Hello
I'm trying to set my SD card as the internal SD.
I've found an app called external 2 internal, but I'm not really sure on how to set it up.
I'm running PA.
Anyone who know how to do this?
Thanks
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You will need custom rom with swap enable kernel
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Swap enable? I think that one is for the swapfile memory...
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Personally I use foldermount (root required) and just specify which folders to map to the external, rather than doing a complete swap.
baileyjr said:
Personally I use foldermount (root required) and just specify which folders to map to the external, rather than doing a complete swap.
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Be careful I tried Foldermount keep rebooting the XZU. Add a folder pair. Then it move the file. When I click on the PIN the phone reboot. When the phone start then it reboot repeatedly. it keep rebooting after 30 sec from boot.
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Be careful I tried Foldermount keep rebooting the XZU. Add a folder pair. Then it move the file. When I click on the PIN the phone reboot. When the phone start then it reboot repeatedly. it keep rebooting after 30 sec from boot.
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Yes thats an issue if you have a locked bootloader you can fix it by running this fix.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2317432
You won't have that issue at all if you have unlocked bootloader and flashed SU from recovery. :good:
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Hi,
I'm still trying to find a ROM that I can use for my daily usage. My main problem is that almost all the ROMs that I flash fail to detect my ext_sd folder, a.k.a. my external SD card.
When I flash an ICS ROM and go to the file explorer to install titanium backup and restore my apps, it says that this folder is empty.
Sometimes when I restart several times, it finds my SD card, sometimes I have to flash other ROMs to have it but it's OK in some ROMs like CM10 but eventually it losts this folder as well.
Since I'm S-ON, I can't get back to GB ROMs.
SD card may be problamatic but it's OK when I mount it via attaching cable to phone or attaching it directly to my PC with a SD card cartridge.
What could be the problem? How I can check that SD card is OK?
Thanks.
Let me add this that if I open back of my phone and remove and re insert the SD card, it gets detected but it's cumbersome.
Use a root explorer to go up to root and instead of ext sd go into sd card 2 folder. Should be there
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Hassaan.W said:
Use a root explorer to go up to root and instead of ext sd go into sd card 2 folder. Should be there
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Thanks for the reply but I don't have such folder.
test84 said:
Thanks for the reply but I don't have such folder.
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Do you have "storage" folder?
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How long does your phone take to do error scans and media scans with a 32GB class 10 SD card?
Mine takes at least 15 mins! Seems really slow! And it drains my battery a lot while doing it.
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It depends on how much you have on your SD card and the SD card speed.
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I gathered that, I just wondered if mine was unusually slow?
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Use the rom toolbox lite (or pro) and under performance tab use the SD Booster , and set to 2048kb, this might help a little. App found in market.
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Your card may be failing. My wifes has been failing for months and it takes a long time to finish scanning. Mine is failing now too.
Word of warning. Do not buy this card:
http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-micro...&qid=1370347745&sr=8-3&keywords=32gb+micro+sd
I dissabled sdcard media scan but before that, scan was done from 1 to 2 minutes.
Lysolus said:
I dissabled sdcard media scan but before that, scan was done from 1 to 2 minutes.
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How dissabled sdcard media scan?
Okay, now I'm worried, turns out its not the SD card, it's the internal storage. I have removed the SD card and since rebooting, its taken about 20 mins to scan the internal storage and the phone has been pretty hot while doing this. What could be wrong? I hope this phone isn't failing!
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Try to remove all personal stuff and backup your apps and try a hard resets.DON'T DO A HARD RESET IF YOU REMOVED ANY BLOTWARE! First restore all system apps you may have removed, hopefully formatting the internal storage will fix it.
Another thing (Not sure if it's default have to recheck, or someone verify) I noticed that the kernel has vm swappiness set at 60%. This could be a reason for the internal sd going out. Maybe I'm wrong hum
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How do i turn off the media scanning??
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Media scan dissabling
Open terminal emulator or run adb shell, then type:
Code:
1. su
2. pm disable com.android.providers.media/com.android.providers.media.MediaScannerReceiver
then exit terminal emulator/adb shell
After that, boot into CWM and 'fix permissions'
Root and CWM needed
Lysolus said:
Open terminal emulator or run adb shell, then type:
Code:
1. su
2. pm disable com.android.providers.media/com.android.providers.media.MediaScannerReceiver
then exit terminal emulator/adb shell
After that, boot into CWM and 'fix permissions'
Root and CWM needed
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Disabling this doesn't have any long term negative effects on the phone and or performance does it? Did this to my L9 along with the internal to external SD swap flash and phone seems to be working better Boot up times are much shorter and smooth.
sounds great! I didn't do that but I did overclock and undervolt my phone.Then with partitioning my sd card I use link2sd was able to move apps to sd. Then used Titanium Backup to delete bloatware. Phone is faster, smooth, and crisp when moving thru apps. Overclocked to 1.2!
