How to save apps on the sd card - G2 and Desire Z General

Is there a way you can save apps on the sd card instead of the phones memory? Would doing this maintain faster speed fpr the g2?
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Do people realize that their phone has a search button? Just so happends it goes right to some website called google. That must be a pretty informative website.
Menu-settings-applications-manage applications-choose app-store to sd card (or store to phone)
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why cant we store all apps on the sd card?

-FuRBz- said:
why cant we store all apps on the sd card?
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the app developers just choose not 2 allow people to save to the sdcard.
one of the reasons is that it can be saved and copied and therefore distributed easily.

rhodes588 said:
Do people realize that their phone has a search button? Just so happends it goes right to some website called google. That must be a pretty informative website.
Menu-settings-applications-manage applications-choose app-store to sd card (or store to phone)
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What do you think comes up when you do a google search, brains? This thread was one of them. Way to go trying to be a douche, it worked out well for you!

Greekbadger3 said:
What do you think comes up when you do a google search, brains? This thread was one of them. Way to go trying to be a douche, it worked out well for you!
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But there is also already a ton of information out there regarding putting apps onto the sd card. Its all about searching and trying to find the info before asking. Also posting in the right section, Q&A.
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Not trying to be a douche here but you must have just switched from WM to Android or something. You've got tons of posts but you've never heard of something called a2sd or apps2ext? Google 'darktremor' and you'll find your answer. BTW, there is actually a thread in the development section for this phone that, if you looked, you would have seen and had the exact answer you're looking for.

I did just switch over from WM phone but I also knew that certain apps can be saved into the SD card. My particular question was to get the apps that does not give you the option of going to the SD card.
Truly the comment of google search was not called for since if the poster goes to:
Menu-settings-applications-manage applications-choose app-store to sd card (or store to phone)
: some apps do not give you the option to save into SD card.

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Embed video fix.

I was not seeing embedded video links in my non stock browsers, or in Google reader. In fact if I clicked on a reader item that had one I was either immediatly taken to the stock browser saying link not found, or page cannot be opened, or was given the list of apps and browser choices. This was extremely annoying to say the least. I did not want to delete the stock browser so I just moved it to my SD.card for storage using root explorer. This cleared up the problem right away. Thought this might help a few people. Mods move this if its in the wrong place.
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Lmao. I swear its gotta be me, or something in the air but this is the second post where I have no clue what the hell people are saying....you weren't seeing embedded stuff in your browser. So, using root manager you moved the browser to the sd card. And this took care of the problem. Lol. Wtf did I just say? Wait wait wait. Do you mean by moving the stock browser grin the internal sd card to the external sd card you can now see embedded stuff? People choose your words carefully. Remember there are 2 types of sd cards on this phone, internal and external. Please be specific.
You have a question, or are you just being a smartass? Of course its the removable sd. why wouldnt I specify if it was internal, if its a stock app then its in system/apps.
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Ice Cream Sandwich " pseudo-sdcard or Not!!"

