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Android Install Location Settings.md

Android Install Location Settings

  • Non-Rooted Phone
  • ADB

Instead of using adb shell pm set-install-location which would fail with

Security exception: Package android does not belong to 2000

java.lang.SecurityException: Package android does not belong to 2000
        at android.app.AppOpsManager.checkPackage(AppOpsManager.java:5288) ...

use

 adb shell settings put global default_install_location 2
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