Guys I just noticed that I have 2 sdcard folders in my xoom one of them is in the root and the other is in mnt folder if I delete sometching from anyone folder gets deleted from. The other one as well any ideas why is this
Thanks
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Its the same location but represented twice.
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One in where the sys system sbin folders are an the other one is in the mnt folder
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OK so what's ur saying it is normal
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what your seeing is that you have a /sdcard folder in the root directory which is a symbolic link to the on in /mnt/sdcard, this last one is the actual internal memory that is accessible to the user.
The /mnt/external1 folder is the external sdcard you can add.
Its like
/sdcard
/mnt/sdcard
That's how I have them
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I just upgraded to GB 2.3.6 and then rooted by installing a new kernel via odin. I went in and tried to do a nandroid backup and it brings up an error that it can't mount the sdcard. Did i do something wrong or is my card going bad?
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darock159 said:
I just upgraded to GB 2.3.6 and then rooted by installing a new kernel via odin. I went in and tried to do a nandroid backup and it brings up an error that it can't mount the sdcard. Did i do something wrong or is my card going bad?
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Interesting. If you use the 'Files' application when the phone is running does it show you anything? It should display the files/folders on the sdcard.
Yes I can see all my files and such just not in recovery
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maybe do a fix permissions? I'm wondering if they somehow got hosed & prevent CWM from mounting.
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Nope fixing permissions did nothing for it. It still brings up can't mount sdcard error. i can't install any zip files too, same error
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What was the phone running before you upgraded? Did you have CWM, voodoo, etc?
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Try backing up your SD card and then reformat it to see if that fixes the error
agreed back up sd card, maybe try changing voodoo, then is that doesn't work reformat and good to go
Can't format the scard on the phone since it won't mount. any other ideas. i am not sure what i am doing with voodoo so didn't mess with that.
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darock159 said:
Can't format the scard on the phone since it won't mount. any other ideas. i am not sure what i am doing with voodoo so didn't mess with that.
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If your computer, Wii, or whatever can mount the sdcard you could format it that way.
Have you tried shutting the phone down, removing the SD card, and putting it back?
Do you have the Android SDK installed? If so, put the phone in USB debugging mode, crank up a shell (adb shell), and type:
mount
If the filesystem is actually able to mount the phone during normal operation you will see a line similar to this (note it's all actually 1 line):
/dev/block/vold/179:1 /mnt/sdcard vfat rw,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime,nodiratime,uid=1000,gid=1015,fmask=0002,dm
ask=0002,allow_utime=0020,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 0
If you see that, try these commands:
cd /
ls -l sdcard
That should show you the effective permissions on the sdcard, like this:
ls -l sdcard
lrwxrwxrwx root root 2011-11-20 10:16 sdcard -> /mnt/sdcard
The 'l' means it's a symbolic link (shortcut, in essence) to another place (/mnt/sdcard)
The rwxrwxrwx are the permissions (read, write, execute). You see it three times because permissions are listed for user (rwx) group (rwx) and global (rwx).
The 'root root' is the owner and group for that directory.
If you were able to execute the command, do your permissions & ownership look the same?
I'm rooted and running cm9 stable. For some reason after flashing cm9 no file manager is working. Anyone else having this issue? Is it because I'm rooted?
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What file managers have you tried? What is the exact error? What happens when you try?
I've tried astro, es, root explorer. And no error pops up its just I can't read any files like I use to on stock. When I got to my external sd there's nothing there. And I know it's there because everything is have on my sd card is on my phone. Very annoying. I've tried almost all file managers. I'm running cm9.
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Can you verify that both /sdcard and /emmc are empty as per the file managers? Can you access the data (lets say pictures) via the gallery app?
Yes I have music, pictures, and video on sd and I can access them all on the gallery/media player
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promiseofcake said:
Can you verify that both /sdcard and /emmc are empty as per the file managers? Can you access the data (lets say pictures) via the gallery app?
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Please verify that /emmc and /sdcard mounting points are empty via file manager of choice.
Also what this feels like to me is that you are not aware of the way CM9 mounts your Internal/External SD cards.
Internal Memory: /emmc
External SD: /sdcard
Now you will have a folder called "external_SD" on your memory card, this is a left over from stock and will not function as before.
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I don't know what you mean man.
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feelinfroggy23 said:
I don't know what you mean man.
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I edited my post.
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I did not that all the files did that emmc somewhere. So I can view my external and internal now?
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Not sure what you're trying to say but /emmc is the internal memory and /sdcard is external SD card.
You probably are not seeing your files because they are all in the /emmc "folder" (which used to be called sdcard when you were on a stock rom)
In ES File Explorer go to "Settings" > "Root Settings“ and mark the "Up to Root" option.
Exit settings you should see "/sdcard" at the top of the app.
Press the "UP" button on the toolbar, it will now display "/" at the top of the app.
Congratulations, you have made it to the very top level of your devices file system.
You will find "emmc" and "sdcard" which are your internal and external "memory card" locations.
Shazam.
If for any reason you don't see this, attach a screen shot at each step and add them to this post.
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Sorry about my previous reply I didn't even understand it either lol. Is there any way I could do this with astro. I'm not failure with es at all.
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feelinfroggy23 said:
Sorry about my previous reply I didn't even understand it either lol. Is there any way I could do this with astro. I'm not failure with es at all.
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I don't use Astro so I cannot guide you but I can say you need to get to /emmc or /sdcard. You either have to go up to the root filesystem "/" or access the "folders" directly via "/emmc" or "/sdcard" I don't know how many times I can say it.
