How to download programs and files to a memory card on an “Android”

The memory card in phones based on the Android operating system plays a very important role. It saves in itself that it’s better not to save it in the phone’s memory: videos, music, photos, some applications and other files. Therefore, we will analyze how to download information of different kinds to a memory card on an “Android” in different ways.

Why is it needed?

In fact, the answer to this question is very simple: so that there is more space. And although smartphones with 16 GB of internal memory are now being manufactured, there are still too many gadgets that have not enough memory. For example, if the “Android” device has 1 gigabyte of its memory, of which 400 MB is occupied by the operating system itself, then there is not much left. It would seem that 600 MB is enough. However, it is worth installing a dozen and a half of the necessary applications and games, which I will constantly leave behind temporary files, cache and account information, and this place has never happened. Not to mention the need to save the rest of the multimedia files somewhere. Do not forget about simple push-button phones on which there is no internal memory at all.

Useful thing

It is for this that you need to have an additional data storage and know how to download to the memory card on “Android”. Before you purchase an SD card, you need to find out what maximum volume a particular gadget can support. You can find out about this in the passport to the device, as well as on many sites, including online stores. Since the card will always be in the device, you can not take the highest class. Having acquired an additional data storage, you can save different data on the memory card. The main thing is to leave a little space for applications that can be moved to a USB flash drive.

How to download to a memory card on “Android”?

To do this, you need a phone with a USB flash drive and a USB cable to the device (preferably native, because some outsiders may not be suitable). We connect the gadget to the computer via USB, select the memory card (or something like that) on the touch screen. Open “My Computer”, find the flash drive that appears and open it. As you can see, it already has several files and folders that were created by the Android OS. For greater convenience, create thematic folders (music, video, etc.).

Before downloading data to the “Android” memory card, we do the following: select the desired file or several files and simply copy them to the right place on the USB flash drive. This completes the data transfer.

If there is no USB cable or it does not work and information will be reset from the laptop, you can use the adapter that came with the SD-card. If this is a regular PC, then you can not do without a special adapter that connects to a USB port. In general, there are plenty of ways to download files to the “Android” memory card. However, there are a couple more ways.

Cloud storage

It has long been no secret that there are cloud storages, which are a good decision on how to download the necessary data to the memory card on the “Android”. This is such a space on the Internet where you can download any information. Something like a hard drive on the Internet. This disk space is located on a remote server owned by a particular company.

These discs come in two types: search engine discs (Yandex.Disk, Cloud mail.ru, Google Drive) and independent (DropBox, Mega, etc.). They immediately have some kind of free disk space from 2 GB to 100 GB. It does not matter what kind of storage will be used, but since almost everyone has a mailbox on google and mail.ru, you can use them.

Open mail, enter the cloud. We upload the files necessary for transfer there (most often this is done by drag and drop). Before downloading data to the “Android” memory card, you need to install the application of this disk from the play market on the gadget. Install, run the application, log in, download the file, after selecting where to save it. It is worth considering that installing the application and downloading data is best connected to Wi-Fi, as files can weigh a lot.

Create FTP Server

There is a rather interesting application on the play market called FTP-server. But it is interesting in that it turns a mobile device into an ftp server, by connecting to which you can exchange information and files. The only condition: the phone must be connected via Wi-Fi to the same network as the computer, in other words, to the same router.

If all of this is there, install this application and launch it. Click the big red icon in the middle of the screen. It should be repainted in green, and an IP address will appear below it (for example, ftp://192.168.1.200:2221). This address is needed in order to enter the file system of the smartphone. Open My computer and enter this address in the address bar. It looks the same as in the browser, only in it, instead of the site address, the path to files and folders is displayed. Press Enter. Now you can see how the gadget file system opened. Also, this utility gives full control over the data, i.e. You can create, copy, delete, etc. Therefore, you need to be careful before downloading directly to the "Android" memory card, since by inadvertence you can lose a couple of the necessary files or folders, which will be difficult to restore.

We transfer utilities

There is nothing easier than how to download to Android without a memory card. However, in Android, from the very beginning, the function of transferring applications and games to the SD card was provided to save space. And it saves a lot, as there are utilities and toys weighing several tens of megabytes. And the saved 100, 200, 500 megabytes will never be redundant. Therefore, it’s a sin not to use such a function.

