I know this has probably been brought up and discussed hundreds of times by now, but I wanted to know if there has been any update.
Basically, I want to change my default download directory from sd card/download to sd card-ext/download. I know that the filesystem is all jacked up because of this sd card-ext nonsense and that someone really dropped the ball. But has anyone found a way to fix this so that all of my downloads go to the REAL external SD card (sd card-ext) and not the internal memory? Even if I can't customize which directory it goes to, as long as it goes to the actual SD card I'll be happy. I know I can manually transfer the files after they've been downloaded, but that is a pain and a flaw of the OS in my opinion.
I am rooted, does that give me any other options?
Thanks
You can change download folder in Dolphin browser. i know it only solves half of the problem
You can change the download option in stock browser too... it gives you option of internal or external SD card.... maybe changing that option will solve all your worries...
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Yes, just go to Menu, More, Settings and scroll down.
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Does any1 know how to fix this? Please!!!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=946986
Unmount the SD, install then re-mount it.
I know about the mounting/unmounting thing, but people have had success by deleting the smdl2tmp1.asec file in the "android_secure" folder on the sd card. I have not been able to find this particular file in that folder (connected phone to pc, and found all other .asec files, but not this one).
Has anyone had any success with this? or are there any other solutions for us besides unmounting?
adb install app.apk worked for me with guerilla bob game
im not sure how to unmount sdcard and install
hope this.helps
For some reason some apps won't update properly.
First go to:
Menu->Settings->Applications->Manage Applications
find the app and tap on the name. Then select the "Move to phone" button
Now hit the back button until you are at the main settings menu and then select SD Card & phone and tap on "Unmount SD Card"
Go back and mount your SD Card (same sub-menu).
Now update your app in the market. You can move it back to the SD Card when you are done updating if you wish.
That may work, except, I have uninstalled those programs (e.g Angry Birds) and reinstalled them from the market (after unmounting my SD card), which works, but now when trying to move them to the SD card, it says that it cannot....
This whole thing is getting rather frustrating, and it seems like there should be a deeper fix for this, instead of the hassle of unmounting, them mounting
kaysola378 said:
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This whole thing is getting rather frustrating, and it seems like there should be a deeper fix for this, instead of the hassle of unmounting, them mounting
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You need to contact Google or the app devs then because this issue exists on multiple phones across multiple versions of Android.
Okay, I decided to make my class 10 32gb external MicroSD card the main SD card. However, I noticed that even though they are flipped now, when I install applications, it won't load stuff in the /sdcard/.android_secure directory. Instead, it's STILL loading it into the built-in SD card which is now mounted at /sdcard-ext.
If I move the information from the /sdcard-ext to /sdcard, it eventually breaks the apps and I have to reinstall them again, which causes them (when moved to the sdcard) to be still placed into the /sdcard-ext/.android_secure directory.
However, if I go back to the default Droid X2 configuration (internal SD card mounted to /sdcard and my 32gb class 10 external mounted to /sdcard-ext), when I then move the apps to the SD card, it places them into the /sdcard/.android_secure directory.
It seems with the flip-flop, there is still something "hard-coded" that causes app information to always be loaded onto the built-in internal SD card.
Anyone know why this is?
This is exactly why I find the flip flop to not really be necessary
BUT ....data from apps does get stored on the external...like caches...and when u extract wit root explorer for example
Well, after "Googling" what the .android_secure directory is for (it's because of using App 2 SD to move the apps to an SD card), I understand what the directory is for, but I'm still confused as to why it would put those files in the internal SD memory. I suppose so it has access to it even when the external SD card itself is removed, I guess.
In any case, I'm also finding under the new Eclipse 2.0 that performance is not what it was under v1.3. Not sure what it is, but games are very choppy. At first, I attributed it to possibly running the games off of the external SD card, but when I flip-flopped back to the stock configuration, performance was STILL bad, so I'm now wondering if it's related to the new Eclipse 2.0 ROM or something else?
I might go and reformat the SD cards and see if that fixes the problem.
I am willing to bet that if u use v6supercharger that will fix ur choppiness in gameplay.
usually always has for me and others
Check the development sticky for a link.
Don't.be afraid. There are what looks.like VERY confusing directions but its actually quite simple to use if u use script manager to run the script...
ashclepdia said:
I am willing to bet that if u use v6supercharger that will fix ur choppiness in gameplay.
usually always has for me and others
Check the development sticky for a link.
Don't.be afraid. There are what looks.like VERY confusing directions but its actually quite simple to use if u use script manager to run the script...
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I actually already have it. It's one of the first things I use once I've flashed to a new ROM. Unfortunately, it hasn't helped.
I'm going to copy everything off of both SD cards (internal and external) and reformat them and then try to see if that works. Hopefully, it should as I've had the performance before. If that still doesn't work, I might SBF back to 2.3.4 and see if the performance issue still exists. I'm thinking it's possibly just an issue with having done so many copy and delete operations, that maybe a good format will fix the issue.
Once thing I did when going to Eclipse 2.0 was I couldn't get the stock recovery to find the update.zip file for the 2.3.5 update, so I instead used the BSR recovery instead to install the zip. Not sure if that's good or bad, but I had read somewhere that you needed to use the stock recovery, which didn't seem to work for me. I could never see the zip file even though it was there.
Strange.
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I actually already have it. It's one of the first things I use once I've flashed to a new ROM. Unfortunately, it hasn't helped.
