[android-beginners] Re: Install on SD

[Jeffrey Blattman]

i forgot to mention, there is an app (apps?) that allow you to "back up" an app to the SD card, then re-install it at a later date. pretty lame solution, but thought i'd mention it. this is a well-known and well-despised deficiency of current gen phones. hopefully it'll be fixed in g2 that are being released soon. i just looked up the motorola cliq and it reportedly has only 256MB as well ... On 10/19/09 7:03 PM, Vinicius Carvalho wrote: Thanks to the quick response, this is very very frustranting news tough, given that the phone memory is really small (256mb) it seems that android gave a step back in this direction. My old N95 would allow me to install apps on the SD to save phone memory. I wonder what will happen when Apps start to blow in size (what if android becomes a good gaming platform such as iphone) what users will be able to do. Just hope that they fix it soon, just like nintendo did with Wii and now we can save our games on the SD and run them from there Regards On Oct 20, 12:00 am, Jeffrey Blattman <jeffrey.blatt...@gmail.com> wrote: yes they get installed to phone memory and you can't change that. you can however setup "apps2sd" which in which case you create a linux partition on your SD card and mount it where the OS can install apps. several 3rd party dists come with apps2sd enabled and if you have a linux part in the right place they will just use it. for example, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=566130 it was my impression that installing apps2sd from scratch was a little hairy, so IMHO it's better to install a dist that has it enabled. there's a little bit of a learning curve to setting all this up, so be prepared to spend some time educating yourself. bear in mind that the SD card is much slower than the phone's memory, so consequently your phone will be slower overall loading apps. this is why (i assume) android doesn't install apps on the SD in any standard, stock android install. On 10/19/09 6:51 PM, Vinicius Carvalho wrote: Hi, this sounds kinda stupid, but is it possible to install the apps from the market on the SD card? When I download the apps It does not ask me where to store them, and since I have only 40mb left on the device I wonder if they are all getting installed on the phone memory instead of SD. Regards -- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- --