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Just moved from a 8 GB to a 32GB card. And cannot use it...
First I unmounted the old SD card on the phone, and put in the new, unformatted 32GB. I then choose to format it in the phone. Its a Galaxy S GT-9003i with firmware I9003XXKPN v2.3.5
It formated fine. Then I unmounted the new card, plonked in the old card and connected the phone in USB mode to the Macbook. I also connected the newly formatted SD card via a card reader, and it promptly showed up, with the correct free space (although there was a directory on it already called LOST.DIR)
I then copied all apps from the phones 8GB SD to the 32GB card, using the laptop (drag and drop). This also went fine and without a glitch. I then shut down the phone, swapped out the SD cards and booted the phone on again. As expected, it went to do the usual Scanning USB memory. It completed. The space appears to be taken up, but all apps that are on that USB are inaccesible. Their icons grey Androids with a small SD logo in the bottom right corner.
All other apps (the ones on the phone) work fine. The SD card can be used to copy files to on the computer and to take pictures...
Phone is not rooted.
PLease help, if you have a solution to this...
Many tHanks
oranabana said:
Just moved from a 8 GB to a 32GB card. And cannot use it...
First I unmounted the old SD card on the phone, and put in the new, unformatted 32GB. I then choose to format it in the phone. Its a Galaxy S GT-9003i with firmware I9003XXKPN v2.3.5
It formated fine. Then I unmounted the new card, plonked in the old card and connected the phone in USB mode to the Macbook. I also connected the newly formatted SD card via a card reader, and it promptly showed up, with the correct free space (although there was a directory on it already called LOST.DIR)
I then copied all apps from the phones 8GB SD to the 32GB card, using the laptop (drag and drop). This also went fine and without a glitch. I then shut down the phone, swapped out the SD cards and booted the phone on again. As expected, it went to do the usual Scanning USB memory. It completed. The space appears to be taken up, but all apps that are on that USB are inaccesible. Their icons grey Androids with a small SD logo in the bottom right corner.
All other apps (the ones on the phone) work fine. The SD card can be used to copy files to on the computer and to take pictures...
Phone is not rooted.
PLease help, if you have a solution to this...
Many tHanks
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Have you tried rebooting your phone? If it still does not work, try to unmount your SD Card via settings and then wait for it to successfully unmount and then mount again
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saywhatt said:
Have you tried rebooting your phone? If it still does not work, try to unmount your SD Card via settings and then wait for it to successfully unmount and then mount again
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Thanks, yes tried this one. No luck.... Its a Samsung mirco SD card (Model: MB-MSBGA) class 10
Anyone else..!?
Did u done app2sd in ur phone with the 8 gig 1
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No not much.
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ah ha
So, I cannot even find the app2sd app under My Apps on the Google Play store... weird. Its also not listing under Manage Applications. Would this really be the cause of the problem!?
Anyone else have any ideas, why the phone cannot load the apps copied from the other SD card...!?!
First of all u have to move all apps from the old sd card to the phone. Or while inserting ur new sd, the apps you moved to your old sd will not work
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Mebin Robin said:
First of all u have to move all apps from the old sd card to the phone. Or while inserting ur new sd, the apps you moved to your old sd will not work
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Thanks, but I canot make sense of this. Firstly all apps on the old SD card will never fit onto the phone (8GB, vs 2GB space), and secondly elsewhere online they always talk about copying files to the new card and then inserting that instead of the old one....
mmmh...!? Whilst I apprecite your post - its not working for me
When apps are moved to the SD card, it isn't entirely moved to the SD card. Only part of it is, that's why when installing apps the space for apps still decreases. Therefore you should use titanium backup or similar backup programs to move the applications.
bscraze said:
Therefore you should use titanium backup or similar backup programs to move the applications.
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Thanks,I had a look at titanium backup, but it requires root access (my phone has not been rooted). I really dont think one should need to root their phone to move from a small to a larger SD card without having to re-install all apps from scratch...!?
oranabana said:
Thanks,I had a look at titanium backup, but it requires root access (my phone has not been rooted). I really dont think one should need to root their phone to move from a small to a larger SD card without having to re-install all apps from scratch...!?
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Without root you will not be able to backup data(AFAIK)
bscraze said:
...Therefore you should use titanium backup or similar backup programs to move the applications.
