How to move almost all Android apps to SD card (no root required) remains the most popular post on this blog despite being 2.5 years old. One of the most common questions about that procedure is which phone does it work on.
To help answer this question, I added a Google Form to record success/failure reports and now it has enough answers to publish the results.
Some of the popular phones for which this hack works:
- Alcatel one touch (2.3)
- HTC Desire (2.2, 2.3)
- HTC explorer (2.3)
- HTC Wildfire S (2.3)
- LG Optimus L7 (4.0)
- Samsung Galaxy Ace (2.3)
- Samsung Galaxy mini (2.3)
- Samsung Galaxy Y (2.3)
- Samsung Galaxy Y Duos (2.3)
- Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc (4.0)
- Sony Ericsson Xperia mini (4.0)
You can see all submitted responses in 2 separate documents below:
- List of phones for which this procedure works
- List of phones for which this procedure does not work
Note that some phones are listed in both lists, which can be caused by few reasons. First, not all users follow the procedure correctly, and as a result pay more attention to the first list. Second, carriers may tweak the phone’s operating system and disable this hack as a result of these tweaks. As a result, the hack may work on one carrier, but not on another for the same phone.
Notably, most people report that on the best selling Samsung Galaxy S3 and S4 this hack does not work.
Hopefully, this will remove some confusion about moving apps to SD card. I will update these lists as more responses are submitted via Google Form.
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I wish I would have found this first, (although I probably would have tried it anyway). Seems like my phone is not on the “good list”.
Thanks for taking the time to compile these spreadsheets. Might make shopping for my next phone easier! I really hope that the Android SDK development team will take some time to find out why this doesn’t work with the “bad list” phones, and make some changes in their coding for their platform tools. My particular error was: “At the command sign ($) I entered “”pm setInstallLocation 2″” and the output line showed “”[1] Killed pm setInstallLocation 2″”
command getInstallLocation returned “0 [auto]” after this, so essentially no changes were made. Wrestled with it for quite some time, to no avail. If anyone knows a solution to this, I’d love to see it!
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Hi,
First thanks! I have an HTC wildfire S. I did as your instructions showed and I even got a confirmation success showing that the location was now 2, external.
but new apps are still downloading to internal and i can’t move any of the old ones. Any thoughts?
Thanks
your give processor not working properly at my S4 mobile phone.
please help I really need to make my phone applications to moved to my sd card
I have Samsung Galaxy S Duos. I cant able to move Android apps to SD Card. If it is possible? Please advice me.
Regards
Gopinath P S
Followed the steps as given, and did not face any problem. Really appreciate the detailed step-by-step process that is on the site, along with the error conditions, and FAQs.
Thanks a lot, Sergey!
However, during the process the SD card kept showing as full, thus could not move the apps. In unconnected mode, under normal circumstances, it shows 13 GB free. It is a Sony Xperia Mini Pro.
Can anyone please inform what I could have done wrong / any other advice.
wow Gr8 thaks and hats off to you!!
and ya have moved my apps 
Thank you very much! u helped so many ppl!
keep going!
u jus solved my great problem! mine is HTC Wildfire S a510e, it worked really well! when i search abt it in net many other site was saying different and so many useless procedures but hre i found simple and exact solution! Hats off to you
miles to go! god bless
Thanks a lot, I never thought there’s a hacked about it, I just don’t care about my Galaxy Y, but because I wanted my child to play puzzle games which he really loves, im having trouble downloading all the games because of memory issues. Thanks I got here and your totally helpful admin. Great Job.
How about phones not listed on either lists ? I’m looking forward to know if this works in Lenovo Tab A1000 ?
Im havin lt ov problems as wen im dwnloading sumstiuff my fone always keeps sayin my internal memory i nearly full. So i cant put as much as i wud really luv 2 store or keep on my fone. So please help me over cum this situation,with giving me an app or su
my mobile is samsung gti 8262 but any app no move my sd card plz help me i want move to sd card how plz tell me
how to swap internal to external on samsung galaxy s duos 2 gt-s7582
and what is emulated storage means
How to move almost all Android apps to SD card on Samsung galaxy s duos 2 gt-s7582
How about Oppo?! Mine is Oppo Yoyo… and i’m in so much trouble with the insufficient storage…
Jt
I can’t move apps from RAM to External SD card.
I can;t download anything . But my memory card showing 7GB Free available.
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Hi I have a Samsung prevail 2. I need more internal memory. Will this work on my phone? I dont know much about all of this so I’m Wondering if I try this and can’t figure it out will it mess up my phone?
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