Hello,
I was very excited about the last update of Google Play Music which finally allows using external storage (SD card) for saving offline copies of music files. However, after upgrading to the new version (5.3), I found out that this option is not available on my phone. I tried couple of usual steps (clear data, uninstall the app, clean all the folders while uninstalled) but the options is still not there. I didn't try a wipe or a different ROM yet.
I found mentions related to the fact, that the external storage option in Play Music is unavailable on phones, which don't have any external storage. I'm wondering if this can be the reason - the app is not able to find the external storage. Note that all other apps (including system ones like Camera) have no trouble locating and saving to my 16GB SD card.
I would like to know if there is someone more knowledgable who can guess how the app detects external storage - maybe a symlink or something can fix the issue? Anyway, I would be grateful for any ideas as to the nature of this.
Device: Samsung Galaxy S Advance (GT-I9070)
Android version: 4.2.2 (TouchWiz based ROM) by Woft, rooted
Thanks in advance for any replies.
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Hey there guys...
To start with i have my S3 two days now and i absolutely love this phone...:')
But,after installing lots of games my internal memory has gone full and i can't download any data in-game because i have low storage space...
My external sd on the other hand is around 10gb free but when i try to move the data to the same folder on the external the data isn't identified by the game and it asks me to download again?
It has become really frustrating,it seems i can't do anything about it...
Any suggestions to try?
Cheers,George
As the system now uses unified storage all apps will remain on internal memory; moving the data alone to an external SD card will have no use without altering the application to look for that location for its data. i.e. in the GS2 you had a move to SD option since the phone was partitioned. With the S3 however this option is not there which means that when an application is downloaded all of its information needs to be stored on the internal storage. When the "Move to SD" option was selected within the S2 or prior phones, it informs the application that its new location is within x folder rather than the folder it was originally downloaded too. Since this option is no longer there then the application has no way of being told where its new location is.
Maybe move to SD could be an add-on with a mod/hack but I am not sure if this is possible. Maybe check with a developer?
Have you got a prior Android phone? Maybe install the application on to it; use the "Move to SD" option and see if that will allow it? It's just a suggestion; if you don't have a different Android phone I can try it for you.
Edit: Just tried it; the phone itself doesn't even check for applications stored within an external SD. Sorry man - the only way around it would be a mod/custom/hack (if possible).
T__ said:
As the system now uses unified storage all apps will remain on internal memory; moving the data alone to an external SD card will have no use without altering the application to look for that location for its data. i.e. in the GS2 you had a move to SD option since the phone was partitioned. With the S3 however this option is not there which means that when an application is downloaded all of its information needs to be stored on the internal storage. When the "Move to SD" option was selected within the S2 or prior phones, it informs the application that its new location is within x folder rather than the folder it was originally downloaded too. Since this option is no longer there then the application has no way of being told where its new location is.
Maybe move to SD could be an add-on with a mod/hack but I am not sure if this is possible. Maybe check with a developer?
Have you got a prior Android phone? Maybe install the application on to it; use the "Move to SD" option and see if that will allow it? It's just a suggestion; if you don't have a different Android phone I can try it for you.
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Thank's for the answer...
In my galaxy s 1 i had no problem having the games data on the sd card,i havent moved and application to the sd but i had the data on sd and everything worked great...now...i don't get it....:/
nfsmw_gr said:
Thank's for the answer...
In my galaxy s 1 i had no problem having the games data on the sd card,i havent moved and application to the sd but i had the data on sd and everything worked great...now...i don't get it....:/
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I did check for you; the S3 physically doesn't look for application data in the external SD (I edited original post after testing few things).. There probably are ways around it as mentioned but you would need to speak with developers for further insight.
If worst comes to worst application developers may have to implement a look in x location first, if no data found, look "here" in to their applications.
As the phone is unified storage you can store applications in the full ~12GB storage space (All the ones I have, have roughly 11.3GB after OS and all is on it) so have you used the phones storage itself for only applications; and the SD for media etc?
I am interested to know how you have managed to fill at least 11GB of space with applications; how many do you have? How is the performance of the phone with this many applications on it? Any lag navigating (I know there shouldn't be with quad core processor - but it's interesting to know if hundreds of applications cause lag between screen scrolling).
You can use an app called directory bind to link the game data on the SD to a mounting point on the internal SD. Search for it and you'll find it, not sure if I got it here or the play store.
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Yup, there's directory topic on forum, as well as working 'gl to sd' app in play store. It is not just for gameloft games.
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Thank you all guys!!
Well i filled it with lots of games that's why i don't have much space available!
No the phone is flying,it doesn't lag at all!
I use Dragon Ics rom and Siyah Kernel...no oc....
I'll try directory bind and post back soon!
