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All right, so i recently purchased a wi-fi only xoom from a friend of mine and i'm having a bit of trouble getting it to read my microsd card properly. He had rooted the device previously and immediately lost microsd support.
I recently flashed Team Tiamat Xoom Rom 2.2.1 - Moray and figured that would fix the problem. Of course, it didn't. So I downloaded Androzip and through a bit of digging have come to the conclusion that my microsd card (according to androzip) is not my sd card at all. It is, in fact a folder named "sdcard" within the Xoom's internal memory. According to this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1254933 my sd card should be in mnt/external1
Only problem is it isn't showing up.
When i go into settings/storage it shows my 8 gig card, i just can't seem to do anything with it. Any advice would be very much appreciated.
killjohnnydead said:
All right, so i recently purchased a wi-fi only xoom from a friend of mine and i'm having a bit of trouble getting it to read my microsd card properly. He had rooted the device previously and immediately lost microsd support.
I recently flashed Team Tiamat Xoom Rom 2.2.1 - Moray and figured that would fix the problem. Of course, it didn't. So I downloaded Androzip and through a bit of digging have come to the conclusion that my microsd card (according to androzip) is not my sd card at all. It is, in fact a folder named "sdcard" within the Xoom's internal memory. According to this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1254933 my sd card should be in mnt/external1
Only problem is it isn't showing up.
When i go into settings/storage it shows my 8 gig card, i just can't seem to do anything with it. Any advice would be very much appreciated.
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Yes, tablets generally use non-removable flash memory for internal storage (hence your internal "sdcard") and additionally, the Xoom has a slot for up to a 32GB external micro sdcard, which should be found (if installed) at mnt/external1, on the same directory level as sdcard.
If you are rooted you should have the ability, through a root app like Root Explorer, to navigate right to mnt/external1. You can mount R/W access and write to the micro sdcard. If you have installed a custom rom/kernel that supports usb host mode, you can also use a usbOTG cable with an app like Drive Mount or USB OTG Watcher and access a thumb drive or a large HDD.
I really appreciate the response.
Root Explorer is the only one of those suggestions that I'm familiar with...could you possibly link me to a guide or maybe give, me an idea of how to get that accomplished?
I assume you are still trying to gain access to your micro sdcard (we can get to usb host mode later).
If you have downloaded Root Explorer, open it and it should say that superuser granted root permission, then you want to navigate to the root directory, find mnt, find external1 and you should find your files there. In the top left corner of the screen you should see "Mounted as r/o and Mount R/W" and you can choose the latter and then you should be able to copy and paste to and from your micro sdcard.
That's fantastic.
Thank you very much, I really appreciate your help.
killjohnnydead said:
That's fantastic.
Thank you very much, I really appreciate your help.
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Anytime, I'm happy to help.
I figured this was kind of up the same alley that my co worker is experiencing. He recently got his xoom back from motorola and I got some information from him that might be helpful to my situation.
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The xoom is not showing any external sd card, he is using astro file manager. He is not rooting the unit, he is going to keep it pretty much factory fresh, as he wants to use it's tools for display and selling. so I'm attempting to give him as much help as I can.
I'd like to give my buddy some good info to help him out, I think he's gonna have to, and probably should just call verizon and explain his problem, but I hope I might be able to help him out. Thanks and if any other information is needed, please ask, I can get it for assistance.
Bam-Bamm said:
I figured this was kind of up the same alley that my co worker is experiencing. He recently got his xoom back from motorola and I got some information from him that might be helpful to my situation.
cdma_n_03.1a.5p ltedc_u_05.19.00
android 3.2.2
build: hlk75d
The xoom is not showing any external sd card, he is using astro file manager. He is not rooting the unit, he is going to keep it pretty much factory fresh, as he wants to use it's tools for display and selling. so I'm attempting to give him as much help as I can.
I'd like to give my buddy some good info to help him out, I think he's gonna have to, and probably should just call verizon and explain his problem, but I hope I might be able to help him out. Thanks and if any other information is needed, please ask, I can get it for assistance.
