Can't save (or move) apps to SD card

[LucyLuLuu]

Not sure if people are still dealing with this but I have the problem on galaxy S5. Has anyone noticed that even if the files move to the SDcard-android-data-(corresponding app) folder, they don't necessarily get deleted from the device storage-android-data-(corresponding app) folder. I experimented and simply erased the folders of the apps I knew I had moved. This cut the data stored on my device in half, seemingly without affecting the apps performance. Since then, I've noticed that each time the app updates, I have to repeat the process. Does anyone with android knowledge understand what's happening there? I read somewhere about android maintaining a link between the two folders, but haven't been able to find that post or anything similar since.

I would really like to try this before I get into changing crap thru emulater.... Autocorrect might get frisky with my luck
You just checked .folders for duplicates?
Thanks much!

 

[kingstevenrules]

Hey guys, kingstevenrules with the same problem, different phone, and two months later. I am just about out of room on my Huawei Inspira H867G. Currently I have roughly around 100 MB of RAM left, nowhere near enough space for most apps today. I have installed 7 apps so far, and that was only updates. However, I can not move any of them to my 32 GB micro SDHC card. It's got plenty of room for apps, but my phone refuses to move them, even though I have selected the card as the primary storage device. My Inspira is running 4.0.4 ICS (Ice Cream Sandwich), and it is not rooted. Help?

 

[turttle66]

trying to move from phone storage to SD card to make room to get more room to download more apps i have no room on phone storage

 

[mike_leonidas]

It really depends on the app developers, developers can define whether they want their app to be moveable to SD card or not, as certain kind of apps NEED to be run from internal.

 

[Power_IR]

Maybe you have not free space to your SD card or there is a damage...
Check also the type of the application if it can move to SD card.

 

[szarom]

Were you ever able to resolve this issue?
What did you do?

 

[Jennifer Freedland]

As stated above, as long as the developer supports the App to go to the external sd card, it will. Just go to applications manger, go to the game and the button will be available to move to external sd if allowed. Coming from an S3, I have had no problem on my Note 3 and love it!

Palm Treo line > BlackBerry line > Samsung Galaxy S line > NOW the awesome & powerful Samsung Galaxy Note 3!

Lovely, I know only apps the developer permits are able to be moved to the SD card. That doesn't help me at all when something has gone very wrong and absolutely none of the apps at all will no longer move, and they used too. I Even have 2 of the exact same phones (Samsung Galaxy Note Edges) and apps that I have on both phones (such as Airbnb, or some games I have) which I just moved on one device will absolutely not move on the other on along with all the rest of the apps. This is a serious problem when it was working on the phone previously and also on the exact same phone but not on this one anymore! Please tell me what to do about this and how to get it working again "the developer has to allow the app to be moved".

 

[B. Diddy]

It's possible your SD card might be the problem. Have you tried a different (and reliable) SD card?

 

[northwoodnking]

Lovely, I know only apps the developer permits are able to be moved to the SD card. That doesn't help me at all when something has gone very wrong and absolutely none of the apps at all will no longer move, and they used too. I Even have 2 of the exact same phones (Samsung Galaxy Note Edges) and apps that I have on both phones (such as Airbnb, or some games I have) which I just moved on one device will absolutely not move on the other on along with all the rest of the apps. This is a serious problem when it was working on the phone previously and also on the exact same phone but not on this one anymore! Please tell me what to do about this and how to get it working again "the developer has to allow the app to be moved".

While it may have something to do with app developers....some samsung models just dont allow you to move certain apps that other companys do. Example we have 4 galaxys grand primes in our household..a alvatel one touch phone and alcatel obe touch tablet. Certain apps cannot be moved on our galaxys but place sd card in anothet device and now the same app is now movable......it seems like a design flaw

 

[Shania Villarante]

Sorry to bring this back up again, but I guess I spoke too soon. Spotify is now saving on the sd card, but other apps are not. They are all saved on the device- in Android/Data or Android/obb. If I try to just move them to the android/data or android/obb folders on the sd card, the apps do start up but then they try to re download all the data that has been moved to the sd card. Obviously it isn’t really looking in the right place. It seems like for some reason there is a directory error being written somewhere. Basically it isn’t writing the instruction to actually look on the SD card or write on the SD card, with the exception being Spotify which is functioning correctly. Instead it is writing on the device and then if I hit "move to SD card" it then re writes itself to say that the device IS now the sd card.
Seems like a straight up os software bug at this point. Is there any way to update a software build? And why would I have this bug but others wouldn't?

One more odd item is that if I have an app is installed on the device I can see its normal icon if I move it to the home screen. BUT if I move the app to the SD card, the homescreen icon goes gray and it is a little android rectangle with and micro SD card over it. Basically it seems to be showing that it thinks that the icon image should be on the sd card but it can't find it.

It is also happening to me

 

[DeanoD]

Please don't worry, you can save or move apps to SD card by using Samsung data manager tool. After you connect your Samsung phone to computer via USB Cable, then you can use it to move apps to SD card easily.

This is all well and good, but you are assuming that "everybody" has and can still afford (or in my case put up with) an MS based PC. Who was the ***** that decreed that ALL programming for an Android device REQUIRES a PC? I'm using a Galaxy Note 10.1 2017 tablet, and my 15 some-odd-year-old "updated" Windows 10 laptop is dying slowly and painfully so. But, if I ONLY need it for an occasional blog or letter, how to I justify buying an $800 Windows 10 device over a Chromebook that does what I need for $300? And, TBO I find Window 10 a PITA just to navigate over my "antique" Samsung tablet which I run the NEXT version of Android on. No thanks on that last bit to Samsung who ended support BEFOREI bought the tablet. Just me ranting here. Who cares? ;-DeanoD