I need help. I desperately want to make my SD Card as the default storage however I can't. It's not the first time I used it in this phone- i set it to portable storage the first time I used it in this phone. Android OS version is 6.0.1. Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime plus. Anyone help? I'm frustrated.
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SD Card set to default when set to portable at first
- Thread starter Han1219
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Do you mean "adoptive storage", aka "format as internal", or making it the default location for stuff that can be installed to a SD card formatted as portable (the old Android 2.2-style "move to SD")? These are quite different things.
For the first it's simple: if you have the option you can format it as internal (save your data first, obviously), and if the phone doesn't offer that then there's nothing you can do. Not all phones do allow this, and Samsung removed it from most models.
For the second you need to use a computer: install "ADB", enable usb debugging on the phone, connect via USB and use the command "adb shell pm set-install-location 2". It won't move anything you've already installed, you'd need to do that yourself. You can undo it by repeating the procedure but using "0" rather than "2" (from memory: it could be "1" - one of those sets it to "internal", the other is "auto", which will be your current setting).
For the first it's simple: if you have the option you can format it as internal (save your data first, obviously), and if the phone doesn't offer that then there's nothing you can do. Not all phones do allow this, and Samsung removed it from most models.
For the second you need to use a computer: install "ADB", enable usb debugging on the phone, connect via USB and use the command "adb shell pm set-install-location 2". It won't move anything you've already installed, you'd need to do that yourself. You can undo it by repeating the procedure but using "0" rather than "2" (from memory: it could be "1" - one of those sets it to "internal", the other is "auto", which will be your current setting).