Why is it so difficult to answer a simple question? I know my phone is not a PC and not designed with a lot of memory. Some apps can be transferred to the card others cannot without rooting my phone which I am afraid to do. THE QUESTION!!! Why does my phones manufacturer not want me to move more apps to the SD card? If I can do it by rooting Then it must be possible
FYI, You and all others.
The manufacturer (Samsung) didn't write the ANDROID OS.
Each device manfucturer must live within the Android OS.
So, tell it to Google.
At least Samsung made a user installable sdcard slot available.
Plus, complain to the APP DEVELOPERS.They can (thanks to Android) make it possible for the user to store they're huge data files to the sdcard slot which Samsung made available.
Yeeesh!
My Droid Maxx phone can store any app I want on the external micro sd card. It's on Android. How is that?
Which version of Android?
My phone is fine with moving apps to SD - Froyo (v2.2.2)
My Samsung GT 2 7.0 is not able to move apps to SD - it is running Jellybean (v4.1.1)
Although, I've just read that 4.1.2 is being rolled out now. I wonder if this will fix the apps to SD problem???
There is no support for apps to SD, so what is the point in having an SD card for this? They may as well have made 40 GB of internal memory...
Update: I've been in touch with Samsung Support on this subject and had the following reply:
"Thank you for contacting Samsung Customer Support.
I?m sorry you are having issues moving your apps to SD card. I can understand your frustration as it is good fro freeing up memory on the tablet.
Please note that moving or installing apps to external storage is no longer available on any Android from version 4.0 and above, due to how the Android operating system reads storage on our devices.
The Android OS now operates on a unified storage system from Ice Cream Sandwich onward, meaning it will read one data partition for storage, rather than two.
The reason why previous Android versions had the capability of moving apps to external storage was because the phones memory was split into two partitions, one for external storage and one for internal.
Now, with Android using a unified storage system, all applications will be stored completely on the internal memory of the phone. This allows for around 11GB of storage space on a 16GB device for apps. Google, the developer of Android, feels this is more than enough for users, as their operating system was designed for use on their own phones as well, which do not have any external storage at all.
Please also note that we do not advertise any of our devices as having the capability of running or installing apps directly onto the external memory card. You will have to install your apps to the internal memory, but anything else (music, videos, documents etc.) can be stored on your external memory card. "
So. It is NOT Samsung who have created this problem, it is Google. Why any developer would want to remove functionality, is beyond me.
Do any of you have any idea how to log this with the Google Android dev team?
I created this account to inform everyone Samsung is LYING! I have a gtp3113 same issues with transferring apps while my adr6425lvw HTC rezound, running 4.0.1 not only has the option to but also automatically installs them to sd unless YOU move them back to internal storage.... WTF Samsung! I will be calling these scumbag liars at Samsung bright and early to address this hogwash.... This is simply Samsung attempting to force people to buy more expensive devices... Think about it, what makes your 16/32 better than my cheap 8gig if I can buy a sd card from someone other than Samsung(loss profits) and slap it in.... It's BS and has me so pissed at these con artists...
It's NOT ANDROID, IT'S SAMSUNG!!!!