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  • That generally works, I used it on my previous motorola.

    A few caveats though:

    Not all apps recognise it - in my case neither Plex nor BBC radio would let me download to the SD card section of the memory so I was limited in what I could sync.

    One SD card I used became corrupted (I assume) and the phone would only periodically see it (normally just after rebooting) which meant that loads of apps were unusable but, because the phone was still thinking the SD card should be there I didn't have an option to change the location of where things should be saved (e.g. I couldn't take any pictures because the phone wanted to save them to the SD part of memory).

    When I updated the phone it somehow lost the encryption key so I had no choice but to wipe the SD card and start again. There's no option of plugging the SD card into a PC to get stuff off it as it's encrypted (admittedly there is a convoluted method to mount it in Linux if your phone is rooted and you've had the foresight to copy the encryption key).

    All in all, it works fine (but a bit slower than normal) most of the time but if it screws up it is very annoying.

  • Thanks for the detailed comments; good to know. I shall be sure to think carefully before encrypting.

  • If you're adopting the SD card as internal storage it has to encrypt it (it's not the same as the option for system-wide encryption).

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