Okay so it seems that jelly been doesn't allow us to Intel apps to the SD card anymore.. Okay fair enough, stood move by Google but I doubt there's anything we can do about that. My question: how can I get my phone to save other data to my external SD?
What I ultimately want is to be able to save downloads (ROMs), nandroid backups, and if possible, move extra files needed for games and cached music (I have 2gb of data from Google play music of cached music. Deleting this every few days when I go through a few hundred songs to clear space is frustrating). Does anyone know of a way that I can make any of these things happen?
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You posted a question in general. .and if you do some searchong you will find a thread aboit yoir issue
pokedroid said:
Okay so it seems that jelly been doesn't allow us to Intel apps to the SD card anymore.. Okay fair enough, stood move by Google but I doubt there's anything we can do about that. My question: how can I get my phone to save other data to my external SD?
What I ultimately want is to be able to save downloads (ROMs), nandroid backups, and if possible, move extra files needed for games and cached music (I have 2gb of data from Google play music of cached music. Deleting this every few days when I go through a few hundred songs to clear space is frustrating). Does anyone know of a way that I can make any of these things happen?
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Search XDA - there are thread(s) how to change Google Music storage to exSD card.
Thanks gentlemen. Using tapatalk at work so search doesn't work terribly well. Probably should have just used website search tool. Still not sure about game data, nandroid storage, etc., but I'll try to keep looking on my own. Thanks
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Found nothing yet, still looking.
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Found something that works for music, buy I don't think it will work for other apps and I don't think binding the directories will persist through a data wipe or ROM installation. I was just curious if this was a possibility and it seems that it is not.. I guess SD cards are becoming useless.
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Apps to sd
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Using this thread I was able to move my apps to external sd.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2109112
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We have been blessed with so many devs for the incredible 2, that it can be easy to flash a new Rom often. My question is this:
How can I keep my google music that I keep on the device to each Rom? That way I don't have to download it each time I flash a new Rom or update one with a full wipe?
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We have been blessed with so many devs for the incredible 2, that it can be easy to flash a new Rom often. My question is this:
How can I keep my google music that I keep on the device to each Rom? That way I don't have to download it each time I flash a new Rom or update one with a full wipe?
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Do you mean music you keep on your sd card?
It should be in the cache folder on the sdcard. /sdcard/Android/data/com.google.android.music/cache/music
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Do you mean music you keep on your sd card?
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Not exactly. It is my music that I keep on device so I am not steaming. So maybe yes.
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I found that location. Can I I just copy and paste into another file on the root of the sd card?
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Not exactly. It is my music that I keep on device so I am not steaming. So maybe yes.
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Music on your sd card under mnt>sdcard>music, shouldn't be affected when you flash a rom.
If you recently flashed a rom and it is no longer showing up, you may have a media bug that seems to be going around. I would recommend reading through the rom thread to see possible solutions.
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Music on your sd card under mnt>sdcard>music, shouldn't be affected when you flash a rom.
If you recently flashed a rom and it is no longer showing up, you may have a media bug that seems to be going around. I would recommend reading through the rom thread to see possible solutions.
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I am getting ready to flash another Rom. I copy and pasted the location above with the google cache the file seems to have all the music it is just all as numbers in a mp3 format.
So I guess I will give it a whirl and post back.
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I am getting ready to flash another Rom. I copy and pasted the location above with the google cache the file seems to have all the music it is just all as numbers in a mp3 format.
So I guess I will give it a whirl and post back.
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fyi...if you do have the same problem many of us had, flashing a rom may not correct it, but deleting a file on your sd card root called .nomedia may fix it even without a flash...
I failed :banghead:
I am going to try another file manger and see if I can have a better success copying and pasting.
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I failed :banghead:
I am going to try another file manger and see if I can have a better success copying and pasting.
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You really need to be more specific with what you are trying to accomplish. If you are wanting google play music to just remember what music you have in your account, titanium backup works very well for me, I believe it also keeps the music that got cached by play music to play offline.
If it is music you proactively transferred to your sd card and your phone isn't seeing it, you need to reconsider my advice of searching through the rom thread for a fix. I don't believe you have mentioned which roms you have tried, nor did you acknowledge if you had looked for the .nomedia file.
Your correct,sorry about that.
I am trying to keep the google music cache. (i think). I have done something to tb in the settings or something to where it won't restore it.
Tb just has so many things you can do with it that I think I have messed some stuff on it. Maybe with having different profiles.
Maybe I should just clear all my data with it and start over. And then backup my phone three easy I have it now?
And no I have not found the nomore file. Would that be under the music or somewhere else in android?
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Your correct,sorry about that.
I am trying to keep the google music cache. (i think). I have done something to tb in the settings or something to where it won't restore it.
Tb just has so many things you can do with it that I think I have messed some stuff on it. Maybe with having different profiles.
Maybe I should just clear all my data with it and start over. And then backup my phone three easy I have it now?
