Using root explorer I can se my downloaded files under storage/sdcard0/0/download but when in TWRP I can't find storage or 0 directories. Even after mounting everything and checking both internal and external locations still no luck. It does not show the directory called storage in the root directory. How can I get TWRP to show me these locations?
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Sdcard0/0 is your external sdcard. you need to navigate to ext-sdcard in twrp. If you still cannot find them, then go to mounts section and make sure your external sdcard is mounted.
Are you absolutely positive you're in root? It's easy to get lost in TWRP sometimes. Scroll all the way to the top and tap the dots until you can't anymore. I honestly think your pathway is just off. Go into every section of that directory until you find what you're looking for. I was mistakingly in my internal storage forever and couldn't find the carbon nightly I just downloaded. Finally realized I was getting lost in internal storage.
Also, if you're using the new 2.5 version, it's trickier. I wish I could post a screenie, but it's across the screen horizontally. Tap in the middle, I believe. It will change the storage location.
TWRP is all I use. It reads it. Trust.
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Still can't find my device root in twrp. In root explorer app I can see a root folder and a 0 directory, but in recovery file Manager I can't get up to device root. I can't see the folders I know are there in root explorer. I've mounted the SD card and checked both internal and external file locations. Am I'm missing a setting in twrp to let me explore root?
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How can I access my SD card? I'm using root explorer and I'm only seeing the things that are on the hard drive. Thanks.
The "My files" app lets u view both if ur still stock or havent removed it
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Wow I had to reset the phone that app wasn't showing, thanks!
In root explorer I can find the ext SDCard in /mnt/extSdCard
I've found that I/O FileManager works much better than My Files.
File Explorer can access it by going to favorites > Mnt/extsdcard.
But samsung has actually worked on making it difficult to do Apps 2 SD for some reason so dont even try it
I can't get clockwork mod to access the micro sd card - is it because of the name... ie, does it need to be changed to emmc or something like that?
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oops - sorry just found another thread about it. I'll have to wipe it later..
I have a (successfully) rooted Galaxy S2 GT-I9100 without external SD card and I wanted to install a custom ROM (tried both MIUI and CyanogenMod). I used the ROM manager app, via "Download ROM" and after the download has finished it prompted a menu and I selected 'Backup Exisiting ROM' and 'Wipe Dalvik Cache' and proceeded.
It booted the device into recovery mode and tried to mount SD card even though I don't have one. Then the installation failed, because the SD card mounting failed.
I also noticed that when I browse my files, the home directory is /sdcard, and all the files are there. I cannot navigate to the root folder (aka '/'). This is very odd considering I don't have an SD card.
How do I solve this issue?
Please help me.
/sdcard is your internal storage and to access root folder you need root explorer
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Stileth said:
/sdcard is your internal storage and to access root folder you need root explorer
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What about my other question? Can you help me? Why doesn't it mount?
It failed to mount your internal storage or external SD card which you don't have? Also ROM Manager have compatibility issues with SGS2 so I would avoid using it.
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Stileth said:
It failed to mount your internal storage or external SD card which you don't have? Also ROM Manager have compatibility issues with SGS2 so I would avoid using it.
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I see that I can't get you to answer helpfully, so I'll put it more clearly:
1. Why does it try to mount an SD card?
2. Can I tell it to install the ROM from the internal storage? If I do, then how?
3. Must I have an SD card to install ROMs?
4. If I do, is there a way to install ROMs without an SD card?
Thanks.
Ok, let's go back to start. What's your ROM and how have you rooted it?
Also seems to me there is little mixture of terms. The phone's internal storage is called USB storage if you go to settings and storage management. If you would have external memory card it would be there named SD Card. And now where probably comes the confusion. If you open file manager you will see folder called /sdcard. This is your internal storage aka USB Storage. So if you see message saying unable to mount /sdcard it's your internal storage.
Now to the rest of questions. If you have only stock recovery you can access only external SD card which you don't have, so to flash custom ROM from internal storage you need custom recovery like CWM.
The errors you have experienced after the reboot were caused by the ROM Manager. As I have mentioned before it has compatibility issues with SGS2 and I had my own problems with it ending in corruption of my internal memory which I needed to format at the end to solve the problem.
So my advice is to get rid of the ROM Manager and use instructions from their appropriate ROM threads to install them.
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Thank you for clarifying the terminology which I obviously got wrong.
I did use CWM, but via ROM Manager. It turns out that this is what caused the problem. So I got rid of it and followed the instructions in those threads and it works!
