All,
Is there any way to do this so that the external card is seen as the primary one?
yeah this is a huge problem, stupid motorola.. hope someone comes up wit ha solution, tried using root explorer to swap names, seems cant..
royalbloodvi said:
yeah this is a huge problem, stupid motorola.. hope someone comes up wit ha solution, tried using root explorer to swap names, seems cant..
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Got something to do with a build.prop edit I think. There's a dev for the Droid x2 that made a flashable zip to flip-flop it for us.
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We aren't the only folks who have the SD card issue I believe the galaxy s II has the internal mounted as SD card and the external as sdcard-2
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That's correct, my xoom handles it the same way. It's not so much Motorola, as it is Google, and it's for security. The problem is, as usual, it's sort of half baked at this point and it's not generically supported. My understanding of this is that applications need to be compiled with the newer calls to allow access to the ext sdcard as well as the internal(which foolishly defaults to the old external name).
Anyway, I'm hoping with ICS and apps being compiled with that these sorts of issues get hashed out.
DT
DThor said:
That's correct, my xoom handles it the same way. It's not so much Motorola, as it is Google, and it's for security. The problem is, as usual, it's sort of half baked at this point and it's not generically supported. My understanding of this is that applications need to be compiled with the newer calls to allow access to the ext sdcard as well as the internal(which foolishly defaults to the old external name).
Anyway, I'm hoping with ICS and apps being compiled with that these sorts of issues get hashed out.
DT
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Correct... it's how Android manages it. Google's fault!
My problem is that when I connect it to my PC it mounts a drive which is 20 something MB, which is 16mb microsd + some of the internal storage. I have a folder on the microsd called apps which contained 20 files and I copied 4 more to it. My PC showed 24 files in the folder but the razr file manager still showed 20, another folder had been created in internal storage with the 4 new files in it. That took a bit of figuring out!
No solution yet then?
I don't think you'll have any solution until a bootloader solution comes to us.
This "swap" requires some system critical files to be modified and, as you know, if you break a signature, your device will be softbricked.
Patience is the way.
I noticed this line in the build.prop. " ro.mot.internalsdcard=1" is that what tells android if it should mount/use an internal sd card? I'm not brave enough to change it to a 0 and see what happens. Well not without more info anyway. Anyone know what this setting does?
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Actually this (in theory as I don't have a RAZR) should be hackable if the phone is rooted. One should be able to use script manager to write changes to how the sd and sd-ext are seen by the phone. As was already mentioned, there was a vold.stab script made for the DX2 which did this, but even before that script was made there was a way to change the script by hand. No guarantee this would work on the RAZR I suppose but I don't know why it wouldn't. IF the RAZR has the same goofy file management as the DX2 IMHO that is just a huge flaw and the first thing i would do is find a way to swap how they are seen by the OS. Again I don't have the phone so I can't verify if there is actually the same problem as the DX2 or not.
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Bro.
I need these pictures bak. I have no idea how I lost alllll my files in my camera.
The folder had them all. Over 600 files (that's why I need them!!!!!)
But when I go to change the extension, it doesn't show the picture!!!
What can I do?
murdamo305 said:
Bro.
I need these pictures bak. I have no idea how I lost alllll my files in my camera.
The folder had them all. Over 600 files (that's why I need them!!!!!)
But when I go to change the extension, it doesn't show the picture!!!
What can I do?
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Let's start with what exactly you did that resulted in you losing the pictures in the first place.
do you see a bunch of items in the lost.dir directory?
If so, then try opening some of the smaller ones with an image editing program. You never know... it might still open them. If that's the case then all you need to do is rename them with the proper extensions. Worth a try.
I lost over 600 image files myself for no apparent reason.
A google search quickly told me this was a "known android issue", but no effing idea why...
For me it want just camera images but ALL images on the sd card.
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This is why flashing experimental/custom roms is often a process that will teach you to back up your stuff. Sometimes this lesson is learned the hard way....
You can try to mount the partition in Windows or MacOS and throw file recovery software at it, Recuva being one of the better free ones for Windows. Best of luck
lost.dir is a filesystem folder, (kinda like if you realy explore and ntfs drive, you'll find a SystemVolume folder, and a few other ones).
Your pictures aren't in the lost.dir folder. And you're probably one of the ones who had their internal SD wiped while using the dead horse kernel. Sorry to say, but there's no way to get them back.
masterotaku said:
This is why flashing experimental/custom roms is often a process that will teach you to back up your stuff. Sometimes this lesson is learned the hard way....
