I know i am not a very active member but could anybody please help me out here,
im unrooted for now, but i put an external sd card in my phone because it has all my music and pictures and other items, and when i go to my gallery it only shows what is in the internal memory, same with the music app, it only shows what is in the internal memory, someone please help!
familydude99 said:
I know i am not a very active member but could anybody please help me out here,
im unrooted for now, but i put an external sd card in my phone because it has all my music and pictures and other items, and when i go to my gallery it only shows what is in the internal memory, same with the music app, it only shows what is in the internal memory, someone please help!
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Have you tried restarting your phone yet?
Also check settings>storage and SD>unmount SD card
Did you try restarting the phone? Maybe downloading a file explorer to see if the phone is recognizing the sd card? You could double check to see if the sd card is seated properly. You could look under SD & Phone Storage in Settings to see if it's being recognized there.
Edit: Haha you beat me to it nguyendqh
realitysconcierge said:
Did you try restarting the phone? Maybe downloading a file explorer to see if the phone is recognizing the sd card? You could double check to see if the sd card is seated properly. You could look under SD & Phone Storage in Settings to see if it's being recognized there.
Edit: Haha you beat me to it nguyendqh
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=P lol. and +10...
familydude99 said:
I know i am not a very active member but could anybody please help me out here,
im unrooted for now, but i put an external sd card in my phone because it has all my music and pictures and other items, and when i go to my gallery it only shows what is in the internal memory, same with the music app, it only shows what is in the internal memory, someone please help!
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Make sure you don't have a file called .nomedia anywhere on your external sdcard.
Check the card for errors.
Wow, I didn't know about the .nomedia file. Learn something new everyday
FamilyDude - Have you tried...
From the HD2 forum...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=17785696&postcount=16075
Originally Posted by iivuch View Post
Go to Settings/ Application settings / Development and check on the USB debugging. Now your USB storage should work correctly.
oddly enough, I have a 16GB card in mine but it's saying it's almost 10GB total, I don't think I would lose 6GB somewhere in system. My G2X recognized the same card as the almost full 16GB. I erased everything before installing it to my Amaze so I'm not sure whats happening here.
RZJZA80 said:
oddly enough, I have a 16GB card in mine but it's saying it's almost 10GB total, I don't think I would lose 6GB somewhere in system. My G2X recognized the same card as the almost full 16GB. I erased everything before installing it to my Amaze so I'm not sure whats happening here.
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Are you sure you're not reading the internal memory?
There's 2 sets of info listed. Maybe scroll down?
nguyendqh said:
Are you sure you're not reading the internal memory?
There's 2 sets of info listed. Maybe scroll down?
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uhh close thread, nothing to see here
RZJZA80 said:
uhh close thread, nothing to see here
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LOL. Was that what it was? =P
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LOL. Was that what it was? =P
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I have no comment on the subject...haha
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I have no comment on the subject...haha
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Wow...
Okay... well...
Wow... LOL!
Thread closed.
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hi i juz bought my X10 last week and i'm wondering where all the apps that i downloaded from market will save to? the phone itself has 1gb memory but when i check the "SD card & phone storage" > internal phone storage available space is only 366mb left.
are all the apps saved to my phone's memory how do i move it to SD card?
thanks for the help.
adanoob said:
hi i juz bought my X10 last week and i'm wondering where all the apps that i downloaded from market will save to?
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They download and install to the phone. If what you're asking is where does the original apk go you can find it in data/app
adanoob said:
are all the apps saved to my phone's memory how do i move it to SD card?
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You don't.
there is a forum on devlopment thread appto sd which might be of some help in case you wanna move ur contacts to sd card, personally i havent tried it coz i never used so many apps, but please refer it in case you want to move ur apps..
The apps all collect together in a little room inside your phone, which is full of thousands of the little green android guys, and the each take a little piece of the app, and then when you touch the screen, or press one of the buttons, they all run around with little torches shining them in the right spots to make what you see on the screen.
If you get a microscope, you can actually see them doing it.
But you've got to be really quiet, cos they're very timid, and they'll try to hide from you.
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But you've got to be really quiet, cos they're very timid, and they'll try to hide from you.
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If your phone has ever locked up, now you know why, you were being too noisy.
Hi can someone please help me out.
i have just inserted a new sd card in my phone,
ive already transferd a few files to it so i no its working.
well im using the application app 2 sd to move apps , well i have apps that it says can be moved but when i click on them there is no option for sd card and also i get a message saying: the device does not have a real primary external storage, or primary external storage is emulated
can someone help me please
anyone? :/
Could be a copy sdcard card, loads kickin around from China
Also why u need a2sd don't u have enough on phone storage?
