Several apps seem to only go to the internal storage.. //mnt/sdcard
Not to /mnt/sdcard/ext_sd
as an example, eWallet for PC has a sync to ewallet-Android. But the only SD storage that the pc sees is /mnt/sdcard/ext_sd
And the only SD storage the app on EVO sees is /mnt/sdcard
I would like photo's etc to be stored on the /mnt/sdcard/ext_sd card as well. Has anybody figured out how to force to the ext_sd card? If not, that jazzy 32GB Class 10 card I just bought is going to be of limited utility.
wait are u saying the pics u take with your camera are not storing on your external sd card?
Check under settings, storage, app storage location settings. There is an option for the camera there. Not sure about the app though.
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if you cant put apps and save pics and it doesnt function like a normal android device sd card
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More storage space? a lot of programs let you set the storage location, which you can change to the external.
also great for media like music and movies since it's removable. Works just like any sd card i've ever used in a phone. Just a different directory name.
you are wrong when you save you cannot save pictrures to it and that it does not fucntion like a normal android sd card. Of course you can save music, video, and pictures to the external sd card. it functions just like any other sd card. if you phone happens to die, you can remove the sdcard and still retreive those media files. if you keep everything on the internal sd card, if your phone dies, how do you expect to retrieve those files?
extremely useful.
it does not let me use my sd storage says no storage is there when i unmount my internal Sd how do you guys have it setup. my sd is under sd ext in astro whan i take a pic it says cannot save to sd its probably mounted wrong but it still saves the pic to the external sd but really its annoying and it does not function properly
it does not let me move to SD card just to MEDIA which is still the internal so....
Did you make sure the sd card is formatted correctly? Also with an app you can move some appz to the sd card I believe. also you can 100% back up your contacts as vcards on the sd card which I think is pretty nifty
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Try to use sdtools and use the external and tell me what it does
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This phone has 16gb internal plus whatever size your sd card is. When I set mine up I formated the card and pushed my music to what the phone calls the media area. The music ended up on the phone internal memory and all apps only have the option to go to the media area in app manager. So I just manually moved the music to the sd card. But I am guessing it wont start using the sd card until the internal 16gb is filled up. The memory setting has an option for windows sync to go to either the internal mem or sd card.
What I think they should add is the option to fill up the sd card first then the internal memory if the card fills up.
I'm lost? The external SD card option is great because once that 16GB is filled up, you have the option to add upto 32GB of memory to your phone. If you don't see that as a good thing, then you don't need to put in an SD card. I got an Atrix over the Nexus S because of the lack of external SD card on the phone. I like it when I have options. I have pictures and musics on my SD card.
you dont need to fill up internal storage; i made a folder in the SD root directory called music, added music to that file with windows media player, and they were found right off the bat. did the same with movies, ringtones, and pictures; everything goes to my SD card, all my fresh downloads of movies pics and music go to the phones internal storage, so when i hook up my atrix to my PC i sync all other media to the memory card and my pc gets all the new data off my atrix. i have about 10GB open on the atrix and 4GB open on the microSD card.
i just hate the fact everything goes to internal first then you transfer later that sucks
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i just hate the fact everything goes to internal first then you transfer later that sucks
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If you're referring to the camera and other things, no, you're wrong. There must be some issue with your micro SD card and the phone. On my Atrix, if I choose SD card for storage in the Camera's settings, all pictures I take go to the dcim folder on the SD card immediately. I don't have to move anything. Similarly, when syncing my music, I go into the Device menu in Motorola Media Link and choose my SD card. All the music, photos and videos go immediately there. I never have to copy things over manually.
I'd suggest trying another brand of SD card, or reformatting your card (use FAT32 as the format type).
Hey all,
I did a quick search in our forum and found a few early threads but nothing that explained the differences to me... This is my first android.
My questions are around this menu:
Settings -> Applications -> Storage Use.
on the 'Downloaded' and 'All' tab, at the bottom it says "Internal Storage"
with what looks like a max of ~2.3GB.. at least mine says 790MB Used, 1.6GB Free.
On the 'On SD Card' tab it says "SD card storage" and a max ~10.5GB or so... (1.3gb used 9.2gb free)
I know I put a 32GB SD card in my phone.... and under phone & SD Storage, I see these three different storage points.
What's what here? Is there an internal mounted SD card in our phones that I can't remove?
When I "Move to SD" card, is the app only moving to this other 'internal' storage?
I was a little confused by this, but if my removable 32GB SD card literally is just extended storage that I put my own music/movies/videos...etc. on, then that's cool...
I just want to understand that 'move to SD' isn't actually moving it to my SD card at all... And then, how many of you move your apps to this other 'internal' SD card, or do you actually have a way to put them on your 'removable' SD card.
Don't know whether this is your first Android phone or, like me, you migrated to the Rezound from another phone, but here's the scoop. What used to be called \emmc on the Incredible, or the "internal" drive of 8 gigabytes is now mounted on the Rezound as \sdcard. Many applications think that your "external memory" is what is actually this "internal" 16 gb drive on the Rezound.
Your removable microsd card is mounted both as \sdcard2 and as \sdcard\ext_sd. For applications which enable you to designate a data directory, e.g. Titanium Backup, My Backup Pro, XDA Premium, Tapatalk, etc., you can redirect the app to store its data on the "real" external drive. Otherwise, your "external" data will really be stored on the "internal", nonremovable 16gb drive.
