Hello
I have a friend with a S2 and while looking thru the space he has and were apps are installed I see that there are sort of 2 partitions and one of them is set as a SD card! (There is no SD card inserted)
How does this work? And why does it suppose that one of the partitions is the SD card? When I try to move apps to the SD card, I cant because I think Android thinks it needs to copy to /sdcard but obviously there is no SD card inserted.
Thank you
This thread has a lot of good info re: partitions.
MistahBungle said:
This thread has a lot of good info re: partitions.
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Thank you as this information is good to know but since its not my phone, I just want a how to on resolving this problem and thats it.
Also, I hope you dont have to root the phone.
Thank you anyways.
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Sorry I know this is a stupid question but I searched and couldn't find it. All my stuff automatically downloads to my MOGUL itself and it never asks me if I want to save to my SD card.....so how do I do that? Then if I go to memory>storage card> it says Total Storage Card Memory: Not Installed.......? Thanks
are u sure u have an sd card and if u do how much gigs
Either your SD card is not formatted or it is not seated properly and not recognized by the device...
Try removing and reinserting the card.
If that doesn't solve it try reformating the card. I use Fat32 simply for the ease of being able to stick it into any computer when I need to. (I have an 8 Gig so I have a folder with some often used files and Vista and XP drivers for the phone in case I need to sync with a new computer.
Dc_striker said:
are u sure u have an sd card and if u do how much gigs
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yea, it is the one that comes in it, 512 MB....? Thanks
dcshoeco024 said:
yea, it is the one that comes in it, 512 MB....? Thanks
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Mine didn't come with one. Once again, are you sure there's an SD card in the device? Have you physically removed it to verify?
drew826 said:
Mine didn't come with one. Once again, are you sure there's an SD card in the device? Have you physically removed it to verify?
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LOL.....yea dude! I took it out to see what size it was when u asked me that question. It is a 512 MB SanDisk
I am pretty sure it is recognizing it now but I haven't had the chance to try to download any programs yet so I dont know if there will be an option to out it onto the SD card or not........will it ask me or do I have to move it to the storage card after I download it? Thanks
nvm, I got it figured out.
hello there
i just installed
(ROM) Biffmod Vibrant v1.3 - 2.3.5 AOSPish (8-9-2011)
super cool and fast rom but one problem:
i cant see my sd card from the phone itself, i can plug it to the computer and use is, copy stuff in it but ween i try to see it from the phone, nothing
like he cant see that there is a sd card.
is there is a way to fix this?
please help
and thanks from advance for any answer
Do you mean external Sd card? It's accessible through /mnt/emmc.
Sent from samsung vibrant
yes i mean external Sd card
and sorry for my ignorant but what is accessible through /mnt/emmc
if you can explain in a simple way i will be most grateful
I don't know what file manager are you using but when you open a file manager, you usually are seeing your internal card directories...go up one level and you will see emmc directory. emmc is your external card.
yes man !
you a genius !!
thank you man, the second i looked in the emmc i found it !
thanks man for the help and the quick respond
does anyone know how i can rename my sd card since it shows as mounted but no app can access it. i was using the same SD card in my droid razr.
it shows as extSdCard but all the apps that require an SD card give an error that SD card isn't present/mounted
im using the galaxy s3
thanks in advance
moolee said:
does anyone know how i can rename my sd card since it shows as mounted but no app can access it. i was using the same SD card in my droid razr.
it shows as extSdCard but all the apps that require an SD card give an error that SD card isn't present/mounted
im using the galaxy s3
thanks in advance
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Why do you want to re-name the SD card?
Unmount and remount the SD card, perhaps? Or format via recovery, if rooted?
Is it SDXC or SDHC?
SDXC might cause problems sometimes - exFAT, FAT32 and all that jazz.
Oomahey said:
Why do you want to re-name the SD card?
Unmount and remount the SD card, perhaps? Or format via recovery, if rooted?
Is it SDXC or SDHC?
SDXC might cause problems sometimes - exFAT, FAT32 and all that jazz.
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thanks for the quick response!
i want to rename since i dont know how to go about it otherwise. all apps say the card isnt present. as i remember it used to show up as sdcard-ext in all my previous phones
ive unmounted and remounted the card a couple of times but nothing. i havent formatted via recovery which i'll try tonight
its SDHC and yes im rooted and running AOKP build 40
There's a major is with really external SD cards on the S3
moolee said:
does anyone know how i can rename my sd card since it shows as mounted but no app can access it. i was using the same SD card in my droid razr.
it shows as extSdCard but all the apps that require an SD card give an error that SD card isn't present/mounted
im using the galaxy s3
thanks in advance
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I think you need to read this from Chainfire: www.chainfire.eu/articles/113/Is_Google_blocking_apps_writing_to_SD_cards_/
shaggydabbydo said:
I think you need to read this from Chainfire: www.chainfire.eu/articles/113/Is_Google_blocking_apps_writing_to_SD_cards_/
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:crying:
screwed!
