Just picked up a 32Gb Sandisk Class 10 card (BTW Best Buy now matches Amazon prices...got it for $19.00 for 32 Gb).
I installed it and it registers as having 29.71Gb of free space. What is using the rest, the file system? There is only one folder on the card. It is "LOST.DIR", which is empty, and from my understanding something that is only needed if I have a Mac system, for orphaned files.
I tried to drag my music over from the internal memory to the card (while connected to a Windows XP machine via USB cable, and set to MTP) but all i get is a circle with a line through it as I attempt to drag and drop the files. I figured the SD card would act just like another drive and allow the transfer, but it won't. So, is there a way to drag and drop files from internal SD to external SD? I'm trying to move my music files from internal to external SD.
My card is formatted as Fat32, should I leave it that way, and will it work with my rooted and Loki'ed CWM-restore phone?
Should I attempt to put a DIY file structure on the SD card? What I"m asking is...should I create a folder named " music" for example, and then install all of my music files and subfolders in that "music" folder? Or should I just install them to the root of the card? The same question goes for ringtones, and notification tones, pictures, videos, etc...
Thanks!
It really doesn't matter where you place the files, the phone will pick it up and be able to read and play it.
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Also if it won't let you drag and drop your files from internal memory to sd card just moved it to your pc first then to your sd card
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32Gb which was claimed by manufacturer is UNFORMATTED size.
once it is formatted, the size will shrink. how much it will shrink? it depend on the filesystem.
in short : it is normal.
Just use a file browser app from the play store to copy files on the phone between internal and external. It will be a hell of a lot faster too compared to doing it on the computer.
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Jammol said:
Just use a file browser app from the play store to copy files on the phone between internal and external. It will be a hell of a lot faster too compared to doing it on the computer.
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Strange, I cannot drag and drop files to the root of the SD card (neither through Windows XP with the card in a reader/writer, nor while the card is in the phone). I had to create a folder (I named it "Music") in the root of the card, and then I was able to drag the music files from the desktop to the newly created music folder on the card.
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Just switched over from an Evo 3D and swapped my old 32gb sd card. Opening the native file manager, or Astro, or es file manager have all come up empty when exploring the sd card. Weird thing is that my pictures still show up in the gallery as well as all my music in the music app but not in any file managers.
Another strange issue is that I am unable to download anything from the browser, k don't know if this is related to the sd card so I am hoping to hear if anyone figured out how to get around this. Also, I am unable to mount USB dried when plugged into the computer. I appreciate any help you guys can provide.
Try exploring external_sd. SD is the phones storage and not the card you put in.
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I am trying to get used to this as well! I think the folder named "sdcard" should ACTUALLY be the sdcard!
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Does this mean done apps that utilize the sd card will have issues or even not work at all?
same question here...i have a sub dir called /sdcard/external_sd But if you want an app to use the SD card it will use /sdcard, not the external_sd...so is it a total waste to put a microsd card into this phone, since I will only be able to utilize the space if i manually copy **** to that directory????
If you move an app to the "SD card" in the manage applications it will move it to the actual SD card. It won't put it on the internal storage.
I am using a 64gb SD card with my s3 and want to download my music to it. Aside from the no apps to SD card issue, the Amazon mp3 app lacks the option to save data to SD.
I moved the data folder to the SD card and music plays fine. After that, I renamed the amazon folder on the internal storage and tried a download. The app created a new folder and downloaded the album to internal storage.
Any ideas on how to get my downloads headed straight to the sd card?
Stock Sprint 32gb s3. Sandisk 64gb class 10 card.
Thanks!
I would like the answer to this as well if anyone knows
Pretty sure this is an issue with the app itself. I wonder if you could create a symbolic link to the extSD card to fool the app into storing the files there instead. Anyone?
What I do is everytime I download some music from AmazonMP3 is just cut and paste the music folder to the extSdCard. Not sure how the whole symlink thing works.
Hi all. Just got myself a SanDisk 64GB uhs1 memory card. Do any of you know how to transfer all my pics, vids, etc to the card? And how do I get everything to save to the card from now on instead of internal memory? Im stock rooted btw. Any help is greatly appreciated
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To move vids and pics go to your my files app, select the files or folders amd move them to your sd card. Not sure how to automatically make them go there.
