Move apps to SD card

**jaybird92** · 02-08-2013, 12:28 AM

Hey guys. I downloaded the android sdk, enabled usb debugging, and did a series of commands that I found at a website but I'm getting a strong feeling that a lot has changed since that article had been released. This RAZR M has a painfully small amount of onboard memory and with all the bloatware I have even less to work with. It'd be real appreciated if there was a work around though I was seeing that after JB it was pretty much lost.

EDIT: So I found out that my Google Play Music app was taking up over 2GB so after clearing the data it went back to it's native 14.5~ MB. I'm not real sure what I deleted. I have music in the cloud and I set some to stay on device and maybe that music saved under the app. Phone's running much better now without the hard drive dying. still would like to know how to move apps to the SD card if that's even possible still.

Thanks everyone

**holdenhenry** · 03-06-2013, 02:12 PM

I'm having the same problem. I looker to have music caching on my phone, but can't choose to keep these apps on the external sd.

Anyone have any ideas?

Considering rooting, but would prefer not to head down that road for this problem alone.

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**toddbecker#CB** · 03-06-2013, 07:29 PM

Check out this thread

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**pgw78** · 03-17-2013, 10:19 AM

I'm having the same issue. I accidentally posted about it in the wrong subforum.

Short version is that I'd like to be able to move apps to and run apps from the SD card. From what I saw when I first looked into it, Motorola disabled that feature to try to head off root exploits. Ironically, not being able to do it is the exact reason I'm now considering rooting my phone.

Is there a way to do it on the RAZR M without rooting?

If not, rooting should do the job, right? If so, what would I need to do? Is there a setting I can change to enable that option, or is there an app I'd need to get? (App2SD doesn't support the RAZR M because the feature isn't enabled on the phone, but maybe it would work after rooting?)

Also, I found an article about how . Anyone know if that's true on RAZR M?

**netizenmt** · 03-22-2013, 03:22 AM

At this point, I have been unable to find any way, rooted or unrooted, to enable moving apps to sdcard. This is because most, or perhaps all, such apps depend ultimately on the natively ability within the ROM. That ability appears to have been blocked in ICS and JB stock.