I've had my V30 for less than a month and this hasn't been an issue until the past couple of days. Basically, from what I can tell so far, non google apps don't have access to the SD card for write functionality. I can open and read any file on the SD card, but can't edit it, even so much as to rename the file, or create a text file, etc. Instead, when an app is directed to edit a file on the SD card, what I get is a variant of the instructions to "tap on the left hand drawer on the next screen, and select your SD card's root directory to grant access permission" sometimes with pictures of how to do it, sometimes not (in this case, that is a direct quote from QuickPic).
The next screen will then pop up with the slide in menu on the left saying "Open from" as it should, but it only shows "Recent" below that. Swiping left to get rid of the slide in menu shows a screen that says "Recent" has a button on the top left which reopens the left slide in menu, two buttons on the top right (one looks like a grayed out sideways version of cellular signal and does nothing), and a button with three dots which ONLY offers the grayed out option "new folder".
Below that is a chest of drawers with the second drawer (from the top) slightly open, and the words "No items" underneath.
Now, if I use my camera app, it says to the SD card just fine and Gallery deletes files off the SD card, as does Photos (all apps from Google that were on the phone to start). (well to be fair, Gallery and Photos just moves the files to trash, and I don't see a way to delete them permanently other than to wait 7 days).
At this point, I can't move my downloaded audiobooks from the internal memory to external storage to be played on Listen Audiobook player, so any further purchases from audible (I HATE the audible app by comparison - Listen works with Tasker), or Graphic Audio are pretty useless to me at this point. I really need to get this to work again.
All apps are up to date. The only things that I've done recently that I can recall are update the apps, and start a Youtube Red/Google Play Music subscription. Obviously the phone is stock/not rooted, but I do have developers options on, but I haven't modified anything in there since I turned it on shortly after I got the phone. I've uninstalled apps and reinstalled them all to the same effect. I can't get write-access with my preferred non-google apps. Does anyone have any suggestions, or similar experiences?
iantlopp said:
I've had my V30 for less than a month and this hasn't been an issue until the past couple of days. Basically, from what I can tell so far, non google apps don't have access to the SD card for write functionality. I can open and read any file on the SD card, but can't edit it, even so much as to rename the file, or create a text file, etc. Instead, when an app is directed to edit a file on the SD card, what I get is a variant of the instructions to "tap on the left hand drawer on the next screen, and select your SD card's root directory to grant access permission" sometimes with pictures of how to do it, sometimes not (in this case, that is a direct quote from QuickPic).
The next screen will then pop up with the slide in menu on the left saying "Open from" as it should, but it only shows "Recent" below that. Swiping left to get rid of the slide in menu shows a screen that says "Recent" has a button on the top left which reopens the left slide in menu, two buttons on the top right (one looks like a grayed out sideways version of cellular signal and does nothing), and a button with three dots which ONLY offers the grayed out option "new folder".
Below that is a chest of drawers with the second drawer (from the top) slightly open, and the words "No items" underneath.
Now, if I use my camera app, it says to the SD card just fine and Gallery deletes files off the SD card, as does Photos (all apps from Google that were on the phone to start). (well to be fair, Gallery and Photos just moves the files to trash, and I don't see a way to delete them permanently other than to wait 7 days).
At this point, I can't move my downloaded audiobooks from the internal memory to external storage to be played on Listen Audiobook player, so any further purchases from audible (I HATE the audible app by comparison - Listen works with Tasker), or Graphic Audio are pretty useless to me at this point. I really need to get this to work again.
All apps are up to date. The only things that I've done recently that I can recall are update the apps, and start a Youtube Red/Google Play Music subscription. Obviously the phone is stock/not rooted, but I do have developers options on, but I haven't modified anything in there since I turned it on shortly after I got the phone. I've uninstalled apps and reinstalled them all to the same effect. I can't get write-access with my preferred non-google apps. Does anyone have any suggestions, or similar experiences?
