Just wondering if I should pick up a card beforehand or does the Evo 4G LTE come with one?
My phone did not come with an SD card. You'll have to buy one separately.
no sd card but that new 64gb card I put in sure is nice.
Short answer: NO. You will need to get yourself one. You can get a 64 GB microSD card that will fit perfectly and work.
Long answer: You don't really need one. Yes, it comes with 16GB of storage, which is partitioned into: about 2 GB for the system, about 2 GB for apps storage, and the rest (about 10 GB) is put into the "/sdcard" partition. It's not really an sdcard, but a fake sdcard. It looks like an SD card to Android. This is where you would put the regular stuff that you would put on a normal SD card. IF you put in your own microSD card, then it will be accessible via both paths "/sdcard2" or "/sdcard/ext_sd", as they both point to the same location. I have both my camera (and video) and music storage pointing to my "external" memory (all 64 GB). IF you do not put in your own memory card, then you can still access the internal storage over USB, but you will have to do so via MTP. Google that. Most modern PCs should have support in the OS.
So, in summary... relax. You don't need to get your own memory card right away. See first if you really need it.
no. no and no.
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do i have to do it in a computer or can i do it in the flyer itself?
Either works fine, . . . or neither. Most all Micro-SD cards (as well as SD, thumb drives, and other portable flash memory) come already pre-formatted to FAT32 out of the box, which is what the Flyer uses. You don't need to format it, unless this is a Micro-SD that you have been using for something else, and either want to wipe it, or you have previously formatted to something other than FAT32.
Well I got a 16Gb Micro SDHC card from Office Depot...brick and mortar... stuck it my Flyer and the flyer wont recognize it. I have formatted it 3 times... fat 32, 32 and it still wont see it. Just soft reset the flyer with the card in side, still dosent see it. Could I have a bad card?
I had your same problem.then i solved with a format(ms-dos) from a mac OS.
Ok... I tried formatting with a mac os. Didnt work. I insert my sdhc card. The flyer says preparing for use, card mounted, then it is safe to remove the card. The card never shows up under total storage or available space.
Now the funny thing is when I go to applications...it says that there are programs installed on the SD card. But I am now trying to put the first sd card into it. So why is it thinking that it already had a SD card?
But what is the brand of this micro sd?
sandisk micro sdhc
mhm..i have a sandisk also!are you sure that it is a genuine sandisk?Look for in internet h2testw.exe and try to test your microsd..
It works on my laptop. it just won't work in the flyer.....
I got it to work. Had to hard reset it first, but it works
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Ok... I tried formatting with a mac os. Didnt work. I insert my sdhc card. The flyer says preparing for use, card mounted, then it is safe to remove the card. The card never shows up under total storage or available space.
Now the funny thing is when I go to applications...it says that there are programs installed on the SD card. But I am now trying to put the first sd card into it. So why is it thinking that it already had a SD card?
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For some reason, the Flyer reads some of its internal memory as SD, and the Micro-SD card as "ext-SD" or a second SD card.
Hi this is how i do :
With the memory card in your Flyer,
click on Settings -> SD and Phone storage -> Unmount SD card.
Once it unmounts, click Format SD card.
sd card issues in htc flyer
I'm in "settings" on my htc flyer.
SD Card says: 1) total space/unavail, 2)Available/unavail, 3) Mount SD Card/Insert an SD card for mounting, 4) Erase SD Card/Erase music,pictures.....
1) & 2) - shouldn't it say how much space I have avail?
3) I had Best Buy insert the card (didn't want to be the one to tear up the cover!) & they said nothing about "mounting" or "formatting" it prior to use.
4) I've tried to erase the card & nothing happens when I touch the "erase" line
I can't remember how I got to this point but I've gotten the message, "SD card full", before. Why?
I'd like to put all of my movies, & maybe my books, on my sd card so they're not on the htc in case it fails. I'm looking @ the htc flyer manual online but I can't see how to load data (movies, books, pics, etc) directly to the sd card.
I wish there was some kind of "training" avail to learn how to use my new toys <sigh>.
TIA for any help or suggestions!!
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used the directions immediately above my initial inquiry & got it to format/mount THANKS!!!!!
but... still need to know how to send data to the sd card directly. I went into my computer & dragged the movie from the htc to the sd card & it shows up in my computer. how do I access it on the htc? how do I get the htc to look on the sd card instead of internal memory? when I upload a book/movie/picture/etc, how do I get it to directly to the sd card instead of internal memory? TIA!!!!
redpoint73 said:
For some reason, the Flyer reads some of its internal memory as SD, and the Micro-SD card as "ext-SD" or a second SD card.
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Because there really is an internal micro-SD card in the Flyer. It has DDR2 RAM for the internal memory, plus an internal micro-SD, plus the external slot for an additional micro-SD card. That's why you see two "sdcard"s listed. When you move some applications to SD, you're moving them to the internal card. The external SD will only contain whatever you copy to it in whatever folder arrangement you set up.
