HI, first thanks for the help of people here.
Well, I'm using a feiteng h7100 for about a year and a half and im soon buying a new device (probably thl t100s).
the problem with the my current device is that it has low internal storage so I can't install many apps (1GB only for apps,etc), and I move each app I can to the 16GB sd card inside.
Now, I've gotta move all my private stuff to my new phone, including pictures,videos,whatsapp (and chat history of whatsapp too is important to me), I see that on phone storage (like internal storage, just for pics and the app data) there's nothing, all my data is storaged on sd card, including trash files that are not relevant from me of apps I deleted.
I wanna know how do I backup my pics, videos and music and whatsapp conversations and get rid the rest of the junk files.
I was thinking I could move all my media to the computer and move it to the new phone after, but what about whatsapp conversation history? I know there's a restore option, from what I can see the whatsapp backup files are located in my sd card, can I copy the whatsapp directory to my computer, then put it inside the phone storage of the new phone (since it has 32GB) and then when I install whastapp it will recognize and restore?
thx and sorry for long message hehe
do1346 said:
HI, first thanks for the help of people here.
Well, I'm using a feiteng h7100 for about a year and a half and im soon buying a new device (probably thl t100s).
the problem with the my current device is that it has low internal storage so I can't install many apps (1GB only for apps,etc), and I move each app I can to the 16GB sd card inside.
Now, I've gotta move all my private stuff to my new phone, including pictures,videos,whatsapp (and chat history of whatsapp too is important to me), I see that on phone storage (like internal storage, just for pics and the app data) there's nothing, all my data is storaged on sd card, including trash files that are not relevant from me of apps I deleted.
I wanna know how do I backup my pics, videos and music and whatsapp conversations and get rid the rest of the junk files.
I was thinking I could move all my media to the computer and move it to the new phone after, but what about whatsapp conversation history? I know there's a restore option, from what I can see the whatsapp backup files are located in my sd card, can I copy the whatsapp directory to my computer, then put it inside the phone storage of the new phone (since it has 32GB) and then when I install whastapp it will recognize and restore?
thx and sorry for long message hehe
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To move your chat history to your new device do the following:
On your old device go to WhatsApp > Menu Button > Settings > Chat settings > Backup conversations
Transfer your SD card to your new device
Then on your new device open WhatsApp and click Restore
kalpetros said:
To move your chat history to your new device do the following:
On your old device go to WhatsApp > Menu Button > Settings > Chat settings > Backup conversations
Transfer your SD card to your new device
Then on your new device open WhatsApp and click Restore
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thank you, but I don't want all the information on sd card to move to the new phone, I want the whatsapp conversations to be storaged on the internal storage of the phone.
do1346 said:
thank you, but I don't want all the information on sd card to move to the new phone, I want the whatsapp conversations to be storaged on the internal storage of the phone.
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In that case copy the WhatsApp backup in your internal storage and restore from there.
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Hi everyone,
I just updated my Aria to FR007 and really want to have a 'brand new' phone look + feel.
I would like to delete ALL unnecessary files in the SD card & phone memory cos at the moment, I feel like something is not amiss.
I only have 574mb left out of the stock 2gb SD card. And my internal phone storage have only 132mb available space left.
I would like to save only my nandroid backup in the SDcard and nothing else. So deleting all other datas like saved apps, games, contacts, images, music and others are fine.
Please advice what procedure I need to follow as I am not familiar with what files are safe to delete. Is it safe to just do this:
Settings > SD & Phone Storage >Factory Data Reset ?
Thank you for your advice!
I would like to know this as well because out of a 8GB SD card (7.59GB) i only have 549MB remaining and i only have 1 nandroid back up and 3 GB of music on the phone.
That's a loaded question dependant upon what apps are installed. Many apps create folders and populate the sd card in some form.
Best I can tell you, mount the storage and copy the sd content to your computer. Erase the sdcard content and see what happens after reboot. Should only potentially bother 3rd party apps.
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Thanks for the advice BelacNongaw.
I thought about that too but I was thinking maybe there are some system files or essential files that MUST be in the SD card. And also, wouldn't deleting everything in the SD card also delete my nandroid backup? And Clockwork? <-They do reside in the SD card, yes?
Let me reiterate please: I want a 'brand new' phone while keeping only my last nandroid backup Will a factory reset do?
Thanks again everyone!
