this may be me just being lazy..... but I installed poweramp, then looked for the music which I put on an sd card. It couldn't see the folders, except for the internal memory. the other way to play was to use the library function, but I want folders and to get it to redownload the art.
I tried to move the music with estrong, but it crashed, then I tried with the built in file manager it also crashed, anyone else had this?
I may just go down the usb route....
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Hi iamdarren,
No reply for a while, so I will give it a go: first off did you get a notification by the tablet for a plugged in SD card? After I plug in my SD card I get a brief message "preparing sd card" (or something of the sort), then I get SD card icon next to the clock in the lower right corner.
Basically if you don't see any of these, there might be a problem with the SD card. Can you test with a different card?
Good luck,
rio
iamdarren said:
this may be me just being lazy..... but I installed poweramp, then looked for the music which I put on an sd card. It couldn't see the folders, except for the internal memory. the other way to play was to use the library function, but I want folders and to get it to redownload the art.
I tried to move the music with estrong, but it crashed, then I tried with the built in file manager it also crashed, anyone else had this?
I may just go down the usb route....
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solved....
I used astro and no crashes, so its all good. I dont think there is anything wrong with the SD card.
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I was wounding if any one knew how to make double twist air sync to the external sd card. I have the majority of my music saved there but when I air sync it puts out on the phones memory not the external sd card. If that's even possible please let me know.
Also I have astro but when I try to move it from where the air sync saves it to the external where the test is it says can not move? ? ? ? Thanks
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I havn't tried the AirSync part but for regular USB syncing I was able to get it to use ext_sd by deleteing everything DT had put on the internal SD, shutting down DT and iTunes, connecting phone then under Storage Management removing the drive letter from the internal SD card. (obviously this is a Windows only solution though ejecting the internal one on a Mac befroe firing up DT might work too).
Once you remove that drive letter restart DT and it showed and synced right to the external SD.
I went this route mainly because I only want the internal SD used by apps, pics, etc. I do believe this will break the syncing of pics and videos thru DT, but not actually tested.
So what you can do for air sync if you want to use that. You just let it sync like normal than copy using astro to the external than delete the one on the internal where air sync puts it by default.
Not perfect but it works.
Would love to hear any other fixes or suggestions.
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There is a setting for it.
Under the general settings tab in the android app, there is actually a setting for choosing the volume on which you want to store your content.
i try to transfer all my music onto my micro sd to listen to it on my eee pad but once i transfer the files over and put the sd card back in my eee pad the files seem to have deleted themselves ??
Not sure if this also applies to the Transformer but with my G-Tablet you have to put a .nomedia file in the SDCARD root directory to keep the OS from deleting the media files.
how do I make such a file?
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how do I make such a file?
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You can do it in notepad but I use notepad++ as notepad sometimes saves it as a .txt file without you knowing. Just open a new file and save it as ".nomedia" without the quotes obviously. Make sure it doesn't save as a .txt file and don't put anything in the file. Copy this file over to the root of your internal memory and SDCARD. I also put it in each of my "Movies" and "Music" folders just in case. Hope this helps!
I'm not sure the media scanner bug is to blame here (and therefore the .nomedia fix would be possibly useless). Though I have had the problem on my g-tablet, I have music files on my TF that I put there by putting my microSD into my computer, copying the files and then re-inserting it into my TF. I have rebooted my TF many times since then, and all of my music files are still there and still playable within the HC music app and others.
The issue with the g-tablet is/was a bug in the media scanner and is only present in some ROMs (not the stock one or most anything based heavily on stock), and no one seemed to know quite why it happens or how to fix it. The files would only disappear when the media scanner would run, and a lot of folks indicated that they could literally watch the files get deleted as it scanned. The solution was to place a file named ".nomedia" inside the folders where the media resides -- this causes the media scanner to skip those folders (also making the stock apps like your music app, not see those files automatically, forcing you to play them from within a file manager app of some sort).
OP, have you tried copying anything other than music files to your microSD? Do those also not show up?
