So I'm sure many of you have run into this problem...
Newer phones tend to come with their own disk partition that shows up as "sdcard". They also have an external sd slot which shows as "sdcard-ext" or some variation.
Many older apps assume the built in one is the ONLY sdcard, not realizing that they need to offer the option to browse for other sd cards. They often don't give the option to go up directory to get to it either. So you have to copy the files you need manually from your external to your internal.. it's a big pain in the ass.
So is it possible to create a folder shortcut or symbolic link to the sd-ext from within the internal sd card?
Kinda like in windows, you can create a folder shortcut to c:\windows from c:\program files\
Then you could just open that "shortcut" as if you were opening that folder. That would make things much easier
Sure
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/creating-soft-link-or-symbolic-link/
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I am new to the android world. I am an avid flasher on my WM phone. I have a new G tablet which I immediately flashed the TNT lite rom. Works great.
I have one question though. Is there a way to easily transfer files from internal memory to my external sd card? I have tried copy and paste, but I never get a paste command once copied. I have downloaded some of the apps that are supposed to help move apps to the sd card, but none do files. Specifically, I put all my music onto the tab, and would prefer to run it from the sd card to preserve space.
At this point, it the only way I can figure it out is to repaste all the music to an SD card from my PC and then stick that card in the tablet. Am I correct?
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I am new to the android world. I am an avid flasher on my WM phone. I have a new G tablet which I immediately flashed the TNT lite rom. Works great.
I have one question though. Is there a way to easily transfer files from internal memory to my external sd card? I have tried copy and paste, but I never get a paste command once copied. I have downloaded some of the apps that are supposed to help move apps to the sd card, but none do files. Specifically, I put all my music onto the tab, and would prefer to run it from the sd card to preserve space.
At this point, it the only way I can figure it out is to repaste all the music to an SD card from my PC and then stick that card in the tablet. Am I correct?
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Astro file manager can do this. Long hold and copy (or cut, more precisely), then move to the directory you want them in (/sdcard, for instance) and choose "Edit", and there should be a paste option.
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I am new to the android world. I am an avid flasher on my WM phone. I have a new G tablet which I immediately flashed the TNT lite rom. Works great.
I have one question though. Is there a way to easily transfer files from internal memory to my external sd card? I have tried copy and paste, but I never get a paste command once copied. I have downloaded some of the apps that are supposed to help move apps to the sd card, but none do files. Specifically, I put all my music onto the tab, and would prefer to run it from the sd card to preserve space.
At this point, it the only way I can figure it out is to repaste all the music to an SD card from my PC and then stick that card in the tablet. Am I correct?
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You should be able to do this in the file manager that came with the rom. It's been a while since I've used TNT Lite (have since been using VEGAn and LOVING it). I move files (single and multiple) all the time in the iFileManager that came with the rom I am using. Although every once in a while it won't let me move the file but will let me copy it to another directory (then I just have to delete the original file afterwards). Simply long press the file you want to move, navigate to the folder you want to paste the file using the file manager interface (meaning using the "up folder" at the top rather than using the "back" button on your gTab. Once you're in the folder you want to paste the file simply select "paste".
I suppose you can install other file managers but with each app you install on your gTab you run the risk of cluttering it up with apps you will seldom use. That's just my .2 cents.
One more thing, if you're going to be doing a lot of sideloading and/or moving files from your pc or phone to the gTab I would strongly recommend getting a free Dropbox account which will allow you to transfer files between all of the devices you install Dropbox on.
I will try it. I am already using both the ifile manager and dropbox. I think I just missed a step.
I've searched the forums and can't seem to find an answer to this, but I do know that others have the same issue. For example, when I download a file such as a new kernel zip file, I am unable to move (using Root Explorer or any other file manager) the file from the internal SD card over to the removable external SD card. I always have to connect to my Mac in order to place the file on the external so that I can move forward with flashing, etc. Anyone have a fix for this? I can't believe that such a simple and required function doesn't work. I realize that the external SD card functionality is based on a hack/mod, but it seems like not being able to write to it from within the device makes it somewhat useless in many ways.
