How to Install Apps to the SD Card by Default on Froyo


The Android 2.2 Froyo feature that most people have been looking forward to is likely official support for installing apps to the SD card. It’s something that many feel should have been included from the start, and I beliwve all android users have gotten the dreaded “phone storage is getting low” notification on our Android devices at one point or the other.

There are certain tricks to regain a couple of MB here and there, like clearing the cache that some applications use, but for those with a taste for apps and games, the phone storage limitation has been quite a nuisance. Android users with root access have been able to enjoy the Apps2SD utility, but getting it to work is a comparatively complicated process. Frozen yogurt to the rescue!

To install an app to the SD card on Android Froyo, the application itself needs to support it. Actually most current apps can be moved to the external storage. However, the Froyo system installs all new applications on your device’s internal memory by default, except for those that explicitly request external installation. Luckily, it’s possible to make your Android 2.2 phone put apps on the SD card by default instead. Here’s how:

First you have to enable USB debugging on your Android device from Settings > Applications > Development > USB debugging.
Now you need to download and install the Android SDK on your computer from http://developer.android.com/sdk/. Once you’ve downloaded and extracted the package to the folder of your choice, run SDK Setup.exe and click on Available Packages to the left. If you get an error message at this point, enable “Force https://…” in the Settings. From the list of available packages, select “Usb Driver package”, click on the Install Selected button in the bottom right corner and follow the prompts.
Connect your phone to your computer with a USB-cable. Your OS will prompt you to install new drivers. Choose to install them from the android-sdk/usb_driver folder. Do not mount your device; you only need to plug-in the cable.
Next, run a command prompt and navigate to the Android-SDKtools folder. In Windows, this is done by selecting Run from the Start Menu (or by pressing Win+R) and typing cmd. You change drives in the command prompt by entering the drive letter followed by a colon (, and change folders with the CD command. For example, to enter the Android-SDK folder, simply type cd android-sdk.
In the Android-SDKtools folder, type in adb devices and you should get a serial number starting with “H” in return. All you have to do next is entering adb shell pm setInstallLocation 2. Voilà, you’re done! Android will now install apps to the SD card by default.
To switch back to storing software on the internal memory, enter adb shell pm setInstallLocation 0.
It’s preferable to install certain apps to the main memory, since it will take a while before the SD card becomes available when you start your phone. Applications installed on the memory card will also be unavailable to the system each time you mount your phone as a disk drive. The internal storage is probably quicker as well, even though Google claims that “there is no effect on the application performance so long as the external storage is mounted on the device.” In general, apps that integrate with the Android OS and that often run in the background is better to install on the internal storage, while games and most other applications will have no problem chilling outside on your SD.

To All DHD Bros...

Is it Workable?????
Set SD as Default to Install Application
Please advice...
 
Source: http://downloadandroid.info/2010/08/how-to...fault-on-froyo/

Need clarification whether this is TRUE or NOT???
   

my batt drains really fast now~ what the heck~ n im on stock rom still ( rooted n S-OFF) is tat normal? i've done the calibration b4 i rooted my phone..after i rooted it, it became a bit long lasting but after S-OFF, it drains up my batt real fast as in 5 mins (on standby) = 10% batt down~ anyone like tis?  last time i need to charge only once per day, now like 3 times per day~     

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I was looking for a decent video player to play smooth 720p video, with supported formats like mkv, mp4, flv etc..

I came across the apps listed below and like to comment a bit of it.

Rockplayer 4/5
I use rockplayer for a week now, overall quite satisfied, not until I found that it doesn't playback some of my flv files which do not support hardware decoding. Try playing them with software decoding results in lagging and out of sync.. playing hd  mp4 was great though.
another thing is I can't set screen brightness in rockplayer.. 

QQplayer 2/5
Slow in playing back flv and hd mp4.
Uninstall it the next minute.

flv player 2/5
Plays flv videos better than rockplayer, controls are extremely small.
Other video formats are supported. Performance is noticeably poorer.

vital player 5/5
Playback my flv videos flawlessly on first try. Then I try with the hd mp4 that I downloaded.
The result was disappointing one. Very lag in playing back hd videos.
I thought that I'm out of luck and just about to give up, I looked into the setting page and notice the "Hardware Codec First"
so I gave it a try, and guess what?
My hd videos now manage to play perfectly! No sound sync problem or experience any lags during the playback! 

Give it a try! 
Best media player for android! 

I wonder any apps that can change your keyboard when typing sms like iphone. Haa, I feel android keyboard is abit ....

there're variety of keyboard that you can choose from;

swiftkey
swype
slideIT
gingerbread keyboard
8pen