I'm thinking about buying this phone because I hear good things about it and my ZTE ZMAX PRO battery life isn't as good as it use to. So what I'm asking here is that does this phone allow adaptive storage, if so how? Can you put in the memory card and make it as internal storage or do you have to go through steps in order to achieve it?
Technically, it does have adaptive storage but, EMUI doesn't give it out of the box. So, you need a custom ROM like lineage OS or a guide to enable it on EMUI (I'm not sure about the latter if it's available)
In EMUI, adaptative storage is not necessary as long as you can change between microSD and internal whenever you want. EMUI storage has probably the best solution for phones I've seen. Adaptative storage has many issues that will not be faced with EMUI storage, so it is a much better solution.
Plus it supports OTG so space is not a worry
Yup OTG is one of the most required feature which is present in HONOR devices.
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I just upgraded to the android marshmallow update and now when I go to sync music in windows media player it just says "windows media player encountered a problem while syncing to the device" and will not work. I changed it from usb for charging to mtp. For some reason you have to change it manually now.
Another thing I noticed is the internal storage can be viewed from the computer but the SD card shows that there is storage being used but when I go to open the sd card in windows it says it's empty
Same problem here
I may have figured it out but you potentially lose all your data on the card. I took my card out and copied everything as is on the card to a folder on my computer then put the card back in the phone and let the phone format it as portable storage not that new use as internal storage option that marshmallow uses and plugged the phone into my computer and copied the contents back to the phone. Now it seems to sync in windows media player and the SD card shows the files in windows explorer.
Will update this if the problem comes back
You will have to switch to MTP every time with MM, but if you're rooted there is an Xposed fix for it. I wonder how that problem managed to make it through 3 soaks without getting fixed. It was reported but like most soak reports, it was ignored.
I am using my SanDisk card as internal with excellent results knowing that if and when it goes, I'll have to reinstall everything that's on it. There is a r/w limit on SD cards, but my personal experience is, it varies from months to years. In other words a "crap shoot".
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So I take it this is a universal problem with everyone who updates their moto g 3rd gen?
Tel864 said:
You will have to switch to MTP every time with MM, but if you're rooted there is an Xposed fix for it. I wonder how that problem managed to make it through 3 soaks without getting fixed. It was reported but like most soak reports, it was ignored.
I am using my SanDisk card as internal with excellent results knowing that if and when it goes, I'll have to reinstall everything that's on it. There is a r/w limit on SD cards, but my personal experience is, it varies from months to years. In other words a "crap shoot".
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I wouldn't worry too much about the read write limit on the SD card although it is wise to back your stuff up off of it regularly. I have been using the same 32gb sandisk sd card that I got back in late 2011 and it is still fine even though for a few years when I had a cheap phone with only 4gb storage and I installed all my apps to the sd card that would transfer. So that is a lot of read write cycles. I guess it really depends on the quality of the sd card you get.
And yeah that having to switch to mtp every time is sort of annoying. I hope if we get a 6.0.1 update that gets fixed. I have also noticed my battery is draining a lot faster now and android OS and android system are the culprits. I thought we had doze now to make the battery life even better. At least that is what I was expecting even though the battery life was fine in lollipop
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So I take it this is a universal problem with everyone who updates their moto g 3rd gen?
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Actually, I think this is a universal "problem" with Marshmallow... Any by problem I mean security feature enabled by Google, so that if you plug into a random 'thing' it won't do something to compromise your device or privacy automatically. Apparently there have been cases of that have occurred, you connect your phone to <something> to charge it and it copies off all your data in the process.
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
hi I have a problem where I cant get in my eyes the best fetcher in MM update. I cant seem to make my memory card work as internal storage I have a tablet with the same memory card and that feacher works just fine. is this a setting in a odd place or did Samsung take it out
It's not enabled on samsung devices but there is a way to do it. I do think have a link to where but people say it's the same was you enable it on an s7.
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It's not enabled on samsung devices but there is a way to do it. I do think have a link to where but people say it's the same was you enable it on an s7.
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that's sad that Samsung would do that. I hope there is a dev that is willing to fix this. I am more then willing to test.
I found a fix its tested and working on my sprint S5 with the new update 6.0.1
only one thing I noticed some times the apps don't go to memory card so they have to be manually put there the old way by going to the app and telling it to go to the SD card
follow the steps in this link
http://www.modaco.com/news/android/...e-adoptable-storage-on-your-s7-s7-edge-r1632/
also here is the walk though from the link its stats its for the s7 but I have the S5 and it works for that as well so Enjoy
f you've been following the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S7 / S7 Edge, you may have read that adoptable storage, a Marshmallow feature that lets you use the microSD card just like internal storage, is missing. The S7s do include a feature where you can move apps to SD card, but it's not quite the same. The good news? You can enable the feature using ADB and it seems to work great, including in hybrid ('mixed') mode.
