Brand new to the skyrocket, I have tried both CM9 and AOKP and have issues with external storage. My gallery pull all my pics from the external perfect so i know the o/s is seeing it. When i use astro file search nothing shows up on my external, and when i go to play music through my blutooth, google music wont play anything and jetaudio plays but cuts in and out. Is this a common issue everyone, and is there a fix for it?
Both my internal and external work fine on aosp roms. Are you saying you can't find the internal SD? :thumbup:
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My internal works fine.Google music recognizes music on my external but says it can't access
the files to play them.jetaudio will play them but cuts in and out.
If I open astro file manager and choose external SD nothing shows up
Have you tried fixing permissions? I always try that when something isn't quite right.
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Fixed permissions, rebooted, opened astro file manager,
Clicked on external SD,it says directory empty. I also noticed jetaudio is only recognizing
A portion of my music. I don't get it. I would normally think its a bad install,
But I do a complete wipe everytime and it does the same thing with Cm9
Are you selecting external SD from within the emmc folder? That will show as empty. To see the contents go up one level in the directory and select SDCard. That is external and emmc is internal on AOSP Roms.
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Thank you,that worked,sometimes I am an idiot.lol. now if I can figure
Out why google music wont play any of my music, everything would be
Perfect.
I had the same problem, drove me to the brink of insanity, lol. I flashed another rom and decided it wasn't good so I flashed back and somehow everything worked. Not sure how but it worked.
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xallinvaynex said:
Thank you,that worked,sometimes I am an idiot.lol. now if I can figure
Out why google music wont play any of my music, everything would be
Perfect.
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Glad that was it. I believe there is some instructions for deleting the media db files in the CM9 thread in order to force a rescan. Try searching "media db" in there.
Thanks are great, thanks button is better
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Solved-thanks for everyone's help, this is what I had to do to fix the music issue.
Uninstall music apps, use root explorer do to data/data/android.com.provider.media,delete database folder, boot into recovery,delete cache, reboot,reinstall music app
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this may be me just being lazy..... but I installed poweramp, then looked for the music which I put on an sd card. It couldn't see the folders, except for the internal memory. the other way to play was to use the library function, but I want folders and to get it to redownload the art.
I tried to move the music with estrong, but it crashed, then I tried with the built in file manager it also crashed, anyone else had this?
I may just go down the usb route....
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Hi iamdarren,
No reply for a while, so I will give it a go: first off did you get a notification by the tablet for a plugged in SD card? After I plug in my SD card I get a brief message "preparing sd card" (or something of the sort), then I get SD card icon next to the clock in the lower right corner.
Basically if you don't see any of these, there might be a problem with the SD card. Can you test with a different card?
Good luck,
rio
iamdarren said:
this may be me just being lazy..... but I installed poweramp, then looked for the music which I put on an sd card. It couldn't see the folders, except for the internal memory. the other way to play was to use the library function, but I want folders and to get it to redownload the art.
I tried to move the music with estrong, but it crashed, then I tried with the built in file manager it also crashed, anyone else had this?
I may just go down the usb route....
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solved....
I used astro and no crashes, so its all good. I dont think there is anything wrong with the SD card.
So I have noticed that my sd card storage space has a lot of space occupied on it but I don't have that many apps installed on the phone. I noticed that a lot of files and things are getting duplicated. If I open my gallery, It will say i have over a thousand pictures when in reality there's only a few hundred. When opening the gallery album, it will show 1 thumbnail and then 4 blank ones but of the same file. I connected the phone to my computer and on my internal sd card, theres 4 copies of every folder and multiple picture files. This duplicating is hogging all my space. Has anyone had this issue? Im running Eaglesblood ICS build 4 on the new v21y baseband.
Yes I've had the same issue with songs and downloaded ringtones. And the copies don't even work. Can't find I fix. If you find one let me know. I'm running EGB 4 also
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Have you guys tried sd maid from the play store?
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Hi there, I have searched here and cannot find the answer. How can I get music to automatically save to my external sd card? Right now everything saves to my internal and I have to move it to my external. My pics save to sd card because there is a setting under camera.
I am running stock, unlocked BL and rooted
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Your post is rather vague since you don't say how you're downloading music in the first place. Are you referring to Google Music or something else? Anything you download from the internet is either downloaded to wherever you specify or only to your internal "Download" folder.
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SlimSnoopOS said:
Your post is rather vague since you don't say how you're downloading music in the first place. Are you referring to Google Music or something else? Anything you download from the internet is either downloaded to wherever you specify or only to your internal "Download" folder.
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Sorry....I use an app called Gtunes music downloader from the play store.
I will look and see if I can play with the settings within the app.
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Hi. I'm on a rooted Nexus 5, stock ROM and kernel. I have a Micro USB SD card reader and since I have many GBs of music I'd like to put the music on the SD card (which is mounted on the device using StickMount) and then symlink it to the internal memory so that I can play it using Google Play Music and other apps. How can I do that? Thank you.
