Since I am new to Android and the Streak, I wanted to know where large applications get stored, such as game downloads? Do they automatically know to go to the storage card or is there an option I must choose to move these files to the card? Since I already have a 32 GB iPhone, should I get a 32 gb sd card for the Streak or is 16 gb enough? How do I back up data and applications? Do they sync to my Mac through a software program such as iTunes? Can I backup games and save files? I know that my iPhone loses all game data when I delete files from the phone.
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I am stil on stock ROM 3588 with no mods. I have a few apps installed mainly games. I installed a 32 GB micro SD card. I have used the adapter to add music, video, DOC and PDF files. All files were added to new separate folders. I put card in with tablet off an then turn on. Nearly all folders and files end up in "lost.dir". I do get few music folders and files but 98% are gone. Am I doing this the wrong way or a way to correct this?
Does any ROM allow you to choose where to store downloads, internal vs exernal or installed apps to internal vs external memory?
I think the device only accepts up to 16GB MicroSD cards.
Thanks for responding Yarsis. I have read that several are successfully using the 32 GB cards.
Does anyone know if there is a difference between PC vs tablet formatting?
Hi,
I'm pretty sure the cards needs to be formated as FAT32 and at 2048 bytes. The issue you mention has been reported but as far as I recall proper formating should fix this.
I have way too much crap on my internal SD card. I think a lot of it is from apps I have downloaded then deleted and other miscellaneous things. My internal storage which is 8 GB, because of the SD Flip Flop MOD, is pretty much full. I dont know how. The biggest folders that I know about is a videos folder which is only 1.7 GB and a folder with some comics which is about 800 MB. Everything else was put on there by third party apps I believe.
So what I want to know is, whats the best way to clean all this stuff up? Should I transfer everything from my internal storage to my PC then format internal storage? If so, this is where it gets a little confusing. Since I have the SD Flip Flop MOD on my Eclipse ROM, when I "format internal storage" is it really formatting my External SD card? Also, Im pretty sure the apps will recreate the files they need after formatting right? But will I lose save data for my games? If so, I guess I should just backup my apps with Titanium backup and then restore the data after formatting?
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I have way too much crap on my internal SD card. I think a lot of it is from apps I have downloaded then deleted and other miscellaneous things. My internal storage which is 8 GB, because of the SD Flip Flop MOD, is pretty much full. I dont know how. The biggest folders that I know about is a videos folder which is only 1.7 GB and a folder with some comics which is about 800 MB. Everything else was put on there by third party apps I believe.
So what I want to know is, whats the best way to clean all this stuff up? Should I transfer everything from my internal storage to my PC then format internal storage? If so, this is where it gets a little confusing. Since I have the SD Flip Flop MOD on my Eclipse ROM, when I "format internal storage" is it really formatting my External SD card? Also, Im pretty sure the apps will recreate the files they need after formatting right? But will I lose save data for my games? If so, I guess I should just backup my apps with Titanium backup and then restore the data after formatting?
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Just use something like root explorer and delete the files u don't use or don't want
just don't delete any data that u want to keep foe games and stuff
Hello all,
I'm new here and have a couple of questions about my first smartphone the Galaxy SII (Rooted)
I have recently been getting a few messages informing me that the SD Card is full, which seems to hold about 12 GB.
I have a 32 GB External Sd Card which I try to keep most of my vids / music, and apps that I consider don't really need to e on the actual phone like games, etc.
Other apps like browsers, Password safes, etc I keep on the phone itself.
The Phone seems to have 3 storage areas that it seems to refer to
USB Storage (Actually part of phone memory= Correct ?
SD Card (Actually part of phone memory = Correct?
External SD Card (Removable sd card = Correct ?
Can somebody please explain to me what the idea behind this setup is and how do I go about freeing up the SD Card when most of the directories in there seem to be Data related with the odd folder left over from uninstalled apps.
Hope that makes sense.
Apologies for any bad / incorrect terminology.
Regards
Loachy
If you go to Settings->storage ;
SD Card would refer to any external microSD card you might have put in.
USB Storage would refer to the Internal storage (can be used for storing media/data files)
there is another storage of about 2GB or so... which is used for apps installations..
this partitions can only be accessed via few apps like root explorer and others...
In order to free up your App storing internal storage ( which is 2GB odd)... you would need to put in an external microSD card...
then use any App (i use titanium Backup Pro) to move some of the apps to SD card...(which is infact the external microSD card)
Hi guys I am new to android and I got myself a Micromax A110 running on android ics with 2 gb of internal SD card memory...
