Hello to all,
I've just moved over from Symbian to a Motorola Atrix.
The only problem i have is that any application I install from the market place wants to read/write to the SD card and access other data in the phone.
Apart from not installing the app is there any other way to block apps accessing private phone data in Android OS?
bluegrass55 said:
Hello to all,
I've just moved over from Symbian to a Motorola Atrix.
The only problem i have is that any application I install from the market place wants to read/write to the SD card and access other data in the phone.
Apart from not installing the app is there any other way to block apps accessing private phone data in Android OS?
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Not sure, but I do know that CM7 has some options for that built in.
LBE Privacy Guard:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.lbe.security&hl=en
You can individually set each permission for each app.
it read/writes to your SD card as this is where a lot of apps save their settings/configuration files.. stopping them from using this would cause most apps to not save settings/load properly
Thank you for the heads up guys.
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Im not rooted but i was wondering if applications i downloaded from the android market and music i downloaded save on the phone or on the sd card and if they save on the phone is there anyway to move them to the sd card? Thanks
theyre saved on the phone, and cannot be moved to the sd card unless you are rooted and have an apps2sd partition on you sdcard. You dont need to move anything because there is 190MB of space reserved for apps, and most apps take up less than a MB.
Google will make a feature to move apps to your sd card once security issues are addressed.
melterx12 said:
theyre saved on the phone, and cannot be moved to the sd card unless you are rooted and have an apps2sd partition on you sdcard. You dont need to move anything because there is 190MB of space reserved for apps, and most apps take up less than a MB.
Google will make a feature to move apps to your sd card once security issues are addressed.
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Unless you install appmanager.
You can then BACKUP the non-protected apps to your sdcard for keeping.
if you have root explorer and root you can do more.....
Music will save to your SD card, though, unless it is a protected download from T-Mobile.
Amdathlonuk said:
Unless you install appmanager.
You can then BACKUP the non-protected apps to your sdcard for keeping.
if you have root explorer and root you can do more.....
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What all can you do if you root the phone
austin8868 said:
What all can you do if you root the phone
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anything the phone is capable of doing.
Amdathlonuk said:
Unless you install appmanager.
You can then BACKUP the non-protected apps to your sdcard for keeping.
if you have root explorer and root you can do more.....
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do you have app manager working? mine always force closes...i wish the dev would update for nexus
austin8868 said:
What all can you do if you root the phone
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Lots of stuff.
Installing apps to the SD card
Turn your phone into a wireless access point for tethering to a laptop
Modify the Hosts file so ad supported apps no longer display ads
Install modified OS builds
There are others but those are the reasons I have a rooted G1 and I will root my Nexus when I get it.
EDIT. The wireless tethering is the big one. I use that the most. Apps to SD isn't as much of an issue because of the additional storage on the Nexus compared to the G1.
austin8868 said:
What all can you do if you root the phone
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Here's an idea... how about reading a couple of stickies in the Development subforum, as well as the numerous threads in the HTC Dream and Magic forums regarding the benefits of rooting. The information is all there.
HI first id like to say thanks to all the people who develloped this software for my blackstone its given my old phone a wonderfull lease of life.
I am new to this whole scene so if my question seems a little stupid please let me know.
I have the 2.2 Froyo version installed (I think) and all is working wonderfully apart from the camera but i never use that anyway oh and the ability to change wall paper just reverts the wallpaper back to the origional. but again thats not a problem.
But i have a question. Is it possible to install my apps to my sd card ? i want to try a few apps ive downloaded but im running out of space on my internal memory i would like to install apps to run of my sd like in winmo is this possible?
Any help would be much appreciated
And again thanks for this wonderfull software
Richi
I haven't tried this so don't know if it works on our blackstones, but apparently with 2.2 you can now move installed apps to your SD Card if the app has been written to support that feature. Read more - http://www.androidtapp.com/android-...-sd-card-feature-in-android-2-2-requires-you/
any updates on this? i tried to use the provided solutions but i lost the access to mai blackstone sdcard....
there is this free app on the market. search app 2 SD.
this will show what apps that can be moved to SD card.
