Hello
Right, a few questions.
Wanting to download a few games to my phone for obvious reasons. However have become confused after reading different things on different webistes.
For Gameloft games (I will use Asphalt 6 as an example) you are meant to according to most websites, download the .apk and SD card files from your laptop to save time for your device. However, I have been confused at a few things.
1) After installing the .apk, are the SD files not meant to go onto your Micro SDHC card? If so, what are all the patches around for?
2) I need the games on my SD card, not internal memory, is this just a case of what I have stated above?
3) How do I verify these games? I have seen 2 videos on YouTube but they do not make sense. After downloading the SD card data, do I just say No when it asks me to download via WiFi, and the game will run? Or is there a more complex process
Thanks a lot to anyone who answers
subbyhasan said:
Hello
Right, a few questions.
Wanting to download a few games to my phone for obvious reasons. However have become confused after reading different things on different webistes.
For Gameloft games (I will use Asphalt 6 as an example) you are meant to according to most websites, download the .apk and SD card files from your laptop to save time for your device. However, I have been confused at a few things.
1) After installing the .apk, are the SD files not meant to go onto your Micro SDHC card? If so, what are all the patches around for?
2) I need the games on my SD card, not internal memory, is this just a case of what I have stated above?
3) How do I verify these games? I have seen 2 videos on YouTube but they do not make sense. After downloading the SD card data, do I just say No when it asks me to download via WiFi, and the game will run? Or is there a more complex process
Thanks a lot to anyone who answers
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Downloading .apk files from internet is quite unsecure, you never know if you get correct game or not, virus or not, full of sh*t or not.
SD data goes on your SD card indeed, location varies with the game.
Some games check your Market account first, if you have bought it or not. If not...too bad, no fun for you. Some patches(LuckyPatcher) is used to change the Market license, so that game sees you bought it.
Last question. As I said, the location varies with the game. If it asks you to download files, you don't have the SD data in the correct location. Try to match the folder in .zip/.rar file(downloaded SD data) to the folder on your SDcard Android\data folder or just data folder on your sdcard.
EDIT: Forgot one question.
Install games first in internal memory, then you can move these to SDcard. SD data is anyway on SD, so no internal memory is used for it.
Thanks for that
So I don't need to verify any Gameloft games at all?
As in as long as everything is in the right location it will just open as normal?
Thanks
subbyhasan said:
Thanks for that
So I don't need to verify any Gameloft games at all?
As in as long as everything is in the right location it will just open as normal?
Thanks
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What do you mean by verifying?
Someguyfromhell said:
What do you mean by verifying?
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It sometimes tells you to download the game via WiFi even when you have already downloaded it and put it on the SD card
subbyhasan said:
It sometimes tells you to download the game via WiFi even when you have already downloaded it and put it on the SD card
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If it asks to download, then it means you don't have those SD files or they are not in correct location.
subbyhasan said:
It sometimes tells you to download the game via WiFi even when you have already downloaded it and put it on the SD card
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yep, sometimes gameloft need to verifying especially u just install the game (cheking if theres any update or load your saved game at least once) eg: asphalt6
it happen to me when i do fresh install on different rom, my save gamed always there
I downloaded.many apk buut you have always to look at your screen resolution
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Can apps be stored on the SD card? Albeit via a hack.
Thanks
Phil
Yes i want to know this also?
Phil_UK said:
Can apps be stored on the SD card? Albeit via a hack.
Thanks
Phil
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From what i'v heard the phone has to be rooted first, which hasn't been done yet.
I may be wrong though.
Surely not much of an issue with the larger space for apps anyway. Needs root, but once that's there, I'm sure A2SD will follow.
Dayz xxx
you can download apps from the web put them on your sd card and install them to your phone (they stay on sd card) with out root. go to the market download "appsinstaller"
go to Settings>Applications> Check Unknown sources and your ready to go.
you just put .apk files on your sd card and open the app. thats it
Yes you can install .apk files from SD and yes the .apk files stay on your SD card to install them another time,
but the apps are not running from SD card, nor are they installed on your SD card, they install onto your fone, and take up fone memory.
UNLESS you get root and run an Apps 2 SD type application.
Dayzee said:
Yes you can install .apk files from SD and yes the .apk files stay on your SD card to install them another time,
but the apps are not running from SD card, nor are they installed on your SD card, they install onto your fone, and take up fone memory.
UNLESS you get root and run an Apps 2 SD type application.
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yep, that is a fact, unless your phone is rooted its not possible.
sorry my bad misunderstanding
Phil_UK said:
Can apps be stored on the SD card? Albeit via a hack.
