Putting my games on my tablet to go google drive cloud?

**jc82** · 07-30-2012, 01:26 PM

Help! I'm new to Google drive cloud and my nexus 7 is rapidly running out of memery. I thought I would try a cloud service to put my games from the play store in, so I installed Google drive on my tablet. Now I can't figure out how to put my games from my tablet there. I see how you can put photos and music but not my apps. Any help?

**mclarryjr** · 07-30-2012, 01:32 PM

You won't be able to store app's on Google Drive but using it for your pictures and files you should be able to save some space. Sorry I don't have any tips to store your games.

**Paladin** · 07-30-2012, 01:56 PM

Originally Posted by jc82

Help! I'm new to Google drive cloud and my nexus 7 is rapidly running out of memery. I thought I would try a cloud service to put my games from the play store in, so I installed Google drive on my tablet. Now I can't figure out how to put my games from my tablet there. I see how you can put photos and music but not my apps. Any help?

Apps have to be ran from the internal memory of the device.

You would need an app that could copy the apk files up to the cloud and you would have to have the device download them automatically into RAM before they ran. This could take some time, especially for larger games. It would probably frustrate you more than help. i

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Can you imagine launching Angry Birds and waiting min after min while it downloads 20+ megs of data to the device even with Wi-Fi and if you are Wi-Fi tethered through your phone and on a slow connection, forget it! i

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It may not be bad for smaller 1 or 2 MB apps that you use infrequently.

So no you cannot as of now but in theory this could be done but that would make launching any app VERY slow to do so. Also you could not do it with all the apps and/or data just like you cannot install some on an SD card. Any application that needs to reference the app in the background must stay in the main storage, like widgets.

You would have to be rooted and you would need an app that could connect to and copy the main files to and from the cloud such as Google Drive or Dropbox.

**jc82** · 07-30-2012, 02:19 PM

That really bites! Only had my nexus a few days and its half full. Uninstalli
ng a game and having to reload it is a big pain, i thought i could use a cloud service for them

**Paladin** · 07-30-2012, 03:04 PM

Dude, did you get the 8GB version? Man you must have installed the entire Play catalog in one day. i

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You can't blame the device though, the space is the space so to speak. It was known before you bought it. i

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Do you have files other than apps on it? Books, MP3's etc... Are you rooted?

**dotism** · 07-30-2012, 03:44 PM

Is there a rumor of an Android update coming soon to allow functional USB storage for the Nexus 7?

Or is that CyanogenMod?

Or is Flipboard making me crazy? Most likely. Ignore me.

**Paladin** · 07-31-2012, 11:35 AM

I did not want to get into this but since you brought it up you can attach USB flash drives to the N7 and use it for external storage. I use a small app called stickmount. Works like a charm. You can use external USB keyboards, mice or USB drives. It works with 64GB ones as well.

This REQUIRED ROOT so be aware of this.
I have a small USB A female to micro male USB adapter and simply plug my USB stick into it and it mounts it within a folder in the SDCARD folder.

I then use Vital Player to play a bunch of tutorial videos I have for music and Adobe After Effects etc... from this folder. It works perfect! So I can keep a crap load of video and music files as well as backups etc...with me at all times and access them easily when I need them.