It's August 2015 and here's my case and I have already been through the threads and confirmed that none of them could answer my question.
I hope some android developers could really help me out.
What happened: I deleted the .android_secure folder (what a mistake!!!)
Noted that ".android_secure stores encrypted versions of the apps moved to external SD card. You'll have probably to reinstall some apps" - by a member of xda
Before I introduce you to my phone's problem, here's the background:
1. my phone model: HTC ONE XL
2. rooted, running clean ROM, android 4.0.1
3. I have many of my apps moved to the SD card(internal storage) before the deletion
4. I notice that whenever I move an app to the SD card(internal storage), I would have some (BUT NOT ALL) mass of the app moved. ie. some mass of the app will still stay in phone storage
5. I have some apps in my launcher as "shortcuts" before the deletion
Here's the situation after the deletion:
1. The "shortcuts" are still on my launcher, showing their icons normally but when I click on them, a toast shows "application not installed"
2. I checked my phone storage and found that there's no change in the space occupied by apps. That means the phone storage part of the mass of the apps are still there.
CONCLUSION: although I have deleted the .android_secure folder, the apps that I have moved to the SD card have their remains in the phone storage occupying space and that is totally troll and useless because I cannot use the app with only its remains.
3. The apps that had been moved to the SD card previously no longer exist in the app drawer after the deletion
WHAT I TRIED: I reinstalled the apps with only their remains in the phone storage in order to use the apps again but the newly installed one did not overwrite the old data, so now my phone's phone storage has both
1. old app remains (some parts of mass of the apps), which is totally junk *old app=new app
2. new app mass
My question: How can I identify/remove the old app remains?
I sincerely hope that some android experts could help with my problem thanks
I appreciate your explanitation ofvyour problem. You can usw clean mastervto clear app junk or do a factory reset.
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droid_god said:
I appreciate your explanitation ofvyour problem. You can usw clean mastervto clear app junk or do a factory reset.
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Your method does not work, they aren't just app junk but something more intrinsic.
thanks anyway
Even the factory reset option also not helped
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Can you tell me the folder location from where you deleted it
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droid_god said:
Even the factory reset option also not helped
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Can you tell me the folder location from where you deleted it
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Nope, because what I am looking for is a solution WITHOUT factory reset.
its /SDCard/.android_secure
Its not a folder its a file.
In my samsung galaxy core 2 i moves some apps to external storege and some n intermal storage then too .android_secure appeared on external sd card and is of 0.00 bytes.
I deleted that file but my device is workimg properly
droid_god said:
Its not a folder its a file.
In my samsung galaxy core 2 i moves some apps to external storege and some n intermal storage then too .android_secure appeared on external sd card and is of 0.00 bytes.
I deleted that file but my device is workimg properly
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You're wrong, ".android_secure" is definitely a folder, which contains lots of .asec files
Hmm it could be a matter of android version.
Tell me which vwrsion of android you arevrunning
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Uninstall those apps and do a reboot and after reboot install these apps again. I tried this on my device and it worked.
It should also work on your device
Listen Carefully Senior
He can't uninstall the apps because the apps are from his friend's phone, who rented his micro sd card and backed up his apps to it. Soo What he's trying to say is. "What you did was store the app to your micro sd card and then store it back to your phone." SIMPLE RIGHT?
But since that is the same phone the file or folder (.android_secure) has been removed by default because theres no need to protect an app that isn't there any more. SO WHATS THE PROBLEM?
His friend, the guy who rented the micro sd card, has moved his apps from his phone to the micro sd card and then gave it back to this idiot GphonePrince. SO HERE'S THE BIG DIFFERENCE droid_god.
droid_god
Your phone removed the .android_secure file from your external storage because your phone recognizes what was writen to it. Your phone wrote it in the first place. It happens when you move any app to your external_storage.
GphonePrince
Your phone cannot remove .android_secure folder because your phone cannot recognize what apps your buddy moved to your micro sd card. Your phone is not the owner of the apps stored to the micro sd card.
