I received mine yesterday and noticed there is no spot for my SD card... Anyone notice this and know why??
Its because there is no SD card support for the OP6T.....quite a simple answer. Some phones take SD cards, some do not. This phone does not. you should have know that had you done a little research before buying this phone.
Appreciate the feedback. I thought it was an iPhone thing and didn't even think that OnePlus did that.
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Appreciate the feedback. I thought it was an iPhone thing and didn't even think that OnePlus did that.
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It's more and more common to not have SD slots in phones. Big internal storage and cloud storage are taking over the need for SD slots, and freeing up room for other hardware features.
Personally, I've never needed more than a 64GB phone, but I've found myself waiting on an order for the 256GB version of the 6T. I suspect having the extra storage capacity will make me use it.
I'll never buy the argument 'its not needed' bull story, especially from OnePlus. Same for the headphone. Kinda violates their own motto: Never Settle. Such a small and insignificant change from a software/hardware view.
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It's more and more common to not have SD slots in phones. Big internal storage and cloud storage are taking over the need for SD slots, and freeing up room for other hardware features.
Personally, I've never needed more than a 64GB phone, but I've found myself waiting on an order for the 256GB version of the 6T. I suspect having the extra storage capacity will make me use it.
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I've been in the same boat. Once I hit 64gb I've been good. Even with system backups.
But I'm also a heavy user of Google photos and Google Drive, so I can understand how it's not for everyone.
The only time I've come close is multi boot and having multiple iso's for drivedroid.
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I'll never buy the argument 'its not needed' bull story, especially from OnePlus. Same for the headphone. Kinda violates their own motto: Never Settle. Such a small and insignificant change from a software/hardware view.
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and yet GOOGLE NEXUS phones have NEVER had an SD slot cuz they are SLOW. Need more room? get the 256GB version.
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and yet GOOGLE NEXUS phones have NEVER had an SD slot cuz they are SLOW. Need more room? get the 256GB version.
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I wouldn't say never. The Nexus One had an SD slot (the g1 also had an SD slot and while not a Nexus, it could be considered the first in the Nexus line in spirit).
Anyway, not to get off topic. Just wanted to put this out there.
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and yet GOOGLE NEXUS phones have NEVER had an SD slot cuz they are SLOW. Need more room? get the 256GB version.
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Just because you don't need/want it does not invalidate my complaint. The space is there, the software is there --- why argue? Are you a stock-holder?
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Just because you don't need/want it does not invalidate my complaint. The space is there, the software is there --- why argue? Are you a stock-holder?
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so you bring up the no SD card argument every time OP has a new model ? Brilliant.
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so you bring up the no SD card argument every time OP has a new model ? Brilliant.
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You're funny. My first OP complaint. Got more? Prove it!!
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You're funny. My first OP complaint. Got more? Prove it!!
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Being the OPO, OP2, OPX, OP3, OP3T, OP5, OP5T, OP6, and now OP6T have never had an SD slot...strange you just now noticed.
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Being the OPO, OP2, OPX, OP3, OP3T, OP5, OP5T, OP6, and now OP6T have never had an SD slot...strange you just now noticed.
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The OnePlus X actually had an SD Card slot,but yeah,point definitely taken.
Having no SD Card slot has otherwise been OnePlus' M.O., not exactly news.
Of course we'd all rather have the option.
But,unless OnePlus wants to dip their toe in the water again with a mid-tier/budget phone,I seriously doubt we'll see a SD Card slot on any future models.
It's one of their design/build choices to keep mfg costs down,don't see that changing anytime soon.
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Being the OPO, OP2, OPX, OP3, OP3T, OP5, OP5T, OP6, and now OP6T have never had an SD slot...strange you just now noticed.
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Again with your jump to conclusions. I'm a patient man, gave them plenty of time to make it happen and to go above and beyond expectations
I think it's a fair trade-off. If we were forced to accept only 64GB (which is less in practice) then the absence of Micro SD support would truly suck. But I think 128GB base is fair for most and the 256GB option is more than fair. 128GB needs to be the industry standard base option moving forward.
Cloud services can be helpful but ultimately you're at the mercy of data/WiFi coverage which I was never a fan of. But, like I said. 128GB base is fair enough. I can live with that.
If there is ever a need for extra storage for something like bringing along TV Shows or Movies to watch during a long trip or whatever, there's always USB-C Flash Storage sticks. They've gotten pretty compact and practical to use.
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I think it's a fair trade-off. If we were forced to accept only 64GB (which is less in practice) then the absence of Micro SD support would truly suck. But I think 128GB base is fair for most and the 256GB option is more than fair. 128GB needs to be the industry standard base option moving forward.
Cloud services can be helpful but ultimately you're at the mercy of data/WiFi coverage which I was never a fan of. But, like I said. 128GB base is fair enough. I can live with that.
If there is ever a need for extra storage for something like bringing along TV Shows or Movies to watch during a long trip or whatever, there's always USB-C Flash Storage sticks. They've gotten pretty compact and practical to use.
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Saw this post and looked into USB c flash storage drives. Not bad priced. Just hope the 6T can read it. I had a USB c card reader from Anker laying around and put my 256gb sd card in it and the phone would not read it. So I tried my 128gb SD card...nope. Tried a 32gb, 8gb and a 1gb as well lol would not read. Also tried using the SD card adapter that you slide the micro into. Same, won't read.
Mainly just need it for movies and TV shows I have that I just haven't had time to upload to my Plex, also for the tons of roms I have for different emulators. Has anybody gotten any kind of card reader or external storage to work?
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Saw this post and looked into USB c flash storage drives. Not bad priced. Just hope the 6T can read it. I had a USB c card reader from Anker laying around and put my 256gb sd card in it and the phone would not read it. So I tried my 128gb SD card...nope. Tried a 32gb, 8gb and a 1gb as well lol would not read. Also tried using the SD card adapter that you slide the micro into. Same, won't read.
Mainly just need it for movies and TV shows I have that I just haven't had time to upload to my Plex, also for the tons of roms I have for different emulators. Has anybody gotten any kind of card reader or external storage to work?
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Working fine here with a Meenova adapter.
Might be your card reader is defective,or,double check your Dev. Options for USB:
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Saw this post and looked into USB c flash storage drives. Not bad priced. Just hope the 6T can read it. I had a USB c card reader from Anker laying around and put my 256gb sd card in it and the phone would not read it. So I tried my 128gb SD card...nope. Tried a 32gb, 8gb and a 1gb as well lol would not read. Also tried using the SD card adapter that you slide the micro into. Same, won't read.
Mainly just need it for movies and TV shows I have that I just haven't had time to upload to my Plex, also for the tons of roms I have for different emulators. Has anybody gotten any kind of card reader or external storage to work?
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Oh, nice. I'm glad you mentioned this because I just tried this out and it works! It was just a theory because I never actually tried it on other phones. I just knew USB-C flash drives existed. I'm using one of the Samsung adapters that came with my previous Note and S phones and a PNY 128GB USB 3.0 drive. I transferred a picture from my phone to the drive and checked on my PC and it was there. I was also able to play an HD video from the drive on the 6T using the MX Pro video player (my fave video player).
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Working fine here with a Meenova adapter.
Might be your card reader is defective,or,double check your Dev. Options for USB:
https://shopmeenova.appspot.com/st/p/dash_g3c.html#buy
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No way, meenova is still around! I had one of their adapters years ago. Still have it somewhere it doesn't work anymore tho. But yeah, could be defective unit. I tried everything. Double checked settings all that. Probably just gonna return it. I'll be purchasing the meenova adapter. Thanks man I appreciate it!
