This guide applies to moving any application to sd card. Yes, ANY application! Before you start getting excited or looking for my magic trick, you need to be rooted. I know this is a dealbreaker for many of you, but hey,!If you want to get more advanced and want to move full apps to sd card, try this guide instead. I used the word full apps because normally when you move any app to sd card, some component of it is still stored in your internal memory. So, if you are really low on storage space, and want to install a lot of apps, refer the guide I linked above.Move Any Android App to sd card and free phone storageGoogle Maps moved to sd cardGoogle Play services moved to the sd card. Enable Usb Debugging on your device.
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Mar 10, 2011 The current google maps caches map data, when you're on wifi it will download your surrounding area. Or if you use Maps and go to another city it will store the map data you're looking at. I don't believe it is temporary, my maps cache is currently 38Mb, it doesn't clear itself, I.
The steps to do so depend on your Android version:. On Android 2.3 and below, go to Settings Applications Development and tick the USB Debugging Checkbox. On Android 4.0 and 4.1, go to Settings Developer Options and find the option to enable USB Debugging there.
On Android 4.2 (and probably above it too), go to Settings About Phone Build Number. Tap the build number seven times to unveil the Developer Options. Then go to Settings Developer Options and enable USB Debugging from that menu.
If you haven't already, root your phone. For a start, look for the rooting guide of your phone on Google by googling Root YourDeviceName. There are two (and possibly more) ways of doing it:.Using Move2sd enabler:. Download app from the Play Store. Open the application and tap the I've read it button and then the Next button. In the next screen, select whatever location you want the apps to be installed to by default and select apply. Go to Manage Applications as you normally do and move Google Play Services or Google Maps or any other application you want (except system apps and Play Store).Using Titanium Backup:.
Download from the play store. Find the app you want to move to sd card in the Backup/Restore tab of the app. Long press on Google Play Services or Google Maps or any app of your choice and select Move app to sd card from the list.
You can move even Play Store to sd card using this method.
Google added map downloads, offline navigation and other capabilities to the most recent version of its maps software Google Maps.I'm still looking for a travel app for my trip to Asia next January that allows me to download maps to the device in advance so that I can use the mapping app even if I don't have access to Internet.The new capabilities were reason enough to take another look at Google Maps. How to download map data on Google Maps (new way)The new Google Maps on Android highlights downloads for offline use so that it is less likely that you will overlook the functionality. Search for a place, e.g. A city name that you are interested in or use the map to find it manually. If you do the latter tap on the name to select it. Tap on the name at the bottom of the interface afterward (it lists Directions, Share and Save underneath it) to display details. There you find listed the new download option which you need to activate.
A preview of the area is displayed afterwards including an estimate of the storage space that you need to download the data to your device. You can change the area using touch, e.g. Using zoom in or zoom out, or moving the captured region. You may cancel the operation at this point, or tap on download again to start the download.Download map data was available for 30 days initially but.ConclusionThe option to download maps for offline access is welcome and helpful, for instance if you are in an area with bad mobile reception or don't want to use mobile data at all in a location.You may notice however that some areas are not available which may limit the usefulness of the feature depending on where you need it. I tried Tokyo, Bangkok and Peking and all three are not available while Berlin and San Francisco are.That's rather unfortunate as I cannot use Google Maps for my Asian trip because of it. Google's explanation for that is the following:Downloading offline areas isn't available in some regions because of contractual limitations, language support, address formats, or other reasons.Now You: Which map software are you using?How to download map data on Google Maps (old way)Please note that you need Google Maps version 9.17 for Android. The update rolls out gradually to all users which means it may take a while before you get it on your device.
The new features are enabled from the server side which means that even if you have version 9.17 of the app, you may not have access to some or even all of the new features.The feature is somewhat hidden and not easily discoverable at all. Here is what you need to do to download maps for offline usage. Run a search on Google Maps, e.g. Berlin to locate the German capital. Tap on the name of the location displayed at the bottom of the screen. This opens information about the place including photos and a short description.
