I'm just curious what you guys use your SD cards for? Really large game apps? Or do you move all of your apps onto your sd card after rooting?
Photos/videos. I have young kids, so I take a lot of them.
Music (lots) video's and pictures
Movies, music, documents, downloads, all my apks when needed.
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Podcasts. Way too many podcasts.
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I'm just curious what you guys use your SD cards for? Really large game apps? Or do you move all of your apps onto your sd card after rooting?
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Videos, photos, music etc.
BUt the most important for me are nandroid and TiBu backups.
Hopefully we get custom recoveries soon
Right now I have about 6.9 gb of photos, about 8 gb of music, and about 22.2 gb of movies. I'm putting the movies on there in preparation for a 2.5 hr flight plus hotel stay. I also have about 3gb of misc. files and titanium backups, and about 1gb of epubs.
Google play movies saved to sd....4k video...Dogg catcher video podcasts saved to sd...Google music...pictures of course.
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Videos, pics, Roms[when we get some] and everything else.
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1) Nandroid backups
2) Videos and pictures I take of the kids.
With that said, I never use more than 10gb at any given time on my SD card. I've switched to networked movies and cloud music, video, and picture backups. I also always have a laptop with me. I can live without SD storage on my phones now without any effort on my part.
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Hi, my cell phone is Droid x, which has 8G ROM in it. except for the system itself takes a few space, the majority is wasted. and now i want to put my music ,films, and maps in it. then i changed the permission of /data to 777, and copy music, films, maps(data of a navigation software) to /data. but to my disappointed, though films can be played, music & maps cannot be identified. does everyone has some ideas to make the most of 8G ROM? as i know, many, many android phone has 8G, 16G, and even 32G, so it should be a method to full use the space, otherwise the superfluous will be non-useful.
Any reply appreciated.
You said films could be played... I would guess you can play/use the other media you have, but having the application find it would be more of a challenge (IMO). Try using a file manager that sees root and selecting the file there to see if it plays.
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Root explorer is a great app on the market that really gives you freedom, but you do need to be rooted to use it.
Thanks a lot.
maybe i should change a media player to play movies which in ROM. but i mean that, is there a app that can map ROM files to SD card files, making all installed apps
identified files in ROM correctly and use those files just as they are in SD card? and i dont need another apps such as root explorer to open it. i have been looking for the app for a long time but get nothing. am i the only one need such a app?
I have about 5.5 gb of music stored on Google Music.
I downloaded the Google Music app on my galaxy phone and then told it to make all my music available offline.
All my music downloaded and is available offline but I can't figure out where the phone is actually storing it and the amount of storage used only went up by ~3gb.
I knew at some point, but I don't use that feature anymore. I think it might have been on the internal sd . . . sdcard/Android/data/com.google.android.music
If that's not it, install DiskUsage and find it. Should be fairly easy if storage use went up by 3 gigs.
That was it.
Thank you.
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I've had my GS3 for awhile now, I've been through a gamut of roms, but I've always been in love with Cyanogenmod, which is what I'm currently using.
My only issue is, why does nothing utilize the SD card? I just resorted to deleting all of my photos to make room for my Spotify cache, but I shouldn't have to when I have a 32GB SD card in there, with all 32GB free.
I've tried flashing a camera mod that enables storing images on the SD Card, but doing this causes the video to force close the app, thus making video pointless. I'm now restoring from a nandroid backup so I can record video.
Spotify is the other big hog. I tried a method I read about yesterday that creates a syslink to the SD card for Spotify's cache, but the only thing that did was cause me to redownload 6GB of music to my internal SD card. I'm not sure why Spotify doesn't allow it's cache to be stored on the SD card natively anyway...
So I guess what I'm asking is, is there a rom out there that is as good as Cyanogenmon that can actually utilize the SD card? I'd rather not have to remove photos from my phone periodically, and not caching Spotify music is not an option as I get no service on my morning commute in the subway! Maybe what I need isn't a new rom but a mod or app that can help alleviate my issue?
Here is the method I used to syslink my Spotify: http://community.spotify.com/t5/Mob...on-the-external-SD-card-on-andriod/td-p/84023
I'm using CleanROM 5.5.1 and then this trick to load all my apps to my external SD card
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=p1zSMB9-WNo
The TW camera has an option to save to extSDcard, so any TW-based ROM would allow that. As for Spotify, no idea.
Ok finally getting my wife talked into getting an android phone. The Problem is her Itunes library. Its huge!! Is there any legal way to get all her media to work on an android device. I think this will be a deal breaker if we cant and I am sooooo sick of apple and Itunes. Can anyone help?
If you get a Samsung device then you can use Kies just like she would use iTunes with her iPhone! (It even works via WiFi)
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Ok finally getting my wife talked into getting an android phone. The Problem is her Itunes library. Its huge!! Is there any legal way to get all her media to work on an android device. I think this will be a deal breaker if we cant and I am sooooo sick of apple and Itunes. Can anyone help?
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One way easily transfer her media content that is perfectly legal, is to navigate to the folder where iTunes stores it's media and then copy that folder to her phones sdcard (Either internal storage or external storage). For example say you wanted to copy her music, go the iTunes music folder on your computer's hard drive, select the folder and copy the folder to her phones storage. You can then repeat this process for any videos, pictures, etc. she has stored in iTunes to transfer them to her phone. When copying music from iTunes to the phone it may ask if you want to covert the music to be playable on the phone, select yes and let it convert the music which will then be playable on her phone.
Agree with above. Just find the files and copy them over like you would with a usb drive. Sooner you break free from Apple the better
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Ok finally getting my wife talked into getting an android phone. The Problem is her Itunes library. Its huge!! Is there any legal way to get all her media to work on an android device. I think this will be a deal breaker if we cant and I am sooooo sick of apple and Itunes. Can anyone help?
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Check out google play music. You can store up to 20 000 songs on their server for free. Then just keep the rest on the device with a 32/64GB sd card
Will this work for HTC as well as Samsuck? I had the original Galaxy and that left such a bad taste I got myself an HTC One XL and still think its great was going to get her the new HTC One. Sorry for the delay in replying life sucks LOL
Yes it will, open play music on the same PC as all the stored music and sync it to the cloud, then make sure the app is on the phone and either play from the cloud or download to phone.
Otherwise just transfer music to sd
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I'm thinking about utilising Google drive for more uses such as storing my music etc.
I know I can do this but is it easily listened to if I do?
Also can I put app data on drive and still use games, eg if I have ff3 and the app is installed to my phone, could I then move the data folder into drive and it would still work?
Cheers
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I'm thinking about utilising Google drive for more uses such as storing my music etc.
I know I can do this but is it easily listened to if I do?
Also can I put app data on drive and still use games, eg if I have ff3 and the app is installed to my phone, could I then move the data folder into drive and it would still work?
Cheers
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I would think of Google Drive as more of a 'online locker' rather than an extended memory card.
While you can store music on it and access it via your phone, you'll find it much easier to have your music directly on your phone.
If you want your music to be stored online, look more into Google Play. It'll host your music online and you can listen your songs with the stock Play Music app on the Nexus 5 as long as your signed into the Google account it's connected to.
More info here: https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/1075570?hl=en
As for games, I don't believe Google Drive will allow you to play games with data files stored onto it. It'd be a very risky move even if you could! You'd need an extremely reliable connection or you could corrupt data.