Since at last I had to buy the Italian 32 GB version of Moto Z (instead of a 64 GB I liked more...), I provided it with a 128 GB Lexar 1000x microSD BUT it could be interesting more if I could "remap" (bind...) some folders from internal storage to external one...
On my old LG P880 (4X HD) I used an app called "Directory bind" that worked quite well... but since it has not so updated recently, I tested it on my Z and it doesn't work at all.
It seems working BUT no real remapping has been done. I've double checked all MM permissions but with no success.
So, I'm asking... is there somebody who knows a working solution (eventually by Xposed too...) to successfully bind folders on Moto Z/MM?
No one?
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Hello guys
got a question, still cannot ask in develepment sub-forums, thats why trying to ask here anyway. sorry for that.
For a few weeks Im using roms based on AOKP, HyDrOG3N and Cruble (last few days). I love those roms very much and I allmost dont care about not working camera, but I've got some kind of trouble connected with those ROMs.
as I know, the memory issuses were solved by changing vold.fstab file. And it works really nice, but in this case all apps are installed to external sd card. I tryed to take them to internal memory using for example titanium backup pro, but result wasnt stable. Some of the apps fc after this operation, and in some of them their widgets got dissappeared from widget list (for ex. in poweamp).
THen i decided to change vold.fstab file to its previous condition, so the emmc would be external, and sdcard would be internal. Now it works, but in my opinion it got worse, because, install of a siple app from market (for ex. 3mb) takes probably to 20 minutes. And media files, like videos and images from external sd card couldnt be readed...
this was a kind of a long introduction to my question, but if this a common problem or only I have that? because I didnt find that someone wrote about that in dev sub-forums. And if its not common issue can I fix it somehow?
a really like those ROMs and I dodnt want to come back to 2.3 stock
using yp-g70 INTL 16gb, with 32gb SDHC Kingston memory card.
kernel now is [email protected] 1.
thanks for your responses
cheers
I installed Android Lollipop on my Z Ultra GPE (Stock version via OTA) and tried to use External SD card by using 3rd-party apps which say "Lollipop supported" (e.g., ES file manager, Root explorer, Solid explorer, etc.)
Issue is, I could not grant the permission for accessing External SD card to these 3rd-party apps - when I tried to do it, the windows for choosing Internal/External storage (for granting access permission) only showed the device's Internal storage, so it was impossible to grant an access permission of external SD card to the app.
Could anyone help me on this issue?
I suggest that if it is intended by Google, all other GPE devices will not be able to access to External SD card even in Android Lollipop.
I've been trying to solve a similar question with the G Pad GPE. I think I've figured it out. With Lollipop, developers can now add an API to their application that allows the user (you or I) to allow SD card access. So, first thing, apps need to update to carry this API. This is something that we need to wait on our developers for. You may already know all this.
With ES, I can access my SD Card. The app poorly explained how to do it. If you navigate to the SD Card in ES (Storage → SD Card 1), try to add a folder. The native File Explorer app in lollipop should open, then choose the 3 dot settings button at the top. Lastly, choose to show the SD Card.
This may not answer your question, and I'm pretty sure the best answer is that SD Card support still sucks. Is this helpful?
The Horak said:
I've been trying to solve a similar question with the G Pad GPE. I think I've figured it out. With Lollipop, developers can now add an API to their application that allows the user (you or I) to allow SD card access. So, first thing, apps need to update to carry this API. This is something that we need to wait on our developers for. You may already know all this.
With ES, I can access my SD Card. The app poorly explained how to do it. If you navigate to the SD Card in ES (Storage → SD Card 1), try to add a folder. The native File Explorer app in lollipop should open, then choose the 3 dot settings button at the top. Lastly, choose to show the SD Card.
This may not answer your question, and I'm pretty sure the best answer is that SD Card support still sucks. Is this helpful?
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Interesting... According to your experience, Lollipop's native file explorer recognizes external SD card in the case of G Pad 8.3 GPE.
The core issue of my trouble is, Lollipop's native file explorer (from Z Ultra GPE) cannot detect external SD card therefore I am not able to give any permission to apps which request write permission for the external SD card.
Currently I am using a workaround (search for “Write files to SD card without root- Kitkat and Lollipop” on Youtube) which exploits Android apps' default write permission on a device’s external SD (sdcard1\android\data\appname\) but this trick may have a danger of losing data when initializing the device.
I hope that Sony will fix this issue in the (probably) upcoming 5.01 update for Z Ultra GPE but...(Sigh)
sawoha said:
I hope that Sony will fix this issue in the (probably) upcoming 5.01 update for Z Ultra GPE but...(Sigh)
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I believe that Google is behind the GPe updates and not Sony..
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I believe that Google is behind the GPe updates and not Sony..
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Although Google does the most part of it, manufacturers still play a major role in providing updates for GPE devices.
For example, Samsung has not released Lollipop updates for its Galaxy S4 GPE edition although Galaxy S5 already received its Lollipop update (also almost all other GPE devices from different manufacturers).
In addition, Z Ultra GPE contains some Sony-only features - X-reality and Clear Audio. Because Sony needs to customize updates for Z Ultra GPE to include these features, I suspect that this might be the origin of the issue.
(Albeit my Z Ultra GPE's TA partition has already long gone without a backup during my attempts to downgrade from 4.4.4 to 4.4.2...:crying
Confirmed for Samsung Galaxy S4 GPE
I have the same issue with my Samsung Galaxy S4 Google Play Edition. I've logged an issue with Solid Explorer (a 3rd party app which attempts to request the SD card access permission). A few other users have confirmed the same issue. I'd only heard of this being an issue on the S4 GPE but it looks like it's at least also happening on the XPeria Z Ultra GPE. So fret not, you're not crazy... I've seen the issue exactly as you've described. Unfortunately I don't have a solution. I suspect that the fix will have to come from Google.