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Since I don't have a stock, unrooted 4G upgraded Xoom to play with it's a bit hard to give guidance on this. I can only say that with the HC3.2 update, external sdcard support came to the stock OS, so it should be there at mnt/external1 (I think) and this should be on the same directory level as the internal sdcard (internal storage with all the app, etc). If he's not rooted, he won't be able to use apps that have root permissions, which will limit how deep into the file system he can go. But the micro sdcard should be there.
Maybe his best bet is to try to talk to support at Verizon...see what they say.I'm curious to know....
Thanks for the reply. i believe he is here in the office now and Ill have him check and reply shortly.
Bam-Bamm said:
Thanks for the reply. i believe he is here in the office now and Ill have him check and reply shortly.
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Try installing "Disk Usage" from the market. It will list the current storage devices on your tablet. That's how I found where my sdcard was mounted.
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The disk usage app worked. Picked it right up. Thanks button pressed. Have a happy Monday.
New user also
Had xoom for a month. NOT ROOTED! Actually don't know how to do it or what the benefits are! I need to be able to access my flash drives & external hard drives. Drive mount states that I must be rooted! Is there anything out there I can use that doesn't require my to be rooted? Using Honeycomb 3.2.
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Had xoom for a month. NOT ROOTED! Actually don't know how to do it or what the benefits are! I need to be able to access my flash drives & external hard drives. Drive mount states that I must be rooted! Is there anything out there I can use that doesn't require my to be rooted? Using Honeycomb 3.2.
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No, sorry.
Hello, i just purchased a xoom from a friend ,i am new to the tablet , and i know its been out for over a year now.
from what ive been reading on its release day the external micro SD slot wasnt working, then it got fix in time .
my xoom is Rooted running the folowing,
CynogenMOD V.9 -NAPSHOT- wingray
which i believe is the latest ROM of its kind .
somehow i still cant get the SD slot to work or appear using a file manager app.
Can anyone help please ?
much appreciate it
Have you tried unmounting and remounting the sd card a couple times through settings>storage? Are you sure the sd card is formatted? I have had trouble with astro file manager recognizing ext sd card, well actually it never has, so i just usedsdcardxd if I need to move something to and from.
Draxin said:
Have you tried unmounting and remounting the sd card a couple times through settings>storage? Are you sure the sd card is formatted? I have had trouble with astro file manager recognizing ext sd card, well actually it never has, so i just usedsdcardxd if I need to move something to and from.
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well the same SD card i put in there i also would use on my phone (Galaxy Note) and all my movies and music shows up perfectly, so i doubt it has to do with formating it . ?? idk ..?
also when i go to Setting>Storage what i see is
Internal Storage total space(28GB) then the break down on how its being distributed and SD card with its total space (14GB) with 5GB available , which idk what that is if i really dont have anything inserted there..and it gives me the option to unmount ..
am i looking at all this wrong ? my music wont show on Play Music*
i'll try another file manager and see what happens .
I would try unmounting it and remounting through settings storage, maybe reboot it and first thing you do is that.... when I first rooted and rommed my xoom, I had a couple goofy things like that happen with reading my sd card( I am on EOS), even had it show that I had four copies of the same song every song, which I didn't, persistently unmounting remounting, and rebooting seemed to fix it, and haven't had issues since... as for file managers, if you find one that looks at your external sd card, let me know, I haven't found any yet, but havent looked that hard... again I just use sdcardxd
after putting in the memory card, its a good idea to reboot. It should show up.
Draxin said:
I would try unmounting it and remounting through settings storage, maybe reboot it and first thing you do is that.... when I first rooted and rommed my xoom, I had a couple goofy things like that happen with reading my sd card( I am on EOS), even had it show that I had four copies of the same song every song, which I didn't, persistently unmounting remounting, and rebooting seemed to fix it, and haven't had issues since... as for file managers, if you find one that looks at your external sd card, let me know, I haven't found any yet, but havent looked that hard... again I just use sdcardxd
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holy crap! it worked !
a simple unmount and mount, just took my frustration away ! freaking weird, i guess im used to where on my phone it simply does a media scan when it know a microSD was inserted .
Play Music naturally recognized all my music now
Dice Player Ad - i simply just changed the directory and found my movies.
you are the man bro ! THANK YOU !