I could access mine. Just go to mnt/EXTSDcard.
I can't move apps to it though, like everyone else...
hi all,
I've been trying using my 64gb sandisk sd card for about 4days or so the problem i have come across in the CWM 6.0.1.2, it wont mount External sd card nor it would read that card whilst in recovery mode
Now i dont know whether its suppose to be like this or the CWM doesn't support or maybe there is something wrong with my Sd card?
I just need little help to fix this issue
Cheers
None had this problem?
supermaster said:
hi all,
I've been trying using my 64gb sandisk sd card for about 4days or so the problem i have come across in the CWM 6.0.1.2, it wont mount External sd card nor it would read that card whilst in recovery mode
Now i dont know whether its suppose to be like this or the CWM doesn't support or maybe there is something wrong with my Sd card?
I just need little help to fix this issue
Cheers
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How did you format the card? It is a known issue that ExFat Formatting on 64G cards will NOT work on the SGSIII and you have to format your card as Fat32.
Try and format the card on your computer as Fat32 and it should work.
It's because the 64gb sandisk is formatted by default as exFat, which is not supported by CWM
The only solution to this is to remformat the card, probably at fat32 as this is the most widely used but BACKUP ALL YOUR DATA FROM extSD FIRST!! as reformatting will wipe the card
Then CWM will recognise this as normal
Mind you fat32 does have its disadvantages, mainly that you won't be able t have a single file bigger then 4gb on it
eh more than 4gb? then whats point of having 64gb SDcard?
i didnt know that was issue with the s3 will there be exFat support in CWM? its really frustrating
Thanks for replies
It's not an issue with the S3 I believe, it's just CWM -no idea if it will be updated to support it though :S
The 4gb thing only means that any one file cannot be bigger then 4gb e.g. you couldn't have a movie file that is 4.5gb in size.
Really it's no problem to have it as fat32 unless you have seriously big files
supermaster said:
eh more than 4gb? then whats point of having 64gb SDcard?
i didnt know that was issue with the s3 will there be exFat support in CWM? its really frustrating
Thanks for replies
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It is unknown at this time if ExFat will be properly supported but I would assume that at some point it may be. Also, just in case you dont already know, The SGSIII is NOT capable of moving apps to the ExtSD card natively either so if that is one of the reasons you bought such a big card, I hate to "bring you down".
There are some methods to switch your internal and external SD cards to assist in this issue but you will have to search and read the threads to find out the methods.
Just so you know...
yeah i know that i just backup using appcontrol and then move them to exSD
thats quite helpful i didnt know all this else i'd have not given up my 32gb card its quite lame TBH!
cheers for the help least i wont keep formatting my sd card now lol
supermaster said:
yeah i know that i just backup using appcontrol and then move them to exSD
thats quite helpful i didnt know all this else i'd have not given up my 32gb card its quite lame TBH!
cheers for the help least i wont keep formatting my sd card now lol
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No problem...
Hi, happy Saturday everyone!
I am a new proud owner of the S3 and have a simple question...I have a sandisk 64gb micro sd card xc that I used on my battery hog Evo that has a ton of songs...what can I do to use this on my new baby s3? do I have to reformat it? transfer my songs to my external hard drive or, what is the proper procedure? Do I need to reformat the card itself? I appreciate all you experienced users advice,
Thank you:laugh:
What format is the card now? normally you simply place the card into the phone and it should work but if its the wrong format it may need to be reset by the phone or formatted to fat32 by a computer
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What format is the card now? normally you simply place the card into the phone and it should work but if its the wrong format it may need to be reset by the phone or formatted to fat32 by a computer
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its whatever format it was formatted with my HC Evo 4g phone....i dont know how to format a card to FAT32...will the phone do that? thank you Looking4somehelp for your reply...
eliniko said:
its whatever format it was formatted with my HC Evo 4g phone....i dont know how to format a card to FAT32...will the phone do that? thank you Looking4somehelp for your reply...
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It should still work, but on the s3, you want it in exfat anyways. You can do that via your computer or just format it in your s3, i believe
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It should still work, but on the s3, you want it in exfat anyways. You can do that via your computer or just format it in your s3, i believe
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BinaryEclipse, thank you, ill try it....
Don't format it in your phone before backing up your sd card first or you will lose everything.