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No way, meenova is still around! I had one of their adapters years ago. Still have it somewhere it doesn't work anymore tho. But yeah, could be defective unit. I tried everything. Double checked settings all that. Probably just gonna return it. I'll be purchasing the meenova adapter. Thanks man I appreciate it!
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:good: :good: For the Meenova adapters,very convenient,keep it on my key ring.
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forgive me if this has been said before...
i have been having major battery issues on all roms. i have installed most of them and tried all the different radios etc..my battery life would drop about 15 percent in an hour in stand by mode, and would drain really fast if i used it at all....also the os would be very laggy, and i was JUST about to put it on craigslist then i decided to take all my pictures, cabs etc.. of my memory card, and format the whole thing. WOW what a difference, night and day, i am on the new 9.0 Elacancia ROM, and i am living it. runs perfect, i have not used my nexus one since i did this...NO lag what so ever, and my battery life is AMAZING now...im on the brand new radio listed in the radio section
so, if you have any of those issues, format your SD card..works wonders..again, sorry if this is already known. just thought i would share..
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trying to get mine to look like the evo 4g.
ima try this later , ill update after ive used it for a while.
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ima try this later , ill update after ive used it for a while.
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great! i hope this helps some people...i know i live my hd2 so much more right now
not exactly quite sure what it is that you're experiencing.. BUT.... i highly doubt that it had ANYTHING to do with your battery life... this statement comes from 2 sources.... common sense, and software development....
think of it like this....
your sd card is simply a storage medium... it contains data that is used in conjunction with your mobile device.... in order for you sd card to actually "increase" your battery life or even OS performance... it would have to somehow power your device electronically in order to have any type of effect at all....
like i stated before... not quite sure what it is that you're experiencing.. and i fully understand that the battery issue with our HD2 can be a little frustrating and can/will ultimately lead to the "placebo" effect which occurs in a lot of the "performance" mods that have surfaced here on XDA....
unfortunately the best way to increase your battery life is to minimize usage... (which is retarded.... why should i buy a phone and not be able to utilize every single function available..???) or get a extended battery....
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on a side note though... what bothers me the most.. is that with the EVO 4G release.. it came stock with a 1500mh battery capacity... and there are ALREADY extended batteries for the device.. (WITHOUT having to have a stupid huge back cover)... this is extremely irritating at how no one seems to be able to develop a 1500mh standard size battery for our HD2.. when the EVO and HD2 are actually quite similar in dimension... thus the battery size itself is similar... this is mind boggling...
enjoy the lesson
ah yes.. and my buddy ken.. enter lame reply here..... ouche....... d ccheers
sd cards and how you use them can have quite an effect on battery.
by default the 2gb or lower ones come formatted FAT not FAT32, so they are a little less inefficient in read write
the block size that the sd card is formatted in can have a big effect on battery life. Say for instance 2k block size vs 4k block size, in a 2k block sd card you need to perform twice as many read operations than a 4k formatted card. The downside of increasing blocksize is more wasted overhead.
If you are using your card for mostly music and images, (i.e larger files), you can increase the block size significantly, right up to 16k, i would say. That way each read operation takes in 16k, 4 times less reads than 4k, 8 times less than 2k.
Plus, if you install a lot of your apps to the sd card, it will be pretty much running all the time, so the phone is powering three memory chips, rom, ram and sd, and the sd flash chip is more power hungry than the built in flash chips.
If you further have an app running from sd, and an mp3 playing from sd, and m,aybe the opera cache on sd like many have, you can probably hold your breath longer than 1% will last.
Ive been experiencing this too. I am backing up my SD now, and about to format to fat32. Twice.
Got this advice from Laurentis26 last night .
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Formatted to 16k, now loading up my backup.
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Ive been experiencing this too. I am backing up my SD now, and about to format to fat32. Twice.
Got this advice from Laurentis26 last night .
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And the verdict is?
I have heard some people reporting improvements after reformatting their SDCard. Though anyone formatting their SDCard make sure you back up your damn Transformers movies so you don't loose them, no one here can give them back to you.
One other thing I have found that helps is install all your apps on the phone instead of the SDCard. For me that has improved the overall performance.
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not exactly quite sure what it is that you're experiencing.. BUT.... i highly doubt that it had ANYTHING to do with your battery life... this statement comes from 2 sources.... common sense, and software development....
think of it like this....
your sd card is simply a storage medium... it contains data that is used in conjunction with your mobile device.... in order for you sd card to actually "increase" your battery life or even OS performance... it would have to somehow power your device electronically in order to have any type of effect at all....
like i stated before... not quite sure what it is that you're experiencing.. and i fully understand that the battery issue with our HD2 can be a little frustrating and can/will ultimately lead to the "placebo" effect which occurs in a lot of the "performance" mods that have surfaced here on XDA....
unfortunately the best way to increase your battery life is to minimize usage... (which is retarded.... why should i buy a phone and not be able to utilize every single function available..???) or get a extended battery....
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on a side note though... what bothers me the most.. is that with the EVO 4G release.. it came stock with a 1500mh battery capacity... and there are ALREADY extended batteries for the device.. (WITHOUT having to have a stupid huge back cover)... this is extremely irritating at how no one seems to be able to develop a 1500mh standard size battery for our HD2.. when the EVO and HD2 are actually quite similar in dimension... thus the battery size itself is similar... this is mind boggling...
enjoy the lesson
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sorry, but no lesson there...
love how some people talk down to other here...
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sd cards and how you use them can have quite an effect on battery.
by default the 2gb or lower ones come formatted FAT not FAT32, so they are a little less inefficient in read write
the block size that the sd card is formatted in can have a big effect on battery life. Say for instance 2k block size vs 4k block size, in a 2k block sd card you need to perform twice as many read operations than a 4k formatted card. The downside of increasing blocksize is more wasted overhead.
If you are using your card for mostly music and images, (i.e larger files), you can increase the block size significantly, right up to 16k, i would say. That way each read operation takes in 16k, 4 times less reads than 4k, 8 times less than 2k.
Plus, if you install a lot of your apps to the sd card, it will be pretty much running all the time, so the phone is powering three memory chips, rom, ram and sd, and the sd flash chip is more power hungry than the built in flash chips.
If you further have an app running from sd, and an mp3 playing from sd, and m,aybe the opera cache on sd like many have, you can probably hold your breath longer than 1% will last.
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Thank you for that. Great info. i 100% agree. maybe you should give the guy above a "lesson"..
thanks!
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And the verdict is?
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I had to go to the Doctor's and bandage up my nail on my index finger because I pulled it out when I was leaving my house yesterday. It was part ways out and its not too bad. Anyways going to do a fresh flash, fresh install of stuff using 32k formatted 16gb SD card. Going to be using Laurentis26's rom again.
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I had to go to the Doctor's and bandage up my nail on my index finger because I pulled it out when I was leaving my house yesterday. It was part ways out and its not too bad. Anyways going to do a fresh flash, fresh install of stuff using 32k formatted 16gb SD card. Going to be using Laurentis26's rom again.
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Do let us know how it works at 16k blocks.
Cheers.
EDIT: By the way, how are you flashing your SD card? Are you using a proper SD-CARD formatter program? I think Panasonic has a program called Panasonic SD Card Formatter which is designed specifically for SD cards.
