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Hi XDA,
I'm struggeling with my SD-Card after moving to lineage 14.1 (Coming from CM 13).
Installation worked just fine, but now i can not access my SD-Card from the phone and even not from PC (over the phone). I mounted it as an internal drive on CM to extend my storage.
The System recognizes the Card, but only gives me the options to format the Card and use it as internal storage or format and use it as an external storage.
Could it be, that the Card cannot be used, because it was formated as an internal storage under CM 13?
If anybody has an Idea, how i get access to the files please tell me
subersauger said:
Hi XDA,
I'm struggeling with my SD-Card after moving to lineage 14.1 (Coming from CM 13).
Installation worked just fine, but now i can not access my SD-Card from the phone and even not from PC (over the phone). I mounted it as an internal drive on CM to extend my storage.
The System recognizes the Card, but only gives me the options to format the Card and use it as internal storage or format and use it as an external storage.
Could it be, that the Card cannot be used, because it was formated as an internal storage under CM 13?
If anybody has an Idea, how i get access to the files please tell me
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Maybe this can help.
Decrypt_adopted_storage
Sotiris02 said:
Maybe this can help.
Decrypt_adopted_storage
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Sadly not, I wiped all Data (except SD-Card) due to install the new System. So thers no Key in "/data/misc/vold"
subersauger said:
Sadly not, I wiped all Data (except SD-Card) due to install the new System. So thers no Key in "/data/misc/vold"
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I think you can't do anything now..
Only formatting it via PC(using command prompt..)
Sotiris02 said:
I think you can't do anything now..
Only formatting it via PC(using command prompt..)
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That would be worst case. :/
subersauger said:
That would be worst case. :/
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In the past while i was having a Moto G3,i got it to Marshmallow,made the SD card Internal like and about a month i got it stolen.But the good point was that i had removed the SD card.
Checked Google nothing useful.
Asked Motorola for any decryption tips,Nothing useful from Motorola.
And i couldn't stay with a encrypted SD card.. I formatted it(after making the "big choice" and it was back to factory stats..)
But the only thing that i didn't do,is that i didn't ask Google for support. Because Motorola makes pure stock Android but with some of Motorola apps and features.
As you was in AOSP based ROM (even if you was to LG's stock,Google could help) go ask Google gently for any solution(if you had important files,then surely they will help)
haha i had the same problem but the solution is very very easy just reboot into your recovery open recovery file manager and delete Android secure folder in your SD card.
thats all you need
axelxxxxx said:
haha i had the same problem but the solution is very very easy just reboot into your recovery open recovery file manager and delete Android secure folder in your SD card.
thats all you need
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Deleting "Android Secure" folder (there is no such a folder even in hidden files) won't do anything.
Also a thing that you should learn.(Because it seems you don't)
When your SD card is formated as internal you can't access it via TWRP a PC or even an other phone.
Because it gets encrypted.
Have a nice day.
Sotiris02 said:
Also a thing that you should learn.(Because it seems you don't)
When your SD card is formated as internal you can't access it via TWRP a PC or even an other phone.
Because it gets encrypted.
Have a nice day.
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Yea, i did not know that. If i had, i would have made an SD Backup
But I still have not formated the SD Card, I am still hoping :fingers-crossed:
subersauger said:
Yea, i did not know that. If i had, i would have made an SD Backup
But I still have not formated the SD Card, I am still hoping :fingers-crossed:
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It cant be undone. Sorry to say. I learned this the hard way also. When you put it in lineage, you remember it asking about how you wanted to format it (movable or integrated)
You chose integrated mode. That encrypted it and counted it as device storage. No unencrypting it. Also if you blew away that lineage install, its totally not able to be read anymore. It stored the only decrypt key in the lineageOS keystore.
sad times.
Sotiris02 said:
Deleting "Android Secure" folder (there is no such a folder even in hidden files) won't do anything.
Also a thing that you should learn.(Because it seems you don't)
When your SD card is formated as internal you can't access it via TWRP a PC or even an other phone.