SO WHAT'S HAPPENING IS
Your phones saying, "whats this ****?"
Your micro sd card is saying, "bro don't touch that, someone forgot it and I'm going to keep it safe until they pick it up you can't just take it."
Your phone agrees with your micro sd card and now your hoping for a little miracle from the xda team
if this is correct let us know so we can get you started on renting sd cards out forever
Probac n sd maid...descargalo desde play store .
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I have a Samsung Galaxy note II (GT-7100)
The phone kept unmounting and prepairing my sd card every time id wake the phone up from idle.
And then it gave me a error the card was blank or currupt and to format it, i did not format the sd card.
Now the Samsung will not recognize the sd card at all, i tried it in my friends S3 but that phone will not regonize it either, both note II and S3 are rooted.
Now after the SD card ****ed up, i tried downloading some apps on Googleplay, it says there isnt enough space yet i have 6gb internal space but when i update apps it allows it to do that.
I dont know what to do, i want my SD card to work because its 32GB and has my **** on it, also i want to install apps and play games but i cant because this phone is turning out to be wank really, only got it in january.
Is there anyway of formatting the sd card through my phones usb? i dont care if i have to whip the card i just want to use it. Also how can i get googleplay to work because thats annoying as well
At the minute im downloading a updated firmware for samsung kies so loosing root and then doing a factory reset to see if this will fix anything.
Thanks in advance.
Format it in PC, first quick format and if that still doesn't works try full format....And if still not works try a Google search for repairing SD card....
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Buy an micro SD card adapter to do so....
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fromat Sd from phone
Kspalahyia said:
Format it in PC, first quick format and if that still doesn't works try full format....And if still not works try a Google search for repairing SD card....
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Buy an micro SD card adapter to do so....
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\you should not need PC to format the SD card.
In setting on storage you will see there is one item say format Sd card.
Failing that us an apk call GO taskmanager EX, it does lots more thanthe basic.
just format within your phone
just remove your mc in your phone and find a card reader that is compatible with your mc..and try quick format.....if you can format it then...your memory card is in good condition
may be the mc is having unsupported filesystem , try formatting it from ur pc , n in format option select "set default " before formating . n then insert it in ur phone n format it again before using from phone itself ..
hope it will help ..
Thanks for the reply people!
Around 7 hours after I posted this, I saw my phone randomly light up so I woke it up from idle and it said prepairing sd card and now its working normal again :S? Some wierd shizzle
Hi i am using LG Optimus One V2.3. I have installed Link 2 Sd card but it is unable to move data to SD Card. Also through Directory Bind it's unable to detect internal memory of Whatsapp. Please help me in moving data to SD card.
Nitesh1 said:
Hi i am using LG Optimus One V2.3. I have installed Link 2 Sd card but it is unable to move data to SD Card. Also through Directory Bind it's unable to detect internal memory of Whatsapp. Please help me in moving data to SD card.
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bro... watsapp only works in phone memory... u can move other apps
hit thanks rather writing thanks
Nitesh1 said:
Hi i am using LG Optimus One V2.3. I have installed Link 2 Sd card but it is unable to move data to SD Card. Also through Directory Bind it's unable to detect internal memory of Whatsapp. Please help me in moving data to SD card.
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You can move all your apps to your SD card when your phone is rooted but remember some apps will crash or don't work when placed in SD card.
Fantassy123 said:
You can move all your apps to your SD card when your phone is rooted but remember some apps will crash or don't work when placed in SD card.
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Thanks for replying.. I have moved whatsapp app to Sd card but it had only moved APK file not the data which is still 55 MB in phone memory.
Try link2sd dude
I have no problem at all
But you must root your device first
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pe3do said:
Try link2sd dude
I have no problem at all
But you must root your device first
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He just told us in the first post that Link2sd don't work...
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He just told us in the first post that Link2sd don't work...
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Any more suggestions are welcome. I need to get rid out of this situation.
Thanks....!
