Google Play and storage spage

[Turrah]

Greetings,

This is my first post and I'll try to provide as much relevant information as possible and I'll try to kjeep my antipathy towards Google in check.

My phone is an LG Moto G (2nd Generation) that is ~2 years old using Android version 6.0 with 8 GM built in memory with 32 GB removable memory. I believe that as of recently, Android is supposed to treat these two storage locations as one drive, but that does not seem to be the case. Previously, I did not download music for non wifi play due to the small available storage on the 8 GB built in memory. However, with the "consolidation" of the two memory locations, you would expect that the OS would have the sense to use all available space.

Today, however, I took a chance (never a good idea with anything technology related) and started to have the device download my playlists only then took a shower. When I was finished, my phone was freaking about no space, etc. So I checked and sure enough, under Settings >> Storage & USB, there are three items. Android OS, Internal storage, and ScanDisk SD card. The latter has 1.63/29.24 GB used and the Internal Storage was nearly full. (Not sure what it was because I have since deleted all my music and restarted the phone.)

Thoughts? Suggestions? Am I an *****?

I've worked in the tech industry for the last 20 years (networking) so I'm not a Luddite, but for the life of me, Android phones are so illogical in many ways I'm sure the only reason people buy them is because they either hate Apple or the can't afford an iPhone. I'm in the latter category.

 

[Golfdriver97]

Welcome to the forums. I would suggest this: remove anything off the card you want to keep, then have the phone format the card. It should then prompt of you want the card to be set up as adoptable storage or not.

As for Android being illogical, it's based on Linux, so it will do things differently from say Windows.

 

[Turrah]

Welcome to the forums. I would suggest this: remove anything off the card you want to keep, then have the phone format the card. It should then prompt of you want the card to be set up as adoptable storage or not.

As for Android being illogical, it's based on Linux, so it will do things differently from say Windows.

I formatted the card three weeks ago and made it "adoptable" (such a meaningless word in this implementation) which in itself was a nightmare, but I digress...

I don't think Android being based on Linux is illogical. I think the user experience / ease of use and clarity for the non tech leaves a lot to be desired. That is OS agnostic - it's pure hubris.

 

[Turrah]

Here are some relevant photos I snapped as I tried to recreate the problem.

 

[Golfdriver97]

I've seen that before...about a week or two ago, as I recall. I tried downloading the podcast and Play wouldn't let me. I just downloaded through the AC app instead.

I totally forgot about this...I meant to report it to Google.

As for your situation...have you tried doing a cache clear for the Music app?

 

[Turrah]

I've seen that before...about a week or two ago, as I recall. I tried downloading the podcast and Play wouldn't let me. I just downloaded through the AC app instead.

I totally forgot about this...I meant to report it to Google.

As for your situation...have you tried doing a cache clear for the Music app?

Yes, I know how to clear the cache and stuff. And delete the downloaded music. I just can't figure out why it doesn't seem to be using the copious free space that I have. I have a brother that is a programmer works very closely with google products and develops apps and the only thing he could come up with is that maybe the media is too slow and not utilizing the removable storage because of it but that doesn't ring true somehow. Everything is fine until I want to download some music locally. I mean I guess I can use wifi since it's so ubiquitous, it's just such a huge product gap it's baffling.

Thanks for the replies. I appreciate it.

 

[Golfdriver97]

Yes, I know how to clear the cache and stuff. And delete the downloaded music. I just can't figure out why it doesn't seem to be using the copious free space that I have. I have a brother that is a programmer works very closely with google products and develops apps and the only thing he could come up with is that maybe the media is too slow and not utilizing the removable storage because of it but that doesn't ring true somehow. Everything is fine until I want to download some music locally. I mean I guess I can use wifi since it's so ubiquitous, it's just such a huge product gap it's baffling.

Thanks for the replies. I appreciate it.

I missed saying something in my previous post. I am running a Nexus 5X, albeit with a custom ROM, but I still saw that message. So, in my case, I kinda chalked it up to a bug somewhere in the ROM, not the app. However, since you spotted something similar, I will remember to report it later.