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.