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app & games data to external SD card on S3 !!! [TESTED]

How to move applications & games data to external SD card on Samsung Galaxy S3?
I take my Samsung Galaxy S3 as example. It should work on rooted Android phone with external micro SD card.
Old Gameloft games data are stored at /mnt/sdcard/
However, latest Gameloft games data are stored at /mnt/sdcard/Android/data/ just like other Android applications and games.
With Directory Bind, you can move one folder by one folder to external storage at /mnt/extSdCard/
I won’t move all applications and games data in Android/data folder to external micro SD card because it is much slower compare to internal memory.
Therefore, I only move those unimportant or less frequent used applications and games to external storage with Directory Bind.
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You should show step by step how to use it. And better post at app section.
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apisfires said:
You should show step by step how to use it. And better post at app section.
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Sd card issues on my note 3?

I bought a 64gb SanDisk ultra xc for my note 3. I formatted it on the phone and it appears to be working fine except it's not storing pics and videos on the card and is storing them on the phones internal memory. Is there a setting to change that?
My other issue is that when I remove the card from my phone and input it into my laptop it is not recognized by laptop. It offers to format which I tried and once it formats it reads it as a 27gb card. I'd like to be able to add music from my laptop to the sd card directly. Is that possible?
Edit: I'm rooted with kingo but running the stock rom.
MJC

I have the same card. I did not format on the device. It reads it, but link2sd does not. I am looking for a solution as well.

I'm curious to know if this is card specific. I've never had these issues before with older sd cards.
MJC

So after some tinkering I got my card working. I have the same set up as Chillout. So I put the card in my wife's N3 and it read the card properly. So I decided to Oden back the stock firmware and the PIT reparations found here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2576104. When I was done the card still wouldn't read. So, I decided to flash the stock firmware us in Kies. When it finished, the card read just fine. Next I rooted again with Kingo and all is well. I'm not saying that this is the answer, but I feel that somehow my partitions got fouled up. I have had this type of issues on other devices and found that a factory restore, while it is a bother, seems to work in a pinch for getting a clean slate. See the screen of my card using link2sd.
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[Q] Apps to SD on rooted S5 with Marshmallow

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Is it possible to fully move installed apps to external SD card on Marshmallow ROM? In the past I was using Directory Bind app to do it and it was working ok but on Marshmallow its not working. Is there any solution to do that? I have read about Adaptive Storage feature being implemented on Marshmallow android but I dont see that option on my phone (under Settings-Storage). Is there a way to turn it on somehow? Or if not is another way to do it? I also heard about creating two partitions (fat and ext) on external SD card and using app like Link2SD but is it confirmed working? Whats the best way to do it?

Looks like you can go into each individual app from Application Manager, then go to Storage, and it gives the option to move the app to the External card
Nothing to do this for all apps that I can see though
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Using built-in Application Manager doesnt move the WHOLE app and its files to external SD card. Some files stays in internal memory, usually the heaviest ones in obb folder. Tried to do that before moving some games this way but for example Hearthstone game despite being moved to external SD card stil keeps 800MB in internal memory. I want to move all that data to extSDcard.

well...
any luck of extending internal memory?

isillo said:
well...
any luck of extending internal memory?
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This has worked for others here
http://www.modaco.com/news/android/heres-how-to-configure-adoptable-storage-on-your-s7-s7-edge-r1632

Trying to recover video from corrupted SD card (adoptable storage)

I read the other threads re: SD card problems but most of them suggest formatting. My DT2 won't even read my installed SD card now and there are important files on it. It's a 64gb sandisk. I've tried an 8gb and a different 64gb card and they read just fine. The broken SD card reads fine in the computer. I was using it as adoptable storage and it was working great. One morning I woke up and it had asked me to insert the SD card or forget it. Before I do anything, I want to know if my videos are at all recoverable. This happened the morning after I took a lot of video and I hadn't had a chance to connect to wifi for long enough to back up the videos. Is there any way to recover my data before I format it or switch to a different card altogether?

Maybe if you insert into pc and use some recovery tool.
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Maybe if you insert into pc and use some recovery tool.
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Would it restore everything? Currently when I plug it into my PC, I can open it just like any other removable storage and see what's inside. However, most of the folders are empty, including DCIM. I have enabled hidden folders so that's out. I'll try making a direct copy to my new SD card and see if that works out.
Update: tried making a copy of the SD card to my PC. I got this
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and besides the file structure, not much was able to be copied.
error message link: http://imgur.com/KR5PGkz

No, you cannot copy using regular os/apps. Find data recovery tool. There are some specialized for recovering data from flash memories. Just don't write anything on the card before.
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Troubleshooting Marshmallow Adoptable Storage

Have been using the Adoptable Storage feature for a while however I have suddenly reached the dreaded Internal Storage space running out message
As you can see I have 16Gb Internal Storage and a 128Gb SD Card which I have partitioned half of that as Adopted Storage and the other half as Portable Storage
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Since my SD Card Adopted has plenty of available space (approx. 50.72GB) where as the Internal Storage has only (750MB) I was expecting that Android would continue using the Adopted storage.
Thinking I had to manually move some of the contents from Internal into Adopted I decided to use the Migrate data
The prompt told me that after the export was completed it would result in freeing up 3.69GB in my device storage.
I'd assume this meant my Internal Storage would gain extra space but instead it was being filled up.
After reading this post from another forum it suggests that the Migrate data does the opposite ie transfer from Adopted back to Internal. Is that right??
From the first image where you see SD card Adopted has 9.11GB used, when you drill down it tells me 13.28GB is used
Then if I choose one of the apps from drilling down Used space eg Word it says its stored in external storage device
When you press Change to have a look it says its in SD card not SD card Adopted.
This makes no sense as I had previously transferred it to Adopted. And when I select Adopted on this screen it still stays as SD Card.
So is this how it is for others?