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SD Card problem

I installed a 32 gb sd card and my phone recognized it without any problems but as I iinstalled apps to the card the amount of space in card never changed. I changed the sd card to 8 gb and I'm having the same problem. Anyone else having this problem, I am rooted and have su permission.
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vinnyjr said:
I installed a 32 gb sd card and my phone recognized it without any problems but as I iinstalled apps to the card the amount of space in card never changed. I changed the sd card to 8 gb and I'm having the same problem. Anyone else having this problem, I am rooted and have su permission.
Thanks
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I am just guessing here, but perhaps those apps are going to the extended internal memory? The G2x (like most Androids now with large internal memory) treats 5GB of your internal memory as an SD card at the directory /sdcard. The external card you put in is found at /sdcard/_ExternalSD
My best guess is that your apps are going to the /sdcard which is actually part of your internal memory.

jimbo831 said:
I am just guessing here, but perhaps those apps are going to the extended internal memory? The G2x (like most Androids now with large internal memory) treats 5GB of your internal memory as an SD card at the directory /sdcard. The external card you put in is found at /sdcard/_ExternalSD
My best guess is that your apps are going to the /sdcard which is actually part of your internal memory.
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You are right, how do I put them on the ext sd card? Do I have to partition the sd card or is there another way, seems the people that don't root there phones must be able to use the ext sd card as well??
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vinnyjr said:
You are right, how do I put them on the ext sd card? Do I have to partition the sd card or is there another way, seems the people that don't root there phones must be able to use the ext sd card as well??
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Sorry, but I can't answer that one yet, I haven't even ordered my G2x yet. I just read about this issue from another thread on this forum because apparently it was the same setup on the Vibrant. Perhaps some Vibrant owners can chime in with a suggestion? Not sure if it's possible to put apps to SD or if they just automatically go to the internal storage. However, if I were you, I'd rather have the apps on internal storage and save the SD for videos, pictures, music, etc. The internal storage will be more reliable (not fail later) and faster than the SD. 5GB should be more than enough space for app storage.

App2sd works. As long as the app supports it. But there really is no need to put them on the external sd right? 5gigs should be plenty. Put your music and vids on the external. Sounds exactly Like my vibrant.
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tsquire99 said:
App2sd works. As long as the app supports it. But there really is no need to put them on the external sd right? 5gigs should be plenty. Put your music and vids on the external. Sounds exactly Like my vibrant.
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Yeah, that's what I meant but I think I used the wrong term. When you use what Froyo calls "Apps to SD" it goes to what the phone calls SD but is actually internal memory. Do you know if there is any way (without root or hacks) to have those Apps to SD actually go to your SD card (/sdcard/_ExternalSD) instead of the internal memory the phone calls the SD?
I agree that the 5GB internal should be more than enough anyway, but I am curious for sure.

jimbo831 said:
Yeah, that's what I meant but I think I used the wrong term. When you use what Froyo calls "Apps to SD" it goes to what the phone calls SD but is actually internal memory. Do you know if there is any way (without root or hacks) to have those Apps to SD actually go to your SD card (/sdcard/_ExternalSD) instead of the internal memory the phone calls the SD?
I agree that the 5GB internal should be more than enough anyway, but I am curious for sure.
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I just never had that set up before with any of my android phones. I just didn't know how to put any files to the ext sd card, I foolled around with it and basicly I just went into my file manager and long pressed the app of file, copy, went into the extsd card and paste.
Thanks for the help.
I have had the MyTouch 4G and the Nexus One, neither had that set up.
PS this phone flies.

hey guys future g2x owner here, what sd card size does it come with?

bguzmanz2 said:
hey guys future g2x owner here, what sd card size does it come with?
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It doesn't come with any sd card. Supply your own.

i thought the 5 gigs was for storage and the 1.5 was for apps? i'm confused

wow, sweet phone with no sd card or headphones. lame!!
ps, still gonna get it tho =)

crazythunder said:
i thought the 5 gigs was for storage and the 1.5 was for apps? i'm confused
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Yes, this is true. However, from 2.2 up, Android allows you to move apps to the "SD card" (or in this case the 5GB extended internal storage) as long as the developer enabled this feature. This way large games and other such apps don't use up all the storage.

