Hi,
When I traverse the files using ES File explorer I noticed that there are two folders named sdcard0 and extSdCard under storage directory and they contain some data including music, photos app data etc. And there is another sdcard directory under /, which seems to be the real sdcard.
How can I force the phone to use the real sdcard instead of those emulated ones? ( I am rooted on i9195)
Thanks.
The /storage/sdcard0 and /sdcard are just links to the /storage/emulated/0 (as you can see by the little shortcut icon), so they are all the same physical storage.
That means you do not have to do anything and your phone is using the correct one already.
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If you are referring to your external SD card, it's found at /storage/sdcard1
Sdcard0 is actually your phone's built-in storage space.
The emulated 0 folder points to the same internal storage.
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I have Astro File Manager installed. I have not used it much but now have a question I can't find a answer to. I added some files to the SDCard when it was connected to my PC. I go to Astro and it looks like, at least on my Incredible that my sdcard is listed under mnt/emmc. I have installed the TitantiumBackup and it thinks my SDCard is mnt/sdcard but that looks like it is the internal memory when I connect the phone to the PC. I did a backup and instead of installing the backup to my sdcard it all went to the internal memory. What good is a backup there? I thought the purpose was to put the backup to the sdcard so you could easily have it on a external card.
If my sdcard should be mnt/sdcard how do I get the phone to use that for the removable sdcard? On the root of my internal file system I have a /sdcard folder which looks like it is the same as the /mnt/sdcard folder. The /mnt/sdcard/ and the mnt/emmc/ are different and the mnt/emmc/ folder has all my sdcard files and folders.
Am I missing something somewhere? Why is it so difficult to find the sdcard files and is there a way to fix my file system or TitantiumBackup to find the right system? I am at a loss on this one.
Titanium Backup shows -
External storage: /mnt/sdcard (ok)
Backup directory: /mnt/sdcard/TitantiumBackup
When phone is connected to the PC both of these are internal storage, not the SDCard. What, where should I see sdcard in Astro to really be the SDCard?
If it should be /mnt/sdcard how do I make the file system to use that and not use /mnt/emmc/ as the sdcard? I did a backup today and TitantiumBackup put all the files on the /mnt/sdcard/ area so now the backup is not on my sdcard. I could not find any place in TitantiumBackup to change where the backups go.
your post is extremely confusing.
just to clear some things up.
are you doing all this (checking on the pc and checking astro) at the same time? cause if you are you will see two different things. Unmount and switch to "charge only" if you want to see astro correctly on the phone.
/mnt/emmc is your internal memory
/mnt/sdcard is your sdcard
Always will be.
PhillyCheez said:
your post is extremely confusing.
just to clear some things up.
are you doing all this (checking on the pc and checking astro) at the same time? cause if you are you will see two different things. Unmount and switch to "charge only" if you want to see astro correctly on the phone.
/mnt/emmc is your internal memory
/mnt/sdcard is your sdcard
Always will be.
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No, not checking both at the same time. Below is using Astro:
Astro = /mnt/emmc - sdcard
Astro = mnt/sdcard - internal memory
Connected to PC:
I don't see mnt or sdcard or most of what I see using Astro on the internal drive.
On the SDCard I see what I see under /mnt/emmc/ using Astro.
HTC Support said to mount the SD card from the phone to PC, copy all data to the PC and then unmount from PC and format the SD card. I did that, and after the format I went to copy all back to the card but the card was just as before the format. I unmounted the phone from the PC and Astro showed I formated the /sdcard - my phone data area. The /mnt/emmc (where my Incredible thinks the SD card is) had all the information showing as before.
The /mnt/sdcard only had 3 files, .android_secure (empty directory) LOST.DIR (empty directory) and tmp - .astro folder - astro.db. The /mnt/emmc/ has all my SD Card files and directories.
I know this is not set up right, especially when the format could / did not find the sdcard. Anyone know how to fix this to get it the way it should be?
