Is there ANY way to store apps to the sd card with out root? I want to root, and run the hero build on my g1, but even reading all the tutorials, im not understanding how to do it. I have a 8gig sd card and want to store all my apps there, but am not confident rooting the phone myself, is there anything or anyone who can help?? Also, im in the Seattle area, if theres anyone in the area that has the capabilities of doing these things, i'd be willing to pay to your help/service/time.
Thanks in advance
no it will not work you need root which means Admin for the phone and when out admin permission it wont work cause you need that to access the system files
cire253 said:
Is there ANY way to store apps to the sd card with out root? I want to root, and run the hero build on my g1, but even reading all the tutorials, im not understanding how to do it. I have a 8gig sd card and want to store all my apps there, but am not confident rooting the phone myself, is there anything or anyone who can help?? Also, im in the Seattle area, if theres anyone in the area that has the capabilities of doing these things, i'd be willing to pay to your help/service/time.
Thanks in advance
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You need root. Gaining root is a simple simple process. If you need help going step by step PM me and i'll help you out.
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I know this might have been posted and probably has but i simply am not getting it to pull up on the search function. I am upgrading my root G1's Micro Sd from a 2gb to a 8gb or possibly 16gb as I tend to want to keep a lot of music on it. If I upgrade the SD do i simply partition it to Fat32 and then copy my files over or does something else need to be done? I simply do not want to screw all my stuff up b/c i am not thinking about some aspect.
Thanks in advance for any and all help as i am just trying to be safe. Do not want to screw up my root/phone or anything with something like this.
Have you done the apps to sdcard? If not then yeah you can just copy the contents of the old card over to the new one and use it.
No i have not done Apps2SD yet as it was unneeded as of so far. I have also wondered about the safety of such. If the phone were on and the SD card were to come out i would imagine some damage could be done. Once i get the bigger SD then i might do it.
Just wanted to see if any MT4G users have followed this guide of manually partitioning their SD card successfully...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=534714
Thanks!
Why would anyone bother, when the phone has ~1GB of internal app space?
Jack_R1 said:
Why would anyone bother, when the phone has ~1GB of internal app space?
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Why I would bother is irrelevant to the question. I am simply wondering if anyone has tried it successfully. Obviously, you have not, so why bother answering?
Sorraia3 said:
Just wanted to see if any MT4G users have followed this guide of manually partitioning their SD card successfully...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=534714
Thanks!
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Yes. This is the way I did it on my old G1. Worked great back in those ancient Android days. Of course, now it's a lot easier with recoveries being able to do it so easy now.
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Sorraia3 said:
Why I would bother is irrelevant to the question. I am simply wondering if anyone has tried it successfully. Obviously, you have not, so why bother answering?
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The question was meant to help you realize that you're not going to get any MT4G-relevant answers. Recoveries are able to repartition SD cards for a couple of years now, so even older phone users like myself (N1) had no use for this guide. It's ancient history.
On the other hand, if you're trying to learn how to manually use parted - you don't need to be in a phone forum for that, it's a Linux command, you can grab any manual on the net and be sure that it'll work.
Trying to find an answer before I buy this phone. Is there a non-rooting option that will let me download music/save photos/store movies straight to a microsd card? If not, which rom do you recommend?
I have never rooted before btw.
ajumbaje said:
Trying to find an answer before I buy this phone. Is there a non-rooting option that will let me download music/save photos/store movies straight to a microsd card? If not, which rom do you recommend?
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Everything works better with root. Root just means that you have permission to modify system settings and files.
Kitkat, the latest version of the OS tightened security and no longer allows third party apps to freely write files anywhere on your SD card. Now they have to stick to their own directory on the card. This breaks or at least restricts what older apps can do.
But you should be able to find a newer app that does the things you asked about.. as long as the app has been updated to the new method of keeping all of it's files in one directory tree.
If you have root, you could change or remove those SD card restrictions.
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I got my son a tablet on Swappa- but its not really working for our needs- as he can't install very many games or large games on it- since it doesn't treat SD card as internal- and even after moving apps to SD- it doesn't move the whole app- just a small part. So we are always out of room, since its an 8gb internal, and the 64gb SD card doesn't matter.
What is going to be the fastest- easiest way for me to fix this..It is running android 5.1.1 stock- and is not rooted- I assume that to fix this I'm going to have to root, and flash a rom with at least android marshmallow- and then use ADB shell to send command to make it internal. But before I try all that- I wanted to get advice from people on here- because maybe someone knows an easy or faster way to do it.
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Rooting is the first step,
almost all Samsung devices are very easy to root. When I got my t280, I had it rooted, TWRP, and the special tinker edition ROM, installed with in 15 minutes of taking it out of the box. After you have it rooted, you will need a link to SD app from the play store. From there you will be able to move an app the the SD card, and in the case of the app being larger, you can link it to SD card, which will usually take most, if not all of the data,obb etc, and put it on your SD card, it can take a little bit, but I have a lot of apps on this tablet doing it this way. Hope this helps.
caecusscius said:
I got my son a tablet on Swappa- but its not really working for our needs- as he can't install very many games or large games on it- since it doesn't treat SD card as internal- and even after moving apps to SD- it doesn't move the whole app- just a small part. So we are always out of room, since its an 8gb internal, and the 64gb SD card doesn't matter.
What is going to be the fastest- easiest way for me to fix this..It is running android 5.1.1 stock- and is not rooted- I assume that to fix this I'm going to have to root, and flash a rom with at least android marshmallow- and then use ADB shell to send command to make it internal. But before I try all that- I wanted to get advice from people on here- because maybe someone knows an easy or faster way to do it.
thanks for helping my son game...
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This tool should help: https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-tab-a/how-to/patch-adoptable-storage-enabler-t3507387 once you are rooted
So I put Android 4.0.4 on my HD2 but theres a problem, all the apps try to install into internal memory, which is about 160mb, I need to somehow force the apps to install straight onto the SD card, I of course have ROOT access. Any suggestions ?
P.S. : Sorry, I am very new to this kind of thing, I never got root access before.
I figured it out, Apps2SD it is !
Glad to hear it. Did you ask NASA?
Robbie P said:
Glad to hear it. Did you ask NASA?
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Of course I did, but they told me that I am crazy and that the old HD2 cannot run android