Hey guys not sure if anybody else has run into this yet, I have a RP2 with android 9 and I've been collecting great games to play left and right, plus I have a ton of music downloaded locally, I take pictures, videos, etc... pretty soon 64 gigs goes fast, right?
"No problem" I tell myself, as I shut the phone down, pop out the tray, toss in a good sandisk 128 GB micro SD card and fire it back up. It recognizes the card right away and says "hey, you wanna use this for phone storage? you could free up a lot of space!" and I'm like "heck yeah thats exactly what we're trying to do here!"
So... the data migration window gives you no options and no insight as to what its moving to the card, but it does its thing. It "migrates data" for like 10-15 minutes or however long, and when it finishes it now shows 34 GB of my microSD card is used, and 54 GB still used on the internal storage....
wat?
I don't understand. Nothing was "freed up" on internal, but it copied "something" to the SD card. Clearly it duplicated something but did no cleanup on the actual phone storage. I tried restarting the phone, still shows the same. 34 gigs used on the card, 54 used on internal just like how I started before I put a card in. What the heck?
I know this is probably more an android 9 issue than a RP issue, but thinking maybe someone else here has ran into this and has some ideas? The RP file explorer won't show me whats on the card so I'm gonna have to find some other way to see what was copied, but even then it will be hard to tell whats safe to delete because what if the apps are still using the version of the data on internal storage?
Pain in the butt, seems like this should work properly. Going to be peeved if there is no way to fix it other than factory resetting the phone and starting out with the memcard from the get-go.
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What the heck is the deal with this thing suddenly I have a notification saying storage space is running out with 100 GB free on my SD card, and it still never freed up the 28 GB it said it had moved to the SD card. I see I have 13 GB on spotify so ok, uninstall that, only frees up 4 GB. The heck? I have restarted the phone about 4 times it is Not cleaning up storage nor is it reporting accurately. This is just plain stupid.
For what it's worth, adoptable storage has never been a highly recommended practice. SD cards are not designed to handle the excessive re-writing of data that happens during normal app use. Not only is it slower than internal storage, but it'll be prone to early failure and data loss. It's still best to leave them formatted as external storage to save individual files, and leave the apps on internal storage. I would just backup everything and reformat the card back to external.
It still seems like for my purposes it should work better as internal storage. Not for the apps themselves but the app data. I have 13 GB of music with spotify with everything downloaded locally to save on limited streaming data. Now there is absolutely nothing wrong with storing 13 GB of music files on an SD card. Read speed is not an issue, writes only happen when I download new songs and again not an issue.
Similarly if I use an app like Netflix and I want to download movies or TV shows to watch on an airplane or on the road those files are just fine and dandy on an SD card. These are the use cases I am talking about. Big blobs of data that don't change much and don't require much for read and write speeds. It is more than reasonable to expect to be able to use an SD card formatted and setup as internal storage in this manner. Many apps let you specify where to save this type of data, Netflix has this in their settings.
It should work great but android 9 seems to be mis-managing storage space a bit, sometimes some of the blame is on the app like Spotify app is not smart enough to see and use the SD card and that's not android's fault but I definitely have junk in the trunk of my internal storage that android 9 is not accurately showing me what it is nor will it allow me to delete it and free stuff up.
Similarly if I use an app like Netflix and I want to download movies or TV shows to watch on an airplane or on the road those files are just fine and dandy on an SD card. These are the use cases I am talking about. Big blobs of data that don't change much and don't require much for read and write speeds. It is more than reasonable to expect to be able to use an SD card formatted and setup as internal storage in this manner. Many apps let you specify where to save this type of data, Netflix has this in their settings.
It should work great but android 9 seems to be mis-managing storage space a bit, sometimes some of the blame is on the app like Spotify app is not smart enough to see and use the SD card and that's not android's fault but I definitely have junk in the trunk of my internal storage that android 9 is not accurately showing me what it is nor will it allow me to delete it and free stuff up.
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