bguzmanz2 said:
wow, sweet phone with no sd card or headphones. lame!!
ps, still gonna get it tho =)
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Not many phones come with an sd card and besides why use their ear buds when you can get a pair of zipbuds from amazon?
http://www.amazon.com/Zipbuds-DGA-T...8N9G/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1303274745&sr=8-1
Furthermore it's none of my business and you're free to do as you choose but who sticks their apps on the external sd card? Why do that?

aironeous said:
Not many phones come with an sd card and besides why use their ear buds when you can get a pair of zipbuds from amazon?
http://www.amazon.com/Zipbuds-DGA-T...8N9G/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1303274745&sr=8-1
Furthermore it's none of my business and you're free to do as you choose but who sticks their apps on the external sd card? Why do that?
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Having a Nexus One I put most of my Apps on ext 3. Worked great and always had over 140 mb of free memory space which kept my phone very fast.
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vinnyjr said:
I installed a 32 gb sd card and my phone recognized it without any problems but as I iinstalled apps to the card the amount of space in card never changed. I changed the sd card to 8 gb and I'm having the same problem. Anyone else having this problem, I am rooted and have su permission.
Thanks
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I think the idea is your apps/data go into internal 5GB (which is mounted as SDCARD) and then you use your SDCARD for media (mounted as /SDCARD/_ExternalSD)

yup.. that is right mobilehavoc.
The phone has no "sdcard" when you get it new, but it's got basically 5.35GB internal SD already built in.. So you have plenty of storage, plus you have 1.3GB for apps, and can move them to that 5GB if needed.
Although I just put in my 16GB and tried to titanium restore and it doesn't find anything cuz it's looking in /sdcard and my file is on my sd card, and the g2x has that as /external_sd
that is irritating, will I need to move all the important stuff over, and downloads and pictures n such will all from now on go to the internal 5GB. so move everything over and use actual SD for rest

Hey there, so I'm having a different sd card problem, but I can't find any threads directly related to it so I'm just going to post it here because it seems just as good a place as any.
So yesterday morning, about 3am or so, cause I'm weird like that, I finished the movie I was watching, so I went to go move it off my phone and put another one on, so I hooked up my USB and connected to Ubuntu, the sdcard popped up and I deleted the file, then deleted the trash file but when I delete the trash file I get an error message saying Error removing file: Directory not empty, and no matter what way I try to edit my sd, it won't change, it won't save any new data or delete the old, I've tried reformating with the phone, reformating with ubuntu, I've tried file managers, using a micro to sd conversion chip and putting it in my card reader, but no matter what I try my sd won't change, somebody please help me out, I just got the 16gb card like a month ago, but I bought it in Austria so I can't really return it, because I'm living in Italy.
Thanks in advanced.

Never mind my last post, I did a wipe of my sd card from the phone, pluged it back into ubuntu, and then magically, I could erase all the files.

This setup of this phone's memory is frustrating. I have an app called DroidTV which normally uses the SD card to save videos to, but due to the internal SD card it's getting saved there instead. Is the only way to change this to hope the app developer fixes/changes the way the app behaves? I wish there was an option to make the phone treat the internal SD as the external so you could more easily use your larger card as the default

Dragon509 said:
This setup of this phone's memory is frustrating. I have an app called DroidTV which normally uses the SD card to save videos to, but due to the internal SD card it's getting saved there instead. Is the only way to change this to hope the app developer fixes/changes the way the app behaves? I wish there was an option to make the phone treat the internal SD as the external so you could more easily use your larger card as the default
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See it's really a hard problem to solve. I'm coming from an Incredible which had 8GB of internal storage but it was mounted as /emmc. This meant no app except the custom camera and music apps and maybe one or two apps specially designed by devs could use the internal storage.
The way the G2X does it, all apps can see the internal storage and use it. All media apps can see the external SD as well. But you are right, the dev would need to update the app. Although I don't see why it is so difficult - they could give the user the option to a path so you could put in /sdcard/_ExternalSD/
And that would work.

Internal Storage 2GB? Why Is that?

So I managed to get a ROM going on my tab that came today, and all is pretty good so far. One question tho; I went to my settings --> SD card usage or whatever its called and my internal memory is showing 1.79GB total space.
My SD card is 16GB and that's showing up fine as 14 or whatever FREE, since I partitioned at 2048/0.
I don't get why the internal storage is 1.79. Shoudn't it be 16GB or whatever since that's how much this tablet has? I'm confused.
Thanks!