Because it gets encrypted.
Have a nice day.
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Ah yes u right but you can access it as internal. Recvery will ecognise it anyways and you can delete this folder...
Btw this worked for me i had the same problem. And NO there is the folder named "Android secure" definition-- Android.secure is the folder where stock froyo android moves apps to the sd card by default. If you don't use the apps presently, you can safely remove the corresponding app files from the android.secure folder.
Hi all
I successfully updated to the latest nightly build 8/3/17 how ever I have no ability to move app data to my SD card. My sd card is seen under storage and I have files on it.
I also have twrp 3.0.2.0 but get a kernel is not seandroid enforcing error and can't charge whilst off. I have no loop issue the unit work's OK otherwise.
The lineage is rooted, I would welcome any advice.
Regards Sok
Sorry all the model is a SM-P605 model.
I can't even access my SD card.
k-semler said:
I can't even access my SD card.
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Interesting if you boot into trwp can that see your sd card? So under storage the sd card isn't visible at all? Have you tried formatting it?
kypreo said:
Interesting if you boot into trwp can that see your sd card? So under storage the sd card isn't visible at all? Have you tried formatting it?
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Yes, I can see it fine under TWRP. I thought maybe it couldn't recognize exFAT, so I formatted it to EXT4. But it's still not showing up at all.
k-semler said:
Yes, I can see it fine under TWRP. I thought maybe it couldn't recognize exFAT, so I formatted it to EXT4. But it's still not showing up at all.
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That is weird, do you have another android peripheral that you could prospectively format the card in and try? Alternatively you could wipe and reinstall. I blew away the android internal storage and installed from my SD, just about everything works except the sd storage option. That's an issue storage and app wise so I may go back to marshmallow lineageos if I can't sort it.
Failing that back to stock lollipop should that fail.
kypreo said:
That is weird, do you have another android peripheral that you could prospectively format the card in and try? Alternatively you could wipe and reinstall. I blew away the android internal storage and installed from my SD, just about everything works except the sd storage option. That's an issue storage and app wise so I may go back to marshmallow lineageos if I can't sort it.
Failing that back to stock lollipop should that fail.
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I don't have another android device, but I do have a linux machine, (actually, I only run Linux in my home), and I can read and write the card no problem in my desktop machine. I haven't tried it on my HTPC/Plex server yet, but I don't see why it wouldn't work. On stock Lollipop, I can see the card, but it's read only. Oh, I should have been clearer. I can see the card on the tablet, but it doesn't display anything. It says "contents not found", and I can't enable writing to it for Root Explorer.
k-semler said:
I don't have another android device, but I do have a linux machine, (actually, I only run Linux in my home), and I can read and write the card no problem in my desktop machine. I haven't tried it on my HTPC/Plex server yet, but I don't see why it wouldn't work. On stock Lollipop, I can see the card, but it's read only. Oh, I should have been clearer. I can see the card on the tablet, but it doesn't display anything. It says "contents not found", and I can't enable writing to it for Root Explorer.
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That is weird you got me stumped, other than a rebuild I got nothing. Try the card in a mate's phone if possible better than wiping the unit first.
If that doesn't work I got nothing. Truth be said I'm no expert, I try my best.
Hi all
I updated the Lineageos ROM the AOSP I had no hardware issues or software issues on the OS. However please note that if you use this ROM for some reason you will lose the TWRP Recovery.
I installed the AOSP ROM 7.1.1 first, didn't reboot and then installed the Gapps file, upon reboot it stayed on the splashed screen, so I then booted into the standard recovery and wiped/factory reset the unit, all good since and it is running smoothly, just wanted you to let you know that the Lineage ROM isn't the only option.
I also had the options for the SD card and UI System tweak was also there, good luck. If anyone wants assistance I am happy to assist.
