Install Apps to SD Card on Your Android Phone Without Rooting it

Mike is crazy about apps. He likes to pack his android phone with many of the coolest apps out there in the marker. But there is one problem – curse his device manufacturer, his device has so little internal memory that he can barely install few of his favorite apps.

Sounds familiar? This is a common problem faced by most Android users. You can make more space to install your apps by deleting the stock apps that came with the device when you purchased it (most of which will definitely be useless). But in most cases you will have to root your phone to uninstall these ‘bloatwares’ and in the process you will void the warranty of your device. 

An alternate option is there to set the install location of the apps to your SD card.

WANT TO DO IT!

HerE's HOW TO DO IT :-

THings you need

1. AN android device :-P
2. Android SDK (Download it here). It is quite a big file, so Relax!
3. Window pc or mac

Steps:-

1. An Android device, of course.

2 Enable “USB debugging Mode” in your android device. To do this, go to Settings -> Applications -> Development and enable ‘USB debugging’

3. Connect your device to your computer in “charge only” or similar modes but NOT in ‘USB Storage’ mode.

4. Go to the folder where you have unzipped Android SDK and navigate to to ‘sdk’ folder

5a. Windows users: Go to ‘platform-tools folder. Hold down SHIFT key and right-click anywhere in the folder. From the pop-up menu, select ‘Open command window here’. This will open up a command prompt screen.

5b. Mac users: right-click ‘platform-tools and choose [New Terminal At Folder]

6. Now, in the command prompt window, Windows users:

type: adb devices

Mac users:

type: ./adb devices

and press enter. You will see the name of the device connected at the moment.

8. Then windows users type:

adb shell

Mac users type:

./adb shell

and press enter

9. Next, type:

pm setInstallLocation 2

and press enter. (If this command fails, use this: pm set-install-location 2)

10. Done!

11. To verify, type:

pm getInstallLocation

and press enter. If you see an output ” 2 [external] ” means that the process is successful.

Now, in your device, go to settings->Applications->Manage Applications->On SD card (in some devices it may be USB Storage), and check the apps that you would like to move to your SD card.

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