Not sure how to title this so sorry if it's misleading, I would just like to know that when you plug in the phone via USB the folder that pops up for internal storage not external, what folders are NEEDED and which ones can be deleted? Theres sooo many and I like being organized if its possible anyway.
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So as I've read, usbStorage isn't really a folder. The weird thing is, I copied some files to the usbStorage folder 'successfully' at work. Well, it didn't give me any errors while copying the files anyway.
Before copying I checked if I had enough storage space because I had to copy a couple hundred MB's worth of wav files. When I got home there was nothing there which, as I know now, was to be expected.
The problem is I DID lose the storage space... How am I ever getting that free space back!? Can't very well delete non-existent files.. Confused :S
Some extra info: Running WanamLite 10, custom rom, rooted ICS.
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Rajiv
What are you expecting to happen? The usbStorage folder is for USB OTG (i.e. something plugged into the micro USB port, like a memory stick or hard drive), nothing else.
Uhm, yeah. I've read that.. After encountering this problem, obviously.
So what was I expecting? Regular folder behavior of course..
What I would have expected to happen, knowing what I do now, is an error message along the lines of not being able to write to that particular folder.
Neither happened though and now I'm missing a couple hundred MB of storage space... Any ideas on that?
Not having had this problem before, I would copy all folders on to a PC, format the SD card then copy the folders back in.
Might want to copy the folders over one by one.
Edit: have you checked to see how large you 'lost.dir' folder is? Long pressing on any folder then selecting details will show you the size of that folder.
I regularly delete the entire folder. I deleted it for a friend last week. His was 2.4gb worth.
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After upgrading to ICS, some of my apps stopped to work. At first I tought the problem is with how ICS handles external_sd folder on internal memory. Than I noticed that I cant copy anything from my PC to Phone via cable. Strange thing is that I can copy via kiss air. So, I am in doubt where could be the problem:
1) ICS ?
2) Cable ?
3) Phone memory ?
4) Phone usb jack ?
Since I don't have second cable with me, I ll have to investigate after few days, but would like to hear your opinions. I just tried - copying from phone to pc via cable works fine. Last evening I updated Kies on last version. Also, I formated usb of the phone - no change - still can't copy anything on the phone.
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Update - now it seems that I can't copy anything on usbStorage folder only !!!
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Thanks in advance.
Zile
do a factory reset and install phone drivers fresh ...
So, situation is like this:
even on the phone, I cant copy anything in folder usbstorage. So, it looks like internal usb is damaged ? Also, what is strange, I CAN copy a lot of data on the phone, but note in folder USBSTORAGE or, for example external_sd (i don't have real sd card), which is probably internally made in usbstorage folder ?!? But I can copy more than one gig of data from pc to phone, and when I go to settings of the phone, I see that amount of free usb memory is decreasing, and internal phone memory is same.
very strange.
Looking for your answers.
Zile
Stop copying things to the usbStorage folder. It is only for USB OTG.
As said above try reading the basics first from the stickies .
jje
My Igo stopped working. All the data was stored in external_sd. Now, when i try to reinstall, simple it doesnt wotk again. So thats the main reason i wanted to access these folders. On Gb everything worked fine. Now on Ics - not.
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zilez2003 said:
I CAN copy a lot of data on the phone, but note in folder USBSTORAGE or, for example external_sd (i don't have real sd card)
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zilez2003 said:
My Igo stopped working. All the data was stored in external_sd
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I've highlighted another problem for you.
Just to clear some things: I didn't have real sd cart. I suppose that becasue of missing sd card, some of the software i use on GB was making folder external_sd somewhere on internal memory of my SGSII - probably software is design to work that way. Folder external_sd could be seen using es file explorer, but not with default file manager. Also, on GB, I was able to copy files on folder usbstorage. On ICS - not any more. I admit i am not expert for android, but i aks: why on GB it was OK to copy files in this folder, now it isn't any more with ICS ? It makes me think that something is wrong with my phone. Or with ICS ? If this folder was provided to be just for "USB OTG" (whatever it means) - why I was alloud (as common user) to copy files in it while using GB ? I don't want to be software geek, I want to use my phone in the consistent way. Imagine that you have a PC, and on winxp you can copy files in folder MyDocuments, and for example on Windows7 you cant any more becasue iyt is now only for "DOC OTG". And, just to inform you - problem solved. I had to make folder on root of internal memory. After that software recognized it a put everythig in it.
So i traded my infuse for a note 1 gt-n7005. I backed up my infuse using titanium backup and when i connect my phone to my computer and use usb mass storage i look through my files and ive got two drives one is pass and one is removable disc k or something like that. But for the life of me none of my backed up apps show in restore / backup tab but i can see all my old apps on the pass drive so i copied and pasted all from pass to the other drive but still no luck. What step am i forgetting? I mean the info is there but where do i tell tibu where to look for apps from my infuse? Also the files i found are asec not apk.
Tibu backs to a folder named "data" on the internal device storage.
Unless of course it got moved ....g
There seems to be multiply threads on this Topic, regarding the infuse to note, Thread Closed here and Thank You.
On my new M8 I put the SD card I used in my galaxy s4 in and it doesn't seem to like several of the folders. The new phone will recognize some files but on other files it has a dot and then a number at the end and it won't show me the contents or allow those files to be accessible. So the mp3's better in those files don't show up in the player. This seems really strange to me that it doesn't read files that are just fine on the card. Can someone help me please.
by the way I had to download an manager in order to even see the files and folders on the phone, is there no folder navigation option built-in to this phone?
copy off sdcard to computer and format the sdcard and create new folders, why would it seem strange samsung uses a different file structure than htc....
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On my new M8 I put the SD card I used in my galaxy s4 in and it doesn't seem to like several of the folders. The new phone will recognize some files but on other files it has a dot and then a number at the end and it won't show me the contents or allow those files to be accessible. So the mp3's better in those files don't show up in the player. This seems really strange to me that it doesn't read files that are just fine on the card. Can someone help me please.
by the way I had to download an manager in order to even see the files and folders on the phone, is there no folder navigation option built-in to this phone?
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artofdesign said:
On my new M8 I put the SD card I used in my galaxy s4 in and it doesn't seem to like several of the folders. The new phone will recognize some files but on other files it has a dot and then a number at the end and it won't show me the contents or allow those files to be accessible. So the mp3's better in those files don't show up in the player. This seems really strange to me that it doesn't read files that are just fine on the card. Can someone help me please.
by the way I had to download an manager in order to even see the files and folders on the phone, is there no folder navigation option built-in to this phone?
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there is no built in file explorer, you can download es or root explorer but they may not be able to write to the sd card without root (i'm not sure as my phone is rooted...)
Thanks guys. I followed your recommendation and copied what I needed. Reformatted. Then added files. Seems good now.
Hey guys, I realise that I may not be on the correct forum for this and for that i apologise, however I am quite new to this website and don't know my way around.
Anyway, I have recently backed up my whole phone storage to SD card using CWM recovery as there was no option to backup to an internal device. I wanted to take the backup and move it to my computer but I have a HTC One m7 which has no SD card. This isn't normally a problem for me because all the files seem to show up on the internal storage when i look on my computer anyway however despite searching through all of the folders, I simply cant find. The backup is 5gb in total and I know that it has been made sucessfully because my available storage has decreased by 5GB but it simply can't be found. Even when i look at the file manager on my phone I can't see it. Even if I can't move it to my PC I atleast want to be able to delete it, will factory resetting the device remove root access aswell as everything else and will I have to start all over again to delete this hefty 5GB backup?
Thanks for reading