Move Apps to your External SD Card in Android Devices

Tired of apps memory ruling your Mobile storage?

Most of the android devices are provided with less internal memory when we opt for budget phones. you must note that android is famous for its customization. We can customize it in our own way if we have little knowledge of the stuffs we going through. Now we are going to see how to move our apps to SD Card. Android versions below gingerbread have an option to move to SD card while above gingerbread versions Google stopped supporting Move to SD card support. There are many ways to move your app to SD card while i will say the easiest method to do it.

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Required Items:

Rooted Android device

SD Card

Steps:

1. Backup your SD cards files on your computer because you will be formatting the SD card.
2. We must partition the SD Card into two parts. You can do this by downloading any SD card partitioner app but I used AParted.
3. Before you can do anything in the "Aparted" app you have to unmount your SD card. You can do this by going to your system settings. Then go to "Storage" then down at the bottom you will see "Unmount SD Card". Click that.
4. Now go into AParted. Click on the "TOOLS" tab at the top. You should only have one partition called "Part 1". Checkmark Part 1 and choose delete down at the bottom.
5. You now have a completely formatted SD card.
6. Create TWO FAT32 partitions by going to the "TOOLS" tab at the top. The first partition is considered your SD card so this is where you would store personal pictures and music, etc from your computer. The second partition is where all the apps and apps data will be moved to. So make sure you appropriately size your partitions. Since I keep a fair sum of music I have a 16GB SD card and made the first partition 10GB and used the remaining space for Partition 2.
7. To make the partition click checkmark part 1 then click create. Under File System choose "Fat32". Make sure to only use whatever space you will need to store music, etc... Do this by changing the "Size" 1000 is equal to a gigabyte. So if you have a 4GB SD card then you can make this first partition 1500 or 2000 (1.5GB or 2GB) but you have to leave space. Now Click ok.
8. Now to make partition 2. Checkmark "Part 2" and click create. Under the file system choose "fat32"
9. Now download the app called "Link2SD"
10. Once you open the app it will scan a list of all your apps.
11. BE CAREFUL with which apps you choose to move, I would say limit yourself to only moving the apps you've downloaded such as ESPN, Netflix, Games, etc...
12. Choose the program you want to move to your SD card.
13. Click the "Create Link" button
14. Make sure all three options are check-marked (Link Application Files, Link Dalvik-cache Files, Link Library Files)
15. It will finish and you can proceed to link any apps you desire to the SD card, you can go into your system apps and see how much free space is available so you know it worked.