I bought a new PNY 32GB Class 10 SDHC card and currently have the memory card in my HTC Sensation 4G that came with it. I'm sure I'll have to copy over all my pictures and music to the new card, but how will it effect things if I just pull out the old card and swap in the new one? Will the apps still run correctly or all be present, or will it cause conflicts with the phone for me to just swap it out? If so, whats the correct procedure? Thanks so much and I really appreciate any help!
Well, if you have applications on your SD Card, just move all of them to the phone memory temporarily (so that you can move them back again to the SD card after swapping)..Afterwards, you can safely remove your SD card by going to Storage--> Unmount Shared Storage..Finally swap the cards and move the apps back to the SD card again ..I don't think you will face any problem if you follow this method..
Hope this helps
If you just stick the other one in some apps will go. Especially all of the larger apps, all of them.
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Dumped my buggy not impressive Galaxy s 4g today> (love Costcos 3 months policy) and picked up G2x. So far extremally impressed!
One question is the Costco phone guy handed my the 16gig micro SD card from the Galaxy as he said he had extras from dead phones. I said THANK YOU! and installed. However when using AppstoSd program it only see's internal mem, and Internal SD 5gs. It does not see or give option to move to my 16g Sd card?
My HD2 and Samsung worked great with AppstoSD. Am I missing something? I mean I guess the 1.2gig and 5gigs of internal is enough. But I like to also use the SD card for programs to not overload internal memory.
I have not rooted yet, will do that so I can get my Titanium backup working to see it I can do it with that.
Thanks!
iceshark said:
Dumped my buggy not impressive Galaxy s 4g today> (love Costcos 3 months policy) and picked up G2x. So far extremally impressed!
One question is the Costco phone guy handed my the 16gig micro SD card from the Galaxy as he said he had extras from dead phones. I said THANK YOU! and installed. However when using AppstoSd program it only see's internal mem, and Internal SD 5gs. It does not see or give option to move to my 16g Sd card?
My HD2 and Samsung worked great with AppstoSD. Am I missing something? I mean I guess the 1.2gig and 5gigs of internal is enough. But I like to also use the SD card for programs to not overload internal memory.
I have not rooted yet, will do that so I can get my Titanium backup working to see it I can do it with that.
Thanks!
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Can't be done, discussed endlessly in the corresponding O2x thread...
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Can't be done, discussed endlessly in the corresponding O2x thread...
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Been all over that thread. This issue and the "phantom AT&T bands are two big issues on this device. However, there may be some hope at the CM end - not this item in the latest CM7 changelog"
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Change I6beb0077: Allow multiple shareable SD Cards by using getShareableVolumes() to get all the volumes that are shareable and allowing sharing/unsharing for all of them rather than just the hardcoded getExternalStorage calls.
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First thank you for responding. I am not a newbie but have been rooting and testing my Hd2's for past year. My first non HTC phone in awhile was the vibrant s4g, it had its own problems with very low internal memory.
So I was excited this phone had 8 gigs plus now my 16 gig card. I have not been on these forums so I did not know it was a known issue Sorry.
So to clarify, there is no workaroud? But can I not just use root explorer and move files to the SD card? I understand apps to sd wont do it automaticly. But I plan to put my music and movies at least on SD... What would even be the use of the manufacturer putting SD slot on phone if you could not use it?
Ira that is what I do. SD card = sdcard/external_SD
Or something to that effect. I plan to keep my apps2sd on internal and SD for straight storage and backups.
From the sound of it, the clockwork mod can access the microsd so at least backups will be off the device.
-sent from my LG 2Gx
iceshark said:
First thank you for responding. I am not a newbie but have been rooting and testing my Hd2's for past year. My first non HTC phone in awhile was the vibrant s4g, it had its own problems with very low internal memory.
So I was excited this phone had 8 gigs plus now my 16 gig card. I have not been on these forums so I did not know it was a known issue Sorry.
So to clarify, there is no workaroud? But can I not just use root explorer and move files to the SD card? I understand apps to sd wont do it automaticly. But I plan to put my music and movies at least on SD... What would even be the use of the manufacturer putting SD slot on phone if you could not use it?
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What I have been doing is the basic copy and paste. I copy the app or video ect. from the sd card and paste it on the ext/sd card. If there is a faster oor easier way please let me know. I am rooted and this is the first phone I ever had with this kind of a set up with the sd card. I prefer the other way much better ala Nexus One.
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Ira that is what I do. SD card = sdcard/external_SD
Or something to that effect. I plan to keep my apps2sd on internal and SD for straight storage and backups.
From the sound of it, the clockwork mod can access the microsd so at least backups will be off the device.