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I have mi L9 for a few months and first the scanning was fast, but after I reached the capacity limit it started to take a lot of time to scan, so I think it's normal if you have a lot of apps installed like i do xD
Nathan.7118391 said:
sounds great! I didn't do that but I did overclock and undervolt my phone.Then with partitioning my sd card I use link2sd was able to move apps to sd. Then used Titanium Backup to delete bloatware. Phone is faster, smooth, and crisp when moving thru apps. Overclocked to 1.2!
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Hi Nathan,
You seem to have successfully apply some mods on your P769. Can you help me do that with my P769 on V20D if you have on the same stock ROM.
I was trying to overclock and undervolt it and I was getting a Exec format error running the overclock script that I found on another thread. That is after copying the .ko files in /system/lib/modules.
If you are on V20D can you provide some instructions and where you got the script? Would greatly appreciate it.
I wanted to see if there would be improvement xbmc on it once i overclocked it to 1.2. There is a audio lag when I tried it the first time.
May I also ask how did you partition your sd card for LInk2SD?
I have a 64 GB class 10 sd card which I partitioned to FAT32 and even formatted it using my phone. Then I had it swapped with my internal using a script I found on a thread here.
That worked but my problem is running Titanium Backup and doing a full backup on the swapped external as the new internal storage is giving me an insufficient free storage space error even though I have plenty of space on the sdcard (/storage/sdcard0) and around 1 GB of space on the /storage/external_sd (which is the old internal storage)
Thanks in advance for any help.
Sure man I'd be delighted to help. Here is the script I used to overclock but I did some tweaking on the voltage until I found the right ones that wouldnt freeze my phone which are 850/900/950/1050 volts. Here is thelink http://artasnotebook.you2.pl/?page_id=16 (please backup your ROM before doing anything)
I used this to partition and use link2sd http://www.noypigeeks.com/android/tutorial-a-guide-to-link2sd/
And really I only use titanium backup to delete bloatware. I use cwm 1.5 for jb to backup my ROM. Yes I'm on 76920d.
http://artasnotebook.you2.pl/?page_id=6
Good luck!
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quailallstar said:
Disabling this doesn't have any long term negative effects on the phone and or performance does it? Did this to my L9 along with the internal to external SD swap flash and phone seems to be working better Boot up times are much shorter and smooth.
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Everything works fine. i don't have any problem with disabled media scanning. Performance? I don't know but think it's better. My SD Class10 is faster than internal memory.
I disabled it with Android Tweaker. New photos still immediately show in gallery and QuickPic, PowerAmp has its own scanner, so i encountered no probs so far...
With this service disabled image folders on the SD-card do not show up in the gallery. I had to re-enable the service.
I am running Wind Mobile 21D.
I use snap camera gallery and nexmusic player and it reconoce automatically my new music and pictures everything working good and a faster boot
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I have a 32GB SD card partitioned with 22 GB for media storage and 10 GB for apps with link2sd. It works well except when I have to reboot the phone, it takes "forever" to scan the card after reboot. During that time, I can't use anything app that needs storage. Is there any trick to speed it up or eliminate the scanning?
Thanks.
funtoy said:
I have a 32GB SD card partitioned with 22 GB for media storage and 10 GB for apps with link2sd. It works well except when I have to reboot the phone, it takes "forever" to scan the card after reboot. During that time, I can't use anything app that needs storage. Is there any trick to speed it up or eliminate the scanning?
Thanks.
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CM10.1 won't give you that issue
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CM 10.1 can only be flashed with a unlocked boot loader, right? At this point, I think I want to stick with to avoid that route. Thanks.
I found this maybe it will help you
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1010807
Meda808 said:
I found this maybe it will help you
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1010807
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Thanks but changing the cache size doesn't seems to do anything on my JB phone. Also no luck with Rescan Media Root from play store.
funtoy said:
I have a 32GB SD card partitioned with 22 GB for media storage and 10 GB for apps with link2sd. It works well except when I have to reboot the phone, it takes "forever" to scan the card after reboot. During that time, I can't use anything app that needs storage. Is there any trick to speed it up or eliminate the scanning?
Thanks.
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if you have root, you can use something simple like rom toolbox lite to speed it up.
kuma82 said:
if you have root, you can use something simple like rom toolbox lite to speed it up.
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use SD boost to increase cache size at boot time? I tried 2048 and 4096 KB and no improvement is seen with SD scanning.
I have the same issue on my P768, im using a stock based rom, jelly cream rc3 which is a modded v20a and my 32gb card isnt partitioned. It can take up to 20 mins or longer to scan my SD. I wish there was a working CM rom for the P768. I cant do without the camera!
