App2SD / SD card ??

[Kairosgrammy]

I swear I saw someone post on this subject (or at least their phone not reading the sd card) but I can't find the post so I apologize if I'm duplicating questions. Have a S3 and have installed app2sd on it to move apps to sd card. Thing is when it first opens it will say something to the effect that phone does not have true external storage (sd card is there and I know when I hook it up to my computer, it is reading both the hard drive on the phone and the sd card) or that phone doesn't support moving apps to sd card. That doesn't make a bit of sense to me.
Does app2sd not support ICS, am I doing something wrong? When I select an app to move to sd card, all I get is the option to uninstall. I 3even tried through app manager on phone and it still gives the same options. Is there another app that will work better than app2sd?? I'm okay space wise. I did figure out how to transfer pictures and music to sd card via computer and so I have 12 gigs of memory left on the device. I know though as time goes on and I get app happy, that room will diminish and using too much memory on phone will slow it down. Any thoughts. Really need to figure this out.

 

[lunatic59]

Well, here's the poop, the whole poop and nothing but the poop.

apps2sd is designed to move the parts of apps that are moveable from the /system partition to /sdcard (mount point, if you are familiar with linux terminology). On most higher end phones for the last several years, they've come with 8,12, and even 16 GB of ram built in. Now, because the system partition rarely grows beyond 1 GB, most manufacturers set a 2 GB system partition and allocate the rest to internal user storage which mounts at /sdcard. This is in effect what the phone sees as an sd card and if your phone supports an actual Micro SD card, it will mount at something like /scdard/sd_external, which can't be used (easily) to relocate apps.

If your head hasn't exploded yet, you can move apps from system to /sdcard, but it doesn't really help much unless for some odd reason you've maxed out the system partition (which is awfully hard to do).

On my SGS2, i've got 90+ apps installed and still have 1.5 GB free. Is there a problem with space? or you just want to move apps?

 

[Kairosgrammy]

No, according to my phone, I have 12 of 16 gigs remaining. I just know that on my htc inspire, I filled it up and then it ran like crap. I know inspire only had 4 gigs of onboard memory, I just didn't want to overload the S3. I did go ahead and move pictures & music to sd card which I could do via my laptop and that gave me a whole bunch more room.

Well, here's the poop, the whole poop and nothing but the poop.

apps2sd is designed to move the parts of apps that are moveable from the /system partition to /sdcard (mount point, if you are familiar with linux terminology). On most higher end phones for the last several years, they've come with 8,12, and even 16 GB of ram built in. Now, because the system partition rarely grows beyond 1 GB, most manufacturers set a 2 GB system partition and allocate the rest to internal user storage which mounts at /sdcard. This is in effect what the phone sees as an sd card and if your phone supports an actual Micro SD card, it will mount at something like /scdard/sd_external, which can't be used (easily) to relocate apps.

If your head hasn't exploded yet, you can move apps from system to /sdcard, but it doesn't really help much unless for some odd reason you've maxed out the system partition (which is awfully hard to do).

On my SGS2, i've got 90+ apps installed and still have 1.5 GB free. Is there a problem with space? or you just want to move apps?

 

[chanchan05]

Well, here's the poop, the whole poop and nothing but the poop.

apps2sd is designed to move the parts of apps that are moveable from the /system partition to /sdcard (mount point, if you are familiar with linux terminology). On most higher end phones for the last several years, they've come with 8,12, and even 16 GB of ram built in. Now, because the system partition rarely grows beyond 1 GB, most manufacturers set a 2 GB system partition and allocate the rest to internal user storage which mounts at /sdcard. This is in effect what the phone sees as an sd card and if your phone supports an actual Micro SD card, it will mount at something like /scdard/sd_external, which can't be used (easily) to relocate apps.

If your head hasn't exploded yet, you can move apps from system to /sdcard, but it doesn't really help much unless for some odd reason you've maxed out the system partition (which is awfully hard to do).

On my SGS2, i've got 90+ apps installed and still have 1.5 GB free. Is there a problem with space? or you just want to move apps?

The SGSIII does not have a system partition of just 2GB. It can use the entire 8/16/32/64GB for apps.