Hi,
I need to factory reset my phone and have used App List Backup to genereate the list of apps to be restored. However, I cannot find the file and the sdcard folder on my phone is empty.
Anyone able to help me out here? I think I've backed up everything else, but I'd really like to get this file out just in case...
Cheers!
Once you mount your phone, you'll see two mounted drives. The folder 'External_SD' is empty on the 'internal mount'. Select the other drive to see the data.
Have you checked the folder 'data' or 'android'?
Are you rooted? My external SD is always visible in /mnt/emmc Internal is visible as /mnt/sdcard
Longun said:
Are you rooted? My external SD is always visible in /mnt/emmc Internal is visible as /mnt/sdcard
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Thanks, but it wasn't there. Managed to get the files by removing the sd card and running it again. It then created a folder on the root of the main storage
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I used the instructions from iJimaniac to swap my storage from internal to external (love the mass storage now!) however all my apps that I originally had moved to the SD card have suddenly disappeared and now i have to remember and re-install them. I made a copy of everything under /mnt/sdcard and moved it to my external SD card before making the switch so that everything would still be linked ok. Any ideas on what went wrong? Note: i took everything on my external SD card and put it in a separate folder on my external SD card so I wouldn't lose any of that.
Well, I used a PC to copy .android_secure folder from the real external_SD to the new "fake" external_SD. If that doesn't work, I would copy back the original vold.fstab then move all apps to internal, then use modified vold.fstab and move your apps back to sd if you want. Remember to reboot after making a change. Several reboots might even be needed for all apps to show up (might want to try that before anything). Hope this helps!
Ok well the problem is apparently that the .android_secure folder on the sd card is empty. Strangely it also has no permissions and refuses to let me change it. Whenever i try to replace it with the full .android_secure folder it gives me a black screen and i have to restart. Any idea what might be wrong?
Well, it might not actually be empty, it looks empty when viewed with an android file browser, but when you look at it on a computer (might need to disable "hide protected system files" in windows folder options) you should see stuff in it. So, you need to copy the .android_secure folder FROM your REAL microSD card TO your REAL internal memory using a pc, not an android file browser. To be clear, I have figured out that android transfers the app to your sd card when you select "move to usb storage", so that can be deceiving. Your apps were on the sd card, but now you need to transfer them to your usb storage by moving the .android_secure folder. Hope you figure it out!
Ah something decided to start working again and all my apps came back! Thanks for your help!
No problem! What was probably wrong was your player was rebuilding the dalvik-cache. It sometimes takes a while I find. Glad you got it working.
So I just got my new phone today. I put in my 16GB MicroSDHC card from my old EVO 4G and things were okay until I connected the phone for the first time to my PC as a Hard Drive.
My guess is that an app was synch'ing to the SDCard when it was dismounted and wrote some files into the /sdcard folder that serves as the mount point. When it did this and I disconnected from the PC, the /sdcard folder was no longer empty so it mounted the SDCard as /sdcard2.
It now seems that the phone is still using /sdcard folder and not the /sdcard2 folder thus rendering the card unused.
Has anyone seen this? How do I fix it? I dismounted and erased the card. I even did a factory reset on the phone, but it didn't seem to erase files inside of the /sdcard folder so it still mounts to the wrong place.
In most apps you can't change where it writes its data but it's usually to the internal sd. When you plug your phone to your pc you can only browse your external sd.
/sdcard is the internal memory
/sdcard2 is the card you plugged in
When I plug in to my PC, I select the Media Sync option and can see both sdcards just fine.
I hope jelly bean fixes that, but then again I was hoping ics would fix it and that didn't happen.
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Ah! Thanks for the responses. I've just done what I always had done with my older EVO 4G ... and couldn't see the folders I was expecting.
I feel better now. Too bad the normal disk drive USB option doesn't mount both...oh well.
If u root and use team win recovery you can select which SD card to mount from recovery. Not sure if this will help or not.
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Is anyone having issues seeing folders on the internal drive when using media sync? For example, using ES File Explorer, I can see and SMS Backup folder and Angry Birds Backup folder. However, when I connect to a pc with media sync I can see some of the folders that are on the internal drive but not those. Anyone else having this issue?
Edit: I am still not sure why I am having this issue but I do have a bit of a workaround. I used ES File Explorer to move the folder I wanted to update to my sd card. Then I connected it to the pc and updated the folder. After that I went back into ES File Explorer and moved the folder back to the internal drive. I was able to update my SMS Backup etc.
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If u root and use team win recovery you can select which SD card to mount from recovery. Not sure if this will help or not.
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problem i see though is i just made a nand and it saved it in the internal memory not to the external sd card but when I go to restore its not finding the backup I made.
