Why did Samsung remove the ability to move apps over to SD card on ICS update?
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Ever since the released of Android 4.0 Ice Cream sandwich, Google has disabled the ability to move apps to SD as this only create confusion as well as fragmentation. Some microSD card may not be fast enough to support multitasking and might crash the system.
For all Android devices, get a device with large internal memory is very important. But it seems like S4's bloatware has used up 6.3GB of the 16GB which leave us 8.3GB free space and that's outrages!
So there's no way to use the sd?
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I moved a bunch of apps to the sd card. After the phone reboots they arent in the homescreen folders anymore, they are back in the app drawer. Is there any way around this? I'm using Nova Launcher and the Mint Jelly rom
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Quick question for all of you who updated today, are you guys now moving your apps to your sd cards? Are there any pros or cons this besides freeing up space? Like will it make it slower opening up apps? Or will it make the phone faster since less is stored on it
Also ive had a SD card go bad on me. If the same thing happened would I have to redownload all my apps that are stored on the sd card or will I just have to like reenter saved passwords and such?
Sorry a bunch of questions.. but thanks in advance!
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It'll make the phone not faster nor slower it will save some space. Note not all apps can be moved to the SD card so that's that
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jetlitheone said:
It'll make the phone not faster nor slower it will save some space. Note not all apps can be moved to the SD card so that's that
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Thanks! That's what I figured. But do you know what would happen if my memory card went bad? Would it require reinstalling the apps that are on the memory card?
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drsiddiqui1 said:
Thanks! That's what I figured. But do you know what would happen if my memory card went bad? Would it require reinstalling the apps that are on the memory card?
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You'd have to reinstall it yes
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Any way to enable app2sd without the Upgrade to XXUBMEA build ?
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Well, this was for some play store's games which use almost 2 gigabytes for each due to a huge .obb data files, moving app to sd card make them kinda slow while running i guess specially the games... to hell with it :thumbdown: . So i mamage to move the data files manually when not using any of the apps to the sd and move them back when decide to use :thumbup:
In this way i am able to install all play store's games to my 16g gs4 and no root required.
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I wanted to save my important pictures/videos on my external SD card without showing up in the regular gallery... Is this possible?? Any help would be greatly appreciated... Thank yoi
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Hide it Pro..
u can download at play store.
Nice app
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Yes. There is an amazing free app called "Vaulty" that does just that. Really good app
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You can also use the one i'm using from Playstore Called: Hide pictures - KeepSafe Vault
But isn't it stored in the phone memory? All my videos take up so much space...
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Just put an empty file named .nomedia in a folder. No images in that folder will show up in gallery.
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What I'm also trying to do is have a back-up on my external SD card without it appearing in the gallery
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skylinegtr116 said:
But isn't it stored in the phone memory? All my videos take up so much space...
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Nope what ever you got thats on your sd card will hide it in sd card it won't touch Internal Storage My friend i also got videos and there hidden!
Venom0642 said:
Nope what ever you got thats on your sd card will hide it in sd card it won't touch Internal Storage My friend i also got videos and there hidden!
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Ok so I put pictures in my external storage but then I go to the gallery they appear there
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skylinegtr116 said:
Ok so I put pictures in my external storage but then I go to the gallery they appear there
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Right use the app i said and once you hide it will not show no more in gallery same with videos if you use the app from Playstore.
I get it now.... Thank you everyone for your help and patience...
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