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how to increase USB storage?

I use black notes hybrid rom but i dont know how to partition my sd card to increase the usb storage.. my usb storage is always 1.7gb. please help.. is there a possible solution?

seeker1107 said:
I use black notes hybrid rom but i dont know how to partition my sd card to increase the usb storage.. my usb storage is always 1.7gb. please help.. is there a possible solution?
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USB Storage is Internal SD card.....fixed size is 1.7G
I don't think Rio's ROM's use the mount-point swap....??
However, I believe this could be implemented, which means your External SD Card [up to 32G] could be swapped in system file /etc/vold.fstab to act as your internal Usb Storage, allowing you much more storage for whatever data you wish to save on /sdcard..........
also, this would allow you to move Apps to your 1.7G Internal SD, which would now be seen by system as /sdcard/external_sd.....
you should check in the forum as to how to do this, also perhaps make a post in the ROM thread.

irishpancake said:
USB Storage is Internal SD card.....fixed size is 1.7G
I don't think Rio's ROM's use the mount-point swap....??
However, I believe this could be implemented, which means your External SD Card [up to 32G] could be swapped in system file /etc/vold.fstab to act as your internal Usb Storage, allowing you much more storage for whatever data you wish to save on /sdcard..........
also, this would allow you to move Apps to your 1.7G Internal SD, which would now be seen by system as /sdcard/external_sd.....
you should check in the forum as to how to do this, also perhaps make a post in the ROM thread.
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Thanks for the explanation sir...
I attach the vold.fstab for swaping
Make sure you have a back up

Please tell me the complete step on how to do this.. i am all new to this mod swapping thing.. thanks..

Rio Saputro said:
Thanks for the explanation sir...
I attach the vold.fstab for swaping
Make sure you have a back up
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Thanks Rio!!!
Me Sir Pancake......
My country is a Republic....heh heh
not allowed to use such phrases as Sir/Lord/Duke...
I'll just tell "them" it is an Honorary Title
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seeker1107 said:
Please tell me the complete step on how to do this.. i am all new to this mod swapping thing.. thanks..
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In my post here....
There is a link to a small tutorial.....check it out, but be careful, and do back-up.
I would also before doing this, make sure all apps are on internal phone memory, if you can, like no moved apps...

seeker1107 said:
Please tell me the complete step on how to do this.. i am all new to this mod swapping thing.. thanks..
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Just simple step
copy it to system/etc/
with root explorer
irishpancake said:
Thanks Rio!!!
Me Sir Pancake......
My country is a Republic....heh heh
not allowed to use such phrases as Sir/Lord/Duke...
I'll just tell "them" it is an Honorary Title
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Sorry about that irish

Putting music on the SD Card..

Is the only way through Samsung Kies? Whenever I try to drag and drop music on my SD Card it doesn't allow me to do when it is normally connected via USB. I would use Samsung Kies but I don't like the syncing and interface in general. With my Vibrant I was able to freely drag and drop music without any problems. Is there anyway to that on the S III? Thanks!

that's weird, I could easily drag and drop with no problems

Really? Hmm..I can drag it to the internal space, but for some reason it won't let me drag it onto my SD Card. It worked perfectly fine on my Vibrant though.

You can always use FTPServer app to connect your computer to your phone and transfer music that way.

I used windows explorer... make sure your phone isn't locked? (Screen on)

Use a SD card adapter. Or, you can try the app EasyUMS which allows your SD card to run as USB Mass Storage for quick transferring instead of the regular MTP connection.
Sent from my SGH-T999 using xda app-developers app

Yeah I guess the SD Card Adapter is the best way to access my external storage. Anyone know how to make it work on internal storage though like editing files? It won't let me edit the like the properties of my music, lol.

You stock or custom rom?
Sent from my SGH-T999 using xda premium

I am on the stock ROM.

BigWorldJust said:
I am on the stock ROM.
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is there a way to just make the ext sd card default storage for music??
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is there a way to just make the ext sd card default storage for music??

usb? connecting an android to a pc with physical cables? *sputter
in the immortal words of Scotty in IV, "a keyboard! how quaint"
use networking man!
on the pc ... "share" the drives/folders you usually access
download an app like ES File Explorer on your phone
access your pc files over your wifi in ES file explorer LAN section .. edit to login as if logging into your windoze
I am using the 5GHz band of My WiFi router.. which means I am transferring files between My pc and phone at speeds between 80-150Mbps :good:

srgntdvs said:
is there a way to just make the ext sd card default storage for music??
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is there a way to just make the ext sd card default storage for music??
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I use poweramp and only set up the one folder on my external card.

What exactly happens when you try to drag-and-drop?
I am also using the stock ROM and it works for me, just tried it again to make sure. Do you have other things on the external card already ? Could the format be a possible issue ?

