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Showing posts with label How to move all Android apps to SD card. Show all posts
Showing posts with label How to move all Android apps to SD card. Show all posts

7.12.2011

How to move all Android apps to SD card

One of the most anticipated additions to Android 2.2 (aka Froyo) was ability to install applications to SD card. When internal phone memory gets full, Android users have two problems: 1) users can’t install any more apps and 2) phone starts working slowly. The slow down is caused by the lower speed of write operations to the internal phone flash memory when it’s getting full (see this post for more information on this topic), but the bottom line is that having low available space in the internal memory is not desirable.
So what should a user do when the phone is running out of internal memory? Uninstalling unused apps is an obvious and easiest solution. Moving apps that support Froyo’s apps2sd feature to SD card is another option. However, for this feature to work developers need to enable this option in their apps and unfortunately many large apps still do not support apps2sd. Turns out there is a hack that can let you move almost any Android app to SD card even if the app developer did not enable this option. More about this hack below, but first let’s take look at the limitations of the Android apps2sd feature.