I had the same problem and the only thing I noticed was nandroid backups take a lot of space and also apps that have been deleted keep their folders in the sd card
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Okay this is what I did:
1. Back up my SDcard to the computer (plug it in, mount as disk drive, copy all contents to a folder on the desktop).
2. Restart the Aria in Recovery mode (Vol. down while Power up)
3. Go to Recovery > Partitions > Format SD Card
Now I have 1.84gb of SD storage with these folders (viewed in Astro):
1. .footprints / thumbnails / voices
2. LOST.DIR
3. tmp / .astro / astro
Haven't tested everything yet but eBuddy and Market are doing well, downloading and app installation are running fine too.
Now I'm quite concerned about the following:
1. Does this mean that I do not have clockwork anymore? Because there was a 'clockworkmod' folder in the SDcard before I formatted it.
2. Am I screwed?
Thank you for any suggestions/advice. I hope this thread can offer some helpful tips to those who need it in the future.
You are fine. The clockworkmod folder is where rom manager downloads and your nandroid backups are stored. You can just copy it back or rom manager will generate it again next time you nandroid backup.
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Thanks for reminding me BelacNongaw.
I just made a nandroid backup of my bare minimum Aria, and it automaticall created a clockworkmod folder in the SDcard with the md5 file.
Anyways, it's great to have all these space now
Great post guys I was wondering this myself. I recently rooted my inspire 4g to factory restore but all 3rd party apps are still on the sd card and i have no intention of re-installing any of them so i am looking for a safe way to delete unnessesary folders without deleting the vital ones, ill give your suggestions a try.
Technically you can safely delete everything that's on the sd card. Android will automatically create whatever folders it needs. Of course you'll lose any data saved to the sd, but you wont mess up your phone at all.
Sent from my cm7 Aria.
i have a g2 but i have the same thoughts i want the space back from sd card not worried about loosing any thing just dont want to mess the phone up
Don't worry. SD card is totally an external of the phone. Delete everything, it doesn't matter. And backup your needed files to any place you like. You can move them back to your reformatted SD card whenever you like.
I migrated from a Droid DX to a Motorola Atrix and there is an important difference in external storage handling between the two devices that prevents me from optimally using several program, including Titanium backup pro and mybackup pro with the atrix.
Motorola has chosen to call the internal ROM storage area "SD card" and the actual SD card "SD Card Ext". TB allows me to backup only to the internal storage space which is far more limited in size than my actual SD external card.
Is there any way to redirect TB to backup/restore etc. from the actual SD card and not the internal storage motorola is calling the SD card?
I have contacted the tech support for both the programs listed above and have not heard back, but I am guessing there are many more programs that don't work with this new storage lexicon Motorola seems to have adopted with the atrix (such as the music/video/podcast services like isyncr, tunesync, doubletwist, etc.)
If anyone knows a workaround or something I'm not doing properly I'd love to hear about it.
Thanks
IN TB Menu > Preferences > Backup folder Name = /mnt/sdcard-ext/TitaniumBackup
harolds said:
IN TB Menu > Preferences > Backup folder Name = /mnt/sdcard-ext/TitaniumBackup
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Thanks; I saw the backup folder name but had no idea it contained an actual file path. However when I use the folder above, TB FCs while starting? That folder does exists on my sdcard.
Make sure you spelled everything correctly.
harolds said:
Make sure you spelled everything correctly.
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It was a one time FC - the next time i went into TB it worked fine. Thanks again.
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....:/
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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....:/
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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.
Sent from my SGH-I747M
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
First of all, one of our relatives gave my mom a Samsung Galaxy tab 7.0 Korean clone tablet, but the real device name is Softwinners V706, which runs on android 4.0.4. and has 5.05gb of sd or internal storage. First it was very descent, easy to use. But then, When I install apps on google play like Hungry Shark Evo, Dead Trigger, apps with very large files, an error pop up and said "Couldn't install on USB storage or SD card". The solution was unmount the External memory card then mount it back again. But the tablet we were using didn't have an External memory card yet. And here's another problem. I tried to move apps to INTERNAL memory of the tablet, an example was the game "pou", It won't save. what I mean about it wont save, it becomes some thing like this, "me.pou.app", and becomes missing on the app drawer. another is the pictures and even screenshots, it won't save on the Internal memory of the tablet. We are new to this android thing. Please help us! I used the camera of my phone because the tablet won't save pictures for the screenshots.
