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I wonder if anyone's looked in to this? Could be huge - most of us have a dead simcard slot - I wonder if there's a way to hack in an sdcard reader to the hardware?
What dead MicroSD card slot?
Do you mean the slot that has the serial # info and has nothing to do with ab SD card?
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What dead MicroSD card slot?
Do you mean the slot that has the serial # info and has nothing to do with ab SD card?
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He said dead sim card slot, not dead MicroSD card slot. The OP clearly realises the slot has nothing to do with an SD card. Seems you have misunderstood or not bothered to read it properly but nevertheless im sure the pretty much redundant piece of plastic with the serial info is something that I'm sure a lot of TP users would be prepared to sacrifice if they could mod in a card reader.
If you're going to hack anything then hack the USB port to work as a host and read away!
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He said dead sim card slot, not dead MicroSD card slot. The OP clearly realises the slot has nothing to do with an SD card. Seems you have misunderstood or not bothered to read it properly but nevertheless im sure the pretty much redundant piece of plastic with the serial info is something that I'm sure a lot of TP users would be prepared to sacrifice if they could mod in a card reader.
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Yes, I misunderstood... my apologies.
I've wondered if it would be possible to solder in a wire from a +5v somewhere to the USB. (I'm sure someone will quickly point out if this is a "bad" idea...)
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tekowalsky said:
I've wondered if it would be possible to solder in a wire from a +5v somewhere to the USB. (I'm sure someone will quickly point out if this is a "bad" idea...)
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you would probably need to create 5v first. the touchpad I think runs off something like 3v. while I seems like a good idea to hack in a card reader,my feeling is not to.worry until you in out of memory. a better idea might be a device stuck to the back containing a extra battery and a card.reader. It would make the tablet thicker but increase battery life and provide plenty of storageas well as providing the power needed for the reader.
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If you're going to hack anything then hack the USB port to work as a host and read away!
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This would also be awesome. I think it would take a bit more for this though than an sdcard since the sdcard can operate up to 3.7v.
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LateralOctober said:
This would also be awesome. I think it would take a bit more for this though than an sdcard since the sdcard can operate up to 3.7v.
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Sorry I wasn't clear enough, you can do this for real right now!
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Sorry I wasn't clear enough, you can do this for real right now!
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Do you have a link?
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Do you have a link?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1316174
And there is another fuller in depth post on another forum which I will not post here as the last time I tried to be helpful I was accused of spamming and threatened with a ban so you will have to try a google.
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Oh what the heck
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/3724-functional-usb-host-on-touchpad/
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1316174
And there is another fuller in depth post on another forum which I will not post here as the last time I tried to be helpful I was accused of spamming and threatened with a ban so you will have to try a google.
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Oh what the heck
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/3724-functional-usb-host-on-touchpad/
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Well that's not near what the OP was talking about. An SD card that give you build in storage, even on the go, is much more practical than this option.
Still could be useful, but for me it not very practical.
RojasTKD said:
Well that's not near what the OP was talking about. An SD card that give you build in storage, even on the go, is much more practical than this option.
Still could be useful, but for me it not very practical.
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Of course it isn't, but it is what I was talking about and the OP asked for the link.
So what's your problem?
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Of course it isn't, but it is what I was talking about and the OP asked for the link.
So what's your problem?
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I don't have a problem...
1. I didn't see where he asked about it... my apologies there.
2. Just pointing out the limited usefulness compared to the SD card solution.
I wasn't trying to be a jerk.
Personally I think the best solution would have been if HP would of just included an SD or MicroSD card. It drive me nuts when manufacturers mimic the apple model and give you less option and features as if that will equal success (looking at you Touchpad and GalaxyTab 10.1).
Um... Looks like the subject is just about buried in the amount of crap everyone has been piling on so far.
So back to constructive discussion... What are the advantages of having SD card in your mobile device (be it a phone or a tablet)?
I have a 16GB microSD card in my Nexus One, and I have never taken it out. I almost wish all of the flash was just integrated.
With quality of USB and network file transfer protocols I think SD is just about useless.
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Um... Looks like the subject is just about buried in the amount of crap everyone has been piling on so far.
So back to constructive discussion... What are the advantages of having SD card in your mobile device (be it a phone or a tablet)?
I have a 16GB microSD card in my Nexus One, and I have never taken it out. I almost wish all of the flash was just integrated.
With quality of USB and network file transfer protocols I think SD is just about useless.
