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[Q] increase device internal memory with sd card.?

Good day
I have European device with limited memory
I want to know if there's a way to use the sd card storage to increase the total size of the device memory
Thanks

Most roms support app2sd or data2sd,, backup your SD card, enter cwm, advanced, partition SD card. This creates a partition on your Sd card formatted EXT format, which the system will use as internal memory without you doing anything.
I dunno if you can force your already installed rom to move stuff to the SD, or if you have to reflash to activate it.
When its active, you should make sure all your apps are set to use phone memory not SD card, if you click "move to SD card" it takes them out of the ext partition and puts them to the fat partition, thus defeating the object of the ext.

Not able to move music/Photos to SD (formatted as internal)

Hi i got my Moto x style (32gb) yesterday. I bought a new 32gb SanDisk ultra (uhs-1) SD card and formatted as internal as soon as it is inserted for the first time. I am running marshmallow.
1. I am not able to move my music to SD card. Everytime when I move music from Pendrive (via otg) to /sdcard/Music using ES explorer, it always fills the phone internal memory rather than SD card (formatted as internal).
2. Similarly in the camera app, I don't even see an option (from options ring) to chose the destination (SD card).
Due to this, my music, videos and pics are all in internal memory though I am able to move apps from internal memory to SD card by going to settings->storage & usb option.
Can anyone pls help me? Thanks

rameshbitra said:
Hi i got my Moto x style (32gb) yesterday. I bought a new 32gb SanDisk ultra (uhs-1) SD card and formatted as internal as soon as it is inserted for the first time. I am running marshmallow.
1. I am not able to move my music to SD card. Everytime when I move music from Pendrive (via otg) to /sdcard/Music using ES explorer, it always fills the phone internal memory rather than SD card (formatted as internal).
2. Similarly in the camera app, I don't even see an option (from options ring) to chose the destination (SD card).
Due to this, my music, videos and pics are all in internal memory though I am able to move apps from internal memory to SD card by going to settings->storage & usb option.
Can anyone pls help me? Thanks
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Can anyone help please?

Alright. I tried the other option by formatting the SD card to portable instead of internal this time and now, I can move pics, videos and music from internal to portable SD card and vice versa however apps can't be moved to SD card.
Is this how moto x style behave? Either you can use your SD card (as portable sd) for storing videos, music and pictures but not for installing apps or the other way around by using only for apps (as internal) and not for videos/pics/music.
Can anyone confirm? Is there anyway SD card can be used for apps and as well as video/pics/music?
Thanks for going through this thread. Appreciate if someone can provide inputs.

migrating to new SD card with adoptable storage enabled

Hello,
Just wondering if anybody has any knowledge on how to install a new SD card when you already have adoptable storage enabled. I'm assuming I could power down the phone and copy everything over, but my new SD card is 200gb vs 128gb installed. I'm worried the partition table wouldn't be set properly.
Any advice would be great!
Thanks,
Jaime

I haven't tried but perhaps unmounting the SD card would help?

deepfriedbutter said:
Hello,
Just wondering if anybody has any knowledge on how to install a new SD card when you already have adoptable storage enabled. I'm assuming I could power down the phone and copy everything over, but my new SD card is 200gb vs 128gb installed. I'm worried the partition table wouldn't be set properly.
Any advice would be great!
Thanks,
Jaime
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The data stored on your card must be moved back to the internal storage in order to avoid breaking your apps. You can do that from the internal storage menu. If you can't fit everything, you'll have to delete things until you're under the limit. At that point, you can go back into the SD card storage menu and format it as "portable", meaning it will work in other devices. If there's any data still on it, you will lose it. Then put in the new card and set it up for "adoptable" as the previous card was.

SD card as Internal

Hi Guys,
My dad receive hundrets of picture in whatsapp everyday, making his internal memory go to full on a weekly basis.
My question is: when formatting it as an internal memory, will those pics & videos go to the SD card after formatting it ?
Can someone with an SD card as internal memory configuration confirm me that?

SD card will become internal memory, one and the same. So essentially no more sd card. However, if you don't treat sd card as internal memory then you can tell the camera and other apps to save their files on the sd card and therefore have control what goes where.

S5 (G900i) SD Card as Internal Storage Access

Hi folks,
I'm guessing it's just my understanding on how this works, but if someone wouldn't mind explaining to me, that would be tops.
So we've got my old S5 with 16gig Internal and a 64gig SD Card, formatted as Internal.
Currently running LineageOS (Android 10; kltedv QQ3A).
Data is definitely being stored on the SD Card and what apps can be installed there, are. However, we've got TitaniumBackup still backing up to the actual, real Internal Storage and that is chewing up heaps of space and as far as the S5 is concerned, we're all but out of room!
How do I either move the TB folder to the SD Card or create a folder on the SD Card so that I can tell TB to use it instead ??
I've got root, but for whatever reason, it's just not computing with me how to sort this mess out.
Thanks for your time - Kind regards,
Dodgy Bob