Hey all,
I added a 32GB micro SD card to my view and (being a Windoz guy), I don't understand why it shows up under /mnt/sdcard/ as ext-sd. Is there a way to have it mount so that it is under /mnt/ext-sd? I guess I just don't understand how Android manages these things. I suspect it has something to do with the fact that, when opening any file manager, it defaults the view to /mnt/sdcard/ as a starting place to browse files. Does anyone else find this odd? Or is it just me?
deejayspinz said:
Hey all,
I added a 32GB micro SD card to my view and (being a Windoz guy), I don't understand why it shows up under /mnt/sdcard/ as ext-sd. Is there a way to have it mount so that it is under /mnt/ext-sd? I guess I just don't understand how Android manages these things. I suspect it has something to do with the fact that, when opening any file manager, it defaults the view to /mnt/sdcard/ as a starting place to browse files. Does anyone else find this odd? Or is it just me?
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If you use Astro you can set the home directory to ext_sd in the preference tab.
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Hey guys,
Sorry if this is a dum question but i cant figure out what the issue is. I have a 4gb micro sd card in my Vegan Gtablet. I can go into es explorer and see the sdcard 2. I have been able to create a folder in that sdcard 2. When i take it out the folder is gone so i know that is the place i need to be. Anyways When i try to move media files from sdcard to sdcard 2. It gives me a error and wont move it. What am i doing wrong or am i missing something?
Any help would be great. Thx.
have you tried using Root Explorer to make the folder r/w? I'd like to understand the difference between the sdcard and the sdcard2. I have my gtab (vegan) mounted currently to my pc, and i see sdcard as empty and sdcard2 with files, but when i had no card in, the sdcard had the contents and sdcard 2 was empty.... Anyone have insight on these folders?
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I am also running vegan on my gtab. my computer can not see sdcard2 (external card) but I can transfer files to it via usb drive using adao file manager. when I shutdown my gtab the files dissapear. Is there a fix that will allow us to use the sdcard2? Any help is appreciated thanks in advance.
I went and used root explorer and gave me error that its a read only system. Im trying to move media files from my built in gtab memory to the micro SD card? How can this be done? Help !!!
Gemni69 said:
I went and used root explorer and gave me error that its a read only system. Im trying to move media files from my built in gtab memory to the micro SD card? How can this be done? Help !!!
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There should be a button at the top of the file list to change from RO (Read only) to RW (Read Write) file systems.
When i went into Sdcard 2 no such option. When i went to Sdcard there was. When i went back and held down on SDcard 2 and went to permission that is where i got the error.
Did you format the micro sd card correctly? I had some problems and then formatted it on my PC to FAT32 (make sure you back up your files on the card beforehand to your PC) and all was ok. I can transfer files to it via es file explorer or Astro.
vcs11 - your computer won't show your micro sd (sdcard2), only the internal storage. Disappearing files on sdcard2 seems to be pretty common. For a solution search the forum for ".nomedia" file.
Hi all
I am a newbie and am experiencing this issue, external sd card not showing up in file explorer.
Sniffer can find it and I can play media files from there. Is this the norm or do I need to change something?
I am using C&C 1.5ghz Froyo Combo VERSION 8 final.
The 16GB card is seen by all other card readers I have tried.
Are you sure your navigating all the way up? Have you gotten to the directory where you can see "sdcard" and are not seeing "sdcard2"
So simple if you know what to look for. Thank you ever so much.
Hey guys, it seems that when I tap "sdcard" in root explorer it takes me to the onboard NAND. Any idea how I might get at my SD card?
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Hey guys, it seems that when I tap "sdcard" in root explorer it takes me to the onboard NAND. Any idea how I might get at my SD card?
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If you look on the "sdcard" in Explorer, you'll see a folder called "external_sdcard" (or something like that). That's it.
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Fyi you can view all mounted filesystems by running the mount command in a terminal.
Thank you!
Hope not too dumb a question but I cannot seem to find the location best suited to copy text, Word, Excel, etc. files to from my laptop to NT. I have CM10 running and a 16GB card, plus a repartitioned area with an additional 10GB although I don't see it.