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Very simple, I can put all my photos, videos, documents, downloads, Maps for my GPS apps on my SD card. It leaves more space on my device for apps and if and when I wipe my device I don't lose any of it. I've had time when I was having an issue with a device and had to wipe everything. Having certain files on my SDcard kept me from loosing anything. with my phone I've stored different ROM on my SDcard so I could test them out and switch between various ROM with ease.
I don't take my SDcard out either, the purpose of the SDcard isn't to move files from you computer to you phone but rather as storage.
But, I'll give you $10 for that useless 16GB microSD card.
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Very simple, I can put all my photos, videos, documents, downloads, Maps for my GPS apps on my SD card. It leaves more space on my device for apps and if and when I wipe my device I don't lose any of it. I've had time when I was having an issue with a device and had to wipe everything. Having certain files on my SDcard kept me from loosing anything. with my phone I've stored different ROM on my SDcard so I could test them out and switch between various ROM with ease.
I don't take my SDcard out either, the purpose of the SDcard isn't to move files from you computer to you phone but rather as storage.
But, I'll give you $10 for that useless 16GB microSD card.
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Technically a TouchPad without hardware damage is unbrickable, USB is connected to CPU so you could always push a boot image to RAM.
You do bring up a valid issue, but some of the ways you can stop relying on local storage are cloud storage and cloud backups. These Palm accounts that we get with WebOS on the TouchPads do just that.
Which brings us to the next question, can we have an application to access our Palm accounts from Android?
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You do bring up a valid issue, but some of the ways you can stop relying on local storage are cloud storage and cloud backups. These Palm accounts that we get with WebOS on the TouchPads do just that.
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But I like local storage. I rather have my music on my SD card. There are some picture I'd also like to have on my device locally. Same with documents and a variety of other thing. I don't have to have everything on there, but there are something I would like to have. Not to mention that being a WiFi device I can't always have access to cloud storage.
There is room for both in my opinion.
OK, I'm done... back to you regularly scheduled thread.
ive been curious about this since i got mine, but i have a 32gb, so its never really been a project in the front of my mind...imma take a look at the whitesheets and teardowns (cuz i dont wanna open mine if SD isnt possible ) and see if there are even pins for data available, but im pretty sure there isnt, which would also explain why devs are working on getting OTG running
whats up with this i got the 16gb i know u dont get all ur gigs do to the file system **** but this is kinda bad im missing like atleast 4 gigs where has it gone? -.- is eveyone else like this
Your phone reserves some memory for system functions and apps, then there's whats leftover for you (~10gbs)
Put a microSD card in that puppy and you're good to go!
Radioshacks around my area seem to have 16gb/8gb ones for ~$1.00/gb
How do you install or move apps to this 10GB? Doesn't seem to work the same as moving to my SD card. I was able to put music there by using as USB storage, but it would be cool to make it the default app install location. Any ideas of how to do this?
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Hey everyone,
I just picked up the HTC One last week and was wondering whether anyone knew how much storage was taken up with the stock software/apps that it comes pre-installed with. I have the 32gb phone and used the transfer tool to transfer text messages, pictures/videos and contacts from my HTC MyTouch 4g Slide. I transferred about 12 gb of info from my old phone to the One, but now I'm only left with about 13 gb of storage! I checked my storage values and it says I have about 6 gb of "other". Could that be all the pre-installed bloatware that came with the phone? Is there a way to know?
I checked my storage before doing anything to the phone and it looked like about 6.6 gb of space was taken.
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Hey everyone,
I just picked up the HTC One last week and was wondering whether anyone knew how much storage was taken up with the stock software/apps that it comes pre-installed with. I have the 32gb phone and used the transfer tool to transfer text messages, pictures/videos and contacts from my HTC MyTouch 4g Slide. I transferred about 12 gb of info from my old phone to the One, but now I'm only left with about 13 gb of storage! I checked my storage values and it says I have about 6 gb of "other". Could that be all the pre-installed bloatware that came with the phone? Is there a way to know?
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25 Gb is a bit low, but I'm using TMO. I hear that ATT puts a lot more bloatware on their ROMs. I believe I had about 27 Gb when I first turned on my phone.
How is 25GB a "bit low"?
6GB for the ROM, plus the 25GB = 31GB.. plus the 1GB variance of actual available storage sounds perfectly normal to me. Remember, you don't actually get the stated GB of storage, even on micro SD cards, etc.
There's always some partitioned for the file storage system (and no I don't mean the OS, I mean the "SD" file system)
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How is 25GB a "bit low"?
