I'm able to move the app (Asphalt 8, Nova 3) to external storage, but nothing much gets moved. Most of the game stays on the internal storage, which is causing slowdowns on the phone. Is anyone else experiencing this? Any solutions? Thanks.
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Can someone help me figure out what's up with my storage space on my N7? I'm getting a notification saying "Storage space running out". According to this screenshot, I should have about 8.1 GB used. With 13.24 total that should leave me with about 5 GB free. Now I understand there are some other things that take up space, but how can that be over 4.5 GB's worth? Anyone have any ideas on what might be taking up all that space, and if there's anything I can do about it? I have a bunch of pinned documents on my Google drive, but they should be more than a few MB. I don't want to do a full reset and have to re-root and re-add all my apps and documents and media. I've tried rebooting a couple of times with no change. I can add any additional information that would be helpful.
I have the same problem, made a thread and no suggestions. Is this a hardware issue? I don't see any similar issues except for Nexus 7's.
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I fixed it by formatting the internal sdcard through TWRP.
Thank for your solution, it works for me
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For future reference, the flash usage reported in that image that you posted is not all inclusive, it only reports storage used by apps/music/videos/downloads, as it says. The reported free space should be correct though, but if you add up the usage that it shows it won't necessarily make sense with the free space that it reports because other things use storage that it is not reporting.
Hello xda forums, I want to ask you about moving apps2sd card. By a little research I have found out that moving apps to sd card is a thing. Now I want to do it but I wont seem to be able to get the option "move app to external drive/usb device" or whatever option. I just want to know how to enable it.. A way of not requiring any computers just doing all by my phone would be great..
Also, if you are going to say "oh, why are you moving your apps to sd card" or anything similar like that, please just dont.. say that to google, not me, I don't care, I have lots of big apps and my storage is full...
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1) Open Play Store.
2) Search for Folder Mount.
3) Install app.
4) Upgrade to pro.
5) Use it to move large app data to your external SD and create a symlink in the original location.
I realize that you're actually asking about the native apps to sd ”feature,” but I don't think you quite understand what it actually is and is not. It does move apps to your SD, and that is it- only the .apk is moved. The data, which is why those apps and games are so big, remains on your internal. As such, it does not save you any appreciable space. To do that, you're going to have to use a third party app.
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Folder mount didn't really help. What I got to do is to move the whole app, the apk of the app, that can be done using system right? I feel like I should be able to enable it somehow.. Any ideas?
(What I need to do is to move the apk that can be reached via Root Browser, theee are many apks with the size between 30-100 mbs, eventually taking up too much space)
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Upon attempting to download and install GTA San Andreas on my Tab 4, I discovered that I have very low internal memory. Obviously after the system's required almost 4gbs, there isn't a ton of space. However, for only having downloaded a few apps on my Tab4 I found my lack of free space a little shocking. I store all my music and other media on my memory card as well, adding to my surprise.
Check out the screenshots; it claims nearly 2gbs of data under "miscellaneous files", but when I view what miscellaneous files are it gives me some nonsense that doesn't even amount to one megabyte.
I'm not sure if this is a Tab 4 thing or just an Android 4.4.2 issue, but it's a little irritating. Can anyone explain this to me, and how I can free up more internal space? Unfortunately, the small amount of apps I do have are fairly large in size and conveniently cannot be moved to SD.
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osiris010 said:
Upon attempting to download and install GTA San Andreas on my Tab 4, I discovered that I have very low internal memory. Obviously after the system's required almost 4gbs, there isn't a ton of space. However, for only having downloaded a few apps on my Tab4 I found my lack of free space a little shocking. I store all my music and other media on my memory card as well, adding to my surprise.
Check out the screenshots; it claims nearly 2gbs of data under "miscellaneous files", but when I view what miscellaneous files are it gives me some nonsense that doesn't even amount to one megabyte.
I'm not sure if this is a Tab 4 thing or just an Android 4.4.2 issue, but it's a little irritating. Can anyone explain this to me, and how I can free up more internal space? Unfortunately, the small amount of apps I do have are fairly large in size and conveniently cannot be moved to SD.
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osiris010,
There's an app called Storage Analyser available in the play store.
I use this one to check which folders are containing the biggest files, and see what I can delete/move/...
You can investigate both internal and external memory with this app, and it is showing hidden files and folders too.
Have a look at it, it may help you free some space.
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I have the Moto X Pure Edition US running marshmallow. The phone is 16 GB with a 64 GB SD Card, when I download playlists from Google Play Music they save to the internal storage and not the SD card. How do I change this behavior? I have the SD card as adoptable storage.
when you have the sd card integrated with the internal storage, the phone will automatically determine where to actually place content depending on amount of space free, speed of sd card, and what the content is. Otherwise, google play music would have an option to save to sd card in its settings. Since the sd card is "adoptable", everything will be recognized as "internal storage".