To put applications on the sdcard, you could use symlinking (confirmed this works myself).
Install the application, then go to /data/app and move the apk file to your sdcard (/mnt/extSdCard) or inside a folder on your sdcard.
Then type ln -s /mnt/extSdCard/your-apk.apk /data/app/your-apk.apk
I've been searching all over the forums and I've found some results that don't fix my problem.
First of all, I've been flashing a lot of roms recently on my GALAXY S2 i9100.
For example: Rootbox JB, Thebyani rom, supernexus, resurrection remix jb, revolt jb, and some other ones.
I've had no bricking problems during this. (just incase you think thats why)
The problem is, whenever I flashed a rom, the external_sd card was in emmc or extSdCard. This caused a problem (I think) that didn't make the Gallery, Google Play, Ubermusic, and other apps not be able to read my external sd card. Is there a way to fix this? When I was searching in the forums I found two bind applications, one called RemountSD which did bind extSdCard/emmc to external_sd in my internal storage but the apps were still unable to read any external sd information. And Directory bind with the same outcome. I also tried clearing data in google play, clearing my phone's cache.
NOTE: This problem didn't come with my old daily rom which was pure ics 7.4 but I don't want it anymore. It was stock android so the external storage was in external_sd. This means all the apps read the external storage. The problem was with ALL of the other custom roms, except this one.
I also followed the rom's installation instructions so I don't think it's something that I did during that process.
Right now I'm using Resurrection Remix 3.0.5 as my daily rom but I still have this problem. The only app that would read my external storage is PowerAMP but i also wish i can use google play at times or store some pictures in my gallery. Because then what is the point of having an sd card?
I have an 8GB SanDisk memory.
Galaxy S2 I9100 internation 16gb version
LostProphet1 said:
I've been searching all over the forums and I've found some results that don't fix my problem.
First of all, I've been flashing a lot of roms recently on my GALAXY S2 i9100.
For example: Rootbox JB, Thebyani rom, supernexus, resurrection remix jb, revolt jb, and some other ones.
I've had no bricking problems during this. (just incase you think thats why)
The problem is, whenever I flashed a rom, the external_sd card was in emmc or extSdCard. This caused a problem (I think) that didn't make the Gallery, Google Play, Ubermusic, and other apps not be able to read my external sd card. Is there a way to fix this? When I was searching in the forums I found two bind applications, one called RemountSD which did bind extSdCard/emmc to external_sd in my internal storage but the apps were still unable to read any external sd information. And Directory bind with the same outcome. I also tried clearing data in google play, clearing my phone's cache.
NOTE: This problem didn't come with my old daily rom which was pure ics 7.4 but I don't want it anymore. It was stock android so the external storage was in external_sd. This means all the apps read the external storage. The problem was with ALL of the other custom roms, except this one.
I also followed the rom's installation instructions so I don't think it's something that I did during that process.
Right now I'm using Resurrection Remix 3.0.5 as my daily rom but I still have this problem. The only app that would read my external storage is PowerAMP but i also wish i can use google play at times or store some pictures in my gallery. Because then what is the point of having an sd card?
I have an 8GB SanDisk memory.
Galaxy S2 I9100 internation 16gb version
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the problem:
-You are experiencing a known problem with media scanner, there is nothing wrong with your SD card.
-this is the reason why your gallery and other players except PowerAmp could not find your media files, because they depend on the media scanner.
-the reason why PowerAmp could find your files is because it has it's own media scanner and is there not dependent on Android media scanner
Solution:
Visit the first link in my signature.
If you face any problem, do let me know.
Good luck
Swyped from Samsung Galaxy SII
Jokesy said:
the problem:
-You are experiencing a known problem with media scanner, there is nothing wrong with your SD card.
-this is the reason why your gallery and other players except PowerAmp could not find your media files, because they depend on the media scanner.
-the reason why PowerAmp could find your files is because it has it's own media scanner and is there not dependent on Android media scanner
Solution:
Visit the first link in my signature.
If you face any problem, do let me know.
Good luck
Swyped from Samsung Galaxy SII
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The first solution worked! i thanked your post. I guess I didn't read enough! I've been for days though, I thought i was the only one for a moment.
Thanks!
Hi guys, hope someone can help me, I have 2 problems stopping me from installing 75% of the apps I want on my tablet which I just updated to it's official JellyBean ROM. No one else has reported this problem with this tablet/ROM so I hope someone knows the solution.
1) with around 50% of the apps (paid for and free) I get the error "Couldn't Install on the USB storage or SD card" (see screenshot)
2) a lot of apps (Chrome for example) say they are not compatible, yet they were fine in ICS and they are fine on my JellyBean phone.
Number 2 I've seen before and been able to add an android.hardware.location.gps.xml file in to system/etc/permissions and it's work, but it's not working this time.
