Update sizes / move game data to memory card

jankrohn wrote:
I'm just wondering: Am I really the only one with this issue here...?

Nah, bro, this is just an old issue on Android. My handset (LG Optimus F6) only has 2 gig of built-in memory, so I'm always hitting that wall with TSTO updates.

The issue specific to Android is that the Google bloatware they force you to have is irremovable ... you can't completely uninstall any of the Google apps, and they add up to nearly a gig of storage (wasted storage if, like me, you don't ever use those apps).

The way I work around this issue is that every time there's an update, I go into my Apps control panel, and one at a time select each Google app then clear cache, clear data, force stop and uninstall updates ... the updates all by themselves add up to nearly 2 or 3 hundred MB. Only when my fone indicates I have about 600 MB of free space am I able to successfully download & install any Tapped Out update.

The real root of the problem, however, is that the installer program that EA uses is a piece of crap. Most any update, your'e only really downloading 20 or 30 MB of stuff even tho the package installer thinks it's 250 MB (if it were dowloading the entire game plus all optional datasets all at once, then maybe 250 MB could be, but if you're just updating a game you've been running for ages, you are NOT downloading all that stuff, only the new stuff). And then even if it thinks it has to install 250 MB, it is still utterly and completely defective in that it won't install if you have anything near (god forbid less than) only 500 MB free space in your internal storage. That's just plain $hitty programming on the part of EA. And the fact they won't use your external memory / SD card. I've got a 32 gig card in my fone, but the installer don't care.

Addendum: like SteadyDuchess indicates, you can go into your Apps control panel and select "move to SD card" for TSTO and just about any App on the device (except, of course, any of the Google bloatware). I've moved every app I can to SD, and it still doesn't free up enough space. Even if you've moved TSTO to SD, the installer still only reads/measures your internal storage available when calculating whether you have enough storage to install the update.