You can try to mount the partition in Windows or MacOS and throw file recovery software at it, Recuva being one of the better free ones for Windows. Best of luck
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That's why I remove my sd card everytome. I have no idea what happen.
Ima try that app
you can't remove your internal sd card
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you can't remove your internal sd card
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@murdamo305:
Exactly. So as another use has already suggested...BACKUP! Both Titanium and MyBackup are available freely from the Market. Android bug or not with a working backup handy you don't lose anything.
Here's your situation:
You = lost information, want it back.
Problem = the way sdcards store info + the filesystem = pretty much impossible to recover usable info from your sdcard (specially since it has been written to again, no matter what you think). Sorry to say, but you're SOL.
lost.dir is a filesystem maintenance folder, pretty much exclusively for OSX use. It's not a "trashcan" or anything like that. It's not user accessible.
Besides, that kernel doesn't have code in it that says "move everything to lost.dir". It's got a bug in it that essentially runs a remove recursively and forced on the /sdcard/ directory.
Do a "check disk". It worked for me when i corrupted my memory card.
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roadrash7 said:
Do a "check disk". It worked for me when i corrupted my memory card.
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What's that?
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This???
http://m.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-recover-data-from-a-corrupt-memory-card-or-usb-drive/
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Cleaned thread!
Please, don't profanity post.
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lost.dir is a filesystem folder, (kinda like if you realy explore and ntfs drive, you'll find a SystemVolume folder, and a few other ones).
Your pictures aren't in the lost.dir folder. And you're probably one of the ones who had their internal SD wiped while using the dead horse kernel. Sorry to say, but there's no way to get them back.
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can we delete it? there's nothing in it at all for me
you can delete it, but the android system will create it again.
I dont appreciate some of your assumptions
Just to automatically assume someone has their phone rooted and or flashed right off the rip is stupid. My fiancée just came to me telling me all her music on her SD Card was gone. Windows says the memory is still occupied however I found all the music files renamed to digit only filenames with no file extensions in the Lost.Dir. I renamed one to Test.Mp3 and opened it. Kabam it played a 3 and a half minute song. So to tell someone that welp your files are gone sorry nothing you can do this is what you get for doing something that they might not even have done in the first place. Her phone is stock no mods, no roms no tweaks. It is a rare occurance that happens in the Android OS. Not a direct result of what someone might have been doing.
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Just to automatically assume someone has their phone rooted and or flashed right off the rip is stupid. My fiancée just came to me telling me all her music on her SD Card was gone. Windows says the memory is still occupied however I found all the music files renamed to digit only filenames with no file extensions in the Lost.Dir. I renamed one to Test.Mp3 and opened it. Kabam it played a 3 and a half minute song. So to tell someone that welp your files are gone sorry nothing you can do this is what you get for doing something that they might not even have done in the first place. Her phone is stock no mods, no roms no tweaks. It is a rare occurance that happens in the Android OS. Not a direct result of what someone might have been doing.
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100% agree with you, i also suddenly lost my pictures from my ext sd card, i founded the lost.dir with the files i just rename with the JPG extension and the pictures come back to life.
For everyone that append the same, don't lost your hope, you DON'T loose your files rename with the correct extension and you'll recover the lost file.
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After I used sdformatter to do a full overwrite of my internal sdcard my android tablet mounts it but no longer shows the internal sdcard please help
I don't have an SD card in my phone, but when I go to an app like Aldiko(book reader) and try to access a file, I'm able to explore higher level directories than normal. When I first browse for a file I'm in the area that my phone calls internal storage, but if I go one level higher I see that its actually mounted under the name SD card... What's going on? Why does this app see it as an SD card and why is it mounted as an SD card?
just like the samsung galaxy s phones, the 16gb internal storage is considered 'sdcard' to the system. your external sd is called sd-ext i believe
Wait, so if a tutorial says something will be written to your SD card, should you assume internal storage if you don't have one and external if you do have one? I was looking at the tutorial here: [it won't let me post the link because I'm a new user... google this and its the first result: "how to fully backup and restore your android"]
and it said "This image will be written to your SD card which you are then free to copy around and back up on your computer."
well. this phone isnt like a lot of other android phones. like the galaxy S line, there is more onboard storage than what prior phones had. a lot of the older phones came with 512mb/1gb/2gb/4gb of onboard storage that the OS resided on, and you had to add an sdcard to give yourself enough storage for music/pictures/backups/etc
i suspect you will see a lot more of this same thing in the future as flash memory gets cheaper and cheaper, and manufacturers begin putting more and more storage on board.
as for your link, you do realize that the atrix isnt like ANY of those other phones listed as examples?
nandroids dont work quite the same with the atrix
Pirateghost said:
as for your link, you do realize that the atrix isnt like ANY of those other phones listed as examples?
nandroids dont work quite the same with the atrix
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I did not realize that. I'm an expert with apple but a n00b with android. So you're saying I shouldn't use that guide? Any other suggestions to backup then?
