Helo Guys,
Two years ago I bought a Galaxy Tab A 10.1 (2016) with S Pen 16GB Wifi, the tablet works fine but the storage is quite limited, I bought a Micro SD thinking in use it as a backup storage to move there some apps that require more space to download videos but I just noticed the OS dont allow me to move the app to the SD or even to turn the SD as the main storage.
The current Android version in my tablet is 7.0 and there are no updates available in my country, software update always says its up to date.
What can I do? Is there any new galaxy version with this function enabled or I need to flash a hacked ROM?
I will appreciate your assistance
jramirezdev said:
Helo Guys,
Two years ago I bought a Galaxy Tab A 10.1 (2016) with S Pen 16GB Wifi, the tablet works fine but the storage is quite limited, I bought a Micro SD thinking in use it as a backup storage to move there some apps that require more space to download videos but I just noticed the OS dont allow me to move the app to the SD or even to turn the SD as the main storage.
The current Android version in my tablet is 7.0 and there are no updates available in my country, software update always says its up to date.
What can I do? Is there any new galaxy version with this function enabled or I need to flash a hacked ROM?
I will appreciate your assistance
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Go in to developer settings and set 'Force allow apps on external'
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Hey there,
I have a Galaxy S I9000T outright from Telstra. I was so glad to find a Froyo/Android2.2 ROM on SamFirmware that supports Arabic very well (my native language, most ROMs don't support it well), and the upgrade also brought slightly better performance, etc..
However, since the I9000T model had only 8 GB internal SD, I also bought another 8GB SD to use as external (I don't save a lot of files saved on the phone, mostly browsing and tweeting and having few files playlist usually replaced quick).
Now, I notice the internal SD is something like 1.5+ GB used for phone storage and 5.5+ GB available to me to use. I no longer need that. Would love to increase the phone storage part to take up most if not all the internal SD storage (you know not all apps are available to move to external SD, plus it's annoying when I mount it to my computer for storage).
I know I won't be really removing it (to allow place for future use of update.zip) but at least make it as small as 1.x GB and give the rest space to phone storage.
Can I shrink the other internal SD partition (the one I can access without rooting) and increase the root phone storage without having to re-flash my happy already-configured ROM and losing any apps, etc... ?
Sorry guys, should this have been moved to a different section or so?
Hi
I have just jumped from iPhone to Samsung S5 and was wondering if there is a simple way to swap the internal memory with an external SD card? I have an android gaming tablet with a custom rom which does this automatically, making the OS install, download and do everything onto the external card.
I saw a post here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1377628 which talks about modding a system file will that do what i want? currently after installing TomTom and several map packs i now only have a few GB left of 16
Ps.. I have done the SDFix already to enable writing to the SD but TomTom requires the maps to be in the Root folder so you cant " move to SD " it only moves the program. I have S5 with KitKat 4.4.2 i believe.
Anyhelp apreciated.
82 views and no reply, is it because it can no longer be done?
I'm by no means an expert, but KitKat has severely limited this capability, apparently.
I'm betting that you would need a custom boot-loader in order to fully host the OS form the SD card.
Depending upon which specific S5 variant you have you'll have different options to mitigate this. Some of the big USA carriers (notably AT&T) are shipping with locked boot-loaders, which prevents fully customizing the ROM / OS load. From what I gather, but have not attempted, not even SafeStrap is currently capable of retargeting the system to the SD card.
Depending on the app, you may be able to (on a rooted phone) make a soft-link on the filesystem and redirect that application's data to the SD card. I'd think that the more safe way to go, but again I have not tried it.
Keep in mind, also, that hosting the OS from the SD card would likely impact performance heavily. In my testing the internal flash memory has at least 2x to 3x the performance of the fastest microSD I could find to test with, and more like 10x the speed of a cheap SD card (my phone is the US AT&T variant). This has huge ramifications for much-accessed / randomly-accessed content, and by derivation probably impacts how well the phone feels in operation.
I see, i thought it would be easy like my gaming tablet, the 'system' still runs on the devices internal memory but the 'storage' runs from the SDCard.
My phone is a UK/ EU model and is not locked to any provider as bought outright. Is it possible to flash it with a stock rom that does allow the swapping of the SD, one slightly older than 4.4.2 which it is currently on?
I filled up the small 16gb within 2 hours of having the phone so having external memory is a must really. TomTom is taking up alot of the room and i dont think you can move the DATA to the SD card as it reads from root of device.
any help appreciated.
Any update in this?
I'm coming from a rooted Samsung S4 to a non-rooted Huawei P9. With the rooted S4 I could do anything at all, the stock P9 is extremely restricted. I want to stay with stock because it's a phone that's been loaned to me and I don't want to risk breaking it, and I'd like the Android 7.x over the air update in a few months without having to unroot.
I would prefer not to mount the external SD as internal memory, as it's slower. I've tried creating files, deleting files, and changing permissions, I can't do anything.
Basically I would like to be able to do two things:
- Add and delete files to the external SD card using a file manager,
such as Root Browser
- Have Bittorrent Sync (or other apps) write to the external SD card
I know Android security was ramped up around Android 5, but this much restriction is crazy. Is there a way around to do this working within the stock OS? I may just have to give up on external SD, it seems pointless to have it right now.
Can anyone please let me known if there is a way to pool the SD card storage or "completely" move games and apps to the SD card on the Galaxy Tab S2?
I have a T710 8.0" WiFi model and would be happy with a stock Android rom but just don't have enough space for my games and apps, pls help!!
adamdaj said:
Can anyone please let me known if there is a way to pool the SD card storage or "completely" move games and apps to the SD card on the Galaxy Tab S2?
I have a T710 8.0" WiFi model and would be happy with a stock Android rom but just don't have enough space for my games and apps, pls help!!
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You are looking to make it work like this:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/tab-s2/general/patch-adoptable-storage-enabler-t3460521
Hello there, I've recently bought a Samsung Galaxy Tab S8 and I plan to share it with my family.
I've also bought a SD card with it, but it seems I'm missing a really important feature: any user can have access to the same SD card single partition. So, if I take a picture with User #1, and I store it in SD's DCIM folder, User #2 would still see it, since it appears that the SD card access is free for everyone.
I come from a Lenovo Tab M1 that supported multi partitions for SD card, so that each time every user had access to its files only.
Is it possible to have such a feature on my S8 Tab too? I've already set SD encryption but it only works if I use the SD card by another device. Am I missing something?