Forcing Apps to install to the SD card without root

[dxbmorales]

Thanks!!!! Now I have plenty of space. I was about to kill my phone because of its low memory capacity message!!!!

 

[makinski]

Hello,
i have tried the above mentioned method and i have this problem.
I did everything as you told, moving apps to card seems active, but when i press it the phone restarts itself every time
Not sure what to do now..any help will be appreciated!
Thanks!

 

[ninjaman18]

its better to buy htc wild fire s than to explorer.....i was v.excited when i had bought explorer and then found that its internal memory is too low and it cant be able to download save apps to sd card.....i did things to move all apps to sd card but unable to download apps from google play store to sd card directly......thats so pathetic....!!

 

[anudeep574]

Worked great.Recovered some memory in my Explorer

 

[Kika2290]

Thank you so much for this :thumbup: Worked like a charm

 

[garg_mm]

I have done it successfully without too much efforts. Thanks.

 

[gladiator81]

Boss I have tried but not working actually what u know daemon started successfully is not coming. but my phone serial number appears.
Please guide me how to do this as need all my apps to store in sd card.
Awaiting you reply at the earliest.

 

[gladiator81]

Please tell me how u have success.

 

[Kitube]

this only makes apps which are intended to be able to be installed on the sd card to be installed there, it doesnt actually forces them to do it which is a shame since this means that this doesnt help the memory problem in the least.

 

[Kaarthik]

Hi,
I followed the steps given,its not working fully for me i.e i am not able to move all the apps to SD . Pl help. Right Now i am able to move Watsapp and other games. I heard from my friends that they are able to move google play as well. i am not able to move google play.i am still running out of memory,if i install facebook,watsapp,viber altogether. pl suggest a way. Also is there any way to remove the preloaded applications in exlporer such as NDTV crickert,saavn if so pl suggest.

 

[htcexplorer43]

on devices it shows me two devices

emulator and my device.

why is that ?

and coz of this i cant run the adb shell !
it says one or more devices

 

[CafeKampuchia]

Try adding -d to the end of adb to make sure it targets the device. So adb reboot bootloader will become adb -d reboot bootloader.

 

[CafeKampuchia]

Hi,
I followed the steps given,its not working fully for me i.e i am not able to move all the apps to SD . Pl help. Right Now i am able to move Watsapp and other games. I heard from my friends that they are able to move google play as well. i am not able to move google play.i am still running out of memory,if i install facebook,watsapp,viber altogether. pl suggest a way. Also is there any way to remove the preloaded applications in exlporer such as NDTV crickert,saavn if so pl suggest.

Some apps still will not be able to be moved unless you root. You just have to move what you can.

 

[JoeF1000]

Mine's not working.
After I type adb devices it just says list of devices attached it doesn't say my serial number or anything. I definitely have USB debugging and I'm definitely in charge-only mode. HTC sync also seems to say "no device connected" even though there is. Can you help please?

 

[amicableakshay]

man u are awesome......may u live for like a 100 years

 

[CafeKampuchia]

Mine's not working.
After I type adb devices it just says list of devices attached it doesn't say my serial number or anything. I definitely have USB debugging and I'm definitely in charge-only mode. HTC sync also seems to say "no device connected" even though there is. Can you help please?

Try using the first part of this guide for setting up the connection, ie. the stuff before step 1:

http://androidforums.com/wildfire-s-all-things-root/480954-guide-how-root-wildfire-s-s-finally.html

Also make sure you're using a good cable like the one that came with the phone. That made the difference for me once when everything else was right.

man u are awesome......may u live for like a 100 years

Welcome :hello: and glad your first foray into Android Forums was a success! But I don't want to live a hundred years on this cursed dirtball... 70 is plenty and then I'll be looking forward to the resurrection and a new creation

 

[nabinsundar]

Thanks a lot man it worked like a charm for my HTC explorer.superb sharing simple and effective tutorial gazillion thanks to you and El Presidente.

Don't worked for me...
gmail app still in phone... Move to sd block is still in black colour

 

[El Presidente]

Don't worked for me...
gmail app still in phone... Move to sd block is still in black colour

Gmail is a system app, you can't move it.

 

[nabinsundar]

Everything was going smoothly. But in step5 when I entered adb shell it did not showed "adb server is out of date, killing..., deamon started successfully". But I moved on this problem, then I gave the next command ie "pm setInstallLocation 2" and enter. But when I tried to move the Gmail app I can't move, bcoz the " move to sd " is not cracked. It is remain the same thing as before it was. So plz help in this case...

 

[El Presidente]

Have a look at my post directly above yours. You can't move Gmail, it's installed on the System partition, this process won't work for system apps.

 

[mvplove08]

I've been reading this thread for a while and I am a newly registered member. I have some problem, I followed all the steps but it seems that my laptop cannot detect any devices connected. I've made sure that my USB Debugging mode is enabled and my phone is connected in Charge Only Mode. What is my possible error? Thanks.

 

[CafeKampuchia]

Mvplove08, welcome to Android Forums :hello:

See my post #92 above. If that doesn't work, try a different computer.

I hope that helps!

 

[dODoslkho]

I'm a new member here. I just got my Galaxy note 2 4 days ago and I'm wondering if this method of installing apps to external storage could be applied on my device as well?

 

[tck1178]

is this work on cm9 ?

 

[El Presidente]

is this work on cm9 ?

I'm a new member here. I just got my Galaxy note 2 4 days ago and I'm wondering if this method of installing apps to external storage could be applied on my device as well?

As both are ICS(?), I don't believe so, the commands are different.

The Note 2 should have ample space anyway