So I've been searching for a few days to find a solution to this, but I haven't found one. If there is one, I'd appreciate if someone pointed me towards it.
I bought an Insignia Flex tablet from Best Buy a few days ago. It's running Android 4.0.3, and it works marvelously. The only problem I have with it is that I can't use the SD card to store Apps. I've gotten root, and installed Titanium Backup to keep it backed up and move apps around, but the app shows that the "Internal" storage and the "SD card" are the same size, have the same free space and all. I used a root file explorer and found that it's mounting the internal storage twice, as both internal, and SD card storage. The mount points for interal storage are "/data/media" "/mnt/sdcard" and "/sdcard". I'd LOVE to have the sdcard mounts ACTUALLY point to my SD card, which is currently mounted as "/mnt/ext_sdcard"
I'm a little new to Android, but am fairly confident in Unix operating systems, but I'm having a hard time trying to figure out how to change these mount points correctly, and I don't really wanna brick this tablet, cause I don't have a recovery on it yet, but any help would be greatly appreciated.
sethfoxen said:
So I've been searching for a few days to find a solution to this, but I haven't found one. If there is one, I'd appreciate if someone pointed me towards it.
I bought an Insignia Flex tablet from Best Buy a few days ago. It's running Android 4.0.3, and it works marvelously. The only problem I have with it is that I can't use the SD card to store Apps. I've gotten root, and installed Titanium Backup to keep it backed up and move apps around, but the app shows that the "Internal" storage and the "SD card" are the same size, have the same free space and all. I used a root file explorer and found that it's mounting the internal storage twice, as both internal, and SD card storage. The mount points for interal storage are "/data/media" "/mnt/sdcard" and "/sdcard". I'd LOVE to have the sdcard mounts ACTUALLY point to my SD card, which is currently mounted as "/mnt/ext_sdcard"
I'm a little new to Android, but am fairly confident in Unix operating systems, but I'm having a hard time trying to figure out how to change these mount points correctly, and I don't really wanna brick this tablet, cause I don't have a recovery on it yet, but any help would be greatly appreciated.
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I posted a solution at the flex forum here http://androidforums.com/best-buy-insignia-flex/
You need an app to add mount points see link here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1410262
Memory
Since you seem to be one of the few other people on the Internet with one of these, could you please check and see how much memory it has?
Mine seems to have somewhat over 600M of memory despite the claims to having 1G
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Just got my E4GLTE and of course the first thing I did was root it, unlock it, and make a nandroid backup. I just moved from a Motorola Photon 4G and on that device the internal memory (pseudo sdcard) is mounted on /mnt/emmc and the external card is on /mnt/sdcard. Assuming you run out of app space in base memory, you can always move most of your app to the SD Card. Since the E4GLTE mounts the external SD Card on /mnt/sdcard/ext_sd, it appears that actual external storage can only be used for media or data where the app (or the system using the Storage tool) has a function to map to a different directory.
Have I described the situation properly? Does anybody else see the limitations this might pose or suggest workarounds?
..rob
bitbearmi said:
Just got my E4GLTE and of course the first thing I did was root it, unlock it, and make a nandroid backup. I just moved from a Motorola Photon 4G and on that device the internal memory (pseudo sdcard) is mounted on /mnt/emmc and the external card is on /mnt/sdcard. Assuming you run out of app space in base memory, you can always move most of your app to the SD Card. Since the E4GLTE mounts the external SD Card on /mnt/sdcard/ext_sd, it appears that actual external storage can only be used for media or data where the app (or the system using the Storage tool) has a function to map to a different directory.
Have I described the situation properly? Does anybody else see the limitations this might pose or suggest workarounds?
..rob
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Yes I see this as a problem as well. I have looked into the vold.fstab file (where the system looks to see how it should mount partitions) but changing them just makes neither partition mount. I have a feeling that it might be something in the kernel but I will keep digging around.
Also if someone does figure it out how do you prefer them to be mounted? Internal as /emmc and external as /sdcard? Internal as /sdcard/int_sd and external as /sdcard? Maybe something else?
I guess it would depend how the apps and the kernel handle it, which of course, would vary with a custom ROM. Early builds of CM9 for the MoPho alternated back and forth, but there is also an option to swap what is internal and external as well. When it wasn't mounting at all, you could edit the vold.fstab, which would be my first inclination, so thanks for saving me that step!
I think, from most implementations I've seen, when a device has internal and external storage its been mounted as /mnt/emmc and /mnt/sdcard. Its like that on most of the custom ROMs I've used (on Nook, OG EVO, Hero, MoPho).
..rob
Im really lost on the whole external sd thing. I just want to be able to have my apps on there but android has made it seemingly impossible to do so anymore. Is there a write up or something on how this can be done with todays ICS?
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Hello. I got a cheap Chinese tablet xgody on A-33 processor running 4.4.2 android.
I've rooted it using Kingo Root. All well so far.
I also bought a 32GB micro sd card with an usb adapter to use as external memory plus to move app data there.
I used this advice in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/SD_card_partitioning and created a 30GB FAT32 partition and just over 1 GB ad-ext2 one. My tablet shows 30 something gb in external storage.
While using Link2SD I get asked to mount second partition of my SD card but no matter what option I choose It always says that it failed to create mount script type of thing.
Could anyone advice in what could be the root of my problem? Kind Regards
Oh blimey. That's a disappointing sight not to see anyone able to help
Hi everywone.
I watch more tutorials how and not help me.
I have problem one on my device.
