adoptable storage - worth rooting for?

"HammerheadFistpunch" (hammerheadfistpunch) 12/30/2018 at 15:56 • Filed to: None

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i have a Samsung tab a with only 16gb internal, i bought a 64gb u3 class card to use but I’m sick of moving all my apps over and even then i still run it off room on the internal. i was hoping with 7.1 i would get adoptable storage... nope. Samsung says nah. anyone use it? worth rooting for? i g ave up on rooting years ago because i didn’t care to keep up with it so I’m way over my head on keeping a stock experience but being able to add in the patch required. thoughts?

something adoptable for your time

Sovande > HammerheadFistpunch 12/30/2018 at 16:37

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Gimme the dog or the tablet gets it. 

punkgoose17 > HammerheadFistpunch 12/30/2018 at 17:58

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I don’t have much room on my phone probably only 8gbs, so I am limited on my apps. I do have a 32gb microSD card with about 28gb of music and 2gb of stored pitures. Having apps on the microSD card is over my head.

Aremmes > HammerheadFistpunch 12/30/2018 at 17:59

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Google implemented adoptable storage in such a way that makes it worse than useless. In theory it should extend internal storage transparently, so that apps do not know or care if they’re writing to internal or external storage - they should just see a single pool. However, apps still see them as separate storage volumes, some will insist on writing to internal storage only, and the OS will still complain if you run out of internal storage even if you still have plenty left officer in the external volume. Mind you, though, this had been a solved issue for decades - Linux itself has had logical volumes for 20 years, and the concept is much older than that. Google decided that LVM wasn't fucked up enough for their tastes and made up their own shitty implementation. I don't blame vendors for disabling it on their hardware.

Anyway, what I wanted to say is: don’t bother, it won’t work right.

facw > HammerheadFistpunch 12/30/2018 at 18:22

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Adoptable storage sort of sucks. Lots of little annoyances with it. That said, I’d probably go for it on a device with only 16GB of built in storage because that’s really not enough based on my usage. Even with 32GB, I’m constantly running up against the storage limits, despite having my media on an SD.

facw > Aremmes 12/30/2018 at 18:22

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I suspect a large part of the reason Google skips the SD card on their devices is that they know how janky it is.

HammerheadFistpunch > Aremmes 12/30/2018 at 19:32

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good to know. i did a factory reset and that cleaned things up some. well see