It's pretty easy to notice there are a number of people not too happy with Marshmallow. This is not everyone but still it seems like a number of people are not happy with some of the changes including the handling of sd cards. The sd card changes will not apply to nexus devices or any phone without an sd card slot so this part will not apply. I thought maybe it might be a good idea to post changes to marshmallow that might might not be the best idea according to some of us or in my opinion where google jumped the shark with marshmallow. Feel free to add anything I miss or get wrong and I will add it here in the first post.
There will probably be changes in the future to Marshmallow but for now this is it.
1. Adoptive Storage.
The sdcard becomes part of the internal storage, in reality it's not really as you cannot move some apps and it it were part of internal that would not happen.
By Design.
Apps that you could not add to portable storage before, as in lollipop and before, you still cannot add to adoptive storage.
If your device will no longer boot up and you have to restore you have lost everything in adoptive mode. It is encrypted and you can no longer access it. I formatted my disk on the wife's windows laptop to windows 32 and then formatted by terminal on my mac to dos32 to use it again. For this reason it's not good for backups or storage.
Bugs
If you add an app that should not be on adoptive it will just disappear. I had it happen on 2 devices, I'm sure it's just some apps as the ones you could not move before.
Automatic moving of apps does not always work. I reformatted and reinstalled many times and somethimes it would move apps automatically and sometimes I had to move them.
Automatically moving some apps would mess it up. I remember using force2sd in the early years and forcing some apps would cause it to not boot up or boot loop. I had, on several occasions, this happen with automatically moved apps. I fund it better to manually move them, If you wait until you have a bunch of apps installed before formatting to internal it stays stuck on manual which was better in my case.
2. Portable Storage
It's for storage, period.
By Design
You can no longer move apps to portable storage as you could in earlier versions. That is eliminated, period.
You can no longer place files, such as maps, for apps such as sygic on the sd card. It says it is not allowed in 6.0
App access has been severely limited in marshmallow as for what they can do.
You can no longer access internal storage. If an app downloads to internal storage, such as a music app, browser, etc. then it's there and you are not getting it unless you remove the sd card.
Bugs
So far I do not know of any bugs in this mode, let me know if you think of any.
Marshmallow Plusses
Doze, I do think it makes a difference.
Ability to add percentage to battery icon.
Again, post anything I have missed, I will add it and give credits at the bottom of the post. Maybe some will read this before updating and they will see a little of what is coming.
There will probably be changes in the future to Marshmallow but for now this is it.
1. Adoptive Storage.
The sdcard becomes part of the internal storage, in reality it's not really as you cannot move some apps and it it were part of internal that would not happen.
By Design.
Apps that you could not add to portable storage before, as in lollipop and before, you still cannot add to adoptive storage.
If your device will no longer boot up and you have to restore you have lost everything in adoptive mode. It is encrypted and you can no longer access it. I formatted my disk on the wife's windows laptop to windows 32 and then formatted by terminal on my mac to dos32 to use it again. For this reason it's not good for backups or storage.
Bugs
If you add an app that should not be on adoptive it will just disappear. I had it happen on 2 devices, I'm sure it's just some apps as the ones you could not move before.
Automatic moving of apps does not always work. I reformatted and reinstalled many times and somethimes it would move apps automatically and sometimes I had to move them.
Automatically moving some apps would mess it up. I remember using force2sd in the early years and forcing some apps would cause it to not boot up or boot loop. I had, on several occasions, this happen with automatically moved apps. I fund it better to manually move them, If you wait until you have a bunch of apps installed before formatting to internal it stays stuck on manual which was better in my case.
2. Portable Storage
It's for storage, period.
By Design
You can no longer move apps to portable storage as you could in earlier versions. That is eliminated, period.
You can no longer place files, such as maps, for apps such as sygic on the sd card. It says it is not allowed in 6.0
App access has been severely limited in marshmallow as for what they can do.
You can no longer access internal storage. If an app downloads to internal storage, such as a music app, browser, etc. then it's there and you are not getting it unless you remove the sd card.
Bugs
So far I do not know of any bugs in this mode, let me know if you think of any.
Marshmallow Plusses
Doze, I do think it makes a difference.
Ability to add percentage to battery icon.
Again, post anything I have missed, I will add it and give credits at the bottom of the post. Maybe some will read this before updating and they will see a little of what is coming.
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