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[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d4fseeker:
Nice, they say you should delete all your ingame progress and configurations to get some more disk capacity?

As already said at the beginning of the thread: either root and use Directory Bind or don't and live with the restrictions.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BeLGaRaTh67:
So according to that they are basically telling you to delete the game content etc if you have TDKR or similar taking up 2GB. Obviously that will clear a lot of data, you wont be able to play the game either :(
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Aimara:
nonsense, thats not a solution , anyway my negative feedback is send!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] noface83:
It's really redicolus, Samsung should see the game devs. Some good games, it need gigs space (MC2, MC3, Asphalt, NFS, NOVA, erc.). It's just like hurry finish ur game then uninstall it to play new game :(
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] swolfaz1:
links2sd

IMHO this is the best way to use your sdcard to store your apps and all your music/video etc.

If you are root you can use links2sd. Plug your SD card directly into your computer, backup the contents to your computer (you will be formatting it so you want to save your data). Using a partition tool (i used Minipartition Tool Home Edition because its free and very simple any tool will do though) you want to format your sd card to fat32. I then take half of my 16gb card and format it to ext4. The fat32 portion i use for music/movies/pictures. Make the fat32 portion primary that way your phone will recognize the sdcard. (at first make the ext4 primary that way it shows the partition as active and then make the fat32 the primary so they're both active). Put all your backed up storage back on the fat32 portion of the sdcard (this will all that will be visible to windows). Put the sdcard back in your phone. Your phone OS will only recognize the fat32 portion of the sdcard at first, this is normal. Download "links2sd" from the playstore. When you open the app it will ask what to link to select where you would like the files to be linked to select "ext4". It will say mount script created. Restart the phone, then select one of your applications and link it. If you have formatted everything correctly it will link the application to your sdcard ext4. Then you can select all and under actions select link to sd. It will then move all the information done to ext4 of your sd card. You can also click menu, settings, and have the program automatically link any new apps downloaded automatically. Now all of your app information is on the sdcard ext4. A small portion of the app remains on the internal storage as some apps will crash if the entire app is moved to the sdcard so links2sd is a much better way to free up space and still have your phone run fast and smooth (ext4 is the fastest of any partition). In links2sd you can menu --> storage info and you will now see extsdcard AND SD Card 2nd Part (this is your app storage). the extsdcard is your fat32 which is where I store all my music/video/movies etc.This keeps your internal sdcard with tons of space. My sdcard is a class 6 so I use an additional 4gigs as ram, this way I put the max processor speeds at 800mhz (once you go over 800mhz there is a massive jump in millivolts used). So the phone still flys while maximizing battery life.

Regards

SWolf
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] koala8819:
ive used directory bind app. allows transfer of large files of apps like nova3.works great on ics and current jb leak of omega. :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] friend1:
If you install 6-7 Gameloft games , let me know if 11GB are freaking........

HUGE mistake by Samsung (among with others). They are copying apple at every aspect....
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d4fseeker:
"move to sd" is a remainder from when the internal storage was divided in the app partition (data) and normal storage (sdcard!!!)

This is no longer given and thus not necessary.

The problem in itself does not lie with Samsung since the apps themselves are usually rather small but in most cases with the app developers who think you dont need to be able to choose where to choose the uptto several Gigabytes of additional content.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smoke2:
I have problem with Directory Bind.

I moved some games from Gameloft and Glu to externalSD card, completely with additional data, everything worked fine, but after restart all games want to download additional data again and I dont know why.

Where I can made mistake?

Would be very appreciated.

Thanks a lot.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pope_acute:
top marks

brilliant thanks followed your advice now i'm sorted for space, like friend1 said a few HD games from gameloft and space soon becomes an issue.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BeLGaRaTh67:
Do i just press the link button in link2sd after choosing the app to move, or do I press the movetosd button?

For me hitting link seems to do something but no data/space is removed from the internal card. Move to SD gives an error about insufficient space. There is 14GB on the external card (14GB fat32 and 14GB Ext4)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dre10g:
In the "link settings" what do you have ticked of the 3 options?

I'm testing it on Ski Safari and it only works when I have:

Link application (unticked)

Link dalvik-cache file (ticked)

Link library files (ticked)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ryanoption:
I'm going to try this tomorrow. Is there an option in the app to use some of the SD card for RAM or how do I go about doing that? Thanks.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] csutikisx:
This app2sd method doesnt work for me. And yes there is option like that. Type how to make and use swap on sd card. If you didnt find I can give you link later but now from phone I cant.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] carlos123456:
sorry to re-light this thread

but does anyone know if what is said here by Samsung works

(not aloud to post link till 10 posts) so had to copy and paste.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BeLGaRaTh67:
I posted about this a few pages back, it does not work, nor ever will on the S3, its bull**** from Samsung
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] heartspeace:
Why don't you provide e-mail address so we can all write Samsung.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lmychajluk:
Having the same issue here on a stock Sprint Galaxy S3. I was hoping the JB update would've fixed this.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] verbeek75:
I have the same problem with my S3 which is full mostly with Gameloft games, everytime I want to install some new big games I need to delete something.

