Hey guys
I updated to Marshmallow from Lollipop coz of terrible battery drain etc
I just found out that after installing marshmallow that it uses adoptive storage. I use a 128gb external sd that I do NOT want integrated with internal storage.
Is there a way to keep MM and still use my external sd totally separate like it was with Lollipop or do I need to go back down to Lollipop?
I prefer being able to remove my external sd to use with my computer, etc.
Thanks in advance!
Are you on stock Marshmallow? I am, and there is no option for adoptable storage. As far as I'm aware, Samsung doesn't support it on our phone (see http://www.phonearena.com/news/How-...rage-on-Galaxy-S7-and-S7-edge-no-root_id79189 for example).
Have you actually seen the option, or are you just going by what you've been told? Even if it does support adoptable storage, you should definitely have the option not to use it, but to specify that your SD Card is 'portable'.
Are you rooted, using stock os/rom, or what? I had my note 4 with marshmallow twice, once with my sd card adopted and the last without. For the last rom on marshmallow(beanstalk), I had it separate because adoptable was awful. Maybe it wasn't working the way it should have, but most things were filling up the phone storage 1st. my sd card was barely touched. though, I only have a 64gb card. Having it separate was better for me, moving files around and downloading and whatever. The only issue was not being able to move apps or install apps on my sd card...which i absolutely hated. I just recently dropped back down to lollipop because too many issues popping up on the phone....and tired of fighting doze.
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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.
So, that guy managed to re-enable Adoptable Storage on his Galaxy S7 Edge, without root, using some simple ADB shell commands
http://www.modaco.com/news/android/...e-adoptable-storage-on-your-s7-s7-edge-r1632/
Anyone willing to give it a try on his/her Xperia Z5?
Whats adoptable storage
Xdevillived666 said:
Whats adoptable storage
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Making your SDcard become part of your internal storage.
Bad part is no SDcard is as fast as internal flash storage so you'll slow your phone down (by how much depends on the speed of your card).
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True, but that should be our decision to make, not Sony's.
EDIT:
Just found other threads on this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/z5-premium/general/mm-adoptable-storage-t3332591
http://forum.xda-developers.com/z5-compact/general/tuto-enable-adoptable-storage-mm-t3334153
It definitely didn't used to be a problem because the internal storage with previous Sony phones was previously the same speed as my sd card , but the internal now is much faster on the Z5, just wish sony made the interface to the SD card faster, then my sd would be the same speed or faster than the internal memory and adoptable storage wouldn't be an issue.
You also lose access to your internal storage when you use 'adopted SD storage'. Android will use it to install some apps but you can't really use for pictures, videos or anything user side. Some apps, some..., will let you move between SD and internal, but they will revert to their default on app update. Also, some apps lose settings when updated if they are not on internal. Also, some apps who are SD aware become unaware of the SD card with 'adopted' and will only use internal memory.
The whole thing is a mess and not ready for prime time IMHO. I've tried it extensively on my Z3 with the concept ROM that allows this, and ended it disabling it because it was more trouble than it was worth.
bartolo5 said:
You also lose access to your internal storage when you use 'adopted SD storage'. Android will use it to install some apps but you can't really use for pictures, videos or anything user side. Some apps, some..., will let you move between SD and internal, but they will revert to their default on app update. Also, some apps lose settings when updated if they are not on internal. Also, some apps who are SD aware become unaware of the SD card with 'adopted' and will only use internal memory.
The whole thing is a mess and not ready for prime time IMHO. I've tried it extensively on my Z3 with the concept ROM that allows this, and ended it disabling it because it was more trouble than it was worth.
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Would splitting the SD card into two partitions help this?
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"?
hitesh12 said:
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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Hi, I'm currently on the Stock Unrooted G5 Plus Android 7.0, the device is only a 16GB but only 10gb usable space.
I have a 64gb SD card mounted, I formatted it as internal and I thought that would allow all the apps that are/get installed to the SD card. but it doesn't work for every app and well I end running out of space.
Would a custom rom fully utilize the SD as internal space?
Not directly... But rooting may allow things like App2SD or Link2SD to work and move apps to the SD card (may require formatting/partitioning of the SD card).
Under developer options there is a setting to ignore the application manifest and allow moving apps to the SD card anyway (Settings > Developer Options > Force allow apps on external). That may allow you to move a few more apps, however system apps will still be stuck on the device's storage. I feel your pain - my G5+ is 16GB too...
I didn't know the G5+ came with 16GB too
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I didn't know the G5+ came with 16GB too
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Same here,
Whn i was born i saw G5 Plus in 4/32gb n bought it..
2/3 gb ram on oreo+ devices doesnt perform as it is meant to.
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The devs hv made our device a "mini oneplus":good::highfive:
Don't make you SD function as internal. The commercial SDs are not meant to function as internal memories, thus get easily corrupted. I myself got 3 cards corrupted after turning them into internal SDs. Just stick to the external formatting option. In any case, the apps would operate more slowly as soon as you install them on the SD, even when formatted as internal.
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