Nitesh1 said:
Hi i am using LG Optimus One V2.3. I have installed Link 2 Sd card but it is unable to move data to SD Card. Also through Directory Bind it's unable to detect internal memory of Whatsapp. Please help me in moving data to SD card.
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first of all ,, are you rooted??
Whatsapp only works on phone memory bro!!!
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try [Script] Data2sdext
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He just told us in the first post that Link2sd don't work...
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you can also use Script
Data2sdext.!
to move your data!
do this @ your own risk..
if i help u hit thanks
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dj88 said:
you can also use Script
Data2sdext.!
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do this @ your own risk..
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or make partition on sd card and then try link2sd..
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you can also use Script
Data2sdext.!
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do this @ your own risk..
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or make partition on sd card and then try link2sd..
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Yes my device is rooted.
I hv installed Root all to SD but it's showing Storage is not mounted. I have clicked on Mount but still it's the same.
I think this app will allow data to move in SD card.
Please HELP...!
use titanium backup for moving apps.
your phone must be rooted for it
I reply here because I spent a lot of time searching through very old posts and trying outdated methods. I didn't know that actually today there is a very easy solution to move whatsapp media folder to SD card. It perfectly worked on my Samsung Galaxy A3 A320FL:
1) Root (I used twrp + magisk method)
2) Download "App2SD" (the original by Vicky Bonick; it's free) and follow instructions on how to create partitions
3) Use "folder mount (app analyzer)" feature, which apparently was not considered in the old posts in this forum, so I suppose it was recently added to App2SD.
It's like folder mount, but it's pre-set for some common apps, including Whatsapp. With this feature, you can successfully move Whatsapp media folder to SD, in one clic.
In my case everything worked fine. When I reboot I have to re-mount folder, but it takes one second (just open Apps2SD, tap Folder Mount, slide "whatsapp other").
airali said:
I reply here because I spent a lot of time searching through very old posts and trying outdated methods. I didn't know that actually today there is a very easy solution to move whatsapp media folder to SD card. It perfectly worked on my Samsung Galaxy A3 A320FL:
1) Root (I used twrp + magisk method)
2) Download "App2SD" (the original by Vicky Bonick; it's free) and follow instructions on how to create partitions
3) Use "folder mount (app analyzer)" feature, which apparently was not considered in the old posts in this forum, so I suppose it was recently added to App2SD.
It's like folder mount, but it's pre-set for some common apps, including Whatsapp. With this feature, you can successfully move Whatsapp media folder to SD, in one clic.
In my case everything worked fine. When I reboot I have to re-mount folder, but it takes one second (just open Apps2SD, tap Folder Mount, slide "whatsapp other").
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Thank you so much mate. This method works perfectly !
I used to have to have a 32gb MicroSD card in my Note 3 which i used to use for my files. After I rooted my phone, I thought it would be a good idea to store my TWRP backups to my MicroSD card as it frees up internal storage but however after I initially made my 1st backup to my card, the system booted up and apparently the card was blank. I know this to be false as I have loads of photos on it and I selected the MicroSD card in recovery to make my nandroid backup to and after like 3 minutes, it was made.
Question is. How do I get my MicroSD card back to normal. I'm aware of formatting it and then mounting it in recovery but I don't want to lose my files on the card. I inserted the card into my laptop and the command prompt said it had a RAW file system.
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Don164 said:
I used to have to have a 32gb MicroSD card in my Note 3 which i used to use for my files. After I rooted my phone, I thought it would be a good idea to store my TWRP backups to my MicroSD card as it frees up internal storage but however after I initially made my 1st backup to my card, the system booted up and apparently the card was blank. I know this to be false as I have loads of photos on it and I selected the MicroSD card in recovery to make my nandroid backup to and after like 3 minutes, it was made.
Question is. How do I get my MicroSD card back to normal. I'm aware of formatting it and then mounting it in recovery but I don't want to lose my files on the card. I inserted the card into my laptop and the command prompt said it had a RAW file system.
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you can use " get data recover my file " software for recovery ......use its professional version (you can find it at torrent ) .
rishav754 said:
you can use " get data recover my file " software for recovery ......use its professional version (you can find it at torrent ) .
