topic Re: Memory issues on M4 Aqua in M Series

Marsmallow 6.0 and SD card as internal storage

RoarS — Wed, 20 Jul 2016 13:49:27 GMT

Regarding this article this should work, but I can not get it to work. Anyone that have tips?

http://www.xperiablog.net/2016/03/10/how-important-is-adoptable-storage-to-you-in-android-marshmallow/

Re: Marsmallow 6.0 and SD card as internal storage

RiriDu78 — Wed, 20 Jul 2016 14:16:27 GMT

I have the same problem with Xperia Z3 Compact

Re: Marsmallow 6.0 and SD card as internal storage

Christofer — Wed, 20 Jul 2016 14:27:40 GMT

Hi @RoarS,

Xperia M4 Aqua does not support adoptable storage.

Re: Marsmallow 6.0 and SD card as internal storage

_alexdon_ — Wed, 20 Jul 2016 14:50:54 GMT

@RoarS @RiriDu78

There were threads on this made some time ago in all other devices updated to 6.0:

/t5/Xperia-Z3/adoptive-storage-for-xperia-Z3/m-p/1115587

/t5/Xperia-Z5-Z5-Compact-Z5-Premium/SD-card-as-internal-storage-removed-from-Marshmallow/td-p/1101504/page/2

Re: Marsmallow 6.0 and SD card as internal storage

Jack262 — Wed, 20 Jul 2016 18:12:30 GMT

EXCELLENT, so the ONLY THING that could make this pathetic phone with barely a gigabyte of internal memory usable, is just completely unsupported. Excellent. I'll never be purchasing another Sony phone.

Re: Marsmallow 6.0 and SD card as internal storage

1adrian1 — Wed, 20 Jul 2016 19:50:05 GMT

See the thread on xda in m4aqua forum if you want to enable adoptable storage. Plenty of people seem to have have it working. It is not included as standard with any Xperia device or any other big oem handsets. It should tell you all you need to know about how reliable it'll be especially with cheap sdcards

Re: Marsmallow 6.0 and SD card as internal storage

Zog1 — Wed, 20 Jul 2016 21:44:53 GMT

I really regret purchasing this M4 Aqua phone.

I'm locked into a 2 year contract with a phone that has 2GB of crapware I can't uninstall and less than 500MB of storage.. I'll be buying Samsung next time.

Re: Marsmallow 6.0 and SD card as internal storage

flying_smartpho — Thu, 21 Jul 2016 07:56:19 GMT

Thats a bad joke, or?

Re: Marsmallow 6.0 and SD card as internal storage

D718 — Thu, 21 Jul 2016 08:27:01 GMT

You are kidding me.. the only Marshmallow feature this POS phone needs isn't officially supported?

Pathetic.

1Adrian1, could you link to that thread please so I see if I can get this sorely needed feature working?

edit: found it.._http://forum.xda-developers.com/m4-aqua/general/adoptive-storage-marshmallow-t3421828

Re: Marsmallow 6.0 and SD card as internal storage

proyk — Thu, 21 Jul 2016 08:31:35 GMT

:@ :@

Xperia M4 Aqua does not support adoptable storage. JOKE ??

please say 'working for fix it'.. 😕

Re: Marsmallow 6.0 and SD card as internal storage

Uliwooly — Thu, 21 Jul 2016 14:48:34 GMT

@proyk

There's nothing to fix, it's just not part of the update, you should follow @D718's advice

How can I set my sd card default memory

Warofgenesis — Fri, 22 Jul 2016 09:28:20 GMT

Hi All

i just updated my Xperia M4 to android 6.0.1 but i have looked through the menu to set my SD card default memory.

But it seems its not there?! for the other android 6.0.1 i am assuming this available.

https://www.androidpit.com/android-m-release-date-news-features-name

is there going to up an update for the M4 from Sony, since the phone has really poor storage and you cant much with it.

moving apps to you phone doesnt really help that much, because that doesnt really count to system storage at all. so you bascailly

back to square one.

Re: Marsmallow 6.0 and SD card as internal storage

AlexandruMunten — Fri, 22 Jul 2016 20:14:09 GMT

D718 that method works werry well. It's even better than the adoptable storage. You can choose how much internal memory you want to share from your SD card. I highly u...

Re: Marsmallow 6.0 and SD card as internal storage

netto — Sat, 23 Jul 2016 15:31:07 GMT

Search on Google, there are many tutorial to activate adoptive storage on Marshmallow. My 8 GB Xperia M4 now have 16 GB.

Re: Marsmallow 6.0 and SD card as internal storage

Arios22 — Sat, 23 Jul 2016 18:28:45 GMT

OMG... Update marsmallow not solve problem the storage...

Re: Marsmallow 6.0 and SD card as internal storage

JonnyD100 — Sat, 23 Jul 2016 23:32:09 GMT

Hey guys, theres a guide over on the XDA forum about how to reformat the sd card as internal memory

http://forum.xda-developers.com/m4-aqua/general/adoptive-storage-marshmallow-t3421828

because it did not include the option of SD and internal storage in android 6

marcomartir — Wed, 27 Jul 2016 17:01:35 GMT

storage falls short in a short time.

as can i add this option

Re: because it did not include the option of SD and internal storage in android 6

dimel — Wed, 27 Jul 2016 18:28:08 GMT

When it my phone have picture much than one more then storage space running need delete pictures and appcatiom is appear effort move on in sd memory card can't put in there..

Re: Marsmallow 6.0 and SD card as internal storage

barbarbar — Thu, 28 Jul 2016 12:22:36 GMT

Hi Christofer.
Do not support adoptable internal storage!? Why is that so? This is what all M4 Aqua E2303 owners have been beggingfor, for the last year?
Please give us all a thorough explanation, as to why you have let us down on this critical point?
It will be interesting to see if there will be an answer at all - normally, Sony answers all difficult questions with mindless answers - or not at all......
Christofer, please let me explain you my E2303-situation - which is probably the same for all the other compareable users:
I updated my device after cleaning cache and all unnecessary app's to get to 500 MB free internal memory neceassary for the update. After update 7,01 GB of 8,00 GB was gone - now the app's starts updating, which means I will probably end up at 200-300 MB free internal RAM - way below the limit needed for all security updates in the future.....
Christofer; need I say how extremely unhappy I am? I have a phone, which is compareable to a brick - despite the fact I have 8+64 GB memory in the useless thing - by the way; how is the Sony smartphone marketshare doing?......

Re: Marsmallow 6.0 and SD card as internal storage

Christofer — Mon, 01 Aug 2016 13:21:36 GMT

@barbarbar I understand your situation. The information I have is that it was removed because it impacted software encoding and quality.