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Hey everyone! I'm new to xda and I've been looking for the answer to this question everywhere, but have yet to find it. I bought a 64gb sandisk cruzer usb drive to use with my otg cable with the stickmount app. Because of limited storage, I was wondering if I could actually save installed applications to the flash drive? In other words, if I can use a feature similar to "save to sd card" for apps, but have the apps save to my flashdrive. If anyone could make a video or just type up a response, I would really appreciate it.
brazilianmdn said:
Hey everyone! I'm new to xda and I've been looking for the answer to this question everywhere, but have yet to find it. I bought a 64gb sandisk cruzer usb drive to use with my otg cable with the stickmount app. Because of limited storage, I was wondering if I could actually save installed applications to the flash drive? In other words, if I can use a feature similar to "save to sd card" for apps, but have the apps save to my flashdrive. If anyone could make a video or just type up a response, I would really appreciate it.
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Hi,
Haven't tried it myself but you could probably use symbolic link on sdcard\somedir linking to the connected usb drive.
here is a link with more details:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1442729
I heard that you can play off the rom that stored on otg drive. I am not sure about installed app, haven't try that myself either.
ES File Explorer has the ability to save apps to a folder that you select.
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Maybe something like this could be used for the Nexus 7?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1410262
I have not tried this but the feature the OP is talking about would be very nice to have
racer321 said:
Maybe something like this could be used for the Nexus 7?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1410262
I have not tried this but the feature the OP is talking about would be very nice to have
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I was going to write about the same thread. I tried it with NOVA3 and it works great.
You can mount directories from connected USB fairly easy.
You figured it out for nova?
lionsh said:
I was going to write about the same thread. I tried it with NOVA3 and it works great.
You can mount directories from connected USB fairly easy.
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Did you do this with stickmount installed? How exactly did you do it? I moved all Nova's data to the usb drive and deleted it from the Android/data directory but it still tries to download the aditional files back to the tablet. Any idea why?
lionsh said:
I was going to write about the same thread. I tried it with NOVA3 and it works great.
You can mount directories from connected USB fairly easy.
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How exactly did you go about doing that? I Tried for both shadowgun and Nova 3, and both tried to redownload the data
I can confirm that Directory bind does work..
I tried it with the following games..
Order and chaos (game i get on sometimes )
Asphalt 7
Dead Trigger
co-pilot gps (maps are 2 gb)
I have moved a few other things as well..
I am running the leggs rom with Nova launcher on my device. No other mods.
otg i use is a cheap otg cable from amazon. i think was like 1.99 for 4of them from Ohio someplace..With a sandisk micro usb key chain reader.and a Patriot 64 gb micro usb card class 10.. There Highest grade card. I tried this on a 8 gb generic card that was class 4 the games would not load or would stall and shutter when they did.. SO I WOULD Say a fast card is a MUST..
Good luck .. i will post some pics of mine in the thread i created yesterday in the correct forum where i was asking for others experience. Before i tried this last night..
Apps
roids333 said:
How exactly did you go about doing that? I Tried for both shadowgun and Nova 3, and both tried to redownload the data
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I also tried it with asphalt 7 and when I open the application it still asks me to download. I first moved the application's data to the otg on a folder called "asphalt" then use directory bind to link that folder with the one where the data should be.
Any help would be appreciated.
(also tried it with Transformers on Google movies and did not work)
Saving installed apps to a flash drive using otg cable
Dude ,create a link in the obb folder to the place in the flash drive where you want to save the game
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you can use LetsGoApp try it
It can APP to sd or otg
It can run App at sd or otg(not install)
website
http://www.letsgoapp.net/?p=351
you need root install buseybox
and install LetsGoApp http://www.letsgoapp.net
LetsGoApp Can
App 2 SD or OTG
After replace Android device, the Apps can still be run at MicroSD or OTG by LetsGoApp.
LetsGoApp is a App, which is a kind of solution for storage shortage and backup data.
The Apps can be run by LetsGoApp within the MicroSD or OTG on the most of Android devices .
The Apps can copy from MicroSD or USB OTG to smart phone LetsGoApp.
You can try it
yrahate7 said:
Dude ,create a link in the obb folder to the place in the flash drive where you want to save the game
press thanks if i helped
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Can you elaborate a bit more like a step by step please..
I dont remember how i did it, but all ii remember is that i had to create symlink to the particular obb file from /android/obb/game.name/file to the file`s location in pendrive..
search google on how to create Symlinks in order to do that.
if you need more help,pm me.
Hey Everyone,
I recently discovered the wonderful program 'Directory Bind' which basically lets you redirect a directory from /sdcard to somewhere else.
(i.e. you external memory card!) This is fantastic since some games (Like Bard's Tale) consume a gig of /sdcard space and apps2sd doesn't work.
