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Can I put downloaded ringtones on phone storage instead of SD card If so how

rusty4k said:
Can I put downloaded ringtones on phone storage instead of SD card If so how
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You can do it through adb or root explorer (really any file manager with root permissions).
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Busphan said:
You can do it through adb or root explorer (really any file manager with root permissions).
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Hey Rusty4k, the easiest way to put the ringtones on the Android is to connect it to your PC as a Hard Drive. Using Windows Explorer, create a directory called ringtones in the SDCards root directory (example: \Ringtones). Next copy all of your ringtones (I assume they are on your PC) to the directory ringtones on the SD card. If you want seperate ringtones for Notifications and Alarms, follow the same procedure and create root directories call \Notifications and \Alarms.
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[Q] files showing in /mnt/sdcard but not /sdcard

i was moving some files (music) to my sdcard today and for some reason now that i go in and look for the files in /sdcard, they arent there. all i have is my Voodoo folder. but, if i look in /mnt/sdcard, all of my files appear. can someone explain this?

If i plug it into my computer through my micro sd adapter, it shows all the files
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Mod, please close. Solution found
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what was the solution? I am having the same problem...

shehrammajid said:
what was the solution? I am having the same problem...
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Oh i wish I could remember. Gahhhh let me think
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Seriously? Come on, you should put down how you fixed it. I am having the same problem.

c71clark said:
Seriously? Come on, you should put down how you fixed it. I am having the same problem.
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i would post it if i could remember it, but i can't
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Maybe try unmounting the SD card and remount it.
Settings --> SD card and phone storage --> Unount SD card
Once it's unmounted, it'll give you the option to remount it.

stephen_w said:
Maybe try unmounting the SD card and remount it.
Settings --> SD card and phone storage --> Unount SD card
Once it's unmounted, it'll give you the option to remount it.
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im thinking that's what did it for me, or maybe it was a permission fix in cwm
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Lost sd card contents

All my sd card contents disappeared after I flashed kd1 it shows that the memory is still taken up by the files but I can't find them I tried file explorer apps tried plugging the phone into the computer and still can't find them
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Try removing the memory card and reading it directly from a computer. If you can see the contents, copy whatever you need out of it. put it back into the phone. Format. reboot and see if the phone reads it right. If it does, drag and drop whatever you backed up
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Will try as soon as I find the micro sd converter
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Looks like I wont be able to find the missing files because my little cousin had my phone and accidentally erased everything on the internal memory and sd card
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falcons2 said:
Looks like I wont be able to find the missing files because my little cousin had my phone and accidentally erased everything on the internal memory and sd card
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Download photorec.
You can recover your SD card as long as you don't copy anything over to it

OK thanks where do I download it. I'm searching for it in the market and it's not finding it
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Google it, it's a windows/linux/mac program.

Music and Picture files still showing up on Microsd card after formatting

Hi,
I have formatted my sandisk 16gb microsd card multiple times via my pc(windows xp), my phone(samsung galaxy s2 skyrocket), sdformatter and hp usb disk format tool. All these programs say the format was successful but my music and picture files are still showing up on my phone. I also tried a factory reset on the phone but that only removed the files in the internal storage.
I am new to this forum and this is my first post. I tried searching for threads with a similar issue but I was unable to find one.
Thanks

Does the card show 16gb of capacity after formatting? If so, fill that with generic files & see what the phone reads.
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Iamdapo said:
Hi,
I have formatted my sandisk 16gb microsd card multiple times via my pc(windows xp), my phone(samsung galaxy s2 skyrocket), sdformatter and hp usb disk format tool. All these programs say the format was successful but my music and picture files are still showing up on my phone. I also tried a factory reset on the phone but that only removed the files in the internal storage.
I am new to this forum and this is my first post. I tried searching for threads with a similar issue but I was unable to find one.
Thanks
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Are you sure the pics and music are on your external sd and not the internal?
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pc103 said:
Does the card show 16gb of capacity after formatting? If so, fill that with generic files & see what the phone reads.
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It's a 16gb card but when I attempt to format the card it shows up as a 14.8gb card. I connected my phone to my computer and drropped a generic file onto the sd card but the file does not show up on the phone when I disconnect it from my computer. I reconnected the phone to the computer and the generic files is still missing.

jd1639 said:
Are you sure the pics and music are on your external sd and not the internal?
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Yes they are on the external. I opened the MyFiles app, looked under extSdCard and it shows all the music and picture files. I tried deleting all the files in the exSdCard folder but they all reappear when I restart the phone. I also tried deleting them from my computer but they all reappear after the phone re-scans the sd card.

You're putting it on the wrong card
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Iamdapo said:
Yes they are on the external. I opened the MyFiles app, looked under extSdCard and it shows all the music and picture files. I tried deleting all the files in the exSdCard folder but they all reappear when I restart the phone. I also tried deleting them from my computer but they all reappear after the phone re-scans the sd card.
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You must have them backed up on Google or something and they re download
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external_sd vs extSdCard

sorry if this has been covered but i couldnt find the answer. when using file explorer of any kind, i find that under the home folder is listed two external sd folders. one is external_sd the other is extSdCard. both have exact same contents and permissions. when i go into the file manager in my recovery, twrp 2.6.3, the only one listed is external_sd. ive read that the external_sd was the old location not used anymore since the 4.2 updates however its the only one listed in my recovery. do i need both? can these cause problems since they have the same contents? thanks in advance. oh yes, i am on liquidsmooth 2.10 official

Do you have a external SD card in the phone? Are both of those folders the same amount of storage?
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SdRasta said:
Do you have a external SD card in the phone? Are both of those folders the same amount of storage?
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yes and yes.

apparently those two folders are shortcuts to my sdcard1 which is my external. just wondering if i need both. which one is the proper one and if i remove one, will my recovery recognize the other? OR is it supposed to be that way and im just being paranoid?

rhamorsky said:
apparently those two folders are shortcuts to my sdcard1 which is my external. just wondering if i need both. which one is the proper one and if i remove one, will my recovery recognize the other? OR is it supposed to be that way and im just being paranoid?
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Sometimes drives get renamed funny when they are mounted. It's all the same and should both get linked to the exact same drive. It might be annoying, but you aren't harming anything having the external SD card mounted as both external_sd and extSDcard. It's just the way your phone is recognizing the SD card.
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BadUsername said:
Sometimes drives get renamed funny when they are mounted. It's all the same and should both get linked to the exact same drive. It might be annoying, but you aren't harming anything having the external SD card mounted as both external_sd and extSDcard. It's just the way your phone is recognizing the SD card.
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Thank you for the response. ill just leave it alone then.

My phone is the same way, but they are two different memories. One is the external SD I put in phone and other is phone storage but it's named about the SAME THING... One like 'externalSD' other being something like extSD'
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Same thing on mine but my music is on there and Apollo sees both files so I have double of every song and I have not found a way to delete it anyone know how

SdRasta said:
My phone is the same way, but they are two different memories. One is the external SD I ! in phone and other is phone storage but it's named about the SAME THING... One like 'externalSD' other being something like extSD'
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They are not two different memories they are both representing the same storage facitity ex=external, ext also reads as external. My device has 2 exactly the same folders with exactly same contents, dates times in are same & named 'external SD >sdcard1' & 'extSDcard >sdcard1'. My inbuilt internal storage is named 'Sdcard'. I'm fairly sure the extra duplicate of external storage is a safe box type environment where if things go wrong the 'live' folder will be kept safe from harm...ie malware / virus etc. Its along those lines anyway but can't find my documents about it at mo