What's wrong with Chromebooks and SD Card?
I bought a Chromebook (HP X2 - ChromeOS 70) and I don't know if I must bring it back to the shop or not.
Most of Android Apps don't see my SD Card (Solid Explorer can, if I give it permissions)
So my questions are :
- Are apps (both Chrome or Android) supposed to be able to read SD card? (I search on the Net but didn't find a clear answer)
- What's the point of having a SD Card storage on device if you don't have the right to use it?
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Hello all,
I'm new here and have a couple of questions about my first smartphone the Galaxy SII (Rooted)
I have recently been getting a few messages informing me that the SD Card is full, which seems to hold about 12 GB.
I have a 32 GB External Sd Card which I try to keep most of my vids / music, and apps that I consider don't really need to e on the actual phone like games, etc.
Other apps like browsers, Password safes, etc I keep on the phone itself.
The Phone seems to have 3 storage areas that it seems to refer to
USB Storage (Actually part of phone memory= Correct ?
SD Card (Actually part of phone memory = Correct?
External SD Card (Removable sd card = Correct ?
Can somebody please explain to me what the idea behind this setup is and how do I go about freeing up the SD Card when most of the directories in there seem to be Data related with the odd folder left over from uninstalled apps.
Hope that makes sense.
Apologies for any bad / incorrect terminology.
Regards
Loachy
If you go to Settings->storage ;
SD Card would refer to any external microSD card you might have put in.
USB Storage would refer to the Internal storage (can be used for storing media/data files)
there is another storage of about 2GB or so... which is used for apps installations..
this partitions can only be accessed via few apps like root explorer and others...
In order to free up your App storing internal storage ( which is 2GB odd)... you would need to put in an external microSD card...
then use any App (i use titanium Backup Pro) to move some of the apps to SD card...(which is infact the external microSD card)
Hi all... I have an android phone with several apps installed on it. When I install the apps I don't bother to choose where they go (i.e. sd card or phone) so I assume they are installed on the phone by default.
Anyway.... I need a higher capacity micro sd card. Can I just go out and buy a new one and swap it with the old one? Or will this cause applications (if any) that store data on the sd card to fail?
Thanks!
tackyjan said:
Hi all... I have an android phone with several apps installed on it. When I install the apps I don't bother to choose where they go (i.e. sd card or phone) so I assume they are installed on the phone by default.
Anyway.... I need a higher capacity micro sd card. Can I just go out and buy a new one and swap it with the old one? Or will this cause applications (if any) that store data on the sd card to fail?
Thanks!
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Assuming there are no apps installed on it (you should still check), it should be fine to simply change it. Apps which store data on it will recreate/redownload their data accordingly. You could also just copy the contents from your current card and send them to the new one to avoid this.
Copy the whole content of your memory card to your computer. Then buy a new memory card and paste the copied files to it.
Hello, someone gave me a myplay dea android tablet which barely worked, so I just wanted to take its "internal sd card" but after opening it I couldn't see it: can this "internal" sd card be 100% virtual and actually is part of a welded memory, or do I have to look further ?
And by the way, the first obvious question that came to my mind when I saw this and google didn't help me: what's the point for the manufacturer to put as sd card reader + a sd card inside a tablet, instead of a memory directly welded on the motherboard ? Wouldn't this be cheaper for them ? Thanks.
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..
Hey my old sister has a huawei mediapad t3, 7.0 android no rooted, she is trying to download apps and games on the tablet (16gb storage ) and saying not enough space, any way to move all the apps into sd card? Please tell me if you have any suggestions.
Thanks, john
anyone ?
Look inside here:
How to Install and Move Android Apps to the SD Card
Some Android phones don’t have a lot of storage, so you might run out of room for apps. If your device has an SD card slot, you can use that to expand the storage and have more room for apps. However, SD card support is more limited than it used to be.
www.howtogeek.com
jwoegerbauer said:
Look inside here:
How to Install and Move Android Apps to the SD Card
Some Android phones don’t have a lot of storage, so you might run out of room for apps. If your device has an SD card slot, you can use that to expand the storage and have more room for apps. However, SD card support is more limited than it used to be.
www.howtogeek.com
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There is option in apps to move in sdcard, that's the problem