Move from phone to memory card. How to transfer an application to a memory card (flash drive) on Android. Emulation of additional internal memory on SD card

Modern devices on Android support the extension internal memory cards of a very decent size. This is useful for many reasons. For example, in the event of a factory rollback or other breakdown, you will not lose important applications and personal information. Among other things, on weak smartphones and tablets, this allows you to slightly speed up the device, leaving it extra space to create a swap file.

Built-in way to transfer app to SD card in Android

For many applications, there is a native way to transfer to the card. To determine if the program can be transferred to another drive, go to the "Settings" -> "Applications" section and see if the button labeled "Move to SD" is active. If so, feel free to click and wait for the system to cope with the task on its own. If the button is not active, it is possible this function blocked by developers (working from the built-in disk is faster by default). In this case, go to section 2 and use third-party software.

Programs for transferring to SD card in Android

There are a huge variety of free and paid programs that can help us in our assigned task. However, the most popular of these is AppMgr III, also known as App 2 SD. In addition to its main function (transferring programs to the card), it also clears the cache and shows summary information on files, their distribution into groups, free space on the device, and so on. It is extremely simple to manage the program: all the contents of the phone / tablet are divided into 3 departments - “On the phone”, “On the card”, “Only in the phone”. Therefore, applications “On the map” can be moved to the “On the phone” section, and the third group, alas, cannot be transferred at all. Conveniently, App 2 SD supports bulk selection and drag-and-drop, so you don't have to waste time dragging and dropping programs one at a time.

Transferring cache to SD card in Android

An interesting detail regarding the optimization of the operation of devices on Android is that the cache can take up more space than the application files themselves. Therefore, a separate transfer of the cache to the SD card may be useful. For this purpose, you will need another program called FolderMount, as well as the previously obtained root. If your device meets these requirements, we use the program as follows:

launch FolderMount and press "+" in the upper right corner of the screen;
in the "Name" line we drive in the name of the application whose cache we want to move;
in the line "Source", respectively, write the address of the folder with the cache, for example * SD / Android / obb / program folder *;
in the line "Purpose" select the final location;
click the checkbox at the top and the pin icon opposite the name from the first item in the list;
when the transfer is complete, the “pin” will turn green.

If you are planning to transfer programs to external card due to the fact that the device began to work slowly - do not rush to trouble yourself with this process. It may be worth using special programs to clean up disk space, after which the device will return to its full functionality.

When there is not very much space left in the smartphone, many users think about transferring applications and games to a memory card, since almost every gadget has it. Samsung Galaxy.

Here a wonderful one comes to our aid. free program AppMgr Pro III. She knows how to transfer your applications from the phone memory to the SD card, clear the cache and much more.

To see what you can put on the memory card, go to the tab "Relocatable"... All programs and games that can be kept in external memory devices.

AppMgr Pro III has support for bulk selection to help you get the results you want more quickly. In addition, after installing new applications, you will receive a notification about the possible movement of it to the map.

In the tab "in phone" all APKs that cannot be moved will be shown.

That's all. Also, at the first start, the utility will prompt you to clear the cache, which is usually 100-200 MB of freed memory. AppMgr works great with Galaxy S3 and S4, as well as other gadgets. For some Samsung smartphones need latest version Android firmware 4.2.2 for the program to work correctly (you will see a corresponding message on the screen).

Updated: Attention! Beginning with Android version 4.3 installation of an application on a memory card is not supported by the operating system itself! Therefore, it will be impossible to do this without ROOT rights and special mods.

Updated 2.0: As of 2015.03.15, it is known that Android 5.0 and 5.1 Lollipop versions are the same and there is still no support for writing to a memory card.

How to do it for specific device- material already for individual articles and universal way no. In the near future, we plan to make such instructions for the most popular Samsung Galaxy smartphones. Keep for updates.

Moving programs from the internal memory of the gadget to an external SD card is an issue that is relevant for many owners of old and new smartphones running Android OS.

GooglePlay has many useful applications, but the resources of the device are limited. And application porting is not bad quick way in the phone memory.

