Method C: Move apps to the SD card instead of memory without rooting your phone
Until now the only way to reduce memory space issues and low storage space issues on Android phones was to move the apps from using the memory to the SD card which has a much bigger storage space. Also, the only way to do this was to use the app called App2SD which required rooting or jailbreaking the phone. Not good because it may void your warranty etc. However, Google listened and with Froyo or Android 2.2 release, they included the App2SD functionality. Many developers however did not choose to use this option. The technique outlined here enables you to movie your apps to the SD card even if the app does not allow it.
Step 1: You need to download the Android SDK to your computer
Download the Android SDK and run the installer file (recommended option) for Windows. Download the zip file for Mac OS X and Linux
Run the installer file. You may be asked to download the Java SE Dev Kit (JDK) if you don’t have one
Finish the installation wizard. By default, the SDK files are installed into a directory named android-sdk-<machine-platform>
Once done, it will launch the Android SDK and AVD Manager with a recommended set of platforms and components. Simply select Install
Step 2: Now connect your phone to your PC and enable debug mode for your Android phone
USB debugging is intended for development purposes only. It can be used to copy data between your computer and your device, install applications on your device without modification, and read log data.
Go to Settings -> Applications -> Development and check USB debugging
You will get a popup to “Allow USB debugging?” – Hit OK
Enable USB debugging mode in Android phone
Step 3: Download the USB drivers for your Android phone
If you have a Nexus One, Nexus S, T-Mobile G1, T-Mobile myTouch, Verizon Droid or one of the Android Developer Phones, you need the Google USB Driver
For all other Android phones, you need the OEM driver. Find and Install your OEM USB drivers here
Launch the SDK and AVD Manager by double-clicking SDK Manager.exe, at the root of your SDK directory
Expand the Third party Add-ons and Google Inc. add-ons
Check Google Usb Driver package and click Install selected.Proceed to install the package
When done, the driver files are downloaded into the <sdk>\google-usb_driver\ directory
Download USB Drivers for Android phone
Step 4: Windows now needs to install USB drivers for your Android phone
The installation fails and you have to install the drivers manually.
Right click on My Computer. Select Properties and go to Device Manager
You will see the missing driver with the exclamation mark on it
Either double click on right click on it. Select Update Driver Software
Browse for the USB drivers folder in the Android SDK folder you downloaded and updated in Step 3 earlier. It will be in <sdk>\google-usb_driver\
Click Next to install the driver. You might get a message asking if you want to install the device software and if you trust the driver publisher. Hit Install.
Device Manager showing missing USB drivers for Nexus One
Location for USB drivers for Android phone
Device Manager showing successful installation of USB Drivers
Step 5: Configure Android phone to install apps on SD Card
Open the Windows command prompt. You can do this by pressing <Windows key> + R. At the Run prompt, type in cmd
You need to change your path to the platform-tools folder in the Android SDK you downloaded and installed. Check pictures below for help
Go to android-sdk folder and then go to platform-tools
Type adb shell and a $ prompt will appear
At the $ prompt, type pm setInstallLocation 2 and hit enter. You will get a message of pm setInstallLocation 2 at the $ sign again.
Close the command prompt by hitting x button
ADB shell commands
Step 6: Cleanup and reboot the Android Phone
Uncheck the USB debugging option by going to Settings -> Applications -> Development and un-check USB debugging
Disconnect the phone and reboot it. That’s it !!
Step 7: Move Android applications to SD Card from your phone
Go to Settings -> Applications -> Manage Applications
You can start to move applications to SD Card including those you could not move before and start clearing out disk space and low memory
Make sure you don’t move apps that require a background service running all the time. This includes your task manager apps and a few other apps
This option also becomes the default. All the apps you install now by default will be installed to the SD Card
No more Phone Storage Space is getting Low issues for your Android phone
In the picture below, I moved the AK Notepad app to the SD card and saved some storage space
PPStream has restricted region restriction to access to Hong Kong drama as copyrighted issue, however you may get this issue fix by referring to this article.
1. Trigger Windows Run (Win Key + R).
2. Enter, %appdata%/PPStream.
3. Open the following file with notepad and replace with following line.
ppsarea.ini
[areainfo]
servertime=1318520564
localtime=1318520576
country=4S4K3ZM3XU
area=4WGY5ZFYTQ
province=42YZ72ELR4
city=4WGZPZF2VQ
net=42KZT2ECWLT33EI
ip=3526115369
psnetwork.ini
[areainfo]
ret_code=200
last_tick=1051906
country=4S4K3ZM3XU
area=4WGY5ZFYTQ
province=42YZ72ELR4
city=4WGZPZF2VQ
net=42KZT2ECWLT33EI
ip=692071634ut=1318520576
4. Open Windows Run and run the following command,
attrib +r %appdata%/PPStream/ppsarea.ini
attrib +r %appdata%/PPStream/psnetwork.ini
5. You have done.
Note:
1. This article apply for Windows 7 and Windows 8 only.
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How to delete GPT Protective Partition In Windows XP Professional, if you cannot access or modify GPT disk, you can convert a GPT disk to MBR by using the clean command in DiskPart, which will remove all data and partition structures from the disk.
You might see S2VR HD 5 Drives in GPT status.
Go to DOS command line (click on “Start Menu”, then “Run”, type in “cmd” in textbox, and hit “OK”)
•Type in “DiskPart” in command line. •Type in “list disk” in command line to show all disks in this machine. •Use “select” to set the focus to the specified partition, for example “select disk 1″. •Use “clean” command to remove GPT disk from the current in-focus disk by zeroing sectors. 3. Go back to Disk Management, you can see all S2VR HD disks are “unallocated” now. Right click on disk info, choose “Initialize Disk”.