UltimateEnd said:
holy crap! it worked !
a simple unmount and mount, just took my frustration away ! freaking weird, i guess im used to where on my phone it simply does a media scan when it know a microSD was inserted .
Play Music naturally recognized all my music now
Dice Player Ad - i simply just changed the directory and found my movies.
you are the man bro ! THANK YOU !
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No prob man, ... been there, done that, glad it worked!
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as for file managers, if you find one that looks at your external sd card, let me know, I haven't found any yet, but havent looked that hard... again I just use sdcardxd
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I use ES File Explorer and it sees my external card without a problem. You just have to go to the /mnt/ folder and tap external1
Hi everyone,
I just got a TF300T for myself for Christmas, and I love it so far. This is my first time posting about it, and first post on XDA.
I'm trying to figure out where the micro SD card (that you can put in the tablet itself) and the SD card (that you can put in the dock) are located in the file structure. When I use File Manager or Root Explorer Lite, it shows "sdcard" as the internal memory, but I can't figure out where the cards are located. I tried looking at the different options under "storage," but didn't know if that was it or not.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Nate
casualPhoenix said:
Hi everyone,
I just got a TF300T for myself for Christmas, and I love it so far. This is my first time posting about it, and first post on XDA.
I'm trying to figure out where the micro SD card (that you can put in the tablet itself) and the SD card (that you can put in the dock) are located in the file structure. When I use File Manager or Root Explorer Lite, it shows "sdcard" as the internal memory, but I can't figure out where the cards are located. I tried looking at the different options under "storage," but didn't know if that was it or not.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Nate
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they are in /Removable folder.
as this its not the standard android location for sd a lot of apps cant find them - dunno why Asus did this.
Looks like instead of calling it /removable they do call it /storage. Through trial and error I figured this out:
/storage/sdcard0 is the internal storage.
/storage/sdcard1 is the microSD storage in the tablet.
/storage/sdcard2 is the SD storage in the keyboard dock.
Thanks for the reply, you got me thinking and pointed in the right direction!
hey guys,
i have not found anything about my problem here or on google, so im asking and hope its not coverd anywhere else.
i read about changing the default location for camera/fotos and how to get apps to sd. but i want to set the sd card to default for anything. for downloads/music/pics/app related files.
i have 16 gb of internal storage and it fills up with all my music from doubletwist that i sync over airsync. maybe there is a way to get that done for the music alone. that would already help me. but a better solution was to get sd as default for anything.
when i think about my htc, i have all apps on the internal, thats ok. and all other files are atomatically saved to de sd card. i want it like that on my note 10.1
is there any possibility to get that done?
thx in advance guys
go to android development section find 64gb internal storage by zedomax hope this helps i followed this method and now i have 64gb iternal memory
huzi7868 said:
go to android development section find 64gb internal storage by zedomax hope this helps i followed this method and now i have 64gb iternal memory
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hey thx so much. i will give it a try in the next days.
but i noticed something else. when i look at my files from es file explorer, they all seem to be on my sd, but my settings app says they are on the internal storage, but maybe the script will fix that.
Your internal card is the sd as far as es is concerned. Youneed to either hit the star icon in the left corner to go to extsdcard or go to mnt>extsdcard to get to your external sd card...
Ah now I get it... Thing is: it was different on all my other devices... Thx again guys. It was a huge help
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It seems that my SD card is not writable when inserted. Is this true? I tried to create a new folder on it with root explorer (I am not rooted though) and it said that my device needs to be rooted in order to accomplish that task.
Any ideas?
Jonn
Did you try something like es file explorer? I would try that.
That didn't work either. It says "operation failed".
I actually noticed that it wasn't working playing act raiser and it wasn't saving my position. Moving the ROM to internal storage worked. I then tried to create a folder.
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Huh. Just tried a different SD card and that one worked. Weird.
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I spoke too soon. After removing the sdcard that worked and putting it back in, it no longer is writeable.
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It works again if I pull the card out, restart the shield and put the card back in. Perhaps something up with the mounting process?
It appears that once a card is mounted, if it is removed and re-inserted, it remounts as read only.
Jonn
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It looks like sdcard mounting is messed up. I can't get any of the sdcards i have tried to mount.