Received 5.1 OTA, still same
bkauffman423 said:
I have the same issue with my Samsung Galaxy S4 Google Play Edition. I've logged an issue with Solid Explorer (a 3rd party app which attempts to request the SD card access permission). A few other users have confirmed the same issue. I'd only heard of this being an issue on the S4 GPE but it looks like it's at least also happening on the XPeria Z Ultra GPE. So fret not, you're not crazy... I've seen the issue exactly as you've described. Unfortunately I don't have a solution. I suspect that the fix will have to come from Google.
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Thanks for the information!
I just received 5.1 OTA for my Z ultra GPE. and... yeah, I still cannot access to my SD card
(Albeit nowadays there are some tricks which allow 3rd-party file managers to write SD card without a root permission - because problem is a PROBLEM!)
SD card or File system issue?
Recently I got a new phone to meet my business needs - and it came with 32GB micro SDHC card as a gift.
Because I was going to use the new phone as my primary phone, I decided to swap the SD card which I was using with my Z ultra GPE (64GB SDXC) and this new 32GB card.
Surprisingly, I was able to grant a write permission to any 3rd party app with this new 32GB SDHC card inserted in Z ultra GPE. On the other hand, my new phone could not 'detect' the 64GB SDXC card, like I kept writing down on this thread.
More interesting thing was, after my new phone got an OTA update (yeah this is a brand-new phone) few days after I bought the phone, it suddenly started to recognize 64GB SDXC card.
I still do not know what caused this issue, however, my speculation is there may be a compatibility issue between Android 5.xx and some brands' SDXC cards.
I have tried a 64GB card which seemed to not work at all.
Does anyone know the max size supported by out old trusty Tablet Z (SGP311 version here)?
Walter_White said:
I have tried a 64GB card which seemed to not work at all.
Does anyone know the max size supported by out old trusty Tablet Z (SGP311 version here)?
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Works good with 128Gb card.
But card needs to be formatted inside tablet, and latest firmware should be installed (Android 5.0.2-5.1.1).
Maybe it will work with some earlier firmwares, but no guarantee.
As we all know vanilla marshmallow provides the feature to use a micro SD card AS system memory. But since i havent Found it on the mm beta update i was wondering if anyone did. Maybe it is missing due the fact that mm is still in beta. What do you think?
They will maybe add it in later beta versions or final, i don't know if they will
I'm also confused about this. The option to move apps to sd has been removed. You can set the sd card as default storage location and when I downloaded music from my nas my only option was a location I hadn't seen before: /storage/32FD-3596 which turned out to be the sd card.
I haven't looked for hidden folders so I'm not sure if apps are partly or wholly stored there but I doubt it as I only have 5.7gb free of 10.4gb.
It looks like the common internal/sd storage hasn't been implemented. If storage is integrated at some point however, surely this will make occasionally using the 2nd slot with a Sim card impossible as removing the sd card would break apps fully or partially stored there.
it seems to me that Huawei has not implemented MM "adoptable storage" functions
(a little explanation of "adoptable storage" can be found here http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/10/android-6-0-marshmallow-thoroughly-reviewed/7/)
i can't find that option in the newer firmware for my honor 7
very sad
If they wont implement it they would spare the most valuable feature in mm .. If so id consider selling my h7 and get another phone.. Lets hope they will include it in the next build
Can anyone confirm moving apps to SD doesn't work?
Trekvogel said:
Can anyone confirm moving apps to SD doesn't work?
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#confirmed
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#confirmed
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So if I have under Android 5 apps moved to SD, they will be automatically moved to the device system partition again along with the Android M update?
Sounds either like a preparation step for a later upgrade including this new feature or like a limitation - does Android M still support apps to SD if the external storage isn't merges with the internal?
After I updated to Android 6 and adopted the external sdcard, the camera apps gives an error as follows:
Memory Error
Memory not avaiable
Even if i try to change the storage, only internal is enabled.
Before the adoption the camera works fine.
Any ideas ?
Similar problem here
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After I updated to Android 6 and adopted the external sdcard, the camera apps gives an error as follows:
Memory Error
Memory not avaiable
Even if i try to change the storage, only internal is enabled.
Before the adoption the camera works fine.
Any ideas ?
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Hellou there, In my case:
[ROM][PRE-ROOTED] Xperia Z2 D6503 CUSTOM MENA Arabic - 23.5.A.0.575_R5D
camera worked on superior auto wit my 64 Gb card (8gb free) for let say... 20 shots ...
then it stated no memory or space left and switched to internal.
even if i switchet back camera worked fine for couple of shots then switched to internal.
i did NOT temper with my Sd Card
I curently switched back to cm 12.1
greetings
Thanks, but at least for my case I found a solution.
The problem's cause is because the internal memory is read-only.
So I reformated my card as mixed, so the camera app was able to find an writeable place.
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Hellou there, In my case:
[ROM][PRE-ROOTED] Xperia Z2 D6503 CUSTOM MENA Arabic - 23.5.A.0.575_R5D
camera worked on superior auto wit my 64 Gb card (8gb free) for let say... 20 shots ...
then it stated no memory or space left and switched to internal.
even if i switchet back camera worked fine for couple of shots then switched to internal.
i did NOT temper with my Sd Card
I curently switched back to cm 12.1
greetings
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Allright
dthknt said:
Thanks, but at least for my case I found a solution.
The problem's cause is because the internal memory is read-only.
So I reformated my card as mixed, so the camera app was able to find an writeable place.
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Great, on next mayor update i will flash new MM and give it a go
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