All right, I'm getting really annoyed with something about Android: moving apps to the SD card.

I've been noticing when an app has been moved to the SD card, gets updated, it gets put back onto the internal storage. This eats space up fast, and it's bad enough that most of the apps CANNOT be moved to the SD card.

What I've been doing is looking at the list of recently updated apps and moving those apps back onto the SD card where possible. This gets old after a while, and I keep forgetting to do it.

I suppose what's happening is that it might be doing a form of unistall/re-install in such a way that you don't loose your app's data.

Is there some app with some background service to either move the app to the SD card after installation/upgrade where possible or to go through all of the apps, determine if it can be moved to the SD card, and if so then move the app?


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Re: Move Andriod Apps Automatically?
By: Jagossel to All on Tue Jun 05 2018 09:51 pm

Is there some app with some background service to either move the app to the SD card after installation/upgrade where possible or to go through all of the apps, determine if it can be moved to the SD card, and if so then move the app?

I think the Android OS was supposed to let you move the app to the SD card if it can be moved. If you can't move it, then there may be something about the app where it needs to be on internal storage (i.e., if it loads something when you start your phone so it has to be there).

Nightfox

Re: Move Andriod Apps Automatically?
By: Nightfox to Jagossel on Tue Jun 05 2018 08:47 pm

I think the Android OS was supposed to let you move the app to the SD card if it can be moved. If you can't move it, then there may be something about the app where it needs to be on internal storage (i.e., if it loads something when you start your phone so it has to be there).

i dont think they allow that anymore. i used to be able to do it with earlier versions.

i think what they want you to do instead is use a large SD card and format it and tell the OS to use it as the default system drive.
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Re: Move Andriod Apps Automatically?
By: Jagossel to All on Tue Jun 05 2018 09:51 pm

I've been noticing when an app has been moved to the SD card, gets updated, it gets put back onto the internal storage. This eats space up fast, and it's bad enough that most of the apps CANNOT be moved to the SD card.

That bugs me, too. Audible and my podcast app take up a ton of space, and although I can tell it to store data on the card, the apps take up space.

Pocket and Reddit are huge, too.

I'm tempted to set up my S3 to combine internal storage and my SDcard, see if it's as slow as they say.

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Re: Move Andriod Apps Automatically?
By: Nightfox to Jagossel on Tue Jun 05 2018 20:47:55

Is there some app with some background service to either move the app t the SD card after installation/upgrade where possible or to go through of the apps, determine if it can be moved to the SD card, and if so the move the app?

I think the Android OS was supposed to let you move the app to the SD card i it can be moved. If you can't move it, then there may be something about th app where it needs to be on internal storage (i.e., if it loads something wh you start your phone so it has to be there).

I get that, and I apologize if that wasn't clear in my initial message. The point was to see if there is an app that will do it automatically or do it in a batch.

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Re: Move Andriod Apps Automatically?
By: MRO to Nightfox on Tue Jun 05 2018 11:40 pm

I think the Android OS was supposed to let you move the app to the SD
card if it can be moved. If you can't move it, then there may be
something about the app where it needs to be on internal storage
(i.e., if it loads something when you start your phone so it has to be
there).

i dont think they allow that anymore. i used to be able to do it with earlier versions.

i think what they want you to do instead is use a large SD card and format it and tell the OS to use it as the default system drive.

Yeah, I don't recall seeing the feature to move apps to the SD card for a while. My older LG phone had that feature, but lately I've been using Samsung Galaxy phones and haven't seen that feature.

Nightfox

Re: Move Andriod Apps Automatically?
By: Jagossel to Nightfox on Wed Jun 06 2018 06:43 am

I get that, and I apologize if that wasn't clear in my initial message. The point was to see if there is an app that will do it automatically or do it in a batch.

Yeah, I understood.. Was just saying if you can't find an app, the OS should at least be able to do it, at least one at a time.

Nightfox

Re: Move Andriod Apps Automatically?
By: Nightfox to Jagossel on Wed Jun 06 2018 08:59:23

I get that, and I apologize if that wasn't clear in my initial message. The point was to see if there is an app that will do it automatically o do it in a batch.

Yeah, I understood.. Was just saying if you can't find an app, the OS shoul at least be able to do it, at least one at a time.

Doing it one at a time is the annoying part that I'm trying to save myself from the aggervation of it.

I did remember an app I've used years ago on my, then, rooted Andriod phone: Titanium Backup. I've used it then to get rid of the crapware LG used to provide and to update apps on the ROM to buy myself space on that phone. Might be worth looking into again and check their features to see if they have what I need.

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