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[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Trigster:
I don't think it works correctly. I followed the directions as say, shows everything like it does on the guide. But... when I went to fill up the phone internal memory, I hit about 300 mb left, and nothing else will install.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] btravis.elm:
This is what im getting...

Error: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: command '45 volume partition disk:179:0 private' failed with '500 45 Unknown disk'

my disk name comes up as "disk:179,0" and im only seeing the one (assuming that is the SD card?)

EDIT: "shell@heroqlteatt:/ $ sm partition disk:179,0 private" Make sure you put the EXACT result of list-disks and not try to copy the tutorial too close. >.<
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] PunishedSnake:
There's one more step

Go into storage then sd card and select migrate
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Hobson318:
One thing that bothers me about the process is that at the end, your total storage is wrong. As in the authors posting my total storage showed 90 something gb of 128gb free. i only have a 32gb card installed. so total storage capacity should say 64gb, not 128gb. although cool i think i am going to hold off using this until someone figures out how to make it show the true amount of total storage. at which point i will toss in a larger and faster card.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] madAdam6LOVE:
+1 Keeping an eye on this thread, waiting for someone to solve the 179,0 issue as well as the incorrect total storage problem.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Hobson318:
What is the 179,0 issue? Think I missed that one.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] se1000:
Do people really need that much internal storage? There are several drawbacks with adoptable storage that I don't think are being considered. The S7 uses very fast UFS2 internal storage that's not just fast sequentially but also communicates on a full duplex bus (read and write at the same time). Even the fastest MicroSD cards today are not nearly as quick as the internal storage.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] PunishedSnake:
Obviously yes
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] madAdam6LOVE:
The guy who originally posted this method is using the European variant of the phone, which recognizes the SD card as volume 179:160. Using the U.S. variant, my phone, and others, shows the card as 179,0. When applying the fix to 179,0 the partition volume appears to change to 179,1 or 179,2, creating issues. See the comments in the Mocano thread:

http://www.modaco.com/news/android/...e-adoptable-storage-on-your-s7-s7-edge-r1632/
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Dwayne01:
I also get this issue and i'm in the UK.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] MattBooth:
Works well enough for me with 179,0. Storage shows the wrong total capacity, but that's fine.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] insang-droid:
Sorry but if your storage shows wrong capacity, that's NOT OK. You could end up with corrupt files.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] madAdam6LOVE:
May be fine for you. That's one of the issues I am concerned about.

How do you find performance using adoptable storage? Do you notice any slowdown?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] curioct:
Just a quick question, is this any better / worse than using a rooted phone and link2sd or the likes?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] robto:
Adoptable storage does not require root.... but forces encryption (will be a bit slower)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] madAdam6LOVE:
Have you tried to "migrate data" under the SD Card control panel?

Storage> SD Card> More> Migrate your data
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Hobson318:
Will that make the phone show the correct amount of storage?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] madAdam6LOVE:
Dunno, that's why I'm asking.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] PunishedSnake:
Did it work
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] BCSC:
Pay careful attention to the location the phone shows you. Mine was a . instead of a ,

Entering the correct value fixed this when I was receiving the same errors as others.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] PunishedSnake:
Can you elaborate?

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Has anyone done this and taken an OS update?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] BCSC:
The tutorial says to enter disk:179:160 . My when displayed by my computer was actually 179,0 My original comment was slightly incorrect as it was supposed to be : and , . If you separate the values 179 and 0, don't do it with a : as in the tutorial. Do what is displayed on the cmd window.

As far as the update question, I personally have not gotten an update yet but i dont think Rogers in Canada has even issued one yet.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] BCSC:
The overall amount showing as USED is incorrect but the sub categories below are showing the correct values.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] PunishedSnake:
Gotcha

The guy should've mentioned that everyone will show a different number. Most likely won't be the same number on each phone
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] brotbuexe:
Did anyone with adobtable storage and migrated data tried to "overcommit" the internal space? I read some posts saying they could not go over 32GB used storage on the sdcard.

Anyone tried backup/restore tools with this method enabled? Flashfire, TWRP, etc.? Any problems?

Anyone had an OTA with this enabled?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] roteweste:
Ok had the 179.0 text and a wrong storage number afterwards. Migrated the SD card and now nearly everything is perfect. (first number of overall used space sill wrong)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] brotbuexe:
long text, but in the end I might be just doing one completely wrong step.

By clicking the "migrate" action in the internal storage, the "internal sd" card storage will be moved into the internal storage itself. And this was my wrong step. Then all the data which normally is on /sdcard/Android/ will be in fact on the internal storage and filling the 32gb.

