Just got my Tmo Note home, I think I got the last one as there were only 2 Denver retail stores that had them . Is there going to be a new forum here at xda for this phone?
I'm having an issue with the external sdcard, I am using ES File Explorer. I put the external sdcard from my old sensation into the new note, I browse to /sdcard/external_sd/ and I get an empty folder. Something reported to me that the ext sdcard was not mounted but I forget what I was doing when I saw that. What do I need to do to access the external sdcard taken from my Sensation?
I imagine this is an easy situation, I just haven't experienced a setup where there is an internal and external sdcard on a phone.
Thanks
Peter
That's interesting because I have a i717 and I flashed a nandroid backup courtesy of Rotohammer if I am not mistaken, when the device booted and I went to look for sd card it didn't show anything. But a reboot solved it for me. Worst case is you backup anything you need from the sd to a PC and fully format card.
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shouldn't you be looking for
/mnt/external_sd
not
/mnt/sdcard/external_sd
?
I use Linda File Manager and it is under sdcard/external sd
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I rebooted and still got an empty /external_sd folder. Once I backup the sd to pc, how do I mount/format the ext. sdcard?
Also, when I plugged the phone into pc with usb it shows phone as 9.85GB - I thought this came with 16GB of internal memory?
Under /mnt i have asec, obb, sdcard, secure and usb - no /mnt/ext_sdcard
Make sure the card if formated as FAT32 - if plugged into a computer, right click and select properties). I recently purchased a 64gb card and when I turned on the Note, I got the error the SD card was not mounted. I couldn't mount it or format it. Did some searching and others had that problem. The solution was to delete all partitions (searched cnet downloads for a partition manager) on the microSD card then insert into the Note & turn it on. The Note reported there was a damaged SD card - then I was given a prompt to format the microSD card.
So make sure your data is backed up 1st.
Not sure why your internal space shows that. That number seems low. May have to format internal storage and factory reset as it comes fresh out of the box.
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There it is on my i717r.
As for the storage on the phone, mine has 1.97 internal[apps, etc], 10.85 usb storage[the other part of internal formatting], and of course my 29.81 under sdcard[actually the external card]
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I just got the T-Mobil Galaxy Note as well. I had not problem moving my SD card from My Touch 4g. At first I didn't understand the file structure, but now I see that the external cards shows under the directory of the SD card which really is internal memory. That memory shows only a total of 9.85 GB (should be 16 according to specs) and the other internal is 1.97 GB. I would also be curious if anyone know why the internal memory numbers are so far off.
My best guess is this.
11gb is parted off for user.
2gb is parted off for apps.
that's 13gb for user storage.
The rest is for /system, /cache, dalvic and future ROM updates. Naturally a new os will take more space so they make a best guess for future upgrades, features, etc.
You never really get what the advertised storage is. Plus its better to have more space remaining for the rom than what it actually needs to help future proof a bit and so you don't run into storage restrictions when upgrading or flashing custom stuff.
Take the xoom for example, it leaves 28gb for user, and only about 1gb to 1.3gb for the rest of the system. Because of that we have to use symbolic links to have some of the gapps load up when flashing as to avoid errors and such.
Sometimes having some missing storage is a good thing as its almost certainly belonging to the back end.
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As someone who is having trouble with a 64 class 10 this topic really helped. Thanks!
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Hi,
I am planning to buy a 16GB Micro SD Card for X10 Mini, need help on following
1. Can I buy any 16GB micro sd card (class 6 and above) will it work, or it has to be specifically from SE?
2. Once I have 16GB micro sd card, what are the steps to replace the existing card and its contents. Do i need to copy all the folders from existing micro sd to new sd card? What should be the format of SD card, fat, fat32, ext2/3/4 ? Kindly suggest.
Any other technicalities to take care off ?
Furthermore I would like to use APPtoSD either on 2.1 if its easy or else when 2.2 gets on, so do i need to prepare the new sd card specifically for this?
