- 05-28-2012, 07:36 PM
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- 06-01-2012, 09:03 PM #2
Re: Bug Alert: Don't move too many Apps to SD Card
I found out the hard way last night
Didn't know what was causing it, so I performed a factory reset. Thanks for the info so I know how to avoid it in the future! I'm disappointed that this bug is only listed as medium priority though.
EDIT: Whoa, looks like I'm either lucky or the problem isn't *quite* as severe on the EVO LTE. After my factory reset, I reinstalled a whole bunch of apps (but not nearly as many as I had installed yesterday before the restarts began). I just looked and I currently have 96 apps on phone storage totaling about 1 GB of space. Guess I should move some back and stop tempting fate!Last edited by secretmethod70; 06-01-2012 at 09:09 PM.
- 06-01-2012, 09:21 PM #3
- 06-01-2012, 09:31 PM #4
Some good rule(s) of thumb are
1) if the app has a widget, leave it alone.
2) if the app has an icon on any of your home screens, leave it alone.
When android boots it can typically paint the screen image prior to fully mounting and reading the app info of the "SD" so you could occasionally run into quirks like missing apps or apps whose icon is the default generic android system icon.
If you ever bump into an issue where an app mysteriously disappears. Reboot and it'll probably be visible again and you need to move that app back to /data/app
EDIT- probably worth adding this since it's not always common knowledge. The whole reasoning behind moving an app to SD was because early Gen devices only had a tiny space (less than 100mb with cache before any apps installed) set aside for /data. As the market grew and so did the apk size, you'd fill your space in no time. In addition to apps to SD, this is also why the cache to cache mod was created. The the current phones coming out your given plenty of space for apps meaning there's no longer a benefit of moving them that would outweighs the potential issues it creates. Also an app may (presumably) perform better running off the internal storage because of higher r/w hence why heavy users of apps2sd would only use class 10 cards.Last edited by KSmithInNY; 06-01-2012 at 10:00 PM.
- 06-01-2012, 11:06 PM #5
Re: Bug Alert: Don't move too many Apps to SD Card
On the Evo LTE, there is no stock "move to SD Card". There is "phone storage" and "internal storage". Both are actually internal storage, just different partitions on the same internal flash storage area with the same performance specs. I believe this is the same with all ICS devices.



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