I bought an SD card a couple weeks ago and its pretty much useless since everything I download always goes into my internal storage. Maybe I am doing something wrong here? So what's the point of having one
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420haxr said:
I bought an SD card a couple weeks ago and its pretty much useless since everything I download always goes into my internal storage. Maybe I am doing something wrong here? So what's the point of having one
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Picture, videos, music and transfer some apps.
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Picture, videos, music and transfer some apps.
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Yet none of those things actually download to my SD card. My SD card has like 9 gigs free space and internal only has 500mb left .
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Go into your camera settings and tell it to save to SD card and free up some of your phones space
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420haxr said:
Yet none of those things actually download to my SD card. My SD card has like 9 gigs free space and internal only has 500mb left .
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Copy the folders from internal card to extsd...
safestrap enabled, Hyperdrive driven
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Copy the folders from internal card to extsd...
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The specific media folders..then delete the contents on internal memory....
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Or use something like ES File Explorer File Manager from the Play Store or am alternative browser like Dolphin. ES has a downloader that is one of the choices when downloading a file from the web. In the ES settings you can set its default download location to the external card. Dolphin lets you pick the download location at each download. The TouchWiz camera and some others let you specify where to store photos.
Also, Titanium backup and other backup apps let you back up to the external card.
And most important of all, especially if you are crack flashing TouchWiz ROMs, keep your TWRP or CWM backups on the external card. They can be 2 GB+ each if you don't use compression, and not much better if you do. I have a 16 GB Nexus 7 and its a constant battle with backup space. I usually keep one solid reference backup and my latest only. I would love to be able to throw a 64GB card in it.
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I bought an SD card a couple weeks ago and its pretty much useless since everything I download always goes into my internal storage. Maybe I am doing something wrong here? So what's the point of having one
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Also you can use Folder Mount app to move pretty much whatever you want to you're external SD card
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420haxr said:
I bought an SD card a couple weeks ago and its pretty much useless since everything I download always goes into my internal storage. Maybe I am doing something wrong here? So what's the point of having one
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Best thing for you to do is educate yourself. ...As the extsd card is invaluable and something many other phone manufacturers don't even offer any more..
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Well each time I download something it downloads to the phone,s memory, not the external memory micro sc card. I dont even get the option to download it to the micro sd card, how do I go about this and im not rooted.
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durps said:
Well each time I download something it downloads to the phone,s memory, not the external memory micro sc card. I dont even get the option to download it to the micro sd card, how do I go about this and im not rooted.
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For stock browser I presume? menu-settings-advanced-default storage
No in general, really. Like I use dolphin browser and I dont get an option to leave the memory directory and I use a youtube video downloader app that saves youtube videos and it still doesnt give me tbe option to save on the external sd. Just mentions the phone, s memory.
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No in general, really. Like I use dolphin browser and I dont get an option to leave the memory directory and I use a youtube video downloader app that saves youtube videos and it still doesnt give me tbe option to save on the external sd. Just mentions the phone, s memory.
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Well to the best of my knowledge, without a mod, this will be app specific. But perhaps a dev somewhere will no somewhere you can change the default download directory.
Hello, apps to sd would be an option for people who don't want to do an sd swap but still want to save space on their internal memory. My question is, has anyone used Titanium Backup to put all their huge apps onto their external sd card? If so, how's it going, is it working ok?
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Hello, apps to sd would be an option for people who don't want to do an sd swap but still want to save space on their internal memory. My question is, has anyone used Titanium Backup to put all their huge apps onto their external sd card? If so, how's it going, is it working ok?
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Doesn't work even though it says it works.
Only option would be to backup to SD, delete app, and restore when needed.
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Doesn't work even though it says it works.
Only option would be to backup to SD, delete app, and restore when needed.
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Cool, thanks. Glad to know is not working for someone else than me.
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Hah. I've been wrestling with this for the last hour. Glad to see that I'm not crazy.
Hi.
I just found out that the S 4 did not have an SD card built into the slot. So I recently added one. From adding this, I found out that it didn't do much but add SD space. I'm a bit confused coming from the Xperia Play, which was using the SD card a lot more. Could someone explain what the SD Card can do? Thanks in advanced.
Hold movies, music, pictures, and other files.
There are work arounds to load your apps onto it if you really needed to.
But it already held my photos
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But it already held my photos
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What are you expecting it to do?
