I can live without the headphone jack, no micro SD card is the bigger sin, limiting you to your phones built in storage for no reason other than pure greed is infuriating
I haven’t needed the extra storage of the micro SD since what feels like forever. My current phone has 128GB, I’m only using half of it and I have hardly deleted anything from it in something like 2 years.
Doesn’t matter if you don’t have a use for larger hot swappable storage, many others do, otherwise all these phone companies wouldn’t sell higher storage models for absurdly high markup
And that’s why I stopped giving a shit about SD card slots. I’ve never had a micro SD that didn’t break within a few years at most. It’s annoying and since you have to keep buying new cards it’s not even cheaper than just buying a phone with “enough” storage. I’d rather spend the money up front on a phone with a higher storage tier and have it actually work worry-free for the entire five plus years I’m using it.
I’ve been self-hosting my own storage backup with Immich, and it’s been a game changer for me. It’s been an improvement over swapping out microsd cards and keeping track of what is stored where.
I mean how I can’t just put an SD card in and the system just treats it as part of the file system. There is all this stupid juggling of apps needed and something “can’t be installed on the SD Card” for reasons I can only imagine are “dumb.”
It should be, if I stick a 128gb card in a 64gb phone, the phone just shows “196gb of memory”.
There is a feature in Android called Adoptable storage that does what you described, but not all phone manufacturers support it directly, and it’s mostly been phased out over the years for a few reasons.
If you do this that SD card becomes permanently bound to your phone, if you remove it and attach it to a computer it cannot be read anymore, which means if your phone dies that data cannot be recovered,
also most SD cards even the high end ones are drastically slower than the phones built in memory, so if you make the phone treat the SD card as part of the overall system, it will bottleneck the performance of the phone and make it slow and stuttering,
And the way SD cards are made they aren’t designed for constant fast read and writes, as that will burn out the card and cause it to fail early
If you drop your phone the SD card might jiggle a little and get disconnected from the for a tiny bit, ordinarily it wouldn’t matter but in this Adopted storage mode it would crash your phone and make it reboot.
Some of these reasons is why a lot of app developers force their apps to only be installed on the internal storage and not the SD card. SD cards are best for storing large media and static data like music, movies, photos,
Oh that actually worked fine in Ice Cream Sandwich, they just removed it a bit later so you’d buy a new phone.
Not “196gb of memory” of course, that’d be stupid, it’s removable storage and you can’t put system files on it for example. But you could easily transfer apps to SD card, they’d just stop working when you changed cards.
I can live without the headphone jack, no micro SD card is the bigger sin, limiting you to your phones built in storage for no reason other than pure greed is infuriating
I haven’t needed the extra storage of the micro SD since what feels like forever. My current phone has 128GB, I’m only using half of it and I have hardly deleted anything from it in something like 2 years.
Doesn’t matter if you don’t have a use for larger hot swappable storage, many others do, otherwise all these phone companies wouldn’t sell higher storage models for absurdly high markup
I also had what appeared be too much storage.
Then I got 2 cats.
Now it says 99% full.
Ok so you got a ton of photos of your cats but you’re not sharing any. I see how it is.
She came to inspect what you were complaining about 😅
No cat taxation without cat representation.
I have broken 4 micro SDs in the last 2 years. Thsnkfully, “broken” means set to read-only mods, so i could recover it. But yeah. I use it a lot.
This shows just shitty SD cards are for storage that’s used a lot. Even the expensive ones for high intensity use burn out really fast.
I only recently learned that when they die they (usually) go read-only and you can very easily
ddto a new SD and carry-on.Would have saved me a lot of headaches over the years.
And that’s why I stopped giving a shit about SD card slots. I’ve never had a micro SD that didn’t break within a few years at most. It’s annoying and since you have to keep buying new cards it’s not even cheaper than just buying a phone with “enough” storage. I’d rather spend the money up front on a phone with a higher storage tier and have it actually work worry-free for the entire five plus years I’m using it.
I’ve been self-hosting my own storage backup with Immich, and it’s been a game changer for me. It’s been an improvement over swapping out microsd cards and keeping track of what is stored where.
I mean, yes but also Android has no idea how to properly use MicroSD cards and that is fucking annoying.
lol what are you talking about considering Android is the only mobile OS that even lets you access the file system unlike apple
I mean how I can’t just put an SD card in and the system just treats it as part of the file system. There is all this stupid juggling of apps needed and something “can’t be installed on the SD Card” for reasons I can only imagine are “dumb.”
It should be, if I stick a 128gb card in a 64gb phone, the phone just shows “196gb of memory”.
There is a feature in Android called Adoptable storage that does what you described, but not all phone manufacturers support it directly, and it’s mostly been phased out over the years for a few reasons.
If you do this that SD card becomes permanently bound to your phone, if you remove it and attach it to a computer it cannot be read anymore, which means if your phone dies that data cannot be recovered,
also most SD cards even the high end ones are drastically slower than the phones built in memory, so if you make the phone treat the SD card as part of the overall system, it will bottleneck the performance of the phone and make it slow and stuttering,
And the way SD cards are made they aren’t designed for constant fast read and writes, as that will burn out the card and cause it to fail early
If you drop your phone the SD card might jiggle a little and get disconnected from the for a tiny bit, ordinarily it wouldn’t matter but in this Adopted storage mode it would crash your phone and make it reboot.
Some of these reasons is why a lot of app developers force their apps to only be installed on the internal storage and not the SD card. SD cards are best for storing large media and static data like music, movies, photos,
Oh that actually worked fine in Ice Cream Sandwich, they just removed it a bit later so you’d buy a new phone.
Not “196gb of memory” of course, that’d be stupid, it’s removable storage and you can’t put system files on it for example. But you could easily transfer apps to SD card, they’d just stop working when you changed cards.