saturn_shell
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Hi there, first time posting. I've been working on sorting out memory issues for a Kyocera Hydro Edge. As far as I've been able to deduce, the problem is this:
There are three types of storage available to the phone: internal or just Phone, sdcard0, and externalSD. The externalSD is a 32gb microsd I installed and as near as I can tell the sdcard0 is still just a part of the phone's internal storage. Using "select primary storage" lets me either select phone or sd card, but when sd card is selected or any apps are moved to sd they are automatically moved to sdcard0, rather than externalSD. Using file manager apps (eg. Astro or ES file explorer) I can manually copy or move files to the externalSD, though moved apps will not launch (error message "app isn't installed" or something of the like) until they are moved back to either the Phone storage or sdcard0, though occasionally this process just seems to uninstall the app. This hasn't happened in a while, though it has occurred.
When manually moving pictures to the externalSD card there have been two instances of photos being deleted or damaged (changed to just blank dark squares) and I have had no success retrieving them with recovery software.
While photos can be periodically backed up outside of the phone and deleted from it to free space it's very frustrating knowing that there is more than enough space available on the externalSD drive but I dare not move them lest they be once again devoured by the buggy beast. Not to mention very few apps have been installed and already there is not enough room for more. There is occasionally not enough room to even stream music over google play.
Following instructions on the root forums I have successfully installed supersu with the hopes of using clean master root access to delete some bloatware, however the best I've been able to do is disable some of it, no options for uninstalling. I'm looking at gl to sd as another option to free up space that I haven't tried yet, however both backing up and deleting photos or using either of these methods is just going to be a band-aid on a pretty crippling problem that turns an otherwise solid, useful phone into some sort of cursed pretend phone that can't actually do all that much.
Hope I haven't left anything out or given too much info, just hoping that someone has any idea of a way to let the phone know that sdcard0 sucks and it should use externalSD instead.
Thanks in advance for your time and help!
There are three types of storage available to the phone: internal or just Phone, sdcard0, and externalSD. The externalSD is a 32gb microsd I installed and as near as I can tell the sdcard0 is still just a part of the phone's internal storage. Using "select primary storage" lets me either select phone or sd card, but when sd card is selected or any apps are moved to sd they are automatically moved to sdcard0, rather than externalSD. Using file manager apps (eg. Astro or ES file explorer) I can manually copy or move files to the externalSD, though moved apps will not launch (error message "app isn't installed" or something of the like) until they are moved back to either the Phone storage or sdcard0, though occasionally this process just seems to uninstall the app. This hasn't happened in a while, though it has occurred.
When manually moving pictures to the externalSD card there have been two instances of photos being deleted or damaged (changed to just blank dark squares) and I have had no success retrieving them with recovery software.
While photos can be periodically backed up outside of the phone and deleted from it to free space it's very frustrating knowing that there is more than enough space available on the externalSD drive but I dare not move them lest they be once again devoured by the buggy beast. Not to mention very few apps have been installed and already there is not enough room for more. There is occasionally not enough room to even stream music over google play.
Following instructions on the root forums I have successfully installed supersu with the hopes of using clean master root access to delete some bloatware, however the best I've been able to do is disable some of it, no options for uninstalling. I'm looking at gl to sd as another option to free up space that I haven't tried yet, however both backing up and deleting photos or using either of these methods is just going to be a band-aid on a pretty crippling problem that turns an otherwise solid, useful phone into some sort of cursed pretend phone that can't actually do all that much.
Hope I haven't left anything out or given too much info, just hoping that someone has any idea of a way to let the phone know that sdcard0 sucks and it should use externalSD instead.
Thanks in advance for your time and help!