All -
I installed Globatron HC and am noticing that my SDCARD is mounted to /sdcard2.
The problem is that all downloads are doing to /mnt/sdcard/download (internal memory) and my gallery does not even look at /sdcard2.
Any clue how to make /sdcard2 my default and get applications to start scanning this?
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I'm not sure if this is normal behavior for Android, but it was annoying the hell out of me that the internal memory was mounting to /mnt/sdcard. At first I figured this was just because I didn't have an actual sd card. Then I got one, and it got mounted to /mnt/emmc. From what i read about other devices this seems backwards? I couldn't get some apps to use the emmc storage.
What I finally did was copy all my data from internal storage to the sdcard and then swapped the two mount points in /system/etc/vold.fstab. Everything seems to have gone better than expected. I now see my 32gb microsd as the SDCARD in Storage and the 11gb internal storage shows up as additional storage. Is there any problem with doing this? I'm still not entirely clear on where /mnt/sdcard/external_sd fits into this.
Here is my vold.fstab after I edited it.
Code:
# internal sdcard
dev_mount sdcard /mnt/emmc 11 /devices/platform/s3c-mshci.0/mmc_host/mmc0/mmc0
# external sdcard
dev_mount emmc /mnt/sdcard auto /devices/platform/s3c-sdhci.2/mmc_host/mmc1
# USB storage device
dev_mount usbdisk /mnt/usbdisk auto /devices/platform/s3c_otghcd/usb
The INTERNAL SDCARD is your BUILT IN MEMORY and SHOULD BE listed as mnt/sdcard. This should be your 11Gb internal memory.
The EXTERNAL SDCARD should be listed as mnt/emmc. This should be the REMOVABLE sd card from the battery compartment.
Not sure but I would guess that you MAY HAVE ISSUES with your setup. With HOW you listed emmc I can see your on cm7. In cm7 there is a setting to change the names/location of your cards. Since you had problems I am guessing it is/was reading backwards from the get go. Someone please correct me if I am wrong.
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Thanks for the reply. I guess it was working as intended from the beginning. I haven't had any problems with this while in cm7, but one of my objectives was to get cwm to use the external sdcard for backups. Of course my change had no effect what so ever on where cwm is looking for the backup folder. I'm rolling back my change with my tail between my legs. I wasn't able to find the option in CM7 you spoke of.
This is an annoying problem. I have not been able to find any system info widgets that can display the memory status of the ext_sd folder (external sd card). Its even more confusing because the internal "sd card" is also referred to as usb storage while the ext_sd is referred to as SD Card on some screens.
style26062 said:
Thanks for the reply. I guess it was working as intended from the beginning. I haven't had any problems with this while in cm7, but one of my objectives was to get cwm to use the external sdcard for backups. Of course my change had no effect what so ever on where cwm is looking for the backup folder. I'm rolling back my change with my tail between my legs. I wasn't able to find the option in CM7 you spoke of.
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To see if the button is ticked got to MENU, SETTINGS, CHANOGENMOD SETTINGS,APPLICATION,USE INTERNAL STORAGE
If while your at normal settings if you put them back already and it is ticked in the box, then untick it and reboot. If it is not ticked then tick the box and reboot and see if that fixes it. If your still backwards then AGAIN untick it and reboot. Sometimes settings can look correct but be kind of stuck until you toggle it. Just throwing it out how I would check out if I had your issue. Hope it helps
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That's exactly what I needed. Thank you!
actually you could have done that all in the Cyanogen setting's. I had mine set that the /mnt/sdcard was my actual SDCARD... problem became that everything was being installed to my SDcard. I prefer my SDcard as my music/picture/movie storage.
if you are using CM7.1 it's in Setting -> Cyanogen Settings - > Application
The one you wanna change is Use Internal Storage checkmark if you want to change
Yes, That's what RockRatt said above. It works perfectly. Thanks!
This is on CM7 latest nightly. Also on stock. I can see all my external SD's contents in /mnt/emmc and my internal sd in /mnt/sdcard.
Music player sees all my music on the Micro SD; however, because it's not linked to internal some how I cannot get Moboplayer to see contents of my micro.
