On 4/5/2014 1:45 PM, Danny D. wrote:

Nobody told me that, after Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich), apparently
you can't move any apps to the sd card, nor can you install apps onto the
SD card. If that is true (and I'm still confused whether that's the
case since it appears to be so for my phone but maybe not for others),
then I feel I was the victim of deceptive advertising.

It's not the phone maker's fault, nor the phone company's fault. It
was a decision made by the OS creator, and word is that Google did
that on account of copyright infringement and bug issues. Even before
they made that change, an app couldn't be moved to an SD card unless
the app developer had enabled that option within the app.

Android always has work-arounds, and there are work-arounds for this
issue, too. It generally requires rooting the phone, then installing a
third-party app that enables app transfers to the SD card. If you
don't want to screw around with that, you can uninstall the apps you
seldom use. They'll remain in your Google Play account, ready to be
reinstalled at any time. Install them when you need them, then
uninstall them again. Clunky, but it'll work.

The problem is, you bought a very basic and limited-storage phone.
Heck, OS upgrades and a single mapping app alone would probably fill
the available onboard free space within a year or so. In the future,
you'll know you need to make onboard storage a priority when selecting
a new phone.