[Moto G 2015 General] @niket:
An experiment that might help many users!!!

I tried this feature on moto e (CM13) as an experiment for almost a week till i received my new SD card for moto g (Full Stock) today.

& now on moto g3 after receiving my new card.

I must say, it doesnt perform exactly the way everyone was expecting but feature works correctly to save your phone from getting unusable

this is what i believe is reality

what everyone was thinking?

to directly merge both internal & SD card together & give you combined storage of 48GB/80GB(32GB/64GB card on 16GB varient)

what exactly feature does?

it accounts SD card as internal=YES but there's condition, SD card behaves as Internal storage only for apps installed from play store after formatting as internal.

the apps which were in internal memory before formatting as internal will remain in actual internal memory

that is the reason when you should allow it to move data to SD card just after formatting when it asks (u must do this)

also the all kind of media data, backups data, sharing/transferred data using wifi/BT/SHAREit will be stored/moved to SD card

also all new apps you install from play store, they get installed directly on SD card

Also I verified that, during updating of apps from play store, they directly get updated on SD card only (which were on SD).

the apps on internal will get updated in internal only

I updated around 19 apps from play store & the difference can be understood from screenshots that i've attached

in short & simple words,

all apps installed before formatting as internal will remain in internal memory

all apps installed after formatting as internal will get installed/updated on SD card

I guess, default apps will always stay inside your actual internal memory only as they come pre-installed

this must be done & this should be done this way only bcz they are extremely important apps for device to function correctly.

in other way, if the both storages were merged & something happens to SD card then you & your phone are finished.

I hope my post clears doubts for most of the users

it's your choice what you want.

what you should do if you are formatting as internal?

just remember on thing,

when you format as internal, don't forget to say YES when it asks to move data just after finishing formatting.

IMO, this feature will serve its best for

new buyers

&

fresh starters

according to scenario I've experienced

My phones' current state:

Moto E 1st Gen (CM13) with Samsung Evo 32GB UHS-1 U1 Class 10 formatted as Internal

Moto G 3rd Gen (Full Stock) with Sandisk Extreme Pro 64GB UHS-1 U3 Class 10 formatted as Internal

Just to mention FYI, exactly just before formatting as internal OR moving data to SD just after completion of formatting, Internal storage was almost 8.3GB occupied out of total available 11.81GB

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after this I installed GT Racing 2 (approx 0.90GB)

now card has 5.08GB occupied space