Number 1 has me really stumped, searching the net finds the problems on all sorts of devices and there's 2 solutions, neither of which work, one is to unmount the SD card and install, then remount it - I've unmounted & removed the card, but nothing (I have 16Gb internal memory too). The other solution is to delete any files called "smdl2tmp1" of which I have none.
Now I've tried wiping the cache etc, re-installing the ROM, doing factory resets etc but nothing is helping. I have also noticed that my internal memory isn't getting wiped each time and I cannot find how to wipe it.
The tablet has CWM recovery built in but it's in chinese, but I know my way around it.
I have noticed that if I install and load up Astro file manager it lists my storage options as this (click for screenshot)
Local Storage 1 (USB) - I have nothing plugged in to the slot
Local Storage 2 tries to point to external SD card even when it's unmounted or not even in (this still appears if I have nothing plugged in on boot too)
Local Storage 3 is my internal memory
Local Storage 1 & 2 allow me to open them but there's nothing in there and I cannot add folders etc (no errors, it just doesn't do it)
Please can anyone offer advice?
My tablet is pretty useless with hardly any apps installed on it.
can anyone help?
What tablet you running
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Hi guys,
I have android kitkat 4.4.4, which is OS that has disabled function of moving large app data (obb files) to external SD card. My device is Huawei Ascend G620S-L01 (same as Honor 4 Play). I have root. I am browsing this and other forums for 2 days. I tried several solutions, but each has a issue. I tried each type of solution with more apps so that I can be sure, there is no problem in the app:
- Clean master says that my device does not allow to move apps to SD.
- System app uninstaller told me there is no need to transfer data, because sd card is shared (wtf?). I tried some more apps that should transfer app data.
- SD unlockers - I thought there would be a need to unlock my sd card, it was written on some forum, so I tried. It went successful, but still nothing was able to transfer app data to sd card.
Then I read about mounting, so I tried several programs. All of them had same issue - the game was looking for its data and trying to download them, eventhough they had been mounted. More people with different devices, had same problem, but most of them were just running game unmounted, or without reboot. I tried reboot and also checked mount before running a game.
I hope I was just doing something wrong and it will be possible to store apps on my SD. One guy had a solution for this, he wrote two scripts to overwrite something that I did not understand, but they made it possible to store obb data on SD card and also made apps look for them on SD (I have no problems to transfer data manually, but no app will look for them on external SD). Please, is there any solution for me?
EDIT: My phone has also emulated SD card, but I need to transfer it to external SD.
root?
chnapo said:
Hi guys,
I have android kitkat 4.4.4, which is OS that has disabled function of moving large app data (obb files) to external SD card. My device is Huawei Ascend G620S-L01 (same as Honor 4 Play). I have root. I am browsing this and other forums for 2 days. I tried several solutions, but each has a issue. I tried each type of solution with more apps so that I can be sure, there is no problem in the app:
- Clean master says that my device does not allow to move apps to SD.
- System app uninstaller told me there is no need to transfer data, because sd card is shared (wtf?). I tried some more apps that should transfer app data.
- SD unlockers - I thought there would be a need to unlock my sd card, it was written on some forum, so I tried. It went successful, but still nothing was able to transfer app data to sd card.
Then I read about mounting, so I tried several programs. All of them had same issue - the game was looking for its data and trying to download them, eventhough they had been mounted. More people with different devices, had same problem, but most of them were just running game unmounted, or without reboot. I tried reboot and also checked mount before running a game.
I hope I was just doing something wrong and it will be possible to store apps on my SD. One guy had a solution for this, he wrote two scripts to overwrite something that I did not understand, but they made it possible to store obb data on SD card and also made apps look for them on SD (I have no problems to transfer data manually, but no app will look for them on external SD). Please, is there any solution for me?
EDIT: My phone has also emulated SD card, but I need to transfer it to external SD.
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Hi, I can't help you but was hoping you could help me. What rooting method did you use. I have already unlocked my bootloader. Thanks
Hello, I've been having some problems with my phones.
It's a BLU Advance 4.0 L2
it has Android 6.0
Last year it had an software update, and after that it's been showing some issues.
Every time I update an app, like WhatsApp or Swiftkey Keyboard and the like, it moves them back to internal memory. That much I understand.
But after I try to move them back to SD card, it says "System app, it's no allowed to be moved", despite having them on the SD card before. The only way I've found around this is to uninstall and reinstall them, which is a hassle in the long run. I should add this is an adopted 32GB sd card, which hasn't given me any problems before.
I don't know what other info I should provide.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Most probably your default storage/ write disk is internal memory, try to change that if your device allows it or root it and use Link2sd app, which has an option to change your default install location :good: