So, considering that 6.0 can format the sdcard to appear as internal memory, is there any good reason for going with 32GB or more? I would like to save the money and just get the 16GB and format the card so it appears internal.
Other than being slightly slower than internal memory, would this be a valid route going 16+card as opposed to 32+card?
I have a OnePlus One right now with the 64 and usually have about 20GB left so 32 is the base I need but I figure I might be able to get away with 16 if the card appears as all internal anyway.
Thoughts?
Yes, I went with a 16GB model also for the same reason. I installed a 64gb Sandisk extreme SD card that transfers up to 90mb/s. Nandroid backups went from 30 minutes on my old SD card (some cheap crap) to less than one minute. With a proper card you'll have no issues running apps off the SD.
The internal memory isn't much faster.
I've been considering using the adoptive storage, but I went ahead and bought the 32gb. Call me old fashioned, but I like having an SD card that is considered separate from the main storage for one big reason: If I ever have to do a wipe of the phone, I know that my photos, TWRP backups, and so on, are all safe as long as they are on the SD card. I don't know if we know what'll happen if you use the adoptive storage and you have to wipe the phone. Will it keep what is on the SD card part? Will it wipe it as well? My understanding is that it'll wipe it.
So I may just keep on doing what I'm doing... change the camera settings to use the SD card for pictures and videos, make the SD card the default place to save downloads, and only use the internal storage for app installs.
I use my SD card to store all of my media and reserve internal storage purely for apps. I can manage with 16gb since I don't have a lot of big apps. Adoptive storage is a nice feature but I don't think I'll be using it, since I like taking my microsd out and popping it in my laptop to manage my music, photos and movies.
Do we know FOR SURE that there will be no way to partition the external SD so that part of it is used for the OS (non-readable outside the phone) and part for external storage?
SalTNutz said:
Do we know FOR SURE that there will be no way to partition the external SD so that part of it is used for the OS (non-readable outside the phone) and part for external storage?
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I haven't read anything that would suggest so. Everything I've read indicates that it formats the entire card to be used as internal storage. The tradeoff, it seems, for allowing adoptive storage is to make it very difficult for your to remove the card and use it in another machine.
Well thanks guys. Still up in the air which phone I'll ultimately get and if it's the Moto, what size but this does clarify things.
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I haven't read anything that would suggest so. Everything I've read indicates that it formats the entire card to be used as internal storage. The tradeoff, it seems, for allowing adoptive storage is to make it very difficult for your to remove the card and use it in another machine.
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why? whats the problem to pop it out,insert it into your pc and do the transfers and back to the phone? you can shut down the phone if you need
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why? whats the problem to pop it out,insert it into your pc and do the transfers and back to the phone? you can shut down the phone if you need
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If you format the card as adoptive storage you can't just pop out the card and read it from a computer. The computer won't be able to read it.
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There is 8GB internal, if I wanted to remove the card I put in, I just need to remove it and Windows Phone will go to the internal storage?
There is 8GB internal flash memory. The MicroSD card is optional.
I thought it was something like that. It did just need time to charge.
If I was to say have put in any old card, and I wanted to remove said card, I can turn it off remove and re-format?
All fixed. Sorry. I clearly didn't get enough sleep and therefore am unable to think for myself.
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I thought it was something like that. It did just need time to charge.
If I was to say have put in any old card, and I wanted to remove said card, I can turn it off remove and re-format?
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You can reformat the phone but the card is another story. Search around here for explanation but basically it formats and passwords the card to where only a few devices can reformat it.
All,
I'm getting errors with my Moto, I have a 16g (I know, I know). It shows 12.29 used of 16g. I have a 32g card I've tried as internal storage and external storage. When I try and use the camera, I get an error about there not being enough storage. When I try and run S Health, I get the same error. What am I missing? There's plenty of room, especially when I use the SD as internal, but there should be plenty of room without doing that, right?
I also just got a message, "Your device storage is temporarily unavailable". Whaaaaaaaa?
Thanks
I would like to know some answers to this as well.
Humm sounds like internal memory is failing to me... try a different sd card though it might have some issue with it...
I agree with trying another SD card first. Your current card may not be playing well with the phone. If that doesn't work, warranty the phone.
