My16GB is pretty much full so I was looking to move some games to my SDCARD only to find this isn't possible. It got me thinking I use a program on PC called Steam Mover which uses branching to move my most played games from my mechanical drive (containing my steam account and most games) to the SSD.
Could something like this work on our Android device? I'm in work now so can't try steam mover myself. I know its a windows program and commands but wasn't sure if it would work.
After reading this I opened up app 2 sd to see about moving some apps from the phone to my SD card. It shows a message saying "The device does not have a real primary external storage, or the primary external storage is emulated. Moving app to SD function may not be supported by this device." I have my old 8gig SD card in that I set up the camera to put the pictures on and with 32gigs on the phone I don't care to move apps at this time. I wonder why it is showing up as being emulated.
Sorry I don't have an answer for you.
Well thanks for trying anyway. Wish the 32gb was put when I got mine!
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Hi everybody! I'm using SS Galaxy S i9000! I like play game very much and i installed many games on it especially Dungeon Defenders (600 mb data OMG)! So my internal sd card's memory is too low (my device is 8 gb version)! I want you help me how to use data on external sd card! Thanks a lot!
If you are using Froyo, you can probably move the app to your microSD card. You need to check the preferences in the app to see if you can move the data to the microSD card. If you cannot move the data, then moving the app will give you very little benefit.
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If you are using Froyo, you can probably move the app to your microSD card. You need to check the preferences in the app to see if you can move the data to the microSD card. If you cannot move the data, then moving the app will give you very little benefit.
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I means the data of apps! It's like game HD gameloft with the location: /mmt/sd/gameloft and i want to change it to mmt/sd/external_sd/gameloft. If you play game HD gameloft you will understand
Also looking for an answer to this.
Hate it when idiots reply to threads when they have absolutely no idea.
I would love a reply for this.
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Is this what we do in android development?
Just an idea: convert internal and external SD cards to ext4 (external should be easy, internal would be tricker but I believe that someone did it on nexus s forum) and create symlink folder from external SD to internal SD card.
What they are talking about is game data that is supposed to be stored on the external sd (because /sd/ is not usually used for the internal storage except for the sgs devices because it's way bigger than on most androids).
A symlink should solve their problem. How to do that shouldn't be hard to find.
But it doesn't require ext4 conversion. Converting both to ext4 would require modifications of the startup script in order for them to not have to mount the individual partitions every time.
Edit: the internal and external sd are fat partitions by default and I would recommend keeping it that way. Anything else brings significant complications.
As far as I know FAT filesystem doesn't support symbolic links.
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Also looking for an answer to this.
Hate it when idiots reply to threads when they have absolutely no idea.
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I also hate idiots who post stupid questions in the Development section, and one of our opinions is supported by moderators. Guess whose it is.
Older Gameloft games allow you to specify where you want to install the game data. My Hawx game data is on the external SD. They seemed to have stopped supporting that though. Send them a email and see if there is a solution.
I'm also waiting for some kind of "symlink" tool!
Internal SD is too small for me...
I ran some searches on this topic when I also experienced low space left on the internal sd.
Apparently all those App2SD tools do not recognize the external sd card within the SGS when I tried them, I can only move the stuff to the internal card where the apps already are so no difference in regards to disk space.
Somewhere else I read you have to convert the sd to ext4 or something and do some other stuff to get this working.
Alternatively, it seems some custom ROMs support their own App2SD (never tested it, just read it somewhere), maybe it somehow works with those without using some ext4 solution, I don't know. Eventually I moved some videos (back from the days without an external sd) to the external sd and freed up space that way.
Concerning Ext4 - I also read that buzz.
But idea was - swapping internal and external SD, by modifying mounting sequence in kernel.
It's too complicated, and working solution was not founded yet.
I got my Transformer yesterday (32GB) and love it. Awesome screen and kills the Xoom! (returned my Xoom after a week).
Has there been any word if a future update will let you move content to an SD card? im aware 32GB is alot of space. Point is , im trying to see if i should invest in Tegra Games. Games are the only thing i wish i could move to SD.
What i come across in terms of answers, seam to be related to Honeycomb not built around extra storage. if thats the case, i dont see the point of having an extra 32GB of storage as an extra feature beyond just file transferring, picture look up ect.
Any info would be appreciated.
With Honeycomb you don't have to move to SD as there aren't static partitions like there were in the phone OS's. As you install more games, it will allocate more of the internal card for System Data. So you could have the whole of the internal SD card for nothing but games.
