sorry if this has been covered but i couldnt find the answer. when using file explorer of any kind, i find that under the home folder is listed two external sd folders. one is external_sd the other is extSdCard. both have exact same contents and permissions. when i go into the file manager in my recovery, twrp 2.6.3, the only one listed is external_sd. ive read that the external_sd was the old location not used anymore since the 4.2 updates however its the only one listed in my recovery. do i need both? can these cause problems since they have the same contents? thanks in advance. oh yes, i am on liquidsmooth 2.10 official
Do you have a external SD card in the phone? Are both of those folders the same amount of storage?
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Do you have a external SD card in the phone? Are both of those folders the same amount of storage?
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yes and yes.
apparently those two folders are shortcuts to my sdcard1 which is my external. just wondering if i need both. which one is the proper one and if i remove one, will my recovery recognize the other? OR is it supposed to be that way and im just being paranoid?
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apparently those two folders are shortcuts to my sdcard1 which is my external. just wondering if i need both. which one is the proper one and if i remove one, will my recovery recognize the other? OR is it supposed to be that way and im just being paranoid?
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Sometimes drives get renamed funny when they are mounted. It's all the same and should both get linked to the exact same drive. It might be annoying, but you aren't harming anything having the external SD card mounted as both external_sd and extSDcard. It's just the way your phone is recognizing the SD card.
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Sometimes drives get renamed funny when they are mounted. It's all the same and should both get linked to the exact same drive. It might be annoying, but you aren't harming anything having the external SD card mounted as both external_sd and extSDcard. It's just the way your phone is recognizing the SD card.
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Thank you for the response. ill just leave it alone then.
My phone is the same way, but they are two different memories. One is the external SD I put in phone and other is phone storage but it's named about the SAME THING... One like 'externalSD' other being something like extSD'
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Same thing on mine but my music is on there and Apollo sees both files so I have double of every song and I have not found a way to delete it anyone know how
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My phone is the same way, but they are two different memories. One is the external SD I ! in phone and other is phone storage but it's named about the SAME THING... One like 'externalSD' other being something like extSD'
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They are not two different memories they are both representing the same storage facitity ex=external, ext also reads as external. My device has 2 exactly the same folders with exactly same contents, dates times in are same & named 'external SD >sdcard1' & 'extSDcard >sdcard1'. My inbuilt internal storage is named 'Sdcard'. I'm fairly sure the extra duplicate of external storage is a safe box type environment where if things go wrong the 'live' folder will be kept safe from harm...ie malware / virus etc. Its along those lines anyway but can't find my documents about it at mo
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Is there anyway possible to move apps to your internal sd instead of external sd?
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EDIT: Disregard. I was wrong.
I've tried this multiple times and it doesn't work. It sends them to my external sd no matter what. I have been searching everywhere and I don't think you can move them to internal sd. Thanks though.
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Okay, you're right. They don't go to the internal sd. Thought I had read that they do, and in the app manager, it showed them as being on the 13gb partition. Just pulled my SD card, and the apps don't show up. So, it would be nice to know how to put them on the internal card.
Alright, making this happen involves editing /system/etc/vold.fstab and moving the .android_secure folder from your external SD to your internal SD.
See the thread linked below. Study the first vold.fstab file there and make the same changes, and move your .android_secure folder. I did this and now I really do have most of my apps on the internal SD.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1377746
Thanks for finding that. I appreciate it. I'm going to have to try it later on this evening.
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I finally tried this and I could not get it to work. I tried a few times and nothing.
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Worked for me. You can replace your vold.fstab with the first download in that thread if your edits didn't work. Move your app folder using a PC, reboot, and it should work. This just swaps how the system uses those partitions. It worked too well for me. I ended up preferring the default setup since I change roms so much.
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Worked for me. You can replace your vold.fstab with the first download in that thread if your edits didn't work. Move your app folder using a PC, reboot, and it should work. This just swaps how the system uses those partitions. It worked too well for me. I ended up preferring the default setup since I change roms so much.
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Does this do a full reversal of the sd cards? The reason i ask is because i have a few games that have extra data (mostly gameloft games) that i would like to move to my external sd because they will only play if they are on my internal. I have a 16gb external that i would like to put the game data on.
