topic Re: Save applications on the sd AX2 card in XA Series

Save applications on the sd AX2 card

fca000 — Sat, 25 Aug 2018 07:21:49 GMT

~~Buenas.~~

~~Tengo un xperia ax2 y no tiene la opción de pasar las aplicaciones de la memoria interna del teléfono a la tarjeta SD, esto hace que sus 32 gigas de almacenamiento interno se queden un poco cortos.~~

~~¿Se contempla alguna actualización con esta función?~~

Good.

I have an xperia ax2 and does not have the option to pass the applications from the internal memory of the phone to the SD card, this makes its 32 gigs of internal storage are a bit short.

Is any update contemplated with this function?

Sony xperia xa2 apps to SD card

Miqnna — Sat, 18 Aug 2018 12:28:46 GMT

Hello good afternoon. I have a sony xperia xa2, and I can not psar app to the sd card. I do not get the op

~~Hola buenas tardes. Tengo un sony xperia xa2 , y no puedo psar app a la targeta sd. No me sale la op~~

Re: Sony xperia xa2 apps to SD card

Jetzu — Sat, 18 Aug 2018 14:24:52 GMT

It's not supported in XA2

(no se puede hacer en XA2)

/t5/Xperia-XA2/Apps-to-SD-Storage-Failure/m-p/1319778#M512

Re: Sony xperia xa2 apps to SD card

Jonas — Thu, 23 Aug 2018 07:33:46 GMT

Hi @Miqnna, welcome to our forum!

Your question has been translated to English as this is an International forum.

On the Xperia XA2 you can not move applications to the SD card as @Jetzu mentioned, however some application can still store data on the SD card, for example certain podcast and music applications, so if you are using applications that store this data on the internal storage, check in the settings for the application and see if there is an option to move and save the data directly on the SD card.

You can always move photos, videos and locally stored music files to the SD card if you go to Settings > Storage > Transfer data to SD card.

I hope that helps!

Re: Save applications on the sd AX2 card

Jonas — Mon, 27 Aug 2018 07:06:51 GMT

Hi @fca000, welcome to our forum!

Your question has been translated to English as this is an International forum.

As you wrote, the Xperia XA2 does not have the feature which allows you to transfer certain applications to an SD card, you can however save photos, videos and locally stored music on the device to the SD card.

Some applications can also save data to the SD card, for example offline play lists, pod casts and so forth.

I'll make sure to forward your feedback regarding this internally.

I hope that helps!

How can I transfer apps to an SD card?

Laurenttruchet — Sun, 28 Oct 2018 12:07:41 GMT

~~Transfert appli sur carte sd~~

App transfer on sd card

-GT

Re: How can I transfer apps to an SD card?

Jonas — Thu, 01 Nov 2018 15:30:46 GMT

Hi @Laurenttruchet, welcome to our forum!

I have translated your question to English as this is an International forum.

The Xperia XA2 does not support moving applications to the SD card, however some applications can save, for example, offline play lists and so forth to the SD card, but this is entirely up to the developer of the application.

I hope that answers your question!

Re: Save applications on the sd AX2 card

Highfive27 — Thu, 03 Jan 2019 23:19:19 GMT

Wondering about the same

Re: Save applications on the sd AX2 card

Jonas — Fri, 11 Jan 2019 12:08:16 GMT

Hi @Highfive27, welcome to our forum!

If you take a look at my previous post in this thread, I have explained that the Xperia XA2 does not support moving applications to an SD card. You can however save data from those applications that support it on the SD card.

I hope that helps and have a nice weekend!

Re: Save applications on the sd AX2 card

Jonas — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 14:46:25 GMT

Hello everyone!

In regards to why this feature is no longer available, please see the information 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 question!

Re: Save applications on the sd AX2 card

dirgas — Sat, 09 Feb 2019 06:52:53 GMT

Yeah, and we have A1/A2 Application Performance Class standard since 2018...

Re: Save applications on the sd AX2 card

Kklaar9801 — Sun, 10 Feb 2019 10:10:14 GMT

You should make it known when you change critical features like that. 32 GB is no big deal if you can format external as adopted storage or move apps to external, but it's way under sized if you can't I recently bought my phone, my first Sony, but.nothing about that was on the advertising I saw. It's a shame because I really like the phone, but because of the restrictions it can't meet my needs. Regardless of Google changes, Samsung is about to bring back adoptable storage which is one of the reasons I left them I guess I'll be going back when it's released.

Re: Save applications on the sd AX2 card

Jonas — Mon, 11 Feb 2019 10:17:14 GMT

Hi @Kklaar9801!

