Monday, February 11, 2013

How to move apps from phone memory to SD card in android

You may find many apps on google play which can use to move apps from phone memory to SD card, but for this to work developers need to enable this option in their apps.Following method is valuable if you do have a phone with small internal memory plus loads of apps which you cant move to SD card using apps like APP 2 SD.

  • Download latest version of Android SDK.
  • Connect the phone using USB cable and enable USB debugging mode.Settings -> Applications -> Development and enable USB debugging
  • Open terminal and navigate to android SDK directory, in my instance cd /home/udara/private/android-sdk-linux/platform-tools/
  • Add that directory to path using, export PATH=$PATH:/home/udara/private/android-sdk-linux/platform-tools/
  • Now by typing adb devices command you will get something similar to,

  • Type adb shell and then run command pm setInstallLocation 2.
  • Now on your phone go to Settings->Applications->Manage Applications and you will find most of the applications are now available to move from phone memory to SD card.

I have tested this on a rooted huawei U8160 running android 2.2(froyo) using UBUNTU 12.04. 

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