First of all, I would like to thank this site and all that respond to the forums. I got through rooting and installing CM10 on my HTC Evo 4G LTE.
I am experiencing the "No external storage available" issue with CM10 and have found the .zip (cm10-SwapStorageLinks-v3.zip) to flash to the device and fix my problem. Prefect!
My issue is quite minor and most likely annoying to the admins on here, but here it goes.
I am currently away from home and do not have to microSD to SD adapter to transfer the .zip to my storage. Obviously, I cannot just hookup with USB and transfer since SD card is not recognized.
My question is, is there a way to transfer to the SD card without using the adapter, or do I really have to run out and buy thatt stupid piece.
Thanks in advance!
jkoch35 said:
I am currently away from home and do not have to microSD to SD adapter to transfer the .zip to my storage. Obviously, I cannot just hookup with USB and transfer since SD card is not recognized.
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You shouldnt make such uninformed assumptions, boot to twrp and mount storage to transfer the zip. Then flash it normally.
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You shouldnt make such uninformed assumptions, boot to twrp and mount storage to transfer the zip. Then flash it normally.
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My apologies on the assumption, that worked perfectly and now my SD card is being recognized.
I am experiencing one more issue that I am unable to locate in the forums, whenever I click a video online (non YouTube) it just opens the gallery and loads endlessly. Is the a video player app that I am supposed to be using or?? (I have also tried MX player)
Thanks for your time!
EDIT: It seems the online video playback has started to work once I flashed todays "Nightlies" (cm-10-20121125-NIGHTLY-jewel.zip)
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Good morning everyone.
I have been surfing this site for quite some time, but have just received my Vibrant S and am now in a position to post a question.
I am coming from the WinMo 5.0 world and android is very new to me, but I am enjoying the new phone.
I do not yet have the phone rooted and am hesitating ... mainly because I don't know all the features it has yet but also because I don't want to get into anything I don't know yet how to get out of. Having spent enough on this phone, I don't want to break anything just yet. This forum seems to have some very helpful people though, so I hope I can trust you all when you finally talk me into rooting. I barely got on the Market yesterday and found a tool 'SGS Tools' which has some info in the description which I think I can really use, but I need to root. So go ahead and start talking me into rooting.
Anyway, to my question:
The movie 'Avatar' comes on a 2Gig micro SD card and I have an 8Gig HCSD card. So I copied the directory 'Movie' and its contents to my C: drive, unmounted the 2Gig, removed it, and put in the 8Gig. The phone recognized it and everything went fine when I turned the phone on. So I moved the directory 'Movie' and its contents to the 8Gig card and after all was said and done, when I try to open the movie file 'Avatar.dcf' using either the shortcut or the media player, I get the error: This video can not be played.
Is there a hidden file I may have missed? Can you not create a copy? Would the DRM get involved at this point?
I am concerned if I move the file from the 2Gig card to the 8Gig card, and I get the same error, then I've also lost the movie.
Your suggestions would be most helpful. Thanks.
Here's another take on it.
I powered my phone on this morning just before posting, and found the phone was not recognizing the SDHC card. It was in effect, unmounted. I pulled it out and back in and it then asked if I wanted to format the disk, so I did. I need to pull the original dcf file off the 2gig disk and try this move again, but in the mean time I've found this among a lot of complaints regarding android recognizing SDHC cards.
[edit] Seems I can't post outside links yet. Here's an address you'll have to manually put in your address bar if you wish to read this article.
< ... ://humanslate.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4&Itemid=14 >
In there it mentions, "SDHC cards will not work in devices designed to the older SD 1.x specification".
So, another question at the moment is this:
Has android (I'm running JI6, eclair 2.1) been developed for the original 1.x cards? Has anyone bought a new android phone and had an SDHC card in it? My 2gig card is of the old 1.x specification.
Perhaps I need to repost on the developer page? I figured the movie was part of an app, so it would only seem reasonable to post here.
Hangman_ said:
Good morning everyone.
I have been surfing this site for quite some time, but have just received my Vibrant S and am now in a position to post a question.
I am coming from the WinMo 5.0 world and android is very new to me, but I am enjoying the new phone.
I do not yet have the phone rooted and am hesitating ... mainly because I don't know all the features it has yet but also because I don't want to get into anything I don't know yet how to get out of. Having spent enough on this phone, I don't want to break anything just yet. This forum seems to have some very helpful people though, so I hope I can trust you all when you finally talk me into rooting. I barely got on the Market yesterday and found a tool 'SGS Tools' which has some info in the description which I think I can really use, but I need to root. So go ahead and start talking me into rooting.
