I am sorry if this question has been asked earlier.
But, can you store the applications, pictures, videos and music in the MicroSD card?
I heard some people say, that you can only save applications on the built in Flash Memory.
Pictures, videos and music, you can put on the microSDHC card, but apps you can so far only install on the internal memory.
But this might soon change: http://mobiputing.com/2010/04/google-to-let-you-install-android-apps-on-the-sd-card- soon/
If you have something like TomTom (not sure if it's available on Android but for the sake of an example it will do ) are you able to install maps to the sd card?
Most applications do use the SD card for application specific data.
So, for example, Spotify saves the tracks for offline playlists to the SD card, and Copilot installs its maps to SD card.
Regards,
Dave
Yes.
For example: CoPilot (this is exist in the Android Market).
CoPilot will put the maps in the sd-card (You can download the maps directly using CoPilot app itself). This is working nicely!
I read that other navigation software like SyGic also put the maps in the sd-card.
Bilbo Fraggins said:
If you have something like TomTom (not sure if it's available on Android but for the sake of an example it will do ) are you able to install maps to the sd card?
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Thanks all, think I'll go and order it then
Thanks
Thank You for the information.
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I don't really understand the DInc's 8GB of Internal Memory, the one mounted as /mnt/emmc.
For one thing, apps can't install to it. Apps can only install to the 748MB internal memory or SDCARD.
I can't put videos there, the Gallery won't see them. Videos have to go to /mnt/sdcard. I can, however, put photos and MP3s there. However, when I run an app, like MultiLiveWallpaper, it can't see the photos in order to randomly change them unless I put them in SDCARD.
If I install a big app, like a 3D game, one that needs to phone home to download an additional 100MB or so of data, it will only download to the 748MB internal memory or SDCARD. It won't use EMMC.
So pretty much, that whole 8GB of Internal Memory seems rather worthless. I need an SD card to do anything. Is there any way I can trick android into seeing the 8GB of internal memory as an SDCARD, and then not need an SDCARD?
My pictures stored there are seen by the gallery but I'm running CM7 RC2. I had a problem a while back with the Sense Music Player not seeing my mp3's there but I just bought MixZing instead.
Yeah, the gallery in the stock ROM can see pictures stored there too, but apps can't seem to so I have to keep those in SDCARD as well. Sense music player in the stock ROM seems to have no trouble finding MP3s there. I wish I could just use that 8GB emmc as if it were an 8GB SD card. I don't have that much music on mine, so all that space pretty much goes to waste. The emmc in general, seems pretty much worthless so far as I can tell.
I think he was talking about some problem with Z roms where the internal storage can't be seen. I use it to store my ~4 GBs of music which is useful.
Yeah, storing music seems to be all it's good for. I wish there was a way to use it as an SD card. Oh well, I guess I will fill it full of music since there's not much else I can do with it. It's weird that pictures that I put there show up in the gallery, but not videos.
Now that I think of it the Stock Sense ROM could see the music but I couldn't get any artwork for it to show up. All the apps I found for downloading artwork couldn't read the internal memory only the sdcard. I've had to redo my entire music library, all 7000+ mp3s to imbed the artwork into the file to get around this. Then I went and bought a 32 GB sdcard and resized all my mp3s to fit on it and only use the internal storage to hold pictures and all my backups.
Don't know why I even thought to search for a solution for this, but I'm glad I did as I found this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1030613
It worked perfectly! Now the phone thinks my internal storage is an 8GB SD card and I don't even have a need for the MicroSD card at all.
can someone confirm if i can store my music, picture, camera pic, document, files and other backup on sdcard and store app on internal memory?
so basically no app store on sd card?
Cyberianrazr said:
can someone confirm if i can store my music, picture, camera pic, document, files and other backup on sdcard and store app on internal memory?
so basically no app store on sd card?
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You apps will install on the internal. Storing media and files on the external is up to you. However, I believe you have the option on TouchWiz whether pics save to the external or internal. On things like AOSP/AOKP, you don't have that choice yet... If you do then darn, someone show me that option.
Found this app on the play store:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.slf.ListglApp
Basically, it let's you store your game data to your external sd, and save you precious space on your internal storage.
Watch the video on the store for detailed instructions.
Only draw back is that you will always have to open your game from inside this app, which to me is well worth it!
So after being disappointed in the iPhone 6 and especially the Apple Watch, I just ordered an M8, 64GB SD card and a Moto 360.
I'm a little confused about SD card support though. I had an Xperia Tab Z and put a ton of music on it and it worked perfectly. Synced wirelessly to the SD card with iSyncr all fine. Showed up in Play Music just fine. But I've just read that SD card support is weird in 4.4.
I'd just like to know if iSyncr would work with the SD card and with Play Music on 4.4 and obviously L with the new phone. I'm a little lost with how SD cards work in 4.4 now, I know about the sandboxing kind of thing, but I just can't figure out if what I plan to do is still possible.
Also, I'm not too interested in custom ROMs and rooting this time around (I want to flash the GPe RUU and ROM when L arrives, keep the OTAs coming and spend less time fiddling with the OS).