Did you go into settings and actually click unmount before removing the SD Card? Many linux systems (android is linux) will mount devices which werent safely removed in read only mode for some bizarre reason.
I tried that as well. It still doesn't work.
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jonnberg said:
It seems that my SD card is not writable when inserted. Is this true? I tried to create a new folder on it with root explorer (I am not rooted though) and it said that my device needs to be rooted in order to accomplish that task.
Any ideas?
Jonn
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when you go to storage under settings, under sd card does it show total space for card. if not maybe you have to format it to NTFS first. thats what I had to do with my new card. also said to do so on shield guide
evobunny said:
when you go to storage under settings, under sd card does it show total space for card. if not maybe you have to format it to NTFS first. thats what I had to do with my new card. also said to do so on shield guide
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I did not read the destructions. The destructions have useful information? Where may i find these destructions? I assumed fat32 so that is what my sd is formatted to.
chevyowner said:
I did not read the destructions. The destructions have useful information? Where may i find these destructions? I assumed fat32 so that is what my sd is formatted to.
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sorry i cant post link yet cause im new to forum. but go there, (shield.nvidia.com/user-guide/sd-card) user guide said to format it to NTFS
Would has added this sooner, but I lost my sdcard reader.
Formatting it NTFS worked.
Still wont mount, but now i at least get the option to mount.
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when you go to storage under settings, under sd card does it show total space for card. if not maybe you have to format it to NTFS first. thats what I had to do with my new card. also said to do so on shield guide
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Yes, I formatted it to NTFS before I inserted it. It shows the total space and space available, it just doesn't allow anything to be written to it. I can take it out and put it in a PC and it works correctly. I also have another SD card that I tried and it worked for a few minutes, but I haven't been able to get it to keep working.
Jonn
jonnberg said:
Yes, I formatted it to NTFS before I inserted it. It shows the total space and space available, it just doesn't allow anything to be written to it. I can take it out and put it in a PC and it works correctly. I also have another SD card that I tried and it worked for a few minutes, but I haven't been able to get it to keep working.
Jonn
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sorry I dont know what else to tell you, i first had the same problem like yall when I stuck in a brand new card. nothing I downloaded would go on to card. and it didnt show the amount of space left under the storage menu. Then i found out it need to be formated to NTFS. Once i did that everything started downloaded and showing up on card.
jonnberg said:
Yes, I formatted it to NTFS before I inserted it. It shows the total space and space available, it just doesn't allow anything to be written to it. I can take it out and put it in a PC and it works correctly. I also have another SD card that I tried and it worked for a few minutes, but I haven't been able to get it to keep working.
Jonn
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The only memory card I have gotten working (about 1 minute ago) is 512MB and formatted fat32
The card i want to us is a 16gb microsdhc formatted fat32 when this memory card is in my shield it knows it has a memory card but says it has no partitions on it.
I am running testdisk on the sd card and it found 9 partitoins. I will try and clean that up.
To be honest, I've never tried SD card support on the device. So I can't say one way or another. But I'll be looking at it soon enough since I got my first build of CWM for SHIELD waiting for me to debug in the other room once the kids go to bed.
I just tried two different 8GB class 10 transcend cards, an 8GB class 2 generic card and a 256mb sandisk card. I put each card in and copied a file from internal storage to it. Then I removed each of the cards without unmounting and put them back in and proceeded to copy a file to the card again. Every time it worked successfully. I do not even know what format they are in and didn't format them before testing. And, maybe the issue didn't show up because I didn't give it enough time. I am not sure.
Also, I know this is probably a really dumb question but the micro sd slot is spring loaded. You are pushing it in until you hear a good solid click right?
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Having issues of my own.
Bought a 64gb sandisk SDXC card for shield. It worked 100% fine in my SGS3 formated for exFat. But not in the shield...
It seems to work somewhat when formated for NTFS. But the file path is really messed up and 1/2 my apps cant see the SD card because of this. It something like (root/storage/sdcard1/....)
2 apps that are basically usless right now due to this are Power amp & FPse.
Android doesn't normally support either exFat or NTFS. The shield may include support for them but if I had a shield I would steer clear anyway and go with what android definitely trusts in FAT32.
Hopefully NVidia will do a firmware update to sort these problems though