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I have started using Cyanogen 7.1 and everything is great, except I would prefer to have the internal storage set to the SD card as in previous ROMS. I constantly change SD cards for Music and Movies and this the current way this is set up, screw up my apps.
Is there a way to modify the settings? Any help would be appreciated.
unzip this file and using root explorer, drop the file (vold.fstab) in /system/etc/ and change the permissions to rw-r--r--
then reboot
permissions should be:
Owner: Read, Write
Group: Read
Others: Read
I also have a flashable zip that swaps out the vold.fstab file in my sig.
strra said:
unzip this file and using root explorer, drop the file (vold.fstab) in /system/etc/ and change the permissions to rw-r--r--
then reboot
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Thanks for the quick rely. It seems to work Great!
maxdamage2122 said:
I also have a flashable zip that swaps out the vold.fstab file in my sig.
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Thanks, The DSP fix would have been handy last night and this morning. It will help others as well
I also have this problem. But when I follow your steps I end up with no SD card at all. Not even my extern 32gb card is available.
Then there is no other option for me to re-install the Cyanogenmod to get my external SD card back.
But the internal SD card is visible in the settings for storage, it says: Extra storage:/mnt/emmc Total: 5,51gb Available: 0,97gb
Back in my Ghost Commander, File Explorer or Root Explorer there nothing.
Can you please help me out?
Thanks in advance,
Remco
I am not sure I am at the right place, I am talking about my phone.
LG P990 ....
Use one of the new cyanogenmod nightlies or my repacked cyanogenmod ROM... there is a setting to switch Internal Storage to /sdcard...
CyanogenMod Settings -> Application > Use internal storage
craigacgomez said:
Use one of the new cyanogenmod nightlies or my repacked cyanogenmod ROM... there is a setting to switch Internal Storage to /sdcard...
CyanogenMod Settings -> Application > Use internal storage
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I have this option to, but when I select it and reboot my phone both cards are gone.
So then I unselected it again and after a reboot my external SD is back.
I don't know... the rest of the phone is working great at the moment... oh and the strange thing is, I use Mantano Bookreader for reading books and my books are still on the internal SD but after some scanning Mantano finds the books. I can read them and all, but then again when I search in Ghost Commander or something like that, I still can not access my internal SD.
I just don't get it, it is not gone or formatted in a unknown format.
But anyway, thanks very much for your respond.
Remco
Today I got a 32 GB, SanDisk Micro SDCard, mainly for the use with Google Music (I have a 7,200+ library). However, I didn't find a source which had a solid solution, to at least have Google Music use the external sd card. So, I just messed around with it, and I found out how to Swap (reverse) the sd card 'locations', properly.
In vold.fstab, in the directory /system/etc/, you have two lines. Edit them with Root explorer's included "text editor", or any other good text editor. Make sure you have r/w on. Find the below two lines:
Code:
# external sd card
dev_mount sdcard_ext /mnt/sdcard-ext:none:lun1 auto /devices/platform/tegra-sdhci.2/mmc_host/mmc3 /devices/platform/tegra-sdhci.2/mmc_host/mmc1
and
Code:
# internal eMMC
dev_mount sdcard /mnt/sdcard 18 /devices/platform/tegra-sdhci.3/mmc_host/mmc0
What I did, and what proved successful (to use both internal, and external storage, which are reversed), is this:
Code:
# external sd card
dev_mount sdcard_ext [COLOR="Red"]/mnt/sdcard[/COLOR]:none:lun1 auto /devices/platform/tegra-sdhci.2/mmc_host/mmc3 /devices/platform/tegra-sdhci.2/mmc_host/mmc1
and
Code:
# internal eMMC
dev_mount sdcard [COLOR="Red"]/mnt/sdcard-ext[/COLOR] 18 /devices/platform/tegra-sdhci.3/mmc_host/mmc0
Replace the regular lines, with the red lines, save, restart your phone, and BAM, your internal is now marked as external, and your external, is now your internal
I use Stock 154_5, Unlocked, rooted.