I understand the frustration, however as far as I know, we have never said that this is supported on any of our devices (even for those devices where it's possible) and if you know that you are in need of a specific feature/service, it's always best to check if this is supported or not before purchasing the product.

Adoptable storage is a feature that we never implemented in our devices when it was made available in Android 6.0 due to it impacting software encoding and quality.

Re: Save applications on the sd AX2 card

simonmmm — Mon, 08 Jul 2019 10:21:16 GMT

Translation - "Sony don't care that their oversized opperating system and bloatware make your phone unusable without the Android features they specifically disable (don't blame Google, SD card adoption is available by default) so it's our fault for buying a Sony, we should know they

Well I won't make that mistake again.

Re: Save applications on the sd AX2 card

Jonas — Thu, 25 Jul 2019 12:05:11 GMT

Hi @Simonmmmmm, welcome to our forum!

As far as I know, no Pixel devices has had support for SD card at all, so transferring data to a SD card or merge the SD card with the internal storage is not an option on their devices.

Re: Save applications on the sd AX2 card

simonmmm — Thu, 25 Jul 2019 12:30:19 GMT

Thank you Jonas,

Acutally you can even have it while still using file based encryption security.

"Android 6.0 introduced the ability to adopt external storage media to act like internal storage."

"Devices running Android 9 and higher can use adoptable storage and FBE."

source: Android.com

Of course they may have decided they didn't need it for the Pixel, if it had large internal storage and a reasonably small OS. Sony, on the other hand takes up more than half with just the opperating files.

Re: Save applications on the sd AX2 card

Jonas — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 11:06:32 GMT

Hi again @Simonmmmmm!

That is correct, however the option to merge the SD card with the internal storage is not something that has been available in any Xperia device, due to impacting coding and performance.

In an Xperia XA2, the operating system takes up around 11 GB and that leaves the other 21 GB to apps and other user data, so it's about a third of the internal storage that is occupied by the Android system. This is in general for almost all our devices that the operating system takes up around a third of the internal storage.

If you go to Settings > Storage > tap on "Internal shared storage", how much does it say that the system is occupying in your device? If this is way more than 11 GB, there is something that is not correct.

Feel free to keep me posted!

Re: Save applications on the sd AX2 card

simonmmm — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 12:40:45 GMT

Thank you Jonas,

That bit about seeing data use in settings was genuinely useful.

It's interesting other apps report available internal space as under 20GB, but they're obviously discounting the core operating system files.

However considering all possible non-app files (images, videos, audio, etc) I'm storing on the external sd-card, I would argue the 20GB remaining is clearly not enough since it's litterally just the operating files for the apps I have installed.

I must have merged the sd-card storage on a rooted phone then, because I've definitely done it. I'm tired of having to mess around rooting phones just to get them to function though, I'm not going to do that again, I'm just going to have to buy a different brand that does what I need, even if the handset isn't physically as nice.

Re: Save applications on the sd AX2 card

Jonas — Wed, 31 Jul 2019 14:01:44 GMT

Hi again @Simonmmmmm!

Yeah, other file manager will not show the space that the Android system is occupying, the will only show the amount of storage that can be used.

I know that some games are very big in size and can take up a lot of internal storage and since when you update an application, it always gets bigger, it's not hard to fill the internal storage.

You have probably already checked this, but the amount of cached data ramps up quite quickly in some applications and can be cleared without removing any personal data. It's a shame that Google removed the one button that cleared all cached data in one go and you now have to go in to each application to clear it, but if you haven't checked this, it's worth it (last time I did it, my Chrome had saved 1.5 GB of cached data).

Go to Settings > Apps & notifications > name of the app > Storage > Clear cache > OK.

If it was a different brand that you merged the internal storage with the SD card, it could be that they included this feature, but we have not had it at least.

We have devices with more than 32 GB of internal storage, but those are mostly flagships and costs quite a lot more than the medium range devices, except for the Xperia 10 and Xperia 10 Plus that both have 64 GB of internal storage and are still medium range devices.

Hopefully that helps!

Re: Save applications on the sd AX2 card

simonmmm — Wed, 31 Jul 2019 17:33:35 GMT

It's not the cost its the size. Every "flagship" mobile phone is just too big. They could be thicker if they needed the space for hardware, but Sony were the only ones making decent spec sensible sized handsets.

Aside from being temporary, the issue with clearing the cache is the phone has to reload everything back into the cache every time it opens the relevant apps, draining battery and slowing performance. I don't consider that a solution.

I don't have any large games or any unreasonably space-hogging apps at all. It's just a reasonable and practical, number of ordinary apps, but soon enough that's all the available internal memory gone.

Whatsapp is the only unreasonable amount of storage on internal memory since it can't store on external memory, but that's probably the app I use more than any other, so I can't get rid of it.