Re: Upgrade and pay more for less

Steve Hayes wrote on Wed, 04 Dec 2024 04:22:06 +0200 :

My current phone has 16GB storage, according to the specs, and a 16GB
SD card.

My phones are all free but it has been a while since I've seen anyone
around me with less than about 64GB of internal storage, and with the sd
card, the portable memory can be as much or double that for almost nothing.
As far as I'm aware, the camera eats up most of the storage, but I haven't
seen a camera app in many years that doesn't automatically save to external
sdcards.
What takes up the rest of the storage?
Well, map apps have relatively large databases (which can also be stored on
the external sd card), as do video downloaders (e.g., NewPipe). Also I have my Google Play Store replacement app save every APK ever
installed on the external sdcard, so that takes up a lot of storage space.
In fact, while I've lived with 64GB of external storage for a couple of
years on my free Samsung Galaxy A32-5G, I recently replaced it with a 128GB
external sd card (I forget how much it cost, but it was like ten bucks or
so) and everything went *perfectly* smoothly.
Yup. I just looked. About ten bucks for 128GB (three for 32 bucks).
 <https://www.amazon.com/Lexar-128GB-microSDXC-Memory-Adapter/dp/B0CB11S919>
Of course, I plan years ahead by formatting every external sd card on
Windows with the same volume label so the phone doesn't realize it's a
different external sd card. The phone sees *exactly* the same files on the new (doubled-size) external
sd card as on the old (half-sized) external sd card - but with more space.
My suggestion to the OP?
1. On Windows, look at what your 16GB external sd card volume label is
2. Buy a bigger sd card & set the volume label to exactly the same name
3. On Windows copy the files from the old sd card to the new sd card
That should vastly increase your external storage for only a few bucks.
 <https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Basics-microSDXC-Memory-Adapter/dp/B08TJRVWV1/>