Hopefully it's understandable
So how do I get my micro sd linked to /sdcard? Symlink?
Thanks very much
Edit: got Moboplayer to scan my /mnt/emmc folder, but preferably I'd still like to create a symlink in /sdcard. Anyone explain?
Hello,
I noticed an empty directory at /mnt/sdcard after installtion of CM9. All of my data (internal storage + external storage) is now in /mnt/sdcard2. Here I see folders like 'Android', 'data', 'DCIM' etc., which I actually expected to find in /mnt/sdcard (internal storage location). In addition to that this folder houses also my data of the external storage, i. e. my sdcard.
As soon as I unmount my external card, the folder /mnt/sdcard2 appears to be completely empty, even the content of the internal storage is gone. Moreover, the folder /mnt/sdcard is also empty. Where did this data vanish?!? Strangely enough, the rom works just fine apart from the aforementioned problem.
Is this the default behavior or did I go wrong during flashing/setting up TWRP?
Best regards,
Michael
Check what is set to default storage in settings - storage/memory (depending on locale). Possibly something went wrong when you tried to change it.
Internal storage is stored in /data/share
Have you tried using root explorer and checking the mnt folder?
Hi everyone.
After some snafu while trying to update Gapps to the latest package, which wrecked my phone ;
I re-flashed the ROM (CM11.0 from Maclaw's), doing full wipe of dalvik/cache/data/system. I reinstalled the previously working Gapps package.
Everything is working fine, but the way the storages are mounted is not correct. For instance, Gallery won't display pictures from the external sdcard.
Yet, if I use file manager, I can access it, and all my personal files are still there. When connecting to the PC, internal storage takes me to the actual internal storage being used by the phone but external storage appears empty.
/sdcard points to /storage/emulated/legacy it contains my old files from before flashing anew.
tree of /storage :
/storage
---/emulated
------/0 <-- this seems to be the same folder as legacy
------/clockworkmod <-- never mind, it's just there, empty. A remnant of my previous recovery
------/legacy
------/obb <-- empty
---/sdcard0 <-- redirects to /storage/emulated/legacy
---/sdcard1 <-- external sdcard
I hope I'm being clear enough. Basically, external sdcard doesn't seem to get mounted at a correct place which would allow apps to read from it.
While in recovery, if I go to the file manager,
external sd card is mounted in /external_sd
/sdcard is the internal storage
/data/media is the same as /storage/emulated as before. ./0 is populated, ./legacy is not.
So, basically, I should find a way to mount the external card to /data/media right?
Edit : I kept trying stuff. I created a folder from my PC on the apparently empty sd card, and put a photo in it. It displays in the gallery, and the folder is at the root of the sd card, just like every other folder that are not detected by either my phone and PC. The hell is that about?
Hi,
I've been using my new zopo zp998 without an external sdcard for a while...
This way the system is mounting the phone storage (internal card) as sdcard0 pointing sdcard to it...
I've already installed lots of applications and most of them point to sdcard.
Now, when I try to add an external sdcard, the system mounts the external sdcard as sdcard0 and the phone storage as sdcard1 leaving sdcard pointing to sdcard0 which is now the external one, breaking most of the installed applications...
As this phone as almost 10GB of free storage, I wish to keep using the phone storage as main storage... Adding an external card is just for extra stuff (musics and videos) or for one or another future application (GPS maps maybe).
Is it possible to always keep the phone storage as sdcard0 and sdcard, with and without the external card mounted, leaving the external card as sdcard1 if mounted?
Phone is rooted (flashed bootimg and recovery, installed CMW-SuperSU 0.98) with stock ROM 20140218-143230.
vold.fstab contents:
dev_mount sdcard /storage/sdcard0 [email protected] /devices/platform/goldfish_mmc.0 /devices/platform/mtk-msdc.0/mmc_host
dev_mount sdcard2 /storage/sdcard1 auto /devices/platform/goldfish_mmc.1 /devices/platform/mtk-msdc.1/mmc_host
dev_mount usbotg /mnt/usbotg auto /devices/platform/mt_usb
Any help, please?
Thanks.