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Cannot move to external SD

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wild1101

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Hell, I just recently purchased a goclever quantum 450 android phone along with a 32gb sd card. The problem I am having is that I am not able to move apps to the external SD, and when I select 'Move to SD' all it does is move the app to the internal SD. Is there any way that I can move an app to my external SD?

P.S. please forgive me if I seem ignorant as this is my first time working with an android device :)
 
I'm having the same problem with my LG Volt. Every time I move an app to SD, it instead moves it to "USB storage". However, it's more of a problem on the Volt because the Volt has no USB storage. Whereas most phones have a separate partition for USB storage, the Volt just uses the same internal storage. So an app will go from 53 MB on internal storage to 79 MB on internal storage while telling me part of it is on USB storage.

I bought the Volt because my pos HTC One X doesn't accept an SD card and ran out of storage space, but it seems the Volt can only use an SD card for music and videos, not app storage.

Is there a solution to this issue? Because it's annoying.
 
1) Since Google invented "internal SD card" (which is something like dry water), apps that haven't been updated to allow you to choose internal or external SD card are going to default to the internal fake SD card, since it's the first one in Android.

2) Most apps can't be run from external storage. Even if you put the app on the SD card (the real one) and put symlink to tht in internal storage (where Android expects to find it), the app won't run.

3) Get used to it. It looks as if, in bowing to Corporate America, either Google, the manufacturers or the carriers are doing away with removable storage, among other things (like unlockable bootloaders and rooting).

Let's hope a few people come out with Linux ROMs, a few others come out with Linux apps (converting an iPhone app to Linux is easier than converting it to Android, since it's just a different environment, not a different programming language - there have been C compilers for Linux since about day 1 (or maybe day 2), and Google can sell their proprietary system to the large corporations (as secure devices, which would be funnier than any TV comedy show, since open source is always more secure than proprietary by definition).
 
I found a solution to this problem on my phone. What I did was go to settings>storage and for primary external storage i selected my sd card. To move all my apps i just changed the primary sd to the internal sd again, moved all of the apps to my phone and then changed the primary back to the external and moved them there from the phone. Hope that helps u sort out ur problem :)
 
Advanced sd card Manager (Google Play Store) by Arron La worked for my Samsung Galaxy Exhibit 4g (MetroPCS) AND my ZTE Sonata 4g (Cricket). Before that I used Link2SD (also at Google Play Store) for my Galaxy Exhibit. Had to install Busybox first.
 
In my Kata, I moved all the apps by checking my settings. maybe you can check your phone with its 'manage applications' then click on the app, the 'move to sd card' option should be there.
 
Move applications to the memory card.

By default, your Volt saves all applications to internal memory. To free up internal memory, you can move some applications to the memory card.

Note: Be sure your memory card has enough space to handle the transfer. You can also consider switching to a higher capacity memory card.

From the home screen, tap the Menu key.
Tap System settings.
Scroll to and tap Apps.
Swipe to the All tab.
Scroll to and tap the preferred application.
To move the application to the memory card, tap Move to SD card.
LG VOLT PHONE
 
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