The problem is related to the phone that Hisiki G2 Smartphone:
MTK6577 phone (not rooted)
running Android 4.1.1
The issue is that after config Setting->Storage->(DEFAULT WRITE DISK)SD Card. New apps downloaded from playstore (tried many) still install to the internal storage. I have a 16GB sd card formated by phone that is empty and no app is willing to install on to it. I also do not get the [Move to SD card] button when I look into Setting->Apps.
I also tried to used the adb command:
adb shell pm set-install-location 2
the command ran and with correct result when calling get-install-location. Yet, app still install to internal memory instead with no way to move to SD card.
Just wondering if someone may have experience on such issue.
Same problem for me. My device is micromax canvas 2.2 a114 mt6582. All new apps are getting installed on phone storage and not external sd card even after selecting default write disc as ext sdcard
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Hi,
I have a weird problem that only happened days after I installed App2SD. I used GOT Open Recovery to format my SDcard and installed App2SD, but not knowing which version to install, i installed both the normal one and the symlink one.
I proceed to install all my apps and such and everything is into the SD card. Then just today, I found that my apps cannot access the SD card. Such as the camera, even titanium reports that no card is mounted. Under settings>SD card, there used to be a value but now its shown unavailable. But if I used astro, i can access the sdcard and launch stuff from it with no problems.
I can even connect my phone to my PC and see the SD card contents using SD Share.
I tried to reinstall App2SD using the GOT Open Recovery, but unable to. It'll hang there. for both versions, with and without symlink.
May I know what is happening or what can I do to enable my phone to see my card? Can I issue commands using terminal on my phone? If so, may I know what commands?
hello, noob here
i installed jelly bean on my ZTE V970 by following instructions on this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1856578
problem i have got is after apply the disable_internal_sdcard.zip update I cannot get into the phones internal storage, CWM recovery gives me an error mesage: Failed to mount /sd card.
phone works fine, installed a couple of apps, not too sure where they are installed as I dont have a seperate sd card in the phone yet, but when i try to take a photo through camera it says " no sd card"
hope someone out there has a solution. thanks
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Anyone???
you have disabled the internal sdcard
why did you do that if you dont have external sdcard ?
the problem with me is i have external card and after disabling the internal it still shows me on camera no sd card
the phone is useless to me in this condition
still searching for an answer but noone gives me the right answer
Hello,
I have SanDisk 8GB microsd card Class 2. My phone is Samsung Galaxy Core 2 (SM-G355).
My phone total storage is 4gb out of which 1.82 gb is used for phone and others for apps and my own files.
Currently my microsd is only 8gb drive in my phone ( only 1 partition now )
I want to install asphalt 8, modern combat 5, gta sa ( total about 4 or 5 GB). My sd card have 8 gb space so i want to install my apps in my sd card and not in my little phone memory. I am unable to do it myself and it is no use of sd card with 7.4 GB free of my sd card, i want it for apps.
I do not have a sd card reader for my pc so is there anyway i can do it via phone using twrp or cwm or link2d (free) ?
I have put some pics which tell about my phone and sd card in attachment (please see)
Thanks,
Pr0Ankit
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Pr0Ankit said:
Hello,
I have SanDisk 8GB microsd card Class 2. My phone is Samsung Galaxy Core 2 (SM-G355).
My phone total storage is 4gb out of which 1.82 gb is used for phone and others for apps and my own files.
Currently my microsd is only 8gb drive in my phone ( only 1 partition now )
I want to install asphalt 8, modern combat 5, gta sa ( total about 4 or 5 GB). My sd card have 8 gb space so i want to install my apps in my sd card and not in my little phone memory. I am unable to do it myself and it is no use of sd card with 7.4 GB free of my sd card, i want it for apps.
I do not have a sd card reader for my pc so is there anyway i can do it via phone using twrp or cwm or link2d (free) ?
I have put some pics which tell about my phone and sd card in attachment (please see)
Thanks,
Pr0Ankit
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The best way is to do it in phone app manager.
You can move apps from downloaded section not allready on your SDCard ( internal ) to external (extSDCard).
Click on the app and use the enabled Move to the SdCard option button.
The second way is to use ADB shell command adb shell pm set-install-location 2.
Code:
pm get-install-location: returns the current install location.
0 [auto]: Let system decide the best location
1 [internal]: Install on internal device storage
2 [external]: Install on external media
pm set-install-location: changes the default install location.
NOTE: this is only intended for debugging; using this can cause
applications to break and other undersireable behavior.
0 [auto]: Let system decide the best location
1 [internal]: Install on internal device storage
2 [external]: Install on external media
Regards
Thank you Stratos for you help but actually when i move app from appmanager it moves only 36 mb out of 1.5 GB and the remaining 1 gb obb files are on my internal memory. I do not want to move them, I want to directly install them ONLY on sdcard and the google play / google chrome should not download anything to internal memory. I want my external sdcard to act as my internal memory. Is there any way I can fool my phone ?
