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Hi,
does any of you know if the device can work in USB Mass Storage mode, i.e. can it be seen as an external drive from Windows/OSX/Linux without additional software? I own a MacBook Pro and HTC support told me that they are going to release soon a piece of software that works under OSX, but it would be wonderful to have access to the device storage without additional software..
Question already asked and answered here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1543735
They dont use USB Mass Storage they use Media Transfer Protocol to deal with USB connection. This change was introduced in Honeycomb and has continued into Ice Cream Sandwich.
You can still transfer files to and from the devices its just a diffrent way of doing it.
Forum user Gogol posed these questions:
- Why Google is using MTP instead of USB file transfer on Honeycomb?”
He received the following response from a Google developer:
“MTP is a big improvement over USB mass storage — for devices with lots of internal memory, a manufacturer no longer needs to come up with some hard partition between the USB mass storage and internal storage. Instead, they are all in one partition, with MTP providing access to the directory of media files that would normally be available through USB mass storage. This means there is no longer a need for apps on SD card for such devices, because what used to be the ‘internal SD card’ is in the same partition as where applications are stored. The storage on your device can be used for either applications or media, depending on what you want to put on it. You aren’t stuck with how much space the manufacturer decided to leave for the two areas.
Oh also this means that the media storage doesn’t need to be unmounted from Android when it is being access through the PC.“
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Source: http://glasskeys.com/2011/02/28/why-google-uses-mtp-instead-of-usb-file-transfer-on-android-3/
A main reason for using MTP rather than for example the USB mass-storage device class (MSC) is that the latter operates at the granularity of a mass storage device block (usually in practice, a FAT block), rather than at the logical file level. In other words, the USB mass storage class is designed to give a host computer undifferentiated access to bulk mass storage, such as compact flash, rather than to a file system, which might be safely shared with the target device (except for specific files which the host might be modifying/accessing). In practice, therefore, when a USB host computer has mounted an MSC partition, it assumes absolute control of the storage, which then may not be safely modified by the device without risk of data corruption until the host computer has severed the connection. Furthermore, because the host computer has full control over the connected storage device, there is a risk that the host computer may corrupt the file system, reformat it to a file system not supported by the USB device, or otherwise modify it in such a way that the USB device cannot completely understand it.
MTP and PTP specifically overcome this issue by making the unit of managed storage a local file rather than an entire (possibly very large) unit of mass storage at the block level. In this way, MTP works like a transactional file system - either the entire file is written/read or nothing. The storage media is not affected by failed transfers.
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Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Transfer_Protocol
No idea how this works with OSX though I'm a Windows guy
HTC-Gunge said:
No idea how this works with OSX though I'm a Windows guy
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Very nice reply, thank you very much!
I've found Android File Transfer Google utility for OSX: http://www.android.com/filetransfer/
Actually, the One X still uses mass storage mode. Plug it in and you get the same old prompt for charge only, disk drive etc. and it still shows up as a removable disk.
Yes, vanilla android handsets like the GN use MTP mode, but HTCs don't. They have a separate partition still.
Hmm that's interesting if its true, it means HTC have implemented it independently of the OS. Could even be a selling point as I know quite a few people didn't really like the change from USB Mass Storage to MTP.
Thanks for the info!
I'm one of those who hates MTP because it is not as reliable as USB Mass Storage. MTP just doesn't want to play nice with my Win7 machine on my Nexus so I'm really looking forward to the One X and getting proper USB Mass Storage on it.
As much as i prefer MSC over MTP (mainly because you can open music and video files directly from your mass storage device, but if you use MTP, they will have to copy the entire file over to your computer before it will play), my office blocks MSC devices, but strange enough, MTP devices are not blocked.
Therefore i am actually trying to find out of i can use MTP mode in my One X, since MTP is embedded into ICS, there might be a chance. This will enable me to access my One X in office..
anyone has any idea?
I have a slightly similar problem here:
How do i tell the HTC ONE phone, that i want use the mass-storage-mode in USB, and not the f******g HTC/Nero bloatware crap?
Before the update to Android 4.1.1 it was working fine as mass-storage.
