G+_Kevin Spitzer (JaguarXT Posted March 9, 2013 Share Posted March 9, 2013 I'm a Windows Phone and iOS user and I'm setting up a android 4.0.4 tablet for my niece. How do I install apps to the external SD card? The tablet is rooted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Brian Pollak Posted March 9, 2013 Share Posted March 9, 2013 Here are the steps that I've followed on an un-rooted phone. I hope that it works with the tablet, too. It requires having the Android SDK installed. 1. Connect the phone to the computer using the USB cable. Do NOT enable USB storage mode. Go to Settings > Applications > Development > enable USB Debugging 2. Start a terminal window (cmd) on the computer. Navigate to the folder containing adb.exe in the Android SDK folder. 3. Enter the following lines adb devices adb shell pm setInstallLocation 2 exit 4. Now you can move any installed (non-stock) apps to the SD card. Any newly installed apps will go to the SD card, too. 5. To reset the default installation location to the internal memory adb shell pm setInstallLocation 0 exit 6. Remember to uncheck USB Debugging Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Eng. Jorge Santana Posted March 9, 2013 Share Posted March 9, 2013 Will. This make apps install in internal SD or external SD on 4.0.4. I want external... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Brian Pollak Posted March 10, 2013 Share Posted March 10, 2013 Sorry, I'm not familiar with the details of the options. A quick Google search of the pm setInstallLocation command found 0/auto, 1/internal, 2/external. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Eng. Jorge Santana Posted March 15, 2013 Share Posted March 15, 2013 Can I edit this file to make the extsd the main? ## Vold 2.0 fstab for HTC Passion # ## - San Mehat (san@android.com) ## ####################### ## Regular device mount ## ## Format: dev_mount ## label - Label for the volume ## mount_point - Where the volume will be mounted ## part - Partition # (1 based), or 'auto' for first usable partition. ## - List of sysfs paths to source devices ###################### # Mounts the first usable partition of the specified device #/devices/platform/awsmc.3/mmc_host for sdio dev_mount sdcard /mnt/sdcard auto /devices/virtual/block/nandj dev_mount extsd /mnt/extsd auto /devices/platform/sunxi-mmc.1/mmc_host /devices/platform/sunxi-mmc.0/mmc_host dev_mount usbhost1 /mnt/usbhost1 auto /devices/platform/sw-ehci.1 /devices/platform/sw_hcd_host0 /devices/platform/sw-ohci.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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