Friends, I wanted to ask if anyone knew of a way that I could use my external sd card as the primary storage rather than the stock 6gb that came with my phone.
I have a Droid x2, it comes with 4gb internal storage, 2gb locked app storage, and I put a 32gb micro sd into it for the external storage.
I am not rooted as of right now, due to some issues I was forced into doing a reset, so I running stock GB 2.3.4.
Is it possible to somehow use the 32gb card as a primary default storage, and have the little one as external?
Thanks for your time and assistance.
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I've read 2 different things about how much memory the Captivate will see. Does anyone know for sure if it's 48 or 32 gigs?
I put my 32Gb Sandisk in my Captivate today...and it mounted ok, all 21Gb of installed music and movies on that card seemed to work fine, based on my random sampling.
Keep in mind that it makes a "fake" /sd directory in the root of the internal /sdcard, and that points to the external storage when using an Android file explorer like Astro. And also keep in mind that there's a lot of apps that just don't know about this directory, so they can't "see" the external storage.
Windows sees two distinct storage devices, however, as it should be.
It has build in internal 16GB (2GB of that is reserved for apps) rest 14GB is data for whatever, Plus whatever Micro SDHC card you will add.
16+16 SD = 32GB
16+32 SD = 48GB
I have put 16GB micro SDHC to it (32GB cards are to expensive) connected to windows i get two drive letters one for Internal 14GB Data partition and one for my own 16GB card.
Hope that helped you.
ghost77 said:
It has build in internal 16GB (2GB of that is reserved for apps) rest 14GB is data for whatever, Plus whatever Micro SDHC card you will add.
16+16 SD = 32GB
16+32 SD = 48GB
I have put 16GB micro SDHC to it (32GB cards are to expensive) connected to windows i get two drive letters one for Internal 14GB Data partition and one for my own 16GB card.
Hope that helped you.
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Yep the ATT site spec sheet says 32gb is supported by the phone. And from all appearances it does indeed seem to work with the phone just fine.
Now the real question. Who is going to tear apart the phone and replace the internal SD card (since I assume it's literally an internal microSD card as seen in other devices) with a 32 GB card and see if it can handle 32+32 GB.
AJerman said:
Now the real question. Who is going to tear apart the phone and replace the internal SD card (since I assume it's literally an internal microSD card as seen in other devices) with a 32 GB card and see if it can handle 32+32 GB.
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you seem like a willing volunteer
hmm if only i had two 32gb sd cards i would but they expensive
The real reason for replacing the internal SD card would be because it's so damn slow.
I agree with the slow part hence the mods to change the cache onto the external which speed up the phones.... any word on if the internal SD card is replaceable or not? If it is, that would be great news as its definately not as fast as a class 6 card and replacing it with one would definately speed things up.
tbae2 said:
you seem like a willing volunteer
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labbu63 said:
hmm if only i had two 32gb sd cards i would but they expensive
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Haha, exactly that. If I had the money for two 32 GB cards I'd try.
Edit Hmm... I saw a tear down of the Galaxy S and I didn't see an internal microSD card, so maybe it doesn't use a card like the Streak. Might be built in and unable to swap. Oh well!
Hi guys,
sorry for my noob question but im really "NEW" to android and my nexus s, i was wondering if there is a way to increase the internal storage capacity of my nexus s. I learned that everytime that i would install an app it would install in the internal storage, but the nexus s only has 1GB internal storage right? and the USB storage is 13gb+ i think, i can transfer some apps to the USB storage. my problem is when the time comes that im already out of internal storage capacity. I believe not all apps can be moved to USB storage.
It will take hundreds of apps to fill that 1 GB internal memory.
Hi, I have searched for this answer but can't find a guide so here goes...
I am looking at buying an Android 3.0 tablet, possibly the Asus Transformer, as it looks good for use on my travels.
When I bought an Ipad, internal memory was key(as its not expandable) so I bought as big as they did, however I am not clear on how Android 3 treats internal and external (SD) memory, and if its different.
