Hey guys!
I've searched through the forum, and Google, but I've not found anything of help
Is there any setting, any hack or customization of any kind, to make Winamp store the WiFi sync songs to a custom folder? It's putting them on the phone right now, but I'd like them on the External SD card.
Thanks for your help!
+1 on this.
Wifi Sync only syncs data to /sdcard/music folder no matter what we do...
In Samsung Galaxy SL (I9003), /sdcard is internal sdcard and /sd (~/external_sd) is external sd.
I tried to create a symlink to ~/external_sd/Music in /sdcard/music using terminal emulator so that /sdcard/music points to ~/external_sd/Music (or /sd/Music)
But it says operation not permitted.
After a bit of research, it was clear why it was not allowing.
Our external sd card is fat32 filesystem and its not possible to create symlinks on that filesystem.
I was thinking why do we need external sd to be fat32, wasnt it just fine to use ext3 or some other linux friendly file system?
And maybe change fstab to mount it as ext3. smthing like that?
Just checking possiblity.
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Rdio's Android app is a bit of a disaster, but thankfully they're working on a new one. However, in the meantime, any ideas on how to get it to put its local cached data on the external SD card, instead of the internal storage? It seems to explicitly use /sdcard/rdio, and ignores any of the system settings for data storage. If the internal filesystem wasn't fat32, I could just set up a symlink to /sdcard-ext, but that's not possible. I could change the mount locations of the two storage partitions, but then I'd have the opposite problem with a bunch of other apps.
Any ideas on how to get around this? Would rather put music on my 32GB sd card than fill up the internal storage
rustak said:
Rdio's Android app is a bit of a disaster, but thankfully they're working on a new one. However, in the meantime, any ideas on how to get it to put its local cached data on the external SD card, instead of the internal storage? It seems to explicitly use /sdcard/rdio, and ignores any of the system settings for data storage. If the internal filesystem wasn't fat32, I could just set up a symlink to /sdcard-ext, but that's not possible. I could change the mount locations of the two storage partitions, but then I'd have the opposite problem with a bunch of other apps.
Any ideas on how to get around this? Would rather put music on my 32GB sd card than fill up the internal storage
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would love to know this as well for my GS3.
Try this as root in your terminal emulator or in adb shell:
Code:
mkdir -p /sdcard-ext/rdio
chmod 777 /sdcard-ext/rdio
mount --bind /sdcard-ext/rdio /sdcard/rdio
Note however that I don't have rdio and don't even know what it is, so this is entirely untested.
If this happens to work (and you'll know by files appearing in /sdcard-ext/rdio), you'll need to execute these commands on every boot. If you're on a CM-based ROM, I suggest putting them into your userinit.sh.
I'd noticed that newer GB HTC devices seem to have moved /sdcard from the
real sd card slot to the internal memory left over after system related partitions
were allocated.
I wondered if the Rezound suffers from this change too? On my Wi Fi Flyer
I have to keep syncing the data files for Kindle and Nook apps as they think
/sdcard is the actual sd card.
I think the move was done to accommodate HC/ICS's notion of /sdcard
being a virtual partition (not a fat32 real partition, to avoid having to license
Fat32 from M$). As I understood it, HC and ICS use a FUSE re-director mount
to allow the internal /sdcard space to be a directory in a ext? file system that houses
/data, (working around the Incredible's issue of no app data space and
6gb of empty /media space). Since they don't use fat32 they can't use
USB Mass Storage, so another approach was used.
Anyway since both the Kindle and Nook app don't allow a real path
for where to look for their data, on the Flyer I have to sync the sub-directory's
from /sdcard2 to /sdcard so the apps can find them.
Does Rezound do this too?
The Rezounds physical SD cards mounts as /SD Card2
So same issue then? How do others handle Kindle and Nook apps on /sdcard2
when the apps look at /sdcard?
So I just got a 'new' Samsung Exhibit II 4g which has a very small amount of internal memory, and since Rhapsody doesn't have a way to distinguish between internal /sdcard and external /sdcard I decided to try to figure out how to mount my rhapsody folder to the external.
Code:
mount -o bind /sdcard/external_sd/rhapsody /sdcard/rhapsody
Now that works fine. Rhapsody downloads to the /sdcard/rhapsody folder and is none the wiser on it being on the external memory card, however, I am stumped on how to get this behavior to happen automatically.
I have tried adding new scripts to /etc/init.d or appending that line to other scripts with no success. I also tried adding the line to /etc/vold.fstab with no luck.
Is it not possible, or am I missing something obvious? The phone is actually for my dad and I don't want to have to teach him how to open terminal emulator and run the shell script...
I've tried it on my Motorola Atrix and couldn't get it to mount automatically either. It's a little different, since it mounts the external as /sdcard-ext, but the theory was the same.
I originally tried to use symbolic links, but the partitions are formatted to fat32 and don't support linking. I'm not sure if I could switch it to ext3 or ext4 without losing any functionality.
Thanks
I am trying to mount an external sd card that is ext4 file system. I am mounting it on a directory of my internal sd card. It seems only root sees this. If I transfer a file to this directory as normal user it gets stored on internal sd. If I run df as normal user I don't see the ext4 mount, but if I su then df, I can see the mount. Basically what I'm trying to accomplish is using my external sd with ext4 instead of exfat.
Also if I insert my 128gb sd into my Linux computer it only shows I think 25gb? If I put it in phone I see 128gb? Do I need a new card reader for my computer?
I download a lot of stuff onto phone and sync with computer, using mtp sometimes crashes, that's why I'd like to use ext4 and just toss my sd into computer and transfer.
I don't know why Android wants to use exfat when ext4 is so much better and native already. Maybe just to keep support for windows?
Hey all,
Has anyone had success using Apps2SD or similar? I have a rooted Z3TC and have been trying to partition and create mount scripts for the microSD card in the app but keep running into an error.
Error:
Mount: mounting /dev/block/mmcblk1p3 on /data/sdext2 failed: No such device
I have posted on the dev forum but wanted to check if anyone in the device specific forum has speciality knowledge. And devs are often worked off their feets!
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Solved.
2nd partition needed to be formatted as ext4. Still a whole load of other issues to sort through, but I have a working version. (Will never buy a device with this small internal memory again!!!)
Soulfulgrey said:
Solved.
2nd partition needed to be formatted as ext4. Still a whole load of other issues to sort through, but I have a working version. (Will never buy a device with this small internal memory again!!!)
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Hello.
I have the App2SDPro app and have not been able to get it to work. Can you explain in more details how you did it? 16GB is always making me delete stuff...but there is no phone that can match this size so I just need to find a way to move apps.
Thanks!
Hi,
I use App2SD since a while due to the ridiculous amount of memory of this device. I have something around 320 applications installed with games, gps/maps... all locally installed.
I don't use the "Link apps to SD card" option but only the "Folder Mount" one.
I barely move everything on the root of the internal SD to a dedicated folder on my external SD card.
The trick is to find the folder on which App2SD has the write permissions. As there is a several location for both internal and external storage location it can require some try/fail tests...
I'm on LineageOS and I use these links to move all the obb folder to the external SD card:
Source=/storage/emulated/0/Android/obb
Destination=/storage/NNNN-NNNN/DCIM/App2SD_folders/obb, with NNNN-NNNN the internal SD name
I have unchecked all the options as I normally prefer to move them manually with a file explorer to make some cleanup in the same time.
For some reasons there was some limitation to move directly the Android folder, so do the same for the /Android/Data folder.
Cheers