Living with a best-selling Indian phone for 10 days

Re:Living with a best-selling Indian phone for 10 days by dizzystar on Friday July 13, 2018 @07:38PM (#17527724)

Except that's not how it works in the Android world. You have internal storage that needs to be freed up to hold apps. When that memory runs out, that's it. The SD card isn't for holding apps.

We used to root Android for this reason. We needed to free up silly apps no one uses and we had to have the ability to aggressively clear out the system.

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Re:Living with a best-selling Indian phone for 10 days by opencl on Friday July 13, 2018 @07:44PM (#17527752)

Android has supported apps on SD cards for ages. First with Apps2SD then since 6.0 Adoptable Storage which just treats internal+SD as one big storage pool. A lot of higher end phones have disabled the UI for Adoptable Storage due to performance concerns though it is still possible to set up with ADB commands. This type of phone however is the exact sort of thing it's meant for.

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Re:Living with a best-selling Indian phone for 10 days by kevin_thibedeau on Friday July 13, 2018 @07:47PM (#17527770)

You can run apps from SD on Android provided the vendor hasn't neutered it. It was a custom Moto feature for KitKat but was upstreamed for Lollipop and up.

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Re:Living with a best-selling Indian phone for 10 days by nsenifty on Friday July 13, 2018 @07:50PM (#17527794)

As of Marshmallow, you can format the SD card as internal storage. I did that on my dad's phone just this week and it doesn't seem to have the limitation you described.

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Re:Living with a best-selling Indian phone for 10 days by asdsa5325 on Friday July 13, 2018 @08:19PM (#17527925)

This is absolutely incorrect.

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