Enjoy, and press the thanks button
Also, you can revert them back, if you changed them. Just put the stock code back into the file.
Also, I just discovered:
You can only use the internal storage, when connecting to a computer. The 'internal' (which, we switched around), will not be detected. If you do connect your device to a computer, after you disconnect it, the 'internal', storage, which is really the external, because we switched it, will not be detected, and you must restart your phone.
I'll test this on MIUI. I have the 64GB version. Same problem.
ZeroManArmy said:
I'll test this on MIUI. I have the 64GB version. Same problem.
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Cool. Let me know if it works. Yeah, 64 GB only for movies and pictures.... Isn't worth it for me. Lol
What do you have for CM9 or MIUI?
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What do you have for CM9 or MIUI?
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I use Stock 154_5, Unlocked, rooted.
URGENT,
i am using samsung galaxy note device , i have follow your instruction to change the vold.hstab file.
Now my device has recognize my ext sd card as sdcard. But my device cant recognise my internal sdcard, so i have lose my root explorer. and I couldn't reedit the vold.hstab file back.
I have try to hardreset, and try to reinstall root explorer, but it always give an restart and error : "process.media force close "
From my understanding the failure of installing the root explorer because my device can't recognise sdcard anymore
I go to setting--> storage , I found the sdcard is not detected, only usb storage detected
how to solve this problem?
n1cky6969 said:
URGENT,
i am using samsung galaxy note device , i have follow your instruction to change the vold.hstab file.
Now my device has recognize my ext sd card as sdcard. But my device cant recognise my internal sdcard, so i have lose my root explorer. and I couldn't reedit the vold.hstab file back.
I have try to hardreset, and try to reinstall root explorer, but it always give an restart and error : "process.media force close "
From my understanding the failure of installing the root explorer because my device can't recognise sdcard anymore
I go to setting--> storage , I found the sdcard is not detected, only usb storage detected
how to solve this problem?
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Well your problem is because, this is for the Photon 4G. Not the Note. Have you tried other File managers, such as Antek?
D2dyno said:
Well your problem is because, this is for the Photon 4G. Not the Note. Have you tried other File managers, such as Antek?
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Anyhow, It is impossible to install any applications, if try to install,device will restart
But, it's okay now, I have reflash my rom, all the problem solved
Thanks for your responds
n1cky6969 said:
Anyhow, It is impossible to install any applications, if try to install,device will restart
But, it's okay now, I have reflash my rom, all the problem solved
Thanks for your responds
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No problem, and I'm glad to help.
Man am I happy I came across this thread!!!
I've been reading forever in some of the rom threads for an answer to this question! A few of the roms I've tried out had the internal and external storage swapped with no option to switch and that kept me from using them because I use internal storage for apps data and such and then my external memory card for backups and personal files!
The only 2 roms that this can be fixed in is jokers CM9-unofficial-ICS rom (there is actually an Advanced Option in Settings) and the MIUI.us port (there is a storage mod flashable swap, which didn't work for me, and there is an option in the Aroma installer to choose what you want for Internal Storage).
Now that I've come across this, imma try it out and see if I can't get it to work on some other roms I have used!
Thanks for the discovery! I'll let ya know how it works out for me!
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Jleeblanch said:
Man am I happy I came across this thread!!!
I've been reading forever in some of the rom threads for an answer to this question! A few of the roms I've tried out had the internal and external storage swapped with no option to switch and that kept me from using them because I use internal storage for apps data and such and then my external memory card for backups and personal files!
The only 2 roms that this can be fixed in is jokers CM9-unofficial-ICS rom (there is actually an Advanced Option in Settings) and the MIUI.us port (there is a storage mod flashable swap, which didn't work for me, and there is an option in the Aroma installer to choose what you want for Internal Storage).
Now that I've come across this, imma try it out and see if I can't get it to work on some other roms I have used!
Thanks for the discovery! I'll let ya know how it works out for me!
Sent from my MB855 using xda premium
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Glad to hear! ICS ROMs handle external SD cards way better, so I prefer them now.
