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[HOWTO] Steps to move applications to SD

Hi All,
After rooted the device using SuperOneCLick v1.6.5
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=803682
I installed the Move2SD enabled and managed to move the installed application to SD card.
Steps:
- Root your S5830
- Installed Move2SD enabled
- Launch Move2SD enabled and set the install path to 'External'
- Goto Settings > Applications > Manage applications to move those applciation that you want to move to SD card.

i have tested this method with my s5830 and it works...

How about using an ext3 partition for the phone to use upon boot? Anyone tried Darktremor's app2sd?

I tried with my Galaxy Ace, but after I set Move2SD I'm not allowed whether to move apps to my SD card or to do something different from uninstall the apps as all the options are disabled in the "Manage applications" panel !
Any idea of what I got wrong?

roninxt said:
How about using an ext3 partition for the phone to use upon boot? Anyone tried Darktremor's app2sd?
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Here's a detailed guide on how to enable Darktremor's a2sd using an ext2 partition for Galaxy ACE s5830:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=12514827

I have rooted and installed Move2SD enabler. But, when I checked external & wanted to apply it, it said that "Sorry, unable to change the default install location". How to solve this problem?
Is the problem only on my Galaxy Ace S5830 or this is the software problem? Could you help me?
Thanks.

fuzore said:
i have tested this method with my s5830 and it works...
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Why I couldn't installed it on my S5830? Could tell me the procedure you did to install this move2SD enabler?
Thanks.

prodikey said:
Hi All,
After rooted the device using SuperOneCLick v1.6.5
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=803682
I installed the Move2SD enabled and managed to move the installed application to SD card.
Steps:
- Root your S5830
- Installed Move2SD enabled
- Launch Move2SD enabled and set the install path to 'External'
- Goto Settings > Applications > Manage applications to move those applciation that you want to move to SD card.
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Thankx a lot man
This Saved My Life
Thankyou

app2sd pro is the same apk, isn't it?

prodikey said:
Hi All,
After rooted the device using SuperOneCLick v1.6.5
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=803682
I installed the Move2SD enabled and managed to move the installed application to SD card.
Steps:
- Root your S5830
- Installed Move2SD enabled
- Launch Move2SD enabled and set the install path to 'External'
- Goto Settings > Applications > Manage applications to move those applciation that you want to move to SD card.
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i have move my app to sd card, but app is use phone meory, and if i remove the sd card, the sd card will gone, but the problem is the app is occupying phone memory while not sd card although it has been moved. DO you have the same problem??

chinpuiwai said:
i have move my app to sd card, but app is use phone meory, and if i remove the sd card, the sd card will gone, but the problem is the app is occupying phone memory while not sd card although it has been moved. DO you have the same problem??
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Yes those above methods aren't quite helpful. Try Link2SD, it'll surely free your internal storage as it shifts the entire app data as well as library files and dalvik cache to SD. I use the same. =)
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Thank you, it work

I thought SG Ace already had app2sd..(enable by Froyo). Because after I installed any games.. I just use setting inside SETINGS/APPLICATION/MANAGE APPLICATIONS and move to SD..
so what is the major different about Link2sd and Move2SD?

The Froyo way, Apps2SD or Move2SD Enabler still store the dex and library files needed for the application to run, on the internal storage. You will see your /data/dalvik-cache takes up the most space because of this. Whereas in Link2SD method, all of these files are physically stored on your SD card on a second partition which is mounted at boot. They are simply symbolic linked with the original locations.

nish7x said:
The Froyo way, Apps2SD or Move2SD Enabler still store the dex and library files needed for the application to run, on the internal storage. You will see your /data/dalvik-cache takes up the most space because of this. Whereas in Link2SD method, all of these files are physically stored on your SD card on a second partition which is mounted at boot. They are simply symbolic linked with the original locations.
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Sadly Link2SD doesn't work on 2.3.3. There's an unresolved bug / uncompatibility issue and I don't know if/when the developer will come up.

I heard so, that's why I'm not upgrading to Gingerbread yet.

i've tried move2sd, first it work great but then i got this 'unable to install to sd' error when ever i tried to install apps. i have to unmount my sd card then i can install the apps, quite annoying to me, so i formatted my sd card and uninstall move2sd and the error is gone....

Well done !!
It works !! almost all the 3rd party applications run now from SD !
SAVE ME 30 MEGA pure rom memory AND SURVIVE MY GOOD HEALTHY !
Any help how to deal with all the provider rubbish and stinky applications to throw away from phone or moving into the the SD ?
THANK AGAIN
ALON

bugijun said:
i've tried move2sd, first it work great but then i got this 'unable to install to sd' error when ever i tried to install apps. i have to unmount my sd card then i can install the apps, quite annoying to me, so i formatted my sd card and uninstall move2sd and the error is gone....
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you can try simple2ext but this only works for CM roms. A caveat however. Most, if not all CM roms ported to the SGA are still at RC1 and not final yet. There is a bug which causes the phone to restart when market attempts to install a newly downloaded app. Appears to be CM related.
So you can choose to wait for the devs here to port CM7.1 final for SGA and then try your luck.

Android apps gone?