[Q] MicroSD Card File Transfer

Hi,
Any other HTC One M8 users has issue regarding copying files from Internal Memory to MicroSD storage using File Manager apps like ES File Manager? I cannot copy some of my files from Internal to MicroSD storage. I always encounter Copy Failure error.
Any work around for this?
Thanks!

It's a Kit Kat design issue. If you search you'll find multiple threads on this problem.

How do I make SD card writeable to apps on rooted HTC One M8?
I can't find any info on this.
Play store apps (sdfix and many others) do not work. People report they do on Samsungs,.

You have to root your phone for enabling write to SD

x017in said:
You have to root your phone for enabling write to SD
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Captain Obvious strikes again!
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jhannbernas said:
Hi,
Any other HTC One M8 users has issue regarding copying files from Internal Memory to MicroSD storage using File Manager apps like ES File Manager? I cannot copy some of my files from Internal to MicroSD storage. I always encounter Copy Failure error.
Any work around for this?
Thanks!
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This fixed the SD card issue on my T-Mobile HTC One M8 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=54696085&postcount=13

Sn8kbordin said:
Captain Obvious strikes again!
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This fixed the SD card issue on my T-Mobile HTC One M8 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=54696085&postcount=13
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An easier fix smartie is if you had used the xposed mod that allows writing to SD card.

x017in said:
An easier fix smartie is if you had used the xposed mod that allows writing to SD card.
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I did give that a go. That didn't work. As soon as Xposed tried installing framework my phone would reboot.
I think even with root the system partition is protected and as soon as anything writes to it the phone reboots.

After the 4.4.3 update, there is already a File Manager on the app drawer which can transfer files from Internal Memory to SD Card.

4.4.4 ROM and SD card

Is there any 4.4.4 ROM for S4 Mini that can manage SD card by default ?
I mean thge possibility to move app in the SD card
Tks

I'm having problem moving apps to ext SD card as well. I tried different app to SD, like 5 different ones and they all state I can't move apps to ext SD.
This is a serious issue. Please help!
I'm using CM11 M12.
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U need to install this app from play store. ::: https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...e.fmount&hl=en
When u start the app for the 1st time and grant root access it prompts to fix a storage related issue. Choose yes. Then u can move parts of apps onto sd card.
But if u want to move large games... then u need to install xposed framework and ObbOnSD module. Here is a video on XDA-TV that will help you...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYfiinwIFaY
Good luck..
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I just installed this one. Hopefully this will let me move all apps to ext SD card.
Thanks sasank360!

kennyk09 said:
I'm having problem moving apps to ext SD card as well. I tried different app to SD, like 5 different ones and they all state I can't move apps to ext SD.
This is a serious issue. Please help!
I'm using CM11 M12.
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I just installed this one. Hopefully this will let me move all apps to ext SD card.
Thanks sasank360!
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Hi, The link is dead. And the 2nd suggestion is for games only?
How do you all make use of external SD card?
I want to be able to move apps in internal storage to external SD.

kennyk09 said:
Hi, The link is dead. And the 2nd suggestion is for games only?
How do you all make use of external SD card?
I want to be able to move apps in internal storage to external SD.
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I'm using Samsung Evo 32GB class 10...
used App2sd and everything seems good so far

zorglub! said:
I'm using Samsung Evo 32GB class 10...
used App2sd and everything seems good so far
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I found a way with Link2SD. I didn't even know I had to create 2nd partition on my SD.. now it's all good

Zenfone 2 Storage problem - what to do ? :(

Hello,
Im experiencing really weird problem that never happened to me and now Im trying to find a solution but I cant find anything and I dont really want to format my phone because it would solve this problem only for some time.
The problem Im experiencing is regarding to my storage / sd card.. when I install any app it will make folder on my phone storage and not on SD Card even tho I selected to install apps on my SD Card. Another problem is that when I try to move that file that is placed in my phone storage to my SD Card then it wont clear any space from phone storage but the file is gone - and then when I run the app it says that I need to download additional datas and when I press download data it just say that my storage is full and I got 45gb free SD card and almost full phone memory even when I moved 1,5GB file to sd card .. I really dont know what to do..
Im also adding screenshot of my used space where you can clearly see that my apps on phone memory got 4GB and other files got around few hundred mbs but my free space is ONLY 500 MB and graph showing I should have around 6GB of free space..
Thanks for any help
EDIT: Im not rooted and running latest stock ROM

What app are you trying to delete the files in? Doesn't it have trash or something?

It doesnt matter what application Im trying to move (Im not uninstalling them or deleting) its happening to every app.