As you guys can figure, the internal memory just isn't enough for installing heavy games and storing and downloading large videos and music, so I added a 32 gb external micro SD card.. the card shows in my file manager and its contents are accessible, most apps like ttpod, ttorrent, vlc, chrome etc don't detect my external card. They only access the contents of my internal SD card, download to it.. I can't set the default directory to the external card...
When I installed nfs most wanted to my phone, it asked me to free up data in my SD card or insert another one as there was no space left due to obvious reasons of my internal SD card being filled with other apps.. I uninstalled and reinstalled it after setting the default storage location to the external storage... I found that the game installed in the internal storage this time and on startup, it gave the same message..
Is it a common problem or a limitation to the OS? Is there a work around for this? If so how? Does my phone needs to be rooted for the purpose? Please help as the problem is getting annoying.. my external card is lying almost empty...
Thanks in advance,
Extremely sorry for the long post...
Sent from my Micromax A110 using Tapatalk 2
It's because Google made the stupid decision, starting with Honeycomb (which is why the Motorola Xoom, the first Honeycomb device needed an update to enable use of it's MicroSD card slot) to merge the /data/ and /sdcard/ partitions. What that means is that the SD card becomes a virtual space (a folder, in fact) located in the same place where all your apps are stored. Why is it stupid? If you have a phone that actually has a MicroSD card slot, like yours or the Galaxy S III, the MicroSD card becomes a different "folder" (something like /sdext/, which stands for either extension or external). Only apps that specifically are programmed to look for that mount point/folder will be able to use it. Most music/video/picture players/viewers can, because it makes sense to automatically program to do that. But with large games, like you said, NFS Most Wanted (which I also have), it sucks because the game is like 2GB.
My Galaxy S3 has 16GB internal and a 32GB card. I'm forced to use the internal storage only for large games because they don't see the memory card. It sucks. The good thing about merging /data/ and /sdcard/ is that it simplifies things, like on the iPhone where your space is your space, no matter how you use it. It used to be that you had like 1GB or 2GB for apps (the APK files only, not the files that games download for example) (which the HTC One X does, but still only uses internal storage because there's no card slot), and the rest went to your MicroSD card slot. Now it's all to internal storage because your internal storage IS your MicroSD card slot at system level.
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It's because Google made the stupid decision, starting with Honeycomb (which is why the Motorola Xoom, the first Honeycomb device needed an update to enable use of it's MicroSD card slot) to merge the /data/ and /sdcard/ partitions. What that means is that the SD card becomes a virtual space (a folder, in fact) located in the same place where all your apps are stored. Why is it stupid? If you have a phone that actually has a MicroSD card slot, like yours or the Galaxy S III, the MicroSD card becomes a different "folder" (something like /sdext/, which stands for either extension or external). Only apps that specifically are programmed to look for that mount point/folder will be able to use it. Most music/video/picture players/viewers can, because it makes sense to automatically program to do that. But with large games, like you said, NFS Most Wanted (which I also have), it sucks because the game is like 2GB.
My Galaxy S3 has 16GB internal and a 32GB card. I'm forced to use the internal storage only for large games because they don't see the memory card. It sucks. The good thing about merging /data/ and /sdcard/ is that it simplifies things, like on the iPhone where your space is your space, no matter how you use it. It used to be that you had like 1GB or 2GB for apps (the APK files only, not the files that games download for example) (which the HTC One X does, but still only uses internal storage because there's no card slot), and the rest went to your MicroSD card slot. Now it's all to internal storage because your internal storage IS your MicroSD card slot at system level.
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Hey man! Thanks for the reply....
Can you tell me how to work out a solution for this?
Is directory bind or fstab file hack the only solution?
Is it possible to overcome this without root?
And some apps do detect my Micro SD card... It is in the directory mnt/sdcard2
Please post questions one time only and in the proper Q&A section.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2019921
I just bought an LG L9 phone which for its price of $150 was pretty attractive for a dual core.
However, I noticed that when I downloaded apps that download extra data, they were not storing the data on my micro sd, but rather the internal storage, which only has 1.5gb available.
For some reason internal storage is named /SDCARD and the external storage is named SDCARD/ETERNAL_SD
I have no option to move any apps to the sd card from the app settings menu. I put my old microsd card in this phone and tried to restore settings saved from other apps, but it wouldnt recognize I had an settings saved since it apparently doesnt know about the new microsd card directory.
When I download a game that downloads extra files like Asphault for example, it doesnt store the extra data on the micro sd, it just puts it all on the internal storage. I cannot use my offline gps program because it says I dont have enough space to download the map files which normally would be downloaded right to the microsd
I called LG about this, and they claim its normal and all ICS phones have this file name structure.
Is this true? Starting with ICS, are all phones making micro sd cards practically useless aside fro m storing pictures and videos?