I recently upgraded from the Sensation 4g. I had a lot of files on the SdCard when i put it into my shiny new GS3 Tmo. Does the recovery flash to the externel or internel sd card? and if internel, can i format the SdCard with no issues? Thank you.
Its on the internal memory
I believe that the internal SD card is partitioned so its fine to format both
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I receintly have been getting not enough space. I have a 16 gig card. I knew it wasnt full. So i looked into it and some how its basically saying i have 2 sd cards in. 1 named sd card, the other is EMMC. The SD card is very low on space. but the emmc is barely touched. i dont know how the card got repartitioned but im willing to wipe out my entire sd card in order to delete the partition so i have 1 big drive again. I have been searching this on the forums for about 2 hours now with no luck on how to just delete the partition. even tryed looking through cwm and the phone settings. right now im currently running cm7 ICS
try this: http://www.partitionwizard.com/download.html
Emmc is the internal storage. At least that's what it's referred to as in roms like cm7
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Ill have to take a ss and post it cuz its crazy. i dont understand how I have an sd card, internal sd, and emmc with a single sd :-/
I guess if i could just figure out a way to just point the phones default save posistion to the emmc drive i would be ok also
That's the way it's supposed to be. Sd card is your sd card, internal storage is the partition on your internal sd card. for apps and emmc is your internal sd card.
You cannot delete the internal storage partition because that's where your apps reside. Emmc is just like your external sd but internal.
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Waiting for my AT&T model and had a question, how does the 16GB internal storage get presented at file system level? Is it mounted as /sdcard or something else? If so what does the external SD get mounted as? Trying to decide if I need an SDcard or not. 16GB is enough for me but concerned about app compatibility depending on how its setup.
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Mounts as sdcard external card mounts as ext sdcard on stock firmware apps cannot be installed to ext sdcard.
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In Cwm there are format emmc and format sd card. I heard one of them is the internal sd card and the other is the external but I hear different responses for each, so which one is which?
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Does anyone know how to swap the internal storage with the sd card? The fstab looks funky.
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Mister_Mxyzptlk said:
Does anyone know how to swap the internal storage with the sd card? The fstab looks funky.
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what do you mean by swap the internal storage with the external? dont you just normally use both internal and external together?
FOr what reasons? For apps to be moved/installed in the external SD?
Answer is at the moment Apps2SD doesn't work YET in s3
No. I mean to literally swap their mount directories. I've done this before on my Note. I edited my vold.fstab and with a little help got my internal storage mounted to /sdcard/ExternalSD and my 64GB SD card mounted to /sdcard. That's what I want to do here.
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Anyone?
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For what reasons do you want to do this?
Look in siyah kernel thread.he changed the vold.fstab mounted in adb.ask him about the swap.
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Look in siyah kernel thread.he changed the vold.fstab mounted in adb.ask him about the swap.
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Thank you so much. And to answer the questions, I want to do this so my internal storage can be as big as the SD card I'm using. For example, I have the storage swapped on my n7000 so my 64GB SD card is read as internal storage and my 16GB internal storage is read as an external SD card.
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bordikun said:
For what reasons do you want to do this?
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I would like to do the same. i have done this switch on my note and it works flawlessly. I want to do this because I am a hardcore gamer and 16gb is nowhere near enough space to store all my game data, but my 64gb sd card is.
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Thank you so much. And to answer the questions, I want to do this so my internal storage can be as big as the SD card I'm using. For example, I have the storage swapped on my n7000 so my 64GB SD card is read as internal storage and my 16GB internal storage is read as an external SD card.
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Never thought of it that way hehe. But I have a question about the setup: Have you ever had issues where your SD card randomly unmounted itself? If so, what happened to the system? Were you still able to run it or did it freeze or anything else?
Thanks
Not even once and I have had it set this way on my note for months through several different roms
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The internal SDcard is not a real partition but a userspace mount (fuser)
It's configured in the file /init.smdk4x12.rc with the exact definition:
Code:
service sdcard /system/bin/sdcard /data/media 1023 1023
I don't see the daemon getting any kind of configuration as to the target directory. Either it's hardcoded or it uses /system/etc/vold.conf definition volume_sdcard the mount_point value.
You can't use Easy UMS anymore though since it will unmount the external SD.
Just using the APK Directory Bind will work fine though to simulate folders on the external SDcard as being on the internal one.
You can swap over the Internal SD with your external SD so you could have a 64GB phone with a 16GB ext card (assuming your phone is a 16GB one) - take a look at ExtSd2InternalSd v4|Increase your data storage
Hello
CWM doesn't format my internal sd card. I receive done message but all the file are in the sd card.
I tried to search but i didn't find how to format internal sd card
Can someone help me?
Thanks
Omar
yama07 said:
Hello
CWM doesn't format my internal sd card. I receive done message but all the file are in the sd card.
I tried to search but i didn't find how to format internal sd card
Can someone help me?
Thanks
Omar
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U mean the internal memory? U won't need to format it m8, just delete what's on it and just flash over whats left.
No need for a format, there probably is a section in there to format it though.
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U mean the internal memory? U won't need to format it m8, just delete what's on it and just flash over whats left.
No need for a format, there probably is a section in there to format it though.
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It is not necessary to format internal sd card to prepare for one new flash?
Sorry I need to format internal sd card before flash new rom.
How can I do?
Simply do this from your PC just right click and choose format.
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Simply do this from your PC just right click and choose format.
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internal sd card? or you mean ext sd card?
FAT 32 for internal sd card?
No I mean internal.
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Ok but why in others post the people speak about using terminal emulator or dialer code to format sd card?
Usually with rom i used cwm to format but by sgs3 this is not possible or i wrong
It is very safe and will keep your system clear. I tried. No problem
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yama07 said:
Hello
CWM doesn't format my internal sd card. I receive done message but all the file are in the sd card.
I tried to search but i didn't find how to format internal sd card
Can someone help me?
Thanks
Omar
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In some versions of CWM, the internal sdcard and external SD (emmc) are flip-flopped. In order to format the internal SD of my galaxy s2 using CWM, I had to choose the option to format emmc. If I chose sdcard (which should represent internal SD), it would have formatted my external micro USB. If you have an external SD, just remove it before trying this procedure so you don't wipe the wrong thing (I have made that mistake).