OT - Which Android phone apps to SD card & which not to transfer

[Hans Sprungfeld]

I recently wiped clean and reloaded my Droid Razr phone. Performance is astonishingly improved. In reloading Apps, I have not yet moved them from the phone memory to the SD card. I'm running low on storage, so it's time to move Apps.

Which ones should I keep on the phone memory for better performance (even if if says I can move it)? Any essentials or rules of thumb? Am I generally correct that infrequently used, info-based (but not necessarily highly interactive) Apps can go to SD card.

Thanks in advance, and apologies in advance that I have nothing to report about Ray Kasongo.

 

[jleves]

Steely Dan - Chicken Marsala

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

Steely Dan - Chicken Marsala[/

Steely Dan, SD? Makes sense.

 

[Fishy]

Listen to Steely Dan. Eat a little Chicken Marsala.

The answers will come. The answers will come.

 

[partial]

I took 49 seconds out of my life to be a decent human being and actually give real advice. Hope this helps.

 

[ibleedhuskyblue]

Move em all. But look at the app description...occasionally an app will be "moveable", but there will be instructions not to. In those cases, don't.

 

[DaddyChoc]

hard to move apps

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

Move em all. But look at the app description...occasionally an app will be "moveable", but there will be instructions not to. In those cases, don't.

Thanks.

I moved a couple dozen yesterday: primarily things I don't use much and would only use when I'm in a fixed location on WiFi: Speedtest, IMDb, Pulse, White Noise. Not anything I need to load quickly or that is highly interactive or used when I am switching cells on a mobile network.

I regained storage and then thereafter experience a slight slowdown in repopulating the Home Screen sometimes. I'll monitor this new development, and move some more apps in a few days if performance remains acceptable. I'll probably also disable some Verizon bloatware.

Before I did the reset, I wanted to throw the phone away several times daily, primarily due to Home Screen and other access lags. Since the reset, I can imagine keeping this phone until 2014 when successor to Galaxy S4 and others arrive. I hope the improvements hold. I'm already upgrade-eligible and can imagine that newer version OS, better camera, more RAM, and faster processor will make a nice difference to what's already a good enough-to-near great experience.