I want to listen music in my car through USB connection but my car system only reads fat32 memorycards and GS3 internal memory is in EXTFAT.... so I need to format my internal memory card to FAT32. How do I do it?
Also, how can I bacup my internal memory to pc?? i tried selecting files and copying them to pc but it always gives an error and closes. Thks!
rfmalta said:
I want to listen music in my car through USB connection but my car system only reads fat32 memorycards and GS3 internal memory is in EXTFAT.... so I need to format my internal memory card to FAT32. How do I do it?
Also, how can I bacup my internal memory to pc?? i tried selecting files and copying them to pc but it always gives an error and closes. Thks!
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Pretty sure you can't do that (open to correction though).
The problem is more likely to be that the S3 can't connect in USB mass storage mode.
(Least certain of this part) As far as I know the phone reads the filesystem itself for the device: i.e. a filesystem that a PC can't read it (say ext4 on Windows) will still show up over USB as long as the S3 can read it. Though like I said, very shaky on this bit
yeah I was afraid it was not possible indeed... thks anyway
rfmalta said:
yeah I was afraid it was not possible indeed... thks anyway
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There is a way, but it requires rooting and buying an sd-card.
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I have a car stereo that is usb enabled and I would love to use my phone to store my music on and be able to play it through the stereo. The problem I am having is that when I plug the phone in I'm guessing my stereo recognizes the internal storage mounting first and won't pick up the 32GB Micro SD Card.
My Question: Are there any apps out there that will automatically mount the SD when the phone is plugged in, but not mount the internal storage?
I've tried the Auto Mount app, but that mounts internal and external both, I need something that ONLY mounts the SD card.
Thanks.
Not sure if this will work but, I know when you plug into a computer and mount as a disc drive, it unmounts the SD card from the phone for the computer to read. What happens if you unmount the SD card in settings, then plug in your phone? Like I said not sure if it will work, just throwing out ideas.
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Comicazy said:
Not sure if this will work but, I know when you plug into a computer and mount as a disc drive, it unmounts the SD card from the phone for the computer to read. What happens if you unmount the SD card in settings, then plug in your phone? Like I said not sure if it will work, just throwing out ideas.
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I'll give that a shot and see what happens. Thanks.
Try This:
Settings>Connect To PC>Default Connection Type>*Change This To Disk Drive*
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Try This:
Settings>Connect To PC>Default Connection Type>*Change This To Disk Drive*
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I think that will cause the same problem as the Auto Mount app though, it mounts both the Phone's Internal and External storage. I'm looking for something that mounts the SD Card only, not both. Thanks though, I'll give it a shot and see if maybe it will mount them in a different order.
dawynkoop said:
I have a car stereo that is usb enabled and I would love to use my phone to store my music on and be able to play it through the stereo. The problem I am having is that when I plug the phone in I'm guessing my stereo recognizes the internal storage mounting first and won't pick up the 32GB Micro SD Card.
My Question: Are there any apps out there that will automatically mount the SD when the phone is plugged in, but not mount the internal storage?
I've tried the Auto Mount app, but that mounts internal and external both, I need something that ONLY mounts the SD card.
Thanks.
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Hopefully this isn't insulting your intelligence. But when your phone is mounted as storage, you should see /sdcard/ext_sd . This is a mount point for /sdcard2 so you should be able to access everything on your 32GB card via that directory.
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Hopefully this isn't insulting your intelligence. But when your phone is mounted as storage, you should see /sdcard/ext_sd . This is a mount point for /sdcard2 so you should be able to access everything on your 32GB card via that directory.
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From what I can tell that mount point only works when browsing storage through the phone, when connected to the pc/car stereo it only acts as an empty folder.
I have the same problem with my Galaxy S2.
I pinned my hope on an app called USB Sharer but unfortunately it won't run on my phone, you might wanna give it a try (cost $ though, the developer refunded straightaway when I said it didn't work on my phone)
Supposedly with that app the usb is emulated and so you can pick which files & folders to share
Hi,
I'd like to know if there is any way of selecting mass storage mode only for external sd_card. When I conect to a PC or any other device, if I select mass storage mode, both internal and external storage connects, but I would like to connect only external one (the sd_card itself). Is that possible?
