I have a Samsung Galaxy Note 3 (SM-N9005) and use LineageOS 16.0.
Yesterday my phone stopped reading the Micro SD card, which is a bummer because I enabled Adopted Storage. I suspect this to be a hardware issue (most likely the reader).
Can I somehow make a backup of the storage (internal + sd) ? I was thinking maybe attach the phone via adb and insert the sd card to the computer and then somehow put the two back together?
Also is there someway I can put that back up on the phone but not using adopted storage?
Any help is much appreciated
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Hi everyone,
I've recently bought samsung galaxy ace 2 phone. And my question is regarding the usb storage and sd card storage. I searched the forum, but couldn't find solution to my problem.
In Galaxy Ace 2, GT-I8160, there are 3 kinds of storage being shown in the phone settings.
1. SD Card (the external sd card, which I've myself inserted in the phone and it is of 8GB)
2. USB Storage which is 1.2GB (which was built in storage I guess)
3. System Storage (which is also of about 1.1GB)
We know in android there are some apps which can be moved to SD Card, not all.
In other phones like my previous phone was HTC, in that phone when I moved an app to SD Card, it was moved to external SD card properly. But in samsung galaxy ace 2, whenever I move any app to SD card, it is moved to the usb storage, and not to the external sd card. And we know the usb storage of this phone is only 1.2GB. I want my apps (which are movable) to be moved to external sd card. What I've noticed, this phone is recognizing the usb storage as sd card.
Even if you go to settings - apps - Sd card, it'll show you the USB storage of 1.2GB, not the storage of my actual external SD card (8GB)
Why is this so? Why is this phone recognizing the usb storage as sd card storage. Why this phone is not recognizing my external sd card as the sd card storage?
Your response will be highly appreciated
Regards,
Omer.
I have the same problem and I just don't know which is which so basically I can't transfer anything.
Do you have the same phone? Samsung Galaxy Ace 2?
I think this is how it works may be. It is treating the USB storage as SD Card and ignoring the external SD card.
This may only be the case with samsung phones, because in HTC, the external sd card was considered as sd card and apps were moved to it.
Anyways I've found the following link regarding this issue, I won't try the solution mentioned in this link, coz it required root and I do not want to root my phone
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28419837#post28419837
galaxy ace 2 recognizing usb storage as sd card
i have the same problem, the phone does not recognize my 16gb sd card properly so now my sd card has 14gb available and the phone is telling me memory is full delete some files!!!
crappy android programming
when i move apps to sd card it simply moves them into "usb storage" which has max 1.2GB storage!?!?!?!
bloody annoying
Same problem in my ace duos s6802B.
USB cable isse
Can i use Galaxy ace data cable to flash the ROM of my samsung galaxy GT-i5510 ? (my cell phone is facing boot loop issue:crying
I have tried a lot but my laptop is showing driver issue (usb device is malfunctioned). I am using window-8.
Please suggest.
rahulgill said:
Can i use Galaxy ace data cable to flash the ROM of my samsung galaxy GT-i5510 ? (my cell phone is facing boot loop issue:crying
I have tried a lot but my laptop is showing driver issue (usb device is malfunctioned). I am using window-8.
Please suggest.
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Try to install samsung kies then connect phone with usb debug on. Troubleshoot to reinstall your usb driver. If this dont work uninstall samsung usb driver at device manager abd connect phone and wait for the computer to make update. Restart pc after process. Ty
If you have issue with full of memory, you can swap memory, http://goo.gl/VnCnYN Just flash with cwm
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I think..um I got solution!!!!
THIS IS A SHORT AND EASY METHOD.
1.GO TO MY FILES
2.THERE U MIGHT SEE FILE NAMED 'Android'..Just make the same file in to the external storage folder.BUT DONT COPY IT.
3.NOw move all the FILES IN data and obb from the original android folder TO THE ONE IN EXTERNAL STORAGE.
NOTE;U MIGHT HAVE TO DO IT AGAIN AND AGAIN.
IT WORKED FOR ME I HOPE IT WORKS FOR U.
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i use partition sd card : link2sd
I own a Coolpad F1 which has only 8GB of internal storage. How do I replace the internal with external SD Card? I don't have the vold.fstab file. (or I just don't see it). None of the apps I tried didn't work. I also tried GL2SD which does work but I'm trying to swap the memories.
janekmuric said:
I own a Coolpad F1 which has only 8GB of internal storage. How do I replace the internal with external SD Card? I don't have the vold.fstab file. (or I just don't see it). None of the apps I tried didn't work. I also tried GL2SD which does work but I'm trying to swap the memories.
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You cannot replace internal storage with an external storage sd card. If there is not SD card slot then there isn't support for SD. Although, there probably are ways to replace internal storage for a greater capacity, I would not recommend it. You would have to put all your software back on the phone. In other words, imagine taking the harddrive out of your computer and putting in another (not external, but replacing the original one).. You would essentially have nothing because windows (or mac) is on that.
Consider using cloud storage for files that can be placed there.
Nonono...