As we all know Honeycomb uses this rediculus pseudo-sdcard meaning internal SD and external SD which sux because as we all know you cannot clean internal memory up by moving apps to the SD card clearly making us spend more hard earned money on upgrading to more storage internally. So my question is as I am sure a million and one other people are wondering:
CAN.... YOU.... MOVE.... APPS.... TO.... THE.... SD... CARD.... USING.... THE.... NEW.... ICE.... CREAM.... SANDWICH.... OS!?
I have searched far and wide Google ho and I get the best of both answers and not one a definitive.......
Can someone please tell us FOR SURE! The mystery million dollar answer to this question?
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as i stated in another thread, yes, ics supports moving apps to sd cards from within qpp management in settings. Heres a question for you, since the xoom has it working 100%, why not ask them? Better yet, got root? Install thors rom and see if it works.
This would be great, it's so frustrating to have apps say they are going to download additional data to the SD card, only to see it filing up your internal memory.
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as i stated in another thread, yes, ics supports moving apps to sd cards from within qpp management in settings. Heres a question for you, since the xoom has it working 100%, why not ask them? Better yet, got root? Install thors rom and see if it works.
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Here's a question for you..... since you want to act like a smart ass child. How come I now have the ICS from by Thor and this option you speak of is nonexistant? Is it because it is a custom from for the A500 or that you are simply dead wrong in your statement?
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adambomb_13 said:
Here's a question for you..... since you want to act like a smart ass child. How come I now have the ICS from by Thor and this option you speak of is nonexistant? Is it because it is a custom from for the A500 or that you are simply dead wrong in your statement?
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Is this your first android device? Did you forget others exist? The build on my G2 supports moving apps to the sd card, therefore ICS supports moving apps to the sd card. I never said A500 roms support it, I said ICS supports it and you need to see if the roms for honeycomb devices (ours and the xoom are the ones I specifically mention) support it. Thats why I said to try asking xoom owners or Thors rom. You're the one screaming on a forum about not having apps 2 sd capability on your tablet, but I'm a child for not spoon feeding you, but rather stating where you can find what you want to know?
And even then, I gave you an exact answer. You CAN move apps to the sd card with ICS. You should have asked if the a500 could move apps to the SD card, and you got that answer yourself.
Is this not the A500 forum thread? I must be confused.
I own an A500 but I should find my answers somewhere else.
Seems to me like you have been so verbily abused on forums you have to spout off about spoon feeding to a question that several thousand people (obviously including you) are confused as to the answer
Niftrific sayswah
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ICS does support apps2sd, although I believe regarding how it is built for a tablet, there are most likely some changes that do not allow apps2sd. (This could be to Google believing that the available memory is more than enough, evidently this is not the case).
Now looking around, it seems there is no native method to enable apps2d (to be honest, haven't really searched much.)
However, there is a mod in the Development Forum, that basically swaps the internal sd with the external sd, effectively giving you xxGB of space (based on sd card size). This gives you an increased amount of space for apps, music, videos etc (depending on sd card size.)
Be aware though that you cannot hot swap your sd card, using this as it could potentially corrupt the system when removed. Also note it has been test on HC 3.2.1 (Not sure about ICS, A question for the developer of the mod maybe?)
Link : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1445720
Anyway, I hope this has helped. I know it may not be the best method available, but it still one to consider.
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ICS does support apps2sd, although I believe regarding how it is built for a tablet, there are most likely some changes that do not allow apps2sd. (This could be to Google believing that the available memory is more than enough, evidently this is not the case).
Now looking around, it seems there is no native method to enable apps2d (to be honest, haven't really searched much.)
However, there is a mod in the Development Forum, that basically swaps the internal sd with the external sd, effectively giving you xxGB of space (based on sd card size). This gives you an increased amount of space for apps, music, videos etc (depending on sd card size.)