In addition, the lack of memory slows down the performance of Android, and to solve this problem, it is recommended to transfer at least some of the resource-intensive applications to external storage.

Why apps are installed to internal memory

Application developers decide on their own where their product will be installed.

Majority mobile applications installed in the gadget's memory, because removable media (i.e. SD card) is considered less reliable compared to internal memory, because:

all information on it is not encrypted;
A defective or poor quality SD card is unable to provide stable work applications;
accidentally or deliberately removing the SD card from the phone will make it impossible to access applications.

Limitations when transferring applications to SD card

V different versions Android OS, the algorithm for transferring programs to a memory card is different, but there are general rules:

it is allowed to move applications and some system utilities, if this function is provided by the developers; in both cases, applications must be downloaded from Google play and installed by the user;
system applications, originally built into the Android OS, cannot be transferred to another medium.

Moving programs to the SD card by standard means

V earlier versions Android, the ability to transfer games and other applications to external storage... Since Android 6.0 Marshmallow appeared new function- formatting the SD card as built-in memory.

Video instruction:

Instructions for transferring programs for Android 2.2 - 5.1:

Go to the "Settings" menu - the "Applications" section (or "Application Manager" in older versions of Android);
Choose suitable applications for the transfer; for convenience, they can be sorted by size or date of installation on the phone;
Press the "Move to SD card" button (if the option is unavailable, it means that the software is launched only from the built-in drive).

The standard function does not move all the data: this applies primarily to the cache, which is why it is better to download a special utility for moving applications (see below).

The procedure for smartphone users on Android 6.0 and higher consists of the following steps:

In "Applications" select what you want to move;
Open the "Memory" tab;
Click on "Change", then - "Memory card".

Note... The "Adoptable Storage" option in Android 6.0 and newer expands the internal storage with removable storage.

Preparing an SD card for transferring applications

For the subsequent installation of applications, you need to configure the memory card:

Format SD via phone settings or app;
Check the option "";
Restart your smartphone.

After these steps, in the Application Manager (section “Applications” in Settings), the button “Memory” will appear, allowing you to change the location of the software.

Android utilities to move apps

The above methods are useless if

Android version below 4.2.2,
custom firmware does not support moving from internal memory,
the developer has forbidden such manipulations.

However, there are special programs, with the help of which it is easy to bypass the obstacle and transfer many applications to the SD card; however, they do not guarantee that the desired result will be achieved. Anyway, try it!

AppMgr III (App 2 SD)

You can actually download the application.

Link2SD will cope with such tasks as:

transfer of applications to SD card;
clearing the cache;
sorting programs according to different criteria;
creating shortcuts to home screen phone;
determining the availability of free space.

How to use Link2SD:

Approve the granting of supervisor rights;
Filter applications by "Supports App2SD" parameter;
Select the one you want and carry out the transfer.

This article will show you how to transfer apps to your Android memory stick. I can say with confidence that this question asks a large number of users of Android devices. And most often these are users of devices, the internal memory capacity of which is 4-8 gigabytes. To help them, there are many ways to transfer programs to SD.

Using standard tools

As mentioned above, in devices with a small amount of memory, about 1 GB is occupied by the Android system itself, about 2 GB is allocated for multimedia files, and only 1 GB is allocated for installing programs, which is, of course, very small today. Now there are games in Google Play, the volume of which is more than two gigabytes, and no matter how powerful your device is: it may happen that you cannot install them due to the small amount of space allocated for the software. Therefore, I will tell you how you can save applications to an Android memory card.

This option does not require any intervention. third-party programs, and it is executed by standard means the system itself. The fact is that it can only partially solve the problem on some devices.

In this case, under the transfer of applications to the SD card, in practice, we get a transfer to the memory for multimedia, that is, to the second half of the same device, but not to the USB flash drive itself.

This can often be seen on gadgets of Chinese origin.

Execution order

Note: not all programs can be moved, but only those whose developers have provided this possibility.

Also, not absolutely everything is moved to SD, nevertheless, some files remain in their original place, and large files are moved to SD.

