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is it even possible SD card - memory txt swapping

so i have about 20000 (yes, 20,000) sms and its eating up a lot of my phones memory. However, I have a 1gb sd card thats 99% free on my phone.. Is it possible for me to transfer all the txt msgs to the SD card and still be able to view them somehow.
I have txt all backed up, I just don't know how to view them if i just store them on the SD card. is there a text viewer or whatever?
Thanks for the help.

wowcheesestick said:
so i have about 20000 (yes, 20,000) sms and its eating up a lot of my phones memory. However, I have a 1gb sd card thats 99% free on my phone.. Is it possible for me to transfer all the txt msgs to the SD card and still be able to view them somehow.
I have txt all backed up, I just don't know how to view them if i just store them on the SD card. is there a text viewer or whatever?
Thanks for the help.
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Wow! Well, the WM app wont let you store them on the memory card, from searching it looks like a security measure. (todo with remote wiping ect it seems)
Maybe a 3rd party SMS program might be able to, not sure as of right now.

veyka said:
Wow! Well, the WM app wont let you store them on the memory card, from searching it looks like a security measure. (todo with remote wiping ect it seems)
Maybe a 3rd party SMS program might be able to, not sure as of right now.
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oh of course of course.
i don't want the new messages to be stored on the SD CARD.
however, i want to store all the old sms on the SD card and be able to view them through a software on my phone
and for the new sms, they can be stored on the memory as usual.
the reason i want to do this is because i have a habit of looking up my old sms to remind myself some of the tasks.

WHOA!!
20000 SMS?? hmm I have that many in my email box but not SMS? will be watching this with interest

zocster said:
20000 SMS?? hmm I have that many in my email box but not SMS? will be watching this with interest
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i know this is rare. i been doing research regarding to text viewer on a removable memory however nothing found

Try "export", I'm sure there are programs that can export your messages to a plain text file so it can be read by *anything*

This looks promising, but you may have to pay.

Pictures that have no option to delete on Evo

I have pictures that I deleted from my computer but somehow synced with my evo. They only show up in the second gallery application that comes stock on the phone. When highlighting both the whole album and individual pictures in the album there is no option to delete. All other albums have a picture of a folder except this album which has a sync icon. I reformatted my SD card and they were still there. I did a factory reset on the phone and they went away but came back. I put a new SD card in the phone and the pictures are still on the phone which leads me to believe they are saved on the internal memory of the phone. Has anyone experienced an issue similar to this? How do you access the phones internal memory? Any help would be awesome because I am so lost.
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Contacts on SD Card?

I have a friend with an Evo 4g that opted not to have contacts synced to gmail (unknowingly). Her phone is now stuck in an endless bootloop (unrooted, completely stock) and she can't do anything with it. Is there a way to get her contacts from her SD card or are they stored on the phone's internal storage?

They are stored in the internal storage.
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Nope, if she didn't back them up before, and she didn't have them as Google Contacts synced with gmail, then there is no other way to get them. Once again, another reason to stress the importance of backing up files, no matter what kind of files they are, or how secure or safe you feel.

Transfering MicroSD cards on phone

Hi, i am upgrading my G3 micro SD to a larger size because it is almost full. What is the best way to move the files over from one card to another? Will a straight copy from one card to another work? I would think that would cause issues because the phone has apps stored on the sd card. Also, can you set the contacts app to store to the sd card so when you flash ROMs on the phone you dont loose your contact data? Could you use clockworkmod to backup the old card and restore it to the new card? TIA for any help.
ROB
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I would be interested on this answer as well, I can tell you that straight copy/parte doesn't work, I got a larger SDcard for my Bday and tried doing it that way, and it didn't work, what I did was to reformat the SDcard and start fresh, (I really didn't have much stuff there yet). would love to know the "right" way to do this when your SDcard is full.

Transfer to computer then transfer to new card?
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That's what I did, put the card into my laptop and create a dir to drag and drop the entire contents of the old card into. Then put in the new card and d&d them all to the new card. All done in the three or four mouse clicks.
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as for contacts... why aren't you using Google sync?
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dLo GSR said:
as for contacts... why aren't you using Google sync?
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Well, honestly, i am still getting comfortable with storage in the cloud and i prefer my contacts to be locally for security reasons. I have had my contacts and business data hacked before, my industry is very competitive. I also don't like how one sevice syncs with another service syncs with another service .. next thing you know, your personal data is synced to 10 servers like facebook, linkedin, samsung, google, at&t, ect.... i only want to sync what i want to sync with who i want to sync with and since i don't know how to sync selectively at the moment i am syncing very little. I work in different business worlds that dont mix well... Maybe i am a little paranoid!! Any advice would be appreciated.

You can export your contacts to SD card before you flash. You can import from your SD card after you flash and all is back as it was.
USB storage is internal
SD Card is external
Look under contact/options/Import-export
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As said earlier.
For contacts open up contacts click menu, click import/export and export to sd card.
When contacts are on there.. Make a folder on ur desktop and copy all files and folders into there.
Copy all the stuff back over to the new sd card.
Give it some time to re scan etc after u boot your phone..
Then go back to contacts and this time import instead of export.
All of your data/files/pics/everything will be as it was before.
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waiters said:
As said earlier.
For contacts open up contacts click menu, click import/export and export to sd card.
When contacts are on there.. Make a folder on ur desktop and copy all files and folders into there.
Copy all the stuff back over to the new sd card.
Give it some time to re scan etc after u boot your phone..
Then go back to contacts and this time import instead of export.
All of your data/files/pics/everything will be as it was before.
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Thanks, i will give that a try.
Thanks, i will give that a try.

Some pictures won't save!?

Hi there!
I've noticed that around a week or two ago when i take some pictures (the are going in the internal memory) and i want to see them it seems that they haven't saved themselves. It does't happen all the time but is very irritating. If someone could help I'll be glad!

try switching the save point to your sd card?

Thats easy but my sd card is only 4 gb and i use it for music. I don't know if someone knows but if yes,then i will br glad to know why this happens

Try creating another folder and make that folder were the photos save.