There you find save and share options as well. Tap on the menu icon in the top right corner of the screen and select download offline data. You are taken back to the map where you are asked to pan and zoom to adjust the region that you want downloaded for offline use. Tap on download to start the download to the device. I use Sygic for Android.
It’s not free (€ 20 for all of Europe with lifetime map updates, € 30 for the entire world) but it’s excellent, as in fact it’s based on a core of TomTom maps and technology. Good configurable UI, too. It saves all its maps and automatic map updates to my phone’s SD card: the whole thing is specifically designed to be used offline with no problem at all. Of course while using the route planner, you do need to switch your phone’s GPS location on (most of the time, when I don’t need it, I leave my GPS off for privacy reasons).Sideline: I like to be as Google-free as possible.
I uninstalled/disabled.all. Google apps on my Android phone, with the one exception of Google’s Play Store for quick and easy app installs. To be able to still use the Play Store, I linked my phone to an empty “dummy” Gmail account.In a few weeks from now, I will finally be able to completely and definitively terminate both my former Microsoft and Google accounts. Trying to live without Google and Microsoft accounts turns out to be a very interesting experience indeed. Not until you try to cut all ties, you find out how far-reaching and all-pervading these beasts’ tentacles are! For example, it was quite a challenge to find a Google Calendar alternative that would easily synchronize between my desktop, laptop and phone without using the cloudSorry for the digression.
But you know, it.is. possible to live without Google!. Google Calendar alternatives: if you still are happy to trust your data to others in the cloud, there are many alternatives. One of the best for personal use may be Fruux, with the limitation that a free Fruux account will synchronize their calendars on two devices only: you’ll need a paid account for more.But I myself wanted a strictly private way to synchronize my calendar data without putting any data in the cloud. The solution that in the end turned out to work best for me is this:Step 1. On my Samsung phone, I deleted the Google Calendar app.
This made the standard Samsung calendar app my default phone calendar (one that’s not linked to an email account, so not linked to the cloud).Step 2. In my desktop and laptop, I installed the Lightning calendar extension for Thunderbird.
From my browser I exported my existing Google Calendar data to a file, and imported everything in the Thunderbird calendar.Step 3. On my computers I installed MyPhoneExploner, a free PC-phone synchronizer (actually it has more functions). On my phone I installed the corresponding MyPhoneExplorer app for Android.MyPhoneExplorer has a built-in option to synchronize calendar data, contacts etc. It works fine with a Thunderbird-Lightning calendar and with a default phone calendar. So after installing everything, at the first run it synchronized my still-empty Samsung calendar with the already-imported Thunderbird data.
After that, keeping the calendars synchronized is a piece of cake.End result: this may not be the most elegant or streamlined setup, but it works fine. The most important thing, for me, is that my calendars on different devices are now kept synchronized in a strictly.local.
way: through my own local wifi, Bluetooth or USB connections (it works with all three). No data go to the cloud.
Had my windows phone not barfed it last week, I’d still be in the dark ages thinking I was in the light.:) I had to drag out the old Moto X and decided all or nothing and install CyanogenMod (CM) on it. Wooo Hoooo google and msoft free and damned awesome. I tell you, if the mainstream ever gets to understand what and why CM is and what it has as basic apps, there will only be google’s-version of Android, for dummies.:)You can install one of several custom play store apps that do not report back and as Henk says, use an “empty” account. Bingo, best of both worlds.
Then don’t get me started on using Titanium Backup to remove (and store as files for later reinstall) any nasty apps you may need for very occasional single use, like downloading the maps you need for a specific trip, then life is gooood!CM is King! Long live the King. LOLForgot to mention you can also selectively control ALL Permissisons for all apps installed. The thing that google hastily withdrew from 4.3 realizing that ALL calling home could be stopped on an app by app basis.
OsmAnd (Free: or 6,49 euro )The list of available maps of Asia is very long. I don’t know how much detail you will have but I’m pretty sure normal travelling shouldn’t be a problem. Hiking might be more difficult, but then again you probably won’t find anything much more detailed anyway unless you buy paper maps.for example shows a Thailand map (based on osm) with many transliterated names.In the Android-app you can choose between local and transliterated names (if available in the first place).