how do i delete stuff from my sd card to make space i reached my cap and now it wont let me open my music can anyone help me?
tjrsorto said:
how do i delete stuff from my sd card to make space i reached my cap and now it wont let me open my music can anyone help me?
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Use a file manager like Astro or hook it up to your computer and work from other.
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The ol file manager works good
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tjrsorto said:
how do i delete stuff from my sd card to make space i reached my cap and now it wont let me open my music can anyone help me?
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Best apps I found to use is Disk Usage or Dual Folder from the Play store. Disk usage to see what's eating up space and deleting thumbnail data. Dual folder for individual files
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So I remember reading or seeing somewhere about someone using an SD Hack to speed up the media scanning? Where can I get this wonderful tweak? When I boot or mount media scanner runs twice for some reason and I have a lot of stuff on my card so it takes a bit... Thanks!!
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Wishkah420 said:
So I remember reading or seeing somewhere about someone using an SD Hack to speed up the media scanning? Where can I get this wonderful tweak? When I boot or mount media scanner runs twice for some reason and I have a lot of stuff on my card so it takes a bit... Thanks!!
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You can just put a .nomedia file in the flders without media in them?
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I saw that if you put a folder in the root of your sd card and name it ".nomedia" without quotes but with the dot then put all the stuff that you don't need loaded asap like music and videos..... the system wont scan this folder until you go into the app that uses these files.... It worked for me...
EDIT: I was to slow for ya ZiggSVO
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Here you do.
SD Card Speed fix
063_XOBX said:
Here you do.
SD Card Speed fix
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Yep this is what I was looking for! I already have the media excluder app that puts the .nomedia in non-media folders. Thanks!
063_XOBX said:
Here you do.
SD Card Speed fix
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What does this actually do?
ZiggSVO said:
What does this actually do?
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I would also like to know
My internal SD is totally full. I do not take a lot of pictures and perhaps have 5 gigs of music. Is there a program to clean up junk, and or free up space?
I use this app to move apps and to clean phone https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.advancedprocessmanager
Also setup box account and drop box account and such to save stuff on cloud.
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ScottBroker said:
My internal SD is totally full. I do not take a lot of pictures and perhaps have 5 gigs of music. Is there a program to clean up junk, and or free up space?
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Windows Explorer.
I use sd maid
ScottBroker said:
My internal SD is totally full. I do not take a lot of pictures and perhaps have 5 gigs of music. Is there a program to clean up junk, and or free up space?
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Use astro to see where all the junk is....sd usage.
Probably under .trash folder
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Thanks guys
elceedub said:
Windows Explorer.
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+1, first thing I thought too, lol
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I would just grab a 32 gb micro sd I got one works like a beauty I carry around 2 other ones on a keychain so I have over 100 gb storage
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Mount your internal via USB, cut and paste it to your PC. You can upload it to your dropbox or any other cloud service and it will always be available
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elceedub said:
Windows Explorer.
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LOL awesome..
Seriously though, just use explorer, copy the stuff you know you want off it and delete the rest in non-system directories.. That's what I do.. Then again, you could always get a big whopping 64gb sdcard and use it instead..
Look in your download folder. Old roms were my problem.
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Had a few files in download. Was able to free up 1.5 gigs
is? If I cant see it in some apps or file explorer?
Root explorer and astro can see external. So does my apps
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As does es file explorer
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rambo8987 said:
Root explorer and astro can see external. So does my apps
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Thanks, I now see astro can see my micro sdcard and I can install apps that way but why does samsung make their file structure so limiting?
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As does es file explorer
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es file explorer didnt see my card. Or at least I couldnt navigate up a parent directory.
The stock my files app can.
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xshaftx said:
The stock my files app can.
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Youre running stock? I'm wondering if stock doesnt have this problem. Didnt bother checking.
Some apps such as Root Explorer you will find it located at mnt/extSdCard. Also for some app settings you can point to that. It works for me anyway.
EDIT: Ok just downloaded ES File explorer and figured it out. If you're rooted check 'root explorer' on and check 'Up to root'. Once you do that you can go up to parent folder and select mnt. There you will find /extSdCard. :thumbup:
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Issue is your apps can't use external sd card which sucks and no current rom from what I read fixes this because it is a Google screw up on purpose in Ics and jelly bean. You can only use internal memory to install apps now and I am pretty sure Google is doing this on purpose so you store more in their cloud and they can harvest your data more easily for targeted ads. If you install a lot of games from game loft forget it your 16gb internal memory is shot quick and your large sd card is sitting there empty.
