External SD Card Question - General Questions and Answers

Hello xda, recently purchased a 32 GB ultra San disk micro SD. Mounted and formatted it, but have yet to load anything on it.
Even though I have 6-7 GB of memory open of internal memory on my phone, I'd like to know if there's a way in the event that my internal memory fills up anything else I download will just default to the external SD? Yea stupid question but haven't really used them before. Sorry if this is in the wrong section thanks! Is there a way for this to happen?
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How to move programs to SD card not internal Memory?

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...
djmcnz said:
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.
player911 said:
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??
cyberchuck9000 said:
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).

GB Camera saving to external SD?

Since the GB update, my camera is now saving everything to my external SD instead of the internal phone memory.
Is there a way to change this? I don't have much room on my external SD (and i'm too cheap to buy a bigger one ), but plenty of space on internal storage.
hey buddy im in the same boat as you. I wanna save to my internal since its faster than my external which is a class 2 4gb sd
Wow, no setting to change this. Now that's stupid.
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if they put a setting to change it than it wouldn't be universal for all android since some android phone doesn't come with internal sd card. we just need lg to make their own camera app for GB

Ne1 who has problem with SD card or Ext4 partition Conversion, Please read this...

1....It took me about an hour to format and reformat to figure out why the computer didn't see my card. I had to go to Windows system management (Google it) to set a path and a new drive name for the SD card. The system management sees the card but somehow, the card didn't not show up in Explorer....This could help with some ppl that got stuck with the sd card after the CWM partition.
2....If DeeSexton 1024MB w/ 0MB swap did not work for you, then try 2048MB w/ 0MB swap. That setting worked for me.
3....If you want an easier reformatting solution, use this. Make sure you have backed up your data or your SD card is empty, unmount SD card within your phone, and format it with your phone in SD setting. If your PC doesn't recognize your sd card, go back to solution 1 to get it back.
These solutions are no mean to be concreted. However, several ppl have reported to work. Please do more testings and let others know those work. Thanks Team Acid and other major devs (sorry if i missed your names) to get these amazing roms out.
Im having trouble undoing my partition, its 1024 0swap, I just formatted my sd card in my phone and its still showing 14.74 free Instead of the 16.
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thcnme956 said:
Im having trouble undoing my partition, its 1024 0swap, I just formatted my sd card in my phone and its still showing 14.74 free Instead of the 16.
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That's how it should be.
Read this if you're confused:
http://www.techimo.com/forum/storag...sizes-why-you-dont-get-all-space-you-pay.html
Basically, you were advertised a 16 gigabyte card, but in reality it can store
16,000,000,000/1,073,724,841 = 14.9 gigs giver or take some megs.
So yes, you ARE getting all the space free your card has.
It's never going to show 16
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Lol yea true, I guess never realized when I got my gig back and still felt robbed lmao
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FBis251 said:
Basically, you were advertised a 16 gigabyte card, but in reality it can store
16,000,000,000/1,073,724,841 = 14.9 gigs giver or take some megs.
So yes, you ARE getting all the space free your card has.
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on point. a different numbering system often confused as loss of bytes ironically accounts for the seeming discrepancy
yep I checked my card with Acronis Disk Director, which actually saw the card as a drive, and there were no mini-partitions just 14.9 gigs of space

[Q] Question about the external memory

as some people may know when you download a game made by gameloft it takes a alot of Megabits to play....every time i download whats neccesary to play the game it goes to the external memory wich is the 8 GB limit I have an sd card but nothing goes to it when i download stuff my question is there a way to make everythin that i download go to my SD card rather than the 8GB extercal memory??
I have this same issue, the only solution I have found is going to a CM7 rom or based rom. These actually use the AD card instead of that 5gig internal, so with the 32 gig card I have everything is installed to it including my gameloft data... Which I have 12 gigs of
ohhhh I see but im not on cm7 and i really dont want to change roms again and start from 0 again lol there most be another way...
Look in the Dev section, there's a mod that can swap internal SD with your external SD.
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[Q] 16GB MircoSD problem for infuse?

