Lenovo A850 would not save apps to SD card

Discussion in Computers, Electronics & Gadgets started by lindbergh • Dec 31, 2014.

  1. lindbergh

    lindberghWell-Known Member

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    My girl has a Lenovo A850. It's a great device with a 5.5 inch screen. It also has a quad-core processor and has 4 gigabytes internal memory. Touch screen is responsive, and the screen resolution is ok. It has a front and back camera with the back camera having 5MP. It's all good.

    Except for one thing.

    The freaking thing cannot save apps to the SD card! We have installed the App2SD but still doesn't work! Is there any way to save or transfer apps from internal memory to the SD card?
     
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    troutskiWell-Known Member

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    Some versions of Android block users from storing such content onto an SD card, although the function is back in Android Lollipop. You'll have to flash the device or install a custom ROM (very similar things actually) in order to make that happen. There's no other way around it because apps designed to get around the issue won't work without a flashed device. That's pretty much your only solution.
     
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    lindberghWell-Known Member

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    Hey! Thanks for the suggestion. And that works. However, I found an alternative and it works like a charm!

    We went to settings ----> about phone ----> system update.

    There were like 4 updates to be installed. We installed all of them and the phone was updated. After the update, the apps could now be moved to the SD card! Problem solved! :D