Move Apps from SD Card to Microsoft Lumia 535

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Hello, welcome to VisiHow. In this video, we are going to show you how you can transfer or move apps from the SD card onto the Microsoft Lumia 535.

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Steps

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    Activate the phone by tapping the power button on the right-hand side
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    Swipe up to unlock the phone and access the home screen
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    Swipe down from the top of the screen to open the Notification Panel
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    Tap on All Settings on the right.
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    Scroll down and look for Storage Sense
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    Tap it.
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    We want to move an app from the SD card to the phone, so select SD card
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    Select Apps & Games
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    The only app we have on the SD card is Facebook, so we will press that
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    Now we have two options, Uninstall and Move to Phone
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    We want to move the app to the phone, so we will tap that.
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    Here we can see the 5 dots at the top of the screen, letting us know that it's loading
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    Now the app is gone from the list, so the move was successful
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    Press the back button twice and select Phone to see if the app is there
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    Select Apps & Games again
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    Facebook is in the list, so the app was successfully moved to the phone
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    It was very smooth and it is a very good feature on this phone. This is something you may need to do if you want to create space either on the phone or the SD card.
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    This concludes our tutorial on how to move or transfer an application from an SD card to a Microsoft Lumia 535
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    If you have any questions or suggestions about this video, please leave them in the comment section below. You've been watching VisiHow. Goodbye.
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Video: Move Apps from an SD card to Your Microsoft Lumia 535

Questions and Answers

Transferring audio, video files & apps?

Hi! I am switching from Android to Windows phone; so can I transfer all my old phone data to my new Lumia 535 via SD card?. I have tried: I have transferred my contacts via Bluetooth to my Windows phone but what about apps?. I think it was caused by: Please solve my above query

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    Applications are completely incompatible between Windows Phones and Android phones
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    If you have purchased a program on Android, then you will have to repurchase it on a Windows Phone.
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    If you have not done so already, move all of the pictures, music and videos from the internal memory of the Android phone to the microSD card
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    You will need to use a file manager like X-plore to locate image (JPG, BMP, PNG, JPEG, TIFF, TIF, etc.), audio (MP3, WAV, FLAC, AAC, etc.), and video files (MP4, FLV, MPG, MPEG, AVI, WMV, etc.) on the internal memory of your phone and move them to your microSD card.
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    Power down the Android phone and move the microSD card to the Lumia phone.
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    Power up Lumia.
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    Clean up the microSD card by leaving only the folders with audio, video, and picture files
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    You can use one of the file managers from Store: File Manager Free, Metro File Manager, or Files to perform that task.
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If you have problems with any of the steps in this article, please ask a question for more help, or post in the comments section below.

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