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[Q] What's the best use for an external SD?

I'm asking this because I added an external SD a couple weeks ago, and can't seem to figure how to make the best use of it. I can't move apps to it through Apps2SD, and when I try to move my Amazon MP3 folder to it, that doesn't seem to change where the app saves new songs I download to my phone.
So what's it good for? Larger video file storage? Am I missing something?

I put music on my SD Card. What I need to know is what's the best use for the External memory that comes with the phone. Nothing is ever stored there.

There is thread in development about changing internal mounts that might be helpful
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[Q] Is there a fix for external storage on AOSP roms?

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

[Q] Duplicate files on phone

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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Deleting com.google.android.music in SD card

Hello, hopefully this is the right place to post this, but I was going to format my SD card to exFat and I noticed a file in /storage/extSdCard/Android/data which is com.google.android.music and I was wondering if it okay to delete it. The file is filled with other files titled with weird characters and Idk if they are important or not. I unmounted the SD and it seemed like Google play music worked fine but I'm still unsure about deleting it. I just don't wanna screw myself. I was wondering if anyone knew what that file was. Thank you in advance!
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ToastyyX said:
Hello, hopefully this is the right place to post this, but I was going to format my SD card to exFat and I noticed a file in /storage/extSdCard/Android/data which is com.google.android.music and I was wondering if it okay to delete it. The file is filled with other files titled with weird characters and Idk if they are important or not. I unmounted the SD and it seemed like Google play music worked fine but I'm still unsure about deleting it. I just don't wanna screw myself. I was wondering if anyone knew what that file was. Thank you in advance!
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I do believe they contain settings for Play Music? I'm not entirely sure. But don't delete it unless you get to know what it is... :good:

Google play music wipe with new rom

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.