How to revert my micro sd card to external storage again

[Android Central Question]

hi, i formatted my micro sd card to being an internal storage, my phone's storage was 64gb, but now that i did that it only shows 32gb (micro sd card size). How can i revert it?

 

[B. Diddy]

Welcome to Android Central! Which phone? Show us a screenshot of the Settings>Storage menu: http://forums.androidcentral.com/ge...ide-how-post-screenshots-android-central.html.

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[mustang7757]

Check your file manger but we need more information to better help.

 

[m4nuwu]

Hi! It's me. My phone is a POCO X3 NFC, i tried to take a screenshot but it says that i don't have enough space to take screenshots, but also it says that i have 22.9/32gb occupied.

 

[B. Diddy]

You don't see anything in that menu that references your SD card? What if you tap the Menu button there -- any options to manage the SD card?

 

[m4nuwu]

I can't even get to the storage menu, because if i tap on storage, i get back to the settings menu

 

[m4nuwu]

All the apps are working anyway, even if take out the sd card

 

[B. Diddy]

Hard to say what's going on, but probably some glitch with Adoptable Storage. We generally recommend against formatting SD cards as internal storage, because that relies on the integrity of the SD card (which tend to be less reliable then onboard memory, thus increasing the risk of system crashes if/when the card fails or becomes corrupt). In addition, there's always the risk of counterfeit cards, which claim to be larger than they actually are (and when they become full, they crash when the system tries to save more data to them.

You may just have to do a factory reset. I would normally suggest wiping the system cache partition, but I don't think that phone has the option.

 

[m4nuwu]

I will look after that option, thanks for the help!

 

[Javier P]

Welcome to the forums. How did you manage to set the card as internal/adoptable storage? Did you use Activity Launcher or any similar app?

 

[m4nuwu]

Yes, i used activity launcher

 

[Javier P]

Ugh. In most cases the only way to fix that situation is a factory reset. I'd recommend you to backup your data and be prepared for that.

 

[m4nuwu]

Ok, thanks! I will update when i finish the factory reset

 

[mustang7757]

Ugh. In most cases the only way to fix that situation is a factory reset. I'd recommend you to backup your data and be prepared for that.

I agree

 

[m4nuwu]

Hi! I just finished reinstalling everything. Now everything seems fine, thanks a lot to all of you!

 

[Javier P]

Hi! I just finished reinstalling everything. Now everything seems fine, thanks a lot to all of you!

Glad everything is working fine and thanks for the follow up. See you around the forums.