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[REQUEST] App2SD for the S3

Hello, Ive noticed that there's no option to move apps to the SD card with my S3, as there was for the S2. Ive filled my 16gb already, and I bought a 64gb card, hoping to be able to have many of my apps on the SD card, however it seems that this is not possible at the moment.
Are there any plans to resolve this problem? Would this be resolved in the form of a kernel, rom or tweak? Or is it a hardware limitation of the S3 which restricts the application's location?
Thanks

http://www.chainfire.eu/articles/113/Is_Google_blocking_apps_writing_to_SD_cards_/

someone said in another thread that you can do it natively on the s3
dunno though

jdhommert said:
someone said in another thread that you can do it natively on the s3
dunno though
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I'm gonna ride with Chainfire on this one, too many GS3 owners saying you can't. But I guess I'll find out for myself once I get it in my hands.

If you are wise, just move your user files to the 64 .gb .sd card. There is already 11.gb of space for apps and still people need to move their apps to external .sd
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try link2sd . It will definately work .

charismakid said:
try link2sd . It will definately work .
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Can anybody confirm this? I won't be able to until the 21st at the earliest

I'd like to know as well. What concerns me more is the game data since those are going to be larger files rather than the app itself. ie gameloft games. Are the game data stored in the internal or micro sd card when game data is downloaded?
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On my acer with 8gb internal storage I used an app called GL to SD but you alway need to run it first and run the games within it. And although that allows game data to be stored in micro sd it doesn't always work for me and sometimes I forget to run it first. I think the best solution for me is the get the 32 fb model.
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So, according to that article, CM has the problem patched? I have nothing on my internal storage apart from apps, yet its full, nice.
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Link2sd dnt work says something is full when it isnt, this is bad news as i want to have more running ram on my phone as i only have like 6 apps installed and i have 250-300mb remaining

vimto25 said:
Link2sd dnt work says something is full when it isnt, this is bad news as i want to have more running ram on my phone as i only have like 6 apps installed and i have 250-300mb remaining
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Alot of users want this feature so im sure the devs will get it figured out sometime soon
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vimto25 said:
Link2sd dnt work says something is full when it isnt, this is bad news as i want to have more running ram on my phone as i only have like 6 apps installed and i have 250-300mb remaining
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If you installed a lot games with large game data, try GL to SD, that app will store game data (not apps) to your sd. ROOT required. Open GL to SD then run the game you want and it will redownload data but to your sd card. You have to open the game this way everytime though GL to SD so the game knows to use the game data from the card. You can delete the game data in the internal since that won't get used anymore. Should give you a lot more room than app2sd.
You can also move manually the original game data in internal to the sdcard but I don't recall where to move it too. I think under games.
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I want app2sd work properly on my device.. please someone make this happen..

have you people tried contacting the app2sd developer via email?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.a0soft.gphone.app2sd&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5hMHNvZnQuZ3Bob25lLmFwcDJzZCJd

App2Sd, Link2Sd and GL to SD aren't working, and I'm seriously not liking Samsung and Google lately with all these Apple-esque restrictions that's been going on ICS lately.

Michael_P said:
App2Sd, Link2Sd and GL to SD aren't working, and I'm seriously not liking Samsung and Google lately with all these Apple-esque restrictions that's been going on ICS lately.
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Been using GL to SD on my s2 for a while. Works great on the S3 for me.
I already had the data on the SD card so just reinstalled the games, opened from GL to SD and they worked.
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sxi200 said:
Been using GL to SD on my s2 for a while. Works great on the S3 for me.
I already had the data on the SD card so just reinstalled the games, opened from GL to SD and they worked.
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I'm trying to move Nova 3 and Modern Combat 3 but no matter what I try they just won't move to external.

Michael_P said:
I'm trying to move Nova 3 and Modern Combat 3 but no matter what I try they just won't move to external.
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The GL to SD works fine for Nova 3 and Modern Combat 3. Move them using the GL to SD and in the settings of GL to SD check the option /sdcard/Android under add mounted folder. Once done then price mount button the top of GL to SD app and then press menu and exit (don't press unmount and exit otherwise it would not work). This would mount your external SD card as /sdcard/android. If GL to SD fail to move the games to SD card then you can even do it manually by copying games data folder from /sdcard/android/data to /extsdcard/data.
I hope you understand my poor way of explaining things I hope it helps
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GL to SD works only for the games which install there files in /sdcard/android/data folder or /sdcard/data folder.

link2sd
link2sd works with ext3 partition confirmed.. if you want details contact to me, native app2sd does not work :crying:

Q. How are you managing with 9gb free memory? Your feedback please

It seems the 16gb S4 is still the only option at the moment in the UK, I originally cancelled my order when I found out about the internal memory issue and the fact you can't save apps to the sd card. If you root some of my banking apps won't work, so that is not an option, not that apps work all the time properly on the sd card anyway. Also if you rent films from Googlr these cache in internal memory.
So for all you 16gb owners what is the internal memory space left , what have you installed and how much of an inconvenience is it, if at all. Please be honest, I just want to see what you can get on each of your S4's. Are any of you struggling already or believe you might.
Your help here will make me decide whether I just bite the bullet and compromise with the 16gb. Thanks in advance.

