Hello All,
This is my first post so be gentle.. Hehe. I just got a G Tab yesterday and installed the TnT 3.14 custom ROM. I have a Moto Droid 1 so I am experienced with flashing custom roms. I noticed that the G Tab has 16gb internal memory.
The problem I have is that it says I have 13gb user memory left but for some reason I cant get that portion on the memory to be viewable to load pics or movies on,. It keeps saying not enough space like its going to the APP partitioned space which is like 2gb.
Is there something I can do to load stuff onto the other 13gb of space it says is there.. Please give me a hand if anyone knows....
Thanks, Rob
If I'm not mistaken you have to go into clockwork recovery and mount the SD card. Give that a try and then reboot and see if that works.
Scott
Hello,
Thanks tried it but it says the same thing. I think I know what is going on. My movie file is 4.37 GB MKV. The error says that the file trying to be copied over is to large for the destinations "File System".
I think this is a limit of FAT32 isn't it? Can the internal card be modified through clockwork to accept large Files?
Thanks, Rob
sonkey said:
Hello,
Thanks tried it but it says the same thins. I think I know what is going on. My movie file is 4.37 GB MKV. The error says that the file trying to be copied over is to large "File System".
I think this is a limit of FAT32 isn't it? Can the internal card be modified through clockwork to accept large Files?
Thanks, Rob
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No... You need to stay under the 4gb limit.
Thanks, Thats all I needed to know
Rob
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HI.. m Oicnev.. this is regarding extracting the files from the EXE rom.. have download both the 131 and 132 (a later version, as told), but couldn't extract the files.
Have tried using winrar and winzip, but to no avail.. tried right-clicking, but no option to extract, only add to archive.. tried accessing from within winrar. there was the option to extract, but it always returned, no archive file/s in there..
tried running the EXE rom, it ran, posted extracting files, and the showed its dialog box.. then, as told, it returned an error in the end..
i used netants as downloader..
is there anything i further need to do to be able to extract the files? Is there any other way i could get the files? PLS HELP!!!
ALSO, i bought a 4gig SD Card.. the problem is my xda mini couldn't access it, unless, as it prompted, it formats it "to make it readable." This i did, and yes it became readable, but it got converted to 2.1gig. i returned it to the seller, had it replaced, thank goodness the seller was kind.. but now, i don't know what to do.. the SD Card is accessible as 4gig from my card reader though... will the rom upgrade fix the problem? Is there any other software that i need to have? PLS HELP!!!
MANY MANY THANKS, in advance!
You used one of the ROMs from this site's FTP right? I've tried several and all of them extract just fine! If you're looking for the latest ROM that is used widely without any problems, 1.13 T-Mobile ROM, that can be found here.
From there you can use kta's + ampda's guides or my own guide to run you through the upgrade process!
Thanks... only that... Stil problem - 4gig SD Card vs. Mini
Ey, know what, i finally solved my puzzle re EXE ROM.. have managed to extract the files... i tried running the EXE file, clicking next til the last one before it would start to upgrade, but without clicking it (i read from one of your guides).. then i searched for the files in my hidden windows temp folders... found them.. and ran the upgrade.. It went perfectly, i liked it..
But my BIG other problem remained.. still, my XDA Mini couldn't access my 4gig SD Card, despite all the upgrades.. it was still prompting me to format it (beccause it couldn't read it), which must not be done, coz it will convert it to 2.1gig.
I read in one forum to try partitioning the SD Card into two 2gig partitions.. i found it sound.. i followed the instructions.. i ran "compmgmt.msc" from my pc through "start/run".. I was trying to make the first step of deleting the partition through 'Disk Management', but to no avail.. Yes, there was a 'delete partition' option shown in the menus, but unlit; meaning option not available.. So, i was already stalled, couldn't proceed anymore...
Anyone with more options out there? please help...
Many thanks
Your device formatted the memory card as FAT16. This is only supported up to 2 GB:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table#Final_FAT16
Just format the memory card with your card reader as "FAT32" and you will have 4 GB capacity.
RE FAT16
Hi... i checked through my card reader.. its in fat32 format...
@esackbauer,
are you sure the fat16 fat32 topic is the answer to the problems with 4 gig cards? to mee, it doesnt seem so!
see:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=58669
I have been reading lots of posts about issue with each but cannot seem to get a good read on which one is the most stable with this tab.