Good point. So, before, all my info like photos was on internal or the built in?
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I just found out that the S 4 did not have an SD card built into the slot.
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But it already held my photos
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How did it hold photos if you didn't have one?
The reason they give you a slot for an SD card, is to give you the option for more storage. I'm not sure I understand what you're asking.
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Good point. So, before, all my info like photos was on internal or the built in?
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Yes. You can now store your photos on the external, and leave room on your internal for apps.
So, there already is a SD card built-in? That's all I want to know
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Your phone came from the factory with 16gb. Roughly 9 is available to you with no external sdcard in the external sd slot. You'll see a folder named /sdcard, even though its your available internal memory. When you "add" your external sdcard, your folder in your filesystem where it mounts will be something like /sdcardext or similar.
So, there is technically no "built in" sdcard, just an internal memory chip, depending on how you look at it....
Is there a reason my phone doesnt give me the option to move an app to the Sd card?
I dont wanna fill up my internal space again, like I did on my last phone. But no apps have the "move to sd card" option.
How do I put apps on the external sd card??
Just got the phone two days ago. Im not rooted.
Verizon phone.
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MissLaniS said:
Is there a reason my phone doesnt give me the option to move an app to the Sd card?
I dont wanna fill up my internal space again, like I did on my last phone. But no apps have the "move to sd card" option.
How do I put apps on the external sd card??
Just got the phone two days ago. Im not rooted.
Verizon phone.
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The ability to move apps to SD was removed in Jelly Bean by Google. Samsung has recognized this limitation and has developed a way to do just that. The Samsung fix is rolling out to the international variants first and hopefully soon to the various US ones.
Really? Thats lame. So there is no way to put my apps on the sd card? I have a lot of apps & have taken up almost half of the internal memory already.
So no way to do this at all?
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The ability to move apps to SD was removed in Jelly Bean by Google. Samsung has recognized this limitation and has developed a way to do just that. The Samsung fix is rolling out to the international variants first and hopefully soon to the various US ones.
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The Samsung fix only moves the apk. App data is still internal.
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MissLaniS said:
Really? Thats lame. So there is no way to put my apps on the sd card? I have a lot of apps & have taken up almost half of the internal memory already.
So no way to do this at all?
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Use the Folder Mount app to move data to your external SD card and create symlinks to the internal storage.
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I have been getting an "insufficient storage space" warning for months now...need to get it resolved.
I am rooted, on HD10, ME7 with Safestrap 3.65
Storage settings shows the 16GB total space, with 7.70 GB used under miscellaneous files, the majority of which appear app-related
I have no photos, music or other files on the phone
Apps were installed to internal, not card (which is 8GB)
Is it as simple as slash and burn some apps? Move a bunch to the card?
I also keep getting Samsung apps automatically reinstalled after deleting - not sure why
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wedmiston said:
I have been getting an "insufficient storage space" warning for months now...need to get it resolved.
I am rooted, on HD10, ME7 with Safestrap 3.65
Storage settings shows the 16GB total space, with 7.70 GB used under miscellaneous files, the majority of which appear app-related
I have no photos, music or other files on the phone
Apps were installed to internal, not card (which is 8GB)
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Do you have hd10 on a rom slot or on your stock slot?
Is it as simple as slash and burn some apps? Move a bunch to the card?
I also keep getting Samsung apps automatically reinstalled after deleting - not sure why
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Well it sounds like you should at least try moving everything you can to the external card. You can use apps such SD Maid to clean up the phone and see what you're biggest files are and where they are. You can use Es File /download manager to make sure all your download are also going to external card and you can use Folder Mount to point pretty much anything you want to external card as well. So you can try things like that and I bet you'll be in good shape.
I do all those things and I have about 9 gigs free at all times in my 16 G S4
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Is hd10 on your stock slot or a rom slot?
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HD10 is on Rom slot 1
SD Maid says I am using 834MB out of 0.97 GB, leaving 16% available - could this be what is generating the message?
Ext storage shows 6.55GB used / 14.4 avail (54%)
Internal storage shows 6.07GB used / 9.70 avail (37%)
I also get Samsung apps that continue to download after being deleted - ideas for that?