I also discovered that 'sd tools', whch allows you to test read/write to a directory allows specifying any directory, so can select a directory in /sdcard and test the internal memory speeds.
I noticed, for my Lexar Class 10 card (LSDMI32GBSBNAR), I got 10 MB/s write, and 20 MB/s read.
For my Note 1, the internal memory has only 5.4 MB/s write, but 47 MB/s read (!!!!)
I am now very curious how the memory speeds of the Note 2 are, and also what the speed of the SD interface of the Note 2 is.
But it's nice to get confirmation that games/whatever should load considerably faster if you keep them on internal memory.
- Frank
Does this app works properly on the note 2?
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DMax99 said:
Does this app works properly on the note 2?
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yea, works great.
ChodTheWacko said:
yea, works great.
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Awesome...will try it tonight.
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ChodTheWacko said:
Hey Everyone,
I recently discovered the wonderful program 'Directory Bind' which basically lets you redirect a directory from /sdcard to somewhere else.
(i.e. you external memory card!) This is fantastic since some games (Like Bard's Tale) consume a gig of /sdcard space and apps2sd doesn't work.
I also discovered that 'sd tools', whch allows you to test read/write to a directory allows specifying any directory, so can select a directory in /sdcard and test the internal memory speeds.
I noticed, for my Lexar Class 10 card (LSDMI32GBSBNAR), I got 10 MB/s write, and 20 MB/s read.
For my Note 1, the internal memory has only 5.4 MB/s write, but 47 MB/s read (!!!!)
I am now very curious how the memory speeds of the Note 2 are, and also what the speed of the SD interface of the Note 2 is.
But it's nice to get confirmation that games/whatever should load considerably faster if you keep them on internal memory.
- Frank
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Hey Frank,I can't find in the market?
wonsanim said:
Hey Frank,I can't find in the market?
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It's an xda app:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1410262
Some notes:
1) First: Go into settings -> default data path and change it to: /mnt/extSdCard/
It is currently the old ICS directory of /sdcard/external_sdcard
2) Simple Instructions:
First, find a big directory with your data.
Run DiskUage, select 'Storage Card'. Note the directory pattern, i.e. Android/data/com.ea.deadspace_na
Menu -> add new entry
Menu -> data transfer assistant
Find the directory you used above.
Hit 'Add'.
Hit the disk to activate the mount. It should turn green.
Now rerun DiskUsage.
A) You should see a new 'disk' which corresponds to the directory you just moved.
B) Check 'Storage Card'. You probably need to 'Rescan'. You should have more memory now.
Now try playing the game or whatever you just moved.
- Frank
ChodTheWacko said:
It's an xda app:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1410262
Some notes:
1) First: Go into settings -> default data path and change it to: /mnt/extSdCard/
It is currently the old ICS directory of /sdcard/external_sdcard
2) Simple Instructions:
First, find a big directory with your data.
Run DiskUage, select 'Storage Card'. Note the directory pattern, i.e. Android/data/com.ea.deadspace_na
Menu -> add new entry
Menu -> data transfer assistant
Find the directory you used above.
Hit 'Add'.
Hit the disk to activate the mount. It should turn green.
Now rerun DiskUsage.
A) You should see a new 'disk' which corresponds to the directory you just moved.
B) Check 'Storage Card'. You probably need to 'Rescan'. You should have more memory now.
Now try playing the game or whatever you just moved.
- Frank
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You would not believe it but finding your post here has saved me hours of anguish! The one flaw I found in the Note II was the crazy storage problem. Now resolved. Thank you so much!
By the way, I highly recommend, before doing a nandroid/CM backup, to turn off the binds.
Since the data is already on your external card, there's not much point in backing it up again.
Not to mention: if you do a restore you might exceed your internal memory.
- Frank
Thanks for the information !
Hello there
Is there any application besides Directory Bind that does the same operations in a more user-friendly way?
Thanks a lot
ChodTheWacko said:
By the way, I highly recommend, before doing a nandroid/CM backup, to turn off the binds.
Since the data is already on your external card, there's not much point in backing it up again.
Not to mention: if you do a restore you might exceed your internal memory.
- Frank
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Need not actually, this app is doing the bind only after boot complete, mount -o bind,rw target newpath. In cwm you will not see this bind because it doesn't exists in the recovery fstab...
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alexandruvlad said:
Hello there
Is there any application besides Directory Bind that does the same operations in a more user-friendly way?
Thanks a lot
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This app is the most user friendly. Unless you load your own shell script from init.d...
Thanks!
Does this app got anything to do with the functionality of Directory Bind => Paragon exFAT, NTFS & HFS+ ?
I've seen it presented by many users on YouTube and it looks really cool and useful for high capacity microSDs
alexandruvlad said:
Thanks!
Does this app got anything to do with the functionality of Directory Bind => Paragon exFAT, NTFS & HFS+ ?
