Problem Insufficient Storage Problem

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    spirittoo Regular member

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    Hello all ... I bought this android phone ... and this 32 GB micro SD card ... I installed the card in the phone ... the phone sees the card fine ... the problem is when I try and download apps I believe it is trying to install them on the internal storage which isn't near enough. Hence the message about insufficient space. I went into the phone settings and looked under storage ... I have the dot checked next to SD, so I don't know what I need to do to install the apps on the card. Can anyone help me with this????
     
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    Also I would like to note that I went into the Apps manager and tried to move the app to the SD that way but the move button was grayed out.
     
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    Nobody will be able to help not without knowing what phone your on about,perhaps a web search of your issue including model of phone may bring up others who have the same issue
     
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    I'm afraid you didn't see my post fully ... I posted a link to the phone and the card.
     
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    Well sir ... this is where I am at so far. I got a link from another website to help me move apps to the SD card. I followed the instructions, but now I am stuck at the point where you give the command "adb shell pm setInstallLocation 2". I typed it in and I get this .... "Error: unknown command 'setInstallLocation' ... then I get a long list of data ... anyone have any idea how to correct this????
     
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    You'd need to find the correct command that the phone Operating System understands & chances are the commands will have to be typed correctly as linux is case sensitive
     
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    Do you know how I can find that information?
     
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    Most probably by finding out the version of android used that's assuming the dam thing hasn't been tinkered with by the phone manufacturer & made changes to it,so that certain commands on the std version become useless on the version you have,then find a forum that specializes or has an abundant amount of linux coders for android.Before you do any changes you better back everything up
     
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    ok i can tell you why.

    1. if it's a hacked version of android from a cheap china manufacturer it won't install anything to the microsd card because android especially older versions don't like 32 gig microsd cards they will work but then corrupt i recommend trying a 16 gig card
     
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    Wellsir ... I come a long way since the last post. I will have to look into getting a 16 gig SD ... right now I'm at a point where I'm getting a "Mount script cannot be created. mount: Invalid argument." so what I am attempting now it to unlock the bootloader in order to get pass the error in Link2SD. Thanks for posting.



    HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
     
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