How To Move Apps To Sd Card Moto G Power

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• #1

I purchased a Moto G power equally a gift; it has Android ten installed on information technology. 1 of the primary reasons to purchase information technology was the OOTB ability to take a 512GB SD card.

The difficulty is that the phone itself does non allow the card to exist mounted such that it can be treated as 'internal' storage! There is no option to do this inside the phone's menus. The SD bill of fare is treated as portable storage.

So: I turned on the programmer options, connected via USB to Windows 7, and loaded up ADB to see what I could do, merely no matter what I tried I would always get a event like this (showing hither for the case where I tried to 'divide' the SD card 50/50):

adb shell sm list-volumes all

private:179,67 unmountable
private mounted null
public:179,65 mounted 08CC-29A9
emulated mounted zippo

The cherry part would bear witness upwards on the phone itself every bit a "corrupted" storage (albeit 'internal'), so I thought I was getting close, but 'reformatting' just that part set the entire bill of fare back to 'portable'. I want to note that I never saw individual:179,67 unmountable null even when using adb crush sm partition disk:179,64 private to effort to set the whole SD card as internal.

The full series of commands every bit executed (for the result shown):

I'm somewhat new to this game, merely I was wondering if anyone could offer some insight as to what is happening?

• #ii

I purchased a Moto G power as a souvenir; information technology has Android x installed on information technology. One of the main reasons to buy it was the OOTB power to take a 512GB SD card.

The difficulty is that the phone itself does not permit the card to be mounted such that it can be treated every bit 'internal' storage! There is no choice to do this within the telephone's menus. The SD card is treated every bit portable storage.

Then: I turned on the developer options, connected via USB to Windows vii, and loaded up ADB to see what I could do, only no matter what I tried I would always go a consequence like this (showing here for the case where I tried to 'split' the SD carte 50/50):

adb beat sm list-volumes all

private:179,67 unmountable
private mounted cypher
public:179,65 mounted 08CC-29A9
emulated mounted zippo

The cherry-red part would testify up on the phone itself as a "corrupted" storage (albeit 'internal'), so I thought I was getting shut, only 'reformatting' only that part set the entire card dorsum to 'portable'. I want to note that I never saw individual:179,67 unmountable null even when using adb shell sm division disk:179,64 individual to effort to gear up the whole SD carte du jour as internal.

The total series of commands as executed (for the result shown):

I'm somewhat new to this game, but I was wondering if anyone could offering some insight as to what is happening?

Well I don't know how G Ability behaves but are y'all certain the SD is formatted as internal storage?

It should evidence on Storage and the SD card should accept a option to Format as Internal Storage.

If it doesn't it may be that the phone doesn't support it.
I'll try it myself and become back to y'all.

• #3

This generation of phone does not offer the ability to 'format as internal' as older generations take. I'm not programmer-savy, but I did make the (bad, I suppose) assumption that even if the phone didn't offer the option that I could still piece of work under-the-hood to enable it.

It shouldn't exist the end of the world, just my intent was to gift a phone that would offer enough flexibility such that (disallowment impairment) the lifetime would be limited by battery performance... and I was working from the perspective of being able to add some more 'internal' retention would provide an actress headroom. I personally don't utilize many apps that consume the internal memory of my current Moto g5plus, and so in my ain configuration the external storage is used exclusively for photo/video/audio, plus any apps will leverage an SD card for their own nefarious reasons. The last chip I'll write in defense of my (perhaps peculiar) attitude is that I had an earlier generation cell phone that was short enough on internal resources that it became a struggle to just update applications, and I'll go to cracking lengths to avoid that misery.

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