Hi Guys n Gals,
Wondering if there's a stable way to convert external microsd card memory to internal sd on GT-N7105? So if you've a 64GB external mircosd card then you can convert in to internal sd and have a 64GB Note 2. I've done something that add certain script (using script manager apps) but it was'nt stable. Would appreciate recommendation. TiA!
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Check out this excellent post by mattiadj http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2036796&highlight=n7105
I also needed scriptmanager (all as given in mattiadj's first post in the thread above) AND the mod suggested by Ramsfan_Jim further on in the same thread for making it work on 7105. ( I am copy/pasting the relevant part of Jim's post below to save you some searching). I used root explorer to change the 11extsd2internalsd file.
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This mod didn't work for me (Galaxy Note 2 LTE - N7105) - it left both internal & external SD showing as my 64gb card (making the remaining 10gb of internal memory inaccessible).
However, by editing 11extsd2internalsd (in etc/ init.d) as follows (changes highlighted), it works fine after a reboot:-
#!/system/bin/sh
#extsd2internalsd is a modification that allows to switch internal sd to external sd and viceversa. With this you can use default internal sd only for app storage #and the external sd to store all apps resource and all others stuff. The resut is a very big increase of installable apps on gnote2
#All credits to Mattiadj of xda forum for the idea and script and to mike1986 for the cmw zip.
#xda thread url at
sleep 8
mount -o remount,rw /
mount -t exfat -o umask=0000 /dev/block/vold/179:17 /storage/sdcard0
sleep 8
mount -o bind /data/media /storage/extSdCard
chmod 777 /storage/extSdCard
sleep 10
chown 1023:1023 /storage/extSdCard
chown 1000:1000 /storage/sdcard0
Hope this helps someone else
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Thanks to both these gentlemen, I have a stable swap of memories on my rooted N7105.
what happens if card dies? I think this is safer?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2027834
As external SD is slower, i don't think it's a good idea to use it for system.
16 GB is enough for the system, if needed you can just put the big apps in external SD
Thanks! Still trying to digest the posting recommended. Newbies, information in links seems too technical. Will try to find the link that I use to convert the sd n post here. Any simpler mods?
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Here the link on the mods to convert external micro sd to internal storage memory:
Go to: galaxynote2root.com search for: galaxy note 2 tutorials/how to store apps on sd card with rooted galaxy note 2 app2sd mod. Sorry!
Found out I cannot post links yet.
Was using it for awhile but suddenly it just stop working. Kindly advise. Thanks again.
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i'd like to mount my incredible's internal storage to a folder on my sd card.
the reason is that the music player i'm using only lets you incorporate music into your library from either internal storage or sd card but not both, but i'd like to make use of all the space i have available for music. so i figure if i could do what i'm asking about i could trick the player.
buuuut i'm not so good with the mount command and linux in general... could anyone help me out? i've got root and all.
is this even possible? its like mounting drive D: into drive C:.....
I am a Linux/Android novice, but perhaps something with symlinks? I might play around with it later and let you know.
burkart said:
i'd like to mount my incredible's internal storage to a folder on my sd card.
the reason is that the music player i'm using only lets you incorporate music into your library from either internal storage or sd card but not both, but i'd like to make use of all the space i have available for music. so i figure if i could do what i'm asking about i could trick the player.
buuuut i'm not so good with the mount command and linux in general... could anyone help me out? i've got root and all.
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if by 'mount' you mean 'link', maybe. Why don't you just put all the music on the internal? 8 gigs is quite a bit, even for apps and music...
This works:
mount -o rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,uid=1000,gid=1015,dmask=07020,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8 -t vfat /dev/block//vold/179:3 /sdcard/subsonic
Obviously change subsonic to whatever folder you want to use. And I'm not positive but I think a folder with that same name must already exist on your sd card before mounting. Beware that before you can enable USB disk mode you have to execute the following command first:
umount /sdcard/subsonic
Again change subsonic to whatever folder you are mounting to.
I'm pretty sure you need superuser permission to execute a mount command. I recommend creating 2 shortcuts with Gscript to easily execute either command.
The challenge is your sdcard is formatted with fat. Symbolic links cannot be created within a partition formatted with fat and similarly you cannot mount a partition to a folder that resides on a fat partition.
You could format your sdcard with ext, but that would likely present you with another skew of challenges.
