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Advantages:
Extend the available space on internal memory for installing more apps.
Although some parts of the app still stay on the internal memory (data and settings,) it still frees up a significant amount of space. For older handsets with 150MB of free space (G1, MT3G, etc.) this is a huge improvement. For owners of these devices this advantage alone ...
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Like Bryan says (I can't comment so had to add another answer...), it doesn't move the whole app. The size given after the move is the bit still on the internal storage - it doesn't give any size for the elements that have beend moved to SD.
So in answer to your question, the app doesn't get smaller, just amount of internal storage used gets smaller.
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You can check your phone's internal settings to ensure that it is set to install apps on the SD card by default, and set it to do that if not.
You'll need ADB available on your PC, which is part of the Android SDK.
Download and install the SDK, and switch on USB debugging in your phone's settings.
Then, with the Android SDK installed, and your phone ...
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Yes, I did that myself, like this:
power the phone off and remove the old SD card
mount the old SD on a PC, copy its entire contents somewhere on your hard disk
mount the new SD card on a PC, format it as FAT or FAT32 (make sure it's the same file-system as the old one)
copy the contents of the old SD card onto the new one
insert the new SD card into the ...
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Quoting from @Chahk's answer to another question:
Longer boot-up and shut-down times when the system mounts/un-mounts all of the apps stored on SD Card.
Apps that were moved to SD Card are not stored in plain sight to prevent rampant piracy. Instead, Android sets aside some space and creates a virtual partition for each app that you move. This means that at ...
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Yes you have full 16GB for apps+data together in a single file system. You won't have to do any moving to SD card any more.
Google merged both partitions. It's just one big file system now with sections for the former parts. It's completely transparent, so no worries for you.
Formerly: /data and /sdcard were separate partitions
Galaxy Nexus / Nexus 7 and ...
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You would need a custom ROM that supports moving apps to the Ext3 partition. I would recommend searching the development section of xda-developers forums for your handset for such a ROM.
If a ROM does not support apps2ext natively, you can try your luck with a script (example for HTC Dream/Magic here) that can be installed on top of another ROM.
[Edit]: ...
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This can "officially" only be done if you are running android-2.2-froyo and you set the app to install on the sdcard.
If you are not running android-2.2-froyo then the only way to do it is with some "hackery", which involves partitioning your sdcard, symbolic links and some other things. There are some custom ROMs that would have this built in
The ...
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It's a built-in feature of Froyo, as long as the developer has built the app that way.
However, you're mostly out of luck, unless you're willing to root your phone and install Cyanogenmod and APPS2SD or jump through the hoops Bruce details in his answer.
If you do have Android 2.2 or higher, the app SDMove can be a big help in moving apps in bulk. SDWatch ...
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An app must explicitly support App2SD, or you cannot move it to the card. There are several reasons why an app might not support it:
using widgets (both mentioned apps seem to fall into this category. AK Notepad: "Pin notes to your home screen"; Any.DO: "You can even add our widget to your homescreen")
running a service
As the sdcard would be ...
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There are 2 methods of app2sd:
The Official method
Pros:
give the best experience with the least hassle, as you would never mistakenly move apps that should not be moved
officially supported
does not need rooted phones
Cons:
Only available in Android 2.2 and above
only apps that are specifically marked as movable by the author can be moved.
The ...
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Normally, apps that need to run constantly or in the background are considered to be unsuited to run from a storage card. This is also probably why most "system" apps are prohibited from doing so. Consider, if the card was unmounted, those apps would remain unavailable until the card was re-mounted.
As to why an app developer wouldn't make his/her app ...
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For some phones and devices (especially the older ones) the internal storage is quite limited. Every application (and it's data files) take precious space. I.e. my Ideos has 512MB and was nearly full before I started "evacuating" apps to the SD card.
Another factor is the ability to backup your apps and data, or move them to another device.
Other than ...
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You can also opt for an easier way as described in this answer, if all you're looking for, is to shift apps from your phone's internal memory to SD Card.
A free app called Link2SD will help in this case. It has a decent GUI and makes it easier to move apps between SD Card and internal memory - also fixes the market links so that updates from the market are ...
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Connect your x10 to your computer with the old 8gb car installed and enable usb debugging
With your PCs file manager copy the entire contents of your x10's SD card to a temporary folder.
Change the cards so the 32gb is installed.
