Why is internal storage free space to sd card

[Android Central Question]

Phone Internal storage is full needs to free space (move) sd card

 

[belodion]

Your title doesn’t really make sense. What do you mean?

Some of what is in phone storage may be movable to an SD card, yes.

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[mustang7757]

Which phone?
How much storage it has ?
Try this app to determine what's taking storage up.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.diskusage

 

[B. Diddy]

Welcome to Android Central! SD cards don't really help much in most cases, because unless your phone supports Adoptable Storage, you can only use the card to save data like documents, photos, media files, etc. You can't install apps to the card.

See this guide: [GUIDE] Android Storage Memory and How to Deal with Insufficient Storage Warnings - Android Forums at AndroidCentral.com

 

[ManiacJoe]

SD cards are great places to store your photos, videos, documents, music, etc.
Leave the apps on the internal storage where they belong.

Many of the current apps that use lots of data storage (camera, maps, GPS, games) let you put their data on the SD card while leaving the app on the internal storage.

 

[mrop]

You're saying you want to move apps to SD Card to free your Internal Storage?

 

[Rukbat]

Moving apps to the SD card has 2 problems:

1. The app is moved as separate pieces - some get moved, others don't. If the piece that keeps the current state of the app (all Android apps have to do that) is moved to the SD card, it could be writing to the card many times a second. That destroys the SD card.

2. If the card goes bad, you can't reinstall the app, because Android sees it as installed. But you can't delete it - some parts of it aren't accessible. So you have to do a factory reset, and that gets rid of all your data (and any apps you've installed). That's a lot of work (restoring everything from a backup) just to replace a bad card.

Bottom line: If the phone doesn't have enough storage the solution is a phone with more storage. (That's one reason people upgrade - they buy the cheapest phone they can [meaning the one with the least storage]. Then, when apps get larger [they always do, as time goes on], or they need more apps, they have to get a phone with more storage. Buy a phone that has twice as much storage as you think you'll need by the time you replace the phone.)