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[Q] Link2SD not recognizing 2nd SD partition (Epic 4G Touch)

Relatively new Android user, running stock EL29 Gingerbread rooted with ClockworkMod on a Samsung Epic 4G Touch (Sprint). I have had major problems with my phone continually rebooting which I'm pretty sure I've confirmed is due to having too many apps moved to the external SD card with the stock App2SD command.
I've read that the only workaround for this is to use Link2SD with a second external SD card partition. I have been trying for many hours to get this working, but Link2SD will never recognize my second partition. I've tried many different options with formatting the external SD card, but nothing ever works.
I've found some posts on this site by d12unk13astard that I read to indicate that Link2SD won't work on the Epic 4G Touch because of the way the internal memory is formatted on this phone. Can anyone confirm that Link2SD can or cannot be used on the Epic 4G Touch? If it can, any idea how I can get it to recognize my 2nd partition? Any help is VERY MUCH appreciated!

I talked to the guy who made link2sd and gave him a logcat of a command he wanted me to type in terminal, still waiting on a confirmation or solution to this problem as well. I would suggest you also ask about this in the Android section of xda under apps/games. Hopefully an update to link2sd will fix our issue were having.
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rsngfrce said:
Will Link2SD work on the Samsung Epic 4G Touch? I am using stock EL29 Gingerbread rooted and Clockworkmod installed. No matter what I have tried (and I've been trying for MANY hours...), I cannot get Link2SD to recognized the 2nd SD card partition. I have followed directions and suggestions from many sources, over and over, but never is the 2nd SD card partition recognized.
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This^^
Heres a couple pics proving why this app has not been working for our phones(epic 4g touch)
As I thought, link2sd can only see our internal memory card that Samsung has put in our phones mounted as /sdcard. Instead of our external sdcard which has the 2nd partition needed for link2sd to work.
Since the internal memory being mounted as /sdcard cant be partitioned link2sd fails to work. As you can see it fails to see my external 32GB class 10 sdcard on link2sd app.
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Directory bind might be able to help. Just search it and read up on it.
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Directory bind might be able to help. Just search it and read up on it.
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Tried that already still dont work. Thanks for your input tho.
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Cannot See External (Micro) SD Card

Hey guys,
Just got my new microSD card (64GB) and when I went to put it in the S3, it said that it was damaged and needed to be formatted. Formatting didn't work on the phone so I read up on the issue and someone suggested formatting it with EaseUS Partition tool. Did so ... formatted to FAT32. When I then insert into the phone, no issues ... or at least no warnings.
Put on a test video file and insert into the phone and use Root Explorer to go to external_sd in the root menu ... nothing shows up.
Any thoughts?
AOKP JB Milestone 1

I'm not completely sure about this but I think the 64gb cards need to be formatted as exFat, which I believe only stock touchwiz kernels support. So if I'm right you can't use it with an aokp or CM rom. Like I said though, I'm not totally sure about it.
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Found a solution.
1. Download and install EaseUS Partition Master (http://www.partition-tool.com/download.htm). I used the Home Edition. One slight thing to note is that EaseUS asks you for a series of things to do to the SD card before it actually does them. So you tell it to delete a partition, create a partition, format it a specific way and THEN you apply all the actions and it runs it like a batch file.
2. Delete any existing partitions on the SD card.
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3. Create a partition
4. Create the partition as the Primary Partition and set the File System as FAT32
5. Apply the changes
6. Choose Yes
You should now be able to plug the MicroSD card into your S3 and have it recognized. If you are using Root Explorer, you can find your external SD card in the root menu under ... you guessed it ... external_sd.
Hope this helps. Cheers

Thanks for posting your solution! Definately good to know you can use the 64gb card this way. Could've sworn id seen folks say it had to be exFat, but I'm glad you put that rest for me!
Just to be sure though, you can see the full available storage correctly?
Thanks again and glad you got it figured out. :thumbup:
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DocHoliday77 said:
Thanks for posting your solution! Definately good to know you can use the 64gb card this way. Could've sworn id seen folks say it had to be exFat, but I'm glad you put that rest for me!
Just to be sure though, you can see the full available storage correctly?
Thanks again and glad you got it figured out. :thumbup:
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Yes, I can see the full available storage capacity. It currently shows as 249.88MB used (2 video files) and 59.22GB free. The missing space is normal due to the drive manufacturers claiming larger capacities than is actually usable.

Not to thread jack or anything, I figured it was relevant to the topic instead of making a new one. I'm having the same exact issue, except my card isn't 64gb its only 4gb. I formatted to fat32 and the phone acts like it wants to load, but Doesn't do anything.
Any idea or suggestions? Should I change to the stock kernel? I'm on liquid smooth rc7 btw.
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SimeonAS89 said:
Not to thread jack or anything, I figured it was relevant to the topic instead of making a new one. I'm having the same exact issue, except my card isn't 64gb its only 4gb. I formatted to fat32 and the phone acts like it wants to load, but Doesn't do anything.
Any idea or suggestions? Should I change to the stock kernel? I'm on liquid smooth rc7 btw.
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You could give that a shot, but I can't think of any kernel not supoirting fat32.
You could also try using the sd formatter tool from www.sdcard.org
Or try what the op did to get his 64gb card working.
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SD Card full?

