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Help how to prevent Google Play Store from installing apps onto the sd card

Hello everyone,
I own a Samsung Galaxy Note 2 and it used to be impossible for me to install or move apps onto the external sd card (the "Move to SD card" button was grayed out in the application manager.
After upgrading to Android 4.3, the gyroscope stopped working for good, like it's dead.
I assumed it was a software issue, so I rooted my phone and installed 2 or 3 custom roms just to see if the gyroscope would work again but with no luck.
So, I reinstalled Samsung's official rom. Ever since, I've been able to move all my apps to the SD card and back to the internal storage as I liked.
Moreover, lots of people complain that some of the galaxy phones fry their sd cards if they are higher than class 2.
I have a class 10 64gb sd card, which is unusable. Thank God, I back up all my photos, cause once a week all my pics disappear. When this happens, apps can't be installed on to the external sd card.
Apparently, the Google store tries to install apps to the SD card by default, but I often get the message that it's impossible to install the app to the external storage. Is there a setting which lets me choose whether to automatically install the apps either on internal or the external storage?
 
1) The only setting I know of is in the Link2SD Settings. Nothing in Android itself.

2) Check your SD card. There are a lot of "64GB" cards that are 2GB or 4GB cards programmed to claim they're 64GB. (There's a memory chip and a CPU in that little card. It can be programmed to do a lot of things, including lie.) Run a program like h2testw on it ((a) it writes to the entire card, so back everything on the card up and b) you need a card reader, to connect the card to the PC) to see if it can actually have 64GB written to it. A smaller card that's lying will usually wipe as soon as you write past the end of the real memory card (IOW, when you've written 4GB, then write anything more), and the program will report the failure.
 
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