nirakaro wrote:This phone gives you two options for formatting the SD card – either as 'portable', if you want the card to be readable in other devices, or otherwise as 'internal', in which case the phone treats all its memory as a single block, and doesn't give you options about where to put stuff.
Clearly though, some parts of its memory are more equal than others. I had the memory formatted as internal, the phone obviously installed the app on the SD card, and it kept vanishing. I reformatted the card as portable, so the phone now, I assume, has to install the app on the built-in memory, where it seems – touch wood – to be stable.
Odd, as i thought internal was the preferred option for such applications.
Thanks for the reply.
Osmand on my tab has its maps (not app) on the card. Card formatted as internal.
I have noticed that whenever i go to the "update maps" option to see if they need updating, for quite a few seconds it tells me that none are installed, before finding them.
I assume that this is because the card reads slower than internal storage.
An improvement on my earlier problem, though, where it would just tell me on booting up the app that it had no maps full stop. This was because, i assume, i was using an inferior card.