Thanks
Phil
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This question isalso very important for me before Buying such an expensive phone!
Any good news or still impossible? Because i read everywhere then with a rooted Hero it is still not possible to install on SD cards.
Never impossible!! Its android not apple... > However, I reckon Aps 2 SD will be done on the hero at some point - rooting is already there.
Point of info - The Hero has around 150MB of space left for apps after a factory reset. The Magic has 295MB with the standard ROM - HUGE difference isn't it and I was gobsmacked, so maybe apps2SD is more needed than I thought on Hero....
That said, the hero ROM has a lot of stuff in the ROM that has to be added on Magic - twitter apps and widgets, Weather apps and widgets, sense UI, Loads of other pretty but big widgets built in. I may start to look at anything I can remove using Root Explorer - I never use the built in You Tube App, Footprints looks like it can go (10mb big I think..) and a few others...
Daisy xxx
Well Hero Has been Rooted Already and i mean its just a matter of time until developers gets started on their work.
Apps2sd has been done for both the G1 and the HTC magic and soon the Hero as it is 100% Possible.
btw. just like Dayzee said the phone already has a good amount of space for apps. or at least i dont see the need for it.
Sorry, i am a noob in Android OS. Just wondering where does the application install to? If it installs to the SD card, what would happen if i change the SD card to a new one? Anyway to back up?
thanks
All apps install to the phone so you're OK there, but some apps have caches or maps or folders on the SD so you do need to have a card present really.
You can install apps from apk packages stored on the SD (Like installer packages) but the app unpacks to the fone memory.
Daisy
thanks.
Does it mean the phone will run out of storage faster if i keep installing applications? Compare to Windows mobile, i can choose to install to memory card instead of using phone memory/storage. Is there anyway i can do this?
LOL Well, I can't say for sure on hero, but on the Magic which is VERY similar there's about 290 megs available for apps on the phone after a full wipe - I have around 50 apps on mine ranging from a few KB to 15mb for co pilot and I've used 80mb of space leaving another 200+ or so.... - The apps for the most part are small - media etc is stored on SD so you likely won't have much of a problem.
Also since stuff is accessible on the fly from the market, there are some things you can get and install in mins on your fone when you need em, then uninstall afterwards... Knowing you can get them at any time from the market.
cheers for the quick reply. Much appreciated.
SOO the hero can not install apps to SD card
thats a bad news
what if we want to store a gameboy advance game or a sega mega drive or any other game in the hero ?
one gameboy advance game = 16mb
one sega mega drive game = 2,5,7mb
other games = 1 to 15mb
that mean the phone will run out of storage
what about apps2sd that can be downloaded from this forum?
i don't think apps2sd works without the phone being rooted first.
i think i saw a rooting thread in the hero android development forum....
Aqrab said:
SOO the hero can not install apps to SD card
thats a bad news
what if we want to store a gameboy advance game or a sega mega drive or any other game in the hero ?
one gameboy advance game = 16mb
one sega mega drive game = 2,5,7mb
other games = 1 to 15mb
that mean the phone will run out of storage
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I would've thought that in most cases, the emulator would need to exist on the phone itself, but the ROMs (i.e. games) could be loaded in from sd card.
Regards,
Dave
foxmeister said:
I would've thought that in most cases, the emulator would need to exist on the phone itself, but the ROMs (i.e. games) could be loaded in from sd card.
Regards,
Dave
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Think this is correct. I've not tried emulators yet but I do have DOOM and the game app is installed to the built in phone storage but the main bulk (.wads and sound files) are all on the sd card so in theory 280ish mb should do u fine as long as ur using a micro sd card
rhedgehog said:
i don't think apps2sd works without the phone being rooted first.
i think i saw a rooting thread in the hero android development forum....
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Is that mean I have to root the Hero first?
I thought Hero already come with the option where to install the apps...
Now I'm not sure whether I want to move to Hero or stay using Magic with "perfected" SPL (this SPL gives me headache)
yes, you would have to root any device apart from the dev phones maybe....
HTC will not sell a device that is already rooted, as they want people to use it how they designed it, and not allow people who don't knwo what they're doing to bugger it up accidentally.
no doubt it'll get fully rooted soon.
Good morning everyone.
I have been surfing this site for quite some time, but have just received my Vibrant S and am now in a position to post a question.
I am coming from the WinMo 5.0 world and android is very new to me, but I am enjoying the new phone.
