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Originally Posted by mgmueller
I understand, you've rooted your tablet?
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I have. It was a bit of a PITA to do it, since it's not a known brand supported by the various one-click-root solutions, but rooting would be the first thing I'd do to
any such device.
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If so, there are tools in Google Play, to move apps.
You even can delete from ROM and add other apps to ROM.
It's a bit tricky with the 2 kinds of internal storage. Some of those apps recognize the internal 1GB partition (often called "USB" in the settings) as the SD card and ignore the "real" SD card. But like Apple says: There's an app for that. And that's true for Android the same.
Just check for "root" in Google Play and you'll find a few dozen tools (some partially work for un-rooted devices, but rooting for such tasks always is a good choice).
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I have. I don't pretend to have looked at everything, but thus far I haven't found a good solution.
The problem is the way internal storage is partitioned. The device has 4GB of flash memory. 767MB of that is seen as app storage. 1GB is seen as an internal SDCARD. The rest is what appears as one drive in Windows if I plug the tablet in and turn on USB storage. The 32GB external microSD card I plugged in appears as another drive in Windows.
What I'd
like to do is change the internal partitioning, to increase the amount of flash available as applications storage. (Bumping it up to 1GB would address most of my problems.) Some apps can be partially relocated to the 1GB partition seen as SDCARD, and all that can be, have been. The Google apps cannot be relocated, and those are the problem children.
I have an app for rooted devices called Folder Mount that will apparently let you swap the internal card locations to the external card by altering the mount points, but that would not address my problems. I've already removed various apps that came as part of the standard image and required root to get rid of.
There's a limit to how much effort I'll invest, since my plans include a larger and more powerful device in the future without the limits that bite me. The primary use case for the A727 is eBook viewer, and it would be more than worth the price of admission if that was
all I ever did with it. Anything else is gravy.
Among other things, I'm a sysadmin who learned his trade on AT&T Unix System V Release 2 before Linux was a gleam in Linus Torvald's eye, and am a Linux admin and run Linux alongside Windows at home. I'm familiar with the theory, and Android
is a flavor of Linux, but I'm still sorting out exactly how things are implemented. This device is a much a "Discover Android" learning tool as anything, but I'm being careful not to break it in the process.
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Dennis