hello everyone
i bought a moto defy 2 days ago and i have a question
how to access and save on internal sd(i mean save on the 2gb internal memory)because ever since i inserted my 4gb memory card everything automatically get saved on the external sd/memory card even applications automatically install in memory card although i have android 2.1 not 2.2!
and when i try to save on internal memory i get an error msg!
any idea why??
anyone?????????
No idea, sorry! Just curious where apps are installed in the sd, which folder?
The internal memory is not normally accessible, to access it on the phone you have to root the device and use terminal or RootExplorer.
Or you can use adb via desktop.
Finally, the official app2sd method use encryption to prevent the apks easily readable. You may use the mount command to find out more (if you've rooted).
ABC_Universal said:
No idea, sorry! Just curious where apps are installed in the sd, which folder?
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in /sdcard
there's a folder for go lanucher and for musical pro and sketchmobile and SPC as well as other apps
but i tried to remove the memory card and run the apps and they ran which means they are in phone memory but maybe have additional files in SDcard
999phonebug said:
The internal memory is not normally accessible, to access it on the phone you have to root the device and use terminal or RootExplorer.
Or you can use adb via desktop.
Finally, the official app2sd method use encryption to prevent the apks easily readable. You may use the mount command to find out more (if you've rooted).
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ok is this for all non-rooted android phones or just defy?
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I have unlock the bootloader, rooted the phone, and installed custom recovery following this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2201148
still running stock rom at the moment.
I installed Titanium Backup Pro, and wanted to move some apps that I don't use often to SD card, but cannot find the option from Titanium menu anymore.
What I found out is that Titanium uses the external directory "sd-ext/app" for moving the apps from internal to external memory.
However, my current SD card is mounted as ext_card and also sdcard1?? I don't know why both of these directories point to the same location, is it something that Sony assigns? or is it how Android is configured right now?
Anyhow, I just want to know if simply renaming the folder ext_card to sd-ext would work?
If not, how can I remount the sd card as sd-ext without affecting other things that are already linked to it?
Thanks.
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found a work-around.
Just use root browser to create a short cut of "sdcard1", then rename it to sd-ext.
that's it!
ah_hin said:
found a work-around.
Just use root browser to create a short cut of "sdcard1", then rename it to sd-ext.
that's it!
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I tried that, but I still have no options to send apps to my sd card. When i restart my note 10.1, the shortcut that i created (sd-ext) is no longer there. Help please?
jlourdon said:
I tried that, but I still have no options to send apps to my sd card. When i restart my note 10.1, the shortcut that i created (sd-ext) is no longer there. Help please?
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i didn't realize that once the phone is restarted, the shortcut is gone....
I guess problem is still not solved then...
We already have 11gb for app stotage
I guess thats more than enough for applications
So why do we need move to sdcard option
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Help
anyone else find a solution to this issue?
ah_hin said:
I have unlock the bootloader, rooted the phone, and installed custom recovery following this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2201148
still running stock rom at the moment.
I installed Titanium Backup Pro, and wanted to move some apps that I don't use often to SD card, but cannot find the option from Titanium menu anymore.
What I found out is that Titanium uses the external directory "sd-ext/app" for moving the apps from internal to external memory.
However, my current SD card is mounted as ext_card and also sdcard1?? I don't know why both of these directories point to the same location, is it something that Sony assigns? or is it how Android is configured right now?
Anyhow, I just want to know if simply renaming the folder ext_card to sd-ext would work?
If not, how can I remount the sd card as sd-ext without affecting other things that are already linked to it?
Thanks.
edit: admin, please move to the appropriate section.
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my folder for titanium backup is on sdcard
Does anyone has fix this yet? I want to move some apps to sd card but the option is gone lol
ah_hin said:
found a work-around.
Just use root browser to create a short cut of "sdcard1", then rename it to sd-ext.
that's it!
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I've been trying and trying and TRYING to accomplish your solution, yet I'm not able to modify any files or folders in the internal storage. When I try to do so by any means, my device freezes the app trying to create new files (in this case Root Browser, but it happens with anything else like ES Browser, apps, desktop applications, etc).
I just CAN'T write to the internal storage even if my device is rooted. I've tried to solve this but I just CAN'T. I don't know what else to do.
Any help is appreciated beforehand
THANKS!!
My galaxy s3 has internal and external Storage areas, and they both show up on my computer.
On the Play however, only the external SD card shows up on my PC. Is there any way to get the internal memory to show up on my PC?
Not via USB. I don't know any pther solutions, i already tried it via ftp-server, but it didn't work
You wrong understand android device's storage partitions.
