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So, if your system supports app migration, you can easily do it by following these steps.

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No matter how large the memory capacity of your gadget is, sooner or later there will come a time when the free space in it runs out. Usually you find out about this the moment you see an error message about insufficient space when installing another program. It is possible to cope with this problem, and it is not at all difficult. Simply transfer existing programs to a microSD memory card.

So, if your system supports app migration, you can easily do it by following these steps.

1. Open your operating system settings.

2. Go to the "Applications" section.

3. Navigate to the SD Card tab. Here you will see a list of programs that support moving to an external card.

4. Select a program that does not have a checkbox next to its name, and tap on its name.

5. The “About the application” section will open in front of you, where we are primarily interested in information about the space it occupies, located in the “Memory” block.

6. Click the “Move to SD card” button located under this block and wait until the operation is completed.

Please note that the program is usually not transferred completely, and a small part of it remains in the internal memory of the device. But the bulk of the data is still moved to the external partition, freeing up much-needed space. At any time, you can perform the reverse operation, that is, move programs from the card to the internal memory.

In addition to the standard operating system tools, there are many third-party programs that implement this function. For example, the popular AppMgr III utility makes it easy to bulk move applications to internal or external memory by performing multiple operations in batch mode.

This applies to pre-installed ones such as Google Play. There are many programs available in the Google Play store that automate the transfer of applications to a microSD card.

Instructions: how to transfer files via smartphone

Let's find out how to transfer music from your phone to a memory card, here are detailed instructions:

Open the My Files application;
Find the desired folder with music there, go inside and find the composition;

Long press to highlight a track;
Click on the context menu key (three dots or three lines in the corner of the screen, most often at the top, depending on the phone model);
Find the "Move" command;

Select from the list “Memory card” or “Removable SD disk” or “Flash drive”, etc.;

Click on the drive and the moving process will begin.

Also, in the context menu there is a “Copy” command, it allows you to create a duplicate document and move it to a memory card. At the same time, the music will also remain in the internal memory.

If you want to transfer everything from your phone memory to a memory card, select the entire folder without going inside. To select, you must perform the same long touch on the element. Once one folder is selected, briefly click all the others. Please note that if by chance there is a system folder among them, the “Move” key will not appear in the context menu. Select only your own folders, media files and documents.

This instruction is universal for all Android phones, but each brand may have differences in the names of sections or commands. For example, Xiaomi’s file manager is called “Explorer”, while Samsung’s is called “My Files”;

Remember the point: to transfer information from your phone’s memory to a Lenovo, Huawei or any other phone’s memory card, you need to find the desired file, select it and send it to a flash drive.

SD card as internal memory on Samsung Galaxy

As I said earlier, device manufacturers can control this feature. Samsung has long disabled available storage on its Android devices. Reason: the company cannot control the performance of the device with such a modification.

For testing, I inserted an SD card into the Galaxy S8 to see if anything had changed with the new interface in Android One. It turns out not.

In addition, Samsung has created a corresponding web page which confirms that Galaxy tablets and phones do not support Adoptable Storage as it will "reduce the overall performance" of the device.

However, there are rumors that Samsung will bring this functionality to its devices sooner or later.

Make sure the memory card is selected.

You probably already know that by default, photos taken on smartphones based on the Android operating system are saved in the device’s main memory (DCIM folder). However, in many cases, you can choose to have images saved on a memory card. Perhaps this instruction does not work on some devices, but on Samsung smartphones it works, as this article proves.

First of all, you can see a message about changing the storage location of photos when you connect the flash drive to your Samsung smartphone and launch the camera.

Everything is simple here - you need to click OK, then, as follows from the inscription on the screen, single photos will be saved on the memory card, while images obtained through continuous shooting are saved in the main memory.

If you didn’t see this image, don’t worry – click on the gear icon.

The camera settings page will open. Find the "Storage Location" line, the default is "Device". Click on this line.

Make sure the memory card is selected.

Now single images will be saved on the memory card.

Not all applications can be transferred to a memory card! To transfer an application to a memory card for which this is possible, you must do the following.

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Transferring an application to a memory card

Samsung Galaxy J5 (2016) SM-J510FN

Not all applications can be transferred to a memory card! To transfer an application to a memory card for which this is possible, you must do the following.

Go to Settings - Applications

«.

Find the desired application that needs to be transferred to the memory card, click on it, then click on the closest item from top to bottom “ Memory”

«.

In the top block, click the “ Edit”

“, in the “
Change storage location
” menu that appears, set the switch to the “
Memory card
” position.
In the Export window.
» click «
MOVE >
«.

stay in touch

There are no “Move to memory card” or “Change” buttons

These applications cannot be transferred to a memory card because the application developer did not provide such an option.