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Do let us know how it works at 16k blocks.
Cheers.
EDIT: By the way, how are you flashing your SD card? Are you using a proper SD-CARD formatter program? I think Panasonic has a program called Panasonic SD Card Formatter which is designed specifically for SD cards.
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I've never had any issues with the Windows format tool. I think that works just as good.
Suggestion isn't completely wrong
I don't believe anyone should come to a fast conclusion (those coming with "2" sources), until all scenarios are accounted for.
1) The more you run apps off of the card, a correctly formatted card will result in less energy consumption.
2) The HTC does seem to cache certain items on the card during usage, again formatting will affect read/write performance.
3) Consider the current war of "new" SSD drives. One of the primary factors driving performance is the block size and efficient use of data organization, to a point of very significant gains.
Logically, the way I see it, for any reduction in processing time, the more efficient battery use will be. Now to what extent, I'm not sure.
One thing I do know for certain is, loud mouthed people, who think quick and talk load are often laughed at by those who think first and talk later.
I just formatted my card as well, to FAT 32, with a block size of 16. Unfortunately, I can't compare, because I'm now running Energy's MaxSense ROM, so apple's to oranges. For what it's worth, I'm really happy with it. It's the first time I've ever flashed something, and it took me all of 30 minutes. Easy to do, only a few quick steps and such an improvement in general. A few bugs, especially when dealing with screen rotation between apps. Yet it's a welcomed trade off, considering functionality.
Got off track... Any way, I appreciate this thread! Even if you are/are not correct, this is a forum, built for discussion.
is there a way that the members here can refrain from senseless remarks? you can believe anything you want.. but that's not the argument... the discussion is about facts... and the fact is... formatting your sd card will NOT increase your battery life... before i was just informing but now... I'm actually surprised at how many people refuse to listen to facts and evidence... since I'm sure none have the abilities to replicate some actual testing like myself... just do a simple search... in Yahoo! or Google.. this is a common misconception and I'm merely informing....
again, believe what you want... proceed how you need to... but don't pretend like i don't have the slightest clue of what I'm talking about because that is just incorrect.... just let opinions be opinions and facts be facts... only internet tards confuse the 2... understand?
once again.. lesson learned.... class is dismissed
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I don't believe anyone should come to a fast conclusion (those coming with "2" sources), until all scenarios are accounted for.
1) The more you run apps off of the card, a correctly formatted card will result in less energy consumption.
2) The HTC does seem to cache certain items on the card during usage, again formatting will affect read/write performance.
3) Consider the current war of "new" SSD drives. One of the primary factors driving performance is the block size and efficient use of data organization, to a point of very significant gains.
Logically, the way I see it, for any reduction in processing time, the more efficient battery use will be. Now to what extent, I'm not sure.
One thing I do know for certain is, loud mouthed people, who think quick and talk load are often laughed at by those who think first and talk later.
I just formatted my card as well, to FAT 32, with a block size of 16. Unfortunately, I can't compare, because I'm now running Energy's MaxSense ROM, so apple's to oranges. For what it's worth, I'm really happy with it. It's the first time I've ever flashed something, and it took me all of 30 minutes. Easy to do, only a few quick steps and such an improvement in general. A few bugs, especially when dealing with screen rotation between apps. Yet it's a welcomed trade off, considering functionality.
Got off track... Any way, I appreciate this thread! Even if you are/are not correct, this is a forum, built for discussion.
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well said!
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and the fact is... formatting your sd card will NOT increase your battery life...
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well..sorry..but it did....
class is back in session
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is there a way that the members here can refrain from senseless remarks? you can believe anything you want.. but that's not the argument... the discussion is about facts... and the fact is... formatting your sd card will NOT increase your battery life... before i was just informing but now... I'm actually surprised at how many people refuse to listen to facts and evidence... since I'm sure none have the abilities to replicate some actual testing like myself... just do a simple search... in Yahoo! or Google.. this is a common misconception and I'm merely informing....
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Ahh, the internet has spoken so it must be truth.
I can see battery use going down some by formatting a SD card. But it's not the formatting that would fix anything, it's removing all the installed apps from that SD card as a result of formatting. Especially any apps that periodically check things in the background and make reads/writes from the SD card. The more of these types of apps installed on a SD card and the more apps in general installed on a SD card being removed by formatting, the less battery draw from running those apps.
But do realize, as soon as you put all that stuff back on your right back to where you started.
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great! i hope this helps some people...i know i live my hd2 so much more right now
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hmm battery life doesnt seem too diffrent but the music loads sooo much faster now!
This is the one thing that really bugs me about this launch apart from the aforementioned absence of an SD card reader. I don't know many people who wouldn't appreciate the option of a 64 GB variant -- personally, my photos of my kids nearly take up that much space alone (and surely it will be worse with 4K video and 22 MP images)!
Has there been absolutely no evidence of such an option? What do you think the odds are that we'll see one? Thanks!
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This is the one thing that really bugs me about this launch apart from the aforementioned absence of an SD card reader. I don't know many people who wouldn't appreciate the option of a 64 GB variant -- personally, my photos of my kids nearly take up that much space alone (and surely it will be worse with 4K video and 22 MP images)!
Has there been absolutely no evidence of such an option? What do you think the odds are that we'll see one? Thanks!
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No mention of it anywhere, that I've seen.
I don't take a ton of pictures on my phone, but I did take quite a few along with some video on my Moto X while in Las Vegas a few months back. I use Copy (a service like Dropbox made by Barracude) that uploads my photos when I'm plugged in to power and on wifi. That way if my phone is lost/stolen, I have an automatic backup of them. Plus, I can delete them from my phone to free up space and still have them stored elsewhere effortlessly.
I know that people like to have the photos with them, and you can, but if your device gets full, you can move them off to free up space. There are also options like an OTG flash drive or OTG cable with a regular flash drive. I bought one of these: http://www.woot.com/offers/color-otg-32gb-usb-3-0-drive-grey so I can move stuff easily between my Moto X, N7 and Chromebook if needed. Plugs right into my phone via microUSB, and PC with regular USB (the metal chassis itself is a USB plug).
With so many cloud services available, I find it hard to believe that so much local storage is needed as well. Just my opinion, I guess.
Why is no one mentioning Google Auto Back up? It's amazing. It shows your photos in the "Photos" gallery app that google makes like they were on your phone, but it doesn't take up storage. You can set it to auto-back up your photos, or only when its plugged in, only when on WiFi, etc. Works wonders. I only had a small 2.5GB of photos on my phone and then when I started using that I had only 500MB.
You guys are right, cloud storage solutions are phenomenal these days. Personally I use Google Auto Backup and I pay for the 100 GB storage plan, so I've got a good bit of space with full-res photos backed up. My issue there however is that yes, I would like to have the vast majority of them with me, if not simply due to the fact that my four-year-old likes to watch slideshows of them (and can be entertained for even 15-20 minutes in a pinch by doing so), and the Photos app by contrast (as far as I can tell) simply laggily loads them from the Google server (bandwidth notwithstanding!) when you page through them.
It's somewhat superficial for sure, but there is something to be said for having the stuff stored locally. I don't think it is a deal-breaker for me, but going from 80 GB (16 + 64 GB) on my Galaxy S4 currently to just 32 GB is going to hurt a little bit. I'd pay $100 more gladly for a 64 GB option Motorola!