Now that I have CyanogenMod 9.0.0, I have another problem:
It does not come with Google Play application. I tried to manually download and install Google Play with APK, and it didn't work.
If you know anything about it I appreciate if you take a look at this thread I opened.
1gnition said:
Thank you for clarifying the terminology which I obviously got wrong.
I did use CWM, but via ROM Manager. It turns out that this is what caused the problem. So I got rid of it and followed the instructions in those threads and it works!
Now that I have CyanogenMod 9.0.0, I have another problem:
It does not come with Google Play application. I tried to manually download and install Google Play with APK, and it didn't work.
If you know anything about it I appreciate if you take a look at this thread I opened.
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After flash cm9, your need too flash gapps
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USB structure on i9100
Stileth said:
Also seems to me there is little mixture of terms. The phone's internal storage is called USB storage if you go to settings and storage management. If you would have external memory card it would be there named SD Card. And now where probably comes the confusion. If you open file manager you will see folder called /sdcard. This is your internal storage aka USB Storage. So if you see message saying unable to mount /sdcard it's your internal storage.
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I think Stileth might have this a little wrong. He clearly knows what he is talking about, but like many of the very knowledgable people on this board, it is hard to remember all the details of every phone.
This is what I have on a i9100, exploring with adb shell:
There is a /sdcard directory, which is your internal sdcard
There is a /sdcard/external_sd, which is your external sdcard
There is a /sdcard/usbStorage, which appears to be ram based storage.
I can move files to the usbStorage, but they do not survive a power cycle. I looked at the mount structure, and there is no device mounted for usbStorage, but it is defined as a tmpfs (temperary file system?) same as the other two sdcard directories. Perhaps someone else can fill in more details.
My thinking is that it is this strange file structure that is throwing RomManager off. I am seeing similar behavior as you when using RomManager
usbStorage is used for pendrives.
przemcio510 said:
usbStorage is used for pendrives.
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Thanks, I thought that might be it. Interesting that it lets you store stuff there in a ram cache even if no pendrive/thumbdrive is present.
I'm new to playing around with Android and (after reading for about 10 hours), did my first root and custom ROM last night (shostock3 with jeboo). Things seem good but I do have one problem I just can't shake. When I transfer files from my PC to to the internal SD storage, I can browse the new files on the phone. When I transfer to the external SD card I cannot browse the new files on the phone - it's like they're not there. If I copy a file to the external SD within the phone it remains visible.
There's one exception: image gallery finds and displays the external SD card image and movie files.
Tried rebooting, running SDrescan, not working.
I can't seem to connect via MTP at all anymore, unless I'm missing something. I plugin and have to swipe down and select the mass storage option.
Thanks for your help!
Are you sure you're looking in the right place for the external sd?I know the path has changed and can vary. What file explorer are you using?
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Are you sure you're looking in the right place for the external sd?I know the path has changed and can vary. What file explorer are you using?
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I'm using ES File Explorer to look in /sdcard/external_sd. A change in path is the first thing I suspected but I didn't see any similarly named folders.
I installed Asro file manager and can now see the files in "My Files 2". Now I've just thought to check the path of the external sd card images that Gallery found and it is /storage/extSdCard/DCIM.....
I guess /storage the new location and ES File Explorer doesn't see it because it doesn't support viewing back to root? Is the folder that used to port to the external card, "external_sd" dead and worth deleting now?
Why won't my phone connect as an MTP device anymore?
I'm now able to direct Titanium backup to my backup folder in the external SD card (I just had to navigate back to root to find the /storage folder). Next problem is that I can't seem to restore my call logs.
Thanks for any help.
ickybot said:
I'm using ES File Explorer to look in /sdcard/external_sd. A change in path is the first thing I suspected but I didn't see any similarly named folders.
I installed Asro file manager and can now see the files in "My Files 2". Now I've just thought to check the path of the external sd card images that Gallery found and it is /storage/extSdCard/DCIM.....
I guess /storage the new location and ES File Explorer doesn't see it because it doesn't support viewing back to root? Is the folder that used to port to the external card, "external_sd" dead and worth deleting now?
Why won't my phone connect as an MTP device anymore?
I'm now able to direct Titanium backup to my backup folder in the external SD card (I just had to navigate back to root to find the /storage folder). Next problem is that I can't seem to restore my call logs.
Thanks for any help.
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ES File Explorer does support root, you have to enable it in the settings.
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I'm using ES File Explorer to look in /sdcard/external_sd. A change in path is the first thing I suspected but I didn't see any similarly named folders.