No it's proper sand disk I think from ebuyer, well I have about 10 apps and I have around 250-300mb left just wanted to free some up as when I install n.o.v.a 3 it's like 2.gb and that installs to whine storage aswell not sd. I think I've read that none if the apps to sd work yet for sgs3 :/
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There's plenty of open topics about this. Search for them.
Basically Samsung intended the internal, external cards and dropbox to work as one big storage for all apps, app data and user files... or something like that.
So they disabled the Move To SD option in the app manager. Unfortunately it doesn't quite work like they intended and the external SD is practically useless as most apps (99%) can't read or write to it.
I'm reading around now to see if anything new happened but it's looking grim.
This thread should be closed.
Any updates on this? I still want to move my App Data to the external SD card. In this way my new SGS3 is even worse than my Galaxy Y -.-
as far as I know it does not work with S3. maybe an update coming soon
vimto25 said:
Hi can someone please help me out.
i have just inserted a new sd card in my phone,
ive already transferd a few files to it so i no its working.
well im using the application app 2 sd to move apps , well i have apps that it says can be moved but when i click on them there is no option for sd card and also i get a message saying: the device does not have a real primary external storage, or primary external storage is emulated
can someone help me please
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you cant do it again. samsung wont allow this option anymore. you can close this thread
It works. It requires some handywork though on the shelll.
maybe there will be a noob friendly mod soon for those that want to use .sd card for apps?
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I'm just hoping for a custom Rom with App moving, UMS mode and fixed user dictionary so I'm not having to patch up the f**k ups that Samsung made and have it all built in like it should be.
phre5k said:
Any updates on this? I still want to move my App Data to the external SD card. In this way my new SGS3 is even worse than my Galaxy Y -.-
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I used Directory Bind App to move my big data esp. game data to my external Sd.It worked perfectly.
bump. having same issue.
Sooooo... I just discovered that this stoooopid-ass phone of mine is storing downloaded photos to the phone's internal storage instead of the SD card. Is there anyway to fix this? I don't even think it's possible to move those photos from the phone to the SD card since my laptop can't even find the phone's internal photo storage folder. Seriously? WTF?!?!
carlos64030 said:
Sooooo... I just discovered that this stoooopid-ass phone of mine is storing downloaded photos to the phone's internal storage instead of the SD card. Is there anyway to fix this? I don't even think it's possible to move those photos from the phone to the SD card since my laptop can't even find the phone's internal photo storage folder. Seriously? WTF?!?!
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Please read the stickies and search before starting pointless threads. All of your issues are because you don't know what you're doing, and not the fault of the phone.
Here's the first one, answered in a thread conveniently titled "F.A.Q.s - Massive Question Round Up Thread".
Racer Of All said:
Q: Why are my pictures saved to the internal phone storage and how can I force it to save to the SD card?
A: When you first launched your camera app (assuming you had an SD card in) it should have asked you if you wanted to save to the SD card. Either way, the problem is easily fixed within the camera settings or by going to Settings> Storage> App storage locations and choosing Storage card for each option.
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When you connect your phone to your computer, if you select media sync instead of hard drive, it will give you access to both internal and external sdcard from your computer.
fachadick said:
Please read the stickies and search before starting pointless threads. All of your issues are because you don't know what you're doing, and not the fault of the phone.
Here's the first one, answered in a thread conveniently titled "F.A.Q.s - Massive Question Round Up Thread".
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Thanks, Einstein, but apparently YOU'RE the one that can't read. My issue has NOTHING to do with pictures that's been taken with the camera. Read my post again and then come back with another smart-ass and useless post. Thanks.
cruise350 said:
When you connect your phone to your computer, if you select media sync instead of hard drive, it will give you access to both internal and external sdcard from your computer.
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Thanks... that takes care of that problem. I never even thought about using that 'Media Sync' option to find files. I still can't find a way to force downloading photos to the SD card though.
carlos64030 said:
Thanks, Einstein, but apparently YOU'RE the one that can't read. My issue has NOTHING to do with pictures that's been taken with the camera. Read my post again and then come back with another smart-ass and useless post. Thanks.
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Hahaha, totally missed the word downloaded. Gotta stop visiting the site after a drink. My bad bro, sorry about that. The media Sync thing though you could have searched for.
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Hahaha, totally missed the word downloaded. Gotta stop visiting the site after a drink. My bad bro, sorry about that. The media Sync thing though you could have searched for.
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No biggie. I really wasn't too concerned with the 'Media Sync' thingy since I ended up deleting the downloaded photos from the phone's internal memory. That wasn't that big of a deal, however... I have bigger fish to fry with my original issue.
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No biggie. I really wasn't too concerned with the 'Media Sync' thingy since I ended up deleting the downloaded photos from the phone's internal memory. That wasn't that big of a deal, however... I have bigger fish to fry with my original issue.