EDIT: Nevermind, SOLVED. Found out you have to "copy" and not "move"...works like a charm
In Root Explorer you need to go to the top left and you'll see a button that says Mount R/W make sure it isn't set as Mount R/O. Afterwards make sure you move the files to SDCard/External so you can see it in recovery.
Good you got it to work..
Why do the phone recognize my internal storage as sdcard0? This tends to lead to some problems when locating files in recovery.
Is there a way to make sure extraneous files, such as downloads, stay only on the sd card under sdcard?
Sometimes when placing a file on the sdcard from USB-to-PC connection, I navigated to the root folder using a file explorer, and tap sdcard, only to find it's not there. Instead of I have to home-->storage-->sdcard1.
Can anyone explain what exactly is going on in this case?? Or if anyone found a way to consolidate the folders, how can I do it??
Thank you.
jldr said:
Why do the phone recognize my internal storage as sdcard0? This tends to lead to some problems when locating files in recovery.
Is there a way to make sure extraneous files, such as downloads, stay only on the sd card under sdcard?
Sometimes when placing a file on the sdcard from USB-to-PC connection, I navigated to the root folder using a file explorer, and tap sdcard, only to find it's not there. Instead of I have to home-->storage-->sdcard1.
Can anyone explain what exactly is going on in this case?? Or if anyone found a way to consolidate the folders, how can I do it??
Thank you.
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The storage isn't extended, it's two separate file spaces. Your internal memory is reported as an internal SD card (sdcard0) and your SD Card is reported as an external SD (sdcard1)
jldr said:
Why do the phone recognize my internal storage as sdcard0? This tends to lead to some problems when locating files in recovery.
Is there a way to make sure extraneous files, such as downloads, stay only on the sd card under sdcard?
Sometimes when placing a file on the sdcard from USB-to-PC connection, I navigated to the root folder using a file explorer, and tap sdcard, only to find it's not there. Instead of I have to home-->storage-->sdcard1.
Can anyone explain what exactly is going on in this case?? Or if anyone found a way to consolidate the folders, how can I do it??
Thank you.
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If you download the Motorola USB Device Manager then in my computer your device will be recognised with internal and external storage available, all folders under these will be clearly visable and you shouldn't have any issues transferring data between the two.
Cheers
I have that manager and it works well, but I would like the folder "sdcard" in the home to link me to the sdcard1 and not sdcard0. Right now the "symlink" in root browser points there. Anyway to change that?
Has any one else lost the ability to write to their socketed sdcard since the 4.4.2?
thesavo said:
Has any one else lost the ability to write to their socketed sdcard since the 4.4.2?
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Thats a "feature" of kitkat. Can't be changed unless you have root.
Seriously?
Yes, see here for fix(if your rooted):
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nextapp.sdfix
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It's a security issue. Before KK, the SD card was wide open to any other process to be able to request read/write to any directory and file, regardless of whether or not they created that file or directory.
Now, under KK, a program can create a file or folder in a "protected" area and only that program has the ability to modify the contents in that folder. It cannot modify other folders or files that it didn't create.
Time to move the podcasts. So my older shows that I worked hard to keep to keep the ext sdcard1 as a target, will have to be copied to sdcard0.too bad.thanks @iBolski
No wonder BeyondPod kept 'accidently' putting shows on SDcard0 for the last year. Even though I "pinned" it to SDcard1 in the advanced settings.
Even with the application that patches the /etc/permissions/platform.xml, I have found certain apps still do not work correctly. Dolphin Browser, for example, cannot switch to /storage/sdcard1. It keeps saying it can't find it and I need to ensure I don't have "USB Mode" enabled, which I don't even have as an option when connected to a PC.
