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Help Opening apps already on SD card
- Thread starter francvs
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Sure they got to be re-installed from the original APKs, or a backup(from the original phone) and restore(to the new phone) of the installed apps made using Titanium(root required) or Helium(if the device is not rooted). Is that what you did?
If it's just app data files on the SD, they won't run like that.
If it's just app data files on the SD, they won't run like that.
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If you just moved apps to your SD card, on your old phone, then moved the SD card to your new phone, all the app data didn't move with it. You'll need to reinstall them from the play store, or which ever market you got them from.
It's not just the app data didn't move. The phone doesn't know anything about any apps that were on the sd card.
fancvs, what happens when you install an app "on the sd" is that you install the app on the phone, then move part of the installed app (the apk and library components only) to a secure directory on the card. The rest of the app, as well as the app's data, remain on the phone. So if you just put the card in a different phone new phone doesn't know anything about the app, fragments of which are on the card: the app was never installed on that phone, so it won't be looking for parts of it on the card.
As the others have said, if you make a backup you can restore that on the new phone, or you can reinstall from the Store.
fancvs, what happens when you install an app "on the sd" is that you install the app on the phone, then move part of the installed app (the apk and library components only) to a secure directory on the card. The rest of the app, as well as the app's data, remain on the phone. So if you just put the card in a different phone new phone doesn't know anything about the app, fragments of which are on the card: the app was never installed on that phone, so it won't be looking for parts of it on the card.
As the others have said, if you make a backup you can restore that on the new phone, or you can reinstall from the Store.
OK; I tried to delete the orphan files on the SD card from the apps that used to be on my older phone, and I tried to back up those apps that are on my new phone with Titanium, but I ran out of space before the apps were backed up, because they were being backed up on my internal memory, and not on the SD card.
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Pugs1957
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I'm not sure why you would backup the apps to the phones internal memory as they already reside there. If your device failed you effectively have no backup! You should backup to your PC
The phone is an LG Tribute; I presume that the Android Version is KitKat, because of the problems I'm having with the SD card. I don't know what would show me the truth about the phone's storage. I wasn't using any PC when I was backing up the apps, and I had no idea that it would back up in the internal memory.
You can choose the backup location in Titanium: in Titanium's Settings choose Preferences then Backup Location. It may have defaulted to /sdcard (i.e. the emulated sd card, internal storage) because all devices have that, while not all have a removable card.
Crashdamage
Android Expert
^^^ what glc said is exactly right. Apps are installed in /data and with only 193MB free you are effectively out of space. The system needs a minimum amount of free space for operation or it becomes unstable.
You need to make room. You're just gonna have to make some decisions.
Clearing cache files is not a solution. It's the Fool's gold of making space. Fool's gold is not real gold and space made by clearing caches is not real space. It will only make space temporarily since cache files will rebuild over time. Also, while clearing cache files won't hurt anything, they're there to speed up operation and should be left alone.
These are things that can help make significant additional space:
I think with every fairly recent email app I've ever seen, you can set limit on how much email is synced (downloaded) to the phone, either by date received or number of emails. Check this to see if it keeps email from certain people too long or an excessive number of emails.
To make space you can also:
Delete texts. If you have a LOT of texts, especially MMS, saved on the phone this can help.
Delete or move photos, videos, documents, etc out of internal storage to SD, cloud storage or a computer.
Uninstall app updates.
Uninstall apps you have downloaded and installed. This is where you will have to decide what goes and what stays.
You need to make room. You're just gonna have to make some decisions.
Clearing cache files is not a solution. It's the Fool's gold of making space. Fool's gold is not real gold and space made by clearing caches is not real space. It will only make space temporarily since cache files will rebuild over time. Also, while clearing cache files won't hurt anything, they're there to speed up operation and should be left alone.
These are things that can help make significant additional space:
I think with every fairly recent email app I've ever seen, you can set limit on how much email is synced (downloaded) to the phone, either by date received or number of emails. Check this to see if it keeps email from certain people too long or an excessive number of emails.
To make space you can also:
Delete texts. If you have a LOT of texts, especially MMS, saved on the phone this can help.
Delete or move photos, videos, documents, etc out of internal storage to SD, cloud storage or a computer.
Uninstall app updates.
Uninstall apps you have downloaded and installed. This is where you will have to decide what goes and what stays.
I see how to uninstall apps, or to move apps to the SD card; Force2SD now shows only 2 apps not on the SD card, Force2SD itself, at 615 kB, and Nova Launcher, which can't be moved, at 5.8 MB. I already uninstalled many built-in apps, but I don't see how to move or to delete files that aren't apps.