Questions about 6.0+ SD Card options - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hello!
When I inserted my sd card into my phone, it gave me 2 options: one option was to use it as removable storage, and the other was to use it as internal storage. My question is, if I reformat the card as internal storage, can I still use the card in TWRP for backups and flashing, as well as for music and other various file storage? If not, what other method would be the best way to run large apps off the external sd? I currently have a galaxy s4, rooted on nougat 7.1.2.

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[Q] Not enough memory, what can i do?

Hello there guys,
i tried to install some apps but i could not, the phone show insufficient memory.
So i opened aplications-manage applications and unsuccessfully tried to move the apps to SD CARD (which i believe is the internal storage of phone, i don't have SD Card). I was surprised with this because there is plenty of space available. any idea what can i do? i cant install apps and neither transfer them to SD.
THanks.
Hey, hmm yeah i can see how that would be an issue. lol
But the SD card referees to an external memory card not your internal memory.
You can install a micro sd card (up to 32GB) into your samsung galaxy s2 through the back. You'll have to open up the back cover

Access/Backup previously formatted SD card as internal storage in Android

Hi, I formatted my SanDisk 16gb card as Internal Storage for my Android Marshmallow 6.0 Moto G 2nd Gen XT1068 *rooted* device. So far so good, the problem is that my phone was failing really bad yesterday not sure why, it won't move files from internal to the sd card so it was running out of space and the whole system started failing. I was not able to backup my SD card neither, because my developer options were blocked so no USB debugging available., I tried everything I found online, from stoping removing cache from Media internal app and some others, etc, and nothing worked.
So I decided to restore my phone to stock.
I did this and now it works fine, however it does not recognize my SD card (because it was formatted as internal storage with the "previous" device) so now I have a 16gb SD Card (4GB occupied) inaccessible to make a backup.
Is there a way to gain access to this SD card so I can move out all the files I've in there so I can format it again as internal storage?
Any information missing please ask,
Thanks in advance,
Denis.

Unable to move user apps from external SD card to internal storage (adoptable)

Hi guys,
I am on the Moto G3 (osprey) and am running LineageOS 14.1-20170125 nightly. I have a 32gb microSD card formatted as internal storage as well as the internal storage of 16gb.
I have used 7gb out of 14.68gb available on the internal storage and only 2.66gb of the 28.80gb available on the microSD card. However, I am unable to move apps from my microSD card to my internal storage, despite there being plenty of available storage. Whenever I click 'change storage' and select 'internal shared storage', it starts to move and then gives a error saying 'not enough storage space'.
I'm tested this on marshmallow ROMs and it works fine there, but it hasn't worked when I've been on Nougat. I've also tried multiple Nougat ROMs already so I don't think it is a nightly bug.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to move the apps? The only workaround right now is to format the microSD card as portable, install the apps that got uninstalled so that they are on the internal storage, and then format the sd card as internal again. However, i would greatly appreciate if there was another method that doesn't involve this since it takes a while to do.
Cheers!!

Problem with using SD Card as Internal Storage

I have a Moto E 2014 (condor) in which I installed Lineage 14.1 a while back. I want to use my SD card as internal memory. However:
1. If I migrate data from internal to SD card, the apps on the SD card doesn't work at all. There would be no point doing so.
2. If I don't migrate data from internal to SD card, the apps installed on external will work very well, but I cannot access the SD card in any way. Even if I have 16 GB memory card, only the 2.2 GB internal card is accessible in file explorers and when connecting to PC.
3. If I use the SD card as a portable device, all apps will be installed only in internal, so there wont be enough space for all apps.
4. I wanted to use Link2sd as before, but no matter how many times I partition the card, Link2sd won't recognize it.
Please help me.
MrKarma4ya said:
I have a Moto E 2014 (condor) in which I installed Lineage 14.1 a while back. I want to use my SD card as internal memory. However:
1. If I migrate data from internal to SD card, the apps on the SD card doesn't work at all. There would be no point doing so.
2. If I don't migrate data from internal to SD card, the apps installed on external will work very well, but I cannot access the SD card in any way. Even if I have 16 GB memory card, only the 2.2 GB internal card is accessible in file explorers and when connecting to PC.
3. If I use the SD card as a portable device, all apps will be installed only in internal, so there wont be enough space for all apps.
4. I wanted to use Link2sd as before, but no matter how many times I partition the card, Link2sd won't recognize it.
Please help me.
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You already posted on XDA thread
https://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-e/help/moto-e-lineage-14-1-issues-t3556941
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Rajendran Rasa said:
You already posted on XDA thread
https://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-e/help/moto-e-lineage-14-1-issues-t3556941
Don't spam
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I only wanted to be a bit more specific on this issue. It's the one thing that's buggy, otherwise this OS is perfect.
MrKarma4ya said:
I have a Moto E 2014 (condor) in which I installed Lineage 14.1 a while back. I want to use my SD card as internal memory. However:
1. If I migrate data from internal to SD card, the apps on the SD card doesn't work at all. There would be no point doing so.
2. If I don't migrate data from internal to SD card, the apps installed on external will work very well, but I cannot access the SD card in any way. Even if I have 16 GB memory card, only the 2.2 GB internal card is accessible in file explorers and when connecting to PC.
3. If I use the SD card as a portable device, all apps will be installed only in internal, so there wont be enough space for all apps.
4. I wanted to use Link2sd as before, but no matter how many times I partition the card, Link2sd won't recognize it.
Please help me.
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after migrating the data from internal storage to adopted sd card, move apps manualy from external storage to internal storage, somo apps are too buggy on this device, because the sd card reader doesn´t have too much speed of read and write
hetor99 said:
after migrating the data from internal storage to adopted sd card, move apps manualy from external storage to internal storage, somo apps are too buggy on this device, because the sd card reader doesn´t have too much speed of read and write
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Then there would be no point in using external as internal storage. The very reason I want to do so is to install apps in external. About speed, it worked fine with Link2SD before, so pretty sure it's the OS that is bugged.

Is there a way to make an sd card count as internal storage pre marshmallow? (rooted)

I am using a Galaxy s4 (model:SCH-I545) and I bought a micro sd expecting it to increase my storage. While it did increase it, no apps automatically install when I have no more space on the device. I have to manually move apps to the sd card, and I cannot move some apps anyways. Is there a way to make my sd card count as internal storage pre marshmallow? (I am rooted)

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