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what makes this app unmoveable?

I have a samsung admire with very limited space and this collectable card game I like to play takes up 1/3 of my available memory, but yet no app I have tried - even with root permissions - can move the thing to my sd card.

Its on the market as a free app - legend of the cryptids

Can anyone take a look at this and tell me what exactly makes it unmoveable and where would I begin looking to try my own hand at forcing it to the sd card?

I mean, if we can move most of the system os apps, surely a game has to be moveable somehow, right?
 
Try setting up link2sd.

I have tried them all and this one app they just cant move, but i gave this a shot and got:

" ! failure

pkg:/data/app-private/jp.co.applibot.legend.android-1.apk

failure

[install_failed_invalid_apk]

I finally found a work around - using this app I saw a "convert to system app" setting for legends using install2sd. I did that, then converted it back to a regular application and finally was able to move it to the sd card.

I blame shoddy application development, but this trick did it.

THANK YOU
 
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