I've just updated my Motorola Moto E 2015 to Android 6 and tested the adoptable storage. Sadly it is only possible to move apps to the sd card if the card is formatted as an internal storage device. In this mode the sd card cannot be read from another computer and the twrp recovery cannot use the card to store backups. Also when the phones encryption key is lost there is no way to recover the data.
Is there maybe some way to move the apps to the sd card without encrypting the sd card? My phone is rooted and I also have the Xposed framework installed, but I didn't find any guide for something like this.
Did u try an app called "Move app to SD card"?
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viddy135 said:
Did u try an app called "Move app to SD card"?
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I've tried the app, but it tells me that moving apps is not necessary because the sd card shares the drive with the operating system. But that is not true. I have the internal drive under /storage/emulated/0 and the sd card under /storage/sdcard1. How can I fix that?
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I've tried the app, but it tells me that moving apps is not necessary because the sd card shares the drive with the operating system. But that is not true. I have the internal drive under /storage/emulated/0 and the sd card under /storage/sdcard1. How can I fix that?
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I'm not sure, I don't have the device but my friend does. You might have to do it manually through root explorer or another file manager.
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Queations to all....
Should a App2sd app be able to work on our Notes???
The reason im asking is because I had issues getting my 64g card to mount (ended up having to flash a recent OTA update from Samfirmware.com). I then wanted to move some of my apps to the 64g card but App 2 SD from the market says -
"The device does not have a real primary external storage, or the primary extremal storage is emulated. Moving app to SD may not be supported by this device. "
Is this normal? I have never come across this before on any Android device before! Or is it something to do with the 64g card? or the Notes file tree?
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Yes it's normal. Samsung make some different approach here.
In my perspective when you used to choose "move to sdcard" in apps manager, the apps move from internal memory to internal storage (/sdcard).
(External microSD card is not on discussion so far, im only talking about tablet internal storage).
Now by default in Samsung devices all apps are going to /sdcard, so you dont have to move them beacuse the are alreday there.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
The solution for me (I have white SGN 10.1 16GB) is use DirectoryBind, i can have 20+ GB of games in external microSD Card.
sammmurai said:
Yes it's normal. Samsung make some different approach here.
In my perspective when you used to choose "move to sdcard" in apps manager, the apps move from internal memory to internal storage (/sdcard).
(External microSD card is not on discussion so far, im only talking about tablet internal storage).
Now by default in Samsung devices all apps are going to /sdcard, so you dont have to move them beacuse the are alreday there.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
The solution for me (I have white SGN 10.1 16GB) is use DirectoryBind, i can have 20+ GB of games in external microSD Card.
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Think your correct, makes sense anyway!!!
Could you elaborate more on this directory Bind thing you mentioned? ??
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DirectoryBind main feature is to link/bind folders with data that are in external micro sd card, to empty folders with the same name that must be in /sdcard/Android/data or /sdcard/Android/obb. So games and apps thinks they're using internal storage but in fact data is in external micro sd card. This way you save the 11 gb reserved for storage.
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sammmurai said:
DirectoryBind main feature is to link/bind folders with data that are in external micro sd card, to empty folders with the same name that must be in /sdcard/Android/data or /sdcard/Android/obb. So games and apps thinks they're using internal storage but in fact data is in external micro sd card. This way you save the 11 gb reserved for storage.
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what happen if u update the app that u changed the directory?? will the app save to the new directory or internal?
Didnt understand the question
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Okay, so I am just tired of the confusion in my head here.
I'm not a noob with rooting or anything of the sort, but I am not used to a phone with an internal SD card and an external SD card.
I am downloading a ROM to flash to my Galaxy S3 and it saves to the SD card... does that mean that it is saving to the phones memory and not the actual SD card I put into it?
There is an SD Card and an external SD card.
Which one is which? Haha.
And if I am right, like I think I am... the external SD card is the actual SD card I put into it and the SD Card is the phones internal memory.
How can I download from the internet and have it save onto the external SD?
AND...
When backing up a ROM before flashing a new one, do you recommend that I back up to SD card or external SD card?
And do you recommend I flash a ROM from the SD card or from the external SD card?
It seems that IF my external SD card somehow decided to corrupt while I was running off of a ROM that was installed via external SD card, that it wouldn't be able to boot after it corrupted.
Am I correct on all of this?
Sorry. Your answers are more than appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
I have mine setup to download the roms, pictures, media or backups to the external sd card. In cwm I save a backup to both internal and external for the extra security. I just use external for everything because I have a 32gb sd card that has everything. The internal memory is just used for system stuff.