Be aware though that you cannot hot swap your sd card, using this as it could potentially corrupt the system when removed. Also note it has been test on HC 3.2.1 (Not sure about ICS, A question for the developer of the mod maybe?)
Link : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1445720
Anyway, I hope this has helped. I know it may not be the best method available, but it still one to consider.
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This is the most detailed and respectful answer I could have hoped for and I am aware of the sd card swap which is great I wish someone would come out with an app and could switch between the stock and the mod therefore giving the opportunity to remove the card with no bad consequences I hope that this feature will work for the up and coming OTA. Thank you again I guess we'll have to wait and more will be revealed but I am getting the feeling that as you said most tablets will not support the app2sd function due to more money for the 32gb version ect.. It's really a shame that someone can't just cook the feature from one of the ICS phones into the tablet roms.
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adambomb_13 said:
This is the most detailed and respectful answer I could have hoped for and I am aware of the sd card swap which is great I wish someone would come out with an app and could switch between the stock and the mod therefore giving the opportunity to remove the card with no bad consequences I hope that this feature will work for the up and coming OTA. Thank you again I guess we'll have to wait and more will be revealed but I am getting the feeling that as you said most tablets will not support the app2sd function due to more money for the 32gb version ect.. It's really a shame that someone can't just cook the feature from one of the ICS phones into the tablet roms.
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I think the reason it may not work is because of how the memory is partitioned or formatted, I.e some space for the rom and the rest for user data. Although this is also the case on devices like the sgs iirc. So must be a tablet thing?
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adambomb_13 said:
Is this not the A500 forum thread? I must be confused.
I own an A500 but I should find my answers somewhere else.
Seems to me like you have been so verbily abused on forums you have to spout off about spoon feeding to a question that several thousand people (obviously including you) are confused as to the answer
Niftrific sayswah
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Given there is a thread elsewhere for Thor's rom and other tablets with ICS, I would have asked there. Yeah, this is the a500 section but without an official ICS or gpl compliant ICS how many people here are going to have the answer to your question? And I did know the answer, I ran thor's rom for about an hour before switching back to something with a camera, thats why I pointed you to it. Like I said, ICS itself does support moving apps to the exernal sd card. Thats the questionbeing asked, and I gave the answer. If you didnt come in here CAPS... LOCK... BLAZING... LIKE... AN... INTERNET... BAD... ASS... I probably would have been more inclined to give you the answer you wanted.
Not confuse here...
I run ICS and no support for moving apps to sd.
Only solution is link2sd
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adambomb_13 said:
As we all know Honeycomb uses this rediculus pseudo-sdcard meaning internal SD and external SD which sux because as we all know you cannot clean internal memory up by moving apps to the SD card clearly making us spend more hard earned money on upgrading to more storage internally. So my question is as I am sure a million and one other people are wondering:
CAN.... YOU.... MOVE.... APPS.... TO.... THE.... SD... CARD.... USING.... THE.... NEW.... ICE.... CREAM.... SANDWICH.... OS!?
I have searched far and wide Google ho and I get the best of both answers and not one a definitive.......
Can someone please tell us FOR SURE! The mystery million dollar answer to this question?
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adambomb_13 said:
Is this not the A500 forum thread? I must be confused.
I own an A500 but I should find my answers somewhere else.
Seems to me like you have been so verbily abused on forums you have to spout off about spoon feeding to a question that several thousand people (obviously including you) are confused as to the answer
Niftrific sayswah
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Methinks you asked if ICS supports it, not the A500 in particular. Furthermore, no one could give you a definite answer anyway, because Acer has yet to release ICS for our Iconia. Now, say someone compiles a kernel + ICS rom which changes the way the partitions are set up, and how it hands internal memory. Then yes, you could do it. Instead of complaining, do a little research and have a little respect towards the others.
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What Samsung replied to me when I asked about why we can't move apps fron internal me