I've been a bit more careful than usual, not installed any of the big storage hog games, disabled Document Sync (which inexplicably tries to fill the internal storage with dropbox content), moved TomTom data to the SD card, and now have about 100 applications installed and 6Gb of space left. Not really a problem for me as yet, I'm using DiskUsage to monitor the situation. I'm also dithering about the One, but at the moment I'd rather have the 9Gb+64Gb SD card than the One's 25Gb. Might change if I have problems later and the One gets a 64Gb variant.

Thanks for feedback. One of my friends has only 2.5gb free now and hasn't installed any of his fav games. No room if he tried.
Anybody else got feedback.

it's kind of dumb that it has this amazing quad core processor and one of the best phone gpu's around and yet, you cant even install all the best games on it... lol

I think a potential cure will be for android itself to have a proper api to utilize external SD for heavy resources like those in the obb folder.
Unfortunately I don't think google will support this since they have been on a no SD card agenda for quite a while now.
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fade2green514 said:
it's kind of dumb that it has this amazing quad core processor and one of the best phone gpu's around and yet, you cant even install all the best games on it... lol
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Just give it a week or 2 and you will have some nice xda devs throwing solutions at us
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Rooting isn't the cure. I know for a fact that some of the banking apps won't work with a rooted device. Also, internal memory functions better so don't mind all apps being there but really need a bigger memory to start off with.

how to disable document sync?

DocumentSync is solved see : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2261385

gavinfabl said:
Rooting isn't the cure. I know for a fact that some of the banking apps won't work with a rooted device. Also, internal memory functions better so don't mind all apps being there but really need a bigger memory to start off with.
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get the one ...
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oik01 said:
get the one ...
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I have but I want a S4 as well but one that is sufficient
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Markuzy said:
I think a potential cure will be for android itself to have a proper api to utilize external SD for heavy resources like those in the obb folder.
Unfortunately I don't think google will support this since they have been on a no SD card agenda for quite a while now.
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We might see something because of that Google edition s4...
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I am managing quite well, this is with around a 100 different apps, varying in size. With Spotify playlist download of a 100 songs. I will be happy when Samsung will fix this issue.
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For me the 9Gb of storage is enough i don't generally game on my phone, and only install what i use, music, vids & pictures all go onto my SD card.
But i think the S4 should have launched at 32Gb this time around, back in the day the S1 launched with 8Gb, when the S2 came it was bumped upto 16Gb at launch
I think the easiest option really would be for Samsung to come up with a way to allow you to save apps to SD card, even though Jellybean doesn't have this feature.
I do think though when the S5 arrives next year 32Gb will be standard, with options of 64Gb & 128Gb to.

I don't have any problems... Lots of apps and a few games installed... Batman, GTA, mini motor... I don't have much time to play but nice with the opportunity
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Very well as I installed foldermount and folder downloader so Dropbox and games are stored in the external so got plenty of space left for apps. Also INT2EXT will be fixed soon for the s4
Swyped from another galaxy

skivnit said:
Very well as I installed foldermount and folder downloader so Dropbox and games are stored in the external so got plenty of space left for apps. Also INT2EXT will be fixed soon for the s4
Swyped from another galaxy
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Agree! FolderMount is great for this phone.
Sendt fra SGS4

Doesn't bother me at all as I don't game on my phone. If you're a gamer then it might sting a little but apart from that music is via google play and photos in the 32 gig SD card

I store my ROM and app backups on my external SD (32 GB G-Skill class 6).

