I have a 8gb sd card and want to have everything installed including the firmware on there and use the 16gb storage only for movies/music. Is this possible at all?
not every app can/will run proper from the sd card and the Firmware deffenetly not
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Anyone have any issues with your SD card from your previous device not showing the files that are on it?
I know they are there because the card says 3 gigs free of 14....came from my Fascinate.
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It could be formatting issues with the Sd card. Also sometimes Sd cards won't work going from one device to the other. Try transferring/backing up your files from the Sd card to your computer than reformat the Sd card, transfer you're backed up files to the freshly formatted Sd card. Finally put the Sd card back into your phone and you should be able to access your files.
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and when you reformat the sd card(after saving to pc 1st), format to fat32 w/ active partition manager. not sure if youre rooted yet but this helps w/ cwm recovery. the exfat file system from windows and format sdcard feature w/ the phone gave me trouble.
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Anyone have any issues with your SD card from your previous device not showing the files that are on it?
I know they are there because the card says 3 gigs free of 14....came from my Fascinate.
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Got to mnt/SD_ext/
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Hi,
As u can see in the title, I own a Samsung Galaxy Ace 2 I8160L.
It has 4gb internal storage but only about 1.1gb user available. Most of the more exciting games have data that are 1.5gb and more.
Is there a way to install these games and have the sd data go to my external micro sd card and not the internal 1.1gb 'sd card'?
Thanks in advance, Nate
Are you root? Because you could try Directory Bind
Im not rooted as yet. And im not familiar with directory bind. Will look it up tho.
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Is there any root free solution tho? I will root but only as a laat resort
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Yeah, I am also looking for some root free method to swap sd card and external card in my galaxy ace 2.
I dont really know why in samsung phones our external sd card is nt treated as an sd card.
I had htc one v prior to this phone and atleast one good thing abt that phone was it would move apps to external sd card not to internal storage like samsung phones.
Now with this phone (galaxy ace 2), external sd card size is quite irrelevant for apps, coz this phone counts the internal usb storage which is only 1GB as sd card.
Anyways if u find any root free method to swap storage, plz post it here too.
Thanks.
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you must root your phone then you could use the lidroid or GL2SD move game data to your SDCARD
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you must root your phone then you could use the lidroid or GL2SD move game data to your SDCARD
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Thanks for your response.
But I donot want to root my phone :-$
I am not expert at it, so dont want to take the risk. Plus this phone has a little community, so in case if something goes wrong with rooting, it might become difficult to find help...
I think I wld have to bear this storage issue. :-S
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I found a way to get the apps to install directly to the ext sd card. But the games sd data still go to the internal storage unfortunately. Il post a link in a bit
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I found a ways to get the apps to install directly to the ext sd cadd. But the games sd date still go to the internal storage unfortunately. Il post a link in a bit
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Great. And yes plz post the link here... Will be helpful for others.
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Great. And yes plz post the link here... Will be helpful for others.
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http://www.howtogeek.com/114667/how...y-default-move-almost-any-app-to-the-sd-card/
here you go^^
I think rooting is my only solution to get sd data to work from my sd card. But im not sure my model is root-able. I have the I8160L, can't even find the original firmware online
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http://www.howtogeek.com/114667/how...y-default-move-almost-any-app-to-the-sd-card/
here you go^^
I think rooting is my only solution to get sd data to work from my sd card. But im not sure my model is root-able. I have the I8160L, can't even find the original firmware online
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Thanks for the link.
Did u try it? Does it move the app to external card? Or to the usb/internal storage?
And i think (not sure) as far as app data is concerned, it does not take too much of storage, so it shd not be an issue.
And i m not an expert in rooting, so i think i wont go for it. But lets see.
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Yea it works for most apps. And if not. When u move them to the sd card thru the app manager they move to the external storage. This doesn't apply to system apps or the large sd data files that accompany those huge games that need additional data.
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Okay right.
Actually the problem is when we go to settings-apps-sd card, it shows the usb/internal storage there, not the actual external sd card. So when i move any app to sd card (which is moveable), it is moves to the internal usb storage (which the phone considers as sd card storage).
But i ll give this trick a try.
And one last thing how did u confirm it that with this trick, apps are now being moved to external storage and not to the internal usb storage?
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Checked the storage before and after moving apps. And also i took my sd card out. Put it in a card reader and found the apps in a folder on the micro sd card called android secure
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Checked the storage before and after moving apps. And also i took my sd card out. Put it in a card reader and found the apps in a folder on the micro sd card called android secure
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Ok...
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but we cant move the game data to external sd because it doesnt fit on our internal in the firstplace
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but we cant move the game data to external sd because it doesnt fit on our internal in the firstplace
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Solution to this is rooting, and using directory bind. I currently have asphalt 7(1.4gb) Real racing 2, Dead Space, Shadow Gun etc installed and running fine from my external sd card
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Jellycream rom will sort that out, it swaps the vold file and you will be able to download bigger files.
can i?
can i play games form external sd card like games 1.8 and .15 gb ?
Nice
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What is mean by cynogen/kernel/clockwork recovery mod please tell me in detail. How Can I unroot my GT B5512 successfully. Ho I can change sd card because I had root this phone b'coz just partitioning sd card to use as internal phone memory & install apps on it now I want to chane that sd card so how I can do that?
So pleaaasse do the needfull.
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lastword said:
What is mean by cynogen/kernel/clockwork recovery mod please tell me in detail. How Can I unroot my GT B5512 successfully. Ho I can change sd card because I had root this phone b'coz just partitioning sd card to use as internal phone memory & install apps on it now I want to chane that sd card so how I can do that?
So pleaaasse do the needfull.
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There are many guides avaliable that explains these terms. Google it. To delete the partition in sd card, you need a computer. Use partition tools manager to format your sd card. Beware, all your data in sd card will get formatted.
Hi I am unable to mount my external SD card on my i9300. I am unable to mount hte external SD card in CWM recovery also.
I am currently on CM11 M8 ROM with ART.
due to this I cannot flash an other ROM also.
please help.
james_bombed said:
Hi I am unable to mount my external SD card on my i9300. I am unable to mount hte external SD card in CWM recovery also.
I am currently on CM11 M8 ROM with ART.
due to this I cannot flash an other ROM also.
please help.
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what kind of card is it?
are other cards affected as well?
if not then put your card into a pc and try to format it to fat32 and try again on your phone. if pc does not recognize it either then the card is probably broken..
Is a dam disk ultra 32gb card. It's already in fat 32 file format. Still, formatting it using a pc worked for me.
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Is a dam disk ultra 32gb card. It's already in fat 32 file format. Still, formatting it using a pc worked for me.
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ok and are other cards working on your phone?
if not then it might be a hardware problem of your phone's sd reader
Yes other cards are working on my phone
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Yes other cards are working on my phone
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then i do not really know.
maybe only for testing try to format it on pc to exfat. i know in fact fat32 should always work, but it could be worth a try.
i also have often read that s3 has some problems with certain sd card brands, and mine also already killed my last sd card. since i bought a samsung sd card there were no more problems for me..
Bro my problem is resolved after I formatted my card in a pc. It's still in fat 32. Thanks for your help.
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