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how to move apps from internal storage to SD card

152bobby — Fri, 03 Oct 2014 13:08:38 GMT

Hello,

I am new to the Forum.

I have just bought a Sony Xperia Z3 Compact.

I am sure you all know that it only has 16gb of internal storage, so I have bought a massive SD Card with the intentions to transfer any moveable APPS to it, but I am having real difficulty in find a easy way to do this (I do not want to root my phone).

I thought I had done enough research on this phone before I bought it, but I just did not think this would be a problem !!!

Can anyone help please ?

Thanks

Bobby

Re: how to move apps from internal storage to SD card

_alexdon_ — Fri, 03 Oct 2014 13:47:17 GMT

This is a restriction from google,you cannot do it.

Re: how to move apps from internal storage to SD card

simong — Sat, 04 Oct 2014 09:13:13 GMT

Only possibility is to gain root access and use apps like app2sd

Re: how to move apps from internal storage to SD card

w_a_z — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 05:32:39 GMT

This is such a setback for an otherwise great phone. I have a D5833 too with a 128GB microSD.

'Move to SD' button from Settings->Apps->select app is simply not available.

Rooting the phone would have solved the problem (if rooted, I can even mount my Android/data and obb/ or the entire /data from external SD like I did with my previous Android) or change platform.xml to allow apps writing to external SD directly.

However, I do not want to lose the fantastic low light post processing of the camera. Currently there is still no exploit to root Z3C other than unlocking bootloader (which will wipe the Trim Area, including the DRM id). There is no revert back once you unlock bootloader - relocking will not restore DRM id.

So still holding back from rooting for the time being unless you don't really care about your camera, X reality, Bravia Engine, or Screen Mirroring (can live without Mirroring to Bravia TV as Chromecast screen mirror works for this model - just not the Sony mirroring).

Re: how to move apps from internal storage to SD card

bombero — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 02:16:02 GMT

I am also very disappointed especially after always having an iPhone, I just recently 'upgraded' and went with Sony and Android because of all the stupid restrictions with Apple .. .. now I find Android are no better!!

Some forums are suggesting that Sony could insist that Android allows the transfer of apps to sd but choose not to, grrrr!

Re: how to move apps from internal storage to SD card

Raza_M — Thu, 04 Dec 2014 06:54:28 GMT

Just got the Z3, moved over from a Nexus 5.

It's absolutely ridiculous that we cannot move Apps to SD Card on this premium expensive phone. Does Sony not respect us because for the lower end cheap experia handsets sony allows moving apps to SD Card as seen here http://www.xperiablog.net/2014/07/17/sony-brings-app-to-sd-card-support-in-latest-xperia-kitkat-firmware/

I urge the hackers to release stable roms so we can root this phone.

Very disappointed that sony would make this phone only have 16GB internal memory (to save manufacturing costs) while not letting the users move over app to SD Card.

It's stupid to give 3GB ram and a powerful quad core which is only really required for gaming if we can't even fit multiple games onto the phone

Re: how to move apps from internal storage to SD card

redi1972 — Tue, 06 Jan 2015 14:20:04 GMT

Quite surprised that this feature was removed. I really liked this feature on my XPeria S (Android 4.1.2) and it's strange to say the least that this function was removed from the more 'advanced' Android version that the Z3 Compact runs. Especially when phones are becoming more powerful and hence apps will become bigger, you can't expect that 16GB internal memory is going to be sufficient to store all apps during the phone's lifetime, or make the user dependent on the app developers to implement installing/moving data to the SD card.

Re: how to move apps from internal storage to SD card

DutchRobbie — Wed, 21 Jan 2015 21:35:01 GMT

This article says the trouble will be over once Android 4.4 get updated to 5.0 :

http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/11/04/android-5-0-makes-sd-cards-great-again-extends-api-to-allow-full-directory-access-automatic-mediastore-and-improves-security/

Re: how to move apps from internal storage to SD card

_alexdon_ — Wed, 21 Jan 2015 21:40:38 GMT

I don't think this means you will be able to move apps to SD,it is just that applications will be able to write on external SD.

Re: how to move apps from internal storage to SD card

aier — Wed, 21 Jan 2015 22:41:58 GMT

heremap can store downloaded map on sd card

Re: how to move apps from internal storage to SD card

AntBoots — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 10:43:26 GMT

I've moved my HereMaps downloads as above and set my Camera to use the SD Card, still hunting for more ways to move things to the SD Card though??

Re: how to move apps from internal storage to SD card

buspilot — Mon, 23 Feb 2015 19:08:54 GMT

@bombero you are absolutely right to be indignant as most Z3c users do !

I hope someday Google and Android stop fooling their consumers and give the obvious solution that everybody ask !!!

I look forward to seeing Lollipop ....

Re: how to move apps from internal storage to SD card

cpp — Sat, 11 Apr 2015 11:05:58 GMT

April 2015 - I have just moved from an old Xperia Miro to a new Xperia Z3 compact because the Miro had limitation on phone memory where you could not move the shipped appls to user or SD memory.

On my new Z3 compact I have installed a 32GB SD card, but it appears that I still cannot move appls from the phone memory to the SD card.

Please can Sony let me have a date when Android 5.0 or a fix to Android 4.4.4 will be rolled out that solves this issue and is available for my Z3 compact.

Lovely phone but the lack of a "Move to SD" feature is a serious flaw.

many thanks

Re: how to move apps from internal storage to SD card

Thommo — Sat, 11 Apr 2015 11:15:24 GMT

Like we keep on saying hundreds of times - We don't know when updates will be released as it's not Sony who decide but your country and networks - The moving of apps to SD is included in the Lollipop firmware but even if you do move apps then these apps are not guaranteed to continue to work