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Force apps to SD

daftkenny

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Hello everyone. I've been reading some stuff about force moving apps to the SD card lately and I'm most definitely interested as the internal memory of my Acer Liquid Metal (mt) is close to full.

Ive been reading some stuff about 'rooting' and 'adb drivers' but im unsure of how to do it. Does anyone have any links that could help me out? Thanks in advance

Ive used apps such as App2SD, but it only allows some apps to be transferred, not ALL.
 
If all you are interested in is moving apps to your sd card,You can set the default install location to your SD card, no rooting required. Just be aware that a.) widgets, services and polling apps should always be installed to your phone's internal memory. b.) Any new widgets and services installed after you set the default location must be checked and moved back to internal memory before using them, and c.) Even with the default location set to external memory, some apps will always install to internal memory.

If you've got 2.2 or higher You change the default location to the SD card like this ... (And, once that is changed you can move even more apps to the SD card, even though they were installed to internal memory.)

You'll need to have the Android SDK installed. How-To Install Android SDK On Windows, Mac and Linux

Then on your phone go to settings>applications>development and enable USB Debugging. Plug your phone into the PC using the USB cable.

open a command prompt on your PC (start>run type "cmd" press ENTER)

Change directory to the android-sdk-windows\tools folder

At the prompt type
Code:
adb devices
and you should see your phone listed as a serial number.

type
Code:
adb shell pm setInstallLocation 2

Done.

Now the default location to install apps is the SD card. And, some apps that you couldn't move to the SD card will now be able to be moved. If you follow the steps above and you install a widget afterwards, you will need to go to settings>applications>manage applications and manually move it to the phone. If you want to set the default install location back to the phone, you simply repeat the process but use
Code:
adb shell pm setInstallLocation 0
 
Thanks lunatic59, I tried this method but I still cant move or install apps to the SD card. Im certain I've done the steps right.
 
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