Moving ANY app to SD on FroYo (or how to Enable all grayed out 'Move to SD' buttons)'

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    Well after reading the forums I found a lot op people complained about not beeing able to push an app to the SD card. And you don't have to root your phone for it. it will give you access to the 'Move to SD' button regardless if the programmer adapted his program for 2.2 yet.

    With ADB you can do so very easy !, and there is no root required.

    Perform the following steps :
    1. Install HTC Sync (see : http://www.htc.com/ (select your device, download, and install ))
    2. Install Android developers kit. (See http://htcevohacks.com/htc-evo-hacks/how-to-install-android-sdk-and-adb-drivers-for-htc-evo-4g/ for a detailed how to.)

    Start ADB.

    Use : adb shell pm setInstallLocation [option]

    Where option is one of:

    0 [auto] Let the system decide.
    1 [internal only]
    2 [external]

    And you are ready to go.

    Maybe you should have a read of the official documentation from google : http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/install-location.html
    to understand what you are doing. And what you should not do (Like moving apps that run as a service to the SD card....)

    I did this on my Phone and went to the settings and moved every app to SD. On this moment I have 70 MB free where previously i would have the ugly notification saying I needed to free up space. So this trick really seems to work.

    Not everything is moved to the SD card, but about 50% to 70% of an app can be moved. The only app that left a substantial footprint on the device is Navigon. This one dropped from 20 MB to about 18 MB.

    Everything is still functional and i have not noticed any negative effects so far.....