We use AppMgr III

I also want to tell you how to transfer applications to a memory card on Аndroid automatically. To do this, I would like to recommend a software called AppMgr III, which is available for free in Google Play. It has a very simple interface that is clear to everyone at once. This product only slightly complements the standard porting functionality, and when installing a new game, for example, a game will warn you that it can be installed on SD: you just have to agree or not.

How to use AppMgr III

After starting this program, your device will immediately display Android applications that can be moved to a memory card. To complete this task, click on the icon with the name and confirm the action.

You can also select the “On the SD card” tab, where you will see the programs that have already been moved, or the “In the phone” tab to display the programs that cannot be transferred to the Android memory card.

How to get ROOT rights: Video

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There is also another option, how to transfer applications to the Android memory card: it requires ROOT rights, but it is very effective. With this method, the application itself is not transferred to the Android SD card, but its cache, the largest files, does not occur. The procedure works with absolutely all games, since it is in them that most often there is a cache. I want to note that you can move cache applications not only to an Android memory card, but to any drive connected to it, to a USB flash drive or HDD.

So, in order to transfer the application cache on Android, for example, to a memory card, follow these steps:

After that, the application cache will be physically moved to the memory card, and the device itself will "think" that that folder is located along the path of Android / dat or Android / obb.

This is the entire manual on how to transfer applications to a memory card on Android. We hope you can handle this without difficulty.

Transferring Applications to a Memory Card in Android: Video

Vova Stadnitsky 12/22/2015 7:28 PM

I do not have the function of moving to the sd card at all, you can only move to system memory and to the phone memory. I tried various programs, but moved to the system memory and to the phone memory. That is, in general, we are not talking about sd, as if sd was not installed, although all the files that were played there. Help solve the problem, please

V-ANDROIDE Team 12/30/2015 15:53

Hello. Apparently, your device simply does not support such functions. In general, the most best app- this is Clean master... But, you need to buy it in order to use the program fully. The paid version also includes transferring files to an SD card. Other methods are described in the article. If you can't, then I can't tell you other ways, because I don't know myself.

Timur 01/19/2016 07:26

A small number of phones have a jamb in the firmware, there is no possibility of transferring to an SD card. (Example lenovo A850) in this phone factory firmware with a cant that just blocks portability.
Solution to the problem: we say goodbye to the phone warranty and flash a new firmware. (Note, with some phones, flashing can become a quiet horror, because it causes difficulties because there are a large number of subtleties that may not be described on the forums. As a result, you can just kill your phone by trying to reflash)

Gutts 03/20/2016 13:57

I installed the root of the rights to lenovo a526, checked it with a checker, the root was installed, but still I can not move the applications. The app manager writes that the device does not seem to support this function. also tried to swap memory in places, but he stops seeing the flash drive altogether. how to be

Madya 09.24.2016 14:16

Hello, help me please! I installed the root of the rights through the recovery, and then I look-applications from the SD card were erased. I think okay, I'll install it again. in the end, I downloaded them, installed them, wanted to transfer them to the SD card, but it says “could not move the application”. I don't know what to do. I've tried absolutely everything, all applications, but nothing helps. I do not want to remove the root of the law, maybe you know what the problem is?

Hello. Who were you trying to swap? No need to open root to transfer applications. To transfer apps to your memory card, you just need to install the Clean Master app. This application has a lot of useful functions, among which the most useful function- cleaning memory from garbage, as well as transferring applications to a memory card. It's pretty simple. Open the application, go to the "Tools" section (there is a corresponding button in the bottom center). ; Next, go to the "Application Manager" section, and then open the "Move" tab. After that, check the boxes of the applications that you want to transfer to the SD card and confirm the operation. Then, I think, you will figure it out, everything is very simple there.

V-ANDROIDE Team 10/06/2016 10:12 PM

Hello. I strongly discourage opening root rights, because it is fraught with consequences. Often, phones start to get terribly buggy and then you just won't turn into problems. It comes to the point that you have to reflash the phone. So, think again before you open full access... Trust my experience, it's better not to open Root. Personally, I have a Samsung S4 and I don’t even try to open the root of the law, because I know what it might threaten. Regarding your question - I don't remember all the models already, how the root opens. But, I know that on Samsung, the developers (manufacturer) closed the root of the rights completely, and in order to open root, you need to install a new custom firmware with already open rights. This applies to phone and tablet models from 2013 and newer. Most likely, you will not be able to open the root without your computer.

