So I dropped in a 512 GB card in my s10+, and in the past you were able to format the card as internal storage. I can see this option and is basically just an external saving location, for nothing...
Any advice?
adjday said:
So I dropped in a 512 GB card in my s10+, and in the past you were able to format the card as internal storage. I can see this option and is basically just an external saving location, for nothing...
Any advice?
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The adaptable storage option went away with the arrival of Pie.
So the only real advantage of external storage is for pictures, video and apps you install after setup? BS if you ask me...what's the point if you can't merge the two as usable storage?
What is the advantages of an external SD card?
so that when you take pictures and save them on your card and your phone happens to get destroyed you can simply pull your card out of your destroyed phone and you still have everything intact. It also allows you to access your pictures in the event that your phone battery dies by simply putting your card into another phone and it or computer. It also serves as an additional backup to your pictures if you chose to save them on both your phone and your SD card.
for somebody like me that upgrades every time a new phone comes out it's magical to be able to simply pull my card out and put it in the new phone and everything ports over. I take a ridiculous amount of pictures so the external memory is nice to have.
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Anyone else having trouble getting the camera app to save to SD? If I change the storage setting to internal, take a pic, then change it back to SD, and take a pic, it will actually go to SD. Then, I wait an hr, take a pic, it goes to internal even though SD is still selected! Very frustrating. I am on stock rom. I've tried "clear data" on the gallery and the camera app. I also tried, obviously, rebooting the phone. Been having this problem since I got the phone.
Mine works fine. It originally was set to store photos in internal storage but I changed it several months ago and now all my photos and videos go right into the dcmi folder on my sd card.
If the problem persists, I probably contact VZ tech support and talk to them about the issue. Are you rooted? If not maybe just call and get a replacement sent to you...
I seem to have found the issue by accident today. I found the button under manage storage that allows you to move all to sd. On inspection, turns out for whaever reason my internal and external are mounted backwards. If I set camera to store to internal memory it will use dcim on the sd. Also, if I select move all to sd, it takes the stuff from the sd and moves it to internal. Odd. I'm sure this will be solved when ics gets pushed or when I root and put a different rom on. Guess ill just deal with it for now.
I filled up my external card with music and videos for when I was away over the weekend (leaving about 130mb free) and I kept on getting a warning that space was low. I already knew that the space was low as on purpose I filled the card as much as possible!
I've always tended to fill my SD cards to capacity on previous phones and this has never affected the phone in a negative way or stopped anything working so I don't need a warning telling me what I already know.
Does anyone know how to stop this message from coming up or know what the limit is set to which makes the warning appear?
I've never seen this message on other phones before.
(Just to clarify - this question relates to low space on the micro SD card and NOT the phones internal storage)
flashsam said:
I filled up my external card with music and videos for when I was away over the weekend (leaving about 130mb free) and I kept on getting a warning that space was low. I already knew that the space was low as on purpose I filled the card as much as possible!
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Unfortunately, I think that there is not a solution to this issue. It is a """feature""" and a very annoying one!
As you said, what is the point of having an external SD card that you can't fill up without beeing constantly informed that it does not have very much space left?
Anyone have any issues with micro SD cards on their Z1?
I only have music on there currently (64gb sandisk card) and every now and then certain songs disappear from my music players.
I also tried saving photos to the card, first couple worked fine then it came up with an error saying it can't save so I put it back to internal storage. Now randomly, two or three days later, it has deleted the photos that were on the sd card while it was charging overnight.
That normally happens with fake SD cards...are you sure its a legitmate 64GB card?
Pretty sure, had no issues fitting around 45gb of music on there.
I'll try another one and see if it still has issues
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Anyone have any issues with micro SD cards on their Z1?
I only have music on there currently (64gb sandisk card) and every now and then certain songs disappear from my music players.
I also tried saving photos to the card, first couple worked fine then it came up with an error saying it can't save so I put it back to internal storage. Now randomly, two or three days later, it has deleted the photos that were on the sd card while it was charging overnight.
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Yes, ive had two incidents since going to .257 update.
1) Sandisk 32GB card (bought from Amazon itself not a reseller) was showing up with error on notification bar. I had to reformat it to get it to work again
2) I took a photo today and I got "Memory error", I had to swap to internal storage. I took out the SD card and put it back in again, and then all that was on it was the default folders created by Android.
My card is deffo genuine, I am convinced this is a software fault with the Z1
I love marshmallow's adoptable storage feature, allowing me to install more apps. This feature worked beautifully for about a month and a half. However, I shut down the device, plugged it in to charge, went to sleep, and the next morning, the apps that were moved to the sd card were not available anymore. They were all greyed out on my launcher(Nova). I moved about 4 gigs worth of mostly games. Fortunately, most of them had cloud storage, but some favorite games didnt. This isn't that big of a problem, but I'd like to try to fix it. So, I went here for help.