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OK, so I rooted the phone and used Titanium Backup. It created a backup file on the phone memory. I thought, voila, I am good then, popped in the new SD card, formatted it, and did the restore from Titanium Backup... but:
still getting a lot of greyed out files in the application folder and on the home screens... I really cannot believe all this work is needed to swap out SD cards from a smaller to larger capacity! what a pain in the •••
I have the same problem on my new samsung 32gb 10 class micro sd card and still searching for the solution. If anyone have a solution, please, share it for us. Thanks!
martynas393 said:
I have the same problem on my new samsung 32gb 10 class micro sd card and still searching for the solution. If anyone have a solution, please, share it for us. Thanks!
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I have the same problem to, just backed up my old 16gb card to my pc, installed and formatted a new 32gb card in my S4 and copied the data back over and all the apps that are on the sd card are showing up grey.
Ok, after a quick google, i've found that making a clone of the card and then copying the clone to the new card works
you can use HDD-Raw-Copy-Tool to do this (you'll have to google it as I don't have enough posts to post external links)
heathen666 said:
Ok, after a quick google, i've found that making a clone of the card and then copying the clone to the new card works
you can use HDD-Raw-Copy-Tool to do this (you'll have to google it as I don't have enough posts to post external links)
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Thanks! Yeah that works perfectly! (Apparently there are some "secure" folders in the SD card that start with a period, and the contents do not get copied at all. Those hold the apps and data.) However after using HDD-Raw-Copy it will create an exact replica of the smaller SD card on the larger one and the larger one will appear to be small too, so you must resize your partition or you won't gain anything, your new card will be exactly the same as the old one! You can use MiniTool Partition Wizard home edition which is free to do this: partitionwizard.com :good:
I had the same problem but I was able to fix without extra software. Took old card out of my phone and installed both externally via flash readers to my pc and copied files from one to the other. View hidden files is turned on just in case any hidden items is also copied. This work great for me all apps are accessible now. Hope this helpped
Here is the step-by-step solution: http://www.tomsguide.com/forum/id-2545604/move-data-card-samsung-galaxy.html
There are two ways described to do it successfully:
METHOD 1 uses the xcopy (or xcopy32) command in a Cmd Prompt windown on Windows. The /h switch used on the command allows the hidden and system files to be copied!
METHOD 2 uses a straight copy from old SD card to the new SD card (or from old SD card to folder on computer, then from folder on computer to new SD card) using the simple drag and drop on Windows. BUT YOU MUST HAVE WINDOWS EXPLORER CONFIGURED TO SHOW SYSTEM AND HIDDEN FILES!
Just to be clear, the solution to the problem is trivial. You are simply copying ALL the files from one SD card to another. There is absolutely no reason that copying ALL files from one SD card, including the complete file structure, to another SD card should not work. Your phone can't tell that you switched SD cards. It only knows the files and file structure it can see on the SD card and if they are EXACTLY the same as they were before the switch, your phone should work exactly like it did before the switch except now it will see more free storage space on your larger SD card (which was probably your goal in the first place) AND your phone may possibly even run faster by accessing the data much faster if your new SD card is a faster class of storage media.
YOU DO NOT NEED TO ROOT YOUR PHONE OR INSTALL ALL KINDS OF CRAZY APPS ON YOUR PHONE OR SOFTWARE ON YOUR COMPUTER TO DO THIS!!!
BUT, the key is that YOU MUST ALSO COPY ALL THE HIDDEN FILES and there are lots of them on Android! Everytime I hear of someone having a problem with switchinging to a new SD card, it is because they did NOT copy the hidden files OR their SD card was not properly formatted (FAT32) for the phone.
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I have a samsung galaxy young s6312, stock android 4.1.2, rooted.
Now I know that i can move apps to sd card with the help of directory bind, link2sd, etc.
But i have only 300 MB free internal memory & I want to download Asphalt 7(1.13 GB)
So I dont even have enough free internal memory to download the game first and then move it to sd card.
I want to save the app data DIRECTLY to my external sd card, as I do not have enough free internal memory to download it to my internal memory.
Plz give me a detailed answer as I am a noob here (just got my first Android a month ago )
Plz help me as I want to play that game very much...............................................
Did you figure it out? I got the same issue.