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Do you mind posting a screenshot? I think that I'm tracking but wanna be sure
So you don't see the text "SD card" under recent?
Also could you try downloading a file explorer like file Commander to verify? It always asks for RW permissions.
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Do you mind posting a screenshot? I think that I'm tracking but wanna be sure
So you don't see the text "SD card" under recent?
Also could you try downloading a file explorer like file Commander to verify? It always asks for RW permissions.
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I downloaded File Commander as suggested and the dialog is slightly different (it actually asked me to"Show internal storage" but that option affects no change. Internal storage didn't show up either.
But here's the screenshots you requested.
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I downloaded File Commander as suggested and the dialog is slightly different (it actually asked me to"Show internal storage" but that option affects no change. Internal storage didn't show up either.
But here's the screenshots you requested.
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Thanks for uploading those. That is not what I see when granting permission. I can click on recent and then see the SD card.
So basically all non-Google apps can't even see the SD card? I have never seen that issue. So if you go to the settings/storage setting do you see both internal and SD card?
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Thanks for uploading those. That is not what I see when granting permission. I can click on recent and then see the SD card.
So basically all non-Google apps can't even see the SD card? I have never seen that issue. So if you go to the settings/storage setting do you see both internal and SD card?
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Correct. Google apps don't even give me that dialog, they just work. Here's another screenshot of settings -> storage:
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Correct. Google apps don't even give me that dialog, they just work. Here's another screenshot of settings -> storage:
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Yep that's exactly what mine looks like. You wouldn't by chance have your SD card encrypted would you, like from your previous phone?
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Yep that's exactly what mine looks like. You wouldn't by chance have your SD card encrypted would you, like from your previous phone?
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Nope, and I still have access to all the data. I just can't modify it. (Except with Google apps)
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Nope, and I still have access to all the data. I just can't modify it. (Except with Google apps)
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So if you plug it into a computer do you have RW to the SD card?
Also, did you go from Android 7.x.x on your old phone to the V30 or was the SD card formatted from older OS?
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So if you plug it into a computer do you have RW to the SD card?
Also, did you go from Android 7.x.x on your old phone to the V30 or was the SD card formatted from older OS?
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Can't test through USB right now, I'll have to do that tomorrow. But I had this on a V20, so yes, running Nougat. Also, this problem only recently manifested itself. It worked when I first got the v30 a month ago.
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So if you plug it into a computer do you have RW to the SD card?
Also, did you go from Android 7.x.x on your old phone to the V30 or was the SD card formatted from older OS?
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Another thing...if you go to settings/apps and look at file Commander and then select file permissions do you see options for contacts, phone, and storage?
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Another thing...if you go to settings/apps and look at file Commander and then select file permissions do you see options for contacts, phone, and storage?
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Yes, and storage is selected.
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Yes, and storage is selected.
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Okay,well I can't think of anything else to check tonight. Let us know if you can RW when it's connected to computer tomorrow or sometime.
Sorry.
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If this only just started happening recently, you'll probably need to think back to what updates were applied around that same time. System updates, app updates, any changes to the system at all.
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Okay,well I can't think of anything else to check tonight. Let us know if you can RW when it's connected to computer tomorrow or sometime.
Sorry.
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I just tested on my laptop and editing the files worked as expected. So it's only non-google apps having the problem (I haven't definitely eliminated all google apps - just that the ones I've tested do work).
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If this only just started happening recently, you'll probably need to think back to what updates were applied around that same time. System updates, app updates, any changes to the system at all.
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No system updates as far as I can tell (Android security patch is September 1st, or essentially what was on there when I got the phone). And it's near impossible for me to tell which app updates have happened, as I tend to just tell it to update as soon as I see the prompt for it. I often update 5-15 apps every couple of days.
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No system updates as far as I can tell (Android security patch is September 1st, or essentially what was on there when I got the phone). And it's near impossible for me to tell which app updates have happened, as I tend to just tell it to update as soon as I see the prompt for it. I often update 5-15 apps every couple of days.
