About apps moving from internal to sd card

[Suika]

So what are people saying about about not being able to move your apps from internal to sd card cause people say it's an OS limitation then let me tell you my last phone i had was an Vodafone Smart 3 (aka Alactel OT975) it had jellybean on it and guess what i could move the apps to sd card without problem so Sony isn't implementing a simpole thing as that i don't belive its impossible or os limitation. I'm a gamer i play alot of games thats why i bought the phone the price is good for the performance but guys c'min 5.2 GB of space is not enough for games everyone knows that but there is the other option to move the games obb data to sd card but it takes time and i have a class10 sd card for example i can fill the 5.2 gb up with 2 games Asphalt 8 and Real Racing 3 and after that the phone nags me to free up space. So please give me a good reason why we can't move apps to sd and if this will not be fixed i will move to another phone which i can do that.

[blackbox]

This isn't all down to Sony - it is an OS limitation made by Google/Android to stop apps having full access to files on your SD card. SD cards are FAT format and so have no settable access permissions, leaving them wide open for malware to steal your data. So it's kind of all or nothing. There's no app to SD in KitKat either.

Sony have no doubt though it sensible to go along with this.

Yes, I agree - it's pretty dumb to bring out a phone with good graphics capability with just 5GB of internal storage.

[blackbox]

After a bit of searching, there is a pretty easy workaround using adb from the Android SDK.

Check it out:

http://techgage.com/article/moving_your_non-movable_android_apps_to_an_sd_card/

[blackbox]

Nah - tested that and it doesn't work, at least on 4.3.

I think Google may have changed Play Store so it only installs on internal. Might work with sideloading apps - worth a try...

[blackbox]

Then there's this. Link2SD:

http://www.xperiablog.net/2011/12/12/link2sd-guide-never-worry-about-internal-memory-limits-again/

Requires root, but looks very good. I can't try it myself as I don't have an SD card reader handy to create the required 2nd partition.

Surely someone here has used link2sd, though - it has 5 mil downloads on Play...

[blackbox]

This has been rumblong on for some time. There's a sizable thread:

http://talk.sonymobile.com/t5/Xperia-SP/Transfer-of-App-from-Phone-Memory-to-SD-Car/td-p/314684

Basically your only real option is to root and create a 2nd partition on your SD card and use link2SD.

[_alexdon_]

Blackbox,please use the edit button,do not leave so many posts.