[TIP] Force all apps to SD on FROYO

khaytsus · Nov 10, 2010

Izakvdm said:
Ok so my main problem is that I want to move apps like FB and some of the other 'system' apps to SD. The above solution works fine for most downloaded apps but it still eats up local storage space.

How do I force even the greyed out ones to move to SD.
I have a Desire running Froyo and not rooted.

System apps are in /system. User-installed apps and data are in /data. They are not the same partition. /system is of course limited in some ways, but apps in /system are not taking away "Internal phone storage" available space.

vegetaleb said:
I am using ''app 2 SD'' free app from the market, very easy to use but only 1/3 of the apps can be moved

So that's the whole point of this thread, is it not? Do the commands and you can move any of them. Just don't move anything that runs all of the time or has widgets you use.

jimdriver2 · Nov 14, 2010

I'm hoping someone here can help me.

I did the trick to set the default installation setting to the SD card, enabling me to move a load of apps. It worked perfectly for ages however yesterday about 5 apps were updating and got stuck 'installing' and I had to turn the phone off.

From that point on it wouldn't allow me to install or update apps. I have to change the location of an app to the phone, update it, and then move it back to the SD. That works for apps already on the phone, but if I try to put anything new on it just fails to install because it's trying to go the SD by default.

I think I must have broken something, and i'm hoping it's just a setting somewhere which can be refreshed or something.

Any advice would be great thanks!

khaytsus · Nov 15, 2010

jimdriver2 said:
I'm hoping someone here can help me.

I did the trick to set the default installation setting to the SD card, enabling me to move a load of apps. It worked perfectly for ages however yesterday about 5 apps were updating and got stuck 'installing' and I had to turn the phone off.

From that point on it wouldn't allow me to install or update apps. I have to change the location of an app to the phone, update it, and then move it back to the SD. That works for apps already on the phone, but if I try to put anything new on it just fails to install because it's trying to go the SD by default.

I think I must have broken something, and i'm hoping it's just a setting somewhere which can be refreshed or something.

Any advice would be great thanks!

This has nothing to do with Apps2SD, usually you can just cancel or kill the Market app.

Try going into Settings->Applications, find the Market app, and clear data there.

UnicornKaz · Nov 15, 2010

You guys need to do a search for:

"MOD INSTALL LOCATION"

That will solved a lot of your problems .. ;-)

jimdriver2 · Nov 15, 2010

khaytsus said:
This has nothing to do with Apps2SD, usually you can just cancel or kill the Market app.

Try going into Settings->Applications, find the Market app, and clear data there.

I tried killing market off. Even deleted all the data so I had to go through all the initial confirm stuff again. Didn't make any difference.

To put it a different way basically the problem is when apps attempt to install/update direct to the SD card the installation they fail. Once they're on though they can be moved to the SD and it will work fine.

Surely there is something I can just clear or reset to deal with what's causing the install to problem.

khaytsus · Nov 15, 2010

jimdriver2 said:
I tried killing market off. Even deleted all the data so I had to go through all the initial confirm stuff again. Didn't make any difference.

To put it a different way basically the problem is when apps attempt to install/update direct to the SD card the installation they fail. Once they're on though they can be moved to the SD and it will work fine.

Surely there is something I can just clear or reset to deal with what's causing the install to problem.

Ah, I never saw that when I was using App2SD. Hope you can figure it out, toggling that bit on and off is kind of annoying, I did it for about a month.

kingars · May 11, 2011

Ok, Froyo support instalation on SD card, but... If i install one app with 12mb, and move to sdcard, 9mb go to sd card, and the rest remains in the main memory. How place everything in the sd card?

shortdawg24 · May 11, 2011

kingars said:
Ok, Froyo support instalation on SD card, but... If i install one app with 12mb, and move to sdcard, 9mb go to sd card, and the rest remains in the main memory. How place everything in the sd card?

don't move to sd , install to sd

kingars · May 12, 2011

shortdawg24 said:
don't move to sd , install to sd

But don´t install in SD

Ever install in main memory

Any suggestion?

{}!

Chahk · May 13, 2011

kingars said:
Ok, Froyo support instalation on SD card, but... If i install one app with 12mb, and move to sdcard, 9mb go to sd card, and the rest remains in the main memory. How place everything in the sd card?

You cannot. Part of the app stays on internal memory.

Of course you can always root and use the Apps2SD script that puts all of the apps on a Ext partition of your SD card.

gdfajkldfkwfj · Nov 17, 2011

I ran

setInstallLocation 2

in ConnectBot Local after rooted and sh
No error but new apps still get installed to main memory(I can move it to SD in application settings)

begemoth.ch · Mar 3, 2012

shell

Avec un emulateur de terminal comme Terminal emulator, on peut saisir la commande directement :
pm setInstallLocation 2 sans passer par l'installation du SDK et tout le toutim'

S3nd41 · Apr 24, 2012

I executed the command and checked it using "adb shell pm getInstallLocation" (reported 2 [sdcard]) but still apps get installed to the internal memory (and yes, the apps are movable to the SD), I read on another post here in XDA that this command doesn't work on stock roms. Is that so? Please advise!

adulfo · Jun 11, 2012

S3nd41 said:
I executed the command and checked it using "adb shell pm getInstallLocation" (reported 2 [sdcard]) but still apps get installed to the internal memory (and yes, the apps are movable to the SD), I read on another post here in XDA that this command doesn't work on stock roms. Is that so? Please advise!

try adb shell pm set-install-location 2.

cpm · Jun 12, 2012

Try App 2 SD from Play market.

Sent from my Nexus One using XDA

matroihanoi · Jul 27, 2012

On ISC 4.0.4 , I use: pm set-install-location 2

ri123 · Aug 7, 2012

cpm said:
Try App 2 SD from Play market.

Sent from my Nexus One using XDA

Does app2sd affect the way setting the install location works???

Menelkir · Aug 7, 2012

begemoth.ch said:
Avec un emulateur de terminal comme Terminal emulator, on peut saisir la commande directement :
pm setInstallLocation 2 sans passer par l'installation du SDK et tout le toutim'

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Mr.Doc · Aug 30, 2012

Henchman said:
I ran a cross this little tip to force all apps to be installed on SD.

Unlock move to SD card for existing apps:
adb shell
pm setInstallLocation 2

thanks alot

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