V-ANDROIDE Team 10/06/2016 10:12 PM

Hello. I can not know. Maybe the flash drive is formatted to some file system which the phone does not support. Maybe there is not enough space on the memory card. Maybe some kind of glitch. It may be that the application cannot be migrated. Most likely, some kind of system glitch. Try to format the memory card at a low level using a PC (this requires HDD program low level format), then again on a PC format the memory card into the FAT32 file system. Then you insert it into the phone and format it again already in the phone using Android tools. To transfer applications, try using Clean program Master. You can download the program for free in the Play Store.

Team V-ANDROIDE 19.10.2016 20:08

Hello. I know - opening root rights gives free access to all applications, including malicious ones, to system files and records. One of the installed applications or a virus can simply damage the records, change the system configuration, steal personal data and transfer it to the owner, and so on. In addition, many phones start terribly buggy due to open root rights. To be honest, I don't see the point of why to open them. Phones and tablets work just fine. Ruth gives absolutely nothing, only makes it worse, because because of it everything starts to glitch and there are serious risks of picking up a virus or malware that will simply disable your device. Return everything to its original state and DO NOT OPEN Root at all. Forget it's even possible. Trust my experience, you shouldn't open the root.

The "stomach" of the green robot is smaller than the thimble. Especially on devices with little memory. I fed him a dozen or two super-mega-needed programs - and the place ran out. But ... many of us have the opportunity to install a second "stomach" in the gadget and continue feeding further.

Today we will talk about transferring applications from internal memory to SD-card in smartphones and tablets on Android.

Which apps can and cannot be transferred

Among mobile applications, there are some that can be transferred between drives and some that cannot. When you transfer a program to an external medium, some components remain in the same place - in the permanent memory of the device.

If the program is relatively self-contained and not too whimsical in terms of the location of files and data, it will remain functional. And if it is deeply rooted in operating system, when the work of other structures depends on it, the transfer can end in failure - not only this program will stop working, but also everything that interacts with it. For this reason, it is absolutely not worth trying to move system applications.

Ability to transfer products to microSD third party developers is not the same. It depends on whether the author of the program has provided this opportunity. They do not write about this in the characteristics - everything is learned experimentally, but such experiments do not threaten with serious consequences. If after the transfer the program does not work, it is enough to return it to its place or reinstall it in the device memory.

Moving by system means

Modern versions of Android starting from 6.0 support porting software on cards without additional funds. In them, the micro SD-scale is used as an extension of the internal storage, and the move function is built into the firmware.

To transfer the program from the memory of a smartphone or tablet to a card in Android 6.0 and higher, do the following:

Open the system settings and go to the section " Device» – « Applications».
Open the menu (properties section) of the required program with a short touch.
Tap " Storage", then " Change».

In the window " Changing storage location»Select« Memory card».

The instruction is applicable to devices of many brands and models, but adjusted for individual characteristics. Some manufacturers, for example, Samsung, instead of “ Vaults"You need to go to the section" Memory". Others have a button " Transfer toSD»Is located in the menu of applications that support this function. Well, the third ... just did not bother and refused to implement the transfer function in the firmware of their devices.

The ability to transfer applications to SD-cards "without intermediaries" exists in very old versions of Android - 2.2 and below, and everything that appeared later - up to the sixth version, needs third-party tools, which will be discussed later.

Mobile software for moving applications to SD

AppMgr III

Utility AppMgr III (App 2 SD) it is convenient in that it makes it possible to perform operations of the same type with several objects at once (batch control of the installed software). This is not only a change in the location of the software installation, but also:

AppMgr III simplifies and speeds up many maintenance tasks for a mobile gadget, supports all versions of Android starting from 4.1, but is officially incompatible with devices from certain manufacturers, in particular Xiaomi. Operations with some objects require root rights.

