It is probably a stupid question, but I ask it anyway. Where should I store the back-up program?
Right now I have stored it on the phone and not in the internal card, if nescessary how can I move it?
Thanks.
You can safely put in Internal Storage (not on the phone, that is). The phone's memory is too limited and it doesn't need to reside there.
If you want to move it, uninstall, then install again and choose the Internal Storage option.
BTW, your backups should ALWAYS be on Internal Storage, of course
Thanks, pedmond.
Just what I thought. I was playing with the device for the first time and wasn`t thinking before I installed the program.
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Hello Everyone, I was hoping someone could tell me if there was a quick fix or if I need to do a reinstall & add something that I didn't add.
I noticed today, my phone telling me it is running low on space & when I checked, it said I only had 9 megs left on the phone memory, however it did show I still had 465 megs on the secondary sd memory free.
I decided to try & install an app to see if the sd memory would go down or the phone memory. Well, the phone memory went down, but not the sd secondary.
I'm looking at the storage & unmount sd card & format sd card are "grayed out"
I also do have a \system\apps folder with some apps, along with the same one under \sd card\system\apps which that also has some apps.
Is there something I can do that can fix this? Or something else I need to check?
The only thing that I didn't do originally was create a swap partition.
Thanks
i believe if u reboot your phone all apps get thrown into ext partition. also try using cachemate , that will free up tons of space on your phone
choli0090 said:
Hello Everyone, I was hoping someone could tell me if there was a quick fix or if I need to do a reinstall & add something that I didn't add.
I noticed today, my phone telling me it is running low on space & when I checked, it said I only had 9 megs left on the phone memory, however it did show I still had 465 megs on the secondary sd memory free.
I decided to try & install an app to see if the sd memory would go down or the phone memory. Well, the phone memory went down, but not the sd secondary.
I'm looking at the storage & unmount sd card & format sd card are "grayed out"
I also do have a \system\apps folder with some apps, along with the same one under \sd card\system\apps which that also has some apps.
Is there something I can do that can fix this? Or something else I need to check?
The only thing that I didn't do originally was create a swap partition.
Thanks
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If you want to have your apps on your sd card then you need an ext partition. You cannot currently house your apps on your sdcard.
Since the phone in its smallest version only has 8 GB of storage, would it be possible to use the external SD-Card for apps without a problem? I know this could be a frustrating task on older phones. What happens, when the internal SD-Card is full but there is plenty of storage left on the external (micro) SD-Card?
Lownita said:
Since the phone in its smallest version only has 8 GB of storage, would it be possible to use the external SD-Card for apps without a problem? I know this could be a frustrating task on older phones. What happens, when the internal SD-Card is full but there is plenty of storage left on the external (micro) SD-Card?
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Depending on the overall size of your apps, you may need to move them to your external sd card. Most apps support this, but some do not.
I try to avoid putting apps on the external sd and instead save my media there so I don't use up the internal storage.
To move the apps, just go settings, applications, select the app, and click move to SD
After shenanigans yesterday I've pretty much got my Moto G 2014 LTE running on Marshmallow.
\the problem I have now is one I've experienced a number of times before, on various devices and Android versions:
Why is it that, despite the storage screen showing that I have plenty of available space, am I not unable to install some larger apps?
Settings > Storage shows internal storage 1.15GB used of 5.52GB (as well as SanDisk SD card 890MB used of 14.59GB)
But when I try to install Injustice: Gods Among Us (1.12GB) i get the error message App requires external storage: "Injustice: Gods Among Us" can't be downloaded. Insert an SD card or USB storage with sufficient storage, and try again.
This app was installed prior to upgrading the OS, and while quite large, should still fit on to my device.
Can anyone tell me what causes this, what I can do to get round it, and also, if there is a way to make the OS see the SD card as part of the internal memory so I can install apps directly to it
On Marshmallow, it is possible to use external SD card as internal but don't do it.
Why ? Because you have a too small SD card. This option doesn't merge internal and external, it just sets the external as internal. So you need a 8gb or more SD card (or you will get less storage than before)
Maybe the play store doesn't want to install because your SD Card doesn't have enough space to install the game. I know it is weird, but sometimes even if you want to install to internal, it checks the SD card's available memory.
You can try to wipe the play store cache and data, and if it doesn't work do a wipe cache from recovery.
Try getting the apk file by google'ing it. Install it. Open it then check if it is downloading files or not.
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On Marshmallow, it is possible to use external SD card as internal but don't do it.
Why ? Because you have a too small SD card. This option doesn't merge internal and external, it just sets the external as internal. So you need a 8gb or more SD card (or you will get less storage than before)
Maybe the play store doesn't want to install because your SD Card doesn't have enough space to install the game. I know it is weird, but sometimes even if you want to install to internal, it checks the SD card's available memory.
You can try to wipe the play store cache and data, and if it doesn't work do a wipe cache from recovery.
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Sorry that should have read 14.59Gb for the SD card, so loads of space
Mavireck said:
On Marshmallow, it is possible to use external SD card as internal but don't do it.
Why ? Because you have a too small SD card. This option doesn't merge internal and external, it just sets the external as internal. So you need a 8gb or more SD card (or you will get less storage than before)
Maybe the play store doesn't want to install because your SD Card doesn't have enough space to install the game. I know it is weird, but sometimes even if you want to install to internal, it checks the SD card's available memory.
You can try to wipe the play store cache and data, and if it doesn't work do a wipe cache from recovery.