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Dear
Thank you for contacting Samsung Customer Support.
Please note that moving or installing apps to external storage is no longer available on any Android from version 4.0 and above, due to how the Android operating system reads storage on our devices. The Android OS now operates on a unified storage system from Ice Cream Sandwich onward, meaning it will read one data partition for storage, rather than two.
The reason why previous Android versions had the capability of moving apps to external storage was because the phones memory was split into two partitions, one for external storage and one for internal.
Now, with Android using a unified storage system, all applications will be stored completely on the internal memory of the phone. This allows for around 11GB of storage space on a 16GB device for apps. Google, the developer of Android, feels this is more than enough for users, as their operating system was designed for use on their own phones as well, which do not have any external storage at all.
Please also note that we do not advertise any of our devices as having the capability of running or installing apps directly onto the external memory card. You will have to install your apps to the internal memory, but anything else (music, videos, documents etc.) can be stored on your external memory card.
If there is anything else we can help with, please let us know.
Our Customer Support Team love feedback! Share your thoughts on this response by completing the survey at the bottom of this page.
Kind regards,
Conor
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The reason I ask them is that all the apps developers I asked told me/pointed me to Samsung for a solution or reason why I cant move item.
If I am not wrong I will have to ask Google for a solution.
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What is the point of this? it is widely known that Google removed this since ICS. Deal with it, or root & hack your device. You can do a sd card swap, put a 64gb sd card in & use that as your main storage.. Or deal with it. It has been like this for 2 years. It is not like this just happened.
Chocu1a said:
What is the point of this? it is widely known that Google removed this since ICS. Deal with it, or root & hack your device. You can do a sd card swap, put a 64gb sd card in & use that as your main storage.. Or deal with it. It has been like this for 2 years. It is not like this just happened.
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Likewise we all know this already .
Yes its a Google policy and i doubt if they will want to change it .
jje
Will not everyone did .
If you don't like wat sum 1 puts up then simple don't read it n move on.
This is a place to inform the ones that dont its not just a place for the ones that think there know it all.
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Chocu1a said:
What is the point of this? it is widely known that Google removed this since ICS. Deal with it, or root & hack your device. You can do a sd card swap, put a 64gb sd card in & use that as your main storage.. Or deal with it. It has been like this for 2 years. It is not like this just happened.
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Why are you so aggressive to him?
Please be more friendly with new members.
The forum is here to help those that do not know and not to humiliate them for not knowing!
He is right! Movetosd apps blame Samsung instead of Google, so it is normal he asked explanations from Samsung!
If you are stock then yes complain to samsung but realize how ignorant you are for doing so. That is like complaining that your prius doesnt have 4 wheel drive with locking differentials. Or go root and who cares if someone tells u to pound sand?
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299792458 said:
If you are stock then yes complain to samsung but realize how ignorant you are for doing so. That is like complaining that your prius doesnt have 4 wheel drive with locking differentials. Or go root and who cares if someone tells u to pound sand?
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1)
One can not "realize to be ignorant". It is a contradiction in terms.
If you realize it, you are not ignorant. If you are ignorant, you do not realize it.
2)
Go to the main movetosd app on google play:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.curvefish.apps.movetosd
Description of the app by the programmer:
Please note, not all devices support this feature, i.e. Samsung S3. Xoom DO NOT support moving apps to SD Card, because it is already share memory with system. And this feature disabled by manufacturer of your device.
The programmer is guilty of misleading people into thinking it is the manufacturer's fault and not Google's fault.
Dear user 299792458, based on what I wrote above, someone you know very well is the ignorant here.
Be careful who you call ignorant, or you humiliate yourself by proving to be ignorant and unfriendly yourself.
Rejoice! The Christian God has resurrected!
Happy festivities to all Christian friends! :angel:
hygradeb said:
Will not everyone did .
If you don't like wat sum 1 puts up then simple don't read it n move on.
Its not a question of liking .
The comment was made twice that this is well known fact for over two years .Note two years its old old old information .
If you had bothered to follow XDA rules you would have searched first and not bothered to clutter the forum up . This is supposed to be XDA Developers forum not some skoolkids forum .
jje
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Thread closed.
Let's calm down and avoid unnecessary comments:angel:.