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Would I use that after I format my card and which file system should I format it to so TWRP can recognize it
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I used Recuva. It's from the people that make CCleaner. Worked for me. But honestly, don't let it restore files that are partially damaged, because if they're music or photos or videos, they won't play/display correctly, and it'll cause wakelocks from the media scanner until you find and delete them.
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I used Recuva. It's from the people that make CCleaner. Worked for me. But honestly, don't let it restore files that are partially damaged, because if they're music or photos or videos, they won't play/display correctly, and it'll cause wakelocks from the media scanner until you find and delete them.
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Thanks for the advice, should I just format the MicroSD card and then use Recuva to recover the files
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Thanks for the advice, should I just format the MicroSD card and then use Recuva to recover the files
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Don't reformat, just put the microSD card into your computer (with an adapter, or with something that will let it show up as mass storage, not MTP). Point Recuva to the card. It'll tell you what files are partially restorable and fully restorable. Like I said, don't restore the damaged stuff. From experience, what'll happen if you do is you're gonna get wake locks and no app will be able to tell you which files are damaged. So you'll end up having to format the entire card anyways to get rid of the wake lock/damaged files.
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Don't reformat, just put the microSD card into your computer (with an adapter, or with something that will let it show up as mass storage, not MTP). Point Recuva to the card. It'll tell you what files are partially restorable and fully restorable. Like I said, don't restore the damaged stuff. From experience, what'll happen if you do is you're gonna get wake locks and no app will be able to tell you which files are damaged. So you'll end up having to format the entire card anyways to get rid of the wake lock/damaged files.
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I've formatted the MicroSD card as I had a backup of the files on my laptop and everything seems to be working fine.
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Don164 said:
I've formatted the MicroSD card as I had a backup of the files on my laptop and everything seems to be working fine.
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You Could Have Used Easus Data Recovery
pushkardua said:
You Could Have Used Easus Data Recovery
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I discovered a backup on my laptop so I just formatted it so my Note 3 could read it
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I am starting a new topic, because I fear that I am not the only one that is going to have this problem - basically no mater what I do, I can't make the phone (idol 3, 4.7") to install apps to the sd card.
I tested two thing.
Method 1: There is a option in settings -> apps -> preferred install location. I chose "removeble SD card" there restarted the phone and tried to install something -> it goes striate to the tiny less-than-4-GB memory on the phone.
Method 2: Android SDK Tools - after method 1 failed I used the Android SDK tool, to change the default install location using CMD and the "adb shell pm set-install-location 2" command. The location was changed successfully (according to CMD), but when I tried to install something it again goes to the phone memory not the SDK.
Soo... after this didn't work I decide to simply move the apps to the SD card. I didn't have problem with Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft for example, but most of the apps actually don't move correctly. For example I installed Asphalt 8: Airborne and move it to the SD card. According to the phone, everything was ok (see attachment 3). Sadly the free space was suggesting something different. Checking with Link2SD Plus reviews a ugly picture - the major part of the app was actually on the phone (attachment 1). Removing the obb files resulted in the game downloading them again... on the phone.
So at this point the only logical solution for me seemed to use the "Link to SD Card" option in Link2SD. Sadly this doesn't work because "Link2SD could not obtain root access" (attachment 2).
I don't know... maybe I am missing something, but at that point the only other solution that I can think about is rooting the phone, witch is not yet possible. If you have any ideas - pls shere.
I am not entirely sure if the problem is connected to Android 5 or Alcatel did something to the OS, but after 3 days of using the idol 3 (4.7") I am on the verge of throwing it in to a wall.
This problem is the fault of Android.
I have the HTC m8 and the problem was the same and no solution before rooting and installing custom roms and special kernels and apps.
I know, very disappointing, but can be solved very easily when rooting will arrive..
Well, then - fingers crossed that we will get rooting solution soon.
