So I inserted my microsd 32 gig card. Settings see's it, but how do I access the card in the "My Files" app or in "File expert"? DOes the tab act in a way that it's combined space or something?
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okay, is this only accessible via kies? Cause I can't create any directors or move files to it...
I think you need this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1458021
scumball said:
I think you need this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1458021
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Thank you!
Search wasn't pulling up this link, well it was but thousands of other results as well!
Even though the file didn't work for me, the information did, so thank you very much. I just edited the file manually and rebooted to gain full access to the microsd.
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DaWeav said:
Even though the file didn't work for me, the information did, so thank you very much. I just edited the file manually and rebooted to gain full access to the microsd.
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I wish I had the balls to try this.
You should do... what's the point in having extra storage if you can't have direct access to it?
I would go stir crazy if I didn't have direct access to my 64GB microsdxc card
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Ok, this has me baffled. I posted this in the Sky ICS 4.2E.1 thread, but I'm hoping I get better response here. I can't move or add any files to my 32GB Sandisk ext SD. I also can't remove what's on it. When I connect with USB Storage mode the card shows up as a drive (as well as another for my internal). I can see the contents in the drive. I can drag/drop and copy/paste and the files show up in the ext. drive. But as soon as I disconnect the files are not there. (I checked to be sure I'm moving full files, not creating shortcuts).
I tried mounting and unmounting. I tried to format the card using my SR, but get a message saying "the SD card is currently being checked". It doesn't format. I checked the disk using my PC - it says no errors. I then tried formatting it using my PC. It said it formatted, but as soon as I disconnect and boot into recovery the same files are still there.
I can still access the files stored on it (music files play fine), but can't add or remove anything to or from it. Really a bummer 'cause I want to do some flashing. Any ideas?
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Ok, this has me baffled. I posted this in the Sky ICS 4.2E.1 thread, but I'm hoping I get better response here. I can't move or add any files to my 32GB Sandisk ext SD. I also can't remove what's on it. When I connect with USB Storage mode the card shows up as a drive (as well as another for my internal). I can see the contents in the drive. I can drag/drop and copy/paste and the files show up in the ext. drive. But as soon as I disconnect the files are not there. (I checked to be sure I'm moving full files, not creating shortcuts).
I tried mounting and unmounting. I tried to format the card using my SR, but get a message saying "the SD card is currently being checked". It doesn't format. I checked the disk using my PC - it says no errors. I then tried formatting it using my PC. It said it formatted, but as soon as I disconnect and boot into recovery the same files are still there.
I can still access the files stored on it (music files play fine), but can't add or remove anything to or from it. Really a bummer 'cause I want to do some flashing. Any ideas?
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I wud like to kno if there is a solution as well......ive been having rhis problem as well....
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Dude I wanna say its been write locked
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nrm5110 said:
Dude I wanna say its been write locked
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Is there a way to see if its write locked or not?
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Dude I wanna say its been write locked
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You scared me for a sec - thought I was gonna be sitting here with a dunce cap on . There is no lock on the card.
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You ever put it into a micro SD to SD card adapter
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No - I have one somewhere. I also have a 4GB micro somewhere. If I can find them I'll try both. I read the SR will accept a 64. If I need to buy a new card that's what I want, but don't want to plunk down $70-80 until I know it's the card
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Ok, looks like my SD is bad. Just used a 4GB I had laying around. Inserted into my SR and it works fine. Also used an adapter and plugged the 32 directly into my PC. Can't edit any files.
Very weird that my SR can still read the files that are stored on it. I just can't change the files. Oh well, at least now I have a reason to order that 64 I've been wanting.
So I think I've tried absolutely everything (that I can think of at least), but I can't seem to format my External SD Card. I've tried from CWM, from Windows 7 from and from an old Windows XP machine. I've when connecting to the computers I've done a manually deletion of everything on the SD-Card only to un mount it and re-mount it and find everything is still there. As well as right clicking on the drive and selecting format and then un mounting and remounting and finding everything is back. What is really weird is that everything indicates like it works but once I unmounted my SD-Card and then remounted it, it just comes back. I've also gone into root explorer and tried deleting it from there. If anyone has any other ideas I would sure be grateful to hear them. Thanks. Also my phone is CM 9.1.0 with root (obviously).
