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not enough storage on my phone ?

Hi first post...new phone.....great product, I love it......to get to the point, I have down loaded a couple of simple apps from the in-house market place, the second one "i spy wifi" wouldnt complete because "quote" ...reqs newer version microsoftR.net compact framework, this wouldnt download because I dont have enough free space, even though there is a 4 gb micro card with loads of room.........how do i get things onto the card storage?.......can I put a 16gb card in place of the 4 ?
cheers

Yes you can use 16gb card, normally when you install an app, it give you the option to install on device memory or Storage Card. I install everything on the the Storage Card and I've got a rude amount of apps installed .

Hi, do watch the cache in the main storage - this can fill up.
And, when you install apps from the Market Place it seems these automatically go to main storage and there is no option to install to storage card.
I'm using a 16 gb card with no problems.

thanks for the reply, not noticed an option offered for phone/card storage...will look for it next time....cheers..........

Just to follow on from this can all cabs and apps be downloaded on the card rather than the device? For instance I have cabs for home page transparencies and max manila, text removal on home page etc. Also cab games, official hot fixes, clocks, market place apps as well. And these are ALL on t he device.
Are there certain apps or items that MUST go on the device or can everything go on the card?

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Just to follow on from this can all cabs and apps be downloaded on the card rather than the device? For instance I have cabs for home page transparencies and max manila, text removal on home page etc. Also cab games, official hot fixes, clocks, market place apps as well. And these are ALL on t he device.
Are there certain apps or items that MUST go on the device or can everything go on the card?
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Anyone?

Pretty much everything can go on the card.

but I cannot seem to move anything onto my card, am I missing something ?

Just use file explorer to move the cabs to your storage card. Once you have installed cab's you can do what you want with them, move or delete them. When installing them it will prompt to install on the device or storage card. Choose storage card.

I always install to the storage card but when you install using Market Place it doesn't give you the option it just installs to the device. Does anyone know if this can be changed or if the cab files is stored somewhere so that you can uninstall from device and install on the card??

As far as I know, isn't possible to choose a different location when installing from Marketplace. However, is possible to move the applications from the phone memory to the SD card. To do that you have to use this app. Although there are some applications that you must install in the phone memory.

Many thanks, I will give it a go. I already have SK Tools do you know if that has a similar feature as I've not quite got to grips with everything it can do?

apps2SD???

I have formatted my SD card with an app that comes with Evil's ROM. Plus i have apps2sd program installed. When i install apps, some go to SD some to the phone. When i use apps2sd program and move apps to sd program tells me that they were moved. When i open Astro and navigate to SD\system\sd\app nothing is visible there. Also if i navigate there while sd is mounted on my computer, there is also nothing there. Shouldn't they show up there? How do i know for a fact that they got installed to sd and not to phone? Thanks.

You're confused between Apps2SD of Froyo and Apps2SD+ of EXT2/3/4. In both cases, Apps2SD is much more than a "program".
You can't mount EXT partition to your computer, so you don't.
There is no SD\...., there is /system/sd/apps.
To use the full potential of Apps2SD+, you need to avoid using Apps2SD completely - since there's no point in it. Means - ALL your apps should show as "on phone". They won't actually be on the phone, but the phone system doesn't know it.
Read some more on the subject.

Jack_R1 said:
You're confused between Apps2SD of Froyo and Apps2SD+ of EXT2/3/4. In both cases, Apps2SD is much more than a "program".
You can't mount EXT partition to your computer, so you don't.
There is no SD\...., there is /system/sd/apps.
To use the full potential of Apps2SD+, you need to avoid using Apps2SD completely - since there's no point in it. Means - ALL your apps should show as "on phone". They won't actually be on the phone, but the phone system doesn't know it.
Read some more on the subject.
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I am confused all i want is for my apps to go to my sd card so that i can have more free space on my phone

http://www.forceclose.com/questions/718/how-do-i-know-if-apps2sd-is-working
After you do that, if you see what's described - go to Settings / Applications / Manage, go to "SD Card", whatever you see there - press "Move to Phone".
That's it.

A2SD - A general question

Hi Guys
I've followed Dark Tremor's flashing procedure and i can see a fair amount of A2SD storage using a Storage info widget....however when i install a program it doesn't seem to install it to the SD card...how can i tell what's going on?

You have to choose to install it to internal memory.

Thanks for the reply.....I don't get an option when I install an app tho?

What Rom are you running?