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I did not realize that. I'm an expert with apple but a n00b with android. So you're saying I shouldn't use that guide? Any other suggestions to backup then?
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you cannot flash CWM recovery on the atrix like you can a lot of other devices (for which that article was written for)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1019143
I'm having some trouble with that. I'm going to continue with this question in this thread even though the topics changed, let me know if you want me to make a new thread.
The first thing I did after installing the CWM recovery for the atrix app was click the install recovery button. It said install successful. I assume this made a backup image of my phone's ROM. Then I clicked recovery mode and I tried booting holding the down key and selecting fastboot. I also tried some other options like RSD... I think I'm missing something though because the screen just got stuck on the "starting fastboot" line and I had to remove the battery each time it gets stuck to reboot it.
Okay, I decided to make my class 10 32gb external MicroSD card the main SD card. However, I noticed that even though they are flipped now, when I install applications, it won't load stuff in the /sdcard/.android_secure directory. Instead, it's STILL loading it into the built-in SD card which is now mounted at /sdcard-ext.
If I move the information from the /sdcard-ext to /sdcard, it eventually breaks the apps and I have to reinstall them again, which causes them (when moved to the sdcard) to be still placed into the /sdcard-ext/.android_secure directory.
However, if I go back to the default Droid X2 configuration (internal SD card mounted to /sdcard and my 32gb class 10 external mounted to /sdcard-ext), when I then move the apps to the SD card, it places them into the /sdcard/.android_secure directory.
It seems with the flip-flop, there is still something "hard-coded" that causes app information to always be loaded onto the built-in internal SD card.
Anyone know why this is?
This is exactly why I find the flip flop to not really be necessary
BUT ....data from apps does get stored on the external...like caches...and when u extract wit root explorer for example
Well, after "Googling" what the .android_secure directory is for (it's because of using App 2 SD to move the apps to an SD card), I understand what the directory is for, but I'm still confused as to why it would put those files in the internal SD memory. I suppose so it has access to it even when the external SD card itself is removed, I guess.
In any case, I'm also finding under the new Eclipse 2.0 that performance is not what it was under v1.3. Not sure what it is, but games are very choppy. At first, I attributed it to possibly running the games off of the external SD card, but when I flip-flopped back to the stock configuration, performance was STILL bad, so I'm now wondering if it's related to the new Eclipse 2.0 ROM or something else?
I might go and reformat the SD cards and see if that fixes the problem.
I am willing to bet that if u use v6supercharger that will fix ur choppiness in gameplay.
usually always has for me and others
Check the development sticky for a link.
Don't.be afraid. There are what looks.like VERY confusing directions but its actually quite simple to use if u use script manager to run the script...
ashclepdia said:
I am willing to bet that if u use v6supercharger that will fix ur choppiness in gameplay.
usually always has for me and others
Check the development sticky for a link.
Don't.be afraid. There are what looks.like VERY confusing directions but its actually quite simple to use if u use script manager to run the script...
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I actually already have it. It's one of the first things I use once I've flashed to a new ROM. Unfortunately, it hasn't helped.
I'm going to copy everything off of both SD cards (internal and external) and reformat them and then try to see if that works. Hopefully, it should as I've had the performance before. If that still doesn't work, I might SBF back to 2.3.4 and see if the performance issue still exists. I'm thinking it's possibly just an issue with having done so many copy and delete operations, that maybe a good format will fix the issue.
Once thing I did when going to Eclipse 2.0 was I couldn't get the stock recovery to find the update.zip file for the 2.3.5 update, so I instead used the BSR recovery instead to install the zip. Not sure if that's good or bad, but I had read somewhere that you needed to use the stock recovery, which didn't seem to work for me. I could never see the zip file even though it was there.
Strange.