And no I have not found the nomore file. Would that be under the music or somewhere else in android?
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The .nomedia file would be in the root of your sd, but that won't apply if you want to just preserve your cache info. Here is what I would recommend, although I haven't used profiles in titanium, so take it fwiw...
In each profile of titanium, tap on google play music and tap delete. Then go into manage apps, tap on google play music, clear data.
Then go into google play music, make sure it signs your account in, let it run the process of finding all of your cloud music.
When that is done, go back into each profile of titanium, backup google play music, flash new roms, profit...
I don't know if it will work, but I think it is your best shot.
Okay I still am missing something. I cleared all data in google music.
I uninstalled the app.
I cleared all data on TB.
I deleted all the files on the sd card for TB.
I reinstalled both apps and set it up.(meaning getting all my music to on device.)
I backed up everything.
Flashed new rom (ukb)
Restored my apps and data.
=fail it just installed the app not the cache, to tell google that it is there. Unless TB does not save the music? So now I am unsure what to do?
I guess I will have to get all my music in a folder and place it on the sd card somewhere (which in turn I am nit sure where; in order for gmusic to see it.
Any other thoughts or suggestions would be much appreciated!
Now that we have the leak for the dinc2 I am sure there will be some fun stuff to flash soon!
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Hey peeps. I finally got fed up running out of storage and went searching for something to fix it. Modern combat 3 takes up 1.4 gigs and Nova takes even more. With this app I can move their external data to the external SD card freeing up more room for more games.
I didn't create this app, just wanted to let people know about it. Remember you need to use the app to open these games once you move their data, otherwise they will just re download their files again.
Feel free to ask me any questions and I'll try and help if I can.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.slf.ListglApp
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Hey peeps. I finally got fed up running out of storage and went searching for something to fix it. Modern combat 3 takes up 1.4 gigs and Nova takes even more. With this app I can move their external data to the external SD card freeing up more room for more games.
I didn't create this app, just wanted to let people know about it. Remember you need to use the app to open these games once you move their data, otherwise they will just re download their files again.
Feel free to ask me any questions and I'll try and help if I can.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.slf.ListglApp
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does not work on my S3 with AOSP CM on it. I am reverting my build.prop and see if that fixes it that I use for google wallet, perhaps it does not work on the "Nexus"
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does not work on my S3 with AOSP CM on it. I am reverting my build.prop and see if that fixes it that I use for google wallet, perhaps it does not work on the "Nexus"
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What's it say? Does it throw and error or just plain when u try to do something doesn't do it?
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What's it say? Does it throw and error or just plain when u try to do something doesn't do it?
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It says that it's not compatible with my device, but I changed the3 build.prop back to say that I have a S3 not a Nexus, and google play let me install it. I will report back when i get to try some apps.
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It says that it's not compatible with my device, but I changed the3 build.prop back to say that I have a S3 not a Nexus, and google play let me install it. I will report back when i get to try some apps.
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Good. Should work fine. I noticed a couple times it wouldn't launch asphalt 7 so I checked the setting to clear cache when launching a game and that seems to have fixed it. Let me know if there are any other issues you run into.
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Now all we have to do is wait for the 64gb sdhc xc to drop in price severely
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Now all we have to do is wait for the 64gb sdhc xc to drop in price severely
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Yup. I found it on Amazon for 54.99 two days ago. Really solid price for a uhs class 10 64gig card.
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better app
this app is better i use it and it works for much more than just gl games..
i have all my gps maps on external sd
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1410262
lgkahn said:
this app is better i use it and it works for much more than just gl games..
i have all my gps maps on external sd
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1410262
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The one I posted does more than game loft games as well. You can add any application that allows the installation of data to external cards. But whatever. Choices are good.
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I moved the data for three games and the game is asking me to download the data again
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I moved the data for three games and the game is asking me to download the data again
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Go into settings and check the boxes next to mount data.
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Good find followed your instructions worked perfect thanks also don't forget to recover list when you add games
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overrated doesn't move the vast majority of apps to the sd card.
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overrated doesn't move the vast majority of apps to the sd card.
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The vast majority don't need to be moved. But I have yet to find an app over 50 megs that I couldn't move so it's possible you are doing something wrong.
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Good find followed your instructions worked perfect thanks also don't forget to recover list when you add games
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Cool. Glad to hear it worked for you. I couldn't figure out directory bind program mentioned earlier so this was exactly what I was looking for.
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As the title mentiones, my device is out of memory. Like none. Even if I install a new rom the phone storage is still low cant even update all my apps because there's no space on my device. I tried apps to see whats taking up the huge space but there all worthless really cant delete from the app. Dont want to delete important files either so question is how can I get ride of all this crap the phone doesn't need?
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silly question, but once it was done calculating did you tap on one of the sections to see the individual files and there sizes? i was coming close to having this issue, until i went through each of those sections with a fine tooth comb. it was then i found piles of old downloaded files just stock piled....ended up clearing 3 gigs.