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Why is no one mentioning Google Auto Back up? It's amazing. It shows your photos in the "Photos" gallery app that google makes like they were on your phone, but it doesn't take up storage. You can set it to auto-back up your photos, or only when its plugged in, only when on WiFi, etc. Works wonders. I only had a small 2.5GB of photos on my phone and then when I started using that I had only 500MB.
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If the phone comes with the rumored 50gb of Drive storage I'll be up to 125gb overall. Haven't paid a dime. My only problem with Drive and Auto backup for photos is that the organization of photos is horrendous! I have 30gb of storage in my OneDrive account. Since I use that for keeping my school and work documents in sync between computers I may start using that.
The problem with both, though, is that if someone would get ahold of my phone (or a drunk me for that matter) could very easily delete something in OneDrive or Drive on my phone and then be screwed with docs on my computer.
Now if Auto Backup went directly to a Drive folder....well then I could only use that for photos and OneDrive strictly for my important files.
kind of bothers me that theres no 64gb option.
I like cloud for some things, SD for others. Personally I can get outside of any coverage in about a 15 minute drive and often do which makes cloud storage for all needs untenable for me. Even in areas where there is coverage I would rather have all my music on my phone because it is often problematic to stream it and play it at the same time. Then there are the ringtones, wallpapers etc. I prefer these on the SD for flashing purposes, it makes it one less step to get my phone back up and running. I prefer cloud for long term storage of seldom used files or transfer purposes, pictures for examples.
All thats just me of course but a lot of people have different needs and uses, having the ability to put in an SD card and not needing it isn't a problem. Needing it and not having it is a problem. This means that no SD is a problem for some people whereas having an SD never hurt anyone. Thats win win.
Edit (forgot to answer origional Q): For now we wait and in the event of only 32gb for the near future- I refer to below.
Not everyone uses cloud as a preference, or its a non viable option for whatever reason. Just as some cant do without xprivacy by their own idiosyncracies. Its about personal preference. So either you hope for more storage or find ways around it, or you move on. If the turbo is my next choice ill consider other options for maintaining storage demands....maybe an otg adapter http://www.meenova.com/st/p/mrg2.html...or ill just consider the nexus 6...
64GB option confirmed at the press event. Also that third chain link pattern for the back is there too, they call it Ballistic Nylon.
VERY upset that the 64gb version is only available in Ballistic Nylon and not the Red MGF
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VERY upset that the 64gb version is only available in Ballistic Nylon and not the Red MGF
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I was waiting to see someone say this. Personally, I was going to get the black anyways, so I'm fine with it. Still, I'm surprised they didn't get a red option for the 64 GB especially since the red color is part of the Droid branding.
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I was waiting to see someone say this. Personally, I was going to get the black anyways, so I'm fine with it. Still, I'm surprised they didn't get a red option for the 64 GB especially since the red color is part of the Droid branding.
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I am so unbelievably happy about this. Considering there were NO leaks at all about a 64gb option, this is AWESOME!
Since it's a bigger phone and thicker it'll feel good in hand. That coupled with the nylon back (grip) and a screen warranty for two years.....I'm going naked without a doubt!
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I am so unbelievably happy about this. Considering there were NO leaks at all about a 64gb option, this is AWESOME!
Since it's a bigger phone and thicker it'll feel good in hand. That coupled with the nylon back (grip) and a screen warranty for two years.....I'm going naked without a doubt!
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Woah. Where did you see the screen warranty
Sent from my unlocked consumer edition Motorola Droid Maxx xt1080m.
jfriend33 said:
Woah. Where did you see the screen warranty
Sent from my unlocked consumer edition Motorola Droid Maxx xt1080m.
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"DROID Turbo Screen Assurance program: free certified like new replaced if screen cracks, one time per contract period"
but does this mean that those who buy it full retail don't get a warranty? :crying:
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"DROID Turbo Screen Assurance program: free certified like new replaced if screen cracks, one time per contract period"
but does this mean that those who buy it full retail don't get a warranty? :crying:
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Wow. Idk. Sounds weird. Glad my asurion transfers problem free for 8 a month.
I wonder if they added this to compete with Samsung... I never cracked a display before...
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There's going to be a 64GB version!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ahhh I'm ordering this phone the second I can. amazing.
The 64gb version in ballstic nylon is good news...i was getting gloomy before. I hope more suprises continue to unflold.
Anybody notice how both the 32gb and 64gb ballistic nylon versions don't have a Verizon logo on the back? What's up with that?
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Anybody notice how both the 32gb and 64gb ballistic nylon versions don't have a Verizon logo on the back? What's up with that?
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It seems to vary by photo. All the pictures on the Verizon site have logos, from what I saw. The press photos don't seem to.
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Anybody notice how both the 32gb and 64gb ballistic nylon versions don't have a Verizon logo on the back? What's up with that?
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here is a picture of it on the verizon site, the 32gb with the verizon logo. I'm sure the 64gb will too.. I mean we're talking about the same company who squeezed their logo into the Note 3 button at the bottome. Regardless of how ugly it will look, the verizon logo will always be there.
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Lets talk about the MicroSD first
Like everyone I love to have a phone with MicroSD feature. It makes it easier to swap between my phones as well as to transfer data to my PC. I myself won't mind spending lots of money on a fast microSD card but I have yet to find one that is both FAST and LARGE in capacity. On my Note 4, i'm using Sandisk Extreme and my fastest bench mark test was 70mb Read and 39 Write. Now these numbers are decent but In my opinion MicroSD cards are not keeping up with the speed of phones these days which is cause bottleneck issue and is one of the reasons behind all the lag that people complain about.
Now with the Universal Flash Storage (UFS) 2.0 which has 350Mb/s Read and 150Mb/s, you can rest assure it will not cause any lag from viewing pictures and videos as well as swapping from app to app. Not to mention you can always plug in your OTG cable with flash usb and do all your backups there titanium backup or simply copying your data there which is what i'm doing currently.
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Samsung has ultra fast 128GB UFS 2.0 ready for smartphones
As for the Battery,
While having a removable battery is a plus, from my personal experience I have yet to use it when I want too. I have extra battery and charger for my Note 4 but i always find my self plugging it in rather than taking the cover off and restart my phone. Now with all the new features to charge wirelessily and fastcharge 2.0, I don't think anyone would have any issue. Iphone users as well as other brands from nexus 5,6 and htc didn't complain about their battery then why should we when are ahead of the game in many ways?
With all the features we are getting on the GS6, I think i can easily sacrifice on these too.
I generally agree with you. But after 8 months or so my phone batteries are noticeably less able to hold a charge as much. My note 3 (loved that phone) went from 8-9 hours screen on time to not even 6 hours. Big difference. Changed the bettery and back to normal. This is what I want to be able to do especially if I keep the phone 2 years!
Most people are complaining about choice being taken away
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I generally agree with you. But after 8 months or so my phone batteries are noticeably less able to hold a charge as much. My note 3 (loved that phone) went from 8-9 hours screen on time to not even 6 hours. Big difference. Changed the bettery and back to normal. This is what I want to be able to do especially if I keep the phone 2 years!
Most people are complaining about choice being taken away
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Most batteries have a life cycle of 500 charges. But then having non removable back doesn't mean the battery is not replaceable. You can always heat up the back with air dryer and pull the back off and i'm sure you will see many people doing a tutorial on that but we have to wait and see if it easy to do so or hard.