Opinions please.
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I have been reading lots of posts about issue with each but cannot seem to get a good read on which one is the most stable with this tab.
Opinions please.
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i haven't tried the new one but .8 is still working great for me, no need to fix what isn't broken so i'm not messing with it. this is one of those times when the ability to edit the title would come in handy ;D thanks for the laugh teehee
Dang! What a thread title
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Dang! What a thread title
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i giggle everytime i see it...
Crimton said:
i haven't tried the new one but .8 is still working great for me, no need to fix what isn't broken so i'm not messing with it. this is one of those times when the ability to edit the title would come in handy ;D thanks for the laugh teehee
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LOL!
Too funny. Thanks for the input as well.
Better Watch Out
Better watch out, the Forum Moderator is gonna ban this thread! ;P
Just a heads up but do not flash cockwork mod on your gtab as it will SCREW it up.
Sorry, couldnt resist.
I don't think there is any stability difference. The difference is in how they see the memory map. Clockwork 8 is mapped to see the internal SD, and the newest Clockwork is mapped to see the memory the way CM6B4 has it mapped.
For example.. If you put a file on your internal SD Clockwork 8 will see it, and the new 12 version won't. It will expect to see it on the external card. Unless you use the CM6B4 rom I think version 8 is the way to go.
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I don't think there is any stability difference. The difference is in how they see the memory map. Clockwork 8 is mapped to see the internal SD, and the newest Clockwork is mapped to see the memory the way CM6B4 has it mapped.
For example.. If you put a file on your internal SD Clockwork 8 will see it, and the new 12 version won't. It will expect to see it on the external card. Unless you use the CM6B4 rom I think version 8 is the way to go.
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Will .8 see it on both or just internal?
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Will .8 see it on both or just internal?
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I may be wrong but I don't think either one will see external, and internal. One or the other depending on which Clockwork you are using. If you need to load something while in recovery you can mount USB storage from the mounts and storage menu and then use your PC to move it to the tablet SD.
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I don't think there is any stability difference. The difference is in how they see the memory map. Clockwork 8 is mapped to see the internal SD, and the newest Clockwork is mapped to see the memory the way CM6B4 has it mapped.
For example.. If you put a file on your internal SD Clockwork 8 will see it, and the new 12 version won't. It will expect to see it on the external card. Unless you use the CM6B4 rom I think version 8 is the way to go.
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Does that mean the space on the internal SD would be wasted then if the system partition doesn't take up the 16 GB. The factory default partition was 2 GB, does that mean the 14GB would be wasted and inaccessible?
y the lies?
on clockwork 8 yes u can see both internal and external sdcard
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on clockwork 8 yes u can see both internal and external sdcard
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I don't know who you are calling a liar, or why. If I say something that is wrong, which is entirely possible because I don't know everything then say so. But don't call people a liar. If you know the answer then say so.... I don't see a way to do it..
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I don't know who you are calling a liar, or why. If I say something that is wrong, which is entirely possible because I don't know everything then say so. But don't call people a liar. If you know the answer then say so.... I don't see a way to do it..
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I didn't mention liar at all just put lies as title but there is no anger there...
when I put my sd card in the slot it just loads up if that doesn't work for u try rebooting with the card in the slot
LRiley said:
I didn't mention liar at all just put lies as title but there is no anger there...
when I put my sd card in the slot it just loads up if that doesn't work for u try rebooting with the card in the slot
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With which clockwork version? 8 looks at the internal, the other one looks external. They were made for different roms that had different memory mapping. Can you go into clockwork and try to install a zip from sd card and pick between the external, and internal? If you can then let me know how...
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Does that mean the space on the internal SD would be wasted then if the system partition doesn't take up the 16 GB. The factory default partition was 2 GB, does that mean the 14GB would be wasted and inaccessible?
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My understanding is that you start with 16gb. 2gb of that is used to install programs, and can be changed in clockwork up to 4gb. The remainder is used for data storage. It is all coming from the same original 16gb. The data storage portion inside the tablet is what clockwork 8 sees. Anything you put on your tablet like music, video etc is located on that data storage portion and is what you are looking at in the file manager program when it says sd card. Internal SD card is kind of a confusing term and the latest Viewsonic update changed the naming in the settings menu but sd card is the internal data storage, and sd2 is the removable sd card. At least in TnT
There have been so many changes over the month that it can get confusing sometimes. If you say something you have to be careful because that may be wrong for another rom. They all make your tablet go, but aren't the same everywhere.
