OK I've got a bit of a problem here. I have a d2vzw running CM 10.1.3 and run all of my music off of a 64gb sd card formatted for FAT32. It's becoming almost a daily occurrence that for whatever reason, Apollo (or any other music app) fails to immediately recognize that there is music stored on the card. The time it takes for the list to populate ranges from 5 minutes to never, and occasionally includes tagging multiple songs as "Unknown." I've never been able to produce a LOGCAT for this either. Plugging the phone into my computer however, will show all files present in explorer. I'm really starting to get sick of this as I bought the S3 to solve the problem of having to carry both an iPod and a smart phone. Any one know any potential reasons?
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OK I've got a bit of a problem here. I have a d2vzw running CM 10.1.3 and run all of my music off of a 64gb sd card formatted for FAT32. It's becoming almost a daily occurrence that for whatever reason, Apollo (or any other music app) fails to immediately recognize that there is music stored on the card. The time it takes for the list to populate ranges from 5 minutes to never, and occasionally includes tagging multiple songs as "Unknown." I've never been able to produce a LOGCAT for this either. Plugging the phone into my computer however, will show all files present in explorer. I'm really starting to get sick of this as I bought the S3 to solve the problem of having to carry both an iPod and a smart phone. Any one know any potential reasons?
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I can say that I've used 10.1.2 without any issues. I stopped using Apollo a while ago and switched over to PowerAmp which allows you to choose "select" folders that the player will ONLY scan. This prevents ringtones, downloaded voicemails, etc, from appearing in your library.
Yes poweramp is the way to go... Love it..
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Power amp and player pro both allow you to select certain folders, I like the later as its a little less cluttered than power amp in my decision
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It could be any number of things. First try another music player, if that doesn't work flash a touchwiz ROM. If that doesn't work either then it either has to be your phone or your card. This happened to me like a month ago in my case it was the phone.
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Are you using the sandisk 64gb card? If so that might be the problem. My sandisk card lasted about 8 months before becoming locked (couldn't format, copy or remove files anymore). Within that 8 months my card would randomly become unreadable and would have to be reformatted. The 64gb sd card from samsung has been working great for me. The amazon page for the sandisk card says this "Reformat into file system other than exFAT may cause instability". Anyways you might just have to get another sd card.
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Hi all. Let me first say that I love my Blaze. My last phone was the Galaxy S Vibrant I. This phone is quite a bit faster, and I like that it has a flash and front facing camera. The first thing I did was root it, install Titanium Backup and used it to delete the bloatware apps that came pre-installed. One thing I was a bit disappointed in however is the lack of memory.
I know someone else asked this earlier, but I never saw an answer. The phone has its own built-in memory, and an internal usb memory, along with the external sd card. When you want to move an app to the sd card, it puts it on the internal usb card. I haven't found a way (or an app) that will let you move them to the external card. This is an issue since the Blaze comes with a lot less memory than my old Vibrant. For anyone who likes to install games, 1 or 2 games will max out the memory. I chatted with a Samsung rep online and they were clueless. It upsets me a bit that this phone is 2 yrs older than my Vibrant and has so much less internal memory.
Forgive me if I'm wrong but couldn't you just use Root Browser to move the apps? The path to it, I believe is sdcard/external_sd
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And all the apps are in system/app folder.
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So you can just move the apk file manually to the external sd card and it will still work? Its not like a computer where the shortcut will be looking for it in a particular place?
I asked earlier about sending apps to the external sd card.
I am not sure if you can do it with Es or another took, but I dragged and dropped when mounted to a PC. I am now seeing widgets and shortcuts disappear, for apps I didn't even move.
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Widgets installed on SD cards don't work properly, or at all in my experience. It's an android limitation of sorts. I think it's intentional, some sort of side effect with the idiosyncracies (however that is spelled) with what happens to an app if it's running on the sd card and you eject it from the phone or mount it to the computer.
One example of this that I'm familiar with is poweramp. It can be installed to the sd card, but the guy made a widget addon that stays on the phone specifically because if it's loaded on the sd card the widget doesn't work.
And yes, I'm aware that you said it was even for apps that you didn't move.......I'm taking a guess that whatever widget your'e talking about is not actually an app you moved on the sd card, but is RELATED to it, in some way.