Well, ayuro123, if u have got the same device as mine (GT s6312), with android 4.1.2 and your device as rooted, then you might try out these steps:
1. Format your external sd card with FAT32.
2. Copy everything on your INTERNAL sd card to your EXTERNAL sd card. You can use any file manager. I might recommend using stock one. This step is necessary, else you will run into problems with your apps.
3. Go to this link and follow the video tutorial:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Mf2n1LweU2c&desktop_uri=/watch?v=Mf2n1LweU2c
4. If u want the external sd card to be replaced with internal one permanently, then after following all the steps in the video, just click the 'At boot if init.d' button(after pressing the external>internal button). If u do not do this, then the swap will go away after you reboot.
Now, I might recommend you to have a Nandroid backup ready, in case anything goes wrong.
Also, if u cant have a nandroid backup, then I will recommend you to have stock rom and odin ready on your pc, in case you get stuck in a boot loop or any other ugly thing.
NOTE:
I haven't myself tried it. A friend of mine told me, who has tried it without any problems. TRY this IF and ONLY if you have a samsung galaxy young s6312 running stock android 4.1.2.
I use gl to sd, is an app to transfer all data app to sdcard but you need to install in the sdcard first
Hi to all of u and thanks for great posts u made about all thing u need to know about flashing, brickign and recovering our phones
So i flashed mi xperia miro st23i last year with :
cm10 - 10-20131224 unofficial mesona
build number- cm_mesona-userdebug 4.1.2 jz054k eng.root.20131224.135016 test-keys
kernel : 3.0.8-fxp-g22c38de5 [email protected]#1
andrid v. : 4.1.2
And it worked perfect with some small bugs, the phone was much better with cm10 then before. So many thanks for creators and tutorial makers for making us noob and newnoobs do the easiest way and improve our cheep androids
Yesterday i bought 8gb microsd (ScabDisk) and swap my 2gb (Kingston) - i copied all from 2gb to 8gb m.card and put it in android and worked till i try to mess with vold.fstab....and made my day.....
So, tried to swap intenal memory with external sd card, i backedup original vold.fstab and replace with one from forum put it in system/etc and reboot phone, after few minutes phone is up and memory is swaped but phone internal memory (2gb) disapired es explorer say
>sdcard unmounted< after few restarts and trying to restor original vold.fstab ( buy the way now lost original vold.fstab) both memories are now disapired......
The problem is when i : Power on phone and enter clw menager ext.sd and internal memory are accesibel and i can flash new room, they are dismounted and i try to mount them via clw but whne phone turns on they are booth unmounted and unaccesible.
Phone works, calls, sms,wifi,games, but cant donwnload and instal, camera say no sd card, and all my photos and videos from internal memory (phone memory are gone). Pc dont see anything when i connect, cards work whne i put them in camera or card reader,just in phone they are not visible.
Please help about this, i tried all vold.fstab from forum manuel write them and restart phone but nothing heppend......
If u need more info im will check forum every minut to resolve this cos i got beg from Venic and all pictures are on internal memory
ya right
starter_ns said:
Hi to all of u and thanks for great posts u made about all thing u need to know about flashing, brickign and recovering our phones
So i flashed mi xperia miro st23i last year with :
cm10 - 10-20131224 unofficial mesona
build number- cm_mesona-userdebug 4.1.2 jz054k eng.root.20131224.135016 test-keys
kernel : 3.0.8-fxp-g22c38de5 [email protected]#1
andrid v. : 4.1.2
And it worked perfect with some small bugs, the phone was much better with cm10 then before. So many thanks for creators and tutorial makers for making us noob and newnoobs do the easiest way and improve our cheep androids
Yesterday i bought 8gb microsd (ScabDisk) and swap my 2gb (Kingston) - i copied all from 2gb to 8gb m.card and put it in android and worked till i try to mess with vold.fstab....and made my day.....
So, tried to swap intenal memory with external sd card, i backedup original vold.fstab and replace with one from forum put it in system/etc and reboot phone, after few minutes phone is up and memory is swaped but phone internal memory (2gb) disapired es explorer say
>sdcard unmounted< after few restarts and trying to restor original vold.fstab ( buy the way now lost original vold.fstab) both memories are now disapired......
The problem is when i : Power on phone and enter clw menager ext.sd and internal memory are accesibel and i can flash new room, they are dismounted and i try to mount them via clw but whne phone turns on they are booth unmounted and unaccesible.