There's just no good reason to remove microSD support and no real argument to support the decision. Literally every reason you mentioned for supporting the decision could have been done without microSD support being removed. It's that simple. Use of microSD was an -option- that nobody would have been forced to use. Removal of options is rarely a good thing, and this isn't one of those rare exceptions.
Lack of a removable battery has only two good sides in most any situation, and one of them was left out of the picture here. Non-removable battery brings two benefits, and two benefits only.
1. Unibody design (Usually means slimmer, which at this point, it's highly debatable whether or not that's even a good thing)
2. Waterproofing (Omitted)
Personally, the 128GB of (hopefully) UFS will be enough for me and I STILL disagree with the decision. Why? Again, removal of options is rarely a good thing, and this isn't one of those cases. I can take or leave the removable battery. Simple fact of the matter is that I havn't had nor used a device where I couldn't change the battery when I felt like it regardless of whether or not it being removable was part of a spec sheet or not. With that said, I'm not a daily battery swapper, so I certainly see why people are concerned there.
Regardless, what should have happened is that there should have been a 128GB UFS option WITH support for a microSD utilizing up to 128GBs, period. I suspect that their reasoning (other than the obvious incredibly mild cost savings) will be for the sake of trying to do the impossible and "fix stupid." By fixing stupid, I mean you'll always have people who won't be able to comprehend that all flash storage isn't just any ole flash storage, and will whine and complain that their $10 Wal-mart microSD isn't as fast as the on-board storage. Which will lead to them saying the device is slow when in actuality they're just too "slow" to realize what the issue is. While I understand the concept thanks to my personal field of expertise, I've already realized the truth in that matter:
When you try to fix stupid, you piss off smart, and stupid stays stupid; just in some other manner of being stupid.
And of course there's the greed aspect; wherein all of a sudden, a would-be 32GB buyer becomes a 64GB buyer and a 64GB buyer becomes a 128GB buyer due to the lack of a microSD slot.
For how I use my SD cards (and it seems that I'm far from alone in this), the speed makes no real difference at all. I keep my cards loaded up with my most commonly used FLAC files and rarely make any changes to them. On my S4 I see no difference in opening music or video files compared to the internal storage. Copying new files to the phone via USB is certainly slower on SD, but that's the only situation where the speed difference is even noticeable.
For the OS and apps, the built-in storage speed is the only way to fly, but having more onboard storage is always better for me, even if it's relatively slow SD added to 128GB of super fast UFS. I've used OTG and it's completely annoying and clunky having wires & USB drives hanging off the phone, and the OTG route isn't nearly as compact as carrying an extra MicroSD card (or three).
Battery is less of an issue for me in everyday use, but I travel a lot for work and having spare internal batteries means I can sit in airports and on planes without having to have an external device hanging off of my phone to keep it running. What if you are running low on battery AND the files you need are on OTG? I don't think you can do both at the same time, something that would never be a problem on a phone with SD and removable battery.
As I mentioned in another tread, I don't think the battery issue is a big deal any more just because those portable battery chargers are cheaper than an extra battery. I just put the phone in my pocket with one of those and I am charged up in no time. I haven't bought a spare battery since my SGS3 for this reason.
As far as the SD card does though, I HATE that it's gone. It's not even a space issue, it's a functionality issue. I think 64gig is more than enough for me. I haven't filled up my 64gig card. However, when I go from one phone to another, I just put my microsd card in and I'm done. If my phone breaks, gets wet, doesn't turn on any more... I didn't lose anything, my titanium backup is on my SD card, I pull that out and put it into my replacement phone, and I'm good to go.
The process now to get a new phone up and running is now much harder and the risk of losing everything if your phone breaks is much higher. Yes, yes... there is a cloud. But without unlimited data, I don't want to back up to my cloud... plus I don't want my pictures being uploaded to the cloud anyway.
Yathani said:
Lets talk about the MicroSD first
Like everyone I love to have a phone with MicroSD feature. It makes it easier to swap between my phones as well as to transfer data to my PC. I myself won't mind spending lots of money on a fast microSD card but I have yet to find one that is both FAST and LARGE in capacity. On my Note 4, i'm using Sandisk Extreme and my fastest bench mark test was 70mb Read and 39 Write. Now these numbers are decent but In my opinion MicroSD cards are not keeping up with the speed of phones these days which is cause bottleneck issue and is one of the reasons behind all the lag that people complain about.
Now with the Universal Flash Storage (UFS) 2.0 which has 350Mb/s Read and 150Mb/s, you can rest assure it will not cause any lag from viewing pictures and videos as well as swapping from app to app. Not to mention you can always plug in your OTG cable with flash usb and do all your backups there titanium backup or simply copying your data there which is what i'm doing currently.
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The entire basis for your argument is stupid.
External cards are mostly used for storing media files where speed is not a concern
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The entire basis for your argument is stupid.
External cards are mostly used for storing media files where speed is not a concern
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And your entire reply basis is ignorant and does not show respect to other opinion.
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And your entire reply basis is ignorant and does not show respect to other opinion.
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No **** Sherlock!!
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And your entire reply basis is ignorant and does not show respect to other opinion.
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You are entitled to your opinion for sure but you are certainly not entitled to respect for that opinion...your arguments are without merit and though I wouldn't call them stupid simply out of politeness I am sure others would not be as polite.....
Fact is they could have kept the microsd and ufs.
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My Samsung Galaxy Nexus runs the sane nearly 3 1/2 years later, in terms of the battery, as it did on day 1. I've never had to replace the battery, and in my opinion, the whole "batteries degrade in less than a year" argument is a sham.
Also, let's face reality, the average consumer isn't a techno nerd on a phone forum or a tech blogger. The average person looks at the phones in their local carrier store and picks what they like (if they aren't already set on an iPhone of course). The S6 stands head and shoulders above the rest in terms of display, design, and the "edge". This phone will sell well, despite not having a removable back or SD card slot. 99% (yes...I made that up) of people out there aren't walking around with a spare battery in their pocket, or trying to carry 10,000 songs, and multi-gig videos on their phones.
If your phone were to suddenly die or break for some reason, good luck retrieving photos, videos, etc. from it. With a MicroSD storage, you can just remove it and be on your way.
I like to store movies and archive photos, videos, etc. and having expandable storage is extremely crucial. Would you buy a PC without a removable PSU or removable hard drives? Didn't think so.
The only logical explanation for Samsung to go this route, regardless of what's been touted in the news, is that they deliberately want a drop in sales and stocks and company image. Then the S7 will bring it back and they'll give the impression of it being a new breathtaking device for the people. Either that, or the S7 will be a flip phone.
I'm a Note user, and if the Note 5 goes this backwards route, then I will never consider Samsung as a brand again.
Well I think they would cut the SD card slot out mostly to save a few bucks and to get people to buy the larger versions of their phone. I do understand that if people move things like apps to their SD card they will miss the whole speed point of the phone. The only think I have ever put on my SD card are pictures and music... maybe a video now and then.... and if that moves any faster the music tempo will be off
I appreciate the fact that their new memory is much faster but people never do well with a feature being taken away.
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Well I think they would cut the SD card slot out mostly to save a few bucks and to get people to buy the larger versions of their phone. I do understand that if people move things like apps to their SD card they will miss the whole speed point of the phone. The only think I have ever put on my SD card are pictures and music... maybe a video now and then.... and if that moves any faster the music tempo will be off
I appreciate the fact that their new memory is much faster but people never do well with a feature being taken away.