As for moving application data to the micro SD or Dock SD, this isn't supported by Honeycomb as of yet.
May have better luck email the developer and asking if they could support user specified paths for the game data.
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As for moving application data to the micro SD or Dock SD, this isn't supported by Honeycomb as of yet.
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Is it just application data or any data? I can't copy ANY files/data to SD Card, even though I thought I once was able to do so...
File copying problems
I just cannot get files from my external SD to my transformer, just keeps bombing during the copying process at about 14mb.. is this a known issue?
I mean you read alot of people say having an sd card slot doesnt matter nowadays with android since you cant install apps to it, etc. Or can you? Can you save your photos taken with the s4 to it? What apps are available to fully utilize the sd card? If you can share how you plan on getting around any limitations.
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I mean you read alot of people say having an sd card slot doesnt matter nowadays with android since you cant install apps to it, etc. Or can you? Can you save your photos taken with the s4 to it? What apps are available to fully utilize the sd card? If you can share how you plan on getting around any limitations.
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the first time you open your camara it will tell you if you want to save pic on scard or external memory
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I mean you read alot of people say having an sd card slot doesnt matter nowadays with android since you cant install apps to it, etc. Or can you? Can you save your photos taken with the s4 to it? What apps are available to fully utilize the sd card? If you can share how you plan on getting around any limitations.
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Photos can be set to be stored on the external sdcard. I also (on my SGS2/and SGS3) have it so my nandroid backups go to the external sdcard. Downloaded files go to my external sdcard. I can also out movies/music/or whatever on my external sdcard and play them. I can also use "Root Explorer" to move anything I want from my internal sdcard and onto my external sdcard. Even with a 32Gb external sdcard and the 16Gb internal sdcard I find that I at times fill up my internal sdcard and have to move MANY files/folders from the internal to external. I haven't put ANY apps onto the external sdcard since my SGS1 and haven't had the need to ever. I have never filled the allotted app /data folder on my SGS2/SGS3 like I did on my SGS1. When I used the SGS1 and moved the apps it made them work slower and caused issues. Again never had it on my SGS2/3's. So NO need to worry about apps moving. I have over 180 apps and no issues (Including downloaded app and system apps). But having a removable sdcard for movies and music has been my best usage. As well I do A LOT of modding on my phone and it takes up a lot of room. So I transfer the files to my external for that as well.
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Thats good to know, so I dont know what those people were talking about. As if the sd card was unusable.
Same here, I have over 180 apps and have no space issues when it comes to apps. I take a lot of pictures and record a lot of videos, and that takes more space than anything. I put all data, including backups, ROMs, pictures, videos, music, etc. On the external SD card. There's a ton of space left on my internal card, so for me a 16gb model with an external SD card works great.
I store 12 blue ray movies on my 64gb microsd. Should be enough to keep me busy flying overseas.
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Can the 64GB SDCARDs be used with the s4?
First, only guys? 2nd, I'd like to have the ability to enter a 1 character password at the android lockscreen in CyanogenMod.
Lol OK.
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Internal storage is a constant struggle. Now that it's rooted, is there any way to make the tablet view the external storage and internal storage the same?
You could have always moved apps to the external card - just go to Settings->App Manager->SD Card, pick the app to move and click the "Move" button. There is also a way to make it so that you can move ANY app to external SD card (search for it) - or I can post a link later.
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Thanks for your input. It would allow some apps to be moved, but def. not most of them. I have done a search to find what you're referring to. If you get a chance to link to it, that'd be great!
Thanks.
There are many tutorials on how to do this - here is the first one that came up in a Google search. Just be careful - this will allow you to move ANY app to SD - even apps that shouldn't be moved! Also, if you use a widget for an app, you shouldn't move those apps either as it will break the widgets.
http://techgage.com/article/moving_your_non-movable_android_apps_to_an_sd_card/
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Folder mount is one which works on all android based rooted devices (from 2.x android to 6.0)
Hi all! I am having the same issue. I bought my children these for Christmas, and I was shocked after we installed a couple apps and ran out of space! I put in a large uSD in one of them, and I could not move 90% of the apps over to it! Again, I was shocked.
I am SO glad I found this thread. So can anyone elaborate, like using Folder Mount for example. It sounds like I MUST root their devices in order to ever achieve moving apps to the uSD? Are there any other non-root alternatives, etc?