Now that I understand this it seems like to work the way it supposed to be.

I used the mixed way with splitting it to 50gb internal sd / 140gb external sd, because the write speed on the encrypted internal was half the speed.

So just dont click the migrate...
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] bezzinado:
Enable software installation

Use usb for software installation je ne trouve pas ce choix indispensable pour accomplir la tâche Merci
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] tgmbr:
I have converted my whole 200GB SD card to adaptive storage. Unfortunately right now system tells me that I have only 118 GB of storage. 90GB has disappeared somewhere.

Does anyone know hot to fix it?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] bezzinado:
I can not find the software installation option on my galaxy s7 .Thierry option is in the vidéohttps://youtu.be/H31UOrXJKH4
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] brotbuexe:
Maybe try again.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] tgmbr:
After second time everything works like a charm.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] kovacsabesz:
Hello,

I have got a Samsung Galaxy S 930F phone,

I was try this cupple of times ,but it's not working for me...

disk:179,0

I have got a 128GB Samsung Evo + 80Mb/s memory card!

After the last command.....My phone was reboot and I got System FC! :(

Is this SD card Samsung EVO+ 80Mb/s compatible? Or not? What is the problem? Only S7 Edge compatiblE,S7 not? Thanks guys.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] kovacsabesz:
When I connect the phone to usb I can't see "Software installation" in the Use USB for ...menu HELP S7 G930F
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] BCSC:
That card is compatible. I use it myself on a flat S7.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] kovacsabesz:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/b4o2tfviwpsl1bb/Screenshot_20160519-224544.jpg?dl=0

I have got same phone...but I can't do this....

I can't see the Use USB for : software installation " when my phone connect to pc ....

Do you have this option?

Do u using fastboot on your pc?

Or how do you make this?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] texwatson_1:
didn't work for me 179,0 or 179 neither works - invalid disk

[edit it did work, I forgot the word disk:] idiot
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Saptarshipc:
I'm also having same problem did you figure out how to solve the issue ?

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thank you very much buddy solved the issue
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] phoenix_rizzen:
Huzzah! It works. Read over 3 different tutorials, and still somehow missed the "private" part of the command.

Formatted a 64GB card on Friday, but couldn't figure out how to check if it was actually being used, and the info under Settings-->Storage was wonky. Didn't realise you had to click on SD Card --> More --> Migrate Data until reading the Android dev page on it.

Now, the total at the top shows about 3.5x the actual space used and shows a total of 128 GB, but the info underneath for the two partitions is correct.

Yay!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] krogoth:
Just use the app "Root Essentials" it will do the job correctly and super easy.

It's free.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.superthomaslab.rootessentials
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] phoenix_rizzen:
Only if you have root. If you don't, then it just shows you what to do, but you still have to read it closely and type the commands in manually via "adb shell".
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] matale0:
Is it worth to do it?

My sd card is it good enough?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] kovacsabesz:
Why it's not working for me?

Comon..... I can't understand! :(
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] brotbuexe:
Yes and yes
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] matale0:
[MENTION=4671410]matale0[/MENTION]
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] matale0:
Done it. Thats what I ended up with

Exynos S7E 128GB sd card

Can anyone confirm its correct result?

Wonder wheres 256GB come from? Guess its bug
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] alexnalexn:
Just wonder,

if I enable adoptable storage on my S7 with Sandisk Extreme Pro MicroSD 64GB 95MB/S,

will the phone write/read speed be slowed down ?

Or it will not have any impact for daily usage ?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] matale0:
So before i had internal 32GB + external 128GB

And now internal 118GB

Where the rest go? Looks messed up a bit.

[MENTION=4671410]matale0[/MENTION]
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] brotbuexe:
Yes just display bug.

I did not see any slowdown. It only moves the internal sdcard to the real sdcard. The app and normal app data is still on the 32gb internal storage. Only apps that are designed for it saves some of its content to this sdcard storage.

And you can move some apks to the external sdcard. But I would do this only when the internal storage is full...

Looks normal. You only see the sdcard storage on the pc. So 128gb is unformatted and thousands of bytes... So 118 would be correct. The 32gb is now all internal and does not show up on the pc, and it was never 32gb storage...

btw, the adopted storage is force encrypted. The en-/decryption costs cpu and speed. If you have a big enough sdcard, I would recommend a mixed mode. You can split the sdcard space with the sm command. "sm partition disk:179,0 mixed 50" will split 50/50. 50% encrypted as the new internal sd and 50% external sd unencrypted like before.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] brotbuexe:
The difference. First is the unencrypted part of the card. Second the adopted part.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] matale0:
Reverted for now.

