See what to do if SD card can not be recognized by Android phone. Now you should get a notification to set up the inserted SD card. Since Marshmallow, Android has provided two options to set up SD card: use the card as portable storage or adopt the card as internal storage.
But when a SD card is adopted as internal storage, things are different:. But other than just taking the card out of the device, you need to unmount the SD card. What does unmount actually mean? Important: Formatting SD card as portable storage will erase all contents on the card. Insert the SD card into your devices. The notification will pop up on the screen when it detects your new SD Card. Step 2.
A message will display on the screen asking you to set up the SD card for internal storage. Step 3. Wait for some time till the device is formatting the data on it. After that, you will be asked to move the data to the SD card. Step 4. The next time you download apps on Android, they will be stored on your SD card.
Once you have set up your SD card as the internal storage and move old apps to your new SD card, you can install new apps on the SD card with a few clicks. Nevertheless, with the help of AppTrans , you can also directly install an app on SD card, as long as you have the. Freely download AppTrans and keep reading to figure out how to make it with a few clicks. Free Download. Click and hold on the yellow border and drag it to the left until you get the approximate size you want for your data.
The remaining space on the SD card is listed as unallocated below the data partition you just created. Now, you need to define the second partition for the apps. Windows can only recognize the first partition on a removable disk. However, since we are not using this SD card on a Windows PC, we can continue to create the second partition. The remaining space on the SD card is automatically used for the second partition.
However, the changes are not final yet. A confirmation dialog box displays making sure you want to apply the changes. Now that you have a properly partitioned SD card, insert it back into your Android device and boot up the device. There is a paid version of the app, but the free version will suffice for this procedure.
That should reset the app. Once your device has rebooted, open Link2SD again. You should not see any dialog box display. Instead, you should see a list of apps and some options on the top of the app screen. If you want to automatically install new apps to the SD card rather than the internal storage, we recommend doing that now. To do this, tap the menu button three vertical dots in the upper-right corner of the screen.
Make sure the first three check boxes are all selected. So, data files for apps installed on the SD card will still be stored on the internal storage.
Use the back arrows at the top of each screen in Link2SD to go back to the previous screen. You can also use the back button on your device. Any files you transferred from your PC to the SD card are on that partition.
Word is also taking up a total of MB of space on the internal storage. However, we can get beyond that limitation. We open Link2SD and scroll in the list of apps until we get to Word and tap on it. Notice the white box being called out on the image below. That indicates how much space is being used by the app on the internal storage. The orange box below that shows the amount of space the app is using on the SD card.
We want to move as much as we can of that MB to the SD card as possible. It just seems to be there as a convenience for apps that can normally be moved to the SD card, so you can use Link2SD as a general app manager. Leave the first three file types selected. Notice that To illustrate an app being installed directly to the SD card, I installed a simple Notepad app from the Play Store and it was installed on the SD card, bypassing the internal storage, as shown below.
If you remove the device, any apps you moved to the SD card will not be usable without the SD card. This may seem like a complicated process, but if you have an Android device with limited internal storage and has an SD card slot like we do, it can be a life saver.
Buying a microSD card with a decent amount of storage is a lot cheaper than buying a new device. Browse All iPhone Articles Browse All Mac Articles Do I need one? Tap Browse. It's the middle tab at the bottom of the screen. It has an icon that resembles a folder and a magnifying glass. Tap Internal Storage. It's near the bottom of the menu below "Storage Devices".
This displays files on your phone or tablet's internal storage. Tap a category. Tap whichever category the file you want to transfer falls under. Tap the three dots next to the file you want to transfer. Tapping the three dots next to a file displays a menu. Tap Select.
It's in the menu that appears when you tap the three dots. This displays a blank circle next to all the files, which allows you to select multiple files.
Check all the files you want to transfer. To place a checkmark next to a file, tap the circle icon next to the file. Check all files you want to transfer.
It's the icon that has three vertical dots in the upper-right corner. Tap this icon to display the More menu. Tap Move to.
This option allows you to move the selected files to another location. Alternatively, you can tap Copy to to copy the files to the SD card instead of moving them.
Tap SD Card. This moves all the selected files to the SD card. Method 3. Open the My Files app. It has an icon that resembles a yellow folder.
It is generally found in the Samsung folder in the Files menu. Tap a category or tap Internal Storage. To browse all folders on your device's internal storage, tap Internal Storage. Navigate to the file s you want to transfer. Locate the folder that contains the file you want to transfer and tap the folder to open it. Folders that have an icon that resembles an SD card in the upper-left corner are already stored on the SD card. Tap and hold the file you want to transfer.
This displays a checkmark in the upper-left corner of the file. You will also see a blank circle in the left corner of the rest of the files in the folder. To check a file, tap the blank circle in the upper-left corner of each file to place a checkmark in the circle.
Tap Move.
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