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So... I'm not really sure how to do this.. but I bought a 64 Gig Extra micro SD Card.. it works perfect..
When i download my google play music for offline.. i don't really have a choice to save it to the SD card.. i mean.. what's the point here?
As far as i know the only real app that I can use my EXT SD card for right now is the camera which auto saves to it.. other then that i can save Rom's and Zip's on it.. but i mean who cares.. I was really hoping to have my music saved on there.. =/
Guess ill have to manually copy the files over and not even use the google play music app?
If you manually copy the files to the extsd then the Google Play app will see them. Thats what I did and it now shows all my music as available for offline play. I'm not sure if it will put new stuff there though.
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PMentior said:
If you manually copy the files to the extsd then the Google Play app will see them. Thats what I did and it now shows all my music as available for offline play. I'm not sure if it will put new stuff there though.
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Does it do this seamlessly or is it duplicating things though? i.e. is it showing your collection twice, the online version and the offline version? I would think it would because it's looking in a different place for its offline cache.
I have been wondering the same thing. My entire collection is in google play, if I manually copy a bunch over to my SD card will it show up twice?
Mine only shows each song once. No duplicates.
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The google play music app shoulld work the same as the "Music" app, except now it has like 20k songs that can be streamed (in high quality too which is awesome).
So yes, as PMentior said, it shouldn't show dupes, even if you have the music uploaded.
I've noticed that 3rd party equalizer apps don't seem to work on music that is stored on the device. Are any of you guys seeing this same behavior? Seems to only happen with stock roms. AOKP seemed to work fine. Oh..in case you are curious, yes, I have changed the sound setting to point to the 3rd party app.
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Does it do this seamlessly or is it duplicating things though? i.e. is it showing your collection twice, the online version and the offline version? I would think it would because it's looking in a different place for its offline cache.
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There is a place in the settings of the app where you can check a box that says something like "show offline music only".
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Yesterday I created a symlink in /data/data/com.google.android.music that points to my sdcard at /mnt/extSdCard/android/data/com.google.android.music and it works perfectly. No issues so far.
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Yesterday I created a symlink in /data/data/com.google.android.music that points to my sdcard at /mnt/extSdCard/android/data/com.google.android.music and it works perfectly. No issues so far.
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Does this require root?
Yeah.
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d3athsd00r said:
Yesterday I created a symlink in /data/data/com.google.android.music that points to my sdcard at /mnt/extSdCard/android/data/com.google.android.music and it works perfectly. No issues so far.
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Do you think you could give us a little walkthrough on how to do that. I'm very interested in trying it
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thebz1 said:
Do you think you could give us a little walkthrough on how to do that. I'm very interested in trying it
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I'm actually having issues now. Since the data is on the external SD card, which doesn't get mounted for a few seconds after boot, the app doesn't show up in the app drawer. I have to do a hot reboot to make it show up.
However, anyone still interested:
**STD Disclaimer** You accept all necessary risks and have created a nandroid backup like a good user.
In a file explorer capable of root:
1. go to /data/data and copy the folder com.google.android.music to /mnt/extSdCard/Android/data/
2. Now you should have com.google.android.music on your external sdcard.
3. go back to /data/data and rename the "com.google.android.music" folder to "com.google.android.music.bak" as a backup just in case.
4. In terminal emulator type (or a root adb shell):
Code:
su
ln -s /mnt/extSdCard/Android/data/com.google.android.music /data/data/com.google.android.music
5. You might need to reboot and/or hot-reboot for music to work.
6. if you want to revert these changes, just go to /data/data and delete the "com.google.android.music" symlink and rename "com.google.android.music.bak" back to "com.google.android.music"
*note*
if your Play Music app is installed as a system app, then replace the beginning of the paths with /system/data instead of /data/data
If someone can come up with a better method I am completely open to hearing it.
We have been blessed with so many devs for the incredible 2, that it can be easy to flash a new Rom often. My question is this:
How can I keep my google music that I keep on the device to each Rom? That way I don't have to download it each time I flash a new Rom or update one with a full wipe?
