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Mounting Internal Storage vs. SD Card - USB

With the Evo, connected to my PC, selecting "Mount as disk drive," only the Micro SD card appears in Windows Explorer as a directory. I want and expect to see another directory for Internal Storage.
Had had the Incredible, where _both_ the SD card and Internal Storage appeared as two separate directories. I could see what was stored on ea.
I am under 300MB of memory of avail. space on the Internal - lots of posts about running out of app room in various forums - so curious what media and other data is there, what might be movable to SD card.
Got some further questions about how to copy data from an 8MB card to a 32MB card (just drag to PC and back?) as I just ordered one, and about how to tell certain apps where I want media recorded to (may simply not be an option w Camcorder and others), but mainly just want to understand how to view Internal storage from a directory on my PC when unit is docked. Thx!

[Q] Ext. SDcard Defualt

I am wondering if anyone knows how to set the external sdcard to default so when I connect it to my computer it opens the external one instead of the internal one?

I'd like to know as well. On the Samsung Galaxy phones, the internal sd card is /sdcard and the external card is /sdcard/sd. Is it possible to mount the external sd card in the gtablet so that it appears under the sdcard?
I found an app call multi-mount. Has anyone tried this with the gtablet?
http://www.androidzoom.com/android_applications/tools/multi-mount-sdcard_jvzi.html

The /sdcard/sd seems like a reasonable solution. I wonder, is the gtablet the only device using /sdcard2/ ? It'd be nice if there were some standard for multiple sdcards. Then app developers could follow suite and start building apps that browse multiple sdcards.

LostDogWA said:
The /sdcard/sd seems like a reasonable solution. I wonder, is the gtablet the only device using /sdcard2/ ? It'd be nice if there were some standard for multiple sdcards. Then app developers could follow suite and start building apps that browse multiple sdcards.
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I tried something like that awhile ago, creating a mount point under /sdcard, but it doesn't work.
Jim

dschach said:
I'd like to know as well. On the Samsung Galaxy phones, the internal sd card is /sdcard and the external card is /sdcard/sd. Is it possible to mount the external sd card in the gtablet so that it appears under the sdcard?
I found an app call multi-mount. Has anyone tried this with the gtablet?
http://www.androidzoom.com/android_applications/tools/multi-mount-sdcard_jvzi.html
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I have used this app on my GTab VEGAN and it works great. The only minor hiccup is that to further the nomenclature confusion is that the external microSD (aka SDCARD2) is actually "SD-Card One" in this particular app and the internal memory is known to this app as "SD-Card Two".

[Q] MicroSD problems

Hi all,
First post as a new Asus Transformer owner:
I seem to be having problems with the MicroSD card, I have a brand new 32GB card, formatted as FAT32, it can be read and written to correctly on my pc.
When inserted into the Transformer I get a "Preparing external storage" message, LOST.DIR is created on the card, and the card is visible as /Removable/MicroSD/.
All good so far but then most apps can't see anything on the card and everything seems to be looking in /mnt/sdcard/ (internal storage) for files.
Examples -
I create a nook folder on the microsd card, then a my documents folder under that and place epub files in there but the nook app can't find files either in /Removable/MicroSD/Nook/MyDocuments or /mnt/sdcard/Nook/MyDocuments
Aldiko book reader - I hit home then sdcard and it displays the contents of /mnt/sdcard with no way to navigate to /Removable/MicroSD
Dropbox places files in /mnt/sdcard not on the MicroSD card
The Music App however is successful in automatically finding music in /Removable/MicroSD/Music
I have tested this with another (8gb) card and the same behavior happens.
Is this normal? if so how do I get the apps to look in (and store files in) the MicroSD card?

I am no expert but I think this is one of the "bugs" that need to be worked on in Android 3.x. It is most likely the reason why the XOOM still has no official microSD support. How are you going to mount the internal memory as /sdcard and in addition use a removable medium, also called /sdcard? Unfortunately, /sdcard is commonly the removable medium so I am curious as to what the solution will be! For now we just have to "suck it up" until someone smart comes up with a work-around

Problem with moving apps to external SD card

So apparently Samsung makes the skyrocket think that the usb storage is the sd card. Because of this when i tap to move an app to the sd card it moves it from system storage too usb storage. I am pretty much out of storage internally. Has anyone else had this problem or does anyone know how i can solve the problem.

ian1 said:
So apparently Samsung makes the skyrocket think that the usb storage is the sd card. Because of this when i tap to move an app to the sd card it moves it from system storage too usb storage. I am pretty much out of storage internally. Has anyone else had this problem or does anyone know how i can solve the problem.
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I do not think that Samsung is unique. An external SD card appears as a directory in the external storage. It is rather easy to use this directory to store music, photos and videos. I have many programs and I am nowhere near tapped out in terms of storage. However, I believe that there are a number of solutions that would allow one to move applications to the external-external SD card.

Ya i was wondering if anyone had heard of a way to do this. I havent found anything yet.

If you are rooted you can probably edit the fstab file to switch the mount points of the internal and external memory. This has been done on other devices and a search should point you to directions to accomplish this.
There are negatives and positives to this approach, so read and understand what yoou are doing and the effects it will have before doing it.
I have over 80 apps installed, including two nav programs with offline maps for the US and have 1.5 GB in the user space for ap installs, 9.4 GB in the internal storage, and 11 GB free on a 32 GB external SD card (music files take up most of the used space).

Thank you!

Using "mount" to bind external sd to internal memory, are there any speed difference

Using "mount" to bind external sd to internal memory, are there any speed difference
If i was to mount a folder from a class10 64gb micro sdcard to internal memory, mainly to store these oversize obb (game data) files, will there be any problem i should know about. I am assuming that maybe....
1. Class 10 is slower to what ever internal memory phone uses, maybe RAM?
2. It may kill my external sd card fastet if i store frequently access game data files there.
3. Anything elsr?
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I did this a week ago with my htc chacha. I mounted the /data dir to the external sdcard (32gb sandisk Class 10 UHS-1) and I can tell you that it works pretty well. My phone won't boot if I use other than a genuine htc battery. I have a spare chinese replacement battery but it won't boot with it. I can't tell you much about sd card corruption, but I had no problems with it. And about the speed.. well, this one ain't that fast anyway, but it's faster than the internal memory that's sure. I had no issues with games, even ps1 games work pretty well on it. Hope this helps you decide. P.S.: you should give us more info about your phone. Cheers!

Hey there. I have a question regarding "mount -o bind".
I have mounted DCIM folder to extSD.
My problem is, the gallery shows up two folders.
And my question is, how to hide folders in extSD?