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So, I have an Orange Dive 71 phone (cheap) here in France. It has a measly 8GB memory, half of which is taken up by the OS & bloatware. The other half fills up rapidly with apps. I've installed a 16GB SD card. How in gods name do I get the phone to save apps, photos and downloaded files to this card - it even says Storage: SD Card but there's nowhere in the menus to select it!
You probably can only put things like music on it and not actually save files on the phone to it.
This is the problem with Android, different OSes allow different amounts of interaction with the hardware.
Root it, then put what you want where you want.
That's the good thing about android, different OSes allow different amounts of interaction with your hardware. 🙂
What android version?
Most apps will have a default you can set for storage. There are other things like app2sd that moves over what can be moved.
On top of that setup the cloud stuff so photos etc are sent off the phone a d deleted when you hit WiFi
Go to My Files.
Click on device storage , tick an app and you should get a move to sd card option on the 3 vertical dots.
Thanks people. I'll be trying all of these suggestions 😯
Chaz
the problem with moving apps to sd is every time they update they move back to internal. [url= http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/android-storage-issues ]heres my recent thread on my storage problems,[/url] unfortunately still not solved even after formatting the card as internal storage.
What android version?
Keep thinking of switching from iPhone to a cheaper one. This is one of the reasons I don't!
Agree on some devices, when it updates you have to then move the apps back accross to the SD card. My current phone (HTC 10) properly integrates the SD card as internal memory with all content like Spotify, iPlayer etc automatically filling the SD portion. Much much better.
And remember noone with an iphone ever ran out of memory and they get better sex.
As an iPhone user (personal phone) who interestingly gets lots of quality sex, I'm Android curious.
My work phone which is android suffers from the same issue as the OP and it's basically unusable. Against my curiosity I'll get another iPhone next time. No doubt my sex life will thank me.
[url= http://www.trustedreviews.com/how-to/how-to-use-flex-storage-on-android-6-0-marshmallow-2941360 ]Flex Storage[/url] if the phone supports it. Annoyingly quite a few OEMs totally ignored this 😯
Mikertroid.What happens when your battery goes flat? Game over.
My android let's me stick a bigger one in and perform all night.
With that flex storage , if your phone went tits up would it wipe everything stored on the card?
What happens when your battery goes flat?
Low power mode, keeps you going slower for longer.
Or, you could just plug in to a little battery for some extra spark. No different to any other top end android phone these days.
@zk
Never any problems with flat battery, so I never need to supplement it with anything bigger.... it's an iPhone thing... 😆
Problem with moving to SD is the cards are significantly slower than internal eMMC memory (even the fast cards). They're also frequently unreliable, especially the cheap stuff off eBay and Amazon Marketplace.
Problem with Android is most manufacturers specify way too little internal storage. Also Android allows partitioning of internal storage and often the larger slice which is used for photos etc won't allow you to put apps on.
And yes, not all Android phones are equal. That's the main problem with Android. Massive fragmentation with so many different Android versions and then thousands more versions for manufacturer customisations of firmware, product variants for regions, operators, differing product hardware, etc.
The storage issue can be a problem but the only way to solve it with an iphone is to buy a second hand one or spend a fortune. Spend iphone (or a fair bit less) money on android and it won't be an issue.
What do users of iphone 5cs do when their 8gb fills up. 😉
I've just bought my m.i.l a Moto C and a 32gb card and used the feature in android 7.0 to merge them. So far so good for the £115 outlay.
And yes, not all Android phones are equal. That's the main problem with Android.
choice! the bastards! 😆
And remember noone with an iphone ever ran out of memory and they get better sex.
Some people just don't care about keeping loads of stuff on their phones, like music, and let all their photos go into the cloud, others who do buy accordingly.
My three year old iP6+ is a 128Gb model, (actually 119.2, allowing for OS), and it's still got 16.93Gb free, that's despite having six different satnav apps, ViewRanger with the entire UK 1:50k maps, plus a bunch of 1:25k, UK Mapping with a load of 1:25k and 1:10k maps, several hundred ebooks, a couple of thousand songs, and many thousand photos and videos, and while the thought of having a card slot has some appeal, I'm sceptical about the reliability of MicroSDXC cards, so I'd much rather have everything internal, and just back up fairly regularly.
My photos go onto the cloud anyway, just so I can do any editing on my pad, which frees up some storage.
Don't tell me CZ it cost 50 quid...
after asking on the android forums, i was given [url= http://www.htc.com/us/support/htc-one-m8/howto/696015.html ]this link[/url] which has worked for me. for now anyway 🙂
the 128 iphone 6 plus was released in the UK in september 2014 at £699.
the orange dive 71 was released in september 2016, apparently a re-badged zte blade a506, comes in at around £100 - £120 from what i can tell.
seems like a fair comparison. 😆