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Start looking for suspect apps. Uninstall them. Restart phone. See if it changed anything. Repeat until offender is found. Sounds like this would be the only changes made.
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Start looking for suspect apps. Uninstall them. Restart phone. See if it changed anything. Repeat until offender is found. Sounds like this would be the only changes made.
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Is there any way to organize the apps by latest update, or latest install? I have hundreds of apps, and, as stated, update 5-15 every couple of days... this could take a LONG damn time.
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Start looking for suspect apps. Uninstall them. Restart phone. See if it changed anything. Repeat until offender is found. Sounds like this would be the only changes made.
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Oh, it *should* be important to note that I also followed this tutorial -> https://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-v30/how-to/guide-make-v30-faster-smoother-t3693083 and disabled almost all the things he showed to disable there. A few apps I do use so I didn't disable them, but I am made to wonder if that might be why it doesn't work? I used that tutorial maybe a couple weeks ago, and I really don't know when write functionality disappeared.
You know, I'm now more willing to bet that this is the case. I'm going to have to look at that tuturial again and see just what has been uninstalled that's causing a problem (all easily reinstallable via the purchased app).
iantlopp said:
Oh, it *should* be important to note that I also followed this tutorial -> https://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-v30/how-to/guide-make-v30-faster-smoother-t3693083 and disabled almost all the things he showed to disable there. A few apps I do use so I didn't disable them, but I am made to wonder if that might be why it doesn't work? I used that tutorial maybe a couple weeks ago, and I really don't know when write functionality disappeared.
You know, I'm now more willing to bet that this is the case. I'm going to have to look at that tuturial again and see just what has been uninstalled that's causing a problem (all easily reinstallable via the purchased app).
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Okay, I didn't think to ask you if you did any debloating.
Could you export your current list of debloated apps and then restore all of the system apps?
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Oh, it *should* be important to note that I also followed this tutorial -> https://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-v30/how-to/guide-make-v30-faster-smoother-t3693083 and disabled almost all the things he showed to disable there. A few apps I do use so I didn't disable them, but I am made to wonder if that might be why it doesn't work? I used that tutorial maybe a couple weeks ago, and I really don't know when write functionality disappeared.
You know, I'm now more willing to bet that this is the case. I'm going to have to look at that tuturial again and see just what has been uninstalled that's causing a problem (all easily reinstallable via the purchased app).
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Yeah, that would have been important to know.
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If you're anything like me, you want to keep your internal memory as low as possible while filling your phone up with apps. I typically move every app that I can to the sd card to keep the internal memory usage to the bare minimum. The "Failed to move application. System updates cannot be installed on external media" error was really bugging me so I started playing around with Root Explorer.
How to move any app to the sd card
Open Root Explorer
Click "Mount R/W"
Click "system"
Click "app"
Long press the app you choose to move
In options, scroll down to "Move"
Click the back arrow softkey twice
Click "sdcard"
Click "Paste"
Scroll to the app you just moved and click on it
Click "Install" when the package installer opens
Click "Ok" when you're prompted to replace the application
You can now open the application to test it or click "Done"
Navigate back to "settings"
Click "Applications"
Click "Manage Applications"
Scroll down to the app you just installed click on it
Click "Move to SD card" and watch the "Total" and "Application" numbers drop
I've moved about a dozen system apps to the sd card and have not had any problems. Facebook still syncs with my contacts, internet still works, market still functions.
I'm sure this same fuction can be performed with adb commands. If someone would like to write them I'll post them here.
Want an even easier way? Install Titanium Backup and long press on app, it will give you some options and at the bottom there will be one for Move to SD card. This works for all user apps but not for a lot of the system ones that come baked in. Once you move all of the ones you can though, you'll have plenty of room since Froyo roms are generally pretty light anyway.
