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Sabswifey

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Believe it or not I no longer have any of that 11.5GB of usb storage left. I do however have a 32GB external sd card that's almost empty! What can I do? I have moved what can with an apps2sd app, but now my phone its telling me to start uninstalling things. I reached out to @GalaxySSupport on Twitter, but they told me to backup my apps to Google and start uninstalling also...duh! I've done that already. Anyway, I've done Kies Air also, but I don't know what else to do. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance!
 
Believe it or not I no longer have any of that 11.5GB of usb storage left. I do however have a 32GB external sd card that's almost empty! What can I do? I have moved what can with an apps2sd app, but now my phone its telling me to start uninstalling things. I reached out to @GalaxySSupport on Twitter, but they told me to backup my apps to Google and start uninstalling also...duh! I've done that already. Anyway, I've done Kies Air also, but I don't know what else to do. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance!

What is taking up so much space? You should be able to move all media to your SD (music, movies, pictures, etc)
 
Just about every app automatically defaults 2 usb storage, & NOT the ex_sd card. I have ALMOST 200 apps, & a lot of movies/shows from Sammy's MediaHub. I thought that pics, video, & music went 2 the ex_sd, but @GalaxySSupport says it is SUPPOSE 2 default 2 usb storage, so Im wrong I guess. Should I connect to my laptop to move things around? Will that mess things up?
 
Just about every app automatically defaults 2 usb storage, & NOT the ex_sd card. I have ALMOST 200 apps, & a lot of movies/shows from Sammy's MediaHub. I thought that pics, video, & music went 2 the ex_sd, but @GalaxySSupport says it is SUPPOSE 2 default 2 usb storage, so Im wrong I guess. Should I connect to my laptop to move things around? Will that mess things up?

It shouldn't mess anything up at all. After you move things around do a reboot of your phone and you shouldn't notice a difference at all other than storage not being a problem anymore. I have about 150 apps, but I don't store any music or pictures on my phone at all thanks to picasa and google music. I don't really have any movies/shows on my phone, but I will eventually
 
If you take a lot of hi-res pictures or you take movies, you can fill up your internal memory fast! To make sure these pics and movies go to the SD card, in the camera application's settings, scroll to the bottom, select storage, and choose to use your memory card. The photos and videos will automatically be in the DCIM folder on the SD card (external_sd/).

As for downloaded music and where it is stored, check the music applications settings to see if you can choose the external memory card.

If you find media on your internal memory and you want to manually move it to the external SD card, first create these folders at the root of the external SD card, then move the appropriate media files from the phone's internal memory to their proper folders on the card. These folders need to be spelled exactly as I typed...

Movies
Music
Pictures
Ringtones
Alarms
Notifications

Your phone will recognize these folders and scan them when it does the “media scan” during boot-up, so after you move or place files in these folders, reboot the phone.
 
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