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Tried to download the apk and it just days no SD card. I know its there, still shows up in settings and shows apps installed on it. Must be a dodgy card or something, but now i cant work out how to tell the phone to stop using it for apps and install internally unsteady (told it to use it as internal when I did set up, not sure how to go back)
EDIT: OK worked out how to get it to stop using the SD as internal and formatted it for data, and seems to be installing the game now. So I think that pretty much solves my immediate query, but still interested as to why android sometimes says insufficient space despite it reporting in settings that there is plenty
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Tried to download the apk and it just days no SD card. I know its there, still shows up in settings and shows apps installed on it. Must be a dodgy card or something, but now i cant work out how to tell the phone to stop using it for apps and install internally unsteady (told it to use it as internal when I did set up, not sure how to go back)
EDIT: OK worked out how to get it to stop using the SD as internal and formatted it for data, and seems to be installing the game now. So I think that pretty much solves my immediate query, but still interested as to why android sometimes says insufficient space despite it reporting in settings that there is plenty
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Yeah sorry for my mistake I have read 1.xxgb instead of 14.xxgb
Android reports the storage to be full as soon as XX% of the storage is filled (maybe 90%, I'm not sure). Then if you have a 100gb device, even if you have 10gb free it won't allow you to do anything.
That's weird, but that's how it works.
Have you tried wiping cache ? It sometimes solves the problem.
It is better not to use the format as internal storage except if you really know what you are doing.
Is there any way other than root to allow apps to be installed/moved on the sdcard with it's data folder? Or is that only something root can do?
And what about adoptable storage? Sdcards can be modified to trick the note 8 to use adoptable storage right? Can IT allow full games and not just apk's on it? If not, then what's the purpose of adoptable storage?
And if i want to upgrade the sdcard to a twice as big one, do i then have to format the phone? or can i copy the data on the sd through the phone's usb to my pc, enable adoptable on the new and move the stuff back and then format the old for a different device?
Settings > Apps > app/game you want moving > Storage > Change > External
That's not what i need. That way just moves the apk, not it's data which i need.
Strange. It moves both for me.
Have you tried manually moving the data folder yourself?
@Mr.Ash.Man (apparently i can't press "add a comment" as it just disappears with nothing else happening when i click it) I tried some years ago, but then just got the error that the data files are missing.
You can also go into the Developer Menu and turn on the setting to force apps to be able to move to SD. I've done this previously and found that about 80% of my apps were moved but a majority of the data files were still stored on the internal memory.
Yep, last time i tried, the app complained about missing data.
Basically, if the App supports moving the data to the SD card, then it will do so automatically when you move the apk to the SD card. But keep in mind not all apps support this, so it may be a problem with the apps you are trying to move.
Yeah, it's the majority of the data i need to move. The apk's themself barely take up anything.
@cmwade77 , Yeah, 90% of the games i tried to move only moved the apk, not it's data. So apparently root is my only option which i don't like as 1: warranty gone, 2: requires me to wipe the phone.
The poster question is yet not answered.
Is it possible to have the sd card formatted as an adoptable storage?
adb sm partition did not work as on note 4/s7.
I can't use my storage because "other" is taking all my storage, I don't have many apps and almost all the folders in the main storage are empty, can someone help me?
get an SD Card and move the apps and extra data via Storage setztings or file browser to the external Storage
Your firmware need the 6,xx GB of Space, and why the hell you have 8gb stored (other) in internal ?
Keiko87 said:
get an SD Card and move the apps and extra data via Storage setztings or file browser to the external Storage
Your firmware need the 6,xx GB of Space, and why the hell you have 8gb stored (other) in internal ?
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His question was what this "other" is, so your comment is pretty useless.
With "Other" are files, that your firmware dont know meant. for example obb-files of games, zip-files, backups and stuff like that
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His question was what this "other" is, so your comment is pretty useless.
With "Other" are files, that your firmware dont know meant. for example obb-files of games, zip-files, backups and stuff like that
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I just made a factory reset and unrooted the phone, I don't know what that "other files" were, but I went to 3 different file manager apps and all my internal storage was empty of heavy files, it was like a bad partition in the storage which I couldn't remove. Despite of solving the problem by myself thank you both.
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I just made a factory reset and unrooted the phone, I don't know what that "other files" were, but I went to 3 different file manager apps and all my internal storage was empty of heavy files, it was like a bad partition in the storage which I couldn't remove. Despite of solving the problem by myself thank you both.
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Hi,
My cellphone seems to have the same behaviour.
In filemanager, only 560MB are reported, the phone itself claims that the 16GB internal storage is all but full. That with hardly any apps (facebook / spotify / and a few others) installed AND with all the photos videos and music stored on the SD card.
So how did you solve it ?
Wiebs68 said:
Hi,
My cellphone seems to have the same behaviour.
In filemanager, only 560MB are reported, the phone itself claims that the 16GB internal storage is all but full. That with hardly any apps (facebook / spotify / and a few others) installed AND with all the photos videos and music stored on the SD card.
So how did you solve it ?
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Hi, I just made a factory reset, and in the reboot I put internal storage as main storage, not the sdcard.
andreyshch said:
Hi, I just made a factory reset, and in the reboot I put internal storage as main storage, not the sdcard.
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Hey, I ll give it a go when I can and let you know how it went.
(not my phone, but my daughters,... and I m only allowed to solve the problem during her holidays