Unnamed10 said:
First of all, one of our relatives gave my mom a Samsung Galaxy tab 7.0 Korean clone tablet, but the real device name is Softwinners V706, which runs on android 4.0.4. and has 5.05gb of sd or internal storage. First it was very descent, easy to use. But then, When I install apps on google play like Hungry Shark Evo, Dead Trigger, apps with very large files, an error pop up and said "Couldn't install on USB storage or SD card". The solution was unmount the External memory card then mount it back again. But the tablet we were using didn't have an External memory card yet. And here's another problem. I tried to move apps to INTERNAL memory of the tablet, an example was the game "pou", It won't save. what I mean about it wont save, it becomes some thing like this, "me.pou.app", and becomes missing on the app drawer. another is the pictures and even screenshots, it won't save on the Internal memory of the tablet. We are new to this android thing. Please help us! I used the camera of my phone because the tablet won't save pictures for the screenshots.
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do the factory reset
but it will delete all your app & data
if you want to do that
open setting, and search it on there, i forgot the location
nasheich said:
do the factory reset
but it will delete all your app & data
if you want to do that
open setting, and search it on there, i forgot the location
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okay, I'm done trying it, and still I can't use the Internal SD card when saving apps. I tried it again with "pou", together with the other apps, it still won't save. any more suggestions?
Unnamed10 said:
okay, I'm done trying it, and still I can't use the Internal SD card when saving apps. I tried it again with "pou", together with the other apps, it still won't save. any more suggestions?
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sorry, i don't have more suggestion
or maybe you can go to the service center and asking about that
nasheich said:
sorry, i don't have more suggestion
or maybe you can go to the service center and asking about that
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oh, Thanks for your response, really appreciate it. Hope someone really helps me. hehe thanks again :good:
A popup came up saying I am at 75% capacity, so I clicked transfer from internal to my sd card. But his message popped up. "Transfer Interrupted. Check you SD card for possibly transferred data."
I was wondering how I could continue my data transfer without this message popping up? I don't know what to check on my SD card to solve this problem. Thanks in advance.
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choboii said:
A popup came up saying I am at 75% capacity, so I clicked transfer from internal to my sd card. But his message popped up. "Transfer Interrupted. Check you SD card for possibly transferred data."
I was wondering how I could continue my data transfer without this message popping up? I don't know what to check on my SD card to solve this problem. Thanks in advance.
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thr s just media that will transfer to sd-card so do it urself by file manager (file commander)
but if u think thr s problem in ur sd-card, format it by pc /FAT32
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x102x96x said:
thr s just media that will transfer to sd-card so do it urself by file manager (file commander)
but if u think thr s problem in ur sd-card, format it by pc /FAT32
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Ok. Ian going to do that, but I have another dilemma. so I downloaded my Google Play Music to my SD card, but my phone is saying the the app is taking up 11gb, which is why my phone is almost full. So does it get saved in both places? Should I clear data on my play music app?
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choboii said:
Ok. Ian going to do that, but I have another dilemma. so I downloaded my Google Play Music to my SD card, but my phone is saying the the app is taking up 11gb, which is why my phone is almost full. So does it get saved in both places? Should I clear data on my play music app?
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no u don't need to delete anything now
just search them via file manager
>> If thr s nothing but still u get this problem then u need to delete everything by factory reset or repair firmware by PCC (recommended)
this kindda bugs are happening usually
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I had the same problem with Xperia Z
In my case the problem were a few files created by DS Photo+ third party application. The files had characters within their names (colons) that are not allowed on FAT filesystems but are allowed on Linux/Android filesystems. This is why the app was able to save them on the Internal Storage but then the phone was not able to move them to the SD Card.
The solution whas to find and delete these malformed files using file manager application. After that transfer to SD Card worked like a charm again.
For reference: list of illegal characters for FAT filesystems: \ / : * ? " < > |
Good luck.
Malformed characters were the problem for me...
...specifically in the DCIM folder. My Z3 compact was adding a colon to some file names, worked like a charm once they were removed.
For me this happens when i take photo with hangouts, because hangout will create photo with special character in names. Just delete them and done.
This worked great for me! Thanks
klukasz said:
The solution whas to find and delete these malformed files using file manager application. After that transfer to SD Card worked like a charm again.
For reference: list of illegal characters for FAT filesystems: \ / : * ? " < > |
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This works for me to! The podcast "Coding Blocks" made a folder with a | inside it, when | was removed I could successfully move all my files from Sony Xperia Z3 to SD-card
Thanks!
how do you remove the semi colon guy?
I had a poblem with my sony Xperia m I think my settings are not correct it's always says transfer to sd is interrupted check your sd card for possible transfer data