I have a 64GB SD Card formatted as internal storage. And I would like to install apps into it. How can I do this?

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    1 year ago

    IIRC this used to be a thing on older versions of Android (Ice Cream Sandwich, etc.) but they restricted it to media only in later versions for security reasons.

    Someone please correct me if I’m misremembering!

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      1 year ago

      for security reasons.

      AKA to boost sales of new devices by making old devices unusable faster by preventing the user from upgrading storage.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah in hindsight I should’ve put ‘security reasons’ in inverted commas

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      1 year ago

      it worked on Lollipop but not later versions of android like marshmallow etc. Mind you I ran marshmallow and later as a custom ROM

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      Yes. It seems that MIUI has this feature disabled (at least, I can’t find it), though I think there’s a developer option about that. Anyways, I’m thinking of installing a custom rom because MIUI is cool but has a lot of problems. I’ll update if I find the developer option I was talking about.