[Q] Available Internal Storage on S4

So I just got my hands on an i9500 Octa Galaxy S4.
I'm generally happy with my purchase except for one thing - the storage available to me for apps and games on the device itself.
Right now - I'm seeing about 8.82GB total storage out of which I have about just over 6GB free. That's just shocking !!!
This is supposed to be a 16GB device and I would have expected to see alot more than this. I understand that the other 7GB is taken up by Samsung's own bloat.
This might be a stupid question but is there any way that some of this 7GB can be recovered and used for installing apps etc. I mean, even my old S3 has over 11GB available to the end user.
Yes - I know I have the option of getting an SD card and using an app like Link2SD to move some the existing bloat off internal storage. However, when a device is advertised as having 16GB then it sure as hell should have close to what was advertised.
I really hate the fact how Samsung have marketed this to the general public - especially considering it's their flagship device.
Sorry if this has been asked already but I did do quick search and couldn't find anything on the subject.

mzaslam said:
So I just got my hands on an i9500 Octa Galaxy S4.
I'm generally happy with my purchase except for one thing - the storage available to me for apps and games on the device itself.
Right now - I'm seeing about 8.82GB total storage out of which I have about just over 6GB free. That's just shocking !!!
This is supposed to be a 16GB device and I would have expected to see alot more than this. I understand that the other 7GB is taken up by Samsung's own bloat.
This might be a stupid question but is there any way that some of this 7GB can be recovered and used for installing apps etc. I mean, even my old S3 has over 11GB available to the end user.
Yes - I know I have the option of getting an SD card and using an app like Link2SD to move some the existing bloat off internal storage. However, when a device is advertised as having 16GB then it sure as hell should have close to what was advertised.
I really hate the fact how Samsung have marketed this to the general public - especially considering it's their flagship device.
Sorry if this has been asked already but I did do quick search and couldn't find anything on the subject.
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Hi,
That is your lot.
Samsung were a little reticent about how much the user could actually use.
Mine was about 9.5GB on an unbranded device.

Yes you can free up some space. Root it and then then download Titanium Backup and freeze (uninstall) every bloat you want
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Thin_Bezel said:
Yes you can free up some space. Root it and then then download Titanium Backup and freeze (uninstall) every bloat you want
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That will only free up space in /system though. You would have to repartition to make use of it for other things.

JihadSquad said:
That will only free up space in /system though. You would have to repartition to make use of it for other things.
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Yes - that makes sense. So the next question is, how feasible is this, if at all ?
I expect that this "other" system partition is hidden and protected. So can we access it and if so, can we in effect, re-partition this storage for general purpose use ?

[Req] App to SdCard, pls Sony birng it back

Hi
however it s official from Android that after ICS app to sd card removed from android
But samsung bring it back on Galaxy S IV according to latest software update (in germany yet)
So i wanna ask Sony to Bring it back to Xperia devices
or even Google do it
I just send this post as Request to Sony for app to return sd card function
please vote!

There's no need for that.
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sipe1 said:
There's no need for that.
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personally i like android cause i can customize it more than another OS
So android should allow us to choose and customize
if u don't like u won't use but if i like and maybe i need i will use

x102x96x said:
but if i like and maybe i need i will use
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Not sure why anyone would need it these days.

Are you talking about installing apps on SD card? That's really not worth it with the amount of storage we have. Samsung famously eat their storage
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XperienceD said:
Not sure why anyone would need it these days.
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these days is not like past
16GB with 11GB user-available is enough But it s not bad if have more internal like storage
do u like 16GB internal storage or 32GB?
all of us know that we like more storage for lots of installation and cache and data of apps
external storage (sd card) is now for media only but what about data and cache & etc of apps?
anyway i like this function and others like it too
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x102x96x said:
do u like 16GB internal storage or 32GB?
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16GB is more than enough, and I just can't imagine anyone needing so many apps that they would use so frequently they needed every last one to always be installed.

XperienceD said:
16GB is more than enough, and I just can't imagine anyone needing so many apps that they would use so frequently they needed every last one to always be installed.
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yup good for u
it s about u
good luck

Voted " Yes ! "
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no need to vote, just tell Sony to do it. People that don't use it, then they don't have to use it or worry about it. Always good to have it when you don't need it and need and when you don't have it.

Just use TiBu

its not good for performing guys.. SAM was force to do that for the bad reviews but their phone WILL sacrifice some speed performs as you should know that the internal memory is much more responsive and fast.. and more expensive compare to SD card what so ever
it will do good to lower the cost but believe me you will regret it when companies follow that path..

Please report the bug of Android 4.4(14.3.A.0.681), if Any...

