How To Swap All The Application Into Your SD Card Without Rooting The HTC Desire~

Saturday, September 11, 2010

Well after reading the forums I found a lot op people complained about not being able to push an app to the SD card. And you don't have to root your phone for it. it will give you access to the 'Move to SD' button regardless if the programmer adapted his program for 2.2 yet.

With ADB you can do so very easy !, and there is no root required.

Perform the following steps :
1. Install HTC Sync (see : http://www.htc.com/ (select your device, download, and install ))
2. Install Android developers kit. (See http://htcevohacks.com/htc-evo-hacks...or-htc-evo-4g/ for a detailed how to.)

Start ADB.

Use : adb shell pm setInstallLocation [option]

Where option is one of:

0 [auto] Let the system decide.
1 [internal only]
2 [external]

And you are ready to go.

Maybe you should have a read of the official documentation from google : http://developer.android.com/guide/a...-location.html
to understand what you are doing. And what you should not do (Like moving apps that run as a service to the SD card....)

I did this on my Phone and went to the settings and moved every app to SD. On this moment, i have got at least 30mb++ free space. It is a nice feature for froyo to have and its damn nice that everything are being install into the sd card except for the OS system such like contacts and bla bla.. but at least free those applications. Try it and you will love it~

1 comments:

Unknown said...

Hey there!
Can your code work on Android 2.1?