Question about moving apps to SD card...

[pawprints86]

Just for kicks, the other day... since i had recently factory reset my phone (due to wifi issues)... I thought to myself, that ill keep all of my apps on the bigger partition in my phone (called "sd card" on my phone).... So i thought that since moving apps to SD card doesnt truly move the apps to my external SD card, that id move all my apps without an external card present...

so i thought that would work perfectly... but it didnt allow it.

so what im wondering is, if apps dont truly move to the external card... why does one need to be present to move apps to your "sd card" (or, other internal partition)

i know with things like directory bind and foldermount you can... but im just wondering, as far as the manufacturers intended its use... why is it that you cant move apps to that other internal partition, without an external card present? Hmmm....

 

[B. Diddy]

Remind us which phone you have? The "SD" that's referred to can depend on the phone. A phone that has "unified" Internal Storage (i.e., it isn't split into an App Storage area and an "internal SD") along with a microSD card will move the app to the external microSD. A phone that has Internal Storage partitioned into those two areas, along with a microSD, will typically move the app to the internal SD.