I have a Galaxy S5 on Sprint's network which is currently not rooted and completely stock. Problem is the storage on the phone is only 16GB which can be quite limiting at times. I know I can move some applications to the SD card however even when moving the applications it leaves a chunk of the program on the internal storage plus any app upgrade gets installed on the internal flash not the SD card.
What I'm hoping to do is
1) keep the stock software (possibly remove some of the bloatware)
2) use the microSD card for all applications instead of the internal flash (I have a class 10 64GB MicroSD card)
3) retain use of google pay (I think this can be done with root blockers/hiders?)
So is the above possible? How would I go about doing the above?
If I do root the phone I believe the phone will then indicate that its been tampered with (Knox?) can this indicator later be reversed? reinstalling the original Samsung software, or is this a permanent side effect of rooting?
Thanks,
-TL
Samsung Galaxy Tab A SM -T550, 8 inch, 16 GB storage, Android Marshmallow.
Any way I can install programs to a sd card instead ?
Thank you.
I have found a partial solution.
I cannot directly install apps to my sd card, but I can move the installed apps to my sd card.
The method to move/transfer installed apps to sd card is from this link :
http://www.samsung.com/us/support/answer/ANS00050601/
In these boards there is a patch to enable adoptable storage for Marshmallow, on the other hand if you are rooted and you partition your SD card to have two primary partitions (fat&ext2/4) than you can use an app similar to Apps2sd for those needs as well, which I do on my tablet, that is not Marshmallow, otherwise I would use the adoptable storage patch. Just look around in the boards.
Edit; here's the link for the adoptable storage patch
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-tab-a/how-to/patch-adoptable-storage-enabler-t3507387
zenful said:
In these boards there is a patch to enable adoptable storage for Marshmallow, on the other hand if you are rooted and you partition your SD card to have two primary partitions (fat&ext2/4) than you can use an app similar to Apps2sd for those needs as well, which I do on my tablet, that is not Marshmallow, otherwise I would use the adoptable storage patch. Just look around in the boards.
Edit; here's the link for the adoptable storage patch
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-tab-a/how-to/patch-adoptable-storage-enabler-t3507387
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The adaptable storage method works on rooted, stock Nougat as well. Just got my tablet with 7.0 already on it and was able to get it done.
Hello!
Hope this is not a duplicate question.
Now that Oreo is finally available officially for Brazil, at least for the ZTO, I'd like to install it from scratch rather than applying on top of Nougat.
I have some apps installed on my SD card and I'm not sure what happens to them when the phone gets formatted.
Does the app data on SD get erased? Will Oreo know that there apps on the SD card after the update?
Thanks!
Guys, I've been facing issue with the internal storage. In nougat, there was an option to move apps to sd card without even formatting sd card as internal storage.
Please give me a tutorial by which I can downgrade from pie to nougat or how to root Nokia 5.
Thanks
i have tab a t585 with T585XXS5CSH1 android 8.1 official. i need to downgrade it to 7.0 so that i can increase internal storage with sd card.
is there any other way so that i can format sd card as internal storage or only way is i can downgrade it to 7.0 then ?
please please please help me.
you can used app2 sd to convert it to adaptable storage ,it wont work on samsung roms i guess though ,you will need root