This is a hack that that allows you to swap internal storage with your external SD card so you can increase your app data storage.
All credits go to original i9300 App2ExtSD Hack by mattiadj. I simply hacked it to work with U.S. versions and also I've added code so it will disable this feature when you don't have a microSD card inserted (app storage will default to internal when no microSD card is inserted).
E.g. If you have 16GB internal storage on Galaxy S3, you can install this witih a 64GB microSD card and swap the storage and get 64GB on your app storage instead of 16GB.
Before you can use this, you will need:
1) Rooted Galaxy S3 (SCH-I535/SPH-L710/SGH-T999/SCH-I747) or also Canadian versions too (i747m, etc...etc...)
2) A ROM/kernel with init.d support!
3) I've only tested this with TouchWiz-based ROMs, so it should work on stock ROMs and any TouchWiz-based ROMs, not sure on CM9 or CM10.
4) You must use the FAT32 or EXTFAT zip file below, depending on what format your microSD Card is in! (e.g. if you have a FAT32 microSD card, use FAT32)
To get this working, simply flash the zip files in your CWM Recovery:
Download and Details:
http://galaxys3root.com/galaxy-s3-t...-external-microsd-for-u-s-canadian-galaxy-s3/
If you do not have init.d support, you can also enable on any rooted phone by using Script Manager, here's a quick tutorial:
I recommend you to FORMAT your microSD card once to get camera working flawless before using this hack!
How to disable this:
If for some reason you are having trouble, simply delete /system/etc/init.d/11extsd2internalsd.
OR
if you leave your microSD card out during boot (then re-insert it after), your phone will work as normal (internal storage used for app data).
Nevermind, I thought it was a data2sd type thing, not just an SD swap. This is very nice! I prefer everything to be on my external card!
How do you know if your card is exfat or fat32?
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con247 said:
Nevermind, I thought it was a data2sd type thing, not just an SD swap. This is very nice! I prefer everything to be on my external card!
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I use GL to SD for that. I think the mod is a great idea, but after seeing so many non-readers, surely some Rom flashers will format the wrong partition and bring their blame to the devs...sad really.
What I would like to see is a mod that brings back android 2.x "move app to SD" functionality.
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thank you I have been dieing for this hack
idelgado782 said:
How do you know if your card is exfat or fat32?
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If you have a microsd card adapter (i highly recommend having one), plug it into your computer and do right click->properties for windows, others should be similar. Go google it.
Thanks man! Been wanting this since day 1 and almost started regretting getting a 16gb S3.
Downloading now and will be testing out in my FAT32 64gb sdcard on Synergy 1.7.
EDIT: should have investigated further about what this is doing.
Note that if you want to delete, you must use a ROOT Explorer, and Enable Both Root and Mounting of System to delete the file.
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Do you guys use more than 16gb of app space??
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aj8600 said:
Do you guys use more than 16gb of app space??
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If you play a lot of games, GTA is like almost 1GB, the real 16GB internal only provides 10GB in reality, meaning if you play more than 10 games like GTA you run out of space real quick.
But I don't use that much space.
I'm not very found of kernels yet, but I'm running synergy ROM r50 does this change my system to a supported kernel?
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I'm not very found of kernels yet, but I'm running synergy ROM r50 does this change my system to a supported kernel?
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It will only work if the kernel in synergy has int.d support...i believe it does but dont quote me.
OK, can I flash it anyways to test if it works or will it soft brick me if I don't have the kernel?
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Has this been tested for Google Play Music?
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This is huge !!!
Yeah thank you, works great.
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OK, can I flash it anyways to test if it works or will it soft brick me if I don't have the kernel?
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Yes, will not harm even a bird.
Can I flash this even if my current SD Card has data on it or do I need to format and delete all data on my card before using this?
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Can I flash this even if my current SD Card has data on it or do I need to format and delete all data on my card before using this?
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You can, but my advise is to start fresh with an empty SD card so you don't get confused later.
I flashed this at the same when flashing Bean's latest and greatest. So now I see the SDcard and EXTSDcard show the same files and the same size. How can I browse the Internal SD? It does not appear when I plug it in my computer or when browsing using Root Explorer or Astro
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I flashed this at the same when flashing Bean's latest and greatest. So now I see the SDcard and EXTSDcard show the same files and the same size. How can I browse the Internal SD? It does not appear when I plug it in my computer or when browsing using Root Explorer or Astro
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Might be not compatible with Bean's. That happens when the script isn't working correctly, you should see two different sizes.
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I'm wondering if I'm going to switch my rom from an internal based rom (weapon g2x) to an external (eaglesblood 2.3.5), do I need to change my cwm from internal to external support? I just got a new SD card so I'm ready for an external based rom finally. Do I just reflash reocvery for external? Move a folder?
