Gaining access to system files on rooted D2 - Droid 2 Global General

I was wondering if there was a way to access the internal files. I would like to transfer some audio files off the SD card in into the notification folder or even the ringtone folder insted of them takeing up valuable space on my SD.
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Have you tried Root Explorer available in the Market, it works great to access / folders

That is odd. Most people want to move to the SD... as far as music goes, I am sure you already know about ringdroid. I have made some cool ringtones and notifications.
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Im frustrated :(

how can I read the files on a sd card from my android phone. I inserted my card and it seems like the Xoom created its own files but none of my origional files show. My pictures and music show up but I can't veiw the folders? Anybody know a fix or what's wrong?
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What are you using to view the files? I have had no issues reading the SD on my Xoom using Astro.
Make sure there is no ".nomedia" file in the folders that don't show up. That file makes the device skip the folders.

[Q] What's the best use for an external SD?

I'm asking this because I added an external SD a couple weeks ago, and can't seem to figure how to make the best use of it. I can't move apps to it through Apps2SD, and when I try to move my Amazon MP3 folder to it, that doesn't seem to change where the app saves new songs I download to my phone.
So what's it good for? Larger video file storage? Am I missing something?
I put music on my SD Card. What I need to know is what's the best use for the External memory that comes with the phone. Nothing is ever stored there.
There is thread in development about changing internal mounts that might be helpful
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Clean up SD Card?

I would like to clean up my sd card and free up as much space as possible.
Right now i find it pretty annoying that while using a file explorer seeing all the useless folders I don't use, that apps make or android makes.
is there going to be an issue if i rename all of the folders with a "." in front of the name so that they're hidden?
I would also like to free up as much space on the sd card as possible.
right now 1.5Gb is being used by a folder called Android/Data.
I would like to free up as much of the 16Gb as possible.
Which version is urs international or att because if u buy att then you will have only 10gb available on sd card
Regarding keeping a dot to hide the folders. Ya you can use that to hide the folders but I am sure it won't help you in reducing the space on sd card .
Wait for someone with more knowledge on changing or deleting names of android and app folders because I am not sure if they cause any problems ( usually app create those folders while installation to store app data )
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abhipati said:
What is the storage capacity of ur phone I mean 16gb or 32gb
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16Gb, the att/rogers version only have 16Gb versions I thought?
Ya att version has only 16 gb in which only 10 gb is available
Refer to this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1715582
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i have 7.8Gb free, then I have some music and pictures.
still trying to figure out if i make all of the folders hidden, while the phone still be able to find them?
and i have a folder called "android" on my sd card thats taking up 1.5Gb.
cant tell if its safe or not to delete/move.
The android folder contains data for apps you installed from the play store.
If you hide folder associated with an app, the app will likely not work properly. For most folders that have been generated by the OS or apps, I'd leave them alone. Messing with them will either break an app, or the OS will just assume the folder is gone, and make a new folder.
Couple exceptions, if there are any files in LOST.DIR, you can delete them. As long as you are confidant that none of your SD card files (photos, etc.) have been corrupted (that you may want to recover), since this is where they end up, if they do. You are probably also safe deleting any folder called "temp" or something similar. But that folder doesn't always show up.

[Q] Is there a fix for external storage on AOSP roms?

Brand new to the skyrocket, I have tried both CM9 and AOKP and have issues with external storage. My gallery pull all my pics from the external perfect so i know the o/s is seeing it. When i use astro file search nothing shows up on my external, and when i go to play music through my blutooth, google music wont play anything and jetaudio plays but cuts in and out. Is this a common issue everyone, and is there a fix for it?
Both my internal and external work fine on aosp roms. Are you saying you can't find the internal SD? :thumbup:
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My internal works fine.Google music recognizes music on my external but says it can't access
the files to play them.jetaudio will play them but cuts in and out.
If I open astro file manager and choose external SD nothing shows up
Have you tried fixing permissions? I always try that when something isn't quite right.
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Fixed permissions, rebooted, opened astro file manager,
Clicked on external SD,it says directory empty. I also noticed jetaudio is only recognizing
A portion of my music. I don't get it. I would normally think its a bad install,
But I do a complete wipe everytime and it does the same thing with Cm9
Are you selecting external SD from within the emmc folder? That will show as empty. To see the contents go up one level in the directory and select SDCard. That is external and emmc is internal on AOSP Roms.
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Thank you,that worked,sometimes I am an idiot.lol. now if I can figure
Out why google music wont play any of my music, everything would be
Perfect.
I had the same problem, drove me to the brink of insanity, lol. I flashed another rom and decided it wasn't good so I flashed back and somehow everything worked. Not sure how but it worked.
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xallinvaynex said:
Thank you,that worked,sometimes I am an idiot.lol. now if I can figure
Out why google music wont play any of my music, everything would be
Perfect.
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Glad that was it. I believe there is some instructions for deleting the media db files in the CM9 thread in order to force a rescan. Try searching "media db" in there.
Thanks are great, thanks button is better
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Solved-thanks for everyone's help, this is what I had to do to fix the music issue.
Uninstall music apps, use root explorer do to data/data/android.com.provider.media,delete database folder, boot into recovery,delete cache, reboot,reinstall music app

Misc files

When I go in under settings>storage > and my internal SD card, I have almost 6gb of misc files. Is it safe to delete them? Its not music or pics, I have all that on my external SD card. Most look harmless. I'm just trying to free up some room on my internal storage.
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Hard to really say. Sure, you can, but there could be stuff in there related to existing applications that it just doesn't know how to categorize. You're probably not going to hurt anything permanently if you do delete. You could try something like SD maid and see how much it cleans up too.
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For the most part. Misc files are files or folder that are not recognized by the phone folders. For instance, when you first get the phone it automatically makes folders for you. Folder such as: Camera, Downloads and Music. However, if you move files over to it from a computer or even bluetooth and you don't put in one of those specified folders, it will go into the Misc files.
My suggestion is to get ES file explorer and use the app's SD Card Analyst to give you a detailed look of whats really on the SD card.
Hope this helps

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