So im having this messed up problem with CM9 Alpha 6, i have the vurrutkernel installed btw. So heres my problem. I can't access my external SD card (which is 16GB) from ES File Explorer, yet if I go to the CM9 music player (apollo) i can see all my songs which are on the 16GB card. If i go into storage, i see 3 things: Internal storage, USB Storage , SD Card (which says total space 16GB).
1. Why can't I access the 16GB card from ES File Explorer?
2. When I click move to sdcard for an app, it moves to USB storage but not my 16GB Sdcard.
3. How the hell do I have THREE storages? (Internal,USB,SD Card)????
I reaaaallly love this ROM but this problem is confusing me. Thank you very much in advanced to anyone who answers!
BassBlaster said:
So im having this messed up problem with CM9 Alpha 6, i have the vurrutkernel installed btw. So heres my problem. I can't access my external SD card (which is 16GB) from ES File Explorer, yet if I go to the CM9 music player (apollo) i can see all my songs which are on the 16GB card. If i go into storage, i see 3 things: Internal storage, USB Storage , SD Card (which says total space 16GB).
1. Why can't I access the 16GB card from ES File Explorer?
2. When I click move to sdcard for an app, it moves to USB storage but not my 16GB Sdcard.
3. How the hell do I have THREE storages? (Internal,USB,SD Card)????
I reaaaallly love this ROM but this problem is confusing me. Thank you very much in advanced to anyone who answers!
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Basically the mount points are as follows..
/mnt/emmc = external sd card
/mnt/sdcard = internal sd
I cant elaborate why u have three storages..
Try using io file manager once to chwck if u have access to external sd thru /mnt/emmc and internal sd thru /mnt/sdcard..
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Yes thank you so much, those mount points are absolutely correct. But i still have no Idea why I have a 3rd storage
Gonna full wipe.
BassBlaster said:
Yes thank you so much, those mount points are absolutely correct. But i still have no Idea why I have a 3rd storage
Gonna full wipe.
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If m not wrong u see those storages in settings-> storage??
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Yes, i'm seeing these in Storages.
Settings > Storage
I just did a full wipe plus cache wipe and dalvik wipe but the third storage (USB Storage) is STILL there?!
We have 4GB internal memory in which 2GB is used by system and the other 2GB is available for user.The internal memory shown is system memory and usb storage is the user accessible memory.
Im sorry but that still doesn't make any sense.
I installed an app to my phone, by default it is on internal storage (1.8GB available) but when i click move to sdcard, it moves to another storage named USB storage, which has 1.5GB available, and my 16GB card is nowhere to be seen, other then in the Storage menu. And by the way, the 16GB card has 9GB available as I checked from my computer.
If you want to use your sd card then change your storage configuration from storage.
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It would be helpful if you elaborate a bit, I went to storage and then pressed menu, the first option is already ticked for storage
BassBlaster said:
It would be helpful if you elaborate a bit, I went to storage and then pressed menu, the first option is already ticked for storage
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Ok i went thru a thread in sgs2 forums and found this..
Wen u tick 'use internal storage' the internal mem (the one which is user accessible and not used by the system) is used as sd card (mounted as as sdcard).. in this case the external sd (mem card) is mounted as emmc..
Wen u untick 'use internal storage' the external sd is used as sdcard.. in tht case the internal sd is mounted as emmc and external sd (memory card) is mounted as sdcard..
If u now move any app to sdcard it will be moved to external sd (memory card)..
Try it out.. worked on my 9100..
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cm9 external sdcard
BassBlaster said:
So im having this messed up problem with CM9 Alpha 6, i have the vurrutkernel installed btw. So heres my problem. I can't access my external SD card (which is 16GB) from ES File Explorer, yet if I go to the CM9 music player (apollo) i can see all my songs which are on the 16GB card. If i go into storage, i see 3 things: Internal storage, USB Storage , SD Card (which says total space 16GB).
1. Why can't I access the 16GB card from ES File Explorer?
2. When I click move to sdcard for an app, it moves to USB storage but not my 16GB Sdcard.
3. How the hell do I have THREE storages? (Internal,USB,SD Card)????
I reaaaallly love this ROM but this problem is confusing me. Thank you very much in advanced to anyone who answers!