CBrown0815 said:
I have a slightly similar problem here:
How do i tell the HTC ONE phone, that i want use the mass-storage-mode in USB, and not the f******g HTC/Nero bloatware crap?
Before the update to Android 4.1.1 it was working fine as mass-storage.
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HTC has changed mass-storage-mode to MTP in their latest update. I didn't find any way to use as mass storage so I installed CM10.1 (A8 supports mass storage mode).
parkentosh said:
HTC has changed mass-storage-mode to MTP in their latest update. I didn't find any way to use as mass storage so I installed CM10.1 (A8 supports mass storage mode).
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Thanks for this info. Unfortunally is this no option for me. I dont want to hack my phone, i want to use it.
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Thanks for this info. Unfortunally is this no option for me. I dont want to hack my phone, i want to use it.
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Agreed - I have the same problem with my OneX on 4.1.1. 4.0.4 was great, 4.1.1 is a backward step in several ways. My Galaxy Nexus (bought to play with Ubuntu Touch!) did the same [email protected] until it updated itself to 4.2.2, and now works correctly - to my mind - as a mass storage device. I think Google realised the error and quietly fixed it. I can't find a document that details all the changes in 4.2.2 so not sure.
i found a deal this morning on a 64GB USB stick...i have an OTG cable and using StickMount accessing USB storage works, but the largest stick i had to try it on was 16GB
does anyone know if a 64GB stick will work?
also - on LiquidSmooth 1.4, when i unmount the usb storage it also unmounts internal storage and i need to restart the phone...if you use a ROM which does not require a restart and using StickMount, please let me know which one it is
It probably will, but if it doesn't, just format the USB stick to have two 32 GB FAT32 partitions.
Don't know about the second part tho.
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theking_13 said:
It probably will, but if it doesn't, just format the USB stick to have two 32 GB FAT32 partitions.
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holy smokes batman, that's INGENIOUS!!
Stickmount working with 64GB flash drive
Just went through all this, and found that if I used a 3rd party disk formatter (in my case Easus) I could format a 64gb flash drive as one 64gb partition, and read it on my Nexus 10 with StickMount.
That 32GB limit is just Microsoft BS. And both exFAT32 and NTFS did not work; even though they mounted, the drives appeared empty on the Nexus.
I've been using a 64GB USB flash drive with my Galaxy Nexus for quite a while and it works very well. StickMount was having trouble with UTF-8 characters when the drive was formatted as exFAT, so I re-formatted it as NTFS using a Windows 7 computer and now all is well. It's formatted with a single partition. Note that I'm still running under Android version 4.1.2. I haven't wanted to deal with the Bluetooth issues I've heard about when using 4.2.1. As far as I know, StickMount is working with 4.2.1, though it may still have some quirks that people are working around.
What format is the phones internal memory and "sd card"? As in NTFS, FAT32, ext3/ext4, etc...
Trying to mount my Gnex to my Nexus 7 to access its SD card and it's not showing up with the stickmount app, which I believe can only read NTFS and FAT32.
Both devices are rooted, and the N7 reads my 64gb NTFS thumb drive just fine.
thirtynation said:
What format is the phones internal memory and "sd card"? As in NTFS, FAT32, ext3/ext4, etc...
Trying to mount my Gnex to my Nexus 7 to access its SD card and it's not showing up with the stickmount app, which I believe can only read NTFS and FAT32.
Both devices are rooted, and the N7 reads my 64gb NTFS thumb drive just fine.
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The Gnex mounts /data (including /data/media/) as ext4 but the only protocol available for data transfer over USB is MTP (media transfer protocol) there is no support for UMS on the Gnex. MTP does not support the functions you get from a usb storage device or portable media like SD/MMC/etc.
TL: DR; You can't mount it like a drive, by design, and if you could, you'd need to mount it with linux.
-tekkdrone
tekkdrone said:
The Gnex mounts /data (including /data/media/) as ext4 but the only protocol available for data transfer over USB is MTP (media transfer protocol) there is no support for UMS on the Gnex. MTP does not support the functions you get from a usb storage device or portable media like SD/MMC/etc.
TL: DR; You can't mount it like a drive, by design, and if you could, you'd need to mount it with linux.