Anyway, to my question:
The movie 'Avatar' comes on a 2Gig micro SD card and I have an 8Gig HCSD card. So I copied the directory 'Movie' and its contents to my C: drive, unmounted the 2Gig, removed it, and put in the 8Gig. The phone recognized it and everything went fine when I turned the phone on. So I moved the directory 'Movie' and its contents to the 8Gig card and after all was said and done, when I try to open the movie file 'Avatar.dcf' using either the shortcut or the media player, I get the error: This video can not be played.
Is there a hidden file I may have missed? Can you not create a copy? Would the DRM get involved at this point?
I am concerned if I move the file from the 2Gig card to the 8Gig card, and I get the same error, then I've also lost the movie.
Your suggestions would be most helpful. Thanks.
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That should be all you have to do to get the movie to play. I would only recommend that you double check to make sure you copied the Movie folder to your external SD card and not the internal card.
The Vibrant can use SDHC cards (use 8gb class 6 here) and I know many others use 16 and 32 gb ones.
Convert the file to simple mp3 universal coding that any video app including the stock can read. Should be 720p. Create a video folder if one does not exist. You know all this sounds like. Should play fine. Too bad you can't use the lame short cut this way. Then again I never used it anyway.
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I replaced avatar this way. Since have now for the extended version instead.
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Thank you for the quick reply.
Flak_Munky said:
That should be all you have to do to get the movie to play ...
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What do you mean by 'That'? Do you mean to move or does a copy suffice?
A little earlier after posting here, I put the 2gig back in and copied the DCF file to the C: drive again. Then after replacing the 2gig with the 8gig in the phone, I moved the 'Movie' directory and files into it. Now the media player doesn't even recognize the file. Although when I went to the SD card and looked at the details of the DCF file, it said the rights were expired. Can I assume it is because I copied it?
mr. orange303 said:
Convert the file to simple mp3 universal coding that any video app including the stock can read. Should be 720p.
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What program did you use to make the conversion? I have two converters on my laptop I really like, but I don't know that they will even recognize a DCF file.
Thank you for your assistance.
And thank you Mr Moderator for moving this to its correct forum location.
Hangman_ said:
What do you mean by 'That'? Do you mean to move or does a copy suffice?
A little earlier after posting here, I put the 2gig back in and copied the DCF file to the C: drive again. Then after replacing the 2gig with the 8gig in the phone, I moved the 'Movie' directory and files into it. Now the media player doesn't even recognize the file. Although when I went to the SD card and looked at the details of the DCF file, it said the rights were expired. Can I assume it is because I copied it?
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I was referring to either a move or copy. Both should work without a problem. I've done both and it played each time.
Never seen the rights were expired before. Not sure atm.
Thanks Flak for the clarification.
I am thinking I have larger issues here now (hence the edit to the title).
Over the New year, I have been working on word documents and PDFs and saving them to the external SD card on the phone. I have Windows 7_64. I was synced in with my phone using 'media' to transfer files as Kies doesn't work. After disconnecting the phone and verifying I can read both the word docs and the PDF's, I turned the phone off for the night. The next morning when I turned the phone on, I recieved a message that the external SD card was corrupted. I had to do a format to get the card back. After copying the docs and PDF's to the SDHC again, making a few phone calls, and installing a couple apps from the market to the internal memory, I rebooted the phone (turned off then back on), I received an error message saying the external SD card had been damaged. I had to do a format on the card again to get it back.
All I can say at the moment is I'm glad I didn't move the Avatar.dcf file to the SDHC card, but I don't understand what is happening with the SD functionality. This is becoming completely untrustworthy as I can't use the SD card for anything in fear of it getting corrupted or damaged. Which means I can't backup anything to the SD card either.
[Q] I have read mention of drivers for Windows 7_64, but have not yet searched them out. Could the default connection drivers that Windows 7 loads when you first connect your phone be an issue?
[Q] I have also read in several places now that the USB debugging should be checked. Now most all of these posts are for rooting and reinstalling ROM's and such, but my question is this; Should I have the USB debugging on when I am simply connecting to the PC to transfer files? It seems I am losing my SDHC card only after I have connected to the PC using the USB cable.
Do you have any thoughts or suggestions I can try? I'm too new to android to think of possible solutions to these little quirks, or where to look or what to ask.
Thanks.
One reason I am hesitant to put any Windows 7_64 bit drivers is because of the following comments:
"cant get my cpu to recognize my phone after installing drivers... im on windows 7 64 bit any ideas??"
