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Default saved to device or to phone???

i dunno why but i'm thinkn that my apps and downloads are saving to my phone and NOT to my storage card (which is where i want my stuff to be saved) is there anyway i can determine if this is in fact true? if it is going to my phone, how can i switch things to arrange for everything to go to my card???
 
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Pretty sure on a stock phone all apps are downloaded to the phone, and cannot be changed. Froyo (2.2) brings the option to enable Apps to SD card. As far as downloads, there might be a way to download stuff to the SD card, not 100% sure though.
 
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Pretty sure on a stock phone all apps are downloaded to the phone, and cannot be changed. Froyo (2.2) brings the option to enable Apps to SD card. As far as downloads, there might be a way to download stuff to the SD card, not 100% sure though.

sooooo......if this is in fact correct, what purpose does the sd card serve? i mean what can be saved to it? i thought that all the apps and music i got from the market while viewed/listened to on the phone were actually saved to my card????
 
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i think u can use apps2sd if ur phone is rooted. but no one confirmed if they were able to copy apps to sd card once rooted.


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Putting apps on the sd card requires much more than root.
With 2.1 youlll need an EXT partition - which will require a recovery image which we don't have ATM. And you'll also need a boot script to symlink the new ext partition to the /data/data partition.

with FroYo the app has to be enabled for apps2sd in the Manifest file - though CM6 I think can override and force it to the SDcard regardless of its manifest.

Downloading stuff from the browser to the SD card should be easy enough by going into browser > Menu > Settings - But I think it defaults to SDCard\Download\ anyways.
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