I just finished rooting my LG G6 but I'm now looking for a solution to the 32GB storage problem. I'd like to use my SD card as Adoptable Storage but while trying it before rooting it always presented problems and I ended up back to external storage.
Is there a current solution to this problem? I couldn't find anything while searching.
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Hello,
so, I came across the following article:
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/android-5-0-sd-cards/
Now, I am wondering:
How exactly is external SD card storage handled on the Motorola Moto G 2nd Gen when having upgraded to Lollipop?
Can you put all apps onto an external SD card?
And does it have to be done manually for each app? Or does it happen automatically?
And what about encryption?
Does the Motorola Moto G 2nd Gen with Lollipop have an option to encrypt the external SD card storage?
Or can you only encrypt the device storage?
It would be much appreciated if someone could elaborate on this.
PS:
And could someone please tell how much device storage is left on a Lollipop updated Motorola Moto G 2nd Gen with 8 GB of device storage?
Regards
Anyone?
No, cannot move all apps to SD card...I have not tried encrypting the storage yet
As for available space, I have 3.07gb available after installing about 30 apps and caching two radio stations in slacker.
i'm trying to help out someone who has fallen victim to a fake unbranded micro sd card from ebay.
they bought what they thought was a 64gb card, then tried to move all their photos and videos to it. as the sd card was reporting a capacity of 64gb, the phone tried to move all of it, and deleted it all from the internal storage.
my first port of call was photorec, because it's what i've used before, but that's only any use for recovering from the external sd card, the internal storage will only connect as an mtp device, which photorec doesn't see.
i then rebooted into windows and started trying different android photo recovery software. the closest i've come to success is with dr fone, but that either gets stuck at 90%, or tells me the phone will have to be rooted to recover anything.
the phone is already on the latest firmware version, which i believe means it will have to be downgraded before rooting. is it possible to root it in a way which won't overwrite the internal storage, so i can still recover the deleted photos after rooting? alternatively, is it possible to use ADB to force it to mount the internal storage as a mass storage device rather than MTP?
I have been thinking of installing the Marshmallow update but I've been very hesitant to do so because all the problems people are having. I want to ask how to deal with the micro SD card issue. If I adopt it as internal memory, how do I get media files loaded on it as it is encrypted and can't be seen by any other device. (i.e your computer?). If I adopt it as regular external memory like with lollipop, how does the internal memory cope with not being able to move apps to the external SD card?. Thanks!!
garyben60 said:
I have been thinking of installing the Marshmallow update but I've been very hesitant to do so because all the problems people are having. I want to ask how to deal with the micro SD card issue. If I adopt it as internal memory, how do I get media files loaded on it as it is encrypted and can't be seen by any other device. (i.e your computer?). If I adopt it as regular external memory like with lollipop, how does the internal memory cope with not being able to move apps to the external SD card?. Thanks!!
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Much people are confused about the SD card adoption on Marshmallow. When you adopt the card as internal memory on Moto G 2014 (I own LTE EU version, but it's the same on all Gs) ALL THE FILES ON IT get erased, so backup it all. You can load it from the computer after the process, because yes, the sd it's encrypted but if you connect it to the pc (directly) you can trasfer files like on all previous version of android. If you adopt as external memory nothing will change from the common use of SD in lollipop and previous.
Sorry for the poor english
alex5230white said:
Much people are confused about the SD card adoption on Marshmallow. When you adopt the card as internal memory on Moto G 2014 (I own LTE EU version, but it's the same on all Gs) ALL THE FILES ON IT get erased, so backup it all. You can load it from the computer after the process, because yes, the sd it's encrypted but if you connect it to the pc (directly) you can trasfer files like on all previous version of android. If you adopt as external memory nothing will change from the common use of SD in lollipop and previous.
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Thank you!! What do you mean connect the SD directly to the PC? Not when it's in the phone? I have an SD adapter on my laptop can the computer read the SD card using the SD adapter?
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Thank you!! What do you mean connect the SD directly to the PC? Not when it's in the phone? I have an SD adapter on my laptop can the computer read the SD card using the SD adapter?
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Yes, the computer can read it with an SD card adapter.
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Yes, the computer can read it with an SD card adapter.
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. Great! Thanks for your help. Do you have Marshmallow on your phone? Have you had any problems with it?
I have Android 6. I've never had problems with the OTA update to marshmallow, and my Moto G was previously rooted so it have unlocked bootloader. Rather Android 6.0 improved the connection with my wearable Moto 360 1st gen. Anyway if you think to adopt the SD as internal storage be sure to take an High class SD card (Something like Samsung evo/evo+ or better pro/pro+) because if it brokes, you will be in serious troubles and data loose
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I have Android 6. I've never had problems with the OTA update to marshmallow, and my Moto G was previously rooted so it have unlocked bootloader. Rather Android 6.0 improved the connection with my wearable Moto 360 1st gen. Anyway if you think to adopt the SD as internal storage be sure to take an High class SD card (Something like Samsung evo/evo+ or better pro/pro+) because if it brokes, you will be in serious troubles and data loose
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. Thanks again for your feedback. I am using aSanDisk Ultra HC 1, 32 gig MicroSD card. Is that going to be OK to adopt as internal memory?
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.
Hello,
I flashed Android pie official on my Moto x4.
And I try to format the external Sd cart as internal storage with adb comands,
After that, Android recognize the sd cart as defect.
and want to format it, than I have a external sd cart again
Is there another possibility to do that?
thanks
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Hello,
I flashed Android pie official on my Moto x4.
And I try to format the external Sd cart as internal storage with adb comands,
After that, Android recognize the sd cart as defect.
and want to format it, than I have a external sd cart again
Is there another possibility to do that?
thanks
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Similar problems with adoptable storage on Samsung 9/9+ Android 9 Pie described in this article:
https://www.sammobile.com/2018/12/27/galaxy-s9-android-pie-no-adoptable-storage