[Q] Gt i9505 app un sd without root

Cuold someone tell me haw can i save apps un microSD memory instead that on internal memory without root? I've a Galaxy s4 gt-i9505...
I thank everyone who will answer me!!!
Not possible
At all?
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Not possible
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At all? Not even heavy app as Need for Speed?:crying:
It is not smart either... As far as I know the lifetime of the sd card will suffer from the heavy use apps will give in writing and deleting... Leading to bad sectors.. Don't know how much though but I guess the 6gb is enough for most people
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DenmarkRootN00b said:
It is not smart either... As far as I know the lifetime of the sd card will suffer from the heavy use apps will give in writing and deleting... Leading to bad sectors.. Don't know how much though but I guess the 6gb is enough for most people
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They're not enougfh for me! That problem is due to Samsung or Google? In other words, is there the possibility that with android 4.3 the problem will be solved?
The problem is with Google/Android Team, but they're not going to fix it.
They intentionally removed the App to SD feature because of the high failure rate of SD Cards and amount of complaints due to it. Rooting is your only choice to put apps on SD it seems
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The problem is with Google/Android Team, but they're not going to fix it.
They intentionally removed the App to SD feature because of the high failure rate of SD Cards and amount of complaints due to it. Rooting is your only choice to put apps on SD it seems
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It is only removed on Samsung ROMS.
AOSP android or CM10.1 just moves the apps fine.
So the problem is within Samsung.
Aren't the obb(textures from heavy games are saved as obb for example) files stored on the external sd?
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om22 said:
It is only removed on Samsung ROMS.
AOSP android or CM10.1 just moves the apps fine.
So the problem is within Samsung.
Aren't the obb(textures from heavy games are saved as obb for example) files stored on the external sd?
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That's not the answer I got from Samsung - not that I 100% trust what they say, but I assumed they were in this scenario
We are sorry to hear that the space on your handset is nearly full already. We understand the frustration this has caused.
In regards to your email, please note that moving or installing apps to external storage is no longer available on any Android from version 4.0 and above, due to how the Android operating system reads storage on our devices. The Android OS now operates on a unified storage system from Ice Cream Sandwich onward, meaning it will read one data partition for storage, rather than two.
The reason why previous Android versions had the capability of moving apps to external storage was because the phones memory was split into two partitions, one for external storage and one for internal.
Now, with Android using a unified storage system, all applications will be stored completely on the internal memory of the phone. This allows for around 11GB of storage space on a 16GB device for apps. Google, the developer of Android, feels this is more than enough for users, as their operating system was designed for use on their own phones as well, which do not have any external storage at all.
Please also note that we do not advertise any of our devices as having the capability of running or installing apps directly onto the external memory card. You will have to install your apps to the internal memory, but anything else (music, videos, documents etc.) can be stored on your external memory card.
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Eambo said:
That's not the answer I got from Samsung - not that I 100% trust what they say, but I assumed they were in this scenario
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garbage :angel:. Sammy just wants to find good excuses that they have removed this feature, because you should buy a bigger spaced device
om22 said:
garbage :angel:. Sammy just wants to find good excuses that they have removed this feature, because you should buy a bigger spaced device
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So if there is not the possibility of saving apps on sd, could someone link me a root's guide (better in italian) and one for the warranty's restoration?
Thank you!
mariosimoni95 said:
So if there is not the possibility of saving apps on sd, could someone link me a root's guide (better in italian) and one for the warranty's restoration?
Thank you!
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FolderMount (root) does the tick just fine. But the App in Question need to be installed on the internal storage at first. Afterwards it can be moved via the foldermount app.
root/restoration guides are in the development section.
M03 said:
FolderMount (root) does the tick just fine. But the App in Question need to be installed on the internal storage at first. Afterwards it can be moved via the foldermount app.
root/restoration guides are in the development section.
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Can you post the link, please?
mariosimoni95 said:
Can you post the link, please?
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Foldermount is in the play store.
Rooting guides are in the Dev section. eg.:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2250824
How to root: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2255190
FolderMount: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.devasque.fmount
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Can you post the link, please?
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.devasque.fmount
Works fine ... Of course, root Required.

Please report the bug of Android 4.4(14.3.A.0.681), if Any...