I also have init.d installed on my machine and I had startup scripts that mounted various directories from my external to the internal SD card to "fool" the device so that apps that wouldn't save to the external but the internal would save across a mount. Well, that no longer works. For example, Amazon MP3 will not save downloaded music anywhere except to the internal sd card. I had my startup scripts mount an amazonmp3 directory on my external SD card to the internal amazonmp3 directory on the internal memory card. When I proceeded to download music, it didn't show up in the external directory. However, I noticed that the internal sd card's memory did decrease. I then unmounted the directory and saw that the Amazon MP3 app was ignoring the mount under KitKat and directory saved the files into the /storage/sdcard0/amazonmp3 directory, even though it was mounted to the directory on the external SD card. It did work under JB and ICS, but apparently, with KitKat, some apps will still write directly to the native directory on the internal SD card, ignoring the fact that I've mounted a different directory to it.
The stock Moto camera will write to the external SD card if you go and change the setting for it. However, the Google Camera does not give you any option to store your pictures anywhere except on the internal SD card memory. :crying:
Remember, apps can write to the external card, if you don't apply the "patch", but only to what is considered a protected are (the /storage/sdcard1/Android directory structure) and then, they can only write to a directory that the app created. They can read other directories, but they cannot modify them.
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It's a security issue. Before KK, the SD card was wide open to any other process to be able to request read/write to any directory and file, regardless of whether or not they created that file or directory.
Now, under KK, a program can create a file or folder in a "protected" area and only that program has the ability to modify the contents in that folder. It cannot modify other folders or files that it didn't create.
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That's official explanation (bull****) as you described above with non stock camera. Basically KK made external storage almost useless. I found this nice description quite long time ago.
https://plus.google.com/+TodLiebeck/posts/gjnmuaDM8sn
Zeljko1234 said:
That's official explanation (bull****) as you described above with non stock camera. Basically KK made external storage almost useless. I found this nice description quite long time ago.
https://plus.google.com/+TodLiebeck/posts/gjnmuaDM8sn
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I know at this point, Root Explorer still works with it, after setting the correct permissions into the /etc/permissions/platform.xml file. That works for a lot of apps. The only one that I know that is currently broken is Dolphin browser. I cannot navigate to the /storage/sdcard1/ area anymore. It keeps telling me it can't find the file or directrory and that I should make sure the SD card is ready and USB Mass Storage (haven't seen this option since my Droid X2) is not on.
So definitely, Dolphin Browser is doing something differently that even the patch isn't working for it.
Problem is that without root user cannot edit platform.xml and even after that some applications refuse to write to sd card. Another example is OfficeSuite 7 Pro which I bought and now cannot edit file if it's needed. Workaround is to save to internal then overwrite to sd card.
Basically stock Android becoming more and more limited, harder and harder to get root... That's so bad that I wouldn't update to official kk in the case that my phone has locked bootloader.
Read this article http://www.xda-developers.com/andro...use-even-more-issues-for-root-app-developers/
First of all, clarification:
1.There's a lot of guides showing how to bind large games' .obb files and their respective folders/directories to external sd card. This guide will show you how to install these games even if they are bigger than your internal memory. For example, you got 4 Gb internal SD, on ROM goes 2.5 Gb, and for all your apps, pictures and videos goes 1.5 Gb. It fills really fast, so if you want some HD game, say FIFA 14, you can't install it. Here my guide jumps in.2.When a program binds game's .obb data directory (if you have enough memory free on internal SD for the game to install in the first place), its .obb file is indeed transfered on external SD card, but often in memory status there's a bug which still shows it on your internal memory and it is full, but it is not case here.
You need:
1.Rooted phone, Install from unknown sources allowed
2.FolderMount installed (didn't try with Directory Bind yet)
3.Root file manager like Root explorer installed
4.Game you want to install with .apk +data folder downloaded on your PC
5.Write down or somehow mark names of game's data folder and it's .obb file
So, let's start..
