I am still using a older Galaxy S5. The Wyze app can’t be move the the SD card, My Phone is running low on memory. The SD card in the phone has plenty. I just want to have the WYZE app moved to the Card. It is apparently marked as none movable. Please change this.
Please enable installation of the Wyze app to a phone’s expansion card.
Phones are stuffed full of bloatware and we can’t all root our phones. So the wyze app plus daily recordings pretty well fills upo the phone and demands daily maintenance to recover space. If we could install the app to an expansion card, this would help both record videa o AND save space for other things we have to do with our phones. Failure to allow installation to an expansion card is the number one issue that put me off (and still puts me off) Wyze products.
Did this problem with Wyze not allowing its app to move to SD card get fixed on Android 13? I am so tired of Wyze crap. If I didn’t have 50 cams I’d throw it away in a second.
I thought I was able to use the Wyze app on an SD card on a past phone. I thought this option was left up to the phone manufacturer whether you can set the SD card as a primary storage option to move apps/data onto.
Are there still people who can move some apps to SD storage but not the Wyze app? I can’t test on my current phone because it doesn’t support SD cards at all, but I thought this was mostly left up to the phone manufacturers.
I can’t move it, and I can move other apps - on an A13 tablet. Several other folks posted the same in various places on the net. I just solved it by returning to apple, as much as I dislike it.
How does this solve it? Apple doesn’t even have any embedded SD card support at all in the first place. So you would presumably still have to use the device’s primary local storage, which is the same thing your Android device was already forcing you to do that was a problem. 
Are you connecting a separate card reader and compatible connector or adapter or something? That would probably work.
Thanks for clarifying that you can do it with some apps on your Android device, but just not Wyze. That is weird and very indicative that it is something Wyze needs to add a permission or support for. I would think it wouldn’t take too much to support this.
FWIW, we have an apple ecosystem and can port to RAID. I’m not the IT guy, and I’m no apple fan either, but it’s pretty seamless for most issues like this. If we were supporting a lot of android also, I suppose we’d find a way to push files from android to BT or WiFi on an as available signal basis also.
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That makes sense. Thanks for giving me some closure. 
I miss the days when I’d just root my samsung and do whatever the hell I wanted and it would just work. And I good do it all by myself 
Nice to chat.
You technically can with a Samsung if you get one that supports it. But, Android is also making that worse by being more like Apple so there’s also much less point to doing it =)
But, Android is “solving” this anyway as most phones today do not come with an sd card slot/tray. All app developers are certainly going to care less because of that.
I wish rooting was still that easy and functional. Now I am too scared to root my devices because when you do, they disable getting OTA updates (annoying), and disable functionality of certain very important apps like banking, finance and security apps that I use regularly and desperately need. 
Oh well.
Wow. All this time I have been happy living in the constraints of what Samsung and Android allow me to do. I find it very customizable using the right application, like Good Lock and others.
What am I missing on my Galaxy S24?
Non-rooted is good enough for 99% of people and they will never notice the difference. But if you root a device, you can do a lot of things that are otherwise restricted or not possible due to Google’s built in limitations. However, Google allegedly implements most of those limitations for your “safety” to also limit hackers, malware, etc. But some of that is just their ostensible reasons they give while actually doing it for personal gain in some ways. For example, in some cases, a non-rooted phone can’t remove all the bloatware that the manufacturer or the carrier forces on your phone that you may not want. They may not allow you to uninstall things like useless utilities or a carrier branded music store or carrier app store or some “big bucks mobile games” or janky VPN that you really shouldn’t trust or use. Some social media companies will pay the manufacturer or carrier to FORCE you to have their apps on your phone and not allow you to uninstall them, and even if you try to pause it or never log in or never use it, that app will unpause by itself and the company will spy on all your data and sell it to data brokers even though you never once opened or logged into it (cough, cough, Meta for example is notorious for doing this). You can only remove them with root permissions (or buy a phone that doesn’t preinstall as much spammy bloatware). Some of the apps are even not very subtle spyware and their “utilities” or alleged “system apps” will waste phone resources like processor/RAM, etc and you can never stop them running in the background and sometimes they just hide in the background.
Google will restrict certain types of apps, like, for example, formerly popular call recording apps or any other API restrictions. There are some really cool apps you can use with root access that aren’t possible without root.
Settings you can tweak that aren’t allowed without root. Become the boss of your battery, including being able to identify and disaple battery hogs, and fine-tune how your phone uses battery power.
Overclock your processor for extra speed if you want to, or remove certain limitations.
Install powerful 3rd party firewalls with granular control which isn’t allowed without root.
Access to the entire file structure which isn’t allowed without root. This is one of the things that drives me the most crazy. I hate Android hiding and restricting certain file structure locations. I have some very particular use cases where I need this. In fact, this issue in particular would resolve this very wishlist, but Android is too restrictive to allow control for it natively. This also prevents a lot of good backup and restore options because most apps aren’t allowed to access all your data, so they can’t actually backup and restore everything to exactly how it was like we can do on lots of other computer type of systems.
Automation control…Android is still the most powerful automation phone with tools like Tasker, MacroDroid, etc…but some of their features are restricted unless you have a rooted phone. If you are rooted, you can unlock being able to do A LOT more.
In some cases, a parent might decide to root their child’s phone so they can install a parental control app that gives more control over their child’s phone.
Lots more customization options (I don’t care about this as much as some people).
To be honest, the masses really don’t need a rooted phone and it’s safer that way. Similar to how most people don’t need an Admin account for their laptop. It’s even better for them if they don’t have one. But that doesn’t mean that NOBODY needs it, or that it shouldn’t be allowed for advanced users. I think Android should treat rooted vs non-rooted, the same way Microsoft treats Admin account vs regular user account. That’s all I’m saying.
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Yeah, and when I think of that company and its founder, I think of things like this:
No privacy? Oh, but then why…?
Back to the actual technical stuff:
I’m comfortable with this paradigm, working with Windows and Linux for awhile. Being Linux-based, I’d think Android could even allow an extra confirmation step to allow temporary root-level access for certain features and functions, which reminds me of xkcd:
A PIN, pattern-swipe, or fingerprint could even be used as the simple confirmation on most phones, I’d think.
Incidentally, Wyze has a LOT of room for growth when it comes to this concept, but that’s the subject of another topic.
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