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Kinz1980 said:
We have been blessed with so many devs for the incredible 2, that it can be easy to flash a new Rom often. My question is this:
How can I keep my google music that I keep on the device to each Rom? That way I don't have to download it each time I flash a new Rom or update one with a full wipe?
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Do you mean music you keep on your sd card?
It should be in the cache folder on the sdcard. /sdcard/Android/data/com.google.android.music/cache/music
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Do you mean music you keep on your sd card?
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Not exactly. It is my music that I keep on device so I am not steaming. So maybe yes.
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I found that location. Can I I just copy and paste into another file on the root of the sd card?
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Not exactly. It is my music that I keep on device so I am not steaming. So maybe yes.
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Music on your sd card under mnt>sdcard>music, shouldn't be affected when you flash a rom.
If you recently flashed a rom and it is no longer showing up, you may have a media bug that seems to be going around. I would recommend reading through the rom thread to see possible solutions.
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Music on your sd card under mnt>sdcard>music, shouldn't be affected when you flash a rom.
If you recently flashed a rom and it is no longer showing up, you may have a media bug that seems to be going around. I would recommend reading through the rom thread to see possible solutions.
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I am getting ready to flash another Rom. I copy and pasted the location above with the google cache the file seems to have all the music it is just all as numbers in a mp3 format.
So I guess I will give it a whirl and post back.
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I am getting ready to flash another Rom. I copy and pasted the location above with the google cache the file seems to have all the music it is just all as numbers in a mp3 format.
So I guess I will give it a whirl and post back.
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fyi...if you do have the same problem many of us had, flashing a rom may not correct it, but deleting a file on your sd card root called .nomedia may fix it even without a flash...
I failed :banghead:
I am going to try another file manger and see if I can have a better success copying and pasting.
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I failed :banghead:
I am going to try another file manger and see if I can have a better success copying and pasting.
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You really need to be more specific with what you are trying to accomplish. If you are wanting google play music to just remember what music you have in your account, titanium backup works very well for me, I believe it also keeps the music that got cached by play music to play offline.
If it is music you proactively transferred to your sd card and your phone isn't seeing it, you need to reconsider my advice of searching through the rom thread for a fix. I don't believe you have mentioned which roms you have tried, nor did you acknowledge if you had looked for the .nomedia file.
Your correct,sorry about that.
I am trying to keep the google music cache. (i think). I have done something to tb in the settings or something to where it won't restore it.
Tb just has so many things you can do with it that I think I have messed some stuff on it. Maybe with having different profiles.
Maybe I should just clear all my data with it and start over. And then backup my phone three easy I have it now?
And no I have not found the nomore file. Would that be under the music or somewhere else in android?
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Your correct,sorry about that.
I am trying to keep the google music cache. (i think). I have done something to tb in the settings or something to where it won't restore it.
Tb just has so many things you can do with it that I think I have messed some stuff on it. Maybe with having different profiles.
Maybe I should just clear all my data with it and start over. And then backup my phone three easy I have it now?
And no I have not found the nomore file. Would that be under the music or somewhere else in android?
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The .nomedia file would be in the root of your sd, but that won't apply if you want to just preserve your cache info. Here is what I would recommend, although I haven't used profiles in titanium, so take it fwiw...
In each profile of titanium, tap on google play music and tap delete. Then go into manage apps, tap on google play music, clear data.
Then go into google play music, make sure it signs your account in, let it run the process of finding all of your cloud music.
When that is done, go back into each profile of titanium, backup google play music, flash new roms, profit...
I don't know if it will work, but I think it is your best shot.
Okay I still am missing something. I cleared all data in google music.
I uninstalled the app.
I cleared all data on TB.
I deleted all the files on the sd card for TB.
I reinstalled both apps and set it up.(meaning getting all my music to on device.)
I backed up everything.
Flashed new rom (ukb)
Restored my apps and data.
=fail it just installed the app not the cache, to tell google that it is there. Unless TB does not save the music? So now I am unsure what to do?
I guess I will have to get all my music in a folder and place it on the sd card somewhere (which in turn I am nit sure where; in order for gmusic to see it.
Any other thoughts or suggestions would be much appreciated!
Now that we have the leak for the dinc2 I am sure there will be some fun stuff to flash soon!