Phone works, calls, sms,wifi,games, but cant donwnload and instal, camera say no sd card, and all my photos and videos from internal memory (phone memory are gone). Pc dont see anything when i connect, cards work whne i put them in camera or card reader,just in phone they are not visible.
Please help about this, i tried all vold.fstab from forum manuel write them and restart phone but nothing heppend......
If u need more info im will check forum every minut to resolve this cos i got beg from Venic and all pictures are on internal memory
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ya that's a major problem in cm10 that we havehave been disscussing
http://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-j-e/help/music-player-didnt-read-external-sdcard-t2737064
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slogger001 said:
ya that's a major problem in cm10 that we havehave been disscussing
http://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-j-e/help/music-player-didnt-read-external-sdcard-t2737064
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The interesting thing is that 2 day ago and back a year ago phone vas working fine till i buyed new card
750 mb system
2gb internal
2gb external
now after messing with vold.fstab i see just 750mb system and both internal and external are not visible.
Is there a solution just too get it back to see them as before? or at leest internal?
hmmm
starter_ns said:
The interesting thing is that 2 day ago and back a year ago phone vas working fine till i buyed new card
750 mb system
2gb internal
2gb external
now after messing with vold.fstab i see just 750mb system and both internal and external are not visible.
Is there a solution just too get it back to see them as before? or at leest internal?
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but I have the same card and didn't change anything card is not reading since after I flashed cm10 it is working fine when I have stock rom
well my internal memory is working fine just external is not working only solution I can see that is to flash stock rom
slogger001 said:
ya that's a major problem in cm10 that we havehave been disscussing
http://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-j-e/help/music-player-didnt-read-external-sdcard-t2737064
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slogger001 said:
but I have the same card and didn't change anything card is not reading since after I flashed cm10 it is working fine when I have stock rom
well my internal memory is working fine just external is not working only solution I can see that is to flash stock rom
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Thanks for replaying btw, some of postes helped me, so im trying whole morning to figure out what the hell heppend and....
So i flashed cm10 again, somehow i menaged to backup data trough clw and after flasing phone is workig fine both memories are ok and ext card is ok. Pictures are back as videos and all other stufs.....
The strange thing is if i replace vold.fstab with some from forum about mesona, phone mem. is ok, ext.card is mounted as internal and all apps are working exept cam and galery and internal mem is not shown buy settings/storage just from es exlporer.
it would be good if someone can menage to make this working it looks like half way trip...
Seeing xp miro to have 8gb internal m. and working cam would be grate.
I left some screenshots...
starter_ns said:
Thanks for replaying btw, some of postes helped me, so im trying whole morning to figure out what the hell heppend and....
So i flashed cm10 again, somehow i menaged to backup data trough clw and after flasing phone is workig fine both memories are ok and ext card is ok. Pictures are back as videos and all other stufs.....
The strange thing is if i replace vold.fstab with some from forum about mesona, phone mem. is ok, ext.card is mounted as internal and all apps are working exept cam and galery and internal mem is not shown buy settings/storage just from es exlporer.
it would be good if someone can menage to make this working it looks like half way trip...
Seeing xp miro to have 8gb internal m. and working cam would be grate.
I left some screenshots...
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First of all editing vold.fstab is pretty straight forward. I don't know why you went for replacing the edited vold.fstab. Its just a matter of interchanging 'sdcard' and 'externalcard' text.
For the apps not working, did you try clear cache, data, force stop and then restart ? It may solve the issue.
For Camera did you try changing data storage option ?
appviz said:
First of all editing vold.fstab is pretty straight forward. I don't know why you went for replacing the edited vold.fstab. Its just a matter of interchanging 'sdcard' and 'externalcard' text.
For the apps not working, did you try clear cache, data, force stop and then restart ? It may solve the issue.
For Camera did you try changing data storage option ?
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Sorry for lat respones,
I try to edit vold.fstab by replacing ext.sd with sd and whne phone booted external card changed to internal 8gb but internal disapired and i couldn't execs it. So i restored originial vold.fstab and after boot both mem disapired, not seen in phone explorer or pc, just clw can see ext.sd and internal so i reflashed cm10 and all is back to normal.
