Root After Moving apps to sdcard will they use more battery?

trapperjohn · Sep 24, 2011

Hi,
After apps are moved to sdcard will they use more battery?
On the thunderbolt do we really need to move apps to sdcard or is that for older phones with less internal memory?

Thanks,
Bryan

jivens716 · Sep 24, 2011

trapperjohn said:
Hi,
After apps are moved to sdcard will they use more battery?
On the thunderbolt do we really need to move apps to sdcard or is that for older phones with less internal memory?

Thanks,
Bryan

You answered your question with your last sentence

there's no reason to transfer them to your sd card because we have plenty of room on our internal hard drive

WormDoes · Sep 25, 2011

The only apps I move to SD are large games, Peggle, PvZ, etc, but it's really not needed as jivens said

trapperjohn · Sep 25, 2011

Ok its not needed which in turn i put all apps back on internal memory. A thing I had to do on the original droid.....
I will put the bigger games back if needed as worm mentions he does

But I am curious are there negatives to moving the apps to the sdcard?
Does it use more power to run application off of the sdcard?
Does it slow the phone down?

Thanks,
Bryan

WormDoes · Sep 25, 2011

It doesn't do anything but free up internal space. You're over thinking this, sir

brizey · Sep 26, 2011

It might slow loading times down a tiny bit if the sd card is slower than the internal flash drive. I move big games, too.

trapperjohn · Sep 27, 2011

WormDoes said:
It doesn't do anything but free up internal space. You're over thinking this, sir

Ok I will under think

Thanks,
Bryan

trapperjohn · Sep 27, 2011

brizey said:
It might slow loading times down a tiny bit if the sd card is slower than the internal flash drive. I move big games, too.

After reading that WormDoes and you only move games I will do that? Sounds like a good way to go for the future.
Thanks,
Bryan

shaddyyy · Sep 28, 2011

I assumed that moving it to the SD card made the phone overall a little bit faster because it wasn't stored on the phone itself

trapperjohn · Sep 28, 2011

shaddyyy said:
I assumed that moving it to the SD card made the phone overall a little bit faster because it wasn't stored on the phone itself

Actually after moving everything back to the phone I see apps opening faster responding better nothing drastic just noticeable

53 apps on phone with 1.8 gigs still available

Thanks,
Bryan

Yeahha · Sep 28, 2011

trapperjohn said:
Actually after moving everything back to the phone I see apps opening faster responding better nothing drastic just noticeable
53 apps on phone with 1.8 gigs still available

Thanks,
Bryan

69 user apps on phone (none on the SD) 1.94 GB available

. I see no reason to put my apps on the SD, I suppose depending on the class of the SD it could have a negative effect on loading things from the SD but if you have the stock SD card I don't think you would notice much of a difference.

Picaso86 · Sep 29, 2011

I dont know if this question belongs here... when I pull down my Notification bar, under Quick settings tab scroll down to "Total Memory" it reads:

583 MB
used: 462MB
free: 121MB

How can I free more memory there? I am not running any apps.

Yeahha · Sep 29, 2011

Picaso86 said:
I dont know if this question belongs here... when I pull down my Notification bar, under Quick settings tab scroll down to "Total Memory" it reads:

583 MB
used: 462MB
free: 121MB

How can I free more memory there? I am not running any apps.

Don't worry about it, really. The way the OS is set up it should be fine running with 0MB free* :eek:

Android is much better at memory management than windows, as the OS needs more memory for a specific tasks it will kill other tasks to make the memory available.

*While I said it should be fine Android will kill tasks before getting down to having 0MB free by design

Ibrick · Sep 29, 2011

I do put games on my SD, I don't really see a need to keep a 25-30mb game on the internal memory.

Yeahha · Sep 29, 2011

Ibrick said:
I do put games on my SD, I don't really see a need to keep a 25-30mb game on the internal memory.

I'm almost out of space on my SD so I consider that space a higher priority than space on my internal memory

Ibrick · Sep 30, 2011

Yeahha said:
I'm almost out of space on my SD so I consider that space a higher priority than space on my internal memory

Jeez.. what the hell do you have stored on your SD? Lol..

Yeahha · Sep 30, 2011

No music or video. Most of it is extracted apps and extracted zip files. About 10k png files, a few roms, a few nandroid backups. A couple game downloads that have to be on the SD.

trapperjohn · Sep 30, 2011

Yeahha said:
No music or video. Most of it is extracted apps and extracted zip files. About 10k png files, a few roms, a few nandroid backups. A couple game downloads that have to be on the SD.

Wow!
Are you thinking of getting a 64 gig assuming it will work in the Thunderbolt?
Having that much even on the sdcard does it slow down access at all?
Thanks,
Bryan

Yeahha · Sep 30, 2011

trapperjohn said:
Wow!
Are you thinking of getting a 64 gig assuming it will work in the Thunderbolt?
Having that much even on the sdcard does it slow down access at all?
Thanks,
Bryan

No I don't want to spend that much on an SD that I haven't confirmed it will work. I know there are reports the 64 GB cards work on android but they shouldn't.

I haven't noticed any degradation of speed other than my gallery takes forever to load but I don't use it very much at all so it doesn't really matter

trapperjohn · Sep 30, 2011

Yeahha said:
No I don't want to spend that much on an SD that I haven't confirmed it will work. I know there are reports the 64 GB cards work on android but they shouldn't.

I haven't noticed any degradation of speed other than my gallery takes forever to load but I don't use it very much at all so it doesn't really matter

Hi,
Thanks for the info

I noticed my gallery slow to load also but that is usually after I flashed later if I go back in it pops right up with pics I assume that it caches the list on first view do you get the delay every time after the first time?

Thanks,
Bryan

Yeahha · Sep 30, 2011

You assume correct sir

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