Move apps to sd with Android Debug Bridge (Android 2.2 - 2.3 )

Well here is my first real post!

So, what is it all about?
With most not rooted android devices, there are some limitations. Limitations like storage. The device (for example htc desire, the one i use) has 2 kind of storages. internal  (flash +- 300mb) and external (sd flash card +4Gb).
Wow! thats a lot! yes...if it is used properly...
The problem is, that a lot of apps are installed, downloaded and used on the internal flash memory. But that memory is very small, and reaches its limit very fast. Of course, you can move apps to your sd card, out of the box, but this is not allways working. So, its very hard to install a lot of apps on your android device. The app must support running from sd, it also better be no widget, and it must be movable.

Now, there are a lot of apps for moving other apps to sd (like move2sd etc...) but it uses the intern policy of the android device. So, your stuck anyway. Ok, you can root your device...but hey...thats not done in 5 minutes!

So, there is an other solution!
You can enable moving to sd, through the  Android Debug Bridge (adb).  Actually it is very simple...you connect your device to your pc, tell your pc and device that its running for development/debugging purposes, run an adb command, and there you go!

Step by step


Now, i am not going to explain every step, because i got it from another site. Its explained very well, and it works like a charm. Now i can use all the free space on my sd card that i need!

Here is the adress:

check it here


And if you want to do some more experiments with adb :

adb developer