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Want an even easier way? Install Titanium Backup and long press on app, it will give you some options and at the bottom there will be one for Move to SD card. This works for all user apps but not for a lot of the system ones that come baked in. Once you move all of the ones you can though, you'll have plenty of room since Froyo roms are generally pretty light anyway.
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Yea, but I like to move them all. Wish Froyo would let us use Darchstar or CM A2SD.
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Hi, I think I'm just being obtuse now by not finding the answer to my 2 current issues. If somebody can point me in the right direction that would be much appreciated.
Problem 1: When managing apps, there is a button that either say "Move to Phone" or "Move to Media Area". What does either mean? There are some inconveniences that results from having an app in the media area. So I was wondering how many storage space I have on my "Phone" and how do I make app install there on default.
Problem 2: My phone, which is stock, doesn't seem to vibrate on email/text messages. And since my phone is on vibrate most of the day and I communicate mostly by text. You can see how it is a problem. Is there anyway around it?
Again, thank you in advance for the help!
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Hi, I think I'm just being obtuse now by not finding the answer to my 2 current issues. If somebody can point me in the right direction that would be much appreciated.
Problem 1: When managing apps, there is a button that either say "Move to Phone" or "Move to Media Area". What does either mean? There are some inconveniences that results from having an app in the media area. So I was wondering how many storage space I have on my "Phone" and how do I make app install there on default.
Problem 2: My phone, which is stock, doesn't seem to vibrate on email/text messages. And since my phone is on vibrate most of the day and I communicate mostly by text. You can see how it is a problem. Is there anyway around it?
Again, thank you in advance for the help!
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Problem #1: your phone should automatically install apps to the phone. The media area is the phone's internal SD card. There's 3gb phone storage and 7gb "media area" or internal SD storage.
Problem #2: you need to go into the settings in your email and messaging apps to enable vibration when you get and email or text.
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braindeadracefan said:
Problem #1: your phone should automatically install apps to the phone. The media area is the phone's internal SD card. There's 3gb phone storage and 7gb "media area" or internal SD storage.
Problem #2: you need to go into the settings in your email and messaging apps to enable vibration when you get and email or text.
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Thanks, problem 2 is solved! I'm coming over from iOS so I have this concept that text vibration should be somewhere inside overall settings area. Never considered text to be an "app" with its own setting. Boneheaded move on my part.
Problem 1 is still there. Some app seems to default to "media area" and I'm not sure why. I don't think my phone is full as I seem to be able to move those manually to the phone. For example, one app that constantly install to the media area is Mantano Reader. I would move the app to the phone but everytime there's an update it would go back to the media area and I was wondering if there's a way to defaulting it to the phone. I think it's completely arbitrary... Minecraft installs to the media area by default, Bible and Fruit Ninja installs to the phone.. Really puzzled by this.
Thanks for the help on Problem 2 though, really appreciate it!
I like reading these post sometimes, I never had neither of your problems and I'm stock.
#1. I did not do anything, but everything goes to SD Card.
#2. Again, I did not do anything, but upon getting e-mail, text, whatever.........phone virbrates once and the green notification lights comes on? (Me and my daughter got into it about her iPhone, no light or notification)
Thanks to braindead for the tip, maybe I will look back and see.............
I'm stock too(until somebody release a stable ICS rom). And I don't know what I'm doing wrong.
Just for fun, I installed mantano reader to see what happens. It went directly to media area, and I have everything set to go to phone. So it's not just you.
I also noticed I have a couple other apps that have defaulted to the media area. I think some apps are just set up to do that by the developer, and my guess is that it has something to do with the amount of storage space the app requires (my two apps were Sims 3 and mear, both of which can take up some major storage space).
I don't know how to force the app somewhere else without being rooted. If you're rooted, you can use ROM toolbox to choose the default install location, or some other app2SD solution I'm sure.
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Aww, that's unfortunate. Thanks all around!
