Couple of days back I bought HTC Wildfire S and after installing some apps, my phone start showing warning about low internal memory. This problem was bit serious because without internal memory you won’t install new apps and updates. Rooting is the solution of all these problem but Rooting is not an easy task specially for non-techie user and also it void your warranty. This tutorial helps you to free up your internal storage without rooting.
Methods:
- Fix Storage bug.
- Move apps to SD card with the help of App2SD.
- Force Applications to Allow Moving ( For Advanced user only)
1. Fix Storage Bug
Google, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr are some of the apps which synchronize your all contacts with your phone address book but unfortunately the contact list will inflate widely over time and taking up dozens of MB of your internal memory. In my case my contact storage took 50 MB which left nothing for others. Good news is that you can easily fix the bug. First Disable all your synchronization by going to your apps settings.
Move all your contacts to SD card and free up your internal memory
- Open the People application and press Menu –> Import/Export
- Press Export to SD card.
- Another popups showing many accounts like SIM, Phone and other account you’ve connected to you phone.
- Select top account and another confirmation dialog appears, Press OK.
- Repeat this for each account on your phone.
- When exporting done, now its time to clear data.
- Go to Settings –> Application –> Manage Applications and find Contact Storage in the All tab.
- Once you’re in Application info page, then press Clear data, then press OK.
- Once the data is clear, now go back to People application., press Menu –> Import/Export, and select Import from SD Card.
- Select files you took backup in previous step.
- You’re done.
2. Move apps to SD card with the help of App2SD
App2SD is a free app that move your apps to SD card. Many applications can be easily moved to SD card so that you can enjoy those apps without any internal storage problem. Good things is that App2SD list all application that can be moved to SD and from this application you can easily move all apps to SD card. This application also support push notification it means whenever you install new application it will show you notification that whether you can move this application or not.
Download App2SD from Android Market
3. Force Application to allow moving
Click here to download the Android SDK and install it on your computer.
- Connect your phone to your computer via USB
- Open Command prompt and navigate to C:\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools\ directory or where you install it in your hard drive. make sure you’re in platform-tools directory.
- Type “adb shell pm setInstallLocation 2” press enter.
- Unplug your phone and restart. Now you should able to move almost all of your applications to the SD card.
- Again Use App2SD to transfer your application to SD card.
If you encounter any problem then please comment out.
Do I import one, multiple or all vCards?
I have to admit, this is a great “speech / how to”, to propose an App, in this situation, but it’s useless anyway!
Hi Raza, unfortunately I have to disturb you by asking for assistance: When I open the command prompt and copy&paste that line of yours (C\…platoform tools) it doesn’t get recognized. What am I supposed to do? I haven’t really understood that part of your tutorial (sorry! ^^)
Hi,
have installed “android-studio-bundle-143.3101438-windows” . cant find dir saying “android-sdk-windows” all i got is
.android
.AndroidStudio2.1
have checked both directory cant find any “android-sdk-windows”.
can you direct if i am using the right AndroidStudio-Ver2.1.3 or i am looking on wrong spot.
where to type the command adb shell pm setInstallLocation 2?
i have done whole process correctly but still i cant move my apps to sdcard
I did the whole process correctly but still i cant move any of my apps to sdcard
i have unzipped the file and saved to desktop way should i do then
Now open the location in command line, connect the phone and enter the command as mentioned in the tutorial.
After I do the bug fixing thing, I am unable to delete my call logs. Can I get a solution to that please?
How do u get the sdk to detect my device
I have an LGMS323
The android SDK can be only downloaded on Mac,Linux,or Windows not for the android OS
Hey raza. , in free up internal storage, do you think 1hour is good enough in all process?
I like Power Clean better. It helps me free up storage, clean up memory, remove or disable unnecessary apps, know my device and speed up it.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lionmobi.powerclean
hi Razzil i have rooted my htc wildfirc s and also done the “pm setinstallLocation 2” ….now i can install apps on sdcard but again their cache are stored on internal memory and with in no time internal memory gets filled….i have installed facebook app on sd card but still its cache are stored on internal memory..
is there any method how to completely install apps on sd card.. ?
i have also tried some apps e.g app2sd etc but all in vain…
please help me…thanks in advance…
CAn you please ellobaorate the procedure what should i do after installing the android sdk i have unzipped and saved to desktop.
please send the command i need to type in when the terminal window comes after typing cmd
Hey Shree, can you please tell me where you struck? Comment here or drop me an email at razarahil[at]razzil[dot]com
Hey razzil can you please reply for my mail.
Thanks in advance.
Hi
i have the same problem in my s2
but my contact storage date is only 5 MG!!
i think in android V 2.3.6 some date will download to my phone
when i connect to wifi
with only 200 MG app on my phone , it only has 100MG free
in internal memory (2G)
regards
Galaxy Y Young
Thank you so much! It was affecting my messages…since thew messages rely on phone memory. Great help! :D
Awesome post bro.! :) But in the third method, if i set the installation location to 2, wont that affect my inbuilt apps (system apps)…? :P
No effect on your phone,
Thank you. I will try this today.. :)
Good post Loved It!
i want to know the second step where it says to” open command prompt and navigate to…” what does it exactly mean.from where i have to open this command.please help me further for my samsung s5360
Thanks raza for that informative post :)
Thanks a lot dear Raza, it was really helpful
Very nice post Raza.I have being experiencing same problem to..I took backup in SD card and cleared my data(in applications settings).Its nice to have free storage space.Thanks for other options as well.
article is more specific to ur HTC phone.. write a generic one, when writing..
Above trick not mean for HTC phone but it will work with all Android phones.