The amount of built-in memory is what many smartphone manufacturers save on. This is especially true for budget devices based on the Android operating system. These budget models can have 8, 4 or 2 gigabytes of memory. And you also need to take into account that part of this memory will be occupied by the files of the operating system itself. As a result, users get a device with very little free space to install applications.

But, this problem has a solution. If you have operating system Android version 2.2 or higher, then you can use the application transfer function. This will free up some space and allow new applications to be installed. If you are interested, then you have come to the right place. In this article, we will tell you how to transfer applications to a memory card on Android.

Step # 1. Open the settings and go to the "Applications" section.

First of all, you need to open the Android settings and go to the "Application Manager" section. In some firmwares, this section of settings may simply be called "Applications".

Step # 2. Open the desired application.

After going to the "Application Manager" section, you will see a list of all installed applications... Here you need to find the application that you want to transfer to the memory card and open it.

Step # 3. Transfer the application to the memory card.

After selecting an application from the list, you should see a page with information about this application. Here you can see how much memory it takes this application and also get other information.

In order to transfer the application to the memory card, you need to click on the "To SD memory card" button. In other firmwares, this button may be called "Move to SD card" or something else. But, the meaning is just the same - the transfer of the application.

Note! In some cases, the application transfer button is missing. This means that portability of this application is not possible. Select another application from the list.

Step # 4. Wait for the application migration to complete.

After clicking on the transfer button of the application, the operating system will start copying data from the built-in memory of the device to the memory card. At this time, the transfer button will not be available.

After a while, the transfer button will display the words “Move to device memory”. This means that the transfer of the application is complete and you can use it.

Mass transfer of applications on Android.

This app sorts all adopted apps into three categories:

• Relocatable (an application that can be transferred to a memory card and vice versa);
• On an SD card (applications that were previously transferred to the memory card);
• In the phone (applications that are in the built-in phone memory);

This sorting of installed applications allows you to quickly find out which applications can be transferred and which cannot. Also, from the program, you can quickly go to the application page in the Application Manager and actually transfer the application, as described above.

V Android there are 3 effective ways to transfer applications to the memory card.

System methods- v Android there is a built-in function for transferring any application to a memory card (if, of course, the application itself supports it). To check if the application can be transferred, open Settings - Applications, and then select the one you want from the list of applications.

After that, pay attention to the button with the name "Move to SD Card"... If it is active, then you can safely press it, then wait a little while the system transfers the application and voila, the application is already on the external memory card.

Using the AppMgr application (it is App2SD)- quite a popular application among Android users, which will allow you to transfer applications to a memory card many times more conveniently than using system methods. After starting the application, note that there are 3 tabs available: Relocatable(applications that are in the device's memory and support moving to a memory card), On SD card(applications that are currently on the SD card and can be moved back to the device's memory) and In phone(applications that cannot be moved and can only work in the device's memory).

The main advantage of the application is its massive allocation, which will allow you to transfer all applications to an external memory card in one go. To do this, open the menu, and then select the item Move All... In the window that appears, mark the applications that you want to move and click « OK» ... After that, you only need to press the button "Move to SD Card" that's all.

This method is applicable not so much to the application as to its cache, which takes up most of the memory, and the FolderMount application will help with its transfer, which requires ROOT rights on your smartphone / tablet. If you don't know what is ROOT, then we read and carefully delve into the various forums that you will find in Google... After installing the application, click on the plus sign in the right upper corner... In field "Name" enter an arbitrary name, for example gta, fightback and any other. In field "A source" find the game cache folder, which is usually located here: Sdcard / android / obb / your application name folder... After finding the folder, click on the checkmark in the upper right corner. Immediately after that, a window will appear with a proposal to automatically create the destination folder, with which you unequivocally agree. After that, put a check mark next to the item Cancel Scan and click on the checkmark in the upper right corner and confirm all your actions. Then wait for a message about the successful cache move to appear in the notification bar.

If the smartphone notifies that there is not enough free space, an additional memory card may not always be able to solve this problem. This article will discuss in detail the question of how to easily copy files from Android to a memory card. It is necessary to distinguish between internal memory and memory provided by a flash card. These are excellent repositories and each of them requires proper work.

First, you should learn how to copy documents and files from internal memory to SD card.

Initial steps for copying

For this manipulation, you will need to go to any available explorer, but if the smartphone does not have a built-in program for these purposes, then the best solution is or ES Explorer. They are freely available in the public domain. An example of how to copy files from Android to a memory card will be parsed on.

