external sd dir not found? - T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII

Alright so I transferred music, videos, etc.. on to my external 32gb. Computer recognizes it, the Android OS recognizes it (menu>settings>storage>sd). But if I use a file manager (any), it does not show up anywhere for me to view. There is no internal folder that leads into the external (such as in the Galaxy S2). Am I doing something wrong here or is anyone else too having this problem?

fiendskillz said:
Alright so I transferred music, videos, etc.. on to my external 32gb. Computer recognizes it, the Android OS recognizes it (menu>settings>storage>sd). But if I use a file manager (any), it does not show up anywhere for me to view. There is no internal folder that leads into the external (such as in the Galaxy S2). Am I doing something wrong here or is anyone else too having this problem?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Nevermind just found it..if anyone else is looking, it is on the root "/" in a folder called mnt>extSDCard.
What a weird place for it to be found.

Related

[Q] Storage missing/partly hidden

Hello guys,
I have a bigger problem I hope you can help me with...
My internal storage is somehow messed up. This has effects on MTP and on some apps like the stock camera.
When accessing my internal storage by MTP from PC, only a few folders and files are visible. In contrast, if I list the content of "/mnt/sdcard" or "/storage/sdcard0" they show all my files and folders as one would expect. Also, files visible on the PC are inside this path and even when i copy a file from the PC, it is placed here.
The more serious problem is, that some apps are not able to find their files and folders inside die storage anymore. As an example, the camera app asks me to insert a sd card before taking a picture and Winamp doesn't find my music anymore.
What i tried so far:
Copying files from and to storage with Dropsync, FolderSync and ES Explorer: works without problems
I checked the rights of the files with the terminal: nothing interesting there
I cleared my whole storage (thanks to Unlock procedure) and flashed a new Custom ROM
I drank a lot of coffee because it got late
Nothing worked.
Please help, Thanks!
So thats me again.
I finally found the correct allready existing post. In this thread user dlzinc describes that one has to fix the permissions for /data/media. Good to know that i was right with permissions, bad that i didn't go through with it in the first place.
Mazzen

micro sdcard

i bought a 32g memory card for my s3. the purpose was to transfer all my kids and family memories to it and have more space on phone and storage. i used root explorer, selected all the files choose move search for the place where i want to move them choose paste and guess what. THEYRE ALL GONE. all my photos and videos dissapeared i cant find them nowhere. can someone please tell me what i did wrong or what to do to recover those files?
llanero75 said:
i bought a 32g memory card for my s3. the purpose was to transfer all my kids and family memories to it and have more space on phone and storage. i used root explorer, selected all the files choose move search for the place where i want to move them choose paste and guess what. THEYRE ALL GONE. all my photos and videos dissapeared i cant find them nowhere. can someone please tell me what i did wrong or what to do to recover those files?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Maybe you've Cut/Pasted it somewhere? Try searching it using keywords you remember that the files contains. If that doesn't work, stick it into your computer and see if it can read it.

[Q] Music Files Disappeared...HELP!

I'm using cyanogen 10.2 on my sgh-i317 and recently downloaded an album (320kbps/mp3) through utorrent. It downloaded it to my download folder on sdcard 0. I then moved the folder to my music folder on my external sd and listened to a few songs off of it. When I got up the next day, the music files were not there. So, I downloaded it again on my PC and then transferred it to the same folder on my external sd along with another album from my collection. Both albums do not show up on the sd, either through ES file explorer or Apollo. The only notification I got was in windows when I was transferring them. It said something along the lines of these files may not be compatible with your device do you still want to copy them. I selected 'do this for all current items' and then clicked proceed. All my previous music files give me no problem and I'm having a hard time getting to the bottom of what is causing this. Any help is GREATLY appreciated!
Storage/emulated/0/extsdcard or some such nonsense.
rangercaptain said:
Storage/emulated/0/extsdcard or some such nonsense.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yes I know where they're supposed to be. I'm saying the folders are empty. They are there and I've even played some of the tracks and then they just disappear.
DRM issue with the player?
Is this for every type of file or just these?
Can you see the files when you are connected to a PC?

[Q] Cannot delete contents in extSDcard

So I recently found out that I cannot delete the contents within my SD Card, worked before.
I have tried it with the stock file explorer from samsung and ES file explorer. What happens is that I try to delete it, it disappears, then I load up the file manager app again and the files are there!
I can load up these files no problem (video files and everything plays well)
Does anyone know any way to fix it?
kazemitsui said:
So I recently found out that I cannot delete the contents within my SD Card, worked before.
I have tried it with the stock file explorer from samsung and ES file explorer. What happens is that I try to delete it, it disappears, then I load up the file manager app again and the files are there!
I can load up these files no problem (video files and everything plays well)
Does anyone know any way to fix it?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Download, " Folder mount" from google play, it will detect a faulty SD card & will fix it, reboot, you will have again a functional Ext. SD Card.
lsherif said:
Download, " Folder mount" from google play, it will detect a faulty SD card & will fix it, reboot, you will have again a functional Ext. SD Card.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Ok I officially feel retarded...
Somehow my PC set EVERY FILE to read only...
kazemitsui said:
So I recently found out that I cannot delete the contents within my SD Card, worked before.
I have tried it with the stock file explorer from samsung and ES file explorer. What happens is that I try to delete it, it disappears, then I load up the file manager app again and the files are there!
I can load up these files no problem (video files and everything plays well)
Does anyone know any way to fix it?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
sorry didnt see your comment about it being fixed.I deleted what i wrote.

[Q] How do i access files from Root Explorer on my Laptop?

Hey everyone @crpalmer tagged you in case you could help
I am running Jrummy's Root explorer on the phone searching for some pictures on Dropbox.
I FINALLY found them in the /Mnt/sdcard/Android/data/... but i can't figure out where to copy and paste these imgs to so that my computer can 'see' them.
When i plug the tablet into the computer all that comes up is Internal Storage with 9 GB available and inside that i have only bare files like Alarms Android etc. But NONE of the folders have any of the phones files.
Basically i can't see anything on my tablet through my computer.
I tried pasting the file on System/root but the computer still doesn't show it!
Regards
Silkmeister1
UPDATE: i managed to stick a TINY 1 mb sd i had laying around and that changes things to where my i could copy things to the sd card and the computer sees that, but now the issue is the .jpg won't open correctly as they are too large or corrupted
wondering if this is a permissions issue

Categories

Resources