I may be wrong on this (Developers, please correct me if I am wrong) but I think the 2GB is reserved for the Android system and the remaining space is what you can use for apps, etc.

stuaross said:
I may be wrong on this (Developers, please correct me if I am wrong) but I think the 2GB is reserved for the Android system and the remaining space is what you can use for apps, etc.
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if thats the case, why won't it show the remaining 14G or whatever hmmm

The 16gig is divided as 2gig for apps and 14gig for storage (/sdcard). After format and overhead you get what you see.
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So how do i mount my internal? Im only able to mount my microsd card..

Actually I take that back. I can only mount my internal storage to my computer but not my microsd card. I have no idea how to do that...

That's normal behavior for the gtablet. There is no built in method for mounting the external SD to your computer.

Internal Memory wasted?

I don't know what happened but for some reason the music app only detects music from external, and all my music is on internal. Anyone know what to do? Since it doesn't have a way to set a directory....
Edit: Ok...i checked Storage Settings and it says my Total Internal Memory is 1.83GB while my External is 5.22GB when it should be the other way around...anyone know whats wrong?...

SnipeySnake said:
I don't know what happened but for some reason the music app only detects music from external, and all my music is on internal. Anyone know what to do? Since it doesn't have a way to set a directory....
Edit: Ok...i checked Storage Settings and it says my Total Internal Memory is 1.83GB while my External is 5.22GB when it should be the other way around...anyone know whats wrong?...
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What ROM are you running? It detects it from both for me, I'm running the latest CM7 KANG.

Eaglesblood 2.3.7 latest, but its the music player from the previous version since i don't like the new Music³

SnipeySnake said:
Eaglesblood 2.3.7 latest, but its the music player from the previous version since i don't like the new Music³
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Hmm, well I'm using Google Music, so maybe that's why? There should be an option in the CMsettings menu to swap the mount points.

FatalityBoyZahy said:
Hmm, well I'm using Google Music, so maybe that's why? There should be an option in the CMsettings menu to swap the mount points.
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Yeah I tried it but either way the mount points mess up. When "Use internal storage" is checked. SD card: 5.22GB(2.02GB free)[This should be the 8GB internal storage], Internal Storage:1.48GB(195MB free)[I don't even know where this storage came from], and Additional Storage /mnt/emmc: 1.83GB(878MB free)[This should be my 2GB SD card].
Now when I uncheck "Use internal storage", the "Additional Storage /mnt/emmc:" and "SD Card" switch places, leaving the Internal Storage with that Unknown storage space.

SnipeySnake said:
Yeah I tried it but either way the mount points mess up. When "Use internal storage" is checked. SD card: 5.22GB(2.02GB free)[This should be the 8GB internal storage], Internal Storage:1.48GB(195MB free)[I don't even know where this storage came from], and Additional Storage /mnt/emmc: 1.83GB(878MB free)[This should be my 2GB SD card].
Now when I uncheck "Use internal storage", the "Additional Storage /mnt/emmc:" and "SD Card" switch places, leaving the Internal Storage with that Unknown storage space.
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The internal storage is split. It is 8GB, but only 5.22 is used for internal SD. the rest is used for OS and apps and such.

GTWalling said:
The internal storage is split. It is 8GB, but only 5.22 is used for internal SD. the rest is used for OS and apps and such.
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Oh ok, but for some reason I can't get it to recognize that the 5.22GB is the internal storage, since it has all my apps and music.

Is there a way in CM7 to put the apps on the internal (5gb drive) and the media on the sd card (my 16gb card)? It seems to be either all or nothing.
If I switch my external to be the sd card, the 5gb drive is pretty much wasted, right?

timmyjoe42 said:
Is there a way in CM7 to put the apps on the internal (5gb drive) and the media on the sd card (my 16gb card)? It seems to be either all or nothing.
If I switch my external to be the sd card, the 5gb drive is pretty much wasted, right?
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Is it like that for CM7 nightly's too? Thats odd, since its kind of a major issue.

Perhaps someone can write up something about our storage?
I know, that I'm a bit confused about it. At one point, I was looking at this thread, about changing the mount point
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1144553&highlight=emmc
There was also this mod as well:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1093231&highlight=emmc
But there has been the CM "Use Internal Storage" option as well...
What is the best use of our storage, internal and sdcard? Should we use a mod to change mount points?

