Moto E4 (Verizon) [xt1767] Move Apps to SD without root

[KevMetal]

i think if someone is unwilling to root you dont really have a reason to gripe for the simple fact that you knew your mobile device manufacturer has tried to limit user control for monetary reasons and isnt about to stop now . if anything they are working hard to upscale "security" and eliminate rooting all together . its simple ; profits and advertising and data mining comes first ...it is essential for google to spy on you and lay targeted ads on you and control your entire digital experience to track you ...have you ever tried using a gappless , rooted phone with custom OS ..the experience is light , sublime and stressless ..cant believe after all the public awareness of what google and apple really do ANY person would consider NOT rooting their phone just to protect themselves from forced advertising and tracking ... you would also be able to amplify your storage needs in a user friendly effective way without being bullied into buying a more expensive phone only for more storage at 3x the cost of additional storage or to use google cloud options so they control your data ....google dreams of going 100% apple and eliminating sd cards .......if you give in you can look forward to more user "friendly" restrictions and control for "the users own good" to simplify your phone ...yeah right ...root your phone and flash xposed or custom OS and use fake gapps no gapps microG and you will be able to move anything you like to your sd ...

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[TheHitMan]

This phone has no root and likely never will.

Bonus question: is there a fix for this if root was possible?

Provide me your device recovery and boot image. I will make twrp recovery for your device.

 

[DB126]

i think if someone is unwilling to root you dont really have a reason to gripe for the simple fact that you knew your mobile device manufacturer has tried to limit user control for monetary reasons and isnt about to stop now . if anything they are working hard to upscale "security" and eliminate rooting all together . its simple ; profits and advertising and data mining comes first ...it is essential for google to spy on you and lay targeted ads on you and control your entire digital experience to track you ...have you ever tried using a gappless , rooted phone with custom OS ..the experience is light , sublime and stressless ..cant believe after all the public awareness of what google and apple really do ANY person would consider NOT rooting their phone just to protect themselves from forced advertising and tracking ... you would also be able to amplify your storage needs in a user friendly effective way without being bullied into buying a more expensive phone only for more storage at 3x the cost of additional storage or to use google cloud options so they control your data ....google dreams of going 100% apple and eliminating sd cards .......if you give in you can look forward to more user "friendly" restrictions and control for "the users own good" to simplify your phone ...yeah right ...root your phone and flash xposed or custom OS and use fake gapps no gapps microG and you will be able to move anything you like to your sd ...

While most of my devices are rooted and employ various levels of privacy protection a few are not...with full knowledge at the time of acquisition. Data tracking doesn't start/end with the device in your hand although that serves as an important behavioral/collection portal. It's far more sophisticated. Might be able to slow it down but to what end other than taking a personal stand? The age of raw rooting is slowly drawing to a close as the security implications far out weight consumer demand for this capability. I really don't think Google etc cares about the loss of data collection capability on the <0.10% of devices that deploy measures beyond a simple ad blocker.

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Provide me your device recovery and boot image. I will make twrp recovery for your device.

Even if available there would be no way to install/boot a custom recovery on a XT1768 the bootloader remains locked and fastboot crippled.

 

[TheHitMan]

Even if available there would be no way to install/boot a custom recovery on a XT1768 the bootloader remains locked and fastboot crippled.

Now i am able to see #VERIZON in the thread title. LOL

 

[Raztan]

Provide me your device recovery and boot image. I will make twrp recovery for your device.

Thanks for the offer but like was pointed out it's boot loader is locked so wouldn't be able to do anything with it.

i think if someone is unwilling to root you dont really have a reason to gripe for the simple fact that you knew your mobile device manufacturer has tried to limit user control for monetary reasons and isnt about to stop now

Thanks for your insightful post Kev.
If you carefully look at my original post im not crying about Verzion locking the phone down, nor am I belly aching I can't root.

The real problem was the changes made by google to the way sdcards work which I was unaware of since my prior highest android device is my moto e2 which is running lollipop. For the price I paid for the e4 I knew I could live without root.. that's not what Im crying about but thanks anyway.

 

[SGH-i200]

MTP patitions and "Migrate Data" menu option of the internal storages

Question on MTP patitions:

Are you able to actually access the adopted storage partition... browse for files? see I can't.. I can see internal storage and the public portion of the sdcard..

[...]it does not appear I can access the 10gb I set aside on the sdcard at all.

Answer from http://blog.sam.liddicott.com/2016/...howComment=1457022437052#c5282448678186187717

Sam3 March 2016 at 16:27
Whichever internal storage it shows via MTP in your Android File Transfer seems to be the one set with the "Migrate Data" menu option of the internal storages. So if you click on the "Internal Storage" and choose "migrate data" from the menu, then that is the internal storage shown over USB MTP.

Question on 'install location':

I'm not sure what the method is for determining where a specific app lands when installed. Maybe up to the developer?

Answer from http://blog.sam.liddicott.com/2016/02/android-6-semi-adopted-storage.html

$ adb root pm set-install-location 2
to have apps installed on the storage by default where possible. It is very effective. (Location 1 means internal, and 0 means auto-choose, but I don't know on what criteria). However that command requires you to have rooted your phone.