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My phone does not have a "move to sd" button! Please help

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Cooldevil1512

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My phone... Samsung GALAXY WIN does not have the button move to sd.... I bought the Micro SDHC with 8gb memory yesterday and today I've tried inserting it in and it says successfully inserted... but when I tried to move an app to the SD... there are no button "move to SD". So is it with the micro SD card or my phone or the app?
As you can see from the pic i attached... there are no clue where the button goes... please help
 

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Facebook made it that way. From Facebook Help

Why can't I move the Messenger app to my phone's SD card?
You'll only be able to move the Messenger app to your phone's SD card if you're using an Android that's running the Gingerbread operating system. If the Messenger app came pre-installed on your phone, you won't be able to move it to your phone's SD card.

Lot's of apps these days don't give you that option.
 
dontpanicbobby said:
Facebook made it that way. From Facebook Help

Why can't I move the Messenger app to my phone's SD card?
You'll only be able to move the Messenger app to your phone's SD card if you're using an Android that's running the Gingerbread operating system. If the Messenger app came pre-installed on your phone, you won't be able to move it to your phone's SD card.

Lot's of apps these days don't give you that option.
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But it does not work on any other apps... not just messenger. ;(
 
Cooldevil1512 said:
But it does not work on any other apps... not just messenger. ;(
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Move to sd was introduced officially to Android in Froyo and discontinued by Gingerbread, over 4 years ago.

It hasn't been supported since.

Some apps still have the feature but it's a legacy feature - and it doesn't move the entire app.

You can get the feature back with root modifications.

The feature will return in Android M 5.2.
 
I don't think that Android M is going to happen for a Samsung Galaxy Win, that was never updated beyond 4.3. No custom ROM either. The Win is a midrange, 8GB storage, dual SIM phone that was only available in Asia.
 
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Indeed, "move to SD" was deprecated in Android 4.0. Samsung re-introduced it to some of its devices(*), but by no means all, and my guess is that yours was one that didn't get this.

(*) Most notably it was added to the S4 after the fact that Samsung were telling people who complained about space to move apps to SD despite the phone not supporting that, and even releasing public statements to that effect, was picked up by the mainstream media.
 
Cooldevil1512 said:
My phone... Samsung GALAXY WIN does not have the button move to sd.... I bought the Micro SDHC with 8gb memory yesterday and today I've tried inserting it in and it says successfully inserted... but when I tried to move an app to the SD... there are no button "move to SD". So is it with the micro SD card or my phone or the app?
As you can see from the pic i attached... there are no clue where the button goes... please help
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I think I can help...I think you heard of this...but try folder mount which needs root (It's avaliable on play store)
There is an option create a pair (which means transfering the app to SD card). But transfering the app doesn't work for all apps. But you can still give it a try!
 
Ok thx guys but can you tell me the ways that I could "actually" move things to SD card? Or I have to just deal with it... because the whole button was gone :(
 
Red_WaveGames said:
I think I can help...I think you heard of this...but try folder mount which needs root (It's avaliable on play store)
There is an option create a pair (which means transfering the app to SD card). But transfering the app doesn't work for all apps. But you can still give it a try!
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How do we root?
 
The only way for you will be to root the device and then get an app like Link2SD

You can check the area for your device and see if there is a root method for the device.
 
Cooldevil1512 said:
Ok thx guys but can you tell me the ways that I could "actually" move things to SD card? Or I have to just deal with it... because the whole button was gone :(
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If you're having android 4.0 and higher than you shouldn't actually care about that button at all I have that button and it literally doesn't work. It just moves the app and not the data or as many users call,obb
 
I haven't used it in a while as I have no need but it always worked well for me with various devices. However none will work without root. I would take caution on the method I've heard stories of data mining on kingo and vroot
 
Red_WaveGames said:
If you're having android 4.0 and higher than you shouldn't actually care about that button at all I have that button and it literally doesn't work. It just moves the app and not the data or as many users call,obb
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Actually it never moved app data. In 2.2 it only moved the apk. In 2.3 it also moved the library component of the application, if the app had one.

obb (opaque binary blob) isn't what's normally meant by "app data" - more a way of extending the app where the downloaded package would have to exceed the 50MB limit for apks in the Play Store. I'm not sure that I ever downloaded an app in the Gingerbread days that used one of these, so can't say from experience whether it used to move them or not.

As you say, the root solutions allow you to move more than the non-root one did, so if space is a problem then they are the most effective way.

As for rooting, I'd definitely check whether there are specific methods for the device (which unfortunately doesn't seem to be a model we have a dedicated section for). If a custom recovery exists for the device (do not install a recovery that is intended for a different model!) it is better to install that before you start changing things because it allows you to take a full system backup (i.e. your ROM as well as all apps and data).
 
RA_BH said:
too bad that there won't be any new phones with SD card support by then :rolleyes:
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One S6 does not a trend make ;)

Seriously, a few years ago it looked like Samsung would be the only manufacturer still including them, but most of the manufacturers who dropped them back then have brought them back since (Moto still hold out at the high end, but then their current phones were designed when owned by Google). Just because Sammy drop them from a few devices in their range this year doesn't mean that they are finished.
 
As long as we are on the subject, why did the folks down at Android do away with that feature in the first place? I have an old Gingerbread phone, and it's probably the feature I like the most about it, lol. What did they have to gain by not letting us send apps to the SD card anymore if we want to??
 
hiredgun said:
As long as we are on the subject, why did the folks down at Android do away with that feature in the first place? I have an old Gingerbread phone, and it's probably the feature I like the most about it, lol. What did they have to gain by not letting us send apps to the SD card anymore if we want to??
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It was born in the days when phones had 512 MB or 1 GB *total* storage - and it never worked right.

It was/is a stopgap measure that as Hadron pointed out, couldn't move the entire app.

The more this abomination hangs on the more support issues it creates - made worse by unscrupulous suppliers not above lying about it.

It's really simple - there's a huge security problem putting entire apps and private data on a storage device with inherently lower security.

(Side note follows) I have never had word of the sd card vulnerabilities actually hitting anyone but the large influx of new users read the app permissions, bitched about Android security without getting it and we got the KitKat sd card protection debacle.

Google can't control unscrupulous suppliers and they can't control Android getting jammed onto inadequate hardware. Nevermind that people believe that phones really only suited for Gingerbread can run Lollipop, phone makers just give them specs and lies.

But Google can control architecture, so Android M deals with permissions, private data, and full sd card app support.

And then this stupid nightmare might end.
 
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