Thanks so much!
I used a free app from the store called Apps2sd. You have to create a second partition on the sd card, but then you can move/link all apps and associatec data to the sd card. One big thing to keep in mind is sd access times... depending on your sd card, it might be several orders of magnitude slower than the internal memory. I bought a UHS3 sd card and it offer acceptable performance. Hope that helps.
Hi everyone,
I got the latest Moto X as soon as it went public because I loved the idea of Vanilla Android with SD support. I got the 16 GB version and a 64 GB SD. Ever since I got it, the phone has been bugging me about the storage and today I finally gave in. Until today I kept my photos, music and podcasts on my SD card but the internal memory was constantly full and I couldn't install new apps. So I thought formatting the SD card under Android 6 would make it one with the internal storage. It didn't. It made it worse. I can move apps to the SD card but I can't force photos and other media to be saved there. I was hoping for internal-SD continuity and I got a total lack of control. So now I can't receive SMS and I keep having "storage is running out" notification while I still have 60 GB free on my SD card.
What's your take on this? Thanks!
Since this is about SD cards, I'm having another problem to state if OP doesn't mind. On my Moto X, when using exploring (using file explorer) the original sd card I've used for years, many folders do not show up. The same happens to a video player (RockPlayer), where it doesn't show many folders I have on my card (it did when used on my previous Atrix 2). However, when I go to "Storage & USB" and select the card, everything is normal. That means, only when viewing the sd card via "Storage & USB", all folders appear.
However, applications and games (besides gallery) will assume the first situation, where those folders remain invisible. Does anyone know what the problem actually is?
Edit: After checking, it seems that my /sdcard folder is the same as /storage/emulated/0.
Thank you.
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Since this is about SD cards, I'm having another problem to state if OP doesn't mind. On my Moto X, when using exploring (using file explorer) the original sd card I've used for years, many folders do not show up. The same happens to a video player (RockPlayer), where it doesn't show many folders I have on my card (it did when used on my previous Atrix 2). However, when I go to "Storage & USB" and select the card, everything is normal. That means, only when viewing the sd card via "Storage & USB", all folders appear.
However, applications and games (besides gallery) will assume the first situation, where those folders remain invisible. Does anyone know what the problem actually is?
Edit: After checking, it seems that my /sdcard folder is the same as /storage/emulated/0.
Thank you.
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Seems like my sdcard folder is now C601-8353 under Storage folder, along with Emulated and Self folders.
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Hi everyone,
I got the latest Moto X as soon as it went public because I loved the idea of Vanilla Android with SD support. I got the 16 GB version and a 64 GB SD. Ever since I got it, the phone has been bugging me about the storage and today I finally gave in. Until today I kept my photos, music and podcasts on my SD card but the internal memory was constantly full and I couldn't install new apps. So I thought formatting the SD card under Android 6 would make it one with the internal storage. It didn't. It made it worse. I can move apps to the SD card but I can't force photos and other media to be saved there. I was hoping for internal-SD continuity and I got a total lack of control. So now I can't receive SMS and I keep having "storage is running out" notification while I still have 60 GB free on my SD card.
What's your take on this? Thanks!
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Have you tried using OpenCamera instead? It's free, open source, AND lets you choose where to store the pics. IMHO the picture quality is better too.
You could also move the pics to the card manually after you take them...
TXJim said:
Have you tried using OpenCamera instead? It's free, open source, AND lets you choose where to store the pics. IMHO the picture quality is better too.
You could also move the pics to the card manually after you take them...
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Great call, thanks for the tip.
I haven't had any problems saving photos or other media to my SD card with adoptable storage. This is something you should be able to specify in preferences whether you are using adoptable storage or not. If this doesn't work with some apps just use a file manager to move the files to the SD card.
Sometimes when I move apps to my SD Card, I would get similar messages about being out of space, even though this wasn't the case. Deleting the cache on SD card seemed to fix the problem. There can also be a problem if your SD card is too slow. However, you would probably get an alert if that was the case.
My advise erase it all internal and sd card start from a blank state the phone should give you the option to mount the sd as internal I don't like how it is implemented so I chose not to use it.
For some strange reason my phone will not read my SD card I have it formatted to internal stage and now it says searching for SD card. I'm so mad I've searched all over with no solution, I'm about to get a new phone and scrap this one, sorry I'm just very upset and I had to vent, of anyone knows of this type of issue please share.
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