What are the benefits of paetitioning the sdcard and setting up a swap partition?
No One knows that?
No benefit, if anything its going to cause a decrease in performance, as the system will be unloading information onto an external storage area which isn't as fast as the internet storage, especially when the system needs to retain said information.
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I have a HTC Touch (Elf) with the 1GB memory card.
When I download or install something, even if I tell it to save to memory card, it still seems to go onto the internal memory. I don't quite understand what's going on, but it is of course limiting what I can do as the internal memory is very small.
When selecting install location as 'Storage Card' its as if the shortcut to that is pointing to some location on internal memory, as checking the memory usage shows my internal memory depleting and my storage card not changing.
Unless I move files by cutting and pasting afterwards.
Cheers in advance.
Jon
OK to narrow the problem down a bit... when I install something and it gives you the option where to install it i.e. on phone or storage card, whether I pick phone OR storage card it always ends up on the phone.
I cannot install programs to storage card! Which is not good as the phone memory is tiny!
Any ideas please?
Since Motorola updated their devices to Marshmallow 6.0, many have had issues formatting their SD cards as Internal Adopted Storage. I don't know why the issue exists, but trying to format as Internal only results in the process freezing at 30% and eventually timing out. However, thanks to members of the XDA community I have successfully formatted my Kingston 128GB Class 10 SD as Internal. Here's how.
Step One: Format SD to exfat.
Step Two: Set SD as Portable in Android
Step Three: Format SD as Internal in Android.
Step Four: THIS IS IMPORTANT. The process will eventually freeze and timeout. Do not cancel it. Let it timeout. When it does do not fret. Shutdown the phone by holding power and tapping Power Off. It will take a while to fully shut down. The time it takes for the process to freeze and the time it takes the phone to shut down seems to depend on the size of the SD Card. My 128GB card took about 6 minutes to timeout and about 12 minutes to shut down. DO NOT FORCE SHUTDOWN*. Let the phone shut down on its own. When it does, boot the phone back up and the SD will be set to Adopted Internal Storage.
*FORCE SHUTDOWN is accomplished by holding the power button until the phone hard restarts.
Now that is out of the way, let me tell you about my experience using Adopted Storage mode. I'm not very happy and I do not recommend doing this. It's a great feature to have for phones with limited Internal eMMC Storage like 8GB or 16GB however there are drawbacks. Not the least of which being that apps take much longer to launch and run tasks as SD cards are much slower than eMMC flash Storage. I've also noticed an increase in battery drain as the phone is now reading and writing to SD when it would normally access onboard eMMC in portable mode. Long story short, it definitely expands the amount of storage you have for apps and app/game data, however that benefit comes at the cost of slower performance and less battery life. With a phone like the X Play battery life may be something you would be willing to sacrifice however I'm sure, like me, you'd want to make sure you are squeezing out every bit of performance out of that SnapDragon 615 so performance may not be something you'd be willing to give up for more app data storage. I know I'm not
I'll be going back to Portable Storage as soon as I can.
I am having a weird issue with my 64gb SD card. I format as portable storage and does it just fine. But any time I reboot I have to format again? So, needless to say, I'm afraid to put anything on there because I'll have to format it again. I am on the newest version of blisspop on a moto g2014. Any help would be great.
Has anyone bench marked SD performance?
I can't believe this worked!?! Been trying to get internal formatting working on my Moto G 4G for so long, thank you so much!
works
this worked on my S4 running 6.0.1
Excellent post and I came across that sequence myself by trying all sorts. One question though... Having configured it as adopted internal storage, while I have successfully transferred one App's data to the additional memory (as a test) the Storage Analyser app does not recognise it by default (though you can find the path to it and manually configure it) and ES File Explorer just doesn't at all.
Did you see similar problems? So far, because of the partial nature of the fix, I haven't dared run with it properly using the SD card.
[Edit: Running a Moto G 2nd Gen 8Gb with a 64Gb Sandisk Ultra.]
[Second Edit: Answered my own question with further research... Following a suggestion elsewhere I bit the bullet and went to Settings > Storage & USB > [Tap card] > [Tap Menu] > Move Data now it's all set 100% including ES File Explorer etc. Phew! ]
After formatting to exfat my phone read it as corrupted, is that normal?
