Galaxy S8 Adoptable Storage

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.

Galaxy s8 adoptable storage.

Connect your galaxy s8to your computer or laptop. 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. The disk id will appear.

Make a note of the microsd card disk id. However you can force any app to write to sd card by enabling this feature in developer options. Galaxy s8 s8 does not support adoptable storage feature. 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.

Press enter then find the id of the microsd card in your galaxy s8. Since android marshmallow adoptable storage i e using micro sd card as internal storage has been introduced. To do this type sm list disks in the cmd window. If you want to use it as internal memory you need to format micro sd and encrypt it.

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