After I installed IceJelly rom my SD card was formatted
So I was transfering my music back when suddenly I got a "No space" error
I checked the SD cards properties, and it said all my 25GB are taken
I went into the SD card and checked properties of each and every folder in there, and well, It adds up to about 6GB :3
Whats taking my space?
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In android 4.2.1 the sd card handling has been changed. Now default folder sdcard/0 . So no space on sdcard itself.
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{< r o N o $ said:
In android 4.2.1 the sd card handling has been changed. Now default folder sdcard/0 . So no space on sdcard itself.
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There is no '0' fodler :3

SrebX said:
There is no '0' fodler :3
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Is it IceColdJelly on 4.1.2 or 4.2.1 version of Android?
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ViktorN said:
Is it IceColdJelly on 4.1.2 or 4.2.1 version of Android?
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4.2.1 version
Here's a picture:
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Some folders may show incorrect space usage, try mounting as usb from recovery and checking on a computer,
if it still shows as 6GB then something is wrong with your SD formatting or the software, and you need to re-install the rom wiping everything

Vcek said:
Some folders may show incorrect space usage, try mounting as usb from recovery and checking on a computer,
if it still shows as 6GB then something is wrong with your SD formatting or the software, and you need to re-install the rom wiping everything
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Thats a good idea, why didn't I think of it? ><
Anyway thanks a lot it really helped me
Apparently I wasn't able to see anything inside my SD card out of the '0' folder, therefore not being able to see the '0' folder, and since it was recognized in my computer as a media device, not mass storage, I wasn't even able to see it in the computer :|
So I'm transfering all my sd card content into '0' folder
Thanks this should pretty much solve it
Though, why the hell is my device recognized as a media device and not mass storage USB? ><

Support for mass storage mode was dropped in Android 4.2. For now on you can use MTP.

Storage space missing

I can't seem to find it?
Any ideas?
Thanks for any help!
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I'm running the latest nightly on CM10.2 with Stock kernel.

Lol... This happened to me awhile back and I was wondering the same. Still never figures it out
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Update:
Well, I went into recovery, made a backup to my sd card.
Wiped everything on my internal sd. Everything that I could.
Then, restored the backup.
I still have my apps and text messages, but lost all my pics (which I backed up and deleted but still showed up)(upon typing this, I think that may be a clue to the problem), but now I have over 10gigs of free space so I'm happy again!

FreddyFredFred said:
Update:
Well, I went into recovery, made a backup to my sd card.
Wiped everything on my internal sd. Everything that I could.
Then, restored the backup.
I still have my apps and text messages, but lost all my pics (which I backed up and deleted but still showed up)(upon typing this, I think that may be a clue to the problem), but now I have over 10gigs of free space so I'm happy again!
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you probably had multiple o folders a dream within a dream within a dream.

kaos420 said:
you probably had multiple o folders a dream within a dream within a dream.
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So how do you find and delete these folders? I just did a back up and deleted/formated everything that I could in recovery(without my SD card in) hoping I wasn't going to delete my cwm recovery, but it didn't work? I'm sitting at exactly 12.05 gigs of internal storage just like the OP.
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cmdmoto said:
So how do you find and delete these folders? I just did a back up and deleted/formated everything that I could in recovery(without my SD card in) hoping I wasn't going to delete my cwm recovery, but it didn't work? I'm sitting at exactly 12.05 gigs of internal storage just like the OP.
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It wasn't the 'total' I was concerned with.....It was the 'available'.
I know on TW the total is like 12.95, but, I'm not worried about <1 gig,
I moved my backup to external sd card, then removed card from phone to guarantee I didn't delete it!
Good Luck!

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So how do you find and delete these folders? I just did a back up and deleted/formated everything that I could in recovery(without my SD card in) hoping I wasn't going to delete my cwm recovery, but it didn't work? I'm sitting at exactly 12.05 gigs of internal storage just like the OP.
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your about where your suppose to be. you will never get full 16.

kaos420 said:
your about where your suppose to be. you will never get full 16.
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TV sir. I was looking through my partitions and it was close to 15g.
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storage space not calculating properly

I'm attaching a screen shot to show what my storage screen is showing. The total space lead the amount shown on the screen does not added up. I've rooted the device and have installed a few different roms over time and I wonder if space had been used that is not showing here.
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I'm having the same problems. I had just flash a 4.3 rom, and when I return to stock my storage space was not correct.
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I'm attaching a screen shot to show what my storage screen is showing. The total space lead the amount shown on the screen does not added up. I've rooted the device and have installed a few different roms over time and I wonder if space had been used that is not showing here. View attachment 2470442
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Did you do a full wipe of system, factory reset, and both caches before flashing your current ROM? Also, you may want to use a file explorer and go through all directories to double check if you haven't already. You may also consider reformatting your internal memory to eliminate any possible issues.
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cavsoldier19d said:
Did you do a full wipe of system, factory reset, and both caches before flashing your current ROM? Also, you may want to use a file explorer and go through all directories to double check if you haven't already. You may also consider reformatting your internal memory to eliminate any possible issues.
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I full wipe, reset, clean both cache, but it's still giving me a wrong risk number of memory. How can you reformat the memory?I have Philz recovery. I even did a fa tory reset and it still shows a total memory of 9.5 g ehen I know its a 16
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krown85 said:
I full wipe, reset, clean both cache, but it's still giving me a wrong risk number of memory. How can you reformat the memory?I have Philz recovery. I even did a fa tory reset and it still shows a total memory of 9.5 g ehen I know its a 16
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You must have not noticed before, but that's what its supposed to show. It came like that out of the box because of how Samsung partitioned the internal memory. We all got screwed out of available space because of it. I would highly recommend that you don't fool around with the partition tables because you could brick your tab. Instead, I would recommend you buy an external micro SD to the size you need if you haven't already. I would still wipe your internal storage to maximize your available space. Obviously, make sure you back up what you want to keep beforehand. I have never used Philz before so I'm not familiar with it.
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Well thanks for the answer. I started to freak out cause in my Galaxy Mega it does tell I have a total of 16gb. I know that the whole Samsung stuff takes alot of memory but I was concern cause I just had flash a cm 11 ROM and they have that of 'multi user', so I thought it had done that.
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