In order to set adoptable storage up, you will need a computer with working 'adb' and, of course, a microSD card in your phone, the faster the better (I personally use a 128GB EVO+ in my own device. Here's the process!
1. BACK UP THE DATA YOU HAVE ON YOUR MICROSD CARD. Your card will be formatted by this process, so make sure you have saved any pictures, videos etc. from your card to your PC before you start.
2. Decide how you want to split your card. You can either commit 100% of the card to internal storage, or split between internal storage and conventional SD. This option is useful if you like to unplug your card and put it in your PC. I would probably recommend committing the whole card.
3. Open your command window / terminal on your computer and type the 'adb shell' command (with your phone connected of course). You will need to enable USB debugging in developer settings (which in turn is displayed by tapping the build number of the device 5 times) in order to see the option.
4. Type 'sm list-disks' to list the disks available for adoption. It'll look something like below - take note of the disk ID (disk:179:160 in this example).
5. Partition the disk. For this we use the 'sm partition DISK TYPE RATIO' command. For example, to partition the disk above as fully adopted storage (aka private) I'd use the command 'sm partition disk:179:160 private'. If I wanted a 50/50 split between adopted and regular, I'd use the command 'sm partition disk:179:160 mixed 50'. Easy right?
6. This process will take a while, but when it's done, the Settings -> Additional Settings -> Storage view on your device should show the new Internal Storage. Note that, for some reason, the total space isn't reported correctly as you can see in this image, however everything seems to work OK. When you install apps, they will generally install automatically to the storage with the most space available, although you can manually move things around if you want to, perhaps for performance reasons (the real Internal storage will likely always be a bit faster).
7. If you want to see another view of how you are doing for space, you can use a third party tool such as FreeSpace or FreeSpace Plus.
Hello everyone, I recently bought a Moto G 2015 with 8 gb of internal storage, came with Lollipop and recently upgraded it to Marshmallow. The problem is that after restoring all my applications the sum of the used internal storage doesn't match the free space that should be available. Specifically I have 2.06 GB of installed apps and it reports that there are 3.72 GB used.. so there is almos 1.65 GB of vanished storage space. I wonder that maybe the marshmallow update file remains there and may be part of the missing space, but that cant be for all the missing storage space.
Here is a screenshot of the situation (Forum doesnt let me post link to a image: (It shows in the top bar of internal storage: 3,72GB in use of 4,54GB. Below: Apps: 2,06 GB. Cache: 2,06 MB.)
Maybe this was covered, but are the only alternatives to free that mistery space to root the phone and find the culprit?
Thanks in advance!
Carlos.
Hi there, android always eats up some internal storage, make a cache wiping and see what happens.
(Be careful about factory reset whether you attempt so, search about FRP, unfortunately been through that recently; basically don't change your google account password whenever you are attempting to factory reset your device).
Also, MM comes with an option to set sdCard as internal storage, check that out if you have a REALLY GOOD micro-sd maybe that could be your solution to a lot of future headache.
Regards!
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Hi there, android always eats up some internal storage, make a cache wiping and see what happens.
(Be careful about factory reset whether you attempt so, search about FRP, unfortunately been through that recently; basically don't change your google account password whenever you are attempting to factory reset your device).
Also, MM comes with an option to set sdCard as internal storage, check that out if you have a REALLY GOOD micro-sd maybe that could be your solution to a lot of future headache.
Regards!
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Haha, I have a 32gb Samsung EVO Performance Class 10 UHS1 card that has speeds of up to 80MBPS (read) and 20MBPS (write), and it still reported too slow. However, it works better than my Kingston 16 GB Class 10 UHS1 card... Way better. I don't think any SD card will be adequate for what the tests require, they will all say "too slow" even though it may be the highest end card.
lautta10 said:
Hi there, android always eats up some internal storage, make a cache wiping and see what happens.
(Be careful about factory reset whether you attempt so, search about FRP, unfortunately been through that recently; basically don't change your google account password whenever you are attempting to factory reset your device).
Also, MM comes with an option to set sdCard as internal storage, check that out if you have a REALLY GOOD micro-sd maybe that could be your solution to a lot of future headache.
Regards!
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Thanks!
So I tried to format my 200gb micro SD using some of the well known adb commands to be used as adoptable storage. It actually worked kind of and the SD card became part of the internal storage. Unfortunately the size was completely wrong.
First, it displayed that already 70gb were used. Second, the overall storage was completely wrong. I didn't want to risk losing data so I formatted the storage back to removable.
Did you managed to get it running in our beloved Honor 8? I tried it on Nougat. Is that an Android big, since on my Marshmallow Xepria it didn't work, too. Only on LG I was able to use it as internal storage.