Thanks
1) don't know, I bought a 16GB online from sandisk and it works well, i can help if you can tell how to get the "class"
2) my sd is in fat32 as the old one so no problems here. I suppose that if you move from fat32 to ext* you need to handle permissions somehow. I use a linux distro and when I do this moves I use the command "cp -a" that preserves permission (doesn't matter for fat) and modification date so if some software relies on modification dates of files it doesn't screw up
Thanks,
Class is written on top of the card. See the attached image the 6 witten inside the circle shows the class.
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Does putting in a 16Gb card reduced the performance or increased the lags?
CM 7
I've looked around at a lot of places and haven't found a clear answer to this one yet.
I’ve read a lot of different posts about what the best way to do this is. Some say just copy and paste, some say you need to go into recovery mode and Format the SD to Fat32+ext2+swap first and then convert ext2 to ext3, and some say to use Titanium Backup, and there are other opinions too.
I’m really quite happy with the way the phone is set up at the moment and don’t want to mess things up. My X10 mini, has cyanogen mod 7, and clockwork mod. Some of the apps have been moved to the SD card.
Can anyone tell me the current best method?
Thank you ....
Does anyone have any suggestions?
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I'm also very interested in how to do this.
Basically use whatever format worked for you with your previous SD card. Oh, another forum member from the x10 forums was told by a Sony Ericsson rep that SD cards above class 4 would not give any further speed boost, but that's for the X10. I think that the same should apply for the x10 mini. Higher classes makes for faster loading of media and games moved to SD card, but actual playing(i.e after it has fully loaded) will be no faster. It will make SWAP faster, though.
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I have tried a 32gb card but it dosn't recognise it
Anyone knows if the new Custom Roms / Kernel make the Mini Pro recognise a 32gb SD card?
Well I checked the original card that came with the phone and it was FAT. The new card was preformatted to FAT32.
I left the new card at FAT32 and plugged them both into a Windows PC and copied the whole lot over. This worked fine.
I suspect that the whole ext2 ext3 thing is to allow the phone to treat that partition as if it were internal memory. Useful if the phone memory is already full.
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I recently upgraded my sd card from 2G to 4G, I just copied and pasted files. This seemed to work but since the upgrade I am having trouble flashing roms in cwm recovery. I get an error saying zip (bad) installation aborted.
Not sure if it is related but one to think about.
Hey guys i have been unable to move/install apps to my sd card ever since changing to MIUI I'm not sure whether this is a problem with the ROM or not (i think i may have insalled applications to SD on a previous GB version of MIUI)
I am using a rooted Samsung Galaxy S2 I9100 with the latest MIUI based on 4.0.4. before MIUI i was on CM7 stable and i remember messing around with some settings there to try and get my phone to read music off the sd card as well as internal memory-(where all my downloaded music was going). I also may have done a dodgy partition on my old 32gb micro sd or some how partitioned my internal storage of my phone...
I have recently successfully partitioned my Sandisk 64gb micro SDXC to this tutorial...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1343187
when i go to move a 'moveable' app eg. Paypal through 'Link2Sd' it comes up with an error saying "pkg:/data/app/com.paypal.android.p2pmobile-1.apk Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_CONTAINER_ERROR]
when i go to move a 'moveable' app through 'App 2 SD Pro' it says 'couldn't move app'
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the following are my phones storage details...please point out if you think there is anything strange about them
this last picture was taken before i partitioned my SD
if you guys have an suggestions please let me know
try to format ur sd and repartition ur sd ext. and flash ur script again.
u may try amarullz "ad2sdx" or dk_zerocool "mount2sd" script...
did you try Titanium Backup to move those apps?
also u can do in adb shell "pm setinstalllocation 2"
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when you partition the sd card doesn't it format it then? I repartitioned my SD card still the same problem.
I also went to back up my current rom today through 'ROM manager' and it said something along the lines of...
SD card mounted...