D2dyno said:
Glad to hear! ICS ROMs handle external SD cards way better, so I prefer them now.
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I hear you there! The ICS roms rock! Jokers ICS rom has been my favorite due to the option to switch to use Internal memory for apps/app data. The other CM9 variants (AOKP/AOKPCB) had it default to use external memory as storage for apps/app data with NO option to swap. Now that I came across this, when my battery is a little better than 37% lol, imma do your mentioned edits!
Only difference from what I see from stock is that instead of "sdcard-ext" its "emmc". My current setup has "emmc" set as sdcard-ext (external storage) and sdcard as, well sdcard (internal storage) lol.
My issue has been that those have been swapped where "emmc" = internal storage and "sdcard" = external storage. With it being that way, it makes it a PIA to restore from Titanium Backup.
But this is all a thing of the past haha
I'm glad I'm not scared to read (like I feel like a lot of users are). I've seen a lot of posts where ppl were asking about how to swap the storage locations with no solid answers. Granted I didn't come across this solution immediately either...BUT I did and I plan to link to this thread and give you props in hopes that others find this useful as I know others are definitely having the same issue!
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I just successfully tested this on the AOKPCB from and it worked perfectly! Not gonna lie, that makes me VERY happy!!
Maybe everyone typing thanks could actually "THANK" this person?
Works on tablet
Ok tried this on a cheap tablet that I bought for playing around like this. An Arnova AN 7G3 7" with 4gb memory, 2 gb internal and 2gb internal sdcard. It was close to your file, all I had to change was sdcard and extsd. Before I did the switch and after seeing someone had trouble with apks after the switch, I made sure to move all apks to tablet, then copied all folders from sd to extsd. I also made a copy of the orignial vold file, just incase. Changed vold file rebooted and everything was great. Made a copy of altered vold file, then replaced with orignial and rebooted.....all still ok, replaced file with altered file and rebooted ,again all ok. Moved all apks that I could move to sdcard from tablet, free up 650mg on tablet. All moved apks worked fine.
AN 7 G3 is rooted out box runing stock ICS 4.0.1
Thanks for the info
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F theOk tried this on a cheap tablet that I bought for playing around like this. An Arnova AN 7G3 7" with 4gb memory, 2 gb internal and 2gb internal sdcard. It was close to your file, all I had to change was sdcard and extsd. Before I did the switch and after seeing someone had trouble with apks after the switch, I made sure to move all apks to tablet, then copied all folders from sd to extsd. I also made a copy of the orignial vold file, just incase. Changed vold file rebooted and everything was great. Made a copy of altered vold file, then replaced with orignial and rebooted.....all still ok, replaced file with altered file and rebooted ,again all ok. Moved all apks that I could move to sdcard from tablet, free up 650mg on tablet. All moved apks worked fine.
AN 7 G3 is rooted out box runing stock ICS 4.0.1
Thanks for the info
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Glad to hear it works on more than just GB
Thanks
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Glad to hear it works on more than just GB
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Thanks as I have been trying to find info for months. I posted in Arnova section of Arctablet news on how to do this tablet and a heads up and Thanks to YOU as well as a link to your work here. Hope you don't mind and did give credit to YOU. Check it out when you have time
http://www.arctablet.com/blog/forum...n-7-g3-recognize-you-micro-sd-as-internal-sd/
Just saw this topic and I have a (noob) question.
Does this work on any android phone or it's specific for this Moto one?
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
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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
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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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This is easy fix or more like workaround for KitKat and Lollipop firmwares when some of your apps can´t write to external sd card. It add one line to "platform.xml" file. This is flashable zip -file via custom recovery. It can also be installed manually by unzipping file, moving it to correct folder and setting permissions to 644 and reboot.
Backup is recommended.
I flashed the first zip and I still get error when trying to play hearthstone while its on my external SD card
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kulvertti said:
This is easy fix or more like workaround for KitKat and Lollipop firmwares when some of your apps can´t write to external sd card. It add one line to "platform.xml" file. This is flashable zip -file via custom recovery. It can also be installed manually by unzipping file, moving it to correct folder and setting permissions to 644 and reboot.