If you use a file manager app, such as ES Explorer, to copy or move it to your external drive / sdcard2 / or ext_sd / then you can use twrp to restore it. hope that helps
Hi everyone.
After some snafu while trying to update Gapps to the latest package, which wrecked my phone ;
I re-flashed the ROM (CM11.0 from Maclaw's), doing full wipe of dalvik/cache/data/system. I reinstalled the previously working Gapps package.
Everything is working fine, but the way the storages are mounted is not correct. For instance, Gallery won't display pictures from the external sdcard.
Yet, if I use file manager, I can access it, and all my personal files are still there. When connecting to the PC, internal storage takes me to the actual internal storage being used by the phone but external storage appears empty.
/sdcard points to /storage/emulated/legacy it contains my old files from before flashing anew.
tree of /storage :
/storage
---/emulated
------/0 <-- this seems to be the same folder as legacy
------/clockworkmod <-- never mind, it's just there, empty. A remnant of my previous recovery
------/legacy
------/obb <-- empty
---/sdcard0 <-- redirects to /storage/emulated/legacy
---/sdcard1 <-- external sdcard
I hope I'm being clear enough. Basically, external sdcard doesn't seem to get mounted at a correct place which would allow apps to read from it.
While in recovery, if I go to the file manager,
external sd card is mounted in /external_sd
/sdcard is the internal storage
/data/media is the same as /storage/emulated as before. ./0 is populated, ./legacy is not.
So, basically, I should find a way to mount the external card to /data/media right?
Edit : I kept trying stuff. I created a folder from my PC on the apparently empty sd card, and put a photo in it. It displays in the gallery, and the folder is at the root of the sd card, just like every other folder that are not detected by either my phone and PC. The hell is that about?
After updating to a new ROM (revolt), my SD card is mounting as "sdcard1" instead of "sdcard0" (according to the file manager). The problem is that apps don't recognize that an SD card exists. When I open the camera, for example, it immediately quits saying that there is no storage and I should insert an SD card. Many other apps respond the same way.
What can I do to either get my SD card back to mounting as sdcard0 or change where apps look for an SD card?
Thanks!
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After updating to a new ROM (revolt), my SD card is mounting as "sdcard1" instead of "sdcard0" (according to the file manager). The problem is that apps don't recognize that an SD card exists. When I open the camera, for example, it immediately quits saying that there is no storage and I should insert an SD card. Many other apps respond the same way.
What can I do to either get my SD card back to mounting as sdcard0 or change where apps look for an SD card?
Thanks!
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Actually, the Rezound default is sdcard0 is internal storage and sdcard1 is the external card. I am not familiar with that ROM but some JellyBean ROMs switched them (not purposely, it was a JB thing). But if you are using the stuff included with the ROM it should all work, you could also look at the symbolic link for /sdcard and see if it is pointing to /storage/sdcard0 or /storage/sdcard1 (might be to /mnt/xxx instead of storage), the exact and switch it there.
Are you restoring apps with TiBu or something similar, this layout may be different than the backed up one, you might need to reinstall everything from the Play Store to get it work properly, the ROM should be OK itself.
Yeah, anything 4.3 based has the cards switched.
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Thanks for the replies.
Both apps that came with the ROM (i.e. the built in camera app) and apps from the play store have trouble finding the SD card. This is where the symlinks point:
Code:
[email protected]:/ $ ls -l | grep sdcard
lrwxrwxrwx root root 2014-01-03 14:31 external_sd -> /storage/sdcard1
lrwxrwxrwx root root 2014-01-03 14:31 sdcard -> /storage/sdcard0
d---r-x--- root sdcard_r 2014-01-03 14:31 storage
Is this correct or should they be switched?
Maybe I should just find another ROM...
zephyrcat said:
Thanks for the replies.
Both apps that came with the ROM (i.e. the built in camera app) and apps from the play store have trouble finding the SD card. This is where the symlinks point:
Code:
[email protected]:/ $ ls -l | grep sdcard
lrwxrwxrwx root root 2014-01-03 14:31 external_sd -> /storage/sdcard1
lrwxrwxrwx root root 2014-01-03 14:31 sdcard -> /storage/sdcard0
d---r-x--- root sdcard_r 2014-01-03 14:31 storage
Is this correct or should they be switched?
Maybe I should just find another ROM...
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It looks correct... I would try Tachyon or LiquidSmooth and see if you still have issues.
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It looks correct... I would try Tachyon or LiquidSmooth and see if you still have issues.
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I just switched over to Tachyon. Still having the same trouble. Built in camera app says no external storage available and crashes... Are there any other possible causes? I've checked that the microsd card is properly seated in its spot...