Sooooo... I just discovered that this stoooopid-ass phone of mine is storing downloaded photos to the phone's internal storage instead of the SD card. Is there anyway to fix this? I don't even think it's possible to move those photos from the phone to the SD card since my laptop can't even find the phone's internal photo storage folder. Seriously? WTF?!?!
carlos64030 said:
Sooooo... I just discovered that this stoooopid-ass phone of mine is storing downloaded photos to the phone's internal storage instead of the SD card. Is there anyway to fix this? I don't even think it's possible to move those photos from the phone to the SD card since my laptop can't even find the phone's internal photo storage folder. Seriously? WTF?!?!
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Please read the stickies and search before starting pointless threads. All of your issues are because you don't know what you're doing, and not the fault of the phone.
Here's the first one, answered in a thread conveniently titled "F.A.Q.s - Massive Question Round Up Thread".
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Q: Why are my pictures saved to the internal phone storage and how can I force it to save to the SD card?
A: When you first launched your camera app (assuming you had an SD card in) it should have asked you if you wanted to save to the SD card. Either way, the problem is easily fixed within the camera settings or by going to Settings> Storage> App storage locations and choosing Storage card for each option.
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When you connect your phone to your computer, if you select media sync instead of hard drive, it will give you access to both internal and external sdcard from your computer.
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Please read the stickies and search before starting pointless threads. All of your issues are because you don't know what you're doing, and not the fault of the phone.
Here's the first one, answered in a thread conveniently titled "F.A.Q.s - Massive Question Round Up Thread".
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Thanks, Einstein, but apparently YOU'RE the one that can't read. My issue has NOTHING to do with pictures that's been taken with the camera. Read my post again and then come back with another smart-ass and useless post. Thanks.
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When you connect your phone to your computer, if you select media sync instead of hard drive, it will give you access to both internal and external sdcard from your computer.
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Thanks... that takes care of that problem. I never even thought about using that 'Media Sync' option to find files. I still can't find a way to force downloading photos to the SD card though.
carlos64030 said:
Thanks, Einstein, but apparently YOU'RE the one that can't read. My issue has NOTHING to do with pictures that's been taken with the camera. Read my post again and then come back with another smart-ass and useless post. Thanks.
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Hahaha, totally missed the word downloaded. Gotta stop visiting the site after a drink. My bad bro, sorry about that. The media Sync thing though you could have searched for.
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Hahaha, totally missed the word downloaded. Gotta stop visiting the site after a drink. My bad bro, sorry about that. The media Sync thing though you could have searched for.
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No biggie. I really wasn't too concerned with the 'Media Sync' thingy since I ended up deleting the downloaded photos from the phone's internal memory. That wasn't that big of a deal, however... I have bigger fish to fry with my original issue.
carlos64030 said:
No biggie. I really wasn't too concerned with the 'Media Sync' thingy since I ended up deleting the downloaded photos from the phone's internal memory. That wasn't that big of a deal, however... I have bigger fish to fry with my original issue.
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thanks for being cool - so where are you downloading the photos from? if you're downloading with the stock browser, you can go to settings, advanced, download storage, and change phone storage to storage card. Is that what you meant?
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thanks for being cool - so where are you downloading the photos from? if you're downloading with the stock browser, you can go to settings, advanced, download storage, and change phone storage to storage card. Is that what you meant?
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Yes, that's what I'm talking about. I use the Dolphin HD browser and SOMETIMES Google Chrome (which still has a lot of bugs). I have all of the settings set in the Dolphin HD browser to download photos to the SD card, but they still go to the phone's internal storage. If I remember correctly, Google Chrome doesn't even offer that option. It really doesn't offer it's users that many adjustments at all, actually.
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Yes, that's what I'm talking about. I use the Dolphin HD browser and SOMETIMES Google Chrome (which still has a lot of bugs). I have all of the settings set in the Dolphin HD browser to download photos to the SD card, but they still go to the phone's internal storage. If I remember correctly, Google Chrome doesn't even offer that option. It really doesn't offer it's users that many adjustments at all, actually.