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With which clockwork version? 8 looks at the internal, the other one looks external. They were made for different roms that had different memory mapping. Can you go into clockwork and try to install a zip from sd card and pick between the external, and internal? If you can then let me know how...
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no u can't see both in clockwork menu
So correct me if I am wrong but using the new version would be better in case you get into a boot loop and need to restore or flash something else as .8 CW would not be able to see the internal to flash the new Rom.
Right?
LTL11 said:
So correct me if I am wrong but using the new version would be better in case you get into a boot loop and need to restore or flash something else as .8 CW would not be able to see the internal to flash the new Rom.
Right?
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.8 does see internal in clockwork menu
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.8 does see internal in clockwork menu
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I understand that it sees internal. What I am getting at is if I go into a boot loop for some reason I no longer have access to my internal so if I needed to add a ROM to flash and recover I could not add it to anything but my external SDcard.
So it would be better to have the new clockwork on there.
correct?
Hi,
I have a g2x and i recently rooted it using superoneclick and i tried to back up using nvflash
however when i boot into recovery and try to install a zip or do anything with an sdcard, it says cant mount sdcard.
i ended up installing cyanogenmod 7 using rom manager.
but at the moment i cant do anything that involves using the sdcard because it cant mount.
any ideas on how to fix this?
thanks in advance
When you're in recovery, have you simply tried taking out the memory card then putting it back in?
Sometimes the simplest solutions work. It used to not mount my sd card too and just popping it out and back in made it read it.
buru898 said:
When you're in recovery, have you simply tried taking out the memory card then putting it back in?
Sometimes the simplest solutions work. It used to not mount my sd card too and just popping it out and back in made it read it.
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Thanks ill try it and let you know but how come nothing ever gets loaded onto the phones internal sdcard I still have the 5 gigs that I initially had and nothing is ever loaded onto it including the apps I download, any way I can change this?
EgyptianBoi said:
Thanks ill try it and let you know but how come nothing ever gets loaded onto the phones internal sdcard I still have the 5 gigs that I initially had and nothing is ever loaded onto it including the apps I download, any way I can change this?
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It's the way they memory is partitioned. ~3 GB for the System and Apps, 5GB for other stuff. There's a workaround/fix for CM7 in the development forum (atleast I think there was) but I don't know if it works anymore.
Jufjufjuf said:
It's the way they memory is partitioned. ~3 GB for the System and Apps, 5GB for other stuff. There's a workaround/fix for CM7 in the development forum (atleast I think there was) but I don't know if it works anymore.
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Right now if I go to storage in settings I have my SD card then I have internal storage with 1.48 gigs and then I have additional storage /mnt/emmc which has 5.21 gigs. At the moment apps installed from the android market go to the internal storage and apps online go to the SD card but I can move them to the internal memory. It seems that at the moment the one place with the most memory can't be used so I'm guessing thats the partition your talking about
o there's no way of changing this partition?
And can you give me the link to that? Thanks
Yaay got the SD card working in recovery it worked taking it out and putting it in again
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Right now if I go to storage in settings I have my SD card then I have internal storage with 1.48 gigs and then I have additional storage /mnt/emmc which has 5.21 gigs. At the moment apps installed from the android market go to the internal storage and apps online go to the SD card but I can move them to the internal memory. It seems that at the moment the one place with the most memory can't be used so I'm guessing thats the partition your talking about
o there's no way of changing this partition?
And can you give me the link to that? Thanks
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You're right, I don't believe it can be used (natively for apps atleast, you can always move media and files there). Unless you mount that internal partition to be the external SD card and do a Move to SD on the apps (both are settings in Android/CM7 somewhere) there's not much else you can do. The problem is that some apps don't work on the SD, of course you could keep those on the system partition.
Sorry if my replies are starting to get confusing, it's late here.