I have a 16GB too. Not a big deal. Since I don't game on my phone except for a few casual ones, the size is more than sufficient.
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Well the phone advertised it's Internal Storage as 16GB. My phone has only 8.55GB internal storage and only 0.44GB available. I really don't have much on this phone.
Is there a ROM, tweak, or fix of some sort that will restore more of the original 16GB of storage?
Hard to believe the Base ROM/Firmware take up nearly 8 GB of the original 16 and you can't fix it.
From the digging I've done. None of the Roms restore the 16gb internal storage. I
Umm... I imagine there hasn't been any responses, because it's hard to to respond to this without being slightly incredulous . As you certainly seems to know, your phone does have 16gb of storage and yes, a good amount is taken by the operating system and included software. I can't tell if you understand the difference between memory and storage,though.. I'm not trying to be a **** or judge - you either know the difference, or you can Google it on your own discretion.
There's plenty of ways you can solve this, though... you can disable swap, freeing up storage at the expense of cache. You can 'debloat' your system, though unless you are fairly experienced with using shell commands I'd recommend a pre-debloated rom like madvane's s we ift and slim. Additionally, you can add a 32-64gb sd card and set it as default storage, basically leaving the rest of your free 8-10gb free for just apps. Beyond that, things get a bit more involved.. One solution is to use an app such as apps2sd, which basically requires using a specially formatted partition on your sd card as 'adootable storage', bind it to your internal storage's app resources, making an app located on your sd card act as if itwas right in your internal storage. Otherwise, you canuse similar methods to relocate data files like OBB's to your sd card.
Really, what else can you expect from an octacore 3gb/16gb phone with a 6in screen, that is easily unlocked and rooted, for much less than 100bux..? x]
Hi all,
I use my Mi A1 with a 16GB SanDisk sd card as formatted as internal memory. Sometimes, I try to access photos or maps and I got "sd card currupt" message. If I reboot the phone, everything works flawless again.
As I see this curruption message very often and I don't need the additional 16gb, how can I get rid of the sd card without messing with my apps/photos? Is there any way other than reset the phone?
Regards
I never set them up as internal, if you get corruption it can cause all kinds of issues with apps, just like never moving apps to SD card, don't know what size you have but I went for the 64gb phone which has bags of space especially as I used to have a 16gb Samsung S4 which actually only had 8.8gb free.
My advice (unless you really need the extra space) would be to set the SD as external.
Hi all,
My partner's phone - Got an interesting problem with the SD card. I bought an SD card, 64GB and put it in. It formatted fine and even offered to move the stuff off the phone and onto the card. Happy days. The problem now is, when I delete a file from the phone, it doesn't delete just from the phone, but both phone and SD card... lol. O...k. lol.
So I then sent a test file, a random video to myself from my partner's phone to my phone over WhatsApp then took the SD card out of my partner's phone and tried to delete it from her internal storage. It said the file couldn't be deleted because it was stored on the SD card.... yet, taking up space on the phone. So it was like having a dead body, no life, but taking up the room, on the internal storage, but when the SD card was put back, all "bodies" danced back to life again, making the video work as it once did. So it thinks they're saved on the SD card, and are, yet can't be removed from the phone and still taking space. In effect, it copied them but won't let the files leave the phone. So it was a weird mutation copy merge from internal to external storage. Sigh
So, I think I have to buy a new charger (current one charges but doesn't connect the phone to the pc) and manually cut from phone files and paste into sd card files, unless anyone has a better plan or actual way to fix this?
Thanks for your time,
Cormac
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Well this is most interesting............................
I went to the shop and bought a cable that worked. When I connected it to the computer, I was able to see ONLY SD card, no internal memory..... so now it looks like it has dissapeared.. and merged with the internal memory.... which means that it now doesn't allow us to put stuff into the SD card. However, It seems to think it has more space.. I am hopeful it can allow this. I had to delete an app to make room for Facebook messenger update. Despite having the SD card in the phone... I don't like this... I dunno what to do. Any help welcomed.
Thanks,
Cormac
If you want seperate storage you have to use your SD card as an external storage rather than using as an internal storage. & Why did you buy a cable? The charging cable can be used for transferring data.