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don't know about chrome, but I use dolphin hd also, and I was able to change the download directory to the sdcard by going to settings, privacy and personal data, download directory, and changing that entry to /mnt/sdcard/ext_sd/download. Is that how yours is set up? I just tested it and its working correctly on my end.
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don't know about chrome, but I use dolphin hd also, and I was able to change the download directory to the sdcard by going to settings, privacy and personal data, download directory, and changing that entry to /mnt/sdcard/ext_sd/download. Is that how yours is set up? I just tested it and its working correctly on my end.
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Yeah, that's how mine's read. I don't see any other settings in the browser OR on the phone to change the directory path. I don't have this problem on any of my other phones. All the downloaded photos goes straight to the SD card. Oh well...
TLDR: storage issue when using 3rd party file managers, deleted files do not return to free space, ends up as 'system data' when i checked with diskusage on the appstore. Didn't matter if it was on internal or sd card. Tried to factory reset multiple times still same issue. Anyone else? ><"
Here's the email i shot to LG, still no reply from them, im getting more and more upset with LG each day, even HTC, ****ty Samsung when i had my s3 and Sony Ericsson back in the day responded in a week.
"I visited the service center about 2 weeks back, 19 April, about the storage issue i was facing when using the internal and 3rd party file managers when deleting files where the space taken up by files would be relegated to "system data" instead of free space upon deletion, and i would only get back the free space sometimes when i restart the phone. I have had it factory reset and tested with the staff, who said that the software team would get back to me regarding this as it seems to be an isolated case right after the product launch when i bought it on 16 April. I have not gotten a reply regarding this issue and i would like it solved ASAP, may i know if this is a software issue or hardware issue and what the software team has been able to find out so far? This issue is still present and i am able to isolate this issue mostly to the use of 3rd party file manager/explorers on the Google Play Store. "
Any kind soul can help and try to replicate this issue?
Isn't this a feature of the G5? When you delete apps, they stay for 24 hours and can be reinstalled via the "Uninstalled Apps" icon. The icon only seems to show when I use the default homescreen. So after you delete something, check there and delete it again and it should free the space.
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Isn't this a feature of the G5? When you delete apps, they stay for 24 hours and can be reinstalled via the "Uninstalled Apps" icon. The icon only seems to show when I use the default homescreen. So after you delete something, check there and delete it again and it should free the space.
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Nono, as in any other file besides apps, i know about that feature. Lets say i delete 5Gb of music, i dont get back that 5 Gb, ends up under system data.
Hmm. Deleted some files with solid explorer and it freed the space for me. Are you rooted? What 3rd party file manager do you use?
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Hmm. Deleted some files with solid explorer and it freed the space for me. Are you rooted? What 3rd party file manager do you use?
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Hmmm i tried the asus file manager, explorer by speedsoftware and es file explorer. I am really really fed up with the internal file manager. Im in Singapore, Model H860 and not rooted(no bootloader unlock available anyways lol). Im thinking it might be just an isolated case for me, but i'll take a look at solid explorer now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c1KCCVIvsY i have recorded the issue i was talking about. Hope this helps to explain the situation.
Hi
Have you find out the reason for this yet?
This is happening to my sister's phone too
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Hi
Have you find out the reason for this yet?
This is happening to my sister's phone too
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Hello, i received notification that LG headquarters have been able to successfully replicate the issue on their end and are *supposedly working on it*, from what i understand it seems to be an underlying issue in terms of their framework coding.
Bloody hell guess this is what i get for being early adopter and having the luck to be an unrecognised beta tester to solve an issue they didnt already fix with a phone that just so happens to have this issue.
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Hello, i received notification that LG headquarters have been able to successfully replicate the issue on their end and are *supposedly working on it*, from what i understand it seems to be an underlying issue in terms of their framework coding.