By the way, under Settings > Storage, I can see the SD card including it's capacity and free space. I can also successfully unmount and remount the SD card from there. Still doesn't help with the apps, though.
Thanks!
zephyrcat said:
I just switched over to Tachyon. Still having the same trouble. Built in camera app says no external storage available and crashes... Are there any other possible causes? I've checked that the microsd card is properly seated in its spot...
By the way, under Settings > Storage, I can see the SD card including it's capacity and free space. I can also successfully unmount and remount the SD card from there. Still doesn't help with the apps, though.
Thanks!
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What about the internal storage, does it show up in Storage twice? In JB ROMs there should be a section in Settings->Storage at the top labeled "Internal Storage" 2.34GB (this is where apps go when installed), then a little farther down "SD Card" xx.xxGB depending on card size (this is the external SD), then farther down yet there is another section labeled "Internal Storage" 10.48GB (this is the actual internal storage or sdcard0).
If not, you lost your internal storage, try reformatting it in recovery, reformatting in Windows Disk Manager, or repartition the internal storage with CWM/TWRP... last resort, run an official RUU (the exe version, not the flashable ZIP ones).
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What about the internal storage, does it show up in Storage twice? In JB ROMs there should be a section in Settings->Storage at the top labeled "Internal Storage" 2.34GB (this is where apps go when installed), then a little farther down "SD Card" xx.xxGB depending on card size (this is the external SD), then farther down yet there is another section labeled "Internal Storage" 10.48GB (this is the actual internal storage or sdcard0).
If not, you lost your internal storage, try reformatting it in recovery, reformatting in Windows Disk Manager, or repartition the internal storage with CWM/TWRP... last resort, run an official RUU (the exe version, not the flashable ZIP ones).
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Ahh... that would seem to be the problem. Or at least a problem.
I'm not sure how to fix it, though. TWRP says it can't mount the internal storage (and, thus, cannot wipe it). How else can I go about wiping it?
Thanks again for all the help!
In these situations i start from scratch. Lol. But that's just me.
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abby_nitewolf said:
In these situations i start from scratch. Lol. But that's just me.
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I don't mind starting from scratch. I don't have anything important on my SD card that isn't backed up. I'm not sure how to go about wiping the SD card, though. Neither Android nor TWRP recognizes the SD card, so I can't wipe it. Do I need to switch to a different recovery or something?
Thanks again!
My galaxy s5 started showing memory full when all storage programs said there was about 5 gb left.
I downloaded foldermount and it said it found the issue so it was going to repair it.
Well after I rebooted. The internal sd card(phone memory) is not mounting.
When connected to the PC, it shows 128mb.
on ES FIle explorer SDCARD shows "???" and when I attempt to open it ask what file I want to open it with, but with the program storage analyzer it finds the "data" folder just fine and lists all the files and folders within it.
In the phone settings options, it can show the amount of memory being used along with the media, mp3, apps, so the Folder is still there along with all the info, it is simply not mounting properly?
Thank you.
UPDATE: I found the path of where all my files are at, but the phone is not mounting it as the internal storage?
It is located at data/media/0 and mnt/sdcard0 or mnt/sdcard1 are missing.
* Aside from Phone being rooted, there were no other modifications
* Phone is running on original OS(as opposed to roms or such)
*There is not an external sd card in the phone
Folder mount will not do anything for you really without an SD card. After you use it to clear space you need to unmount all the folder it mounted to view what is actually in the folders. If not it will show the folder that it is linked to and look like it never worked. Changing your system data to SD data in your case keeps it in internal memory and does not free it up. You need to use folder mount with a SD card for it to help you. Saved me over 500Mb with it on my s5
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Folder mount will not do anything for you really without an SD card. After you use it to clear space you need to unmount all the folder it mounted to view what is actually in the folders. If not it will show the folder that it is linked to and look like it never worked. Changing your system data to SD data in your case keeps it in internal memory and does not free it up. You need to use folder mount with a SD card for it to help you. Saved me over 500Mb with it on my s5
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Sorry, long story short,
My phone mnt/sdcard and sdcard links are no longer there. Is there a way to recreate the links? Certain apps are still able to function because they are using the actual link, device/media/ect, ect, /0/ folders as opposed to mnt/sdcard/
I saw on another forum that
su
echo mkdir /storage/sdcard0 > /data/local/userinit.sh
chmod 700 /data/local/userinit.sh
reboot
May help, but not sure if it is only for roms and not for original OS.
On another forum there was talk about recreating a syslink?
Solved:
Simply went to "system/bin" and erased the "sdcard" file and renamed the file "sdcard.backup" to "sdcard". Rebooted and it solved the issue.