How I moved Maps & YouTube to the SD Card

[larryc]

Only if the OTA doesn't change the bootloader, then you will have to find another root method.

@jeannieindigital, I do very much appreciate you discovering and posting this tip about how you moved the Maps & Youtube apps to the SD card, and I don't want to get in a p***sing contest with you.

However, that being said, I think it's ill advised to post instructions advising people to DELETE systems apps in a manner that could prevent any future OTA updates. Just because YOU many never want to OTA update your phone (for whatever reasons you have), it doesn't mean that everyone feels the same.

What I tried to point out in my earlier posts is that the instructions, while a great start, should really advise people to back up their system apps before any deleting so the phone can be restored to a "factory" state in the future if they so choose to. (My point being, I would expect you need a way to get the factory version of the app back into /system/app for OTA updates to work. If you simply download from the market, the app will end up in /data/app)

Someone else chimed in earlier that the SDX Stock App remover makes a backup before deleting a stock app. I think using this app in conjunction with the rest of your process would make the ideal solution.

 

[jeannieindigital]

OTA updates being allowed is an allow/deny setting within the ROM and has nothing to do with whether you move around or delete apps. And you can always re-flash whatever ROM you have on the phone to get it back to the way it was.
By definition the fact that the phone is rooted means it is no longer in a factory state.

 

[zires]

Hey,

I cannot find the update apk's where are they?

 

[100chuk]

I did everything according to the instruction

Go into the /system/app folder and delete the apk's.
Also go into the /data/app folder and delete the update apk's
Reboot into recovery and wipe the dalvik-cache.
Reboot the phone.
Go into the Market and redownload the removed apps.

, but after the last step got "Couldn't install on USB storage or SD card"
???

 

[mknollman123]

This process does work, but I would suggest considering link2sd - it moves apps to a separate partition on your sd card. The big upside is that you can set it to do it automatically to newly installed apps soyou can set it and forget it.

If you have root and are looking to do this, then you are sophisticated enough to make this worrk - it is fairly easy.

I used three or four mover 2 sd methods including the built in one and link2sd beats them all - it removes the main limitation of this device and I have not seen a single "low memory" dummy error since then!!!