So im having this messed up problem with CM9 Alpha 6, i have the vurrutkernel installed btw. So heres my problem. I can't access my external SD card (which is 16GB) from ES File Explorer, yet if I go to the CM9 music player (apollo) i can see all my songs which are on the 16GB card. If i go into storage, i see 3 things: Internal storage, USB Storage , SD Card (which says total space 16GB).
1. Why can't I access the 16GB card from ES File Explorer?
2. When I click move to sdcard for an app, it moves to USB storage but not my 16GB Sdcard.
3. How the hell do I have THREE storages? (Internal,USB,SD Card)????
I reaaaallly love this ROM but this problem is confusing me. Thank you very much in advanced to anyone who answers!
BassBlaster said:
So im having this messed up problem with CM9 Alpha 6, i have the vurrutkernel installed btw. So heres my problem. I can't access my external SD card (which is 16GB) from ES File Explorer, yet if I go to the CM9 music player (apollo) i can see all my songs which are on the 16GB card. If i go into storage, i see 3 things: Internal storage, USB Storage , SD Card (which says total space 16GB).
1. Why can't I access the 16GB card from ES File Explorer?
2. When I click move to sdcard for an app, it moves to USB storage but not my 16GB Sdcard.
3. How the hell do I have THREE storages? (Internal,USB,SD Card)????
I reaaaallly love this ROM but this problem is confusing me. Thank you very much in advanced to anyone who answers!
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Basically the mount points are as follows..
/mnt/emmc = external sd card
/mnt/sdcard = internal sd
I cant elaborate why u have three storages..
Try using io file manager once to chwck if u have access to external sd thru /mnt/emmc and internal sd thru /mnt/sdcard..
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Yes thank you so much, those mount points are absolutely correct. But i still have no Idea why I have a 3rd storage
Gonna full wipe.
BassBlaster said:
Yes thank you so much, those mount points are absolutely correct. But i still have no Idea why I have a 3rd storage
Gonna full wipe.
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If m not wrong u see those storages in settings-> storage??
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Yes, i'm seeing these in Storages.
Settings > Storage
I just did a full wipe plus cache wipe and dalvik wipe but the third storage (USB Storage) is STILL there?!
We have 4GB internal memory in which 2GB is used by system and the other 2GB is available for user.The internal memory shown is system memory and usb storage is the user accessible memory.
Im sorry but that still doesn't make any sense.
I installed an app to my phone, by default it is on internal storage (1.8GB available) but when i click move to sdcard, it moves to another storage named USB storage, which has 1.5GB available, and my 16GB card is nowhere to be seen, other then in the Storage menu. And by the way, the 16GB card has 9GB available as I checked from my computer.
If you want to use your sd card then change your storage configuration from storage.
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It would be helpful if you elaborate a bit, I went to storage and then pressed menu, the first option is already ticked for storage
BassBlaster said:
It would be helpful if you elaborate a bit, I went to storage and then pressed menu, the first option is already ticked for storage
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Ok i went thru a thread in sgs2 forums and found this..
Wen u tick 'use internal storage' the internal mem (the one which is user accessible and not used by the system) is used as sd card (mounted as as sdcard).. in this case the external sd (mem card) is mounted as emmc..
Wen u untick 'use internal storage' the external sd is used as sdcard.. in tht case the internal sd is mounted as emmc and external sd (memory card) is mounted as sdcard..
If u now move any app to sdcard it will be moved to external sd (memory card)..
Try it out.. worked on my 9100..
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cm9 external sdcard
BassBlaster said:
So im having this messed up problem with CM9 Alpha 6, i have the vurrutkernel installed btw. So heres my problem. I can't access my external SD card (which is 16GB) from ES File Explorer, yet if I go to the CM9 music player (apollo) i can see all my songs which are on the 16GB card. If i go into storage, i see 3 things: Internal storage, USB Storage , SD Card (which says total space 16GB).
1. Why can't I access the 16GB card from ES File Explorer?
2. When I click move to sdcard for an app, it moves to USB storage but not my 16GB Sdcard.
3. How the hell do I have THREE storages? (Internal,USB,SD Card)????
I reaaaallly love this ROM but this problem is confusing me. Thank you very much in advanced to anyone who answers!