I've seen it presented by many users on YouTube and it looks really cool and useful for high capacity microSDs
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I've not seen any of those vids, but yes you can practically bind any directory from any fs mount that your kernel supports ie exfat/ntfs. But remember though only fat is supported in recoveries ie cwm/twrp2. Meaning if you choose exfat, you will not see your extsdcard in recovery mode...
Can someone help me i tried to create the blind directory but when the app say that create it I put create and it stay in that screen
nvm
DirectoryBind crashes regularly on Note II
Basically, it works. Crashes from time to time, but still works. Till it doesn't.
And I don't really know what to do: I need to move my Spotify cache ; link2sd and consorts don't do it.
I'm trying an init.d script, but i'm not so good at it
Any ideas ?
when i bind it, it turns to Red not green, though it moves data.
can any one attach screenshot
I have set path like this
S:/mnt/extSsCard/Mobile Systems/
T:/sdcard/Mobile Systems/
it also disappear on boot.
ROM LJ2
Directorybind does not work well with spaces in directory names.
Try renaming the folder
Thank you
That tip helped actually that was small folder so I tried first. I did with other folder and worked.
Thank you again.
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GL to SD app in the play store may be of use to some people having a hard time.
I did search and with the google searches I've done, can't really figure it out so thought might ask here.
When I moved applications to external sd card, i didn't realize it didn't move the application data itself (inside obb folder), which is in the android device's internal memory. So basically, I have the application (i guess equivalent to .exe for windows) on the external sd card, but the beef of it (the applicatin's data) is still on the internal memory and using up the device's memory....how can I move the data (obb folder) to external, remove it from interernal to free up space, and have it boot up / work on the android device?
i'm not advance geek so need a dummy explination
You didn't provide details of how you moved the app or even what app we are talking about. So it's impossible to give targeted advice. Which is unfortunate since you want a dumbed down, simple answer. Which can't be done without knowing those crucial details.
You can use one of the Play store apps to move the app. I'm sure that some of them would move the app data as well. Or change the app data path (folder) in the app's settings. Or reinstall the app. Or alias the current internal data location to the external card with a symbolic link. Or any number of other ways.
The simplest options there would be trying some of the Play store apps that assist in moving programs to the external data card. And if that doesn't work for some reason, then reinstall your app.
Good luck.
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fffft said:
You didn't provide details of how you moved the app or even what app we are talking about. So it's impossible to give targeted advice. Which is unfortunate since you want a dumbed down, simple answer. Which can't be done without knowing those crucial details.
You can use one of the Play store apps to move the app. I'm sure that some of them would move the app data as well. Or change the app data path (folder) in the app's settings. Or reinstall the app. Or alias the current internal data location to the external card with a symbolic link. Or any number of other ways.
The simplest options there would be trying some of the Play store apps that assist in moving programs to the external data card. And if that doesn't work for some reason, then reinstall your app.
Good luck.
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Only thing I've done was root it then moved the application (move to sd card) via settings >> Application Manager. i want to do it for all apps but it's mainly due to games taking up lots of space. Reinstallng won't help cause everything that's obb just direct itsself to the internal storage, nothing i installed even gives me the option to install data into external, just only has a install button and it installs to internal memory
I'm not going to sort all of that out. It can be done if you look into the details.
The best advice that I can offer is to consider installing a custom S5 ROM like Phoenix. It has a setup option to swap the SD cards. That would mean that all of your apps that automatically install and live on the internal memory.. would actually end up on the external card. And it works perfectly.. because the apps think that they are on the internal card even though they aren't.
The source script could also be applied to your existing configuration, but doing so would not fit inside your stipulation for a simple answer.
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fffft said:
I'm not going to sort all of that out. It can be done if you look into the details.
The best advice that I can offer is to consider installing a custom S5 ROM like Phoenix. It has a setup option to swap the SD cards. That would mean that all of your apps that automatically install and live on the internal memory.. would actually end up on the external card. And it works perfectly.. because the apps think that they are on the internal card even though they aren't.
The source script could also be applied to your existing configuration, but doing so would not fit inside your stipulation for a simple answer.
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fffft, one question here: Would it be possible to format the whole external SD card with ext4? So it would be quite simple to copy such files manually within a shell and set a softlink to the moved files? I don't understand why android stays with that fat drived file systems were softlinks are not working. Is there any reason for? So all data2SD apps have to work with specific *mounts*. I can't believe that this is fast and stable.
brachypelma said:
fffft, one question here: Would it be possible to format the whole external SD card with ext4? So it would be quite simple to copy such files manually within a shell and set a softlink to the moved files?
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That won't work unless you do a lot more prep work. The file system isn't invisible, the OS would have to interact differently with ext4 than ExFAT. The OS would balk the first time it tried to follow a symbolic link and didn't find the ExFAT structure it expects.