Good question. I have the same setup and regretting not getting 32GB internal. I don't know how it saves things to certain areas. I had to manually move a bunch of apps to SD card to free up internal space even though everything is recognized as internal storage. I have to do that after every flash of a new ROM?
sp44 said:
Good question. I have the same setup and regretting not getting 32GB internal. I don't know how it saves things to certain areas. I had to manually move a bunch of apps to SD card to free up internal space even though everything is recognized as internal storage. I have to do that after every flash of a new ROM?
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I am in the exact same boat. I bought the 16 gig(that's all best buy had) thinking that MM will negate any storage issues I may have.
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I am in the exact same boat. I bought the 16 gig(that's all best buy had) thinking that MM will negate any storage issues I may have.
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What If you removed play music using tibu and downloaded it so it's not system app, then move play music to your sd card using the adaptive storage option? I tried that with spotify but it tells me to re login each time.
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patt2k said:
What If you removed play music using tibu and downloaded it so it's not system app, then move play music to your sd card using the adaptive storage option? I tried that with spotify but it tells me to re login each time.
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I am not rooted.
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I am not rooted.
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Then I don't know lol
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Glad I'm not the only one with this issue. It's really disappointing I bought this phone in a hurry there was only a 16gb available, I thought adoptive storage would be fine it's not. Google Maps saving maps offline also saves to Internal Storage also with no option to put the stuff somewhere else. I already have my regular phone storage almost full with no way to move stuff around.
Disappointing.
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Glad I'm not the only one with this issue. It's really disappointing I bought this phone in a hurry there was only a 16gb available, I thought adoptive storage would be fine it's not. Google Maps saving maps offline also saves to Internal Storage also with no option to put the stuff somewhere else. I already have my regular phone storage almost full with no way to move stuff around.
Disappointing.
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Same here, I figured the new storage option would take the internal and the sd card and basically format it into 1 storage option.
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Same here, I figured the new storage option would take the internal and the sd card and basically format it into 1 storage option.
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Did you by any chance do migrate data? after I did that (not using play music) my sd-card would show as internal.
my 32GB space only shows in the storage & usb section and everything is being used off the 64GB card.
The issue is raised on google forums here https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/play/CgNiUtLjC1I
I am trying to see if i can move GPM to userland with tibu but the real solution would be for google to fix GPM to store data on the sd card when in adoptable storage mode. Suggest upvoting / commenting on the issue if you have the problem.
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I tried tibu but after a series of hung tibu "processing" boxes, and reboots I finally had it as a user app and could move it to sd card. I then went to reboot again to clear an erroneous tibu notification and suddenly the gpm app is back to a system app on internal storage. Wtf.
Anyone else had success?
sweets11 said:
The issue is raised on google forums here https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/play/CgNiUtLjC1I
I am trying to see if i can move GPM to userland with tibu but the real solution would be for google to fix GPM to store data on the sd card when in adoptable storage mode. Suggest upvoting / commenting on the issue if you have the problem.
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I tried tibu but after a series of hung tibu "processing" boxes, and reboots I finally had it as a user app and could move it to sd card. I then went to reboot again to clear an erroneous tibu notification and suddenly the gpm app is back to a system app on internal storage. Wtf.
Anyone else had success?
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Uninstalled with tibu. All sorts of ugly errors. Installed apk version of gpm. Reported it was in user land but couldn't move to sd. Rebooted. Moved ok and gpm reports full adoptable storage space. Not game to restart. Working so I'm happy.
I have an HTC M8 16gb I integrated a 64gb SD card and it seems to work fine, except for the fact that regardless of the music player that I use it can't seem to find my music but it is there on my phone
Is there any fix yet ?
Have googled it before...but hasn't ANYBODY had an issue with saving to their external sd card? Like, for instance, Boat Browser, Maxthon, Chrome...etc...ALL want to save to internal and will NOT let me change the directory to the SD card. It gets very frustrating moving the downloads after the fact. Any help or ideas??
You can set it in the opera mini browser, go into settings, downloads, download folder, press the sdcard icon and set the directory from there.
I don't think chrome and many other browsers have it. I assume this is a performance decision because internal memory is typically faster than sdcards unless you're getting a class beyond 10, which are expensive as hell.
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You may also look into developer options and force external sdcard use at the bottom.
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It's already on. Many apps say it's un-writeable.
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You may also look into developer options and force external sdcard use at the bottom.
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Only certain rare apps bring up the sd card folder for me to select to be written to. Annoying. Either they say it doesn't have correct permissions or isn't allowed. I have to use foldersync to save to the cloud, then back to the external sd.
I have had to click the 3 circle overflow button before and click on show external storage option before but that was only on certain screens