How do I play games that are installed in SD Card?

[Irfan Danial]

Hi Android Users,my internal storage has 1.3 GB left and i want to download a game which has 1.1 GB.Afraid that junk files created by apps will fill up the remaining 200 MB,i thought if i can install apps to SD Card and the OBB on the sdcard/Android/data folder.Is it possible?If so please reply ASAP

 

[steiny180]

1. Install the app to internal memory.
2. After the install see if you can move it to the SD card.
3. If you can - great.
4. If you can't - uninstall it.
5. All done.

 

[lvt]

What are your phone model and Android version?

 

[jefboyardee]

4. If you can't - uninstall it.

Or move some existing apps to SD until you've made enough room for the new app to fit in memory.

 

[Hadron]

Chances are it won't let you install an app that size to internal storage, because that would only leave about 200MB and so the system will probably tell you it hasn't enough space (it will always keep a minimum amount of space free, and on many phones that's rather more than 200MB).

Does your phone support moving apps to SD? If not then you need to clear stuff to create more space, end of (unless you want to get into rooting the phone). If it does, can you move other apps there to create space to download this one, then try to move it? For phones that support moving apps to SD there is a trick using adb to change the default install location (precise syntax has changed with time, but a search for adb shell pm set install location should find it), which may help - it's been a very long time since I did that sort of thing.

 

[Hadron]

Oh, and when you say "sdcard/Android/data" folder, just to be clear "/sdcard" these days is part of the internal storage emulating an sd card. The removable card is likely to be called /sdcard1 or some variant on "extSDcard" (depending on OS version). Only on really old devices is /sdcard what it appears to be.

(There are reasons for this confusing mess, but they all come down to "history" rather than planning, and trying to make sure that changes didn't break old apps that were lazily coded or not updated - sometimes the road to hell really is paved with good intentions).