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Hallo friends, Please help,
Sony Xperia Tipo (single) . Android 4.0.4, Rooted.
1) I used SD maid app to clean system, as usual. Have done it before too.
2) I unmounted the External SD Memory card, in the storage settings.
3) And Remounted it after few seconds.
4) Now the files aren't showing in the walkman. No photos from the memory card showing in the gallery. No any file.
5) The Storage settings show that the Used space and the empty space correctly. But no colored patterns and details of the files.
6) The Root Explorer shows all the files.
7) Tried unmounting, remounting, restarting phone, restarting phone with battery out, nothing worked.
7) The phone connected directly shows only those files that were added newly after this incident (for e.g. one bluetooth transfered file)
8) The memory card connected separately through card reader shows all files.
How to solve it?
Thank you very much.
See you.
Ketansa said:
Hallo friends, Please help,
Sony Xperia Tipo (single) . Android 4.0.4, Rooted.
1) I used SD maid app to clean system, as usual. Have done it before too.
2) I unmounted the External SD Memory card, in the storage settings.
3) And Remounted it after few seconds.
4) Now the files aren't showing in the walkman. No photos from the memory card showing in the gallery. No any file.
5) The Storage settings show that the Used space and the empty space correctly. But no colored patterns and details of the files.
6) The Root Explorer shows all the files.
7) Tried unmounting, remounting, restarting phone, restarting phone with battery out, nothing worked.
7) The phone connected directly shows only those files that were added newly after this incident (for e.g. one bluetooth transfered file)
8) The memory card connected separately through card reader shows all files.
How to solve it?
Thank you very much.
See you.
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There is an easy fix for this. Through your file explorer, open one song on the sd with the walkman app and one picture with the album app. Then reboot. All your files should pop-up now, although it sometimes takes a few reboots to trigger everything.
Hope that helps.
Mats
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Hallo, thank you Mats,
Although when I viewed the files through Root Explorer, I also played, and viewed all types of media files and restarted. Its still the same. But, Storage settings also doesnt even calculate the files. it directly shows used space, and remaining space, the bar is blank. I will try the trick you explained with several boots now. Or else, I will have to backup memory card, format the card through the phone and re-transfer.
I think the SD maid took away something that was responsible for showing contents in the android system.
Thank you very much ))
I'm hoping someone else has encountered this problem and found a workaround...
I've downloaded Flixster, logged in and accessed my collection of films/tv series. When I got to download them it gives an option of download to phone or download to SD card. I selected SD card but it then says that this is not supported on my device. According to Flixster's website, all Android devices on 4.3 and above should have this facility working. Is there anything I can do to get them on my SD card?
Unless you have it installed as a system app it will not be able to write to SD card.
This is a KK feature where only system apps can write to sd card
Choose internal memory then copy it over using a system explorer, or do it via a card reader in your PC or root and apply the write to SD card fix
gregbradley said:
Unless you have it installed as a system app it will not be able to write to SD card.
This is a KK feature where only system apps can write to sd card
Choose internal memory then copy it over using a system explorer, or do it via a card reader in your PC or root and apply the write to SD card fix
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Thanks for getting back to me so quickly. I;m new to the phone and android, could you explain to me how I do this? (the internal memory way)
Tmel14 said:
Thanks for getting back to me so quickly. I;m new to the phone and android, could you explain to me how I do this? (the internal memory way)
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Download it to the phone, then transfer it to your PC via the USB cable, then to the SDcard using the USB cable
gregbradley said:
Download it to the phone, then transfer it to your PC via the USB cable, then to the SDcard using the USB cable
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By transfer "it" do you mean the app and then transfer the app to my SD card via USB? Or do you mean the movie and then transfer that to my SD card via USB?
You have the app installed, it needs to be on the phone.
Download the movie to internal memory and then move that about.
gregbradley said:
You have the app installed, it needs to be on the phone.
Download the movie to internal memory and then move that about.
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You'll have to excuse me for being a noob, can't quite figure out how this works. I plugged my phone into my laptop, went into internal storage and cut the files from the phone and then put then pasted them onto the SD card. However, now when I go into Flixster it doesn't recognise them as being on the device and although they are listed in the Movies app, it can't play the files.
Can anyone help on this? My 16Gb internal storage is running really low, could really do with getting the Flixster files on my SD card if possible
Tmel14 said:
Can anyone help on this? My 16Gb internal storage is running really low, could really do with getting the Flixster files on my SD card if possible
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Though I am not familiar with this Flixter thing, but ones you have downloaded and saved your movie in your SDCARD, why are you sticking to Flixter to play it? You can use your device's movie player or any other 3rd party software that supports the format to play the movie.
nlohani said:
Though I am not familiar with this Flixter thing, but ones you have downloaded and saved your movie in your SDCARD, why are you sticking to Flixter to play it? You can use your device's movie player or any other 3rd party software that supports the format to play the movie.
