I added some mp3 and wave files to my phone to use as ringtones from the sdcard. I later saw the internal memory was lower than I wanted but now I can't seem to find a way to delete them. Anyone know what folder they might be sitting in or a way to delete them. To use them i opened them in the stock media player and from the audio list I clicked on the sound and choose USE AS RINGTONE. I assume it wrote a duplicate file to the phones internal memory as my old phone did. My old phone would not read files residing on the sdcard for ringtones... they had to be internal.
NOTE I just deleted a few of the ringtones I assigned to contacts from the sdcard and now in the contacts profile the ringer id says unknown file. Maybe the optimus doesn't create a new copy on the internal memory and is able to simply use the file residing on the sdcard???
Hello guys,
I have a problem which i never resolved, so until now I have always stored my music on the internal sd-card. Now I just bought a 32 gb samsung sd card and therefore have to solve this issue of mine
I have formatted the card from the PC (FAT32) twice and it mounts (I can see it from the settings) and enter it from fileexplorers, but apps like Power AMPlifier doesn't find any Mp3s on the card.
I don't know what to do really.. Is this a CyanogenMod issue?
Edit: Stock music player finds the files though. It's just PowerAMP.
Go to PowerAMP > Settings > Music Folders, is the external sd card marked?
External SD Card is mounted on /sdcard/external_sd
I used the instructions from iJimaniac to swap my storage from internal to external (love the mass storage now!) however all my apps that I originally had moved to the SD card have suddenly disappeared and now i have to remember and re-install them. I made a copy of everything under /mnt/sdcard and moved it to my external SD card before making the switch so that everything would still be linked ok. Any ideas on what went wrong? Note: i took everything on my external SD card and put it in a separate folder on my external SD card so I wouldn't lose any of that.
Well, I used a PC to copy .android_secure folder from the real external_SD to the new "fake" external_SD. If that doesn't work, I would copy back the original vold.fstab then move all apps to internal, then use modified vold.fstab and move your apps back to sd if you want. Remember to reboot after making a change. Several reboots might even be needed for all apps to show up (might want to try that before anything). Hope this helps!
Ok well the problem is apparently that the .android_secure folder on the sd card is empty. Strangely it also has no permissions and refuses to let me change it. Whenever i try to replace it with the full .android_secure folder it gives me a black screen and i have to restart. Any idea what might be wrong?
Well, it might not actually be empty, it looks empty when viewed with an android file browser, but when you look at it on a computer (might need to disable "hide protected system files" in windows folder options) you should see stuff in it. So, you need to copy the .android_secure folder FROM your REAL microSD card TO your REAL internal memory using a pc, not an android file browser. To be clear, I have figured out that android transfers the app to your sd card when you select "move to usb storage", so that can be deceiving. Your apps were on the sd card, but now you need to transfer them to your usb storage by moving the .android_secure folder. Hope you figure it out!
Ah something decided to start working again and all my apps came back! Thanks for your help!
No problem! What was probably wrong was your player was rebuilding the dalvik-cache. It sometimes takes a while I find. Glad you got it working.
i have alcatel scribe easy run original room without root android 4.1.2
i have a problem in setting mp3 as a ringtone that when i restart the device it return to the default ringtone that is only when i insert the external sd card when i restart the device the mp3 disappear from setting ringtones list and show only the default ringtones but when i remove the sd card the problem gone and every thing is ok after restart and restart but when i put the sd card again it come gain the same problem i tried every thing from using app like mp3cut zedge and also tried t put the mp3 on the phone storage ringtone folder and on sd card on ringtone or even media-ringtone or audio folder still the same i think it's a problem in setting the default storage when it have no sd card it's no problem but when i put the sd card it become the default storage even if i set the default storage to phone after restarting it become again sd card is the default storage any help and sorry for my bad english
Hello,
when inserting an external SD card, the internal memory card is then mounted as sdcard1 and the inserted external card is mounted as sdcard0. So Android starts writing a lot oft data to the external SD card.
How can I avoid this? Android should not touch the external SD card. I want to copy pix, music and backup manually to it.
Any suggestions?
Hi just go to settings =storage and then change default write disk to phone storage
yascooluk said:
Hi just go to settings =storage and then change default write disk to phone storage
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Hello,
and you have tested this by yourself? If I insert an external SD card, switch to "default write disk to phone storage" and delete ALL data on this SD card, Android
immediately starts to write to data on it:
The folders "LOST.DIR", ".thumbnails" and "Android" are created. In the folder "Android" there is the folder "data" with several App-Data in it.
Even some Apps like WhatsApp start to write data to the external SD card.
So, switching to "default write disk to phone storage" does NOT keep Android away from writing data to it.
For example, on my Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4 the external SD card is mounted as "sdcard1" and no files are written to it automatically.
I browsed the web for hours, but did not find any solutions for this problem. It is not a big thing, but it is annoying.
:crying::crying::crying:
I have the same problem also on an old smartphone with MT6582 processor and Android 4.1.2.
It's an old problem, I think that it's a way of manage memory for smartphones based on MTK processors and there aren't solutions.
But I would like this to be denied
What about changing sdcard1 and sdcard0 , in the mount point file:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK2O92kgki0
You must be root.
When i have time to root my phone i will try.
I am having the same problem and it is very annoying. Why can't Android leave alone my Sdcard? I only want to storage music and some files there.
@yascooluk
Settings =>storage => default disk write storage "Phone" has no effect. Lots of Apps point to sdcard0, which is now the external sdcard.
@ndouchin
This Solution worked for Android Versions prior 4.3. In Android 5.1 there is no vold.fstab file, and swapping mounting points works differently now, but i didnt' figure it out yet.
Yes you are right, fstab is in boot.img in lollilop, if I believe what I read ;
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2426804
Maybe try to unpack and pack boot.img:
http://www.mtkroms.com/2015/02/unpackrepack-bootimg-and-port-kernel.html
Sorry I have no time to work on my device , i have not already rooting it, and the internal memory is enough for me.
I've managed to root my device, but i'm not skilled enough to do this boot.img operation. Too many things that can go wrong. As the source code for this device was already released, I'll wait and hope until some developer can find a solution.
XinternalSD is the solution. Try it. regards
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