I bought a 2015 J5 for Mrs Baldrick and she was delighted with the size and general speed but - like a lot of folks - she quickly started to hit the low memory warning: to the point were with only 5-6 apps loaded she was having to ask me to clean out email and text caches every 2-3 days.
We just got the 6.0.1 update and I bought a larger micro sd card and moved all of her photos out of the internal memory and that has got the phone back to around 1.5gb / 1.6gb of free internal storage space but that is still not great and I want to find a better long term solution.
My wife doesn't want me 'messing up her phone up doing weird things with it' so what I was thinking of is:
1. Install TWRP via ODIN
2. Use TWRP to install the adoptable storage patch (and root the phone with SuperSU while I'm at it)
3. Stick in a new 64GB microSD, format and adopt as additional internal storage.
4. Migrate existing internal data to the new storage.
5. Make sure the photo, video and music apps are defaulting to the new storage space to store their files.
6. Use root privilege to uninstall a lot of the default Samsung and Vodafone bloatware (like the full MS office apps)
Any other tricks I'm missing here or is this as good a solution as I can get without going for CM13 or similar? Anyone worked out exactly which default apps can be safely zapped?
Any suggestions gratefully received.
BelfastLad said:
I bought a 2015 J5 for Mrs Baldrick and she was delighted with the size and general speed but - like a lot of folks - she quickly started to hit the low memory warning: to the point were with only 5-6 apps loaded she was having to ask me to clean out email and text caches every 2-3 days.
We just got the 6.0.1 update and I bought a larger micro sd card and moved all of her photos out of the internal memory and that has got the phone back to around 1.5gb / 1.6gb of free internal storage space but that is still not great and I want to find a better long term solution.
My wife doesn't want me 'messing up her phone up doing weird things with it' so what I was thinking of is:
1. Install TWRP via ODIN
2. Use TWRP to install the adoptable storage patch (and root the phone with SuperSU while I'm at it)
3. Stick in a new 64GB microSD, format and adopt as additional internal storage.
4. Migrate existing internal data to the new storage.
5. Make sure the photo, video and music apps are defaulting to the new storage space to store their files.
6. Use root privilege to uninstall a lot of the default Samsung and Vodafone bloatware (like the full MS office apps)
Any other tricks I'm missing here or is this as good a solution as I can get without going for CM13 or similar? Anyone worked out exactly which default apps can be safely zapped?
Any suggestions gratefully received.
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Just use app2sd with classic method selected . Any Huge apps like snapchat or google maps can be moved to sd without formatting it as adoptable sd. Also when you update in playstore app will remain on sd.
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Hi All
I have a Samsung i9505 and just moved to Resurrection Remix 5.6.2 ROM using marshmallow and am having issues with writing to the SD card with 3rd party apps.
I have used the ES Explorer fix and mount R/W and enabled root explorer however my 3rd party app still shows as read only. The app is doggcatcher. Whats odd I found an article to sort this problem out for Titanium backup and that worked fine. Also my camera picture and whatsapp all get saved to the SD card without issue.
In the end I have told doggcatcher to use my internal memory but that is quickly filling up.
I am tempted as the phone as 16GB internal memory, whether I should backup my files and choose the options where I can turn my 64gb external SD card as part of my internal memory as I never take out my SD card so that option might work for me but the reviews I am hearing are more negative than positive. I did try it out and went back to the traditional approach but thinking that maybe I didnt give it enough time.
I used FolderMount which was great on LL and recently purchase Link2SD to move files to the SD card but my internal memory still fills up. Currently foldermount isnt compatible with MM, link2SD is but I am having a few issues with it crashing and dont find it as easily to use as foldermount.
Any advice would be appreciated on what others have done.
Thanks
I don't know about anything else, but from what I heard is:
If you format as internal, you will have to do the whole "setup your sd card" step every time you flash a rom. Which is garbage, unless you stay on the same rom for like ever.
Dirty flashing a rom might skip that setup, as you don't lose the data/settingd etc. Problem is, you can't always dirty flash. Especially when changing roms altogether. PC's might not be able to read it either even if it is in your phone.
This is just what I gathered over the time, nothing from personal experience.