How are you mounting your sd card on the computer? You are only using your phone or you have an external reader?
If you are only using your phone the issue may come from there and you should try an external reader.
Also to format it in windows try right clicking our computer>manage>manage storage and there find your card an try formatting it.
[Tutorial] How to part your micro SD card into ext4 using GParted Live CD? here
and a video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6z1Tu9l8WNc
@kishke I'm using my phone to mount my SDcard, I don't have an external SDcard reader on me at the moment. I could definitely give it a shot. I'll update you on how that goes. I'm also going to try the comment below as well. I did try and do a windows format and that didn't work either. So definitely stumped on this one.
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So I found out that my external SDcard isn't writeable... but I checked the permissions in system/etc/permissions/platform.xml and everything looked good. Any different ideas out there?
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So I found out that my external SDcard isn't writeable... but I checked the permissions in system/etc/permissions/platform.xml and everything looked good. Any different ideas out there?
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Sometimes they crap out. You may need a new one if none of the suggestions work
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Sometimes they crap out. You may need a new one if none of the suggestions work
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If this was the case would I still be able to pull things off of the SD Card... because that works.
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If this was the case would I still be able to pull things off of the SD Card... because that works.
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Yeah
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Sorry is the "yeah" mean that you think my logic is right or is the "yeah" mean that I could still pull data from a sd card that was shot.
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Sorry is the "yeah" mean that you think my logic is right or is the "yeah" mean that I could still pull data from a sd card that was shot.
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Yes. Sometimes you can pull data of a card that is not writable.
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So I found out that my external SDcard isn't writeable... but I checked the permissions in system/etc/permissions/platform.xml and everything looked good. Any different ideas out there?
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sounds like the card is junk
I am frustrate that external SD card just read only mode in Samsung SII Plus. Due to not more than 4G memory of internal storage only. I want to spare up more space through App 2 SD the information, photo, media and installed APP to external SD card only. Also, it cannot being usb mode as liked with SII before. How could I solve it? Anyway methods might share? Thank you very much.:laugh:
richieych said:
I am frustrate that external SD card just read only mode in Samsung SII Plus. Due to not more than 4G memory of internal storage only. I want to spare up more space through App 2 SD the information, photo, media and installed APP to external SD card only. Also, it cannot being usb mode as liked with SII before. How could I solve it? Anyway methods might share? Thank you very much.:laugh:
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Format the sdcard in fat32. Maybe your sd is 64GB exFat that needs a special kernel support
KINGbabasula said:
Format the sdcard in fat32. Maybe your sd is 64GB exFat that needs a special kernel support
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Thank you for your reply. The volume of my SD card is 16GB in FAT32 format. Mentioned problems may include with the right of permission to beyond read only mode and setting of android system. Because the photo records is taken by internal machine that can be set to store in external SD card. This kinds of problem have already occurred in Samsung several series machine. Meanwhile, this is a complicated problem beyond my limited knowledge. Anyway, thank a lots:laugh:
Root your phone.
Install Folder Mount.
Move everything to SD.
Enjoy life !
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richieych said:
Thank you for your reply. The volume of my SD card is 16GB in FAT32 format. Mentioned problems may include with the right of permission to beyond read only mode and setting of android system. Because the photo records is taken by internal machine that can be set to store in external SD card. This kinds of problem have already occurred in Samsung several series machine. Meanwhile, this is a complicated problem beyond my limited knowledge. Anyway, thank a lots:laugh:
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fayez107 said:
Root your phone.
Install Folder Mount.
Move everything to SD.
Enjoy life !
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Thank you for reply. I have rooted my machine already and trying this right now. But would like to know that except this method. Any method could save data (i.e. photos, installed app and media) to external SD card freely? Just like using of App 2 SD. And then, any method to get the right of permission to beyond read only mode and setting of android system? I would like to fix this problem completely and let it return to S II mode. Anyway thank you very much :laugh:
For the moment i don't think there is a way to move apps to SD. Only link 2 sd
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Well Folder Mount isn't free.
