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MicroSD Card Question.

I have a question about the MicroSD cards you can buy for the Wing. Once I realized it was a good idea to have one for the wing (didn't take me long), I had one sent to me via UPS from some website. I got a 2GB. Anyway! My question is.. if I put the card in my phone, does it act as phone memory? Can I actually install .cab's and stuff ON the card and run them like they were actually installed on the phone?
Basically what i'm asking is if putting a MicroSD card into the wing is like putting a hard drive into a computer. It's not just a card to store things on, it's a card that acts as actual memory and you can install things on it too, right?
Today I kept getting pop-ups saying I had low memory. It was annoying as hell, so I uninstalled a few programs until I get my card. They were things I used like battery status and larger start menu, but oh well. I can do without them for a few days.
I know there's "Storage" memory and then there's "Program" memory. The Storage was at 0MB free and that's why I kept getting those pop-ups. My Program is at 18.34MB free.
Thanks in advance.

itslinx said:
I have a question about the MicroSD cards you can buy for the Wing. Once I realized it was a good idea to have one for the wing (didn't take me long), I had one sent to me via UPS from some website. I got a 2GB. Anyway! My question is.. if I put the card in my phone, does it act as phone memory? Can I actually install .cab's and stuff ON the card and run them like they were actually installed on the phone?
Basically what i'm asking is if putting a MicroSD card into the wing is like putting a hard drive into a computer. It's not just a card to store things on, it's a card that acts as actual memory and you can install things on it too, right?
Today I kept getting pop-ups saying I had low memory. It was annoying as hell, so I uninstalled a few programs until I get my card. They were things I used like battery status and larger start menu, but oh well. I can do without them for a few days.
I know there's "Storage" memory and then there's "Program" memory. The Storage was at 0MB free and that's why I kept getting those pop-ups. My Program is at 18.34MB free.
Yes, to answer your question, the microsd card is just like a hard drive. That's where you will prob want to store most of you applications, music, games, etc. This frees up memory on your main drive. I also have my camera setup to put photos on it too. I also keep a backup of all my cab files on my card. Whenever you have a card present, and you install a program, you get the option of installing on the card or the main drive. I believe our phones will take up to an 8 gig. I have 4 and it works great.
Thanks in advance.
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Yes, to answer your question, the microsd card is just like a hard drive. That's where you will prob want to store most of you applications, music, games, etc. This frees up memory on your main drive. I also have my camera setup to put photos on it too. I also keep a backup of all my cab files on my card. Whenever you have a card present, and you install a program, you get the option of installing on the card or the main drive. I believe our phones will take up to an 8 gig. I have 4 and it works great.

dougstoner said:
Yes, to answer your question, the microsd card is just like a hard drive. That's where you will prob want to store most of you applications, music, games, etc. This frees up memory on your main drive. I also have my camera setup to put photos on it too. I also keep a backup of all my cab files on my card. Whenever you have a card present, and you install a program, you get the option of installing on the card or the main drive. I believe our phones will take up to an 8 gig. I have 4 and it works great.
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I see. Thanks for the response. So I guess it would make more sense for me to uninstall everything I installed on my phone and reinstall it all on my card instead? That way most of my actual phone memory is free and it's all on the card? Any idea how much free memory there is to start off on the phone anyway? And what's the difference exactly between Storage and Program memory? I know Storage says Total: 31.44 MB and Program says Total: 47.89 MB. Is that how much the phone gives you to start with?

it will not merge with your storage
and memory is mainly what we call application mem like ram in a computer
not the harddrive
cabs should at install time ask if one wish to install to storage or sdcard

memory card rased itself???!!!

i've had an 8gb sandisk mem card for a few years. used to use it in the n95 then when i got the HD in Nov i formatted it and have been using it in there ever since. I've always had heaps of files and programs with no probs, then today i tried to access stuff via total commander and it's all gone bar a folder which is called Opera cache.
all the camera pics, installed pics, music, etc has disapeared, the card when used in a adaptor wont read in the computer, and when looking up settings via the memory function on the phone it says 'not installed'.
i'm running the Rom by Davideuck V7 MSVC for about a month with no probs previously.
can anyone tell m what the hell has happened? is my mem card stuffed or can i somehow get the data back? what concerns me is that the HD mem program wont read it nor will 2 of my computers

I had the same thing... Didn't manage to recover. I did have all of the info stored on my PC so I didn't actually lose anything, as such.
I never did find the cause or recover the data. I suspect that you will have to go to a professional data recovery agent if you want the pics back.
Sorry to hear your - well known - pain.
Nev

Pierced Soul said:
can anyone tell m what the hell has happened? is my mem card stuffed or can i somehow get the data back? what concerns me is that the HD mem program wont read it nor will 2 of my computers
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There´s already a thread discussing this issue. Take a look at it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=506560&page=1

Matthes42 said:
There´s already a thread discussing this issue. Take a look at it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=506560&page=1
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thanks for the link

micro SD?

