Even though my expeience is with a different device, I thought it important enough to share here.
I had thought I understood the KitKt\extsd issue, and being unwillling st this time to root my new Asus Memopad7, had resigned myself to assiduously managing what remained of the 11GB internal sd, and experiemnting with manually editing configuration filesand moving data folder.
But 2 things happened during the past week that completely changed my plans..
First, the largest space consumer on my tablet Sygic Nav & Maps published a simple way to move their app to extsd. No root needed, just a simple folder copy . There's practically nothing left of the app on internal sd.
Second, I got a noticed from the tablet that an update to the OS firmware was available. After checking its validity, doing some housekeeping, and rebooting, I let the tablet download and apply the update.
There were a a dozen Asus apps at the Play Store that neeeded updating, and a few Asus tools related to Miracast and wifi that claimed that they needed updating , some of which had never been visible to me before,(some still aren't)
As I was going through Settings/Apps, I noticed a new column "Moveable". In this view, move to extsd works!!! Every app except Sygic (already moved) let me move it!! Now their "Move to SD" buttons say "Move to Device Storage"!!! I freed up more than 2gb from internal sd, just by clicking buttons., and the tablet still isn't rooted.
This tells me that the worst part of the extsd problem wasn't Googles' KitKat, but due to developers of apps and skins not being up to speed with the changes. Look for a lot of excuses disappearing as word of this ges arround to the other OEMs..
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