Android apps from sd card

Использование карты памяти /sdcard/ приложениями в Android

Друзья, поклонники зеленых роботов, разработчики приложений, просто пользователи:
как Вы используете карту памяти /sdcard/ в Вашем Android-девайсе?

Рассмотрим, для начала данный вопрос на примере большинства рядовых пользователей устройства под управлением ОС Андроид:

Как и многие, я устанавливаю приложения на карту памяти — для экономии места в самом телефоне, но сами приложения, их кеши и т.д. — все это сохраняется прямо в корень карты памяти, в итоге я получаю на карте полную «кашу»:
огромное количество папок и т.д. среди которых достаточно неудобно (как через ФМ так и при подключении к ПК) искать нужные мне файлы, папки и т.д. Понятно, что можно обойтись костылями и, например, добавить мои папки в «избранное» в том же ФМ и т.д., но вопрос в другом.
Почему изначально большинство приложений устанавливаются на карту памяти так:

или, например, так:

или на худой конец — есть же скрытая системная
/sdcard/.android_secure
(понятно, что туда не всегда есть доступ и т.д., но все таки)

В итоге: что же получает юзер?
Среднестатистический юзер устанавливает достаточно много приложений и, зачастую, для экономии места, перемещает их на карту памяти. Все хорошо, но до того момента, когда нам вдруг понадобилось найти свой собственные документы на карте памяти, тут мы подключаем девайс с ПК в режиме карты памяти или же через ФМ самого смартфона заходим сюда: /sdcard/
И что же мы видим?
Да вот что:
habrastorage.org/storage1/e5deae9f/54a3c20b/8ba76329/55414a1a.jpg

Напрашивается, закономерный вопрос: почему так?
Насколько я понимаю, причины две:
1) это сама компания google, точнее ее политика в отношении это аспекта, то есть действия разработчиков программ никак тут не ограничены (тем же условием опубликования программы на market’e и т.д.)
2) разработчики программ, которые пишут софт, зачастую, создающий массу папок в корне /sdcard/

Ну и для любопытства ради воспользуемся любимым поиском:
habrahabr.ru/blogs/android_development/111868
Например тут указан некий Стандарт разработки приложений под Android
из которого четко следует:
Корневой каталог для всех файлов пользователя, кроме временных:
/sdcard/название проекта/, например /sdcard/TalentMania/

Каталог для музыки:
/sdcard/название проекта/sound/, например /sdcard/TalentMania/sound/
Каталог для MIDI:
/sdcard/название проекта/midi/, например /sdcard/TalentMania/midi/
Каталог для графики:
/sdcard/название проекта/img/, например /sdcard/TalentMania/img/

Подкаталоги для файлов различных активити:
/sdcard/название проекта/img/название активити/, например /sdcard/TalentMania/img/guitar/

И т.д.
Никаких претензий я разработчикам или вообще кому либо не предъявляю.
Просто хочу задать два вопроса:
1) Почему так? Почему все «сваливается» в корень карты памяти?
2) Одному мне это чертовски неудобно?

Спасибо за внимание!

PS: а пока юзеры выдают просто шедевральные методы облегчения использвания карты памяти:
открываешь карту памяти и создаешь
_Видео
_Документы
_Музыка
_Прочее
|-Карты
|-и т.д.
_Фото
как результат, то что мне нужно, хотя бы всегда сверху
как в телефоне
так и на ПК

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How to Install Apps on SD Card on Android

Troubled by Insufficient memory and want to install apps on SD card. Go through this article to learn how to install apps on SD card.

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Insufficient Storage notifications always pop out on Android phones. The most likely reason for this problem is that phone memory is set as the default storage. If you download and install various applications, the phone’s memory would be full, affecting its productivity. By using SD Cards, you can expand your device storage memory with respect to your needs. However, is it possible to install apps on SD card? and if it is, how to install apps on SD card?

Not only this, there are many other queries raised by Android users like How to transfer apps to SD Card Android and How to download apps directly to SD card. Well, this article will provide you satisfying methods and results to resolve all these issues.

Running apps on SD card can make them work slower than with the phone memory. You need to be careful with installing apps on SD card. It may affect the performance of your Android device.

