Internal SD
May. 26th, 2012 07:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mmcirvinI downloaded the Android version of Pinball Arcade because I was tired of waiting for the DLC on the XBox 360 version and because it was cool to be able to play it on my phone, albeit on a very small screen. It was fun for a while, but I had to uninstall it because it was choking my phone. Seems that even if it was installed on the external SD card, data was being stored on the internal SD in such a way that it became full. Trying to download more than two tables got it into a state where the external media scan on boot would fail, such that the app wouldn't be installed so it could be managed in any detail, and there was no way to unjam the situation short of uninstalling the app.
It's frustrating how dependent Android phones are on their limited internal storage even if you have a huge external card. Lots of things can't be moved off the internal storage, or have to store their data there; there are things apps on external storage can't do that apps on internal storage can. I suppose I should be thankful that it has an external SD slot at all.
Update: This Facebook post notes that external SD storage for table data will be available "soon". Some people seem to imply it's out now. Maybe I just needed to update the app (or maybe I was in such a constipated situation that that wouldn't have worked...)
...Yes, this is much better.
It's frustrating how dependent Android phones are on their limited internal storage even if you have a huge external card. Lots of things can't be moved off the internal storage, or have to store their data there; there are things apps on external storage can't do that apps on internal storage can. I suppose I should be thankful that it has an external SD slot at all.
Update: This Facebook post notes that external SD storage for table data will be available "soon". Some people seem to imply it's out now. Maybe I just needed to update the app (or maybe I was in such a constipated situation that that wouldn't have worked...)
...Yes, this is much better.