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Because there really is an internal micro-SD card in the Flyer. It has DDR2 RAM for the internal memory, plus an internal micro-SD, plus the external slot for an additional micro-SD card. That's why you see two "sdcard"s listed. When you move some applications to SD, you're moving them to the internal card. The external SD will only contain whatever you copy to it in whatever folder arrangement you set up.
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No internal micro-sd on this. Probably just onboard memory used for storage as "sd-card".
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FunnyHorseLady said:
I'm in "settings" on my htc flyer.
SD Card says: 1) total space/unavail, 2)Available/unavail, 3) Mount SD Card/Insert an SD card for mounting, 4) Erase SD Card/Erase music,pictures.....
1) & 2) - shouldn't it say how much space I have avail?
3) I had Best Buy insert the card (didn't want to be the one to tear up the cover!) & they said nothing about "mounting" or "formatting" it prior to use.
4) I've tried to erase the card & nothing happens when I touch the "erase" line
I can't remember how I got to this point but I've gotten the message, "SD card full", before. Why?
I'd like to put all of my movies, & maybe my books, on my sd card so they're not on the htc in case it fails. I'm looking @ the htc flyer manual online but I can't see how to load data (movies, books, pics, etc) directly to the sd card.
I wish there was some kind of "training" avail to learn how to use my new toys <sigh>.
TIA for any help or suggestions!!
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used the directions immediately above my initial inquiry & got it to format/mount THANKS!!!!!
but... still need to know how to send data to the sd card directly. I went into my computer & dragged the movie from the htc to the sd card & it shows up in my computer. how do I access it on the htc? how do I get the htc to look on the sd card instead of internal memory? when I upload a book/movie/picture/etc, how do I get it to directly to the sd card instead of internal memory? TIA!!!!
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When you connect the tablet via USB you should now have two additional drives show up. One of mine is called HTCVIEW which is the tablet storage. The other one is the SD card, but I am not sure what it was labeled originally since I renamed it. Anyway put your media there.
To have your android apps access them, they need to look in either of two directories /sdcard2/... or /sdcard/ext_sd/...
Both of the above directories point to the exernal sdcard. So for me, my videos are in /sdcard/ext_sd/Videos, and books in /sdcard/ext_sd/Books, etc. You just need to tell your apps to look in the appropriate place.
If your android app requires a specific directory on /sdcard for it to work you can use an app called directorybind (only if you are rooted) to have the files on the external sdcard but have the internal sdcard point to them to make the app happy. directorybind can be found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1410262
Hey everyone,
I have an HTC Rezound that I just bought coming from the Samsung Charge. I took the 32g card out of the Charge after erasing everything on it and stuck it in the Rezound replacing the 16g. After adding apps music and such, my phone now tells me that I don't have any more room on the SD card. My Internal storage says available space is 1.3gb and phone storage says I have 0.00gb available. When I try and move some apps from the Phone or Internal storage it keeps telling my SD card is full when it shows Total space 30gb and 18gb available. I've pulled the card and rebooted the phone with no luck. Was I supposed to reformat the card in the phone? Not sure what to do or how to do it. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Yes you can try to format your microsd card in any pc.
Remove it from your device and put it in a microsd adapter or in a a card reader and thru a pc format it in fat32 file system with 32 Kilobyte allocation unit dimension.
Keep in mind that not all brands/capacity memory card are suitable in any device... sometimes you can find one of them not compatible at all or partially compatible in some devices.
Thanks, I'll give it a shot.
jwalker007
I've been looking around but can't seem to find the answer to this. I have rooted my NT with a 4GB SDCard. I would like to switch to a larger card. Can I turn off my NT, remove the 4GB card. copy everything from the card to a 16 or 32 GB card, and then insert the new card and restart the NT?
If that won't work, how can I do this?
Thanks,
Bob
Turn off NT, remove the 4GB card. copy everything from the card to a 16 or 32 GB card. Must be working.
If your using this sdcard to boot from, you are probably going to have to make that partition bootable as well. Usually the windows partition abilities are pretty limited so you'll have to use one of those free partition tools out there.
I'm not booting from the SDCard - so does that mean i can change the card by simply copying all the files to the new card?
Bob
Yeah just copy everything from the 4gb card to the 32gb card and everything will work just fine
Ok so far Ive found the mod to swap the internal and external sd,
The ideal mod for me is to merge all the 16gb internal into one partition and mount my sd card as a normal sd instead of external sd.
If anyone knows of the mod to do it the way ideal for me please link me. If you are a dev and like this idea would you take the challenge to make this happen? I will gladly beta test as long as a fastboot is available.
You want volume management on a phone?
Just get a big honking SD card. I have a SanDisk 64GB sdxc.
The 128GB cards will probably be available by October.