-tekkdrone
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Thank you sir. While a disappointing answer, it was definitely informative and the information I was looking for. :good:
thirtynation said:
Thank you sir. While a disappointing answer, it was definitely informative and the information I was looking for. :good:
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I wish it were different. I'm definitely not a big fan of MTP-only.
tekkdrone said:
I wish it were different. I'm definitely not a big fan of MTP-only.
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Two people on the N7 forum have successfully mounted their other devices to the N7 but I don't know if those devices use MTP or not.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=29268972&postcount=483
That was the inspiration for this post, essentially.
thirtynation said:
Two people on the N7 forum have successfully mounted their other devices to the N7 but I don't know if those devices use MTP or not.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=29268972&postcount=483
That was the inspiration for this post, essentially.
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Similar to what tekk mentioned, the GNex does not support USB mass storage mode, while those devices obviously do.
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I cant seem to find an option to use the Galaxy S4 as USB mass storage, only media device (MTP) or Camera (PTP) is available. Cannot find any USB options in the settings either.
How am I able to copy files from and to my SD card and/or phone HD?
I appreciate any helpful posts. Thank you!
crco said:
I cant seem to find an option to use the Galaxy S4 as USB mass storage, only media device (MTP) or Camera (PTP) is available. Cannot find any USB options in the settings either.
How am I able to copy files from and to my SD card and/or phone HD?
I appreciate any helpful posts. Thank you!
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You us MTP fyi usb mass storage has been gone for a while i know for a fact the gs3 & note2 used MTP
deeznutz1977 said:
You us MTP fyi usb mass storage has been gone for a while i know for a fact the gs3 & note2 used MTP
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with MTP my device doesnt show up in Mac, as well as my Sony TV or LG receiver. what to do?
Is there anyway to disable MTP and go back to mass storage? Also, is the SDCARD MTP as well?
Mass Storage is gone for good... and while it sounds bad, there's a good reason..
Using Mass Storage forces the storage partition (or external sdcard) to be unmounted by Android, so any data/apps/widgets on there are no longer available until you disconnect your device from your PC. Using MTP allows the data partition to remain mounted and available concurrently on both your device, and on your PC via USB.
1) No, you cannot get UMS back.
2) This belongs in Q&A.
3) For Macs, you will need this.
Questions go in Q&A
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The auto-unmount is ok...
pakraider said:
Mass Storage is gone for good... and while it sounds bad, there's a good reason..
Using Mass Storage forces the storage partition (or external sdcard) to be unmounted by Android, so any data/apps/widgets on there are no longer available until you disconnect your device from your PC. Using MTP allows the data partition to remain mounted and available concurrently on both your device, and on your PC via USB.
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"there's a good reason" is somewhat subjective. To me the great benefit to the more general usb mass storage option is so you can connect the phone to any device as if it were a usb flash drive. No driver issues, no worries about camera or MTP mode, no Mac issues, no linux issues, no Windows issues ... it's just a usd flash drive and can be treated as such. I am ok with the side affect of auto-unmounting the sdcard from Android when I connect the phone to another device to use as noted USB drive.
Is there in fact any way this will ever come back?
I can't get my phone to show up on my computer for nothing.have the correct drivers installed and everything.running Windows
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umlguy said:
"there's a good reason" is somewhat subjective. To me the great benefit to the more general usb mass storage option is so you can connect the phone to any device as if it were a usb flash drive. No driver issues, no worries about camera or MTP mode, no Mac issues, no linux issues, no Windows issues ... it's just a usd flash drive and can be treated as such. I am ok with the side affect of auto-unmounting the sdcard from Android when I connect the phone to another device to use as noted USB drive.
Is there in fact any way this will ever come back?
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There was an app someone made for the GS3 that did some filesystem trickery to expose the storage as UMS (needed root). I'm sure something like that will come around that works on the GS4 too.
I had the same issue until I installed Kies, no issues after that
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I can't get my phone to show up on my computer for nothing.have the correct drivers installed and everything.running Windows
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umlguy said:
"there's a good reason" is somewhat subjective. To me the great benefit to the more general usb mass storage option is so you can connect the phone to any device as if it were a usb flash drive. No driver issues, no worries about camera or MTP mode, no Mac issues, no linux issues, no Windows issues ... it's just a usd flash drive and can be treated as such. I am ok with the side affect of auto-unmounting the sdcard from Android when I connect the phone to another device to use as noted USB drive.