Or maybe it's just a case of craziness happening, and it's an achilles heel the phone has.
If that's the case......sigh, I swear my next phone better be straight out of a science fiction movie or I will just be an angry person.
I don't understand why Samsung would make this phone with two internal memory storage devices instead of just one. Whats the use of being able to use a large external card if you can't move apps over to it. The two internal ones are small. They could have just been combined into a bigger one.
Is it normal for some apps on the sd to sometimes not load when disconnecting from the computer or rebooting the phone?
This might help. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1410262
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I wanted to move the offline music storage to my 16gb class 10 microsd card I've inserted, as I have quite a lot of music I save for offline to conserve data usage while out biking. Is there any way to do this? I already saw slim chances while the internet is filled with complaints of no move to sd for apps with my phone.
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Chilinmichael said:
I wanted to move the offline music storage to my 16gb class 10 microsd card I've inserted, as I have quite a lot of music I save for offline to conserve data usage while out biking. Is there any way to do this? I already saw slim chances while the internet is filled with complaints of no move to sd for apps with my phone.
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Cant move the app. Not sure about spotify but the stock music app and google music see my music on external card. Just make a folder labeled Music on sd card and move into that folder. Phone will scan both internal and external for media. From what I see would have to move music from Spotify to music folder and use a different player.
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I wanted to move the offline music storage to my 16gb class 10 microsd card I've inserted, as I have quite a lot of music I save for offline to conserve data usage while out biking. Is there any way to do this? I already saw slim chances while the internet is filled with complaints of no move to sd for apps with my phone.
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Ask on the spotify forums. I've made this request multiple times to them but I think it might help me if more people requested the feature.
I agree with you. ROM flashing would be infinitely easier if I didn't have to consider my spotify playlists. With no 4g and no WiFi, downloading my extisive playlists is a royal pain in the ass. If I could store the offline music on an SD card... well... easy peasy.
I've experimented with copying the DRM protected folder before a system wipe, then moving that folder back after with limited success but its still a pain in my ass.
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TheDiabolicaL1 said:
Ask on the spotify forums. I've made this request multiple times to them but I think it might help me if more people requested the feature.
I agree with you. ROM flashing would be infinitely easier if I didn't have to consider my spotify playlists. With no 4g and no WiFi, downloading my extisive playlists is a royal pain in the ass. If I could store the offline music on an SD card... well... easy peasy.
I've experimented with copying the DRM protected folder before a system wipe, then moving that folder back after with limited success but its still a pain in my ass.
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Can't help with DMR protected music. Have 25gb bootleg on mine. :laugh:
Could you make use of the symlink mod to achieve this? I know you can symlink the apps folder onto the sdcard, seems like it would work for this too
I've emailed Spotify the question.
*Their response is that their forums are "littered" with this request and it probably will be added. My request has been forwarded appropriately.
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I don't know what caused it.. any thoughts? Has this happened to you? Two nights ago, I recorded a 3.5GB 720p video using my phone, after that, I had issues using the camera app / gallery / ES file manager.. Also my battery life started to tank (later discovered it was the 'media' process constantly at 30% cpu), plus lots of random resets. So I *safely removed* my SD card, my phone went back to normal. If it was broken before I had taken that video, I don't think the camera app would have worked.. stock camera app buffer overflow ? Even the dates of some of those files are way wrong, some were even in future 2017 (hey look I invented time travel).
BACKUP YOUR STUFF NOW! I have instant dropbox backup of pictures, and it managed to backup a picture just moments before the video, and fortunately, the video was also ok (it didn't finish backup yet)... But tons of my existing pictures were trashed. Fortunately nothing outside of DCIM was broken.. but it could happen to you!!!
Hopefully this is not possible to the internal storage, would suck to lose files. Even stuff that is backed up, still a PITA.
User error. Don't remove sd card in that manner.
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User error. Don't remove sd card in that manner.
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Oh, i didn't word that very well. I unmounted and safely removed the card from my Phone at that point, but it was too late. The corrupt files were preventing apps from reading the DCIM folder.
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Oh, i didn't word that very well. I unmounted and safely removed the card from my Phone at that point, but it was too late. The corrupt files were preventing apps from reading the DCIM folder.
