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trapperjohn

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Hi,
After apps are moved to sdcard will they use more battery?
On the thunderbolt do we really need to move apps to sdcard or is that for older phones with less internal memory?

Thanks,
Bryan
 
trapperjohn said:
Hi,
After apps are moved to sdcard will they use more battery?
On the thunderbolt do we really need to move apps to sdcard or is that for older phones with less internal memory?

Thanks,
Bryan
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You answered your question with your last sentence :p there's no reason to transfer them to your sd card because we have plenty of room on our internal hard drive
 
Ok its not needed which in turn i put all apps back on internal memory. A thing I had to do on the original droid.....
I will put the bigger games back if needed as worm mentions he does :-)

But I am curious are there negatives to moving the apps to the sdcard?
Does it use more power to run application off of the sdcard?
Does it slow the phone down?

Thanks,
Bryan
 
It might slow loading times down a tiny bit if the sd card is slower than the internal flash drive. I move big games, too.
 
brizey said:
It might slow loading times down a tiny bit if the sd card is slower than the internal flash drive. I move big games, too.
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After reading that WormDoes and you only move games I will do that? Sounds like a good way to go for the future.
Thanks,
Bryan
 
I assumed that moving it to the SD card made the phone overall a little bit faster because it wasn't stored on the phone itself
 
shaddyyy said:
I assumed that moving it to the SD card made the phone overall a little bit faster because it wasn't stored on the phone itself
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Actually after moving everything back to the phone I see apps opening faster responding better nothing drastic just noticeable :-)
53 apps on phone with 1.8 gigs still available :-)

Thanks,
Bryan
 
trapperjohn said:
Actually after moving everything back to the phone I see apps opening faster responding better nothing drastic just noticeable :-)
53 apps on phone with 1.8 gigs still available :-)

Thanks,
Bryan
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:eek: 69 user apps on phone (none on the SD) 1.94 GB available:D. I see no reason to put my apps on the SD, I suppose depending on the class of the SD it could have a negative effect on loading things from the SD but if you have the stock SD card I don't think you would notice much of a difference.
 
I dont know if this question belongs here... when I pull down my Notification bar, under Quick settings tab scroll down to "Total Memory" it reads:

583 MB
used: 462MB
free: 121MB

How can I free more memory there? I am not running any apps.
 
Picaso86 said:
I dont know if this question belongs here... when I pull down my Notification bar, under Quick settings tab scroll down to "Total Memory" it reads:

583 MB
used: 462MB
free: 121MB

How can I free more memory there? I am not running any apps.
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Don't worry about it, really. The way the OS is set up it should be fine running with 0MB free* :eek: Android is much better at memory management than windows, as the OS needs more memory for a specific tasks it will kill other tasks to make the memory available.

*While I said it should be fine Android will kill tasks before getting down to having 0MB free by design
 
I do put games on my SD, I don't really see a need to keep a 25-30mb game on the internal memory.
 
No music or video. Most of it is extracted apps and extracted zip files. About 10k png files, a few roms, a few nandroid backups. A couple game downloads that have to be on the SD.
 
Yeahha said:
No music or video. Most of it is extracted apps and extracted zip files. About 10k png files, a few roms, a few nandroid backups. A couple game downloads that have to be on the SD.
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Wow!
Are you thinking of getting a 64 gig assuming it will work in the Thunderbolt?
Having that much even on the sdcard does it slow down access at all?
Thanks,
Bryan
 
trapperjohn said:
Wow!
Are you thinking of getting a 64 gig assuming it will work in the Thunderbolt?
Having that much even on the sdcard does it slow down access at all?
Thanks,
Bryan
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No I don't want to spend that much on an SD that I haven't confirmed it will work. I know there are reports the 64 GB cards work on android but they shouldn't.

I haven't noticed any degradation of speed other than my gallery takes forever to load but I don't use it very much at all so it doesn't really matter
 
Yeahha said:
No I don't want to spend that much on an SD that I haven't confirmed it will work. I know there are reports the 64 GB cards work on android but they shouldn't.

I haven't noticed any degradation of speed other than my gallery takes forever to load but I don't use it very much at all so it doesn't really matter
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Hi,
Thanks for the info :-)
I noticed my gallery slow to load also but that is usually after I flashed later if I go back in it pops right up with pics I assume that it caches the list on first view do you get the delay every time after the first time?

Thanks,
Bryan
 
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