So I just got my Z3 and a 32gb sd card, and I would really like to have my music collection on my sd card. I found out how you do it but you need a hardware menu key for that.
Do you guys have any idea how I can store my offline tracks on my sd card?
azeller09 said:
So I just got my Z3 and a 32gb sd card, and I would really like to have my music collection on my sd card. I found out how you do it but you need a hardware menu key for that.
Do you guys have any idea how I can store my offline tracks on my sd card?
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First uninstall Spotify from your phone
Then before you reinstall it make your your 32GB card has more free space in it than the internal card. Spotify will automatically create it's offline storage folder on the SD Card with the most space at the time of installation.
That's it. Nothing more complicated than that and it will create this folder on the SD Card even on Kit Kat Android.
Even with a hardware menu key it still wouldn't be possible.
This phone hates SD cards altogether unfortunately. No option to transfer apps to sd card, no way to transfer things using 3rd party apps, and most annoyingly of all, you can't even transfer content to it over USB either, as either the file explorer crashes or Sony's own media go app crashes.
Simply put, the phone does not have permission to access the SD card for anything other than the built in apps, i.e. file explorer.
I had to use one of those sandisk usb to micro usb flash drives just to get my music on there. 2MB/s read/write speeds are NOT fun when it involves 20GB of data.
istrikerx said:
Even with a hardware menu key it still wouldn't be possible.
This phone hates SD cards altogether unfortunately. No option to transfer apps to sd card, no way to transfer things using 3rd party apps, and most annoyingly of all, you can't even transfer content to it over USB either, as either the file explorer crashes or Sony's own media go app crashes.
Simply put, the phone does not have permission to access the SD card for anything other than the built in apps, i.e. file explorer.
I had to use one of those sandisk usb to micro usb flash drives just to get my music on there. 2MB/s read/write speeds are NOT fun when it involves 20GB of data.
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This is just plain incorrect information. See my post above.
I have Spotify, PocketCasts and tTorrent Pro all accessing and writing to my external SD Card on my unrooted Xperia Z3. Once the app being installed creates a folder on the SD Card then it can write to that folder.
Thank you G1032, it worked, I think.
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This is just plain incorrect information. See my post above.
I have Spotify, PocketCasts and tTorrent Pro all accessing and writing to my external SD Card on my unrooted Xperia Z3. Once the app being installed creates a folder on the SD Card then it can write to that folder.
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Could be different for each region then I guess.
As for the stock unbranded UK one I have, it just doesn't allow it at all. Same was true for the previous 2 defective Z3s I've had. The whole thing is botched for me.
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Could be different for each region then I guess.
As for the stock unbranded UK one I have, it just doesn't allow it at all. Same was true for the previous 2 defective Z3s I've had. The whole thing is botched for me.
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What was defective about them? My camera app has started freezing today and the the phone shut down and wouldn't boot up again unti lI plugged the charger in...(there was 73% battery left)
I'm thinking of returning it on Monday.
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What was defective about them? My camera app has started freezing today and the the phone shut down and wouldn't boot up again unti lI plugged the charger in...(there was 73% battery left)
I'm thinking of returning it on Monday.
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The first one had a very poor screen, the bottom half was very bright compared to the top, as if the panel was bent showing more backlight through at the bottom. It also had a broken wifi/bluetooth chip. Wifi signal was unobtainable on my AC router in a location where all my other devices had full reception. Bluetooth dropped out when I put it in my pocket or covered the back of the phone with my hand. On top of all that, the battery drain was ridiculous. On 20% brightness I was struggling to get through the day even with many features and sync disabled.
The replacement had a faulty camera button, so I didnt even bother to go any further with it. The screen was far better in colour and contrast though compared to the first, which was strange. No horrible backlight bleed at the bottom though.
The one I'm using now is almost perfect aside from the top speaker crackling/buzzing. There is small backlight bleed at the bottom, but it isn't bad enough to make the screen uneven like the first.
If the speaker becomes more of an issue, I think I'm just gonna return and stick it out with the Moto G till the Note 4 drops in price (should be about 400 quid by christmas).
Your camera issue sounds software related though. Similar to the SD issue I have probably.
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Your camera issue sounds software related though. Similar to the SD issue I have probably.