Backup is recommended.
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Do you have any idea why I still get this error?
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Do you have any idea why I still get this error?
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Sorry for the late answer. How much do you have free space? Do you have problems with other apps too?
You could try with this app to move game data to external sd card: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.devasque.fmount
However I try that game and it install its data just fine to mine external sd card without any help of FolderMount -app. If we really want to know what is wrong we need logcat.
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Sorry for the late answer. How much do you have free space? Do you have problems with other apps too?
You could try with this app to move game data to external sd card: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.devasque.fmount
However I try that game and it install its data just fine to mine external sd card without any help of FolderMount -app. If we really want to know what is wrong we need logcat.
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Hmm well I found out that some how a copy of my whole sdcard 0 was made so I was low on space but my external SD cards has like 25gb free I don't get the error on my z2 phone but I did at one point then it just went I think it was after an update of the game my friend had the same error on his s5 so I'm not sure what it could be but I checked to see if the flash was successful and it was since that new line is there now I'll try that app but if nothing I'll provide a logcat and I've copied normal games that are like 100mb I'll try download mortal kombat and see if it occurs with that thanks for the reply
Edit: I tried the foldermount app but it didn't work so I'll try a logcat I'll try reinstalling the app first
Tried reinstalling no good so time for a logcat
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Here's the logcat
https://mega.co.nz/#!jlwHDaRK!1ctNeMaLwVkTIQs_I6nBvTrkU72crwl1r0MjoxonNUg
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RJASSI21 said:
Hmm well I found out that some how a copy of my whole sdcard 0 was made so I was low on space but my external SD cards has like 25gb free I don't get the error on my z2 phone but I did at one point then it just went I think it was after an update of the game my friend had the same error on his s5 so I'm not sure what it could be but I checked to see if the flash was successful and it was since that new line is there now I'll try that app but if nothing I'll provide a logcat and I've copied normal games that are like 100mb I'll try download mortal kombat and see if it occurs with that thanks for the reply
Edit: I tried the foldermount app but it didn't work so I'll try a logcat I'll try reinstalling the app first
Tried reinstalling no good so time for a logcat
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Here's the logcat
https://mega.co.nz/#!jlwHDaRK!1ctNeMaLwVkTIQs_I6nBvTrkU72crwl1r0MjoxonNUg
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My best bet is that even installed on externad sd card this game need much free space from your internal memory (around 1 gb). You can reduce that with FolderMount app (which is little tricky to use) but you need to install the game first before you can do that. So remove (or delete) whatever stuff from internal memory to your external sd card, install the game and it should work just fine.
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My best bet is that even installed on externad sd card this game need much free space from your internal memory (around 1 gb). You can reduce that with FolderMount app (which is little tricky to use) but you need to install the game first before you can do that. So remove (or delete) whatever stuff from internal memory to your external sd card, install the game and it should work just fine.
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Hmm I tried that I have like 4gb on internal and 25gb on external free that didn't work so I'll have to figure something out
I clean installed my rom in the end it solved my problem and I was able to use your mod with no probs thanks
RJASSI21 said:
I clean installed my rom in the end it solved my problem and I was able to use your mod with no probs thanks
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Good to hear bro.
CM12.1 nightly 20160203 cannot detect 64GB microSD
Hi guys
I just installed Cyanogen OS CM12.1 nightly 20160203 to my Xperia Z2 tablet SGP521 (the one with LTE)
after i thinkering with it for a while, i just realized that there isn't any microSD installed
so i pulled out the card and try to figure out what is wrong
I googled and find some answers but none of them is working for me
I tried to change the filesystem format to FAT32 with 3 different programs (acronis disk director, ease us partition magic, and dos version formater) and none of them is working.
