I'm primarily an iOS guy, but recently I became interested in futzing around with Android a bit, so I bought myself a cheap ($100) Chinese tablet (the Onda V80 Plus). It's actually a dual-boot device with both Windows 10 and Android 5.1 installed. One downside of having two operating systems installed is that it doesn't leave a whole lot of the 32GB internal flash storage free for additional apps, etc., so I added a 32GB micro SD card, which seems to work fine and is recognized by both OS's.
My question is: on the Android side, how can I move existing apps to the SD card, and/or make the SD card the default location for newly installed apps? From what I've read online, the "easy" way to do this is to go to Settings/Apps and use the "Move to SD Card" button on individual apps, however, on my tablet, this option is not displayed for any app that I have tried. I read about the possibly of installing the Link2SD app; however using this app appears to require rooting your device. So I went ahead and tried the rooting thing using two of the apparently more popular rooting apps (KingoRoot and Towelroot), but both failed to root the device, and I was hesitant to try others, since a lot of them seem super-sketchy, to say the least.
My questions are:
My question is: on the Android side, how can I move existing apps to the SD card, and/or make the SD card the default location for newly installed apps? From what I've read online, the "easy" way to do this is to go to Settings/Apps and use the "Move to SD Card" button on individual apps, however, on my tablet, this option is not displayed for any app that I have tried. I read about the possibly of installing the Link2SD app; however using this app appears to require rooting your device. So I went ahead and tried the rooting thing using two of the apparently more popular rooting apps (KingoRoot and Towelroot), but both failed to root the device, and I was hesitant to try others, since a lot of them seem super-sketchy, to say the least.
My questions are:
- Is there a way to somehow get apps to install on the SD card without rooting the device?
- If I need to root the device, what's the best approach? Is there a way to "manually" root the device without using one of these skeevy-looking apps?
- Are there other reasons why I would want to root the device anyway? From what I gather doing so compromises the security of the device. What are the benefits?
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