Also make sure you properly eject the SD card before removing it from your PC.
Okay so I tried the .nomedia trick and iut didn't work but strangely only half of my music is getting deleted ,it is all on there when I check on computer but then i safely remove it and when I put it back in my transformer only half is left weird?
Its not full by the way 32gb card 11gb of music
I have a feeling that File Manager HD is screwing with files on my microSD. Are any of you running it?
Im running into the same issue on my g-tab, going to switch to stock see if i have the same issue. Been trying to get my music files on for the past 4 days with no success, they just keep getting deleted.
I had the same problem but it seems to be working well now. I wasn't ejecting the SD card before removing it from my PC. Make sure that you right click on the sd card from your computer, and go to eject. I haven't had any other problems after that.
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I had the same problem but it seems to be working well now. I wasn't ejecting the SD card before removing it from my PC. Make sure that you right click on the sd card from your computer, and go to eject. I haven't had any other problems after that.
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wil try it tomorow but if its a no go then illjust send the sd card back
i'm new to android so please bear with me.
i have a 32GB SD class 4 in my phone. it's been formatted so all it has is the lost.dir (i'm on a mac)
since there are no folders there - how do i gets apps to use it? where do i put music and other files? i have podcasts and other stuff i'd like to drag over but i'm not understanding how the different apps would see it.
i can move some apps to SD card but i think it just moves them to the internal SD card.
it seems that there are 2 SD cards in the phone but no way to differentiate between the 2.
also it sometimes takes forever for the gx2 to recognize the card, its kind of annoying. is having a class 10 better for this?
I use filemanager from the market and it recognizes my external as........"_externalSD" also allows me to transfer files between the two.
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i'm new to android so please bear with me.
i have a 32GB SD class 4 in my phone. it's been formatted so all it has is the lost.dir (i'm on a mac)
since there are no folders there - how do i gets apps to use it? where do i put music and other files? i have podcasts and other stuff i'd like to drag over but i'm not understanding how the different apps would see it.
i can move some apps to SD card but i think it just moves them to the internal SD card.
it seems that there are 2 SD cards in the phone but no way to differentiate between the 2.
also it sometimes takes forever for the gx2 to recognize the card, its kind of annoying. is having a class 10 better for this?
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When you have your phone plugged in pull down the alert bar on the top of the screen and press the "USB Connection" option. It should ask you if you want to turn USB mode on and have a picture of an Android. This will allow you to mount your internal and external sd as if they were regular flash sticks. You can then copy whatever you want to them. I also like to use drop box in combination with Astro for moving things to and from the cloud.
ecpht said:
i'm new to android so please bear with me.
i have a 32GB SD class 4 in my phone. it's been formatted so all it has is the lost.dir (i'm on a mac)
since there are no folders there - how do i gets apps to use it? where do i put music and other files? i have podcasts and other stuff i'd like to drag over but i'm not understanding how the different apps would see it.
i can move some apps to SD card but i think it just moves them to the internal SD card.
it seems that there are 2 SD cards in the phone but no way to differentiate between the 2.
also it sometimes takes forever for the gx2 to recognize the card, its kind of annoying. is having a class 10 better for this?
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1. G2x has the internal sd card partitioned into 2 parts (1 for OS & apps & other for storage & apps).
2. Sd card's class does help but it is not something important until you're running a high def video.
3. Use any file explorer app (File expert etc) for copying files from Internal SD Card to External SD Card.
4. Most of the app's setting menu gives you an option to physically select the storage destination folder i.e. external sd card.
Hope I helped.
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so say i have podcasts and other files on my computer i want to copy to the 32GB SD card - do i just make folders on the card and copy the files over from my computer?
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so say i have podcasts and other files on my computer i want to copy to the 32GB SD card - do i just make folders on the card and copy the files over from my computer?
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Yes, just simply copy the entire FOLDER of the particular file to your External SD Card & if in future, if u download something directly from your phone then simply just copy/paste it from your using any file manager app.