Is there in fact any way this will ever come back?
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How could anyone possibly know if it will come back, especially "in fact?" My guess is you would have to ask Samsung that question to get anything other than a guess or an opinion (which would be NO) but it's not "in fact" just "in an opinion."
I jumped from an S2 to the S4 and was also annoyed that USB mass storage wouldn't work either. Since I use Linux as my desktop, MTP is not an option "out-of-the-box". I therefor turned to an awesome app (that I heard about on this site!), Airdroid. Now I was able to quickly get an album/picture/book datastore onto a shiny new 32GB microSD! And yes, I know I could have put the microSD into a slot on my laptop, etc., but I shouldn't have to, just because I choose to use Linux!
I mean, its rather ironic not to be able to use Linux to connect to Linux (android), don't you think? If I'm completely wrong about this, please someone point me to the right path.
Thanks
There is a "hack" to allow the external to be read as UMS. Also, the internal sdcard is no longer yaffs2 its ext4 and only linux knows ext4. So if you were to use UMS, only a linux computer would "see" the sd card and nothing else.
elesbb said:
There is a "hack" to allow the external to be read as UMS. Also, the internal sdcard is no longer yaffs2 its ext4 and only linux knows ext4. So if you were to use UMS, only a linux computer would "see" the sd card and nothing else.
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elesbb,
That's awesome news! Thanks for the tip. I use opensuse (currently 12.3) with kde, will definitely make the necessary tweaks to get this going in dolphin.
Thanks again!
Ignore. Posted in wrong thread.
If you are rooted and busybox installed yes there are lot of apps on play store that can convert your externel SD Card to Mass storage.
Might as well create a thread of people who are using their SD Cards as Adaptive Storage instead of External "removable" storage.
I recently bought a 128GB Lexar Pro 1000x *UHS-II and used it as Adaptive Storage. So far so good but during the formating of the card it was stucked on 40% but rebooted the phone and voila after reboots it became adaptive storage and migrated all my data.
I have another curious question, when the SD Card is used as Adaptive Storage, is the SDCard is the primary install location of all apps? What happens when the internal storage is full, will it just continue doing its stuff occupying the big space from external SD?
Looking forward to an enjoyable discussion.
DrearierJester1 said:
Might as well create a thread of people who are using their SD Cards as Adaptive Storage instead of External "removable" storage.
I recently bought a 128GB Lexar Pro 1000x *UHS-II and used it as Adaptive Storage. So far so good but during the formating of the card it was stucked on 40% but rebooted the phone and voila after reboots it became adaptive storage and migrated all my data.
I have another curious question, when the SD Card is used as Adaptive Storage, is the SDCard is the primary install location of all apps? What happens when the internal storage is full, will it just continue doing its stuff occupying the big space from external SD?
Looking forward to an enjoyable discussion.
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Been using this on my One M8 and now HTC 10 so I had some experience.
First off when you first run the Adaptive storage say yes to move app etc, this will help when you connect Phone to a PC so you can see the Full SD card for putting music on etc
App now install on both Internal or SD card depends on the app tbh I found most games will go right onto the SDcard, the great thing now though you can move each app when ever you want.
DrearierJester1 said:
Might as well create a thread of people who are using their SD Cards as Adaptive Storage instead of External "removable" storage.
I recently bought a 128GB Lexar Pro 1000x *UHS-II and used it as Adaptive Storage. So far so good but during the formating of the card it was stucked on 40% but rebooted the phone and voila after reboots it became adaptive storage and migrated all my data.
I have another curious question, when the SD Card is used as Adaptive Storage, is the SDCard is the primary install location of all apps? What happens when the internal storage is full, will it just continue doing its stuff occupying the big space from external SD?
Looking forward to an enjoyable discussion.
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No NO it will finish eventually. Id say reformat as portable again then reformat as internal.
Cool. I just switched from a slower 128GB card to a 64GB Sandisk Extreme Pro UHS-I U3 card so that I could switch to adaptive storage. No freezing, etc, when formatting. It just worked. I was originally running it the 128GB card without adaptive storage enabled..
