How to set the memory card on Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge as internal adoptable storage

Samsung announced its Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge phones at the MWC event in Barcelona, in February. Today, we will tell you the steps that can be used to set up the memory card on these phones as the internal adaptable storage. As we know, the adoptable storage feature on Android Marshmallow has the ability to merge the internal memory of your phone with the storage offered externally using a micro SD card. This cumulative memory, thus obtained is treated as a complete total petition.

In other words, this will prevent any kind of confusion in the users regarding how much free space they are left with on their phone. Thus, the users are no more required to calculate the MicroSD storage and internal storage of their handset separately. However, we have a surprise for the Samsung fans that both the newly announced Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge phones will not get the support for adoptable storage feature, despite they are shipped with Marshmallow on board.

Both these handsets will treat the MicroSD card as a separate entity and will not lump them together not even with Marshmallow on board. When asked about this decision, Samsung says,

"Samsung decided not to use the Android Marshmallow "adaptable storage" model. We believe that our users want a MicroSD card to transfer files between their phone and other devices (laptop, tablet, etc.), especially the photos and videos they shot with the camera."

Still, you can get adoptable storage on your Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge handsets without rooting them to trip KNOX by typing a few lines at the command prompt.

1)      First of all create a backup of all the data you have on the MicroSD card. Go to the setting, then About and tap on the build number for five times to enable USB debugging on your Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge devices.

2)      Download and install the quick Android Debug Bridge package, or alternatively the complete Android SDK on your computer.

3)      Connect your phone to the computer with USB debugging option active and type adb shell on the command prompt of your PC.

4)      Key in sm list-disks, so that the phone can display the particular disk ID of your card.

5)      In case you want to use only some part of the memory card for Adoptable storage and the remaining part of the card for shuttling files back and forth, then you can easily split them in half with the command sm partition disk: 179:160 mixed 50, where 179:160 is the disk ID displayed in the previous step.

6)      You can simply type sm partition disk: 179:160, or whatever be the ID numbers of your disk to make it less problematic to use the whole card in Adoptable Storage mode. After this, you should wait for the lengthy merging process to finish.

7)      Now, when you will go to the Setting menu and then storage, you will not see the SD card option but instead all the storage is lumped together. Although the total amount may not be present in the system app, so you will have to install a third party file browser from the Google Play Store or else the storage widget in order to keep an eye on it. 

IPhone 5 Review

There are many fans of iPhone 5g, who are waiting for its launch. There are lots of rumors about the release date of iPhone 5g. The iPhone 5g is expected to be released in September this year. In this article I am writing iPhone 5g Review on the basis of some leaked information and somenews.

here will be many improvements in Apple iPhone 5g. Apple will definitely upgrade its hardware and iOS. The new iOS 5 will be introduced, which will support HD multimedia outputs. The new iPhone will have many new exciting features like e-wallet, car key and RFID etc. The potential buyers of iPhone 5 are really excited and want to know more about the phone. This is one of the items that you must have. Another rumor is about the memory of iPhone 5g. It is being said that the iPhone 5 will be available in 32GB, and this might be the lowest memory level of iPhone. But if we see the history of Apple, you will observe that Apple has always introduced minimum three versions of iPhone with different memory capacities.

According to the latest iPhone 5g review the new version of iPhone will have improved edge-to-edge screen. It will support 720p; it means a much better screen resolution and better results for multimedia. The iPhone 5g will have dual cameras, one in the front and the other on the back of iPhone. You will be able to make HD filming. The camera of iPhone 5g is expected to be of 8MP. There were rumors that Apple is affiliating with Sony for the production of better camera. So the users can expect great results from iPhone 5g camera. The iPhone 5g might be more expensive than the previous models. One of the reasons for that are its new and improved features.

There are various networks and carries who will offer iPhone 5g at much cheaper prices. Some of the carriers are AT&T and Verizon. These carriers will offer iPhone 5g at cheaper price because users will be making a three year contract with the carrier. This will be beneficial for both users and mobile carriers. The iPhone 5g will support 4G network, which means a much faster communication is possible. Of-course, it will also support 3G networks as well. Previously, users have demanded more memory capacity, so it is being expected that the company will launch 64 and 128GB version of iPhone 5g.

One of the features that haven't been introduced in any of the iPhone models is Adobe Flash. The new iOS 5 is said to be designed for HTML 5 compatibility. It means much better results of multimedia applications. There are no confirmations that  will introduce Adobe Flash Player, but if it does, Apple will be able to earn a lot more than its previous iPhone 5 versions. Users are also hoping that Apple will introduce much stronger security apps. A5 Chip will be the power house for iPhone 5 and it will have much higher processor.