You can check whether your device supports transferring applications in the following way: download the game “Bejeweled Classic” from Electronic Arts from the Play Store, and try to transfer it to a memory card.

Screenshot from Play Store: icon and game name

If you managed to transfer the game “Bejeweled Classic”

Transferring apps to the memory card on your device works. Other applications are not portable because their developers did not provide this feature.

If you couldn't transfer the game "Bejeweled Classic"

There may be two reasons for this:

The memory card is not inserted or is damaged - insert or replace the memory card.
Your Android device is below version 4.2.2, which does not have this feature.

Yes, Samsung added this option on purpose, as if to compensate for the low amount of free memory in smartphones with 16 GB. But not everyone will be able to immediately understand how to transfer applications to a memory card. After watching the video below, your questions will disappear by themselves. The author demonstrates how easy and quick it is to do this.

We previously wrote about the new firmware for the Galaxy S4, which is already available for some countries and soon all users will have the opportunity to update their smartphone via FOTA. But today we are not talking about that. One of the good innovations in this firmware is the ability to transfer applications to a memory card in the Galaxy S4.

Yes, Samsung added this option on purpose, as if to compensate for the low amount of free memory in smartphones with 16 GB. But not everyone will be able to immediately understand how to transfer applications to a memory card. After watching the video below, your questions will disappear by themselves. The author demonstrates how easy and quick it is to do this.

Video

Go to "Settings - Application Manager"
Selecting programs or games that need to be transferred
In properties, click “move to memory card” - voila!

You delete the downloaded program. Then you download it again, but this time you don’t open the program, but go straight to the settings. Move to SD. Now everything will work out, the SD button will be active. And so with every program in which this button is not active. The whole point is to make the move before you enter the program. After all, if you have already logged in, it becomes connected to the phone, and data has been exchanged.

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how to download applications directly to a memory card? The downloaded applications have already been transferred to the memory card. There is a lot of space on the SD card but not enough on the phone and I cannot download the application I need first to the phone and then transfer it because there is not enough space on the phone. phone: Lenovo A850

You need to go through this in the settings. I don’t remember exactly, but I made it happen automatically. try it on Google

katemaksimova25 08/14/2015 11:11 pm: how to download applications directly to a memory card? The downloaded applications have already been transferred to the memory card. There is a lot of space on the SD card but not enough on the phone and I cannot download the application I need first to the phone and then transfer it because there is not enough space on the phone. phone: Lenovo A850

to transfer all applications, you need to have root rights, but you can transfer only a few applications that your phone allows, you need to check the box where applications will be saved by default

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Root rights are required. Then you deceive the system: as if the built-in memory is sd and, accordingly, sd is built-in.

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You delete the downloaded program. Then you download it again, but this time you don’t open the program, but go straight to the settings. Move to SD. Now everything will work out, the SD button will be active. And so with every program in which this button is not active. The whole point is to make the move before you enter the program. After all, if you have already logged in, it becomes connected to the phone, and data has been exchanged.

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You need to download ES Explorer, then go into it and click on the APSS button, then find the game application that needs to be installed on the SD card, click on it and hold for 3 5 seconds then click send to SD and there will be instructions

mesioner 06/07/2012 1:59 pm: Tell me how to make sure that downloaded programs are installed on the memory card on your phone, and not on the phone’s memory. The phone has little memory and constantly displays that the phone's memory is full. And there is plenty of space on the memory card. The instructions don't say anything about this. In the phone memory management, the function to move to SD card is not pressed. SAMSUNG GT-S5830i GALAXY Ace

To install all the programs you need root rights

I had the same problem, I downloaded everything I could and installed it. But the problem was not solved, I gave up on this matter.

My LG E-400 has a root, very little internal memory and there is a lot on the SD card, please tell me how to swap i x

I installed the same microSD card on a Nokia 8.1 running Android 10, but there was no suitable storage feature there.

Why is the built-in memory not enough?

The main reasons why memory is full can be:

There are many applications installed on Samsung Galaxy A20. All applications are installed by default into the internal memory, therefore, the amount of internal memory can quickly run out from countless applications.
The reason is not the most common, but it does happen - the lack of a memory card in the gadget;
Accumulated cache in Google Play and Google Play Market Service.

Actually, there is nothing mysterious in this message, you just need to know how to increase the amount of internal memory in your smartphone (tablet).

Ready. To move the application to your device memory, in step #7, select “Move to device memory” or “Device memory”.