That said, you can probably get LVM working under Android, but you'll only be able to work with it from the phone itself (no browsing from a PC or putting stuff on the microSD directly w/o totally breaking the logical volume).
You can also format the SD space as ext3, then set up /etc/fstab to mount the external SD on a folder on the internal SD eg, /mnt/sdcard/Music Library. You won't be able to read/write that space from Microsoft (no, e2fsd won't do it), but any other OS can browse it like any other disk drive. Also, the drives will still appear separate from outside the phone.
the ext3 sounds nice but I like my idea better, my idea is pretty much the way samsung/htc/lg formats their storage, one is phone storage, other is sd, not the phone, sd (other internal) and extended sd(actual sd card)
and sorry for some confusion for anyone I meant Extended sd not external, kinda a noob in here coming from a sammy prepaid android.
Iirc in ICS the internal memory is counted as one part. So the 4gb and 8gb will be 12gb or whatever. Android 2.3 and below use the partitioned method.
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Edit; therefore wait till ICS comes out
Hi guys I am new to android and I got myself a Micromax A110 running on android ics with 2 gb of internal SD card memory...
As you guys can figure, the internal memory just isn't enough for installing heavy games and storing and downloading large videos and music, so I added a 32 gb external micro SD card.. the card shows in my file manager and its contents are accessible, most apps like ttpod, ttorrent, vlc, chrome etc don't detect my external card. They only access the contents of my internal SD card, download to it.. I can't set the default directory to the external card...
When I installed nfs most wanted to my phone, it asked me to free up data in my SD card or insert another one as there was no space left due to obvious reasons of my internal SD card being filled with other apps.. I uninstalled and reinstalled it after setting the default storage location to the external storage... I found that the game installed in the internal storage this time and on startup, it gave the same message..
Is it a common problem or a limitation to the OS? Is there a work around for this? If so how? Does my phone needs to be rooted for the purpose? Please help as the problem is getting annoying.. my external card is lying almost empty...
Thanks in advance,
Extremely sorry for the long post...
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It's because Google made the stupid decision, starting with Honeycomb (which is why the Motorola Xoom, the first Honeycomb device needed an update to enable use of it's MicroSD card slot) to merge the /data/ and /sdcard/ partitions. What that means is that the SD card becomes a virtual space (a folder, in fact) located in the same place where all your apps are stored. Why is it stupid? If you have a phone that actually has a MicroSD card slot, like yours or the Galaxy S III, the MicroSD card becomes a different "folder" (something like /sdext/, which stands for either extension or external). Only apps that specifically are programmed to look for that mount point/folder will be able to use it. Most music/video/picture players/viewers can, because it makes sense to automatically program to do that. But with large games, like you said, NFS Most Wanted (which I also have), it sucks because the game is like 2GB.
My Galaxy S3 has 16GB internal and a 32GB card. I'm forced to use the internal storage only for large games because they don't see the memory card. It sucks. The good thing about merging /data/ and /sdcard/ is that it simplifies things, like on the iPhone where your space is your space, no matter how you use it. It used to be that you had like 1GB or 2GB for apps (the APK files only, not the files that games download for example) (which the HTC One X does, but still only uses internal storage because there's no card slot), and the rest went to your MicroSD card slot. Now it's all to internal storage because your internal storage IS your MicroSD card slot at system level.
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It's because Google made the stupid decision, starting with Honeycomb (which is why the Motorola Xoom, the first Honeycomb device needed an update to enable use of it's MicroSD card slot) to merge the /data/ and /sdcard/ partitions. What that means is that the SD card becomes a virtual space (a folder, in fact) located in the same place where all your apps are stored. Why is it stupid? If you have a phone that actually has a MicroSD card slot, like yours or the Galaxy S III, the MicroSD card becomes a different "folder" (something like /sdext/, which stands for either extension or external). Only apps that specifically are programmed to look for that mount point/folder will be able to use it. Most music/video/picture players/viewers can, because it makes sense to automatically program to do that. But with large games, like you said, NFS Most Wanted (which I also have), it sucks because the game is like 2GB.
My Galaxy S3 has 16GB internal and a 32GB card. I'm forced to use the internal storage only for large games because they don't see the memory card. It sucks. The good thing about merging /data/ and /sdcard/ is that it simplifies things, like on the iPhone where your space is your space, no matter how you use it. It used to be that you had like 1GB or 2GB for apps (the APK files only, not the files that games download for example) (which the HTC One X does, but still only uses internal storage because there's no card slot), and the rest went to your MicroSD card slot. Now it's all to internal storage because your internal storage IS your MicroSD card slot at system level.
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Hey man! Thanks for the reply....
Can you tell me how to work out a solution for this?
Is directory bind or fstab file hack the only solution?
Is it possible to overcome this without root?
And some apps do detect my Micro SD card... It is in the directory mnt/sdcard2
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