HTC Support to the rescue. Since the in the phone format did not work, or at least work on the SD Card they had me take the original 2GB card that came with the phone and put it in a card reader on my PC and d0 a format there (FAT32). After the format I copied the files back to that card and put it in my phone. All works as it should, in a file manager /sdcard or /mnt/sdcard showed what was on my SD Card. I then put my 8GB card in the card reader on my PC and did a FAT32 format on it and then copied the files back to it. I then swapped the cards and now I can see the 8GB SD card as either /sdcard or /mnt/sdcard as it should.
Now all I need to find out is what should really be in /mnt/emmc and see if I can get that back the way it should be. Anyone know what directories & files should be there?
Whenever I use a TW based ROM, I am able to use the file explorer to view both directories. Upon opening file explorer, it would default to the directory for internal storage. A folder in this directory labeled external_sd would then lead to the directory for the external SD card as advertised.
I realize however that CM9 and AOKP rename internal sd to emmc and external to sd card. The issue is, when using a file browser such as estrongs, the root directory defaults to sd card (aka the external storage) and it is impossible find the emmc. When downloading zips from the browser, the files are automatically saved to the emmc (internal) under the download folder, but on CM9/AOKP I can't figure out how to move files from emmc to sd card because I set TWRP to look at external only. Help?
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If you enable root explorer in the settings of esfile explorer (free app) u can go to the internal like on tw roms
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Try Astro File Manager, it comes up for me just fine.
I don't understand
Hello everyone.
I'm really sorry if I am repeating some other thread or if I am asking questions at the wrong forum. If so, please point me to the right direction.
I searched a lot on the internet about my issue but I can't find any solution for it.
I have a Moto Razr XT910 GSM and just installed AOKP based on Android 4.2.2.
I followed the instructions I found over the internet. They are the same, almost everywhere. So it worked just fine.
I wiped out delvik, cache and internal storage, then created a slot-2 partition with 1GB, where I flashed the ROM. It booted perfectly, and everything was working just fine until I started receiving an error message when I tried to install apps from Google Play. It said I had no space left on my internal storage.
The device I have comes with 8GB internal sdcard. I use my 32GB external sdcard to store music and it was not mounted when I flashed the ROM.
Now, when I go to system settings / storage, I can see I have two entries of internal storage: one with 0,98 GB of space, 150 MB available; and another with 8GB, 5,89GB available, which I can't access and neither can the OS. All the apps are being installed on the 0,98GB internal storage.
When I connect to my PC, it shows two mass storages: one, the external sdcard with 32GB; and the other, the internal sdcard with 8GB, but the Android OS does not recognize almost 6GB of it.
It is not an excess of files or trash, or rest of old OS files, nor anything like that. And all of the sudden I have this icon telling me my "storage space is running out". How can it be if I still have Almost 6GB of free memory? I don't understand,
Can anyone explain to me what is happening? Is there anything I can do to solve this problem?
Thank you very much.
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When I mounted my external sdcard, the OS started to install the app files on it, and not on my internal sdcard.
Also, my root explorer shows something wrong with the sdcard, and sdcard-ext. The files inside the sdcard folder are those from my external sdcard, and vice-versa.
Maybe that is the problem, but I am don't know how to solve it.
Very strange issue, just got it out of nowhere and no matter how many full wipes I do and how many different roms I install, it keeps happening.
This never happened before...
So basically, my internal storage is being read as "sdcard" while I have the extsdcard seperately. And NOW, there's a sdcard0 and storage blah blah blah its just really confusing!!
When I install a new rom after a system wipe, the previous "internal storge" moves into a folder "0" and that folder is placed into the new "sdcard"
/storage/ contains /extsdcard/ and /sdcard0/
/extsdcard/ is my actual sdcard
/sdcard0/ contains my internal storage AND a "0" folder which contains my previous internal storage from a previous rom -_-
please help! I'm sorry I can't make this any clearer
abc123pro said:
Very strange issue, just got it out of nowhere and no matter how many full wipes I do and how many different roms I install, it keeps happening.