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Yeah, this reverses the cards so that the external sd is seen as the internal and vice-versa by the device. So any data stored by apps on one card would now go to the other. This is one reason I haven't continued using this mod, but it may work for what you want.
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I have a 16gb s3 and 16gb SD card I wanted to either move my music or apps but I can't figure out how my phone recognizes the SD but for some reason its seems unusable. Is there some setting I'm missing or is my SD card corrupt?
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not sure i understand your question exactly... but i can say that certain programs are not able to utilize the sd card in our phones. this was new for me coming from a motorola. the way samsung refers to the internal "sd card" vs your added external sd card is different so a number of programs will look at the internal memory as the SD Card instead of your actual SD Card.
that said, you can bypass this with a program the binds the directory on the internal storage that the program is looking for to a directory on your SD Card.
search my posts... i posted the link to the program (not mine) in another thread. it's working great for me with MOG. before, all my music had to be on the internal storage for mog to read it. now, with the directory bind program i have all my music on my external sd card and mog reads the files just fine.
hope that helps!
Well I downloaded app2sd and it says this device does not have a primary external storage. It does not even recognize my sd
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apps2sd does not work on this device...
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apps2sd does not work on this device...
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that's good to know is there anything like it that works?
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that's good to know is there anything like it that works?
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No, since the OS won't allow apps2sd because it uses MTP
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I have a 16gb s3 and 16gb SD card I wanted to either move my music or apps but I can't figure out how my phone recognizes the SD but for some reason its seems unusable. Is there some setting I'm missing or is my SD card corrupt?
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Read this below.... The device uses MTP so it will not see your external SD card in the slot by ICS design...what you want it the UMS the USB mass storage where the device used the SD card to save data...but the Samsung now has 16GB internal storage so it presents a problem...
This app was written to resolve that issue... Also there is a link to explain this deeper than what I am doing....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1785243
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Read this below.... The device uses MTP so it will not see your external SD card in the slot by ICS design...what you want it the UMS the USB mass storage where the device used the SD card to save data...but the Samsung now has 16GB internal storage so it presents a problem...
This app was written to resolve that issue... Also there is a link to explain this deeper than what I am doing....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1785243
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Is there anyway to do this without rooting really don't feel like rooting right now
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Well I figured out how to get files from my Mac to my sd card using android file transfer. I transferred some videos and the stock video play found them right off. The only problem is that I can find the folder that there in using file manager. Its like a ghost SD card I can't find it anywhere but at least I can transfer and delete them now I just need my computer to do it.
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so i keep deleting files from my sd card but they keep coming back.
i've pulled it out and plugged it to my laptop and it says files are protected? didn't know micro sd cards can be protected ( no physical switch on the side) nor did i find anything underneath properties tab.
i went as far as formatting it while mounted, all files delete but when i restart the phone, they all come back.
i like to know how i can make this go away, kindly advise. thanks.
What files are you deleting? Android puts certain files and folders on the SD card automatically
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What files are you deleting? Android puts certain files and folders on the SD card automatically
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nothing specific. pics.
somehow they became write protected and i can't get it out of it.
need a new flash adapter , unless there is a way to remove write protected stage while its mounted to my phone?
Have you tried using an file shredder utility on your PC to delete them? Past that I would say its a mystery.
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This happened to me a few times before as well it except I was trying to format the card instead. If I remember correctly it was because of some type of setting having to do with developers usb connection. I'll edit this post if I remember/find out what I did exactly
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This happened to me a few times before as well it except I was trying to format the card instead. If I remember correctly it was because of some type of setting having to do with developers usb connection. I'll edit this post if I remember/find out what I did exactly
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let me know if you do. thanks.
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still looking, any one have a solution for formatting a write protected micro sd?
Are you trying to format it or delete specific files. If you want to format it find a hex editor, put a normal sd card and steal the hex from the normal sd card and put it on the 1 you're trying to format
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Are you trying to format it or delete specific files. If you want to format it find a hex editor, put a normal sd card and steal the hex from the normal sd card and put it on the 1 you're trying to format
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Hi, trying to either remove protected content or format it, which ever way possible.
define steal? just downloaded freeware hex editer xvi32. not sure how to operate it though.
how do i steal the hex from another sd card?