How to Install Apps on SD Card Androidпјџ

To download apps on an SD card , you need to set up an SD card as the internal storage first. Follow the steps below to set up an SD card as the internal storage and at the same time, move Android apps to your SD card. Afterward, you will learn how to install apps on an SD card on Android, directly and easily.

Set Up an SD Card as Internal Storage?

Step 1. Insert the SD card into your devices. The notification will pop up on the screen when it detects your new SD Card. Click on “Set up” in order to format it as the internal storage. If you don’t see any such notification, then go to Settings > Storage and USB to set up your SD card as internal storage.

Step 2. Once you’ve seen the pop-up window as “Set up your SD card”, click on “Use as Internal Storage”. A message will display on the screen asking you to set up the SD card for internal storage. Create a backup of your SD card and click “Erase and Format”.

Set up Your SD Card

Step 3. Wait for some time till the device is formatting the data on it. After that, you will be asked to move the data to the SD card. To move the data select “Move Now”. Select “Move Later” if you want to manage the data migration some other time.

Format an Internal Storage

Step 4. After you have done with the SD Card encryption and formatting, the screen will display the message as “SD card is ready”, click “Done”. Now, you can check the internal phone storage and your SD card storage by navigating to Settings > Device Storage. The next time you download apps on Android, they will be stored on your SD card.

SD Card Is Ready

Download and Install Apps on SD Card?

Once you have set up your SD card as the internal storage and move old apps to your new SD card, you can install new apps on the SD card with a few clicks. Normally, you can directly search your favorite app in the “App store”. However, considering different brand of Android phones has different “app store”, you may fail to find the app you need. Nevertheless, with the help of AppTrans, you can also directly install an app on SD card, as long as you have the .apk file on your computer. Freely download AppTrans and keep reading to figure out how to make it with a few clicks.

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Step 1. Open AppTrans on your computer > Click App Install and Install Now on the welcome page.

Tap App Install and Install Now

Step 2. Connect your Android phone to the computer and select the app you’d like to install from the computer.

Select the App to Install

Step 3. Navigate to the app file on your computer and open it.

Navigate and Open the App

Step 4. When AppTrans starts to install the app, you’ll see the following interface.

Wait for Installing the App

Step 5. Once you have seen theВ App installation completed interface on your computer, your Android phone will receive a message, asking you to allow AppTrans to install apps on your Android phone.

App Installation Permission

Bonus Tip. How to Transfer Apps From Android To Android

After making a purchase of a new Android phone, transferring important data like contactsВ orВ photos from your old Android phone to the new device is necessary as it would be rather inconvenient to start with a brand new phone. When it comes to apps, traditionally, you might have to only download them one by one.

We all know that downloading and installing apps is quite time-consuming. Things could be worse if you have lots of apps waiting to be downloaded. Under this circumstance, we strongly suggest you try AnyDroid.

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AnyDroid, developed by iMobie inc., aims at providing all Android users a more convenient way to manage data on their phones. One of the most famous features of it is transferring apps from Android to Android. For this function, AnyDroid has the following outstanding performance:

• Transfer apps from Android to Android directly, with which you don’t have to go through theВ complicated transferring process.
• Transfer data at a blazing fast speed. According to statistics, it can transfer 1.7 GB of data from Android to Android within 1 minute.
• Keep data safe and secure. It is developed by a trustworthy developer and you have our guarantee that while using this software, no information leakage or data loss would occur.

Select Apps to Transfer from Android to Android

The Bottom Line

That’s all for how to install apps on an SD card on Android. If you still have any questions, please do leave comments below. AppTrans is indeed a nice tool to install apps in SD card . Besides, it can also help you to transfer apps between different brands of mobile phones. Why not download it now to your computer to take a try?

Member of iMobie team as well as an Apple fan, love to help more users solve various types of iOS & Android related issues.

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Guide to Install Apps on SD Card

Method 1: Directly Move to SD Card from Phone

If you download some apps from Google Play and finish installation, you can go to the «Applications«. When you found the needed app, tap it open and hit the «Move to SD card» button. Then, the app will migrate from internal memory to external SD card.

