Did they fix Move App to SD card or R they going to be like Apple

[atari_guy]

I was going to buy a Nexus 4 (assuming they ever make enough), but now I'm having second thoughts because it doesn't have an SD card slot at all.

 

[anon(94115)]

The design experts are to blame for that disaster, and the n4. Both are mistakes only one you can really avoid.

Sent from the nexus of the Android world, the SGS3.

 

[DennisOS2]

I had a tablet 10 years ago for work and didn't use it for anything. I am finding that is mostly because there wasn't anything really to do with it. Apps were very limited.

So far I am digging this one. It isnt a great tablet but after tweaking the hell out of it, it runs decent enough and does what I need it to do.

I have to get a cheap stylus and see what I can do with it...

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Believe it or not the TP woke up. This makes me believe there is a bug in the CM9 code for TPs. After sitting unplugged for days I put it on the TouchStone and voil? the charging icon came on. Took a couple of hours to fully charge but nothing was lost. During the charge it went out and updated all of the Android apps and the goo-manager promptly announced there was a new build for CM9 for the TP. The TP is running great. For non-business apps/use this is a great way to compute.

Dennis

 

[Annie Mcd]

My device has ICS so of course no way to move apps to SD. The phone (T-Mobile LG Optimus L9) only has 4GB of internal memory. Only 2GB dedicated to app storage!

I cant even make a single playlist I have on Google available for listening to offline. A phone with this small of a memory and no option to move apps to the SD card is dumb. If they are going to get rid of having apps stored on the SD as an option then they need to not make phones with such low memory.

I am returning this phone to the store and replacing it with at least a 16GB but preferably 32GB Samsung model.

 

[Angela Garrett1]

Well, when you think about it, its not really needed if you have a high end device with an internal storage space of 8gb or 16. Also, there's probably some mod or hack for ics and jb to support app2sd. I would look on here or xda devs.

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Well, when you think about it, its not really needed if you have a high end device with an internal storage space of 8gb or 16. Also, there's probably some mod or hack for ics and jb to support app2sd. I would look on here or xda devs.

 

[Elonia Moonbeam]

I was wondering where the "move to sd" button went. My phone has less than 2 GB of internal storage (much of it taken up by the Android system) and putting in any apps is going to fill it up too fast. (And I like tweaking settings and things, so it would be difficult to re-download every time I use it). Yes, I can use the SD card for photos and things, but I don't really store that on my phone anyways. Apps all the way.

 

[jjcoker]

I have an Acer A500 tablet that has 16G of internal memory and a 16G external micro sd card. A lot of people are saying that moving apps to sd is not necessary, but my tablet freezes on a regular basis. And, yes, I have done a full restore only to have it happen almost every day. I have a lot of apps that I use on a regular basis and I do use Google Cloud for work files and Microsoft Onedrive for personal files. I backup my pictures to a cloud and then regularly move them to an external 500G portable drive. I also use "Clean Master" to clean junk such as temporary files, etc.

So, that said - I would still like to move apps to my external sd card; why not?

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[Lisa Banks in Augusta WV]

I got a new phone because my old one was so slow (and too old to even run Chrome). It is a huge improvement except that it has 1.24GB internal storage. I figured I'd solve that by adding a 32GB SD card, which is the max the device can use. WHY would they make it take such a large capacity card if all you can do is store photos and music on it? I can't put most of the apps I use all the time on the internal storage. I have no games installed, and had to find smaller alternatives to other apps. I am really frustrated. I would never have expected Google to remove such a vital feature. Now I am stuck with a phone that won;t do ANYTHING I expect it to, and (if I understand correctly) any OTHER phone I buy will do the same if it uses a current version of Android unless it comes with 8 or 6 (or more) GB of internal storage? RIDICULOUS!

 

[Lisa Banks in Augusta WV]

Nail on Head!! Your post reminded me of Billy Gates' immortal words: 'No one will ever need more than 640K of RAM'.

I got a new phone because my old one was so slow (and too old to even run Chrome). It is a huge improvement except that it has 1.24GB internal storage. I figured I'd solve that by adding a 32GB SD card, which is the max the device can use. WHY would they make it take such a large capacity card if all you can do is store photos and music on it? I can't put most of the apps I use all the time on the internal storage. I have no games installed, and had to find smaller alternatives to other apps. I am really frustrated. I would never have expected Google to remove such a vital feature. Now I am stuck with a phone that won;t do ANYTHING I expect it to, and (if I understand correctly) any OTHER phone I buy will do the same if it uses a current version of Android unless it comes with 8 or 6 (or more) GB of internal storage? RIDICULOUS!

 

[Galane]

Google also wanted to eliminate the need for a file manager, instead taking an iOS-like direction where users don't have to think about where content is stored; both USB Mass Storage and a microSD slot would have forced that, he said.

Translation: After more than 30 years of people using subdirectories/folders we think people are too stupid to know how to use them so we're implementing an emulation of how DOS 1.0, early Macintosh System versions and many microcomputers stored everything in a 'flat' system with all files in the same storage space.

I have a phone with Android 4.1 and a tablet with 4.4. I'd like to have USB mass storage for the SD card when plugged into my computer so I don't have to copy files to the computer before I can do anything to them, and so I can download directly to the card. I also want to be able to move apps to the SD card (not the fake/emulated built in one).

Amazon also needs to get some smarts and change their Kindle app to allow relocating the Kindle folder out of main memory. 200+ books takes a lot of space. On my old Epic 4g with earlier versions of Kindle I was able to put the books on the card simply by making a Kindle folder and putting the files in it while leaving the Kindle folder in main memory empty. But with Google mucking this up this can't be done, not unless Amazon alters their app.