Hi all,
First post as a new Asus Transformer owner:
I seem to be having problems with the MicroSD card, I have a brand new 32GB card, formatted as FAT32, it can be read and written to correctly on my pc.
When inserted into the Transformer I get a "Preparing external storage" message, LOST.DIR is created on the card, and the card is visible as /Removable/MicroSD/.
All good so far but then most apps can't see anything on the card and everything seems to be looking in /mnt/sdcard/ (internal storage) for files.
Examples -
I create a nook folder on the microsd card, then a my documents folder under that and place epub files in there but the nook app can't find files either in /Removable/MicroSD/Nook/MyDocuments or /mnt/sdcard/Nook/MyDocuments
Aldiko book reader - I hit home then sdcard and it displays the contents of /mnt/sdcard with no way to navigate to /Removable/MicroSD
Dropbox places files in /mnt/sdcard not on the MicroSD card
The Music App however is successful in automatically finding music in /Removable/MicroSD/Music
I have tested this with another (8gb) card and the same behavior happens.
Is this normal? if so how do I get the apps to look in (and store files in) the MicroSD card?
I am no expert but I think this is one of the "bugs" that need to be worked on in Android 3.x. It is most likely the reason why the XOOM still has no official microSD support. How are you going to mount the internal memory as /sdcard and in addition use a removable medium, also called /sdcard? Unfortunately, /sdcard is commonly the removable medium so I am curious as to what the solution will be! For now we just have to "suck it up" until someone smart comes up with a work-around
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With the Evo, connected to my PC, selecting "Mount as disk drive," only the Micro SD card appears in Windows Explorer as a directory. I want and expect to see another directory for Internal Storage.
Had had the Incredible, where _both_ the SD card and Internal Storage appeared as two separate directories. I could see what was stored on ea.
I am under 300MB of memory of avail. space on the Internal - lots of posts about running out of app room in various forums - so curious what media and other data is there, what might be movable to SD card.
Got some further questions about how to copy data from an 8MB card to a 32MB card (just drag to PC and back?) as I just ordered one, and about how to tell certain apps where I want media recorded to (may simply not be an option w Camcorder and others), but mainly just want to understand how to view Internal storage from a directory on my PC when unit is docked. Thx!
I am wondering if anyone knows how to set the external sdcard to default so when I connect it to my computer it opens the external one instead of the internal one?
I'd like to know as well. On the Samsung Galaxy phones, the internal sd card is /sdcard and the external card is /sdcard/sd. Is it possible to mount the external sd card in the gtablet so that it appears under the sdcard?
I found an app call multi-mount. Has anyone tried this with the gtablet?
http://www.androidzoom.com/android_applications/tools/multi-mount-sdcard_jvzi.html
The /sdcard/sd seems like a reasonable solution. I wonder, is the gtablet the only device using /sdcard2/ ? It'd be nice if there were some standard for multiple sdcards. Then app developers could follow suite and start building apps that browse multiple sdcards.
LostDogWA said:
The /sdcard/sd seems like a reasonable solution. I wonder, is the gtablet the only device using /sdcard2/ ? It'd be nice if there were some standard for multiple sdcards. Then app developers could follow suite and start building apps that browse multiple sdcards.
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I tried something like that awhile ago, creating a mount point under /sdcard, but it doesn't work.
Jim
dschach said:
I'd like to know as well. On the Samsung Galaxy phones, the internal sd card is /sdcard and the external card is /sdcard/sd. Is it possible to mount the external sd card in the gtablet so that it appears under the sdcard?
I found an app call multi-mount. Has anyone tried this with the gtablet?
http://www.androidzoom.com/android_applications/tools/multi-mount-sdcard_jvzi.html
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I have used this app on my GTab VEGAN and it works great. The only minor hiccup is that to further the nomenclature confusion is that the external microSD (aka SDCARD2) is actually "SD-Card One" in this particular app and the internal memory is known to this app as "SD-Card Two".
Hi all, I hate first posts being a question, but needs must!
I bought a cheap 5" chinese phone thats running 4.0.4 but I have a little problem.
I bought a 32GB SD Card to go in it as well and the phone mounts it fine, however the camera says insert a card when I select storage>External
and the gallery see's the folders but not the contents.
However I can watch all the vids and pics if I use ES Explorer to navigate around.
I think the path isn't mapped correctly so apps arn't seeing it?
Any ideas?
Oh, Link2SD says for the camera app:
Symbolic Link - Second partition not found - /dev/block/mmcblk1p2: device not found.
Internal:
/data 1.84GB
SD Card:
/mnt/sdcard 5.54GB
Ext. SD:
/mnt/sdcard-ex 29.66GB.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
There seems to be quite a bit of discussion about this but no real resolution. I've been trying to find a way to mount directories on my external SD card onto the internal /sdcard directories to force apps that only can write to /sdcard internally to actually write to the external card. What a mess. I've tried symbolic links, battled the FUSE mounts, experimented with "mount -o bind" -- on and on. FolderMount claims to do such things, but bricks the phone.
I can do the bind mounts -- and when I look at them with adb they appear to be correct. But the apps continue to write to the internal /sdcard dirs. I've also turned off SuperSu mount namespace separation in testing.
It's a shame that something that really should be so simple is such a PITA. Any new ideas? Thanks!
Why don't you use ADB and partition your SD card as internal storage. Samsung took out the adoptable storage feature for Marshmallow. For the workaround go here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s7/how-to/enable-adoptable-storage-s7-t3333511
I considered that early on. The problem is that I've never seen a reasonable explanation of how "bonded" memory like that is handled. Right now I have a 64GB card split as one exFAT and one ext2 partition (the latter for link2sd, and mostly empty). But at least this lets me have some control over where apps end up. But if I bond ("adaptable") an SD card partition to the internal memory, I (AFAIK) lose that control. Any given app and app's data could end up on faster internal memory or slower external memory, and I wouldn't be able to control it. Also, at this point wiping the phone to do this would be a serious PITA. Am I missing something? Thanks!
Actually, you can partition part of the SD card as internal and part of it can remain external using the ADB method. I have a 64GB card myself, and it works great. I would recommend a high speed one though.
I have been using Drive Syncrypt (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.semaphore.drivesyncrypt) for a while now, primarily to backup work-related documents to my Google Drive (PDFs, Power Points, etc.). My phone started running low on space so I finally purchases a micro SD card and moved all of my files there. Down side is that Drive Syncrypt doesn't read from external SD cards so I can't point it there to back stuff up.
I looked around for a way to "trick" the app so that it wouldn't see it as an external SD card, but my researched proved to be more confusing than helpful. Some suggestions included "mounting the folder as a drive" (no idea what that really means), creating a symbolic link to the folder on the SD card, etc. This is all stuff I am not well versed in.
My question is: is there a way to make it look like a folder on an external SD card is not actually residing on the SD card, allowing me to point apps like Drive Syncrypt to it for syncing purposes?
Thanks in advance, any help would be greatly appreciated. If more details are needed or anything is unclear please let me know.
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