my 2gb card wont work anymore, i can format it countless times through my tp2 but when i plug it into my pc as disk drive it shows up as a removable drive like it should, but i click on the drive and it says it needs to be formatted, but before i can finish formatting, it says windows was unable to format it, i can access it on my pc through windows mobile device center, but i need to be able to access it through "my computer" any suggestions on how to fix this? i tried using a card reader but it wont show up at all, and i always lose my card readers anyways so i prefer to stick to usb cables
jon_ecton said:
my 2gb card wont work anymore, i can format it countless times through my tp2 but when i plug it into my pc as disk drive it shows up as a removable drive like it should, but i click on the drive and it says it needs to be formatted, but before i can finish formatting, it says windows was unable to format it, i can access it on my pc through windows mobile device center, but i need to be able to access it through "my computer" any suggestions on how to fix this? i tried using a card reader but it wont show up at all, and i always lose my card readers anyways so i prefer to stick to usb cables
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Maybe it's just time to get a new card. They're awfully cheap. You can replace a 2GB microSD card for about a dollar. I'd suggest getting a higher capacity, though.
Hello, I rooted my Nook tablet to CM7 using the SD card method. Now I found out I cannot access the 16G internal memory when I connected to the PC.
I did install the driver and it is shown as an Android composite interface device.
I can see the drive in the MY COMPUTER, but there is no information like size. Clicking it ask me to put in a disk or something like that.
Can anyone please tell me what is going on and how to fix it...
Everything is working fine except I cannot use those space for movies and songs..
no help
but i have the same problem
I have several videos i want to transfer from sd card back to my computer.
But everytime i try it just cuts of the transfer and doesnt move any files.
With my old phone it was read as removable device and with teracopy i could move all that i wantd.
But with S3 it mounts my device as "GT-I9300 Portable Media Player" not as SD card.
I would use a sd card adaptor but my sd card is encrypted so will only work with phone.
Is there a way around this and mount the phone as a removable device or are there programs to manage the file transfer from phone to pc?
wbb1 said:
I have several videos i want to transfer from sd card back to my computer.
But everytime i try it just cuts of the transfer and doesnt move any files.
With my old phone it was read as removable device and with teracopy i could move all that i wantd.
But with S3 it mounts my device as "GT-I9300 Portable Media Player" not as SD card.
I would use a sd card adaptor but my sd card is encrypted so will only work with phone.
Is there a way around this and mount the phone as a removable device or are there programs to manage the file transfer from phone to pc?
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WiFi file transfer Pro is my suggestion. It doesn't require a cable - you just connect to the same wifi network as your comp. and then type an adress in the url bar and then download/upload as you please to both internal and external sd.
Thanks for your reply.
Wifi file transfer pro is a paid app, if there a way to do this using the transfer cable as i usually move several gigs over from my phone to computer and back and prefer to use a reliable connection.
Also i am unable to use teracopy to transfer my files like before i am limited to just move and when try moving several files it makes the next set copy across instead of moving.
Use Airdroid
It's free & it's actually the dogs nuts. It's on every pc, laptop & phone I own.
Sent from my GT-I9300 using Xparent ICS Tapatalk 2
Does anyone happen to know if Android M will be adding support for installing applications to external USB storage?
Id like to know that as well, but for the moment Im using foldermount to map the data and obb folders to the external usb and its working perfectly
You need to be rooted first to use foldermount, correct?
lartomar2002 said:
You need to be rooted first to use foldermount, correct?
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Yes, that is correct.
i need Android M to use my micro SD card as my main storage on my box but want can i do? my system is rooted and i have stickmont mounted with a USB 3.0 hub with 3 4TB drives for my media in Kodi can i still use foldermount with stickmount for my SD card
It's foldermount and I've not tried it through a hub. As long as you can see the drive in a file manager you should be able to map folders to it. If not your just need to run one of the drives directly from the usb3 port on the Sheild and run everything else through the hub on the other port
Thanks for the clarification. I was a bit confused on this myself.