[MENTION=4671410]matale0[/MENTION]
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] alexnalexn:
If I enabled the adoptable storage with my current MircoSD card,

later on, I want to change a new MicroSD card,

can I simply backup the phone and replace a new card ?

Besides, what are the advantages to enable adoptable storage ?

For installation more Apps on the mobile only ?

Or some more advantages ?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] brotbuexe:
You would have to migrate back to the phone which works only if there is enough storage or you delete some stuff before. Then you switch the card, enable adoptable storage again and migrate the content to it.

Only benefit is getting more internal data and internal sdcard space. First people hitting the space problem are currently gearvr users, because oculus seems to forgot that sdcards exists and downloads all content and app data to internal storage and none of the apps are enabled for androids native move to sdcard (they have 500mb apks in the oculus store...).
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] kovacsabesz:
So, IT'S NOT WORKING FOR ME:

I have G930F

Samsung EVO+ 80Mb/s speed 128Gb SD Card

1: Download adb

2: I formated sd card by PC fat32

3: Enable USB debugging

4: Conect phone to PC

5: Open a command by "shift" in adb folder

6: my phone connect to PC with "Transferring image (Transfer images and other files via PTP connection if MTP is not supported) I DON'T HAVE "Software installation " option!!!!!

7: Type: adb devices (Enable it on the phone)

8: adb shell

9: sm list-disks (my 179,0)

10: sm partition disk:179,0 private

11: Nothing happening ,after 30 sec my phone reboot and I got the next messege: Process system isn't responding Do you want to close it?

The phone is not working anymore perfectly need to flash a new rom!!!

Any idea???????
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] drezman:
9 shows 179:0 but 10 shows 179,0
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] kovacsabesz:
Yes sorry, 179,0 and 179,0....

I make mistake here, not in the method....
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] phoenix_rizzen:
You don't need to flash a new ROM, just remove the SD card and it'll boot normally. Then do the process again. It happened to me, and everything worked on the second try.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] simaand:
I have adoptable storage enabled, and my phone keeps telling me that i'm running out of space. (trust me i'm not even close to the capacity of my 240gb sd card.) Any ideas? thanks!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] kovacsabesz:
I will try next time!

Thanks,but I was tried this method maybe 15 times......I gave it up!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] brotbuexe:
Did you migrate the data to the adoptable sdcard? This is the last step in the process.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] lishan89:
burst mode

If you do this your burst mode in camera will stop functioning and will crash you camera app every time you hold the shutter for too long. I really hope someone knows a way to either disable burst shot mode or allow the burst photos to be stored in internal storage that way it doesn;t crash due to the slower speeds of the sd card.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Fuanda:
Well i gave it a shot, used it for a month until the internal memory filled up, th phone refuses to use the SD card, i guess there was additional code removed by samsung that's preventing proper function, even tried data migration, but it tries to recopy itself on the internal memory, i guess i'll have to go back to factory status.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] lishan89:
You need to migrate the data by selecting the sd card then under more on the top right you click migrate data
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] bliu:
How do you 'migrate back' to the phone? In the SD card submenu, there is "Unmount" and "Format as portable storage" - which one should you use?

I've been using adaptable storage for ~3 weeks now and have had numerous lockups/reboots, which I suspect are due to using adaptable storage, despite having a card that *should* be fast enough. (Only other major change since I started getting the lockups was the May security patch, but I don't see anybody having issues with that.) I'm probably going to delete the Oculus apps so I have enough of a buffer on the internal memory to not need it anymore, but want to make sure I do it properly.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] brotbuexe:
The migrate storage is on the internal storage, because you will migrate to it.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] gege0202:
one question, when i have adoptable storage and when i make an update to the rom. what will happen to the adoptable storage?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] brotbuexe:
OTA, update through Odin or flashing a new version through Flashfire will not break adoptable storage.

Only a factory reset will kill the adoptable storage.

I did not try to boot the s7 without the sdcard yet.

But because this is an unsupported option, any update could break this...
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] gege0202:
great !

thanks
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] oplix:
Adoptable Storage is broken and completely useless on S7. Once internal storage is filled, it will not fill the SD card as it should. There is actually a performance PENALTY for using it over an unencrypted SD card. Adoptable Storage forces encryption which will bottleneck the already bottle necked I/O performance of the SD card.

Not only that, but in practical theory, solid state storage will degrade in I/O performance once it is filled past a certain % (look up SSD over provisioning). With Adoptable Storage, you are basically guaranteeing this scenario eventually as internal storage is always filled first.

