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[Chinren]

Does anyone know a good way/app (preferably free!!) to move the APK install file of an app from wherever it is in the memory to the SDCard?

I don't want the installed files, just the initially downloaded APK file.  I can't find them in the phone's memory.

[Daz555]

I'm not sure I understand. If you downloaded an APK file (in order to install a non-market app for example), then surely you KNOW where you downloaded it to?

[Chinren]

Daz555, on Jun 27 2011, 18:34, said:

I'm not sure I understand. If you downloaded an APK file (in order to install a non-market app for example), then surely you KNOW where you downloaded it to?

Well yes, if I download the APK file that way I do.  However my HTC phone I bought in Hong Kong, and it has the English version app market on, which is good.  My Asus Transformer I bought here in China though, and only has some crappy Chinese app market on.  Until I pluck up enough courage to root and reflash it, I'd like to transfer a couple of apps from my phone, downloaded from the market, to my pad.  (Rather than search out the APK file).

The problem is I don't know where (if anywhere) the APK file is stored on the non-SD card memory on my phone.  Hence the question above.  

[Daz555]

Installed apps on the phone should be located in system/app and data/app. However to get at protected apps you're are going to need a rooted phone.

You can get at the apps via ADB if you want but a tool like MyBackup will also do the trick.

[macnoodle]

Astro File Explorer has a nifty App Backup feature where you can save all installed apk's on your phone. It saves them under a directory on your SD card: sdcard/backups/apps