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Chappyonthemov

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I have a galaxy note 2 and cannot find a way to download directly to my SD card rather than my phones memory.

People say there is a system configuration on storage on galaxy note 1, but I cant find it on mine, which seems silly if its a better phone.

Here is that info I was given :

system settings > storage > storage configuration > use internal storage

I get as far as storage but then there is no configuration

Should set the SD card to be used as internal memory.

Even using an app like Utorrent, I cannot specify to save to my sd card.

Is there something I am missing here, I am sure this should be a very simple task for a phone that has so much and cost a lot.

Please help
 
With Jelly Bean you lose the option to install apps and data to SD cards. The only thing you can keep on SD card now is Photos and Music. Maybe movies but I read in a recent thread that movies will only play if they are stored on internal phone memory.

If you did a quick search you would have found your answer. This was mentioned many times already.
 
No unfortunately the app Utorrent doesn't allow downloads to external SD the feature will most likely come in the future though. I think it's because it's still in beta. Use Ttorrent instead if you want to route your downloads to External SD. :)

-Matt
 
With Jelly Bean you lose the option to install apps and data to SD cards. The only thing you can keep on SD card now is Photos and Music. Maybe movies but I read in a recent thread that movies will only play if they are stored on internal phone memory.
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So let me get this right, Android bring out a new update that has LESS Features than the versions before, is that not a downgrade????

Seems very odd that they would do this, someone needs to have a word with the people thst make Android or punch them in the nose lol

IS there a way to get a petition for them to release an update to fix this idiotic decision?

A link to Android CEO email might help lol Seriously though is there a link to contact google to resolve this

It now makes it impossible to download a file greater than your available free memory on your phone, which is ridiculous

Ps. thinking about it, I feel it may be a conspiracy between Android and the networks, as they want to try to reduce the amount of data usage by any means necessary...
 
Chappyonthemov said:
So let me get this right, Android bring out a new update that has LESS Features than the versions before, is that not a downgrade????

Seems very odd that they would do this, someone needs to have a word with the people thst make Android or punch them in the nose lol

IS there a way to get a petition for them to release an update to fix this idiotic decision?

A link to Android CEO email might help lol

Ps. thinking about it, I feel it may be a conspiracy between Android and the networks, as they want to try to reduce the amount of data usage by any means necessary...
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Nope they did it on purpose to make the experience better. There were too many problems associated with putting apps on SD cards so they got rid of it in Jelly Bean. While it may have pissed some people off I think it was a smart move.
 
MiXoLoGiSt said:
Nope they did it on purpose to make the experience better. There were too many problems associated with putting apps on SD cards so they got rid of it in Jelly Bean. While it may have pissed some people off I think it was a smart move.
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Surely its going to piss everyone off, lets say you only have 500mb free space on your phone, but you want to download a movie that is 2 gigs, (the exact reason your spent good money on that 32gig sd card) only to find you dont have enough space to download it to....
 
Thanks for everyones help, but I feel I am going to solve nothing here, now I know the truth about this.

Can anyone please link me to the forums where I may perhaps get action done at source, ie the forums or email for customer services at Android/google themselves.

Is this correct?

http://developer.android.com/support.html

It seems it was, I joined the developers group, posted and will update this post when I hear anything back
 
matt190191 said:
No unfortunately the app Utorrent doesn't allow downloads to external SD the feature will most likely come in the future though. I think it's because it's still in beta. Use Ttorrent instead if you want to route your downloads to External SD. :)

-Matt
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I tried TTorrent, but when it was downloaded and i tried to run it, I got a warning saying "You need to download additional software for this to work, but WARNING, do not do this as it will compromise your security"
 
Chappyonthemov said:
I tried TTorrent, but when it was downloaded and i tried to run it, I got a warning saying "You need to download additional software for this to work, but WARNING, do not do this as it will compromise your security"
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Strange make sure you are downloading Ttorrent from a reliable source like the PlayStore... It's never said that for me. Have you tried launching Ttorrent>Settings>Misc>directory's? It shouldn't require any additional app for you to choose a download directory. And it definitely shouldn't compromise the security of your device.

-Matt
 
Caloy said:
My mp4 movies stored on my sdcard plays just fine on my phone.



-Sent using the power of the dark side
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Sorry to bother you Caloy, was wondering if you get this newbie on track on how to download a movie on my sd card and be able to watch it on my galaxy 551. This sounds great in the ability to do such a thing.

Thanks,
Bryan
 
reacon said:
Sorry to bother you Caloy, was wondering if you get this newbie on track on how to download a movie on my sd card and be able to watch it on my galaxy 551. This sounds great in the ability to do such a thing.

Thanks,
Bryan
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Hey Bryan,
I just connected it to my pc via USB cable and using windows explorer transferred it to my SD Card.

-Sent using the force
 
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