So, On my shiny new Razr the internal Storage is mounted on /sdcard not /emmc like other phones. Is there a way to switch these so my apps work properly?
Also, In a bizzarre twist the bloatware is actually uninstallable. there is a madden 12 demo that comes with it and i tapped uninstall figuring i was going to get an error. I didn't then realized my sons really wanted to play it. Does anyone have it to download?
This doesn't actually help you but...I'm curious, on what phones is the internal media storage mounted at /emmc? I thought it was always mounted at /mnt/sdcard which is symlinked to /sdcard?
CM mounts it at emmc.
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Coming from the Evo, I'm not used to having both Internal storage (8gb on the phone) and External storage (my microsd card) available to me. As I'm restoring files and data, I'm finding that numerous apps are hardcoded to only look to one filepath: /mnt/sdcard. That was fine on the Evo, as that pointed to the actual SD Card, but on the P4G, it points to the Internal storage.
Being rooted, I tried just making a simple symlink in /mnt/sdcard to /mnt/sdcard-ext but that didn't fly. And I don't want to necessarily "swap" the two by hacking whatever is the equivalent of fstab.
Thoughts on how to better manage having two data stores? Am I just going to have to get used to a new way of doing things?
I have the same issue with Companion Link for Outlook.
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?
Has anyone noticed that the internal storage Filesystem mounts as SD card? I understand why it would do this for the 250GB model, however it doesn't make sense for the 8/16Gb models which do have an SD card slot. This has been bugging me when backing up data.
has anyone made a fix for this? I can't imagine it's that hard, I'm just new to the guts of android, and figured a more experienced member could solve this issue by the time I begin to scratch the surface.
This is how system is designed, there is no way to make Gen9 work as usb mass storage device
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gen_scheisskopf said:
This is how system is designed, there is no way to make Gen9 work as usb mass storage device
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This, galaxy nexus is the same :/
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Hello, sorry for the late reply. I've done more research to better explain my issue.
in root the folder /sdcard is a symlink to /mnt/storage instead of /mnt/sdcard
any ideas where to change this?
Electrocret said:
Hello, sorry for the late reply. I've done more research to better explain my issue.
in root the folder /sdcard is a symlink to /mnt/storage instead of /mnt/sdcard
any ideas where to change this?
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You'd better don't. System and apps (both system and 3rd party) expect to have an accessible SD card all the time.
If you'd change /mnt/storage to /mnt/sdcard (or wherever is SD mounted)
a) some apps will not work properly without external SD
b) you loose easy access to /mnt/storage where all your pics/music/video/files are stored
c) it's very likely that SD would be mounted to PC still as MTP- this is how system is designed (external SD also mounts for me as MTP)
Just got my E4GLTE and of course the first thing I did was root it, unlock it, and make a nandroid backup. I just moved from a Motorola Photon 4G and on that device the internal memory (pseudo sdcard) is mounted on /mnt/emmc and the external card is on /mnt/sdcard. Assuming you run out of app space in base memory, you can always move most of your app to the SD Card. Since the E4GLTE mounts the external SD Card on /mnt/sdcard/ext_sd, it appears that actual external storage can only be used for media or data where the app (or the system using the Storage tool) has a function to map to a different directory.
Have I described the situation properly? Does anybody else see the limitations this might pose or suggest workarounds?
..rob
bitbearmi said:
Just got my E4GLTE and of course the first thing I did was root it, unlock it, and make a nandroid backup. I just moved from a Motorola Photon 4G and on that device the internal memory (pseudo sdcard) is mounted on /mnt/emmc and the external card is on /mnt/sdcard. Assuming you run out of app space in base memory, you can always move most of your app to the SD Card. Since the E4GLTE mounts the external SD Card on /mnt/sdcard/ext_sd, it appears that actual external storage can only be used for media or data where the app (or the system using the Storage tool) has a function to map to a different directory.
Have I described the situation properly? Does anybody else see the limitations this might pose or suggest workarounds?
..rob
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Yes I see this as a problem as well. I have looked into the vold.fstab file (where the system looks to see how it should mount partitions) but changing them just makes neither partition mount. I have a feeling that it might be something in the kernel but I will keep digging around.
Also if someone does figure it out how do you prefer them to be mounted? Internal as /emmc and external as /sdcard? Internal as /sdcard/int_sd and external as /sdcard? Maybe something else?
I guess it would depend how the apps and the kernel handle it, which of course, would vary with a custom ROM. Early builds of CM9 for the MoPho alternated back and forth, but there is also an option to swap what is internal and external as well. When it wasn't mounting at all, you could edit the vold.fstab, which would be my first inclination, so thanks for saving me that step!
I think, from most implementations I've seen, when a device has internal and external storage its been mounted as /mnt/emmc and /mnt/sdcard. Its like that on most of the custom ROMs I've used (on Nook, OG EVO, Hero, MoPho).
..rob
Im really lost on the whole external sd thing. I just want to be able to have my apps on there but android has made it seemingly impossible to do so anymore. Is there a write up or something on how this can be done with todays ICS?
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My RAZR MAXX is currently running the stock ROM, rooted with safestrap recovery. I discovered this odd problem when I went to create a ROM image in safestrap and it only showed 1.9gb available internal memory. I formatted the internal memory and even did a full factory reset to see if the problem would change, but no luck. What in the world would cause my /sdcard partition to be so small? How can I resize it to take up all available free space?
Look up the software g-parted. It will help you to see the partitions on the SD card. Windows cant see the Android ( linux ) partitions.
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Look up the software g-parted. It will help you to see the partitions on the SD card. Windows cant see the Android ( linux ) partitions.
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Downloading the live ISO now. Do I connect my phone as a mass storage device or some other way for gparted to see everything?
//edit: This is the INTERNAL "/sdcard" partition, not an external card (/sdcard-ext).
Gparted shows /sdcard as a 2.75gb "unallocated" space. No filesystem that it can detect. /sdcard-ext (my actual card) is there with the right size as fat32. It does not show any other partitions on the device, and no option to make /sdcard any bigger.
Weird. I too am stock and running Project Lense boot. My /sdcard is showing correctly in Root Explorer as about 8 gig with 4.69 used and 3.23 free. 8 gig like it should be.
Does safestrap say 1.9G internal memory or internal storage? Storage is not the same as memory. Too many people use them interchangeably.
Just for ****s and giggles I downloaded a couple of partition info apps from the market. All of them that I downloaded were crap and didn't work. Even paid for one and it FC's. Uninstall click refund!!!
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Weird. I too am stock and running Project Lense boot. My /sdcard is showing correctly in Root Explorer as about 8 gig with 4.69 used and 3.23 free. 8 gig like it should be.
Does safestrap say 1.9G internal memory or internal storage? Storage is not the same as memory. Too many people use them interchangeably.
Just for ****s and giggles I downloaded a couple of partition info apps from the market. All of them that I downloaded were crap and didn't work. Even paid for one and it FC's. Uninstall click refund!!!
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I factory reset and formatted. safestrap said I had ~2800mb of internal memory (/sdcard) available instead of the ~8gb I'm supposed to have. It's the same as it displays in the phone via Settings > Storage, or through gparted.
I know the difference between storage and memory, but the RAZR keeps referring to it as memory.