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I actually already have it. It's one of the first things I use once I've flashed to a new ROM. Unfortunately, it hasn't helped.
I'm going to copy everything off of both SD cards (internal and external) and reformat them and then try to see if that works. Hopefully, it should as I've had the performance before. If that still doesn't work, I might SBF back to 2.3.4 and see if the performance issue still exists. I'm thinking it's possibly just an issue with having done so many copy and delete operations, that maybe a good format will fix the issue.
Once thing I did when going to Eclipse 2.0 was I couldn't get the stock recovery to find the update.zip file for the 2.3.5 update, so I instead used the BSR recovery instead to install the zip. Not sure if that's good or bad, but I had read somewhere that you needed to use the stock recovery, which didn't seem to work for me. I could never see the zip file even though it was there.
Strange.
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Did u have it on the external sd card?((and u were actually stock when u tried.to apply it?(rooted but no rom is fine..)))
I decided to SBF back to 2.3.4 and try the 2.3.5 update again. This time, it worked as far as finding the UPDATE.zip file. Not sure what happened before.
In any case, it seems like there is still an issue with performance, but I just found the 2.0.2 version of Eclipse on Nitro's twitter, so I'm trying it again to see if that might fix it.
Otherwise, I'm going to sbf back to 2.3.4 and then see if the performance is any better there. If it is, then I have to assume it's this release of Eclipse.
UPDATE: Well, on Eclipse 2.0.2, performance tanked. On stock 2.3.4 AND stock 2.3.5, performance is back to what I had before Eclipse 2.0 which was excellent.
I don't know. I like what Eclipse 2.0 has, but if it degrades performance, then I don't know if it's worth it. I'll try again later today. I've already wiped and reformatted both the internal and external SD cards and that hasn't helped either.
UPDATE #2: Okay, upon further exploring, I decided the performance hit had to be coming from one if not two areas: /system/built.prop and/or /etc/init.d/99tweaks. I removed 99tweaks first and that was the problem! I'm currently adding in each line, one by one and testing to see which is causing the performance hit. I'm also going to try and use the latest V6 scripts from Zep to see if that makes a difference.
Also, I diffed the v1.0.3 and v2.0.2 versions and there wasn't any differences except for the checking for the existence of a shell script file that it would execute and then remove.
I'll let everyone know once I find something.
UPDAET
Today I got a 32 GB, SanDisk Micro SDCard, mainly for the use with Google Music (I have a 7,200+ library). However, I didn't find a source which had a solid solution, to at least have Google Music use the external sd card. So, I just messed around with it, and I found out how to Swap (reverse) the sd card 'locations', properly.
In vold.fstab, in the directory /system/etc/, you have two lines. Edit them with Root explorer's included "text editor", or any other good text editor. Make sure you have r/w on. Find the below two lines:
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# external sd card
dev_mount sdcard_ext /mnt/sdcard-ext:none:lun1 auto /devices/platform/tegra-sdhci.2/mmc_host/mmc3 /devices/platform/tegra-sdhci.2/mmc_host/mmc1
and
Code:
# internal eMMC
dev_mount sdcard /mnt/sdcard 18 /devices/platform/tegra-sdhci.3/mmc_host/mmc0
What I did, and what proved successful (to use both internal, and external storage, which are reversed), is this:
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# external sd card
dev_mount sdcard_ext [COLOR="Red"]/mnt/sdcard[/COLOR]:none:lun1 auto /devices/platform/tegra-sdhci.2/mmc_host/mmc3 /devices/platform/tegra-sdhci.2/mmc_host/mmc1
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# internal eMMC
dev_mount sdcard [COLOR="Red"]/mnt/sdcard-ext[/COLOR] 18 /devices/platform/tegra-sdhci.3/mmc_host/mmc0
Replace the regular lines, with the red lines, save, restart your phone, and BAM, your internal is now marked as external, and your external, is now your internal
I use Stock 154_5, Unlocked, rooted.
Enjoy, and press the thanks button
Also, you can revert them back, if you changed them. Just put the stock code back into the file.
Also, I just discovered:
You can only use the internal storage, when connecting to a computer. The 'internal' (which, we switched around), will not be detected. If you do connect your device to a computer, after you disconnect it, the 'internal', storage, which is really the external, because we switched it, will not be detected, and you must restart your phone.
I'll test this on MIUI. I have the 64GB version. Same problem.
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I'll test this on MIUI. I have the 64GB version. Same problem.