This never happened before...
So basically, my internal storage is being read as "sdcard" while I have the extsdcard seperately. And NOW, there's a sdcard0 and storage blah blah blah its just really confusing!!
When I install a new rom after a system wipe, the previous "internal storge" moves into a folder "0" and that folder is placed into the new "sdcard"
/storage/ contains /extsdcard/ and /sdcard0/
/extsdcard/ is my actual sdcard
/sdcard0/ contains my internal storage AND a "0" folder which contains my previous internal storage from a previous rom -_-
please help! I'm sorry I can't make this any clearer
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extsdcard is your external sd card. It's a symlink to /storage/sdcard1.
sdcard0 = internal sd. It's a symlink to /storage/sdcard/legacy.
sdcard1 = external sd.
The real internal sd path should be /storage/emulated/0
It's 4.2 multiuser stuff. It can be confusing. All these symlinks are necessary for backwards compatibility.
Aerowinder said:
extsdcard is your external sd card. It's a symlink to /storage/sdcard1.
sdcard0 = internal sd. It's a symlink to /storage/sdcard/legacy.
sdcard1 = external sd.
The real internal sd path should be /storage/emulated/0
It's 4.2 multiuser stuff. It can be confusing. All these symlinks are necessary for backwards compatibility.
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Ah, I see... so all this is mormal? Weird how I never noticed it before. Thanks for letting me know.
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Yeah internal storage is now called sdcard. Extsdcard is your micro sd memory card.
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After I flashed Carbon ROM, using Root Explorer, under /storage I find 'emulated', 'sdcard0`, 'sdcard1’, and 'usbdisk0'
Where has my external sd card gone and what is 'emulated'?
Does 'emulated' double use of my puny 16gb internal storage?
Can I delete 'emulated' as offered as an option by Root Explorer?
Any links much appreciated!
The folder with 0 folder that is probably sdcard0 has all the data. Yeah you can delete sdcard1 and emulated. Check if there is any external_sdcard in root.
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Hi, I recently installed beanstalk 4.3 on my S3 and noted that my internal memory is almost full but I can't figure out what is taking up all the space. I'm including a screenshot, are there any scripts or hacks to swap the internal and SD memory for this ROM?
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Use a file explorer and look at the internal storage and see if there is a folder called 0. If this here than it is most likely the issue and you will need to update your recovery and clean out the 0 folder.
nsmith4 said:
Use a file explorer and look at the internal storage and see if there is a folder called 0. If this here than it is most likely the issue and you will need to update your recovery and clean out the 0 folder.
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I cleaned up the 0 folder but noticed that on my internal memory root folder I have an external_sd and extsdcard folders (which have everything I have on my actual external sd card) in addition to the storage folder which contains my actual sd card (sdcard1) as well as the sdcard0 and emulated folder. I think this is what's using up all the memory (maybe?) any idea why all these folders were created? can I just erase the external_sd and extsdcard folders since all that data is in my actual sd card or are they bound?
sorry for all the questions but I dont want to mess anything up
nesssy said:
I cleaned up the 0 folder but noticed that on my internal memory root folder I have an external_sd and extsdcard folders (which have everything I have on my actual external sd card) in addition to the storage folder which contains my actual sd card (sdcard1) as well as the sdcard0 and emulated folder. I think this is what's using up all the memory (maybe?) any idea why all these folders were created? can I just erase the external_sd and extsdcard folders since all that data is in my actual sd card or are they bound?
sorry for all the questions but I dont want to mess anything up
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No don't delete those folders. Those are linked to your SD card should have nothing to do with your internal memory. Nor sure what's going on with your internal memory though. You may want to try saving your 0 folder to a pc then deleting it entirely(the 0 folder). If that doesn't work then maybe go back to stock.