Method 2: Migrate Apps to SD Card with TunesGo

If you have loads of apps to migrate to SD card, the former method maybe not a good choice because it will take you a pretty long time to move a great many apps to SD card one by one. Therefore, we recommend TunesGo which enables you to transfer all existed apps from phone to external card at a time.

Step 1 Download and Install TunesGo
Click the buttons below to download TunesGo on your Mac or Windows. After installation, run the software.

Step 2 Connect Android Phone to Computer
Plug your Android device into the computer via USB cable. Once the handset is detected, a window will pop up as below. Allow USB debugging on your device according to the steps.

Then, the software will start connecting with the plug-in devices.You can check how the connection goes from the bar. Once it’s successfully connected, you will see the interface as below.

Step 3 Move Apps to SD Card
Click the Apps button at the left column to check the existed apps in your mobile phone. Tick the blocks next to the apps you want, and hit the export button at the top-left of the interface. The selected apps will start exchanging from internal memory to external card.

Migrating apps from phone external memory to SD card can save the phone storage so as to accelerate your phone. Hurry to try the method metioned above to manage the apps stored in your phone.

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How to install Android apps to your SD card by default

From the moment I walked into PC Richard and Son, I was greeted by a swarm of officious salesmen with kinetic personalities and avaricious appetites.

These guys were hopeless to make a sell; they saw me as a delicious meal on a plate lined with credit cards and would stop at nothing to secure a deal. I briskly walked pass these guys and made my way to the file storage section.

After all, I came here for one purpose: I wanted to augment the storage in my phone with a 32GB microSD card.

The integrated device storage simply wasn’t sufficient to quell my insatiable cravings for hi-res photos, HD videos and lossless audio. When the proverbial “belly” of my Galaxy S4’s distended until it wasn’t able to eat any more media, that’s when I knew I needed to upgrade.

The problem

So I purchased the card, tore open the box and popped it into my phone.

You can confirm your Galaxy S4 detects the memory card by:

• Swiping down from the top of the screen with your index finger
• Tapping the Settings cog
• Touching the More tab and then flicking down to Storage.

In addition, I suggest touching Format SD card on new SD cards before trying to save stuff to them. Obviously, the time needed to format your SD card is contingent on its size; however, it shouldn’t last longer than a few minutes.

After I had my card in place, I thought every app I installed in the future would automatically save itself to the SD card.

In addition, I couldn’t figure out how to move my existing apps over to the SD card.

In this guide, I’m going to show you how to move your apps over to the SD card and also change the behavior of your phone so that it saves new apps there by default.

Keep in mind that you shouldn’t move every app just because you can. I suggest restricting the move to apps that are consuming the most space on your phone.

The easy way

The simplest way to evict apps from the device to your SD card is to open the Application Manager.

You’ll find it lurking under the More tab in Settings.

Inside the Application Manager, swipe to the left once to view a list of all the apps that you can kick to the card.

Apps with green checkmarks are already on the SD card so we’ll ignore these guys for now.

We’re looking for the most gluttonous apps without a checkmark.

Once you find the fatty app, tap it open and choose the Move to SD card button.

The slightly harder way

If the app you want to move isn’t showing up here then we need to do a few things:

1. Enable USB Debugging on the phone
2. Install Google’s Android SDK
3. Oracles Java SDK
4. Plug-in the Galaxy S4

I know it sounds like a laborious list of steps but if you follow my lead it won’t be so bad.

Turn it on, that’s what she said…

First we need to turn on USB Debugging.

USB debugging is a tool developers use to allow an Android phone to communicate with a computer running the Android Software Development Kit (SDK).

When developers start crafting new apps for droids they code them in the Android SDK and then save them to the phone via the USB debugging feature.

But don’t worry: we aren’t doing any Android coding today; we just need to enable USB debugging so we can gain access to lower level functions of the phone.

In Settings, go to the More tab, scroll down and touch About phone.

You’ll see a bunch of stuff in here such as the Status, Legal Information and the Device name. There are also a few other settings which seem disabled because the font color is a dark charcoal color.

Flick down until you see the Build number and keep tapping it vigorously until it unlocks the Developer mode.

Now go back to the previous screen, you can tap the Back button which is immediately to the right of the Home button, then touch Developer options and pick USB debugging.