-sent from my LG 2Gx
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That is correct. In a file manager etc. you can locate your SD Card by going to the ExternalSD folder (path: SD Card/ExternalSD). The "SD Card" is actually the internal memory, and the "External SD" is the actual SD Card. When you plug your phone into a PC two different drives come up, one for the internal and one for the SD Card. From what I know you can't put apps on your actual SD Card. However music, pics, etc. all work just fine. I have all my music on my SD Card and everything else on the internal.
P.S. When opening the internal memory in a PC it will still have an ExternalSD folder, but it will be empty. I would advise not deleting it.
There's something like 1.5GB just for apps. What the heck are you doing to "overload" it??
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There's something like 1.5GB just for apps. What the heck are you doing to "overload" it??
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GPS maps will easily overload the internal SD card. If they let the map location be set, that would fix it, but most do not (yet).
Hey dear XDA peeps!
Ive got a couple of questions about microsd here
Ive got one 8GB Transcend card which I bought in the beginning and it seems to be working good. I then bought another 32GB Kingston card. It has worked pretty good but now it seems it is kinda fubared.. Ive unmounted it from the phone and connected it straight to the computer and Im having some problems copying stuff from the card. Which it was from the phone too..
How do I check the sd card for errors and fixes them? I dont have to keep the data on it.
What makes the sd card break? I understand how regular old harddisks die but what about sd cards? =)
And what brand for SD card shall I buy for the phone that have the best reliability?
Im trying to format the sd card but it just hangs and refuses to format it so I guess the card really is fubared :/
So what card brand do you recommend for best quality?
I've tried them all. SanDisk has the best microSD cards for the money. They are also faster than spec'ed. If you can't get SanDisk, get Kingston.
Transcend is the slower than SanDisk or Kingston. I've heard good things about Patriot but never tried them. Stay away from off-brands or you risk serous problems.
For any mobile phone get a Class 4 SanDisk. Format it using SDFormatter.
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Hey dear XDA peeps!
Ive got a couple of questions about microsd here
Ive got one 8GB Transcend card which I bought in the beginning and it seems to be working good. I then bought another 32GB Kingston card. It has worked pretty good but now it seems it is kinda fubared.. Ive unmounted it from the phone and connected it straight to the computer and Im having some problems copying stuff from the card. Which it was from the phone too..
How do I check the sd card for errors and fixes them? I dont have to keep the data on it.
What makes the sd card break? I understand how regular old harddisks die but what about sd cards? =)
And what brand for SD card shall I buy for the phone that have the best reliability?
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Right click the SD in windows explorer, hit properties, tools, check disk. what makes SD card go out is every flash storage has a set amount of writes, after those they start to go out. Whatever you do though, do NOT defrag a flash based storage, you'll kill it. I use a Kingston 4GB in mine and I've had my SD for years (before this phone it was used to boot operating system installs on my laptop and used for my DS flashcart
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Whatever you do though, do NOT defrag a flash based storage, you'll kill it.
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Bears repeating...
Do NOT defrag Flash-based storage, you will kill it. Flash memory doesn't need defragging because it does not have mechanical heads like a magnetic hard drive.
My HTC Sensation 4G came with an 8 GB SD card pre-installed. According to the phone, the card has a Total Space available of 7.38 BG, and only 2.87 GB of available space. Does anyone know where the other 4.51 GB of space went? I haven't put anything on the card, and no new apps have been moved on to the card.
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My HTC Sensation 4G came with an 8 GB SD card pre-installed. According to the phone, the card has a Total Space available of 7.38 BG, and only 2.87 GB of available space. Does anyone know where the other 4.51 GB of space went? I haven't put anything on the card, and no new apps have been moved on to the card.
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You could try formatting it.
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I've had the HTC Sensation for about one week, so I'm not too familiar with all of its functions. I have noticed that the SD card erase function is disabled, which led me to wonder if there a some items bundled on the SD card that HTC doesn't want removed. For example, the DCIM folder.
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I've had the HTC Sensation for about one week, so I'm not too familiar with all of its functions. I have noticed that the SD card erase function is disabled, which led me to wonder if there a some items bundled on the SD card that HTC doesn't want removed. For example, the DCIM folder.
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Format it to FAT32 with your PC (folders which are needed by apps will be recreated automatically when needed).
On mine i boot into recovery and format 512mb for 4ext and 256mb for the swap and the rest fat 32.
Throw it away. Its a class 4 pile. Spend 15 buck for a class 10. 8 gb SDhc card. And enjoy a faster and more responsive phone over all
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Hello everybody
I'm planning to buy htc one s but a bit afraid of not having my data stored on my sd card. In Poland and probably in whole EU one s doesn't have sd card slot, Why?
