Ever since I downloaded CM7 which was some months ago its only been using my sd card. It hasnt been a big deal until now since its damn near full. i cant for the life of me figure out how to get my apps and my pictures and downloads and just about everything to be on my phone storage and leave my sd card for specific things. is it because i downloaded cm7 to my sd card instead of internal storage?
please help, ive been stuck on nightly 145 since i cant download anymore(and ive deleted all of the old ones already) im very confused help me out.
thanks,
nick
By default, downloads and photos are stored on the SD card. Have you gone into the camera app's settings, for instance, and tried to change the save location? Also, in the CM settings menu (can't remember where exactly), you can change where apps get installed. I think "auto" is the default, and there are options for internal storage and SD card.
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Hey everyone, pretty much first serious post. Hope someone can help me with it.
I have an At&t Galaxy s3, running the latest aokp rom, by task 650, its up to android 4.3
my issue is that i can add files to my phones internal sd card and its external sd card, but once i restart, the files are gone. all my files that i added even as long as a week or two ago are still there, even some things that i delete return once i reboot. i can move files from my internal sd card to the external and they stay after a reboot and vice versa. so i know that things can be added. but for some reason when i transfer music through windows file explorer to either sd card as soon as i reboot those files are gone. when i xfer the files it does say that "your device might not be able to play or view this file."
i can even play the music for a while after copying it as long as i don't restart, eventually it starts to go into hyperdrive so its a second of squiggles then goes to next song.
even if i transfer files through a wifi based app like air droid or just using an app to copying over a shared network the same thing happens.
i don't think that the internal sd card or external are corrupt because i can move files back and forth as long as they were on the device originally.
i don't know if i should reformat my external sd card because i doubt it would fix it then i'd be out of all my music.
really hoping someone can help me,
this was happening before i upgraded to 4.3 having done that only a day or two ago and it has been happening for at least a couple weeks, and it worked on the 4.2 version i had because i took me a couple months to upgrade to 4.3 and in that time i did add files to the internal and external.
last thing to mention, with a torrent phone app when i download files they also dissappear.
hope someone can help me with this, and that it's simple.
i'd rather feel dumb than it be something complicated.
thanks for any and all help yall can give.
update
I did a full clean install of the aokp rom i'm on wiiping everything instead of just the dalvik cache and cache, which normally works fine.
now the internal sd card retains the files i'm adding to it, even after a couple reboots. which is a step up. but the external still won't let me add files to it, even if i copy them over from my internal to the external using astro file manager or es file explorer. on restart files are gone from the external. i don't think that the external sd card is corrupt but i'm copying all the file off of it right now, then plan to reformat. not sure how i'll go about it, but i really hope it works.
this is really frustrating, its a 64gb external micro sd card that has always worked perfectly.
any input at all would be a great help.
update 2
my external sd card is the problem then i guess, because i put it in my brothers phone, did reformat, and it says reformating deleting all data. then remounts it.
shows exact same amount of available space and storage, stuck at 42.2gb or whatever, if i go into the sd card manually and delete files as soon as i reboot the phone all the files are back.
is there anyway to fix this?
Hi,
I've updated to CM 12 Nightly ROMs (currently 12-20150216-NIGHTLY-a5), with a clean install, to get away from the restrictions on SD cards in 4.4.4.
Although I do seem to have SOME access to my card at seemingly random times, I mostly do not. I've seen nightlys which stated they've fixed SD card issues and have updated to them, and for the past couple of weeks, I've been updating multiple times a week. But at present, I cannot even move what seems to be less that 2MB in most cases to the SD card, even with a root-enabled file manager (Yes I am rooted). Do I still have to edit user rights for my owner account?
I've gone into my app preferences and chose the SD card as my preferred install location as well, but it seems that this option will only install to the emulated/sdcard0 directory. I get the same result if I use the app manager and choose "Move to SD Card".
I constantly have to purge info from my internal memory just to even be able to update apps. I have about 54GB free on my SD card according to my phone. the 10 or so gigabytes used are from a manual backup that I had performed before flashing, using my PC only.
Could anyone please help me with this?
Please? Anyone?
Hmm,
Seems most of my issue was fixed just by using ES File Manager instead of CM File Manager. I still don't have much space at all to do anything special, nor can I install Apps onto my real SD Card...
Ok, I have the HTC Desire EYE (obviously) from AT&T (standard, not unlocked). I'm having storage issues with my internal storage. It says I have 14.04Gb (as of now) and that's after I went through my apps and moved the ones that I could to my SD card. It seems as though every time my phone updates the apps it moves them back to my internal storage...other than that, I've disabled or deleted as many stock apps as I could and this is still what I'm left with (and yes, all of my downloads go to my SD card by default). There's no option for screenshots to download to SD card by default, though. Any help is appreciated!
bchooker said:
Ok, I have the HTC Desire EYE (obviously) from AT&T (standard, not unlocked). I'm having storage issues with my internal storage. It says I have 14.04Gb (as of now) and that's after I went through my apps and moved the ones that I could to my SD card. It seems as though every time my phone updates the apps it moves them back to my internal storage...other than that, I've disabled or deleted as many stock apps as I could and this is still what I'm left with (and yes, all of my downloads go to my SD card by default). There's no option for screenshots to download to SD card by default, though. Any help is appreciated!
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Did you find a fix to this issue? because i had to face the same issue, but found an app to work around this issue.
Download sd maid and see what's taking that 7+gb of ur storage
i recently ordered a 32gb sd card for my phone and made it my default installation location. now, every time i update to a different nightly, the app icons disappear off my homescreen. this annoys me at times because i forget i even downloaded the apps. the apps are also a bit laggy.
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i've reformatted the sd card to external, but my phone still installs the apps on the card. can't seem to find the option to change it back to internal.
anyone know? any help would be appreciated.
hi folks,
So i chose the wrong SD card handling (the merged kind?) a while ago and after ejecting the card to set up a bigger one, I realise I now can't access the internal storage on the phone.
installed apps work fine
I can remove apps fine (but not reinstall!)
i can sideload apps fine (oddy!)
I cannot access e.g. photos with gallery apps
file browser apps cant access the internal space at all.
I cannot install anything from the play store, it just shows insuffucient space
apps like twitter crash.
whatsapp works (calls and text), but cant download photos sent, or attach photos.
There is loads of space free (14.65gb used of 32gb internal).
I also have an SD card with loads of space now set as portable storage.
I have the original SD card that was in before, but not in phone (still shows in storage manager).
Any ideas please?! Before i reset the phone and start again!
I have rooted it, but not sure what to fiddle with (the problem started before rooting).
nope? ok i guess i'll be wiping and hoping that fixes it!
moving to another phone for a while...
just to be clear, doing a full reset on the phone while rooted with magisk is ok? (unlocked bl). don't want to brick. android 10 up to date.
thanks, if anyone out there?
alright for the record and anyone else suffering this, i figured it out, and is slightly embarrassingly stupid.
if you set up the sd as combined storage, and still have the sd, put it back in and use the migrate data back to internal option which is hidden in the storage dot top right menu. voila.
then you can eject card, and still access the internal storage.
what you do if you've already wiped the old sd, i've no idea! you're maybe stuffed? hopefully wiping phone would fix it??
don't ever set your sd card as merged, use portable (i knew this, was a mistake).
so anyway, phone working again yay!