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Well it sounds like you should at least try moving everything you can to the external card. You can use apps such SD Maid to clean up the phone and see what you're biggest files are and where they are. You can use Es File /download manager to make sure all your download are also going to external card and you can use Folder Mount to point pretty much anything you want to external card as well. So you can try things like that and I bet you'll be in good shape.
I do all those things and I have about 9 gigs free at all times in my 16 G S4
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Is hd10 on your stock slot or a rom slot?
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HD10 is on Rom slot 1
I also get Samsung apps that continue to download after being deleted - ideas for that?
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I'd try uninstalling them again and make sure auto update apps isn't ticked off on your play store settings. Then try clearing Cache in Safestrap and reboot. Have you tried that?
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wedmiston said:
HD10 is on Rom slot 1
SD Maid says I am using 834MB out of 0.97 GB, leaving 16% available - could this be what is generating the message?
Ext storage shows 6.55GB used / 14.4 avail (54%)
Internal storage shows 6.07GB used / 9.70 avail (37%)
I also get Samsung apps that continue to download after being deleted - ideas for that?
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Well since you're on a rom slot you still have your stock rom taking up space as well so that is why you're running Into this. You can either make that slots sizes bigger and reflash or move everything over to your external card ya know.
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I was considering moving to HD11...would that be a good time to do this? Any thoughts on size of slot? Can I install HD11 right over slot 1?
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I'd try uninstalling them again and make sure auto update apps isn't ticked off on your play store settings. Then try clearing Cache in Safestrap and reboot. Have you tried that?
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Well since you're on a rom slot you still have your stock rom taking up space as well so that is why you're running Into this. You can either make that slots sizes bigger and reflash or move everything over to your external card ya know.
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wedmiston said:
I was considering moving to HD11...would that be a good time to do this? Any thoughts on size of slot? Can I install HD11 right over slot 1?
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Yea sure if you're considering moving to that why not. As far as what size to make the slot I'd jump over to the Safestrap thread and ask someone opinion there. I've always kept my slots on the default sizes and had no problems so.. SBREEN always suggests doing a full Wipe and then fresh install so I wouldn't dirty flash.
Right now unless you just don't want Knox which I suppose is understandable, there's a safe root method for 4.3 if you wanted to move up and get on HD12 too which is what I'm on. It's debatable at best if it's worth staying on 4.2. They're currently working on kexec support on Safestrap 3.71 /mj7 base so maybe one day we will have more options. Hyperdrive is really the only stable option right now anyways. That's up to you though.
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Any questions you may have regarding updating and what can and can't be done can be found here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2606501
It's a wip but there's a lot of great info there
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You may not have meant this, but I only saw to do a full factory wipe in SS, so I'm in the process of all my play store apps coming back down. Good news is that immediately prior, by deleting a few system apps i no longer get the message. Seems to indicate the message isn't based on internal or external storage, but rather system storage, right? If that is correct, and based on you telling me that with both HD and stock roms I will continue to have this problem, what would you suggest?
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I'd try uninstalling them again and make sure auto update apps isn't ticked off on your play store settings. Then try clearing Cache in Safestrap and reboot. Have you tried that?
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Well since you're on a rom slot you still have your stock rom taking up space as well so that is why you're running Into this. You can either make that slots sizes bigger and reflash or move everything over to your external card ya know.
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wedmiston said:
You may not have meant this, but I only saw to do a full factory wipe in SS, so I'm in the process of all my play store apps coming back down. Good news is that immediately prior, by deleting a few system apps i no longer get the message. Seems to indicate the message isn't based on internal or external storage, but rather system storage, right? If that is correct, and based on you telling me that with both HD and stock roms I will continue to have this problem, what would you suggest?
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Well any rom slot you create is just using another piece of your internal storage space for all that roms system apps and data and any other apps you may download. So you can eat up 1 or 2 gigs pretty quickly on a rom slot if you're not careful that's all I was getting at.
You really shouldn't have a problem if you get rid of apps you don't need, move the ones you can to your external card then have all your downloads, music, pictures whatever else pointed there as well.
You have a ton of apps?
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Presently have 65 since fresh download from playstore after wipe. Doesn't seem excessive. Since it seems related to system apps is there a way to cull clutter there without screwing stuff up?
Going to HD12 seems a bit beyond my comfort level. Is upgrading from 10 to 11 any big deal or do you follow the same steps?
