I have a Samsung Galaxy J3 V. It's a 16 GB, which it turns out isn't much space... so I bought a 60 GB SD card. But I'm finding that many of my bigger apps like Facebook, Messenger and Waze switch back to the device memory sometime after the transfer to the card. I keep exporting them, and finding them back in device memory days later. What is going on, and is there a way to keep them on the card?
You're not moving the entire app to the SD, only parts that the developer indicates can be moved are moved. Also, the apps are moved back to internal memory when they get updated, Android can only update apps on internal storage.
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You'll also find that running apps that have been "moved" to the SD card can often lead to premature failure of the card. (Apps have to constantly keep their current state stored, so that if you bring another app over, say, Facebook, when you go back to Facebook you don';t want it starting all over again, in case Android need the RAM space and killed Facebook. So it brings it back saying, in effect, "start where you left off", and it's right there a few pages down from the top - where you left it. It looks to you as if Facebook has been running all along.)
If one of the pieces of the app that gets moved to the SD card is the piece that saves its current state is on the SD card, it saves it to the SD card. Every time you move anything on the screen. SD cards are rated by the number of writes they can take. It's huge, but it's not infinite. So, eventually, all those writes kill the card. That's why the minimum size phone I'd recommend, if you're planning on getting rid of it in late 2018-early 2019, would be 32GB. If you're planning on keeping it for a while - I bought a 128GB Pixel 2, because I'm not planning on replacing it for about 4 years.
If one of the pieces of the app that gets moved to the SD card is the piece that saves its current state is on the SD card, it saves it to the SD card. Every time you move anything on the screen. SD cards are rated by the number of writes they can take. It's huge, but it's not infinite. So, eventually, all those writes kill the card. That's why the minimum size phone I'd recommend, if you're planning on getting rid of it in late 2018-early 2019, would be 32GB. If you're planning on keeping it for a while - I bought a 128GB Pixel 2, because I'm not planning on replacing it for about 4 years.
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