How do I set an SD card as default download location on the Galaxy S9?
How To Set Default Download To Sd Card Android
I'm on a S9+ from TMobile and just wondering how to do this. It's a 200GB SanDisk card which I've just formatted on the phone, and the phone will be used as a work phone rigorously, thus would like to preserve as much of the phone's performance as possible hence my question.
I'm new to Android, and this is the first time I've worked with a Samsung phone.
Without Root access, there is no way possible to change the default install location of apps. You need to have root access in order to make such changes. In these situations, the SD card storage helps a lot. You can change default storage to SD card and also can move apps to SD card on your Android phone. Here, I will provide an easy and quick guide which will elaborate the tips & tricks to set SD card as default storage and increase your mobile’s storage capacity. As of Android 6.0 (Marshmallow), you can configure your SD card as part of your. Apps you download from the Play Store will typically save there by default. In latest galaxy S9 and S9 plus Oreo device has microSD card slot, so you can easily set SD card as default storage in your device. After change storage location to microSD card on android Oreo, all new download and other data store on SD card.
Any help is appreciated and hello brave new world!
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The Google Chrome browser is based on the open source Chromium browser project, and thanks to its open source nature, it’s possible to follow any development on the browser right as it happens. We recently covered that Google Chrome for Android would be adding HDR video playback support after discovering a new commit in the Chromium gerrit. Today, we discovered that Google Chrome for Android is preparing to add a new feature: changing the default download folder.
Currently, all downloads from Google Chrome are stored in the /Downloads folder in /data/media/user. The folder can get quite cluttered since this folder is the shared default download folder for most applications. If your device is running low on storage or never had a lot of storage space available, then you may have wanted to change Chrome’s download folder to your device’s SD card (if you have one).
Such a basic feature has existed on the desktop version of Google Chrome, but it’s finally making its way over to the Android version. We discovered a commit in the Chromium gerrit bringing this feature. It was recently merged, and the flag to enable the feature can be found in the latest nightly build of Chromium. You can directly access the flag by copying and pasting this line into Chrome’s address bar:
The flag says “enable changing default downloads storage location on Android.” I enabled it on my device but was unable to find where the default download folder could be changed in Chrome’s settings. Looking back at the commit, it appears that the feature is still a work in progress as the commit simply adds a flag but it doesn’t actually implement the logic for changing the download directory. The commit that adds the relevant preference in settings has yet to be merged, so it may be a few days until this feature is usable on Chrome for Android builds, and it’ll take even longer for it to make its way to the stable or beta branches of Chrome.
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