Whether its images, music, videos or applications we know that the most important stuff on people's phones is stored in the user memory.
INTERNAL MEMORY
Motorola Moto X Style Android smartphone. Announced Jul 2015. Features 5.7″ IPS LCD display, Snapdragon 808 chipset, 21 MP primary camera, 5 MP front camera, 3000 mAh battery, 64 GB storage, 3.
To see how much internal storage is available for use, perform the following steps:
- Touch Apps
- Touch Settings
- Scroll down the screen, then touch Storage
- The available device memory displays in the Internal Storage section
SD CARD
Find out more about SD cards using Android 6.0 (Marshmallow)..
The device also supports micro SD cards up to 128GB (card is sold separately)
Important Note: SD cards are not 'hot-swappable' >> The phone has to be turned off to safely remove the card.
To see how much internal storage is available for use, perform the following steps:
- Touch Apps
- Touch Settings
- Scroll down the screen, then touch Storage
- The total and available storage card space is displayed in the SD card section
Moving Media to the SD card
When inserting a SD card post-purchase, your device will help you free internal storage by offering to move pictures, movies and music stored internally to the SD card, through the Move Media application. Move media will only move content which is safe to move: pictures, movies and music. Items are moved from internal storage to the card, and are moved to the same location on the card. As an example, a picture stored on your internal storage at this location : /sdcard0/DCIM/MattJones.JPG will simply be moved to /sdcard1/DCIM/MattJones.JPG (on the SD card). Content will still be visible to media consuming applications (Gallery, Music) after being moved.
The Move Media dialog on card insertion will only displayed once for each SD card, and only if there is content to move. You can invoke it manually from storage settings at any time.
Configuring the Motorola Camera application to store pictures, movies on your SD card
When an SD card in present, you can set the card as the default storage location for your pictures from the camera application.
Out of the box, captured pictures and movies will always be stored on internal storage.
You can find this setting under the “Storage location” icon in the camera app settings. This setting will only appear when a SD card is present in the device.
Installing or Moving Applications to your SD card
Some applications are getting quite large. We have enabled the ability for a consumer to install and move applications from internal storage to his SD card. Applications moved to the SD card still appear in the apps tray, and runs.
The “On SD card” tab, under Settings ->Apps displays the list of applications which can be moved to the card, as well as these already installed on the card.
You can move each application back and forth through each “app info” settings view (“move to SD card”). Please wait until each move has completed before exiting the App info panel.
Notes:
- Moving an application to the SD card only moves the application executable and resources, any data which the application needs (cache, data) might still reside on internal storage
- Ultimately, it’s up to the application developer to decide whether an app can be moved to the SD card. Only applications which follow the Android install location guidelines can be moved, and there are certain class of apps which can’t be moved to the card. If your favorite app can’t be move to your SD card, please contact the application developer first
Using your SD card for content purchased from Play Music and Play movies
One of the developer options (available in Android 4.4 and later) allows applications the ability to decide to store content seamlessly on either internal storage OR an SD card. The first two applications using this functionality are Play Music and Play Movies, both preloaded apps on your device.
If you have a SD card inserted in your device, Play Music lets you select the SD card as the storage for your music cache, downloaded or purchased from Google Play music. This setting can be found under the application settings -> storage location. Play Movies offer a similar option.
If you used both of these Google applications, we recommend you set both of these settings to “SD Card/External”.
Whether its images, music, videos or applications we know that the most important stuff on people's phones is stored in the user memory. The Moto X Play allows you to expand your memory by using a micro SD card.
To insert the microSD card:
1. With the phone facing down, insert the tool that comes with your phone into the small hole on the card tray and pop out the tray.
2. Insert the microSD card with the gold contacts facing up.
3. Carefully insert the tray back in the phone and make sure it closes securely.
When you insert an SD card for the first time, you can choose to either use the card as Portable Storage or Internal Storage.
| Portable Storage | Internal Storage |
| Select this mode if you frequently swap your SD card between devices, use your SD card for media storage only. | Select this mode if you want to completely extend your device storage with the card, and need the card to store large applications, games, and their data. |
| You have a Class 2, 4, or 6 card. | You have a high-speed card (UHS-1) |
| If you frequently swap cards, use SD card to transfer content between devices and do not download many large app, we recommend configuring your card as “portable”. | If you want to store large games on the card, if your device storage is always filling up, and you plan to always keep this card in the device, we recommend keeping your card as internal. |
Only pictures and media can be stored on the card. Downloaded applications, their data, is always internal. they can not be moved to the card. The card is readable by other devices. (another phone, Mac, PC, digital camera) | The SD card can become your device primary storage Downloaded applications, their data and media can be moved to the card The card is not readable by other devices. (another phone, Mac, PC, digital camera) The card is always encrypted, and can not be decrypted on any other device. The card will be formatted when Portable storage is selected. |
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Performance warning
We recommend use of a high speed card , such as a UHS-1 type. Class 4 and Class 2 micro SD cards are not recommended for adopted internalstorage usage. The performance of these cards is typically 10x slower than internal storage performance.
High speed card are identified by these logos:
If your card it too slow, your device will warn your during the adoption process. If you encounter this dialog, we advise to upgrade your card to a UHS-1 card first.
Using your card as ‘Portable Storage’
- Insert the SD card on your device
- Android will notify you a new SD Card has been detected, you can setup the card as portable or internal storage
- If you decide to defer this decision, the card will be used as portable storage by default. you can change this selection through Settings -> Storage at a later stage
Using your card as ‘Portable Storage’
- Media, pictures, movies already on the card will be visible in the device photo gallery and media apps. New content side loaded to the card will also be available and viewable in media apps on the device
- Through the Motorola camera application settings, you can select the default storage for pictures and movies captured through the Motorola camera app. Third party camera might not offer this option.
- Some third party applications will enable you to store their content on the ‘portable’ SD card, as in lollipop; but only if the application developer chose to do so (Google Play Music)
- If you select a card as portable storage, you will NOT be able to move applications to the card, nor will play store automatically install applications to this card
Using your card as ‘Internal Storage’
- Insert the card in the device
- You should see a “Set Up SD card” Notification
- Tap on ‘setup SD card’ in the insertion notification (or go to settings->storage->select card-> menu->format as internal)
- Select the ‘internal storage’ option, after you have carefully read the warning
- If you currently have applications installed on the card, your device will ask you to move these applications back to internal storage before formatting your card
- Your card will be formatted and encrypted, and usable as device storage
- Once the card has been formatted, you will be asked whether you want to migrate data currently on your device to the card. This step will move all media, pictures, and documents to the SD card.
- By selecting where to migrate content, you also select the preferred storage location for all applications, databases and data.
- If you decide to move that data to the card, the SD card will also become the preferred storage location for all applications content, data and database and media.
- If you decide to skip this step, your device internal storage will remain the preferred storage for all content.
- Once a card has been formatted as internal storage, both your device internal storage and the card will show up as “device storage” under storage settings, and you will be able to move applications which were in internal storage to the card. Moving applications to the card can be done from application settings (Settings > Apps > select application > Change storage location)
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- Once a card has been formatted as internal storage, Play Store will install applications on either storage volume automatically, based on a set of rules provided by the application developer (you will be able to move applications from one volume to another)
- Applications will always store their content in the preferred storage location by default. You will not need to indicate in each application setting where to store content; for example