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thanks for being cool - so where are you downloading the photos from? if you're downloading with the stock browser, you can go to settings, advanced, download storage, and change phone storage to storage card. Is that what you meant?
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thanks for being cool - so where are you downloading the photos from? if you're downloading with the stock browser, you can go to settings, advanced, download storage, and change phone storage to storage card. Is that what you meant?
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Yes, that's what I'm talking about. I use the Dolphin HD browser and SOMETIMES Google Chrome (which still has a lot of bugs). I have all of the settings set in the Dolphin HD browser to download photos to the SD card, but they still go to the phone's internal storage. If I remember correctly, Google Chrome doesn't even offer that option. It really doesn't offer it's users that many adjustments at all, actually.
carlos64030 said:
Yes, that's what I'm talking about. I use the Dolphin HD browser and SOMETIMES Google Chrome (which still has a lot of bugs). I have all of the settings set in the Dolphin HD browser to download photos to the SD card, but they still go to the phone's internal storage. If I remember correctly, Google Chrome doesn't even offer that option. It really doesn't offer it's users that many adjustments at all, actually.
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don't know about chrome, but I use dolphin hd also, and I was able to change the download directory to the sdcard by going to settings, privacy and personal data, download directory, and changing that entry to /mnt/sdcard/ext_sd/download. Is that how yours is set up? I just tested it and its working correctly on my end.
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don't know about chrome, but I use dolphin hd also, and I was able to change the download directory to the sdcard by going to settings, privacy and personal data, download directory, and changing that entry to /mnt/sdcard/ext_sd/download. Is that how yours is set up? I just tested it and its working correctly on my end.
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Yeah, that's how mine's read. I don't see any other settings in the browser OR on the phone to change the directory path. I don't have this problem on any of my other phones. All the downloaded photos goes straight to the SD card. Oh well...
Hi guys,
I have a galaxy s2 with the latest AOKP rom installed. It's been working fine (except for GPS which got fixed once i swapped out the SIM card). I just came back from overseas and had a bunch of pictures on the phone. None of the pictures show up anymore. The SD Card had some pictures but they were old, and I should have a lot of pictures stored on the internal device.
I tried running recuva on just the sd card but they didn't come up. I only noticed that I had to reinstall 1 application so far because it wasn't working. Also, when I browse my phone using my computer, it seems like the root directory is missing a bunch of folders (I have hidden files to show).
Any ideas?
Not sure what had happen to your device. But the best course of action is to pull out your external microSD card and connect it to your computer directly to see if you can see the contents in that card. If yes, download them to your computer and back them up. Then format your microSD card with the phone, the phone should be able to read after that.
Once you have done that, if you can see all the rest of the pictures on your phone, transfer them to the external microSD and do the same thing and back those picture up.
Once the backup is done (if you are able to), then you can start working on fixing your GS2. Even if you have to reflash the ROM then you will have the data backup.
BeenAndroidized said:
Not sure what had happen to your device. But the best course of action is to pull out your external microSD card and connect it to your computer directly to see if you can see the contents in that card. If yes, download them to your computer and back them up. Then format your microSD card with the phone, the phone should be able to read after that.
Once you have done that, if you can see all the rest of the pictures on your phone, transfer them to the external microSD and do the same thing and back those picture up.
Once the backup is done (if you are able to), then you can start working on fixing your GS2. Even if you have to reflash the ROM then you will have the data backup.
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Thanks. I actually tried just that before I posted. Took out the card, put it in a usb adapter and plugged it into the computer. Ran recuva, pulled everything out, and formatted it. Still nothing =/
Have you tried plugging the phone into the computer?
Sent from my GS4 running CM11 Kandy Kane
BeenAndroidized said:
Not sure what had happen to your device. But the best course of action is to pull out your external microSD card and connect it to your computer directly to see if you can see the contents in that card. If yes, download them to your computer and back them up. Then format your microSD card with the phone, the phone should be able to read after that.
Once you have done that, if you can see all the rest of the pictures on your phone, transfer them to the external microSD and do the same thing and back those picture up.
Once the backup is done (if you are able to), then you can start working on fixing your GS2. Even if you have to reflash the ROM then you will have the data backup.
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122ninjas said:
Have you tried plugging the phone into the computer?
Sent from my GS4 running CM11 Kandy Kane
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Yeah, when i plug it in and browse internal storage, only about 5 folders are showing up.
Bascotie said:
Yeah, when i plug it in and browse internal storage, only about 5 folders are showing up.
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When was the last time you see everything before this happen? And what did you do prior of this happending?
BeenAndroidized said:
When was the last time you see everything before this happen? And what did you do prior of this happending?
