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can honeycomb move apps to the sd card?

falkner09 said:
just wondering.
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Hi,

I am using an Acer Iconia Tab A500 32GB running Honeycomb 3.0.1

The micro SD card slot is just for additional storage. You cannot transfer your apps installed in the tablet to the micro SD card. I am currently using a 32GB micro SD card for videos and music and work related documents.

cheers :)
 
Yep. Honeycomb has dynamic app & media storage and uses the internal flash for that function. This is why any device without internal flash fails badly with Honeycomb.
 
Wow what a foolish design flub. Why is it so many companies have great software designs, then destroy them? Definitely going to wait now, until there's a good tablet with at least 32 gigs, prolly 64, or google figures out that we don't want the ipad.
 
Honeycomb's design is better, since apps stay in the internal and no need for apps2sd. Now the microsd can be hotswapped with no app issues. It will take a looooong time to fill 4gb, yet alone what current HC tablets have.

This is a far better design than fixed allocations and problematic apps2sd function.
 
rushmore said:
Honeycomb's design is better, since apps stay in the internal and no need for apps2sd. Now the microsd can be hotswapped with no app issues. It will take a looooong time to fill 4gb, yet alone what current HC tablets have.

This is a far better design than fixed allocations and problematic apps2sd function.
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That is one of the most presumptuous things I've ever heard. Are you sure you're not an Apple user??

There are times when storing an app on the SD card can be advantageous...for example: Got a game that's eating up TONS of space? Save space on your 4GB internal flash by moving the app to a much more spacious 32GB microSD card. (I do this all the time on my phone, in case it wasn't obvious)

Besides, the very idea that Android is trying to wrest control of app storage from the user is a bit irksome and reminds me of a certain fruit-bearing software company and their walled garden modus operandi.

I don't wanna get off on a rant here, but saying things are easier because someone else is doing them for you is a slippery slope. Sure they may seem easier; but for more reasons than I care to list here, there will be times when you wish you could have more control over things. (This doesn't just apply to software either...people are just too damn lazy these days)
 
TuxOtaku said:
That is one of the most presumptuous things I've ever heard. Are you sure you're not an Apple user??

There are times when storing an app on the SD card can be advantageous...for example: Got a game that's eating up TONS of space? Save space on your 4GB internal flash by moving the app to a much more spacious 32GB microSD card. (I do this all the time on my phone, in case it wasn't obvious)

Besides, the very idea that Android is trying to wrest control of app storage from the user is a bit irksome and reminds me of a certain fruit-bearing software company and their walled garden modus operandi.

I don't wanna get off on a rant here, but saying things are easier because someone else is doing them for you is a slippery slope. Sure they may seem easier; but for more reasons than I care to list here, there will be times when you wish you could have more control over things. (This doesn't just apply to software either...people are just too damn lazy these days)
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Why is it that a simple question and helpful, intelligent replies on the this forum will usually devolve into an anti-Apple screed? Here's a madcap thought...if you "don't wanna get off on a rant here" THEN DON'T. Go piss and moan about companies you hate somewhere else (like a thread titled "I have no life and a lot of misguided anger so let's create yet another pointless forum bitch session that accomplishes little more than preaching to the choir."). I know it must KILL you to admit that your oh-so-precious Android is a product (GASP!) created by a for-profit company (GASP! again) that is just as interested in making a buck and controlling their intellectual property as Apple (or Microsoft, Sony, Acer, Dell, etc.). Feel free to go on whining about Apple and perpetuating the myth that Android is the Valhalla of the Realm of Open Source. Point of fact, it isn't. If there was any truth to that pile of BS, the answer to the question that started this thread would be a simple "YES" and we wouldn't have to root our Android devices (thus voiding the manufacturer warranty) in order to get rid of the crap dumped onto tablets, e-readers and handsets by manufacturers and service providers. It might also shock you to know that MILLIONS of people are fully capable of owning both Apple and Android OS products...at the same time...free of riots, rants and silly invective. One final correction, in case you haven't crawled out from under your Android rock in the past few years, Apple is much more than a "software company."

To the rest of those who posted here, thank you for the answers to the initial question. I was wondering the same thing and your responses were both helpful and informative. It's nice to see most fellow Android device owners can communicate without eviscerating Apple.
 
falkner09 said:
Wow what a foolish design flub. Why is it so many companies have great software designs, then destroy them? Definitely going to wait now, until there's a good tablet with at least 32 gigs, prolly 64, or google figures out that we don't want the ipad.
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I don't think it's a design flub...it's a design choice, by Google. It also has nothing to do with Apple or the iPad. I will say, I have an Acer Iconia A500 (16G on board, 32G MicroSDHC, running Android 3.2.1) and the thing runs like a charm. I'm a big fan of the iPad but, with just under two months using the A500, it's one of a handful of Android tablets that offer a genuinely viable alternative in the under $500 range (I got mine on Amazon for $349). Other than a disappointing camera, the tablet looks great, is well contructed and, as several others have noted here, does seem to use the combination of on-board memory and SD card storage very well. I've got mine loaded with apps and HD games and haven't even used half of the 16G yet. The OS definitely uses memory and storage allocation much more intelligently and efficiently than any previous iteration of Android.
 
This thread is about Acer A500. What apple or any other tablet has to do with it is beyond me. Stay on point and discuss the question.

I have an A500 with with external_sd of 32GB
I was very disappointed to learn you can't tell apps to store stuff there.
Right now my 16GB of storage are being quickly whittled down to 3GB because I have a lot of charting and mapping apps that I want to cache locally.

Obviously if you have an A500 you DO NOT have cellular on it, only wifi.
That means that to get anything out of the thing when hiking, on a boat, or just driving around with Google Maps cached 10 miles of 50 locations you visit frequently, you need stuff stored locally.

It seems the external SD storage is useless if my apps can't read/write from it.
Please do not tell me "you can store movies there". Wonderful, but useless.
I read books with kindle, I play music with music players and all above with maps/charting tools.

Can this be resolved by:
Upgrading to ICS when it's ready
Rooting in Honeycomb
Rooting in ICS

Thanks
 
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