The only "hitch" that I encountered was that HTC Messages app kept saying "Space is unavailable" every time I opened a picture message, or tried to save the image. These were ones that I received after I switched to adaptive storage. I cleared the cache, and that didn't help, at least at first, but then it started working as expected after some fooling around. It's worth mentioning that Google Messenger wasn't affected, it was only HTC Messages..
Other than that, so far so good. I'm not rooted (yet), and haven't read to far into that error, although there are a few users experiencing that with the HTC messages program. Will report back if I notice anything odd.
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No NO it will finish eventually. Id say reformat as portable again then reformat as internal.
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Its all good. Didnt reformat as portable but its working as is with full adaptivr storage support. All my apps and spotify caches are going there.
Thanks!
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Last night I wanted to try Viper10 Rom, on my stock rooted rom I was using the adoptive storage feature, the second I wiped(NOT format) data the SD card was ruined.
Its required to full wipe when changing roms with totally different bases, so adoptive storage seems like you can no longer flash custom roms? :/
My Sandisk 64GB card thinks its 16GB and it won't even work, it formats in windows 10, won't read in Android anymore, says its "unsupported and 0MB" but it thinks its 16gb, and once you try to move anything to it Windows no longer reads the card and corrupts.
I don't know if adoptive storage is the exact cause or if my card happen to die while in TWRP so beware, does anyone else have feedback on this? what's your experience with flashing roms and having adoptive storage?
It sucks!! but eh I guess getting a Samsung 64GB Pro+ is better then a regular Sandisk(not extreme).
Viper4713 said:
Last night I wanted to try Viper10 Rom, on my stock rooted rom I was using the adoptive storage feature, the second I wiped(NOT format) data the SD card was ruined.
Its required to full wipe when changing roms with totally different bases, so adoptive storage seems like you can no longer flash custom roms? :/
My Sandisk 64GB card thinks its 16GB and it won't even work, it formats in windows 10, won't read in Android anymore, says its "unsupported and 0MB" but it thinks its 16gb, and once you try to move anything to it Windows no longer reads the card and corrupts.
I don't know if adoptive storage is the exact cause or if my card happen to die while in TWRP so beware, does anyone else have feedback on this? what's your experience with flashing roms and having adoptive storage?
It sucks!! but eh I guess getting a Samsung 64GB Pro+ is better then a regular Sandisk(not extreme).
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Oh man, yes anyone using adaptable storage and formats/wipes is going to erase their card.
The SD card issues you see are normal and should be fixable. Try this tool (it's free) http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-format-your-SD-card-back-to-the-original-si/
datafoo said:
Oh man, yes anyone using adaptable storage and formats/wipes is going to erase their card.
The SD card issues you see are normal and should be fixable. Try this tool (it's free) http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-format-your-SD-card-back-to-the-original-si/
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Thanks! So let me ask you, how do you enjoy adoptive storage and be able to flash new custom roms?
Wiping data doesn't wipe internal storage, and it doesn't wipe portable SD either, so why does adoptive storage SD mode get corrupted on data wipe? What's the way around it? never use adoptive storage again unless you plan on staying with stock or one rom?
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Thanks! So let me ask you, how do you enjoy adoptive storage and be able to flash new custom roms?
Wiping data doesn't wipe internal storage, and it doesn't wipe portable SD either, so why does adoptive storage SD mode get corrupted on data wipe? What's the way around it? never use adoptive storage again unless you plan on staying with stock or one rom?
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Personally even at 32gb I don't see a need for adoptable storage.
I keep my media on a 64gb card and don't use the internal storage except for pics and misc things. This way I can flash updates and things from recovery, directly off the SD.
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Personally even at 32gb I don't see a need for adoptable storage.
I keep my media on a 64gb card and don't use the internal storage except for pics and misc things. This way I can flash updates and things from recovery, directly off the SD.
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OK, thanks for your opinion I guess you are right! what's the point right? I have all GTA's and many games and apps and it still said over 9GB left from what I remember, then boom! SD for everything else.
Thank you, I mean this adoptive storage thing had been a nightmare so far anyways!