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Cool. Let me know if it works. Yeah, 64 GB only for movies and pictures.... Isn't worth it for me. Lol
What do you have for CM9 or MIUI?
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What do you have for CM9 or MIUI?
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I use Stock 154_5, Unlocked, rooted.
URGENT,
i am using samsung galaxy note device , i have follow your instruction to change the vold.hstab file.
Now my device has recognize my ext sd card as sdcard. But my device cant recognise my internal sdcard, so i have lose my root explorer. and I couldn't reedit the vold.hstab file back.
I have try to hardreset, and try to reinstall root explorer, but it always give an restart and error : "process.media force close "
From my understanding the failure of installing the root explorer because my device can't recognise sdcard anymore
I go to setting--> storage , I found the sdcard is not detected, only usb storage detected
how to solve this problem?
n1cky6969 said:
URGENT,
i am using samsung galaxy note device , i have follow your instruction to change the vold.hstab file.
Now my device has recognize my ext sd card as sdcard. But my device cant recognise my internal sdcard, so i have lose my root explorer. and I couldn't reedit the vold.hstab file back.
I have try to hardreset, and try to reinstall root explorer, but it always give an restart and error : "process.media force close "
From my understanding the failure of installing the root explorer because my device can't recognise sdcard anymore
I go to setting--> storage , I found the sdcard is not detected, only usb storage detected
how to solve this problem?
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Well your problem is because, this is for the Photon 4G. Not the Note. Have you tried other File managers, such as Antek?
D2dyno said:
Well your problem is because, this is for the Photon 4G. Not the Note. Have you tried other File managers, such as Antek?
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Anyhow, It is impossible to install any applications, if try to install,device will restart
But, it's okay now, I have reflash my rom, all the problem solved
Thanks for your responds
n1cky6969 said:
Anyhow, It is impossible to install any applications, if try to install,device will restart
But, it's okay now, I have reflash my rom, all the problem solved
Thanks for your responds
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No problem, and I'm glad to help.
Man am I happy I came across this thread!!!
I've been reading forever in some of the rom threads for an answer to this question! A few of the roms I've tried out had the internal and external storage swapped with no option to switch and that kept me from using them because I use internal storage for apps data and such and then my external memory card for backups and personal files!
The only 2 roms that this can be fixed in is jokers CM9-unofficial-ICS rom (there is actually an Advanced Option in Settings) and the MIUI.us port (there is a storage mod flashable swap, which didn't work for me, and there is an option in the Aroma installer to choose what you want for Internal Storage).
Now that I've come across this, imma try it out and see if I can't get it to work on some other roms I have used!
Thanks for the discovery! I'll let ya know how it works out for me!
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Man am I happy I came across this thread!!!
I've been reading forever in some of the rom threads for an answer to this question! A few of the roms I've tried out had the internal and external storage swapped with no option to switch and that kept me from using them because I use internal storage for apps data and such and then my external memory card for backups and personal files!
The only 2 roms that this can be fixed in is jokers CM9-unofficial-ICS rom (there is actually an Advanced Option in Settings) and the MIUI.us port (there is a storage mod flashable swap, which didn't work for me, and there is an option in the Aroma installer to choose what you want for Internal Storage).
Now that I've come across this, imma try it out and see if I can't get it to work on some other roms I have used!
Thanks for the discovery! I'll let ya know how it works out for me!
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Glad to hear! ICS ROMs handle external SD cards way better, so I prefer them now.
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Glad to hear! ICS ROMs handle external SD cards way better, so I prefer them now.
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I hear you there! The ICS roms rock! Jokers ICS rom has been my favorite due to the option to switch to use Internal memory for apps/app data. The other CM9 variants (AOKP/AOKPCB) had it default to use external memory as storage for apps/app data with NO option to swap. Now that I came across this, when my battery is a little better than 37% lol, imma do your mentioned edits!
Only difference from what I see from stock is that instead of "sdcard-ext" its "emmc". My current setup has "emmc" set as sdcard-ext (external storage) and sdcard as, well sdcard (internal storage) lol.
My issue has been that those have been swapped where "emmc" = internal storage and "sdcard" = external storage. With it being that way, it makes it a PIA to restore from Titanium Backup.
But this is all a thing of the past haha
I'm glad I'm not scared to read (like I feel like a lot of users are). I've seen a lot of posts where ppl were asking about how to swap the storage locations with no solid answers. Granted I didn't come across this solution immediately either...BUT I did and I plan to link to this thread and give you props in hopes that others find this useful as I know others are definitely having the same issue!