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unique77 said:
I'm wondering if I'm going to switch my rom from an internal based rom (weapon g2x) to an external (eaglesblood 2.3.5), do I need to change my cwm from internal to external support? I just got a new SD card so I'm ready for an external based rom finally. Do I just reflash reocvery for external? Move a folder?
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Not necessarily. Just make sure if your recovery uses the internal memory that whatever rom you want to use is saved to the internal memory before you boot into recovery. Same goes for external memory/recovery.
Thanks for the response ... but isn't it true then that rom manager wont work because it'll be looking for it on the external? This was my experience last time, although it may have been because I didn't have an SD card either.
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Latest clockwork has support for internal and external so just upgrade.
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Latest clockwork has support for internal and external so just upgrade.
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Just noticed this today myself. Glad to see that feature added. This question comes up regularly, almost as much as "how do I root 2.3.3" lol. Now it will be simpler to explain how to flash a zip from clockwork.
I want to know if i can change the internal sd card for a bigger one because i have a extra 16gb sd is it possible to change??
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Do you mean use the 16gb instead of internal memory?
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The internal SD card is not removable
No i mean the internal sd the one inside the phone it only has 2gb.i once had a hd2 and changed the internal sd for a bigger one so i though i could do the same with this phone. Is it possible??
Or mount the 16gb as internal.
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I really don't know about that but what I did was just change my download path to the external_sd within whatever app I was downloading from
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razielpr said:
No i mean the internal sd the one inside the phone it only has 2gb.i once had a hd2 and changed the internal sd for a bigger one so i though i could do the same with this phone. Is it possible??
Or mount the 16gb as internal.
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Erm, the phone has built in memory, and then expandable memory from the microSD slot. Use a larger microSD and install your apps or transfer whatever media you have to that instead of the internal memory. You can also set your camera to save images to the microSD instead of the phone's internal memory.
The games install by default to internal sd and i don't have space for games only one fits and can't dl. Eny more that's my biggest problem and cant make the games install the data to external sd.
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The games install by default to internal sd and i don't have space for games only one fits and can't dl. Eny more that's my biggest problem and cant make the games install the data to external sd.
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if you flash the cm7 port your external sd will be in your sdcard path like normal, and internal will be under an emmc folder instead. as far as i know thats your only option
We(tfq) are working on separating the sdcard and external sdcard like in cm7...it'll be emmc for internal ans sdcard for external SD
It does take time so waiting is crucial we are working on a lot of stuff for you guys
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Thanks Erik im running you're dark knight rom v8 and it's amazing just have one problem can't use tether with foxfi or bernacle gives me an error in bernacle and in foxfi it activates the T-Mobile hotspot.
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I just got ny Samsung ultra 32GB sd card... now how do I start moving apps to that card... I'm currently on the latest stock software unrooted
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miguel11691 said:
I just got ny Samsung ultra 32GB sd card... now how do I start moving apps to that card... I'm currently on the latest stock software unrooted
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You don't. Ability to move apps to external sd was disabled with ICS release. There are ways to trick it but not worth the hassle. I have 190 apps on my internal with no problems. I have 64 Class 10 external and use it for everything except apps.
miguel11691 said:
I just got ny Samsung ultra 32GB sd card... now how do I start moving apps to that card... I'm currently on the latest stock software unrooted
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Directory bind. It allows you to offload app data onto your external memory. It is only ideal for things like big games (gameloft). Can't imagine what else you'd want to offload though other than big games.
Here's a link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1410262
mustbepbs said:
Directory bind. It allows you to offload app data onto your external memory. It is only ideal for things like big games (gameloft). Can't imagine what else you'd want to offload though other than big games.
Here's a link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1410262
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Or you could try this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1886091
or this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1849860
They are not perfect but may work for you.
android94301 said:
Or you could try this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1886091
or this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1849860
They are not perfect but may work for you.
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Those work better for a permanent solution for the GS3. I use Directory Bind for my Nexus 7 since I can't keep my USB OTG flash drive plugged in all the time, it's super easy to reapply the settings.
just flashed paranoid android 12, while i was doing that i made a backup of my old rom in CWM and it never ended up showing up on my SD card, after flashing my rom i opened up my SD card on my laptop and it seems to be that alot of memory is going to no where.. i highlighted everything in the folder and it says its all about 350mb and all my music is about 300mb. Before i open up the SD card it says that theres 500mb out of 1.8gb free. 1.8gb - 300mb = 1.5gb. Is it the backup that i cant see thats taking up all the memory? if so how would i make it show up? or is it something else?
That is weird normally you should be able to see your backup as a folder. Mine is set under sdcard/clockwordmod/backup and the backup I got is 581mb and is very visible both to es file explorer and to my desktop pc. Something maybe up with your sdcard. I've had invisible files on a knock off 16gb MS Pro that I ordered from china. Fixed it by formatting the memory card a few times with the PC though.