This is done as simple as possible. We go into the settings, look for the "Applications" section and go into it. Here you can observe several tabs, among which we will need “Installed”.

For greater convenience, it is better to sort them by size. So it will be seen in descending order which program weighs how much. But before saving applications to the “Android” memory card, it’s worth determining which ones will remain in the phone’s memory. These include the most necessary utilities that may be needed when the flash drive is removed. These are social networks and email clients, electronic wallets and banking programs, a browser, etc. The rest, which are not needed urgently, can be safely transferred. Open any application and click "Transfer to SD card." In addition, in this window you can see how much the cache and temporary files of the program weigh , and if there is nothing important in it, you can clean the garbage. This can be done before saving applications to the Android memory card, and after that.

APKs

APK is the file format of any application or game on the Android operating system. It is like an installer with a .exe format on a computer. With the play store, we immediately install the desired utility in the background. But if for some reason the Google store doesn’t have the right program or it’s simply malfunctioning, you can do it the other way by downloading the APK and saving it to a file. It can be made simple as there are several ways to download programs to the Android memory card.

Download from the browser

Each device must have a browser. Even if no one set it (which in itself is unlikely), that is, built-in. We go into it and in the search register “Application is such and such apk download”. Now you need to find a good site for the download (usually it won’t take much time). Click "download" and, before downloading applications to the "Android" memory card, select where to save the necessary installer.

Next, we go to the directory where the APK was saved, click on it. At this stage, a security notification should appear, in which you need to select the settings and check the “Unknown sources” item, allowing the installation of programs from unknown sources, and then install the utility. It is also worth understanding that the program will be installed from an unknown source, which may contain viruses, spyware or malware. In order not to run into such gifts, you need to read the utility description and comments before downloading applications to the “Android” memory card. Well, if there are any problems in it, then dissatisfied users will definitely indicate this.

Computer to help

Few people know, but you can install games on a mobile device through a computer. You can go in two ways:

• Download the application from the site of the play market;
• Install it from the APK file.

In both cases, before downloading the game to the “Android” memory card, you will need to connect the mobile device to the PC via a USB cable and enable USB debugging on it. This is done as follows. You need to open the "Settings", find the item "Developer Features" and go into it. In it, in the first place will be "Debugging via USB", which must be checked. Now we proceed to the installation of games.

Using google play

Open a browser on your computer and go to play.google.com. But before downloading games to the “Android” memory card, you need to log in to google system with the same account as on the device. Now we find the necessary utility, open it. As in mobile google play, click "Install", then select a mobile device from the list in the window that opens.

Click on “Install” again, after which a notification about the successful installation will appear.

In addition, you can install the game from the market through a computer via Wi-Fi. The nuance is that both the computer and the smartphone must be connected to the same router.

Through utility

To install programs on Android through a computer, there are quite a few utilities. However, the easiest to use and in appearance is InstallAPK. Therefore, before downloading the file to the android memory card, you need to install InstallAPK on the computer. This is easy to do, as it is completely free and is available on so many sites. Now download the game’s APK file.

Open the installer using InstallAPK. A small window of this utility will appear, where you will need to choose through which the installation will be performed: USB or Wi-Fi. Click "Update." When the device appears, select it and click "Install." If the gadget was not recognized, you may need to install drivers for it on your computer. You can find the necessary drivers on the disk that came in the kit, on the device manufacturer’s website or on extraneous sites and blogs. Very often, drivers are delivered through a service utility from the manufacturer. In this case, you need to install it, after which you will be prompted to install the driver on the computer.

Micro-USB to the rescue

Basically, on modern mobile devices, the connector for charging and the data connector are the same - Micro-USB. Often, a gadget comes with a charger in the form of a USB cable that connects to the plug. That is why they came up with special adapters from USB to Micro-USB, so that you can connect a regular USB flash drive to your phone or tablet and use the information from it.

You can buy this miracle in any computer store, but there will be many benefits from it. Also, before downloading to a memory card on Android, you need to install any file manager on your smartphone if it is not there. After that, insert the USB flash drive into the adapter, and after that all this design to the device. Open the file manager, find the flash drive. Most likely, it will be in the list with a memory card. If it does not appear immediately, you need to wait a bit until it boots up and the gadget recognizes it.

It also happens that a flash drive has been identified and appears on the list, but does not open. In this case, it is worth trying another file manager.