Help SD Card - how to move stuff to it

[Lavernesr]

I'm pretty sure this isn't rocket science...I've been screwing around with my phone and give up.

Can someone tell me how and what I can move to the SD Card to free up internal memory? Also, should SD Card be default storage location.

I was having problems opening/downloading text attachments, which I (think) is due to low memory.

Yes, I am challenged. I would appreciate any help, as simple as possible please. Thanks

 

[Rukbat]

The external SD card is meant for pictures, videos, music, documents, things like that. You can use your computer (connect the phone to the computer) or a file manager (like ES File Explorer or Total Commander) on the phone to move files.

Some few apps can successfully be moved to the SD card, but don't expect many of them to be written like that and, when you move them, a link is left in internal storage, so you don't really save that much space.

Apps keep getting larger, we keep wanting to run more apps - that's why we need new phones every few years.

 

[dontpanicbobby]

There should be an application manager on your phone that will tell you what can be moved. Go into Settings and look for the application manager. Anything that can be moved to the SD card should have a button there to let you do it.

 

[dontpanicbobby]

I almost forgot... Be sure to clean your Caches on a regular basis. If you've never done that before you'll be surprised how much space junk files are taking up. I use Clean Master from the Play Store to automate the process instead of using the Supplication Manager to clean them up one by one.