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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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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i have my 16gb class 4 micro sd but its reading one as an sd (this imaginary one) and my actual memory card as an EMMC. how is this possible and what could fix it? i tried wiping and reflashing and im on the latest cyan nightly.
The phone has two sd cards, the internal and the external. The internal card also has 16 gb worth of memory, the same as your external card.
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its using the internal as the sd card though, i want it to use my sd card as my sd card o.o
creusset said:
its using the internal as the sd card though, i want it to use my sd card as my sd card o.o
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Sorry.....not feasable.
Okay so its using my SD card as the emmc but the emmc as the SD card, I want to be able to use my SD card and not the emmc.
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Jemack said:
Sorry.....not feasable.
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You already got your answer.
Once again, sorry......but not always a happy ending.
Does this phone actually need an SD card if already rooted and rom? Can this work on the internal memory just fine?
cell2011 said:
Does this phone actually need an SD card if already rooted and rom? Can this work on the internal memory just fine?
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You in no way need an external SD card unless you want one.
Running just fine withouta second SD card. The Captivate has a built in internal SD card.
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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.
I have a One A9 running stock Android 7 original ROM. I am getting the low storage warning as I have used 15.5 out of 16gb.
I have installed a 32gb SD card and planned on formatting this as internal. I tried this but then noticed I cannot see the SD card when pluged into my laptop. It was only showing the internal with capacity of 16GB, not the 16+32gb as I had hoped.
I then formatted it back to portable and planned to move certain apps to SD. But in App settings, not a single app can be moved to the SD.
So I am stuck now. Anyone know how I can view the additional storage on my laptop if I format the SD as internal??
Or if that is not possible, how do I move apps to SD?
Anyone able to assist?
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I then formatted it back to portable and planned to move certain apps to SD. But in App settings, not a single app can be moved to the SD.
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afaik, you can only move apps to the sd card when its formatted as internal storage, not portable.. Pre-installed apps can't be moved to the sd card.
Anyone know how I can view the additional storage on my laptop if I format the SD as internal??
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Did you moved/migrated your files to the sd card after formatted as internal?
http://www.htc.com/mea-en/support/htc-one-a9/howto/681180.html
alray said:
Did you moved/migrated your files to the sd card after formatted as internal?
http://www.htc.com/mea-en/support/htc-one-a9/howto/681180.html
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This is what I tried doing. When I connected the phone to my laptop via USB, windows explorer could not see the SD card. All it showed was the original internal memory.
325i. said:
This is what I tried doing. When I connected the phone to my laptop via USB, windows explorer could not see the SD card. All it showed was the original internal memory.
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maybe because you didn't migrated your existing data from your internal memory to the sd card ? When using the sd card as the internal memory you'll only see the sd card from your computer (I'm assuming the opposite is also true), read the help page linked above.