Hi sorry for the late reply ive been busy.
I tried App 2 SD and it told me which apps i can move to my sd card, this is good but when you actually try to move the apps it tells me operation failed.
Its not a big problem i just thought it may help in memory use to have apps installed on the memory card like windows mobile.
The data.img is only 256mb and all your app's are stored in that file..If you want to expand the data.img to have more app you either have to do it yourself or modify the rootfs
a link for you
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=824154
after you install an app go to application management,select the installed application and there will be a button called move to sd
Sorry to post such a noob question on these boards.
I found this forum to be the most active in regards to the Xperia Play so thought I'd set up home here for a while.
I have the 16GB card that came with my PLAY, and even though when I install an app/game, I use the 'move to SD card', my internal storage is very low (getting a message). It's like 20mb or something left. I have gone through all the apps and moved everything that can to SD Card.
I am new to Android (from Ios), but thought this would be ok as everything could be installed on the SD Card, but my internal storage keeps going down anyway.
So this is going to greatly limit the number of games/apps I can install even though I have plenty of SD card space?
Cheers.
Do you know how to use adb?
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Do you know how to use the search function on this forum?
AndroHero said:
Do you know how to use adb?
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No.
DeadlyDazza said:
Do you know how to use the search function on this forum?
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Yes, strange question.
Red_Kop said:
No.
Yes, strange question.
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Google adb, learn its basic functions and how to use it, then from adb shell, use the command pm SetInstallLocation 2, this will force all apps and libs to be moveable to the sd card, i have 200+ apps n games on my play and still 70mb of internal storage
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Thankyou AndroHero for you helpful reply.
Can I ask if there are any adverse effects or risks using ADB?
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Do you know how not to be rude?
Careful about moving apps to the SD card. A lot of apps don't like it at all and will stop functioning completely. Apps that want to be on all the time, for example (Trillian, Tweetdeck, etc...) will just be killed every so often and you'll wonder why you never got that message on MSN or why you didn't get that DM from Twitter. Any app that has widgets will break the widgets completely when moved to the SD card.
It's one of those things I discovered that no one seems to talk about.
Red_Kop said:
Thankyou AndroHero for you helpful reply.
Can I ask if there are any adverse effects or risks using ADB?
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No, adb stands for android debug bridge, is basically a way for you to comunicate with your device remotely using a pc. Like another poster has mentioned, becareful what you move any app with a widget you want to use, or any app you wish to start on boot or sync need to stay on the internal storage
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zerojay said:
Careful about moving apps to the SD card. A lot of apps don't like it at all and will stop functioning completely. Apps that want to be on all the time, for example (Trillian, Tweetdeck, etc...) will just be killed every so often and you'll wonder why you never got that message on MSN or why you didn't get that DM from Twitter. Any app that has widgets will break the widgets completely when moved to the SD card.
It's one of those things I discovered that no one seems to talk about.
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I uninstalled trillian after google gave me the ip of a computer that accessed my email, i googled it and it came up as trillian.
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You probably had Google Talk enabled on Trillian.
thanks
Hi! I have a Sony Xperia Play
Phone details:
Model - R800i
Android Version - 2.3.4
Kernel Version - 2.6.32.9-perf [email protected] #1
Build - 4.0.2.A.0.42
My internal storage is very low (getting a message). I have gone through all the apps and moved everything that can to SD Card.
I have heard about Titanium Backup root, DroidSail Super App2SD, adb, Link2SD and so on.
The methods above can let me move those unmovable apps to the SD card.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of them? How do they compare? Which method is safer or more reliable? Which method can move more apps?
If you know, please let me know, thanks.
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I got this information from the official Link2SD website, this is comparing Native apps2SD to Link2SD, I don't know how Link2SD compared with Titanium Backup root, DroidSail Super App2SD, adb and so on. If you know, please let me know, thanks.
(Native apps2sd
Starting with Android 2.2 (Froyo) Google introduced native apps2SD.
This method moves
* apk file on Android 2.2
* apk + lib files on Android 2.3+
into a secure folder on your SD card in the main FAT partition.