To make that work, you'd need to mount the card yourself, manage permissions and hide the file attributes i.e. permissions from the void manager and other housekeeping tasks. Android expects to find a case insensitive and permissionless FS. Otherwise, void will report errors to the volume manager and the OS won't recognize your card. All of which is to say that this is a more distant outlier to the requirement for a simple solution. So you'd be generating fatal errors the first time the OS tried to follow a symbolic link to your ext4 files.
So yeah you can shoehorn an ext4 card into the system with enough work. But it isn't as simple as you believe. So back to my suggestions that the OP either install a custom ROM that does what he wants or that he looks at the script that I linked him to. Or perhaps migrate to CM 11, where native support for ext4 and NTFS have been added.
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Hi everybody. at-last i did what is the title of this thread and thought i will share it with u guys.be advised u may brick your phone and your warranty is void now.
1. below mentioned steps works on rooted s4 mini (Stock ROM or [ROM][i919x]S5 Mini Lollipop Port v2.5)
3. backup everything of your device like contacts,sms,apps,both internal and extrenal sd card etc etc (i used shareit app to backup my internal sd card to my pc)
2. i started by clean installation of [ROM][i919x]S5 Mini Lollipop Port v2.5 (http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4-mini/development/s5-s4-mini-t2987500)
3. just after completing installation i made partition of my external sd card to use link2sd (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1432459) (i bought link2sd plus new from market to support developer)
4. after that i put all my backup back and started installing apps back (apps got installed on second partition of ext sd card>change settings in link2sd to AUTO LINK)
5. now head over to xposed installer and install it
6. now install module obb on sd
7. after that copy all apk obb in device storage/android/obb to their respective ext sd/android/obb
8. last problem was how to copy data of some apps like DioDict4 or Medscape to ext sd card and make apks work.i experimented a lot and asked for help which was in vain so lets proceed to final steps now (above mentioned apk or others like them does not download data to android/data or android/obb but like this device storage/diodict4 or device storage/medscape)
9. install this play store (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.devasque.fmount)
10. it is simple to use this app.i did like this for DioDict4.i created folder named DioDict4 in ext sd card and than opened folder mount than + sign than selected source (device storage/DioDict4) and app selected destination automatically than copy yes>wait it to finish than pinned it.
That is it guys.please hit thanks if u find this thread useful.i dedicate this thread to all people like me :highfive:
Hi guys.hope u all fine.well i have good news for u all which is that after step 4 u do not need to proceed to other remaining steps because LINK2SD support feature to link external data and obb folders of apps and games plus some other features.thank u for reading.do not forget to hit thanks https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.buak.Link2SD
But u need to buy LINK2SD PLUS for these extra features https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.buak.link2sdplus please if u find my posts helpful hit thanks
anyone tried what i wrote above and let me know if u face any problem guys,i am here to help
I slowly look there no longer. I have rooted my S3 Neo initially quite normal and provided with CWM as it has been explained in various tutorials. Then I fixed the Android 4.4 write access issue with the "NextApp SDFix" from Android market. With the "ES File Explorer" and "Total Commander" I could normally rename files on the SD card, copy and move.
However, to me the practical effect is associated with all apps, which store data automatically on the SD card very mysterious, because instead of the SD card, they will continue stored internally namely in "/storage/Emulated/0". I tested this with "Dead Trigger 2", which is usually stores the game data in "Android/OBB". In Application Manager I have the opportunity the app to move itself to the correct SD card (.android_secure directory), but just the app itself and not the game data wich stay in the internal, emulated SD-Card.
For my previous smartphone, an Ace 2 NFC (I8160P) there was a fix for it to fit the "vold.fstab" to file: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28419837#post28419837
I could find only a tutorial changing the internal memory with the real SD-Card for the normal S3, which, however, is probably not compatible with the S3 Neo: http://android-hilfe.digidip.net/visit?url=http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2036796 - Or should I try it so anyway?
At first the question: Why the Kitkat-Fix is at all useful, if it does not help in practice and the data continues to be stored internally? The only thing that has been directly accessed files to the correct SD card was the photo app but that's about it.
Update: I just see that it also provides an Android folder on the right SD card as well as in the emulated and actually reside in folders and the installed apps, including "Dead Trigger 2". However, the folder unlike emulated SD card are completely empty. What does that have to mean again?
I hope somebody can help me ans find a solution as I can't use my external SD-Card for most game datas or apps as planned or I will send back my S3 Neo tomorrow.
PLEASE!!! Can somebody help me???
do you use xposed? there are a couple of modules that allows you to use obb files from sdcard. Personally i use "xinternal". those ps apps never worked for me also.
Use Folder Mount
I use a xposed module called "HandleExternalStorage" and it works like a charm! Try it yourself!
Good luck