I tried moving my mp3s (songs, ringtones, notification, & alarm sounds) to my internal EMMC folder since all that internal memory seems to just go to waste. However, my phone was then not able to read/play them and the ringtones, etc could no longer be used either. Through these forums, I found out that's somewhat of a known issue, that internal memory on the Dinc was kinda wacked and has never worked as it should with media.
However, exploring my internal memory via Root Explorer, I realized there's an "audio" folder in the system/media folder which then has folders for alarms, notifications, & ringtones. This is where the stock sounds for each of those is housed. I'm wondering if I transfer my mp3's for each of those into the folder if the Dinc will then recognize and play them - this of course is something I can just try myself and see. But my big question is if I do that will that use the "open" internal memory (which is really my only reason for transferring any of those off the sd card) or will it take away from some other precious system memory of which there is so little extra on the the Dinc?
Thanks for any info in advanced!
it will be stored on the root partition of the phone. it will not really take anything away from you because you need to flash to get anything on that partition. i take all my ring tones and put them into that folder to have them in one spot. one thing is that you will need to reboot the phone before they show up for selection.
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Silly question perhaps, but like a lot of people I suspect I am new to a smart phone and to android.
When I connect the Desire to my PC and mount as an external drive, I can see all the folders. But which folders are on the SD Card - eg in which do I put new music etc into? I see Mp3 and Media. Do I have to create folders on the card (in media?) called Video, Documents etc? Does it matter what I call them? And while I am at it, are the photos stored on the SD Card by default?
I'm partly muddled because the phone came with music samples on already - but I don't know if this is on the card already (odd?) or elsewhere in the phone.
I don't have a micro SD reader to check independently.
Sorry if this is obvious to everyone else.
al89nut said:
Silly question perhaps, but like a lot of people I suspect I am new to a smart phone and to android.
When I connect the Desire to my PC and mount as an external drive, I can see all the folders. But which folders are on the SD Card - eg in which do I put new music etc into? I see Mp3 and Media. Do I have to create folders on the card (in media?) called Video, Documents etc? Does it matter what I call them? And while I am at it, are the photos stored on the SD Card by default?
I'm partly muddled because the phone came with music samples on already - but I don't know if this is on the card already (odd?) or elsewhere in the phone.
I don't have a micro SD reader to check independently.
Sorry if this is obvious to everyone else.
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Just create a Music folder in the root of your SD card and create folders within that directory.
e.g. Storage Card\Music\Chris Brown\[the mp3 file]
Picture and Video files should be placed in the DCIM directory, for example, to store video files, create a new folder called DCIM, and then create another folder within that called 100MEDIA, and place picture files and video files within that.
The structure will be Storage Card\DCIM\100MEDIA\[the picture file] for pictures, and Storage Card\DCIM\100MEDIA\[the video file] for videos.
Or you can just stick a folder on the root called 'photos' and this will be picked up fine...
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Or you can just stick a folder on the root called 'photos' and this will be picked up fine...
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This.
It really doesn't matter where you put the files, as the phone will detect the file formats automatically, and place them in their corrisponding places (ie. Photos and video will go to the Photos app, Music will go in the Music app).
Having said that, mine didn't pick things up first time - had to format the card in the Desire but now all works fine
Thanks.
But how do I navigate to the SD Card to find the root from the set of folders that comes up when I plug in the phone? None of them say SD card.
I get a removable drive (G) and then a set of folders beginning Lost Dir ending Bookmarks. Among them is Media, Music, Android and things like Rosiescroll (?), plus junk like HTC news which I guess I can delete. So are Media and Music on the SD Card? But not Android?
Ah! Or are ALL of these on the SD Card? I can only see the SD card and nothing of the phone system at all itself? So do I need rosiescroll, svox, blueFTPThumbnails?
al89nut said:
Thanks.
But how do I navigate to the SD Card to find the root from the set of folders that comes up when I plug in the phone? None of them say SD card.
I get a removable drive (G) and then a set of folders beginning Lost Dir ending Bookmarks. Among them is Media, Music, Android and things like Rosiescroll (?), plus junk like HTC news which I guess I can delete. So are Media and Music on the SD Card? But not Android?
Ah! Or are ALL of these on the SD Card? I can only see the SD card and nothing of the phone system at all itself? So do I need rosiescroll, svox, blueFTPThumbnails?
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The Storage Card is root
e.g. Storage Card (root)\Music\...
That removable disk is the SD card, the Android OS and anything that is on the device by default is on the phones internal memory, which cannot be accessed yet (I guess that will all change once those clever devs manage to root the thing). I'm not too sure about apps you may have installed yourself, I think they get installed to the internal memory as well.
The picture below is what I have on my SD. I'm trying to maximize space on my SD. What can I remove? I'm using CM7.