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bbqsfire said:
I have mine setup to download the roms, pictures, media or backups to the external sd card. In cwm I save a backup to both internal and external for the extra security. I just use external for everything because I have a 32gb sd card that has everything. The internal memory is just used for system stuff.
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Perfect. That's absolutely everything I needed to know. I guess no matter what you download from the browser, it will download to the internal memory... but you can manually move it to the external SD with Root Browser.
Thank you man.
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RBarnett09 said:
Perfect. That's absolutely everything I needed to know. I guess no matter what you download from the browser, it will download to the internal memory... but you can manually move it to the external SD with Root Browser.
Thank you man.
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Go into the advanced settings option on your Browser and it gives you the option to have things downloaded to memory card or internal. Just change that to memory card and it will do it for you.
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Hi.
I just bought a new memory card but realized that it is not being used by the mobile instead my mobile is using the emulated sd card which was emulated from the internal storage. How do i delete that?l
tanveer7652 said:
Hi.
I just bought a new memory card but realized that it is not being used by the mobile instead my mobile is using the emulated sd card which was emulated from the internal storage. How do i delete that?l
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Don't delete it. Very bad idea. If you want to store pictures/music on the SD card, you'll have to choose that within the apps you use, rather than internal storage. If you want to move apps to external SD, you'll need to be rooted and use an app like Link2SD.
Planterz said:
Don't delete it. Very bad idea. If you want to store pictures/music on the SD card, you'll have to choose that within the apps you use, rather than internal storage. If you want to move apps to external SD, you'll need to be rooted and use an app like Link2SD.
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I am rooted plus i have link2sd but it says app2sd is not supported because my device has an external storage emulated from the internal one
So how do i move apps
I have a One A9 running stock Android 7 original ROM. I am getting the low storage warning as I have used 15.5 out of 16gb.
I have installed a 32gb SD card and planned on formatting this as internal. I tried this but then noticed I cannot see the SD card when pluged into my laptop. It was only showing the internal with capacity of 16GB, not the 16+32gb as I had hoped.
I then formatted it back to portable and planned to move certain apps to SD. But in App settings, not a single app can be moved to the SD.
So I am stuck now. Anyone know how I can view the additional storage on my laptop if I format the SD as internal??
Or if that is not possible, how do I move apps to SD?
Anyone able to assist?
325i. said:
I then formatted it back to portable and planned to move certain apps to SD. But in App settings, not a single app can be moved to the SD.
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afaik, you can only move apps to the sd card when its formatted as internal storage, not portable.. Pre-installed apps can't be moved to the sd card.
Anyone know how I can view the additional storage on my laptop if I format the SD as internal??
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Did you moved/migrated your files to the sd card after formatted as internal?
http://www.htc.com/mea-en/support/htc-one-a9/howto/681180.html
alray said:
Did you moved/migrated your files to the sd card after formatted as internal?
http://www.htc.com/mea-en/support/htc-one-a9/howto/681180.html
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This is what I tried doing. When I connected the phone to my laptop via USB, windows explorer could not see the SD card. All it showed was the original internal memory.
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This is what I tried doing. When I connected the phone to my laptop via USB, windows explorer could not see the SD card. All it showed was the original internal memory.
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maybe because you didn't migrated your existing data from your internal memory to the sd card ? When using the sd card as the internal memory you'll only see the sd card from your computer (I'm assuming the opposite is also true), read the help page linked above.
hey guys i kinda screwed something up, i was going to swap from using my sd card internal storage to portable so i backed up the data folder and the obb folder, then i formatted the sd card to portable storage and then i realised that there was no where near enough space for all my apps and i found out you cant move them to the sd card so i switched the sd card back to internal storage.
so formatted the sd card but now when i use es file explorer ti says the the card cannot be found so i cant set thing back to how they were?
any idea how to get the sd card to work as it did?
What format is your SD card? You may have formatted it wrong.
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What format is your SD card? You may have formatted it wrong.
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I formatted it the tablet but I got working some how. I booted to twrp and tried to mount the sd card and it wouldn't but when I rebooted it's working fine lol
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Check what is file system on sd card.
Disk info app f.e. @robgee789
dzidexx said:
Check what is file system on sd card.
Disk info app f.e. @robgee789
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i just checked and my sd card is formatted to f2fs mate but it is working now somehow
You optionally need twrp with f2fs support, you can find it on xda, not on twrp.me. @robgee789
I think you need only twrp:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/sh...fs-support-shield-tablet-kernel-twrp-t3492416