourself. ...As the extsd card is invaluable and something many other phone manufacturers don't even offer any more..
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