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.
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Hi all,
I have noticed for a while that when using apps for downloading wallpapers e.g. Flikie Wallpapers HD, Wedge, Mabilo, Backgrounds, etc. I get messages saying that is not possible to save on the SD card.
Strangely enough if I open Astro file manager almost all files and folders in my phone including those in the phone memory are marked with an -r-, are they then read-only files? If so, could it be the cause of some apps failing to save on the SD card?
If then I connect the phone to my laptop or pc I can then revert the read-only attribute of any file or folder but when I mount the card on the phone again the read-only attribute comes back again.
Here are some examples of apps that I have tried so far:
Wedge:
It seems to be OK being able to save and set those wallpapers and navigating to them with Astro doesn't seem to be a problem although they are still shown as -r-.
Backgrounds:
Saving: "Could not save the image. Please make sure the SD card is inserted and mounted"
Set wallpaper: works OK
Mabilo:
All working OK
I hope someone might be able to help. This is perhaps an easy problem to solve but I'm running out of ideas
I'm using HTC Hero 2.1, T-Mobile UK, original ROM. For the rest the phone works well, so I don't think this is a phone-specific issue...
Thanks for reading my first post
My SD (the one on the Android, not the SD Card, why the hell did they name it SD?!) is full of junk. In fact, it comes with a load of junk by default.
How do I:
1. Get Android to not pull videos, pictures, and music from games? My gallery, video player, doubletwist, etc is full of stuff like that.
2. Know what I can delete and what I can't? I'd like to clean this place up.
3. How do I find stuff? I mean, is it up to me to make "Music" "Pictures" "Videos" folders for my own sake, and Android just looks everywhere and grabs it?
4. How do I go to my SD Card? In fact, I am 100% sure my SD card has two auto-assigned folders on it and nothing else. I have no idea how to access it or put things on it, and I am also sure my phone does not care that it exists. Obviously my phone's SD has plenty of memory on it, but I don't know why there is even a SD card slot. I was thinking of copying some files onto my SD card to put onto my friend's Android phone, but I am also positive I'd have no idea how to perform what should be a basic task.
So, help me out. What am I doing? And, what apps would I need for question four, or just file browsing apps in general.
I'm confused about what this topic is about.
All the words that would describe what he is talking about are replaced with junk and stuff.
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edit: The captivate assigns the internal sd card as SD:
Delete the "junk"
thehyecircus said:
My SD (the one on the Android, not the SD Card, why the hell did they name it SD?!) is full of junk. In fact, it comes with a load of junk by default.
How do I:
1. Get Android to not pull videos, pictures, and music from games? My gallery, video player, doubletwist, etc is full of stuff like that.
2. Know what I can delete and what I can't? I'd like to clean this place up.
3. How do I find stuff? I mean, is it up to me to make "Music" "Pictures" "Videos" folders for my own sake, and Android just looks everywhere and grabs it?
4. How do I go to my SD Card? In fact, I am 100% sure my SD card has two auto-assigned folders on it and nothing else. I have no idea how to access it or put things on it, and I am also sure my phone does not care that it exists. Obviously my phone's SD has plenty of memory on it, but I don't know why there is even a SD card slot. I was thinking of copying some files onto my SD card to put onto my friend's Android phone, but I am also positive I'd have no idea how to perform what should be a basic task.
So, help me out. What am I doing? And, what apps would I need for question four, or just file browsing apps in general.
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A search would have answered your questions. your SD card memory is the phones main programs memory. IT is where alot of your apps store the data. You can use many apps to as a file explorer it even comes with one. Its called My Files. I use Root Explorer which allows to access Root files and make changes to them. The sd card slot is for....wait for it.......More memory. As for it not seeing the files. there are a few music apps that let you set the folders it scans. Power Amp is the best at the moment IMHO. You can also put a file in the folders that you dont want scanned named no media, (with root explorer you can copy one of these files from the root folders if you can make one.)
with pre existing folders (for apps and such)
create a "new file" in it named " .nomedia " with the . (preriod)
this can be done with root explorer or in windows. create blank text document rename to .nomedia with NO .txt then copy and move to folders.
nothing in that folder or sub folder will be included in media scans
or if it is a personal folder you are creating name it starting with a . (period)
and ya internal SD gets messy. Use external for your files to keep organized!
Wouldn't my SD card (even if it is SDHC) be slower? DoubleTwist is already inexcusably slow with my files on the SD itself, what would it be like on the external?
And yes, I know what the SD is, I was just asking why it was named that.
Bumping this because I am curious about any speed differences, and because I would like my SD Card to matter.
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.
coldheater said:
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've got a 32Gb SD card in my Surface and have it setup as an NTFS folder rather than a drive letter.
I have moved the default locations for documents, pictures, video's etc but the "Pictures" app doesnt seem to pick up images from the library even though it has been changed in the Explorer library locations.
Anyone else got this problem or am I going to have to dig around in regedit?
Make sure your sd card folders have indexing turned on
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I've got a 32Gb SD card in my Surface and have it setup as an NTFS folder rather than a drive letter.
I have moved the default locations for documents, pictures, video's etc but the "Pictures" app doesnt seem to pick up images from the library even though it has been changed in the Explorer library locations.
Anyone else got this problem or am I going to have to dig around in regedit?
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Think you might be onto something there, when I go into indexing options its not picking up the folder that I created for the mSD card.
However I can import images from the mSD card using pictures and it puts them in the moved pictures folder with a datename and they appear in the "Pictures" app...
Bit of random behaviour there...
Been trying to figure this out for some time and after doing as much research as I could, I've discovered no solution.
Hope I put this in the right thread -- marking these things out:
--Windows 7 Computer - HTC Sensation 4G
--Hidden Files and Folders are set to show
It shows all of the folders from Android, but it doesn't show my other folders, like music and pictures. I have to type the directory manually to gain the access to the folder, and this only happens on some computers. I've put my SD card into other computers and the folders show fine, which is really weird to me. I can't remember all the folders I have aside from the ones my phone have on there, and it's frustrating having to go into my phone's file explorer to remember the names of folders, or which ones are there. I've even tried mounting my sd card direct from my phone and still nothing. Only shows the same folders I always see.
These are not folders that are on my phone. These are folders and files on my SD card that I can't see without manually typing "D:\DCIM" or "D:\Music"
Has anyone else had this problem and found a solution?
i have the same proplem
Hopefully someone can figure it out for us then because this is annoying not being able to shift through folders the way I'd like. Ah well...
It might be how the SD Card was formatted. If it's over 16GB it should be type Fat32.
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