Soks
k-semler said:
I don't have another android device, but I do have a linux machine, (actually, I only run Linux in my home), and I can read and write the card no problem in my desktop machine. I haven't tried it on my HTPC/Plex server yet, but I don't see why it wouldn't work. On stock Lollipop, I can see the card, but it's read only. Oh, I should have been clearer. I can see the card on the tablet, but it doesn't display anything. It says "contents not found", and I can't enable writing to it for Root Explorer.
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Hey mate I found an alternate fix and everything works, look at AOSP rom and let me know if you have any questions.
Soks
I have also a problem with the SD card. I have the newest build and the SD card is seen in the settings and also in file manager can read/write, but other apps somehow don't see it, I cannot set the camera to save photo to external storage, also in Google play music I cannot choose to store music to external card, the options are not there. On my Galaxy S5 also with Lineage it works perfectly. Secondly, in the settings I can only format the SD card as portable, not as internal, but that would not bother me if the apps would see the card and I could use it as storage.
Solution for sd card write issue?
Did you ever find a solution? I have the same devices and exactly the same problems.
SD card not properly configured
Astagor said:
I have also a problem with the SD card. I have the newest build and the SD card is seen in the settings and also in file manager can read/write, but other apps somehow don't see it, I cannot set the camera to save photo to external storage, also in Google play music I cannot choose to store music to external card, the options are not there. On my Galaxy S5 also with Lineage it works perfectly. Secondly, in the settings I can only format the SD card as portable, not as internal, but that would not bother me if the apps would see the card and I could use it as storage.
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Have the same problem on my SM-P605 - have had problem since at least the 20170713 nightly build when I started using LineageOS (am currently running 20170830 nightly).
The SD card appears under settings - I can format and eject the SD card, it appears under /mnt/media_rw/76AC-17ED, but
doesn't appear as a SD card in Amaze file manager
doesn't appear as a SD card in ESExplorer (only Internal Storage appears on the home page)
I cannot set the camera location to save photos on it
doesn't appear under /storage (i.e. /storage/76AC-17ED)
It's as if the storage is mounted, but isn't flagged as being a SD card.
Any ideas -- anyone??
snappple said:
Any ideas -- anyone??
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Have created an issue - 1026 - https://jira.lineageos.org/browse/BUGBASH-1026
kypreo said:
Hi all
I successfully updated to the latest nightly build 8/3/17 how ever I have no ability to move app data to my SD card. My sd card is seen under storage and I have files on it.
I also have twrp 3.0.2.0 but get a kernel is not seandroid enforcing error and can't charge whilst off. I have no loop issue the unit work's OK otherwise.
The lineage is rooted, I would welcome any advice.
Regards Sok
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I think I found a solution your problem. Well, it worked for me.
Firstly I backed up my SDCARD
Then went to Settings, Storage Settings tabbed on SD card and tab on options [three dotted things].
Formatted my sd card as internal, when I went back to my applications there was an option to move them to external.
[WARNING]One problem is that if you format it as internal it will not show as different storage systems on your pc WILL SHOW AS SHARED STORAGE!!!!
******** I Had So Many Issues I Would Not Recommend It *********
Hope that helps you
Blakepaige said:
I think I found a solution your problem. Well, it worked for me.
Firstly I backed up my SDCARD
Then went to Settings, Storage Settings tabbed on SD card and tab on options [three dotted things].
Formatted my sd card as internal, when I went back to my applications there was an option to move them to external.
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Thanks for the suggestion - but didn't work.
When I click the three-dotted-things only option I see is (under Storage settings) is "Format". I format the card - but still cannot move apps to it or set as camera location.
snappple said:
Have the same problem on my SM-P605 - have had problem since at least the 20170713 nightly build when I started using LineageOS (am currently running 20170830 nightly).
The SD card appears under settings - I can format and eject the SD card, it appears under /mnt/media_rw/76AC-17ED, but
doesn't appear as a SD card in Amaze file manager
doesn't appear as a SD card in ESExplorer (only Internal Storage appears on the home page)
I cannot set the camera location to save photos on it
doesn't appear under /storage (i.e. /storage/76AC-17ED)
It's as if the storage is mounted, but isn't flagged as being a SD card.