I had a similar question as the Samsung Vibrant does the same thing where internal memory is under /sdcard and then the actual sd card is under /sdcard/sd. Is there a way to make the Incredible do something similar? This makes the internal memory very useful as it is treated as sd-card allowing full use of the 8gb for many apps that do not handle internal memory well.
Currently internal is mounted as /emmc and sd card as /sdcard.
ppd0526 said:
I had a similar question as the Samsung Vibrant does the same thing where internal memory is under /sdcard and then the actual sd card is under /sdcard/sd. Is there a way to make the Incredible do something similar? This makes the internal memory very useful as it is treated as sd-card allowing full use of the 8gb for many apps that do not handle internal memory well.
Currently internal is mounted as /emmc and sd card as /sdcard.
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+1 for this. I'd love to use Winamp's wireless sync but my puny 2GB SD is'nt gonna cut it for my 26+ GB music lib... so I store music on the internal for now
zeke1988 said:
is this even possible? its like mounting drive D: into drive C:.....
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Sorry to dig up an old thread, but you can mount drive D into a folder on drive C. The feature is actually built into windows.
Just buy a 32GB class 4 card for 50 bucks. Put all your music on it. problem solved.
Also I looked it up; android doesn't support any sd cards above class 4. If it works great if not oh well.
burkart said:
i'd like to mount my incredible's internal storage to a folder on my sd card.
the reason is that the music player i'm using only lets you incorporate music into your library from either internal storage or sd card but not both, but i'd like to make use of all the space i have available for music. so i figure if i could do what i'm asking about i could trick the player.
buuuut i'm not so good with the mount command and linux in general... could anyone help me out? i've got root and all.
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pragmatous said:
Also I looked it up; android doesn't support any sd cards above class 4. If it works great if not oh well.
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Can you link to where you found that info please, as I'm just about to buy a new card and that could be rather important!
Thanks
Hi
I am really tired by apps on SDCard is not working on Note 2 with Jeally Bean. If I install ICS or older version will that work?
I have root it with Odin
Regards
RakeshRaja said:
Hi
I am really tired by apps on SDCard is not working on Note 2 with Jeally Bean. If I install ICS or older version will that work?
I have root it with Odin
Regards
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I think you really misunderstand what A2SD actually does.
If you consider a Note 1 running Gingerbread or ICS, it has 16GB of storage just like the Note 2, but was partitioned in such a way that the lions share of the additional space was on a partition that appeared to be an SD card to the OS and apps (the so called, internal SD card). When you used A2SD on the Note 1, it moved the bulk of the app from the smaller /data partition to the larger /sdcard partition, but it was still taking up space on your "internal" 16GB of storage, and not on the real "external" MicroSD card.
Fast forward to the Note II, the 16GB storage is not split in the same way, so essentially /data and /sdcard are on the same partition.
So, switching from JB to ICS won't mystically make A2SD available on your external MicroSD.
The best ways of achieving the effect you desire is either to "swap" the internal and external SD cards, or to use DirectoryBind in order to make specific directories on your external SD card appear as if they are on the internal storage.
Regards,
Dave
foxmeister said:
I think you really misunderstand what A2SD actually does.
If you consider a Note 1 running Gingerbread or ICS, it has 16GB of storage just like the Note 2, but was partitioned in such a way that the lions share of the additional space was on a partition that appeared to be an SD card to the OS and apps (the so called, internal SD card). When you used A2SD on the Note 1, it moved the bulk of the app from the smaller /data partition to the larger /sdcard partition, but it was still taking up space on your "internal" 16GB of storage, and not on the real "external" MicroSD card.
Fast forward to the Note II, the 16GB storage is not split in the same way, so essentially /data and /sdcard are on the same partition.
So, switching from JB to ICS won't mystically make A2SD available on your external MicroSD.
The best ways of achieving the effect you desire is either to "swap" the internal and external SD cards, or to use DirectoryBind in order to make specific directories on your external SD card appear as if they are on the internal storage.
Regards,
Dave
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How can I "Swap" internal SDCards?
DirectoryBind works partially now.. as it just support "sdcard" folder.. while actuall data is on /data/ folder which is not supported by DirectoryBind and DB is not supported by developer anymore
edit: Oh when I say SDCard I mean external SDCard not SDCard of phone.... [Sorry I am totally new to Android. Ex iPhone user.]
Rom toolbox also has the option of app2sd I dunno if you've tried that option or not.