Just realized that the same thing is happening with my phone. Looks like I'll use the phone for apps and the SD card for other data. At least my Google play music downloads were saved to the SD card
Sadly I am using Spotify and can't make it save on the SD card.
Same issue here basically, but with photos. I can view, but not delete files using apps such as Solid or ES File manager. They ask to be granted access, but it doesn't work. Native apps like the phone's task manager and Gallery app can edit and delete these files just fine. Other phones such as my S6 and M9 are running the same version 5.0.2 and I don't have this problem. Is it something inherent to this particular phone? Yes, rooting when it comes will solve the problem, but I thought most 3rd-party app developers had solved this issue by now. Why didn't any reviews indicate this problem before I made the purchase? Grrrrr.
In settings, apps under downloaded apps column you can click on an app and provided it's not a google app etc it will have the "move to sd" option. I've used that to move several large apps like wps office (100mb) etc.
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rmc69 said:
Same issue here basically, but with photos. I can view, but not delete files using apps such as Solid or ES File manager. They ask to be granted access, but it doesn't work. Native apps like the phone's task manager and Gallery app can edit and delete these files just fine. Other phones such as my S6 and M9 are running the same version 5.0.2 and I don't have this problem. Is it something inherent to this particular phone? Yes, rooting when it comes will solve the problem, but I thought most 3rd-party app developers had solved this issue by now. Why didn't any reviews indicate this problem before I made the purchase? Grrrrr.
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You can probably blame lollipop....they've gotten more strict about apps being able to access the external sd card. System apps like Gallery have permission to access the external sd.
I just got a reply from the developer of QuickPic and he says it is definitely a bug they cannot fix. Oh well, don't expect to use any 3rd party apps with your SD card on this phone.
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famewolf said:
In settings, apps under downloaded apps column you can click on an app and provided it's not a google app etc it will have the "move to sd" option. I've used that to move several large apps like wps office (100mb) etc.
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Have you tried using any apps after moving them to the SD Card?
I moved about 6 apps to the SD Card. Then I noticed that the widget for one of the apps on the SD card started displaying an error message (Soundcloud). I clicked on the widget and nothing happened. Decided to reboot my phone and then I realized that none of the apps I placed on the SD Card were accessible any longer. Had to re-download them all again to Phone storage.
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Have you tried using any apps after moving them to the SD Card?
I moved about 6 apps to the SD Card. Then I noticed that the widget for one of the apps on the SD card started displaying an error message (Soundcloud). I clicked on the widget and nothing happened. Decided to reboot my phone and then I realized that none of the apps I placed on the SD Card were accessible any longer. Had to re-download them all again to Phone storage.
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You should not be moving apps that have widgets you plan to use. I verified my apps [ Amazon appstore, F-Droid, Lightning Browser, WPS Office etc...] just now and all are working fine...this is also after a couple of reboots since I moved them.
Yep, you can't more the app if you plan to use the widget. That's been normal for a long long time.
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Why on earth would Google make it so files can't be deleted using 3rd party apps? That's just dumb. I use both ES File Explorer and QuickPik and this ruins the usability of these apps. hope this gets fixed in an update.
I hope they fix it soon too. This phone only has 10 gbs of internal storage. Putting photos and videos on an SD card is almost a necessity, not to mention music. Other devices running Lollipop 5.0.2 have fixed this. As I said, QuickPic, ES File Explorer work fine on my Galaxy S6 and HTC M9 as regards the SD card. I plan to write Alcatel tomorrow and maybe they will read this forum.
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I need someone to check for me please that has this phone and an external sd card. If you would be so kind as to install the free app Quickpic or even the free app ES file explorer. Set the native camera app to save to sd card. Try and delete a photo using either Quickpic or ES File Explorer and see if you get the same result as I did. I'm attaching 2 screenshots. The first one you will see asking for permission and the second screenshot from my phone does not list the external sd card which is the problem.
This will eliminate the possibility that it is just something wrong with my phone or a serious bug that everyone will face. Obviously, if the external sd card is not listed as a choise, you can't grant permission.
