Yeah, true... but storage space should be easily interchangable with sd cards with different phones, i never have a problem with memory most of my phones have sd slots.
And also apple has been having problems with that icloud shyt erasing alot of people's music and shyt.. that is something i wont tolerate..
not really, the OS updates itself eat up alot of room on the phone itself. And moving ur apps over to SD doesn't move 100% of them over.
I only fool with Google Drive and MS Onedrive. I would never use icloud for any reason anyway.
There's a new big feature in Android 6.0 called Adoptable storage:
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"Adoptable" Storage—Making SD card storage a first-class citizen
Before and after adopting the USB stick as permanent internal storage. Note that the "Total" storage has increased.
Marshmallow has a new feature called "adoptable storage," which makes external storage on Android a first-class citizen. "Adopting" a piece of external storage lets the system reformat it and treat it just like internal storage. The external storage can then become the primary storage the device uses for apps, private data, and media.
In the past Android has supported SD cards and other forms of external storage, but only in a limited way. You could store media on an external medium, and Froyo added an "Apps to SD" feature which let you move APKs to the external storage. You could never move private app data over to the SD card, though, and everything actively avoided going on the SD card. You had to manually move every app over and (if you were lucky) you could dig through something like a camera app and tell it to use the SD card instead of internal storage. It all involved a ton of annoying space management, which means it was something that was done by only the most technical users out there.
As of this writing there are no Marshmallow devices with an SD card slot, but for development purposes
there is a way to "adopt" a USB stick plugged in with a USB OTG cable. This doesn't make any sense for a user to do, but for testing (and the purposes of this review) it's fantastic. We enabled some special development flags and used a USB stick for this whole section, but presumably SD cards work the same way.
All external Android storage must now be "set up" before it can be used. Attach external storage to the device and a notification will pop up saying the system has detected it. Press "set up" and you'll get the option to use the storage as "Portable" or "Internal." The "internal" option is the new one—this is the setting that "adopts" the external storage, and it's also kind of a promise from the user to the system that they won't remove the media. If you're going to crack open your phone, put in an SD card, and then never touch it, (or use USB storage on Android TV) this is the mode for you.
Choosing "Portable" will pretty much leave the storage alone, and you'll be off and running, but if you pick "Internal," you'll have to format the device. Formatting "internal" storage will switch from the usual VFAT file system to Ext4, and adopted drives get encrypted with a per-volume, static 128-bit AES key. External storage comes in all sorts of different speeds, and during formatting, Android seems to quickly benchmark the storage—we got a warning that our USB drive was slower than recommended.
Once the format is complete, you'll be prompted to move all applicable data from the internal storage to the "adopted" storage. We had a device with 9GB worth of stuff, and the prompt offered to move over about 800MB of data. This also seems to flag the external storage as the "primary" storage—apps and media all preferred the new storage space. The "Storage" section of the settings shows the drive and internal storage as a shared storage pool, but it still gives breakdowns for each device.
Removing storage you have adopted is generally a bad idea. Apps that have critical data on the removed storage will no longer work, and you won't even be able to take screenshots since the system's primary storage is missing. Android does have
someaffordances for removed storage, though. A notification will pop up saying the storage is missing, and to please put it back. If something happens and you can't ever reinstate the removed storage, there is an option to "forget" it. The system warns that "All the data the device contains will be lost forever."
The storage fun doesn't stop there, though; Android Marshmallow also comes with a file manager. Lollipop added a file manager just for downloads, but Marshmallow extends that framework to the entire storage system. There are "Explore" links at the bottom of the storage screen and at in the "new storage" notification. The file manager can't do much. It's noticeably missing "cut" and "rename," but you can delete and copy files and "Share" files to other apps. Presumably Google intends this to be just for plugging in a USB drive, copying over some files, and unplugging. For that, it works well.
This seems like the ideal SD card solution users have been requesting for years. The great irony of this feature is that it comes at a time when expandable storage options on Android flagships are at their lowest point
ever. Samsung was the standard-bearer of the MicroSD slot, but the feature
was removed in the company's
2015 flagships. Now we've got great SD card support but not many devices to use it in. Can we interest you in an
LG G4 or a
Moto X Pure Edition?
Where this will be helpful is for Google's push into the low-end market. Every Android One device comes with an SD card, and cheap devices usually have such a small amount of internal storage that users come to rely on external cards.
Android 6.0 Marshmallow, thoroughly reviewed
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we just need that app support
"many phones will be ruined, many won't....let the ones who are buy a new one"
I keep telling everyone amazon is safer...
