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How do I make my music I have downloaded my ringtone new Gnex owner coming from the RAZR and I can't for the life of me figured it out unlocked rooted and running .89 JB from team eos
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If it doesn't already exist, make a folder on the root of your nexus' internal storage called "ringtones" and place your mp3's in there, then reboot. They will now appear in your list when choosing a ringtone. You can do the same for notification sounds with a folder called "notifications."
Alternatively, you can browse to the file in the stock music player, long press on th song and choose "use as ringtone"

speedyink said:
If it doesn't already exist, make a folder on the root of your nexus' internal storage called "ringtones" and place your mp3's in there, then reboot. They will now appear in your list when choosing a ringtone. You can do the same for notification sounds with a folder called "notifications."
Alternatively, you can browse to the file in the stock music player, long press on th song and choose "use as ringtone"
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I have tried the long press not giving me a option to
How do I get into my internal storage to look
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bostonbassman78 said:
I have tried the long press not giving me a option to
How do I get into my internal storage to look
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*sigh* you rooted your phone but you don't know this? Either plug it into your computer and it pops up as "internal storage" or download a file manager app like Explorer and do it right on your phone (although internal storage will now be called "sdcard")
edit: Appreciate the thanks =D

speedyink said:
*sigh* you rooted your phone but you don't know this? Either plug it into your computer and it pops up as "internal storage" or download a file manager app like Explorer and do it right on your phone (although internal storage will now be called "sdcard")
edit: Appreciate the thanks =D
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OK tried it and its saying I can not do it thanks for helping I'm just gonna give up before I mess something up lol
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speedyink said:
*sigh* you rooted your phone but you don't know this? Either plug it into your computer and it pops up as "internal storage" or download a file manager app like Explorer and do it right on your phone (although internal storage will now be called "sdcard")
edit: Appreciate the thanks =D
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Figured it out I wasn't rebooting after thanks again and if u can't tell not very tech savvy at all took me almost 4 hours to unlock it and root it then after I rooted I installed toro plus JB the one for sprints galaxy nexus not the toro pro for Verizon's I failed but got it right later that night on chat with the builder of my custom JB ROM I'm using
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The point of having a micro sd card slot

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?

corythug said:
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.

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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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?

SysAdmNj said:
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

Google Play Music

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.

TheFiveDots said:
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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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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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"
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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.

[Q] ok, how to move apps/data to SD card in JB?

i have 16GB internally but 64GB in a mSD. how on earth do you move game data that doesn't ask where to install to the sd card?

You can't unless you root

i have root

Search Directorybind on xda via Google a d try that
Works perfectly for me!
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tommo123 said:
i have 16GB internally but 64GB in a mSD. how on earth do you move game data that doesn't ask where to install to the sd card?
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GL TO SD for the Game and heavy apps http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtJQRMMBk90
Sammath said:
Search Directorybind on xda via Google a d try that
Works perfectly for me!
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It's move all apps or selected apps?

Marchintosh said:
It's move all apps or selected apps?
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It moves directories, so you can choose directories of specific apps/games or for example all games by binding /sdcard/Android /obb to the external sd card.
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CreepyDroid said:
It moves directories, so you can choose directories of specific apps/games or for example all games by binding /sdcard/Android /obb to the external sd card.
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And is it running in background?

neither work for me. the GL to SD moves data but nothing else. the games still wants to download.
the other - directorybind - says i'm not selecting a valid directory. i used the internal browser in the app. guessing because it's set to extsdcard instead of sdcard.
doesn't seem to support JB going by that

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And is it running in background?
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I saw a notificationof of it taking control of the root shell from time to time but idk whether it's running all the time or not.
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any ideas why directorybind isn't working?

tommo123 said:
any ideas why directorybind isn't working?
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You have to specify the correct prefix via the menu settings.
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what? that applies to the assistant according to the blurb underneath it

ok decided to let the assistant do its thing and it did move the data.
shame it did it in a totally useless and just moved it to another path on the same internal space! instead of sdcard>data etc, it moved it to sdcard>external_sd > etc.
so still on the internal storage, not the actual SD
basically, this thing doesn't work on JB yet.

[Root] App2SD change external to internal.

Not sure if this has been posted yet here but this is how you make you external become your internal and have everything save to it.
http://galaxynote2root.com/galaxy-n...sd-card-with-rooted-galaxy-note-2-app2sd-mod/
Just want to say I did not create this app I am only sharing it
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I'm not sure If this slows down gaming and processing because some people are claiming it does. I have a 64gig sandisc micro sd ultra and I haven't noticed it yet.
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Ok found one issue with this. When taking a picture the image won't save. When you click on gallery it just disappears, unless you took a burst shot. I don't know if this was just my device or what
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Never mind I'm just dumb. Once you switch your hd you need to go to camera, settings, storage, click on it if it's greyed out, set storage to phone and it should work.
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Bodoct said:
Never mind I'm just dumb. Once you switch your hd you need to go to camera, settings, storage, click on it if it's greyed out, set storage to phone and it should work.
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When I added my sd card, I went to storage and switched it to the SD card and all pics I take get saved to the SD card except Burst Shot images.
When I go to the gallery, I can see all pics in one place - whether its on the SD card or Internal storage. This is how its supposed to work.

Yea but I made it so my sdcard reads as my internal so anything that is saved even apps goes to my 64gb instead of 16gb internal. So things run a little different
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I just used Titanium Backup to move the apps I wanted moved. I tried the Apps2SD app in the market but it wouldnt move some apps

This is not apps2sd app this actually makes your external storage your main storage.
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Guys if you want to revert changes, do you just copy the folders and files back to the main card and not run the script any more at boot? (of course, just whatever fits in 16Gb that is)
Or will I have to flash a ROM again just to make sure things are not messed up?

i activated the script and just tried installing a game from google play.. it still went to my internal card, not the external card.

Didnt work for me either. I can open all aps. I was expecting then to crash since the sdcard was empty. Darn it I want this to work
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You don't have to flash a Rom for this just follow the directions by going into the app you downloaded open the script and turn on su and boot and save to turn it on. To turn it off turn su and boot off and save. Each time power off your device completely to reset changes.
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Works for me
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Remember it should say your external is now your internal. So if it's going to the new internal that's good
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when i run it, it says: mounting X failed: no such file or directory

You're rooted correct?
If so make sure you download script manager, download the apps2sd script, open in script manager, turn on su and boot, save, power off device and turn it back on.
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Bodoct said:
You're rooted correct?
If so make sure you download script manager, download the apps2sd script, open in script manager, turn on su and boot, save, power off device and turn it back on.
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That is what I am doing. The internal is still 16Gb sadly.
I am running CleanRom with Perseus kernel btw

My apps switched when I changed it and I had to download patches when entering the app again. Also lost my sounds/have to change them. I'm running multi Window mod.
Not sure what's happening on your end. If you go to the link you can post on the topic or email the moderator, he's usually pretty helpful.
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shaolin95 said:
That is what I am doing. The internal is still 16Gb sadly.
I am running CleanRom with Perseus kernel btw
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Same for me. It's just not working.
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