"have the same problem. i'm on 7, 32bit"
"did you enable USB debugging?"
"yes of course. first thing I did after I rooted"
These are from <http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=728929>
Now again, my phone is not yet rooted. For the purpose at hand, I can't see the need to root. If my SDHC card is getting corrupted during connection, then rooting the phone is not going to solve the problem.
So my question above still stands; should the USB debugging be on (checked) when I simply connect to the PC to transfer files?
But I don't know where to look now or what to do. I have spent an entire day looking over the posts and have found virtually nothing to assist me with this little quirk.
Any suggestion would be helpful at this point.
Thanks.
So, I've learned something new today and would like your confirmation if I am correct in my assessment or not.
When you plug the phone into the Windows desktop machine, you get a prompt on the phone asking if you want to connect to Kies, Media Player, or Mass Storage.
When I select Media player, I have immediate access to the phone and SD card. There is nothing more to do with either the phone or the PC is this correct ?
The reason I ask is that if I connect to Mass Storage, I then have to go to the pulldown whatchamacallit on the phone and select USB connect. It then prompts me to "Mount" the phone (SD card) so I can access it.
I think this is why my SD card became corrupted and damaged. I didn't know I had to go and "Mount" the thing before I could use it.
BUT, why doesn't it ask me to "Mount" it when I select Media Player for my connection?
Thank you for your assistance and expertise.
Still waiting for confirmation
I'm still waiting for some definitive answer(s) and confirmations to these questions of mine if anyone has the knowledge.
Thank you.
This may not be the correct forum for this question and if so my apologies. I have a g-tablet with the gingerbread 7.0.0 ROM installed. Last night I converted some video and placed it on the external sdcard. I made sure the videos played and then powered off the tablet. This morning when I go to show my wife how to play the videos they are gone. I pull out the microsd card and place it in a sd card adapter and put it in the desktop computer. Sure enough the videos are gone. WTHH!! I did not delete them. They are just not there anymore. Very odd. Anyone else had this happen? Thanks.
Are you sure you put the files on your external microsd card and not the internal one? Use a file explorer to look under /emmc and see if the files are there. When you connect your tablet to the computer to transfer files, it mounts both /sdcard (your external microsd card) and /emmc (a partition of your internal storage chip), so I'm guessing you just transferred the files to the wrong drive.
However, that explanation assumes that when you say you installed the "gingerbread 7.0.0 ROM", you mean CyanogenMod 7.0.0. If you actually mean you installed VEGAn-TAB GingerEdition, then replace /emmc with /sdcard and /sdcard with /sdcard2 in what I wrote above. The naming systems are different between the two ROMs, which can be kind of confusing.
tallguy240 said:
This may not be the correct forum for this question and if so my apologies. I have a g-tablet with the gingerbread 7.0.0 ROM installed. Last night I converted some video and placed it on the external sdcard. I made sure the videos played and then powered off the tablet. This morning when I go to show my wife how to play the videos they are gone. I pull out the microsd card and place it in a sd card adapter and put it in the desktop computer. Sure enough the videos are gone. WTHH!! I did not delete them. They are just not there anymore. Very odd. Anyone else had this happen? Thanks.
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This is a very well known issue with several of the custom ROM's. A simple search will find you the workaround.
This has never happened to me but from what I have read on these forums, creating a "*.nomedia" file and placing it in the folders that you dont want showing up in media searches will fix this problem you are having.
hey guys i just got my external sd card and i put files (such as music) into it.
however i CANNOT see anything when using Astro File Manager except two folders:
.android_secure and LOST.DIR.
whats wrong? please help guys!
help guys :S
Copy files to external SD card via USB Mass storage mode .
Do you see the files in Windows Explorer .
Probably you are that impatient you have copied the files to a wrong place .
jje
YES i do see them in my Windows PC...just cant see them in my device.
using I9100
Do they play .
Are they visible via My Files or in the Music Player .
jje
JJEgan said:
Do they play .
Are they visible via My Files or in the Music Player .
jje
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no... cant see nothing! (except on PC)
Copy the files back to your PC (if you need to) and reformat it, making sure you do it as FAT32. Then copy the files back.
use your SGS2 to format the sdcard, this should settle problems with filesystem, cluster size, ... then try again. make a backup of your files before you format!
same happend to my 32gb class 4 sdhc card abd after 2 days it become dead, now it is not working any more. May be your card has the same problem that mine had. I bought it from ebay and it was local china made card. I claimed my money and got it back.
may be this would help you, do not consider that your card is also going to die, i just told you what happened to mine.
actually i got my microSD from my previous device-Nokia E72
it is a SDHC so it should fit the FAT32 system..no?
hkgdllm said:
actually i got my microSD from my previous device-Nokia E72
it is a SDHC so it should fit the FAT32 system..no?
