Hello guys,
I have an internal 11gb SD card in my i9100 and its full... my question is 1 how do i format it within my cell options? And if i do this will it affect my phone?
I have an external 32 gb sd card on it too and i can put stuff in it.
Thanks for the help.
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Go into settings. Scroll down to device/storage/usb storage/erase usb storage. Just copy and paste anything you want to keep to your 32gig external storage.
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thanks for the quick reply.. i see inside my internal card a folder called apps if i erase that i would have to download the apps again? I guess that they will crash right?
I dont know if in the internal sd card there is like a system folder or something like it... so if i delete a folder my phone wouldnt crash?
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If you have gone into settings/devices/storage/usb storage, and seen apps there, then more than likely you have made a backup using something like rom toolbox, TB, ultimate backup or mybackup.
If you browse to internal sdcard, you will see where your backup is kept. Copy this to your 32gig card along with photos etc.
You can then safely format it. Just copy the folders back once done.
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Hey man thanks for taking the time to answer such noob question everything turned out just fine on my cell did my back up/format and we cool now!!!
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Your welcome
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I noticed in touch cwm there is a few things to format like:
format /system
format /data
format /cache
format /sd card
format /external_sd
format /data and media and /data/media (/sdcard)
can i format them all EXCEPT format /external_sd then flash Rom?, (because that's where the Death Star Rom will be to flash)
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Can someone tell me how (if possible) to use an ext3 partition to expand the internal and memory on this tab?
System memory is just 200mb so it starts wining about low space already..... It's running on gingerbread and is rooted.
Grtz,
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g-member said:
Can someone tell me how (if possible) to use an ext3 partition to expand the internal and memory on this tab?
System memory is just 200mb so it starts wining about low space already..... It's running on gingerbread and is rooted.
Grtz,
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okay... first of all backup your sd card.. then go to recovery mode and go to advanced->partition sdcard->set the size of the partition that you like.In case that this fails connect the sdcard to ur pc with a sd card adaptor and format it
Its not that simple, the current custom rom doesn't support a2sd+ yet..... Formatting is not the problem
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Why did they make the sdcard folder on the internal ram? All my apps write to arcade not ed_ext. Titaniumbackup, Rom manager, browser, you name it. Not to mention a factory wipe in cwm wipes the arcade folder. Am I missing something? Are the devs going to fix this within the Rom?
Great question... This gets on my nerves.... It wasn't this way on my Droid Charge and boom I saw it on my Bionic and now the Rezound...
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That is because we are using a Unix file structure. (EXT/2/3/4) Unix (and its derivatives) see drives (USB drives, extra internal drives, SD cards, etc) as folders/files not as devices. There are ways to make these devices appear to show up as a device rather than a folder to the user, but at its core it is still treated as a folder by the kernel.
Desktop linux file structure has all extra storage devices listed as folders in the /media folder of the / (root) partition of the file system.
This structure is also why we have the /system and /data partitions in Android. Its another throw over from the linux base (desktop linux is usually / and /user or /home)
Seems there is no consistancy between OEMs and how they tell the file system to arrange user storage. Some have /SDCARD1 /SDCARD2 and HTC has the external card listed inside the internal memory. It could be that the internal memory is mapped to the /media of regular linux.
/sdcard is a symbolic link (shortcut) for /mnt/sdcard and /sdcard2 is a symlink for /mnt/sdcard/ext_sd
So really they are all the same, just how they choose to link the location is different. Either way, that is just how linux works.
Can this be remapped? Is so, how?
maniac2k said:
Can this be remapped? Is so, how?
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vold.fstab modification EXPERIMENTAL
Read the whole thread first before you decide
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1383330
considering the available storage does it really matter where the data goes?
I've just htcdev unlocked my bootloader (which wipes the phone) and it didn't touch the internal sd card or sd card2. Installing a ROM that wipes the device did not either.
So what's the big deal where it goes? I use the internal storage for apps and game data and my 32gb sd card for media and roms.
nrfitchett4 said:
considering the available storage does it really matter where the data goes?
I've just htcdev unlocked my bootloader (which wipes the phone) and it didn't touch the internal sd card or sd card2. Installing a ROM that wipes the device did not either.
So what's the big deal where it goes? I use the internal storage for apps and game data and my 32gb sd card for media and roms.
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And all that really means is that, if your application writes data to a different location, you just copy the data to your SD card. Not really a lot of work. Got used to it with my Dell Streak 7...
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When I did a few wipes, it did wipe my sdcard folder. That is problem 1. #2 is then I have to config all my apps that default to sdcard. #3 I have to now backup sdcard and sdcard2. #4 wah I don't want change.
nrfitchett4 said:
considering the available storage does it really matter where the data goes?
I've just htcdev unlocked my bootloader (which wipes the phone) and it didn't touch the internal sd card or sd card2. Installing a ROM that wipes the device did not either.
So what's the big deal where it goes? I use the internal storage for apps and game data and my 32gb sd card for media and roms.
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maniac2k said:
When I did a few wipes, it did wipe my sdcard folder. That is problem 1. #2 is then I have to config all my apps that default to sdcard. #3 I have to now backup sdcard and sdcard2. #4 wah I don't want change.
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That's what I read, so I backed it up, but htcdev didn't wipe it on my device (does a factory reset when unlocking), and it wasn't wiped when I installed chingy's rom (that auto wipes), so I don't know why some are experiencing this.