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I think you're probably right but I'm going to return it anyway. Should be no issue getting a new one. I'm not having a Z3 that freezes every time I take a photo or refuses to power on until plugged in!!
G1032 said:
I think you're probably right but I'm going to return it anyway. Should be no issue getting a new one. I'm not having a Z3 that freezes every time I take a photo or refuses to power on until plugged in!!
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If it does it every photo then you certainly should get one. Sounds very annoying! Think I've seen a couple of people on here report similar issues.
Don't think I've seen a phone launch with so many different issues at once.
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So I've been having this issue for about a week now. All the apps installed on my phones SD card once I reboot are not loading up. I know the data is still there because the first time that it happened I spent the better part of day freaking out thinking everything was gone gone. At some point I thought of checking of the data by plugging in into the computer. Turns out (1) all the apps miraculously return (2) I can't mount the SD card anymore (3) I can't unmount the SD card anymore either.
What is the deal? It's kind of annoying to lost everything every time you reboot. I'm not really in the mood to tether my phone each time for the unforeseeable future just to keep everything loaded. Has this happened to anyone before? What should I do?
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So I've been having this issue for about a week now. All the apps installed on my phones SD card once I reboot are not loading up. I know the data is still there because the first time that it happened I spent the better part of day freaking out thinking everything was gone gone. At some point I thought of checking of the data by plugging in into the computer. Turns out (1) all the apps miraculously return (2) I can't mount the SD card anymore (3) I can't unmount the SD card anymore either.
What is the deal? It's kind of annoying to lost everything every time you reboot. I'm not really in the mood to tether my phone each time for the unforeseeable future just to keep everything loaded. Has this happened to anyone before? What should I do?
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What do you mean, the icons? I'm going to assume that's what you're referring to, for this reply...
If that's what you meant, icons on the home screen take a few seconds to get themselves drawn, if apps are on SD.
You can switch to a different skin then switch back to your original skin, to get them to redraw. Or delete/reposition them one at a time. It's a workaround, but changing the skin temporarily is faster.
It's a sense bug, I'm pretty sure.
Doesn't happen if apps are installed on the phones internal storage, so until they fix it, move your apps onto internal storage, if you don't want to deal with this each time you reboot. They run faster if they're not on your SD anyway.
Unless you have waaaay more apps than you really need, of course.
Sorry should've been a little more specific. The shortcuts on my home screen are all no longer working and I'm well aware of how long it takes for sense to load them up on startup but even when I go to display all apps it only displays the apps on internal storage. In fact each and every app on the card (in the apps settings) has a funny icon that has a little "sd" on it now and just says computing and will not load.
And since writing this I can no longer get the phone to load any apps from the sd card by tethering it to the computer. It's still accessible - just downloaded today's song from amazon and played it - but apps on it are almost like they're gone.
This happens to me sometimes too. But usually when it happens to me I can go into Settings - Applications - Manage Applications and move the troublesome app to internal storage, and then it's fine. It never completely disappears.
It might do you some good to reformat your SD card. Move everything off of it first, then format it, then put everything back on.
Is it the stock 8GB SD card, or a different one?
homeslice976 said:
This happens to me sometimes too. But usually when it happens to me I can go into Settings - Applications - Manage Applications and move the troublesome app to internal storage, and then it's fine. It never completely disappears.
It might do you some good to reformat your SD card. Move everything off of it first, then format it, then put everything back on.
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Sold, since I can no longer access the SD card and I've got nothing to listen to at work...
zuriken said:
Is it the stock 8GB SD card, or a different one?
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Yup.
@homeslice976 copied, formatted (made sure it was FAT32), copied everything back and no dice. Same symptoms, Apps will not load.
@zuriken I don't know why you asked about the stock SD card or not, do you think it needs to be replaced? It's only been since February.
Cwluc said:
@homeslice976 copied, formatted (made sure it was FAT32), copied everything back and no dice. Same symptoms, Apps will not load.
@zuriken I don't know why you asked about the stock SD card or not, do you think it needs to be replaced? It's only been since February.
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Did you do a full, not quick format? Scan for bad sectors/errors?
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Did you do a full, not quick format? Scan for bad sectors/errors?
