ICS does not allow apps to be on the SD card.
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Yeah, I googled last night and learned this. I have the 16gb version with a 32gb sdcard. I'll be fine. I don't play too many games. On the other hand, if Best Buy gets a 32gb model in within my 30 days, I'm going to do an exchange.They changed things around a bit. On the GS2 for example, they gave you 2 GB for apps. You then could manage your applications and move them to the SD card. They did away with this by giving us just one big partition on the phone itself. If you go to the applications manager and select any of your downloaded apps, you will see how it breaks down used storage of the app on your phone, the option to move to sd card is now gone though since it really isn't all that necessary anymore. I just keep all my pictures and music on my sd card and leave all the space on the phone for apps. Having them on the phone storage has two advantages. 1. They load faster. 2. Some cheaper micro sd cards can become corrupted and because of that your apps that are partially installed on the sd card (with the core part of the app being on the phone itself) will no longer work. Since this isn't permitted anymore, we no longer have to worry about #2.
Will you run out of space if you install enough games? Certainly, just depends on how much memory your version of the phone came with. For now, keep the phone memory clean of pictures, music and videos. Thankfully the camera app is nice enough to ask where to store your pictures and gives you the sd card as an option.
ICS does not allow apps to be on the SD card.
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yes it does. i have an htc evo lte and i can move apps to sd. my wifes s3 does not.
I hope Sammy addresses this issue SOON
what about for apps that download things, and like tubemate? Will I just have to keep moving the files to the external sd card? And flixter, that downloads whole movies with no option to move to external sd card
This isn't Sammy, it's an ICS issue.
what about for apps that download things, and like tubemate? Will I just have to keep moving the files to the external sd card? And flixter, that downloads whole movies with no option to move to external sd card
I'm noticing a bit of confusion here.
If you're running ICS or JB and you use a file manager such as Astro, to find your files, look under the Mount directory/folder, you will see an "SD Card" listed. SD Card is internal--it's what you're paying for when you buy a 16 GB or a 32 GB S3. And, yes, you can put apps on it. That's what it's for.
If you have inserted an SD Card into the expansion slot inside the battery compartment, you'll also see "External SD Card" listed. You can't put apps on the external card. You just can't. So, yes on "SD Card," but no on "External SD Card."
But you can store music, pics, videos, backups...that sort of stuff...on the external card.
This is by design. Google doesn't want you to use external cards for apps or storage anymore. That's why some manufacturers ship their devices WITHOUT expansion slots. We old f?rts. who remember all the way back to the S2 remember being able to put your apps on the SD Card (which was external). We also remember when app2SD was essential to life as we knew it.
That was then. This isn't.
Got that, now? You can't put working apps onto your shiny, brand-new 64 GB Micro SD Card. You just can't.
(Unless some coder figures out some genius workaround.)
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