1.Find out where should be game's data folder (in most cases it's Android/obb folder)
2.Copy apk on SD root and folder with .obb files on external SD where it should be installed by default
* make Android/obb folder on external SD if you didn't already* for real if it was to be installed on internal memory the path would be: storage/emulated/0/Android/obb/yourgamefolderwithobb3.Once copying is done, navigate with your root browser on INTERNAL SD, and make folder named exactly as your game, the one that you wrote down, on exact location,for example storage/emulated/0/Android/obb/ and inthere you make this yourgamefolderwithobb folder (case sensitive!)
4.Now, you get inside this folder that you made with your root file manager, here it is ˝yourgamefolderwithobb˝ without quotes and inthere you make new file named exactly as your game's .obb file, with .obb extension, and save it, for example ˝main.128yourgame.obb˝ without quotes - case sensitive
* if for any reason you can't save your new file, then you make it on your external SD's root and copy where it belongs on internal SD, and if even this isn't possible, then make this file on your pc - new .txt document> save as>all files>exactly named as your .obb and then copy it via USB on your internal SD on the right place, in the right folder.5.When all previous steps are done, navigate to external SD root and install your game's .apk . When instalation is done, exit your root file manager.
* DO NOT OPEN GAME ONCE INSTALLED, FOR IT'S NOT OVER YET! Just exit6.Go to your MountFolder. On the upper left corner next to ˝List of pairs˝ headline touch menu icon.
7.Once menu open, touch ˝Apps analyzer˝ option. After short scaning, a list of your apps will appear. Search this list for app you just installed. If it's on the list, so far everything is OK, but if it isn't... you probably messed something up, see if you skipped a step or two click back button.
8.Open FolderMount again if it exits. Click ˝+˝ option at the top
9.Give name to your game (gta, tenis...) by filling ˝name˝ gap
10.Click ˝Source˝ gap and navigate to internal SD in the game's directory that you made in step 3! By clicking ˝Source˝ you should already be in /storage/emulated/0, it will say at the top the name and the path of your current directory. Once you're in directory you made, click ✓ option at the upper right
11.A pop-up will appear saying ˝Would you like me to create the destination folder automatically? You can choose a custom destination by clicking no˝ Click NO
12.Click ˝Destination˝ gap and navigate in directory that you copied from your PC on EXTERNAL SD in step 2! Once there click ✓ option again
13.You're back in menu with Name,Source and Destination gaps which you filled. Touch ✓ again.
*I didn't try to tick ˝exclude from media scanning˝, you shouldn't too 'till you check if everything is working as it should. Try experimenting later.14.New pop-up will appear asking ˝Your source directory is not empty. Would you like me to move files to the destination(and overwrite existing files)?˝ Click NO again
15.You're in main menu in FolderMount, there's your game's name that you gave it earlier, next to it is grey pin. Touch that pin once and it will turn green.
* in FolderMount after every reboot a pin will turn grey. Just click it before trying to play game because it will not see .obb files and will try to download them again.16.Exit FolderMount and PLAY YOUR GAME!!!
EDIT:
There is a lot of devices, every of them has different internal and external SD paths, be sure to know them well. The best way to find this out is to go in FolderMount, try to create new bind, and by tapping Source and Destination gap see the path for each SD in the upper part of the screen.
Some SD card locations on various devices:
/mnt/sdcard0 - internal and /mnt/sdcard1 - external;
/mnt/sdcard - internal and /mnt/extSD - external
Also, if this guide helped you feel free to let me know that by pressing THANKS button
Thanks Man You Saved My life
iDuc said:
Thanks Man You Saved My life
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Glad to help man
Thanks Alot i Realy Needed This Method Because i Love To Play Games But My internal is only 4 gigs and user 1.35 and searched the whole internet for any way but i didn't find
Thanks again
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Thanks Alot i Realy Needed This Method Because i Love To Play Games But My internal is only 4 gigs and user 1.35 and searched the whole internet for any way but i didn't find
Thanks again
I will most certainly have to try this on my tablet! Thank you very much