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hey buddy. The solution for your problem is so simple. Just now, I had flashed cm9 rom on my galaxy wonder. I get also same problem as yours. You have to //mnt. There you can see sd card and external_sd folder. You just click on the external_folder and its done. In my opinion, the folder for opening external sd car has been changed from usual. I hope this message can help you. bye
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I recently got a Kingston 8GB class 4 microSD card and installed it onto my captivate , when i connect to windows i can see both my 16GB internal Storage and my 8 GB microSD card , but none of the file managers seem to show the microSD card .
i tried several apps like SDcard speed tester , QSysteminfo etc they all just show the info about the internal Memory and dont really show any info about the microSD card
in the defualt camera option settings theres an option to select stoage and when i select memory card instead of phone and when i connect to windows i can see the photo being stored in my microSD card
also in the filemanager i see a path called SDCard\SD this seems like a soft like to my microSD card
my question is how do i make all these apps to recognize my microSD and say run a speed test on it.
any help appreciated.
Thanks
anilkuj said:
also in the filemanager i see a path called SDCard\SD this seems like a soft like to my microSD card
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Not exactly what you are trying to say in this quote here, but sdcard/sd IS your external sd card.
dontshakepandas said:
Not exactly what you are trying to say in this quote here, but sdcard/sd IS your external sd card.
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Yes
/Sdcard is the internal storage (sometimes call internal SDcard or phone storage)
/SDcard/SD is your external SD card ( MicroSD)
alphadog00 said:
Yes
/Sdcard is the internal storage (sometimes call internal SDcard or phone storage)
/SDcard/SD is your external SD card ( MicroSD)
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Thanks for your response , so how do i run speed tests on this External microSD card all of those apps only recognize the phones internal 16GB memory.
Hello everyone...
this is my first post on xda since i couldnt find any solution if i'm at fault kindly bear with me
1. i flashed my gt i9003 with miui v10.4 a week ago and everything was going fine
2. but today i suddenly got a notification that my storage was full
3. when i checked i noticed that the apps i installed were on internal sd card which is just 2gb(1.7gb usable)
4. i tried moving some apps which were installed on phone memory only to see them move to internal sd card.
5. i have a 32 gb external sd card which is visible in file explorer and i can browse the files but the apps when moved from phone memory doesnt move to external sd card.
6. kindly help me out with the above issue where i can move the apps i installed on phone memory to external sd card so that i can use it for installing games and not limit its usage to just songs and videos.
7. thank you
As much as i have used miui-gb i think external sd sometimes stay as external_sd folder only...try to format or reflash the rom.
As phone is having 1.85 gb of internal memory why dont u use it until it doesnt get full ???
U can use sd swap which will interchange internal and external sd.
androman1507 said:
As much as i have used miui-gb i think external sd sometimes stay as external_sd folder only...try to format or reflash the rom.
As phone is having 1.85 gb of internal memory why dont u use it until it doesnt get full ???
U can use sd swap which will interchange internal and external sd.
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i already reflashed the rom and also sd swap.zip again but still no use.since i install a lot of games the internal sd card is already full.can you please suggest anyother method so that i can interchange internal sd with the external one. thanks for the reply...
Queations to all....
Should a App2sd app be able to work on our Notes???
The reason im asking is because I had issues getting my 64g card to mount (ended up having to flash a recent OTA update from Samfirmware.com). I then wanted to move some of my apps to the 64g card but App 2 SD from the market says -
"The device does not have a real primary external storage, or the primary extremal storage is emulated. Moving app to SD may not be supported by this device. "
Is this normal? I have never come across this before on any Android device before! Or is it something to do with the 64g card? or the Notes file tree?
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Yes it's normal. Samsung make some different approach here.
In my perspective when you used to choose "move to sdcard" in apps manager, the apps move from internal memory to internal storage (/sdcard).
(External microSD card is not on discussion so far, im only talking about tablet internal storage).
Now by default in Samsung devices all apps are going to /sdcard, so you dont have to move them beacuse the are alreday there.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
The solution for me (I have white SGN 10.1 16GB) is use DirectoryBind, i can have 20+ GB of games in external microSD Card.
sammmurai said:
Yes it's normal. Samsung make some different approach here.
In my perspective when you used to choose "move to sdcard" in apps manager, the apps move from internal memory to internal storage (/sdcard).
(External microSD card is not on discussion so far, im only talking about tablet internal storage).
Now by default in Samsung devices all apps are going to /sdcard, so you dont have to move them beacuse the are alreday there.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
The solution for me (I have white SGN 10.1 16GB) is use DirectoryBind, i can have 20+ GB of games in external microSD Card.
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Think your correct, makes sense anyway!!!
Could you elaborate more on this directory Bind thing you mentioned? ??
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DirectoryBind main feature is to link/bind folders with data that are in external micro sd card, to empty folders with the same name that must be in /sdcard/Android/data or /sdcard/Android/obb. So games and apps thinks they're using internal storage but in fact data is in external micro sd card. This way you save the 11 gb reserved for storage.