After updating I have 2 locations from my root directory for my internal sdcard.
/sdcard
/storage/sdcard0
Which are essentially the same locations and seem to be an alias of each other. They both point to /sdcard and show the exact same files and folders. :cyclops:
What this means is that some apps see and report 2 sets of data like kindle for example.
Can I remove one?
No one else getting 2 internal sdcards showing then?
That's the way its always been... its normal, don't worry about it.
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I just went to the storage tab on my phone and I noticed that my misc folder uses up 4gb of my storage, is there supposed to be that much in this folder? Are there any useful apps that assist with storage?
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Whats in the folder? I don't even have a MISC folder. I think I might have had one at one point, with zero contents (0 kb) and just deleted it. But you obviously have something in there.
I think he's refering to what is labeled as "other" when you view settings - storage on your phone.
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After i buy xperia e dual(the 2sims), i notice that this phone has phone memory 738mb, internal storage 2.01gb, and my sd 7.28gb(8gb).
The question is, can i put the games data file in the sd card? Because when i connect to pc, the internal and sd card will appear,
I test the tapsonic games and it dont work with the data file in sd card, but when i put in the internal the games works, but my internal only 2gb, it mean i cannot have many games =(
Any solutions?
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i can just. tell you the keywords:
all you need just Root + Directory Bind app...
thats it, you can use your search engine from now on....
Regard,
You should try vold.fstab method instead. Its kinda smaller since im also using link2sd on my 16gb class 6. The phone memory goes over that limit because of link2sd hehe.
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zzztidurvirus said:
You should try vold.fstab method instead. Its kinda smaller since im also using link2sd on my 16gb class 6. The phone memory goes over that limit because of link2sd hehe.
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Ade link tak? Hehe
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blackbox92 said:
Ade link tak? Hehe
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coba ini
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=41660896&postcount=14
yayakuya said:
coba ini
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=41660896&postcount=14
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just flash zip itu sahaja k mcm mana?
kene root jgak la kalu nk flash .zip nye, betol x? =)
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just flash zip itu sahaja k mcm mana?
kene root jgak la kalu nk flash .zip nye, betol x? =)
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no, its not flashable zip. you must extract it > take that vold.fstab then replace the original one... (do a backup for it/ copy your original vold.fstab onto your sdcard)
after replace, change permission to rw-r-r-- and owner to root-root, reboot your phone n enjoy
ps: are you rooted already? its need root privilege to do it....
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no, its not flashable zip. you must extract it > take that vold.fstab then replace the original one... (do a backup for it/ copy your original vold.fstab onto your sdcard)
after replace, change permission to rw-r-r-- and owner to root-root, reboot your phone n enjoy
ps: are you rooted already? its need root privilege to do it....
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not yet.
ok, i get the idea,
tq btw, i will do it. cannot do it now because got slow internet.
blackbox92 said:
not yet.
ok, i get the idea,
tq btw, i will do it. cannot do it now because got slow internet.
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You can just edit that file yourself. Search /mnt/sdcard and edit it.
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zzztidurvirus said:
You can just edit that file yourself. Search /mnt/sdcard and edit it.
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the file is root /system/etc isnt?
i already copy and paste there,
but not working,
how to do it manually btw?
blackbox92 said:
the file is root /system/etc isnt?
i already copy and paste there,
but not working,
how to do it manually btw?
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Oh, sry. It can be found in /system/etc. Permission set to 0644 (rw-r-r)
X-x-o
X-o-o
X-o-o
Find the word: dev_mount sdcard /mnt/sdcard and change it to dev_mount sdcard /mnt/ext_card (check your ext_card location, this is tipo stock)
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Which line to edit?
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What do you see here? Its xplore file manager. Theres this storage0 (yours), sdcard and also ext_card. You need real location and real mount points. The typical for tipo and e dual (stock) is /mnt/sdcard and /mnt/ext_card. Did you do something to it?
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What do you see here? Its xplore file manager. Theres this storage0 (yours), sdcard and also ext_card. You need real location and real mount points. The typical for tipo and e dual (stock) is /mnt/sdcard and /mnt/ext_card. Did you do something to it?
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So /mnt/sdcard and /mnt/ext_card? I will paste at both, and tell u the result.
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No. Not paste the vold file. I mean is, can you access your data from these 2 locations, where sdcard is the 2gb internal and ext_card is microsd. The vold.fstab mod switches these locations.
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Yes i can, both is in /mnt/
Then what i need to do?
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Okay. Good. Edit the vold.fstab via text editor. Then just switch the two. Before: dev_mount sdcard /mnt/sdcard and dev_mount ext_card /mnt/ext_card After: dev_mount sdcard /mnt/ext_card and dev_mount ext_card /mnt/sdcard --- set permissions and restart.
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I already did it, and everytime i swap the line or using your script my phone lose access to my external sd card, lucky i got backup.
If u see, the script in my vold.fstab is kinda different with your,
See this,
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blackbox92 said:
I already did it, and everytime i swap the line or using your script my phone lose access to my external sd card, lucky i got backup.
If u see, the script in my vold.fstab is kinda different with your,
See this,
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Okay. Do you have this /storage/sdcard0 folder? Because e dual stock jb uses the same format, /mnt . Also, you got 3 dev_mount. Are you on stock e dual?
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Yes i am on stock e dual. And i dont have the folder sdcard0
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