Just for the record, I'm using CM9 now, but I haven't found this option on any of the roms I've tested.
Thank you.
Just remove the sdcard from microSD slot and insert it to card reader ._.
przemcio510 said:
Just remove the sdcard from microSD slot and insert it to card reader ._.
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I'm sorry, maybe I didn't explained it correctly... Of course, this is a way to access the sdcard, and I know there are some other solutions, but it's not what I was asking. I don't want to remove the battery cover each time I want to access the sdcard. I don't want to wear with me a card reader always...
There are some cases in which I'd like to use this feature. For example, my car stereo has an USB port. In case I connect the SGS2, both storage units connects to the stereo, but it only detects one of them, in this case, the first one (internal Storage). This has 2 problems, the first one is that I use the external sdcard for music storage, and the second one is that some applications that stores data in the internal sdcard stops working.
I know there are many other ways of doing things (using a usb drive, removing sdcard...) but I just wanted to know if selecting only external storage was possible.
Thank you.
I`m interested into this too...
Phone forgets ringtones selection when they are stored on internal card after card disconnected from PC
Is there any way to mount only external SD card?
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Has anybody got any tips on how to copy a largish file to the INTERNAL card, A you know MTP almost ALWAYS fails near the end. And I can't find anyway to mount the internal card as UMS. the only way so far is to copy to external car (using easy UMS or just taking card out and putting it into PC). I've never had these problems with my LG Optimus 2X or Optimus 4X. I thought the S3 was a slight step up from my 4X but after using it for a week I'm getting the feeling its a fair step down
ADB? Haven't tried such large files and didn't know there was a problem. Can you save it to external and then transfer it?
yes can save it to external and transfer it just like I already said in my first post. Seems a bit strange to have to spend so much time doing something most other phones can do. I was looking for a way just to transfer large files from PC to internal.
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Has anybody got any tips on how to copy a largish file to the INTERNAL card, A you know MTP almost ALWAYS fails near the end. And I can't find anyway to mount the internal card as UMS. the only way so far is to copy to external car (using easy UMS or just taking card out and putting it into PC). I've never had these problems with my LG Optimus 2X or Optimus 4X. I thought the S3 was a slight step up from my 4X but after using it for a week I'm getting the feeling its a fair step down
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I use FTP - FileZilla on the lappy and EFS file manager on the galaxy.
stevvie said:
Has anybody got any tips on how to copy a largish file to the INTERNAL card, A you know MTP almost ALWAYS fails near the end.
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I have transferred close to hundred of times files larger than 700MB (of which probably 30+ times files over 1.2GB) to the INTERNAL card by MTP and I NEVER had a single problem. NOT ONCE, NOT A SINGLE ONE!
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Has anybody got any tips on how to copy a largish file to the INTERNAL card, A you know MTP almost ALWAYS fails near the end. And I can't find anyway to mount the internal card as UMS. the only way so far is to copy to external car (using easy UMS or just taking card out and putting it into PC). I've never had these problems with my LG Optimus 2X or Optimus 4X. I thought the S3 was a slight step up from my 4X but after using it for a week I'm getting the feeling its a fair step down
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the fact u say the card works for other devices with large files, rules out the card being the problem, maybe re-install your mtp drivers? "delete - plug phone - re-install?
ive sent a few game data folders to the sd using standard mtp transfer and only twice it froze, and i mean froze my pc and the phone, only way to get either to respond was to unplug the usb
One : use card reader to copy files into external and then move it to internal.
Two: reboot into custom recovery and mount external as USB, copy and move
Three : something in theme section I don't exactly remember its name, mount external as USB mass storage device
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Guys I can transfer EVERY time to EXTERNAL then move to INTERNAL. I have NO problem transfering to EXTERNAL at all. I was just looking to see if anybody has fixed the samsung problem with the INTERNAL card like I did say in my first post I have no problem with the EXTERNAL card just when being forced to use MTP for internal transfers they seem to fail more often than not. If I mount my EXTERNAL card as mass storage I have NEVER had a failed transfer.
squ89r97 Thaks for the advice, i'm gonna try FTP.
