So I'm not sure if this is Samsung's fault or Androids. But I'm very disappointed with the Samsung Note 2 on Verizon, for one MAIN reason. The SD card is 16GB internal which honestly isn't very much. Everything you put on your phone is put onto the internal storage of the device instead of the " optional " SD card slot which I have a 32GB in there. WHY even have this option if you can't use it to put apps on it? My main beef with this is Google Play Music and Video's. Recently Google Play launched the service where it has unlimited streaming etc which is wonderful. Come to find out you can't change the directory of where it's put at. I am Rooted. I have tried beans ROM SD swap which STILL puts the music on the 16gb even though the swap says it did the transfer and I have 32GB free. I have looked for weeks and ran many scripts, use Rom Tool Box Pro and there is just no work around for this that I have found to work on my phone. Heck I even go to sdcard/data/android/come.google.android.music and yeah it has a data and file folder but there is NOTHING even in them, even when I cache my music in Google Play or click the " keep on device " Im so frustrated I don't even know what to do. I bought the new Die Hard movie yesterday which is 3GB and of course it saved it to my internal storage. The reason I wanted it on my phone is because I'm taking a trip to California soon and being a Verizon customer I only have 2GB of Data ( which sucks ) so Yeah. I know this is really my first post and I'm sorry to be ranting and raving but I have no IRL i can vent to about this because they will have NO clue what I am talking about. So besides beating my head on my keyboard, slicing my wrists or throwing the phone away does ANYONE have some good advice on what to do with my whole situation?
Hope everyone has a good memorial day weekend. Thanks All.
I hate this too, but I think both are to blame. I blame Google for no longer allowing us to install apps to the SD card, and for not allowing developers to install additional game content to the SD card. I'm not sure if this is the fault of Samsung, but why did they call the internal memory sdcard instead of internal? Every app that defaults to the external card such as Titanium Backup thinks the internal "sdcard" is actually the sdcard, because I seem to recall that on my Thunderbolt Google Play Music always downloaded songs to the external card.
Having expandable memory is pretty pointless for me, because the only thing I can use it for it TWRP backups, Titanium Backups, Pictures, and manual files that I copy over. I need more memory for apps, app data, and Google Play Music files.
I have my camera setup to save pictures to my SD Card and my music is also saved there and I'm not rooted.
Just checked and Amazon MP3 files are stored on the internal memory.
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So you feel my pain geoff5093. If I knew this was going to happen I would of opted to find a "comparable" phome with 32gb internal but then I looked and everything has 16. This is really a remarkable device except for that fact. I think your right about it being both samsung and androids dault. I seem to remember on gingerbread OS you could move apps so I dont know why they would take a step back. Having the SD card on here is about as useless as a turd in a toilet. I doubt 4.2.2 will fix this issue as well. No clue what to do.
Also I came from the Samsung Galaxy Nexus which had 32gb internal and no SD and I was happy with that. Blah lol I need a beer!
So any of the apps2sd apps don't work no
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Thats correct or if it does say it moves it , it just tricks you to think you it is but in reality its putting everything on your internal memory.
Ah that sucks! Even those for root?
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Huh
So what's the problem.? There is plenty of space just use sd card put all movies and pics on it. Then use the program gl to sd to put large games on sd card. I have a 64gb sd card you should have no problem putting a 3gb movie of the phone
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So what's the problem.? There is plenty of space just use sd card put all movies and pics on it. Then use the program gl to sd to put large games on sd card. I have a 64gb sd card you should have no problem putting a 3gb movie of the phone
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The problem is google music and movies.. I cant just simple move the movies I buy or rent on google play to my sd card because the program doeant see them then.. I when I put music on my devie for google play it does the same thing.. Im *****ing because google wants u to buy their movies and music but dont give you a viable solution to store them and 16gb isnt a lot especially when apps and the system take almost have of the disk space. I realize I can take music from my computer and use the usb to transfer music but thats not what im trying to do.
Got it
Okay well with movies bought through Google movies you can download them to do card via wifi once downloaded you can move them to sd of phone would that not accomplish what you want?