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Hi. I'm on a rooted Nexus 5, stock ROM and kernel. I have a Micro USB SD card reader and since I have many GBs of music I'd like to put the music on the SD card (which is mounted on the device using StickMount) and then symlink it to the internal memory so that I can play it using Google Play Music and other apps. How can I do that? Thank you.
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Look here for info https://www.google.nl/search?q=goog...7&sourceid=chrome&espv=210&es_sm=122&ie=UTF-8.
The problem is Google play music only looks in the music directory for songs.
Also you cannot create symlinks in the fused sdcard.
You could try the following in a terminal emulator.
(Note you may have to change the following paths as I can't remember the exact path stickmount mounts your device to)
Code:
mount -o bind /sdcard/music/sd /sdcard/usbdisk/sda1
This should create a folder called sd in the music folder which Google play music is looking in. It should be then linked to your mounted storage in stick mount.
But beware this may crash your phone when you remove the card requiring a reboot.
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mount -o bind /sdcard/music/sd /sdcard/usbdisk/sda1
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Have you tested this? The reason I ask is that unless something has changed which I don't know about, this will not be possible. Since 4.2, Google changed how android handles mounts and this is no longer possible with root (root does not have elevated enough permissions).
Hence why I created this script back in the 4.2 days:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2178863
*Note, I no longer support that script so do NOT use it...
...which in turn lead to this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2192122
I myself use FolderMount as it works well and scripts are just a bit too clunky (hence why I ceased working on and supporting my script).
The only issue is you will need to move everything in your current music folder (which foldermount will do nicely for you) so you must always have your external media with you to play music. You cannot simply expand your current folder, its all or nothing (unless you can mount a subfolder of your music directory and music will see that? Not sure, you'll have to test).
rootSU said:
Have you tested this? The reason I ask is that unless something has changed which I don't know about, this will not be possible. Since 4.2, Google changed how android handles mounts and this is no longer possible with root (root does not have elevated enough permissions).
Hence why I created this script back in the 4.2 days:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2178863
*Note, I no longer support that script so do NOT use it...
...which in turn lead to this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2192122
I myself use FolderMount as it works well and scripts are just a bit too clunky (hence why I ceased working on and supporting my script).
The only issue is you will need to move everything in your current music folder (which foldermount will do nicely for you) so you must always have your external media with you to play music. You cannot simply expand your current folder, its all or nothing (unless you can mount a subfolder of your music directory and music will see that? Not sure, you'll have to test).
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I'm now trying foldermount, but it seems it's moving all my music from the external SD do the internal memory... Then what? Is it supposed to move all the music back to the SD card before unmounting? I can see no point to this...
Jaggions said:
I'm now trying foldermount, but it seems it's moving all my music from the external SD do the internal memory... Then what? Is it supposed to move all the music back to the SD card before unmounting? I can see no point to this...
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Sounds like you've done it backwards.
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rootSU said:
Sounds like you've done it backwards.
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Woops So now it does make sense
Well yeah, It works perfectly and it did what I wanted, thank you!
No probs
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rootSU said:
Have you tested this? The reason I ask is that unless something has changed which I don't know about, this will not be possible. Since 4.2, Google changed how android handles mounts and this is no longer possible with root (root does not have elevated enough permissions).
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No I hadn't tested this. I just knew it was an alternative to symlinking which worked on the one x. I didn't realise that they had killed this in 4.2.
I also didn't know about foldermounts which should be a great alternative.
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Yeah its a good app. Use it for games myself
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Hey when you wipe your phone to install a new rom does all the Google play music get wiped too? I know before the wipe i had all the music pined to my phone but after the wipe it is not. I don't wanna double download it to my phone and take up excessive storage if its still there and i just need to change something.
That's a good question because I know playlist stay if you have sync on but I know when you flash a new Rom the serial of the phone changes so basically it gets added as a new device in the listing of Google Music.
Did you wipe internal SD? If so then they are gone for sure.
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Play Music stores your downloaded music in the app data. It should always get wiped unless you backup and restore it with titanium.
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If you have the songs downloaded to the micro sd card and you do not wipe the sd card. The songs should still be there. At least that is what is happening to me.
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If you have the songs downloaded to the micro sd card and you do not wipe the sd card. The songs should still be there. At least that is what is happening to me.
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Interesting because that didn't happen to me, although it was a playlist that I put together of music that I do not own so that could be the difference.
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Hyper_Warp said:
If you have the songs downloaded to the micro sd card and you do not wipe the sd card. The songs should still be there. At least that is what is happening to me.
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Once again, Google Play Music stores the downloaded music in it's app data..not on your SD card. It will get wiped with a new ROM install. You must be using a different music app.
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I may have misunderstood what the op is asking then. Is the op asking where the music files downloaded to? If so, the op can choose either internal or external storage location. It is stored in an app data folder though like you said; the app data folder (with the music files) would be determined on which location you choose.