I do not yet have the phone rooted and am hesitating ... mainly because I don't know all the features it has yet but also because I don't want to get into anything I don't know yet how to get out of. Having spent enough on this phone, I don't want to break anything just yet. This forum seems to have some very helpful people though, so I hope I can trust you all when you finally talk me into rooting. I barely got on the Market yesterday and found a tool 'SGS Tools' which has some info in the description which I think I can really use, but I need to root. So go ahead and start talking me into rooting.
Anyway, to my question:
The movie 'Avatar' comes on a 2Gig micro SD card and I have an 8Gig HCSD card. So I copied the directory 'Movie' and its contents to my C: drive, unmounted the 2Gig, removed it, and put in the 8Gig. The phone recognized it and everything went fine when I turned the phone on. So I moved the directory 'Movie' and its contents to the 8Gig card and after all was said and done, when I try to open the movie file 'Avatar.dcf' using either the shortcut or the media player, I get the error: This video can not be played.
Is there a hidden file I may have missed? Can you not create a copy? Would the DRM get involved at this point?
I am concerned if I move the file from the 2Gig card to the 8Gig card, and I get the same error, then I've also lost the movie.
Your suggestions would be most helpful. Thanks.
Here's another take on it.
I powered my phone on this morning just before posting, and found the phone was not recognizing the SDHC card. It was in effect, unmounted. I pulled it out and back in and it then asked if I wanted to format the disk, so I did. I need to pull the original dcf file off the 2gig disk and try this move again, but in the mean time I've found this among a lot of complaints regarding android recognizing SDHC cards.
[edit] Seems I can't post outside links yet. Here's an address you'll have to manually put in your address bar if you wish to read this article.
< ... ://humanslate.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4&Itemid=14 >
In there it mentions, "SDHC cards will not work in devices designed to the older SD 1.x specification".
So, another question at the moment is this:
Has android (I'm running JI6, eclair 2.1) been developed for the original 1.x cards? Has anyone bought a new android phone and had an SDHC card in it? My 2gig card is of the old 1.x specification.
Perhaps I need to repost on the developer page? I figured the movie was part of an app, so it would only seem reasonable to post here.
Hangman_ said:
Good morning everyone.
I have been surfing this site for quite some time, but have just received my Vibrant S and am now in a position to post a question.
I am coming from the WinMo 5.0 world and android is very new to me, but I am enjoying the new phone.
I do not yet have the phone rooted and am hesitating ... mainly because I don't know all the features it has yet but also because I don't want to get into anything I don't know yet how to get out of. Having spent enough on this phone, I don't want to break anything just yet. This forum seems to have some very helpful people though, so I hope I can trust you all when you finally talk me into rooting. I barely got on the Market yesterday and found a tool 'SGS Tools' which has some info in the description which I think I can really use, but I need to root. So go ahead and start talking me into rooting.
Anyway, to my question:
The movie 'Avatar' comes on a 2Gig micro SD card and I have an 8Gig HCSD card. So I copied the directory 'Movie' and its contents to my C: drive, unmounted the 2Gig, removed it, and put in the 8Gig. The phone recognized it and everything went fine when I turned the phone on. So I moved the directory 'Movie' and its contents to the 8Gig card and after all was said and done, when I try to open the movie file 'Avatar.dcf' using either the shortcut or the media player, I get the error: This video can not be played.
Is there a hidden file I may have missed? Can you not create a copy? Would the DRM get involved at this point?
I am concerned if I move the file from the 2Gig card to the 8Gig card, and I get the same error, then I've also lost the movie.
Your suggestions would be most helpful. Thanks.
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That should be all you have to do to get the movie to play. I would only recommend that you double check to make sure you copied the Movie folder to your external SD card and not the internal card.
The Vibrant can use SDHC cards (use 8gb class 6 here) and I know many others use 16 and 32 gb ones.
Convert the file to simple mp3 universal coding that any video app including the stock can read. Should be 720p. Create a video folder if one does not exist. You know all this sounds like. Should play fine. Too bad you can't use the lame short cut this way. Then again I never used it anyway.
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I replaced avatar this way. Since have now for the extended version instead.
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Thank you for the quick reply.
Flak_Munky said:
That should be all you have to do to get the movie to play ...
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What do you mean by 'That'? Do you mean to move or does a copy suffice?
A little earlier after posting here, I put the 2gig back in and copied the DCF file to the C: drive again. Then after replacing the 2gig with the 8gig in the phone, I moved the 'Movie' directory and files into it. Now the media player doesn't even recognize the file. Although when I went to the SD card and looked at the details of the DCF file, it said the rights were expired. Can I assume it is because I copied it?
mr. orange303 said:
Convert the file to simple mp3 universal coding that any video app including the stock can read. Should be 720p.