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that doesnt seem possible to me though, could be an issue with the rom not reading the card or he card itself sucks
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that doesnt seem possible to me though, could be an issue with the rom not reading the card or he card itself sucks
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Hmm... It is a lexar 32GB class 6 card. For digital cameras I normally use Patriot LX class 10's, but this was on sale... Perhaps your on to something.
Something I just thought, is perhaps the 'media' process choked on the 3.5GB file, started using tons of CPU and me opening the gallery app caused one of the reboots (while the SD card was still buffering), and that is what caused the SD card to corrupt?
There is some discussion here with similar 'media' process hanging on corrupted files: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1922230
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for some reason my p3110 has stopped seeing photos and mp3s on the physical sd card...
can browse to the directory of mp3s and play them and quickpic sees photos fine(just not stck app)... If I move mp3s to internal tabs sees them just for some damned reason not on sdcard!!!
Have reformated the card and tried another card and still no joy...
on stock rom rooted and modified with agni kernel...
worked fine till yesterday.
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As the title says...
for some reason my p3110 has stopped seeing photos and mp3s on the physical sd card...
can browse to the directory of mp3s and play them and quickpic sees photos fine(just not stck app)... If I move mp3s to internal tabs sees them just for some damned reason not on sdcard!!!
Have reformated the card and tried another card and still no joy...
on stock rom rooted and modified with agni kernel...
worked fine till yesterday.
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About 6 months after I bought mine GT-P3113, it stopped reading the SD card (PNY) for no apparent reason, not just photos or music, any files. I could still read the card on my PC (Windows Vista). I backed up the files and reformatted the SD card (32 GB). The Tab 2.0 would not read that card even after reformatting. I copied the files to a new disk (Sandisk), and haven't had problems in over two years. I never modified the Stock ROM however. I recall reading complaints of spontaneous SD cards problems with Samsung products. My wife has a Galaxy Tab 3, and I have had a Galaxy S3 phone for around 2 years without any SD card problems. What I did learn from the experience was to back up the Tablet/Phone periodically. I do so about every month.
The only thing I can think of for the music and photos problem is that the apps need to "refresh" somehow.
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About 6 months after I bought mine GT-P3113, it stopped reading the SD card (PNY) for no apparent reason, not just photos or music, any files. I could still read the card on my PC (Windows Vista). I backed up the files and reformatted the SD card (32 GB). The Tab 2.0 would not read that card even after reformatting. I copied the files to a new disk (Sandisk), and haven't had problems in over two years. I never modified the Stock ROM however. I recall reading complaints of spontaneous SD cards problems with Samsung products. My wife has a Galaxy Tab 3, and I have had a Galaxy S3 phone for around 2 years without any SD card problems. What I did learn from the experience was to back up the Tablet/Phone periodically. I do so about every month.
The only thing I can think of for the music and photos problem is that the apps need to "refresh" somehow.
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I ALWAYS do back ups..All of my devices auto back up twice a week..
I agree with the refresh issue... But seem's no way to do it...Tried a few appsa on market but none work.
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I ALWAYS do back ups..All of my devices auto back up twice a week..
I agree with the refresh issue... But seem's no way to do it...Tried a few appsa on market but none work.
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I found this solution. Practical if it is discovering a new directory, not if you need to do it for every new file.
How to refresh the gallery in Android
Posted on December 22, 2012
I was facing a problem on my Samsung Galaxy S2 where the gallery was not showing the photos that were present in a certain folder. While trying to share some pics on Whatsapp I realized if Gallery cannot see them, you cannot share them. Well now I had to figure out what can be done.
While searching the net I found out the following steps to work properly for me.
Go to settings – apps – gallery
Clear cache, clear data, force close
Go to settings – apps – media storage
Clear cache, clear data, force close
Hard reset (cold boot) this will not delete any data
Next time you open Gallery it may not contain anything, but give it a minute while the system is still scanning the device & you will find that only the folders you want to be visible, are visible.
This has been quoted directly from this site
Props to janner43 for his solution / trick.
If you are not comfortable (or do not understand the steps) you might want to consult someone who knows more about Android or the reseller from whom you got your phone. I am not responsible in anyway if your device starts acting weird. Use at your own risk.
I have had problems with photos too. I discovered that if I create new folders on the sdcard and copy the photos into the new folders I can see them. I know that it seems too easy but it has worked for me several times.