Cheers in advance guys.
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So after being disappointed in the iPhone 6 and especially the Apple Watch, I just ordered an M8, 64GB SD card and a Moto 360.
I'm a little confused about SD card support though. I had an Xperia Tab Z and put a ton of music on it and it worked perfectly. Synced wirelessly to the SD card with iSyncr all fine. Showed up in Play Music just fine. But I've just read that SD card support is weird in 4.4.
I'd just like to know if iSyncr would work with the SD card and with Play Music on 4.4 and obviously L with the new phone. I'm a little lost with how SD cards work in 4.4 now, I know about the sandboxing kind of thing, but I just can't figure out if what I plan to do is still possible.
Also, I'm not too interested in custom ROMs and rooting this time around (I want to flash the GPe RUU and ROM when L arrives, keep the OTAs coming and spend less time fiddling with the OS).
Cheers in advance guys.
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iSyncr will sync to your SD card and you can play music with Google Play Music on Android 4.4. The only difference in Android 4.4 with regards to iSyncr is that if you sync over WiFi to the SD card, you're ONLY able to sync to the apps package folder or (Android/data/com.jrtstudio.iSyncr/)
If you have problems with iSyncr, we're happy to help you!
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iSyncr will sync to your SD card and you can play music with Google Play Music on Android 4.4. The only difference in Android 4.4 with regards to iSyncr is that if you sync over WiFi to the SD card, you're ONLY able to sync to the apps package folder or (Android/data/com.jrtstudio.iSyncr/)
If you have problems with iSyncr, we're happy to help you!
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Awesome, and so Google Play Music will recognise the music in "Android/data/com.jrtstudio.iSyncr/" ?
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Awesome, and so Google Play Music will recognise the music in "Android/data/com.jrtstudio.iSyncr/" ?
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Yes! Google Music as well as many/most/all 3rd party applications will identify the iSyncr package folder. We recommend using our music player, Rocket Player with iSyncr, as it was specifically designed to be used with iSyncr - but one of the beauties of iSyncr is that you're not locked into a specific player.
This article sums up the SD permissions changes on KitKat really well: http://www.androidcentral.com/kitkat-sdcard-changes
An app is free to write to any folder it creates on the SD. Its just writing to other folders (that the app didn't create) that is now restricted. So just let iSynchr save to the default folder (as the dev stated) and it will work fine.
SD read permissions are not affected by the KitKat permissions changes. So any music app should pick up the folder, just as you were used to on your other Android device.
I also think its pretty awesome the iSyncr developer is on XDA, and responded themselves. Great app, as I use it, too.
Long story:
First timer with custom rom OSs.
I can't format my SD card as internal storage. It's 32 GB and formats this way as 64 GB. I'm not even sure it was formatted this way in original Galaxy S5 OS.
Tools, info etc.:
Galaxy S5
Lineage OS 16 (latest), Gapps full (latest), SuperSU (latest - doesn't work though).
Google Photos, Dropbox, Onedrive, Camera FV-5 & Cinema FV-5.
Phone is not rooted.
I seem to remember when installing LineageOS first time a few days ago, that everything worked properly, besides my SD card being the wrong size, when formatting it as external storage.
Goal:
To be able to shoot AND screenshots (latter if possible) and saved instantly on SD card.
To be able to view all photos with best photo viewer (Google Photos for now).
To be able to have *any* "sync aut. to cloud" app see and perform automatic sync of photos. E.g., when taking photos, they instantly are saved to cloud via Dropbox or preferable OneDrive.
To be able to use *any* camera app for the above. Preferable Camera FV-5 & Cinema FV-5.
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So here we go!
First goal was to get the default camera app to work, by selecting external SD card as storage. Choosing this in the app, option is saved, but photos still end up on internal card. Screenshots the same.
Solution: Use Camera FV-5, as it allows any path.
Problem: No photo viewer app takes that folder into account, which means that I *can't* swipe through recent photos easily. Photos aren't backed up by cloud apps.
Second goal to get the default path moved in any way and recognized properly. Boy, did I spend a lot of time on this!
Solution: Finally this thread gave me a solution.
Problem: Same as the above - no viewer or cloud app gives a s**t about this new location.
I tried other solutions like auto move files apps, but doesn't work because folders are still not recognized by viewer apps.
Another issue is, that my SD card seems to "come and go", meaning that sometimes when I connect my phone to Windows 10 and enable USB for file transfer, the SD card doesn't show up in Explorer. However, the card is still present in "Files" app on the phone.
Some apps I've tried, sometimes see the SD card, sometimes they don't. FolderSync and other apps needs to get permissions to SD card every time I open these apps. They still work though and do their jobs.
Camera FV-5 seems to use the full path and not a linked folder, which is probably why this camera app always works.
There are no issues with my SD card, as I've tried to reinstall default OS and everything is working as usual there.
My S5 is incredible laggy with default OS, but runs exceptionally great with LineageOS, but it's a complete deal breaker, if I can't get something as simple as the above to work!
I hope this wasn't to long a thread