Now if i forget data cable to my desire i just take out sd card, copy on in new rom and after that i can flash it, Once i bricked my desire, after that i just took my sd card, and all my personal pics, vid and music i got with me. What will happen now when all memory is inside phone?
It's any way to add sd card slot? how all you guys life with that?
Thank's in advance
Majcher
majcher3310 said:
Hello everybody
I'm planning to buy htc one s but a bit afraid of not having my data stored on my sd card. In Poland and probably in whole EU one s doesn't have sd card slot, Why?
Now if i forget data cable to my desire i just take out sd card, copy on in new rom and after that i can flash it, Once i bricked my desire, after that i just took my sd card, and all my personal pics, vid and music i got with me. What will happen now when all memory is inside phone?
It's any way to add sd card slot? how all you guys life with that?
Thank's in advance
Majcher
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Hi, HTC didn't forget it was intentional. This is my first phone without a external memory card and I was worried at first too. HTC has a little thing with an app called dropbox this backs up all your pictures online and to your computer so you wouldn't have to worry about losing that. I still kind of prefer sd cards but I've had some go bad on me too. The internal space is good enough for me and a far as ROMS it's the same process the memory is just internal.
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As far as music there's googles play music app. You install it on your phone and your computer. Whatever songs you have on your computer you upload it to the app on installed on your computer and it will sync up to the app on your phone. You can also download the songs from the app that's on your phone to your phone if you want access to those songs while off the internet
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I would go for a phone with an sd card slot like the S3. Sure cloud storage is ok but I like having the content with me so I won't be streaming it and using data.
This is called marketing, HTC can't sell you a new phone, while you satisfied with old one.
My SD card is a bit bugged recently. Basically, the SD card won't do anything such as accessing photos or music. Also, I tried moving some apps to my SD card, but that resulted with a "CONTAINMENT_ERROR" or something like that. Also, when I try to download apps, it says that there are no space in USB or SD memory storage. I know this is wrong because I don't have a USB storage, and my SD card is 1/3 full, so how can I fix this? I think that I require a formatting on my SD, but that's a last resort, with all my info on it. If that's the only way, please suggest this with an explanation.
If this helps, I remember killing some system processes such as some sort of signing thing which I believe is what signs the apps to install onto my phone. Please help me out here. Oh yeah, I can text and call fine as well as accessing the internet and wifi. Anything involving my SD card such as downloads, however, are a different story. Got suggestions?
Have you tried a card reader on your desktop to pull photos and music from it? If so and cannot then I don't know what to tell you but if you can, pull everything you want off of it then format SD card
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Have you tried a card reader on your desktop to pull photos and music from it? If so and cannot then I don't know what to tell you but if you can, pull everything you want off of it then format SD card
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Yeah, I tried formatting, but it doesn't seem to remove any data. I can move files to my cpu, but when i move apps to my SD card, or at least try, it says [INSTALL_PARSE_FAILED_BAD_MANIFEST] Do you know what that means by any chance? The moving also says [INSTALL_FAILED_CONTAINER_ERROR] too.
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Yeah, I tried formatting, but it doesn't seem to remove any data. I can move files to my cpu, but when i move apps to my SD card, or at least try, it says [INSTALL_PARSE_FAILED_BAD_MANIFEST] Do you know what that means by any chance? The moving also says [INSTALL_FAILED_CONTAINER_ERROR] too.
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I would be a bit concerned that you can't format the card. Its a good sign that the computer can read the card but not good that you can't format it. See if you can try the card in another smart phone and if you have the same issue its just a problem with the sd card.
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SD card not letting me add or delete files
I've been spending waaay to much time trying to get this phone to work as I had expected with previous phones (even my LG G2x) giving me less problems. I recently bought a Sandisk 32gb, class 10 micro sd card and after transferring old music, pictures and videos from my old LG G2x with a 16gb card, placing files from my computer back onto my S4 with the 32gb card is a nightmare! Photos are transferred but too out of order to try and deal with although it's more the music problem that has me bugging. I have some success after putting about 3gb or so onto the new 32gb sd card but after that, the sd card flips out and starts using special characters for file names.. Below I attached a screenshot of what I'm going through with another app called V1 Golf for Android. I'm stuck and any help is much appreciated. I can't delete anything on my sd card nor can I add. I've reformatted this card about 4 times now without success. Some say that a Sandisk have been nothing but problems for them, you think a Samsung card could be the fix?
I just have one question for you guys. Are you using a Galaxy S 4G or the Galaxy S4? If it is the latter, please take your questions
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here for Sprint
here for AT&T
and here for International
as this section is for the Galaxy S 4G. Thanks and good luck.