How do I get programs that are installed on my device to find files on my storage card? eg. I have Ms Pocket Streets installed on the device, but when it starts it opens a page which has a drop down menu for "All Folders". "All Folders" shows only folders on the device and not my SD card. This happens with all programs. As you can imagine my 1 Gig SD card is badly under utilized as I have to store all files in the device. I use to have a Nokia 9210, which occasionally suffered this problem, but a reset fixed it. Is there an undocumented reset to fix this? Or is it a problem with SD cards? Could I set up a shortcut to the storage card and if so, how do I do it?
I assume you can "see" the MMC card from File Explorer
I have an XDAIIs which refuses to recognise any SD cards at all, but will work happily with MMC cards
in file explorer, go to root....i.e. "My Device"
then you should see "storage card".....tap it and you should be off...
BAM!!!
good luck....
weasel said:
I have an XDAIIs which refuses to recognise any SD cards at all, but will work happily with MMC cards
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Hmm im having these troubbles with MMC card, and got my Kingston Secure Digital 1024MB Elite Pro1 today, and haven't seen the problem so far.
And it's fast
Hmm im having these troubbles with MMC card, and got my Kingston Secure Digital 1024MB Elite Pro1 today, and haven't seen the problem so far
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yeah, I know that SD is faster than MMC, but my XDA simply refuses to read any SD cards - and I've tried 6 or so
Damm, never should have wrote that message. My SD card just dissapered and had to do a Soft Reset to get it back........................
DAMM i'm getting tired of constantly having to reset it to use SD :twisted:
Rejoice - My SD_Card has come back
My 1 Gig SD Card is now recognized by ALL my programs. I'm not sure which changes caused it to come back, but here's what I remember I did.
1. I found a zero length file on the device called ignore_my_docs & I copied it to the root directory on my SD_Card.
2. I remapped my SD_Card & renamed it in Pocket Mechanic (Storage Folders - view & configure the storage card mount folders name)
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3. I installed & uninstalled MVP movie player & "voila" everything was fixed.
You might think step 2 was the answer but I checked after this and the card still wasn't recognized. I have noticed that another 4k file has appeared in the SD Card root directory simply named dummy. I don't know if my PPC is trying to tell me something.
I'm guessing what actually fixed it is that the movie player had a playlist generator & I'm thinking that fixed the problem of the device finding the card, but your guess is as good as mine.
I'd certainly be interested in peoples view and if what I've done works on anyone elses PPC.
PS. Tried to FTP both v small files but FTP keeps rejecting :-(
I remapped my SD_Card & renamed it in Pocket Mechanic (Storage Folders - view & configure the storage card mount folders name)
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What do you mean "remapped" the SD card, simply rename the moint point in pocket mechanic?
I'm sure I've tried renaming the moint point but pocket mechanic doesn't even recognise my Sd storage card. I'll play around some more
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A colleague at work had the same problem. We transfered a powerpoint presentation to his storage card (1gig SD Card) and when we loaded ClearVue PPT viewer on O2 XDA IIs it didn't list in all folders.
I created a folder on the storage card called My Powerpoint and beamed "dummy" & "ignore_my_docs" to him we tried to transfer both to the root directory on his device, but it reported that "ignore_my _docs" already existed. I think it might be a hidden file.
So after transferring dummy into the root directory we reloaded ClearVue PPT viewer and My Powerpoint appeared in the All Folders list. We selected it and there was the presentation.
It works for me......
Hmmmm...
Well my problem has got worse...
I bought a new 1Gb MMC card since I thought my machine was not reading SD cards and it doesn't work!!!!!. My 128Mb card is fine, but I've reformatted the new card, sowrn at it, pleaded with it etc, but pocket mechanic doesn't even see it.
So I can not read any SD cards and only one of my two MMC cards, but all the cards read fine in my PC
GRRRR!!!!! :evil: :evil:
anybody got any ideas?
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Hmmmm...
Well my problem has got worse...
I bought a new 1Gb MMC card since I thought my machine was not reading SD cards and it doesn't work!!!!!. My 128Mb card is fine, but I've reformatted the new card, sowrn at it, pleaded with it etc, but pocket mechanic doesn't even see it.