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I just successfully tested this on the AOKPCB from and it worked perfectly! Not gonna lie, that makes me VERY happy!!
Maybe everyone typing thanks could actually "THANK" this person?
Works on tablet
Ok tried this on a cheap tablet that I bought for playing around like this. An Arnova AN 7G3 7" with 4gb memory, 2 gb internal and 2gb internal sdcard. It was close to your file, all I had to change was sdcard and extsd. Before I did the switch and after seeing someone had trouble with apks after the switch, I made sure to move all apks to tablet, then copied all folders from sd to extsd. I also made a copy of the orignial vold file, just incase. Changed vold file rebooted and everything was great. Made a copy of altered vold file, then replaced with orignial and rebooted.....all still ok, replaced file with altered file and rebooted ,again all ok. Moved all apks that I could move to sdcard from tablet, free up 650mg on tablet. All moved apks worked fine.
AN 7 G3 is rooted out box runing stock ICS 4.0.1
Thanks for the info
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F theOk tried this on a cheap tablet that I bought for playing around like this. An Arnova AN 7G3 7" with 4gb memory, 2 gb internal and 2gb internal sdcard. It was close to your file, all I had to change was sdcard and extsd. Before I did the switch and after seeing someone had trouble with apks after the switch, I made sure to move all apks to tablet, then copied all folders from sd to extsd. I also made a copy of the orignial vold file, just incase. Changed vold file rebooted and everything was great. Made a copy of altered vold file, then replaced with orignial and rebooted.....all still ok, replaced file with altered file and rebooted ,again all ok. Moved all apks that I could move to sdcard from tablet, free up 650mg on tablet. All moved apks worked fine.
AN 7 G3 is rooted out box runing stock ICS 4.0.1
Thanks for the info
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Glad to hear it works on more than just GB
Thanks
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Glad to hear it works on more than just GB
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Thanks as I have been trying to find info for months. I posted in Arnova section of Arctablet news on how to do this tablet and a heads up and Thanks to YOU as well as a link to your work here. Hope you don't mind and did give credit to YOU. Check it out when you have time
http://www.arctablet.com/blog/forum...n-7-g3-recognize-you-micro-sd-as-internal-sd/
Just saw this topic and I have a (noob) question.
Does this work on any android phone or it's specific for this Moto one?
Hi, I'm a total noob to Android phones, I admit it. I just got my first smartphone, and it's an old one - an HTC Aria. Thanks to a lot of info here in XDA-developers, I got it rooted with clockwork mod and am using the Cyanogen ROM with Android 2.3 (Gingerbread).
Well, it's such an old phone, I see that it only has ~185 mb internal storage. I added an 8GB SD card. Even though I move my apps to external storage, I can see that the data didn't get moved and is still quickly eating up all the phone's internal storage. I'm trying to use Madmack's "FolderMount" but am having trouble figuring it out. I think it might be an understanding of Android file/folder structure (I have very little). I'm considering buying the "pro" version (if it works for me), just so I can move the whole data folder at once and free up my internal memory again.
Here's my efforts at testing to see if it works. I'm trying to move the data from the "Plague, Inc." game to the external card (the app is already on the external card). So, when I choose source, it automatically starts me in the /mnt/sdcard/ but doesn't allow me to go "up" to any further root folders of that. So I found in the "Android" folder the "data" folder. I tried to FolderMount that but it gave me the error about the non-Pro version. So I tried the "com.miniclip.plagueinc" folder (knowing that it's currently using 15MB of data) and then using an app called SDCardManager (which I understand is supposed to make it easier for me to access my SD Card, like Windows Explorer or something), I made a folder with this path "/mnt/sdcard/foldermount" I think it should be the right path because it's also where my "android.tether" folder is that I know I created myself.
Anyway, when I pair those two folders in FolderMount, it copies stuff over, and the pin looks green, but it shows my internal memory hasn't changed, still almost entirely full. So what do I do to clear it up? I think my problem is in my understanding of the Android's file structure. I think on "source", I should be able to access some folder before "/mnt/sdcard", but I can't get there. Please give this noob help from anyone who can! Thanks!
Can anyone help me with this? Particularly the developer, madmack? I really need to find a way to move the app data to the external memory so I can clear up space. Even if someone could help me understand the file structure better, that'd be helpful. Thanks!