How to Stir Apps to SD Card on Your Android Device
Having less storage space on a smartphone has always been an issue for most of the users, especially the power users. Such users tend to store almost anything they find online to their device, be it an Pic or a movie, it will directly go to their device’s storage. On Android devices, all the applications that you download are installed on the internal storage resulting in lesser internal memory availability. Well, if you are brainy enough, you may have began wondering how to stir such apps from the Internal storage over to the outward SD card. Fortunately, it is possible. Moving apps to SD card can be done within a few steps. Give it a shot!
Things to Keep in Mind
Obviously, this tutorial will only work if your Android phone comes with a SD card slot. It won’t be applicable for the Nexus phones and all phones that don’t support outward storage.
You should also know that not all the apps can be moved to the outward storage. Some apps require to be stored on the internal storage and they can’t be moved from there.
Your outward storage should have enough free disk space to be able to budge an app.
Getting the Contraptions Ready
Before you embark the stir process, you are going to need an app that will do the job for you. Head over to the Google Play on your device and search for and tap on AppMgr III app.
Hit the “INSTALL” button and the app will be installed on your device. It’s just a 2MB app so won’t take much time to download.
You now have the app ready on your Android device, so you can now stir on to the next section to commence the actual procedure.
Moving Apps to the Outer Storage
Launch the AppMgr III app. The very first screen of the app shows all the apps available on your device that can be moved over to the outer storage. Any app that does not exist in the list cannot be moved and must be stored on the internal storage.
As an example, I will be moving the “Root Checker Basic” app. Just tap on the app’s icon.
You should now be able to see all the details of the app you chose for moving. As we are going to stir the app, tap on the button that says “Stir to SD card”.
As soon as you tap the button, it will commence the procedure to stir the app. Once the app has been moved, the button you just tapped will turn into “Stir to device storage”. It indicates the stir was successful.
Excellent! Your app has been successfully moved over to the outward storage and you just freed-up some space on your internal memory.
Sometimes you may want to budge the app back to the internal storage. Well, the app has got an option for that, too.
Moving Apps Back to the Internal Storage
In AppMgr III app, swipe-right to go to the “ON SD CARD” tab. Tap on the icon of the app you wish to budge back.
Tap on the “Budge to device storage” button and the chosen app will be moved back to the internal storage of your device.
Your app has been successfully moved back to the internal storage.
Conclusion
Having the capability to budge apps from the internal to the outward storage and vice versa is a excellent thing as if you ever run out of space on your device, you can always free-up some disk space using the above method.
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This is a nice app, and I used to use it myself before getting a fresh phone with much more internal memory. I don’t have problems now, but still keep this app around just in case. You can stir apps to the SD card without this however – just use the application manager under settings. But AppMgr III saves you time by conveniently grouping the apps for you so you know which ones can be moved, and providing you a way to quickly get to the settings to stir them. Another nice thing about it is that it can notify you when you install an app that can be moved to the SD card, which can be pretty handy, too.
Attempted it and it looks good, but I already have all the apps that can be moved on the SD card. I moved them with the build in function.
I am running Andriod Two.36 on a Samsung GT-S5660
my device don’t have stir to sd function on app info screen ? How can i stir apps to sd card?
Idk I also have that problem and from what I read it may be because of the carrier’s data plan
@thu, some manufacturers disable the Stir to SD Card feature. Examples are the Samsung Galaxy S Duos and Samsung Galaxy Tab Three.
how about in Sony Xperia M? I can’t see the “stir to SD card” option. 🙁
@Luis I have a samsung galaxy tap three and as u said I can’t do it so there is no hope for me to stir any thing to the sd card ? please response me !
ok so every time i go to use this app i get a message telling my phone doesn’t have an outer device… witch it does. and it wont let me stir my apps…
It doesnt showcase the “stir to SD card” option on my phone. Im using Sony Xperia M. Need some help please.
My sons phone (lg optimus l3) and tablet (galaxy tab Trio) dont have the budge to sd card option either 🙁 xx is there anyway users can enable it please xx
i have the same problem..I have the arnova one hundred one g4 tablet and i cant tranfer anything to sdcard!It doesn demonstrate me the ‘budge to SD card’.Please i need help.
Have you inserted an SD card to your device? And you will not see the said option for all the apps you have on your device.
My tab has “internal storage”, “internal SD card” and “outward SD card”.
When using the app or doing it by hand it only transfers inbetween the two internal storages, both of which are petite. My 16GB just lies empty.
Is it possible for some tabs to not support SD cards even if there’s a slot for it? Also is there a limit eg only 8GB cards are supported.
Ps it’s an HCL Me U2
What I want is an evidently that will stir apps to the “outer” sdcard not the “internal” one. Appmgr3 will NOT do that. It only will budge apps to the internal sd storage.
It doesn’t work for samsung galaxy s4. It says the same thing as when you go to settings, selecting the app and clicking the budge to sd card option. It still says “incapable to budge app. Not enough storage space” I have a sixty four outer storage and it is just futile with because of this kitkat limitations. grrrrr!
Attempted this app on my HP slate 7. It told me that I don’t have any outward storage(which I do). is there any other way to send apps to my outer storage?
Problem is many apps won’t budge to internal storage. Question. Why would a designer make an app that won’t transfer. Is it cheaper or stupid or ……….
Every time time i attempt moving any app I get the same result. A pop up that reads “incapable to budge app”
I have downloaded a duo of apps to help me budge them over to the SD card but I get the same message.
I have a Samsung s5 with a 62gb sdcard
Same issue – search Four.Two.Two or Four.Four sd card – the problem is that Google Android updates disabled this capability because of vulnerabilities with apps being able to access other app’s files. Something to do with how outer cards are formatted without the same partions as internal systems. (?) I understand the newer OS addresses the issue, but can’t confirm. My understanding is that you can by hand copy the app files over to outer, but will need to stir back to internal before using.
Why is it so difficult to stir apps to outward
storage? I have; internal, SD card and outward SD, the last
one is virtually empty and that’s the largest.
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When I go to the select the app it doesn’t demonstrate the stir to SD card option. What do I do?
I installed the app but my Sony Xperia M doesn’t have the stir to sd card option Help now what do I do