But it completely formatted my sd card when i put the card in the fone.... lucky I had a backup, but just a heads up..
*Edit* False alarm I think, I was using a file explorer and it only saw the phone partion as one sd card
*edit again* to find your sd card go to sdcard/ext_sd. just trying to help!! yay evo!!!
Grats I got mine too!
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so it did or didnt format your card??
Did not format my 32gb. Installed while phone was on.
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butterbuns said:
so it did or didnt format your card??
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Pretty sure the file structure was different so she didn't see her card at first.
Apparently I'm blind, but where the hell does the card go?!
thenags said:
Apparently I'm blind, but where the hell does the card go?!
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Physically where does it go?
-Look behind the power button, you should see a small gap where you can pry the top polycarbonite cover off. It's in there.
Or once inserted, how do you find that data?
-As said above, look under /sdcard/ext_sd
ticklemepinks said:
But it completely formatted my sd card when i put the card in the fone.... lucky I had a backup, but just a heads up..
*Edit* False alarm I think, I was using a file explorer and it only saw the phone partion as one sd card
*edit again* to find your sd card go to sdcard/ext_sd. just trying to help!! yay evo!!!
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I was thinking the same thing then I saw the ext_sd folder and there it was. I was about to be pissed because I didn't back-up. The last time I switched sd cards I lost all of my music which wasn't backed up on my computer
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regalpimpin said:
Physically where does it go?
-Look behind the power button, you should see a small gap where you can pry the top polycarbonite cover off. It's in there.
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There it is! Thought I was going nuts.
I see that screen shots, downloads from the browser are saving in the sd card folder (phone's 10 gb of memory) and not on the ext_sd folder(I have a 32 gb sd card)... how do we get it so that everything saves to the Ext_sd and not the phones memory?
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I see that screen shots, downloads from the browser are saving in the sd card folder (phone's 10 gb of memory) and not on the ext_sd folder(I have a 32 gb sd card)... how do we get it so that everything saves to the Ext_sd and not the phones memory?
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Browser menu / settings / advanced
Than u should find it and for screen shots I'm not sure
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Also chrome seems to work pretty well too
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My coworker is stock rooted gingerbread with a 32GB sd card (with 25gb still available for use). He's been that way for about 2 months now, and uses stock camera and gallery.
For some reason now, his pics aren't saving. I just tried myself with his phone, and the pic was saved to ext_sd/dcim/... I saw it in the folder using root explorer. Within 5 min, the pic was replaced with the triangle error sign.
Any thoughts?
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few things to try...
clear gallery data
change save location to int sd
format ext sd
ive gotten those on rare occasions, but couldnt pinpoint it down to anything in particular
mrmako777 said:
few things to try...
clear gallery data
change save location to int sd
format ext sd
ive gotten those on rare occasions, but couldnt pinpoint it down to anything in particular
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I will have him try... I told him to let me throw ics on that shiz and call it a day
Side note, you've been one of the most helpful people here man... For that, I publicly thank you :beer:
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update?
andy55 said:
update?
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It didn't bring the pics back obviously but pics are saving (idk where... Can't find using root explorer) but they are saving.
He has to xfer media to int sd before formatting
And I told him to get a sandisk
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Possible bad sd card. If its from ebay, it may be a fake 32 gb. Test the card with H2testw.
pbcal said:
Possible bad sd card. If its from ebay, it may be a fake 32 gb. Test the card with H2testw.
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My thoughts exactly! I hate eBay, and that is where he got it (for cheap... Go figure ). I didn't know there were cards that read 32 but were only 8. It makes sense since he has used 6gb of space (and we all know 8gb isn't really 8gb)
Thanks
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Hey guys I took my sdcard out of the phone formatted it and when I put it back in the phone it now wont detect the sdcard and also it wont detect internal storage also...
EDIT: or nvm I rebooted it a couple times but now it detects the phone storage but when I put in my 16gb micro sd it does nothing until I remove it. When I remove it, it shows that it has been removed, but before that it doesn't show a sdcard is inserted... Yet when I put an 8gb one it it shows that it's in the phone...
