Moving Android resources to external memory
I have lots of memory on my external card. Can I move Logos resources (especially downloaded Bibles, commentaries, etc.,) from my main internal memory to my external card?
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For reasons which baffle most users, the Android operating system was apparently intentionally designed to make this nearly impossible unless you are a wiz with system level programming. Maybe because of anticipated performance problems with Android software attempting to use more than one card that they did not want to allow this for other than reading photos, movies and music files ? Whatever the reason I think it a deal breaker with continued use of Android on devices with small internal memory cards.
This is one of the reasons I expect my next tablet will have a Windows Pro based operating system, rather than Android, so I can install Logos to any drive, not just a very limited size system drive. Not sure that a tablet with Windows RT version is any better than Android in this regard. Have yet to find a phone provider who has an Android phone with other than the absolute minimum internal card memory available. May have to wait a few years (hopefully only a few months) before we can get good deals on devices with enough capability to free us from these current limitations. I find it similarly infuriating that Windows Pro based tablets are being sold with 64GB hard drives when so little of this is available for the users files and software after the operating system and recovery partition is accounted for. Even worse is the fact that the maximum most manufacturers currently offer is a 128GB drive when 256GB drives free you from most of these restictions, allow for the largest of libraries (give you way more than double the amount of user space) and seem to be priced at only tens of dollars more than equivalent smaller drives for devices with an overall cost of around $1200 fully equipped. I recall that my first digital camera came with a "massive" 32MB SD card which allowed for less photos than a roll of film. Within a very short timeframe such silly limitations were overcome and you will rarely find a card even as small as 2GB available today (and if you do it is likely old stock with much larger cards at a lower price). From this I take it we are still in a temporary stage of very limiting device capability and that current devices will be swept away by the first company to be able to come to market with substantially more memory available in cards for phones and SSDs for tablets at anywhere close to the current overall device cost. While absolute price is more important than device capabilty the current low memory models will remain predominant. Expect a major breakthrough within the next few months once most manufacturers get excess stocks of current low capacity models, someone will appear with a much more capable device that will sweep most of them away. Might not be Samsung, Apple or Microsoft. May be a new player altogether.
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