So the INC has about 2GIG and 6.45GIG internal space. Is there a reason to use one over the other? Im assuming the smaller section is the SD and larger built in. Seems you would want to use the built in memory.
Unless you root and install a custom ROM, most 3rd party media applications (e.g. Winamp, Photoshop) will not be able to see music, pictures, and videos stored on the internal storage.
If you like HTC's music, camera and gallery apps, then you will have no problem. They are specifically written to handle files located in both locations.
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I don't really understand the DInc's 8GB of Internal Memory, the one mounted as /mnt/emmc.
For one thing, apps can't install to it. Apps can only install to the 748MB internal memory or SDCARD.
I can't put videos there, the Gallery won't see them. Videos have to go to /mnt/sdcard. I can, however, put photos and MP3s there. However, when I run an app, like MultiLiveWallpaper, it can't see the photos in order to randomly change them unless I put them in SDCARD.
If I install a big app, like a 3D game, one that needs to phone home to download an additional 100MB or so of data, it will only download to the 748MB internal memory or SDCARD. It won't use EMMC.
So pretty much, that whole 8GB of Internal Memory seems rather worthless. I need an SD card to do anything. Is there any way I can trick android into seeing the 8GB of internal memory as an SDCARD, and then not need an SDCARD?
My pictures stored there are seen by the gallery but I'm running CM7 RC2. I had a problem a while back with the Sense Music Player not seeing my mp3's there but I just bought MixZing instead.
Yeah, the gallery in the stock ROM can see pictures stored there too, but apps can't seem to so I have to keep those in SDCARD as well. Sense music player in the stock ROM seems to have no trouble finding MP3s there. I wish I could just use that 8GB emmc as if it were an 8GB SD card. I don't have that much music on mine, so all that space pretty much goes to waste. The emmc in general, seems pretty much worthless so far as I can tell.
I think he was talking about some problem with Z roms where the internal storage can't be seen. I use it to store my ~4 GBs of music which is useful.
Yeah, storing music seems to be all it's good for. I wish there was a way to use it as an SD card. Oh well, I guess I will fill it full of music since there's not much else I can do with it. It's weird that pictures that I put there show up in the gallery, but not videos.
Now that I think of it the Stock Sense ROM could see the music but I couldn't get any artwork for it to show up. All the apps I found for downloading artwork couldn't read the internal memory only the sdcard. I've had to redo my entire music library, all 7000+ mp3s to imbed the artwork into the file to get around this. Then I went and bought a 32 GB sdcard and resized all my mp3s to fit on it and only use the internal storage to hold pictures and all my backups.
Don't know why I even thought to search for a solution for this, but I'm glad I did as I found this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1030613
It worked perfectly! Now the phone thinks my internal storage is an 8GB SD card and I don't even have a need for the MicroSD card at all.
I recently updated my rooted Dinc to the Stock+ Gingerbread Rom (latest version). I love the ROM, but have noticed a few weird issues in regards to music/sound files.
First off, I had a lot of simpsons .wav files that I used for notifications for text messages and stuff. Once I updated to this ROM, the .wav files no longer would play. Attempting to play them in a media player results in a "this format in not playable" type message. Doesn't make sense that Gingerbread would not play as much as if not more formats than Froyo, but perhaps this is an issue with GB? I looked around the internet and couldn't find any solid info about it.
Secondly, since the internal EMMC storage pretty much goes unused on the phone, I decided I'd move all my sound files and music files into that area and save some real estate on my sd card. However, when I moved my media into the internal storage it was no longer recognized by the system. The mp3 ringtones and things wouldn't play at all. They'd show up in the list, but not play.
Any light anyone can shed on these issues would be much appreciated.
Hollywoodfrodo
I just flashed AOKP the other night and realized that I don't really like the AOSP camera and how it can't save any pictures or videos to the external SD card.
does anyone know how to get the stock samsung ICS camera running on AOKP? my internal SD really isn't large enough for the random pictures and videos that I take so I would really like to have the option to save to my external SD.
oh and for some reason I can't save google music onto my phone for offline use. I think it's because AOKP has a weird file structure where the internal is now called emmc and when the "SD card" folder used to be internal is now the external. Does anyone have a fix for this?
any help will be really appreciated.
thanks!
Running CM9 Beta 1, it defaults all storage to the external_sd, but I have access to the sdcard (internal storage), obviously.
Just moved all my music to the internal storage, seeing as how my 14.1GB external sdcard is almost full. x.x
Google music, N7 player, and many other apps WILL NOT recognize that my internal sdcard has about 8.1GBs of music on it.
Which is dumb, because my Quickpic app knows there's pictures on there. Album art.
Does ANYONE know what gives?!
Makeshift solution.
So.. I found a handy little app called Directory Bind. And I just ended up binding the internal SDcard's music folder to the music folder in my external, and BAM. As long as my SD card (external) is in my phone, it works.
Kind of a pain in the ass..
Turn on viewing hidden files and look in the internal music folder for files called .nomedia and delete them.
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