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So I'm not sure if this is Samsung's fault or Androids. But I'm very disappointed with the Samsung Note 2 on Verizon, for one MAIN reason. The SD card is 16GB internal which honestly isn't very much. Everything you put on your phone is put onto the internal storage of the device instead of the " optional " SD card slot which I have a 32GB in there. WHY even have this option if you can't use it to put apps on it? My main beef with this is Google Play Music and Video's. Recently Google Play launched the service where it has unlimited streaming etc which is wonderful. Come to find out you can't change the directory of where it's put at. I am Rooted. I have tried beans ROM .....
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Have you tried this?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2285312
torr310 said:
Have you tried this?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2285312
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Actually No I have not.. Have you tried it.. Thank you for showing me that thread I am goingbto check it out now and see what it all does and how it does it. Thank You
While I am checking this out.. Does any one know for sure where Google Play Music puts it's music? I thought and have read it was sdcard/data/Android/come.google.android.music but the Cache and File folder on there are completely empty... ( I am rooted and using root browser ) and if I add an entire album from google play to device it shows that my internal storage went down but I still can't see the files..
I am currently downloading that Master Clean app off of google play to see what it does.
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While I am checking this out.. Does any one know for sure where Google Play Music puts it's music? I thought and have read it was sdcard/data/Android/come.google.android.music but the Cache and File folder on there are completely empty... ( I am rooted and using root browser ) and if I add an entire album from google play to device it shows that my internal storage went down but I still can't see the files..
I am currently downloading that Master Clean app off of google play to see what it does.
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I did a Google search and found the music files I had downloaded but the files, according to the post I found, said they were only findable in Root Explorer for some odd reason. They were also in a odd place if I remember correctly. I wish I could find that post again, but maybe try Root Explorer and try Googling Google Music location if you haven't already.
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So that master clean does not work like stated.. was worth a shot. Wish I knew how to properly run a script to get everything to work.
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I did a Google search and found the music files I had downloaded but the files, according to the post I found, said they were only findable in Root Explorer for some odd reason. They were also in a odd place if I remember correctly. I wish I could find that post again, but maybe try Root Explorer and try Googling Google Music location if you haven't already.
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After a few unsuccessful attempts to locate where Google stores the files I gave Root Explorer a shot and it works. The music files are stored as mp3s in /data/data/com.google.android.music/files/music and the tracks are renamed (such as 3947.mp3 etc.). I currently have one album pinned on the device, the album has 14 tracks and there are 14 mp3 files in the folder stated above. Now, I expected the tracks to be protected and not playable in other music player apps (or on other devices) but I was kind of hoping that after I move them to my external microSD, Google Play Music would still be able to play those - which is not the case... *sigh
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After a few unsuccessful attempts to locate where Google stores the files I gave Root Explorer a shot and it works. The music files are stored as mp3s in /data/data/com.google.android.music/files/music and the tracks are renamed (such as 3947.mp3 etc.). I currently have one album pinned on the device, the album has 14 tracks and there are 14 mp3 files in the folder stated above. Now, I expected the tracks to be protected and not playable in other music player apps (or on other devices) but I was kind of hoping that after I move them to my external microSD, Google Play Music would still be able to play those - which is not the case... *sigh
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I've always wondered where it was stored, thanks! Now I can download the songs from All Access
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I've always wondered where it was stored, thanks! Now I can download the songs from All Access
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Yup, you can download as many as you can fit on your internal storage. The problem is not being able to play the songs once moved to a different location (unless youre perhaps aware of a method to do so?).
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So I have the 16 GB BBY WiFi-Only Flyer. The ONLY ROM that allows me to read sd card music and photos is Mwakious. Any other ROM, no apps except file managers can read the sd. Any ideas? I have formatted the sd, rebooted, cleared media storage data, cleared caches, etc. I am at a loss. Help, please!
US builds of honeycomb weren't build to read external storage for media (photos, music)
this is rectified in ICS. unfortunately for us we'll have to wait...
Well,they won't read the internal sd either.
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rubensun said:
US builds of honeycomb weren't build to read external storage for media (photos, music)
this is rectified in ICS. unfortunately for us we'll have to wait...
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I’m using a Best Buy flyer with a US build of HoneyComb (with all my Music, Movies and Pictures on the external card.) and it has no problem reading my external sdcard.
AgalychnisCallidryas said:
Well,they won't read the internal sd either.
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Which apps can’t read your cards?
Kudzus said:
I’m using a Best Buy flyer with a US build of HoneyComb (with all my Music, Movies and Pictures on the external card.) and it has no problem reading my external sdcard.