my card is a exFAT file system
I'm very sure that my card is not a fake one (it is a sandisk ultra 64 gb microsdxc class 1)
I can read it from the card reader and it shows all the files inside but i cannot write to it and it not showing in my tablet
Any solutions to this ?
m4rc3l1n0 said:
Hi guys
I just installed Cyanogen OS CM12.1 nightly 20160203 to my Xperia Z2 tablet SGP521 (the one with LTE)
after i thinkering with it for a while, i just realized that there isn't any microSD installed
so i pulled out the card and try to figure out what is wrong
I googled and find some answers but none of them is working for me
I tried to change the filesystem format to FAT32 with 3 different programs (acronis disk director, ease us partition magic, and dos version formater) and none of them is working.
my card is a exFAT file system
I'm very sure that my card is not a fake one (it is a sandisk ultra 64 gb microsdxc class 1)
I can read it from the card reader and it shows all the files inside but i cannot write to it and it not showing in my tablet
Any solutions to this ?
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Sorry to hear. You can try to write your sdcard with other card reader but your symptoms indicate that your card might be dying. Known issue with SanDisk cards.
kulvertti said:
This is easy fix or more like workaround for KitKat and Lollipop firmwares when some of your apps can´t write to external sd card. It add one line to "platform.xml" file. This is flashable zip -file via custom recovery. It can also be installed manually by unzipping file, moving it to correct folder and setting permissions to 644 and reboot.
Backup is recommended.
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I know this is very old thread but I had to reactivate my old Z2 tablet and I got a few questions and I know you're the expert on this tablet around here. These questions are close to topic so I think ok to reply here I hope. This was my wifes tablet for very short period before she stuck it in a drawer and left it many years ago. I have the rooted .291 MM firmware and I believe that's the latest for this tablet. Anyway, I can't access an sd card or usb stick thru the micro usb host adapter. The internal micro sd card slot works fine so either I've already edited the platform.xml or don't need to for MM I can't remember and I can't even remember where to find the file to check it. My root explorers can see the usb host drive but then show nothing inside. I've tried dozens of cards and sticks and the host cable works fine on my samsung galaxy s7 phone. Is there a setting I'm missing or does the z2 tablet just not able to use host usb. Thanks for any help.
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I know this is very old thread but I had to reactivate my old Z2 tablet and I got a few questions and I know you're the expert on this tablet around here. These questions are close to topic so I think ok to reply here I hope. This was my wifes tablet for very short period before she stuck it in a drawer and left it many years ago. I have the rooted .291 MM firmware and I believe that's the latest for this tablet. Anyway, I can't access an sd card or usb stick thru the micro usb host adapter. The internal micro sd card slot works fine so either I've already edited the platform.xml or don't need to for MM I can't remember and I can't even remember where to find the file to check it. My root explorers can see the usb host drive but then show nothing inside. I've tried dozens of cards and sticks and the host cable works fine on my samsung galaxy s7 phone. Is there a setting I'm missing or does the z2 tablet just not able to use host usb. Thanks for any help.
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If I understand correctly what you are trying to do, Z2 tablet dosen´t support USB OTG to connect external flash drives or hard drives. How ever if you install program like "USB Media Explorer" or similar from Play Store, it should work. Even for NTFS volumes with "Microsoft NTFS USB Driver by Paragon Sofware". Hope this answer your question.
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If I understand correctly what you are trying to do, Z2 tablet dosen´t support USB OTG to connect external flash drives or hard drives. How ever if you install program like "USB Media Explorer" or similar from Play Store, it should work. Even for NTFS volumes with "Microsoft NTFS USB Driver by Paragon Sofware". Hope this answer your question.