You’ll get an informational popup with a USB debugging synopsis.

Just tap OK and you’re good to go.

Okay, we’re one third of the way there.

Get Android’s SDK and Oracle’s JDK

Go ahead and grab the Android SDK. It’s over a half a gigabyte so it could take a while to download the important thing is to make sure you get the right bit version.

If you’re not sure if your computer is a 64-bit or 32-bit OS, there’s a slick command line trick that will tell you.

Now snag the latest JDK and we’re ready to rumble.

Install both SDK’s keeping the defaults settings for both.

I should mention that the Android SDK is a beast and takes a while to extract so get ready to apportion at least a half an hour for it to finish.

It’s worth it though… think about all the storage you’re about to reclaim!

Okay, now launch the SDK manager. A black window may immediately flash on the screen and disappear in the same instant.

This is normal, the SDK manager is just waking up. He should load after about 10 seconds.

There are numerous packages in here but our chief concern is that Android SDK Platform-tools is checked.

We need the tool in here called Android Debug Bridge (ADB) which we’ll use to send commands to our phone.

Click the Install packages… button in the bottom right corner. A window will pop in your face about the license agreements. Who know’s what you’re actually agreeing to but if you don’t accept you can’t use the SDK.

Click Accept License and acquiesce.

The packages should star to download and extract themselves accordingly.

If you get message about Android Tools being updated click OK to close the window.

You down with ADB? Yeah, you know me!

Okay, now it’s time to get down with ADB.

Find the folder where you executed SDK Manager.exe then click the sdk folder and follow the meandering folder path to platform-tools.

Hold down the Shift key, then right click adb.exe and click Open command window here.

We’re about to get down and dirty with the command prompt but before we do we need to plug in the Galaxy S4 with the USB cable.

You might suddenly see a pop-up on your phone that says Allow USB debugging. It may read something like this:

Just click OK. It’s basically a security feature that forces the user to explicitly allow the connecting computer to execute debugging commands on the phone.

Now let’s make sure the ADB can see your phone. In the command prompt type:

Oh yeah, we’re stirring it up. Now we can finish the job.

To set the default installation location of your phone to your SD card type this:

If you want to revert these changes just change that 2 to a 0 (that’s a zero). The 0 will force the phone to install to your local device storage first.

If this helped you at all please share in the comments! I want to know!

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Can the same process be done (successfully), with a ‘Mac’ computer?

Apple and no Apple, are uncompatible stuff, forever and ever. Only developers and debuggers run well in others like windows or linux, which in this case Android is nearest to linux than Apple

After all, I came here for one purpose: I wanted to augment the storage in my phone with a 32GB microSD card.

I followed the entire process successfully but the next app I installed went to the phone anyway.

adb shell pm setInstallLocation 2 this is the original command to be used

I used it without the hyphen and it threw up an error…….

It won’t work. Just gets a error message.

It says error: Device unauthorised. Please check the confirmation dialog on your device.

when u issue the command, u have to look into your phone and AUTHORIZE it 😀

fck u mthr fckr

The same is happening with me and now I am trying it again.

Make sure your internal memory has at least 200 mb or so available on
it (enough space for an app to be downloaded). If you don’t, once you’ve followed all of the steps listed here, go back into your settings and move some apps onto your SD card so you free up some internal memory. Do that, then try downloading a new app and you’ll see that it goes straight to the SD Card. This is because your phone needs to have at least enough space to locally download the application first before automatically installing/moving it to your SD card. Think of it as a local buffer space. This is probably what some of you guys are running into.

i have the same issue.. i have 2gb left on device.. also have a class 10 samsung sd card.. but still wont install to external.

Hi,
I own a samsung galaxy music duos… completed the process …. but can’t see the option in App. Manger to be able to transfer apps. to SD Card… Kindly revert.

why so hard to do such a simply thing D=

Cause android sucks

was not successful

i did the same but when i try to set install location, im getting the following error? any solution to this problem?