I guess my main interest was ,can you install directly to external storage without the need for root or foldermount in Android M? Have any of you testers looked at this yet?
wastate2014 said:
I guess my main interest was ,can you install directly to external storage without the need for root or foldermount in Android M? Have any of you testers looked at this yet?
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Android M allows you merge the external device with the internal storage capacity. it locks the external storage device to that android device but effectively shows it as internal storage and is used as such.
Spiteful Monkey said:
Android M allows you merge the external device with the internal storage capacity. it locks the external storage device to that android device but effectively shows it as internal storage and is used as such.
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Quick question mate because I can't seem to get a definitive answer. Will it allow you to do that with external usb storage as well or just the sd card?
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I have been on the fence on which version of Shield to purchase. I have no issue with foldermount but moving the data manually gets to be a pain in the butt. Even with foldermount once you start installing a games library moving just the obb data to external storage still fills up the internal drive pretty fast. These streaming boxes need a solution to connect external drives out of the box without any mods whatsoever which I hope M will fix? $300.00 for a Android Box is very steep when you consider a Xbox one is about the same price with current promotions.
I bought the 16 GB and don't regret it. With an old 32 GB micro SD and root hacks there is no issue of storage space even with half a dozen big games (e.g. Half-Life 2) and many smaller games and apps. Also, the 16 GB box is completely silent (which I imagine an SSHD wouldn't be after a few years). I store my media collection on a NAS that wouldn't even fit on the 500 GB anyway. Furthermore I think they've announced (over on Nvidia's official forum) that SD card write access will be enabled in firmware upgrade v2.0, which is the next to be released and presumably is based on Android M. I simply wouldn't pay $300 for a TV box, $200 was already a stretch.
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I have been on the fence on which version of Shield to purchase. I have no issue with foldermount but moving the data manually gets to be a pain in the butt. Even with foldermount once you start installing a games library moving just the obb data to external storage still fills up the internal drive pretty fast.
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With foldermount I have mapped the obb and data folders to external usb 3. You shouldn't have to move data manually, once set it will just go there automatically. I've got 2.5ish gig used on the internal which is just the stock rom and a few apps and I've used about 50gig on the usb3 with my mapped folders and some Roms. I can't envisage ever running out of space on the internal, as its basically just holding the stock rom and any apk's I install.
baileyjr said:
With foldermount I have mapped the obb and data folders to external usb 3. You shouldn't have to move data manually, once set it will just go there automatically. I've got 2.5ish gig used on the internal which is just the stock rom and a few apps and I've used about 50gig on the usb3 with my mapped folders and some Roms. I can't envisage ever running out of space on the internal, as its basically just holding the stock rom and any apk's I install.
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How did you map folders to your external drive? And you mapped them and now they move automatically? Can you talk me through the process?
LiamAtkins90 said:
How did you map folders to your external drive? And you mapped them and now they move automatically? Can you talk me through the process?
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You need root and the paid version of foldermount obviously and you need to have a mouse to navigate the setup because you can't set it up using just the controller. Other than that its pretty straightforward, select the folder you want to move and foldermount will suggest a location to move it to. By default it will map to the external sd card but there is a little box at the top right hand corner and if you click it you can select your own location. It will then offer to move everything already in the folder to the new location. This may take some time obviously and you wont see the notification to say that it was running to be patient. Then click the box in setting that says apply on boot and your all done.
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I don't think Android M will support installing applications to external Usb storage.
Android is always more inclined to using persistant storage for apps / media / whatever. Which is why nexus phones don't have micro sd slot. I wouldn't think Android will support this feature anytime in near future.
bharat g said:
I don't think Android M will support installing applications to external Usb storage.
Android is always more inclined to using persistant storage for apps / media / whatever. Which is why nexus phones don't have micro sd slot. I wouldn't think Android will support this feature anytime in near future.