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That is weird normally you should be able to see your backup as a folder. Mine is set under sdcard/clockwordmod/backup and the backup I got is 581mb and is very visible both to es file explorer and to my desktop pc. Something maybe up with your sdcard. I've had invisible files on a knock off 16gb MS Pro that I ordered from china. Fixed it by formatting the memory card a few times with the PC though.
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So if I just copied everything in there into another folder formatted it put it back in it should appear? And do you back up with cwm?
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I do use cmw to backup. Also yes, I'm theroy as long as ur sdcard is not totally screwed over by bad blocks or something of that matter.
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deathmaker06 said:
I do use cmw to backup. Also yes, I'm theroy as long as ur sdcard is not totally screwed over by bad blocks or something of that matter.
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So you boot into cwm>click back up and restore>backup right? And alright I'll try it out thanks
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how did you install CWM? with NVFlash? there are different versions that support different SD cards (one internal only, the other external)
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how did you install CWM? with NVFlash? there are different versions that support different SD cards (one internal only, the other external)
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I did use nvflash and it worked before just this time idk what happend when I open rom manager and click rename it shows up there
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I am frustrate that external SD card just read only mode in Samsung SII Plus. Due to not more than 4G memory of internal storage only. I want to spare up more space through App 2 SD the information, photo, media and installed APP to external SD card only. Also, it cannot being usb mode as liked with SII before. How could I solve it? Anyway methods might share? Thank you very much.:laugh:
richieych said:
I am frustrate that external SD card just read only mode in Samsung SII Plus. Due to not more than 4G memory of internal storage only. I want to spare up more space through App 2 SD the information, photo, media and installed APP to external SD card only. Also, it cannot being usb mode as liked with SII before. How could I solve it? Anyway methods might share? Thank you very much.:laugh:
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Format the sdcard in fat32. Maybe your sd is 64GB exFat that needs a special kernel support
KINGbabasula said:
Format the sdcard in fat32. Maybe your sd is 64GB exFat that needs a special kernel support
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Thank you for your reply. The volume of my SD card is 16GB in FAT32 format. Mentioned problems may include with the right of permission to beyond read only mode and setting of android system. Because the photo records is taken by internal machine that can be set to store in external SD card. This kinds of problem have already occurred in Samsung several series machine. Meanwhile, this is a complicated problem beyond my limited knowledge. Anyway, thank a lots:laugh:
Root your phone.
Install Folder Mount.
Move everything to SD.
Enjoy life !
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richieych said:
Thank you for your reply. The volume of my SD card is 16GB in FAT32 format. Mentioned problems may include with the right of permission to beyond read only mode and setting of android system. Because the photo records is taken by internal machine that can be set to store in external SD card. This kinds of problem have already occurred in Samsung several series machine. Meanwhile, this is a complicated problem beyond my limited knowledge. Anyway, thank a lots:laugh:
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fayez107 said:
Root your phone.
Install Folder Mount.
Move everything to SD.
Enjoy life !
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Thank you for reply. I have rooted my machine already and trying this right now. But would like to know that except this method. Any method could save data (i.e. photos, installed app and media) to external SD card freely? Just like using of App 2 SD. And then, any method to get the right of permission to beyond read only mode and setting of android system? I would like to fix this problem completely and let it return to S II mode. Anyway thank you very much :laugh:
For the moment i don't think there is a way to move apps to SD. Only link 2 sd
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Well Folder Mount isn't free.
And Apps to SD didn't work for me. Neither did Link 2 Sd work until I created a partition on my SD card (later I removed the partition as I didn't want to spoil my new card and its performance).
You can install apps on internal and then later on move it freely to SD card. It would move all data folder.
I'm doing this and I have rooted phone with stock rom.
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Directory bind is the same as folder mount
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KINGbabasula said:
Directory bind is the same as folder mount
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Any Link please?
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fayez107 said:
Any Link please?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1410262
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1410262
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Thanks man. But idky I don't seem to understand how will it work :/
It keeps on saying DATA folder must be empty :S
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fayez107 said:
Thanks man. But idky I don't seem to understand how will it work :/
It keeps on saying DATA folder must be empty :S
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Yes i don't know why the target is inverted
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Yes i don't know why the target is inverted
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Its not working even :S .. Weird NOT a user friendly interface and I dont find to make it work. It always gives an error message.
EDIT :→ I TRIED EVERYWAY. EVEN AFTER IT COPIES AND TRANSFERS DATA UPON RESTART THE FOLDER BINDED IS LOST !
fayez107 i hv rooted phone also hv filemount then how to move apps to ext sd card plz tell
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sandy99707 said:
fayez107 i hv rooted phone also hv filemount then how to move apps to ext sd card plz tell
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Well tap on the (+) button and you will have a window asking for
1. Folder name to be kept.
2. files to be moved.
3.where the files should be.
Select the following and press mount. It will start moving files and then mount.