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Well any rom slot you create is just using another piece of your internal storage space for all that roms system apps and data and any other apps you may download. So you can eat up 1 or 2 gigs pretty quickly on a rom slot if you're not careful that's all I was getting at.
You really shouldn't have a problem if you get rid of apps you don't need, move the ones you can to your external card then have all your downloads, music, pictures whatever else pointed there as well.
You have a ton of apps?
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wedmiston said:
Presently have 65 since fresh download from playstore after wipe. Doesn't seem excessive. Since it seems related to system apps is there a way to cull clutter there without screwing stuff up?
Going to HD12 seems a bit beyond my comfort level. Is upgrading from 10 to 11 any big deal or do you follow the same steps?
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Well I don't think it's the system apps in particular. Everything you download whether from the play store or the Web goes directly to internal storage unless you change that. Add those things in with the actual rom itself and your going to eat up internal space quickly.
So again move whatever apps you can to your /ExtSdCard.
And get rid of the ones you don't need.
Move all pictures and music to /ExtSdCard
Get something like Es File manager which has a download manager built in that way all the downloads from the Web go to external storage as well.
Finally if you read up a bit on Folder Mount you can move even more things there.
Upgrading from 10 to 11 shouldn't be an issue since 12 is the one you need to upgrade firmware and Safestrap for.
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so it s simply a matter of these steps again, right? Which kernel? - have read both safestrap and stock.
1. Download HD!! onto card
2. Reboot into Safestrap
3. Select Rom Slot 1 (has HD10 now)
4. Wipe Data/Factory Reset
5. Wipe cache and dalvik cache
6. Install Rom
7. Pick Safestrap Kernel in Aroma (DO NOT check the reboot step at the end, instead navigate back to module file)
8. Flash ME7 Module.zip
8. Reboot (First Boot may take up to 10 mins)
9. Let Phone sit for 10 minutes
10. Reboot again
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Well I don't think it's the system apps in particular. Everything you download whether from the play store or the Web goes directly to internal storage unless you change that. Add those things in with the actual rom itself and your going to eat up internal space quickly.
So again move whatever apps you can to your /ExtSdCard.
And get rid of the ones you don't need.
Move all pictures and music to /ExtSdCard
Get something like Es File manager which has a download manager built in that way all the downloads from the Web go to external storage as well.
Finally if you read up a bit on Folder Mount you can move even more things there.
Upgrading from 10 to 11 shouldn't be an issue since 12 is the one you need to upgrade firmware and Safestrap for.
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wedmiston said:
so it s simply a matter of these steps again, right? Which kernel? - have read both safestrap and stock.
1. Download HD!! onto card
2. Reboot into Safestrap
3. Select Rom Slot 1 (has HD10 now)
4. Wipe Data/Factory Reset
5. Wipe cache and dalvik cache
6. Install Rom
7. Pick Safestrap Kernel in Aroma (DO NOT check the reboot step at the end, instead navigate back to module file)
8. Flash ME7 Module.zip
8. Reboot (First Boot may take up to 10 mins)
9. Let Phone sit for 10 minutes
10. Reboot again
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Looks good to me!! Then point everything to extsdcard and you should be good to go!!
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which kernel?
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Looks good to me!! Then point everything to extsdcard and you should be good to go!!
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which kernel?
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I believe when I was on 11 only the stock one worked for me I don't recall. Sorry. You can ask in that thread and see if stock optimized works or not
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Jeez my fault.. 11 is based off 4.3 as well. You're not going to be able to flash 11 unless your stock is also 4.3
I was confusing my versions
Having a bad day. Again my fault.
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10.2 is what I was meaning the whole time.
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any big benefit in 10.2 over 10? If not I may just stay where I am.
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I believe when I was on 11 only the stock one worked for me I don't recall. Sorry. You can ask in that thread and see if stock optimized works or not
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Jeez my fault.. 11 is based off 4.3 as well. You're not going to be able to flash 11 unless your stock is also 4.3
I was confusing my versions
Having a bad day. Again my fault.
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10.2 is what I was meaning the whole time.
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any big benefit in 10.2 over 10? If not I may just stay where I am.
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You'd have to check out the respective threads and see for yourself, there probably won't be any huge changes until you get up to 11 or 12 but look and see. Again my bad on that.
I'd look into getting up on 4.3
Read up and see if that's something you'd like to do. Just my opinion. That's all. Good luck
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