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This is a feature of Android M, that phones with a micro SD card, you can merge it with your internal storage, but the catch is the phone/tablet whatever device has Android M on it, it encrypts the card and makes it unusable on any other device. So although we gain an extra few gigs or whatever size card you have, you loose the ability to have it as portable storage without formatting it again.
LiamAtkins90 said:
This is a feature of Android M, that phones with a micro SD card, you can merge it with your internal storage, but the catch is the phone/tablet whatever device has Android M on it, it encrypts the card and makes it unusable on any other device. So although we gain an extra few gigs or whatever size card you have, you loose the ability to have it as portable storage without formatting it again.
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Ok, was unaware of this. But, Such feature is only applicable to microsd cards.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/0...or-accessed-normally-with-no-additional-apps/
I think the OP asked about external USB storage which should be Pen Drive via OTG. Still, it cannot be used for apps.
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This is a feature of Android M, that phones with a micro SD card, you can merge it with your internal storage, but the catch is the phone/tablet whatever device has Android M on it, it encrypts the card and makes it unusable on any other device. So although we gain an extra few gigs or whatever size card you have, you loose the ability to have it as portable storage without formatting it again.
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Will this eventually be available for Shield TV?
Hi P9000 users!
I had now time to test some stuff with my P9000. One question: I inserted a Sandisk 128 GB SDXC Card (UHS) and formatted as internal Storage (want to move apps). Worked fine for the Phone and i was able to move apps to the SD. But after connecting Phone to USB (via MTP & unlocked phone) it only shows 32 GB internal SD. Also via File Explorer app on the phone i cannot find the external SD or mountpoint....
Anyone with same issue? I also changed connection-type to USB and then my OS (Win 10) does not open phone file system at all.
thx and br
Ausdroid
Arangato said:
Hi P9000 users!
I had now time to test some stuff with my P9000. One question: I inserted a Sandisk 128 GB SDXC Card (UHS) and formatted as internal Storage (want to move apps). Worked fine for the Phone and i was able to move apps to the SD. But after connecting Phone to USB (via MTP & unlocked phone) it only shows 32 GB internal SD. Also via File Explorer app on the phone i cannot find the external SD or mountpoint....
Anyone with same issue? I also changed connection-type to USB and then my OS (Win 10) does not open phone file system at all.
thx and br
Ausdroid
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We did an article about the SD card memory management in Marshmallow a while ago on the XDA portal that explains this, I'd suggest googling for it as I can't remember the title.
Edit: Something to do with the SD card being formatted as Ext4 (linux file system standard these days) and Windows not supporting Ext4 filesystems.
Thx for reply, so i am afraid its related to Android 6 default behaviour. So if SD is formatted as internal storage you cannot access via USB from PC or managing files on it via file browser app? Thats really disappointing for me since it then switches SD card to enhanced app storage only, useless for image, videos, music etc. Of course i can format as portable SD, but then no movement of apps are possible (via root its maybe the only option).
In SD portable mode, i also had issue that SD cards randomly disconnects and one time it even needed to be reformatted. Have read about that in another thread, that this is related to physical sd mount... will see to fix this with some tape :/ (gives me not a good feeling here)
Arangato said:
Thx for reply, so i am afraid its related to Android 6 default behaviour. So if SD is formatted as internal storage you cannot access via USB from PC or managing files on it via file browser app? Thats really disappointing for me since it then switches SD card to enhanced app storage only, useless for image, videos, music etc. Of course i can format as portable SD, but then no movement of apps are possible (via root its maybe the only option).
In SD portable mode, i also had issue that SD cards randomly disconnects and one time it even needed to be reformatted. Have read about that in another thread, that this is related to physical sd mount... will see to fix this with some tape :/ (gives me not a good feeling here)
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Update: checked some forums and blogs, seems not to be android 6 default behavior that you completely cannot access the files on adopted SD-card anymore. after adopting as internal storage... anyone could also reproduce this? I will try doing factory reset with SD-Card inserted..