Well we just discovered that our phones say there is no external storage at all. From best buy.
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jmaeishi said:
Well we just discovered that our phones say there is no external storage at all. From best buy.
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Really? My internal storage is there but it won't let me use anything above an 8gb card...
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alainater said:
Really? My internal storage is there but it won't let me use anything above an 8gb card...
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Format it in the phone, not on a computer. I'm using a 64gb in it right now, no issues.
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-viperboy- said:
Format it in the phone, not on a computer. I'm using a 64gb in it right now, no issues.
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I concur with this statement.
I too have a 64 gig card and I formatted it in the phone. The phone sees it as 59+gigs which is cool. But what I am trying to figure out is how to save or move apps to the actual sd card. Not phone storage that is the 9+ gigs, but the actual 64 gig card.
Any suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated.
I don't think there is a way to do this right now with out changing the mount points
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-viperboy- said:
Format it in the phone, not on a computer. I'm using a 64gb in it right now, no issues.
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The thing is that the phone doesn't even detect that i've inserted the card. When I insert the 8gb card it shows preparing the sd card and it gives me all the options to unmount/format/everything else. When I put the 16gb one in everything is still grayed out and it doesn't even think i've inserted a micro sd card.
Spyderekz said:
I don't think there is a way to do this right now with out changing the mount points
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So how hard is it to do that and/or how soon before you think it could happen? It seems though HTC could maybe do something or is just the way Android is. It just seems that it should just be a part of it. LOL. I mean I already have some music on the sd card by creating the folder...I just don't want to run out of space on my phone.
Ok, i'm going to bestbuy in a little bit to pick up a 32gb micro sd and see if it'll work with that...
alainater said:
Ok, i'm going to bestbuy in a little bit to pick up a 32gb micro sd and see if it'll work with that...
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I hope it does, but wouldn't be the same thing?
crow11ad said:
I too have a 64 gig card and I formatted it in the phone. The phone sees it as 59+gigs which is cool. But what I am trying to figure out is how to save or move apps to the actual sd card. Not phone storage that is the 9+ gigs, but the actual 64 gig card.
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Where did the other 4+ gig go? 4gb is a huge amount of storage
Monnie
Ok weird I bought the 32 gb one and it works fine. Guess the other one wad bad? It's weird cause ny computer saw it as a working sd card
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My question is: How can i get the original 32gb capacity back, i don't care about the files saved on it.
Looked around on google a lot, seems like there isn't much hope...
Here's what happend: i did the wiretrick but got the arrow screen, i had already replaced the 2gb card (which i used with the wiretrick) with my original 32gb, then it formatted everything to recover the state it was in before the wiretrick. This caused my 32gb sd card to be formatted to 2gb..
If someone has a solution, i will be grateful!
Have you tried formatting using windows format?
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crazymister said:
Have you tried formatting using windows format?
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Yes, but it didn't work..
I am able to recover my photo's video and music with a program called 'Steller Phoenix Photo Recovery', but there's no option to format or anything.
That's the weird thing, multiple programs tell me it is 32gb, yet it can only write the 2gb..
klect said:
My question is: How can i get the original 32gb capacity back, i don't care about the files saved on it.
Looked around on google a lot, seems like there isn't much hope...
Here's what happend: i did the wiretrick but got the arrow screen, i had already replaced the 2gb card (which i used with the wiretrick) with my original 32gb, then it formatted everything to recover the state it was in before the wiretrick. This caused my 32gb sd card to be formatted to 2gb..
If someone has a solution, i will be grateful!
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Have you tried mini partition tool ?
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klect said:
My question is: How can i get the original 32gb capacity back, i don't care about the files saved on it.
Looked around on google a lot, seems like there isn't much hope...