Bloody hell guess this is what i get for being early adopter and having the luck to be an unrecognised beta tester to solve an issue they didnt already fix with a phone that just so happens to have this issue.
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This is certainly a silly question; do you have Smart Doctor installed?
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This is certainly a silly question; do you have Smart Doctor installed?
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Yes i do, what about it? It merely acts as a diagnostic tool in a sense. Believe me i have exhausted almost all options available to me non root.
mervin989 said:
Yes i do, what about it? It merely acts as a diagnostic tool in a sense. Believe me i have exhausted almost all options available to me non root.
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Just a thought - it's an official LG tool that supposedly takes care of your problem (freeing up space) and I wonder if it also reports (or even notices) the acculmulation of those files. It's logs (if it has any that can be accessed) would point to the problem maybe. I believe you have done everything - I just wonder how LG is diagnosing it.
kjwaugh said:
Just a thought - it's an official LG tool that supposedly takes care of your problem (freeing up space) and I wonder if it also reports (or even notices) the acculmulation of those files. It's logs (if it has any that can be accessed) would point to the problem maybe. I believe you have done everything - I just wonder how LG is diagnosing it.
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Well i have certainly thought about it, but i am unable to dig around much without root access. Thanks for the suggestion
I also face the aame issue on my LG G5 RS988.deleting files from sd or internal,the free space doesnt increase much.any workaround?
ankitsxperiago said:
I also face the aame issue on my LG G5 RS988.deleting files from sd or internal,the free space doesnt increase much.any workaround?
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None other than restarting
I've found that there is a recycle bin of sorts like windows within the file structure. Sometimes mine won't free up the space until that folder is emptied.
The folder is estrongs, has the recycle folder inside.
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How to delete pictures/videos and free space - the hard way
My LG v20 maxed out in storage. I deleted tons of videos and pictures, but it did not free up the space. I called ATT support, but they could not help. So I plugged my phone into my Windows 10 computer and used windows explorerr to look in every folder until I could find the 20-30GB of files that should not have been there. And I found them here!
This PC\V20\Internal storage\Android\data\com.android.gallery3d\files\.trashcan
It turns out that deleting images was just moving them in to this trashcan. I deleted the various folders in here and I got all my space back. Solved (for me at least).
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Hi people!
Anyone found a solution for this? I'm in the same situation here...
I deleted a LOT of images and videos, but it doesn't seem to free space and, of course, I'm running out of free space in the LG G5
PLease Help !!!!
I have a Samsung Galaxy S5 with update 6.0.1 with the latest security patch level applied 11/1/16. Recently my microSD card status will go between two indicators in the notification bar: 1) SD card - For transferring photos and media, or 2) SD card was removed, please insert a new one. In both cases the same micro SD card remains in the phone. When I receive the message that the card has been removed, I can click on Storage in the Settings menu and see that only internal storage appears. At some point the SD card will reappear with the message from #1. I can restart my phone, I can turn it off and back on again, etc. but none of those things seem to alter the phone status of identifying that an SD card exists in the phone. It's quite annoying especially when I want to take photos or am transferring data from internal storage to the SD card when it suddenly becomes "removed". However, again, the change from being considered installed/mounted or missing/removed will happen at any time whether I'm using my phone or not. I've started to wonder whether I picked up a virus by visiting a site while reading news through the Google Play Newstand., which I've been doing a lot lately,.. but I've installed/uninstalled at least 5 different anti-virus/malware software and nothing is identifying a problem on my phone. AVG, McAfee, Bitdefender, Kaspersky, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware.
The only other oddity I have noticed about the same time is that I have Verizon Protection and Support which suddenly acted like I had never used it before and made me agree to the terms of use again - once I say ok to the terms, it returns that it cannot access data and try again later. Nothing I have done related to that software has worked and Verizon's only suggestion is to factory reset in which some users indicated that did not resolve the problem.
