If you have the need to expand or free up space on your phone, in this guide I will show you how to do it, so you will have all the data on your SD memory such as images, videos, music or the Apps you download. You can even install Android applications from your PC .
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- What should you take into account before sending your applications to your memory?
- What is the procedure to send the applications of your cell phone to the external memory?
- For Android 6.0 Marshmallow and above
- If you have a mobile Android 6.0 Marshmallow or earlier
- How to use your PC to change the location of your apps on Android?
What should you take into account before sending your applications to your memory?
Before doing this procedure, you must take into account that your phone is compatible with the memory and the maximum capacity that it can support at the time of transferring the files. You must also verify that none of the data, photos, music or programs that you are going to have a virus, because that can damage your SD Card and it can be unusable.
What is the procedure to send the applications of your cell phone to the external memory?
There is an important point that you should keep in mind and that is that sometimes the phone’s interface can change depending on the manufacturer. Even so, the menu remains the same so you shouldn’t have any problems when entering. Next Follow these steps to learn how to do it
- First you must go to the Settings menu
- Locate the Application option
- When you are inside this option, a list will appear with all the applications you have installed
- You are going to select the App that you want to send to memory
- Then you will click on the Change option and you will select the SD Card option
- Finally you give Move and that way the file transfer will start
It is very important that while you are doing this process you do not remove the SD Card or open the application that you are running so that it is not interrupted and the files are transferred successfully. As an interesting fact, you can also automatically update all the applications on your Android or PC.
For Android 6.0 Marshmallow and above
- First you have to go to Settings
- Then go to the Apps & notifications option and look for App info.
- Locate the one you want to move in the list of the application and click on it.
- Select on Storage and if the app supports being moved to an SD card
- You will click on Change
- Finally Select the SD card and in the Change storage option you go to Confirm to start the process
If you have a mobile Android 6.0 Marshmallow or earlier
- You go to the configuration option
- Locate Storage and USB
- Enter and select SD card and within this option in the three points that appear in the upperright you will select configuration
- You will press Format As Internal Storage
- Then Select format SD card or Erase and format.
- Once the phone is formatted, it will be ready to transfer the files.
How to use your PC to change the location of your apps on Android?
If you are interested in managing your phone directly from your computer and you want to search for and open the file explorer , it is very easy, the Vysor program will teach you how to do it since it is an application that is used to control any Android from the PC. Next I will explain how to use this program.
- The first thing you have to do is download the application, which is available for Android through the Google Play Store
- You must enable USB debugging
- Now you have to activate the Developer Option, you can do that by going to Settings and inphone information you are going to press seven times, that way this option is going to be activated and you are going to activate USB debugging
- Then connect the phone to the computer with a USB cable and tap on Allow
- Once this option has been made and verifying that the phone does not disconnect, you are going to Run the Vysor Desktop Application
- Finally you will see that the phone model and serial number appear next to a green button that says View
Once you have executed all these steps, you will wait a few minutes for the program to load and the screen of your phone will appear on the computer screen . In this way, you will start working and make the changes you want. Note that you will also be able to remove and disable Android notifications whenever you need to.