Help Installing apps to sd card

[mattdanielc]

Hi guys.

Just got my S2 after having a HTC hero for 2 years.

About to install all of my apps - how do you install them on the sd card (couldn't on the hero) and is there a way of making the apps automatically save to the card?

Thanks

 

[lunatic59]

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

If you want to move more apps to the SD card, 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

adb devices

and you should see your phone listed as a serial number.

type

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. Keep in mind Widgets and services should always be installed to the phone and not the SD card, so 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

adb shell setInstallLocation 0

 

[mattdanielc]

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

Thanks for the help mate.

Just regarding saving the default location to SD card.... how do I choose this in the settings? In my applications menu I can see 'Manage Applications' and then there are 4 options along the top showing where stuff is saved.... but how do I make it save to SD card automatically?

Thanks

 

[lunatic59]

Thanks for the help mate.

Just regarding saving the default location to SD card.... how do I choose this in the settings? In my applications menu I can see 'Manage Applications' and then there are 4 options along the top showing where stuff is saved.... but how do I make it save to SD card automatically?

Thanks

That isn't an option in a menu. If you want to make the sd card the default location for apps, you must do it from a terminal window.

You could try and app like App 2 SD (move app to SD) for Android | AppBrain.com which i cannot vouch for, since i haven't ever used it, but others have had success with it.