topic Re: Xperia XZ3 Move apps to sd card in XZ Series

Xperia XZ3 Move apps to sd card

MrJerry — Mon, 08 Oct 2018 17:39:42 GMT

Hi,

So I just received my XZ3 today and installed also a 128gb sd card-mainly to store the apps on but....

There doesn't seem to be the option to transfer them like the old Xperias.

Can someone tell me if this is possible?

It seems crazy if you can't...why advance all the technology and not cover one of the basics?

Thanks in advance

Re: Xperia XZ3 Move apps to sd card

Strampke — Mon, 08 Oct 2018 21:28:57 GMT

Hi @MrJerry

I'm afraid it isn't supported on Xperia devices nowadays.

Read this answer from @Jonas on the XA2 subforum

Re: Xperia XZ3 Move apps to sd card

Lockh — Tue, 16 Oct 2018 09:33:30 GMT

we need it ! Please add this function.

it's a shame in 2018 not to have this feature.

Re: Xperia XZ3 Move apps to sd card

jeff84 — Tue, 16 Oct 2018 11:58:20 GMT

Wow I didn't even realsie this was the case.

Another gripe to add to my list of gripes with the XZ3 😕

Definitely would be good to see this functionality added. Does anyone know if Samsung or Google allow apps on the SD card?

Re: Xperia XZ3 Move apps to sd card

Lord_viridis — Tue, 16 Oct 2018 12:18:30 GMT

@jeff84 wrote:
Does anyone know if Samsung or Google allow apps on the SD card?

Well pixels don't have SD card support at all, so.. no, they don't.

Samsung do with some apps.

Re: Xperia XZ3 Move apps to sd card

jeff84 — Tue, 16 Oct 2018 12:36:13 GMT

Ah KK thanks for the info. Didn't realise that. Can't believe Google don't have expansion slots...what were they thinking!

Any idea if there is any plan to reinstate this feature? Would obviously be immensly useful.

Re: Xperia XZ3 Move apps to sd card

Lord_viridis — Tue, 16 Oct 2018 12:39:15 GMT

I believe there might be a setting in developer options to force allow move app data to SD, but I haven't checked it out or used it tbh as no SD card can match UFS speeds or reliability.

Re: Xperia XZ3 Move apps to sd card

Daniel1 — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 12:43:34 GMT

Hi everyone,

In regards to your questions about why this is no longer available, please have a look at the text below.

Google stopped providing the possibility to move apps to an SD card to secure the security and the privacy in Android 6. This feature was removed from Android, but we continued to support it further for some time. However, we decided not to keep our solution to move apps to an SD card for users security and privacy.

I hope that answers your questions!

Re: Xperia XZ3 Move apps to sd card

Shan1g — Wed, 27 Feb 2019 09:38:41 GMT

Samsung does do it, my friends has S9

Re: Xperia XZ3 Move apps to sd card

Strampke — Thu, 28 Feb 2019 12:51:52 GMT

On Pie?

Besides, why would you want to move apps to SD?

If you're able to fill up all the memory you surely have many, many apps installed.

Are you in need of all of them?

Keep your machine clean and lean. Restart it once a week. It will serve you with gratitude.

Don't forget to store all pictures and media on SD.

DON'T encrypt the SD card, you will be sorry in the unlikely case that you forgot your pattern or PIN to unlock your device.

Let Google or Microsoft ONEDRIVE make backups of your data in the background.

Re: Xperia XZ3 Move apps to sd card

deadhead1 — Sat, 02 Mar 2019 08:04:35 GMT

Hi I understand your point but I have another problem every time I restart my phone it tells me that I need to format the memory card because it's not supported?? Surely in this day of modern tech I really shouldn't have to do this every time I restart it Can anybody help me get around this??

@Strampke wrote:
On Pie?
Besides, why would you want to move apps to SD?
If you're able to fill up all the memory you surely have many, many apps installed.
Are you in need of all of them?
Keep your machine clean and lean. Restart it once a week. It will serve you with gratitude.
Don't forget to store all pictures and media on SD.
DON'T encrypt the SD card, you will be sorry in the unlikely case that you forgot your pattern or PIN to unlock your device.
Let Google or Microsoft ONEDRIVE make backups of your data in the background.

Re: Xperia XZ3 Move apps to sd card

Strampke — Sat, 02 Mar 2019 20:34:38 GMT

@deadhead1

In that case it's quite simple.

It's more or less normal that SD cards don't function right.

Too many read/write actions cripple them.

Sometimes hard to discover failures of the device are due to malfunctioning SD cards.

Buy a new one and you will be happy ever after.

And if you want to be sure your SD card is giving up then ask a friend if you can use his/her SD card to test.

Re: Xperia XZ3 Move apps to sd card

deadhead1 — Sat, 02 Mar 2019 21:28:22 GMT

I have about 5 of them and they have all been formatted using a laptop using the Sony software.. I've been using them for storing music and other things So I don't think it's the card's because they seem to be fine in everything else it just in my XZ3 they don't work properly..