A couple of days ago I wanted to install a Bard's Tale, but as it has a 1.8Gig additional install I had to delete some games. When I then installed Bards Tale is was happily surprised I got the question if I wanted to install the 1.8 g data on sd1 or sd2..... I was able to install all the data on my ext SD.

So it is possible on the S3 to save large files on the ext SD. Gameloft and others with big data files should update all there apps so we can download and install on the ext SD.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oulouloul:
Would you upload a screenshot here? (We can see that sd1 sd2 option screen)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joymohamed:
how can I split my 32gb sd card for my partition

Hi,

Is there anyone can help me how can I use my 32gb sd card to get more space and how big I must put on fat32 and some other things...pls teach me...this is what I have on my 16gb sd card but it doesnt seem to be right. .
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joymohamed:
Can anyone pls help me....
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jyarborough:
You add all the many applications one might have plus pics and you git space issues. I have only 1gb of space leftbof my 16gb. Butt I have 32 on hold
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lither:
So Directory Bind is the only way we can transfer app data files to SD card? Does Link2SD work as well?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BeLGaRaTh67:
For me neither work :( I wish we had the old way of working when we could just use app2sd but even the dev of that has disbanded support for S3 :(
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aznmode:
Can you tell me exactly what youre doing. I use DirectoryBind and have over 10 games binded to extSDcard.

Here's an example

Most games are stored in mnt/sdcard/android/data. So you need to create the same directory in your micro sd card for this to work. The other confusion maybe because when you add a new entry in Directory Bind you would think source is internal and target is extsdcard but its the other way around.

In root explorer go /mnt/extSDcard/ and create a folder called android and then a subfolder under it called data. (skip if you already have them)

Now go to /mnt/sdcard/android/data and you will see a list of games you've installed. An example in my case is Modern Combat 3. So in the data folder I will see a folder called "com.gameloft.android.ANMP.GloftM3HM" and within that folder is a subfolder called "Files".

Now we need to create the same folder and subfolder in your /mnt/extSDcard/android/data. (It's possible I didn't have to go as far creating a Files folder but I did in my case atleast for gameloft games)

Once you create the folders you can open up Directory Bind and Add a New entry.

Tap and hold the source field and it will open up a list of your directories.

You will point it to /mnt/extSDcard/android/data/com.123xxx/xxxxx then press Select.

Now tap and hold the mount field and go to /android/data/com.123xxx/xxxxx then press Select.

If you've already downloaded the game data when you opened up the game then check the box for "Transfer files from target to data." and then press Add.

Wait for the transfer to finish. When its done do a Bind Check in Directory bind. If you did it right then the floppy disc icon turns green. Any other color you did something wrong so compare both directories and correct any typos or maybe you pointed one or the other to the wrong directory.

Now some games are stored in just /mnt/sdcard/android/data/ and no subfolders. And I think some games are stored in months/sdcard/android/obb. Below are more examples of the ones I created.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sajeel:
app to sd card

It seems so far the only way to move to sd card is to use partition software and link2sd by method stated by swolf.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dlads:
I'm interested in this, my internal SD is nowhere near enough for the games and stuff i want on my phone, i have a class 10 SDXC 64GB.

I've been reading through some of your posts and it seems that you have pretty much what i'm after.

Bind2 SD and link2 sd.

Any pointers??

Many thanks.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ohrstinker:
You helped me alot sir, put this please in another thread so forum admin can sticky this!

Thank you for this good explain, now i can use my s3 my way! not samsungs way!

Worked perfect for my i9305!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aznmode:
You're welcome. Its easy right? Apps itself don't hog as much data as the games data so Directory Bind IMO is the perfect solution.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] banshee1013:
Just an FYI on this subject - the husband and I just discovered this issue today. I have an SGSIII, but he has a Droid MAXX HD and it's experiencing the same issue, unable to add *any* apps to the external SD card. So it doesn't seem to be related to *just* Samsung, but perhaps it's still a manufacturer limitation...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] verbeek75:
Hi, here is screenshot when I install the the game Bard's Tale, it used to say I could choose sd1 and sd2 to install, seems after an update they change the screen option, but it still clearly detects a expansion (external SD) on my S3 international version for me to install the 1.7 gb or the 3.5 GB data file, so it is possible for developers to have data files installed on the external SD of a S3, if they can do it, so should others like Gameloft.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nutmix:
Same problem Here

I have the SIII mini (no forum for it so posting here).

