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It's been a while since I set up an Android for someone and maybe someone in here can shed some light on this....
A coworker bought a Tracfone sim card for a newly bought Moto X Pure edition and the service was transferred ok. Inserted a 64 gig Sandisk micro card and in the storage area of settings it shows the card there with the amount of storage available. But when I'm in the camera app and pull the menu over, it does not show the card icon for me to tell it to store all of their pics and videos to the card (???).
The first card I had in there did the same thing - I unmounted it, and when I tried to mount it again, the phone said it's a corrupted card (it was new, out of the box). Now, again, the icon isn't appearing for this other one. I formatted it for "internal storage". Afraid to unmount it and try to mount again as it could correct it in-camera again. They have no other cards I can use to try and don't want to spend $$ of course for anymore. Any idea what's going on here?? I've tried pulling out out and re-inserting it, and rebooting the phone. Same thing.. shows up in settings as storage in the phone but the icon doesn't show in the camera app so I can't tell it to store pics there.
Again - been a while since I've tinkered with an Android but this is stumping me.
Found an answer for those who run across this... in Android 6.0 and up, when you put a micro SD card in, it will give you the choice of making it "internal storage" or "portable storage". If you choose internal storage as we did, it integrates and merges the phone's built-in storage with the SD card, essentially making it all one large clump of memory for the phone. You don't have to designate pics go into the card because after you do this it sees the card as part of the phone's memory and will put future apps/photos/videos on it. Interesting in theory, but if the card goes corrupt, bam. And, once you do it, you can't remove the card or the phone gets wonky.
So choose "portable storage" when setting it up and it should act like the old way of doing things.
Found an answer for those who run across this... in Android 6.0 and up, when you put a micro SD card in, it will give you the choice of making it "internal storage" or "portable storage". If you choose internal storage as we did, it integrates and merges the phone's built-in storage with the SD card, essentially making it all one large clump of memory for the phone. You don't have to designate pics go into the card because after you do this it sees the card as part of the phone's memory and will put future apps/photos/videos on it. Interesting in theory, but if the card goes corrupt, bam. And, once you do it, you can't remove the card or the phone gets wonky.
So choose "portable storage" when setting it up and it should act like the old way of doing things.
This is a good feature of the Android 6.0 that we can use it for both external as well as internal storage.
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