Umm interesting well I normally backup my phone nightly using both TB and nandroid backup so restoring to a new ROM as long as it doesn't format the whole CSR I should be OK or does it when you install the new ROM in which case my backups are no good unless I save them to the cloud like Dropbox or google drive?
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ranjb said:
Hi All
I have a Samsung i9505 and just moved to Resurrection Remix 5.6.2 ROM using marshmallow and am having issues with writing to the SD card with 3rd party apps.
I have used the ES Explorer fix and mount R/W and enabled root explorer however my 3rd party app still shows as read only. The app is doggcatcher. Whats odd I found an article to sort this problem out for Titanium backup and that worked fine. Also my camera picture and whatsapp all get saved to the SD card without issue.
In the end I have told doggcatcher to use my internal memory but that is quickly filling up.
I am tempted as the phone as 16GB internal memory, whether I should backup my files and choose the options where I can turn my 64gb external SD card as part of my internal memory as I never take out my SD card so that option might work for me but the reviews I am hearing are more negative than positive. I did try it out and went back to the traditional approach but thinking that maybe I didnt give it enough time.
I used FolderMount which was great on LL and recently purchase Link2SD to move files to the SD card but my internal memory still fills up. Currently foldermount isnt compatible with MM, link2SD is but I am having a few issues with it crashing and dont find it as easily to use as foldermount.
Any advice would be appreciated on what others have done.
Thanks
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I've the Same problem!
Hello, i recently come back to the "dark world" of Android purchasing the P9lite.
Nice specs, good bargain for the price.
Then i decided to put a microSD card into it, and with my usuall luck, it seems this feature (of a normal Android 6.0 Phone) is disabled.
Any suggestion / Help ?
Unfortunately, Android's compability with SD cards declines with every new version, no idea why though.
Your problem can be solved the easy way - if you are rooted that is.
If rooted, check this site for possible solutions:
http://www.tomsguide.com/forum/id-2...d-setting-card-default-download-location.html
However, normally Android 6.0 SHOULD be able to use the SD card as adoptable storage. I don't remember though if the P9 Lite asks you how to use the card on first insert. This method requires encrypting and formatting though. See here for info:
https://source.android.com/devices/storage/adoptable.html
I don't really have the problem because I only install few apps and no games whatsoever so the 16GB internal storage is enough for me.
Pictures and music are on my SD.
If you want to root, check the excellent guides here on the forum. Really takes you like 5 minutes with some basic knowledge
Rilen said:
Hello, i recently come back to the "dark world" of Android purchasing the P9lite.
Nice specs, good bargain for the price.
Then i decided to put a microSD card into it, and with my usuall luck, it seems this feature (of a normal Android 6.0 Phone) is disabled.
Any suggestion / Help ?
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You can make your microSD your default storage location for all apps by changing in Settings:
Settings > Advanced Settings > Memory & Storage > Default Location > choose your microSD here
To my understanding, this will make all your apps (Whatsapp, Facebook, etc.) to use your microSD instead of Internal Storage.
ykkhern said:
You can make your microSD your default storage location for all apps by changing in Settings:
Settings > Advanced Settings > Memory & Storage > Default Location > choose your microSD here
To my understanding, this will make all your apps (Whatsapp, Facebook, etc.) to use your microSD instead of Internal Storage.
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No it des not work like that ...
You can only auto save pictures and music doing this.
U can't install any app on it...
Sorry i dont use sd card on my p9lite. But my phone is perfect except the signal issue
My old phone is ASUS zenfone 4, now im using huawei p9 lite. I wanted to transfer all my data n apps in asus to huawei. but it seems that i cant find the transfer data apps
how can i transfer all my data n apps to my new phone?
Is it possible to just install a custom ROM like CyanogenMod? I heard that this one supports this feature.
maybe nougat will fix this?
hopefully nougat will allow us to do this!!
Emui doesn't support adoptable storage and move apps on SD card. I think it's a marketing choice so they incentive users to upgrade to a better phone with more memory but that has an higher price.
I tried in the past to force adoptable storage with adb but without success, the only way it's to install a custom ROM based on CyanogenMod/LineageOS.
