On my ICS Passion v11 I am unable to browse my files on the external sd card from the normal path /mnt/sdcard/external_sd.
I read through some posts and found that the contents are under /emmc, but all applications like media player dont look into that folder.
any fix to either make apps look into /emmc or map ext sd back to /mnt/sdcard/external_sd
I'm looking for a workaround too. Isn't that the same path (/mnt/emmc) used in cyanogenmod and files are located normally?
Yes, its accessible from both /emmc and /mnt/emmc. But none of the ext SD card files can be used by media players.
jungle_boy said:
Yes, its accessible from both /emmc and /mnt/emmc. But none of the ext SD card files can be used by media players.
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that statement is incorrect, you just have to point your media player to the correct folder, i use power amp have several gigs of music all on my external sd all of which is accessible after i redirected poweramp to search those directories.
You can also do the same thing for picture in an app like QuickPic. Just hit the settings and redirect the scan.
shreddintyres said:
that statement is incorrect, you just have to point your media player to the correct folder, i use power amp have several gigs of music all on my external sd all of which is accessible after i redirected poweramp to search those directories.
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My bad, I didnt put it right. Of course i can browse to the file and open it, it just doesnt show up in the default Gallery.
Not a biggie just trying to know if theres a workaround and it can be seen in Gallery as well.
Try going into manage apps->gallery and wipe cache/data and see if they populate then.
Why isn't
Code:
adb shell su && mount -o remount,rw / && mount -o remount,rw /mnt/sdcard && ln -s /mnt/emmc /mnt/sdcard/external_sd
working...?
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Hey guys!
I've searched through the forum, and Google, but I've not found anything of help
Is there any setting, any hack or customization of any kind, to make Winamp store the WiFi sync songs to a custom folder? It's putting them on the phone right now, but I'd like them on the External SD card.
Thanks for your help!
+1 on this.
Wifi Sync only syncs data to /sdcard/music folder no matter what we do...
In Samsung Galaxy SL (I9003), /sdcard is internal sdcard and /sd (~/external_sd) is external sd.
I tried to create a symlink to ~/external_sd/Music in /sdcard/music using terminal emulator so that /sdcard/music points to ~/external_sd/Music (or /sd/Music)
But it says operation not permitted.
After a bit of research, it was clear why it was not allowing.
Our external sd card is fat32 filesystem and its not possible to create symlinks on that filesystem.
I was thinking why do we need external sd to be fat32, wasnt it just fine to use ext3 or some other linux friendly file system?
And maybe change fstab to mount it as ext3. smthing like that?
Just checking possiblity.
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?
Rdio's Android app is a bit of a disaster, but thankfully they're working on a new one. However, in the meantime, any ideas on how to get it to put its local cached data on the external SD card, instead of the internal storage? It seems to explicitly use /sdcard/rdio, and ignores any of the system settings for data storage. If the internal filesystem wasn't fat32, I could just set up a symlink to /sdcard-ext, but that's not possible. I could change the mount locations of the two storage partitions, but then I'd have the opposite problem with a bunch of other apps.
Any ideas on how to get around this? Would rather put music on my 32GB sd card than fill up the internal storage
rustak said:
Rdio's Android app is a bit of a disaster, but thankfully they're working on a new one. However, in the meantime, any ideas on how to get it to put its local cached data on the external SD card, instead of the internal storage? It seems to explicitly use /sdcard/rdio, and ignores any of the system settings for data storage. If the internal filesystem wasn't fat32, I could just set up a symlink to /sdcard-ext, but that's not possible. I could change the mount locations of the two storage partitions, but then I'd have the opposite problem with a bunch of other apps.
Any ideas on how to get around this? Would rather put music on my 32GB sd card than fill up the internal storage
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would love to know this as well for my GS3.
Try this as root in your terminal emulator or in adb shell:
Code:
mkdir -p /sdcard-ext/rdio
chmod 777 /sdcard-ext/rdio
mount --bind /sdcard-ext/rdio /sdcard/rdio
Note however that I don't have rdio and don't even know what it is, so this is entirely untested.
If this happens to work (and you'll know by files appearing in /sdcard-ext/rdio), you'll need to execute these commands on every boot. If you're on a CM-based ROM, I suggest putting them into your userinit.sh.
So I just got a 'new' Samsung Exhibit II 4g which has a very small amount of internal memory, and since Rhapsody doesn't have a way to distinguish between internal /sdcard and external /sdcard I decided to try to figure out how to mount my rhapsody folder to the external.
Code:
mount -o bind /sdcard/external_sd/rhapsody /sdcard/rhapsody
Now that works fine. Rhapsody downloads to the /sdcard/rhapsody folder and is none the wiser on it being on the external memory card, however, I am stumped on how to get this behavior to happen automatically.
I have tried adding new scripts to /etc/init.d or appending that line to other scripts with no success. I also tried adding the line to /etc/vold.fstab with no luck.
Is it not possible, or am I missing something obvious? The phone is actually for my dad and I don't want to have to teach him how to open terminal emulator and run the shell script...
I've tried it on my Motorola Atrix and couldn't get it to mount automatically either. It's a little different, since it mounts the external as /sdcard-ext, but the theory was the same.
I originally tried to use symbolic links, but the partitions are formatted to fat32 and don't support linking. I'm not sure if I could switch it to ext3 or ext4 without losing any functionality.
Thanks
When i try to "ln -sf"some sdcard music file to internal memory, i get this error.
Do anyone k now how to get around it, i assume it is the fault of sdcard or maybe also the internal memory is fat32, can i get around it without a format?
emgluon said:
When i try to "ln -sf"some sdcard music file to internal memory, i get this error.
Do anyone k now how to get around it, i assume it is the fault of sdcard or maybe also the internal memory is fat32, can i get around it without a format?
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symbolic links don't works on fat32...
inviato dal mio Sony Tablet S usando Tapatalk HD
Try this via adb or terminal emulator: (works only with root)
su
mkdir -p /mnt/sdcard/external_sd
mount -o bind /mnt/sdcard2 /mnt/sdcard/external_sd
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Rescan sd card (use the app from market "Rescan SD")
Enjoy your music from external sd card
Thanks. Problem solved, all dpzen gb of music now on the stock player.
But one need to remount and rescan after each reboot, shame the simple link files dont work.