Many newer Android phones come with an SD card slot that expands the built-in memory substantially. Even if a smartphone comes with 16GB of internal storage, it is too easy to fill it up with media, apps and files.
Anyone who uses their smartphone to manage their life will know that no matter how much storage you have, you always need more. If you can download apps to your SD card, you circumvent that. You no longer need to perform housekeeping and delete files and apps before downloading something new.
Be sure to back up the data on your SD card to your computer before adopting your SD card as internal storage. The adoption process will erase all data on the SD card. You cannot remove the SD card from the device and plug it in directly to your PC to transfer files.
If the SD card is a less expensive, slower SD card, it will slow down your apps and device. Insert the SD card in your device. You should see a notification saying that a new SD card was detected.
A screen displays allowing you to choose whether you want to set up the SD card as portable storage or internal storage. A message displays warning you that after the SD card is formatted as internal storage, it will only work in that device. You are also advised to back up the data on the card. If there are still apps installed on the SD card that you forgot to move back to the internal storage, the device displays a warning that the apps will be erased.
This step will move your photos, files, and some apps to the SD card. This selects the SD card as the preferred storage location for all apps, databases, and data. The internal storage remains the preferred storage for all content. When the process is finished, a message displays telling you that your SD card is working. Tapping on one of the items under Device storage on the Storage screen in the Settings app allows you to view usage information about that storage location. You can manually move apps between internal storage and the SD card, but this is not recommended, and can cause unintended consequences on some devices.
You do not need to specify where to store content for each app. By default, apps will always store their content in the preferred storage location. I would like the files to be moved directly to a shared folder..
I do however have one small problem. With only Android installed, my phone only has a few hundred kilobytes of space left in it's internal memory. I have an SD card inserted with 16GB available that's not being used. After 6 hours of use I'm already getting error messages about SMS message memory being full, and I can't download apps due to the lack of space.
Any way I can get my Android phone to treat the SD card as 'default' location for saving files, including images from the camera, images recieved from MMS, apps, text messages, mails and application data?
The sad but inevitable answer is that you can't. To make sure that the songs you've downloaded are stored on an SD card,. I only just recently realized the photos on my Galaxy Note 2, other than the camera, all save to the internal storage which is weird and kind of stupid because my past phone was also a Samsung, specifically an Exhibit 4g, and it didn't do this and I want to get them to my sd card.
Tap the button to begin moving it. There is a better way to get an overall view of which apps can and cannot be moved to the SD card. There is also a paid version , but the free version is good enough for this purpose. Next, follow the steps below to the letter, and you should have some extra space on your SD card for apps.
Before partitioning your SD card, be sure to back up all data on your SD card. This partitioning procedure will erase everything on it. Once your data is backed up, leave the SD card in your PC for the partitioning process. The following screen displays. Select the disk for your SD drive. This is the point at which all the data on the SD card will be erased. The first partition will be used for data. Creating partitions on an SD card so you can install apps to it on an Android device is different from partitioning a drive for a PC.
Next, you need to define the type of file system for the data partition. By default, the size of this partition is the available size of the SD card. Click and hold on the yellow border and drag it to the left until you get the approximate size you want for your data.
The remaining space on the SD card is listed as unallocated below the data partition you just created. Now, you need to define the second partition for the apps. Windows can only recognize the first partition on a removable disk. However, since we are not using this SD card on a Windows PC, we can continue to create the second partition. The remaining space on the SD card is automatically used for the second partition. However, the changes are not final yet.
A confirmation dialog box displays making sure you want to apply the changes. Now that you have a properly partitioned SD card, insert it back into your Android device and boot up the device. There is a paid version of the app, but the free version will suffice for this procedure. That should reset the app. Once your device has rebooted, open Link2SD again.
You should not see any dialog box display. Instead, you should see a list of apps and some options on the top of the app screen. If you want to automatically install new apps to the SD card rather than the internal storage, we recommend doing that now.
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