Anyone please?

i got this concern too. i want to install large games with obb files, but even if i transfer manually the obb files to ext sd/android/obb folder the game always says "download additional files" . in short the game can't find or locate the obb file due to some limitation on ext card permissions to read and write. im not sure on other devices. but i do believe thats how default android system is. :crying:
Correct me if im wrong but i guess the only solution here is to root our zf2 and install folder mount . forgive me for my first post. newbie here
Asus Zenfone 2 ZE551ML
2GB Ram 16GB Rom
Asus 2.20.40.160
Not Rooted

If you are root, try to install this
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nextapp.sdfix

Rageweawer said:
Hello,
Im experiencing really weird problem that never happened to me and now Im trying to find a solution but I cant find anything and I dont really want to format my phone because it would solve this problem only for some time.
The problem Im experiencing is regarding to my storage / sd card.. when I install any app it will make folder on my phone storage and not on SD Card even tho I selected to install apps on my SD Card. Another problem is that when I try to move that file that is placed in my phone storage to my SD Card then it wont clear any space from phone storage but the file is gone - and then when I run the app it says that I need to download additional datas and when I press download data it just say that my storage is full and I got 45gb free SD card and almost full phone memory even when I moved 1,5GB file to sd card .. I really dont know what to do..
Im also adding screenshot of my used space where you can clearly see that my apps on phone memory got 4GB and other files got around few hundred mbs but my free space is ONLY 500 MB and graph showing I should have around 6GB of free space..
Thanks for any help
EDIT: Im not rooted and running latest stock ROM
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well.. first of all u must know this fact that there are only few apps are present which can install on sd cards.. 90% of apps are developed to install on internal storage, if u will move them to sd card, they will not run.. and copying appdata files directly frm file explorer never solves this problem.. it will eat ur double space only.. there is specific way of doing this.. but only for those which supports installlation on sd card.
now ur problem of space, just clean ur junkfiles.. use xplore file explorer, enable 'show hidden files' and check one by one that which folder and file is eating ur storage.
if it doesnt work.. only last option is hard reset from stock recovery.

What is the main difference between internal storage and sd card? I dont get it why it shouldnt also work from the sd card.. and I was told by others that if I root my phone and download specific app / change settings I will be able to install to my sd card too. I was also normally installing my stuff on sd card when I had previous phone with 4.2 Android. With all these things I really shouldnt buy 128gb card that cost me 40€ because there is 95% of free space and I cant move anything (applications) to it.

Rageweawer said:
What is the main difference between internal storage and sd card? I dont get it why it shouldnt also work from the sd card.. and I was told by others that if I root my phone and download specific app / change settings I will be able to install to my sd card too. I was also normally installing my stuff on sd card when I had previous phone with 4.2 Android. With all these things I really shouldnt buy 128gb card that cost me 40€ because there is 95% of free space and I cant move anything (applications) to it.
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yeah.. during 4.4 time.. apps were sd card freindly, but nowdays its rare.. bcoz every app developer is in race of superiority.. internal sd gives better r/w speed, and its not removable so that app can run 24/7 on your device.. dats y they make apps to install on sd.
dont get dissappointed.. your problem is solved in andoid 6.0 marshmellow, it gives u option of using external sd card as phone's internal storage. as soon as u insert the sd card.. it will ask you that how to use it.. as a portable storage or as a internal storage..
So plz go get buy 128 gb ssd.
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Rageweawer said:
What is the main difference between internal storage and sd card? I dont get it why it shouldnt also work from the sd card.. and I was told by others that if I root my phone and download specific app / change settings I will be able to install to my sd card too. I was also normally installing my stuff on sd card when I had previous phone with 4.2 Android. With all these things I really shouldnt buy 128gb card that cost me 40€ because there is 95% of free space and I cant move anything (applications) to it.
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your phone may be full of junks.. plz make backup of your important data.. hard reset it.. hard reset is required evry 3-4 months. just do it.. it wil solve ur problem.. other wise if u are rooted then get the root explorer and delete the un necessary files from root.

Oh thats great that Android 6 will make my sd card work again. But now there is that issue that Asus is working so slowly on Android 6 :<

is there a "trash" folder? every time i delete things, they disappear, but the space doesnt free up. i also have the same problem as the original poster: my apps and all files only take up about 6.5 Gb, but my free space is only 800Mb out of 11.5Gb...i downloaded "diskusage" and it shows 4.9Gb of "system files" but i cant find them using my file manager or storage screen (this is in addition to the 4.6 Gb of "system reserved" space)
I tried to show hidden files and found a ".trash" folder, but there isnt anything in it

use ES file explorer , it has a feature to find all junk. Also ZF2 is not deleting files from gallery , it stores them in .trash. Check that too.