Hi,
I have Moto G5S Plus, which has usable storage as internal 45.34GB & SD Card 117GB.
I want to know as for SD Card formatting there are two options.
1. Format as internal
2. Format (it keeps as External)
Question:-
1. what is difference between them?
2. Which is Better option?
3. Pros & cons?
Thanks,
Always external, sd card is not robust enough to handle the read/write traffic as internal for a long time.
Never do it as internal if you don't want to experience corrupt data in the future, it is a ticking time bomb. Its only advantage is installing app in your sd card.
Yeah generally external, or portable is best option. Really almost never a need to go internal these days.
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Some info:
LG optimus 2x
MIUI rom
16GB SD card
Fat 32 format
only 392mb used
PC recognises full 16gb (well, 14ish due to formatting) and phone sees 5.50GB. It also says that its only got 40-50mb space remaining which is completely wrong.
I've formatted the SD card through the phone & PC (using the slower format too)
The SD card was used as a recovery SD for my Nook Colour before the current phone and I'm not sure whats wrong.
Any suggestions?
Just to make sure:
Check that you're not looking at the internal sd (since that one is 5.5 GB)
Hmm, how embarrassing. I think I am looking at the internal SD card.
However under the SD card menu, I can unmount/mount the (5.5gb) internal memory and format it (which I've already formatted )
Any thoughts on how to view the external SD card? there doesnt seem to be a menu for it in the MIUI settings
I would look in /mnt/emmc, sound likes the mount points have been switched.
I am indeed a noob that's learning.
So with studying, I see a lot of "External SD Storage" and "Internal Storage".
With the captivate, there's three places of storage. I understand that Ext. SD is my SD card, and Internal SD is the phone's memory... but what is Internal Phone Storage used for?
Also, any tips on manipulating it?
Thanks in advance
-Zane
The 2gb internal storage is for user apps.
zane203 said:
and Internal SD is the phone's memory...
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memory is NOT storage space. Memory is ram.
I thought internal SD was for user apps, since that's where all my apps are downloaded to.
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No...internal sd is around 13gb and is where your main storage is. (what gets mounted to your PC for file transfer and stuff)
apps are installed in /data/app which is in that 2gb partition.
A way that helps me to understand it is to think that you have a 16 gb drive in your phone. There are two partitions on it - a 3 gb partition that houses all the system stuff (including "internal storage"), and a 13 gb "internal sd" that's yours to do with as you please.
Ok that makes so much more sense. I shouldn't have thought about apps and their data being in an entire package.
so when I'm given the option to move an app from phone to SD, is it referring to the Phone's internal SD?
Nope, move to sd is to your external sdcard.
A bit weird to me, nevertheless I have my answers ^_^
Thank you all for the speedy replies and information (and putting up with my noobness).
I've got a new (for me) "used" captivate and I've been experimenting with different apps and roms.. Now I'd like to format both my SD cards..
How can I do it in a way that I won't lose any valuable data? I've data-wiped the piece a couple of minutes ago, don't mind doing it again if that means I'll have a clean start
If youre not rooted you can always plug your phone into your computer and just transfer everything then format the external sd. For you internal sd you would just have to reset the phone.
If you are rooted, in CWM you have the option to format specific folders in your sd cards. You would just pick /format sdcard to format your internal sd card.
the Xperia SP is almost having its month on my hands. As we all know, lollipop consumes a lot of internal storage, so is there a way to increase internal storage? like install apps on the sdcard? please teach me masters
Go to settings, apps, menu, preferred install location, select removable SD card.
Your apps will install on ext. SD card (if possible). You have to move Already installed apps yourself.
you can do a sd card partition i think and then make some space of the sd card look like internal storage ...e.x: if you have internal storage like 5g and you have a sd card 4g ...you did a partition to the sd card and made 1g for the internal storage >your phone now will show you a 6g internal and 3g sd card,,,,,i don't if this will work on lollipop and our phone but you can have a look here
Hy mate, can u guys tell me what custom rom can merge sd card as internal storage, so i can use my sd card as internal storage.. thanks
Why would you want that? Internal storage always gets destroyed completely after a ROM install or change. ROM changes always want full wipes/formats. It is why I almost don't care about its size. External SD capability is critical and permanent. Internal is just non-permanent anyway.
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Why would you want that? Internal storage always gets destroyed completely after a ROM install or change. ROM changes always want full wipes/formats. It is why I almost don't care about its size. External SD capability is critical and permanent. Internal is just non-permanent anyway.
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yeah i know it,, but i have only 64gb internal and can't install any game cause got full apps and fully storage... in MIUI we can merge sd card as internal so give me extras space... but in my custom rom (pixel) there's option to do that but after format as internal storage, sd card still not merge at all.