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full format, chkdsk /f, still nothing though. This is honestly getting to the point where I'm tempted to switch to another phone. Why can't I access my stuff?
Another new bonus, every time I get some sort of alert it now plays random MP3s from the SD card. What is going on...
Cwluc said:
full format, chkdsk /f, still nothing though. This is honestly getting to the point where I'm tempted to switch to another phone. Why can't I access my stuff?
Another new bonus, every time I get some sort of alert it now plays random MP3s from the SD card. What is going on...
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I'd try a brand new, good quality SD card before resorting to switching phones.
Have you flashed any custom roms or anything? I didn't see you mention either way.
Scott_S said:
I'd try a brand new, good quality SD card before resorting to switching phones.
Have you flashed any custom roms or anything? I didn't see you mention either way.
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It's gonna be a little while until I can try a new SD card but I'll get back to you.
The only ROM I loaded was the one to originally root that removed the uploading cap from ATT.
I also solved where the random sounds were coming from apparently it doesn't want to play my selected theme and no matter what I do the only one that works is the original HTC default 2010 one or if I download any only the Celesta theme plays... I have a sinking feeling that copying all this funky data isn't going to resolve anything but I'll give it a go.
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It's gonna be a little while until I can try a new SD card but I'll get back to you.
The only ROM I loaded was the one to originally root that removed the uploading cap from ATT.
I also solved where the random sounds were coming from apparently it doesn't want to play my selected theme and no matter what I do the only one that works is the original HTC default 2010 one or if I download any only the Celesta theme plays... I have a sinking feeling that copying all this funky data isn't going to resolve anything but I'll give it a go.
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Good luck.
Since you haven't been messing with multiple roms and such, I don't know what else it could be, other than the SD card taking a dump.
I just upgraded to the android marshmallow update and now when I go to sync music in windows media player it just says "windows media player encountered a problem while syncing to the device" and will not work. I changed it from usb for charging to mtp. For some reason you have to change it manually now.
Another thing I noticed is the internal storage can be viewed from the computer but the SD card shows that there is storage being used but when I go to open the sd card in windows it says it's empty
Same problem here
I may have figured it out but you potentially lose all your data on the card. I took my card out and copied everything as is on the card to a folder on my computer then put the card back in the phone and let the phone format it as portable storage not that new use as internal storage option that marshmallow uses and plugged the phone into my computer and copied the contents back to the phone. Now it seems to sync in windows media player and the SD card shows the files in windows explorer.
Will update this if the problem comes back
You will have to switch to MTP every time with MM, but if you're rooted there is an Xposed fix for it. I wonder how that problem managed to make it through 3 soaks without getting fixed. It was reported but like most soak reports, it was ignored.
I am using my SanDisk card as internal with excellent results knowing that if and when it goes, I'll have to reinstall everything that's on it. There is a r/w limit on SD cards, but my personal experience is, it varies from months to years. In other words a "crap shoot".
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So I take it this is a universal problem with everyone who updates their moto g 3rd gen?
Tel864 said:
You will have to switch to MTP every time with MM, but if you're rooted there is an Xposed fix for it. I wonder how that problem managed to make it through 3 soaks without getting fixed. It was reported but like most soak reports, it was ignored.
I am using my SanDisk card as internal with excellent results knowing that if and when it goes, I'll have to reinstall everything that's on it. There is a r/w limit on SD cards, but my personal experience is, it varies from months to years. In other words a "crap shoot".
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I wouldn't worry too much about the read write limit on the SD card although it is wise to back your stuff up off of it regularly. I have been using the same 32gb sandisk sd card that I got back in late 2011 and it is still fine even though for a few years when I had a cheap phone with only 4gb storage and I installed all my apps to the sd card that would transfer. So that is a lot of read write cycles. I guess it really depends on the quality of the sd card you get.
And yeah that having to switch to mtp every time is sort of annoying. I hope if we get a 6.0.1 update that gets fixed. I have also noticed my battery is draining a lot faster now and android OS and android system are the culprits. I thought we had doze now to make the battery life even better. At least that is what I was expecting even though the battery life was fine in lollipop
mikee286 said:
So I take it this is a universal problem with everyone who updates their moto g 3rd gen?