SD card space free: 30437MB
............(can't remember)
...No SD_EXT found
something something...checking MD5 sums
It then waited a little bit and rebooted without creating a backup. I then booted into CWM and tried doing a back up again. It came up with the same relative message as above but it decided to make a back up. The back up folder had 7 files in it (this seems normal to me) and also backed up to my micro SD which is new
Today i also tried moving apps with titanium backup. It moved them effortlessly or so i thought and then later i checked the SD card on the computer the apps files were no where to be seen so i double checked through Apps 2 SD, Link2sd and the system app info on my phone and they all show that the apps have not been moved to my micro sd card.
i havent tried the adb shell or script methods you have sugested but i will soon and let you know how i go.
thanks heaps in advanced!
i hv seen many ppl complaining abt cwm creating bad partitions. so i would suggest it via pc.
for formatting use "sdformatter"
for partitioning use "minitool partition wizard".
ur issues seem to be wid bad partition.
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try to use some apps google in marketmilitia i found there few apps that move everything from phone to sd
some apps is made so that u can move normal way but this apps do it
app2sd
cheers
n1newbie said:
i hv seen many ppl complaining abt cwm creating bad partitions. so i would suggest it via pc.
for formatting use "sdformatter"
for partitioning use "minitool partition wizard".
ur issues seem to be wid bad partition.
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I have done all my recent partitions on a PC using Gparted. before MIUI i was on CM7 and could have possibly done a partition there using cwm. if i wipe my phones inernal storage/sd will it still boot up? the internal storage in my case being labled as 'usb storage'
thanks again in advanced havent had time to try these things out yet but hopefully will soon
internal storage labelled as usb storage? wat model? as long as u hv nothing related to /system in sd ext. ur phone should boot fine
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internal storage labelled as usb storage? wat model? as long as u hv nothing related to /system in sd ext. ur phone should boot fine
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Precisely...the pictures in my first post show that storage sections labled 'internal storage' and 'usb storage' are both on my phones memory. I am able to take the micro sd out of the phone and these storage locations are still mounted and installed apps still work. Also when i open my native file explorer to see where my apps are and select 'SD card' it goes to the directory of 'usb storage'. This problem occurs with apps such as Astro and other file managing apps.
sry, am totally lost. may be someone else will help you out. gud luck
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i know this is an old topic, but i just want to share in case anyone stumbles upon this error again.
I had this problem, i fixed it by changing the default install location to auto in link2sd. or ifg you dont have link2sd in settings set it to let system decide. hope this helps someone out there
Have rooted the phone s3...but am unable to move apps to sd .
There's a method but seems too complicated...
Any other ideas anyone or is it for the best to leave apps on the phone in the case of pics
You have an app called app 2 sd on play store. I think it will work.
btw: are you from Dubai??
Nope does not work....as far as in have read its something thats not possible on the s3 so far...due to ics.
Neways they say its better this way....
Yes akhiiiiii....i am from Dubai......
app 2 sd may not be needed in s3 . as the sgs3 use the whole internal sd for data + user files there is no need to move it to sd
bala_gamer said:
app 2 sd may not be needed in s3 . as the sgs3 use the whole internal sd for data + user files there is no need to move it to sd
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Yeah maybe you right.
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khan258 said:
Nope does not work....as far as in have read its something thats not possible on the s3 so far...due to ics.
Neways they say its better this way....
Yes akhiiiiii....i am from Dubai......
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aaaaaahhhh, im so jealous . Cant wait S3 to come in my country.
I've been using my SGS3 for 3 days now. 16GB internal +32GB external SD
So far:
- device memory total space 11.35GB & available 1.65GB (downloaded my Google Play Music collection, went straight to internal memory, no choice)
- SD card total space 29.71GB & available 29.71GB
What I hope is happening:
is what I've been reading about but no proof... the data is being distributed somehow between both cards and it just doesn't show, OR, the internal storage has 11GB dedicated to apps & music and what-not, and once that is used up, any additions will be moved to the external SD
What I think will happen:
"You have run out of memory, please remove some files or apps to proceed", in a typical Microsoft moment...