1. It should be noted that SD Card is a memory in the device itself. This happens if the device's memory is divided into sections for applications and system.
2. External SD is already the flash card itself, which is inserted into a special slot of the smartphone.
   With all of the above devices, you can quickly and easily carry out manipulations for copying, transferring and deleting material.

In general, this operation is no different from how it is carried out on a regular computer.

Execution stages

For those who like to play (working with the cache)

Many users know that all downloaded utilities are installed by standard on internal storage smartphone. And it so happens that the downloaded game can take up all the space in the memory, which will not allow additional loading of any application. Such games carry with them an additional cache (the main folder with loading files) and most often this folder take up a lot of space. Knowing how easy it is to copy files from Android to a memory card, you can copy the cache to a flash card, the game will remain functional, and there will be much more space on the smartphone.

Instructions

For example, the game "Shadow Fight 2".

1. Go to SD drive and highlight the Android folder.
2. The entire game cache is stored in directories named Dаta and Obb.
3. Cut the "Shadow Fight 2" catalog from the section titled SD Card/ Аndroіd / Dаta and move this content to the section titled External SD / Androіd / Dаta.
4. The Shadow Fight 2 folders from the section SD Card / Android / Obb, which also need to be transferred to External SD / Android / Obb.

One of the main advantages of the ES Explorer application is that all application and game icons are shown in the section that is responsible for its work.

Saving photos

Wanting to have the camera shots automatically saved to the SD card, this can be adjusted through the camera settings:

1. Switch to shooting mode.
2. Go to "Camera settings".
3. Select the "Memory" section.
4. Check the "SD card" save mode so that all captured images will be saved in this section.

In modern phones and tablets, excellent camera modules are used, which sometimes allow you to take professional pictures. However, along with the increase in the quality of the images themselves, the size of the photographs also grows, which take up a lot of space. If the device runs out of free space, it should be freed up. This can be done, including with the help of a memory card, to which we will transfer photos and, accordingly, free up space on the device.

Moving photos from main memory to a memory card

In order to transfer images to a memory card, you need the memory card itself installed in your smartphone or tablet, and a file manager.

After you insert the memory card into your device, you can make sure that the device "sees" it. To do this, go to the settings and select the "Memory" subsection.

Find the item "SD card" here. As you can see, our device recognized the card.

Now you need a file manager. As file manager you can use any application of your choice, as the transfer process itself will be the same. If FM is already installed in your firmware, you can use it. If not, download from Google play Market. We'll be using ES File Explorer.

Run the application and you see two file sections. In our case, the first of them is the memory card, the second is the device memory. Since the photos are located in the device's memory, we open it.

We need to select them, to do this, click on the image and hold your finger for about one second to be able to select the photos. Select the necessary ones or all of them (put a check mark), and then click on the "Cut" button (scissors).

Now you should go to the memory card.

Here you need to create a folder where the images will be transferred, or use an existing one. In our case, we will create such a folder by clicking on the corresponding button (cross).

Enter a name for the folder (preferably in Latin) and click OK.

The folder has been created. Go into the folder by tapping once on it.

The folder is empty. To transfer, click on the "Insert" button.

Please, images are transferred.

Just in case, you can make sure that they are not left in the phone's memory by visiting desired folder in the memory of your device.

As you can see, nothing complicated. In this way, you can transfer other files to the memory card, except for applications.

If your device does not have enough free space, you can always transfer applications to a memory card. But not everything is as easy as it seems. Some device manufacturers do not allow applications to be transferred to a memory card.

There are three ways to transfer apps to SD card.

• The first way- this is the standard transfer of applications through the settings menu.

1) Go to "Settings" and select "Application Manager";

2) click on the required application;

• Second way suitable for devices with ROOT rights.

First you need to install with Play Market application Link2SD(or similar).

1) Open up application (upon opening you will need allow Superuser rights application;

2) press the button "Filter" and select "Supports App2SD"(this is done in order to find out which applications can be transferred to the memory card. Now applications that cannot be transferred will disappear from the list);

• Third way is needed for devices whose settings prohibit the standard transfer of applications to a memory card.

In order to enable the ability to transfer applications to an SD card, you need to go to the developer options and activate desired function. Attention: you make all settings in the developer options at your own peril and risk.

To go to developer options:

1) enter "Settings" and select the line "About device"(or "About the phone");

2) find the item "Build number" and click on it in a row 5-7 times until the system notifies you that you have become a developer and the section appears Developer options;

3) go to "Developer options" and enable "Allow saving to external drives".

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