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so i have the phone connected to the computer and I see 2 No Name disks. That's fine. I put a folder called music at the root level of the 32GB card. Now I find that folder in File Expert and I go to play something and it says that file isn't supported. I tried Google Music and Doubletwist. Just mp3's from a CD. are there certain settings for android i need to know about? and do i need to go to File Expert to play this music everytime? Or should I be going through doubletwist on my mac and using it like itunes?
thanks you any help, i'm pretty clueless with this aspect of android right now, trying to catch up.
also both SD cards randomly unmount themselves. is there a reason for this or a way to prevent this?
ecpht said:
so i have the phone connected to the computer and I see 2 No Name disks. That's fine. I put a folder called music at the root level of the 32GB card. Now I find that folder in File Expert and I go to play something and it says that file isn't supported. I tried Google Music and Doubletwist. Just mp3's from a CD. are there certain settings for android i need to know about? and do i need to go to File Expert to play this music everytime? Or should I be going through doubletwist on my mac and using it like itunes?
thanks you any help, i'm pretty clueless with this aspect of android right now, trying to catch up.
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Ok. After reading your problems, here are my suggestions:
1) Copy your 32 GB SD Card files on your computer.
2) Format your 32 GB card. Replace all files back in it.
3) Stop worrying about putting certain files (pics, music) in a root folder. Simply just put any files OR folders inside the Sd card.
4) When it comes to File sharing, think of Android in the same category as Windows.
I hope I helped.
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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
I would love to simply stream all my music when I'm driving, but this is quickly eating up my data plan. Therefore, I like to save a lot of albums "On Device" to listen to later. But Google Music All-Access apparently has no way to specify where these files are stored, and they're quickly filling up my internal SD memory.
So, I bought a 64G SD card, but recently found out that it was wasted money as Google All Access has no way of saving the "On Device" files there.
Has anyone found a solution to this? I've found methods that work for Google Play Music PRIOR to the All Access upgrade, but nothing since that point (about a week ago).
I'm surprised there aren't more people complaining about this, but maybe I'm just one of the few that would like to play my music - LOTS of it - without the need to be connected to the Internet.
Any help?
I just dragged and dropped from my computer to external SD card.
I would guess that you can copy and paste the files if you want to do it all on the phone ? I realise that you might have to use a different music app if the one you use now doesn't "see" them, but that shouldn't be too bad ?
Did you try changing the storage path from internal sd to external sd? This can be done by going to settings and storage.
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techpick said:
Did you try changing the storage path from internal sd to external sd? This can be done by going to settings and storage.
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System (Phone) Settings? Won't allow me to change it.("Move to SD Card" option is disabled).
There is no setting like that in the All-Access program.
Here's how to do it.
http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/com..._i_have_my_downloads_from_google_play/ca5rxuh
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Here's how to do it.
http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/com..._i_have_my_downloads_from_google_play/ca5rxuh
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I've been pulling my hair out trying to get a symlink set up. I'm getting a dreaded "link failed: Operation not permitted" error.
I believe this might be because of the file system on my SD card? It's exFAT... could that be the issue?
You can give this a try
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYFw9bEAzM8
No credit to me, just ran across it and tried it.
ddschmidt said:
You can give this a try
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYFw9bEAzM8
No credit to me, just ran across it and tried it.
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You you could try the Song Spout program.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=44198180#post44198180
http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/0...hack-for-sd-card-support-a-download-link-too/
workaround
If you downgrade your version of play music to 5.1 you get save to SD card support that they removed in 5.2. All you have to do is download activity launcher, or use the built in one from Apex or other launcher of the sort, and exapnd the play music activities and then find the one that has ui.something with sd in in and then choose it and run the activity. It lets you choose device storage or SD and i confirmed it works. I cant take credit i found the fix in this article, kind of.. haha
http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/0...hack-for-sd-card-support-a-download-link-too/
Im on an S4 unlocked SGH-I337 running ATT jellybean 4.3