Not to mention that wiping with amon ra also does not delete the internal sd card.
md303 said:
vold.fstab modification EXPERIMENTAL
Read the whole thread first before you decide
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1383330
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Modded the vold.fstab per your link and it worked. Thanks!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2072751
enter here to fix default install location to sdcard2:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2072751
Titanium backup was mentioned, it's really easy to go into preferences and edit the backup storage location. I used to walk a lot of people through it with the remote unlocking process I would do.
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how to change Galaxy S2 mount point to external SD?
i dont want to use the DirectoryBind..
cant it just adjust all default mounting point to external SD?
No you can't, unless you flash custom kernel like Neak. On stock kernel ROM, the internal memory is mounted as SDCard to make sure you always have your SDCard ready.
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oh ok thanks for the info
Hi there....I've had my S2 for just over a month, in that time, I've done more ROM flashing, kernel flashing and tweaking than I did to my old phone over the year + that I owned it......
I've read that wiping data, cache and dalvic *can* leave bytes of old ROM etc undeleted.......
I'm beginning to experience some lag during normal daily use, so it's my intention to *completely* format EVERYTHING I can and start fresh (to see if it helps.....can't hurt right?).
So, I boot into recovery, go to mounts and storage and I see options to format.....
1) cache
2) system
3) data
4) preload
5) emmc
6) sdcard
So, I'm familiar with the first three options, but then I see....
Preload
No idea what this is, or even if it's safe to format (a Google search is no help either)
Emmc......whenever I see that, I think BRICKBUG......
Is it safe to format this using CM10.1s CWM.....even though the phone came out of the box running 4.0.4?
Sdcard.......is this internal storage, or is this the removable micro SD card that currently holds all my pictures, music and videos (also this card will be where I download the fresh copies of the rom/gapps to, and where I'll be installing them from).
One final (probably noobish) question. Is there a danger that I might unintentionally erase CWM as a result of formatting these partitions (specifically emmc).........
Thanks in advance.......
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Anybody? 77 views and nobody can help?....
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Preload is used for system apps in stock jb and for dualboot.
Emmc is your internal sd card
sd card is external sd card
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DubAholic said:
Preload is used for system apps in stock jb and for dualboot.
Emmc is your internal sd card
sd card is external sd card
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Thank you DubAholic.....
So none of the above are the removable (in my case 32gb) micro SD card, and all are safe to format? No concerns with emmc and brick bug?.....
No likelihood of erasing the CWM?...
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Sd card is the removable sd card
And normally it should be ok to format, but be sure to backup internal & external sd to pc
Always happy to help
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OK....completed the full wipe and re installed cm10.1 and gapps followed by my apps.......
Made no appreciable difference. Can anybody recommend an app that monitors which apps are the resource hoggers?......
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keithross39 said:
OK....completed the full wipe and re installed cm10.1 and gapps followed by my apps.......
Made no appreciable difference. Can anybody recommend an app that monitors which apps are the resource hoggers?......
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Did you cleaned all that partitions that you texted above? Can I do it by twrp?
Weird enough suddenly I found all my external SDCard files have all permissions like:
---rwxr-x
Why !?? This happens to every file I copy onto it.
I needed them like:
rwxrwxr-x
so far, the only rough and long way I found is through Aromafilemanager and PhilzTouch recovery.
Yet I have to change the permissions one file at a time.
Can anybody help?
Sounds like a problem unique to you, I've never heard of it.
Flash the official stock rom, format your sd card in your pc using the industry formatting tool and test.
If the problem disappears then it was probably some combination of your individual setup.
Yep. Also ensure you haven't got any scripts running at startup. Sd permissions are set on boot and cannot be changed afterwards
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Thank you, I'll surely restart from the beginning and report back
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rootSU said:
Yep. Also ensure you haven't got any scripts running at startup. Sd permissions are set on boot and cannot be changed afterwards
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Which script could do that?
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Any mods that mount folders or swap storage.
Otherwise, something built into the rom.
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boomboomer said:
Sounds like a problem unique to you, I've never heard of it.
Flash the official stock rom, format your sd card in your pc using the industry formatting tool and test.
If the problem disappears then it was probably some combination of your individual setup.
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@boomboomer
which filesystem do i have to use in formatting extsdcard 8gb via pc? exFAT / FAT32 / EXT4 / NTFS ?
moreover, in this post and following on dev rom thread, it seems it's a normal behaviour... am i missing sth?
https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4
Fat32 is the normal filesytem.
If it's common to your rom then your chef is the best one to approach, he may have set a script or mod.
rootSU said:
Any mods that mount folders or swap storage.
Otherwise, something built into the rom.
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I read through about 7 pages of sd card issues on the s3 and thought i cant read anymore, so i thought i would just ask. I've just bought an s3 and i got my 64gb sd card from my old phone to my new one. Problem is i have data from other games in the SD and titanium back up files in the externel sd card. Seems the S3 has its own built in SD card and only reads from that. I copied my TB files from externel to the internel. Now the games still require Extra files although they are in the externel SD. So how in the world do i get it to read my Externel sd instead of my internel? I thought of copying the files but i have 16 gb internel, 64 externel so its not gonna work considering i have 39 gb left in my 64 gb one,