Is it possible to transfer app to real SD card on tablet?

[Magicnet2]

Hi, I'm having a problem with my Tablet. It's a Go Clever 7 with Android 4.1.1 and it keeps telling me that there is no more space to install things. So I tried to transfer some apps to SD card, but the android system works in a weird way. Your internal storage, in my case 8GB is considered as an SD card. If you add an actual SD card, it's taken as a secondary SD card. File system says "SD card" (internal storage) and "SD card 1" (actual SD card). When I transfer applications from and to SD card through the application settings, the free space on my internal storage changes, but not on the actual SD card.

So my question is: Is it possible to install apps directly to the actual SD card, or not? If yes, is it possible to set this up in an unrooted Android, or do I need a separate application and root?

 

[Hadron]

This is a common problem. Android added the option to move apps partially (only partially) to SD with 2.2, and deprecated it in 4.0. Some manufacturers retained this option for some of their devices, but it's not generally supported.

Then there's this historical thing (more the fault of manufacturers like Samsung than Google themselves) that they treat part of the internal storage as a "virtual SD card".

For a phone which supports installing to sd you can change the default install location using ADB via the command "adb shell pm set-install-location 2". But if your manufacturer has been stupid and set the "move to sd" to move to the emulated sd (i.e. part of the internal storage) then I don't think this wil help you.

It's worth knowing that the old "move to sd" only ever moved part of the app, and none of the app data, so it was far from a perfect solution.