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Create a folder called external_sd on your internal sd card and download the app ics sd binder and it will mount it to there
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SysAdmNj said:
es file explorer didnt see my card. Or at least I couldnt navigate up a parent directory.
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In ES Explorer you have to go to settings to allow "Root" in order to see your micro sd card in /mnt/extsdcard.
I'm certainly no expert here, but I don't think Google/Samsung have a conspiracy going. Coming from the Linux world, it's a common thing to mount storage under /mnt. The location of the external sd was also a bit weird on my last phone, the Moto Atrix. When it came out it took a while for app developers to adjust their programs to accommodate it (i.e., Titanium Backup). Hopefully the same will happen soon with the S III. As for the ability to move apps to the external sd, I'm not so sure that's a good idea anyway. For me doing that on any Android phone has always been somewhat problematic. I pretty much just use the sd for media storage now.
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SysAdmNj said:
is? If I cant see it in some apps or file explorer?
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All my mp3 are on the the SD card, same for pictures and video clips.
Yup 100% stock. I didnt root it yet.
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hunmin said:
In ES Explorer you have to go to settings to allow "Root" in order to see your micro sd card in /mnt/extsdcard.
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I dont need root (I dont even have root access on this phone) and I can see my SD card with any apps and I never needed to mount the card either.
I dont know what you are all doing wrong.
rickwood said:
I'm certainly no expert here, but I don't think Google/Samsung have a conspiracy going. Coming from the Linux world, it's a common thing to mount storage under /mnt. The location of the external sd was also a bit weird on my last phone, the Moto Atrix. When it came out it took a while for app developers to adjust their programs to accommodate it (i.e., Titanium Backup). Hopefully the same will happen soon with the S III. As for the ability to move apps to the external sd, I'm not so sure that's a good idea anyway. For me doing that on any Android phone has always been somewhat problematic. I pretty much just use the sd for media storage now.
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Exactly what I was trying to say. Why cant we navigate to /mnt and pick our storage ourselves.
drakeymcmb said:
Create a folder called external_sd on your internal sd card and download the app ics sd binder and it will mount it to there
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Thanks appreciate the help.
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sabre31 said:
Issue is your apps can't use external sd card which sucks and no current rom from what I read fixes this because it is a Google screw up on purpose in Ics and jelly bean. You can only use internal memory to install apps now and I am pretty sure Google is doing this on purpose so you store more in their cloud and they can harvest your data more easily for targeted ads. If you install a lot of games from game loft forget it your 16gb internal memory is shot quick and your large sd card is sitting there empty.
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Or maybe they just don't want to make average users go through a file explorer if possible?
It's not a conspiracy, even if you think it is.
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Create a folder called external_sd on your internal sd card and download the app ics sd binder and it will mount it to there
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How did i miss this reply, thanks that seems to help. Is there an original thread on this app or this issue by any chance?
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How did i miss this reply, thanks that seems to help. Is there an original thread on this app or this issue by any chance?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1652079
hey yall just wanting someone to explain in simple terms how to move my apps from internal storage to SD card. like 85% of my internal space is taken up by apps. i know technically its not supposed to affect performance but i think it is in a secondary way. can someone please explain how to transfer apps and if it can be done with a file explorer app or if it has to be done in PC?
TIA
Go for Link2SD! One and only solution!
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In settings applications manage applications click on each one. If the move to USB button is not greyed out hit it.
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Just make sure you don't use a widget with an app you want to move. It won't work if the apps on the sd card.
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Need help with storage of pictures that I get via whats up app. They are all getting stored on phone memory. Anyway to switch the storage folder to ext card ? Even the videos getting stored on phone memory taking up valuable room on the phone . Please advice.
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ipaq dude said:
Need help with storage of pictures that I get via whats up app. They are all getting stored on phone memory. Anyway to switch the storage folder to ext card ? Even the videos getting stored on phone memory taking up valuable room on the phone . Please advice.
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No there is now way to change that at this time..
pantect said:
No there is now way to change that at this time..
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Thanks .
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have you tried http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2036796 ?
this will "swap" your internal to external mSDC. always nandroid your data before trying this mod.
Or you could create a folder called Whatsapp Pictures in your SD Card and transfer all your photos to that folder