Okay so I am kind of confused by how "move to sd" works on the ET. Is it storing it on the 12GB internal sd or to my 32GB external sd? I am coming from EVO, so excuse my ignorance on how it works with devices with internal storage. I was under the impression from what I read that galaxy s 2 moves apps to internal but i'm not sure this is right?
Also, how can you view the .android_secure folder while USB plugged into computer? I know the folder is on my sd card when i look at it in Astro, but the folder is completely missing when trying to view in windows. I tried displaying hidden files in windows but that still won't show it?
Mounting with the ET is different than evo. With evo the sd card would mount as a drive and i could see everything. The ET doesn't mount as a drive, i'm not really sure what the MTP thing is that it does. Sorry if I seem like a noob, i'm really not, just confused about how this all works.
Thanks in advance!
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Just tried moving apps to SD without an external cards and it said I didn't have a card installed so it is moving them to the external card.
With a card installed and USB Debugging enabled I can mount it as a second drive and see .android_secure on it. Normally when the card is mounted you can find it at /sdcard/external_sd. With USB Debugging disabled I see the card but .android_secure is not visible. I surmise that the phone is keeping .android_secure mounted so you can continue to use apps that have been moved to SD.
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How do I know which one I am viewing when I mount my phone to my computer? Reason I ask is because there are some things I save in an app which usually save to my sd card, but I do not see this folder when I mount my phone to the computer. I always see this folder when I mount my other phone though.
well on mine, the SD is actually called SD Card, but if your SD storage is different than the phone, you can always right click and properties/info to see the storage and from there you can tell which one is which.
I just bought a 16gb micro sd card and installed it. Since then the only thing that seems to recognize it is the camera. I thought I was putting my apps onto the card, but when I look at my storage usage it looks like I haven't put any apps on my card. On "App to SD" I believe that I'm seeing the internal storage stats in the place where I should see my sd space. Any ideas on why it seems like my phone isn't making use of the extra storage?
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If you connect it to your computer it should mount both cards (internal & external).
If you want to acces files from your phone use an explorer program and go to /sdcard-ext.
A2SD and such use the default internal memmory (/sdcard).
Just switched over from an Evo 3D and swapped my old 32gb sd card. Opening the native file manager, or Astro, or es file manager have all come up empty when exploring the sd card. Weird thing is that my pictures still show up in the gallery as well as all my music in the music app but not in any file managers.
Another strange issue is that I am unable to download anything from the browser, k don't know if this is related to the sd card so I am hoping to hear if anyone figured out how to get around this. Also, I am unable to mount USB dried when plugged into the computer. I appreciate any help you guys can provide.
Try exploring external_sd. SD is the phones storage and not the card you put in.
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I am trying to get used to this as well! I think the folder named "sdcard" should ACTUALLY be the sdcard!
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Does this mean done apps that utilize the sd card will have issues or even not work at all?
same question here...i have a sub dir called /sdcard/external_sd But if you want an app to use the SD card it will use /sdcard, not the external_sd...so is it a total waste to put a microsd card into this phone, since I will only be able to utilize the space if i manually copy **** to that directory????
If you move an app to the "SD card" in the manage applications it will move it to the actual SD card. It won't put it on the internal storage.
Confused on External SD card, Internal SD card etc etc. I have a 32GB Patriot Class 10 card. I formatted this card in Clockwork recovery on the phone with a 1024MB Partition. Don't think it even asked me about ext 3, or 4 etc. OK. Now, If I use settings, then under wireless and Network settings Usb Utilities, Click on connect the storage to PC. I connect my USB cable then I have the familiar Android and it says USB is connected. OK, now I have a drive I will call Drive Q. This drive has all the TMobile stuff such as QIK , Photo editor, etc. It also has a folder called External_SD as well as another Folder called usbStorage. This drive Q is roughly 12GB. OK...Now, my SD card which is 32GB is seen as drive U on my desktop. This drive has my clockwork folder with my backups and my Music folder.
I guess I am trying to figure out the best use of drives and there intended purposes. The External_SD folder is only 580Kb or so. The usbStorage folder is a zero byte folder. And finally, when I did run a backup using Clockwork recovery, it basically said it was skipping External SD card since folder was empty.
Now that I am confused on all of this, maybe someone here can actually follow my post and make sense of how the storage is working on our phones
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.
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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.