Moving content from internal mem to SD-card/no root

[ubedoble]

Hello,

I have recently moved from a Samsung phone to the Xperia Go running Android 4. Some of my apps use the internal storage /mnt/sdcard and do not seem to have an option to change that path. However, the internal storage is not large enough for data-intensive apps like Mapdroyd and Wikidroyd. Is there any way to have that shifted to the SD card? I know I could create a symlink in a terminal session but I would like to avoid rooting the device for security reasons.

I have seen a few similar discussions on this site, but none that helped me.

Best,

Marcus

[Uliwooly]

you can not move apps nor games to your SD card.

[ubedoble]

Sorry for not being clear on this. I do not want to move the app, I want to move the app's data. I have 8GB offline Wikis for Wikidroyd alone.

[Rickard · Accepted solution]

If the app doesn't have an option for it it's not possible (without root and modifying the phones software).

I suggest you contact the developer of these apps to see if they can add the option.

[ubedoble]

Thanks for the quick reponse!

While I might contact the developers, the better approach would be to offer a solution that works with all apps. Sony should consider offering a system tool that moves the content and sets the symlink. That sounds like a feasable job to me, and it would certainly help of number of people. After all, MP3 and video are not the only storage-intensive types of data.

[Edit] Just noticed that Wikidroyd was last updated in 2011 and the wikidroyd.com site is down, so there's little hope this will be solved on app level. I guess this emphasizes my point to find an OS-level solution

Best,

Marcus