It's quite unsettling how "yolo" people are with these things and just take some guy's half assed hack as fact. I think Samsung engineers understood this quite well from the beginning.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] garyd9:
As with anything, it's often how you use it. If you don't fill your internal storage, then it's not "broken and completely useless."

In fact, unless you load a ton of apps that prevent loading to the sdcard, it actually becomes difficult to fill internal storage once you move your data to the SD card. I loaded around 70 GB of data on my device (which has the entire sdcard set as adoptable storage) and have no problem whatsoever.

As a bonus, any programs I have that normally wouldn't work correctly with a sdcard work perfectly if the sdcard is adopted. For example, I'm able to store all my photos on my SDCard (via adoptable storage), and google photos can delete the local copies. (google photos can't delete local photos if they are stored on a non-adopted sdcard.)

There is most certainly a performance penalty with even the fastest U3 sdcards, but the encryption doesn't make it worse. The slowest link is reading/writing the data (encrypted or otherwise.) The actual encrypting and decrypting takes place in RAM and happens MUCH faster than the read/write I/O - so no actual penalty (unless you're CPU limited - but you'd have issues there with internal storage as well.)

In other words, in absolute time, the performance "penalty" for encryption on an SDcard is identical to the "penalty" for encryption on the internal storage.

umm... How some SSD controllers optimize isn't the same as how an SDCard works. SSD over provisioning is something done to give the controller "elbow space" to write data before it has time to perform garbage collection (and erase memory cells) and avoid what is common referred to as a "steady state." The SDCard controller doesn't have the luxury of such fancy optimizations, so you are ALWAYS working in a "steady state" in the sdcard world.

Being that you didn't bother, I'll give a link that describes why many SSD's are over provisioned: http://www.seagate.com/tech-insights/ssd-over-provisioning-benefits-master-ti/

You have valid points with the SDcard being slower than internal storage for read/write, with it not being natively supported by Samsung's UI, and possibly with bugs coming up when the internal storage is filled (even if this last condition is difficult to meet.) You points on encryption and "over provisioning", however, are wrong.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] nsmart:
Unfortunatley camera burst mode is still incompatible with adoptable storage. After I successfully turned on adoptable storage and migrated my data to sdcard, I even noticed that copying large files to sdcard (by using mtp on my windows pc) is significally faster compared to copying on the encrypted sdcard without adoptable storage. But if you press the camera shutter too long the burst mode will freeze the camera app. You can kill the task, if device was previously unlocked. If your device is locked and you start the camera by double pressing the home button and then accidentally use burst mode, the camera app freezes and the only thing you can do is a reboot as you can not access task manager to kill the app.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] hkronald:
I tried, but not working for me? anyone please help?

C:\Windows\system32>adb shell

shell@hero2qlteatt:/ $ sm list-disks

disk:179,0

shell@hero2qlteatt:/ $ sm partition disk:179,0 private

shell@hero2qlteatt:/ $

Seem like nothing happened after the partition command.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] peachpuff:
Did you goto storage/sdcard and click on migrate?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Blazerguy5:
Please help

It says checking sd card on my phone how do I undo this I don't have an SD card reader so please help
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Clorofila:
Ive done it multiple times but just doesn't seem to work correctly. It just makes my S7 slower every time and tried Link2SD. Pisses me off to no end because the damn ext always gets corrupted no matter what.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Peanuttree:
Peachpuff,

I get the same error. Nothing happens. Did you find a fix for it?

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Sorry I mean I have the same issue. After I return the last command, (sm partition disk:179,0 private) the next command line pops up immediately. It's really frustrating, I can figure out what I'm doing wrong.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] peachpuff:
Never had this issue.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Peanuttree:
Sorry, the question should have been directed to hkronald.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] panosru:
how can I revert?

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Ok got it, "sm partition disk:179,64 public"
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] alexxandrepeixoto:
Now im trying to migrate, thanks for tip ;)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] nofixedabode:
I have been trying this for hours, including using the software on this thread but it closes down by itself before I can do anything http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2588979

rI put "adb shell" into Windows Command Prompt, however it says "'adt' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program of hatch file". USB debugging mode is on aswell as developer mode.

It's a Samsung J5 8GB - I am trying to make the SD card become internal storage (as you can see why!).

Thank you for any future help!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] cellphonechris:
Does this format your card, or is your data intact afterwards? I'm looking to upgrade to the Note7 but want to be sure to backup everything before I do. I have a 200GB card that I made 100% adoptable on my S7 edge when I got it.