i download an app and move it to my sd card. i open es file explorer and install the app. ok the app is installed. but the app is installed in the phone memory, i dont want that coz its already low, so i go to manage apps and go to the app i just installed an the move to sd card is greyed out. this happens everytime i put a app or game on sd card and install it. whereas if i download something from market i have the option to move to sd card r it has been already installed to sd card.
im u usin hd2 using this rom:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=881937
any help coz the phone memory is going very low
There's various apps for handling moving stuff to the SD card, or defaulting to install there, but I personally use Titanium Backup because I use it for other stuff too. There's an option in batch options to move every non-system app to the SD card.
That's never failed for me.
Keep in mind though that some apps don't work once you've moved them to the SD card. It's a pain, but you have to move some of them back to the phone. You can do this using the method you described above. Once they're on the SD card, the option to move them says "move to phone" and is no longer disabled.
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ok so coming from the G1 with apps2SD and moving apps from memory to SD was easy. Well i just went and installed a bunch of apps on my HD2 and suddenly got the "low on system storage" memory. i went into settings and tried to move apps to SD but wouldn't let me. Searched forums, and cant find an answer. How can i install android apps to the SD? it seems that if the android OS is on the SD card, wouldn't the apps naturally install there?! thanks for any help.
Yes, your android runs from the SD card. But your android does recognize the data.img in your folder as the system storage. That means if you have a build that creates a 1GB data.img, your storage is limited to 1GB.
How big is you data.img?
The option to install something on the SD isn't possible.
Cheers
- J
Same situation
I'm also coming from a G1 with cyanogenmod using Apps2sd...
...is there any way that i can run my current apps from my sd card on the HD2?
or atleast copy them to the device?
Yes, if you have them in *.apk form.
You can create a folder on the SD card, I call it apps, and copy them there. Then use a file manager, I use Astro, to navigate the sd card and install them into Android. This way you don't have to keep reloading them from Market.
You can also put them into the Android Apps folder inside the Android folder and they will be installed on boot.
Cheers...
I have moved Apps from internal memory to my stock 8gb SD card that came with my phone using ApptoSD. I now upgraded to a 16gb SD card and have copied every folder/file on this 8gb card to my deskto computer and then moved onto the 16gb SD card. My problem is that the programs appear on the Manage Applications in the HTC EVO setup, however none of the applications open from my shortcuts nor appear in the All Apps menu button. What am I doing wrong? Is there anyway to copy from one SD card to the other and get the applications to work?
I might have either moved all the apps to phone memory or used titanium back up to back them up and also to move them. Now however the symlinks are going to oblivion. So use root explorer go to /mnt/asec and long tap each app to re-install.
You could explore app2sd application from market, to see what it finds, as it rebuilds it's list each time it starts.
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I'm using Go launcher EX. I bought a 16GB micro sdhc card for my huawei titan u8800. When i put it in suddenly over half of my apps disapeared from the app list and in my homescreens they only showed the green loading icon. When i try to click on them on the home screen it says that the application is not installed. I think it was the apps that i had moved to the internal storage that disapeared. In the memory info it still says that the internal memory card is almost used up so it doesnt seem to have been deleted. After i took out the card and rebooted they came back after about 10 minutes. Is it any way to get the apps back while i have the sd card in?
which rom are you using? Stock 2.2.2, cm7, miui?
I am using android 2.2.1 that came with the phone.
So, you din't have an external sd card and used the internal sd to install some apps there?
When put the external sd card, the system start to use this card instead of the internal, and the apps which are installed on internal sd card are no longer be installed.
Therefore, you need to copy them from internal sd to external sd.
You need to copy the folders .android_secure and Android(if exists), and also Data(if exists too) from HWUserData folder to external sd' s root directory.
I think this will solve your problem. If this works, you can after delete these folders from internal sd.
It worked! Thank you very much! Glad i didnt have to reinstall all my applications again....
I followed these directions perfectly and the links2SD app is saying that all my subsequent apps are being "linked to SD card" after installation. However, my internal memory is filling up just the same way as without this app. Furhtermore, I don't see anything changing on my external SD card. Does this app not work on the S4? I've tried other solutions to move apps to SD card prior to this and none of them seemed to work either.
Samsung has built in apps to sd, just go into app manager and move over the apps that are allowed to be moved. Not all can be moved, but most of the big apps can. Its better than nothing.
I want to know is there any way of moving the Internet app to SD Card, i know there is option by creating second partition on SD Card, but is there any other way, the app itself is taking 200mb...
There is same app on Google play so i though i can just uninstall it using titanium backup, and then install from play store, then i will be able to move it to sd card? I know i sound dumb but i need your opinion is there any other option before proceeding?
You can probably do it by merging the SD with the stock storage and moving the apk and all of it's data from /root/data/data/internet to sd.