I use link2sd which creates a mount point script that uses the extra partition on external sdcard. I used minitool partitioned to create a 10gb ext4 on my 32gb class 10( I'm an app junkie lol). Most if not all apps/games moved with link2sd work flawlessly, I'm happy with it
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Jufjufjuf said:
You're right, I don't believe it can be used (natively for apps atleast, you can always move media and files there). Unless you mount that internal partition to be the external SD card and do a Move to SD on the apps (both are settings in Android/CM7 somewhere) there's not much else you can do. The problem is that some apps don't work on the SD, of course you could keep those on the system partition.
Sorry if my replies are starting to get confusing, it's late here.
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thanks i think i managed to get it! i found the settings i think you're talking about in the cyanogenmod settings and managed to switch the sdcard and additional storage. now the 5 gigs appears as the sdcard and the actual external microsd appears as the additional storage
i guess thats the best im gonna get
thanks a lot!!
d12unk13astard said:
I use link2sd which creates a mount point script that uses the extra partition on external sdcard. I used minitool partitioned to create a 10gb ext4 on my 32gb class 10( I'm an app junkie lol). Most if not all apps/games moved with link2sd work flawlessly, I'm happy with it
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thanks ill try it and see how it workds
d12unk13astard said:
I use link2sd which creates a mount point script that uses the extra partition on external sdcard. I used minitool partitioned to create a 10gb ext4 on my 32gb class 10( I'm an app junkie lol). Most if not all apps/games moved with link2sd work flawlessly, I'm happy with it
Sent from my LG-P999 using xda premium
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Jufjufjuf said:
You're right, I don't believe it can be used (natively for apps atleast, you can always move media and files there). Unless you mount that internal partition to be the external SD card and do a Move to SD on the apps (both are settings in Android/CM7 somewhere) there's not much else you can do. The problem is that some apps don't work on the SD, of course you could keep those on the system partition.
Sorry if my replies are starting to get confusing, it's late here.
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ya i thought i had everything working but now for some reason, my phone says it cant mount the system. any ideas why?
HI: I don't know if this has been asked before. What I need to know is the difference between Internal memory-1 and Internal memory-2. On my Freelander SXZ-PDXO-03 when I go to Settings/ Storage I get Internal Storage (which I will call INT Storage-1) all it says is Total Space=504 MB and APPS=409MB and available 62.69MB. Then it says Internal Storage (which I call INT Storage-2) it says Total Space=5.79GB Apps=479mb Pic./Vid.=108MB DwnLds=273MB Available=3.99GB. My Question is what is the difference between the 2 Int.Storage's and when I try to download an App it says out of mem space when I have 62.69MB in Int. Storage-1 and 3.99GB in Int Storage-2. How do I tell the dwnldr to downloader it to Int Storge-2 or my ExtSD card where I have 21.7FGB of Storage space left? I know this along Question but I am confused on the nomanclature of how Memory is Designated. Also another Question is my system is rooted and is there a way to tell the System to Recognize a 64GB,128Gb SD Card where it now only recognize a 32GB card. thanks for any help you can give me on my Questions Dan Mericle Sr (danvdman)
Difference is that your internal (phone) memory is partitioned to 2 parts. 1st part, with only a total of 504mb used to store apps while the 2nd part that acts like an external card with a total of 5.79gb used to store other files like music, pictures, etc. To resolve this, go to settings > storage and select memory card under preffered installation location to allow you to install apps directly to your SD card but be mindful that not all apps can be moved to SD. As for your 2nd question, that i am not aware so lets leave it to the experts.
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Difference is that your internal (phone) memory is partitioned to 2 parts. 1st part, with only a total of 504mb used to store apps while the 2nd part that acts like an external card with a total of 5.79gb used to store other files like music, pictures, etc. To resolve this, go to settings > storage and select memory card under preffered installation location to allow you to install apps directly to your SD card but be mindful that not all apps can be moved to SD. As for your 2nd question, that i am not aware so lets leave it to the experts.
