Hello I just updated my FP3 to android10. From that moment i was able to use my SD card as phone storage. Once i have configured it, telegram & whatsapp but also gmail (at the moment i notice just this apps) cannot use media anymore. I mean, i can write and read message but cannot download and uplo…

Oops, I had seen your post and then forgotten to answer. Short answer: it doesn’t. Half-long answer: scoped storage is something quite complicated and I haven’t understood everything. It shouldn’t affect the moving as long as the app used for moving the files has the rights to access whole storage…

I really wish I read all this before I installed my SD-card today. It took me 4 hours to install all my apps and log in and set everything up the way I wanted, but if it’s true that I have to reset my phone I need to start all over again. :frowning: What is the best way to reset and reinstall every…

[image] Huub: Until now I made the problems worse with everything I tried What exactly have you tried already? It could help telling it. Otherwise, a workaround has been found to avoid resetting everything, maybe you could try it. See post#26 in this topic . This could at least temporarily al…

Please help! Am I a naive user, who thinks I can buy an SD card, insert it into my phone and it will work? This is what I did today. And I selected “interal storage”. Then most part of my data was stored on the card. Then several apps couldn´t access the data. So I came to this forum and proceeded…

[image] minti: Please tell me I haven´t lost my data… I have bad news… It’s now unlikely you’ll access your data again. Removing a card formatted as internal storage is a bad idea… Formatting it as internal storage is a bad idea from the beginning, though I understand you didn’t know. [i…

Have a look at this post and topic [image] How to get the key used for the encryption of sdcard (internal storage) Fairphone 3 Welcome to the community forum. I moved your post here to avoid duplicate topics. Yeah, it shouldn’t be too easy. It sounds like @marcseid i…

Thanks, but that sounds very tech to me. I am just a normal user that wanted to insert a MicroSD card and use it as internal storage. A normal use case, I guess. And now my data is lost. These kind of issues drive me away from Fairphone. It´s so sad.

Yes your situation can be upsetting and I’ve seen others have this issue. [image] minti: This is what I did today. And I selected “interal storage”. Then most part of my data was stored on the card. Then several apps couldn´t access the data. How much data will you loose by resetting the pho…

I’m having the same issue. I’m using a PNY Elite Class 10 UHS-1 microSD Memory Card - 128GB

Maybe you would like to detail your problem?

Android 10 - MicroSD as phone storage

Help Fairphone 3

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Have a look at this post and topic