Galaxy S8 Adoptable Storage

With adoptable storage android encrypts the external sd card being used as internal storage thus it gets tied to a specific android device.

Galaxy s8 adoptable storage.

You can use micro sd card in galaxy s8 and s8 as portable storage to expand the storage if you want to keep a lot of offline media files with you in the phone. But samsung blocked this feature and therefore you can only use micro sd card in galaxy s8 and s8 as portable storage not internal storage. However you can force any app to write to sd card by enabling this feature in developer options. Mainly adoptable storage is the technology applied to devices with low internal memory capacity due to technology constraints or price issues.

How to enable adoptable storage on galaxy s8. Galaxy s8 s8 does not support adoptable storage feature. Make a note of the microsd card disk id. 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.

Open the cmd command terminal and type adb shell. The disk id will appear. Since android marshmallow adoptable storage i e using micro sd card as internal storage has been introduced. If you want to use it as internal memory you need to format micro sd and encrypt it.

The key used to encrypt the data on the sd card is. To do this type sm list disks in the cmd window.