When i flash a new rom... will the internal SD with all my photos and music also be wiped?
Only if you choose to wipe internal storage, which isn't necessary.
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Since the NS has 16g internal memory and no card, how do I set it to backup roms, pictures, music, etc to a different location than the internal memory? If I wipe every time I install a new rom, won't that destroy the old backups, etc?
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Since the NS has 16g internal memory and no card, how do I set it to backup roms, pictures, music, etc to a different location than the internal memory? If I wipe every time I install a new rom, won't that destroy the old backups, etc?
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A wipe shouldn't erase your internal sdcard. You have to select format sd card to do that. Exception is when you do the oem unlock of the bootloader.
That said, I always transfer a copy of my nandroid backups to my laptop or my dropbox, just in case...
edit: the internal sd card is treated by the OS the same way an external card is on other phones, it's mounted as a different partition.
Can we please all come together and agree on how to mount internal/external storage?
I had Bionix flashed and downloaded a new rom from a different dev. I rebooted into recovery and did the usual wipage before flashing to the new rom... except I forgot that Bionix mounts the SD card under External SD (I'm used to CM7), so every Android app sees the internal storage when saving files, instead of the external SD card. So now I have to reinstall an old rom just so I can re-download the files and move to SD card in order to flash the new rom.
This is getting ridiculous. I really don't care where the mount points are, I just wish they'd be consistent among the different devs.
*steps down off soap box*
I agree with you. Although I'd rather stick with the stock scheme of /mnt/sdcard/_ExternalSD. JM2C
I wouldn't. I'd rather the SD card be "SDCARD" and the internal storage be under mmc.
The thing is stock roms have it screwed up. They have SDCard as internal and SDCard/External as the micro. Plain confusing. Why have the microSD card as a folder on the internal.
They both need separate locations. The good thing about having the SDCard as the microSD card is that programs that usually write data to that location would be saving it to the removable disk vs internal storage. For Example Launcher Pro stores its backup to /SDCard. If my phone screws up or takes a swim... my LP backup is gone vs the microSD card would likely survive.
I say put the internal storage on MMC like CM has it. Load it up with music or videos and be done. Let the apps install backups and data to the microSD card so they are secured across devices.
Honestly, coming from a N1, I don't even know what to do with the 8gb internal storage. I'll probably throw my music on there to free up space on my 16gb microSD.
Hello.
Have this new Xperia V with stock Jelly Bean rom, only rooted, and when I got a 32GB sd card, I noticed that it was not using it like it was on my last phone with ICS.
On ICS you only had 2 storages - phone storage and sd card. You could move apps to sd and back to phone.
On JellyBean there is only phone and internal storage (like an emulated sd card), and you can move the apps only between those two. The sd card can not be used for apps.
So my question is, is it possible to merge the phone and internal storage, so it only appears as phone storage, and the sd card to be available as an option to move apps to, Like it was on ICS?
If not, would the downgrade to ICS make only one internal storage, and the other one to be the sd card?
EDIT: Is this thread what I am looking for? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2254918
as per attached link u swap sd storage in to internal storage... u need to swap it bro
My internal memory is damaged.
So I want to use the phone by flashing ROM in external memory card.
But how ?
My phone is always out of storage space, and whenever I try to migrate my data to my sd card, my internal storage becomes even fuller. I installed a custom rom today, and formatted the sd card as internal storage again and copied some music to it, but it went to the internal storage instead. Help
What are the exact specs of the SD card?