New installs defaulting to internal memory

[Chris Tietz]

I bought an LG F70, swapped my old SD card into it, and cleared the card with the in-phone option. Newly installed installed apps are going straight into the phone's internal memory, and I can't seem to find an option in the system settings or play store to change the location to the SD.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[zedorda]

You running KitKat. KitKat doesn't use the SD card the same.

 

[srkmagnus]

I bought an LG F70, swapped my old SD card into it, and cleared the card with the in-phone option. Newly installed installed apps are going straight into the phone's internal memory, and I can't seem to find an option in the system settings or play store to change the location to the SD.

Any help would be appreciated.

Welcome to the forums!

Apps are automatically installed to the /data partition on the internal memory. In order to install to the external SD Card you will need to go into settings > applications > app (whichever you want to move) and see if there is an option "move to sd". Note that this will not move the entire App data, but only a portion of it.

Also, as mentioned above, there has been changes to the way KitKat handles external SD Cards, so there may be issues moving Apps if the option is available.

 

[Chris Tietz]

Thanks for the replies. I have been manually transferring them, but didn't realize the issue was with KitKat. Happy Memorial Day!