I'm going to copy everything off of both SD cards (internal and external) and reformat them and then try to see if that works. Hopefully, it should as I've had the performance before. If that still doesn't work, I might SBF back to 2.3.4 and see if the performance issue still exists. I'm thinking it's possibly just an issue with having done so many copy and delete operations, that maybe a good format will fix the issue.
Once thing I did when going to Eclipse 2.0 was I couldn't get the stock recovery to find the update.zip file for the 2.3.5 update, so I instead used the BSR recovery instead to install the zip. Not sure if that's good or bad, but I had read somewhere that you needed to use the stock recovery, which didn't seem to work for me. I could never see the zip file even though it was there.
Strange.
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Did u have it on the external sd card?((and u were actually stock when u tried.to apply it?(rooted but no rom is fine..)))
I decided to SBF back to 2.3.4 and try the 2.3.5 update again. This time, it worked as far as finding the UPDATE.zip file. Not sure what happened before.
In any case, it seems like there is still an issue with performance, but I just found the 2.0.2 version of Eclipse on Nitro's twitter, so I'm trying it again to see if that might fix it.
Otherwise, I'm going to sbf back to 2.3.4 and then see if the performance is any better there. If it is, then I have to assume it's this release of Eclipse.
UPDATE: Well, on Eclipse 2.0.2, performance tanked. On stock 2.3.4 AND stock 2.3.5, performance is back to what I had before Eclipse 2.0 which was excellent.
I don't know. I like what Eclipse 2.0 has, but if it degrades performance, then I don't know if it's worth it. I'll try again later today. I've already wiped and reformatted both the internal and external SD cards and that hasn't helped either.
UPDATE #2: Okay, upon further exploring, I decided the performance hit had to be coming from one if not two areas: /system/built.prop and/or /etc/init.d/99tweaks. I removed 99tweaks first and that was the problem! I'm currently adding in each line, one by one and testing to see which is causing the performance hit. I'm also going to try and use the latest V6 scripts from Zep to see if that makes a difference.
Also, I diffed the v1.0.3 and v2.0.2 versions and there wasn't any differences except for the checking for the existence of a shell script file that it would execute and then remove.
I'll let everyone know once I find something.
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I have been trying to find how to save downloads or apps to the Micro SD card. I would like to set downloads to automatically go to the Micro SD card. Is there a way to do this? thanks!
me too and want to know how to install apps to sd to
Writing to Micro Sd Card
I am sure someone in the community knows the answer to this question and I wish they would answer it for Us. I have googled and performed a search on the forum without coming up with anything. I am new to Android and could use the help. Thanks - John
If you're downloading from a browser, this can usually be changed in the browser settings. Eg in Dolphin select settings then data settings. The download location is in there.
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I have been trying to find how to save downloads or apps to the Micro SD card. I would like to set downloads to automatically go to the Micro SD card. Is there a way to do this? thanks!
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Never seen a way to do this.
Most everyone using external SD is to hold files they bring over to tablet not to have files from tablet saved to it. You could use a file explorer - root explorer for example - to manually move files but never yet seen a way to tell camera or browser or Gmail or mail or anything to save files to SD by default. Frankly I was irritated by thus but then I realized 32gb is a hell of a lot of space.
Anyway once unlocked bootloader happens stuff like this - in time - will be changed by devs.
Im not new to dealing with roms and whatnot but its been all 'lil while. I've got the latest cm9 up and running BUT my internal sd is showing roughly 450M left and that's not even close to being right. Going into settings/storage it shows that I'm using about 3 gig and some change. Why is the rest of my storage not showing up?
A triple wipe of data/cache/dalvik--->flash rom--->wipe cache/dalvik--->fix permissions--->REBOOT was done for the install so my @sshole was clean before doing the flash, just for added info.
Sounds like the SD card is partitioned. Any way this could have happened?
I did a es file explorer card analysis and found my problem. Not really a problem but I guess cm9 doesn't show card usage very well under settings/storage. Es file explorer broke it down proper and I found my 4shared folder hogging the space. User error I guess
Thanks to anyone who gave a single thought to my problem..
I have a weird and it seems like a common problem too, i have found some threads about it but either they are a little different from mine or they dont have a real solution for it.
So yesterday i decided to download a bunch of games, i never used enough applications to need to move them to my sd, but since i downloaded a lot of them some started to get installed to the sd and i manually moved some of them too to the sd card. But while i was still downloading more apps, some of them started to show the android icon, and when i tried to run them they crashed. The weird part is that it was just some of them.
After that i tried rebooting my phone hoping that would help the phone to reload and see the apps, but that just made it worst since those, and some others went totally missing from the drawer. Is not because the launcher loads before the sd card is read because i already checked that.
So i went to settings>applications and discovered that all those applications are listed there but listed with their other name (dont know how to call it, but is like "com.developer.app" ). All of the missing apps are like that and i cant run them.
- I have formatted the sd using gparted, same behavior
- I have formatted the sd and the internal (sd?) with the phone
- I have done a factory reset with no luck
- I have runned fsck in both internal and external sd's
- The files of the applications are in the .android_secure folder in the external sd card "app.asec"
- The sd card is working (files music, everything else is working)
- I dont know what else to do, I want to be able to use my sd card to install apps
Thanks for your help
Simple Answer
Just Install Nd Run The Apk First Nd Play now simply move To SD
It Will Work.
Same Problem In Galaxy Y .
SolveD
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I dont fully understand you, but i think you are telling me to install, then run the app and then move it to the sd card, i did that to almost all of them (i was trying the games ) but that didnt make any difference. Thank you anyway!
looks like it was a faulty micro sd card switched to another one and problem solved