I can't reproduce the problem so I'm unable to find the solution again. Sorry. That and I've also lost the 16gb micro SD card that had that problem. I'm using a 32gb now.
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called samsung and they'll do a warranty exchange on it. problem solved
not sure how the micro sd locked up but it did, strange things happen i guess. i even tried multiple sd adapters and devices and still got the same error.
thanks everyone for their feedback.
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so i keep deleting files from my sd card but they keep coming back.
i've pulled it out and plugged it to my laptop and it says files are protected? didn't know micro sd cards can be protected ( no physical switch on the side) nor did i find anything underneath properties tab.
i went as far as formatting it while mounted, all files delete but when i restart the phone, they all come back.
i like to know how i can make this go away, kindly advise. thanks.
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same thing happened to me!!
I even tried to repartition the card with a memory adapter and minitool partition!
I made several partition ... but again.. when I restart it... files are there again!
it happen to me too, im an IT eng. I already google bout this issue n most of them end up saying the memory card is corrupt... strange thing is ..i try every software (including HDD regeneration) n found no bad sector. I try format using many app, easus, AOMEI n stuff ..not working ..try to convert from Fat32 to NTFS also not working ..LOW level format from command prompt same thing... the issue is driving me mad ... replace microsd card is not answer.
just flashed paranoid android 12, while i was doing that i made a backup of my old rom in CWM and it never ended up showing up on my SD card, after flashing my rom i opened up my SD card on my laptop and it seems to be that alot of memory is going to no where.. i highlighted everything in the folder and it says its all about 350mb and all my music is about 300mb. Before i open up the SD card it says that theres 500mb out of 1.8gb free. 1.8gb - 300mb = 1.5gb. Is it the backup that i cant see thats taking up all the memory? if so how would i make it show up? or is it something else?
That is weird normally you should be able to see your backup as a folder. Mine is set under sdcard/clockwordmod/backup and the backup I got is 581mb and is very visible both to es file explorer and to my desktop pc. Something maybe up with your sdcard. I've had invisible files on a knock off 16gb MS Pro that I ordered from china. Fixed it by formatting the memory card a few times with the PC though.
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That is weird normally you should be able to see your backup as a folder. Mine is set under sdcard/clockwordmod/backup and the backup I got is 581mb and is very visible both to es file explorer and to my desktop pc. Something maybe up with your sdcard. I've had invisible files on a knock off 16gb MS Pro that I ordered from china. Fixed it by formatting the memory card a few times with the PC though.
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So if I just copied everything in there into another folder formatted it put it back in it should appear? And do you back up with cwm?
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I do use cmw to backup. Also yes, I'm theroy as long as ur sdcard is not totally screwed over by bad blocks or something of that matter.
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I do use cmw to backup. Also yes, I'm theroy as long as ur sdcard is not totally screwed over by bad blocks or something of that matter.
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So you boot into cwm>click back up and restore>backup right? And alright I'll try it out thanks
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how did you install CWM? with NVFlash? there are different versions that support different SD cards (one internal only, the other external)
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how did you install CWM? with NVFlash? there are different versions that support different SD cards (one internal only, the other external)
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I did use nvflash and it worked before just this time idk what happend when I open rom manager and click rename it shows up there
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This is the second time that this has happened. I lost all my video and photo files from my xoom and SD card. Im not sure why. Does anyone know how to get these files back?
Also i noticed that in both times that this happened my SD card had begin to duplicate my files as well. Soon after every folder on my sd card was duplicated 4x all my files was deleted. Now is there anyway to re-acquire these files? PLEASE HELP.
No way that I know of to get them back on the internal, but there are a couple apps that support the external SD. There is no way to recover internal storage because it is a fuse filesystem and nothing supports recovery from it, not even PC applications because it's not mountable as UMS.
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No way that I know of to get them back on the internal, but there are a couple apps that support the external SD. There is no way to recover internal storage because it is a fuse filesystem and nothing supports recovery from it, not even PC applications because it's not mountable as UMS.
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Can you recommend an app that worked for you or that you know work for sure?
Never used an android app. But I have successfully used R-Studio which is approximately $80 retail, but works wonders.
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