And Apps to SD didn't work for me. Neither did Link 2 Sd work until I created a partition on my SD card (later I removed the partition as I didn't want to spoil my new card and its performance).
You can install apps on internal and then later on move it freely to SD card. It would move all data folder.
I'm doing this and I have rooted phone with stock rom.
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Directory bind is the same as folder mount
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KINGbabasula said:
Directory bind is the same as folder mount
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Any Link please?
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fayez107 said:
Any Link please?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1410262
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1410262
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Thanks man. But idky I don't seem to understand how will it work :/
It keeps on saying DATA folder must be empty :S
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Thanks man. But idky I don't seem to understand how will it work :/
It keeps on saying DATA folder must be empty :S
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Yes i don't know why the target is inverted
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Yes i don't know why the target is inverted
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Its not working even :S .. Weird NOT a user friendly interface and I dont find to make it work. It always gives an error message.
EDIT :→ I TRIED EVERYWAY. EVEN AFTER IT COPIES AND TRANSFERS DATA UPON RESTART THE FOLDER BINDED IS LOST !
fayez107 i hv rooted phone also hv filemount then how to move apps to ext sd card plz tell
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fayez107 i hv rooted phone also hv filemount then how to move apps to ext sd card plz tell
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Well tap on the (+) button and you will have a window asking for
1. Folder name to be kept.
2. files to be moved.
3.where the files should be.
Select the following and press mount. It will start moving files and then mount.
Hi,
I just got a HTC One SV and I've installed all of my apps on my previous phone to this phone. But there's a problem... Its running out of memory. I just cant seem to find any way of moving them to the sd card. It just moves it to phone storage and i only have 4gb of memory. My sd card is 16gb so ive got plenty of space on it. Please help me find a way of moving it to the sd card.
Thanks soooo much!!!!
You can try this mod: Swap your internal and external memory (sd card)
old.splatterhand said:
You can try this mod: Swap your internal and external memory (sd card)
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Is there any way without a root?
I don't know.
baba1coolboy said:
Is there any way without a root?
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No, you need root. Unfortunately they made the rom in a way that keeps you from moving apps to the SD card.
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Isn't this made in Android since ICS?
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Isn't this made in Android since ICS?
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No, there isn't an option to move to the actual sd card just between the internal storage and phone storage.
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Mikessv said:
No, there isn't an option to move to the actual sd card just between the internal storage and phone storage.
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I think you misunderstood me. This what you describe is since ICS, isn't it?
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I think you misunderstood me. This what you describe is since ICS, isn't it?
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I might have, I'm not sure exactly what you meant ..I thought you were saying that it has been there since ics that you can't move programs to the SD card. They did bring that feature back in 4.2 though.
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I might have, I'm not sure exactly what you meant ..I thought you were saying that it has been there since ics that you can't move programs to the SD card. They did bring that feature back in 4.2 though.
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Ive contacted HTC about this and their saying that you can move apps to the sd card and are giving me lots of different things to try and do. I;ve just hard reset my phone and that hasnt made a difference.
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Ive contacted HTC about this and their saying that you can move apps to the sd card and are giving me lots of different things to try and do. I;ve just hard reset my phone and that hasnt made a difference.
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There's no option to move apps to the actual SD card, just between the internal storage and phone storage ..they call the internal storage the SD card. I've talked to them on the phone too ..most of them don't know what they are talking about.
On a side note a lot of people have this problem with a lot of other phones.
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There's no option to move apps to the actual SD card, just between the internal storage and phone storage ..they call the internal storage the SD card. I've talked to them on the phone too ..most of them don't know what they are talking about.
On a side note a lot of people have this problem with a lot of other phones.
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HTC have only just emailed me admitting that you cant move apps to the sd card. I dont really want to root (partly because im not so great it that field) but i reckon im going to do it one day or another.
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HTC have only just emailed me admitting that you cant move apps to the sd card. I dont really want to root (partly because im not so great it that field) but i reckon im going to do it one day or another.
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Yeah and even with root you will run out of space eventually
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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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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?
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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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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
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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