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We run a number of Windows Phones (all Lumia) in our organisation.
Now we have a big problem with a new Lumia 735 which runs Windows 8.1 Denim. It used to be possible to store maps data on an SD Card by using Lumia Storage Check Beta to direct map downloads there. Now Lumia Storage Check Beta seems no longer to be available in the UK. I read somewhere that Lumia Storage Check Beta does not work with the Denim update to Windows Phone 8..
Is there any alternative way of storing maps on the SD card? If there isn't, it's crazy. There is 8GB phone memory on the Lumia 735, of which 5GB is already used up by the OS and applications that can't be moved to the SD card. All that will be moved, have been moved. That leaves only 3GB on a new phone, without any downloaded maps. Downloaded maps can total several Gigabytes if you need to put several European countries on. Not being able to move them to the SD card means Here Maps and Here Drives are effectively useless.
Please advise if there is an alternative way of putting maps on the SD card. This is a serious flaw. Many thanks.
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Can anybody comment on this? I found this on a Dutch forum and it could be an explanation why Microsoft is not reacting or changing the feature to store maps on SD card with "storage control"
Nokia HERE is no longer standard in Windows Phone 10. The new Bing Maps also have the ability to store maps offline and also has voice navigation, This is the default maps app for all Windows 10 devices, including the telephone.
To supplement, the issue of offline maps only installing in phone memory remains unsolved in the current build of Windows 10 Technical Preview for Windows Phone. Just tested out of curiosity, since this is also a shortcoming on my Lumia 630 currently enrolled in the preview.
Offline maps are shared with the Bing maps application, which cannot be moved to SD memory.
This may be a challenge for the developers to sort out, and the root cause this is unsolved?
(Applications and data is better protected when stored in phone memory).
It's a feature request since 2012:
Roaming costs for data in EU are capped at €0.20 + VAT per Megabyte since July 2014 and may be more affordable with some operators and specific plans for travelling.
http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/roaming-tariffs
This is not an excuse for Microsoft to not sort this out, just me trying to figure out a workaround.
If possible, please try and escalate through your organisation and their contacts with Microsoft?
This forum is mainly user-to-user and even if escalated it could be a long wait.
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Hans
Yes you are correct. Just vote for this feature:
With all respect, but there is something completely wrong if average customers have to join a community to collect votes to fix some broken things in Windows Phone.
This is part of the development and at the latest the quality assurance must had say that's a no go.
Obviously, at Microsoft no longer works people that identifies with their products or at least use their products. Instead the management tells **** that Microsoft is customer friendly and everybody can make suggestions.
With the ability to have apps and media files on SD card by default the need to have maps there has really become trivial. Maps do not take up that much space and unless you, for some obscure reason, want all available maps on the phone the point is moot.
With the ability to have apps and media files on SD card by default the need to have maps there has really become trivial. Maps do not take up that much space and unless you, for some obscure reason, want all available maps on the phone the point is moot.
If you buy a Windows Phone with 8GB internal storage this is a very serious problem! Don't know how anybody could call this moot. I've got an old ATIV S with 16GB internal storage. Because most of my apps are shifted to SD card it's not really a problem, because there is enough space left. But I have never paid attention to this problem.
Now I have bought my girlfriend a Lumia 640 and a 64GB SD card. I thought everything would be fine, but even with SD card you run into a storage problem. I have moved EVERY app to SD card that you can move, because some apps are forbidden to be moved to SD card and some Microsoft apps don't even provide the option. After I've moved all apps:
Apps + games - 420MB
E-Mails and Messaging- 140MB
Maps - 944MB
System - 3,23GB
Other - 2,16GB (whatever "others" means)
Everything else is almost 0MB
Used: ~6,86GB
Remaining: 430MB
I am just using a map for Germany, nothing more. If i hadn't moved every single possible app, I couldn't download the map. If I want to travel to other European countries I have to delete the map and download the new ones. But wait... if I want to travel from Germany to France and have a stay in Swiss (I already did), I would need at least maps for two countries (France and Swiss). But wait... I could certainly waste my time and plan and prepare everything for my vacations that I only have to download the needed regions that I want to travel... because Microsoft is to lazy/ignorant/incompetent to fix a problem. And if I would want to travel other regions in France (because it's totally absurd if I am already in France), I simply would have no luck.