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They are digital codes for DVDs/Blu Rays I have purchased and have to be redeemed via Flixster. Once redeemed you have the option of streaming it via wi-fi or downloading it to the device. If you download to the device it stays within the Flixster app (they ar enot playable by other media players even though they are mp4 files - guessing they must have some sort of Flixster encoding or DRM). There is an option on Flixster to download them to SD card but it won't let me do it on the Xperia as it doesn't have permission to write to the SD card.
When I connected my phone to my laptop, I found the files within the internal storage and manually pasted them into the SD card but after doing so, Flixster no longer recognised them as being on the device and other players were still unable to play the files.
Tmel14 said:
They are digital codes for DVDs/Blu Rays I have purchased and have to be redeemed via Flixster. Once redeemed you have the option of streaming it via wi-fi or downloading it to the device. If you download to the device it stays within the Flixster app (they ar enot playable by other media players even though they are mp4 files - guessing they must have some sort of Flixster encoding or DRM). There is an option on Flixster to download them to SD card but it won't let me do it on the Xperia as it doesn't have permission to write to the SD card.
When I connected my phone to my laptop, I found the files within the internal storage and manually pasted them into the SD card but after doing so, Flixster no longer recognised them as being on the device and other players were still unable to play the files.
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I am sure you have already checked the settings in Flixster application, to see if it gives option to read & play contents from SDCARD?
There is some application to convert users apps to system apps. Not sure if even after converting this can be moved to SD or not.
nlohani said:
I am sure you have already checked the settings in Flixster application, to see if it gives option to read & play contents from SDCARD?
There is some application to convert users apps to system apps. Not sure if even after converting this can be moved to SD or not.
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Yeah unfortunately not, just an option where to download to and when you select SD card and then download, the Xperia won't let me.
Would I have to be rooted in order to convert to system apps?
I'm on a Xperia Z3 Tablet and hit the same problem. I've found a way around this which works. The thing you have to bear in mind using this is you cannot download to the SD card directly.
Close Flixster
Using File Commander (or similar) on the device, copy Android>data>net.flixster.android to the same location on the SD card.
Note: Using Windows or similar doesn't give you the same rights to create/modify some of the folders
Start Flixster and change the storage location to the SD card.
Restart Flixtser. You will now see the location under the devices saying On SD Card.
I remove the ones from the internal storage once satisfied.
When downloading a new addition, change the location back to Internal Storage, let it download and then move that across and obviously change the storage location afterwards.
It works for me well on a 32gb card and saves precious internal storage space.
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ThornyUk said:
I'm on a Xperia Z3 Tablet and hit the same problem. I've found a way around this which works. The thing you have to bear in mind using this is you cannot download to the SD card directly.
Close Flixster
Using File Commander (or similar) on the device, copy Android>data>net.flixster.android to the same location on the SD card.
Note: Using Windows or similar doesn't give you the same rights to create/modify some of the folders
Start Flixster and change the storage location to the SD card.
Restart Flixtser. You will now see the location under the devices saying On SD Card.
I remove the ones from the internal storage once satisfied.
When downloading a new addition, change the location back to Internal Storage, let it download and then move that across and obviously change the storage location afterwards.
It works for me well on a 32gb card and saves precious internal storage space.
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Note: Remove video files from: Android>data>net.flixster.android>files>wv internal folder - not the others.
Hi. I try to explain this briefly and informative so you can help me out. I transferred a huge amount of files (video, music, pictures and apks) via zapya from my old xperia m dual to xperia m2 aqua. After moving files I just found out the files do not get automatically in Album, Movies and .... apps and just remains in Zapya and you can view them only there (So noone else faced such problem?!) But the main problem is, I just finded files and moved them with ES File Explorer File Manager, this is what happend >>>
I accidentally moved files to wrong section (storage/emulated/0) which I guess is systemic path. So the phone began to alerting me with love storage space and when I tried to move files to SD card (with same method i moved them to wrong path), It says the phone needs to be rooted for moving files. Now the files can not be deleted, copied, cut or modified as I guess the phone consider them as systemic files and phone internal storage became full.
I just don't want to root this new phone (at least now, or even root and unroot again), so please help me what to do without rooting (I consider root/unroot as my last hope).
What is the version of android you use ?
If I remember correctly in Android 4.4 KitKat without root you can copy, move files as follows:
Internal memory -> external sd card.
External sd card <-> cloud storage.
You can only copy, move in this direction, but not back:
Internal memory -> external sd card.
Cloud storage -> external sd card.
Also you can't rename or delete folders on external sd card.
You can fix this inconvenience only if you're rooted.
You need to add add <group gid="media_rw" /> in file /system/etc/permissions/platform.xml .
Root
I am concluding that only rooting can make it possible, but waiting for more responses maybe something happen! Now looking for a safe half root method.
Try with File Commander that came with phone as preinstalled system app. You can't use ES File Explorer to edit files on external SD card as KK restriction because it's user application, only system apps can do that.
@AleksJ
Sorry man, but you are so wrong, you can edit external SD card content only with system (non-user) apps and that's KK restriction. So I got this File Commander app preinstalled and I had used it until I rooted my phone. Now Solid Explorer is the best...