6GB for the ROM, plus the 25GB = 31GB.. plus the 1GB variance of actual available storage sounds perfectly normal to me. Remember, you don't actually get the stated GB of storage, even on micro SD cards, etc.
There's always some partitioned for the file storage system (and no I don't mean the OS, I mean the "SD" file system)
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It is a bit low because I had more than that when I first powered up my phone.
EDIT: IIRC. I have no particular intention of doing a reset to see what it comes out to.
Really? Lol. Where did you buy your phone from? Because if it's T-Mobile, then you had 26GB max.
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Really? Lol. Where did you buy your phone from? Because if it's T-Mobile, then you had 26GB max.
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And 26 is not larger than 25? Hence, "a bit small".
Yes, but previously you said you believed you had 27. You did not.
The OP's concern was whether or not his was normal. Your response infers his available storage it is not normal, when it is.
ingenious247 said:
Yes, but previously you said you believed you had 27. You did not.
The OP's concern was whether or not his was normal. Your response infers his available storage it is not normal, when it is.
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Sorry, can't remember if I had 27 or 26, as I think I mentioned. What I said was his 25 was a bit low, but maybe he is on ATT. 25 is a bit lower than 26, or whatever the TMO has. I'm not going to reset mine to find out, it really isn't that important.
I don't recall saying his was abnormally low, just that he might be on a bloatware provider that took up extra space.
I think he had the same 26GB, he's just generalizing the amount of data he transferred
i.e. "I transferred 12 GB" really means something like 12.46 GB leaving him with 13.54GB. Add in the 6-point-something OS and you get ~32GB.
Anyway, OP, the answer is, it's the OS (which includes bloatware) your phone is completely normal.
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I think he had the same 26GB, he's just generalizing the amount of data he transferred
i.e. "I transferred 12 GB" really means something like 12.46 GB leaving him with 13.54GB. Add in the 6-point-something OS and you get ~32GB.
Anyway, OP, the answer is, it's the OS (which includes bloatware) your phone is completely normal.
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You know, that is quite possible...
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I had been using a Samsung evo 32gb in my g3 with no issues. I upgraded to the Samsung evo 128gb and now when I play my music, the music drops out a lot. I don't understand. I had a replacement sent to me and it does the same thing. I bought them from Amazon and have ran two different apps to test them. They come back as genuine Samsung cards. The cards are reading @ 41 mbs. So I'm not sure what the deal is. I only have a couple of days before I have to send the card back so I'm trying to find out if the cards are good or not. Thanks.
I had been using a Samsung evo 32gb in my g3 with no issues. I upgraded to the Samsung evo 128gb and now when I play my music, the music drops out a lot. I don't understand. I had a replacement sent to me and it does the same thing. I bought them from Amazon and have ran two different apps to test them. They come back as genuine Samsung cards. The cards are reading @ 41 mbs. So I'm not sure what the deal is. I only have a couple of days before I have to send the card back so I'm trying to find out if the cards are good or not. Thanks.
What format is the card in? FAT32? ExFAT? Whichever it is, try the other. Even if it came formatted, you can try formatting it from the phone instead. Sometimes it makes a difference.
Also, there's some apps to increase the cache for your Micro SD card. I think some music apps have a cache setting, too.
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What format is the card in? FAT32? ExFAT? Whichever it is, try the other. Even if it came formatted, you can try formatting it from the phone instead. Sometimes it makes a difference.
Also, there's some apps to increase the cache for your Micro SD card. I think some music apps have a cache setting, too.
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Sweet. I'll check into the formatting. Can you give some examples of apps you are referring to? Thanks!
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Sweet. I'll check into the formatting. Can you give some examples of apps you are referring to? Thanks!
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I haven't used any in a while so I don't remember specifically the app names.
If you search the Play Store for SD cache I see some but some of the hits are for other things related to cache, so you'll just have to judge by their names.
I think among all the other things it does, I believe ROM Toolbox by JRummy does that, but that app's overkill and might require buying for some features.
Sometimes I wish I could pay it forward with apps I've bought in the past. I've probably stopped using more apps that I've paid for than apps I currently use that require being bought.
You're welcome!
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I haven't used any in a while so I don't remember specifically the app names.
If you search the Play Store for SD cache I see some but some of the hits are for other things related to cache, so you'll just have to judge by their names.
I think among all the other things it does, I believe ROM Toolbox by JRummy does that, but that app's overkill and might require buying for some features.