Pr0Ankit said:
Thank you Stratos for you help but actually when i move app from appmanager it moves only 36 mb out of 1.5 GB and the remaining 1 gb obb files are on my internal memory. I do not want to move them, I want to directly install them ONLY on sdcard and the google play / google chrome should not download anything to internal memory. I want my external sdcard to act as my internal memory. Is there any way I can fool my phone ?
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Try second options, If U don't know how to do it right, just ask or search xda/google.
Or swap internal with external :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-core/general/mod-t3070988
StratOS_HTC said:
Try second options, If U don't know how to do it right, just ask or search xda/google.
Or swap internal with external :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-core/general/mod-t3070988
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Hi Again,
Thanks for your help. The second option which you provided worked for me to move my apps to sd card and play games but in that case i have to install my apps first in internal memory and then move it to external sd card using GL To SD and i have to mount it everytime i restart phone. I can play games now and install more apps but is there anyway i can install directly say 3gb or 4gb on external without moving ?
Thanks,
Pr0Ankit
Pr0Ankit said:
Hi Again,
Thanks for your help. The second option which you provided worked for me to move my apps to sd card and play games but in that case i have to install my apps first in internal memory and then move it to external sd card using GL To SD and i have to mount it everytime i restart phone. I can play games now and install more apps but is there anyway i can install directly say 3gb or 4gb on external without moving ?
Thanks,
Pr0Ankit
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Uninstall games.
Use adb/terminal emulator :
pm set-install-location 2
All the instalation will be made from now on external card. Default is 0 (auto)
install game.
As told u can always swap location with @Y300-0100 init.d script if U want from previous post.
The set location does not works. Even when i do it using adb tool and it shows my current install location as external when i install N.O.V.A.3 it says insufficient storage space available ?
:/
Please help me. I do not want to go in much detail about swapping memories cuz it might result in corrupting my sd card/ phone memory or I would end up bricking / bootlooping my phone. Furthermore the link you gave me says that I need a kernel with init.d support . I dont know if i have the kernel with init.d support or not. And I installed Busybox from google play store and not from a script. Will it work ?
Thanks.
Hell everyone I'm not a tech but just an Android user with a broblem. OK, I own an ainol numy 3g Chinese version. It came with 1gb ROM, 4gb Ram storage space, I also install a 16 gb SD card in there. My problem is that, every thing I down load apps or data it goes to a 1 GB internal memory storage. And the 4gig storage is there untouched and the phone doesn't give you an option as to where to choos to store your data.
However the sd card was being recognised but the system was not automatically using it. I had to manually coppy data to it. All of a sudden the system unmounted the sdcard. It would no longer see the SD card.
So I decide to root the phone and install Root explore to check if I can detect the sauce of the problem.
First thing was I try to write to vold.fstab and Rexp reported that the system is not mounted. Same thing for the 4gig storage and the sd card. So I downloaded adb tool.
When I try to check for my system adb reported that the system is un available. Go back to root explorer it reported that my USB is not mounted. Can any one help me to solve this problem. Thanks in advance.
Already answered here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/general/xda-assist/unmount-t3444826
Thread closed.
Hi, all! I've been trying to figure out how to simultaneously use 2 SD cards on an Android device.
The device itself is FiiO M11 running Android 7 (non-rooted).
There are 2 SD cards used in the device and they are mounted as internal storage.
What's been established/discovered so far via ADB connection (I have attached the relevant screenshots):
both cards are successfully mounted on the system (on /mnt/expand/...) [screen1]
one of them is mounted by the system to /storage/emulated and can be accessed/written to by the apps on the device
it's possible to see the root contents of the 2nd SD card [screen2], but when trying to read 'media' folder (where I would assume the files are supposed to be stored) via ADB, I get 'Permission denied' error
So the main questions I have:
how to access/write to the 'media' folder on 2nd SD card via apps?
would a bind mount of 'media' to a location inside /storage/emulated solve the issue (access+permissions) and if yes, how to create it?
is there an Android app that can manage this or can it be done via ADB?
I'm aware that rooting might help solving the permission "ailments", but preferably I'd like to achieve this without rooting the device.
I might be developing PTSD from the way Android's been handling external storage and permissions over the years, so thanks in advance for any advice/help.
How'd you get the second SD card mounted? I'm running an RFinder B1+ (14) which has an emulated SD card and two SD card slots. What I've read is that since Honeycomb or so there's been a way to have apps scan a second physical SD card but they couldn't write to it.
I suspect Runbo or RFinder is going to use this to put stuff related to the RF module on that second SD card like DMR ID database, ROM updates, etc.
My second SD card needs wiped/restored but with it in the TF2 slot it doesn't show up at all. I'd like to use it for copying and backing up SD cards from the device itself.