So I can not read any SD cards and only one of my two MMC cards, but all the cards read fine in my PC
GRRRR!!!!! :evil: :evil:
anybody got any ideas?
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You may have already sorted this but...
I had exactly the same problem with my 1GB PNY SD card it read fine in my pc but not in my mda. I compared it to my old 256 MMC and noticed the card was a bit warped and the bit where the metal contacts are was a bit thinner. So (I know this sounds drastic :? ) I bent the card slightly :shock: (not too much pressure) which made all the contacts touch the relevent bits in the slot and it's worked ok since.
Hope this helps
I'll try anything - which way did you bend it? I presume convex with the connectors on the outside radius
Thanks
Chris
yes that was the way... But just try it both ways and stick it in.. Not too much though, just till you feel a bit of resistance.
I have noticed that if you use the remote desktop connection, a file called bcache22 (a bitmap cache file I believe) is placed in the Temp folder of main memory - this can be very large; I just deleted one that was 8mb in size, so clearly this is chewing up a lot of memory. A soft reset does not clear this folder either so it has to be manually deleted.
Not sure if this happened on WM5 roms, but it could explain a lot of the memory loss that some people are experiencing - I would summise that if you use remote desktop (terminal services client) you will see memory loss and if you don't, you won't, hence the intermittent nature of the memory loss.
Some months ago I was able (after half a night - due to my incompetence, a slow connection and a very large map) to install Garmin - it works excellent on my Blackstone!
Meanwhile I installed a lot of things to this card; to avoid a lack of space I bought a bigger microSD and copied all the data to this new SD card. All programms are working - all except Garmin. Unfortunately it seems to be impossible to transfer the Garmin Data to the bigger SD card.
Is there a understandable method for dummies like me to transfer Garmin and the map to a bigger microSD card - WITHOUT using the terrible and very complicated way of "normally" installing?
Thanks for your help!
unless you turn on the dark side of the net, and look for a "illegal" I suppose keygen to register your legally bought maps, I'm afraid it will be impossible.
unfortunately garmin does not understand that their product is not the only piece of soft we want to be able to run on our phones. nor that we would like to have some music or video files beside of our beloved navigation system.
haha...what i did was put the microsd ontop of the sim while using my 16gb. i just swap it when i want to use garmin. Previously i have crossed over to the DARKside when i used HTC DIamond. My justification is i own the damn software but there is no slot to put the memory card.
Let me start by saying this isn't my program and I had nothing to do with the development of the program. All credit goes to the developer. As always, no one (including the developer) takes any responsibility for issues resulting from the use of any program/mod/hack etc.
So I was a MOG user and was exceptionally disappointed to find out (when I got my SIII) that MOG doesn't support the storage of offline music on the external SD card on any Samsung device. Like with many other programs like this, the reason is due to how Samsung (and perhaps other) phones recognize the internal storage as "sdcard".
So I was searching around for a solution and stumbled across the following program on the help forums for Rdio... it's a directory binding program developed by another XDA member - the original intent presumably for gamers:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1410262
I have not tried this with MOG specifically yet (after playing with Rdio I decided I liked it's program better anyway) but can confirm that the program works!! I was able to bind a dir on the external SD card to the same dir on the internal phone storage!!! The Rdio program is working quite well. All files have been moved to external storage (by the program) and things are working great!
I've only just started using this program so I can't say if there's any negative side effects. I'll report back if I experience any issues.
Hi,
I'm having trouble with my One V with the Android media scanner. I have a 32 GB class 10 microsd card with around 25 GB of music on it. I think when Android tries to scan the card the whole system locks up and uses all the device's ram. Either when I have a .nomedia file in the sd card music directory or don't have the card installed the system runs fine and has around 100 mb ram free just when idle. Once the system tries to scan the music, the system eats up the ram with no visible process accounting for it. Its so bad that I can't access the ram monitor in the app system settings, usually I have to hard set the device off since button delay is massive. I've removed some ACC podcasts from the card with no avail, I read ACC killed Android.
Is there anything that can be done? I've been looking for solutions all day.