1) Internal memory(you havent said about it): Android stored there. Have size up to 2Gb. Partitions: /system, /data(apps installed in "intermal memory", settings), /cache, /boot(kernel and recovery).
2) Sdcard(in many devices included as "Internal memory", on others its SD card itself), mounted as /sdcard.
3) Ext SD(SD card in devices with built-in /sdcard partition. Its your S3 for example), mounted as /exstsd.
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So, internal memory what you ask about is number one. As i see, you dont know what is it, so you dont need to get there.
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Btw if you sure that you need acces, root phone and use root explorer.
But its not storage for your personal files.
Yeah im on about 'SDcard'. Ive used RootEx to look at the 'SDcard' folder but theres nothing in there.
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Yeah im on about 'SDcard'. Ive used RootEx to look at the 'SDcard' folder but theres nothing in there.
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Look in system folder under apps and data I think. Can't remember of the top of my
Sent from my Xperia Play (r800x)
After boot I see this entry under my root directory:
lrwxrwxrwx root root 2015-10-16 22:48 sdcard -> /storage/emulated/legacy
I do not understand it very well but it seems the system emulates an SD card using its own memory. Then many applications use this area to save files. The thing is that I have a real external SD Card that I would like all the downloads, music, temp files, documents, everything really to go there.
I have tried to remove the symbolic link 'sdcard' and to make it point to my sd card but I cannot remove it not even as root, read only system, I probably need to use chmod first not sure.
Has anyone done this and know the solution?
Many thanks
The internal storage is emulated as an sdcard.
You can't delete the sym links as they are created upon each boot.
As long as you are rooted you can use your external sd card for whatever you want.
Just point your apps to the right location.
ashyx said:
The internal storage is emulated as an sdcard.
You can't delete the sym links as they are created upon each boot.
As long as you are rooted you can use your external sd card for whatever you want.
Just point your apps to the right location.
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Thank you but I cannot ask all applications to point to the external card. Many applications do not have this setting, either through the Applications Manager or through their own settings. Trying to find files then gets more confusing and every so often I must copy files manually so as to keep them in one place.
Is there perhaps an application that will also run at boot and point to the external card before any other applications start? That might be a good solution?
Zilliman said:
Thank you but I cannot ask all applications to point to the external card. Many applications do not have this setting, either through the Applications Manager or through their own settings. Trying to find files then gets more confusing and every so often I must copy files manually so as to keep them in one place.
Is there perhaps an application that will also run at boot and point to the external card before any other applications start? That might be a good solution?
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Link2sd pro
I have a galaxy tab s and am using Folder Mount and so far (after a few patches the program itself makes with permision) it is working fine for using data files on the storage card.
Hi XDA,
I'm struggeling with my SD-Card after moving to lineage 14.1 (Coming from CM 13).
Installation worked just fine, but now i can not access my SD-Card from the phone and even not from PC (over the phone). I mounted it as an internal drive on CM to extend my storage.
The System recognizes the Card, but only gives me the options to format the Card and use it as internal storage or format and use it as an external storage.
Could it be, that the Card cannot be used, because it was formated as an internal storage under CM 13?
If anybody has an Idea, how i get access to the files please tell me
subersauger said:
Hi XDA,
I'm struggeling with my SD-Card after moving to lineage 14.1 (Coming from CM 13).
Installation worked just fine, but now i can not access my SD-Card from the phone and even not from PC (over the phone). I mounted it as an internal drive on CM to extend my storage.
The System recognizes the Card, but only gives me the options to format the Card and use it as internal storage or format and use it as an external storage.
Could it be, that the Card cannot be used, because it was formated as an internal storage under CM 13?
If anybody has an Idea, how i get access to the files please tell me
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Maybe this can help.
Decrypt_adopted_storage
Sotiris02 said:
Maybe this can help.
Decrypt_adopted_storage
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Sadly not, I wiped all Data (except SD-Card) due to install the new System. So thers no Key in "/data/misc/vold"
subersauger said:
Sadly not, I wiped all Data (except SD-Card) due to install the new System. So thers no Key in "/data/misc/vold"
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I think you can't do anything now..
Only formatting it via PC(using command prompt..)
Sotiris02 said:
I think you can't do anything now..
Only formatting it via PC(using command prompt..)
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That would be worst case. :/
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That would be worst case. :/
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In the past while i was having a Moto G3,i got it to Marshmallow,made the SD card Internal like and about a month i got it stolen.But the good point was that i had removed the SD card.
Checked Google nothing useful.
Asked Motorola for any decryption tips,Nothing useful from Motorola.
And i couldn't stay with a encrypted SD card.. I formatted it(after making the "big choice" and it was back to factory stats..)