Which apps can’t read your cards?
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Seriuly, that's aperfectly bizarre claim. My Honeycomb Flyer has no trouble reading either of the internal memory partitions or my external SD card. In fact, the external card is where I keep my movies.
Now true, it does take the machine a bit to discover the card on first boot, but it will see it eventually.
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Now true, it does take the machine a bit to discover the card on first boot, but it will see it eventually.
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I created a folder called Media on my external sd card with subfolders for movies, books, music and pictures and have no problems with the system reading all my files.
I then moved all the books (the free ones that come with honeycomb) to my external Media/Books and rebooted.
At boot I get a notification that books were imported and they now appear in the My Shelf widget.
Now back to the OP problem I would suggest a full wipe and clean install for any Rom.
Of course this means you’ll have to reinstall all your apps and rebuild your home screens.
I would not restore any system data from a backup.
This although not a universal issue, is not an uncommon problem. I have had this happen to me while moving from rom to rom after doing a full wipe. If you search it out there are a couple of threads to this effect. I have always managed to get my media to be visable after some effort. I have wiped caches, cleared app data, created a in.nomedia folder in the music directory, unmounted and mounted sd cards, moved the files from internal to sd, used power amp free trail and played music from there, etc. Eventually something pops.
Now mwakious will see I have 7 songs and my photos. Not all my music or photos. Its not that it hasn't loaded them yet
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it happens when you do a complete wipe. I have a nandroid backup of when I first flashed globatrons s off method. If I restore that then flash any rom with out a wipe my music files are all visable. If I wipe then flash I have to play games with my media till they are visable but I am always able to get them visable after enough tinkering.
Well, I went to Lee Droid since it's my fav, but still nothing with my sd. I hope I can get it to work. If anyone has any suggestions, feel free to post them.
I had the same problem last night with DeSensed-View Version 1.5. (My girlfriend also had similar problems with the stock Honeycomb ROM - part of the reason she wanted me to revert her back to GB.)
I have all of my images stored in internal memory in a folder called "Pictures," and all of my videos in a folder called (gasp) "Videos." When I go into the gallery, it only shows content from the DCIM folder and Picasa/Google+. So I went into ES File Explorer and clicked on a picture... it wouldn't open. Long-press, "Open As," "Image," nothing... didn't open at all. When I click a video, it gives me the option to open with the Gallery app, and that works fine, but the videos never show up in folders in the Gallery app. So basically, I can never view any of the images in a folder other than DCIM, and I have to go through a file explorer to get to my videos. Needless to say, I went back to Gingerbread before the night was through.
Rather frustrating problem...
Just so you guys know, my media still hasn't shown up.
Have you tried moving your media files to your dcm folder?
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No, but I will
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Ok, I finally got google play to run off my second sd card...
(did it by /sdcard2/media/music) - created a media folder and a music folder and dragged everything inside.
But now it is telling me that every song I have "Couldn't play the track you requested"
WTH is this....
The phone is sick, but if I can't use the music player and it doesn't have a removable battery wtf... I should just get the Samsung g3 - atleast ill have a quad core phone... JK too lazy to go through the return policy
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Ok, I finally got google play to run off my second sd card...
(did it by /sdcard2/media/music) - created a media folder and a music folder and dragged everything inside.
But now it is telling me that every song I have "Couldn't play the track you requested"
WTH is this....
The phone is sick, but if I can't use the music player and it doesn't have a removable battery wtf... I should just get the Samsung g3 - atleast ill have a quad core phone... JK too lazy to go through the return policy
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Plus the SG3 is only dual core with the same chip as the LTE here.
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Plus the SG3 is only dual core with the same chip as the LTE here.
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Oh, I thought it was quad core my bad... But any way I go I will still have this damn google play issue... I know the songs work bc I ran the files on the temporary player thats built into Astro and the music played....
So it has to be something with the settings... Does anyone know how to fix it and a different apk thats better than this **** ****?
(I do accounting work ft, so i need my music or else i'll go grape ape in this office)
You need to format your SD card. Let Android make the music folder.
I moved my things off the card, Photos & Music into phone storage. Unmount & Erase card. Then move pictures & music back to the SD card & voila. Followed by the other junk.
Settings/Storage
Android 4 needs the music .mp3 files dropped into the root of the music folder it creates.
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Noiro said:
You need to format your SD card. Let Android make the music folder.