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What program did you use to make the conversion? I have two converters on my laptop I really like, but I don't know that they will even recognize a DCF file.
Thank you for your assistance.
And thank you Mr Moderator for moving this to its correct forum location.
Hangman_ said:
What do you mean by 'That'? Do you mean to move or does a copy suffice?
A little earlier after posting here, I put the 2gig back in and copied the DCF file to the C: drive again. Then after replacing the 2gig with the 8gig in the phone, I moved the 'Movie' directory and files into it. Now the media player doesn't even recognize the file. Although when I went to the SD card and looked at the details of the DCF file, it said the rights were expired. Can I assume it is because I copied it?
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I was referring to either a move or copy. Both should work without a problem. I've done both and it played each time.
Never seen the rights were expired before. Not sure atm.
Thanks Flak for the clarification.
I am thinking I have larger issues here now (hence the edit to the title).
Over the New year, I have been working on word documents and PDFs and saving them to the external SD card on the phone. I have Windows 7_64. I was synced in with my phone using 'media' to transfer files as Kies doesn't work. After disconnecting the phone and verifying I can read both the word docs and the PDF's, I turned the phone off for the night. The next morning when I turned the phone on, I recieved a message that the external SD card was corrupted. I had to do a format to get the card back. After copying the docs and PDF's to the SDHC again, making a few phone calls, and installing a couple apps from the market to the internal memory, I rebooted the phone (turned off then back on), I received an error message saying the external SD card had been damaged. I had to do a format on the card again to get it back.
All I can say at the moment is I'm glad I didn't move the Avatar.dcf file to the SDHC card, but I don't understand what is happening with the SD functionality. This is becoming completely untrustworthy as I can't use the SD card for anything in fear of it getting corrupted or damaged. Which means I can't backup anything to the SD card either.
[Q] I have read mention of drivers for Windows 7_64, but have not yet searched them out. Could the default connection drivers that Windows 7 loads when you first connect your phone be an issue?
[Q] I have also read in several places now that the USB debugging should be checked. Now most all of these posts are for rooting and reinstalling ROM's and such, but my question is this; Should I have the USB debugging on when I am simply connecting to the PC to transfer files? It seems I am losing my SDHC card only after I have connected to the PC using the USB cable.
Do you have any thoughts or suggestions I can try? I'm too new to android to think of possible solutions to these little quirks, or where to look or what to ask.
Thanks.
One reason I am hesitant to put any Windows 7_64 bit drivers is because of the following comments:
"cant get my cpu to recognize my phone after installing drivers... im on windows 7 64 bit any ideas??"
"have the same problem. i'm on 7, 32bit"
"did you enable USB debugging?"
"yes of course. first thing I did after I rooted"
These are from <http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=728929>
Now again, my phone is not yet rooted. For the purpose at hand, I can't see the need to root. If my SDHC card is getting corrupted during connection, then rooting the phone is not going to solve the problem.
So my question above still stands; should the USB debugging be on (checked) when I simply connect to the PC to transfer files?
But I don't know where to look now or what to do. I have spent an entire day looking over the posts and have found virtually nothing to assist me with this little quirk.
Any suggestion would be helpful at this point.
Thanks.
So, I've learned something new today and would like your confirmation if I am correct in my assessment or not.
When you plug the phone into the Windows desktop machine, you get a prompt on the phone asking if you want to connect to Kies, Media Player, or Mass Storage.
When I select Media player, I have immediate access to the phone and SD card. There is nothing more to do with either the phone or the PC is this correct ?
The reason I ask is that if I connect to Mass Storage, I then have to go to the pulldown whatchamacallit on the phone and select USB connect. It then prompts me to "Mount" the phone (SD card) so I can access it.
I think this is why my SD card became corrupted and damaged. I didn't know I had to go and "Mount" the thing before I could use it.
BUT, why doesn't it ask me to "Mount" it when I select Media Player for my connection?
Thank you for your assistance and expertise.
Still waiting for confirmation
I'm still waiting for some definitive answer(s) and confirmations to these questions of mine if anyone has the knowledge.
Thank you.
hello guys just installed custom rom (megatron) and a custom kernal (mik_os')
now i got a question..
what happens if i remove my memory card ??
or say i put in another ?
would that brick my fone ??
coz there was some stuff to do with memory card before flashing (like partitioning, nandroid thing is stored)
It's not going to brick your phone. It will just screw your apps up (maybe temporarily. not sure) since /data/app is in the SD card.
