Adoptable Storage on Marshmallow, maybe possible on Z4 Tablet?

[jelbo]

Since Android 6.0, we have the option to adopt microSD storage as internal storage, the so called Adoptable Storage. It gives you the benefit of being able to install apps on it natively.

Many OEMs have disabled the functionality in their firmware builds, including Sony.

It seems that their disabling has not actually removed the functionality from Android, but just hidden the controls to it. Recently, several attempts to restore the functionality have been made successfully. I just came across one done by MoDaCo on the Samsung Galaxy S7.

Can someone o the Z4 Tablet MM firmware try this out? It seems to be pretty easy and done using ADB. Might be interesting for some.

 

[zippy01]

If no one else has I might give it a try later I don't really need it but just for research reasons really. I have a lot of apps but I really don't need the extra internal

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[DHGE]

it gets a bit weird... but I like the convenience

I have enabled it on my Marshmallow (CM13) SAMSUNG Galaxy S5.

I find it quite useful when dealing with my space eaters like OSMand and my mp3-collection and especially seafile.
I could not get the latter to store its downloaded contents on my 64GBytes card. Now I do not care anymore.

BUT:
There is some behind the scenes magic going on.
TWRP 3.0 sees the filesystem quite differently than you will see it under Marshmallow even with a root enabled file manager. Maybe it needs an update for these merged partitions.

example:
DL a new nightly with cmupdater and tell it to update the ROM -> TWRP boots and does not find the nightly.zip.
No big deal you think, just open the file manager of TWRP and find/move the file from /sdcard/cmupdater
surprise: /sdcard/... is not accessible or it does not contain the files you have just seen under Marshmallow.
My workaround: move the nightly.zip with a filemanager to /data, then boot into TWRP and install from /data

 

[andy0208]

Was dissapointed to see that it was disabled, seeing as i have a 128 gb micro sd card installed I'm not qualified to fix this at all, but i hope there are some legends out there that can

 

[jelbo]

Was dissapointed to see that it was disabled, seeing as i have a 128 gb micro sd card installed I'm not qualified to fix this at all, but i hope there are some legends out there that can

One of those being @AndroPlus He just released an update to his Xposed module SystemUI Patcher for Lollipop (that could use a name-change) adding support for it:

WHAT'S NEW

Added option to enable adoptable storage on Android 6.0 Marshmallow

 

[andy0208]

One of those being @AndroPlus He just released an update to his Xposed module SystemUI Patcher for Lollipop (that could use a name-change) adding support for it:

Nice! I'm not sure i am all for rooting the device though, but it is nice to know that there are solutions.

 

[Jupsi Just]

Just tried on my z4 tablet and works fine. I had to however force adoptable for it to work. using 32GB with ration of 30%. Just finished migrating and everything seems fine.