Link2SD

Exclusive utility feature Link2SD- moving absolutely all user applications to SD-cards, even those that do not allow it. The truth about whether the developer guarantees their further performance is not said in the description.

Other functions and capabilities of Link2SD:

Changing the attributes of custom software to system software and vice versa.
Freezing unused software.
Batch transfer of software to SD-cards and device memory.
Batch uninstall and reinstall programs, batch clear cache and data. Clearing the cache of all installed software with one touch.
Removal of potentially malicious software.
Device reboot control.
Create custom shortcuts.
Sorting installed applications by various parameters, search and much more.

Link2SD is more omnivorous than AppMgr III: it runs on any version of Android, starting from 2.3, and Xiaomi devices generally supports (although not all in user experience). Most of the operations require root rights, it does not work on some firmware without root. Free version The utilities are pretty good - functional and convenient, but annoying with ads.

Files To SD Card

A simple utility FilesToSDCard designed to transfer files to a memory card different types- graphics, videos, music and, of course, applications. In addition, it allows you to select the SD card where new files are saved (by default, Android saves everything on the device).

Files To SD Card is used to offload the memory of mobile gadgets and Reserve copy data. Despite the fact that the manufacturer claims to support a limited number of devices: Lenovo A2010 LTE, Samsung GalaxyCore, Moto G, Vodafone Smart Prime 6, Nokia One and Sony Xperia M4, the utility runs on almost any smartphones and tablets under Android 5.0 and up. On most firmwares, everything works without root.

Move to SDCard

A program with an uncomplicated name " Move to SDCard»Pleases users with simplicity and good results. In addition to the main function, which coincides with the name, the utility is able to:

Move software from card to device memory.
Sort apps by name, size, installation date.
Display information about applications: installation location, date, time, size, name of the executable file (apk).
Search for software on your device and on the Internet.

The utility is compatible with most brands and models of mobile gadgets, including deeply Chinese and very old ones (supports Android 2.3 and higher). Some functions require root privileges.

File manager

File manager from Best App developer Is an improved explorer, replacing the standard file manager on smartphones and tablets for Android. Changing the installation location of applications is just one of its functions.

Among other features of the File Manager:

Copying, pasting, cutting, moving, deleting, renaming, loading - that is, all the standard operations with files and folders.
Integration with OneDrive and DropBox.
Access to open resources on the local network.
Clearing cache, junk data, duplicates.
Sorting objects by categories.
Transfer files over Wi-Fi to others mobile devices, computers and Smart TV.
Analysis and graphical display of storage space utilization.
Archiving and unzipping files. Support for all major compression formats: rar, zip, 7z, 7zip, tgz, tar, gz.
Organizing and storing documents of various formats: doc, ppt, pdf and others.

Explorer is very lightweight and easy to learn, not overloaded with redundant functions, undemanding to hardware resources. Runs on Android 4.2 and higher. Some functions need root rights, but everything basic works like that.

All-In-One Toolbox

All-In-One Toolbox- utility for complex optimization and maintenance mobile system... Painless transfer of applications from internal memory to SD-card and vice versa is also one of its functions.

Other useful features of All-In-One Toolbox:

Management of software startup (user and system).
Removing unnecessary data (cleaning garbage, caches, duplicates).
Complete removal of programs with cleaning of the remaining files.
Accelerating the device by releasing random access memory from running services and programs.
Reduced battery consumption.
Encryption of personal data.
Displays a list of large files.
Explorer with the function of sorting objects into categories.

All-In-One Toolbox is a good tool for speeding up and maintaining smartphones and tablets with limited resources - small amount of storage and RAM, not the most productive processor, weak battery. Runs on devices of all brands and models, with perhaps a few exceptions. Some functions require root rights and depend on the version of Android.

As most often happens, this is far from an exhaustive list of utilities with the ability to transfer applications to an SD card and vice versa. There are hundreds of them, but each with its own quirks and character. I hope this small review will help you find exactly what you like, and will also be "tough" for your Android device.