I moved my things off the card, Photos & Music into phone storage. Unmount & Erase card. Then move pictures & music back to the SD card & voila. Followed by the other junk.
Settings/Storage
Android 4 needs the music .mp3 files dropped into the root of the music folder it creates.
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I'll check it out when I go home...
you went from hating google play to an SD card problem to a battery problem and ended up at i should just get a GSIII?
No need to search for reasons man,just return the phone un-whad your panties and get the phone you want.
BrianBaker said:
you went from hating google play to an SD card problem to a battery problem and ended up at i should just get a GSIII?
No need to search for reasons man,just return the phone un-whad your panties and get the phone you want.
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Lol I was joking. I personally cant stand samsung products. I brought my mom a s2 and gave me hell to root the damn thing. Plus when i tired to edit some things on the rom gave me more hell. Reason put why I purchased the HTC evo lte because I owned the evo 4g, evo view and now the lte. I look @ it I cant go wrong choosing htc products.
Plus they pissed off apple to the point that they sued them for copy write infringement... I love that HTC scared those *******s @ apple.
Plus there are Asian websites that breaks down all HTC products where u can customize the signal receive features if u get what im saying
No Bueno,
Formatted second sd2 card to stock profile and still nothing. It did not even make a music folder or a media folder after the format.
and i actually tried to put the music on the internal memory, giving me the same option. Its saying that my mp3 songs r ringtones and it refuses to play ring tones **********************!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
UPDATE-------
I got the music app to work not play music is not working....
Thing with music app it only works when music is on internal sd- wont play everything if on sd-2
Download cloudskipper in the playstore
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No Bueno,
Formatted second sd2 card to stock profile and still nothing. It did not even make a music folder or a media folder after the format.
and i actually tried to put the music on the internal memory, giving me the same option. Its saying that my mp3 songs r ringtones and it refuses to play ring tones **********************!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
UPDATE-------
I got the music app to work not play music is not working....
Thing with music app it only works when music is on internal sd- wont play everything if on sd-2
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You are doing it all wrong.. Seriously. Just bind the directory to your SD and be done with it. Link in my signature.
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Upload the files to google play music and then delete them from the phone ... Then no problems playing them
I finally was able to get my music to play correctly.
Step one: wipe internal memory
Step two: reboot phone
Step three: install everything back in
Lol
My internal memory format was screwed up, I fixed it by a simple wipe
Also I flashed a new Rom too
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thesssfactor said:
I finally was able to get my music to play correctly.
Step one: wipe internal memory
Step two: reboot phone
Step three: install everything back in
Lol
My internal memory format was screwed up, I fixed it by a simple wipe
Also I flashed a new Rom too
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The issue was the internal memory in the phone. I had to reformat the drive and everything was fine.
My music is currently saved on my external SD card. Every time I restart my phone, my music does not show up in the Google music app. I have to uninstall then reinstall the app for it to show in the app again. Does any one know why this happens and how I can fix it? I'm rooted but locked.
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I have this same problem all i do is go to app settings and clear the apps data and force stop. Works for me but i don't think there is a fix.
I highly doubt this is a fix, but do you have download songs wifi only checked? When I unchecked that all my songs were deleted a couple of times. But after a while it started to work again. I dunno but you might want to try changing that and seeing if it fixes it
MrsHoneyDip said:
My music is currently saved on my external SD card. Every time I restart my phone, my music does not show up in the Google music app. I have to uninstall then reinstall the app for it to show in the app again. Does any one know why this happens and how I can fix it? I'm rooted but locked.
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Try sdrescan from the market
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This is what pissed me off most about this phone.
Solution:
everyones best bet is to do the sd card mount swap.
if u didn't root, this is the biggest reason to. This switches the places of the 10 GB phone storage and your sd card. there are 2 threads about this in our development section. Find my post in either one of the threads and follow the directions.
I am even now so sick of the sd card not getting mounted on boot. But oh well cause I only use that 10 GB for ps1 games now. I decided to fill it with the most useless, replaceable files that took up a lot of space on the sd card.how they partitioned, and handled storage space on this phone is HORRIBLE.
This is the best solution, but u are still going to end up dealing with the 10 GB of space not mounting almost every time u start the phone. But u can just go remount it in settings. And I almost never have to do that cause I filled the space with ps1 games and only have to mount it when I play fpse.