The other space (I believe it's 8gb) is for applications and ROM. It's so capacious, right now at least, that the necessity we faced on the Incredible and other phones to: (1) "move apps" to SD; or (2) use an ext3 partition and link2sd, is not as pressing. For instance, I easily have >100 apps installed and I still have nearly 2 gigabytes free in that space.
Hope this helps.
This part confused me and seems redundant. Coming from the Inc1 and 2 I never use the internal memory. With a 32gb card I want everything automatically saved on that. Now I have to deal with sdcard sdcard and ext_sd. I'm not enjoying this part of the phone but at least we have an sd
What your phone calls "sdcard" is actually your internal storage, most apps look at "sdcard" as your actual removable card, on this phone it is not. What your phone calls "sdcard2" is your removable sd card. If you want an app to store things on your removable sd card you have to either change the path in the app itself(of course most apps don't have this function) or move the data there manually. Its completely stupid and I hate it, but no phone is perfect.
once everything is fully unlocked we can edit things to switch the 2 around
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Several apps seem to only go to the internal storage.. //mnt/sdcard
Not to /mnt/sdcard/ext_sd
as an example, eWallet for PC has a sync to ewallet-Android. But the only SD storage that the pc sees is /mnt/sdcard/ext_sd
And the only SD storage the app on EVO sees is /mnt/sdcard
I would like photo's etc to be stored on the /mnt/sdcard/ext_sd card as well. Has anybody figured out how to force to the ext_sd card? If not, that jazzy 32GB Class 10 card I just bought is going to be of limited utility.
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i responded to your post in the general section.....you're saying that your photos you take with the camera arent getting stored to the external card?
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Several apps seem to only go to the internal storage.. //mnt/sdcard
Not to /mnt/sdcard/ext_sd
as an example, eWallet for PC has a sync to ewallet-Android. But the only SD storage that the pc sees is /mnt/sdcard/ext_sd
And the only SD storage the app on EVO sees is /mnt/sdcard
I would like photo's etc to be stored on the /mnt/sdcard/ext_sd card as well. Has anybody figured out how to force to the ext_sd card? If not, that jazzy 32GB Class 10 card I just bought is going to be of limited utility.
(sorry..I initially put this in General area..)
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its in the camera settings
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its in the camera settings
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exactly what i was thinking....and for the apps i plan on using link2sd to move the apps i want to my sdcard
flex360 said:
its in the camera settings
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Yeah..I found Settings/Storage area. Moved everything I could there to the SD card..and in this they mean the ext_SD card.
Now...still a problem with eWallet and some other apps.
Thanks for the response!
It looks like games do the same thing. I have shadow gun's data already on my sd but the app is trying to re download it to the phones storage. I can't seem to find a way to make the app use the sd card.
When I connect the phone to my PC and use Media Sync it says phone and card. I am not used to this with the OG Evo everything was on my sd card. Can someone explain what is the difference between the phone and card? Why are some of the apps data being stored on the phone rather than the card?
Phone is the internal partition that is /mnt/sdcard/, while card is the microsd card mounted as /mnt/sdcard2. The reason why everything on the evo goes to the microsd is because there was no internal partition to store data. With devices that have internal memory, that internal memory is the equivalent to the microsd on your evo.
What this means is that all the apps that have no ability to define a storage location, such as gps apps with local instead of net-based maps, games, and most newsreaders will save their cache data to the internal memory. You can redirect the storage location to /mnt/sdcard2/ for programs that support changing download locations, and that will work like it used to with the OG evo.
I still store my videos/music/photos in the external microsd, but without some rooted magic i don't think you can change the default mapping to the microsd. Finally, while the camera app allows moving to storage, i find that my lexar 32gb class 10 card is not fast enough to keep up with the burst mode, so i left that to internal storage.
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I have a TS with 8 GB internal memory and have installed a 32 GB micro-sd card. If I look at my "storage" setting, it indicates that I hav 1.27GB TOTAL "Internal" storage, 4.91 GB "Phone" storage and 29.3 GB "SD" card storage. My "internal" storage is almost completely filled with apps, whereas my "phone" storage and "SD" card storage are almost empty.
It looks like all apps are being loaded to "internal" storage. Not sure the difference between that and "Phone" storage. My watch will no longer let me download apps because the "internal" storage is full. Is it possible to direct the storage to the"Phone" storage? I can;t find a setting for that anywhere.
Internal- where the apps go
Phone- where music, pics and such go
SDCard- where music, pics and such go
I had suggest a long time ago that internal be made larger or that internal and phone be made converted into internal only and require an SDCard. Almost nobody wanted this.
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Internal- where the apps go
Phone- where music, pics and such go
SDCard- where music, pics and such go
I had suggest a long time ago that internal be made larger or that internal and phone be made converted into internal only and require an SDCard. Almost nobody wanted this.
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Well that sucks......Time to delete some apps I guess..
Have you tried an app like "apk2sd" to move as much from internal to SD card ? I am sorry I cannot remember the name exactly, I have not used such since I retired my Droid3.
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Problem with apps2SD is that if he factory resets the watch, the apps and data are still on the SD card but the watch won't know that. It's like you deleting a shortcut but not uninstalling the app.