Rilen said:
No it des not work like that ...
You can only auto save pictures and music doing this.
U can't install any app on it...
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i think apps will be installed on sd this way, as the used internal storage doesn't increase much when installing apps.
Hello everyone, I've the same issue. I root my device in order to be able to move my apps to micro sd card and set it up as default storage. And now, it looks that's not so easy.
I've formated my micro sd (32Gb) on my PC with Mini Tools Partitions Wizard like this : First partition : Create as Primary ; File System : fat32 ; Cluster Size Default ; Partition Size 19000Mb. Second partition : Create as Primary ; File System Ext2 ; Cluster Size Default ; Partition size 11521.93 Mb. Then I apply modifications. I insert the microsd card in my device, I reboot (don't know if needed), I open Link2SD, I try to move the app Messenger to sd card and I get : Failure "Error: java.lang.illegalStateException:รข~fNo suitable external storage available". After that I touch on an other app "Messagerie" (Default app), and here I have the posibility to select 'Link to SD card, I try and I get the error : "Second partition not found, /dev/block/ : device not found, make sure you have two partitions on your SD card and both are primary."
In the Link2SD settings, I can't select the option "Auto link" or open "Auto link settings" it's grey and disabled.
Has someone read any news about that since March ? The P 9 Lite is a great phone but 16 Go internal storage is to tight ! Thank you for your help.
I removed my sd card for taking pictures from lappi and when I again insert it my phone is not showing sd card pictures .perhaps sd card is working fine in other mobiles what should I do?
Hello XDA.
Last year my wife's phone was stolen so we had to buy a new one. I'm a proud owner of the ZF2 but it's a bit too big for her so she bought the Laser one. After I reinstalled her apps etc, she quickly ran out of internal space. The phone is constantly begging for apps deletion and so one.
I heard about Android M "adoptable storage" feature and wanted to try it. No luck, the feature is disabled by Asus on the stock ROM. I manually enabled it with ADB but the phone already asks to free some space. The internal storage is full and the SD card is almost empty. I already transfered all I could to the SD card via the data transfert option in the storage parameters but it seems to be insufficiant.
I wonder what are my choices. Seems like the stock Android M will not solve this one. Is there any alternative ROM out there or some other options that could help me to *really* use the SD card to install applications, cache, etc?
Thank you for any advice.
Chris.
Hello, i'm new to the forums so i apologize if i shouldn't be posting this here, but i need help.
I have a Samsung Galaxy On7 with Android Marshmallow 6.0.1. I was happy with the phone and liked everything it had to offer me, except for one critical flaw that is driving me nuts: IT'S STORAGE.
I started downloading my apps so i could transfer them to my 16Gb SD card, which i happily bought for the purpose of this new phone... But little did i know that simple storaging concept changed with Android Marshmallow (before this phone i've only used Lollipop and KitKat). Apps weren't automatically being placed in the SD card. Fine, i could move them myself anyway, right? But it only transferred about 10 or 15 Mbs... Useless. My phone was struggling after installing WhatsApp and Messenger just because i couldn't move them from the phone storage, and 5 out of 8 Gbs of phone storage were occupied by bloatware. I could just root it and delete those, but i use more than 8 Gbs anyway so i considered that option meaningless.
I naturally did research on what options i had to fix this. Tutorials listed an option which "merges" your SD card and use it as internal storage. Now God knows why Samsung decided to get rid of that option, i simply don't have it.
I figured i could install a Nougat ROM but i never installed a ROM before, and the fact that i have a Samsung might mean the problem still persists after that, so maybe i could just downgrade to Lollipop and problem solved. I just need to hear from someone it's going to work before trying it myself.
If there are more options i'd be more than happy to listen to them, i'm at the point where i can't update apps anymore, while i have 16 Gigs unused...
that's the sad thing about this device. it's internal storage is not much and it got some bloatware. I just stayed on minimal user installed apps. Also moving an app to sd card is reducing the apps performance.
Actually there's a solution for the merging SD storage with Internal storage problem. Although Samsung has disabled it there's a patch here in the Forum to bypass that.
Here:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-tab-s/general/patch-adoptable-storage-enabler-t3460478
I used it on mine and worked just fine.