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They could have done with a simple warning.
The point of the SD is that you can move all your media to it, leaving the faster internal storage free for apps
I think its more of a personal preference. I used to be a person that was so "pro-removable battery", but when I had my S5, I wasnt even changing my batteries as often. Now that I have a Z3, which has no removable battery, I don't even think about battery because the phone lasts long. I charge my battery every night before I sleep anyways and it lasts me through the day. So long as the S6 does the same I will be happy.
Well said
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If your phone were to suddenly die or break for some reason, good luck retrieving photos, videos, etc. from it. With a MicroSD storage, you can just remove it and be on your way.
I like to store movies and archive photos, videos, etc. and having expandable storage is extremely crucial. Would you buy a PC without a removable PSU or removable hard drives? Didn't think so.
The only logical explanation for Samsung to go this route, regardless of what's been touted in the news, is that they deliberately want a drop in sales and stocks and company image. Then the S7 will bring it back and they'll give the impression of it being a new breathtaking device for the people. Either that, or the S7 will be a flip phone.
I'm a Note user, and if the Note 5 goes this backwards route, then I will never consider Samsung as a brand again.
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Thats why you back up your stuff...its not wise to keep everything you own on a MicroSD, because it can crash and break just like internal memory can
smooth4lyfe said:
Thats why you back up your stuff...its not wise to keep everything you own on a MicroSD, because it can crash and break just like internal memory can
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You can backup and still have archives on your MicroSD for viewing.
And another instance, if you're on vacation and want to take many videos and photos with your device. You CAN with removable external storage. Backing up onto the cloud during vacations is not practical. Unless you're a millionaire with an endless cashflow for data. Look how much space a single 2 minute 4K video clip takes up. That'll fill up your entire device in no time. And then backing up gigs and gigs of data to the cloud? And then retrieving? Not practical. The cloud is not a compromise.
I am inclined to agree with the OP. The new nand is going to make the phone fly, and will help the phone capture great photos. I'm just finally glad they ditched the 16GB option. That should have disappeared with the S3.
I look forward to the head to head reviews with the M9. If the camera doesn't perform well, I'll most likely get the S6.
ThaiM said:
You can backup and still have archives on your MicroSD for viewing.
And another instance, if you're on vacation and want to take many videos and photos with your device. You CAN with removable external storage. Backing up onto the cloud during vacations is not practical. Unless you're a millionaire with an endless cashflow for data. Look how much space a single 2 minute 4K video clip takes up. That'll fill up your entire device in no time. And then backing up gigs and gigs of data to the cloud? And then retrieving? Not practical. The cloud is not a compromise.
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Do you plan on taking many 4K videos?
I have 60GB of Dropbox free (from a Samsung promotion) and I save all my pics on there, its not that bad. The only con about using cloud storage is safety of files. If you make a Box Cloud account, you get 20GB free. You can also retrieve them anytime (so long as u have a data connection, which could be a con in some cases).
I do agree that having a MicroSD card is more convenient, but I don't see it as a major dealbreaker
As we all know by now, the Note 5 does not come with an SD card slot. There are USB OTG adapters that will allow you to plug in a micro sd card reader and use the storage. My issue is they are bulky and cannot be kept on the device during daily use. My thought is, if the adapter is slim enough you may be able to plug into the micro usb slot and have the card wrap around the back of the phone behind a case. If anyone has seen something like this please let me know. Check out the link below to get a better idea of what i mean. The link is for a universal wireless charger that will link to your phone via micro usb. Instead of the cable linking to a qi charger, maybe it could link to a thin micro sd card reader. Please let me know what you think, maybe improve upon the idea.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...=UTF8&psc=1&tag=androidcentral00-20&m1k=vb_ac
This is a good idea here as well, but it is still too thick to fit behind a case.
http://www.amazon.com/Idmix®-Chargi...7&sr=1-16&keywords=micro+usb+to+micro+sd+card
I think the best solution would be to rethink your workflow/usage scenario for the SD Card and find other ways to achieve what you want. You can also wait to see if they come out with the 128gb version, but between the 64gb storage option and changing how you do things, it should be achievable.
I know for a time the WiFi Drives were popular with iPhone users, that's not really a bad option either...
kevroc said:
I think the best solution would be to rethink your workflow/usage scenario for the SD Card and find other ways to achieve what you want. You can also wait to see if they come out with the 128gb version, but between the 64gb storage option and changing how you do things, it should be achievable.
I know for a time the WiFi Drives were popular with iPhone users, that's not really a bad option either...
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Yeah I did this a few years ago when I switched to a phone with no mSD slot, moved all my pictures and videos and **** to cloud storage, now I pay $10 a month and have 1TB of storage space I can put anything I want on. I back up all my photos to the cloud and delete them from my phone once I get a decent number accumulated.
I also have been streaming my music, I dont listen to music a TON, but when I do I generally am only getting 30-60 minutes of listening in, that's not all that much data to stream so it doesn't effect my data usage all that much.
All in all, I felt fine on 32GB of internal storage with no mSD card, 64GB is a breeze.
kevroc said:
I think the best solution would be to rethink your workflow/usage scenario for the SD Card and find other ways to achieve what you want. You can also wait to see if they come out with the 128gb version, but between the 64gb storage option and changing how you do things, it should be achievable.
I know for a time the WiFi Drives were popular with iPhone users, that's not really a bad option either...
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I do actually have a wireless option that reads sd cards, my use case, i would like to the storage attached so pics and videos can be directly stored. I pre-ordered the 64gb, i didnt want to hold out lol. I found another item that is getting me closer but now i have to figure out a way to read the ribbon cable lol
http://www.amazon.com/Manufacture-S...8297&sr=8-1&keywords=Micro+SD+Extension+Cable.
I was just looking at Wifi Drives on Amazon, looks like they've come a long ways... They actually seem pretty cool.
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I do actually have a wireless option that reads sd cards, my use case, i would like to the storage attached so pics and videos can be directly stored. I pre-ordered the 64gb, i didnt want to hold out lol. I found another item that is getting me closer but now i have to figure out a way to read the ribbon cable lol
http://www.amazon.com/Manufacture-S...8297&sr=8-1&keywords=Micro+SD+Extension+Cable.
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That cable is pretty cool. I know you can't beat direct storage, that's why I had the 128gb iPhone But honestly, managing that much space via usb sync etc. is kind of a hassle. Maybe the cable adapter is good for batch offloading, but do you really need that much local storage, I think you'd get tired of the extra bulk and the potential hassles of "mounting" the external card, read/write limitations, etc. that go along with all of that.
I got this monster on the go cloud from Sam's club for 10 bucks a few months back, really good deal.
http://www.monsterdigital.com/wireless-streaming/otg-cloud
By the way, have you guys seen this deal? Maybe i missed the price drop but this seems like an excellent deal to me!
http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Adapt...=UTF8&qid=1439928867&sr=1-7&keywords=micro+sd
I would just buy a wifi UsB drive if your looking for something compact. Or just Dropbox it
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By the way, have you guys seen this deal? Maybe i missed the price drop but this seems like an excellent deal to me!
http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Adapt...=UTF8&qid=1439928867&sr=1-7&keywords=micro+sd
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Yeah, that price drop popped up a week or two ago on slickdeals. If you can go up to SD Card, they're a bit cheaper/faster.