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Nellyinda803 said:
Hi all. Just got myself a SanDisk 64GB uhs1 memory card. Do any of you know how to transfer all my pics, vids, etc to the card? And how do I get everything to save to the card from now on instead of internal memory? Im stock rooted btw. Any help is greatly appreciated
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For pictures, go into settings when you are in the camera app, and tell it to save to your external microSD, should be apparent in the settings where this is set. Regarding moving the rest, I personally like using Root Explorer to move files around, especially when moving quite a few files. It's pretty self explanatory once you use it.
Now, to take this a step further, I use Titanium Backup Pro and have moved some of my larger programs off the internal memory and run them from my microSD card, to save even more space on the internal memory. Haven't had any problems running any of my games off the external microSD.
An even easier way to move files is to install the drivers for the phone from the samsung site, and simply do this in windows. One drive will be labeled "phone", the other will be labeled "card".
And make sure your 50 gb dropbox account is saving to your new microSD as well.
when you take a pic or open the camara ask you if you want to save youe pic on the sd card
and to move then just go to my file a select the file you want to move and move it to sd card
I cannot mount my internal phone storage to my PC. I've tried multiple PC's and after taking it to Sprint have determined that I need a phone replacement. I've created a Nandroid to my external SD card but want to be able to save the rest of the contents of the internal SD card. Is there any easy way to do this without a PC? Any input would be appreciated. Thanks.
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I cannot mount my internal phone storage to my PC. I've tried multiple PC's and after taking it to Sprint have determined that I need a phone replacement. I've created a Nandroid to my external SD card but want to be able to save the rest of the contents of the internal SD card. Is there any easy way to do this without a PC? Any input would be appreciated. Thanks.
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Move all folders from internal SD card to external SD card?
Upload them to dropbox? Get a dropbox account here - http://db.tt/yXLnHuOn
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Move all folders from internal SD card to external SD card?
Upload them to dropbox? Get a dropbox account here - http://db.tt/yXLnHuOn
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Yeah that's the only way I know but was thinking maybe someone on XDA knows an easier way. Uploading 4GB to Dropbox would take an eternity.
copy and paste
I’ve used AntTek to copy all my folder except "external_sd" which is your micro SD and copied into the "external_sd" folder. Create a folder in your external_sd folder called InternalSD and paste into there to keep files separated because there are similar folder in each as is Clockwork.
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My Suggestion
First, download and install the free app, X-plore, from the market place and go to the configure/setup page and - only if rooted already - show hidden and give yourself root access, and then transfer files to external SD. Once done, set up a Box.com on from an iDevice - that way you get 10GB free versus the typically 5GB of everywhere else - and then download, install and register that account on your Android and then upload to via the program. If Wifi is too slow for you, look into Android Reverse Tethering. If done right, it shouldn't take you too long.
Or just grab a Class 1 64GB SDHC/SDXC - or whatever it is - and just back everything to it, and then use a program like Directory Bind or Lucky Patcher to bind those directories to the internal of the same device or whatever device you plan to move to, that way you never have to worry about transferring all that information back. Just a thought. :fingers-crossed:
You don't even need to download anything. You can copy and paste from internal to external with the regular stock my files app. Just make sure you go to settings and select site hidden files to get every file..
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Just transferred all my stuff from M9 to M10. Using SD card as removable storage not adoptable. All my pictures transferred to internal memory. Can't find a way to move them all to SD card like you could before with make more space. Anyone know how? Internal memory almost full. Don't really want to make the SD adoptable.
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Just transferred all my stuff from M9 to M10. Using SD card as removable storage not adoptable. All my pictures transferred to internal memory. Can't find a way to move them all to SD card like you could before with make more space. Anyone know how? Internal memory almost full. Don't really want to make the SD adoptable.
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Just download a file explorer from play store to move them
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Jarheadflip said:
Just download a file explorer from play store to move them
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What do you recommend. Pics are in different folders and would like to select all of them at one time and move to sd card.
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ES File explorer
HTC File Manager works well enough...may have to sideload if not available on playstore
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Just transferred all my stuff from M9 to M10. Using SD card as removable storage not adoptable. All my pictures transferred to internal memory. Can't find a way to move them all to SD card like you could before with make more space. Anyone know how? Internal memory almost full. Don't really want to make the SD adoptable.
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System settings> Storage> Phone storage> Images
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