If you're using a custom ROM, use the ROM's Spare Parts and see if there is an option there to force everything to go on SD or on internal memory. If there is - choose "internal memory".
If not - just go to Settings/Applications/SD Card and move everything you find there back to the phone. Also look in DarkTremor's thread to find the switches you need to use when running a2sd to make the internal memory default storage location.
And understand that as far as the phone is concerned, you're moving nothing on SD card. EXT partition is not recognized by the phone as storage option, but everything that went to /data/app goes on EXT. Please spend the time and search the forums, the ways to check that DarkTremor's Apps2SD is in use were discussed many times and in many places.

Jack_R1 said:
If you're using a custom ROM, use the ROM's Spare Parts and see if there is an option there to force everything to go on SD or on internal memory. If there is - choose "internal memory".
If not - just go to Settings/Applications/SD Card and move everything you find there back to the phone. Also look in DarkTremor's thread to find the switches you need to use when running a2sd to make the internal memory default storage location.
And understand that as far as the phone is concerned, you're moving nothing on SD card. EXT partition is not recognized by the phone as storage option, but everything that went to /data/app goes on EXT. Please spend the time and search the forums, the ways to check that DarkTremor's Apps2SD is in use were discussed many times and in many places.
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Thanks for the info...I did indeed search but didn't find an answer as concise as the one you just provided...thanks again.

Saving market apps to microsd card

How do you save apps from android market to microsd card.

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How do you save apps from android market to microsd card.
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Settings > application > open the app and make sure the second block on the right says "move to phone"... if it says that, then you then application is on the SD card. Or you can check the market for one of many free applications

Ok tried that doesn't let me save to sd card, now is that the only way or is there an app for that?

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Ok tried that doesn't let me save to sd card, now is that the only way or is there an app for that?
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Settings > application > open the app and make sure the second block on the right says "move to phone"... if it says that, then you then application is on the SD card. Or you can check the market for one of many free applications

Ok got that I understand but I want to know if there is a way to move the apps that are not highlighted. The ones you can't move is there a app for that.

all apps cannot be moved to the sd card. if you used the method that was explained to you before and its grayed out, but not on the sd card, then chances are it cant be moved! an app has to have that option built into it in order to be moved to the sd card. you can contact the developer and see if the have plans to or to request that option!

Try appmonster it backups your apps if that's what you're asking
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Cool guys thanks for all the help.

If ur rooted.
System/app

what reason is this for?

Well My phone is rooted and I wanted to save all my themes I downloaded from Android Market to my sdcard.

Payaso1 said:
Well My phone is rooted and I wanted to save all my themes I downloaded from Android Market to my sdcard.
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The themes should automatically be stored to the SDcard. Are you talking about the "theme setup"?

Yeah their not going to my sdcard okay I will tell you what I'm trying to do. I wanted to get one theme to put on my computer then use that theme to customize it to the way I like it. Would be easier than trying to figure out how to make one. Or if there is other way I'm all ears.

If it won't move to SD card, since you are rooted you can find it on your phone and COPY the folder/file to another place on the SD card, then connect to computer and drag and drop the copied file.
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Thread should be in Q&A section. Moved.

[Q] apps to sd

I have yet to root my KF, its only a day old and I'm still checking things out. I read through allot of the posts for development and I see some are using CM roms. My question that I can't seem to find is, has anyone tried apps to sd. I know allot of the phone roms, cm included had apps to sd. You could just move an app to the external storage, and I was wondering if there was anything like that for the KF. The application limit is my only real motivation at this point to root, however the re-partition thread is like a huge process with plenty of potential to brick your device. Aside from the android market, what is the benefit to rooting this thing? I rather like the stock launcher, but if rooting and putting a rom on it will give me more usability, I will move forward and root. Does anyone know of a solution for using all of the available space for storage, otherwise it seems like more trouble than its worth right now.

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Use Titanium Backup. It can do this even though the normal application tool doesn't.

After root, use the move function in titanium backup. Works for me.
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After root, you can just move apps to SD by going to Settings, then to Applications, then to Manage Applications, then click on the app you want and select Move to SD card... it's that easy.

long press the app and window pops up with the move option.
make sure your'r sd card is r/w.

Noob question. If it truly is as easy as "move app to SD" on Titanium Backup (or Gemini App Manager) to move apps from Internal Storage to SD card storage, why do some folks bother with re-partitioning their SD card at all?

It may be that they didn't realize the apps were being placed on the sd. The only way I know to tell what is on the sd is to look at the output of the `mount`.

That's possible sure, but it doesn't really make sense.

check out eldarerathis' thread on the development forums. he's posted a very useful utility to repartioning your SD card. should help a lot of us out.

gibson3659 said:
After root, use the move function in titanium backup. Works for me.
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Yes, I also managed to move apps to SD by using Titanium Backup. (I had no problems with a batch job)