Hi
I have Samsung Galaxy S 4G (1st gen.) for almost a year now. I have almost hit the phone's internal storage limit of 512MB. Recently, the phone warned me that I have only ~55MB left of the internal storage.
Although I have an 8GB SD card, the apps that I install from Google Play doesn't install into the SD card automatically. Even though I have the USB Debuggingenabled, the apps that I have on the phone's internal storage cannot be moved to the SD card. I don't know how to make the phone install apps only on the SD card or move most (if not all) apps into the SD card.
I looked online for answers. But I couldn't find any for my particular phone model: Samsung Galaxy S 4G SGH-T959V.
Please help me with this issue.
Thanks!
I have a samsung galaxy tab 4, i have already changed the download location to sd card, but i want to download an app and it says it can't be downloaded on the sd card, that it must be on the device. how can i revert it to download on the device, without taking the sd card out? Help its annoying to take out the otter box cover out, everytime.
Install apps from google play store directly to sd card rather than to your phone storage.
4 Answers
You can unmount the SD card from the settings. To do this: Go to Settings -> Storage -> Unmount SD card.
Removing the card physically is not needed.
You can later remount the SD card whenever you need it back by using the settings again, still without actually removing and inserting the SD card.
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In the same settings menu where you changed the download location to sd card set the download location to device.
You probably have just changed the preferred install location (I'm not aware of a setting that enforces a location for app install). So IMHO you don't need worry, simply install that app.
Background:
Developers must declare their app's preferred install location in the Manifest of the app. There they basically have 3 choices: internal storage, external storage, let-the-OS-decide. On the OS side, again there's a corresponding setting: internal, external, default (usually internal). You altered the latter to 'external' I assume.
Now what happens when you've set the OS side to 'external'? Depends on what the Manifest of the app-to-be-installed says: if it says 'let-the-OS-decide', things are clear: the app goes there (in your case, the external storage AKA SD card). Everything else overrides the OS-side setting: If an app offers services/widgets, it must go to internal storage, hence the developer will declare such – and the OS will obey.
So: No need to change anything. If the app must be installed to internal storage, the dev should have taken care for that in the app's Manifest. If you're still running into trouble, see my answer here on how to change the default.
Some apps need to be installed on non-unmountable device-memory because they depend on an app-s service that must run continuously without beeing stopped if sd is unmounted/ejected.
The developper of the app can declare that the app must be installed on device memory.
You can try to install the app in device-s memory and later move it to sd-card via settings/app/move to sd.
If the developper does not want the app to be installed on sd this option is not available.
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You can also try to use the android app app2sd for this.