Upgrade adoptable USB storage in Android Marshmallow
Yeesh!
I'm writing this guide for myself because I can't find much on the Internet about this. I haven't even tried this, I'm making it up as I go but trust me this is going to work or there will be blood.
- Install App2SD on the phone
- Backup app list using App2SD
- Disable USB debugging (if necessary)
- Set the USB mode to MTP (if necessary)
- Plug the phone directly into a PC (no USB hub)
- Browse to the SD contents:
- If you are using Windows or a Mac, just do it
- In KDE look in Dolphin's "places"
- If you use GNOME put on your big boy pants
- If you use Unity, check yourself into rehab
- Or see 2
- Copy the SD contents to the PC12
- Switch off the phone
- Replace the old SD card with the new one
- Boot the phone
- Tell Android to delete the old SD card and pray
- Format and migrate to the new SD card
- Reboot the phone
- Copy the backed up data to the new SD card (I needed a File Manager and AirDroid for this)2
- Re-install App2SD
- Use Superman strength to replace the App2SD backup with the actual backup3
- Use app restore in App2SD to manually confirm to install each and every missing app
- Reboot the phone
- Put everything back to normal. 99% of apps will have fully restored data, use Superman strength for the 1%
- Try not to kill anyone
Easy huh?
Update
I'm thinking my OTG cable could have really helped with this.
Tuesday 18th October 2016 9:20 pm