As we all know 14.3.A.0.681 is the newest update for Xperia Z1/Xperia Z1 Compact/Xperia Z Ultra
so I just wanna summarize that if any bug in this apps,
Please reply down here and share the bugs if you met.Thank you

tonylcc said:
As we all know 14.3.A.0.681 is the newest update for Xperia Z1/Xperia Z1 Compact/Xperia Z Ultra
so I just wanna summarize that if any bug in this apps,
Please reply down here and share the bugs if you met.Thank you
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Q&A, not here. And there are about 3 threads that talk about the KK update. Ask in one of them.

aooga said:
Q&A, not here. And there are about 3 threads that talk about the KK update. Ask in one of them.
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It is not Q&A, it is a kind of logging that if any bug is in this Android 4.4 update. So, it is a general report related to the Z1 update
Also for the other thread talking about this update, as I check they seems not to say anything related to the bug, So I just want to get about the bug info from the user who updated this version.
Thank you

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It is not Q&A, it is a kind of logging that if any bug is in this Android 4.4 update. So, it is a general report related to the Z1 update
Also for the other thread talking about this update, as I check they seems not to say anything related to the bug, So I just want to get about the bug info from the user who updated this version.
Thank you
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Considering your title has 2 question marks in it, I would consider it a question.

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Considering your title has 2 question marks in it, I would consider it a question.
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Thank you for your reminding, I have edited with the title.
if you are also using 14.3.A.0.681, you are also welcome to report.thz

It's not really a bug but a "feature"
SD cards are broken, say goodbye to unzipping files, downloading music, basically anything that involves altering your sd card.

They are not broken. In fact, at last, correct file permissions are being implemented onto them. All these things you say will be able to happen when app developers update their apps.

gregbradley said:
They are not broken. In fact, at last, correct file permissions are being implemented onto them. All these things you say will be able to happen when app developers update their apps.
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I salute you for trying

Not sure though... I saw the camera app of kitkat and it still supports saving images in external storage. IMHO I don't think sony would allow saving images deep in the android folder instead of DCIM standards. So yeah perhaps they have fixed the sdcard issue.

Riyal said:
Not sure though... I saw the camera app of kitkat and it still supports saving images in external storage. IMHO I don't think sony would allow saving images deep in the android folder instead of DCIM standards. So yeah perhaps they have fixed the sdcard issue.
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afaik only 3rd party apps (the ones that didnt come with the phone) are restricted to using sdcard just like they want to, system apps (such as camera) can save wherever it wants. but I'm not 100% sure though

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They are not broken. In fact, at last, correct file permissions are being implemented onto them. All these things you say will be able to happen when app developers update their apps.
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Well, I won't be able to use ES File Explorer to download music to my External SD card from my Web DAV server any more. Nor download files that people upload to me to my SD card either. And I don't see what any app developer will be able to do about that.

HarpingOn said:
Well, I won't be able to use ES File Explorer to download music to my External SD card from my Web DAV server any more. Nor download files that people upload to me to my SD card either. And I don't see what any app developer will be able to do about that.
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They just implement the correct file permission procedures in their app.

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They just implement the correct file permission procedures in their app.
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It's not possible, there is no such permission they could implement. There's no way to give an non-root app global permissions to write anywhere on the external SD card.
Anything's free to write any old rubbish all over your internal SD. But the removable card is rendered useless. Shame. I actually think it'll stop me updating to kit kat, which is a shame. Google hates expandable storage, and wishes it would just die.

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It's not possible, there is no such permission they could implement. There's no way to give an non-root app global permissions to write anywhere on the external SD card.
Anything's free to write any old rubbish all over your internal SD. But the removable card is rendered useless. Shame. I actually think it'll stop me updating to kit kat, which is a shame. Google hates expandable storage, and wishes it would just die.
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I am sure I have read differently somewhere, I cannot dig out the post/thread or forum, but I am positive you will be able to do it.
I am no expert in app development, but I have read enough from those that are that makes me believe it will be possible

gregbradley said:
I am sure I have read differently somewhere, I cannot dig out the post/thread or forum, but I am positive you will be able to do it.
I am no expert in app development, but I have read enough from those that are that makes me believe it will be possible
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ive also heard that you can plus i dont think sony samsung and htc will roll kitkat out if it makes their hardware useless .... i believe the whole idea of companys not updating their devices is if the newer version will break software or hardware features therefor rendering the update useless. instead they would just continue with bugfixs and implemnting new features to the current os version .... and yeah the new way for apps to ask permission can be done... just needs to be programmed correctly... it doesnt need global permission (root) it would be a little fix within the os saying that the external card is just like a partitioned bit of the internal ...(sorry if i dont make sense but it does to me ... im have asleep waiting on kitkat haha )

Wait a minute WTF is there SD card restrictions now???
What's the point with having an android phone with SD if you can't even access it??
Seems to me like everyone is turning away from being open to being closed like iOS
Sony can kiss me good bye if I don't get that damn sd support!

There's already a thread for this here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2476371
To keep all the posts in one place this thread is closed.