Sometimes I wish I could pay it forward with apps I've bought in the past. I've probably stopped using more apps that I've paid for than apps I currently use that require being bought.
You're welcome!
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Thanks man. I sure appreciate your help. My old card was fat 32, new one is exfat. I'm backing up my sd card at this moment, so I can change it. Again thank you. Much appreciated.
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Interesting to hear if your reformatting makes a difference.
I have a 128gb Lexar 633x Class 10 (black/blue) that my VZW G3 will not recognize(mount) the card in any format or formatted with different softwares. Works fine is cameras and pcs/laptops.
But it will mount the 54gb version of same card.
good luck
Well, going from exfat to fat 32 seems to have helped some. It still has some drop out, but not like before. I'd say it's probably reduced to 1/2 or 1/4 of what I was experiencing.
Hi.
I tried to convert my SD card into an adoptable storage without a need to force the root but as you are probably aware this doesn't seem to be working properly (g5 can see sd card as a extra device storage but you just can't use that capacity).
So I formatted my sd card back to a portable storage. Than I was trying to move some of my large apps into sd card but there is no option to do it at all.
I checked every single app and there is no "move to SD" button as I have in my previous phones. I believe this is not a marshmallow "feature" as I've seen galaxy s7 screen shoots showing that working.
Any chance I can have this option back?
I hope so as I can't understand why lg released a flagship phone without this option...
That option doesn't exist in any Marshmallow rom afaik @copymaker, I didn't have it on my S4 either.
Ok. So Google erased that option due to the new feature which is adoptable storage. But manufacturers like LG and Samsung blocked it and now we have neither of them available... That's weird
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copymaker said:
Ok. So Google erased that option due to the new feature which is adoptable storage. But manufacturers like LG and Samsung blocked it and now we have neither of them available... That's weird
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Looks like adaptable storage works though, http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g5/how-to/enable-adoptable-storage-t3368207
I'd never use it because that would mean losing all my data if I switch phones. Once it's set to internal storage it will only work in that phone with that rom, but not in other phones and afaik not on your PC either. No idea who thought THAT up, but in my opinion that's utterly stupid.
I actually contacted LG about it, they insist its a developer issue with apps bot being compatible!
I pointed out my LG G4 has the ability to do so and that is running 6.0.1, it was at that point the conversation went bad to worse. Seems like they dont have a clue?
It can be done on Sprint LG G5, I followed the ADB process in the following link (no root required) and now I can move apps to my MicroSD card:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/spr...age-option-t3444940/post68338984#post68338984
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I actually contacted LG about it, they insist its a developer issue with apps bot being compatible!
I pointed out my LG G4 has the ability to do so and that is running 6.0.1, it was at that point the conversation went bad to worse. Seems like they dont have a clue?
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I contacted them as well, I got told it was google who did it. It's a shame whoever is responsible it was a useful feature on a phone with limited storage.
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I contacted them as well, I got told it was google who did it. It's a shame whoever is responsible it was a useful feature on a phone with limited storage.
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I think they are talking ****? Like i said my G4 allows me to donit so why google specifically target a handset to not have any feature on their OS other handset models have?
I feel its a cop out? They think they can baffle people with bull**** and we will accept it!
LG have gone down in my estimation in the way they have handled things.
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I think they are talking ****? Like i said my G4 allows me to donit so why google specifically target a handset to not have any feature on their OS other handset models have?
I feel its a cop out? They think they can baffle people with bull**** and we will accept it!
LG have gone down in my estimation in the way they have handled things.
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it could be a plan by google to make sd cards useless on phones as they can't stop manufacturers including them.
I don't think any current google device has an sd card so no cards is the google standard
astrobob said:
it could be a plan by google to make sd cards useless on phones as they can't stop manufacturers including them.
I don't think any current google device has an sd card so no cards is the google standard
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Im not so sure its google? Seriously think about it both G4 and G5 are 6.0x variants. My mates Htc is 6.01 yet his HTC and my G4 both allow you to move apps on to removable storage?
I seriously think its an error on LGs behalf and they are either too arrogant or lazy or both to sort it.
They told me the Cam360 was the reason they never included 360 panoramic photos and the why we can only photo in portrait mode for panoramic shots.
My biggest complaint was how poorly it stitched inages and the inconsistency in light metering which results in heavy banding in images.
LG said by the Cam360 as the G5 is a modular and some of the features are being stripped and will require additional modular support.
Not interested in my complaint at all.
Just did the S7 method, works like a charm.