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It has an icon that resembles a blue folder with red, green, and yellow pages in the middle. Tap the icon in your Apps menu to open Files by Google. It's the button with three horizontal lines in the upper-left corner. This displays the More menu. It's near the top of the More menu. It's next to an icon that resembles a gear. Scroll down and tap the toggle switch next to "Save to SD Card. This enables saving to the SD card.
This screen informs you that you need to grant Files access to your SD card. It's the blue button at the bottom of the screen. This displays a prompt asking you to allow Files to access your SD card. Method 2. It has an icon that resembles a blue folder with red, green, and yellow pages inside. Tap the icon to open Files by Google.
Tap Browse. It's the middle tab at the bottom of the screen. It has an icon that resembles a folder and a magnifying glass. Tap Internal Storage. It's near the bottom of the menu below "Storage Devices". This displays files on your phone or tablet's internal storage. Tap a category. Tap whichever category the file you want to transfer falls under. Tap the three dots next to the file you want to transfer. Tapping the three dots next to a file displays a menu. Tap Select. It's in the menu that appears when you tap the three dots.
This displays a blank circle next to all the files, which allows you to select multiple files. Check all the files you want to transfer.
To place a checkmark next to a file, tap the circle icon next to the file. Check all files you want to transfer. It's the icon that has three vertical dots in the upper-right corner. Tap this icon to display the More menu. Tap Move to. This option allows you to move the selected files to another location. Alternatively, you can tap Copy to to copy the files to the SD card instead of moving them. Tap SD Card. This moves all the selected files to the SD card. It's the gear icon typically found in the app drawer.
There was no way to store apps on SD Card earlier. The Android tinkerers preferred to achieve root access in order to store apps on SD Card. But, following the launch of Android 5. And, it has been a consistent feature on many Android smartphones but not all. Storing the apps on SD Card would let you save a lot of Internal storage which in turn would help your device perform faster without any hiccups. While you store your apps on SD card, you must remember that those applications installed depend on the SD card.
It depends on what type of SD Card you have. But, if you own an SD Card lower than what we suggest, it will not be a wise choice to have apps installed on your SD Card. Note that the SD Card performance might be slower than the internal storage of the phone, unless the card class is high, and the protocol is the most recent, such as UFS. But, how do you know that the device you are going to purchase offers that option? Do we have a way to know which of the devices support moving apps to SD Card natively?
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Previous Next Sort by votes. Jan 2, 3 0 0. The Internal Memory is near its maximum which is 8gig. I have an external SD card. I changed the memory from internal to SD. It works only with Bluetooth files and camera pics but when it comes to downloads from chrome and other websites, the files are saved on internal memory.
I learned through this site that I can format my SD card as internal. But I Don't want that. It might get corrupted and goodbye files. So what should I Do? I want my SD card to be my default storage but still a back up memory. You got me? Apr 6, 25, , 13, Well it is going to depend on what kind of files for one. If it is apps, then you can't set them that way. I will include those instructions below. If, however, it is just files music, photos, etc. So say the browser. You would go into that browser app's settings not the phone's settings and change the location files are saved to.
If that option is not in the app you are using to do the downloading, then you would either have to not change the location or try a different app to download through.
The above, however, will not work with apps you are trying to download. That is done the following way First, you need to be using a phone that is running at least Android "Marshmallow" or newer or be able to upgrade to it.
Second, you will need the instructions I am including below. And third, you need a phone that has not been restricted by the manufacturer from making this change. Which does happen. NOTE: If any of the steps are missing on your phone, or they don't work for you, then you have a phone that either has an older Android version or has been restricted by the manufacturer. It needs to be blank because when the card is converted to "Internal" storage, it will be formatted wiped and encoded making the cards data only readable by that device.
Your SD Card will now be formatted as internal storage. Reboot your phone. NOTE: If you don't reboot the phone, many things may not work correctly, so make sure you do. When the card is converted to "Internal" storage, it will be formatted wiped and encoded making the cards data only readable by that device , so anything on it prior would be gone. At the bottom of the list you should see the SD card's details, including the option to format it and make it "Internal" storage.
Once this is done, reboot the device and you can start running things from the card. If you don't reboot the phone, some things may not work correctly, so make sure you do the reboot. You must log in or register to reply here.
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