So my brother had a few thousand songs on his external sd card and I wanted them. So I pulled his sd and put it in my notes, and used root explorer to copy and paste the songs. Now when I put the sd card back he has less than 100 songs (through power amp) and root explorer doesn't even show an ext sd card.
So I moved on to ES file explorer and I'm still unable to access ext sd card.
So my question is did I accidently dismount his sd card? Through system memory I can see that there is an ext sd but it looks like nothing is on it?
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LittleRedDot said:
So my brother had a few thousand songs on his external sd card and I wanted them. So I pulled his sd and put it in my notes, and used root explorer to copy and paste the songs. Now when I put the sd card back he has less than 100 songs (through power amp) and root explorer doesn't even show an ext sd card.
So I moved on to ES file explorer and I'm still unable to access ext sd card.
So my question is did I accidently dismount his sd card? Through system memory I can see that there is an ext sd but it looks like nothing is on it?
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I would say format and start over.
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What directories on the filesystem denote the onboard flash memory versus an external (8gb) sd card i've plugged into the back? Isn't the internal flash labeled as a sd card as well as my removavle sd card? I googled it a bit but had no luck.
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Fallon said:
What directories on the filesystem denote the onboard flash memory versus an external (8gb) sd card i've plugged into the back? Isn't the internal flash labeled as a sd card as well as my removavle sd card? I googled it a bit but had no luck.
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The external SD card shows up as a sub-directory named "sd" under the internal SD card if you use the My Files app.
/sdcard is internal
/sdcard/sd is external (your card)
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This may seem like a ridiculously noobish question but I can't find the external SD partition in any file manager. I'm rooted and neither root explorer or astro shows any partition for the external card. I just placed a 32gb micro SD in there and the /SD folder refers to the internal 12 GB of storage. What am I missing here?
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SaosinEngaged said:
This may seem like a ridiculously noobish question but I can't find the external SD partition in any file manager. I'm rooted and neither root explorer or astro shows any partition for the external card. I just placed a 32gb micro SD in there and the /SD folder refers to the internal 12 GB of storage. What am I missing here?
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It would be under /sdcard/external_sd in root explorer.
/sdcard/external_sd
I just received my 32gb SD card today and placed it into my GS3. In looking at my file explorer app I noticed I have an 'sdcard' and an 'extmount' or something like that. So, how did I have an sdcard from folder w/o previously having an sdcard installed? Also, do I need to do anything to get that info off my device? I'm not rooted if that helps.
Thanks!
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SD card is your internal memory. Ext-sd card is your external micro SD card. Different phones and different roms have their own ways of labeling these. It's normal and correct.
Okay, so I am just tired of the confusion in my head here.
I'm not a noob with rooting or anything of the sort, but I am not used to a phone with an internal SD card and an external SD card.
I am downloading a ROM to flash to my Galaxy S3 and it saves to the SD card... does that mean that it is saving to the phones memory and not the actual SD card I put into it?
There is an SD Card and an external SD card.
Which one is which? Haha.
And if I am right, like I think I am... the external SD card is the actual SD card I put into it and the SD Card is the phones internal memory.
How can I download from the internet and have it save onto the external SD?
AND...
When backing up a ROM before flashing a new one, do you recommend that I back up to SD card or external SD card?
And do you recommend I flash a ROM from the SD card or from the external SD card?
It seems that IF my external SD card somehow decided to corrupt while I was running off of a ROM that was installed via external SD card, that it wouldn't be able to boot after it corrupted.
Am I correct on all of this?
Sorry. Your answers are more than appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
I have mine setup to download the roms, pictures, media or backups to the external sd card. In cwm I save a backup to both internal and external for the extra security. I just use external for everything because I have a 32gb sd card that has everything. The internal memory is just used for system stuff.
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bbqsfire said:
I have mine setup to download the roms, pictures, media or backups to the external sd card. In cwm I save a backup to both internal and external for the extra security. I just use external for everything because I have a 32gb sd card that has everything. The internal memory is just used for system stuff.
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Perfect. That's absolutely everything I needed to know. I guess no matter what you download from the browser, it will download to the internal memory... but you can manually move it to the external SD with Root Browser.
Thank you man.
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RBarnett09 said:
Perfect. That's absolutely everything I needed to know. I guess no matter what you download from the browser, it will download to the internal memory... but you can manually move it to the external SD with Root Browser.
Thank you man.
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Go into the advanced settings option on your Browser and it gives you the option to have things downloaded to memory card or internal. Just change that to memory card and it will do it for you.
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Can the shield make the micro SD card default storage as in installing apk to SD card and have obb large game data files on SD card instead of small internal storage?
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ian619420 said:
Can the shield make the micro SD card default storage as in installing apk to SD card and have obb large game data files on SD card instead of small internal storage?
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The last update allows you to transfer game obb folders to sd but its still buggy and isn't working for every game. Another way would be to root the shield and modify the vold fstab which I don't know exactly how to do it.