I think you missed the “2” in : “adb shell pm set-install-location 2”

dear this is get location command,
i tried set command location also adb shell pm set-install-location 2.. same error

Hi, i try this but error show

I followed every process. After the final command, I put “adb shell pm get-install-location” and it said “2[external]” sounded succesfull. However, I couldn’t see the transfering options on my apps. My phone is LG optimus F6

this is for samsungs not lg thays why it didnt work

damn it… i should have checked your comment beforehand. so whats the solution for lg?

Hi, i tried again and again but always get error with “adb shell pm set-install-location 2”, saying “App2Sd is not supported in this device. Drop change request”. running android 4.4.2 on xperia T3. Please help. Thanks in advance 🙂

I hear you kitkat has removed alot of freedom where storage is conserned if I didnt run the risk of losing my warrenty I would revert to jelly bean

Try adb shell set-install-location 2

Hello, I am getting same error [App2Sd is not supported in this device. Drop change request] in my sony xperia c2004 running jelly bean. Pls. help me

For those whose phones still installed apps to internal memory after completing the process, try restarting your phone (worked for me)

This worked for me.

Hi Guest. I first did not reboot, so I hoped rebooting would make it work now, but I just rebooted my phone, but still get the error “out of disk space” when trying to install an app. I was able to update an app though.

this works!! i went to computer school so maybe that helped. The commands cannot of any typos or extra spaces- maybe try to copy and paste them. Thank for this !!

it works when you install new apps – you cannot move your older apps with this- it is still helpful tho

after typing both the commands I am getting the error “device not found” .. my phone is set on USB debugging mode… I have disconnected the phone & connected again but still the same error… I am using Micromax Canvas phone

when i go to application manager sd card doesn’t show up! what do i do? 🙁

please help, when i shift-right click on adb.exe there is no option for opening a command window

what windows your using?

i followed the entire process….when the last step…it will show something like u delete all datas from phone….whether in this process applicable to new phone and currently used phones also?

Where can I go for instructions on how to do this with a Samsung Centura running Android?

same..just follow this instuctions..

Nope, my Centura has no Application Manager.

Used your guide to successfully root a Nexus 5. Was able to move everything from internal storage to SD card. Yours is an excellent introduction.

worked like a charm.

Thanks for the step by step instructions…

adb shell pm set-install-location 2 didn’t work for me so tried adb shell pm set-install-location 1 to see what happened and it worked. SO I don’t know what the difference is between 1 and 2 where I think 0 is the internal memory. Using lgms500

Do i have to root my phone before doing this? need a quick reply. Thank you

it worked well..but what about the massive games like asphalt 8 which still install on the devie memory??

also have the same question, even if doing this stills installing on the internal storage

Google changing default download directory to SD card as well…

When I apply the first command “adb devices” the cmd showed unauthorized in stead of device while I apply the second one the cmd showed error : device unauthorized. what should I do? Tried the “brynt block” link device managere said ANDROID COMPOSITE ADB INTERFACE. I am using Symphony xplorer w95 set. Can anybody help me out please?

that also showed to me, then i checked on the device and checked on “always…” on a permission dialog. Worked, but still installs on the device and not sd card

go into storage setting and change connect as to camera (PTP) and not Media deivce (MTP)

Well I have successfully executed the first command.after doing revoke usb debugging authorization. It is a built in choice for the handset I use. But the next command still gives error message. Please somebody help.

I f’ed up, I accidently deleted Android SDK Platform Tools and Android SDK Tools that was selected in the SDK manager by this guy who wrote this thread. How can I get both of them back?

It doesnt work Mate . Process Completed successfully but no USB Storage or Move to SD Card available even after I rebooted my device…. its a Lenovo S660 that Im using btw

it worked perfectly!

i love u vonnie

I followed the original instructions to the letter (including hyphens
and all) and it worked fine. Thanks a lot! I own a Galaxy S4 and my computer is
a desktop running Windows 8.1. Actually, there was one thing I did that
was not the instructions. I turned de phone off and back on after the procedure
and before installing any app.

Check once if your SdCard is Above ( class 6 [recommended class 10] ) to install apps in card.

it worked successfully for me but games that have data can’t be opened whereas i put related data in SD card.

what if Im using a mac? is there a SDK for mac? My phone is running out of space and it doesn’t allow me to download anything coz’ it saves automatically to my internal storage. I really need help!! 🙁

I tried this with Kitkat 4.4.2 and it didn’t work. Now apps won’t install.

just revert it.. replace “2” with “0” in the last command.

