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Help Can I format my SD card as internal memory on a J5?

David Devoy

David Devoy

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Since getting a new J5 smart phone I have been delighted with it ....... except for the appalling lack of internal storage and the absurd amount of Microsoft and Google bloatware I cant uninstall.

A colleague advised me that on some devices and with some sd cards there is the option to format as internal storeage. Can anyone advise if they have done this successfully with the J5?
 
I don't suppose anybody can answer this question but in frustration I would ask "why would Samsung make their own product all but useless because there is no storage because of the bloatware they put on it?"

I feel like investigating rooting it or can I use an app called "link2...." something to shift apps onto the SD card?
 
If your phone is rooted you can use Link2SD to move apps out of the internal memory.
 
I've realized the exact same issue on my j5. Have you found any solution to actually have available space to install apps?? Did rooting work?
 
There are instructions on the Internet that tell you how to enable internal storage in your Samsung phone using ADB commands.

So you could try that before any rooting attempt because rooting will void your phone's warranty.
 
Apologies, I'm a complete laymen with ADB- how to operate it, do I need to install Android studio onto a pc to access it? All tutorials I've found don't seem to be specifically for SM J500Y with 6.0.1 OS. They include steps going to menus my phone doesn't have, or tutorials mention s5 specifically. I've found one solution showing specific line of commands:

adb shell
sm list-disks
sm partition <DISK> private
reboot

This being a work around for adoptable storage. But I don't know how/where to put these commands to make my sd inherit functionality as internal storage.

Really hoping to find a solution to use this j500y with the 128 gb sd card I blindly ran out and got. I'll keep looking around to find the easiest model specific instruction so I don't brick my phone before getting to use it.
 
Please follow the above link to install USB drivers for your J5. Make sure your computer can see and read your SD card when the phone is connected with USB cable before proceeding further.
 
Now back to the Settings menu, you should see the Developer menu, open it and look for the Debugging option and turn it on

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My settings has an 'about device' and in that there's a 'model number' and tapping that 7 times didn't unlock anything in settings menu
 
so do I now write this into minimal ADB fastboot command line:

adb shell
sm list-disks
sm partition <DISK> private
reboot

If so, should I format my sd card before hand?
 
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