Any ideas -- anyone??
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I did not find a solution. For other reasons I have returned to the stock OS. Now I don't use this tablet anymore.
Same here... i formated internal but nothing changed. file manager seeing sd card but app can't see and can't save downloaded contents to sd card.. camera, udemy, vs... cant use sdcard
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I see it under "Portable storage" under "Storage settings". I can format it and eject it, and it appears under /mnt/media_........ However
does appear as a SD card in ESExplorer (only Internal Storage appears on the home page)
I cannot set the camera location to save photos on it
I cannot move apps to the SD card
I can access the information on the card, but cannot use it as a SD card (with the camera or by moving apps to it).
Please assist.
Manual Fix
Hi.
I just got it running on Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition (LTE).
This guide worked for me: modaco.com / news / android / heres-how-to-configure-adoptable-storage-on-your-s7-s7-edge-r1632
Guide also referenced in this German HowTo: androidpit.de / micro-sd-als-internen-speicher-formatieren
I did the 50:50 format on my 200GB SD card.
Please remove the blanks in the links. Had to put them in because forum software did not allow me to include links.
Regards,
buggy82
Hi guys! First of all, I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this question.
I have a Samsung Galaxy J2 Prime, with 8GB of internal memory. But 8GB is not enough in any way for android, upgrades & apps.
Ok, I read that Android v6.0 has support for merging internal and external memory in the way that Android reconizes it as single storage. My problem is that my phone doesn't show me that option. Just says "Format as portable storage", not “Format as internal” as I read at a forum. I have installed a SD card class 10 but this is not the problem.
This is a Samsung custom setting? I need to root my phone? It's possible to do it?
Thanks for any help!
gezanoletti said:
Hi guys! First of all, I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this question.
I have a Samsung Galaxy J2 Prime, with 8GB of internal memory. But 8GB is not enough in any way for android, upgrades & apps.
Ok, I read that Android v6.0 has support for merging internal and external memory in the way that Android reconizes it as single storage. My problem is that my phone doesn't show me that option. Just says "Format as portable storage", not “Format as internal” as I read at a forum. I have installed a SD card class 10 but this is not the problem.
This is a Samsung custom setting? I need to root my phone? It's possible to do it?
Thanks for any help!
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Yes, Samsung disables this option from all their devices with the excuse being: "If your MicroSD card fails, which is totally common to fail, you will lose all your apps and apps' data" (but in my opinion and a lot of people's opinion, they disable it to force you to buy a device with bigger storage )
There are two ways to do this, with root and without
If you have root, you can use the app "Root Essentials" from the PlayStore. It'll show you step by step on how to set up adoptable storage.
If you do not have root, you have to input some commands via adb, which I do not know how to do. You will have to research this on your own.
But, just as an advice. Even with adoptable storage, it doesn't work as you would expect it to work. Not all apps will be transferred to the external memory and you'll still get the message that you are running out of memory even if you have 7 out of 16 GB used up. It's not that great.
Hello, i would like to ask about this too.
I have adopted a 16Gb sandisk UHS-I SD Card to my 8Gb Samsung J2 Prime G532G, but the storage at file manager is still 8Gb and no SD Card access. BUT at storage settings it shows 13.40Gb used out of 22.80Gb. So, where did the rest go at file manager?
hi all,
recently i updated my phone to the stock nugat 7.0 os and everything works fine.
i should say that my phone is not rooted.
the only issue that the phone has now is that, when i connect it to my pc, the computer recognize only the internal memory but not the external one.
on the phone the card is shown.
please help anyone.
many thanks!
amir mints said:
hi all,
recently i updated my phone to the stock nugat 7.0 os and everything works fine.
i should say that my phone is not rooted.
the only issue that the phone has now is that, when i connect it to my pc, the computer recognize only the internal memory but not the external one.
on the phone the card is shown.
please help anyone.
many thanks!