Asus only seem to be releasing the 16 GB internal memory storage transformer in the UK first, and I am wondering is that enough ? or should I wait for the 32 GB internal version. I know they can take up to 32 GB SD card external memory, but can you install all your apps aswell as data there, and is it hot swappable ?
thanks for any help
Hello everyone, i have an UBTEL_U8 china phone octacore with Android 4.2.1. It only has 1gb of internal memory plus 12gb of rom. For this reason, beacuse i can't move apps to rom memory, i need an sd card to move apps on. I bought a Lexar 16gb class 6 sd card 4 months ago, and everything works fine until yesterday. I used link2SD app for moving apps to sd and i made a partition ext2 into the sd with AParted app.
everythig works fine, until i had to dismount my sd from phone and mount it again, because i had to change the partiton format in ext4 to ext2 (no really good reason to do this, i was trying if it was faster to moving data then ext2 filesytem). Once dismounted, wheni tried to mount my sd, the phone says that it's damaged!!! I inserted it with the Lexar card reader into the pc but tells me that i have to format, but if i try to format it's not working...
The same thing happened with another lexar 16gb card on my previous china phone, it broke my sd during charching!!! when it was charching the touchpad went crazy and system unstable and when i removed the phone from charching the memory was dead.. It's not done yet.
I had another china phone that stole my on march, a copy of Note 3. My sd card broke with no reason.. but i was using a similar app to link2SD for extend memory (apparently all china phones have only 1gb internal memory... why!!!!???)
So, in 1 year i changed 3 phones, 3 china phones, and all of them destroyed my sd cards... Now i want to know if it's possible to save the sd cards, and i want to know if the problem is really inside the phone, or it can be fault of linking apps to sd, and so if it's fault of link2sd and Aparted.
Next time what sd i have to buy? a quality one that resists to china phones maybe..
Thank you for you help..
I heard marshmallow android 6 update you can make external SD card as internal storage. Is that true? Has anyone tried it yet?
Yes, I tried it on my HTC m8 gpe and it works fine, tried with 128GB card.
DeathmonkeyGTX said:
Yes, I tried it on my HTC m8 gpe and it works fine, tried with 128GB card.
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will it work on Sense 7 UI with Android 6?
becuase i don't have google play edition in my country
Might not wanna do this...seems it will or can fry your sd card
http://www.techtimes.com/articles/9...-you-use-your-sd-card-as-internal-storage.htm
I need more internal space on my phone so I do need it.
Has anyone tried it yet?
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I need more internal space on my phone so I do need it.
Has anyone tried it yet?
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I've been using an SD card as adoptable storage in my A9 since Thanksgiving without issue.
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thejesse said:
I've been using an SD card as adoptable storage in my A9 since Thanksgiving without issue.
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Am talking about changing external SD card to internal storage on HTC one A9 with Sense 7 UI with Marshmallow Android 6?
i don't understand what you mean by adoptable storage? do you mean Internal storage ?
When he says adoptable/adoptive storage, he means that you will format your SD card to internal storage. There is an option in the settings. I have done the same with my HTC One A9 using SanDisk 128GB UHS-1 (version 1) Read 90 MB/s.
By doing so, all your DATA will be SAVED in the "new" internal storage (128gb and not in the 32gb phone storage).
However, APPS will STILL be installed in the PHONE storage (32gb).
E.g. the HTC Camera app will remain in your phone storage (32gb) but all camera shots will be saved in the "new"/adoptive storage (sandisk 128gb).
Also, when you plug in your device to your PC, it will ONLY detect the adoptive storage (sandisk 128gb) as this is THE default internal storage of your phone.
I recommend formatting your SD card to internal storage if your SD card is FAST enough and you are sure that you do not need the default 32gb. Also, if your SD card is higher than 32gb of course.
Also make sure is a original sd card and not a counterfeit one, cause a counterfeit one will fry and delete all your data, best option is use a SanDisk sd card.
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Also make sure is a original sd card and not a counterfeit one, cause a counterfeit one will fry and delete all your data, best option is use a SanDisk sd card.
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is 128Gb SanDisk Ultra 0MB/s 533X UHS-I Class 10 fast enough for Internal storage? or SanDisk Extreme more expensive?
Amazon should not sell fake one's.
i know Ebay sell fake ones
Will 2Gb games get install on SD card, if changed to Internal storage?
Either one are good, im using the 128gb one
SanDisk 128gb 90mb/s class 10 UHS-1 (ver1) is good enough.
I tried formatting an old SanDisk 64gb 30mb/s class 10 and my One A9 says the card is slow and may not work properly.
I bought mine from a retailer and he advised me just to buy SanDisk (US$60). They also sell Kingston 128gb (US$48) but he didn't recommend it since the actual speed of their class 10 (90mb/s) as per package is just around 40+mb/s. It's original but it seems Kingston is lying on the max read speed.
Note: I stay in Malaysia so I'm not sure if microSD cards are cheaper in your country.