A number of Marshmallow (Android 6) users have complained of insufficient / low storage space for installing applications despite having much unused space on their SD card. This brief guide will teach you how to easily convert those several free Gigabytes on your external SanDisk card to Internal Storage.
How can I convert / use my SD card as Internal Storage on my Android Marshmallow phone?
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1. Switch off the phone, insert the SD card you wish to use as internal storage then boot up the phone. You should get a notification that a new SD card has been detected; double tap the notification
2. Tick Use as internal storage then tap Next
3. Tap Erase & format (ensure to have backed up important stuff on it)
4. Wait while the SD card gets formatted
5. Tick Move now or Move later depending on when you wish to move media files from the internal storage to the newly prepared SD card then tap Next
6. Tap Done
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34 comments on “How to use an external SD card as Internal Storage on an Android phone running on Android 6 (Marshmallow)”
Charlae4ive
July 7, 2016 at 7:22 pmThis cant work on Tecno C8 ooooooooo…..running Android 6.0….and i really wush i can use my sd card as my installation storage
Hovatek
July 7, 2016 at 7:29 pmtested and confirmed on an Infinix Hot 2 Marshmallow
Stephanie
July 12, 2017 at 9:58 amHow please cause I want to download a movie and. I want it to save and I have 7.4gb free but I don’t know how to use it
Hovatek
July 12, 2017 at 10:34 amYou want to know how to download this movie to your external SD card instead of phone storage. Is that right6?
Desmond
July 8, 2016 at 2:37 amBoss can the memory card be used on another phone because I heard that if you format as internal ..it cannot be used on another devices
Hovatek
July 8, 2016 at 9:58 amYou can use it on another device, you’ll just have to re-format it
Stephanie
July 12, 2017 at 9:57 amHow do u reformat it
Gaurav
July 31, 2016 at 3:52 pmNEED A CWM FOR MARSHMALLOW RUNNING GIONEE S PLUS PHONE
Hovatek
July 31, 2016 at 3:53 pmwe’ve sent you an email
Tobi
August 15, 2016 at 10:19 pmPls how do I root & install twrp on my infinix hot S ?
Hovatek
August 16, 2016 at 6:22 amwhats the Android version?
Tobi
August 16, 2016 at 8:27 amAndroid 6.0 marshmallow
Hovatek
August 17, 2016 at 4:19 pmDo you have the firmware?
Tobi
August 16, 2016 at 10:05 pmAndroid 6.0 marshmallow
Adekunle Samuel Akorede
December 9, 2016 at 4:29 pmPlease is it working on Tecno W3 cod right now, it isn’t
Hovatek
December 15, 2016 at 4:34 pmSome have complained that it isn’t.
We’ll look into this
Opeoluwa
February 3, 2017 at 5:09 amPlease help out. it doesn’t work on my Tecno w3. what’s the solution?
thanks in anticipation.
Hovatek
February 5, 2017 at 7:18 pmWith HIOS, you’ll need to use root + lucky patcher + Link2SD
Adedeji
February 6, 2017 at 9:30 pmPlease after this, what’s next?
Hovatek
February 9, 2017 at 11:25 amThats all. Apps and their data will subsequently be saved to the SD card
Femi
February 10, 2017 at 12:38 pmWith HIOS, pls do write d full steps on how to use root + lucky patcher + Link2SD in order to move apps to SD card so that we can gain access to it. Thank you.
Nabilson
March 21, 2017 at 11:54 pmPlz help me
My tecno w3 doesnt support that
Plz send the email to me
[email protected]
Omotessy Johnson
April 18, 2017 at 12:39 pmSd card is not working as internal memory on my itel s11. I tried d step u put online pls he can I use SD card 4 internal memory
Hovatek
April 18, 2017 at 4:20 pmThis might not work on non-stock Marshmallow. You would require root
Abdulraheem Khadijat Temitope
June 20, 2017 at 4:35 pmI can’t save anything on my memory card
Hovatek
June 20, 2017 at 5:41 pmCould you explain what you mean in detail
oluwaseun
July 13, 2017 at 7:32 pmbro @hovatek
my phone pro is dat d video on memory card will not display on my video player app and all file playing video until I go into xender app to play it
Hovatek
July 13, 2017 at 10:30 pmTry using VLC and let me know if it persists.
lisy
July 24, 2017 at 8:16 pmi doesn’t work.. i tried it but it doesn’t show the notification it just say sd card ready to use
Hovatek
July 24, 2017 at 8:30 pmWhat’s the phone model?
Lisy
July 24, 2017 at 9:03 pmTecno c7
Hovatek
July 24, 2017 at 9:18 pmIt doesn’t work on HIOS.
chigozirim
August 5, 2017 at 9:16 amsir plz I am using itel s11 Android 6.0 but it’s still not showing that sign. I have donated my phone more than two times still it’s not working pls sir what will I do to it
Hovatek
August 6, 2017 at 12:47 pmhave you formatted the SD card?