As we all know 14.3.A.0.681 is the newest update for Xperia Z1/Xperia Z1 Compact/Xperia Z Ultra
so I just wanna summarize that if any bug in this apps,
Please reply down here and share the bugs if you met.Thank you
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As we all know 14.3.A.0.681 is the newest update for Xperia Z1/Xperia Z1 Compact/Xperia Z Ultra
so I just wanna summarize that if any bug in this apps,
Please reply down here and share the bugs if you met.Thank you
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Q&A, not here. And there are about 3 threads that talk about the KK update. Ask in one of them.
aooga said:
Q&A, not here. And there are about 3 threads that talk about the KK update. Ask in one of them.
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It is not Q&A, it is a kind of logging that if any bug is in this Android 4.4 update. So, it is a general report related to the Z1 update
Also for the other thread talking about this update, as I check they seems not to say anything related to the bug, So I just want to get about the bug info from the user who updated this version.
Thank you
tonylcc said:
It is not Q&A, it is a kind of logging that if any bug is in this Android 4.4 update. So, it is a general report related to the Z1 update
Also for the other thread talking about this update, as I check they seems not to say anything related to the bug, So I just want to get about the bug info from the user who updated this version.
Thank you
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Considering your title has 2 question marks in it, I would consider it a question.
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Considering your title has 2 question marks in it, I would consider it a question.
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Thank you for your reminding, I have edited with the title.
if you are also using 14.3.A.0.681, you are also welcome to report.thz
It's not really a bug but a "feature"
SD cards are broken, say goodbye to unzipping files, downloading music, basically anything that involves altering your sd card.
They are not broken. In fact, at last, correct file permissions are being implemented onto them. All these things you say will be able to happen when app developers update their apps.
gregbradley said:
They are not broken. In fact, at last, correct file permissions are being implemented onto them. All these things you say will be able to happen when app developers update their apps.
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I salute you for trying
Not sure though... I saw the camera app of kitkat and it still supports saving images in external storage. IMHO I don't think sony would allow saving images deep in the android folder instead of DCIM standards. So yeah perhaps they have fixed the sdcard issue.
Riyal said:
Not sure though... I saw the camera app of kitkat and it still supports saving images in external storage. IMHO I don't think sony would allow saving images deep in the android folder instead of DCIM standards. So yeah perhaps they have fixed the sdcard issue.
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afaik only 3rd party apps (the ones that didnt come with the phone) are restricted to using sdcard just like they want to, system apps (such as camera) can save wherever it wants. but I'm not 100% sure though
gregbradley said:
They are not broken. In fact, at last, correct file permissions are being implemented onto them. All these things you say will be able to happen when app developers update their apps.
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Well, I won't be able to use ES File Explorer to download music to my External SD card from my Web DAV server any more. Nor download files that people upload to me to my SD card either. And I don't see what any app developer will be able to do about that.
HarpingOn said:
Well, I won't be able to use ES File Explorer to download music to my External SD card from my Web DAV server any more. Nor download files that people upload to me to my SD card either. And I don't see what any app developer will be able to do about that.
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They just implement the correct file permission procedures in their app.
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They just implement the correct file permission procedures in their app.
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It's not possible, there is no such permission they could implement. There's no way to give an non-root app global permissions to write anywhere on the external SD card.
Anything's free to write any old rubbish all over your internal SD. But the removable card is rendered useless. Shame. I actually think it'll stop me updating to kit kat, which is a shame. Google hates expandable storage, and wishes it would just die.
HarpingOn said:
It's not possible, there is no such permission they could implement. There's no way to give an non-root app global permissions to write anywhere on the external SD card.
Anything's free to write any old rubbish all over your internal SD. But the removable card is rendered useless. Shame. I actually think it'll stop me updating to kit kat, which is a shame. Google hates expandable storage, and wishes it would just die.
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I am sure I have read differently somewhere, I cannot dig out the post/thread or forum, but I am positive you will be able to do it.
I am no expert in app development, but I have read enough from those that are that makes me believe it will be possible
gregbradley said:
I am sure I have read differently somewhere, I cannot dig out the post/thread or forum, but I am positive you will be able to do it.
I am no expert in app development, but I have read enough from those that are that makes me believe it will be possible
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ive also heard that you can plus i dont think sony samsung and htc will roll kitkat out if it makes their hardware useless .... i believe the whole idea of companys not updating their devices is if the newer version will break software or hardware features therefor rendering the update useless. instead they would just continue with bugfixs and implemnting new features to the current os version .... and yeah the new way for apps to ask permission can be done... just needs to be programmed correctly... it doesnt need global permission (root) it would be a little fix within the os saying that the external card is just like a partitioned bit of the internal ...(sorry if i dont make sense but it does to me ... im have asleep waiting on kitkat haha )
Wait a minute WTF is there SD card restrictions now???
What's the point with having an android phone with SD if you can't even access it??
Seems to me like everyone is turning away from being open to being closed like iOS
Sony can kiss me good bye if I don't get that damn sd support!
There's already a thread for this here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2476371
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