Go to Settings/Memory (I think). There is an option to move images/video/music files and maybe other content from/to the internal memory and the SD Card. It also has an option to wipe the cache files (not the directory /cache which is another thing).
sorry to post this thread is someone already have one, but I think my problem is different thing..
ok here is my problem,
first time this problem appear is when i copy new songs to my SD card, then when I checked my music player, my song got wiped off from list, then I go to file explorer my music is still there. Same goes as pic/video but when i take a photo with camera the photo shown in gallery but gone when I do media scanning
what I have done :
1.restart my phone
2.Unmount SD card
3.Restart my phone wihout SD card and then when phone already on mount SD card.
4.delete .nomedia file then re scan SD card
5. clear cache player/gallery
6.reinstall player/gallery
what should I do? i'll save format SD card and Flash my phone for last resort
and I am on stock rom BTW
dwikii said:
sorry to post this thread is someone already have one, but I think my problem is different thing..
ok here is my problem,
first time this problem appear is when i copy new songs to my SD card, then when I checked my music player, my song got wiped off from list, then I go to file explorer my music is still there. Same goes as pic/video but when i take a photo with camera the photo shown in gallery but gone when I do media scanning
what I have done :
1.restart my phone
2.Unmount SD card
3.Restart my phone wihout SD card and then when phone already on mount SD card.
4.delete .nomedia file then re scan SD card
5. clear cache player/gallery
6.reinstall player/gallery
what should I do? i'll save format SD card and Flash my phone for last resort
and I am on stock rom BTW
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Hi,
Samsung S8+ exynos, running latest samsung stock image, rooted with magisk 17.3.
SD card set up as regular external storage, *not* adopted storage.
Whenever I try to have something write to SD card I get "Can't write to (volume id of filesystem on card)". I believe its this "security" feature biting me that was introduced some time back in kitkat.
So far I had been using netapp sdfix (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nextapp.sdfix) to sort this out, but it seems that doesn't work anymore in android 8.
Any ideas? I'm not afraid to ssh into my phone and do stuff at the lowest level.
Cheers
[L]
There are apps that move your apps and the data to external storage. Thats all I know. And you can also set up your camera to save all pictures n videos in external storage by going into settings. Hope that helps. I know it's not the best solution but it helps save up your storage 100%
I know all that, that's not the issue here.
The issue is (for one example) that I can't set the music folder for the humble bundle app to the music folder I'm using on the SD Card (which works just fine in any music app).
I can't use id3fixer to repair mp3 files because it cannot write to the files.
I can't use ghost commander or amaze to create a folder on SD card - it works with the built in "file manager" in android though.
[Lemmy said:
;78046099]Hi,
Samsung S8+ exynos, running latest samsung stock image, rooted with magisk 17.3.
SD card set up as regular external storage, *not* adopted storage.
Whenever I try to have something write to SD card I get "Can't write to (volume id of filesystem on card)". I believe its this "security" feature biting me that was introduced some time back in kitkat.
So far I had been using netapp sdfix (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nextapp.sdfix) to sort this out, but it seems that doesn't work anymore in android 8.
Any ideas? I'm not afraid to ssh into my phone and do stuff at the lowest level.
Cheers
[L]
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Check magisk repo there's an app in there to change the setting to read/write permissions for SD cards
but with that module active, wouldn't that mean that for example media scan would find every mp3 file twice?
[Lemmy said:
;78046939]but with that module active, wouldn't that mean that for example media scan would find every mp3 file twice?
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I don't know you would have to try and find out. As far as I am away it basically gives you read/write access to your SD card it doesn't control what is written to it.
Another thing that you could try is in twrp in the mount menu is to mount SD card.
...and then *reboot* into the installed system, right? I'm pretty sure mounting the card RW in twrip is not going to help...
Then use the magisk module to change the sd card permission to r/w
I don't use ghost commander but it does have access to read/write to SD card(according to google description)
spawnlives said:
Then use the magisk module to change the sd card permission to r/w
I don't use ghost commander but it does have access to read/write to SD card(according to google description)
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It doesn't, at least not on android 8...
spawnlives said:
Then use the magisk module to change the sd card permission to r/w
I don't use ghost commander but it does have access to read/write to SD card(according to google description)
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Tried the module, it does mount the card writeable, but the media scanner does not touch anything outside /storage, so id3fixer does not know about the media files, and can't fix the tags.
Why does it seem to require higher magic to be able to just copy and use mp3 files from my computer....
[Lemmy said:
;78049321]Tried the module, it does mount the card writeable, but the media scanner does not touch anything outside /storage, so id3fixer does not know about the media files, and can't fix the tags.
Why does it seem to require higher magic to be able to just copy and use mp3 files from my computer....
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Have just tried ghost commander file explorer
Basically in normal use it is not in root mode. You have to enable it in settings under advance - show advance home items. This will bring up root mode and mount menus in the home page menu. Have changed sdcard from r/w to r/o back to r/w with no issues. So I would check you settings to see if it is enabled.