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Went on a trip overseas, saw the photos either before the plane ride home, or during.
Just had this happen to my gs3. Phone and sdcard in pc reader showed dcim and a couple other folders as empty that should not have been. When plugged into pc using mtp and/or usb by enabling/disabling usb debugging finally showed two sets of each folder. Seems like it couldnt read sdcard at some point so the apps created new folders when they shouldnt have. Copied dcim folder to my desktop but still cant read the files even though it shows them as large files like pics/videos would be.
Bascotie said:
Went on a trip overseas, saw the photos either before the plane ride home, or during.
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Hmm, go into your setting and see if you can mount the microSD card.
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Hmm, go into your setting and see if you can mount the microSD card.
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That part is grayed out, looks like its mounted already I see two different sets of storage
This happened to me too. I rebooted my phone for some reason and when it booted up all my pics/images were gone. All the folders were still there but were empty. I managed to get everything back by taking out the SD card and putting it in my computer then used Recuva. Strange that Recuva didn't help you.
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bswann said:
This happened to me too. I rebooted my phone for some reason and when it booted up all my pics/images were gone. All the folders were still there but were empty. I managed to get everything back by taking out the SD card and putting it in my computer then used Recuva. Strange that Recuva didn't help you.
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Well Recuva did find a bunch of pictures on the sd card but it turns out they weren't the ones I took overseas. A weird situation..
Bascotie said:
That part is grayed out, looks like its mounted already I see two different sets of storage
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Unmount then mount it again.
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BeenAndroidized said:
Unmount then mount it again.
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I don't see an unmount option. Also when I did the recuva, I formatted the SD card so that part should be empty. I think the pics are somewhere on internal storage
We need a map. And Indiana Jones.
Phalanx7621 said:
We need a map. And Indiana Jones.
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I was looking for some way to scan the phone's internal storage with recuva but Recuva doesn't see the phone as a 'drive' =/
Bascotie said:
I was looking for some way to scan the phone's internal storage with recuva but Recuva doesn't see the phone as a 'drive' =/
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It should see it if it is set to mass storage but, if it is set to mtp then no it will not see it.
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How come the sd card shows up as sdcard1 under storage instead of just as the primary for sdcard folder in file explorer and why is it that when trying to save downloads from say next browser the external sd is not an accessible option?
External memory cards are NOT primary, the internal flash memory is primary. Android support for external memory is minimal, even games install to internal memory.
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But...but thats why I have a nice..big..sd card ya know, to save stuff to. lol
Thank you though sir
lvillepunk85 said:
But...but thats why I have a nice..big..sd card ya know, to save stuff to. lol
Thank you though sir
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You'll have to manually move your files to the external card, that's what I normally do.
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pardon me?
Ace42 said:
You'll have to manually move your files to the external card, that's what I normally do.
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Hi, in december I bought a sony class10 card hoping to move my games from phone to SD, now I dont have games or anything, because I couldnt find a way to move them or any info about, can you give a little hand on how to do it?
I'll really apriciate any help ypu can give me about it, thanks in advance
PHRuiz said:
Hi, in december I bought a sony class10 card hoping to move my games from phone to SD, now I dont have games or anything, because I couldnt find a way to move them or any info about, can you give a little hand on how to do it?
I'll really apriciate any help ypu can give me about it, thanks in advance
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File explorer apps or a PC. With a computer it's easier to move files obviously.
However I wasn't referring to game files or apps, because those only check the internal card. If you have music or pics, docs, etc, those can be moved to external manually.
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Hi, thanks for the answer!!!!
Ace42 said:
File explorer apps or a PC. With a computer it's easier to move files obviously.
However I wasn't referring to game files or apps, because those only check the internal card. If you have music orI lost the pics, docs, etc, those can be moved to external manually.
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Well, once I readed that you can make the phone think that the location of your games folder is located on the mSD but I lost the info, if I'm not wrong, they used a console command, but I don't know the command he was using.
The thing is that this phone is like a small console, but games take a lot of space, and I use the internal storage of the phone for more important stuff like maps and documents and having such a big card it will be great if you could save games in external storage.
Well, any way thanks thanks again for the replay
PHRuiz said:
Well, once I readed that you can make the phone think that the location of your games folder is located on the mSD but I lost the info, if I'm not wrong, they used a console command, but I don't know the command he was using.
The thing is that this phone is like a small console, but games take a lot of space, and I use the internal storage of the phone for more important stuff like maps and documents and having such a big card it will be great if you could save games in external storage.
Well, any way thanks thanks again for the replay
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Like this?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2126163
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Is there an apk for that?
kwyx1 said:
Is there an apk for that?
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.codlab.int2ext
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