But the only thing that i didn't do,is that i didn't ask Google for support. Because Motorola makes pure stock Android but with some of Motorola apps and features.
As you was in AOSP based ROM (even if you was to LG's stock,Google could help) go ask Google gently for any solution(if you had important files,then surely they will help)
haha i had the same problem but the solution is very very easy just reboot into your recovery open recovery file manager and delete Android secure folder in your SD card.
thats all you need
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haha i had the same problem but the solution is very very easy just reboot into your recovery open recovery file manager and delete Android secure folder in your SD card.
thats all you need
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Deleting "Android Secure" folder (there is no such a folder even in hidden files) won't do anything.
Also a thing that you should learn.(Because it seems you don't)
When your SD card is formated as internal you can't access it via TWRP a PC or even an other phone.
Because it gets encrypted.
Have a nice day.
Sotiris02 said:
Also a thing that you should learn.(Because it seems you don't)
When your SD card is formated as internal you can't access it via TWRP a PC or even an other phone.
Because it gets encrypted.
Have a nice day.
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Yea, i did not know that. If i had, i would have made an SD Backup
But I still have not formated the SD Card, I am still hoping :fingers-crossed:
subersauger said:
Yea, i did not know that. If i had, i would have made an SD Backup
But I still have not formated the SD Card, I am still hoping :fingers-crossed:
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It cant be undone. Sorry to say. I learned this the hard way also. When you put it in lineage, you remember it asking about how you wanted to format it (movable or integrated)
You chose integrated mode. That encrypted it and counted it as device storage. No unencrypting it. Also if you blew away that lineage install, its totally not able to be read anymore. It stored the only decrypt key in the lineageOS keystore.
sad times.
Sotiris02 said:
Deleting "Android Secure" folder (there is no such a folder even in hidden files) won't do anything.
Also a thing that you should learn.(Because it seems you don't)
When your SD card is formated as internal you can't access it via TWRP a PC or even an other phone.
Because it gets encrypted.
Have a nice day.
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Ah yes u right but you can access it as internal. Recvery will ecognise it anyways and you can delete this folder...
Btw this worked for me i had the same problem. And NO there is the folder named "Android secure" definition-- Android.secure is the folder where stock froyo android moves apps to the sd card by default. If you don't use the apps presently, you can safely remove the corresponding app files from the android.secure folder.
Hello, I am trying to apply an update, an official patch, to my Moto Z Play. My bootloader is still locked btw.
Anyway, I got the zip file on the phone but in Recovery mode when clicking on Apply update from SD card I get the message ' can't mount Internal and external storage'. Even if I mount it first it still gives me that error, so I can not access my files.
I have an SD card in the phone as well but it is marked as portable, so idk.... any solutions? Wiping cache partition didn't help, taking the SD card out also didn't help.
Hello
When you first set-up the phone did you indicate to use the SD Card as external memory (hook it up to a PC and see internal phonememory AND an extra external memory) or did you configure it to be used as internal memory (so you can put apps and stuff on it without any hazzle; in this cas when you connect to a PC you just see phone memory)?
In case you did the "configure as internal memory" (like I did) the only way to get it working is to format the SD Card - take it out - restart the phone - put it back in and configure as external memory - put your zip-file back and try again.
Hope this works for you too,
dodecaeder
dodecaeder said:
Hello
When you first set-up the phone did you indicate to use the SD Card as external memory (hook it up to a PC and see internal phonememory AND an extra external memory) or did you configure it to be used as internal memory (so you can put apps and stuff on it without any hazzle; in this cas when you connect to a PC you just see phone memory)?
In case you did the "configure as internal memory" (like I did) the only way to get it working is to format the SD Card - take it out - restart the phone - put it back in and configure as external memory - put your zip-file back and try again.
Hope this works for you too,
dodecaeder
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Hello. I did it as external, so that should not be the problem. But I managed to borrow a usb c cable of a friend and simply sideload the updates.
Bro, did you find a solution to be able to update through the recovery mode? This message also appears: "can not mount Internal and external storage"
I wasn't aware you could direct the source target for an update - I thought you had to take the update, let it put it where it wants, and when it says install, let it and it will take care of mounts. assuming you haven't had magisk on it, and still have the stock recovery.
i believe that has a especific directory that the ota can be applied by this option but this directory is locked if don't have root which makes impossible to aply a ota by yourself as if rooted your phone the ota won't apply. it's better to apply an ota by adb sideload.
jst98 said:
i believe that has a especific directory that the ota can be applied by this option but this directory is locked if don't have root which makes impossible to aply a ota by yourself as if rooted your phone the ota won't apply. it's better to apply an ota by adb sideload.
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if you're rooted, the ota will fail anyway.