I keep getting this error at the end “Could not access Package Manager. Is the system running?” Any idea why this would be?

i cant see ma device by sending a command “adb devices” … The list is empty ! WHy ? …. (phone connected via USB mtp mod)

did you enable debugging mode?

i had the same problem i fixed it by deleting the usb drivers for my phone and reinstalling them all over 🙂

I didn’t get any updates… 🙁
So, what exactly this changes made?
Anyway I still have a problem with memory.. I have 160 MB free and tried to install

15MB app and it said me as all apps that I have not enough memory

for me everything worked fine, but i can only move some old applications, i can not install directly to sd

One of the main reasons I dislike Android so much, nothing is ever straight forward or easy. I’ve been running Windows Phone 8.1 and never run into any of these sort of problems but fancied a change to try out Android so went and bought a Lenovo S856 running Android 4.4.2. and installed a 32gb SD card. During set up there is the option to choose your primary storage so selected SD card, the phone rebooted and SD card was indicated as being the primary storage and yet when I started to download apps they were only being installed on the phone memory. Why? Are all Android phones such a wind up? I can go to the settings and manually move the app to the SD card but why didn’t it install there in the first place? Have I missed something in the setting up process? I hate not being able to understand something so if anyone has an answer please let me know before I go back to the simplicity of Windows Phone!

I used to have a crappy android phone a long time ago. Then i bout a prepaid nokia 520 and 521. Not bad phone just lacked memory so didn’t get the full update to windows 8.1. i was lacking some apps so i decided to switch to LG volt by boost mobile. I filled up and 8g so i bought a 32g but yes everything moves to sd 0 file for music and apps install directly to phone. I even did these thing step by step. Even typed in the commands that my phone actually uses. Most of the time is says no enough space or downloads the file directly to the phone. The LG volt i caught on sale for 80 so that’s why i bought it but i am sad to say you locking the sd is bull. Windows has it built in to download all files to the sd card. The only thing windows phone is lacking is apps. The O.S. runs great and actually takes less battery to run it. I should have to do all this b.s. just to get an sd card to work that i bought for my phone. Next phone will be a windows phone. Sorry Google i know your scared of windows phone that why you won’t even put google apps in the market. Next phone i am getting is the Samsung Ativ S neo. Screw you google.

it say more than one devices..even i connect only htc 816

followed all the instructions given and it works well for me…

Wow isn’t that simple. Get your crap together Google.

Throw your phone through the window and buy a Lumia… Or any other WP device.

There is no COC hahahaha

Pfft yeah and what apps are you gonna put on there? Windows phone doesn’t have crap on its store. And this is coming from a Lumia owner.

Really! thats’ your excuse. not enough apps! We all know that there are millions of apps on android and ios. But the fact is, a “normal” or a “sane” user does not use all of the millions of apps, but only is the so called “proud user” who has just the “access” to these millions of apps! Which from my point of view is useless, as we neither have time or patience to access or use all the millions of apps. The apps that really matter are there on all 3 platforms and those are “facebook, twitter, linkedin, whatsapp, messenger, skype, viber, mail, calendar, top games like temple run, candy crush, asphalt 8, sniper fury, XBOX (not sure if you have ever experienced this, if you didn’t, then you must!)”.

hence, its all just the gaga over nothing that u could ever access. its like all the wealth in the world at your fingertips, yet you cant enjoy it all… just feel happy about it… its for those who are not content with reality but love the world of imagination. LoL

WP is the most secured phone of all and you know that. It comes already encrypted and never hangs up on you… on the other hand just after downloading a little over 15 apps and the android phones start freezing on you… plus you have to keep moving these apps all the time after each update, which means you need to take out the time (which you do not already have enough to access millions of apps) to move these every single time any app is updated. so, you need to keep checking the storage every other day… how frustrating. good luck with your android. If there is any other sane OS after IOS, it is WP… accept it and move on!