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datafoo said:
Personally even at 32gb I don't see a need for adoptable storage.
I keep my media on a 64gb card and don't use the internal storage except for pics and misc things. This way I can flash updates and things from recovery, directly off the SD.
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My card is portable now, is there no way to move any apps at all to SD card? this is kind of ridiculous.
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OK, thanks for your opinion I guess you are right! what's the point right? I have all GTA's and many games and apps and it still said over 9GB left from what I remember, then boom! SD for everything else.
Thank you, I mean this adoptive storage thing had been a nightmare so far anyways!
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My card is portable now, is there no way to move any apps at all to SD card? this is kind of ridiculous.
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In the old days we used Apps on SD because of storage space etc. Do you really need apps on the SD when installed normally they're still on the internal storage and not the system folder.
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In the old days we used Apps on SD because of storage space etc. Do you really need apps on the SD when installed normally they're still on the internal storage and not the system folder.
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I suppose it will be fine, I have 9GB left now but after all this crap I RUU'd my phone to fix everything because my phone wouldn't stop boot looping after around 3 minutes after this SD corruption.
I have all the apps I usually have installed, but almost all these games never been run after the loss, so no data yet for these games, hopefully after a couple months of use, saved game data and such only make it where it says 8GB left or more, if not, I am sure it will be alright.
NOTE: I already moved photos, videos, music, Game ROMs(SNES N64, PS1) to SD Card leaving 9GB left.
I'm sure it will all be fine, thank you for helping me make this decision today!, I also noticed in Download/Fastboot Mode that the SD card is properly detected, no more "SD Card Not Mounted" Firmware updates will be easier, no more PC use! :good:
It's not ruined @Viper4713 It's just partitioned incorrectly.
You can only have a single partition on the SD card. Yours now has a 16GB partition instead of a 64GB partition.
You can use this tool to "recover the lost space". There's manual ways as well but this works just fine.
http://kb.sandisk.com/app/answers/d...l-to-restore-full-capacity-on-sdhc/sdxc-cards
Remember that your SD card reader needs to support SDXC cards.
If you use this with a reader that only supports SDHC cards, you'll end up with a 32GB partition.
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It's not ruined @Viper4713 It's just partitioned incorrectly.
You can only have a single partition on the SD card. Yours now has a 16GB partition instead of a 64GB partition.
You can use this tool to "recover the lost space". There's manual ways as well but this works just fine.
http://kb.sandisk.com/app/answers/d...l-to-restore-full-capacity-on-sdhc/sdxc-cards
Remember that your SD card reader needs to support SDXC cards.
If you use this with a reader that only supports SDHC cards, you'll end up with a 32GB partition.
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Thanks! @datafoo already gave me a tool to fix it, thanks again :good: I also learned not to use Adoptive storage if you're a custom Rom switcher! lol
Viper4713 said:
Thanks! @datafoo already gave me a tool to fix it, thanks again :good: I also learned not to use Adoptive storage if you're a custom Rom switcher! lol
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I agree. If you are a fan of switching ROMs I dont suggest Adaptive Storage.
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Adaptive storage is a meh feature for phones with 32GBs or more on-board. I think it was designed for the low budget Android phones with 8GBs or less that practically can't fit anything on their phone without assistance. There's plenty of cheap phones that come with sd card slots and this feature benefits them greatly.
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Adaptive storage is a meh feature for phones with 32GBs or more on-board. I think it was designed for the low budget Android phones with 8GBs or less that practically can't fit anything on their phone without assistance. There's plenty of cheap phones that come with sd card slots and this feature benefits them greatly.
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I agree now, I just thought it was nice to use until it became a horrible mistake, also nice to see a fellow Texas user, go Rangers!, Cowboys, Mavericks! lol
what about apps that don't let you select storage area ?
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I agree. If you are a fan of switching ROMs I dont suggest Adaptive Storage.
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I will heed your advice, but what to do about apps which will potentially use up a lot of storage space such as music apps ? Spotify is well behaved and lets me specify the SD card for its offline cache, but Soundcloud Go doesn't. Is there a way to either create a symlink or run just that one app off the SD card without using adoptable storage ?