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Three possibilities:
- Your Nougat has formatted everything as internal.
- The card is formatted with a file format that Nougat doesn't recognize - will require a reformat with a file format it recognizes.
- Your SD card is corrupted - reformat it and see if it is recognized then.
thank you
sdembiske said:
Three possibilities:
- Your Nougat has formatted everything as internal.
- The card is formatted with a file format that Nougat doesn't recognize - will require a reformat with a file format it recognizes.
- Your SD card is corrupted - reformat it and see if it is recognized then.
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Thx for the reply.
1. I allready formatted the card and it didnt change anything.
2. If the issue is the file format that nugat didt rocognized, is there any way to reformat it with another file format so nugat will recognize it?
3. I do have to mention that, when connect to the pc, the only option that showes the phone is the" upload pictures" but not the " upload files".
4. if there is no solution, nugat will recognize a new sdd card?
Any idea what to next?
Thank you again!
amir mints said:
Thx for the reply.
1. I allready formatted the card and it didnt change anything.
2. If the issue is the file format that nugat didt rocognized, is there any way to reformat it with another file format so nugat will recognize it?
3. I do have to mention that, when connect to the pc, the only option that showes the phone is the" upload pictures" but not the " upload files".
4. if there is no solution, nugat will recognize a new sdd card?
Any idea what to next?
Thank you again!
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When you bought your phone what was the original GB size for the model and what size was your SD card?
Do your setting in Nougat reflect just the original phone GB's or does it reflect the combined size of the phone's GB size + the SD card size? If so your SD card has been formatted as internal in Nougat and you will have to google the fix to get the SD card treated as external storage.
If not, google what formats Nougat recognizes and format accordingly.
If that fails, try a new SD card ...
sdembiske said:
When you bought your phone what was the original GB size for the model and what size was your SD card?
Do your setting in Nougat reflect just the original phone GB's or does it reflect the combined size of the phone's GB size + the SD card size? If so your SD card has been formatted as internal in Nougat and you will have to google the fix to get the SD card treated as external storage.
If not, google what formats Nougat recognizes and format accordingly.
If that fails, try a new SD card ...
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When you bought your phone what was the original GB size for the model and what size was your SD card?
1. sd card - 32GB
internal 32GB
2. the setting in nugat reflect the both - internal/external (the pc doesnt show the external)
couldnt find anything in google like this problem.
amir mints said:
When you bought your phone what was the original GB size for the model and what size was your SD card?
1. sd card - 32GB
internal 32GB
2. the setting in nugat reflect the both - internal/external (the pc doesnt show the external)
couldnt find anything in google like this problem.
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by the way - i tried an older sd card on this phone and the phone didnt recognized it also..
i just wanted to be realy clear about it: when connecting the usb to the pc on:"transfer pictures" the pc shows only the internal memory of the phone. when changing to:"file transfer" it doesn't show the phone at all.
amir mints said:
When you bought your phone what was the original GB size for the model and what size was your SD card?
1. sd card - 32GB
internal 32GB
2. the setting in nugat reflect the both - internal/external (the pc doesnt show the external)
couldnt find anything in google like this problem.
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- prefix your search with XDA and be specific "XDA - Nougat formatting SD card as internal" or some such. I do not have Nougat so can't help you there - I've seen the issue mentioned before so if you put garbage in your search you will get either garbage or nothing relevant back ... learn to troubleshoot, it will pay future dividends in this arena.
sdembiske said:
- prefix your search with XDA and be specific "XDA - Nougat formatting SD card as internal" or some such. I do not have Nougat so can't help you there - I've seen the issue mentioned before so if you put garbage in your search you will get either garbage or nothing relevant back ... learn to troubleshoot, it will pay future dividends in this arena.
