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so now that we have a working sd card is there any way to change the save location of the browser and camera to the new working sd card?
Sent from my Xoom using Tapatalk

is there anything special to get the SD slot working? Mine still doesn't seem to be doing anything.

Well, in my opinion, which may be wrong...and probably is.
The new sd mod mounts the actual sd as /sdcard2/.
The problem i see with this is all the apps are looking for /sdcard/.
Now I think the best way to handle it would be to symlink /sdcard/ and /sdcard2/ as one volume.
The problem with that is that the volume manager would probably freak the **** out when you take your sdcard out of the device.
I don't know though, maybe bigrush or whoever got it working has this thought out better than I would have - but I am a software developer, not a kernel developer. That **** hurts my head.
Right now, i don't have an extra SD card worth my time of putting in (biggest extra I have is 8 gigs).
The only point I really see in it at the moment is extra space available from a file manager.
I am not sure if media scanner has to be modified to include the new directory to pic up on pictures, movies, and audio.

06types said:
is there anything special to get the SD slot working? Mine still doesn't seem to be doing anything.
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Lol root your xoom and flash the new tiamat 1.3.0 kernel

oh, maybe ill just break down and root it... I didn't really see any point until now with the lack of roms out for this so far.

I have already flashed my xoom, with the original one button flash. The new version does not have a way like the original to just one button the kernel. Will I have to re-root everything and go from there or will it sense that I am already rooted and take me to changing the kernel to be able to use the sdcard?

floridatank said:
I have already flashed my xoom, with the original one button flash. The new version does not have a way like the original to just one button the kernel. Will I have to re-root everything and go from there or will it sense that I am already rooted and take me to changing the kernel to be able to use the sdcard?
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if you use the newest one click method with tiamat 1.3.1 you will be wiping your xoom's data back to stock as well. which means you'll have to setup your xoom again and reinstall all your apps again.
if you want to just flash the newest kernel w/out wiping the data just follow the instructions on this page:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=978013

[Q] No SD card in Paranoid Android Infuse 4G

Hey I'm posting here since I don't have enough posts to post in the developer forum. I just installed the latest build of Paranoid Android on my Samsung Infuse 4G. First I'd like to say thanks to the devs, this rom rocks! But sadly, it is not recognizing my microsd card. I was a bit worried at first since it has all my pics and backups on it, but I plugged it into my computer and everything is there. Any ideas why its not being recognized? Thanks.

bzyzny said:
Hey I'm posting here since I don't have enough posts to post in the developer forum. I just installed the latest build of Paranoid Android on my Samsung Infuse 4G. First I'd like to say thanks to the devs, this rom rocks! But sadly, it is not recognizing my microsd card. I was a bit worried at first since it has all my pics and backups on it, but I plugged it into my computer and everything is there. Any ideas why its not being recognized? Thanks.
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Its listed as emmc... Use root explorer or another file manger and you will be able to find it.

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scott.hart.bti said:
Its listed as emmc... Use root explorer or another file manger and you will be able to find it.
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Thanks, I did notice that it was mounted at /emmc/ but I was having trouble changing my vold.fstab file to make it mount where it should. But whenever i edited the file my phone wouldnt boot past loading screen. A friend suggested it might be a file permissions issue but I think it is where I'm trying to mount it. should it be /mnt/sdcard/external_sd/ or /sdcard/external_SD or something else entirely?

Memory card issues

Hey guys, I cant get my memory card to load up my pics or songs or anything really with any roms right now i am using jelly bean and i went back to ics and still nothing. internal amd external wont work. but if i use a file explorer it finds the songs etc perfectly just that the apps dint find them??? help!!!??? this has been killing me for like weeks now

phillytothemax said:
Hey guys, I cant get my memory card to load up my pics or songs or anything really with any roms right now i am using jelly bean and i went back to ics and still nothing. internal amd external wont work. but if i use a file explorer it finds the songs etc perfectly just that the apps dint find them??? help!!!??? this has been killing me for like weeks now
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Simplest thing, put it in the PC, copy all data and then format the card as FAT
Or then more details
- What's the ROM u using (at the moment)
- What's the app that does not see it?

odeccacccp said:
Simplest thing, put it in the PC, copy all data and then format the card as FAT
Or then more details
- What's the ROM u using (at the moment)
- What's the app that does not see it?
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well i used alllll the jell bean roms pretty much. and currently im using paranoid android. and my various music apps like the play music and th cm9/10 music app the gallery. nothing finds my sd card. could it be because its called sdcard1 and sd card1?? instead on internal or external.(the names when i use astro)