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Thanks kulvertti for replying to this old thread, but no go on the media explorer. So now I've tried about 12 file managers and explorers and most of them with superuser access and most all of them can see the external usb drive, but they can't access it....it just shows basically nothing when opened. Strangest thing ever! 'File Commander' is closest one so far to work, but what it does when I click on the drive is say I need to enable some permissions, which I can't find anywhere, and when I say 'ok' it opens the drive and shows the folders and files in some sort of internal popup window, but then I can't open any of the actual files on the drive shown in that window. So it turns out to be useless as well. I don't think it's an MM problem as my samsung galaxy s7 phone has the same software....android 6.0.1 so exactly same, pretty old I know. I think it must be sony limitation maybe??? Thanks again for the help though.
saf4xdadev said:
Thanks kulvertti for replying to this old thread, but no go on the media explorer. So now I've tried about 12 file managers and explorers and most of them with superuser access and most all of them can see the external usb drive, but they can't access it....it just shows basically nothing when opened. Strangest thing ever! 'File Commander' is closest one so far to work, but what it does when I click on the drive is say I need to enable some permissions, which I can't find anywhere, and when I say 'ok' it opens the drive and shows the folders and files in some sort of internal popup window, but then I can't open any of the actual files on the drive shown in that window. So it turns out to be useless as well. I don't think it's an MM problem as my samsung galaxy s7 phone has the same software....android 6.0.1 so exactly same, pretty old I know. I think it must be sony limitation maybe??? Thanks again for the help though.
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That's weird. You sure you give apps correct permissions? For me those apps work just fine.
Yes it does seem like a permissions thing but all those apps have permission to storage and that's all I can find to give them anyway, besides root which only several of them request superuser. I think I used to have this problem with some apps back in the day just trying to access internal 2nd microsd card but it was always a permission wasn't activated when installed, but this is something different because these file manager apps can see the external drive but cant see or access any files, it just shows blank. It does seem like its just a setting though. Do I need to add this platform.xml for MM .291, I didn't think I did but maybe?
Just to double check....you can stick a microusb cable with a female regular usb on other end....otg cable I think they're called, into the top slot on tablet and then connect the female end to a usb thumb drive with movies or music and access it thru these file managers and play the content?
Wish I could....It would be much easier and more flexible switching between media content.
Thanks again for your help.
saf4xdadev said:
Yes it does seem like a permissions thing but all those apps have permission to storage and that's all I can find to give them anyway, besides root which only several of them request superuser. I think I used to have this problem with some apps back in the day just trying to access internal 2nd microsd card but it was always a permission wasn't activated when installed, but this is something different because these file manager apps can see the external drive but cant see or access any files, it just shows blank. It does seem like its just a setting though. Do I need to add this platform.xml for MM .291, I didn't think I did but maybe?
Just to double check....you can stick a microusb cable with a female regular usb on other end....otg cable I think they're called, into the top slot on tablet and then connect the female end to a usb thumb drive with movies or music and access it thru these file managers and play the content?
Wish I could....It would be much easier and more flexible switching between media content.
Thanks again for your help.
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Sorry to hear. At the moment I have pure stock firmware without root or TWRP. For me usb otg work just fine as you discribe without anything else than mentioned app. Whish I could help more but I can't rebroduce the problem.
kulvertti said:
Sorry to hear. At the moment I have pure stock firmware without root or TWRP. For me usb otg work just fine as you discribe without anything else than mentioned app. Whish I could help more but I can't rebroduce the problem.
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No worries...at least i can use the microsd card slot on the top of the tablet to store and switch up content. I just have a lot of thumb drives and full size sd cards to use so i thought otg was way to go and also the way i used my tablet s, now broken, when traveling. I also didnt want to purchase any microsd cards if i didnt need to. Thanks again though.
kulvertti said:
Sorry to hear. At the moment I have pure stock firmware without root or TWRP. For me usb otg work just fine as you describe without anything else than mentioned app. Wish I could help more but I can't reproduce the problem.
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Sorry to bother again kulvertti but I made a minor break thru....I discovered that if I go into Settings/Storage I can see all three drives on the Z2 tablet. The main internal drive, the microsd card slot drive, and now I also see the microusb otg cable to usb thumb drive drive.....the missing drive if that makes sense. I can also play the content on each drive with whatever app I choose, including video files off the OTG....directly from the Settings/Storage. So something is very close, but still can't get these various file explorers to work. I have ESfile explorer pro, File Commander, The OTG file manager you recommended, root essentials, root explorer, etc....Plus basically none of my apps can use the otg drive, like utorrent, titanium backup, quikedit, etc....to name a few....they can all see the drive, they just cant access it. It's like a null drive. It shows empty.