I was prompted only once to install stuff on the external SD; those were additional files (250MB) that needed to be downloaded for a game I had just installed. Of course I chose external SD but it doesn't look like it worked...
nadram said:
I've been using my SGS3 for 3 days now. 16GB internal +32GB external SD
So far:
- device memory total space 11.35GB & available 1.65GB (downloaded my Google Play Music collection, went straight to internal memory, no choice)
- SD card total space 29.71GB & available 29.71GB
What I hope is happening:
is what I've been reading about but no proof... the data is being distributed somehow between both cards and it just doesn't show, OR, the internal storage has 11GB dedicated to apps & music and what-not, and once that is used up, any additions will be moved to the external SD
What I think will happen:
"You have run out of memory, please remove some files or apps to proceed", in a typical Microsoft moment...
I was prompted only once to install stuff on the external SD; those were additional files (250MB) that needed to be downloaded for a game I had just installed. Of course I chose external SD but it doesn't look like it worked...
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What happens when you fill up the internal storage? Can anybody try it?
That's what happens in my Galaxy Nexus:
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Was shocked when I got my S3 and saw it didn't supports app2sd. My friend has almost filled up his 16GB internal with apps. His 64GB SD card can't even used for apps at this point.
I am keen to see what happens with this SD card business. Why have the SD card if your apps cannot utlise it. e.g using rdio and 16gb for offline storage and games and movies etc is simply not sufficient.
Any solutions as of now?
Is there any market app that ha been proven to work or any ROMs that have this enabled?
This is very inconvenient........
help
has there been any movement on this issue as my internal is full, i have a 16gb sd but from what i have read us with the s3 can not move apps to the sd card, please help,, thank you
Try search. Plenty of existing threads covering this topic.
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great information, do you not think i have tried?
okay...
I have dropbox and love it (50GB free) :woohoo:
On JB roms I can't export to external SD card (I can export to internal but I prefer to use external for DB)
on GB rom the path for external SD card is accessed within internal SD card i.e. sdcard/extsdcard/ (or something similar)
So, is there anyway to get Dropbox to see external SD card on JB?? (NB, it does see folders if you create new folder from within the app, but it doesn't see any other folders [apart from clockworkmod for some reason])
-=or=- is there a way to change the JB path for ext sdcard to be accessed from within the internal storage??
PS - I do just manually move things from internal to external... but I'm not getting any younger doing it
:bump:
Sending...
I have the same problem with Galaxy Note N7000. Any idea how to fix it, maybe link external_sd to /extSdCard?
Btw you can use Astro File Manager. It can access both sd card and dropbox as folders and simple copy/paste will work. Just tested
King_Rat said:
On JB roms I can't export to external SD card (I can export to internal but I prefer to use external for DB)
...
So, is there anyway to get Dropbox to see external SD card on JB?? (NB, it does see folders if you create new folder from within the app, but it doesn't see any other folders
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I dunno... Could it be related to a specific ROM? I have no problem at all accessing both int and ext SD cards from Dropbox "export" function (they are listed as internal storage and SD card respectively), and can see all folders on either storage. Running Disaster v.10 (stock-based LSD).
Look at dropsync ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/...e=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_term=dropsync) I think it does what your after.
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I'm using rooted stock JB firmware and this is what I see......
I choose the option to export....
And get this screen.....
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Then I choose SD Card
And get this screen....
Internal storage speaks for itself, SD card IS my removable micro SD card (with all the files and folders that I know are on it).....
Edit.....just an idea.....
Did you install dropbox before you put your card in the phone? If you did, dropbox might have configured itself based on the available storage options at the time......try clearing dropbox's data, or deleting and re installing the app to see if that helps......
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I have the EXACT same problem. Unistalled and reinstalled, did not work. I also recently had most of my SD contents corrupted-no idea why. Now it seems I have multiple directories that link to the external SD card. Frustrating--why did this happen?
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I'm using rooted stock JB firmware and this is what I see......
I choose the option to export....
And get this screen.....
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Then I choose SD Card
And get this screen....
View attachment 1854218
Internal storage speaks for itself, SD card IS my removable micro SD card (with all the files and folders that I know are on it).....
Edit.....just an idea.....