Where is the best place to copy/access files such as these?
wedmiston said:
Hope not too dumb a question but I cannot seem to find the location best suited to copy text, Word, Excel, etc. files to from my laptop to NT. I have CM10 running and a 16GB card, plus a repartitioned area with an additional 10GB although I don't see it.
Where is the best place to copy/access files such as these?
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Why not just make a "documents" folder on your SD card and stuff the files from your laptop there?
wedmiston said:
Hope not too dumb a question but I cannot seem to find the location best suited to copy text, Word, Excel, etc. files to from my laptop to NT. I have CM10 running and a 16GB card, plus a repartitioned area with an additional 10GB although I don't see it.
Where is the best place to copy/access files such as these?
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Well first of all you don't need to add an additional partition on your SD card. You should have 4 made: /boot, /system, /data, and /sdcard. You would place all files onto your /sdcard partition from your computer.
Here's a guide for bootable SD cards, it shows the partitions you should have:
http://iamafanof.wordpress.com/2012/11/11/how-to-guide-bootable-cm7cm9cm10-sdcard-for-nook-tablet/
wedmiston said:
Hope not too dumb a question but I cannot seem to find the location best suited to copy text, Word, Excel, etc. files to from my laptop to NT. I have CM10 running and a 16GB card, plus a repartitioned area with an additional 10GB although I don't see it.
Where is the best place to copy/access files such as these?
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If you're running CM10.x internally on emmc and with an SD card in the slot, you should be able to access both the NT internal storage partition for user-content and the SD card storage. If you use a File Manager app such as ES File Manager to browse the NT's root file-system (you need to go into the FM app's Settings to enable "Root explorer" option) the internal user-content storage is mounted as /emmc and also as /mnt/emmc, whereas the SDcard storage is mounted as /sdcard and also as /mnt/sdcard. You should also be able to see these storage areas when you connect your NT to your PC via USB.
Think the issue is when i use any of the three file manager apps I have installed, and then open /sdcard, I don't see anything. I know for a fact there are apps installed and some test files I copied over, so whats the deal? have given all three root privileges...I'm either looking in the wrong folders, or, something isn't configured correctly far as I can tell...makes no sense
BTW - That is my setup Digixmax - so then these are the locations to copy my files?
My carrier is MetroPCS. Since this phone only has 1.8GB of internal memory, I have a 16GB microSDHC card for external storage, but I can't move anything from sdcard0 to my external sd card in File Manager because nothing shows up on sdcard0. I want to move my pictures from sdcard0 to my external sd card, but nothing shows up under the "pictures" folder in sdcard0. I can't just make my storage option the SD card because when I do that, it's still saving on the internal memory, because apparently the phone thinks that sdcard0 is the SD card. So I need a way to change the storage option to my external card or a way to uncover these files that are hidden somehow.
I'm operating on Jellybean 4.1.2 and 3.0.31 kernel.
@pennyboard420 Welcome to XDA forums.
Your camera pictures are actually saved in the "DCIM/thumbnails" folder and not the "Pictures" (only my screen-shots are saved in the "Pictures" folder) folder and no this folder won't open with File Manager. You need a different file browser, like Root Browser that lets you see hidden files/folders. On some of them you will need root access to modify or change these files and folders.
You can't set and change your default storage location from sdcard0 to the external sdcard natively.
You would need to install an app like Link2sd or a swap script, again the device needs to be rooted.
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xdrc45 said:
@pennyboard420 Welcome to XDA forums.
Your camera pictures are actually saved in the "DCIM/thumbnails" folder and not the "Pictures" (only my screen-shots are saved in the "Pictures" folder) folder and no this folder won't open with File Manager. You need a different file browser, like Root Browser that lets you see hidden files/folders. On some of them you will need root access to modify or change these files and folders.
You can't set and change your default storage location from sdcard0 to the external sdcard natively.
You would need to install an app like Link2sd or a swap script, again the device needs to be rooted.
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I've tried your solution but wasn't able to get it rooted because some drivers that I needed couldn't be run on the Surface RT tablet that I have due to the tablet only allowing Microsoft developed software to run. However, I have found an alternate solution: Instead I connected my LG L9 to the tablet, opened up the DCIM/Thumbnails folder and manually copied all my pictures into the DCIM/100LGDSC folder of my external SD card.
Chances are you probably already know about this, but just putting it out there.
Thanks again.