topic pointless sd card slot in Tablets

pointless sd card slot

magicmerlyn — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 16:08:35 GMT

Cannot find any way of transferring apps to sd card why is this Not a feature!

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sehuxle — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 16:41:46 GMT

I assume you mean the external SD card. I think this is a standard with all Android devices not just the Sony.

As for the SD card being pointless, I would disagree. You can put all your music, films, photos on the SD card and this will save space for apps on the internal storage

One thing though, have you tried app2SD from the play market. It moves apps to the internal SD card certainly, not sure about the external one

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degraaffn — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 13:41:43 GMT

No, App 2 SD doesn't work on tablets. The option to move apps just doesn't exist on Tablets at all. Either Google removed it from Android, or Tablet manufacturers removed it because they want us to buy the disproportionally more expensive tablets with more memory. I mean, come on. The 32 Gb version is 100 € more expensive than the 16 Gb version. What does a 16 Gb SD card cost? 10 € maybe? They charge 10 times as much for an extra 16 Gb!

pointless sd card slot

srg2712 — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:26:43 GMT

On my new Xperia Tablet S, SGPT-122GB/S there is a "File Transfer" icon alreadt installed and this works.

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degraaffn — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:07:13 GMT

Yes, but you can't use that to move apps to your external memory.

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gofrost — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 10:12:35 GMT

Apps can only be moved to external storage if the developer allows the app to be moved.

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Zerokewl — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 10:44:28 GMT

Save pictures movies music etc to sd card and just use the main storage for apps if its an issue.

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breedBenR — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 20:23:20 GMT

app icons dont show anymore when moved to the internal sdcard1 even.

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degraaffn — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 12:57:31 GMT

And in this case, it's the developer of the OS that needs to allow it. Because of all the apps that are movable on my phone, none of the same apps can be moved on my tablet. Or any tablet of any brand. And it's the same on Android 4.1.

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scorp888 — Sun, 31 Aug 2014 09:44:08 GMT

That's simply not true.

Whilst google did intiially remove the ability to move apps to sd cards, they realised how unpopular this would be, and changed it, so that if the app says it's happy to be moved, then it can be moved. Applications like app2sd explain this, and also explain for each app, what will and won't be changed as a result of the move. Things like alarm apps, that need boot level integration, don't benefit from being moved. Some apps like navigation ones, now moved their maps to an sd card.

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CDwQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gsmarena.com%2Fnewscomm-9058.php&ei=cu0CVIbDIseY1AXL9oCYCw&usg=AFQjCNE8t2DwsABAT9iOTepjyxS1mVu0kA&sig2=Ih5Qqn4qlyI85wZin8_zKg&bvm=bv.74115972,d.d2k

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ouzel.chris — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 14:46:43 GMT

Yes, Android KitKat introduced this very annoying feature.

http://www.androidcentral.com/kitkat-sdcard-changes

That's one reason that I bought a 32 Gbyte Z2 rather than the 16 Gbyte. Some apps (e.g. File Commander) that come installed on the tablet can access the external SD card. But most that can be downloaded from the Play Store can't, and certainly very few seem to be able to have their installation moved to the external SD card. So the whole user-accessible memory sysem is considerably less useful and less convenient than early versions of Android.

Not Sony's fault. And I hear that they are slowly introducing work arounds on their phones to try and help users out. But another black mark for Google, IMHO.

The SD card is on the tablet remains good for bulk storge of media files.

To overcome this issue completely, you can root your device, and install SDFix from the Play Store.

-chris