Let that screen sit for a minute to let the calculations finish. Then select a category (like miscellaneous). Then check which files you like to delete. The hidden thumbnail folder can get big, much like other app folders that cache info.
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Have you possibly flashed any aosp or cyanogen roms. Could possibly have files built up in an O folder on your internal sd card
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have any nandroids?
Yea. If you mean backups I have 1
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Yea. If you mean backups I have 1
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In my screenshot above, that 2+GB TWRP folder has only 1 backup of the data partition. Moving these backups to external SD can open a lot of internal storage space.
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I would really like to free up some space on my internal SD. I bought a 64GB SD card , and am using FolderMount to try and move the apps, but to no avail. Anyone figure this out yet? I am rooted running Infamous S4, and have removed all of the bloatware possible. Still really low an memory.
I use the stock file manager to move apps, i had this same problem with storage. Do you have more than one backup saved on your internal sd?
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unciviilized said:
I use the stock file manager to move apps, i had this same problem with storage. Do you have more than one backup saved on your internal sd?
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Yes. I think I have 2 backed up.
Your looking for a app called foldermount. Get it on the market. Have a **** load of games. Perfect gaming phone! Is light, big and powerful
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I would really like to free up some space on my internal SD. I bought a 64GB SD card , and am using FolderMount to try and move the apps, but to no avail. Anyone figure this out yet? I am rooted running Infamous S4, and have removed all of the bloatware possible. Still really low an memory.
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Your looking for a app called foldermount. Get it on the market. Have a **** load of games. Perfect gaming phone! Is light, big and powerful
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Like I stated in the original post, I am using FolderMount. The problem is the folders where the games should be are empty when I look for them. That is the ones I can find. Its like they don't really exist. I went into my data folder, did find one game, Zynga Poker, and tried to move it, pinned it, and it did absolutely nothing.
Your not moving the whole folder then. Your doing something wrong. Watch a couple YouTube videos on how to. Navigate to SD card, android, data or obb and select one of your games inside either of those two folders
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LAkingsfan3131 said:
I would really like to free up some space on my internal SD. I bought a 64GB SD card , and am using FolderMount to try and move the apps, but to no avail. Anyone figure this out yet? I am rooted running Infamous S4, and have removed all of the bloatware possible. Still really low an memory.
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I think what are you looking for is. Mount folder app from Google play
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Im running Goodness Noteworthy 1.06 with Perseus kernel on my Sprint Note 2. I've looked online and from what I understand there is no way to move apps to the sdcard after the jellybean update. I'm really just needing the additional files the apps download like the 1+gb that you have to download for Need For Speed or N.O.V.A. moved to my external 16gb micro sdcard so my internal memory isn't so low. Ive tried the app Folder Mount from the play store and it didn't seem to work. Has anyone found a way to get the files to the sdcard and the game still be able to read them? Thanks!
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Im running Goodness Noteworthy 1.06 with Perseus kernel on my Sprint Note 2. I've looked online and from what I understand there is no way to move apps to the sdcard after the jellybean update. I'm really just needing the additional files the apps download like the 1+gb that you have to download for Need For Speed or N.O.V.A. moved to my external 16gb micro sdcard so my internal memory isn't so low. Ive tried the app Folder Mount from the play store and it didn't seem to work. Has anyone found a way to get the files to the sdcard and the game still be able to read them? Thanks!
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folder mount worked perfectly for me. i had about 12gb worth of game data from gameloft and ea (incl nfs most wanted and realracing 3) moved to the sd card with this app and the games played perfectly. at the moment im having issues with my sdcard writing anymore and im hoping that doing this folder mount, it didnt mess my card up. the games have been working for a couple months now. i know this isnt much help but i thought i'd share my experience.
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folder mount worked perfectly for me. i had about 12gb worth of game data from gameloft and ea (incl nfs most wanted and realracing 3) moved to the sd card with this app and the games played perfectly. at the moment im having issues with my sdcard writing anymore and im hoping that doing this folder mount, it didnt mess my card up. the games have been working for a couple months now. i know this isnt much help but i thought i'd share my experience.
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Maybe i was using the app wrong. I'll mess with it some more and see. Thanks.
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Maybe i was using the app wrong. I'll mess with it some more and see. Thanks.
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good luck man. here is the thread by the dev incase you havent read some faq's yet. it really did work well for me when i used it
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2192122
I use My Drives to find the space hogging files. It's free.
FolderMount, DirectoryBind and so forth can give funny readings on the when you look at storage. You literarely have not the storage used and available before and after binding. Most of the file explorers will show the binded file in the original location. It's been moved, but what you're seeing is more a holding marker.
I figured out how to use Folder mount and its working good. I was just not mounting the data by clicking on the paperclip button lol. Thanks guys.
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