Connect the phone to your computer, make sure you have show hidden files, go to the folders with your stuff and delete .nomedia files.

so i did that and then i went into my gallerey and the two photos that were showing up is now gone

Now restart your device

phillytothemax said:
well i used alllll the jell bean roms pretty much. and currently im using paranoid android. and my various music apps like the play music and th cm9/10 music app the gallery. nothing finds my sd card. could it be because its called sdcard1 and sd card1?? instead on internal or external.(the names when i use astro)
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All those ROM u are using the sd card is no in emmc folder, you have to go out of there to / (nothing) then you will see sdcard folder.
Try to update the pass in your programs that you need to use.

kishke said:
Now restart your device
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thanks it workkkeddd

[Q] SD Card - switching internal and external

Problem: I don't have an external SD card, and I want my phone to use the internal one.
When I used the EB rom (ics), I had to modify the last two lines of text in vold.fstab. Now I'm using Hackfests' JB (CM10)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1866688
What do I do in order to switch from the external to the internal SD card?

Im taking a blind shot in ths dark based off of past cm usage. Is there a cyanogenmod settings section under settings? The option to choose would be under application. I can't friggin remember Atm. But i never bothered with CM10 since CM9 don't work right either!
Sent from my LG-P999

justjackyl said:
Im taking a blind shot in ths dark based off of past cm usage. Is there a cyanogenmod settings section under settings? The option to choose would be under application. I can't friggin remember Atm. But i never bothered with CM10 since CM9 don't work right either!
Sent from my LG-P999
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I managed to figure it out, but thanks for the reply
For those who might potentially have the same problem:
use root explorer (or any other root access app) and navigate to etc, then vold.fstab
in the last two lines of text, change swap sdcard0 with sdcard1, then reboot your phone.

exaphor said:
I managed to figure it out, but thanks for the reply
For those who might potentially have the same problem:
use root explorer (or any other root access app) and navigate to etc, then vold.fstab
in the last two lines of text, change swap sdcard0 with sdcard1, then reboot your phone.
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So this will mount the internal built in sd card? I'm running Hellfire 1.9 and I can't make a nandroid backup using cwm. I keep getting "can't mount /sdcard and when I go to mounts and storage menu and select mount /sdcard I get a "error mounting /sdcard!"

Moving file to root folder not working?

I'm trying to move a file to my root folder from my dowloads and every time I try it goes really slow then freezes. What can I do to move the file?

charger04 said:
I'm trying to move a file ...
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Is the file size over 4 GB?
Sometimes huge files being moved to the tablet will freeze and quit.

No it is only 700MB
And also I moved it from my downloads to my sdcard and it was fine

What is the space remaining on your internal memory?
Is it more than 3 GB?
Sounds like the Asus slow I\O bug raising it's ugly head...not sure about this however.
Are you on Jelly Bean?

Yes I have almost 20G left in my internal storage and I am on liquidsmooth JB rom
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda app-developers app

I wonder if booting to recovery then restarting system would help.
Not sure about Liquid Smooth, I don't think that would cause the slow down.

charger04 said:
I'm trying to move a file to my root folder from my dowloads and every time I try it goes really slow then freezes. What can I do to move the file?
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What do you mean with 'root folder' (for me, that is '/', and moving something there makes no sense), and how did you try to move the file, and from where?

Yes im trying to move it to '/' and I'm just moving it from my sdcard. I've tried using ES browser, root browser lite, and ROM toolbox's root browser and none work

charger04 said:
Yes im trying to move it to '/' and I'm just moving it from my sdcard. I've tried using ES browser, root browser lite, and ROM toolbox's root browser and none work
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OK, you should know this:
- The root filesystem is a ramdisk. That means, after shutting down, its contents are lost.
- The root filesystem is usually read-only, which is a good idea.
- Every file in there occupies RAM. If you copy 700 MB there, you have almost no memory left to run programs.
- If you fill up the ramdisk too much, the device will simply reboot.
So, in a nutshell, I think you don't want to do this.

charger04 said:
I'm trying to move a file to my root folder from my dowloads and every time I try it goes really slow then freezes. What can I do to move the file?
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as _that stated the theory, I think you probably missed read something, there is no reason you need to do this, I believe what you want is to move that 700mb file to /sdcard. Just curiousity, what is the 700mb file and why you need to copy it there?

I'm guessing you want the file on the root of your SD...