Sinse some days my apps on the Market place are gone..
For example:
- Whatsapp
- Facebook app(from facebook)
- Liveprofile
- Angry Birds
- Appbrian
- Navigon
- Google apps (earth, google stars etc.)
anyone else having the same problem?
I use: HTC HERO (no brand) ROM: Elelinux-Hero-2.1

I had this also in the past. It happened when I unmounted my SD card and although I mounted it properly afterwards somehow app2sd lost some apps.
I did a reboot and they came back.
Do you use app2sd and have you mounted your SD card recently?
If yes then try if rebooting solves it.

kingcharles1666 said:
I had this also in the past. It happened when I unmounted my SD card and although I mounted it properly afterwards somehow app2sd lost some apps.
I did a reboot and they came back.
Do you use app2sd and have you mounted your SD card recently?
If yes then try if rebooting solves it.
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well yes I use app2sd, its a automatic process so can't turn it on or off but I did unmounted my SD card recently, I inserted it to an Xbox360 and after that I inserted it back in to the phone and it was complety crasht, had to reinstall everything, also the rom and after installing and wiping I noticed some apps where gone, from isntalling...

Maybe those games/apps are meant for android 2.2+.

sacpe25 said:
Maybe those games/apps are meant for android 2.2+.
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Nah, at least the Google apps are compatible with 2.1 as well.

I found the "bug/error" in the android market place you need to go to the option menu and disable all parent lock things somehow it was set to the lowest option, so I can't view anything...

[Q] Insufficient Space for apps

I'm sorry if this has been asked already but I'm really new to all of this, I recently put the cyanogens rom on my HD2 and everything works fine but for some reason I can't download apps on the marketplace because it says Insufficient Space on device but I have a 16gig sd and 555mb still left on my internal?

go to your apps from the settings and move them (start with the largest) one by one to the sd card.

AthenaLod said:
go to your apps from the settings and move them (start with the largest) one by one to the sd card.
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I've done that but for some reason it still says I don't have enough space is there anyway to make the sd the default place where marketplace downloads go to?

search the market for app2sd, you'll be notified each time you can move a new installed app to sd

Same issue
Im having the same issue. My phone says that i have used 19mb and i have 768mb free on the internal storage. But when i try to install something i get an out of space error. This is the first time that ive had this issue. ive gone as far as wiping everything with task 29 and starting over with a new rom. same issue. Any ideas?

Try to install a rom with ext support and create ext 2 partition with cwm recovery in magldr , it will work i think.

That could help:
1. Reboot into CWM Recovery
2. Advanced\Fix Permissions
3. Reboot

[Q] After Kitkat, some apps automatically try to install to SD and won't run??

Ever since KitKat some of the Apps I've downloaded from Google Play have installed to my SD card by themselves and then are unable to run. I'll have the icon listed on the screen, but when I try to run it it will say "Unfortunately, com.edc.nyc has stopped" for example. I go and look at the app in Applicaton Manager and it's listed as being on the SD card and even though I never moved it there, it installed there. When I try to move it to Device Storage it gives me the same error. This has happened with multiple apps that I have never installed installed on the SD card before kitkat. It's like something has decided to install them to the SD card instead of Device Memory, but they won't run anyway. I uninstall them, clean things up, reboot, and try to install them again and then it installs them to again to SD and they fail to run. Any ideas what would be causing this and how to fix it? My Note's not rooted or anything.

kidqwik said:
Ever since KitKat some of the Apps I've downloaded from Google Play have installed to my SD card by themselves and then are unable to run. I'll have the icon listed on the screen, but when I try to run it it will say "Unfortunately, com.edc.nyc has stopped" for example. I go and look at the app in Applicaton Manager and it's listed as being on the SD card and even though I never moved it there, it installed there. When I try to move it to Device Storage it gives me the same error. This has happened with multiple apps that I have never installed installed on the SD card before kitkat. It's like something has decided to install them to the SD card instead of Device Memory, but they won't run anyway. I uninstall them, clean things up, reboot, and try to install them again and then it installs them to again to SD and they fail to run. Any ideas what would be causing this and how to fix it? My Note's not rooted or anything.
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Leave the SD card out and try installing the apps.

airmaxx23 said:
Leave the SD card out and try installing the apps.
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Thank you! That worked! It's weird it started doing this all of a sudden though. Are apps allowed to pick and choose where they are installed like that though or would Android be routing the file to the SD? It looks like the apps actually installed on the SD card too which I thought Kitkat was supposed to prevent?

Install Apps on SDCARD without root

Hi guys. I was wondering if there's a way to install apps on SDCARD without root? I've already changed the default storage in settings but it doesn't seem to work.

mine it's working.

I think normal apps aren't normally allowed to use sdcard in Lollipop(or maybe from Kit Kat onward). They don't even have permission to see the sdcard...But why would you want that? Do you have that many apps installed that internal is full?

@andrei80 yup. Some of my games are 1gb above. @ItalianWolf when you install an app, does it directly go to the SDCARD? I wonder why that's not my case.

@rHycH
yes (memory usage tells )
Maybe sd card isn't fast enought? It's, at least, a class 10 card?
Some apps can't be installed on sd card and can't be moved to sd card from app manager.

@ItalianWolf Yes, I believe this is a class 10 card. If you don't mind can you give me an example of an app that you were able to install successfully on your SDCARD? Thanks!

Also, Link2SD/Mounts2SD/Apps2SD doesn't work for me. Anybody else got a different experience? Games are taking a lot of space on my internal SD. Specifically talking about linking/binding obb files.

@Rookert I believe link2sd requires root to work.

Yup, all I have read indicate that root is needed for achieving what you want