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Actually, I think this is a universal "problem" with Marshmallow... Any by problem I mean security feature enabled by Google, so that if you plug into a random 'thing' it won't do something to compromise your device or privacy automatically. Apparently there have been cases of that have occurred, you connect your phone to <something> to charge it and it copies off all your data in the process.
Hello guys,
Recently I bought micro SD Card, SanDisk 64GB, and it's getting really annoying...problem is, while I listen music, or sometimes when I open Album (I transferred all my media on SD Card), music sometimes stops, and some songs cannot been played, there is no songs anymore, there is no pictures in album anymore and I get notification like "Still ejecting, don't remove SD card". Then I need to close the app and open it again, or even worse, I need to restart my phone. Is there anyone there who could know solution for this, is this SD Card problem or System UI problem? Btw, I'm on Android 6.0.
Hope you guys understood what is my problem and that you have some sort of solution.
Hi,
apparently we are having the same problem. Iam using the 32GB version from my last phone but the same issue. Did you solve it already?
Nope, I kinda gave up. Gonna look for new card
stegi737 said:
Hi,
apparently we are having the same problem. Iam using the 32GB version from my last phone but the same issue. Did you solve it already?
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Nope, I kinda gave up. Gonna look for new card
Try checking on pc if it is a sd card problem, if it is then clean it softly with some cloth and a bit of alcohol, also see if u have any .nomedia files in your folders, have had same problem this morning with music and all media apps, just rebooted, btw I have SanDisk 128GB all music on sd and all music is flac and no problems whatsoever
AMJ19 said:
Try checking on pc if it is a sd card problem, if it is then clean it softly with some cloth and a bit of alcohol, also see if u have any .nomedia files in your folders, have had same problem this morning with music and all media apps, just rebooted, btw I have SanDisk 128GB all music on sd and all music is flac and no problems whatsoever
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I tried to turn off battery optimisation for System UI, Android System and Settings storage, after couple hours, still got no notification or problems whatsoever. I'll let you guys know if there is something new happens.
Did a clean format in PC with FAT32. Then put it into the phone-again the ejecting message. So put it out and in again-no problem. Format the card in the phone and now it seems to work.
Will see tomorrow if there will be any issues.
Anyway thx for tips.
Take a look at:
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Is your card class 10 ?
There's some issues with "ultra high speed" (SDXC class 10+) and their detection,
they randomly get thrown off and sometimes get re-detected
stegi737 said:
Did a clean format in PC with FAT32. Then put it into the phone-again the ejecting message. So put it out and in again-no problem. Format the card in the phone and now it seems to work.
Will see tomorrow if there will be any issues.
Anyway thx for tips.
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AMJ19 said:
Try checking on pc if it is a sd card problem, if it is then clean it softly with some cloth and a bit of alcohol, also see if u have any .nomedia files in your folders, have had same problem this morning with music and all media apps, just rebooted, btw I have SanDisk 128GB all music on sd and all music is flac and no problems whatsoever
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zacharias.maladroit said:
Take a look at:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=64708721&postcount=5 UPDATE#20.d
Is your card class 10 ?
There's some issues with "ultra high speed" (SDXC class 10+) and their detection,
they randomly get thrown off and sometimes get re-detected
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It looks like I just kinda make notification appearing more rarely but again, this morning notification appeared. In few days I'll get another Micro SD card, hope that would solve my issues.
And to the zacharias, thanks for your reply but as it seems in that thread, Update #20.d it's all about when music isn't playing, at me there is no specific time of the day or actions when card goes in ejecting mode, it could happen while I even listen the music (couple times already), while I browse my album pictures or just randomly, without any action caused. I think it could be a Micro SD card problem, or (I would like if this is an issue) some applications are causing this problem.
Thanks again guys! Post more if you have some suggestions or solutions.
Hi guys I have a relatively new z3 the problem is I broke it really bad and most of the damage is in the sd card side, now this might have nothing relevant but info is info right.
So my Z3 makes my SD cards frozen in time, basically whatever change I do gets reverted. I tried formatting, nope. Just reverted. Whenever I delete something it comes back but the file changes to new, like when I delete old pictures they show up at the top of the latest pictures.
This has happened with 2 different 64 gig sd cards so I'm scared to try another expensive one but I've been using a 16 gig card and so far (1 month) so good which scares me actually.