Probably one of the largest things you can remove it old Nandroid backups. They're under clockworkmod>backups and can range from a couple hundred megs to over a gig, I try to keep that cleaned of any backups I'm not likely to use.
If you want to maximize space, why don't you sort the folders by size and then see what is using the most space and clear it depending on what you do and don't use.
I have the same question. My SD is cluttered with stuff left behind by deleted applications or are empty because they are unused by a currently installed application.
I plan to delete them one by one and see what happens. After making a backup, of course.
You could copy the contents of SD to hard drive, format the sd card again and put back from hard drive what is needed. Running it a couple days should tell you what is needed.
From my experience, you can delete anything really. If it's a folder put there by an app on your phone, once you launch the app again, it will put the files it needs back.
The only problem you would have, is if you have moved apps to your SD. Some apps auto install to the SD card...which can eat up space if you have plenty of room left on the phone itself. Try going into the settings in the Applications section and move all you can from the SD card to the phone...that will help cut down on space.
Another thing that will eat up space, is if you use your camera and the files save to the SD card. You can change that too so that they save to EMMC instead.
Other than that, if you have ringtones or wallpapers saved on the SD card that you never use or rarely use, you can probably move those over to EMMC as well...and move any music to EMMC as well. If your running a Sense ROM, then the stock music player will read the music from EMMC...so will PowerAMP if you use it.
Oh, some other stuff I noticed...check your downloads folder too. You can set up the stock browser to save files to EMMC as well.
Basically...anything you can save to EMMC or move there and still use it...then you should. At least that's what I do with my phone and my tiny 2gb card.
Hope that helps.
Ok, here goes nothing.....
Sorry in advance if there's a thread with a similar problem, but I didn't find anything with the search function
Recently, I've installed the Cyanogen mod on my HTC Desire.
Since it only had a 2 gig SD card in it, and I want to use it to play music in my car, I decided to go for a 8 gig SDHC memory card.
Here's where it gets tricky....
Somehow, when I use the new memory card, the phone's applications don't see the media files on it. This goes for the music, ringtones, notifications and alarm sounds, even though they do show in de browser.
I've made a one on one copy of the files. Both with a card reader as with USB.
When I put the old card back in, the files are found by the device (or rather, by the applications).
Things I've checked so far:
- File locations
- File system (both FAT)
- Formatting the card.
Anyone got any suggestions?
(And off topic, sorry for the elaborate post )
Greetings,
G.Junit.
Is there any reason that I can't move Ringtones folder from the sdCard
to Incredible's internal storage seen when connecting USB cable to windows
computer and choosing Disk Drive option? Thanks for any thoughts on storage options....
Confused...
The Ringtones folder is in /system/media, which is on internal storage. Moving it to SD you'd need to browse to the ringtone each time you wanted it, it wouldn't automatically pull up since the system looks to the default location.
The only way you can see it is by using adb or Droid Explorer.
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Thanks for answer
But the Inc can actually find them on the sdCard: I have different ring for
each phonebook entry, and it finds them without pointing.
I was asking because the internal drive doesn't seem to have much more
on it than DCIM, and I wondered if there was any reason not to put ringtones
on the internal drive. I don't ususally adb, only visualize phone's drives on a
windows setup with windows explorer.
michaelbsheldon said:
But the Inc can actually find them on the sdCard: I have different ring for
each phonebook entry, and it finds them without pointing.
I was asking because the internal drive doesn't seem to have much more
on it than DCIM, and I wondered if there was any reason not to put ringtones
on the internal drive. I don't ususally adb, only visualize phone's drives on a
windows setup with windows explorer.
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You can copy the ringtones folder to emmc (internal storage) and the phone should find them on reboot.
Below is where they can be put.
Internal:
/emmc/ringtones
/emmc/alarms
/emmc/notifications
SD Card :
/sdcard/ringtones/
/sdcard/alarms/
/sdcard/notifications
A few days ago I noticed my phone wasn't taking photos correctly. They were corrupted. After a little research, I tried to reformat the sdcard from the phone settings but nothing actually happened, my files were all still on the sdcard. So after looking at the properties of pictures in the 3 different "camera" albums (I've had a few different roms on here) I realized that they're all in the internal storage under various folders like extsdcard/DCIM, sdcard/DCIM, and 0/sdcard/DCIM. Through ES file explorer I was able to determine that my external sd card called sdcard0.
I have my camera set to save externally but it's still not working, although my music reads fine from it.
Initially I though the problem was formatting the external sdcard but now I'm thinking the internal structure is a giant mess from the various roms and I'd really like to get it purged out and organized for stock (ish) TW roms. Can someone provide some guidance?
I'm currently on Jedi XP16.
Thanks