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Try hitting the Favorite button and tap on the /storage/sdcard1 or anything under there.
Do not go to HOME then external_sd.
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ES File Explorer does support root, you have to enable it in the settings.
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I don't think "root access" needed in this case.
Yea!
votinh said:
Try hitting the Favorite button and tap on the /storage/sdcard1 or anything under there.
Do not go to HOME then external_sd.
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I don't think "root access" needed in this case.
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You are a ROCK STAR!
I know this is an age old question, but I figured I'd give it a shot. I was wondering what my best option was to get apps and/or their data onto my microsd card. I've tried the method with Directory Bind, but I wasn't to big a fan. Just looking for a point in the right direction, for the easiest/quickest/best method.(I have already rooted my phone, so rooting isn't an issue)
Also while I'm here what's the best method of free tethering, again with the rooted ability.
Same here! I've tried the foldermount method and using shortcuts with the root explorer in Rom manager to no avail. But, for someone with some knowhow, I've accidentally got it to work with Spotify. I don't know for the life of me what I have done, but between hours of using the above to methods, Spotify is now on my external Sd card. I can uninstall spotify, wipe data, cache, the whole nine yards and when I reinstall, boom, straight to my sd card. I can reformat my sd card, and when I install spotify, it will create a folder named Android/data/com.spotify.mobile.android.ui folder. on my sd card. All the songs i download goes in the same directory just like it did under sdcard0 on the internal memory. But now, I can't replicate this at all. I'm trying with zedge, but no luck. If I find anything, I'll post back to this thread.
I downloaded a couple of apps,but when i open ES file explorer i cant find the apps,it suppose to be in the download folder.I did check in the sd card0 and in the ext sdcard and no lock.
android-incredible said:
I downloaded a couple of apps,but when i open ES file explorer i cant find the apps,it suppose to be in the download folder.I did check in the sd card0 and in the ext sdcard and no lock.
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First time I tried with Directory Bind I was able to move the game file to the sd, but when opening the app it requires downloading the files, so it can't find them in the new Directory. The next time was short lived because I couldn't find files for most recent app
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First time I tried with Directory Bind I was able to move the game file to the sd, but when opening the app it requires downloading the files, so it can't find them in the new Directory. The next time was short lived because I couldn't find files for most recent app
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Anyone know how I could find out where the apps were installed to. I'm trying a different method but I can't find where the app was installed
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tmaclax013 said:
I know this is an age old question, but I figured I'd give it a shot. I was wondering what my best option was to get apps and/or their data onto my microsd card. I've tried the method with Directory Bind, but I wasn't to big a fan. Just looking for a point in the right direction, for the easiest/quickest/best method.(I have already rooted my phone, so rooting isn't an issue)
Also while I'm here what's the best method of free tethering, again with the rooted ability.
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Doesn't titanimum backup allow this? I've never personally tried it but I thought I saw a move app to SD card option.
From what I understand this cant be done on JB.
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So I saw that I had an SDcard0 file and an SDcard file. I deleted the SDcard0 file and it deleted everything on my SD card....how screwed am I? :/
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If you have a backup made, your fine. If not, its lost.
Don't delete system folders unless you know what you're doing.
ramongarza said:
So I saw that I had an SDcard0 file and an SDcard file. I deleted the SDcard0 file and it deleted everything on my SD card....how screwed am I? :/
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On a scale to one to ten? About a 8.
If you have rooted your phone, you can get an undelete app (like Fahrbot's Undelete for Root Users on the Market) and recover the folder... hopefully. There's a chance it won't catch the files or whatever. If you're not rooted, I don't think it would be possible to get them back, but I may be wrong (check Google, they may know).
In case you were wondering why this happened, I'll tell you. Android is based on Linux. Linux has these links to files/folders called symlinks. Now, for whatever reason it is, Android has multiply links to the sdcard (probably to help with compatibility). So while they may look like two different folders, they lead to the same place. Think of it as two doors to the same house.
Good luck!
If you are on a 4.2 ROM (One found in Original Development):
The SDcard0 and SDcard are all links to /Data/Media/0. Use a root browser to navigate here and see of your SD cards contents are here. I'm not sure if deleting a symlink will also delete its source, so you may still have the SDcard just not a way to access it without root permissions. If you can see your SD card in /data/media/0, PM me and I'll try to help you restore it. If you don't see anything here, or don't see your SD cards contents (before wipe), I'm sorry to say this but your pretty screwed.
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