In cm10 i dont have option in camera menu sd/intermal or external default is internal, so i manuel copy pics to external and galery works normal-see all pics.
starter_ns said:
Sorry for lat respones,
I try to edit vold.fstab by replacing ext.sd with sd and whne phone booted external card changed to internal 8gb but internal disapired and i couldn't execs it. So i restored originial vold.fstab and after boot both mem disapired, not seen in phone explorer or pc, just clw can see ext.sd and internal so i reflashed cm10 and all is back to normal.
In cm10 i dont have option in camera menu sd/intermal or external default is internal, so i manuel copy pics to external and galery works normal-see all pics.
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Did you just replace external SD card with SD card ? If that is the case, it would definitely cause issue... In fact you should have swapped Ext SD and SD in vold.fstab, not just replace the ext SD with SD. Hope I could see what's there in your vold.fstab file.
I have a weird problem. I am using my Xperia L, running 4.2.2(Out of The Box) with the latest official Firmware. Its not rooted.
4.2.2+ supports moving Apps to SD without Root.
I have Noticed one thing. If youre going to Buy a New Phone Running 4.2.2+, If you start the phone for the first time(just after buying), with no memory card, after youve switched on the phone and try to move Apps to SD, it wont Happen!! The apps will only move to the Internal Storage.
But,if you start the phone(For the First Time) with memory card Inserted, then it will recognize the mem Card as Your external storage. From settings now you can move Apps to SD.
Why does this Happen??
Can anyone help me to solve this??
Factory reset Is an option i Know but I wanted to Know if Other solutions Existed.
I tested It with Samsung Galaxy S Duos 2 and Moto E , by Inserting the Mem card first, Then Starting the Phone (for the First time). For Both of the phones, the Mem card was taken as the external and apps could be the Moved to SD via Settings.
But for my Xperia L, I didnt insert the Memory card and switched it on(just after buying) . When I inserted the Mem Card later, and tried to Move Movable apps to SD, the apps would only move to The Internal Memory.
Thank You in Advance.
Samarpan said:
I have a weird problem. I am using my Xperia L, running 4.2.2(Out of The Box) with the latest official Firmware. Its not rooted.
4.2.2+ supports moving Apps to SD without Root.
I have Noticed one thing. If youre going to Buy a New Phone Running 4.2.2+, If you start the phone for the first time(just after buying), with no memory card, after youve switched on the phone and try to move Apps to SD, it wont Happen!! The apps will only move to the Internal Storage.
But,if you start the phone(For the First Time) with memory card Inserted, then it will recognize the mem Card as Your external storage. From settings now you can move Apps to SD.
Why does this Happen??
Can anyone help me to solve this??
Factory reset Is an option i Know but I wanted to Know if Other solutions Existed.
I tested It with Samsung Galaxy S Duos 2 and Moto E , by Inserting the Mem card first, Then Starting the Phone (for the First time). For Both of the phones, the Mem card was taken as the external and apps could be the Moved to SD via Settings.
But for my Xperia L, I didnt insert the Memory card and switched it on(just after buying) . When I inserted the Mem Card later, and tried to Move Movable apps to SD, the apps would only move to The Internal Memory.
Thank You in Advance.
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we cannot move apps directly to external memory, we are only allowed to move apps to internal..but if u wanted to move apps on external, u nid to swap them but its too risky if u dont know what u are doing.
mizukage said:
we cannot move apps directly to external memory, we are only allowed to move apps to internal..but if u wanted to move apps on external, u nid to swap them but its too risky if u dont know what u are doing.
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Thank You.
Anyways The Problem Has been Solved. I Did a Factory reset While The memory Card was Inserted and after the Reset The Apps can be moved Now to The External. My Phone's ROM has Now become 4.1 gb and External memory 6.9gb(i have a SanDisk Ultra Class 10 8GB).
Hi ,
Yesterday i flashed a mashmallow rom on my Samsung Galaxy note 2 . Every thing was fine until i got a message which told me to erase my sd card so as to be able to move my apps on it. I accepted but the setting crashed when i pressed ok . I entered in the setting again and i saw that my sd card was corrupted .Since then i flashed my previous rom and i'm now on android lollipop. But the problem is that i can't create/move any forlder on my sd card . I'm able to move my photos or rar file in the sd card. I am also able to create new File in it .
I want to know xhat is the problem and how to fix it. I know i wrote a long essay but i am worried about my Sd card because its a 32 GB one . please help me .... and thanks in advance .
Hi , try format your sd card first, or wipe internal storage from revovery , may it help you
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