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sammmurai said:
DirectoryBind main feature is to link/bind folders with data that are in external micro sd card, to empty folders with the same name that must be in /sdcard/Android/data or /sdcard/Android/obb. So games and apps thinks they're using internal storage but in fact data is in external micro sd card. This way you save the 11 gb reserved for storage.
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what happen if u update the app that u changed the directory?? will the app save to the new directory or internal?
Didnt understand the question
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Hello, is there any way to use the internal storage and the SD Card as internal storage at the same time? Thanks
AhReLocazo said:
Hello, is there any way to use the internal storage and the SD Card as internal storage at the same time? Thanks
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Adopted storage
acejavelin said:
Adopted storage
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Yes, my mistake, I'm talking about adopted storage. My issue is that in my phone I have an option to move files to the internal storage despite the fact that I'm using adopted storage.
AhReLocazo said:
Yes, my mistake, I'm talking about adopted storage. My issue is that in my phone I have an option to move files to the internal storage despite the fact that I'm using adopted storage.
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I'm sorry... What's the problem? When you adopt the storage, go to Settings - Storage and tap the 3 dot menu, migrate all to SD card.
You can always move apps back, but after migration then the SD card is the "primary" storage point. Just how it works.
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I'm sorry... What's the problem? When you adopt the storage, go to Settings - Storage and tap the 3 dot menu, migrate all to SD card.
You can always move apps back, but after migration then the SD card is the "primary" storage point. Just how it works.
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What I mean is that despite the SD card being the primary storage, the phone gives me the option to move the files from the SD card to the internal storage, and I don't know if that means that I can use the internal storage for file storaging
In the first screenshot you can see that inside Settings>Storage>Internal Storage I have the option to migrate data from the SD card to the internal storage, and inside that option (second screenshot) it says that by doing that I can free 8.25 Gb by moving files from the SD card to the internal storage. That made me think that I can still use the internal storage for something more than apps
AhReLocazo said:
What I mean is that despite the SD card being the primary storage, the phone gives me the option to move the files from the SD card to the internal storage, and I don't know if that means that I can use the internal storage for file storaging
In the first screenshot you can see that inside Settings>Storage>Internal Storage I have the option to migrate data from the SD card to the internal storage, and inside that option (second screenshot) it says that by doing that I can free 8.25 Gb by moving files from the SD card to the internal storage. That made me think that I can still use the internal storage for something more than apps
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No... There are still 2 distinct areas, adopted storage doesn't work exactly the way you think. Sorry, just getting on a plane or I would explain more.
acejavelin said:
No... There are still 2 distinct areas, adopted storage doesn't work exactly the way you think. Sorry, just getting on a plane or I would explain more.
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Don't worry, I think I understood, thanks for the answers! :good:
I have a One A9 running stock Android 7 original ROM. I am getting the low storage warning as I have used 15.5 out of 16gb.
I have installed a 32gb SD card and planned on formatting this as internal. I tried this but then noticed I cannot see the SD card when pluged into my laptop. It was only showing the internal with capacity of 16GB, not the 16+32gb as I had hoped.
I then formatted it back to portable and planned to move certain apps to SD. But in App settings, not a single app can be moved to the SD.
So I am stuck now. Anyone know how I can view the additional storage on my laptop if I format the SD as internal??
Or if that is not possible, how do I move apps to SD?
Anyone able to assist?
325i. said:
I then formatted it back to portable and planned to move certain apps to SD. But in App settings, not a single app can be moved to the SD.
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afaik, you can only move apps to the sd card when its formatted as internal storage, not portable.. Pre-installed apps can't be moved to the sd card.
Anyone know how I can view the additional storage on my laptop if I format the SD as internal??
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Did you moved/migrated your files to the sd card after formatted as internal?
http://www.htc.com/mea-en/support/htc-one-a9/howto/681180.html
alray said:
Did you moved/migrated your files to the sd card after formatted as internal?
http://www.htc.com/mea-en/support/htc-one-a9/howto/681180.html
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This is what I tried doing. When I connected the phone to my laptop via USB, windows explorer could not see the SD card. All it showed was the original internal memory.
325i. said:
This is what I tried doing. When I connected the phone to my laptop via USB, windows explorer could not see the SD card. All it showed was the original internal memory.
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maybe because you didn't migrated your existing data from your internal memory to the sd card ? When using the sd card as the internal memory you'll only see the sd card from your computer (I'm assuming the opposite is also true), read the help page linked above.