Problem with moving apps to external SD card

So apparently Samsung makes the skyrocket think that the usb storage is the sd card. Because of this when i tap to move an app to the sd card it moves it from system storage too usb storage. I am pretty much out of storage internally. Has anyone else had this problem or does anyone know how i can solve the problem.

ian1 said:
So apparently Samsung makes the skyrocket think that the usb storage is the sd card. Because of this when i tap to move an app to the sd card it moves it from system storage too usb storage. I am pretty much out of storage internally. Has anyone else had this problem or does anyone know how i can solve the problem.
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I do not think that Samsung is unique. An external SD card appears as a directory in the external storage. It is rather easy to use this directory to store music, photos and videos. I have many programs and I am nowhere near tapped out in terms of storage. However, I believe that there are a number of solutions that would allow one to move applications to the external-external SD card.

Ya i was wondering if anyone had heard of a way to do this. I havent found anything yet.

If you are rooted you can probably edit the fstab file to switch the mount points of the internal and external memory. This has been done on other devices and a search should point you to directions to accomplish this.
There are negatives and positives to this approach, so read and understand what yoou are doing and the effects it will have before doing it.
I have over 80 apps installed, including two nav programs with offline maps for the US and have 1.5 GB in the user space for ap installs, 9.4 GB in the internal storage, and 11 GB free on a 32 GB external SD card (music files take up most of the used space).

Thank you!

Is it possible to configure adoptable storage on our Z5???? Port Modaco's work???

Paul O'brien shows how is possible to configure adoptable storage on your S7 / S7 Edge without root.
Here the information:
http://www.modaco.com/news/android/...e-adoptable-storage-on-your-s7-s7-edge-r1632/
The question is... Is it possible to port on our Z5???, maybe some dev colud look this and will try it.
I'm not a dev, only I saw this information and share with us.
Regards!!

Uhm - I *think* this is working ...
I've followed the instructions, and the first time I ran the sm partition command it would error out with a "failed with 'null'" error message. I did some more sm commands like forcing adoptable to true (and then back to false). At this point my phone rebooted ... when it rebooted I ran the sm partition command again, and it seems to have completed successfully.
Looking at the storage section of the phone's settings, shows that I have:
-70395412480.00 B of device storage used of a total of 32.00GB and both my internal and SD Card are listed as storage. Selecting the SD card for more details and I am able to (re)format as portable, so I *think* this has worked.
Good luck!

Having played around a bit more, I'm now not so certain. Apps don't see the extra 128GB as internal storage, although they don't see any external storage either
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jervine said:
Having played around a bit more, I'm now not so certain. Apps don't see the extra 128GB as internal storage, although they don't see any external storage either
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Hi!
Do you think that you Can solve this problem??
Good luck bro!!
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A further update from yesterday ... I think it's kind of working. I've repartitioned my SD card: 64GB to portable and 64GB to regular SD card storage.
I've selected the portable storage in settings and migrated data to it. Further app installations then seem to use this storage rather than the 32GB of phone storage. So far so good (the displayed value of available internal storage is still a large negative number though).
However, some apps do not see the extra internal storage:
PocketCasts does see it.
Google Music does not.
Plex does not (but doesn't see portable storage on my other Marshmallow device, and this seems to be a Plex problem).
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What about your Sony camera app? Mine throws a memory error and won't take photos until I migrate my data back to internal storage (I have formatted the who SD card as private.
jervine said:
A further update from yesterday ... I think it's kind of working. I've repartitioned my SD card: 64GB to portable and 64GB to regular SD card storage.
I've selected the portable storage in settings and migrated data to it. Further app installations then seem to use this storage rather than the 32GB of phone storage. So far so good (the displayed value of available internal storage is still a large negative number though).
However, some apps do not see the extra internal storage:
PocketCasts does see it.
Google Music does not.
Plex does not (but doesn't see portable storage on my other Marshmallow device, and this seems to be a Plex problem).
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roland101 said:
What about your Sony camera app? Mine throws a memory error and won't take photos until I migrate my data back to internal storage (I have formatted the who SD card as private.
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Hmmm... Yeah, because my SD card is formatted 50:50 I'm able to run the camera app. I'm not able to set the storage location as internal though. It has to be on the SD card.
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