Brother’s identical phone model hasn’t had this problem. All of his internal storage is accounted for.
Options:
1. Perform a factory reset in an attempt to reclaim the missing 1.5 GB. Cons: requires mostly starting over on configuring the phone to my liking (though I’ll be able to skip some of the problems I ran into along the way, now knowing their solutions), might not work (whatever mysterious thing caused me to lose the 1.5 GB could just as easily happen again; I can’t learn from my mistake if I don’t know what the mistake was). (Note: re-configuring the phone will probably consume some time I would otherwise have spent working, perhaps $1 – 10 in opportunity costs depending on how successful I would have been in finding suitable jobs to claim.)
2. Configure the SD card I already have as internal storage. Cons: slows down the phone by an unknown amount (may or may not be significant), requires wiping the SD card and re-downloading everything I currently have stored on it, causes the real internal storage to become user-inaccessible (but still in use behind the scenes, so I might find that I have a need to see it and can’t), originally had trouble getting Dropbox to work on internal!SD but I think I *might* (maybe) know what I did wrong. Other people tell horror stories of losing their data to their internal-configured SD card breaking, but any data of any importance has at least two additional copies (one on laptop, one in cloud), so I’m not too concerned by this possibility.
3. Convince Brother to swap SD cards with me, and configure it as internal storage: turns out his *is* high-speed, and currently external. Cons: the non-slowing cons of 2, plus Brother might not agree.
4. Buy the same SD card Brother has, configure as internal. Cons: the non-slowing cons of 2, plus costs $30.
(Note: Brother says he is *much* more skilled at taking this style of phone apart–he proceeded to tear the back off of his phone to demonstrate, making it look easy–and thinks that as long as I wait until a time he’s available, he can perform any SD card swapping I need done without any trouble.)
(Pros of each option: doesn’t suffer the cons of the other options, except where specified.)
Currently leaning towards attempting them in the order 2, 1, 3, 4. If I have to resort to option 1, try to arrange my schedule so that the re-configuring occurs over a weekend.
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#I don’t expect it to be very easy to arrange to do a factory reset over the weekend #unless I happen to give up on Plan A at the right time of week #there’s already enough things I want to do with this phone that I’m being forced to wait on #it’d be hard to convince myself to wait when I *don’t* have to #oh look an original post #oh look an update #Brin owns *two* 2010’s computers now
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