If they make this for the Note 5 like they did for the s6 and s6 edge it could solve the battery issue and the sd card problem
http://www.incipio.com/chargers/off...-extended-battery-case-samsung-galaxy-s6.html
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Good grief. The note 5 is big enough as it is. Last thing I would ever do is put a huge battery case on it.
There are always ideas. It's unfortunately that Samsung made that choice (Or maybe the Note Edge 2 supports it and they're trying to encourage people to go for the more expensive Note Edge 2? idk, Just a thought)
Solutions?
As mentioned previously, maybe there might be a case manufacturer that provides the support without the battery so it's lighter (or Samsung could surprise us with the S view case?)
Dual USB drive or NFC SD Card/ FD? sure you have to carry something extra that might get lost and all, but it's quite portable indeed :good:
Get a Note 4, install ported Note 5 ROM and voila!
Buy Cloud Storage or get an unlimited amount of cloud storage's
I'd use the battery /SD case in a minute! I have a note 2 with a 9300 mah zerolemon battery and I love my giant brick. That's why I don't care about design this, pretty that, glass this, feels good in hand that.
I just want my forever lasting brick phone! Whatever phone I get is getting either a zerolemon extended battery or a battery case.
Doesn't matter if the phone is pretty cause I'm never gonna see it!
I don't care because thinking about plugs and chargers something I never want to go back to!
I had been using this 64GB with my ex S6E - works very well. Is mini size and not bulky at all. It is auto detect by the phone and N5 users had reported it works well with it too
http://www.sandisk.com/products/mobile-flash-drives/dualdrive/
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As we all know by now, the Note 5 does not come with an SD card slot. There are USB OTG adapters that will allow you to plug in a micro sd card reader and use the storage. My issue is they are bulky and cannot be kept on the device during daily use. My thought is, if the adapter is slim enough you may be able to plug into the micro usb slot and have the card wrap around the back of the phone behind a case. If anyone has seen something like this please let me know. Check out the link below to get a better idea of what i mean. The link is for a universal wireless charger that will link to your phone via micro usb. Instead of the cable linking to a qi charger, maybe it could link to a thin micro sd card reader. Please let me know what you think, maybe improve upon the idea.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...=UTF8&psc=1&tag=androidcentral00-20&m1k=vb_ac
This is a good idea here as well, but it is still too thick to fit behind a case.
http://www.amazon.com/Idmix®-Chargi...7&sr=1-16&keywords=micro+usb+to+micro+sd+card
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I Ihave an S6 and I purchased a micro OTG with 64B of storage - you can get larger ones I think - it connects to the USB and sticks out about a half inch - great for additional storage - I keep nandroids on it and connect it when I want to restore a previous nandroid - you can do a lot with it - not as good as an EXT SD card - but it works pretty well. and it is very small
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I had been using this 64GB with my ex S6E - works very well. Is mini size and not bulky at all. It is auto detect by the phone and N5 users had reported it works well with it too
http://www.sandisk.com/products/mobile-flash-drives/dualdrive/
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This is the solution. I love it. Fast reliable and very nice ...
Ya, my note 3 has 544GB of storage using a 512GB full size sd card. I used a smaller adapter than the amazon one mentioned above and fit it completely inside my zerolemon case with the extended battery. If you are looking at the back of the phone, it fits just to the right of the camera. No bulge or anything. It looks completely normal.
I bought this from Amazon for my S6 - will be using for extra storage on my NOTE 5 http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-connector-Android-Devices--SDDD2-064G-G46/dp/B00RBGYGPG/ref=sr_1_4?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1439999149&sr=1-4&keywords=micro+otg
Pretty small - and works well. Best option I found - would love to find one smaller (it is about 3/4 to 1 inch long - and about 1/2 inch wide or so - just guessing about the size but I think it is pretty close to that.
Why not use a wireless external hard drive? Its almost like your own personnel cloud. 4TB for $200. Don't have to worry about monthly payments or being on a network/WiFi.
I'm thinking about getting one myself. Any thoughts/experience with these?
http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Portable-External-Storage-STDA4000100/dp/B00HXAV0X6
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Android_Fr3ak said:
Why not use a wireless external hard drive? Its almost like your own personnel cloud. 4TB for $200. Don't have to worry about monthly payments or being on a network/WiFi.
I'm thinking about getting one myself. Any thoughts/experience with these?
http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Portable-External-Storage-STDA4000100/dp/B00HXAV0X6
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Ya, I use one in addition to the sd card on my phone. It's definitely not as fast as a micro sd card would be, but it's usable. I really notice it when browsing directories. If you have anything over say a 100 photos or movies in a folder it takes about 3-4 seconds to load which is kinda annoying. This is my experience with an N router and USB 3.0. I'm doing a SMB share.
Hi.
I just sold my S6 Edge 128Gb to get the S6 Edge+. I didnt use as much data as I thought I would. Im now even considering the 32GB version.
What version of the Plus do you have 32 or 64GB and especially those with 32GB has this been enough?
Cant decide.
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32gb, enough still 20gb free
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How much stuff do you carry around in your phone.?
I have a 32Gb G928F version - sim free and its fine, I wasn't prepared to spend an extra £70 on top of the £599 I paid for my S6 Edge + just for an extra 32Gb.
So i got a 64Gb sandisk, USB 3, OTG micro flash drive for £25
http://www.amazon.co.uk/SanDisk-Ult...-11&keywords=sandisk+64gb+usb+3.0+flash+drive
So bottom line is how much music or films do you want to carry on your phone? if like me you store your stuff on the cloud or USB drive 32Gb is enough.
Got 64gb. Don't want to think if i will have enough space in future...
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Buy 64
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Depends on what you do with the phone. A lot of pictures? Music? Video's? I have enough with 32GB
And there's always the cloud
gadjet said:
I have a 32Gb G928F version - sim free and its fine, I wasn't prepared to spend an extra £70 on top of the £599 I paid for my S6 Edge + just for an extra 32Gb.
So i got a 64Gb sandisk, USB 3, OTG micro flash drive for £25
http://www.amazon.co.uk/SanDisk-Ult...-11&keywords=sandisk+64gb+usb+3.0+flash+drive
So bottom line is how much music or films do you want to carry on your phone? if like me you store your stuff on the cloud or USB drive 32Gb is enough.
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pretty much sums me up as well.
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all my pictures and videos go to onedrive and google pics so 32 gigs has been more than fine for me, i got my s6 edge plus almost 2 months ago and have over 20 gigs free space..
A Device which has unexpendable storage always sucks. You -32Gb lover guys- know that the one recovery backup is over 5 Gb even without much data on this phone? I mean there are good roms for s6 edge+ now and some guys -like us- are always switching their roms weekly even daily. Its not enough storage to get two or three backups on internal. There will be dozens of rom, can't even imagine that how much we will suffer because of the poor storage.
Not going to root
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A Device which has unexpendable storage always sucks. You -32Gb lover guys- know that the one recovery backup is over 5 Gb even without much data on this phone? I mean there are good roms for s6 edge+ now and some guys -like us- are always switching their roms weekly even daily. Its not enough storage to get two or three backups on internal. There will be dozens of rom, can't even imagine that how much we will suffer because of the poor storage.
