Thanks to our precious Play Store, the system can quickly acquire the list of available applications, but in doing so, we find ourselves quickly cramped on the internal storage of the unit. Yet there is a solution if you have an SD card slot.
While our computers are capable of storing terabytes of data, mobile devices often embark about 32 GB of space (and up to 128 GB sometimes) but sometimes much less. And considering that this space is well crowded by the system and native applications data, what remains is not much to install all your favorite apps.
Recognizing this issue, that is widely observed on many today's low built-in storage smartphones, we have decided to write you this tutorial on how to save storage space on your device by moving your applications to your micro SD card and thus save internal memory.
For non rooted Android Lollipop users, refer to this article to know how to move apps to your SD cards: How To Move Applications T SD Card For Non Rooted Android Lollipop Users
How to move apps to SD cards
While many methods exist that allow you to set your SD card as the destination for all your apps, we will choose a method which is more "modern", and it's within reach of everyone. There will be no need to go through Unix commands in a shell, or walk through some complex tweaks.
To do it, you need to download Folder Mount application from Play Store:
To use Folder Mount , you must be Root (Towelroot can do the trick) and with the free version, it is not possible to manage more than three applications simultaneously. This limitation can be stepped out by acquiring a full license of the application.
Launch the application and grant it superuser (root) privileges. Once on the interface, a menu is on the left, let's start through the Apps Analyzer.
This will load the list of applications on your smartphone or tablet:
For example, I chose the application MC3. Just press and get to this page. We can see thus that the data or obb (depends on the application) size it occupies :
Choose what you want to copy by pressing the "Create a pair" button. About the question that arises "Do you want the destination folder to be created automatically ? ", Say "Yes" to permit it or "No" if you want to specify it yourself . For my part, I chose "Yes".
You just have to press the "V" shaped symbol and answer "Yes" to the question that pops up to you "Do you want to move files to the destination ? ". The application is then copied to the external SD card and may take a few minutes if the application happens to be heavy (I think including video games).
Once finished, simply go down through the whole earlier menu in the "Pairs List" and you will find the application that was just copied to your memory card. By pressing it, the small symbol in the form of a hairpin turns green, and your application will eventually be stored on the SD card. By connecting it to the computer, you can see for yourself that Folder Mount has copied the application to the memory card:
This pair system is useful for the application of internal memory copied to the external card, but the purpose of this tutorial is to make room in internal storage and store everything on the memory card. After that just clean your internal memory to delete what you have copied to your SD card. This solution is more convenient and allows a good control over what is moved externally, and what you want or need to spare on the internal memory.
If this process went well, use your applications, their data placed externally should be accessible and everything should work fine, with some exceptions that might be rose of some apps that won't work elsewhere than internal storage.
Conclusion
This tutorial is over, and you have what it takes -although this is not the only way out- to save space on the internal storage of your precious phone, and to store your preferred applications on your micro SD card. The methods, as you have noticed, seem rather quick once everything is in its place but we had to explain the process.
Be careful not to forget that some applications do not fully or partially work if they are no longer on the internal memory. Also, prefer to keep on the internal memory only system applications, or if necessary, delete the ones you do not use.
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