How To Change Download Location On Android

Hello guys. Indeed, even after such a long time of being the most broadly used mobile platform in the world, Android still remains somewhat inconsistent with regards to tweaking download areas. Yes, for a couple of years now you've possessed the capacity to spare applications to outside capacity, however with huge numbers of them the main part of the information stays in your inside capacity even after you've done that, and just the .apk document moves over to the SD card.

Here we'll demonstrate to you best practices to take more control over where you store the records for your different applications.

The Basics
Actually, the primary thing you'll need to attempt is the least difficult alternative, which is to use Android's inherent component to move applications over from your inner stockpiling to your SD card. For littler applications this ought to do the trap, however recall that bigger applications like amusements or applications that store extra documents like podcasts or recordings will naturally store those records in your interior stockpiling. So regardless of the possibility that your podcast application is on your SD card, sparing you 50MB or whatever, every one of those several MB of podcasts are as yet obstructing your gadget.

Still, on account of that, to move an application from interior to outside capacity, go to “Settings -> Apps,” tap the app you want to move, then “Storage”, tap “Change” and then select your SD card.

 

Once the app’s “moved,” go to the App info screen again, and under “Storage” you’ll be able to see how much of its total size it’s keeping in the External storage.

On the off chance that the number here is altogether littler than the application's size in the application list, then you realize that your phone hasn't moved every one of the information from your application, and you'll have to discover elective arrangements.

Change Download Settings Within the Apps

Just about all apps that create media files – such as your phone’s built-in camera app, podcast apps and voice recorders – will feature internal options to change the location where you want to save your podcasts, photos, recordings, whatever. That means that “Moving” the app to your SD card won’t really work, and you’ll need to look in the apps individually to set the locations where they store files.

Hint: Most Android devices don’t make the directory of your SD card very clear. In a lot of cases the SD card directory will be something like “storage/0123-4567/,” so if you see that as a save location on your device, go for it! Confusingly, the directory “/sdcard/” is, on my HTC One M8 at least, actually the directory for my internal storage.

 

The Nuclear Option
If the above options don’t quite do it for you, and you want to take even more control over your download locations, and you don’t care much for your warranty or your phone’s out of it anyway, you could just root your device which will even allow you to change the install directories of large “un-movable” apps.







Once your device is rooted, check out apps like FolderMount and Link2SD to easily move entire installed apps onto external storage.