Copy the entire contents of the temp folder onto the new microSD.
It will be an exact mirror of what you had before.
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Version 1.0.7 is significantly larger than previous versions. Even after moving to the SD card I'm showing 14.5MB taking up system storage. That'll account for your 2MB reduction in space.
Google generally hasn't allowed for their apps to be moved to the SD card, presumably so they can be sure widgets will work or other performance considerations. However, ...
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The Market doesn't support this (or any search filters aside from price and "safe search", really) on either the website or the native app. It has been requested a handful of times on the Google support forums, but never really received much of a response.
AppBrain does support this, however (example search), so you could use that to search and then install ...
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If I am allowed to suggest out of the choices that you had provided, I will suggest Link2SD.
With Link2SD you can try moving/linking a non-critical application to the SD card and check how well it works. Once moved or linked, try to reboot the phone (no other way than rebooting to avoid disappointments) and see whether that moved/linked non-critical app ...
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Apps can store data in both places, but the SD card has a FAT filesystem which does not support file permissions. This means that a malicious app could erase or change app data very easily if the data was on the SD card. As well, you can swap SD cards or format your card, and then the app would have "forgotten" all its settings and lost all the other data. ...
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I'm pretty sure that the space shown for each app is the space used on the phone storage, and does not include space used on the SD card. You can verify this by checking an app in Settings -> Applications -> Manage applications, then unmount and remove the SD card and check again.
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Take a look at SD Move and SD Watch. They don't automate the process for you (I don't think automation is possible), but SD Move will give you a color coded list of what applications you can move over, and SD Watch will alert you when you install a new app whether or not it can be moved to the SD card.
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NO, IS AVAILABLE FOR NON ROOTED DEVICES TOO.
For non rooted devices is possible to move apps to SD too. But only for new Android versions, starting at 2.2.
Usually the apps must be prepared to allow the system to move it to the SD, but you can on you Android device(2.2) move any app to the SD , prepared or not.
This is done with this commands:
adb shell ...
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You can move any apps to sdcard if you are rooted. There are apps on the Market for it Move2SD Enabler and App Swap
Better yet, if you are using custom ROMs (e.g. CyanogenMod), some of them have settings to allow you to migrate any apps. You might want to check those out first if you're using custom ROM.
If you want to do it manually (not recommended for ...
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Security and Performance Implications
The application resources stored on external storage are read-only and
hence there are no performance issues with loading or launching
applications on SD card.
From: http://android-developers.blogspot.co.uk/2010/07/apps-on-sd-card-details.html
The post is written by a 'Suchi Amalapurapu, an engineer who ...
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I would try backing up the data for one of the apps, then clearing it and seeing if it works afterwards.
You could try just restoring /data/data/com.rovio.angrybirds/files/highscores.lua and see if that works. I don't have Cut the Rope so I don't know how its files work, sorry!
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I have never been a fan of the froyo apps2sd, I was a huge fan of the original "apps2sd" that used an EXT2/3/4 partition on your sdcard. I am not sure if any custom ROMs still support this. I know it is not "supported" in cyanogenMod. You will have to root to go the "apps2ext" route. but if you dont want to go that route, or can't find any ROMs that support ...
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The Disk Usage application can show you all this information in a nice graphical format, allowing you to explore the space taken up by applications in your phone memory, or the space taken up by files on your SD card.
App2SD will also display information for all apps, although it doesn't split the space into segments based on app/data/cache like Disk Usage ...
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You should be able to use the APK itself to reinstall the app. Create a temporary folder on your new SD card, you can call it anything you like (such as "APK-Install") and copy the APKs into there.
When you plug the new SD card, use a file manager (download something like "ASTRO File Manager" if you haven't got one already) and browse to that folder. Now if ...
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Apps2SD may be able to do this, but I haven't looked too closely. The long way to do it would be to go through Settings->Applications->Manage Applications and then manually move everything back to the phone.
==ADDENDUM==
ApptoSD doesn't give you the nice "Move all to Phone" like it does for move to SD, but it does list everything on the SD card. There is ...
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I use two related apps which should get you most of the way there:
SDMove - Lists all currently installed applications which can be moved to the SD card and facilitates doing so.
SDWatch, which runs in the background and watches for app installations. When it sees one, and the app can be moved to the SD card, it gives you a notification which takes you to ...
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