Default memory Issue

[LAgraff]

ok i just got a samsung exzibit phone which seems to be a small version of the s3.
as soon as i got it i loaded as many apps i could till my memory would not allow more apps.

i started having issues with my photo gallery. i would try to send a friend a photo i took and the os wouldnt allow me to send a photo until i freed up space.

so i went through a phase where i would have to delete photos and apps just to send pictures.

i went and bought a 14G memory card and thought this would solve the issue by just allowing me to download apps and take pictures and by defult saving all the data right to the sd card

well this isnt the case at all. i learned that all the saving to sd card is not easy as that. at first i started to seach videos on how to save apps to my sd card through file then just moving the information to the sd card.

this didnt work to the point that i was not able to find my app files in the file app.

then i downloaded move to sd card app and app shifter. i thought using these would tranfer apps to my sd card allowing me room to load more apps.

again this became a problem. in doing this some how my defult membory card was filled to the point my phone became low memory space. im not sure what is going wrong so i joined this forum to lean how to manage the memory.

can some one please take a lil time with me and teach me how to properly manage my memory. i am not trying to root the phone i dont want to brick it.

( i ultamently would like to just be able to download apps/ and take photos and have them stored on my sd card)


im not sure how all this works

 

[Hadron]

Welcome to the forum

I don't know this phone, but for photos I'd just check the camera app's settings and see whether there is an option to choose where photos are stored. Beware that it might call the internal storage "sdcard" and give the actual sd card a name like "external sd card" (you'd need to know the history of these devices to understand how such silliness could arise, but we seem stuck with it now).

As for moving apps, what Android version do you have? Recent Android versions (last 2 years really) don't support moving apps to SD, though some manufacturers, including Samsung, have added it back in some handsets (but only some). The idea behind removing this feature was that such external (slower, less reliable) storage should be for media only(*), but that doesn't suit everyone. You can tell whether your phone supports it by going into Settings > Apps > Downloaded, selecting some of the apps you've installed, and seeing whether there is a "move to SD" button amongst the options. If it's not there at all, not even greyed-out, then your phone doesn't support this (even if it is present not all apps will allow it, so for some the button will be greyed-out). If the phone doesn't have the feature then without root you cannot do this.

I should add that the support for moving apps to SD in Android 2.2 and 2.3 was pretty limited anyway: it only ever moved part of the app, and none of the app data (which also live in the internal storage).

If your phone does not have this feature and you don't wish to root, the best advice I can give is to make sure that no apps are using large amounts of data unnecessarily (I recently found that Tapatalk, a forum browser, had cached 0.5GB of stuff on my phone in a directory of its own that wasn't cleared when cleaning caches), and yes, if you are short of space clearing app caches may help (there are many cache cleaner apps available). Plus the obvious: don't waste a lot of storage with large apps which you don't actually use.

Probably others will have some other suggestions for this.

(*) At the time this was done Google were dropping heavy hints that they didn't like removable cards at all. However, the public disagreed and so manufacturers who dropped them at one point are mostly bringing them back now.

 

[LAgraff]

Thanks for the reply.
it seems that my phone does not support the defult app move to sd option. this is so disappointing.

i had downloaded a app that moves the app files to sd card but when the data was moved the app didnt seem to work. so this became pointless.

ultimently i am just trying to store all data apps photos and downloads music or videos to the sd card allowing me to store more app space then the default factory memory.

i am starting to see i will need to root the phone.

will it be possible to have all data stored to the sd card allowing me to download apps and not have to be restricted my the default factory memory space.

i bought the sd card for this reason, to give the phone more room for downloading apps.

i am running
android 4.1.2