I realized my sd-card is probably not class 4, but I've already flashed with megatron.. If I get a better, and faster card, how do I continue with this? Have to flash everything again? According to test: Writing Speed is 5,9MB/s and Reading 8,7MB/s.. So don't know?
Cards that can write with speeds of about 6MB/s is class 6. That's good enough I think.
Anyway, maybe you can move the data from one card to another, provided the paths are the same. Also, your PC needs to be able to browse ext partitions. If you're in Windows, there is a 3rd party driver available. Just google it You will use it to copy the data to the other card.
kpbotbot said:
Cards that can write with speeds of about 6MB/s is class 6. That's good enough I think.
Anyway, maybe you can move the data from one card to another, provided the paths are the same. Also, your PC needs to be able to browse ext partitions. If you're in Windows, there is a 3rd party driver available. Just google it You will use it to copy the data to the other card.
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Which driver ? WHat 2 google ? SOrry, THis is my first android phone.
An ext2 driver is available if you're on Windows. This makes Windows read and write to ext partitions since it doesn't natively support that filesystem.
Just follow this when you're going to try out to copy the contents of one card to another.
Also, there's disk cloning, but I haven't tested that out myself
kpbotbot said:
It's not going to brick your phone. It will just screw your apps up (maybe temporarily. not sure) since /data/app is in the SD card.
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thanks for replying..
one more question
can i delete the megatron zip file and signed_kernal.zip file from my memory card or not ??
Yes u can delete them.
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I know the TFP doesn't come with an external SD card, but in the internal storage theres an SD card partition set to 27GB - however, I don't seem to be able to move any of my apps to the SD card, is there any way to do this?
It's incredibly frustrating when I'm trying to download my Spotify playlists to get the 'not enough memory left to download more songs' message when I've got 25GB free in the SD card partition.
I'm running ICS.
I thought the SD Card partition was just what the directory name for the internal drive? Are the apps not already downloaded to the internal storage to begin with?
jfrzy said:
I thought the SD Card partition was just what the directory name for the internal drive? Are the apps not already downloaded to the internal storage to begin with?
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That is what I believe too.
so I see the micro sd card in the file manager so how would you put apps on the micro sd card
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PRIME, w/out a memory card, has all of its memory merged basically. The internal/external is merged for complete use for whatever you want. Inserting a memory card would show up as removable memory or ext2 or something. No need to put to apps to a memory card really unless you running out of memory already.
Weird, I'm not sure why I was getting that message then, since I had 25+ GB free.
jackofaiitrades said:
Weird, I'm not sure why I was getting that message then, since I had 25+ GB free.
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Maybe that app needs updating for HC/ICS support. As to why its not recognizing the memory. You could always get a memory card n see if it acts any differently.
Way back on older Android versions and especially phones that had no iinternal memory, android use to have app memory n such separated. ALOT of people became mad because they would run out of memory for apps so fast. SO once phones n tablets came out with built in internal memory, they merged it so that you could use all the memory if you wanted for apps or whatever. PRIME DOES this. Some other devices/phones may be a lil different. ANOTHER reason why Prime doesn't show up as a USB Mass Storage device when hooked up to a computer. Now it uses MTP, I believe.
Install "ZDBox" from XDA Developers.... free from the android market
the tool let you moves apps at will to any location.
I
PuroKaibil said:
Install "ZDBox" from XDA Developers.... free from the android market
the tool let you moves apps at will to any location.
I
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It says only for Android 2.2 or 2.3. Plus it hasn't been updated in the longest time. Read some comments of how it eats up battery and somehow messing up the memory partitions or something. Not sure. I went to the thread for it n read those comments. It says its available in market place but doesn't showbup when I go there.
demandarin said:
It says only for Android 2.2 or 2.3. Plus it hasn't been updated in the longest time. Read some comments of how it eats up battery and somehow messing up the memory partitions or something. Not sure. I went to the thread for it n read those comments. It says its available in market place but doesn't showbup when I go there.
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Maybe they're working on a ICS version **cross my fingers**
But if you want the current version download it from the market using the browser from your PC or android device.. it shows up there, I just tried.
Weird it doesn't show from the market app.
gl to sd
If you are rooted
use it
love it
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1328053
Just install apk
launch data download stop download
open gl to sd make sure /sdcard/Andriod and /sdcar/data are checked marked
click recovery game list
click move data and select game to move it will launch and start the download to sd.
Only downside i have seen is when some one pick up my tablet and click on app and start download on internal due to the fact they dont use the gl to sd link.
I love this app 9mm, lets golf 3, and Back stab and original DH take up over 4 GB of space and i rather have them on sd then internal