It is the easiest method because it doesn't require you to partition your sdcard and root privilige.
It has some disadvantages though.
First disadvantage is that application files are just stored on the sdcard's main FAT partition.
When you enable USB mass storage to share files with your computer (or otherwise unmounts or removes the external storage), any application installed on the external storage and currently running is killed.
The system effectively becomes unaware of the application until mass storage is disabled and the external storage is remounted on the device.
Besides killing the application and making it unavailable to the user, this can break some types of applications in a more serious way.
So second disadvantage is that not all apps can be moved with native apps2sd method because of above reason.
In order for the application to consistently behave as expected, developer should not allow the application to be installed on the external storage if it uses any of the following features, due to the cited consequences when the external storage is unmounted:
Widgets, Services, Alarm Services, Live Wallpapers, Live Folders, Account Managers, Sync Adapters, Broadcast Receivers listening for "boot completed".
Force move (requires root);
You can force the apps move to SD card with native apps2SD even the application does not support moving as described above.
Link2SD and some other apps can force move apps if you have root priviliges. But, note that this can break some applications, as described above.
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Ever since the MM update, i am unable to move the apps from Internal memory to external memory. My internal memory is full and i am not able to install anymore apps.
My gf who also owns a Moto X Play has the option. I have tried resetting the phone but of no use.
Could someone help me with this please?
yekollu said:
Ever since the MM update, i am unable to move the apps from Internal memory to external memory. My internal memory is full and i am not able to install anymore apps.
My gf who also owns a Moto X Play has the option. I have tried resetting the phone but of no use.
Could someone help me with this please?
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There isn't any option AFAIK in MM Roms to move apps from internal to external.
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Try app 2 sd
drmuruga said:
Try app 2 sd
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That's for rooted users I guess.
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Then root it, there is more stuff for your phone after rooting.
drmuruga said:
Then root it, there is more stuff for your phone after rooting.
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I am rooted but the users who aren't rooted, there's no option for them.
And I don't use it anyway. ?
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Excuse me. If you not able to move apps to ext.mem.card you can move other files, videos like big files from internal storage to ext.mem.card .
Currently i have 129 applications twrp backup files, titanium backup files are in my internal memory and 11.86 gb only used of 25.45 gb total internal storage, no need of apps to move external sd card. I have 32 roms ,videos, photos and other files in ext.card.
Yeah move to SD is removed in mm. I'm guessing it's because adaptive storage is there new thing should you want more space in a phone.
Tbh it was always hit and miss in lollipop anyways as developers had to support it, which most didn't.
I have apps on my sd from lollipop, which show as such and can be moved back. I'm not, as I'll probably lose the function to kick them back if I wanted.
drmuruga said:
Then root it, there is more stuff for your phone after rooting.
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Thambi not everyone wants to Root their phone. If i root the phone my Banking apps don't work. On a Rooted phone i cannot generate a TAN number (Something like the Grid on the bank of ICICI bank card) to do online Banking
yekollu said:
Ever since the MM update, i am unable to move the apps from Internal memory to external memory. My internal memory is full and i am not able to install anymore apps.
My gf who also owns a Moto X Play has the option. I have tried resetting the phone but of no use.
Could someone help me with this please?
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use adopted storage.
yekollu said:
Thambi not everyone wants to Root their phone. If i root the phone my Banking apps don't work. On a Rooted phone i cannot generate a TAN number (Something like the Grid on the bank of ICICI bank card) to do online Banking
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Annachi, I agree with you.
yekollu said:
Thambi not everyone wants to Root their phone. If i root the phone my Banking apps don't work. On a Rooted phone i cannot generate a TAN number (Something like the Grid on the bank of ICICI bank card) to do online Banking
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With root you can install xposed. With xposed you can install module that can fake unroot for those kind of apps.
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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?
Ragazzza said:
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?
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Should work I've done it on my Tab A.
ashyx said:
Should work I've done it on my Tab A.
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Oh nice, gonna wait for few more responses since i really like Samsung Internet browser (specially now woth updated version)