How to print photos from text messages on android

The trick was to figure out how to save the photo from the text message, then it was possible to print it from the gallery app.

The process on my phone was a little bit different than as described in this link, but the hurdle was solved by the realization that I tap and hold on the photo to select it. In my case, the "save" option was in an ellipsis drop-down menu that would appear instead of appearing as a save icon when the photo was selected. https://www.techbout.com/save-photos-mms-message-android-phone-13066/

How to root android phone:

iPhone links:

Some apps for rooting: Towelroot, Kingoroot, and others. All-important unrooting also discussed:

http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/how-to-root-android/3/
http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/how-to-root-android/4/

From the google search 'how to root android'

A great article that oddly breaks down rooting by phone brand:

http://m.androidcentral.com/root

Installing an SD card in an android phone and configuring apps to install to sd automatically

Lots of tips on how to move apps to sd card: http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/how-to/google-android/move-data-from-android-phone-sd-card-s7-3466195/

Another guide on how to push the "Move to SD" button in the app manager. When I try it most of the time I get "Cannot move app." : http://www.tomsguide.com/us/move-android-apps-to-sd-card,news-21279.html

Can you change a setting to make apps always install to sd? Nope, even though there is a setting that says it does that. Here is an extremely technical post on how to try to get around that: http://www.fixedbyvonnie.com/2014/06/install-android-apps-sd-card-default/#.V9ihGcT3bCQ

This one is a far more succint post that covers the same solution as Vonnie's post: http://www.baatkar.com/2015/12/how-to-install-apps-directly-into-your.html

This explains why I couldn't find the Enable USB option and the new secret way to find it:
http://www.technewscentral.co.uk/how-to-enable-usb-debugging-and-developer-options-in-android-4-2-and-higher-android-4-2android-4-3android-4-4/id_7250

Here's an ad for a Windows program called "Android Transfer" which is supposed to make it possible to transfer apps to SD card when you are otherwise blocked. It seems to use the USB debug option to manipulate files on the Android directly: https://www.recovery-android.com/install-apps-on-sd-card.html

This shows how transferring apps works for 6.0. I have 4.0. It's less nice for me:
http://www.howtogeek.com/114667/how-to-install-android-apps-to-the-sd-card-by-default-move-almost-any-app-to-the-sd-card/

A possible hint about clearing the cache: http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/how-to/google-android/how-fix-androids-insufficient-storage-available-error-message-summary-cache-3623467/

Best guide so far about enabling USB debugging and then installing the android debug app on a PC and using it, but the page is filled with javascript ads making it hard to view on PC: http://techgage.com/article/moving_your_non-movable_android_apps_to_an_sd_card/

Getting java error does not belong to 2000. Here's a Google search and several links of people trying to figure out how to get around the "java error does not belong to 2000 problem:

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=error+java.lang.securityexception+package+android+does+not+belong+to+2000

Hair-tearing about the does not belong to 2000 problem in the comments of this hint: https://disqus.com/home/discussion/fixedbyvonnie/how_to_install_android_apps_to_your_sd_card_by_default/newest/

An answer which involves being super user. This won't work unless your phone is already rooted though: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28681057/exception-package-android-does-not-belong-to-2000

Android move pictures to SD card

A few weeks after we got the android phone, we had managed to fill up its internal memory with photos. So, I needed to learn how to do a few things. 1) Set the photo app to save to the SD card that I'd made certain to buy and install but which wasn't being used by the phone, 2) Move all the photos out of the phone memory to the SD card, and 3) Set the "Gallery" app to show the pictures from the SD card. We're running Android OS 4.2, Jelly Bean.

2) The way that android implements the cut and paste paradigm for files is a little clunky but honestly a whole lot easier than Apple. The key is to find the "My Files" app and then dig through layers to get to the photo folder for the on-board storage. I think that the order of the levels is odd in some way, but just keep going till you get to the DCIM folder (not the Pictures folder, which is just for screen caps or downloads). Then find the button for "select all". Then under the hamburger menu find the "copy" option. Somebody on one of the sites I found recommended doing "Copy" followed by "Delete" rather than "Move" because you never know when something could go wrong in the middle of an operation, potentially causing loss of data. The thing that the various guides didn't prepare me for is that the copy will seem to freeze, but actually it is still going! Patience is required. I ended up trying copy twice which resulted in the files being copied twice. Copies are helpfully renamed "Copy of ..." and I had to go in through the USB port to clean things up.

I looked at several guide pages, and have since lost the original links that I was using, so here are some substitute links to online guides:

This guide is actually better than the first one I found in that the OS looks more like mine: http://innov8tiv.com/how-to-move-pictures-from-gallery-to-sd-card-in-android-galaxy-s5-or-any-other-phone/

I think this was the original guide that I followed: http://www.wikihow.com/Move-Pictures-from-Android-to-SD-Card

3) It wasn't clear at first if there would be a problem getting the Gallery app to check both the on-board memory and the SD card. Several people online had posted about having problems with it, but basically all that is needed is some way to get the app to re-index the phone, which for me seemed to happen naturally, either as a result of time or perhaps a phone reboot.

Here's the google search for the problem showing al the other peoples' pain with this issue: https://www.google.com/#q=android+gallery+show+pictures+from+both+internal+memory+and+sd+card