At first, I thought the class 10 SanDisk 16gb sd had just gotten bumped out of the slot where the connections happen, so I opened the back cover and removed and inserted the sd card. The notification that prompted me to put the sd back in went away for a few seconds, but then came back. I repeated the process of removing and inserting the sd a few times, but still no moved apps were available. I put the sd into an adapter, then into my laptop, and it showed on file explorer. So the sd card could still be recognized, but maybe unusable.
I dont know what happened, one day it was working, the next day it wasn't. I know i formatted it as internal and portable storage a few times, so maybe that wore it out. I'm running cm13
Hello,
On my phone I used the micro SD card normally as external storage. On day I plugged in my headphones and there was no music. I though that the micro SD card must have come out. However, reinserted it it didn't work. I wouldn't open on computer either. While I don't have a solution, I am pretty sure I also had the same problem.
Once I was taking pictures with my phone when it crashed and rebooted. Some hours before the crash I uninstalled some apps and installed some others (but never rebooted the phone). After the phone started again after the crash, all the pictures and files were gone, the uninstalled apps were there as if I've never uninstalled them and the new installed ones dissapeared.
TheSaffronArmy said:
Hello,
On my phone I used the micro SD card normally as external storage. On day I plugged in my headphones and there was no music. I though that the micro SD card must have come out. However, reinserted it it didn't work. I wouldn't open on computer either. While I don't have a solution, I am pretty sure I also had the same problem.
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how long have you used your sd card? i'm sure that the more you use a micro sd card, the more it will wear out and become unuseable/corrupted. That has happened to me before, where the sd card just stopped working.
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how long have you used your sd card? i'm sure that the more you use a micro sd card, the more it will wear out and become unuseable/corrupted. That has happened to me before, where the sd card just stopped working.
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I have used it for about 1 year. So it may be that but, it has never occurred before.
Same problem here, you can read it here. While I am writing hopefully my files from Titanium Backup are transfered to my laptop. It got worse and worse, in my opinion the sd-card has reached it's end of life because of it's heavy usage. Error occured the first time after the phone got really hot recording gpx tracks. Bye bye sd-card
Another opinion is that warranty is over after two years, so the phone can quit it's duty now - obsolescense plans
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Same problem here, you can read it here. While I am writing hopefully my files from Titanium Backup are transfered to my laptop. It got worse and worse, in my opinion the sd-card has reached it's end of life because of it's heavy usage. Error occured the first time after the phone got really hot recording gpx tracks. Bye bye sd-card
Another opinion is that warranty is over after two years, so the phone can quit it's duty now - obsolescense plans
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yeah, i'm starting to think my micro sd just bailed from wear like that too, but i got to use mine for just over 3 months. i ejected the sd and put it into my computer, and interestingly enough, on my computer it reads 16 megabytes. i was like WAAT that cant be, i formatted it, put it back in my phone as portable, and it read as the normal 14gb. i'm starting to think my sd as internal is the cause of my random reboots. im even running the lastest cm13 update too...
i guess ill try and use my sd as just portable storage from now on, and see if i get any random reboots..
I switched to TurboROM which is using the sd-card as a portable media device, so no more encryption, heavy usage and complete data loss if you do not get your encryption key with root permission.
System space left after complete recovery of my apps with TB is quite nice - but you do not have the possibility to use App2SD (correct me if I am wrong).
So the only way to save internal system space is to move pictures, movies and heavy openstreetmap cards to external.
So, yeah, i think i made a BIG mistake
for context: a week ago my 32gb SD card got corrupted, so i formatted it with my phone, while doing so i didn't pay much attention, so i just tapped without looking. (after looking it up on Google it seems that i tapped an option called "use SD card as internal storage").
the process said "this will take several minutes" and i thought it was normal . It ended up taking almost 2 HOURS (turns out the SD card was a cheap one) and most of my apps took a long time to open (and for games with big OBB files it didn't even load at all).
I was scared because i had very important stuff from my college that i didn't want to lose, so i asked on several sub reddits to see if anyone could help me but it was fruitless.
the next day, in the morning, i check my phone just to see most of my data was gone (music, documents, photos), everything was corrupted, files and folders now with random names of letters and numbers, and well at this point i was just dissapointed.
I can't use the camera, it says "insert SD card" (and without the SD card it won't even open the camera app), i can't take screenshots, download stuff, i can just use chrome, twitter and youtube.
If i remove the SD card and go to About Phone, in the storage tile it says "22gb/32gb" but when i tap to check the details it says "32gb/32gb" and it crashes (so the internal storage is still there, but like hidden ).The MIUI cleaner says "0b Avaliable".
Needless to say there's no "Eject SD card" option because the phone says the SD IS the internal storage.
I'm about to unlock the bootloader just in case the phone gets in a bootloop after doing a factory reset, just to be sure
I really hope you guys can help me