Here's what happend: i did the wiretrick but got the arrow screen, i had already replaced the 2gb card (which i used with the wiretrick) with my original 32gb, then it formatted everything to recover the state it was in before the wiretrick. This caused my 32gb sd card to be formatted to 2gb..
If someone has a solution, i will be grateful!
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when last i checked the wire trick was pretty notorious for toasting sd cards, so if you had it in while doing it it may have gotten damaged.
hope this helps
dessolator666 said:
when last i checked the wire trick was pretty notorious for toasting sd cards, so if you had it in while doing it it may have gotten damaged.
hope this helps
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Yeah, i had the 2gb in it whilst doing it, but i made a big mistake by putting in my normal 32gb card whilst restoring...
Im trying the mini partion tool as we speak!
Where did you buy your 32GB SD card? I've seen articles about people buying what were supposed to be 32GB capacity cards on eBay and they turned out to be smaller capacity cards (often 2GB) that were somehow formatted to look like higher capacity cards.
I've done the wire trick twice and didn't have any problems reformatting a card that got corrupted on a PC, but I usually buy my SD cards from Amazon or a local source.
ramjet73
It had 32gb in it when i bought it in a store. I don´t like buying online for some reason.
anyway, i fixed the problem!
What i did:
I recovered my files with a program you can easily find online (search top 5 sd card recovery tools), afterwards i formatted my sd card, didn't change a thing. Then i ran into a program called EaseUS Partition manager, this program allows you to 'merge partitions' on your sd card for free.
This basically formatted the part of the sd card that couldn't be used and merged it with the 2gb that could, now i've got the whole 32gb back.
Anyway: thanks everyone!
Any partition tool will merge partitions. Gparted, minitool, windows. Only caveat is winblows refuses to work with ext formatted partitions.
sudo passwd root
With mini partition tool thats only in the paid version..
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Where did u buy it.? If u bought it off eBay then u r likely a victim of micro sd fraud. Programmers modify the code to make say a 2gb appear to be a 32 gb, but once formatted, the code is formatted and the true culprit is unmasked
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ognimnella said:
Where did u buy it.? If u bought it off eBay then u r likely a victim of micro sd fraud. Programmers modify the code to make say a 2gb appear to be a 32 gb, but once formatted, the code is formatted and the true culprit is unmasked
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How about you read the damn thread.
How about you place (solved) in front of your title?
That way people see you found an answer and don't have to read the whole thread just to find out you solved it already
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crazymister said:
How about you place (solved) in front of your title?
That way people see you found an answer and don't have to read the whole thread just to find out you solved it already
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Will do, but it's still ignorant since his answer contradicts the opening post...
edit: where can i edit the topic title? Seems like i can only edit the post itself..
You can always ask a mod if you cannot manage to change the title.
And all he was doing was trying to help you find a possible answer. The least you can do is don't yell because he tries.
Did I help? Then please don't forget to press the thanks button.
Is your question solved? Then mark your question solved in your title.
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klect said:
How about you read the damn thread.
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I did u asshole and I'm telling you what I know. I left my 32 GB in on accident, and it formatted mine when I did the wire trick, but guess what idiot, it still had 32GB after it formatted... This is what I get for trying to help ppl...
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If you read the opening.post you can see that your.comment contributes nothing, and it is as stupid as your last comment. Moron.
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I'm going to clean install Beans 17 and use the sd card swap option; however, I'm trying to figure out what precautions I should take or what I should do to prepare and not lose data. I copied all my card over to my PC.
Should I delete everything on the card now or just let it on there and complete the swap?
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I'm going to clean install Beans 17 and use the sd card swap option; however, I'm trying to figure out what precautions I should take or what I should do to prepare and not lose data. I copied all my card over to my PC.
Should I delete everything on the card now or just let it on there and complete the swap?
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As long as you have everything backed up, and there are no instructions telling you to have a empty SD card when you set up Beans with SD swap, you should be fine. I don't think having it full or empty will cause issues either way. Just make sure you read all the instructions and info on SD Swap in Beans thread.