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I think I found a solution. I disable "media storage" with "startup manager" app. Now no more scanning at boot up. For some reason, "media storage" is not showing up when I use "rom toolbox lite"'s startup task manager.
i had same problem after upgrading to JB. it would take what seemed like forever. i saved sd card data to pc, deleted folders i wasnt using and some created by other phones. reformatted sd card and re-transferred data. now it scans fairly fast.
If u have root:
1. Download this https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.addz.mediascannerroot
2. Open the app
3. Disable the scan before the scan ends
4. Reboot
SentryMescudi said:
If u have root:
1. Download this https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.addz.mediascannerroot
2. Open the app
3. Disable the scan before the scan ends
4. Reboot
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Wait, so I download this, reboot. Wait until it starts to scan my files, open the app, press disable scanner, then reboot again?
Put a .NOMEDIA file in all folders other than those meant for media . Note the filename of .NOMEDIA in UPPERCASE. That could help.
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Wait, so I download this, reboot. Wait until it starts to scan my files, open the app, press disable scanner, then reboot again?
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It does work. I have tried Rescan Media ROOT before but it didn't work because I disable scanner when the phone was not scanning. Disable scanner during scan seems to be the key.
Weird enough suddenly I found all my external SDCard files have all permissions like:
---rwxr-x
Why !?? This happens to every file I copy onto it.
I needed them like:
rwxrwxr-x
so far, the only rough and long way I found is through Aromafilemanager and PhilzTouch recovery.
Yet I have to change the permissions one file at a time.
Can anybody help?
Sounds like a problem unique to you, I've never heard of it.
Flash the official stock rom, format your sd card in your pc using the industry formatting tool and test.
If the problem disappears then it was probably some combination of your individual setup.
Yep. Also ensure you haven't got any scripts running at startup. Sd permissions are set on boot and cannot be changed afterwards
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Thank you, I'll surely restart from the beginning and report back
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rootSU said:
Yep. Also ensure you haven't got any scripts running at startup. Sd permissions are set on boot and cannot be changed afterwards
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Which script could do that?
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Any mods that mount folders or swap storage.
Otherwise, something built into the rom.
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boomboomer said:
Sounds like a problem unique to you, I've never heard of it.
Flash the official stock rom, format your sd card in your pc using the industry formatting tool and test.
If the problem disappears then it was probably some combination of your individual setup.
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@boomboomer
which filesystem do i have to use in formatting extsdcard 8gb via pc? exFAT / FAT32 / EXT4 / NTFS ?
moreover, in this post and following on dev rom thread, it seems it's a normal behaviour... am i missing sth?
https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4
Fat32 is the normal filesytem.
If it's common to your rom then your chef is the best one to approach, he may have set a script or mod.
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Any mods that mount folders or swap storage.
Otherwise, something built into the rom.
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I read through about 7 pages of sd card issues on the s3 and thought i cant read anymore, so i thought i would just ask. I've just bought an s3 and i got my 64gb sd card from my old phone to my new one. Problem is i have data from other games in the SD and titanium back up files in the externel sd card. Seems the S3 has its own built in SD card and only reads from that. I copied my TB files from externel to the internel. Now the games still require Extra files although they are in the externel SD. So how in the world do i get it to read my Externel sd instead of my internel? I thought of copying the files but i have 16 gb internel, 64 externel so its not gonna work considering i have 39 gb left in my 64 gb one,
I have a D618 (4GB internal), and I noticed that there is a "Move to SD" option in the app manager, I tried it, but the app data is still in the internal memory.
And I heard that Kitkat devices have write issues with the SD card, and there is an app for fixing that, but I haven't tried it since my phone is not yet rooted.
Anyone here who has a rooted phone want to try?
Thanks
Move to SD only moves part of the apk file not app data.
It's not affected by the kitkat write issue.
My idea
Use GL to SD. For this you MUST HAVE ROOT. I root my G2 Mini just for it.
Vagelis1608 said:
Move to SD only moves part of the apk file not app data.
It's not affected by the kitkat write issue.
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I see, thanks for the info
hardcore515 said:
Use GL to SD. For this you MUST HAVE ROOT. I root my G2 Mini just for it.
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Will try it soon XD
hardcore515 said:
Use GL to SD. For this you MUST HAVE ROOT. I root my G2 Mini just for it.
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Thanks mate, worked for me
If you create a ext4 partition on your sdcard, there's multiple guides online for this. Then root your device and download link2sd, your able to move all apps, cache from apps and etc to the sdcard
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steffenbakke said:
If you create a ext4 partition on your sdcard, there's multiple guides online for this. Then root your device and download link2sd, your able to move all apps, cache from apps and etc to the sdcard
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Once my phone gets back from service, I will try to make a script which will mount /data/app/ and /data/dalvik-cache/ to a second partition on the SD.
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