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[Q] how do i know if my app is installed on storage card?

hi, how can i tell if all my apps is installed on phone's internal storage or the external storage card? I have 2 GB card, and wish to upgrade to 8GB one.
I am using Wildfire, with Android 2.1 official ROM release
thanx

If you are using a official stock rom, they will be installed to the phones memory. They will only go onto the sdcard if you are using a custom rom like wildpuzzle which has apps2sd activated.

and when you do have wildpuzzle with app2sd, you can tell they're installed on sd by looking at your phone memory , i have about 130ish mb phone memory instead of like 20 before xD. umm and they are installed auto to your sd card i believe, i think you have to check the sd-ext folder or something.

Application 2 SD !!! How to stop shrinking of internal phone memory

Application 2 SD !!! How to stop shrinking of internal phone memory

On hd2 i installed nand "MDJ Froyo sense =Revotulion= " , i also have two partition on 8gb sd card. Fat 32 = 6gb and EXT3= 2gb ... when installed new rom i have 161 mb of onternal phone storage. Downloaded from market move2sd enabler and everything i install goes to sd succsesfull...BUT NOW MY INTERNAL STORAGE IS 142 MB ...??? i realy dont know why...does anyone have any idea?????????

veljo09 said:
On hd2 i installed nand "MDJ Froyo sense =Revotulion= " , i also have two partition on 8gb sd card. Fat 32 = 6gb and EXT3= 2gb ... when installed new rom i have 161 mb of onternal phone storage. Downloaded from market move2sd enabler and everything i install goes to sd succsesfull...BUT NOW MY INTERNAL STORAGE IS 142 MB ...??? i realy dont know why...does anyone have any idea?????????
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Because there are some apps that you cant simply move to the ext partition and have to be installed on internal memory i.e. gmail, youtube and updates!

yes I know that! thank you ...but I hade all that apps when installed new rom...3days internal phone memoty was 161mb and after that installed only games (apps 2 sd always aksked me to move to sd and succesfully moved them)..on phone list apps is onlu market and 3gwatchdog...on SD apps list is everything i downloaded but still dont have 161mb ...now there is 142mb and still shrinking!!! How about now???

app2sd or similar isn't moving all app-data to sd I think

Dust2Dust said:
app2sd or similar isn't moving all app-data to sd I think
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Yes,but moveSD enabler does. App2SD only ask for some app's

the "problem" is, move2sd creates a sort of "link" to the data on the SD card. Thus, when you install lets say an app of 15MB, 14MB goes to the SD card, but 1MB of data (files that can't be run of the SD card + link to SD card) stays on your internal phone memory.
So when you install lets say 100 apps, that all have 1MB of essential data and 14 MB of move-to-sd-able data your internal storage shrinks by 100MB and your SD cards' storage shrinks by 1400MB.

Its shrinking because app data is still stored on internal memory.
Please post in correct section. This has nothing to do with development.
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theredone51 said:
the "problem" is, move2sd creates a sort of "link" to the data on the SD card. Thus, when you install lets say an app of 15MB, 14MB goes to the SD card, but 1MB of data (files that can't be run of the SD card + link to SD card) stays on your internal phone memory.
So when you install lets say 100 apps, that all have 1MB of essential data and 14 MB of move-to-sd-able data your internal storage shrinks by 100MB and your SD cards' storage shrinks by 1400MB.
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Finally wright answer . . .

Out of Memory

Hey guys,
i have installed the cm9 beta build 13 on my sgs.
Now i have also installed the samsung apps.
After a few downloads from samsung appsstore i got the message "out of memory".
the is no telephone memory.
but the mobile tells me, that i have 1.6gb internal memory free, 3.3gb sd card free memory and usb space 1.12gb free.
So, i can´t find any reason fro the message.
Is there a partition (cahe or so) which can be out of space?
greetz
ravn

App To SD

The new update gives functionality of transferring apps to sd card but when I transfer an app to SD it remains in internal memory and there is no change to my external memory card. Can anyone tell me where does it exactly go and what actually happens when i move my app to sd??

japanpatel said:
The new update gives functionality of transferring apps to sd card but when I transfer an app to SD it remains in internal memory and there is no change to my external memory card. Can anyone tell me where does it exactly go and what actually happens when i move my app to sd??
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Well app to sd card option moves the apk u installed in the SD card but it keeps the data in internal memory only.. so incase u take the memory card out u cannot run the application and its done this way so that u can free up some space in ur internal memory for other use etc

What is bigger, the APK or data?

u can use terminal or folder mount to link that data in external sdcard to phones memory! so phone thinks its on phones but its on sd! btw u may experiance lag or slow loading and stuff! havent tryed my self i got no space problem on 8gb version i just bought it im currently downloading more games! like rapid gt and others
also try to save some space whit moving everything to sd expect game data!

CorruptedSanity said:
What is bigger, the APK or data?
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Most of the time its data that is big
example Need for speed is abt 13 mb app size and the data we need to download is abt 600 mb and after its extracted its abt 1.6 gb

I already use pro version of Folder mount but i just had a doubt that samsung is providing the old method of moving apps to sd again but still i see no diff in my internal storage as i have already moved many internal apps to sd using the new function but still i see my ext sd is empty and the apk remains in int memory only ......

japanpatel said:
I already use pro version of Folder mount but i just had a doubt that samsung is providing the old method of moving apps to sd again but still i see no diff in my internal storage as i have already moved many internal apps to sd using the new function but still i see my ext sd is empty and the apk remains in int memory only ......
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Yes data of the app remains in the internal memory card only just to verify u just take the memory card and see those app will ask for car to be inserted
and ya since only the apps are mvng and it may be small in size u dont see may not notice the change in internal memory available

[HELP] Insufficient Storage Available

After moving an app to system, then i downloaded something on google play. it says insufficient storage available. my sd card is 2 gb free. my internal is 120 mb free. my system is 50mb free. but it actually says insufficient storage available. any fix for this?

jeffcleds said:
After moving an app to system, then i downloaded something on google play. it says insufficient storage available. my sd card is 2 gb free. my internal is 120 mb free. my system is 50mb free. but it actually says insufficient storage available. any fix for this?
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Doesn't matter bout sd card storage only internal free
You have only 50 and probably need at least 60-80mb free to install an app
You can either
Use a cache cleaner to free up storage temporary if available
Or
Use Link2sd to link apps to sd card -
requires a 2nd sd card partition - can do it in cwm but it will format the sd card so backup to Pc first