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From: Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Stupid facebook
Date: 22 Sep 2015 14:10:21 GMT
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Day before yesterday, I wrote:
> The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 09/20/2015 11:43 AM, Frank Slootweg wrote:
> > > The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > [...]
> > >> BUT I found a solution by accident -- I moved a lot of apps, including
> > >> facebook, to the external card last night.  When I turned the phone on
> > >> this morning there were NO facebook notifications.  SCORE!
> > >
> > >    What device and Android version allows you to move the Facebook app to
> > > the (real) external SD-card? And *exactly* how did you move it? Thanks.
> > 
> > Motorola Moto G Gen 2 with Android 5.0.2.  In the info page for each app 
> > there's an option 'move to sd card' which actually means that, not just 
> > move it from the 'phone' part of the internal memory to the 'sdcard' 
> > part.  All In One Toolbox allows you to do it batch-wise, but it just 
> > switches you to the info page for each app you selected.
> > 
> > >    My Huawei Ascend Y300 smart-phone with Android 4.1.1 (Jelly Bean) has
> > > a 'greyed-out' "Move to SD card" button and Facebook is eating away some
> > > 120+MB of very precious Internal Storage of my '4GB' (read: 1.1GB to
> > > 100MB) phone.
> > 
> > I don't think you could run stuff from the card with 4.1, and you could 
> > run SOME stuff with 4.2 -- but it was a bitch to copy stuff from your 
> > computer to the sdcard.  5.0 improved stuff immensely.
> 
>   4.1.1 has 'Move to SD card' capability, *if* the *app* is written to
> use it.
> 
>   I have many apps on my SD card, for example all of the navigation apps
> (see my response in your other thread) and some tools (App Cache
> Cleaner, AppMgr III itself, DiskUsage).
> 
>   But fsck-ing Facebook is *not* moveable, so I wonder why it *is* for
> you.
> 
>   AFAIK, none of the post 4.X Android versions did anything for moving
> *apps* to the SD-card (of course they did fix some of the *data* (to
> SD-card) problems they *introduced* in KitKat (4.4.X)).
> 
>   Anyway, if/when I feel like it, I'll 'Uninstall' (read: 'Uninstall
> updates') Facebook and see if a 'new' 'Install' (read: 'Update') *will*
> give me a functioning 'Move to SD card' button. You never know! :-(

  I did this yesterday and it didn't change a thing (other than Facebook
occupying even *more* precious space in Internal storage).

  I.e. the 'Move to SD card' button is *still* disabled ('greyed-out').

  I give up!

  Alternative: Does anyone know of a web-browser which is 'Move to SD
card' capable?