I have tried several app such as appManager, astro file manager an the old app2SD and none allow you move the Gigs of data (such as the copilot 2GB of maps) to the SD card. This would appear to be an astronomical step backwards for Android, as I used this feature on every app on my old 2.3.3. device. I purchased a super fast 32GB SD card, and cant use it. I could cry. This is enough to push me to Apple.

I have been unable to find any postings on why Google would make such a seemingly ludicrous step backwards. In fact I would go so far as to say I cant see a single improvement over 2.3.3. I am pretty amazed that I cant find any feature difference between 2.3.3 and 4.1 except that they have crippled the internal memory by stopping use of SD cards.

If I had known about this limitation, i would never have bought a phone with only 8GB (which only had 4GB free).
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kadu_tbj:
I did it here and it worked:

Here’s what you will need:

1. An Android device, of course.

2. Android SDK (Download it here). It is quite a big file, so Relax!

3. Windows PC or a Mac.

Steps:

1. Download Android SDK and unzip the contents to a folder.

2. Enable “USB debugging Mode” in your android device. To do this, go to Settings -> Applications -> Development and enable ‘USB debugging’

3. Connect your device to your computer in “charge only” or similar modes but NOT in ‘USB Storage’ mode.

4. Go to the folder where you have unzipped Android SDK and navigate to to ‘sdk’ folder

5a. Windows users: Go to ‘platform-tools folder. Hold down SHIFT key and right-click anywhere in the folder. From the pop-up menu, select ‘Open command window here’. This will open up a command prompt screen.

5b. Mac users: right-click ‘platform-tools and choose [New Terminal At Folder]

6. Now, in the command prompt window, Windows users:

type: adb devices

Mac users:

type: ./adb devices

and press enter. You will see the name of the device connected at the moment.

8. Then windows users type:

adb shell

Mac users type:

./adb shell

and press enter

9. Next, type:

pm setInstallLocation 2

and press enter. (If this command fails, use this: pm set-install-location 2)

Install Apps to SD

10. Done!

11. To verify, type:

pm getInstallLocation

and press enter. If you see an output ” 2 [external] ” means that the process is successful.

Now, in your device, go to settings->Applications->Manage Applications->On SD card (in some devices it may be USB Storage), and check the apps that you would like to move to your SD card.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Iceburgh71:
Is there a way to use this on the Galaxy Tab 2 7.0? I can't seem to get it to work. I'm assuming being there's no option to have a "charge only" connection.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nadram:
Sorry, what I meant was from the 16GB of the internal SD there's 11.7GB available for apps and data

From my 32GB external... Nothing for apps and data. So far, I've only managed to get internet downloads from the browser, and pics from my camera there.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vasp3690:
do you know if you can store navigation maps in the external SD rather than the internal? that would also be convienient as they take up a lot of space.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nadram:
Not from the app manager. What you'll have to do is cut and past manually. Whether the app will recognize the location I don't know.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gadgetz:
http://www.chainfire.eu/articles/113/Is_Google_blocking_apps_writing_to_SD_cards_/

Hopefully the devs here can utilize the patch in future roms/kernels to give us this functionality back.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] verich:
Also, it bothers me. I need 11GB place and data can not move :(
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nadram:
Looking around for the Google Android support center landed me here

http://support.google.com/ics/nexus/?hl=en

Absolutely useless

Any suggestions as to what support thread I can bombard with requests?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] verich:
The fault is but on the Samsung. Should enable mass storage.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nadram:
Really? I thought this was an ICS issue. Can anyone confirm?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] verich:
HTC One V works normally. Includes ICS 4.0 and functional mass storage. Aplications can be moved too.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nadram:
Thanks for that guys.

Well I just tried 5 different apps that are supposed to manage moving apps between internal and external storage. Problem is they all send me back to the app manager so it's no use.

Anyone know of an app that will independently manage moving apps?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gadgetz:
None work, unfortunately.

via Atrix 2/VictoryROM/XDA app
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RMXO:
Can you guys try this & let me know if it works or not.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Morrienz:
Because the 11GB is already down to 2 just days after getting my s3 and I have 30 GB free on external sd that I want to use. That's why some of us want to shift large apps to external as
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] funb0b:
What is it?

and why does it need to read sensitive log data?