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hey buddy. The solution for your problem is so simple. Just now, I had flashed cm9 rom on my galaxy wonder. I get also same problem as yours. You have to //mnt. There you can see sd card and external_sd folder. You just click on the external_folder and its done. In my opinion, the folder for opening external sd car has been changed from usual. I hope this message can help you. bye
Queations to all....
Should a App2sd app be able to work on our Notes???
The reason im asking is because I had issues getting my 64g card to mount (ended up having to flash a recent OTA update from Samfirmware.com). I then wanted to move some of my apps to the 64g card but App 2 SD from the market says -
"The device does not have a real primary external storage, or the primary extremal storage is emulated. Moving app to SD may not be supported by this device. "
Is this normal? I have never come across this before on any Android device before! Or is it something to do with the 64g card? or the Notes file tree?
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Yes it's normal. Samsung make some different approach here.
In my perspective when you used to choose "move to sdcard" in apps manager, the apps move from internal memory to internal storage (/sdcard).
(External microSD card is not on discussion so far, im only talking about tablet internal storage).
Now by default in Samsung devices all apps are going to /sdcard, so you dont have to move them beacuse the are alreday there.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
The solution for me (I have white SGN 10.1 16GB) is use DirectoryBind, i can have 20+ GB of games in external microSD Card.
sammmurai said:
Yes it's normal. Samsung make some different approach here.
In my perspective when you used to choose "move to sdcard" in apps manager, the apps move from internal memory to internal storage (/sdcard).
(External microSD card is not on discussion so far, im only talking about tablet internal storage).
Now by default in Samsung devices all apps are going to /sdcard, so you dont have to move them beacuse the are alreday there.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
The solution for me (I have white SGN 10.1 16GB) is use DirectoryBind, i can have 20+ GB of games in external microSD Card.
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Think your correct, makes sense anyway!!!
Could you elaborate more on this directory Bind thing you mentioned? ??
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DirectoryBind main feature is to link/bind folders with data that are in external micro sd card, to empty folders with the same name that must be in /sdcard/Android/data or /sdcard/Android/obb. So games and apps thinks they're using internal storage but in fact data is in external micro sd card. This way you save the 11 gb reserved for storage.
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sammmurai said:
DirectoryBind main feature is to link/bind folders with data that are in external micro sd card, to empty folders with the same name that must be in /sdcard/Android/data or /sdcard/Android/obb. So games and apps thinks they're using internal storage but in fact data is in external micro sd card. This way you save the 11 gb reserved for storage.
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what happen if u update the app that u changed the directory?? will the app save to the new directory or internal?
Didnt understand the question
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Hey. I'm using zedomax's app2sd script. In my storage it shows that the script works fine, I.e the internal memory has been swapped with the external memory. But when I go to the application manager, it shows that I have only 11gb of space, I.e. the space of my internal memory. Even when I install apps from the play store, it gets installed only on my internal memory. When I go to the file mananger though, it shows that it is using my external SD card as my internal memory. Do I have to move any folder or change something for the app to get installed on the external SD? I'm attaching the screenshots.
Thanks for any help in advance.
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I'm getting this message when I try to move apps to my SD card. The device dies not have a real primary external storage or the primary external storage is emulated.
I downloaded the OI File Manager and when I click on storage there is a link at the top that says emulated when I click on emulated it shows a pic of my SD card and beside it it says zero. How can I fix this issue? I'm running orca-nightly-i605jota-20130328. Build-JDQ39 kernel 3.0.64cm g8823489 4.2.2 base i605vrall4
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hello everyone. i formatted the SD card as internal storage, and now everything is still installing to the actual internal storage and nothing to the SD card which is now the internal storage, so essentially its not using it at all and i dont have the option to move to sd.
anyone else having this much difficulty with marshmallow????
Go to settings
Click apps
select the app of your choosing
Click the storage
You can choose internal or external.
I know there is also an option to migrate all data to SD, but can't remember how to get there.
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Exile1975 said:
Go to settings
Click apps
select the app of your choosing
Click the storage
You can choose internal or external.
I know there is also an option to migrate all data to SD, but can't remember how to get there.
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yup tried that, but it didnt work
i completely reinstalled stock images, then upgraded and now it works as functioned -> formated as internal and it works perfectly and installs to the SD as internal storage, giving me a total of 64 gb sd + 11 gb internal.