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OK. I've flashed and am running swapped sd. No issues.
Thnx!
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grimloktt said:
OK. I've flashed and am running swapped sd. No issues.
Thnx!
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Good deal! No problem
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Hey guys, I'm running Beans 17 with sd swap and I've been installing all kinds of apps with no problem but I noticed that the memory is being sucked up from the sd card and not the internal memory where I have 30 gigs. Weird, because without sd swap apps are downloaded into the internal memory and with swap downloaded to external sd where the measly internal memory is now. Kinda thought everything will be downloaded to internal all the time. How is everyone elses downloads going?
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Bill Idol said:
Hey guys, I'm running Beans 17 with sd swap and I've been installing all kinds of apps with no problem but I noticed that the memory is being sucked up from the sd card and not the internal memory where I have 30 gigs. Weird, because without sd swap apps are downloaded into the internal memory and with swap downloaded to external sd where the measly internal memory is now. Kinda thought everything will be downloaded to internal all the time. How is everyone elses downloads going?
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I'm wondering and believe I read that it shows apps going to phone memory but are actually going to sd card? I haven't installed enough to find out...
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I'm wondering and believe I read that it shows apps going to phone memory but are actually going to sd card? I haven't installed enough to find out...
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Thats supposed to be how it works. It is supposed to trick your phone into thinking your external is your internal I believe.
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Thats supposed to be how it works. It is supposed to trick your phone into thinking your external is your internal I believe.
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Let me clarify. If you go to applications manager, it only shows memory equal to your phone memory; however, for the new user, we'd think it'd show whatever is left on your sd card--now that your sd card is "internal" memory. So, instead of it saying I have 30GB left, it says I have like 1 GB left out of 11...or whatever the total is...
If I go to storage under settings, it shows phone storage as 64 and sd storage as whatever the phone storage amount is.
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Let me clarify. If you go to applications manager, it only shows memory equal to your phone memory; however, for the new user, we'd think it'd show whatever is left on your sd card--now that your sd card is "internal" memory. So, instead of it saying I have 30GB left, it says I have like 1 GB left out of 11...or whatever the total is...
If I go to storage under settings, it shows phone storage as 64 and sd storage as whatever the phone storage amount is.
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What I was getting at was that it tricks the phone, and the app market, into installing into the external card by making the external show up as internal to the app that are being installed. Thats my understanding of how it works and seeing as how i have never used it I know nothing of how it shows up just the general principle behind it and why it works the way it does. I may be completely wrong too, thats how I have seen it explained.
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Thanks for your reply, that shed some light on the matter.
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I just applied the RUU update, and when I go to storage - Mount SD card is grayed out, doesn't appear to read my microSD at all. Worked fine before update.. any ideas?? It's a 64gb micro sdxc. I was going to try a reformat but wanted to see if anyone knew what else it could be first.
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I just applied the RUU update, and when I go to storage - Mount SD card is grayed out, doesn't appear to read my microSD at all. Worked fine before update.. any ideas?? It's a 64gb micro sdxc. I was going to try a reformat but wanted to see if anyone knew what else it could be first.
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Mine did the same thing, a reboot worked for me (think I got lucky though, ;-p)
If it doesn't, do you have a spare sd card to put in there to try and isolate the problem, whether it's the phone or card.
Also are you stock, rooted, s-on/s-off, etc?
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drumwizard said:
Mine did the same thing, a reboot worked for me (think I got lucky though, ;-p)
If it doesn't, do you have a spare sd card to put in there to try and isolate the problem, whether it's the phone or card.
Also are you stock, rooted, s-on/s-off, etc?
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I did a reboot with the SD card out, and it didn't work when I put it in. But then I just rebooted with the SD still in the phone and it worked when it came back on! Thanks
jpbme said:
I did a reboot with the SD card out, and it didn't work when I put it in. But then I just rebooted with the SD still in the phone and it worked when it came back on! Thanks
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Good deal, you're a lucky one too then ;-p
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