What is the point of using expandable SD cards for memory when Google/Android prevent most apps from writing directly to the SD card?
1963194
Most applications allow usuage of the SD card PICs/Movies/Songs should to be stored on the SD card only
1963195
Most applications allow usuage of the SD cardPICs/Movies/Songs should to be stored on the SD card only
1963196
This is a great unit and very much pleased with it overall. I had it for about 6 months and it does everything well, fast, great video quality and well built. I went with the model that can accept a 64 Gig SD Micro Card and we use that part of the device to store Music and Videos. You would think 64 Gig is allot but it fills up fast. I believe the Apps generally land on the Internal Memory part of the Unit; and so to answer your question the SD card is really used for Files, Media and your personal docs, etc. Hope this helps. Tom
1963197
And why is that Sony's fault? You can still save media and other files and of course there are ways of overcoming this limitation.
2010672
Most of the apps are used on the phone's internal memory which doesn't seem to be much,that could be your problem
2206360
Don't worry about kit-kat's suppression of apps' permissions to write to the added SD card. This was google's interim attempt at making android more secure; it will be changed for android 5.0 lollipop. Each app can create ONE folder to write to under android/data/ on the SD card, but many apps do not do so, but write to the internal space only. However, if you connect your Tab to your PC using the same USB cable that you use for charging, on your Windows PC [probably same for Apple] you will see two new folders [or drives, I forget] representing the Tab's internal storage and the external SD card. Using regular Windows file/folder commands, you will be able to move your files wherever you want, from your PC to any of the two storage areas on your device - and back, or from one storage area to the other - and back - on your device.
1752150
Yes. I bought a SanDisk sd card and can save everything except a few apps to the sd card.
1410865
Yes, you can...from the Google play store..but you have to keep an eye on the amount of memory you are using...transfer as much as you can to the SD card.that will help to save the amount of memory you're using.
1044618
I have not had this problem but you can try shifting some of your apps from internal memory to your SD card
988576
Sadly, this is not possible and I have tried this in the tablet and also researched it. Some apps can be moved (rarely) to the INTERNAL SD Card storage but NOT the external SD card storage. The purpose for an external SD card is for one's personal files, photos, music. However, there is great news! The first time that you use your camera on a new Android device, you will be asked if you want to save all of your pictures and videos you take on to your external SD card. Be sure and answer YES because picture files and home video files can be large and it is better to use your removable SD card for that. Daisy Sadly, this is not possible and I have tried this in the tablet and also researched it. Some apps can be moved (rarely) to the INTERNAL SD Card storage but NOT the external SD card storage. The purpose for an external SD card is for one's personal files, photos, music. However, there is great news! The first time that you use your camera on a new Android device, you will be asked if you want to save all of your pictures and videos you take on to your external SD card. Be sure and answer YES because picture files and home video files can be large and it is better to use your removable SD... » Read More Sadly, this is not possible and I have tried this in the tablet and also researched it. Some apps can be moved (rarely) to the INTERNAL SD Card storage but NOT the external SD card storage. The purpose for an external SD card is for one's personal files, photos, music. However, there is great news! The first time that you use your camera on a new Android device, you will be asked if you want to save all of your pictures and videos you take on to your external SD card. Be sure and answer YES because picture files and home video files can be large and it is better to use your removable SD card for that. Daisy « Show Less
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Some apps still have that available there was a giant security hole with apps loaded to SD Cards (long story short is that any app that was loaded to the sd card could see and read any data on the sd card, now there are permissions and old apps never updated themselves but a lot of apps have). Google "can you move apps to sd card kitkat" and you can get more info.
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No. Google phones have never had a port for memory cards. They told me the Android OS doesn't work well with external memory. My advice is get a Nexus phone. They are great and far less expensive than the competitors, but be sure to buy your phone with the maximum internal memory possible. You won't be disappointed.
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From what I have read is that the native Sony and Google apps can not read media on the SD Card. There is a file transfer app where you can preview stuff and copy it to the internal memory.So if for example you want to use the "Gallery" app to look at photos, they need to be copied to the internal memory.But there are third party apps which can read media directly on the SD Card. But I don't know which those are as I have not bought this tablet yet.
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I'm using a 2GB SD card with no problems. I've also used XD and CF cards without a problem.
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If you can I haven't figured out how to do it. I've only managed to move my apps over and lose a bunch of pictures attempting to move them over. Still worth it, apps take up most of the space so they sit on the SD card by themselves.
312510
It has a memory slot but unfortunately it wont expand the memory to save apps. I suggest the asus memo, it does have an expandable sd slot.
287159
Like SW said, it depends on the OS and the app. I found that I could move more programs to SD when I upgraded from an Android (Honeycomb) HTC View tablet to a Nexus 7 (Jelly Bean) tablet.
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Charlie, I use a uhs1 32gb SanDisk micro, which is about the limit for these single cpu cores. At best it acts as a backup disk, cache and you can push downloaded apps off to the external SD Chip to reduce the internal SD footprint.
497000
YES there is an SD card expansion slot. It is not listed in the specs for some unknown reason.
1025347
not necessary unless you happen to use the card on a standard SD slot......