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I seem to be having an issue which started just recently anytime I flash a new rom or nightly release of AOKP or CM10 all the content in my DCIM/Camera seems to be gone the content in the thumbnails folder is still there but the photos at completely all gone any ideas what could be causing this issue? Thank you in advance.
The photos are gone in your internal sdcard?
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well I just checked all images are gone... internal and external photos.. images..wallpapers... just gone very strange plugged into pc and I see some of the files there for the images and the file size but can't copy any of them and on the phone the folders are just empty
Maybe you could get lucky using a data recovery tool on your sdcard. There should be some free/trial ones on the net. You just gotta search em out.
As for why....no idea. Obviously it shouldn't be doing that! Maybe the updater-script does something like format data or something...though tgat diesnt make sense either....has anyone else in the rom thread reported this too?
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Actually someone said that they had the same issue with AOSP roms and started using quickpic instead and solved the issue
I don't understand how an app could stop the files from getting deleted.
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I don't understand how an app could stop the files from getting deleted.
My unicorn died, back on the pony.
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Indeed I mean my new pictures I'm taking seem to be staying but everything all of my 700 images and pictures are gone nothing left which is very strange how only all the image media got wiped on external and internal sd
I don't see why or how but is it possible they were somehow actually stored in the apps data/cache folder and just linked to the sdcard??
It seems far fetched but its the only real explanation I could come up with other than something being corrupt and not working as intended.....
That's an odd one man.
Have you looked into any data recovery tools? I've heard of some success with them dealing with flash media like sdcards.
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I don't see why or how but is it possible they were somehow actually stored in the apps data/cache folder and just linked to the sdcard??
It seems far fetched but its the only real explanation I could come up with other than something being corrupt and not working as intended.....
That's an odd one man.
Have you looked into any data recovery tools? I've heard of some success with them dealing with flash media like sdcards.
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I'll look into the recovery tool and I was thinking the same with it being tied to the cache as well just really strange never had this issue before
Okay so it seems that jelly been doesn't allow us to Intel apps to the SD card anymore.. Okay fair enough, stood move by Google but I doubt there's anything we can do about that. My question: how can I get my phone to save other data to my external SD?
What I ultimately want is to be able to save downloads (ROMs), nandroid backups, and if possible, move extra files needed for games and cached music (I have 2gb of data from Google play music of cached music. Deleting this every few days when I go through a few hundred songs to clear space is frustrating). Does anyone know of a way that I can make any of these things happen?
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You posted a question in general. .and if you do some searchong you will find a thread aboit yoir issue
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Okay so it seems that jelly been doesn't allow us to Intel apps to the SD card anymore.. Okay fair enough, stood move by Google but I doubt there's anything we can do about that. My question: how can I get my phone to save other data to my external SD?
What I ultimately want is to be able to save downloads (ROMs), nandroid backups, and if possible, move extra files needed for games and cached music (I have 2gb of data from Google play music of cached music. Deleting this every few days when I go through a few hundred songs to clear space is frustrating). Does anyone know of a way that I can make any of these things happen?
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Search XDA - there are thread(s) how to change Google Music storage to exSD card.
Thanks gentlemen. Using tapatalk at work so search doesn't work terribly well. Probably should have just used website search tool. Still not sure about game data, nandroid storage, etc., but I'll try to keep looking on my own. Thanks
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Found nothing yet, still looking.
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Found something that works for music, buy I don't think it will work for other apps and I don't think binding the directories will persist through a data wipe or ROM installation. I was just curious if this was a possibility and it seems that it is not.. I guess SD cards are becoming useless.
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Apps to sd
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Using this thread I was able to move my apps to external sd.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2109112
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I flashed this rom here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=36441591
And i knew it were gonna move many of my media file to another folder which i cannot find anymore i have : sdcard0/1 and emulated folder also I've been checking everywhere and i cannot find them anymore please tell me i didn't loose them forever !
I couldn't post in that thread because it is closed.. Ive read in the thread almost every page and no one posted this so yeah ...
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Install Quick pic from play store. Run media scanner. Its will search all media files.
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Install Quick pic from play store. Run media scanner. Its will search all media files.
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Couldn't find media scanner .. But how is that gonna find my music ? I really need my music had like 220 of them
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Check /storage/emulated/legacy.