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View attachment 3341267I need someone to check for me please that has this phone and an external sd card. If you would be so kind as to install the free app Quickpic or even the free app ES file explorer. Set the native camera app to save to sd card. Try and delete a photo using either Quickpic or ES File Explorer and see if you get the same result as I did. I'm attaching 2 screenshots. The first one you will see asking for permission and the second screenshot from my phone does not list the external sd card which is the problem.
This will eliminate the possibility that it is just something wrong with my phone or a serious bug that everyone will face. Obviously, if the external sd card is not listed as a choise, you can't grant permission.
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I use ES File Explorer - and I got the same prompts while attempting to delete something from the external micro SD card. Honestly - I was not able to exactly follow what it was asking me the first time around. But eventually I was able to do what it was asking me to do ( although I couldn't repeat it if you asked me to !! ) and now I am able to delete files from the micro SD using ES File Explorer.
Thanks. If it now works on your phone, perhaps I have a flaw in my phone. I'll try yet a 3rd sd card and report back.
Solved
PROBLEM SOLVED!! My 64GB Micro SD card was formatted to exFat.
It needs to be formatted to Fat32. I used a guide from this XDA thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1773735
Now, QuickPic and ES File Explorer recognize the SD card and permission can be granted.
Whew.
rmc69 said:
PROBLEM SOLVED!! My 64GB Micro SD card was formatted to exFat.
It needs to be formatted to Fat32. I used a guide from this XDA thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1773735
Now, QuickPic and ES File Explorer recognize the SD card and permission can be granted.
Whew.
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Nice info there. I did the same after seeing your post. I formatted my 128GB card with a 65536 byte allocation unit size which is the fastest. I tested the sd card with flashbench to see which was the fastest. After formatting I loaded a few test files. QuickPic works fine but ES File Explorer still does not. I will delete the data and reinstall the app and see if that works. Right now I'm copying all my music back over to the card which will take a while.
ES File Explorer still won't delete from the SD Card. I cleared the data, uninstalled and installed again. When I delete a file (picture) I do not get the option to select the SD card. Any other solutions?
Shodan5150 said:
ES File Explorer still won't delete from the SD Card. I cleared the data, uninstalled and installed again. When I delete a file (picture) I do not get the option to select the SD card. Any other solutions?
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If QuickPic now will delete from the SD card, so should ES File Explorer. While this was going on, I downloaded 2 additional file managers (Solid and Root Explorer) and they too wouldn't delete from the sd card. Once I reformatted my card, all 3 file managers were able to get permission and delete the files including ES. My only suggestion would be to try reformatting again and if still not working, if you have one, try another card from a different manufacturer. Since ES File Manager now works for me, it should for you too. Let us know if you sort it out. Root Explorer is a very good file manager, but costs $3.99. (Root is not required with the latest update despite the name).
I tried Solid and it didn't work. Then I tried a couple other generic ones and still nope. Then I tried Astro and it worked. I went back to Solid and it worked. Then went back to ES and it worked. Damn so strange but glad it's working now. Thanks for the help.
Hi all.. anyone knows which app i can use to move the applications from internal to sd all together...
Such a pain to check if every other app supports the sd move or not...
If there is another thread, pls give the link.. will remove this one..
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I don't think there is a way to do it without root permission. You have to move one by one, using android app settings.
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[email protected] said:
Hi all.. anyone knows which app i can use to move the applications from internal to sd all together...
Such a pain to check if every other app supports the sd move or not...
If there is another thread, pls give the link.. will remove this one..
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Open up settings, scroll down to applications, click application manager then select an app. It will say storage and you click on that and the next screen will say internal and change underneath it. Not all apps can be moved though. Most apps cannot be moved to SD card for some reason.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.a0soft.gphone.app2sd
This app directly shows a list of movable apps.
But, the function will move them to your internal sdcard not to the real sdcard. So you wouldn't get any free storage unless you do the adoptable storage thing through shell and migrate the internal sdcard data to the adoptable storage.
Edit: I guess you could move them to the external too. Didn't know that.
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