Hey guys,
Just recently got my EVO LTE, and for some reason when I view my SD card, whether it be from mounting as disk drive, all I can see in DCIM is .thumbnails, 100ANDRO, 100MEDIA, and Camera.
My photo details say their path is SD card /DCIM/100BURST/...jpg
Is this a windows issue? I remember on old versions of Windows there was an option to see "hidden files" is it possibly something similar? Sorry if it is a dumb question, been a while for me.
It looks like your photes are not on the sd card (sdcard/ext_sd),they are on the internal memory (sdcard). If mounting from a computer mount as a media device and not as hard drive mode. You will then see two windows pop up,one is your internal sd the other is ext sd. Your photos are internal. Btw you can change your saved photo paths in the camera app
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slowfncar said:
It looks like your photes are not on the sd card (sdcard/ext_sd),they are on the internal memory (sdcard). If mounting from a computer mount as a media device and not as hard drive mode. You will then see two windows pop up,one is your internal sd the other is ext sd. Your photos are internal. Btw you can change your saved photo paths in the camera app
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Great help thanks! I knew the phone had internal memory, but the part that threw me off was that the gallery disappeared when I removed SD Card so I assumed those pictures were on there. Thanks again.
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if you cant put apps and save pics and it doesnt function like a normal android device sd card
care to answer?
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
lorijuan1024 said:
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).
let me know if yall are seeing the same behavior...
I can take a video or picture and place it on my external SD card, then the preview(thumbnail) shows are error in my library. if i click on the picture or video, all is well and i can view it. then if i move the media to the internal memory, i have the preview with no errors.
im wondering if its the read speed from the external SD card, or the quality of card im using :/ just curious. i kinda like keeping media stuff (music, videos, pix) on the External SD card and leaving my phones memory free. but i also like having previews.
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let me know if yall are seeing the same behavior...
I can take a video or picture and place it on my external SD card, then the preview(thumbnail) shows are error in my library. if i click on the picture or video, all is well and i can view it. then if i move the media to the internal memory, i have the preview with no errors.
im wondering if its the read speed from the external SD card, or the quality of card im using :/ just curious. i kinda like keeping media stuff (music, videos, pix) on the External SD card and leaving my phones memory free. but i also like having previews.
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Are you moving this video/picture after you take it? Like take the picture/video, then move it with like esfilexplorer? Or even get on you PC and move it by hand? I believe that if you do that you would be moving the location of the thumbnail. I noticed that there is a separate folder for thumbnails, so when you move a file it could mess that location up. I hope that isn't too confusing.
-DJ
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sry for the late reply
i moved them by hand. i saved pictures from my EVO onto my SD card, and unless i move the pictures into the internal memory i will have no preview. i guess the phone creates thumbnails for pictures and videos placed inside the phone but does not create them for externally mounted pictures on a SD card.
I have a 32 gig card in my RAZR and it is still saving all my pictures and all my music I download from my Amazon Cloud player to internal memory. This is really dumb when I have all the space on the card. So far I can’t figure out how to make it go to the 32 gig card... How do I do that?
Data on memory card
Yesterday I put in my razr xt910 new 16GB card. When inserted pop up screen was shown and asked me if I want to put my photos, music and videos on external sd card. Confirmed it and phone by it self move data to external sd card.
After that taken pictures are stored at sd card. To be honest for downloaded music and videos I don know because did not try.
I would try to unmount card, (settings, storage, unmount card) take it out from the phone and put it back. Watch the screen and confirm pop up window
I hope I helped you.
Regards from Serbia.
I don't know about Amazon MP3, but I know Google Music won't save to the external SD card. There is a setting in the camera app to choose internal or external storage.
The Droid X2 has a hack that will swap the mount locations of /sdcard and /sd-ext. If we show enough interest someone that knows what they're doing will probably do the same for the Razr. +1 from me.
Look in dev section..someone already posted a switcher to let phone use external as internal and vice versa...will solve this
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Thanks nmeo, here's the link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1545292
Thank you!!
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..)
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
flex360 said:
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.
Ok so im fast running out of space on my internal SD card and would like to watch stuff from my external Sd card on my 360 however for some reason it only scans internal SD for videos so Ive come up with some ideas and wonder if such a thing exists.
1.a program that allows you to only mount the ExSD card on the xbox which in turn means you could use your phones storage whilst watching a video
2. A script that mounts the ExSD before the internal.
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Ugh ok..... Ever since I formatted and didn't restore the old system settings the xbox is now showing a directory structure in videos however when I select the external Sd folder nothing else Is showing up... Still I'm halfway there
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