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I have had problems with photos too. I discovered that if I create new folders on the sdcard and copy the photos into the new folders I can see them. I know that it seems too easy but it has worked for me several times.
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yeah I knew that trick but for some stupid reason that nolonger works lol
It may sound like a silly question, but where I can enable write permissions for SD card to some applications? I'm not able to delete photos from the Camera app, Google Photo, and Open Camera?
There is no possibility to save Apps on the Card, at least I have the same issue.
After choosing "Memory" from any given App, I have no button which says "Change", even if that is mentioned in the official Manual from HTC. I wrote HTC, if this is a wanted behavior, a common bug, or something individual. As I wrote them yesterday, they haven't answered yet.
Has anyone else this issue?
My Specs: Oreo 8.0.0 Patch Level November 2017, European Version (Bob/Austria)
SD Card is a SanDisk Extreme 64GB UHS 3, so that shouldn't pose a problem either.
Even AppMgr III says, there would be Apps which I could transfer over my SD-Card, but not possible, as there is no "Change" button available in the Memory Section from Apps. I tried preinstalled, new ones, nothing worked.
Had the same problem until I formatted the SD card (using the storage settings menu). Now it's working as expected.
I put the SD card from my old phone (Marshmallow) right into the U11 Life - maybe the old DCIM folder was reused and had some weird access permissions or something
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Had the same problem until I formatted the SD card (using the storage settings menu). Now it's working as expected.
I put the SD card from my old phone (Marshmallow) right into the U11 Life - maybe the reused old DCIM folder had some weird access permissions or something
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Thanks, although my card was in my Vernee Apollo before and it didn't work with, or without formatting.
Had Marshmallow on Apollo as well.
Have meanwhile tried a different card as well.
W/o formatting as well as with. No difference.
According to that and the fact that HTC is not responding on Mail or Live-Chat, I'm thinking of setting back my U11 life to factory settings.
In all Manuals that I could find, it is never being mentioned, that using Sd-Cards as an extended internal memory should oppose any problem, but I still don't have a "Change" Button in the Memory Settings from any given app.
It's annoying, as my free internal memory gets smaller and smaller each day.
I didn't get a new phone to have problems that are pre-marshmellow.
I am aware it is a new phone and not all occuring problems have been solved, but if one doesn't even get suppot from the supplier, it is even more annoying
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Thanks, although my card was in my Vernee Apollo before and it didn't work with, or without formatting.
Had Marshmallow on Apollo as well.
Have meanwhile tried a different card as well.
W/o formatting as well as with. No difference.
According to that and the fact that HTC is not responding on Mail or Live-Chat, I'm thinking of setting back my U11 life to factory settings.
In all Manuals that I could find, it is never being mentioned, that using Sd-Cards as an extended internal memory should oppose any problem, but I still don't have a "Change" Button in the Memory Settings from any given app.
It's annoying, as my free internal memory gets smaller and smaller each day.
I didn't get a new phone to have problems that are pre-marshmellow.
I am aware it is a new phone and not all occuring problems have been solved, but if one doesn't even get suppot from the supplier, it is even more annoying
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Made a reset of the Phone and installed all the Apps but still no possibility to transfer Apps. HTC won't answer either. Their support sucks.
Not answering to Live Chat nor Mails.
Have no clue, how to go on. Space on the card will not be sufficient after a while.
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Made a reset of the Phone and installed all the Apps but still no possibility to transfer Apps. HTC won't answer either. Their support sucks.
Not answering to Live Chat nor Mails.
Have no clue, how to go on. Space on the card will not be sufficient after a while.
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Finally got an answer from HTC.
With the HTC U11 Life it is NOT possible to install Apps on the external SD Card.
This seems due to the Android One Conception, at least I'd think so, because Pixel Phones don't support SD Card either.
If it will be changed for App storing in later OTAs they couldn't say anything.
Took them more than 3 weeks to answer a Ticket.
The hotline though was kinda quick, which I wouldn't have expected.
They had a system issue, which caused the Ticket delay, at least the Lady on the Phone said so.
No mentioning about that in the answered ticket.
This fact really sucks, with the 32GB Version.
Is not full yet and with the Stock Cam App one can automatically save Pics on the SD, at least something.
I'll handle it, as I'm not installing tons of huge games and even Spotify can choose the Card as the space for downloaded Songs.
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