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Check /storage/emulated/legacy.
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I did and it isn't there...
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Install new ROM
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Install new ROM
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Ugh... I really like aokp roms and its just killing me the fact that i can't use music whit this rom any other solution as of now ?..
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Anyone?
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Ugh... Anyone?
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What is changing to a new rom going to do for him? If his music is gone it's gone... Unless I'm missing something? Why isn't your music on your computer or somewhere else? How did you get it on your phone, lol? If it some where and you can't find it, pull everything from your storage places and put them on your PC and search both files with in your computer search index and see if you can find them... If they are there, then create a folder named /music and you will good to go. If they aren't there then get new music or however you got them there in the first place.
Im really getting fed up whit this ... The way it makes another folder where everything elses moves there is really nonsense i have lost all my game data's also my titanium backup
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Im really getting fed up whit this ... The way it makes another folder where everything elses moves there is really nonsense i have lost all my game data's also my titanium backup
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So you are just going to vent and whine, or help me help you?
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So you are just going to vent and whine, or help me help you?
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Sorry did not see your post.
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What is changing to a new rom going to do for him? If his music is gone it's gone... Unless I'm missing something? Why isn't your music on your computer or somewhere else? How did you get it on your phone, lol? If it some where and you can't find it, pull everything from your storage places and put them on your PC and search both files with in your computer search index and see if you can find them... If they are there, then create a folder named /music and you will good to go. If they aren't there then get new music or however you got them there in the first place.
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So i downloaded all of my musics whitin my device reason i never store music on my pc is because i barely do use it...
I guess i could do that too but i once remember i restored an backup and everything was in its place ? Its weird..
Also since i use various apps to get my music they are in different folders there js nothing inside my /music folder is this anything bad ?
I could download the music back also but takes quite a while + my lost game datas and precious images :/
Off topic : thoughts on the xperia t ? Im wanting to buy one..
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shahkam said:
So i downloaded all of my musics whitin my device reason i never store music on my pc is because i barely do use it...
I guess i could do that too but i once remember i restored an backup and everything was in its place ? Its weird..
Also since i use various apps to get my music they are in different folders there js nothing inside my /music folder is this anything bad ?
I could download the music back also but takes quite a while + my lost game datas and precious images :/
Off topic : thoughts on the xperia t ? Im wanting to buy one..
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I would start putting the music somehwere other then only on phone storage, just in case. I've accidentally wiped internal storage once, and I've had External sdcards go bad or just randomly out of no where lose all data in it. make a dropbox and do TiBu once a week and move them there your self with some type of file manager if you don't wanna pay the money for Titanium Backup pro. I also bet all your stuff is there you are just looking in the wrong places. What file manager are you using to look for your "lost stuff"?
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I would start putting the music somehwere other then only on phone storage, just in case. I've accidentally wiped internal storage once, and I've had External sdcards go bad or just randomly out of no where lose all data in it. make a dropbox and do TiBu once a week and move them there your self with some type of file manager if you don't wanna pay the money for Titanium Backup pro. I also bet all your stuff is there you are just looking in the wrong places. What file manager are you using to look for your "lost stuff"?
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Yeah dropbox is a good idea and i use root explorer and oi file manager tried whit both same results folders are not being shown but if i restore my nandroid backup they all come back ? Until i come back on a 4.2 aokp/aosp rom..
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list all the areas you are looking for the media... what is your recovery?
Aokp is awesome ROM. I dont mean to be rude but if you think those files are still there (in your phone) ;install different ROm or restore backup and pull al data from it. And wipe both internal and external cards. Amd install aokp and enter those files again via PC.
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list all the areas you are looking for the media... what is your recovery?
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Sorry for late answer but i looked into sdcard/storage0/storage1/usbdisk/ also checked emulated and legacy folder...
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bikrame said:
Aokp is awesome ROM. I dont mean to be rude but if you think those files are still there (in your phone) ;install different ROm or restore backup and pull al data from it. And wipe both internal and external cards. Amd install aokp and enter those files again via PC.
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Yeah ill do just that i guess aokp 4.2 is just perfect for me except it has low incall volume -.-...
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