One more thing. I actually opted for two solutions: (1) root and uninstall bloatware and (2) apply the patch through TWRP and merge the storages.
Good luck.
Kyrohn said:
Actually there's a solution for the merging SD storage with Internal storage problem. Although Samsung has disabled it there's a patch here in the Forum to bypass that.
Here:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-tab-s/general/patch-adoptable-storage-enabler-t3460478
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I highly recommend not doing it. I have rooted my Samsung on7 (G600FY) only to use this resource but it didn't work.
I could install the patch through TWRP but there were no options on Settings -> Storage -> Format SD as Internal. Only Portable Format was available. Then, after some searches I could do it with Root Essentials App, it did the trick but still all my apps were getting installed in the internal memory (even I did migration to SD), also it kept showing Full Storage messages like before (even tough there was more than 29gb free after the "merge").
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So is this topic is useless? It doesnt work?
If everyone tried and it still failed, why not closing this topic?
I was having same problem with this device. But now I have fixed it!
Before storage was 97% and I have only 2 apps: Mozilla FireFox and Samsung Max VPN.
And my all other apps and games were in SD card.
But now I have 88% storage (just reduced a good amount)
Its simple just open Settings > Applications > Applications Manager
Now pick those apps which you don't use them anymore. Like Chrome, Google Photos, Samsung Internet, GDrive, etc.
Select on those app and click on 3 dot > select "Uninstall Updates".
When you do this, the app will be uninstalled and replaced by factory version of app which is lower in size.
Just do these to apps like GDrive, GPhotos because you can access them on web too.
Hi Everyone,
I need your kind advice.
My Redmi Note 7 has 64GB internal storage. Half of it is in use/busy. Google storage is 54GB 22GB of it is in use/busy. Google doesn't allow to update apps saying that there's not enough space... My phone's performance can't be optimized better than 97%.
I bought an SD card storage of 256GB. Then I am disappointed. Obviously not the photos, videos, and music of 5GB the problem is. I thought that I could transfer apps to SD, but I was wrong. I don't know what to do now. Should I root my phone I could get huge storage. Problem is that banking apps cannot be used on rooted phones. I can get a great phone, but I guess no more system security patches and can't use banking app.
What the *** should I do? And how?
Actually, I certainly have to do something, because my phone freezes very often.
I need your advice, please.
Thanks.
just backup everything online and reset it first
Roizoulou said:
just backup everything online and reset it first
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Thanks, but the only one cell I have rooted was a KitKat 4.4.2 Navon Mizu D402. It was over 3 years.
I don't know what back up exactly means -- is it possible to use the phone as not rooted one day?
When the phone is rooted is there an app that is able to hide root from banking apps?
Link2SD and there were a lot of apps that were necessary to use SD card as internal storage.
Actually, I haven't got a clue how to root the phone, which app works on mine and what about system security patches.
So, I'm a totally novice now.
Hello you can move apps to sd card by formatting your sd card as internal storage (check youtube) but I wont recommend bcz sd card are slow than internal storage and can make your apps perform slow. If u want to root than magisk already have a way to make banking apps work using magisk hide. U just need a bit of research to understand this things. Things in rooting changed a lot after kitkat and its much better now.
Nikkka said:
Hi Everyone,
I need your kind advice.
My Redmi Note 7 has 64GB internal storage. Half of it is in use/busy. Google storage is 54GB 22GB of it is in use/busy. Google doesn't allow to update apps saying that there's not enough space... My phone's performance can't be optimized better than 97%.
I bought an SD card storage of 256GB. Then I am disappointed. Obviously not the photos, videos, and music of 5GB the problem is. I thought that I could transfer apps to SD, but I was wrong. I don't know what to do now. Should I root my phone I could get huge storage. Problem is that banking apps cannot be used on rooted phones. I can get a great phone, but I guess no more system security patches and can't use banking app.
What the *** should I do? And how?
Actually, I certainly have to do something, because my phone freezes very often.
I need your advice, please.
Thanks.
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Just keep apps on internal and media on external, how u got your 64gb filled with only apps? Banking apps can be easily used after rooting. System security patches are faster with custom roms than miui.