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that would all be a big a big problem if i planned on rooting this phone ,
witch i don't so it's not a problem at least for me, plus the 6.0 marshmallow update is on the way so no need for a custom lollipop rom
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that would all be a big a big problem if i planned on rooting this phone ,
witch i don't so it's not a problem at least for me, plus the 6.0 marshmallow update is on the way so no need for a custom lollipop rom
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Yup, the rooting is nothing about the low storage trouble. You do root or not . It doesn't increase or decrease the device's storage. You have free internet to upload your stuffs to cloud perhaps we don't. So our stuffs always stay on internal storage which is not enough to hard users. If the guy love modifying and tweakking there will be a sick-trouble 32Gb Im sure.
I have an ipod which is the only device which will connect to the system in my car and keep my music separate so yeah it's enough for me. If I didn't use the ipod no it wouldn't be.
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With 15-20 4K videos @ 3-5 minutes long, 150+ photos, current ROMs, Gapps, previous 2 versions of ROMs and gapps, misc pdfs for work, installed apps, and random other documents and such, a few backups, I've never pulled over 20gb on a phone.
That's all relating to AOSP. Obviously TouchWiz is more filled, but it can be slimmed down a bit. Regardless.... USB-OTG exists for a reason as does the cloud. I don't hold music on my phone. It's why I have Spotify and Pandora. Realistically, there's no need for anything above 32gb. If you're concerned about backuos, move them elsewhere, upload them, or utilize USB-OTG.
It's not rocket science... not to mention cost to data ratio, you're better off spending less for a USB drive over the 32gb extra for another $100....
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With 15-20 4K videos @ 3-5 minutes long, 150+ photos, current ROMs, Gapps, previous 2 versions of ROMs and gapps, misc pdfs for work, installed apps, and random other documents and such, a few backups, I've never pulled over 20gb on a phone.
That's all relating to AOSP. Obviously TouchWiz is more filled, but it can be slimmed down a bit. Regardless.... USB-OTG exists for a reason as does the cloud. I don't hold music on my phone. It's why I have Spotify and Pandora. Realistically, there's no need for anything above 32gb. If you're concerned about backuos, move them elsewhere, upload them, or utilize USB-OTG.
It's not rocket science... not to mention cost to data ratio, you're better off spending less for a USB drive over the 32gb extra for another $100....
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Hey. As I said before if a person is using the device heavily, its not enough. Im archiving my documents since 12 years. I don't use laptop or kind of device it causes keeping my everything in my pockets and there are lots of people as me. Over three thousand musics, dozens of movies, videos, apps, documents etc. Imagine..Yeah there is an otg tech on present days but there are some devices which have 256Gb internal storage aaaand 'micro sd card slot'. Woah.. So its not a rocket science as we saw. Build a device which has more storage capacity is not so hard at least a bloody sd slot. Everyone doesn't use devices as basicly as you are. Otg is not the healty solution while people are eating a tortilla on the moon.
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Hey. As I said before if a person is using the device heavily, its not enough. Im archiving my documents since 12 years. I don't use laptop or kind of device it causes keeping my everything in my pockets and there are lots of people as me. Over three thousand musics, dozens of movies, videos, apps, documents etc. Imagine..Yeah there is an otg tech on present days but there are some devices which have 256Gb internal storage aaaand 'micro sd card slot'. Woah.. So its not a rocket science as we saw. Build a device which has more storage capacity is not so hard at least a bloody sd slot. Everyone doesn't use devices as basicly as you are. Otg is not the healty solution while people are eating a tortilla on the moon.
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To assume I don't use my devices heavily is an understatement. I can't remember the last time I've seen my data usage sub 40gb. To keep movies on your phone is ridiculous. You watch then once or twice. No need to keep them. Not to mention alternatives like netflix and popcorn time... perhaps cell coverage and data plans differ out there, but I have no need to keep movies or music on my phone when it's all able to be streamed. can't f you choose to keep 12 years of documents and whatever else on your phone without a backup source like a pic or external hard drive, I just hope you never lose your phone or get it stolen.. or crush it... or anything to damage the internal memory. It's definitely not the smartest choice.
Nor do I have the desire to spend an extra 100+ on extra internal storage for a device I'll have no more than 6 months. That's just wasted money. The best options are cloud storage and USB-OTG. Welcome to present and future technology. And if you want to rely on a device for music storage,at least get yourself an iPod or something with a remotely decent audio Chipset
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To assume I don't use my devices heavily is an understatement. I can't remember the last time I've seen my data usage sub 40gb. To keep movies on your phone is ridiculous. You watch then once or twice. No need to keep them. Not to mention alternatives like netflix and popcorn time... perhaps cell coverage and data plans differ out there, but I have no need to keep movies or music on my phone when it's all able to be streamed. can't f you choose to keep 12 years of documents and whatever else on your phone without a backup source like a pic or external hard drive, I just hope you never lose your phone or get it stolen.. or crush it... or anything to damage the internal memory. It's definitely not the smartest choice.
Nor do I have the desire to spend an extra 100+ on extra internal storage for a device I'll have no more than 6 months. That's just wasted money. The best options are cloud storage and USB-OTG. Welcome to present and future technology. And if you want to rely on a device for music storage,at least get yourself an iPod or something with a remotely decent audio Chipset
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Hey. I don't keep the movies and never watch twice, sometimes downloading generally transfering from other guy's devices with superbeam. I know the cloud tech and I have 2TB otg. I don't think that the ipod's sound quality is better than my devices' and no need to fourth device. Always search for new tweaks and mods to get higher and best sound quality due to that Im using android. Spotify, deezer and kind of apps are just useful to find new musics for me but I use qualified tunable music players. Whatever let the users decide for which storage capacity is useful for them. Thanks.
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A Device which has unexpendable storage always sucks. You -32Gb lover guys- know that the one recovery backup is over 5 Gb even without much data on this phone? I mean there are good roms for s6 edge+ now and some guys -like us- are always switching their roms weekly even daily. Its not enough storage to get two or three backups on internal. There will be dozens of rom, can't even imagine that how much we will suffer because of the poor storage.
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I've got a 1T flash drive I keep 3 back ups plus all my extra zips for mods,themes, kernels,Rom zips and whatnot. I keep one back up on my device and I've got 18g left on my 32g G928C.
32g is fine if you know how to manage the storage.
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I used to have my songs with me all the time when I had an iPhone. Just an old habit of an Apple ecosystem (iPhone, iPad, iPod, etc.). My song library was 30 to 40GB and I had it synced to all devices, plus some random movies or series to watch while traveling.
I hate cloud services, simply because I live in a country with poor connectivity... but I have to say that after sugarsync, spotify and using more podcasts, my ege+ with 32GB still have 14Gb free.
s6freak said:
I've got a 1T flash drive I keep 3 back ups plus all my extra zips for mods,themes, kernels,Rom zips and whatnot. I keep one back up on my device and I've got 18g left on my 32g G928C.
32g is fine if you know how to manage the storage.
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just lol sir. One rom 1.2 gb, my one backup is over 7gb. I have 5 games over 4gb, 2gb music and 5.7 gb apps. Managing the storage is not changing the one bad truth. Whatever I do my job with my other devices but love edge's gorgeus design mostly. Just warn the guys who thinks to buy 32gb model.
Konsstantine34 said:
just lol sir. One rom 1.2 gb, my one backup is over 7gb. I have 5 games over 4gb, 2gb music and 5.7 gb apps. Managing the storage is not changing the one bad truth. Whatever I do my job with my other devices but love edge's gorgeus design mostly. Just warn the guys who thinks to buy 32gb model.
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LOL no man I've got a one Terabyte flash drive for my device I'm not worried to much. But usually 32g is fine
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