Although one other thing about File Commander.....it show the drive, but basically empty, and when I click it a little hint window pops up telling me to 'please choose the root directory of your storage (or external SD card) to grant permissions to operate'......and then there is four little pictures with red circled items and red text explaining what I'm suppose to do, which takes a magnifying glass to read, but then I have none of those items it shows in any of my apps to do that from, not even in the settings do I see those picks anywhere, etc....
It's got to be something simple I think. Somethings just not set correctly. What the hell could it be?
If you can think of anything please do, I appreciate the help. Thanks again.
saf4xdadev said:
Sorry to bother again kulvertti but I made a minor break thru....I discovered that if I go into Settings/Storage I can see all three drives on the Z2 tablet. The main internal drive, the microsd card slot drive, and now I also see the microusb otg cable to usb thumb drive drive.....the missing drive if that makes sense. I can also play the content on each drive with whatever app I choose, including video files off the OTG....directly from the Settings/Storage. So something is very close, but still can't get these various file explorers to work. I have ESfile explorer pro, File Commander, The OTG file manager you recommended, root essentials, root explorer, etc....Plus basically none of my apps can use the otg drive, like utorrent, titanium backup, quikedit, etc....to name a few....they can all see the drive, they just cant access it. It's like a null drive. It shows empty.
Although one other thing about File Commander.....it show the drive, but basically empty, and when I click it a little hint window pops up telling me to 'please choose the root directory of your storage (or external SD card) to grant permissions to operate'......and then there is four little pictures with red circled items and red text explaining what I'm suppose to do, which takes a magnifying glass to read, but then I have none of those items it shows in any of my apps to do that from, not even in the settings do I see those picks anywhere, etc....
It's got to be something simple I think. Somethings just not set correctly. What the hell could it be?
If you can think of anything please do, I appreciate the help. Thanks again.
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Sorry for the late reply. It's summer vacation time and I am not beeing at home. But your question. I'm using "X-plore" file explorer and with mentioned apps it's working just fine. I can do what ever I want to with files on usb drive.
Need a bit of help here, have an mtk6572 no mark phone on 4.2, works perfectly. Changed rom to an also 4.2 which runs a lot quicker and is themed etc...
All is good except the sd card, android system sees it, root explorer sees it, gallery sees it, gramaphone sees it but...
camera doesnt, osmand maps doesnt, browser doesnt, swiftkey doesnt etc. CWM and windows see it and can format it so have done that in fat/fat32/ntfs as well as mounting before booting but still the same thing happens. Restore my old backup and all is back to normal. Have checked the new rom updater-script and I have the mounts correct number wise, same as the working rom and now I'm all out of ideas
Any ideas guys?
Thanks.
Can upload both the old (working) updater-script and the new (non-working) one if someone can have a look over and see if I have made a mistake?
The vold.fstab was probably changed to swap internal and external storage. Some apps work with it, some don't. I'd check the post where you got the rom for and see if that is one of the features.
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The vold.fstab was probably changed to swap internal and external storage. Some apps work with it, some don't. I'd check the post where you got the rom for and see if that is one of the features.
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It doesnt mention that, and its quite an old post which seems a bit dead
Is there anything I can do to solve this on my own, as such?
robneymcplum said:
It doesnt mention that, and its quite an old post which seems a bit dead
Is there anything I can do to solve this on my own, as such?
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Righto, I switched the sdcard0 and 1 around in the vold file and it switched them around, larger internal from the sd and the old internal as sd, so I had a 2gb 'sd card' as was expected but still..... all apps were asking for an sd card as it was before
I've uploaded the two updater scripts incase anyone can give me a hand with them, see the massive mistake I cant for example...
Could it be the nonworkingrom seems to not mount data?
Thanks anyway.