Everything I just said is all over the place but go find the threads in development, I wrote everything much clearer.
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I have done some searching around for storing my Google play music on my external sd card instead of the internal memory. Basically from what I have found is your changing the directory path to the external memory. I am somewhat of a noob to this. I tried using this method here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2003930
I could not find the cache file with Rom tool box or esfile I also on a side note have had issues with finding zip files at times when I know I put them on the external memory.
So my question is, has anyone tried this and with success?
This method seemed to be the most simple way of doing it.
Also I am on flappjaxxx aosp jb Rom so is the directory different?
In the screen shot for Rom tool box you can see that it is empty and in esfile it is not there.
Am I looking in the wrong spot? Any help our someone's expertise would be amazing!
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You are over thinking this...
All you need to do is put the music on the sdcard.. clear data of Google music, reboot and the media scanner will read all storage and tell apps where things are.
As you can see in the pic of Google music, I have a sound file that isn't in my music folder. The media scanner still displays it on the player even though I didn't point it there.
I am not sure how to move it to the external memory if I can't find it. I have tried doing that in the past but Google music wanted to download the music again. I guess I could always download the music to my pc and transfer over. I guess I am not sure how to put new purchased music on the external?
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I believe the OP is asking about the technique that forces your cloud-based music to be stored on an external SD when the user "pins" the song for offline access.
You seem the referring to music stored on the SD by other means.
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len_smith said:
I believe the OP is asking about the technique that forces your cloud-based music to be stored on an external SD when the user "pins" the song for offline access.
You seem the referring to music stored on the SD by other means.
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You are correct in that I want my music stored our pinned on the external memory. It would be great if I could do that between flashing different roms. I am in the process of downloading all the music from play and then stick it in a file on the sd and hopefully Google music will find it
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i have had alot of issues with binding to external SD to where i had to wipe my SD card, what happens is when you save ur files to the sd card it works, but when u reboot, it appears google music starts 1st before your bind does so it thinks ur files are missing and starts dowloading them to internal and it will corrupt ur ext SD card and u have to wipe it, that is what i have been having issues with, but u may not, best of luck to u.
That is good to know. I ended up downloading my entire library and copying it to the sd card. Google music saw the music as stated earlier, however I did not log into my account because it was wanting to double everything. So it kind of fixes my problem, but I am not sure what to do when I buy new music as I did not see a option to just download a album from music manger.
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IMHO, the fact that one can't direct offline music (or the cache for that matter) is a huge design oversight by Google.
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IMHO, the fact that one can't direct offline music (or the cache for that matter) is a huge design oversight by Google.
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totally agree, i don't understand it, u would be more likely to use it, but alot of online music apps are like that
cached music files for google music are in /sdcard/android/data/com.google.android.music/files/music move from here to external sd
Hi guys,
I was previously using a Galaxy Nexus but exchanged it for an S3. The main deciding factor was because the S3 has support for SD cards. I have a lot of music, and I wanted to benefit from more storage than the Galaxy Nexus had built in.
I immediately had trouble copying data to my SD card, but after some google searching I figured out how to get Bit Torrent Sync to sync music to my phone from my computer. It was just a matter of naming the folders a certain way. I also synced my picture collection to my SD card as well. That worked fine too.
However, my favorite music player (Player Pro) and my favorite picture viewer (Quick Pic) cannot see media on my SD card. Player Pro cannot see any MP3's and Quick Pic cannot see any pictures. I've been Googling for a couple of days, and I'm getting more frustrated. I find countless topics about how to write data to an SD card, but I can't find any good topics on how to READ data stored on an SD card. Both apps can't see a thing. I even tried Google Play Music (which I loathe and don't like using) and it can't see any of my music files on my SD card either.
It's almost as if the SD card is locked from reading. I read a lot of forum posts all over the Internet talking about being unable to write, but nothing about being unable to read.
Is there some magic to get these apps to see media on the SD card?
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Hi guys,
I was previously using a Galaxy Nexus but exchanged it for an S3. The main deciding factor was because the S3 has support for SD cards. I have a lot of music, and I wanted to benefit from more storage than the Galaxy Nexus had built in.
I immediately had trouble copying data to my SD card, but after some google searching I figured out how to get Bit Torrent Sync to sync music to my phone from my computer. It was just a matter of naming the folders a certain way. I also synced my picture collection to my SD card as well. That worked fine too.