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It's best to format it if you're having issues, especially with something like files appearing/not appearing on different devices.
As suggested by d3l1 above, use the phone to format it. If you still have problems then there are better formatting apps for your PC.
johncmolyneux said:
It's best to format it if you're having issues, especially with something like files appearing/not appearing on different devices.
As suggested by d3l1 above, use the phone to format it. If you still have problems then there are better formatting apps for your PC.
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if there are still problems he should test the card and see if it's dying, happens from time to time.
d3l1 said:
if there are still problems he should test the card and see if it's dying, happens from time to time.
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i have reformatted and still i cant see nothing with my device is my sd card dead?
hkgdllm said:
i have reformatted and still i cant see nothing with my device is my sd card dead?
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if you can open it in your pc then its not dead yet.. may sure you are opening the correct folder for external card. The folder is in sdcard\ externalSd or something like that
did you try another card? there are so many possibilities as to what may be the problem.
i can see the folder SDCARD/external_SD
but inside i can only see LOST.dir and .android_secure, nothing else! but i did put some music in it!
me 2
same here formated the sdcard in my pc put in my phone then transfered music.phone couldnt see any files so formated sdcard in phone this time but when hooked it up to the pc the files were still there even though they had been formated.lol not sure what to do next.
Guys its finally here...... ICS with " Tablet mode " for the Galaxy wifi/player 5.0 USA/INTER/KORN version.
Based off CM9 and its a AOKP ROM.
Link to main thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1638601
Video to show you what it is like:
What I found that does not work/problems:
HD video on YouTube, Normal 480p video works i think
Some graphical glitches not many though
Google chrome browser
Tablet apps from market can not be downloaded, although you can side load them and they will work
Usb mounting ??
Bluetooth
Camera on all ICS roms for this device
Overall though this ROM is great and try it out it the faster ROM yet.
Bluetooth and camera are not working either, deal brakers for me.
Sent from my YP-G70
SD card doesn't mount either. I can live without bluetooth, camera, etc but my life is on my SD card.
Flashed it earlier and it does look promising. If we ever get a 3.0 kernel that would solve most of the issues.
exodus454 said:
SD card doesn't mount either. I can live without bluetooth, camera, etc but my life is on my SD card.
Flashed it earlier and it does look promising. If we ever get a 3.0 kernel that would solve most of the issues.
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I don't remember where, but I read that while the device is on, you take out the SD Card, then put it back in, and Android will mount it. I tried that and it worked, but I'm not sure how safe it is to do that. It certainly is inconvenient.
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SirRhor said:
I don't remember where, but I read that while the device is on, you take out the SD Card, then put it back in, and Android will mount it. I tried that and it worked, but I'm not sure how safe it is to do that. It certainly is inconvenient.
Sent from my YP-G70
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I tried that, it didn't even react.
USB Mounting Issues
regarding the usb mounting issues, do you mean the external sd card doesn't mount when the device is on and you try to access it? For me the external card mounts fine. Before flashing the tablet mode mod I flashed the AOKP milestone 4 port so it might be an issue with CM9 and tablet mode?
I also noticed that I couldn't view the internal or external sd cards on my computer but I found an app which makes both cards visible to my pc. Its called Multi-Mount SD Card Lite and its available on the Play Store.
Supermaster34 said:
regarding the usb mounting issues, do you mean the external sd card doesn't mount when the device is on and you try to access it? For me the external card mounts fine. Before flashing the tablet mode mod I flashed the AOKP milestone 4 port so it might be an issue with CM9 and tablet mode?
I also noticed that I couldn't view the internal or external sd cards on my computer but I found an app which makes both cards visible to my pc. Its called Multi-Mount SD Card Lite and its available on the Play Store.
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Yea i can not mount anything from the rom. Personally I just boot into recovery and mount all, so I have internal and sd card access.
That is weird. Once it is booted up, I pop the card out and put it back in. Presto-chango the card appears and I restored everything from Titanium Backup.
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I've installed HTC sync and Android/Java and have my EVO4gLTE rooted. I'm running Decks CM10 and love the interface. The problem is that when I turn on USB storage, only the internal SD card shows on my PC. When I would run stock Sense, it would show the external card.