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Hi Everyone,
I have adopted storage related problem. I mounted a Strontium 64 GB Class 10 on my unrooted Moto X Style/Pure and formatted it as internal storage. Aside from the warning, that the card might be slower, everything worked out fine, and it was reflecting and working as internal storage for 10 days (8.6GB of the card was being utilized for storage).
But one fine day, the card stopped working - all the previous data had disappeared. The card worked fine, and showed 8.6 GB as utilitzed, but to files to show for it. As we know the card is formatted as ext4 and content is encrypted using a AES 128-bit key.
According to this guide, the key is located in the data partition of the device. Now unless there is a way to even just read the key without rooting the device, I'm stuck in a vicious cycle - I can't access they key without rooting, and if I root, it'll wipe the phone (along with the key).
Please help! Really appreciate any tips, thanks in advance!
My Moto Z is dead and wont detect as QUSB, can you help me repair it ?
I got the same thing. I continued formatting in the phone and worked fine after you follow the above procedure
Strongly tempted to do it on my note 8 as 64GB isn't enough.
Does adoptable storage mean that i can't add anything anymore to the main 64GB storage, only the sdcard from then on as the sdcard is the new storage the phone installs to? Cause i do want to add or remove stuff between both. Cause as i sorta value the warranty on my note 8 more as it's a 1280 usd phone in norway, then it's not so tempting to root.
If there is an option for a microsd card, then you can put whatever you want on it. Remember, microsd card is expandable storage, never heard of the terminology adoptable storage but assuming it means the same thing. It is extra storage, everything else will go on the main phone. If you have your phone, go to settings and go to storage (without inserting a microsd card). You will see that the system is taking up space by default, and every app you install and all your pictures, music, movies are on the phone taking up space. You can move these files to the sdcard so you could avoid filling up space on your main phone to make room for apps, etc.
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If there is an option for a microsd card, then you can put whatever you want on it. Remember, microsd card is expandable storage, never heard of the terminology adoptable storage but assuming it means the same thing. It is extra storage, everything else will go on the main phone. If you have your phone, go to settings and go to storage (without inserting a microsd card). You will see that the system is taking up space by default, and every app you install and all your pictures, music, movies are on the phone taking up space. You can move these files to the sdcard so you could avoid filling up space on your main phone to make room for apps, etc.
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Adaptable storage is something Google setup for low budget devices. It allows you to use an sdcard as main storage. But (there is always a but) once you set it for adaptable storage, you can't use it as a normal swappable sdcard. If you remove it before undoing it the your device won't boot up without a full reset.
I'll be honest, it is wasted on divices like yours. Samsung normally disables it because it is pretty useless with devices that have more then 16gb of storage.
When you use sd card as an adoptable storage, (galaxy s7) even when i wanna change my sim card, would removing the tray cause a serious system problems? Or is there a workaround. I wanna use adoptable storage to have some more space to install apps but this question in my mind prevents me from doing it.
Can anybody enlighten me with experiences?
Should you format adoptable?
Generally it's a bad idea which lots of manufacturers don't support, and for good reasons. For starters, you'll no longer be able to remove the SD card from the device. This is because Android will store system files onto it. Also, SD cards can only have data written to them a limited number of times. After they expire, your phone will not function properly. SD cards also perform much slower when formatted internally, and it can often cause apps to perform poorly and lag. Some apps won't even work at all, and any other device will not be able to use the SD card without formatting it itself.
Proceed at your own risk.
I really don't recommend that to anyone, (on every phone available)
it really slows down phone. (this phone has 300/100 read/write)
And if you don't have such sd card don't format it as internal memory,
just as SD card for multi-use.
I tried with 100/40 or something SD card,
and it felt like s...
Yes, I can confirm that! My old Phone had only 16GB of internal memory, so I thought that it would be nice if I format my Class10-SD-Card as internal memory.
But it was a mistake, because it slows down the phone so much...
Also if you have a very fast SD-Card - it will not work and slow down your phone...
I've always been using microSD on my smartphones as an internal memory and have no speed issues.
It is also advisable to move all apps to the internal memory and to use the "external" internal memory only when the internal memory is full.
When the microSD is formatted as internal memory, the transfer rate drops because the microSD is encrypted (AES-128).
However, this is hardly noticeable in practice.
let alone that: The advertised microSD speeds are rarely achieved in practice.
I have more problems with a portable formatted microSD.
There are e.g. Access problems with third-party apps or file managers.