WP is convenient if you have a Win_OS running on your PC, the apps(not those you listed) that matter to some of us are usually a cheap
imitation of their android counterpart. I’ve been using Lumia for a while and it was really problematic when I needed to find certain apps. WP native applications like the dictionary, navigation(Here drive[superb nav app to have by the way]) surpasses those of android. It is best to have two devices, one for each OS.

Get your crap together Google.

WP FOR THE WIN! AND SOON WINDOWS 10 FOR THE WIN!

Windows 10 4 the win.

Except when you don’t have apps… xD

yeah but then you don’t get any apps to install 🙁

So true. I have moved back to android 6.0 again from WP 8.1 for the exact same reason.

Bah, there are plenty of apps available. And WP 10 is a far superior Mobile OS

Yes, I tried to change this setting on my Lumia 640 many times, yet over and over again apps would be installed on the internal memory.

Later, if it did actually install to the SD card you would get a notification asking you to move the app back to internal memory because it didn’t like being installed on the SD card and wouldn’t work properly there.

This is no solution and certainly no advantage WP has over android.

I miss this feature on WP. How hard is it to give you that option?

Windows Phone Whores. -_-. U can shove the snap up ur arse dude!!

Except when there’s like 10 apps to download, storage isn’t really an issue 😉

The amazing thing is that if this had been Windows Phone everyone would be down on it like a ton of bricks saying ‘rubbish’ ‘crap’ ‘heap of junk’ etc etc but because it’s Android people seem to forgive it anything. As far as I’m concerned I’m not going to piss around installing programmes that are likely to void the warrenty or get wound up just because bloody Google can’t get their act together and offer a user friendly OS that everyone can understand without all the crap that people are having to put up with right now! As far as my experiences with Android are concerned the biggest mistake of all is to buy a phone with only 4gbs of internal memory. By the time the OS takes out a great big chunk you end up with just over 1gb of usable memory for storage and IT’S NOT ENOUGH! Some apps just won’t install on a memory card, they have to be installed on the phone memory to work properly. Then try to install a game like Asphalt 8 Airborne which is a 1gb download and there won’t be enough available memory. Even if you’ve got a 32gb memory card installed, there’s no way of installing it into there. Because of damn Google’s restrictions, you have to download it to the phone memory and then go to the installed apps and select ‘move to SD card’. That would be fine if you could at least get it to load to the phone memory but with a shit 4gbs it becomes completely impossible. Why you can’t install direct to the SD card is totally beyond me. I’ve set the primary storage of my Lenovo S856 to SD card but only pictures and videos install there, any apps still install only to the 8gb internal memory and then have to be manually moved. It’s bloody crazy and yet cheap Android phones sell by the bucket load while Windows Phone get’s overlooked because of the poor reputation of the app store which is completely unfounded. Search and you’ll find plenty of apps to suit every need. I’ve got both Windows and Android phones and Google really needs to get it’s act together because Windows is far more intuative and user friendly than anything Android can offer!

i did all of this correctly even checked with the command get-install-location and it said 2[external] which mean it worked but still when i download/install app or a game it goes on my internal , what the hell is wrong with this…. i’m loosing my mind here

I tried 4 different phones from At&t gophone which is all I could find locally that were android and none of them let me us SD card. Tried everything including downloading everything on card from PC directly from store and all said same thing. SD card showed proper amount of data but was useless. I bought windows phone and within 10 minutes I was done which included putting phone together. No problems so far and apps missing just go to website and bookmark problem solved. Only thing I lost was games on Facebook but I have Laptop and PC so no loss. I was trying to stay away from Black Friday phone deals that sounds to good to be true but 40.00 for 635 lumia vs 129.00 figured why not. Now all problems are solved. Sorry android a customer was lost at this time. 1 week to get system to work is to long only to call it quits.

I got error with “adb shell pm set-install-location 2”, saying “App2Sd is not supported in this device. Drop change request”. running android 4.3 on xperia m

It would be helpful, Vonnie, if you could add to this post a way for people to list the model/Android version of the phones that successfully implement this hack? At least then it will indicate that it may not work on all of them & hopefully prevent those folks from being disgruntled when everything in the world doesn’t work for everything in the world?

worked for me thank you 🙂 galaxy y, gingerbread, android version 2.3.6

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