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All my apps are still there - nothing seems to have changed. The old card was 8GB, the new one is 32GB.
I was pretty sure I'd moved all my apps / contacts onto the old card. The phone memory is still showing as almost full.
Please educate me - HTC One Sv...
Just to clarify, I'm wondering why my phone memory is chokka, whilst the massive memory card is almost empty. Just double checked and all the apps I can move to the card are on the card, along with messages etc.
Mine is the same. Sony xperia. Even when you move apps with an app moving app nothing changes.
There seems to be two types of memory in the phone already plus the empty memory card.
Glad it's not just me then! Makes me wonder if there's any point in having anything over a 4GB card... Does the phone use the 'empty' memory to boost performance?
App2sd might well help you.
Anything that you install on your phone will by default be installed to the internal storage. App2sd will help you move some of them to the removable card.
Apart from that, you can manually move any music and photos to the removable card with something like ES File Explorer - you then need to point your music player/photo viewer to wherever you moved the files to.
Need to have rooted the phone to truly move apps to the SD card. IME you also need custom Tom.
I had this problem with my Galaxy s3.With the phone connected by USB to my laptop it was possible to drag and drop my music and photos that were clogging up the internal memory, from phone to the sd card.
Got the same problem with my Motorola Razri. I've got my music on an SD card and camera images go straight to the SD card but the internal memory is almost full.
I've removed apps that I don't use but I couldn't find a way to get apps onto the SD card to free up some more internal memory.
I'll have a look at Apps2SD.
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I'll have a look at Apps2SD.
Can you not just go into settings>apps>manage and choose the apps there to put on the SD card?
http://www.wikihow.com/Move-Applications-from-Internal-Memory-to-an-SD-Card-on-an-Android-Phone
Once you get to the app page on step 4 there's no option to move apps on my phone 😕
One of the android updates dome time ago stopped you being able to move apps to the sd card. So even apps like "app2SD card" stopped working.
on samsung phones there's now an app that makes the phone view the SD card as internal memory. I haven't tried it but supposedly works OK but needs root and a different firmware (ROM and kernel, whatever the holy hell that is)
have a look on modaco or xda developers for your phone
You need a rooted phone, then you can use apps2SD, otherwise it just moves them to the internal memory, not the SD card.
On my Xperia T, there is the phone memory, SD card 1 and SD card 2. Only SD card 2 is the micro SD card, SD card 1 being the phones internal memory.
Need to have rooted the phone to truly move apps to the SD card. IME you also need custom Tom.
Custom ROM, that should say. So you need to be comfortable with the idea of hacking your phone around a bit.
Also if you do put apps on the SD card, everything slows down. C'est la vie. Internal memory is fast, SD card, not so fast.
But there's the tradeoff - lots of apps and usable phone, vs faster phone with not much on it.
Thanks all for advice. Too scared to start trying to root the phone - need it to be 100% reliable and working for business use. Guess I'll just grin and bear it. On a side note, since the last update, typing messages, or posting here or anywhere else has suddenly become twice as time consuming. The font is tiny (can't seem to change it) and the 'suggested next word' function covers up the text, with no ability to scroll up. I'm left guessing for most of my posts. Unimpressive.
When this happened to me last, on investigation it turned out that deleting photos from the 'gallery' left a thumbnail behind. I had a few Mb of photographs and several Gb of thumbnail data.
You should be able to go into Settings>Storage and see what is being stored where (not in depth, but where the memory is being taken up).
For example on my Xperia T, I have
Device Memory - total space 1.97 Gb, available 0.89Gb
Internal Storage - 10.85 Gb, available 9.87Gb
SD card - total space 29.71 Gb, available space 12.14Gb
As I understand it on my phone, the Device memory is where apps are normally stored and if you 'move to SD', they end up in 'Internal Storage'. The SD card remains separate from anything app related, unless you point an app to use it as a storage location (the camera on mine for example, was storing in the 'internal storage' until I pointed it at the 'sd card' as the default storage location.
You can change the camera to use external sd card instead of the internal one, then connect to a pc and move the old pics/videos from one to the other. Also move any music and downloads.
What does the phone say is taking the space up?
get swype - it's fantastic (way better IMO than the native version on my samsung)typing messages, or posting here or anywhere else has suddenly become twice as time consuming. The font is tiny (can't seem to change it)
Settings / display / font size ?? (mine goes up to "huge" which is too big even for an olod giffer like me
and if you haven't already, get a browser like opera which will let you customise your page view a bit better than standard
One other thing to try is deleting message threads that are getting long. Sounds stupid as they should only be tiny in terms of memory, but once they get to a certain length, they seem to slow things down for some reason. And it's surprising how quickly they can grow to 100's of messages.
Also have you gone into the internet setting (withing whatever browser app you use) and deleted the history & cache? This used to be an issue with my old HTC Desire - it didn't seem to have a limit on the history & cache so it would just keep storing more and more stuff.
Root current phone
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Buy new phone
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Lose data and/or apps
Have a look at Clean Master (free) to get rid of residual files. Free RAM and Memory as well.