nyttliv7
Well-Known Member
May be I can help. I'm using SD as internal. PM me if you want.
After digging online and experimenting back and forth I think I understand the sdcard thing at last.
Google in a nutshell!
With such a brilliant idea, you still have two separate storages, and it only lets you move very few apps between them, and it tends to only install some larger apps by default to the adaptive SD card.
However, for apps that don't support external storage, the app itself still installs to internal, with some of the .obb data being moved to SD. Basically, it works well for large apps and games, but for smallish apps that are all contained within the .apk can still bog up your built in internal pretty fast.
In addition, apps themselves can no longer see SD as a removable storage device, so if they don't support the full move to SD, their /data directory ends up being created in internal storage, hence apps like Google Music storing downloaded data on internal only.
Adaptive storage is a good idea in principle, but as is kinda expected google seems to have implemented a neat feature that requires developers to support it for it to work properly. If all apps supported external storage it'd be great. Apps automatically move to whichever storage android deems appropriate, and you can manually move apps so your performance intensive apps reside on the faster internal storage. Even Google doesn't support external storage on any of their apps, so none of them work properly with adaptable storage.
So, as usual, developers have to implement support for external storage for adaptable storage to work as expected. Google, as Google often does, hasn't implanted external storage support on GPM, so it only stores in internal.
(feel free to correct me if I'm wrong)
Anyways I'm so grateful for vm03 and friends for making this phone such a brilliant surviver