Format as internal storage option not available on Moto X4 - Moto X4 Questions & Answers

Hi,
When trying to insert a new Micro SD Card on the Moto X4 (XT1900), the option to format the card as internal stora is missing.
Have anyone faced this issue on Moto X4?
Br, Alex

Internal storage (aka, adoptable storage) is not available on devices where "Direct Boot" is enabled. See also
https://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-x4/help/format-internal-storage-option-t3714927
I personally dislike "direct boot". Hopefully a developer will find a way to disable direct boot

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so, I came across the following article:
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/android-5-0-sd-cards/
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How exactly is external SD card storage handled on the Motorola Moto G 2nd Gen when having upgraded to Lollipop?
Can you put all apps onto an external SD card?
And does it have to be done manually for each app? Or does it happen automatically?
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Or can you only encrypt the device storage?
It would be much appreciated if someone could elaborate on this.
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And could someone please tell how much device storage is left on a Lollipop updated Motorola Moto G 2nd Gen with 8 GB of device storage?
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Well , the problem I'm having is that I can't format my micro sd as internal storage. Instead, it says "Move Media". Does anyone haveing the same problem ?
Tbe X4 simply doesn't support it, because of the file based encryption. As far as I know, if anyone find a way to force disable FBE we should be able to use adoptable storage.

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I hope this is the right place to ask this question.
For some reason, every time I restart Android 8 it changes the last 12 digits in the path to the SanDisk microSD card (UUID). As a result, any app that uses the external storage cannot find the files. The path format is /storage/YYYYYYYY-YYYY-YYYY-YYYY-XXXXXXXXXXXX and the X's keep changing after every restart. Is there a way to stop this?
The card is a Sandisk 64 GB microSD card using exFAT. I've reformatted the card multiple times but the Moto E5 still keeps changing the path.
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Yeah this was annoying but is how either motorola or stock android is supporting removable storage devices. If you want it to be treated as non-removable storage you will need to go into settings -> storage -> click on the SD card -> three dots -> format as internal. Or something like that as the last step. Mine is already marked as internal so I can't check for you. The card will be formatted.
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Will Rickards said:
Yeah this was annoying but is how either motorola or stock android is supporting removable storage devices. If you want it to be treated as non-removable storage you will need to go into settings -> storage -> click on the SD card -> three dots -> format as internal. Or something like that as the last step. Mine is already marked as internal so I can't check for you. The card will be formatted.
Just google "adoptable storage guide" for articles on it and the process.
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I can't format it as internal since I have to be able to use the microSD in another computer. But is there any way to get it to stop changing the path to the microSD on every restart? Is exFAT the problem? When I previously used a FAT32 microSD card it didn't have this problem.
I'd decided to format the microSD card to FAT32 see if that would fix the problem. I restarted the phone and now it finally has the same path to the microSD card! So it looks like Android 8 on a Moto E5 apparently does not like exFAT.

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