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by mattmcknight 3773 days ago
Not sure why they would cripple it with just 32GB of internal storage. Too much Android stuff refuses to run from, or store data on, the SDCard.
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Newer android releases use the SD card in a much cleaner way that allow pretty much anything to run off of them.
Apparently LG and Samsung have both decided to disable Marshmallows unified storage feature. Baffling.

http://www.androidcentral.com/lg-g5-keeps-sd-card-shuns-adop...

http://www.androidcentral.com/galaxy-s7-regains-microsd-card...

What? Does anyone have any ideas for why they would do this?
Need more memory? Buy a new phone!
Not 5.0, and it's the applications, not Android. Things like the Kindle app and most Google apps refuse to run from, or store data on, the SDcard. My Galaxy S5 is constantly full, so full that the OS can't upgrade, even after I clear 5GB of space. I have a an SDcard where 100GB of 1TB is used, but am always running out of space, even after all of the apps that allow being moved the SDcard are moved there. It's a real problem.
In Android 6 (the version of Android that is installed on the device this thread is about) SD cards with high enough speeds can be adopted onto the system storage and the combined size appears as a single block of internal storage to apps, they don't know they're running off an SD Card.
I'm iffy about that adoption system, as it also makes the cards useless as removable/swappable storage.

This because the adoption process formats and encrypts the card, thus anything stored on it can only be accessed from within the device that adopted it.

With SD cards so cheap nowadays I don't see why this should even be an issue.
Cleaner in some cases. MTP is horrible and slow and I often see myself using an SD card reader to transfer lots of things quickly.

Adaptable storage would prevent me from doing this.