This is like the internet cafes with deep freeze installed you know? Whatever you do once you restart it restores the image. They're just frozen, I can download things and add things but can't delete things or "write" things. Also I couldn't hook it up on my PC with the bad sd cards but the moment I took them off voila. The pc could see the phone without lagging.
What can I do? Does anyone know even what this is? Z3 did this, not the sd cards as it happened with 2 seperate cards. Both happened the same way, I was adding files via PC then lag came, non responsiveness then they got "frozen". I also can't use 'em with SD card adapters.
This seems to be the same problem but with the different phone, it acts as deleted but comes back. Like readable but not writable.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2760593
I've had a constant problem for the past few days with the camera. In every app that uses the camera I get an error message saying something like
"Please close other apps, the camera cannot be accessed right now."
This is temporarily redeemed with clearing my cache but after using the phone for a while the problem returns. Restarting the device doesn't seem to help very much but occasionally the camera will work after a restart. I'm on the software version 6.0.1 V20a-SEA-XX and I have a H959. I have not tried a hard reset on my device yet and wish to avoid that if an easier fix is available.
When the Mrs's phone was updated by LG following repair, she had a similar issue. It turned out to be an issue with the camera trying to save to the SD card, but the SD card not playing nice with the new firmware.
To see if you have the same issue, go into the camera and change the save location to internal storage before you attempt to take any shots. If you can take a shot after this change, you know its an issue with the SD card.
Lets hope its something so simple. :angel:
Masteryates said:
When the Mrs's phone was updated by LG following repair, she had a similar issue. It turned out to be an issue with the camera trying to save to the SD card, but the SD card not playing nice with the new firmware.
To see if you have the same issue, go into the camera and change the save location to internal storage before you attempt to take any shots. If you can take a shot after this change, you know its an issue with the SD card.
Lets hope its something so simple. :angel:
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Got the camera to work for once and changed it to save to the phone. Worked for a while but I believe it reverted to saving to the SD card. Taking out the SD card and putting it back in was a simple fix along with saying "No" to a prompt about asking it I want to save to the SD card. Many thanks! I was starting to believe I'd never take photos again with this phone.
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Got the camera to work for once and changed it to save to the phone. Worked for a while but I believe it reverted to saving to the SD card. Taking out the SD card and putting it back in was a simple fix along with saying "No" to a prompt about asking it I want to save to the SD card. Many thanks! I was starting to believe I'd never take photos again with this phone.
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No problems Lol_cool. :highfive:
I would suggest you copy everything off that SD card and then format it using the phone before moving everything back onto it. Other apps may also cause the same types off issues if your SD card is now not entirely compatible with the phone.
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No problems Lol_cool. :highfive:
I would suggest you copy everything off that SD card and then format it using the phone before moving everything back onto it. Other apps may also cause the same types off issues if your SD card is now not entirely compatible with the phone.
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I have the same problem. I don't even use sd card and it always happen again and again. Even the flash can't be turned on in the quick toggle menu. I have hard resetted my phone several times and constantly appears again.
Ficoradic said:
I have the same problem. I don't even use sd card and it always happen again and again. Even the flash can't be turned on in the quick toggle menu. I have hard resetted my phone several times and constantly appears again.
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I think LG will tell you to do a factory reset Ficoradic.
If that doesn't work, you'll have to do a RMA or pay for the repair if your out of warranty. :crying:
I'm having the exact same issue. I already replaced the rear camera module as I thought it was broken. It seemed to work for a while, but now i'm having the cannot connect to camera issue almost constantly.
What seems to help is to 'clear all' applications from the recent apps window, and use camera restarter (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.exlyo.camerarestarter) a few times and launch the camera app again. (need root)
I'm using a rooted 5.1.1 v15C-EUR-XX, have root, xposed, powernap, amplify, greenify and some other root tools installed and am thinking that that might be the issue.
The restarter thing didn't work anymore today, so I put some pressure on the part of the laser focus thing while opening the camera app, and it worked until I took my finger off, then it went black. I tried again, and again it was a success. The connector for the camera is right under that laser thing so it might just be due to bad connection of the camera connector, or the laser thing that has a bad connection inside.