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HI: Thanks that clears up a little bit of confusion:good: I tried your Fix but can't find how to select memory card under preffered. There is no sutch selection offered just the memory stats. Now how do I make more memory available to the apps Internel mem 1.79GB? like make 1.79GB available which would then make Internal memory-2 total=4GB that would take care of out of memory error on downloads. Dan Mericle Sr danvdman
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HI: Thanks that clears up a little bit of confusion:good: I tried your Fix but can't find how to select memory card under preffered. There is no sutch selection offered just the memory stats. Now how do I make more memory available to the apps Internel mem 1.79GB? like make 1.79GB available which would then make Internal memory-2 total=4GB that would take care of out of memory error on downloads. Dan Mericle Sr danvdman
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just reposting Dan Mericle Sr danvidman
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just reposting Dan Mericle Sr danvidman
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HI: I still haven't heard from any one about my Previous problem. Here are the things I tried. I have an old Sony Computer it has Win XP on it. I tried to put UBUNTU 13.10 Fat32 on it as the Sony only has 256 MB Ram and a Pentium III CPU. But it won't load it comes up with a pink screen then goes blank. I can see HDD active light blinking and a cursor blinking in the upper left corner of my monitar screen. I let run for 1-HR + one day and it did nothing. What am I doing wrong? Maybe the Version of UNBUTU is to new. Maybe I need an earlyer version? I was hoping that being that 4EXT is a LINUX file type that I could find a LINUX partition manager and change the 1st partition to Fat 32 do you think that would work?
Dan Mericle Sr
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danvdman said:
HI: I still haven't heard from any one about my Previous problem. Here are the things I tried. I have an old Sony Computer it has Win XP on it. I tried to put UBUNTU 13.10 Fat32 on it as the Sony only has 256 MB Ram and a Pentium III CPU. But it won't load it comes up with a pink screen then goes blank. I can see HDD active light blinking and a cursor blinking in the upper left corner of my monitar screen. I let run for 1-HR + one day and it did nothing. What am I doing wrong? Maybe the Version of UNBUTU is to new. Maybe I need an earlyer version? I was hoping that being that 4EXT is a LINUX file type that I could find a LINUX partition manager and change the 1st partition to Fat 32 do you think that would work?
Dan Mericle Sr
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HI: I solved the problem :good: I was reading TOM'S Hardware Forum late last night. But they were talking about SD Cards. One of the problems was there SD card was write protected and was wondering how a SD card got that way, and how to un protect it? The narrator said all SD cards and Adapters come with a switch on the right side and some times it gets pushed to the lock posistion.. A lot of people don't know about this switch. Sure enough I checked and my all of my Adapters had the switch in the locked posistion. So I unlocked one of the Adapters and tried Minitool Partition manger and it let me delete and repartition my 32GB CD card to FAT-32. So THANKS stipipoy for your answer it pointed me in the right direction
Dan Mericle Sr.
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Team, I was really enjoying my cm10.2 and i was running out of space.. like 5gb total, maybe 1gb used per storage screen in settings and it says 1gb free.. on top of that it says im running out of space.. i did notice it is showing my sd card music and pictures being listed in the internal memory when in fact its on my sd card.. This seems to be chewing up 3gb+ i need for apps etc..
So I flashed cm11 m3, which i actually really like so far.. but its suffering from the same issue.. can someone help me repair this? googling it has not helped any.. ( ps i did factory wipe before flashing cm11 in recovery)
Dominic
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Team, I was really enjoying my cm10.2 and i was running out of space.. like 5gb total, maybe 1gb used per storage screen in settings and it says 1gb free.. on top of that it says im running out of space.. i did notice it is showing my sd card music and pictures being listed in the internal memory when in fact its on my sd card.. This seems to be chewing up 3gb+ i need for apps etc..
So I flashed cm11 m3, which i actually really like so far.. but its suffering from the same issue.. can someone help me repair this? googling it has not helped any.. ( ps i did factory wipe before flashing cm11 in recovery)
Dominic
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Check your application data usage in settings|apps, also check to see if you have any CWM made backups. That's often stored outside of the directory trees that android itself normally looks at (/data/media/clockworkmod) Also if it's saying your music and such is on your internal storage than it probably is. Check using a file manager, and manually move that stuff to your SD card.
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Check your application data usage in settings|apps, also check to see if you have any CWM made backups. That's often stored outside of the directory trees that android itself normally looks at (/data/media/clockworkmod) Also if it's saying your music and such is on your internal storage than it probably is. Check using a file manager, and manually move that stuff to your SD card.
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You my friend are and android pimp! Thank you for your hardwork! I tried to do that on cm10.2 and for some reason could not find the directories.