topic Re: Moving APPS on ext_sd on Xperia Go. in XPERIA archive

Moving APPS on ext_sd on Xperia Go.

Chris0211 — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 14:05:42 GMT

Will the ICS update fix the issue with transferring apps to your ext_sd? I have an xperia go. Its seems that it wont move the apps I want to the ext_sd, I download a lot of apps and the internal sd seems small for me. Your response will be highly appreciated. Xperia go is an excellent phone, it will be perfect for me if It can move the apps on the ext_sd.

Re: Moving APPS on ext_sd on Xperia Go.

asplundj — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 17:01:52 GMT

I also want this bug fixed

Re: Moving APPS on ext_sd on Xperia Go.

viki — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 09:56:22 GMT

Hope this Helps... This application allows to transfers Int card to Ext card

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.a0soft.gphone.app2sd&hl=en

Re: Moving APPS on ext_sd on Xperia Go.

asplundj — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 11:23:20 GMT

That doesn't help unfortunately because the phone think that the internal memory is the SD-card thus all such apps will show that apps stored on the internal memory are stored on the SD-card but the total space will only be 4 GB.

Re: Moving APPS on ext_sd on Xperia Go.

viki — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 02:03:22 GMT

So this may be a Serious Bug...AS IT SHOWS.... So i wont update My phone to ICS..!!

Thanks for Sharing ..!!

Any Sony Xperia Support Representative Should Answer This Immediately..!!!

Re: Moving APPS on ext_sd on Xperia Go.

asplundj — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 05:29:52 GMT

This bug has been on the phone from the beginning and is not due to ICS. In fact, I was hoping for a fix for it in ICS but it seems to still be a bug. There's several threads on the topic but I don't think I've seen any comments from sony about it. I've e-mailed support about it and was asked to do a software repair with PC companion which of course didn't help. They then asked me to phone the Norwegian Sony support which I never did because I found it unlikely that they could help me.

Re: Moving APPS on ext_sd on Xperia Go.

Petter — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 09:57:28 GMT

I think you can discuss this matter for more or less forever, since it's a bit tricky for sure.

But for now, this is how it's supposed to work, even though it's a bit annoying, that I must admit. Concerning eventual "fixes" in future updates we don't have any info for now I'm afraid.

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Re: Moving APPS on ext_sd on Xperia Go.

rem — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 01:42:54 GMT

Hi viki,

suggestion doesnt help. i tried it with the Pro version and yet not possible.

Anyway, thanks for the suggestion.

Regards,

Rem

Re: Moving APPS on ext_sd on Xperia Go.

WanTP — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 10:19:00 GMT

Yeah. I think this is a bug. Sony should fix it so that problem can be solved

Re: Moving APPS on ext_sd on Xperia Go.

oneway — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 16:24:02 GMT

Sony, you need to fix this! It is a bug. I bought the phone because the spec said 8GB internal storage with ability to extend with external sd card. As it stand that is not possible and the 32GB sd card I've inserted is useless. The internal 8GB of storage should not be split up into 4gb system and 4gb "sd card", it should just be all system storage and any new sd card inserted would be seen by the system as the main mounted sd card and not ext_sd as it currently is. It is not fair to advertise such storage abilities and then when customers buy the phone they are stuck with 8GB only!

Please provide a suitable reply as to when this bug will be fixed or refer us to a Sony representative that can provide details of how to get a refund for our phones which do not work as advertised.

Regards.

Re: Moving APPS on ext_sd on Xperia Go.

AnteMannen — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 18:01:17 GMT

Very well written oneway.

I agree, this is a very serious issue and Sony must look in to this serious.

What I understand there is more models of the Xperia 2012 family that is suffering of this "file structure misstake" naming the internal memory sd card.

We are living in the year 2012 now and apps and games with the additional data is getting pretty big nowadays, and they are not getting any smaller in the future.

Its annoying when you have 32 gb of space and when you (try) install for example a offline navigator and maybe one or two games and you´re out of memory, knowing that you have 32 gb available.

So Sony Mobile have to look at this ASAP. But I´m afraid this gonna take time to correct if Sony ever will look into it. (Sony isn¨t directly famous for getting out updates quickly)

But maybe its easier to affect all the app developers in the world to write their application so we can choose where we will store the application data, in the wrongly named sd card or the ext card that actually is the only existing sd card on the handset.

Over and out. /A

Re: Moving APPS on ext_sd on Xperia Go.

kvsh88 — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 21:32:24 GMT

the same problem is with all the xperia phones (new that is) ... the problem is really frustrating .... y is sony not replying on its own forum ???.......

Re: Moving APPS on ext_sd on Xperia Go.

luxgo — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 09:08:48 GMT

Hi,

last week, popular german computer magazine "ct" ran an article regarding the SD-card problems.

Can't post it here, because it's copyrighted, but the bottom line was this:

This problem affects more or less all Android devices with more than 4GB internal memory and running Android 2.3 or higher (not only Sony). The root of the problem is memory management and naming-conventions in Andoid 2.3 and higher (some have already pointed out in this forum, that part of the internal memory is mounted as "/sdcard", and that is where everything that is just being "moved to sd-card" ends up - not on the "real" sd-card, which is mounted as "/ext_card" ! ).

At this time, there is no workaround, unless this problem is addressed by the app-developer (and even then the app itself will still be installed in the internal memory, only app-data will be routinely stored on the "real" SD).

Fortunately, at least the pre-installed apps seem to be able to do this with music/pictures/videos.

We will have to wait for a major android update, and i doubt wether at the time of the release it will be ported to current android phones...

Re: Moving APPS on ext_sd on Xperia Go.

antinomiq — Tue, 07 May 2013 17:57:08 GMT

I did update today but probleme with sd card stuck. I want to ask sony when you finally fix the problem?

Re: Moving APPS on ext_sd on Xperia Go.

Uliwooly — Tue, 07 May 2013 18:10:59 GMT

Rickard

811 posts since

Jan 12, 2012

2. May 7, 2013 12:02 AM (in response to ajayvv)

Correct AnswerRe: Transfer of App from Phone Memory to SD Car

This has to do with your phone having a builtin memory which works as a internal storage/SD card. In this case you can't move apps to the external SD-card. You can read more about this here: http://talk.sonymobile.com/message/406527.

Re: Moving APPS on ext_sd on Xperia Go.

wesleyrc — Sat, 02 Nov 2013 12:22:49 GMT

Hi! i found this:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1943643

hope it helps...