Has anyone else experienced either of these issues and found resolutions? Thank you in advance for any assistance you can provide.
sparky99kms said:
I have a Samsung Galaxy S5 with update 6.0.1 with the latest security patch level applied 11/1/16. Recently my microSD card status will go between two indicators in the notification bar: 1) SD card - For transferring photos and media, or 2) SD card was removed, please insert a new one. In both cases the same micro SD card remains in the phone. When I receive the message that the card has been removed, I can click on Storage in the Settings menu and see that only internal storage appears. At some point the SD card will reappear with the message from #1. I can restart my phone, I can turn it off and back on again, etc. but none of those things seem to alter the phone status of identifying that an SD card exists in the phone. It's quite annoying especially when I want to take photos or am transferring data from internal storage to the SD card when it suddenly becomes "removed". However, again, the change from being considered installed/mounted or missing/removed will happen at any time whether I'm using my phone or not. I've started to wonder whether I picked up a virus by visiting a site while reading news through the Google Play Newstand., which I've been doing a lot lately,.. but I've installed/uninstalled at least 5 different anti-virus/malware software and nothing is identifying a problem on my phone. AVG, McAfee, Bitdefender, Kaspersky, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware.
The only other oddity I have noticed about the same time is that I have Verizon Protection and Support which suddenly acted like I had never used it before and made me agree to the terms of use again - once I say ok to the terms, it returns that it cannot access data and try again later. Nothing I have done related to that software has worked and Verizon's only suggestion is to factory reset in which some users indicated that did not resolve the problem.
Has anyone else experienced either of these issues and found resolutions? Thank you in advance for any assistance you can provide.
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Try Using your device without SD card for some time and then put that chip again. If the situation persist try wiping Cache of Your phone.
There is probably to many webdavs using all your cu. Obtrusive. To root or not to root. Providers say that root is what causes issues of vulnerability. You get these problems ether way but you can only fix with root.
What ever the problem is formatting your car should straighten it out. If you don't want to arrange your files a quick fix for webdav is to use root explorer. Search for "nomedia"and delete them all. Hopefully only apps you want have a good enough grip to put them back.
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abhinavp649 said:
Try Using your device without SD card for some time and then put that chip again. If the situation persist try wiping Cache of Your phone.
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Thank you. I don't know how long you mean for "some time" but I did for about 30 minutes. I did use McAfee to clear app cache to free up space but I just checked and my current message is "SD card removed. Insert a new one" so apparently that didn't do it. I' did not allow it to clear thumbnails though.
planb234 said:
There is probably to many webdavs using all your cu. Obtrusive. To root or not to root. Providers say that root is what causes issues of vulnerability. You get these problems ether way but you can only fix with root.
What ever the problem is formatting your car should straighten it out. If you don't want to arrange your files a quick fix for webdav is to use root explorer. Search for "nomedia"and delete them all. Hopefully only apps you want have a good enough grip to put them back.
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Well, until now I considered myself fairly tech savvy... but I am not sure what webdavs are or what it means to root or not. Is root explorer software? And then, the next question is where would I search for "nomedia"? If you'd rather I do more research on these myself I can do that, no worries... but if they are easy enough to explain that would be great. Thanks so much!
sparky99kms said:
Thank you. I don't know how long you mean for "some time" but I did for about 30 minutes. I did use McAfee to clear app cache to free up space but I just checked and my current message is "SD card removed. Insert a new one" so apparently that didn't do it. I' did not allow it to clear thumbnails though.
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Some time means at least a day.
And wiping Cache here I meant Clear the Entire Phone's Cache through Recovery
Good browsers have a search bar in them. A web dav is a network connection to a folder. If it is causing your card not to work now than likely it was put there by a demon and you want it gone. If you don't know what root is then you are a long ways out from putting up a fight. The only thing I could really advise you to do is do a factory reset that includes formatting the card. If you do ever decide to root be very careful the method.
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