I would much prefer to see the external card without having to physically remove it or copy to it using a file manager. TWRP has the option to mount internal or external SD's, and Sense gives several options when the device is connected to the PC.
I've searched multiple times and have yet to find an answer to this.
Big thanks in advance for any assistance.
-Mike
Download multi mount sd
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Download multi mount sd
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Thanks for the suggestion, but that didn't work. It only shows the internal SD card and not the external one.
Doesnt cm10 see sd as external instead of sd2? I know there was a mod to switch it around to flip it around so it sees the sd2 as sd(1).
Look in development section.
I thought the mount point swap was already included in the newer builds
michaelm_seattle said:
I've installed HTC sync and Android/Java and have my EVO4gLTE rooted. I'm running Decks CM10 and love the interface. The problem is that when I turn on USB storage, only the internal SD card shows on my PC. When I would run stock Sense, it would show the external card.
I would much prefer to see the external card without having to physically remove it or copy to it using a file manager. TWRP has the option to mount internal or external SD's, and Sense gives several options when the device is connected to the PC.
I've searched multiple times and have yet to find an answer to this.
Big thanks in advance for any assistance.
-Mike
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as of right now nope. you can only reverse them. or from recovery you can mount both as well. but i reversed mine using my 64gb class10 as my internal now. if interested i upped the zip. i didnt make it just hosting . here.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/37ujgyee15cz2w0/cm10-SwapStorageLinks-v3.zip
flash from recovery.
kaos420 said:
as of right now nope. you can only reverse them. or from recovery you can mount both as well. but i reversed mine using my 64gb class10 as my internal now. if interested i upped the zip. i didnt make it just hosting . here.
flash from recovery.
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Thanks very much for responding! I was wondering about two things, though:
1) will this script reverse the cards as seen only by the PC during USB mounting, or will they be reversed to the internal apps as well? In other words, will everything that was looking for something on SD0 not find it because it's now seen on SD1?
2) will this affect my external SD card such that I should back it up and/or format it beforehand? I know I should back it up anyway, but I was just wanting to know what to expect.
I really appreciate your help and input.
-Mike
michaelm_seattle said:
Thanks very much for responding! I was wondering about two things, though:
1) will this script reverse the cards as seen only by the PC during USB mounting, or will they be reversed to the internal apps as well? In other words, will everything that was looking for something on SD0 not find it because it's now seen on SD1?
2) will this affect my external SD card such that I should back it up and/or format it beforehand? I know I should back it up anyway, but I was just wanting to know what to expect.
I really appreciate your help and input.
-Mike
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It will use your service card. As internal. I switched back and forth all the time from Cm10 to sense. There are swap point mode for sense too. Since I always use my 64gb for internal sd
Sent from my Cm10 powered Evo Lte!!
kaos420 said:
It will use your service card. As internal. I switched back and forth all the time from Cm10 to sense. There are swap point mode for sense too. Since I always use my 64gb for internal sd
Sent from my Cm10 powered Evo Lte!!
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I tried it and it does indeed swap the drives. That was excellent work! I will probably run the script again the next time I do a full reset, since several of my apps will need to have their settings changed to recognize that drive as their location drive. By the way, do you have a script to swap the drives back?
I'm a little surprised, though, that considering how configurable CM10 is, that the ability to choose which drive is mounted to show as USB storage is not also configurable. With my Xoom, both drives show up when the device is connected to the PC.
Thanks again
-M
michaelm_seattle said:
I tried it and it does indeed swap the drives. That was excellent work! I will probably run the script again the next time I do a full reset, since several of my apps will need to have their settings changed to recognize that drive as their location drive. By the way, do you have a script to swap the drives back?
I'm a little surprised, though, that considering how configurable CM10 is, that the ability to choose which drive is mounted to show as USB storage is not also configurable. With my Xoom, both drives show up when the device is connected to the PC.
Thanks again
-M
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if you do a full wipe it will revert back. other wise it will stick through upgrades.
michaelm_seattle said:
I've installed HTC sync and Android/Java and have my EVO4gLTE rooted. I'm running Decks CM10 and love the interface. The problem is that when I turn on USB storage, only the internal SD card shows on my PC. When I would run stock Sense, it would show the external card.
I would much prefer to see the external card without having to physically remove it or copy to it using a file manager. TWRP has the option to mount internal or external SD's, and Sense gives several options when the device is connected to the PC.
I've searched multiple times and have yet to find an answer to this.
Big thanks in advance for any assistance.
-Mike
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Depending on what you need the access for external SD for, OTG may work for your purposes..a little tempremental at times but may work for your purposes..
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