I know that you can make ROM slots on internal. What about extrernal? Can I buy a external SD card and run the Roms I made slots for, on the external SD card? My internal is barley at 1.3 gbs left. In know the answer might be no, but I'm just checking.
So can you use your external SD card, for more rom slots without using up your internal SD card storage?
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I have a 8gb sd card and want to have everything installed including the firmware on there and use the 16gb storage only for movies/music. Is this possible at all?
not every app can/will run proper from the sd card and the Firmware deffenetly not
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I receintly have been getting not enough space. I have a 16 gig card. I knew it wasnt full. So i looked into it and some how its basically saying i have 2 sd cards in. 1 named sd card, the other is EMMC. The SD card is very low on space. but the emmc is barely touched. i dont know how the card got repartitioned but im willing to wipe out my entire sd card in order to delete the partition so i have 1 big drive again. I have been searching this on the forums for about 2 hours now with no luck on how to just delete the partition. even tryed looking through cwm and the phone settings. right now im currently running cm7 ICS
try this: http://www.partitionwizard.com/download.html
Emmc is the internal storage. At least that's what it's referred to as in roms like cm7
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Ill have to take a ss and post it cuz its crazy. i dont understand how I have an sd card, internal sd, and emmc with a single sd :-/
I guess if i could just figure out a way to just point the phones default save posistion to the emmc drive i would be ok also
That's the way it's supposed to be. Sd card is your sd card, internal storage is the partition on your internal sd card. for apps and emmc is your internal sd card.
You cannot delete the internal storage partition because that's where your apps reside. Emmc is just like your external sd but internal.
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Does anyone know how to swap the internal storage with the sd card? The fstab looks funky.
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Does anyone know how to swap the internal storage with the sd card? The fstab looks funky.
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what do you mean by swap the internal storage with the external? dont you just normally use both internal and external together?
FOr what reasons? For apps to be moved/installed in the external SD?
Answer is at the moment Apps2SD doesn't work YET in s3
No. I mean to literally swap their mount directories. I've done this before on my Note. I edited my vold.fstab and with a little help got my internal storage mounted to /sdcard/ExternalSD and my 64GB SD card mounted to /sdcard. That's what I want to do here.
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For what reasons do you want to do this?
Look in siyah kernel thread.he changed the vold.fstab mounted in adb.ask him about the swap.
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Look in siyah kernel thread.he changed the vold.fstab mounted in adb.ask him about the swap.
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Thank you so much. And to answer the questions, I want to do this so my internal storage can be as big as the SD card I'm using. For example, I have the storage swapped on my n7000 so my 64GB SD card is read as internal storage and my 16GB internal storage is read as an external SD card.
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For what reasons do you want to do this?
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I would like to do the same. i have done this switch on my note and it works flawlessly. I want to do this because I am a hardcore gamer and 16gb is nowhere near enough space to store all my game data, but my 64gb sd card is.
Mister_Mxyzptlk said:
Thank you so much. And to answer the questions, I want to do this so my internal storage can be as big as the SD card I'm using. For example, I have the storage swapped on my n7000 so my 64GB SD card is read as internal storage and my 16GB internal storage is read as an external SD card.
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Never thought of it that way hehe. But I have a question about the setup: Have you ever had issues where your SD card randomly unmounted itself? If so, what happened to the system? Were you still able to run it or did it freeze or anything else?
Thanks
Not even once and I have had it set this way on my note for months through several different roms
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The internal SDcard is not a real partition but a userspace mount (fuser)
It's configured in the file /init.smdk4x12.rc with the exact definition:
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service sdcard /system/bin/sdcard /data/media 1023 1023
I don't see the daemon getting any kind of configuration as to the target directory. Either it's hardcoded or it uses /system/etc/vold.conf definition volume_sdcard the mount_point value.
You can't use Easy UMS anymore though since it will unmount the external SD.
Just using the APK Directory Bind will work fine though to simulate folders on the external SDcard as being on the internal one.
You can swap over the Internal SD with your external SD so you could have a 64GB phone with a 16GB ext card (assuming your phone is a 16GB one) - take a look at ExtSd2InternalSd v4|Increase your data storage
I've been running HB and following the dev forum regularly. I've heard of people having external SD card issues. I am wondering if I am having these issues too. When I try to move an app to my SD card, it moves it from one partition to the other, not the external SD. Is it supposed to do that or am I having the external SD card issues?
Thanks in advance.
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HellsBells said:
I've been running HB and following the dev forum regularly. I've heard of people having external SD card issues. I am wondering if I am having these issues too. When I try to move an app to my SD card, it moves it from one partition to the other, not the external SD. Is it supposed to do that or am I having the external SD card issues?
Thanks in advance.
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The dev shrunk the partition for the app storage (USB storage) I think... so when you move to sd your actually moving to the internal storage. I'm kinda new hear also but I read in the jb threads they did it for performance I believe. Hope this helps
HellsBells said:
I've been running HB and following the dev forum regularly. I've heard of people having external SD card issues. I am wondering if I am having these issues too. When I try to move an app to my SD card, it moves it from one partition to the other, not the external SD. Is it supposed to do that or am I having the external SD card issues?
Thanks in advance.
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The internal SD is setup with a system partition a data partition and a datadata partition that between them takes up about 3gb. Leaving around 13gb left on internal SD. The system part is basically the apps from ROM. The data and datadata is basically apps you DL and use. So when you move an app to SD you move it from the data part to internal SD.
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Is there a way to move apps to SD to free some internal memory? I'm currently running CM10.1
AshyKnuttz said:
Is there a way to move apps to SD to free some internal memory? I'm currently running CM10.1
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try foldermount.
Of course some of those applications should be movable to sd anyways. I wouldn't move anything that you use often. I wouldn't move anything that needs to be active most of the time, i.e. widgets.
My understanding---and someone correct me if I'm wrong---is no. The way the S4 mounts the SD card means that it's not recognized as external. I believe even the stock update doesn't really move apps, or at least appdata, to the SD card.
Now, I await someone to tell me that I'm wrong, or at least that I'm right for the wrong reasons.
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My understanding---and someone correct me if I'm wrong---is no. The way the S4 mounts the SD card means that it's not recognized as external. I believe even the stock update doesn't really move apps, or at least appdata, to the SD card.
Now, I await someone to tell me that I'm wrong, or at least that I'm right for the wrong reasons.
MW
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The SD card is recognized as external and is treated as such. What you're thinking of is the internal partition labeled SD card, which is emulated. The external card is its own entity in the file system and is denoted as external.
As for the OP, a third party app is the best and only way to move apps AND their data to your external SD card.
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Just want to clarify that foldermount is a solution for those apps you can't move into the SD card with apps2sd or some program like that.
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The SD card is recognized as external and is treated as such. What you're thinking of is the internal partition labeled SD card, which is emulated. The external card is its own entity in the file system and is denoted as external.
As for the OP, a third party app is the best and only way to move apps AND their data to your external SD card.
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You know an app that would work on GS4/CM10?