Today I purchased a PNY 16gb microSD for my infuse, when I got home I turned off the phone took out the battery and took out my old 2GB and put in the 16gb. When in the settings it told me I had 7.68gb left on my internal memory and 1.87gb left on the SD card, why doesn't it recognize the SD card?
You don't mention formatting the 16gig, did you do so?
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Radiotsar said:
You don't mention formatting the 16gig, did you do so?
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No, I didn't think I had to since I just bought it from walmart. lol
How do I format the external SD?
Do it up on the computer broski. Real simple. Use the piece that Sammy gave you in the Infuse box, plug it in, it will recognize it as a mass storage device and FAT32 it up.. real simple. Dead simple. Quick or fast, or whatever it is format works damn well. Boom. 16 gig. Worked both in the my phone and my tablet..Good luck bro.
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Exactly what I intend to do when I get a 64gig.
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I formatted it, but it still says sdcard has 7.68GB available which is INTERNAL memory, and it says internal memory is 1.87GB available which was from my 2GB sdcard that I removed. I can still put files on the MicroSD but it isn't recognizing it as having the ful 14.8 GB that it should be available on it.
Radiotsar said:
Exactly what I intend to do when I get a 64gig.
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Don't bother getting a 64 for your infuse, the infuse only supports up to a 16gig
Also can anyone help me it recognizes the SD but not as having 14.8GB on it.
GuidoZebra said:
Don't bother getting a 64 for your infuse, the infuse only supports up to a 16gig
Also can anyone help me it recognizes the SD but not as having 14.8GB on it.
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I thought it supported up to 32gigs...
Anyways i while back i got a class 10 16gb Amazonbasics micro sd card for $26-speed tests on my phone proved it was actually class 10 too! when i recieved it i didnt formatit at all, i just did what the op said, i took out battery took out preloaded 2gig card pluged in new 16 gig card and it showed up right away
You say its showing you have about a gig on external right? That neans it has to be detecting something or its just stuck on the old one since even tho its gone...heres what i would do:
1) go to seetings>sd card and phone storage>format usb storage
2) reboot
If that fails then:
3) if you have a rom installed then reflash
4) last resort odin back to stock
Hope that helps and if it doesnt see if the amazon basic sd card i got is still on sale if it is i highly suggest getting it!
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mg2195 said:
I thought it supported up to 32gigs...
Anyways i while back i got a class 10 16gb Amazonbasics micro sd card for $26-speed tests on my phone proved it was actually class 10 too! when i recieved it i didnt formatit at all, i just did what the op said, i took out battery took out preloaded 2gig card pluged in new 16 gig card and it showed up right away
You say its showing you have about a gig on external right? That neans it has to be detecting something or its just stuck on the old one since even tho its gone...heres what i would do:
1) go to seetings>sd card and phone storage>format usb storage
2) reboot
If that fails then:
3) if you have a rom installed then reflash
4) last resort odin back to stock
Hope that helps and if it doesnt see if the amazon basic sd card i got is still on sale if it is i highly suggest getting it!
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I am on MIUI so I go to SDcard and hit format? because that is the only Format option I know of. Also since it is backwards in the about phone ( Internal Storage is actually Sdcard and Sdcard is actually Internal) I don't want to accidentally format my phone.
Hmm..not on miui but for me i actually have to unmount sdcard then i can format...i know i said something different earlier
So yah if you have the option to unmount one of them then thats the one you want to format and you may need to unmount to format it
If you cant format (which ive never needed to do only done it to start clean) then there might be something wrong with your rom
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I just took the Sdcard out completely and then restarted, it STILL told me I had 1.87GB left. I plugged my phone into the computer, Removable disc L (SD card), was recognized, and removable disc K (Internal Storage) both had the right amount of available space on them, why won't the phone recognize the SD card?
Only supports 16 gig huh... damn! I guess I meet to take this 32 gig card out then and change it.... :/
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GuidoZebra said:
Don't bother getting a 64 for your infuse, the infuse only supports up to a 16gig
Also can anyone help me it recognizes the SD but not as having 14.8GB on it.
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So what I've seen elsewhere about other androids that don't support 64gb being able to work with 64gb (essentially ~59gb at formatting) doesn't apply as well to the Infuse?
GuidoZebra said:
I just took the Sdcard out completely and then restarted, it STILL told me I had 1.87GB left. I plugged my phone into the computer, Removable disc L (SD card), was recognized, and removable disc K (Internal Storage) both had the right amount of available space on them, why won't the phone recognize the SD card?
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Like i said earlier the phone is detecting something otherwise it would say no sdcard inserted-problem is its stuck on detecting the old sdcard...try turning your phone on without the sdcard and see what it says because im guessing its going to still say 1.87gb left if it does then im sorry but you should probably try reflashing your rom, if that doesnt work then try odin back to stock i know its not much help but its all i can think of
If it says no sdcard inserted without the sdcard in than you probably have a defective sdcard. If thats the case go exchange it for a new one wherever you bought it at
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So what I've seen elsewhere about other androids that don't support 64gb being able to work with 64gb (essentially ~59gb at formatting) doesn't apply as well to the Infuse?
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The infuse supports sdhc, up to 32 gigs. Those other devices support sdxc which covers sdhc cards and sdxc cards. My Thrive supports the 64gb sdxc cards nicely but they're just too expensive right now.
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From what I've read, it's a minor software tweak/update away from working on the Infuse, not a hardware issue.
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How many threads do you have??
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I had a similar problem with SD card when I first got my Infuse
"Found someone else over at Android Central who had the same exact problem with the same exact card, the Patriot 16GB SDHC class 4 found at Microcenter. Suffice to say I am just going to exchange it for a SanDisk"
dman3285 said:
How many threads do you have??
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The higher the thread count the better. My sheets are 750 and I sleep like a baby.
Oh my bad, you meant thread counts on sd cards so this one is just taking up space.

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