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You cannot replace internal storage with an external storage sd card. If there is not SD card slot then there isn't support for SD. Although, there probably are ways to replace internal storage for a greater capacity, I would not recommend it. You would have to put all your software back on the phone. In other words, imagine taking the harddrive out of your computer and putting in another (not external, but replacing the original one).. You would essentially have nothing because windows (or mac) is on that.
Consider using cloud storage for files that can be placed there.
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Let me rephrase: How do you mount external sd as internal sd?
I have an external sd card in my phone and I'm trying to use that big storage instead of the i ternal 8 gb.
Hi folks, well I have a 32 gig external sd card that I recently loaded several gigs of music onto for a road-trip I have to take in 3 days.
Tonight I went to copy some files from the internal sd (not the 32 gig external) onto my computer, and it behaved strangely, so I powered the phone off to try again. Once the phone rebooted, both the 5 gig internal sd, and the 32 gig external sd cards report as being empty with all free space available, everything is gone.
I can't run recovery software from windows on the card , because when I mount the card it appears in windows as a portable media device, not a hard disk, so no recovery software recognizes it.
Anyone have any advice as to what I might try, in order to recover my music directories? I'm thinking I might be out of luck.
Thanks in advance
leopard_fist said:
Hi folks, well I have a 32 gig external sd card that I recently loaded several gigs of music onto for a road-trip I have to take in 3 days.
Tonight I went to copy some files from the internal sd (not the 32 gig external) onto my computer, and it behaved strangely, so I powered the phone off to try again. Once the phone rebooted, both the 5 gig internal sd, and the 32 gig external sd cards report as being empty with all free space available, everything is gone.
I can't run recovery software from windows on the card , because when I mount the card it appears in windows as a portable media device, not a hard disk, so no recovery software recognizes it.
Anyone have any advice as to what I might try, in order to recover my music directories? I'm thinking I might be out of luck.
Thanks in advance
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Who is the manufacturer of the card? Is it generic? This is an issue with cheap SD cards. Sounds like it needs to be formatted. Most likely your data is lost. Sorry.
I put the sd card in my older motorola atrix that I just recently retired from service use, booted the atrix to clockworkmod, from there mounted usb storage, and windows did assign the sd card a drive letter - I was able to run a data recovery program (easeus data recovery) and in about an hour recovered all my music to my laptop. Some of its in lost directories etc, but mostly the original folder structure is intact - in any case i've got my music back for my road-trip.
Why the newer lg ultimate 2 i'm now using only mounts the sd card as a portable media device, I don't know, and for the moment it doesn't matter.
thanks evolution
This had me thinking: if I was able to remove the sd card from the lg phone, and put it into the atrix phone, and recover/access the data - then what if for instance, you lost your phone, someone found it and put the sd card into another device/reader, and you had a titanium backup on that sd card- they restored the backup of some of your programs (complete with data)
wouldn't they then have access to some very private information of yours?
Owning solely nexus phones, I haven't had an sd card since the nexus one, so this means absolutely nothing to me, but reports state the s7 isn't using googles adoptable storage function.
Would I still be able to apps on the sd card? Or only on internal storage?
Can I save Titaniumbackups and twrp/cwm backups on my sd card?
relax24 said:
Owning solely nexus phones, I haven't had an sd card since the nexus one, so this means absolutely nothing to me, but reports state the s7 isn't using googles adoptable storage function.
Would I still be able to apps on the sd card? Or only on internal storage?
Can I save Titaniumbackups and twrp/cwm backups on my sd card?
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It means you can't use the external storage as internal. Adoptable storage is meant mainly for Android One devices that have limited internal storage.
That means you will only be able to use your SD card as portable but not as internal. For instance my moto g 3 gen can do both as portable and internal. While on Lollipop I was able to move apps to portable but on MM it only allows to do so when SD is formated as internal.
So I have a LG V10 and am considering the S7 Edge. The V10 also has an ext SD card but I cannot get TBu to save to the ext SD card no matter what. It says there's not enough memory available. It seems to be the ext SD card stays read only even though it's set to r/w. Does that mean I'd have the same problem with the S7 Edge since the S Edge doesn't support adaptable storage?
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Is adaptable storeage removed from the OS or is it just disabled. In other words can rooting fix this issue?
https://www.google.com/amp/bgr.com/2016/03/11/galaxy-s7-edge-tips-microsd-adoptable-storage/amp/# try this no root required.
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Basically I have an SD Card that I formatted as internal memory. It has worked well for about a year now. Today though, the phone told me that the card had been removed and that I should re-insert it. At the same time, it tells me that the very same cards format is incompatible and I have to format it in order to use it. All this while I never removed the card. The phone is a Moto G5 running Pixel Experience.
What I've tried so far is rebooting the phone and taking the card out and inserting it again, in various orders. Inserting the card into various computers, none of which recognize it (as expected). GPartEd shows the space on the card as not allocated.
Is there anything I could do to make that card be recognized again? Or else, to get the data off of it?
If this is not the right forum for this question, please tell me, or, if you're an admin, please move the thread.
When you converted external SD-card to Adoptable Storage it got formatted as internal memory and also encrypted as internal memory is.
AFAIK there is no chance to recover the data stored on because they are AES-encrypted.