Hi all, quick question. I previously followed the "adoptable storage patch" instructions on the forum, but am having all sorts of problems with the system still filling up the 16GB of true internal storage (and flashing all sorts of warnings) even though it's got a 256GB card that is supposedly adopted as internal storage.
Question is, do the custom ROMs on the forum include a better implementation of adoptable storage where the system recognizes the entire 256GB+16GB=272GB as internal storage? I'm ready to wipe this thing and start over but not sure I'd be any better off. Thx in advance.
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I was so excited for this feature, to be able to essentially grow the internal storage. However, now that I am using it, I am still running out of internal storage, and have to tell it to move apps to external storage. I could do that in Lolipop without adoptable storage. So what is the benefit?
You can move any app to adaptable storage now, not just some of them.
Not true, cant move google play music. Cant move system apps. Maybe you can move more, but still a total hassle. This is nothing like having larger internal storage, which is what was said before this came out.
I wouldn't really qualify it as a benefit but the adopted SD card is specifically formatted for your device whereas in LP the SD card maintained its original formatting. That's the difference. Perhaps there's some benefit in the new format system that I don't know about.
Hey all,
Forgive me if this question has been asked before (Google did not help me find an answer) but I'm looking for the "best practice" method of upgrading my MicroSD card once it's already been mapped to internal storage using Marshmallow's "Flex Storage" capability.
I bought a 32GB Moto X Pure Edition and promptly installed my fastest MicroSD card (a 32GB PNY U3 Turbo card) and set it to function as internal storage after the Marshmallow update.
Since then, I bought a 64GB U3 card so that I'd have ample space for music and video. What I'm trying to figure out is the process to:
1) Take a snapshot of my internal storage (i.e. copy to an external HDD)
2) Remove the "old" microSD without any detrimental affect to installed applications
3) Mount the "new" larger microSD as internal storage
4) Copy everything back to the new internal storage
Is there a documented process for doing this, or some sort of migration tool I can use to upgrade the microSD capacity?
Good question
Bumpage. Has anyone seen anything on the nets describing the storage upgrade process for Flex Storage?
Probably not possible unless you flash a new ROM over the old. My understanding is that the sd card, once made to be part of the phone storage, is that it is 128bit encrypted in EXT4 format.
bw03 said:
Probably not possible unless you flash a new ROM over the old. My understanding is that the sd card, once made to be part of the phone storage, is that it is 128bit encrypted in EXT4 format.
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The thing is I currently have more internal storage free space available than actual data stored on my SD, so ideally there should be a way to migrate my data back to true internal storage, eject the SD, and replace with a bigger card?
Even if I have to do it manually, I want to make sure I don't screw with installed apps.
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Might be a stupid question but have you tried taking out the card and seeing what happens?
I think the moral here is to start with the largest capacity card you think you'll need. 64GB cards are dirt cheap these days. Unless you need your entire mp3 collection on your phone, I doubt there is a real need for anything bigger.
I mentioned this in another thread, but probably more appropriate here. There is a way to partition the card for both internal and external storage. Portion of it is used for apps/data while the rest for pics/music and is visible when not in the phone.
The question is, can you create a twrp image of the system & internal storage with one sd card. Replace it with a different one, repartition it (in recovery), then restore your data?
http://blog.sam.liddicott.com/2016/02/android-6-semi-adopted-storage.html
Hello,
There might be a solution.
(Please notice I translate the android names from French, so there might be some variations)
In the settings/storage, click on the interal memory line.
In the settings -the 3 dots top right-, you might be able to transfer data from SD to internal memory.
Then, you can format back you sd card, remove and replace it, and voila, that should work.
My 2 cents,
So with the new Galaxy I was Bumbed out that marshmallow adoptable storage was not a given out of the box, I at least taught that they would give us the user the option and make things just simple, but that is not the case but with the awesome dev community it was discovered that you could activate adoptable storage. But Their must be something that I am missing so I have a 200gb micro sd and partitioned the whole card for adoptable storage, but then when I start downloading all of my games I was getting the low storage message and the play store would not download because their was not enough storage why when I Have 200gb. Help!!!!
See adb option thread
After employing the tweak to allow adoptable storage after receiving the Marshmallow update I thought I had addressed the problem of running out of space on my 16Gb internal memory device.
The configuration I chose was to split by 128Gb external SD into 64Gb adoptable and 64Gb portable. Thinking that the adoptable would be merged with the existing limited 16Gb I wouldn't have to face the nightmare of space issues whenever I install a new app. At least for a while.
Well it looks to me that the adoptable storage concept doesn't work the way I thought it would. I can move apps to adoptable storage but I could do that already when I just only had portable storage (before this exercise).
Now when I go back on all the apps that I had thought I moved to adoptable storage it now tells me it's in portable storage (external storage device) instead. I thought that's weird. So when I tried to move it from portable to adoptable it does nothing and remains in external storage device. Yet when I inspect what is in the adoptable storage it lists all the apps that I expected. This is very confusing. But what is more frustrating is that I cannot install new apps as my internal memory is almost full and Android appears to be ignoring the existence of the adoptable storage. So unless I delete apps from the internal storage I can't install any new apps which is ridiculous as only 4Gb out of 64Gb adoptable storage has been used.
Am I missing something here?
Use Apps2SD in order to do the split and to move apps. It's the only way that I was able to achieve the proper functionality for a partitioned SD card and move apps entirely on it.
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Use Apps2SD in order to do the split and to move apps. It's the only way that I was able to achieve the proper functionality for a partitioned SD card and move apps entirely on it.
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Can you elaborate on this "split"?
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Can you elaborate on this "split"?
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Your responding to a post over 2 years old...
The following seems to be your best bet that, apparently, works on the Galaxy S5 Snapdragon devices with MM installed.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3460478
I can't actually endorse this since I've never used this myself but, don't be afraid to ask for some member guidance within it too.
Good Luck!
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I've already configured my Samsung 256gb sdcard as internal storage using adb back on marshmallow. However, because of this method, my internal storage numbers are all out of wack. Everyone is aware of this, I'm sure.
My question is in regards to the nougat update. Did the nougat update bring built-in adoptable storage, or do you still have to take the adb route? There's an option I've never seen before in storage settings. It reads "Format as portable storage". Does this mean that there may be a "Format as internal storage" option? Can someone who has a clean micro sdcard laying around check? If I can set adoptable storage using a built-in OS level function, maybe we could get correct storage numbers?
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I've already configured my Samsung 256gb sdcard as internal storage using adb back on marshmallow. However, because of this method, my internal storage numbers are all out of wack. Everyone is aware of this, I'm sure.
My question is in regards to the nougat update. Did the nougat update bring built-in adoptable storage, or do you still have to take the adb route? There's an option I've never seen before in storage settings. It reads "Format as portable storage". Does this mean that there may be a "Format as internal storage" option? Can someone who has a clean micro sdcard laying around check? If I can set adoptable storage using a built-in OS level function, maybe we could get correct storage numbers?
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Samsung couldn't care less about Adoptable Storage. So no, Nougat did not bring it.
I've read on other threads that adoptable storage actually slows the phone down. Is there any truth to that?
I'd guess that depends on the card to some degree
Sent from my Rooted Galaxy S7 EDGE on Android 7.0 Nougat, here's the instructions how to do it!