friends...adoptable storage is now available without root and without unlocking bootloader....
(Source http://www.modaco.com/news/android/h...s7-edge-r1632/)
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).
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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).
I thought adoptable storage was a new feature on marshmallow?
Carlito17_2000 said:
I thought adoptable storage was a new feature on marshmallow?
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sony has locked this in update it was available in beta stage
on all sony models? I might not get a sony now! Why would they do this if Sony is one of the few MFG to always inlcude Microsd?
I bought a used honor 4x phone emui 4, updated , after enter my gmail account updated apps and I got 345mb in internal storage I heard about adopted sd system , can I use it with emui 4 ,my phone non rooted
jana1991 said:
I bought a used honor 4x phone emui 4, updated , after enter my gmail account updated apps and I got 345mb in internal storage I heard about adopted sd system , can I use it with emui 4 ,my phone non rooted
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Yes, you can use it. The short answer is that adopted storage is not an optimal solution, but it can work just fine if you set it up the right way. Which Honor 4x variant do you have, btw? What I write now is valid for the Che2-L11.
Many people think that adopted storage is the same as mounting an extra partition which Android will then use in the most rational way. This is not correct. Developers of Android decided to not use the card for essential files, so when you add adopted storage, Android will still install some parts of each app on your internal storage. Also, some developers of apps have not made their apps ready for adopted storage, and they will install on internal.
For this reason, your internal storage will continue to be filled up with new files even after you have added adopted storage, and might approach 100%, so your phone will tell you there is no more space left for installing new apps. All the while your card still has plenty of space.
But don't worry, you can avoid such a scenario if you do prepare your phone a little.
To get the best possible result, I recommend that you wipe your phone and do a fresh install of EMUI. You need to unlock the bootloader, set the USB developer option, install TWRP, and then flash the firmware the normal way. (This is quite complicated procedure, you should study how to do this yourself.) After that, put an SD card into the phone, and it should be a card that doesn't contain anything important so you can format it. Follow the instructions for adopted storage, which will format your SD card. EMUI will have problems if you use all 100% of the card as adopted, so choose the option mixed 50. The SD card must be minimum class 10 speed for apps to work normally.
Then you should root your phone, and install Root Essentials. Then set the option for "install apps on SD card". After that, your phone will try to install all new apps on the SD card on the adopted storage. You will probably be using around 75% of your internal storage, and might reach 85%, but you can continue adding a lot of apps before you get a problem. I have installed 30+ apps and am using 82% of internal storage. Good luck. :good:
jana1991 said:
I bought a used honor 4x phone emui 4, updated , after enter my gmail account updated apps and I got 345mb in internal storage I heard about adopted sd system , can I use it with emui 4 ,my phone non rooted
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To answer your question, EMUI doesn't support adaptable storage out of the box.
Bob1900 said:
Yes, you can use it. The short answer is that adopted storage is not an optimal solution, but it can work just fine if you set it up the right way. Which Honor 4x variant do you have, btw? What I write now is valid for the Che2-L11.
Many people think that adopted storage is the same as mounting an extra partition which Android will then use in the most rational way. This is not correct. Developers of Android decided to not use the card for essential files, so when you add adopted storage, Android will still install some parts of each app on your internal storage. Also, some developers of apps have not made their apps ready for adopted storage, and they will install on internal.
For this reason, your internal storage will continue to be filled up with new files even after you have added adopted storage, and might approach 100%, so your phone will tell you there is no more space left for installing new apps. All the while your card still has plenty of space.
But don't worry, you can avoid such a scenario if you do prepare your phone a little.
To get the best possible result, I recommend that you wipe your phone and do a fresh install of EMUI. You need to unlock the bootloader, set the USB developer option, install TWRP, and then flash the firmware the normal way. (This is quite complicated procedure, you should study how to do this yourself.) After that, put an SD card into the phone, and it should be a card that doesn't contain anything important so you can format it. Follow the instructions for adopted storage, which will format your SD card. EMUI will have problems if you use all 100% of the card as adopted, so choose the option mixed 50. The SD card must be minimum class 10 speed for apps to work normally.
Then you should root your phone, and install Root Essentials. Then set the option for "install apps on SD card". After that, your phone will try to install all new apps on the SD card on the adopted storage. You will probably be using around 75% of your internal storage, and might reach 85%, but you can continue adding a lot of apps before you get a problem. I have installed 30+ apps and am using 82% of internal storage. Good luck. :good:
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Adopted Storage? Nope.
Do you even checked the Settings > Storage menu? You can pick either use internal (its small) or the microsd (Im maxed out at 128gb, anybody tried 256gb?)
Or get root, and use Apps2SD. Keep going and install as many apks as you want.
U can try adopted storage . Check if this feature is available in storage menu
Well , the problem I'm having is that I can't format my micro sd as internal storage. Instead, it says "Move Media". Does anyone haveing the same problem ?
Tbe X4 simply doesn't support it, because of the file based encryption. As far as I know, if anyone find a way to force disable FBE we should be able to use adoptable storage.
Are there any ROMs or kernels for the G7 plus that's allow for functional adopted storage? I've tried stock and RR, and you can get it to format an SD card as internal if you install one with no partition table, but the file system will not hold "state". All media and files on the adopted storage become corrupted after reboot.
My advise is not to use this function anyway! The only advantage of adoptable storage is that apps can store their data on this storage device. But there are several disadvantages. Many users lost their data and/or have other problems.
Adoptable storage has worked perfectly for me on my G6+ for several years now. I regularly travel in countries where electronic searching is allowed both at airports and by law enforcement. There is no way I will keep data on a phone that cannot be encrypted
I haven't found a rom, but I have found a workaround. If your data is corrupting and being weird, u can unmount the sd card and then remount it and the adoptable storage will function normally for a while after that.
I've tried this, but same behaviors before. And data you put on the SD card will not hold state. It corrupts upon first reboot.
I found this out after a reboot or two but forgot to post an update. I have found that Apps2SD (https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/apps2sd-partition-sd-card-link-apps-to-t3122919/)works great on these devices on all the ROMs I have used as long as it is rooted with Magisk. You have to manually set the su.d/post-fs-data.d/service.d path in app settings to /data/adb/service.d to get the mount script to work and use the format sd tool it comes with to split your sd card partitions into two separate fat32 and ext4 partitions. Anyway, there is more help in the thread later on the page count. Good luck!
Hi,
I used a memory card on my Nokia 4.2 to extent the memory in adoptable mode. Since a repair of my device by Nokia they also did a factory reset which caused that my memory card is not readable by my 4.2 device anymore. I'm asked if I want to format my memory card to get it used. Furthermore, applied to my linux device it's also not mountable.
I think I used the encrypted mode on android but not sure.
Is there a way to get access to my data on this memory card or are they lost? It is clear to me that breaking the encryption is not an option but maybe I can get the key somehow?
Thanks for your help!
Best regards,
Quark123