---------- Post added at 08:49 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:51 PM ----------

OMFG I think its worked, just put the 2gb of data from Nova 3 onto the sdcard and deleted it from the phone memory and it still works:)

Let me try and move & play a few more:)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vasp3690:
This thing asked me to have my phone rooted so it doesn't work for me

sent with SGS3
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RMXO:
sensitive data i cant answer but it a directory bin app that u can move a directory on the sdcard to extSD

i used it to move apps/games in /android to /mnt/sdcard/ext_sd/android. u can use this for any folder in / & bind it to your extSD
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] funb0b:
Nah!!!! scratch that it wont do it, I was getting confused and it was copying within the same card & won't bind to the extSD or at least I can get it to work, perhaps someone with more talent could try.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RMXO:
Yeah, you must be rooted to use Directory Bind.

Shucks I was hoping it worked, now I might have to consider a 32GB & hopefully someone can get it to work.

Let me try to find the info on the author of DB to see if he can get it updated for the SGS3.

Did you try to activate it on start? I believe you have to bind it on start up or something like that.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1410262

Here's where I got it from & instructions
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Morrienz:
In the meantime till this is resolved, for those like me who already have used up enough of their 11g available on internal sdcard to be getting concerned, both MyBackup Pro and Titanium backup have an option to change the backup files location, and I've tried it with both on my s3 (rooted) and it seems to work using the external sdcard. Titanium will even do the move of the existing backups to the new location for you, although I'd manually copied the backup folder myself before it asked if I wanted to do that.

Moving my backup files has freed up quite a lot of space on the internal sdcard for me.

When I say it seems to have worked, I can see the backups in the new location from inside both apps, but havent yet tried running a backup or a restore using the external sdcard location.

Not a fix obviously but it might help those who are close to filling their internal card already. At the moment I have both backup apps on my phone, and the two apps' backup files combined were using 3 GB of my 11 GB avaialable.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nadram:
The stock camera app also recognizes the external sd.

I don't like this one bit... really hope they will be fixing this soon

Sent from my SGS3
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RMXO:
Do you mean it "doesn't"?

Have you tried ICS Camera+
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Morrienz:
You sure about that Nadram? storage location in my s3's stock cam app only seems to have two options, internal phone memory and sdcard. mine set to sdcard and pics are going to internal sdcard, not external. If you have got cam working to external could you post details of how exactly.

Thanks
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] funb0b:
My pictures are saved to the external sdcard, when the option is selected in the camera app. Checked with file explorer.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Morrienz:
Hi Nadram, Funbob.

My apologies Nadram. I have just realised that the photos saved to my internal sdcard were taken before I had put the external sdcard in! Just took a new photo now and it saved it to the external card as you say it does.

Cheers.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bala_gamer:
have you people tried contacting/mailing the "app2sd" developer?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.a0soft.gphone.app2sd&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5hMHNvZnQuZ3Bob25lLmFwcDJzZCJd
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nadram:
App developers are not at fault here. Samsung is. We're not complaining about an application, we're trying too find a solution to the fact that Samsung made it impossible to move an app to sdcard.

Maybe you're trying to say something that I didn't get?

Sent from my SGS3
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bala_gamer:
as a part of the solution, the app developer may have some ideas/workaround for that. why not get his opinion? it will be useful
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] funb0b:
I can't believe this isn't being pushed to the top of the forums, this is a real concern that needs a solution for many users.

Please please Dev's can we get this sorted soon.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mize:
I'm an Android noob so please forgive me as I don't know how much linux is underneath Android, but couldn't one simply use an ln -s on a rooted device to make the OS see the mount in the right spot? That or just change the mount point (fstab/mount)?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nadram:
Welcome to Android. I have no idea what you just said :)

I imagine eventually someone will release a fix or a Rom that recognizes the sd card as available space for applications if not done already. Anyone?

Sent from my SGS3
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mize:
LOL. In linux you can easily manipulate mount points or create links that make a mount look like any directory you want. I don't know how much filesystem-level stuff Android shares with linux though. My SG3 gets here tomorrow or Wednesday...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mize:
So...I have my i9300 now and am hoping there is a solution to this. My 64 GB microSDXC arrives any day and I'd like to put some rarely used apps there along with all my music and movies.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nadram:
If you're moving your movies and music manually from your pc you'll have no trouble. If you're using an app like Google Play Music then it's trouble. I haven't seen any fix yet

Sent from my SGS3
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mize:
To add a bit, this is no normal linux. They've created a partition called /mnt/sdcard from the internal flash. It is not mounted via fstab as normal (android calls it /etc/vold.fstab) - there is no entry for this mount point, although there is an entry for the external sd card. Anyway, since they already carved out and named a partition sdcard, there's no simple way to change the mount point for the external sdcard.

:(

Hope this gets fixed very soon.