Galaxy S7 / S7 Edge: 6 things to know absolutely on their slot … – Phonandroid

The Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge embed a micro SD slot supporting up to 200 GB. The lack of the Galaxy S6 series is finally filled. It’s great and it’s great practice. However, before declaring victory, there are six important things to know

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1. You can not store any application

By storing applications on your SD card, you release the internal phone memory, that being said, not all applications can not be moved. Those that take up the most space as games can actually be moved but looking good, you quickly realize that only some data will be moved and the rest will continue to invade the internal phone memory .

2. The function of Adaptive Storage Marshmallow is not available

Android Marshmallow has an interesting feature named Adaptive Storage for merging internal memory and external memory. SD cards are well treated internal memory , then it becomes possible to store applications in full and not just in part. As a result, the storage capacity is actually expanded and SD cards are no longer limited to certain types of data.

Except that the Galaxy S7 This function is not available. At least not by default, Samsung apparently fearing that to merge micro SD card and UFS 2.0 storage module does not affect the performance of the two phones. Fortunately, there are still a small operation to merge the internal memory and SD card on the Galaxy S7.

3. Removing the micro SD card, you also remove the SIM

When using an SD card on your smartphone, it is often more convenient to transfer photos on his PC by inserting a micro SD card SD adapter and then use the computer’s card reader that connects their smartphone to their computer via a USB cable. A simple drag / drop is enough and it’s faster. Except that with the last two Samsung is a little more complicated since the micro SD card and SIM card are housed in the same drawer .

4. The pictures and videos are stored by default on the SD card

Finally some good news! When you insert a micro SD card for the first time in your smartphone, a message will then appear on the screen to warn you that now, photos and videos will be stored directly on the external media. It is rather well thought since in any case, when you purchase an SD card, it is primarily to store your photos and videos on external media and avoid saturating the internal phone memory .

5. You can not do whatever you want with your photos

That’s a little perverse SD cards. When your pictures and videos are stored on external media, do not you may have trouble accessing the application when using official gallery Samsung, however, with third-party applications, it is often another story. If, for example, you use Google Photos, you can view and edit images stored on the SD but not remove them.

6. You can encrypt your SD card for better safety

If the internal memory of some smartphones is encrypted by default, this is not the case with micro SD cards. Fortunately, there is a way to secure your data by performing the encryption of external support. After the transaction, the data stored on the card are not accessible to third parties, even if the card is removed from the phone and inserted into another drive.

One option that has advantages and its disadvantages because once encrypted SD card, you can not use it to transfer data rapidly between different devices and your phone dies suddenly, you will never be able to access your data.