I'm having a little trouble figuring out how to mount my internal storage to edit and view files like I could with stock 2.1. When I plug in the usb in the computer it goes into usb debugging mode, however then it gives me the option to mount the sd card, I click that but can only view sd card, when I click on internal storage drive it says please insert drive, please let me know what a solution would be, thanks
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how can i use incredible's internal storage?
I can't find setting in camera config,only can select to card or phone memory,don't have internal storage option!
I do can find 2 removable disk in winxp form it.but i can only read/write the tf card.i can do nothing for the internal storage,include format,read,write!
how can i do?
JohnHi said:
how can i use incredible's internal storage?
I can't find setting in camera config,only can select to card or phone memory,don't have internal storage option!
I do can find 2 removable disk in winxp form it.but i can only read/write the tf card.i can do nothing for the internal storage,include format,read,write!
how can i do?
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your phone memory IS your internal memory (in case that is not clear).
You can enable your internal memory by going to settings/applications/development and checking USB Debugging.
hope that helps.
thanks a lot!
I check the usb debug mode,but my win7 report that can't find adb drivers!
where can i find the adb driver?
Dont enable usb debugging. Drag down the bar at top and go from charge only to usb storage mode.. windows should auto detect it as a usb drive and it will show your sd card as a usb drive...copy files over that way.
magneticzero said:
Dont enable usb debugging. Drag down the bar at top and go from charge only to usb storage mode.. windows should auto detect it as a usb drive and it will show your sd card as a usb drive...copy files over that way.
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But in this mode,my win7 can only find the tf card disk. I can not read/write/format the internal storage. win xp can find 2 htc disk,but also only can net do anything to the internal storage disk!
what can i do?
Then you have something pretty tangled. I plug my standard DInc into my Win7 machine, and choose "Disk drive" mode and I see two disks mounted, one for the phone RAM and one for the SD card.
Likewise....
you can also use something like Astro and move files from the SDcard to the emmc (internal memory folder)
Hey all, I've tried to search here and have read what I could but I'm trying to understand how we actually see the external sd storage on the phone itself other then "settings", "storage" or when the phone is connected to a computer. I just installed a 32gb card and when looking in root explorer I'm not seeing it. Also when the phone is connected to the computer I am seeing a second drive letter this now accessible so I'm guessing that's it. I do see the card listed under storage as see I have 29.50gb available.
When I installed the card I just went into recovery, mounts & storage and then selected format /sd card. Do I need to also partition the card? I'm just trying to better understand these functions in relation to this phone and being rooted.
Thx
The second drive you see on your computer is the internal 16GB memory of your phone.
When you connect to your computer, the first drive is the "USB storage", around 11GB, which is part of your phone's internal storage. The second drive is your SD card.
If you want to look at your external SD card from your phone, use any file explorer program, it by default will go to the "USB storage", which is not your external SD card. Look for a folder called "external_sd", this folder is mounted to your SD card.
SD TIP
just a Tip
it is SAFE to rename the 2 mounted drives
so I named my internal SD as SGH-T989
and my external SD as the actual SD model+size like:
ADATA32GB
Transcent16GB
SandDisk64GB
then next time you plug it into Linux or Windows or any PC you will know right away which is which
Big thanks, I appreciate everyone's comments. That's a great tip on renaming the drives....doing that now
good info!
the first/second order can change for individual users, depending on what your OS detects first. Also these can be changed at any time, through the registry or through Disk Management. If for some reason you don't want to rename the drives as suggested above (and you should) you could alternatively just create a text document on the drive labelled as such.
Sorry for such a newbie question but I can't find an answer in any forums. I used to be able to get access to both my external and internal sd card when i plugged into my windows 7 laptop. it would show as a new device SPD something. When i clicked on that icon in windows explorer it would break out two different drives the External and Internal. After flashing starburst rom and plugging in the device, it just shows an (F) Drive which is my standard storage. My phone then asks me for USB mass storage permission and it goes into mass storage mode. Clicking on F will bring me to my external SD card but I can't figure out how to access data on the built in memory chip. Any help would be appreciated!
If you got to Settings>Applications>Development and check allow usb debugging it should detect both cards as removable drives that you can access.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2175747
Works for me on MY Daily Driver: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2246081
Which has a initd SD swap.
ON Mounts the ExtSD as a drive (in osx).
OFF lets AFT do its thing.
I don't suppose you have a solution for mounting the internal storage under Mass Storage mode, do you? I've got a card reader for the Micro SD if I just really need it, but MTP really sucks when I'm relegated to using it for internal. Thanks!
Donowolf said:
I don't suppose you have a solution for mounting the internal storage under Mass Storage mode, do you? I've got a card reader for the Micro SD if I just really need it, but MTP really sucks when I'm relegated to using it for internal. Thanks!
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I use the internal for nothing! It is usless. That IS my solution.
Hello,
I have been unable to move my apps to the SD card. In app manager there is an option to do so, but I am unable to select it. Do I have to format my SD card as internal storage to do so ?
Thanks in advance.
Erik2541 said:
Hello,
I have been unable to move my apps to the SD card. In app manager there is an option to do so, but I am unable to select it. Do I have to format my SD card as internal storage to do so ?
Thanks in advance.
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yes, youll have to go to adopted storage to move most apps now.
Erik2541 said:
Hello,
I have been unable to move my apps to the SD card. In app manager there is an option to do so, but I am unable to select it. Do I have to format my SD card as internal storage to do so ?
Thanks in advance.
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also note once you change your externalsd to adoptable storage the it wont show up on your pc when you connect your phone to pc via usb
also note while you are converting to adoptable or back to external storage it does take sometime don't force reboot your device else your sd card would get corrupted
SacredDeviL666 said:
also note once you change your externalsd to adoptable storage the it wont show up on your pc when you connect your phone to pc via usb
also note while you are converting to adoptable or back to external storage it does take sometime don't force reboot your device else your sd card would get corrupted
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It's actually internal storage that won't show up on PC after, it weird that way, you'll see the card just fine. In twrp you still see both though when connecting.
afuller42 said:
It's actually internal storage that won't show up on PC after, it weird that way, you'll see the card just fine. In twrp you still see both though when connecting.
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yeah i know its a downer for me because if i want to move files to sd card it doesn't happen transfer it to internal then to external within your phone
that beats the purpose of usb cable i might as well use airdroid lol
SacredDeviL666 said:
yeah i know its a downer for me because if i want to move files to sd card it doesn't happen transfer it to internal then to external within your phone
that beats the purpose of usb cable i might as well use airdroid lol
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Works other way around for me, SD shows up fine on USB, internal does not.
afuller42 said:
Works other way around for me, SD shows up fine on USB, internal does not.
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you mean after you convert to adoptable storage?
for me it only shows internal then not adoptable anymore through usb cable while the phone is powered on
not from recovery
SacredDeviL666 said:
you mean after you convert to adoptable storage?
for me it only shows internal then not adoptable anymore through usb cable while the phone is powered on
not from recovery
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Yeah for me on adopted storage when I connect to PC with USB only the SDcard shows up. Not the internal storage.
In twrp they both show up
afuller42 said:
Yeah for me on adopted storage when I connect to PC with USB only the SDcard shows up. Not the internal storage.
In twrp they both show up
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the opposite for me... lol.. in twrp i could see both
Anyone know the best source for chapter & verse on the changes to storage management on Nougat?
I'm not yet using adoptable storage because I keep a large music library on SD and find it orders of magnitude faster to update it on PC. But now the option to move apps to SD card is gone in Nougat, I'm wondering if I should move to adoptable storage...