I am looking at my Galaxy S2 files with the app "WiFi File Transfer" (which is great if anyone doesn't know about it... but that's for another thread). There's sdcard and external_sd and there is mnt/sdcard. What the heck is mnt? I feel like I am going in circles.
Thanks for any clarification.
I believe it stands for mount. Linux term maybe? The technical path of the SD card on your phone is
/mnt/sdcard/
See the top of this screen shot of me looking at the "root" of my internal SD card.
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Thanks, quarlow. While moving a file and not knowing what I was doing, somehow I put a file on mnt/sdcard/external_sd. So confusing. I guess all I really need to know right now is that the root of my card is mnt/sdcard and I thank you for that.
I'm pretty sure the sdcard folder you see at root (/) of the phone (/sdcard) is a 'junction point' type of folder to (/mnt/sdcard) the 'root' of the sdcard, at least as far as most computers see.
Similar to the 'Documents and Settings' folder on Windows 7. It doesn't exist except as a direction folder to 'Users' so older programs properly install to the new location for My Documents.
If you want to test it out, put a new file into /mnt/sdcard and then go to /sdcard and see it there.
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Hi, I am new to the Droid. Came from a BB 9700. I am curious as to the difference between the 3 storage options I now have with my Droid.
1. Device
2. USB
3. SD
I basically understand 1 and 3...What the heck is 2? I have stuff there, and I don't know how or what...
Now to the actual question I have. What folders/files do I leave on my Device and what can I put on my SD card? Basically, right now, I put Music, Pictures, Ringtones and Documents on my SD card. I have a ton of other stuff on the Device and was just wondering what, if any I can move and/or delete?
I'm attaching a pic of my device folder for reference. By the way, it says I have a folder that says "External SD" but there is nothing in it...
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external_sd is where your SD card gets mounted. USB is the GS2 built in storage. As for where you put stuff, that's mostly up to you.
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external_sd is where your SD card gets mounted. USB is the GS2 built in storage. As for where you put stuff, that's mostly up to you.
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Roger That...I didn't know what was safe to move and what wasn't.. Like do apps use that stuff and if its on the SD card, will it find it?..
Not really sure about that, as i've never needed it. Internal storage seems much faster even than my class 10 sd card anyway, so i just use external for stuff like music, images, etc... basically storage.
Roger That!
Thanks!
I'm currently running CM7 Xron ROM and I'm aware that it's 200+ MB on it's own. Any ideas how I can free some space up for an instance like this?
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Root explorer. Under system/app delete cmwallpapers.apk for gaining 5mb in system. I also delete file manager, email, protips,rom manager, cyanbread(as long as your using the green theme your ok).
That should give you more then 15mb right there.
Also make sure cm setting/application/install location is set to automatic, moving larger games to SD card automagically.
You can try a cache cleaner, it check music,maps and other hogs too.
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Root explorer. Under system/app delete cmwallpapers.apk for gaining 5mb in system. I also delete file manager, email, protips,rom manager, cyanbread(as long as your using the green theme your ok).
That should give you more then 15mb right there.
Also make sure cm setting/application/install location is set to automatic, moving larger games to SD card automagically.
You can try a cache cleaner, it check music,maps and other hogs too.
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Will give that a go tonight. Thanks
Not sure why this is happening, but I am trying to delete a backup I made a few weeks ago that is not needed. I cant seem to locate where the backups are on the SD card. I seen you could use ROM Manager to Manage and Restore backups. When tapping on that, ROM Manager says I need to have CWM installed on my device...I have it installed on my device...Whats the deal here? Could someone either tell me how to find the backups I have made in the past, how to make ROM Manager detect my CWM, or both? I am on i717 running ICS 4.0.4 OnlyOne HYFR B4 ROM. Thank You!
Our device is not currently supported by ROM manager. Use a file explorer to delete. Look for a folder named "clockworkmod"->Backup...
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Our device is not currently supported by ROM manager. Use a file explorer to delete. Look for a folder named "clockworkmod"->Backup...
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Oh ok Thanks...only problem is I have looked for that folder already using Root Explorer and I can't find it! Could you tell me the steps to take to find it on there? Thanks for your help..guess I could just search clockworkmod after my device gets done restoring...
it's right in the main directory of /sdcard
Perhaps look on internal and external?
I no has external so it defaults to internal.
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it's right in the main directory of /sdcard
Perhaps look on internal and external?
I no has external so it defaults to internal.
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Thank You! I appreciate it! I looked in external...not even thinking about that earlier..and there it was.
I would like to update PRL from phone, manual update. Like other phones that have modified hidden menu apks. From playing with short cut master I found SPROmadmHiddenMenu. Which is part of Software Update, com.lge.lgdmsclient.apk.
Here is an image of the Menu. It seems to look for a PRL to write, I just don't know where to put or what name to make PRL file.
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Here is stock LGDMSClient.zip. I can't decompile odex file on my phone, my computer is broken. If anyone can decompile and find out how to do PRL write test, then we should be able to write PRL to our phones.
The s3 used TEST.prl at the root of external sd card if I remember correct. Maybe the g3 can do the same.
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The s3 used TEST.prl at the root of external sd card if I remember correct. Maybe the g3 can do the same.
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I tried from internal sd, I will try external.
Let's hope to see if it works.
Update:
didn't work, could be my external sdcard is formatted with ext4 fs.
If anyone with a normal external sdcard can check please.
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I have two old LGG2Minis. One with LineageOS and the other with stock Android 5.0.2. I thought that I would throw something else on the other one too.
I wanted to open bootloader by copying the aboot.bin file (as the is the easiest way to do this in this device). So I copied it into the internal memory, I entered the command in the Terminal Emulator and got the info 'no such file or directory'. OK, I could have have made a mistake in a command. I carefully typed again and the result was the same. I tried to get into the /sdcard directory with cd command and the message still 'no such file ..'
I went to ES Explorer and what I'm seeing in /mnt is that I do not have a /sdcard directory there, just something with that name with an icon looking like a file icon. I checked in the Total Commander and I have the /sdcard FOLDER in /mnt, I can get inside, add folders and what not. I thought that since with TC it is ok maybe this is an app permission problem so I installed Termux - the result as in the Terminal Emulator.
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I don't have any other issues with internal memory. Phone works fine. I can save photos in internal memory (external SD card too). I don't get messages from apps or errors other than those I'm writing about. Finally I copied aboot.bin from another directory, twrp.img as well. In the File Manager in TWRP I have emmc with what's in the /sdcard directory.
I think that storage/emulated/legacy should be a hint for me, but I don't have the knowledge to use this hint. So my questions are - what happened? How to change that?