Okay so the phone i have right now came with a sd card called 128 evo plus , which was great and was excited to move over apps from internal storage to it, but i don't seem to have the option to do so. (i searched the videos and how-tos and i followed them, but i just dont have the option to.) Help would be appreciated !

Settings
Device
Applications
Application manager
Pick the app you want to move
Storage
Change
Select sd card
You can only move certain apps to sd so you will have to go down the list until you find one that allows you to move it over. Ex waze gps

AndroiderM said:
Settings
Device
Applications
Application manager
Pick the app you want to move
Storage
Change
Select sd card
You can only move certain apps to sd so you will have to go down the list until you find one that allows you to move it over. Ex waze gps
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the problem is i have no option to change it to move it into the sd card

That's strange what carrier? Did you try a reboot after installing card?

AndroiderM said:
That's strange what carrier? Did you try a reboot after installing card?
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I'm bell (canada) and yes i have. :/

And you have tried it on all of your downloaded apps? My options are very limited as to what I can move to sd. My only other suggestions are to download something like Pandora or waze as I know I can move these on my phone and maybe reformat card with your phone. Other than that I'm at a lose on this one sorry, maybe someone who knows more or had the same issue and found a fix will chime in.
Should look like this

yes i have, i guess i'll go to the samsung store and have them take a look. thanks tho ! @AndroiderM

Can´t move apps to SD card due to not true message “Not enough Space”.

Ok guys need some help from experts.
I am trying to move some apps from internal storage to my SD card, but during the app transfer I receive a message of not enough space for transfer. I have a 128 GB from SanDisk with 50% of free space. The game I am trying to move to SD card has more or less 800Mbytes of size. So I have much more space than the necessary.
Looking in the internet I found some users with similar problems and they solve it leaving the SD card with less than 32GB of free space since it seems that android has problems with more than 32 GB.
But I really want to believe there is a better solution since we a talking about Android 6.01 and S7 Edge.
Anyone knows a better solution for this?
Thanks
Eduardo

Have you tried it using apps?

Penelope559 said:
Have you tried it using apps?
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What do you mean? Apps like app2SD ?
No I have not tried. I dont want to use an extra app to simply move my applications. It should be simple. But if there is no other way I will try.
Thanks
Eduardo

Sorry to revive this thread but I am just curious if you ever found a solution or did you use an app instead?

Internal Storage + SD card

How does the SD card storage work in the G6? I'm concerned about storage space with the 32g internal storage being the only option. I don't download that many apps but I guess with podcasts and audio books I run into capacity issues with a 32g phone. My understanding is with Nougat you can use the SD card for apps etc more so than you could in the past. Could someone please shed some light on how this works with the G6?

Check this out. https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/software/auto-formatting-sdcard-to-internal-t3583875
LG removed adaptable storage option. This tool works great for me.

Thanks. I'll take a look at it. I haven't bought the G6 yet and I'm a little concerned about having to rely on a hack. I wonder why they removed the adaptable option

Almost all brands removed this feature...
As far as I know, only HTC leaved it available for the customer without the need to do anything funny.

Does it work the same as native with this mod?

Griggs2121 said:
Does it work the same as native with this mod?
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Far as I can tell the mod works the same

I see it still shows as SD storage, but you can install apps on it?

Griggs2121 said:
I see it still shows as SD storage, but you can install apps on it?
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Looks like it. Just installed super Mario

I really appreciate your responses!

You can also just enable Force Allow Apps on External in developer options.

Is that when you use the move to SD function?

Saythis said:
You can also just enable Force Allow Apps on External in developer options.
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I enabled Force Allow Apps on External, and it wont allow me to move any more apps that I couldn't already move by just going into each app and changing the storage to SD.
Is there something else that needs to be done?

Rgarcia2296 said:
I enabled Force Allow Apps on External, and it wont allow me to move any more apps that I couldn't already move by just going into each app and changing the storage to SD.
Is there something else that needs to be done?
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Did you reboot after enabling it?

Hi guys,
a quick question: as I used this tool the overall consumption of memory in my original internal memory seems to be higher than I expected.
So I added up the space needed by the apps on the new internal SD card and this fit. So it seems that the internal SD card things that the Apps are installed there, but the internal memory shows them in them from the storage consumption.
Is that just a bug (or "feature") of the LG due to the fact that they do not increase the overall free space available (with the internal SD card)?
And if this is so, can I just keep installing apps right after 32Gb are full or will the phone still stop accepting that?
Does anybody knows more about that?
Best regards and thanks for the help!

draino623 said:
Check this out. https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/software/auto-formatting-sdcard-to-internal-t3583875
LG removed adaptable storage option. This tool works great for me.
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Thanks for sharing!

with Oreo (V20h) app Settings crashes when selected "Migrate data..." on microSD formatted as internal storage...I think LG does not permit this solution any more (I enabled "Force Allow Apps on External" in developer options too)