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MrAsian

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1) When I see Task Manager, I see this "USB Storage". What is this about ?
2) Last time I use Galaxy Ace, have some games inside my SD card. How come when I transfer the SD card into Galaxy S2, the games doesn't appear at all ?
 
I can only answer (1) that the function turns your phone and/or SDCard into a USB drive/storage device for your computer/laptop.
 
USB storage is your internal phone storage which you can access and use. Its 11.5GB.

If you use Move2SD, part of the apps would be moved to the microSD from the 2GB internal phone memory. It would be located in the folder Android_secure. This folder is sort of hidden and you can only view its contents via PC.
 
Russell Ng said:
USB storage is your internal phone storage which you can access and use. Its 11.5GB.

If you use Move2SD, part of the apps would be moved to the microSD from the 2GB internal phone memory. It would be located in the folder Android_secure. This folder is sort of hidden and you can only view its contents via PC.
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I see. So I need not use a SD card already, unless I need even more space, right ?

As for the other issue, I check on my Galaxy Ace and those games are installed on my SD card itself. Does it mean I will have to reinstall the games on my Galaxy S2 ?

Thanks.
 
Yes to both questions.

You must reinstall. The S2 partition out 2GB for apps. You can clear this out with move2SD but there would still be some leftover in the 2GB space. Assuming Angry Birds which is about 20MB. Install it and all 20MB goes to the 2GB space. Move2SD, leave 2MB in there and 18MB is placed in the external microSD in the Android_secure folder.

Big games like gameloft's are different. The actual app (apk) behaves the same way, but the game data which runs into 500MB would be in the phone USB storage which has 11.5GB. I have no idea if you can move that data manually to the external microSD and still have the game work. Try at your own risk, but guess you can always move it back.

Cheers
 
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