I've had a couple of goes at this but I think I should probably start a separate thread.
I'm struggling to get my head round this.
Courtesy of a wise man on another thread - "You set it up for Adoptable Storage I assume? Adopted Storage uses the SD card as the actual internal storage for the device, so it will not show up in a file manager - it is not a separate device any longer."
Moto Z = 32GB - SD Card 64GB
And of course he was correct - I did - even if I didn't quite know I had, or why/how
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I still don't understand what these two screen grabs tell me. On File Manager I can't see what's in there, and on the other (in settings) it's there, and it's got stuff on it.
I lost what was on the SD card to have Adoptable Storage, I'd lose it again to swap back, but should I - which is better?
Is there a better file manager than the Moto one that came on the phone, that would show me more?
Thanks for any help.....
Adoptable storage formats your sd card once you have opted to use it. From memory, if you reverse back to internal and external storage, apps are moved back to internal and sd card will be wiped. Even if you use Adoptable storage your internal and external memory is shown as per your screen shots.
I tried it when I had a 16gb moto x play. I found it not a great success and you had to move most apps onto sd card so wasn't as seamless as I was expecting. Matter of fact found it a waste of time and never tried it again.
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Hi, I am new to the Droid. Came from a BB 9700. I am curious as to the difference between the 3 storage options I now have with my Droid.
1. Device
2. USB
3. SD
I basically understand 1 and 3...What the heck is 2? I have stuff there, and I don't know how or what...
Now to the actual question I have. What folders/files do I leave on my Device and what can I put on my SD card? Basically, right now, I put Music, Pictures, Ringtones and Documents on my SD card. I have a ton of other stuff on the Device and was just wondering what, if any I can move and/or delete?
I'm attaching a pic of my device folder for reference. By the way, it says I have a folder that says "External SD" but there is nothing in it...
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external_sd is where your SD card gets mounted. USB is the GS2 built in storage. As for where you put stuff, that's mostly up to you.
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external_sd is where your SD card gets mounted. USB is the GS2 built in storage. As for where you put stuff, that's mostly up to you.
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Roger That...I didn't know what was safe to move and what wasn't.. Like do apps use that stuff and if its on the SD card, will it find it?..
Not really sure about that, as i've never needed it. Internal storage seems much faster even than my class 10 sd card anyway, so i just use external for stuff like music, images, etc... basically storage.
Roger That!
Thanks!
Hey! Is there any way to set the default storage to my external SD card? I have my ext SD set to default storage location in the Camera app, so all my captured images and videos are saved on my ext SD; However, if I save an image from Chrome/Kik/Messenger/ect, it saves it on the internal SD. I recently got a new 32GB Ultra Sandisk card and would like all my apps to save all the images/downloads to my ext SD rather than my internal one, like the Camera application. Thanks in advanced.
You either need to modify the kernel to switch them, or use a script the unmounts the internal and external, then remounts them under the opposite locations.
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You either need to modify the kernel to switch them, or use a script the unmounts the internal and external, then remounts them under the opposite locations.
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If I did it right, my Kernel and ROM information is above. Since I am not having any other problems except this one, it would probably be best to use a script instead of a new Kernel, right? I can't find anything on Google except for complete Internal & External SD swaps, which is not what I'm looking for. Could I use TWRP to mount and remount the locations? If so, how?
You can use the swap script or I installed a new Rom (jellybean 14) which uses your external memory as internal memory. When you plug ur phone into your computer the storage location will look swapped.
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For roms like cm12 the internal storage is a bit small and I often got a "no free storage left" message. I did a bit of research and as for the Xperia S it is possible to resize the internal storage.
Now it looks like this.
Is anyone interested in a guide how to resize the partitions? If you do you'll lose everything stored on the device and the sd card and need to backup everything.
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For roms like cm12 the internal storage is a bit small and I often got a "no free storage left" message. I did a bit of research and as for the Xperia S it is possible to resize the internal storage.
Now it looks like this.
Is anyone interested in a guide how to resize the partitions? If you do you'll lose everything stored on the device and the sd card and need to backup everything.View attachment 3263290
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It is possible to merge internal memory(sometimes called device storage) and sdcard0.(sometimes called internal storage). However it is usually risky business and flashing over can hardbrick your phone.
However there are other ways to do it.
First is to move apps to sdcard, which is done best by Titaniumbackup (It requires root)
Secondly you can use a software likelink2sd which would use your memory card(you decide how much) and link it with your internal memory.
If you have still problems, you can quote me for an answer.
Good luck
Can you explain the process for link2sd, as xperia p doesn't contain SD card?
First off, I have a Galaxy S5, rooted, xposed installed, with 6.0.1.
So I partitioned my SD card a few months ago and I haven't had any issues. My apps were installing just fine and I was no longer getting any errors in regards to low system memory.
Today, I received the dreaded low system memory message and went to investigate.
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When I try to view the details under User Data, thing's don't quite add up:
I am fairly tired so pardon my mistake in judgment if the solution is simple. However, I cannot wrap my head around why I am getting this error when everything was working fine previously.
When I plug in my phone, this is what you see in regards to the visible partitions:
As you can see, there is a lot of memory left on both internal storage and the SD card.
In addition to the phone storage indicated there, I had also partitioned off a portion of my SD card to be used as app storage. As it stands, when I go to storage, this is what is shown:
Here are the details of the expanded storage and again, I am unable to make sense of the numbers.
If you could provide some assistance in making sense of this, I would be eternally grateful! Thanks!
My guess is that maybe at some point I had booted up my phone without my SD card in and it changed how the partition was recognized and all of the app data was migrated back over to the phone. This would mean I would have to back up my SD card, delete all of the partitions, and then repartition the card using ADB. I hoping this is not the case because I don't remember that process being fun.
Again, thanks ahead of time and hopefully there is an easy solution to this.
1 week ago my phone (J5 Prime 2016) recieved oreo update, so
I installed the update and made the phone reset.
New android has took more space than android nougat, and also I've decided to install some game to play, thus I have got less space in my internal storage.
I tried to format my SD card to turn it into internal storage but there is no option for doing that, as I remember there was an option to format and turn it into internal storage in android nougat.
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An options has been added to apps detail screen that you can transfer the apps to sd card using that option, but this option only send a few data file, it doesn't send main file like OBB files (In HD game) or cache file storage location (In apps like instagram, telegram, Whatsapp), so it's kind a useless.
Do anybody know anyway to enable Adoptable Storage in my phone?!
Thus anyone can solve? Im also having problem with this after oreo update, can some help us to downgrade it on nougat to have the adoptable storage thanks in advance
Once External storage got adopted you cannot remove it, and the Adopted storage is much slower than Internal storage.
You should not use this feature unless you are desperately short of Internal storage, IMHO.