Did you install dropbox before you put your card in the phone? If you did, dropbox might have configured itself based on the available storage options at the time......try clearing dropbox's data, or deleting and re installing the app to see if that helps......
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Fixed the issue in my device. Multiple directories for my external SD card. Dropbox was choosing one called extsdcard but it wasn't really the external so I renamed that folder. It then chose the real external SD card. Now I am able to export to it correctly.
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I'm having the same problem, i can't see the external sd in dropbox export options. I'm currently using Neatrom lite 4.6.1 with latest Dorimanx kernel... please help
Hi,
I installed the SLXROM yesterday on my P780 and I am quite happy with it so far. I know that there is discussion going on about this Rom in the russian lenovo forum where this has been posted, but unfortunatley my russian is a bit rusty (and google translator is just not mature enoughto follow a discussion in a forum).
So here is the thing:
My phone shows 3 different storage spaces: Internal Storage (0.98GB), SD card (1.45 GB) and Phone storage (3.69 GB), so my 4 GB sd card is actually shown as phone storage and the internal storage is detected as sd card which brings quite a bit of nastiness with it, since some apps write their data to sd card which in that case means the internal storage, while the sd card stays ~empty.
Is this a bug or is it supposed to be like this?
Cheers.
panDroid
panDroidx9 said:
Hi,
I installed the SLXROM yesterday on my P780 and I am quite happy with it so far. I know that there is discussion going on about this Rom in the russian lenovo forum where this has been posted, but unfortunatley my russian is a bit rusty (and google translator is just not mature enoughto follow a discussion in a forum).
So here is the thing:
My phone shows 3 different storage spaces: Internal Storage (0.98GB), SD card (1.45 GB) and Phone storage (3.69 GB), so my 4 GB sd card is actually shown as phone storage and the internal storage is detected as sd card which brings quite a bit of nastiness with it, since some apps write their data to sd card which in that case means the internal storage, while the sd card stays ~empty.
Is this a bug or is it supposed to be like this?
Cheers.
panDroid
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This is the default partitioning of the Lenovo P780
Here there is the solution that you are looking about: repartition!!!
Code:
forum.xda-developers.com/lenovo-p780/general/p780-repartition-storage-t2668744
Hi,
thanks for the quick reply. i followed the steps in the linked post, but now I have the following situation:
still 3 partitions: internal storage (2.44GB), SD Card (~5MB), Phone storage (4GB). So, the repartitioning worked, but the (now very small partition) is still detected as sdcard (which of course now leads to a lot of weird problems with apps trying to write to external storage).
Any advice?
Cheers.
panDroidx9 said:
Hi,
thanks for the quick reply. i followed the steps in the linked post, but now I have the following situation:
still 3 partitions: internal storage (2.44GB), SD Card (~5MB), Phone storage (4GB). So, the repartitioning worked, but the (now very small partition) is still detected as sdcard (which of course now leads to a lot of weird problems with apps trying to write to external storage).
Any advice?
Cheers.
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Yep.
My situation after the installation and the repartition was the same for you but i have done the following steps:
went to SETTINGS -> STORAGE and clicked on PREFERRED INSTALL LOCATION -> selected SD CARD
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Selected DEFAULT WRITE DISK as SD CARD, then REBOOTED
My FINAL situation was:
2.45 GB internal storage
8GB of external SDcard
5MB of Phone storage, never used.
Hope it's helpful.
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Hope it's helpful.
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Yes, that was extremely helpful! Thanks a lot, now everything works as expected.
Cheers!
just read this now after flash SLX, but already installed apps and restore backups of sms etc,
if I flash the repartition, should I return to default write disk to internal sd first?
will all data deleted?
DON2003 said:
just read this now after flash SLX, but already installed apps and restore backups of sms etc,
if I flash the repartition, should I return to default write disk to internal sd first?
will all data deleted?
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I'll suggest you to backup everything, even the ROM installation from recovery, then run the repartition, and restore SMS and apps.
If something fails, you can restore the backup from recovery.
Good luck!!