However, my favorite music player (Player Pro) and my favorite picture viewer (Quick Pic) cannot see media on my SD card. Player Pro cannot see any MP3's and Quick Pic cannot see any pictures. I've been Googling for a couple of days, and I'm getting more frustrated. I find countless topics about how to write data to an SD card, but I can't find any good topics on how to READ data stored on an SD card. Both apps can't see a thing. I even tried Google Play Music (which I loathe and don't like using) and it can't see any of my music files on my SD card either.
It's almost as if the SD card is locked from reading. I read a lot of forum posts all over the Internet talking about being unable to write, but nothing about being unable to read.
Is there some magic to get these apps to see media on the SD card?
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Download any file manager from Playstore. I like "Es File Explorer". It's free and very good. And see manually if the MP3's are in the directory where you want them to be. :angel:
GeekyDroid said:
Download any file manager from Playstore. I like "Es File Explorer". It's free and very good. And see manually if the MP3's are in the directory where you want them to be. :angel:
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Yes, I've already confirmed that the files are definitely there.
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Yes, I've already confirmed that the files are definitely there.
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Are they in MP3 format?
Well, I don't even understand. Try to tap on them and start through ES File Explorer manually. They should start playing.
What kind of SD card? What format is it in? If you go into Settings / Storage - does it display your SD card there? If you plug the phone back to the PC, can you play MP3s and see your pictures through the computers media players?
Thanks for your reply. Yes, MP3 format and yes, they do start playing if I tap individual files. It's just that apps can't find media on the sd card. I've read that kit kat changed the way apps access sd cards, so I'm wondering if that's why I'm having problems?
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Thanks for your reply. Yes, MP3 format and yes, they do start playing if I tap individual files. It's just that apps can't find media on the sd card. I've read that kit kat changed the way apps access sd cards, so I'm wondering if that's why I'm having problems?
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If you are rooted, then that is an easy fix.
The other way to test this is to use the built in Music player from Samsung. If it reads all the MP3s, then it's probably the SD card issue.
es0tericcha0s said:
If you are rooted, then that is an easy fix.
The other way to test this is to use the built in Music player from Samsung. If it reads all the MP3s, then it's probably the SD card issue.
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The stock music player doesn't see music either. I thought about rooting my phone, but it seems like all the instructions are for Windows. I don't have a Windows computer, I'm all Linux (even at work). I'd rather not install Windows just to root my phone if I don't have to.
jlacroix82 said:
The stock music player doesn't see music either. I thought about rooting my phone, but it seems like all the instructions are for Windows. I don't have a Windows computer, I'm all Linux (even at work). I'd rather not install Windows just to root my phone if I don't have to.
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Best bet is towelroot. I had the same issue with player pro with it not playing them because even though they are in mp3 format it told me they weren't
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ShapesBlue said:
Best bet is towelroot. I had the same issue with player pro with it not playing them because even though they are in mp3 format it told me they weren't
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Thank you so much! The issue is now solved!
Here is what the problem was. Kit Kat prevents apps from not only writing to sd cards, but reading from them as well. Each app can only read and write to their own specific folder on the sd card. In my case, I was using Bit Torrent Sync to handle syncing music from my PC to my phone (as I always have) and in order to get Bit Torrent Sync to work, I had to set it up in the following folder on the sd card:
Android/data/com.bittorrent.sync/music
The problem was, that Kit Kat prevented all my media apps from scanning that folder, since it enforces it to belong to Bit Torrent Sync, and will not allow another app to even touch it. I have no idea why ES File Explorer was able to open it and play music from within that folder. Perhaps it bypasses Kit Kat's restriction somehow.
So, I used towelroot as mentioned above and installed SuperSU, then, I downloaded and installed the sdcard fix from the play store and ran it.
After running the sd card fix, it said it enabled normal sd card usage. But it STILL didn't work. But after rebooting my phone, all my media apps (including Player Pro) immediately started seeing my media and everything seems to be back to normal!
If Google patches Android to prevent this fix from working in the future, I am officially done with this platform. There's no excuse for someone to have to go to this extreme just to get something as simple MP3's seen by a music playing app. I can understand the security improvement of this, but they shouldn't be preventing normal usage of a device.
Thanks so much, I appreciate the help! I hope my steps above helps someone else.