Yep squ89r97's way just works EVERY time. no longer do i think will mtp lockup or will mtp just fail.
Hi!
Ive been wanting to format my internal storage/usb storage (the 11gb storage) to FAT32 so i can see my files with a dorimanX kernel (using apolo but wanna try the dorimanx gpu undervolt). So far I havent had much success.
The thing is, my usb port is kinda bad (can charge perfectly but cant be detected by the PC unless theres a constant strong push to the cable and the port) so i cant transfer files physically (i use air droid or a card reader)
Ive tried formatting my internal storage with CWM but i do not see the FAT32 option. Is there a way to format my internal storage to FAT32 without a PC? Thanks!
goodybags said:
Hi!
Ive been wanting to format my internal storage/usb storage (the 11gb storage) to FAT32 so i can see my files with a dorimanX kernel (using apolo but wanna try the dorimanx gpu undervolt). So far I havent had much success.
The thing is, my usb port is kinda bad (can charge perfectly but cant be detected by the PC unless theres a constant strong push to the cable and the port) so i cant transfer files physically (i use air droid or a card reader)
Ive tried formatting my internal storage with CWM but i do not see the FAT32 option. Is there a way to format my internal storage to FAT32 without a PC? Thanks!
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the 'default' option will work fine (this will format your storage as vfat, which is similar to fat32). You should be able to see partitions on dorimanx after that.
Hi P9000 users!
I had now time to test some stuff with my P9000. One question: I inserted a Sandisk 128 GB SDXC Card (UHS) and formatted as internal Storage (want to move apps). Worked fine for the Phone and i was able to move apps to the SD. But after connecting Phone to USB (via MTP & unlocked phone) it only shows 32 GB internal SD. Also via File Explorer app on the phone i cannot find the external SD or mountpoint....
Anyone with same issue? I also changed connection-type to USB and then my OS (Win 10) does not open phone file system at all.
thx and br
Ausdroid
Arangato said:
Hi P9000 users!
I had now time to test some stuff with my P9000. One question: I inserted a Sandisk 128 GB SDXC Card (UHS) and formatted as internal Storage (want to move apps). Worked fine for the Phone and i was able to move apps to the SD. But after connecting Phone to USB (via MTP & unlocked phone) it only shows 32 GB internal SD. Also via File Explorer app on the phone i cannot find the external SD or mountpoint....
Anyone with same issue? I also changed connection-type to USB and then my OS (Win 10) does not open phone file system at all.
thx and br
Ausdroid
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We did an article about the SD card memory management in Marshmallow a while ago on the XDA portal that explains this, I'd suggest googling for it as I can't remember the title.
Edit: Something to do with the SD card being formatted as Ext4 (linux file system standard these days) and Windows not supporting Ext4 filesystems.
Thx for reply, so i am afraid its related to Android 6 default behaviour. So if SD is formatted as internal storage you cannot access via USB from PC or managing files on it via file browser app? Thats really disappointing for me since it then switches SD card to enhanced app storage only, useless for image, videos, music etc. Of course i can format as portable SD, but then no movement of apps are possible (via root its maybe the only option).
In SD portable mode, i also had issue that SD cards randomly disconnects and one time it even needed to be reformatted. Have read about that in another thread, that this is related to physical sd mount... will see to fix this with some tape :/ (gives me not a good feeling here)
Arangato said:
Thx for reply, so i am afraid its related to Android 6 default behaviour. So if SD is formatted as internal storage you cannot access via USB from PC or managing files on it via file browser app? Thats really disappointing for me since it then switches SD card to enhanced app storage only, useless for image, videos, music etc. Of course i can format as portable SD, but then no movement of apps are possible (via root its maybe the only option).
In SD portable mode, i also had issue that SD cards randomly disconnects and one time it even needed to be reformatted. Have read about that in another thread, that this is related to physical sd mount... will see to fix this with some tape :/ (gives me not a good feeling here)
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Update: checked some forums and blogs, seems not to be android 6 default behavior that you completely cannot access the files on adopted SD-card anymore. after adopting as internal storage... anyone could also reproduce this? I will try doing factory reset with SD-Card inserted..