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ok, ill try to be more specific in my search.
thx for the help again!!
sdembiske said:
- prefix your search with XDA and be specific "XDA - Nougat formatting SD card as internal" or some such. I do not have Nougat so can't help you there - I've seen the issue mentioned before so if you put garbage in your search you will get either garbage or nothing relevant back ... learn to troubleshoot, it will pay future dividends in this arena.
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problem solved!!!
just wanted to say that i found the sorce of the problem which was'nt the nugat os but the portable devices on my windows 7 that needed an update.
thx again for your help!
I have recently bought a new Redmi 7 and discovered that I can't move apps to sd card. I have tried the method mentioned on the miui community that formats the sd card as internal storage, but it doesn't work, when I press move to sd card, it gives me an error "Not enough storage" although I am using an empty 16 GB sd card. Is there any solution to my problem?
If I haven't mistaken, both orea and pie doesn't allow moving apps to SD card.
shico2o0o said:
I have recently bought a new Redmi 7 and discovered that I can't move apps to sd card. I have tried the method mentioned on the miui community that formats the sd card as internal storage, but it doesn't work, when I press move to sd card, it gives me an error "Not enough storage" although I am using an empty 16 GB sd card. Is there any solution to my problem?
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Unlock bootloder, flash twrp & root the phone to do it through move 2 sd
joshieboo said:
Unlock bootloder, flash twrp & root the phone to do it through move 2 sd
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Is there an available guide to unlock the bootloader on my phone? And is it safe to do it?
shico2o0o said:
I have recently bought a new Redmi 7 and discovered that I can't move apps to sd card. I have tried the method mentioned on the miui community that formats the sd card as internal storage, but it doesn't work, when I press move to sd card, it gives me an error "Not enough storage" although I am using an empty 16 GB sd card. Is there any solution to my problem?
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shico2o0o said:
Is there an available guide to unlock the bootloader on my phone? And is it safe to do it?
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yeah it is, here's a video guide :
https://youtu.be/tYcJ1BSd0_I
joshieboo said:
yeah it is, here's a video guide :
https://youtu.be/tYcJ1BSd0_I
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Thanks ?
joshieboo said:
Unlock bootloder, flash twrp & root the phone to do it through move 2 sd
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btw i have a question about this, once you successfully root the phone and start moving apps with move 2 sd
do app updates bring them back to internal storage or?
Andresuki said:
btw i have a question about this, once you successfully root the phone and start moving apps with move 2 sd
do app updates bring them back to internal storage or?
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when I updated it stayed the same
joshieboo said:
when I updated it stayed the same
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Andresuki said:
btw i have a question about this, once you successfully root the phone and start moving apps with move 2 sd
do app updates bring them back to internal storage or?
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If you need help rooting the phone guys I posted something:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/re...ck-bootloader-root-twrp-t3926044#post79434099
On Miui you cant move apps to Sdcard but on custom rom you can
rtmreza said:
On Miui you cant move apps to Sdcard but on custom rom you can
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Are there compatible custom ROMs with Redmi 7 yet?
shico2o0o said:
I have recently bought a new Redmi 7 and discovered that I can't move apps to sd card. I have tried the method mentioned on the miui community that formats the sd card as internal storage, but it doesn't work, when I press move to sd card, it gives me an error "Not enough storage" although I am using an empty 16 GB sd card. Is there any solution to my problem?
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You can force enable adaptive storage on miui 10. The option is there but they hid it for the reason that so it wont cannibalize the sales of their other storage option like 64gb. The only miui i know that have adaptive storage visible is the pocophone. But you can still enable it via adb. Search around xda there's a guide on how
ukiya16 said:
You can force enable adaptive storage on miui 10. The option is there but they hid it for the reason that so it wont cannibalize the sales of their other storage option like 64gb. The only miui i know that have adaptive storage visible is the pocophone. But you can still enable it via adb. Search around xda there's a guide on how
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I tried it, but it doesn't work. The SD card storage gets smaller, but the device doesn't recognize the added adaptive internal storage.
joshieboo said:
Unlock bootloder, flash twrp & root the phone to do it through move 2 sd
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Didn't work