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
vilasman said:
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.
Fuzi0719 said:
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!!
---------- Post added at 12:52 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:40 PM ----------
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
Hello all,
I'm new here and have a couple of questions about my first smartphone the Galaxy SII (Rooted)
I have recently been getting a few messages informing me that the SD Card is full, which seems to hold about 12 GB.
I have a 32 GB External Sd Card which I try to keep most of my vids / music, and apps that I consider don't really need to e on the actual phone like games, etc.
Other apps like browsers, Password safes, etc I keep on the phone itself.
The Phone seems to have 3 storage areas that it seems to refer to
USB Storage (Actually part of phone memory= Correct ?
SD Card (Actually part of phone memory = Correct?
External SD Card (Removable sd card = Correct ?
Can somebody please explain to me what the idea behind this setup is and how do I go about freeing up the SD Card when most of the directories in there seem to be Data related with the odd folder left over from uninstalled apps.
Hope that makes sense.
Apologies for any bad / incorrect terminology.
Regards
Loachy
If you go to Settings->storage ;
SD Card would refer to any external microSD card you might have put in.
USB Storage would refer to the Internal storage (can be used for storing media/data files)
there is another storage of about 2GB or so... which is used for apps installations..
this partitions can only be accessed via few apps like root explorer and others...
In order to free up your App storing internal storage ( which is 2GB odd)... you would need to put in an external microSD card...
then use any App (i use titanium Backup Pro) to move some of the apps to SD card...(which is infact the external microSD card)
I took a new 32GB mSD, copied directories of music, ringtones, TiBu files, etc. to the root directory of the mSD in preparation for the Note (using a computer, directly to SD). I do this with all of my new Android devices.
I rooted the Note before I did anything with it, and popped in the mSD and started the phone.
The first thing I noticed was that TiBu did not find any files in the default backup directory. After some looking, I found that all those directories I copied to the root (again, using a computer), are now under a directory called external_sd.
I shut down the phone, took out the mSD, popped it into the computer, and all I see are the directories I copied, right off of root.
Using Root Explorer--I see that /sdcard is /dev/block/vold/179:28 and external_sd is mounted at /dev/block/vold/179:33.
Why is this? I have had about fifteen Android phones and none behaved like this.
Thanks.
When you hook your note up to the computer do both sd cars mount separately ?
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I have only used Samsung Android devices, but out of all of them that I have had, each one has behaved this way. They mount the external sd card inside a folder inside the internal sd card.
The Note (and other galaxy phones) use the internal storage as the "SDcard". The actual SD card will show up like you said under external_sd. Most if not all apps work off the SDcard. You can however direct TB to use the external_sd.
I have a separate problem all together were my music files do not show up on either storage.
This is because the Samsung Galaxy line (and the Infuse) have a 2 gb system partition as well as in internal 16gb SD card which is labeled SD and an external SD card slot which will accept up to a 32gb MicroSD card. The external SD card is referenced as external_SD on your phone. It's just the mount point that Samsung chose for the external SD card.
Hope this helps. If so, hit thanks, over there -------------------------------->
--Mike
MobileData said:
This is because the Samsung Galaxy line (and the Infuse) have a 2 gb system partition as well as in internal 16gb SD card which is labeled SD and an external SD card slot which will accept up to a 32gb MicroSD card. The external SD card is referenced as external_SD on your phone. It's just the mount point that Samsung chose for the external SD card.
Hope this helps. If so, hit thanks, over there -------------------------------->
--Mike
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I have the Sandisk 64gb MicroSD in mine and its been perfect. Several others on the note forums have the 64gb as well. 32gb isn't the maximum size.
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Thanks for all the replies and explaination. I have an Epic 4G, which is a Galaxy S, but it does not have the internal SD. I will have to check my Galaxy Nexus to see how it is.
Follow up questions:
1) I used SanDisk Memory tool and saw that the Internal Memory is shown as being "x.x (bytes) of 10.8 GB Free". I thought the Internal is 16GB?
2) Is there a way to force the phone to use the external SD as the SDCARD? I have a class 10 card, I'm not concerned about performance, and I rather have a memory card that I can remove. It makes it easier to transfer large video, picture, backup, or music files.
Thanks.
I have an infuse and anything I put on the external microsd is seen by the phone- apps installer sees the apk's, e-readers can find my books, etc.
On the note, I have the same set up on my external sd card. But the apps installer does not see the apk's, the books are not seen. The only way I can install the apk's is thru the file explorer- the stock one. I am completely stock. When you go to the storage, you see the ext. sd card has content by the amt of space left.
What the Note did find were my ringtones- sms and reg. ringtones- and were selectable by the Note sound settings and contacts.
So the external micro sd cards are being seen differently by the Infuse and the Note.
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If you go in preference of ti, u can tell it to search whole device it will find it on micro sd.
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I have looked through the various threads regarding SD cards but cannot find anything relating to SD cards and the Viewpad7. I have tried to use Minitools partition Wizard to set up partitions but when I do, the Viewpad throws a wobbly and says that the SD card is damaged. If I then format the SD card in the viewpad it is ok but not partioned. I have tried this both in the Viewpad and fitting the SD to a card reader direct to the computer.
The reason I want to set up partitions is to use Link2SD so that I can get apps off my Viewpad into the SD card but Link2SD requires two partitions in order to work. There is also a need toload "Busy" and other issue regarding being able to "root" the device.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
John
PS I am close to 70 so not 2 up 2 date with all of the jargon
Many thanks
Hello
I own Samsung Galaxy S4 I9500 and it is rooted. I recently purchased a class 10 Sandisk Micro SD card with 64 GB capacity. I was very happy that I did but my happiness did not last long when I have come to know that 3rd party apps do not have write permission in Kitkat. After some research I was successful to make the SD card writable to 3rd party apps by modifying the permissions.xml file.
Everything seems to be fine at this time but it was not actually. The SD card when seen under storage in settings would show me that it is mounted with 62.5 GB capacity and 60 GB free. But when I try to browse the files in SD card, there are nothing. Apps saved in SD card do not open and I am also unable to capture images from camera to SD card storage.
I thought may be unmounting the SD card and mounting it back would work and it worked but after a while the same problem. My device shows that it has mounted an SD card but cannot access anything saved in it. So, I have to unmount and mount SD card every time and this is very much annoying.
Any help regarding this would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks you for your time.