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RakeshRaja said:
DirectoryBind works partially now.. as it just support "sdcard" folder.. while actuall data is on /data/ folder which is not supported by DirectoryBind and DB is not supported by developer anymore
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That's not true.
/sdcard can be changed to any prefix in the preferences.
- Frank
RakeshRaja said:
How can I "Swap" internal SDCards?
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http://leemn.wordpress.com/2012/10/25/galaxy-note-2-swapping-external-sd-card-as-internal-memory/
I'm sure there's an XDA link/tutorial for this, but I couldn't find something "local".
Regards,
Dave
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I would like to add a question to this thread
Is there a way to get ICS on Note 2 GT-7100 by any chance? I use Game-Cih3 speed hack for almost every game as well other apps at times and GAME-Cih doesn't work on Jelly bean. Works on ICS and Gingerbread. Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated.
Does anybody know of a app, script, or mod that actually works for switching the internal sd mount for the external sd? I have tried four or five apps, two or three scripts and a couple mods with no success. I just bought a 32b gb card basically it is useless if I can't switch the storage. Thanks for any input.
Moderator please close thread I figured out the solution myself. Thanks In case anybody doesn't know this the easiest way to switch your internal storage to external is change the vold.fstab file in system/etc. First find dev_mount sdcard /storage/ sdcard0 28 and change it to sdcard1 28. Then change dev_mount external_sd /storage/sdcard1 to sdcard0 and reboot. Now your external sd is the internal sd =alot more space
I'm looking for a way to symbolically link to the external sd card from within the internal sd card for apps that start in /sdCard but don't let me go up one folder so that I can browse files in /storage/extSdCard. For example, /sdCard/extSdCard. I have accomplished this on my s2 using directory bind but it didn't seem to work on my note 3 for some reason. Sorry if this confuses people. It's the best way I can explain it.
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Hello.
What I have:
- SM-P605 on android 4.4.2 - rooted
- 32gb SD card formated as FAT32
What is my Goal?
Around 12gb internal space for installation is for me not enough. I have external sd card 32gb and I want to use it as a place where I can install games and apps.
I have tried few applications which "move" game data but they do not move all the data only installation folder (Hearthstone- apps move only 58mb and game has over 2gb used space)
I saw some tutorial how to swap internal sd with external by modification of vold.fstab but it was only for older system versions(or I do not know what to change to make it work)
Tried to change install location by adb using command: adb shell pm set-install-location 2 but it do not work, games and apps still use internal memory.
I do not want to install any other rom since I like stock rom, but if anyone could help me in this problem I would be grateful.
Thanks in advance.
Best Regards.
dorsefrith said:
Hello.
What I have:
- SM-P605 on android 4.4.2 - rooted
- 32gb SD card formated as FAT32
What is my Goal?
Around 12gb internal space for installation is for me not enough. I have external sd card 32gb and I want to use it as a place where I can install games and apps.
I have tried few applications which "move" game data but they do not move all the data only installation folder (Hearthstone- apps move only 58mb and game has over 2gb used space)
I saw some tutorial how to swap internal sd with external by modification of vold.fstab but it was only for older system versions(or I do not know what to change to make it work)
Tried to change install location by adb using command: adb shell pm set-install-location 2 but it do not work, games and apps still use internal memory.
I do not want to install any other rom since I like stock rom, but if anyone could help me in this problem I would be grateful.
Thanks in advance.
Best Regards.
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Install xposed framework and XinternalSD tweak
dorsefrith said:
Hello.
What I have:
- SM-P605 on android 4.4.2 - rooted
- 32gb SD card formated as FAT32
What is my Goal?
Around 12gb internal space for installation is for me not enough. I have external sd card 32gb and I want to use it as a place where I can install games and apps.
I have tried few applications which "move" game data but they do not move all the data only installation folder (Hearthstone- apps move only 58mb and game has over 2gb used space)
I saw some tutorial how to swap internal sd with external by modification of vold.fstab but it was only for older system versions(or I do not know what to change to make it work)
Tried to change install location by adb using command: adb shell pm set-install-location 2 but it do not work, games and apps still use internal memory.
I do not want to install any other rom since I like stock rom, but if anyone could help me in this problem I would be grateful.
Thanks in advance.
Best Regards.
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I have a 128 gb sd card and use the app root folder mount. The app basically does everything for you. It mounts the folder to the microsd card. If you google it and go to the xda forums youll find it and it explains how it works. I have at least 50 gb of game data stored on it and all my games work fine.