Despite that every samsung flagship sans the galaxy s6 lineup and the galaxy note 5 has a microsd card slot samsung chose not to support adoptable storage on their devices.
Samsung galaxy s8 plus adoptable storage.
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Since adoptable storage formats the microsd card to a file system that isn t supported not by default on smartphones.
The galaxy s8 doesn t have a built in adoptable storage feature that allows you to blend your internal memory and your microsd card memory together.
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Despite the 64gb worth of allocation from nowhere the phone internal storage will report getting full after a small period use of the phone.
Samsung and google doesn t support adoptable storage because it s way slower than built in flash storage especially on s8 that features ufs 2 1 and causes unstable slow system performance.
Hey quick video showing default storage on the new samsung galaxy s8 plus.
But samsung blocked this feature and.
Samsung galaxy s8 and s8 sometimes has some weird memory issues.
Galaxy s8 s8 does not support adoptable storage feature.
Sometimes the issue points to some app you might have installed but often not.
Here is tool you can use to free the memory without resetting the phone.
On these devices.
If you want to use it as internal memory you need to format micro sd and encrypt it.
No matter how much storage space you have on your samsung galaxy s8 or galaxy s8 plus you will always want more.
However you can force any app to write to sd card by enabling this feature in developer options.
In dual sim version of galaxy s8 and s8 slot 2 in the sim card tray can be used for either a sim card or a micro sd card but not both in other words if you are using two sim cards in galaxy s8 and s8 you cannot use micro sd card.
It s the secret power of these amazing smartphones and their impressive technological might they lure you into downloading music taking photographs and filming videos downloading all kinds of things up until you are running out of space.
When the galaxy s7 and galaxy s7 edge came out without support for adoptable storage samsung said it decided to skip the feature as users like to use their microsd cards for transferring files between different devices.
Newer android devices.