Problem is memory in internal storage (1gb)
In settings->storage i have:
"Internal storage" , "Sd card storage" and "Phone storage"
3x storage, one is my "sd card extern"
All my apps/data/cache going to Internal Storage.
Phone storage always is empty and cant move on phone storage.
On sd card i can move all apps because i have rooted device.
Ok problem is not move apps, problem is so many apps using more "cache" and "data" and saving only in "Internal storage2 /data"
I want cache and data move to sd card or bind auto going to sd card folder like "data" "cache" and other..
No on internal storage. Because i need more spaces.
Internal storage its 1gb.
SD card: 16gb
Phone storage: 1gb
Idk why phone storage its not combine with internal storage like "ONE" and have 2gb.
Can u help me guys ?
I watch one tutorial say like: download: ES FILE explorer in root main find: system/etc/vold.fstab
If open vold.fstab replace line: sdcard0 to sdcard 1 and down sdcard1 to sdcard0.
If i do this i only replace: SD card storage with Phone storage and not help for me that because i want replace: Internal storage to sd card storage, and cant beacuse idk where is that file or line ? or can u one codder write that line and i can put it ? Pls guys and ty so much all
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Jack8Profile said:
Hi everywone.
I watch more tutorials how and not help me.
I have problem one on my device.
Problem is memory in internal storage (1gb)
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Don't feel so bad about not receiving any replies on this forum. I have been flashing ROMs through this forum since Windows Mobile 2003 and in that time, xda-developers has become so big and unwieldy that it is VERY difficult to find a forum where people who know the answers can even see your question.
I have been asking essentially the same question as you for over four months and in that time no one has seen the question OR some newbie organiser has moved it to an obviously wrong forum solely to annoy the forum members there! It isn't clear who is running this forum any more but unlike the old days, no one seems technical any more unless they ACTUALLY POST to specific forums.
Do we have the same phone? I have an alps/MT6571 (possibly made by a company in China called HDC) with 16 gig of storage, nothing whatsoever in it and mysteriously no space left (with a few hundred meg showing available most of the time). Something in the extraordinarily badly written ROM (Hexing71_et_lca) is stopping the OS from addressing the storage space.
I even tried prising the back off the phone carefully and inserting a 32 gig sd card in it and designating that as the phone's storage but now the device reports the SD card as storage, there being 32 gig of storage, still nothing whatsoever in it and still mysteriously no space left, still with a few hundred meg showing available most of the time. Something in the extraordinarily badly written Hexing71_et_lca ROM is stopping the OS from addressing ANY storage space!!
Seems like the same phone? No one here knows the answer and no one will accept your challenge. A few users have reported this problem with this phone and this ROM on www.china-devices.com and no one there knows the answer either. There have also been postings on needrom but all trails there have gone dead as well. It seems everyone tries to back up their ROM to SD card, then they try to figure out what is wrong and then so much is wrong with it that everyone gives up.
Hey all,
Has anyone had success using Apps2SD or similar? I have a rooted Z3TC and have been trying to partition and create mount scripts for the microSD card in the app but keep running into an error.
Error:
Mount: mounting /dev/block/mmcblk1p3 on /data/sdext2 failed: No such device
I have posted on the dev forum but wanted to check if anyone in the device specific forum has speciality knowledge. And devs are often worked off their feets!
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Solved.
2nd partition needed to be formatted as ext4. Still a whole load of other issues to sort through, but I have a working version. (Will never buy a device with this small internal memory again!!!)
Soulfulgrey said:
Solved.
2nd partition needed to be formatted as ext4. Still a whole load of other issues to sort through, but I have a working version. (Will never buy a device with this small internal memory again!!!)
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Hello.
I have the App2SDPro app and have not been able to get it to work. Can you explain in more details how you did it? 16GB is always making me delete stuff...but there is no phone that can match this size so I just need to find a way to move apps.
Thanks!
Hi,
I use App2SD since a while due to the ridiculous amount of memory of this device. I have something around 320 applications installed with games, gps/maps... all locally installed.
I don't use the "Link apps to SD card" option but only the "Folder Mount" one.
I barely move everything on the root of the internal SD to a dedicated folder on my external SD card.
The trick is to find the folder on which App2SD has the write permissions. As there is a several location for both internal and external storage location it can require some try/fail tests...
I'm on LineageOS and I use these links to move all the obb folder to the external SD card:
Source=/storage/emulated/0/Android/obb
Destination=/storage/NNNN-NNNN/DCIM/App2SD_folders/obb, with NNNN-NNNN the internal SD name
I have unchecked all the options as I normally prefer to move them manually with a file explorer to make some cleanup in the same time.
For some reasons there was some limitation to move directly the Android folder, so do the same for the /Android/Data folder.
Cheers
Hi All,
I have a Jet Opto tablet with 16GB of internal storage running Android 4.4.2 model RSEIII. I’d like to install applications such as Amazon Prime & Plex onto an external SD card as the internal memory fills up extremely fast. The internal memory appears to have been split 2GB for applications and 11GB for ‘media’. I have rooted the tablet using Kingoroot and tried the full version of Link2SD but am struggling, possibly because it looks like when trying to move Amazon Prime the media partition appears to be the only SD card. Using root explorer I can see the external SD card (which I’ve formatted 2G FAT32 and 28GB EXT4). It is possible to move applications to the 11GB partition but I’m after more space. It’s a tablet from an Audi and I’d rather not change the ROM unless there’s a surefire way of backing up the original so I can restore it later. I’d be grateful for any help – if you need any more info please let me know.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions