Hello folks, long time reader first time poster here.
I was looking around on the net and I'm unable to solve a bizzare issue with USB otg. I have a rooted but stock nexus 7 2nd version, and can use USB otg fine I guess, but here's the problem.
No matter what the size of said USB pen, it's always registered as the same size as the tablet storage. I can't understand this at all and nobody seems to have had this problem so far as I can tell. Done various formatting with apps but its always 12gb like the internal SD. Any advice would be very welcome as I'd very much like to use all of my space on a USB stick haha
turbodude555 said:
Hello folks, long time reader first time poster here.
I was looking around on the net and I'm unable to solve a bizzare issue with USB otg. I have a rooted but stock nexus 7 2nd version, and can use USB otg fine I guess, but here's the problem.
No matter what the size of said USB pen, it's always registered as the same size as the tablet storage. I can't understand this at all and nobody seems to have had this problem so far as I can tell. Done various formatting with apps but its always 12gb like the internal SD. Any advice would be very welcome as I'd very much like to use all of my space on a USB stick haha
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Are u using stickmount?
varuntis1993 said:
Are u using stickmount?
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Yes I am, is it a well known issue then, I assume from your asking? I seem to have found a way around it, so long as I move nothing more than about 3gb a go. No moving folders of many items
turbodude555 said:
Yes I am, is it a well known issue then, I assume from your asking? I seem to have found a way around it, so long as I move nothing more than about 3gb a go. No moving folders of many items
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I also use stickmount app, it would not show in the storage in settings on stock rom but on a custom rom since they have enabled that feature by default and kernel should support that feature to make it native, they have it under the storage settings but when using stickmount u will see that the misc storage increases and if u click on that u will find usb storage.
varuntis1993 said:
I also use stickmount app, it would not show in the storage in settings on stock rom but on a custom rom since they have enabled that feature by default it has it under the storage settings but when using stickmount u will see that the misc storage increases and other things does increase.
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Always says the same storage as the SD, but at least I can use the whole 64gb a couple GB at a time. Just seems to be an error in the system not detecting size beyond 12GB. So as soon as you move a folder of various videos, for example, at say a total of 6gb, it'll scream "noooo not enough space!". But if I do file by file its totally fine. Oh well
turbodude555 said:
Always says the same storage as the SD, but at least I can use the whole 64gb a couple GB at a time. Just seems to be an error in the system not detecting size beyond 12GB. So as soon as you move a folder of various videos, for example, at say a total of 6gb, it'll scream "noooo not enough space!". But if I do file by file its totally fine. Oh well
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I haven't tried to copy a big file such as 6gb but I use my 16gb pendrive with it and it works fine mainly I copy my nandroid backups of around 2-3 gb. Try a different file browser maybe a problem with that btw Can u tell me what is the file format and size of a single file not a folder and also have u fomatted ur sd card in ntfs or fat 32
varuntis1993 said:
I haven't tried to copy a big file such as 6gb but I use my 16gb pendrive with it and it works fine mainly I copy my nandroid backups of around 2-3 gb. Try a different file browser maybe a problem with that btw Can u tell me what is the file format and size of a single file not a folder and also have u fomatted ur sd card in ntfs or fat 32
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Well it was a folder of a selection of files like I said before. About 1 to 2gb videos, my USB pen is 64gb and fat32 format right now as it seems to work the best. ES file explorer is the file browser I use. Like I said at the start, so far as I can tell, I can use all 64gb just fine but only 12 is "registered" as being available, same size as the onboard SD. So long as I move things in 1 to 2gb amounts its fine. Try to do multiple files or one big file and its "No space left"
turbodude555 said:
Well it was a folder of a selection of files like I said before. About 1 to 2gb videos, my USB pen is 64gb and fat32 format right now as it seems to work the best. ES file explorer is the file browser I use. Like I said at the start, so far as I can tell, I can use all 64gb just fine but only 12 is "registered" as being available, same size as the onboard SD. So long as I move things in 1 to 2gb amounts its fine. Try to do multiple files or one big file and its "No space left"
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I use solid explorer, can u try with that & also a different pendrive.If even then also the problem is there
Go to this link http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-nexus/themes-apps/02-11-2013-stickmount-v2-30-t1400034 and report here with screen shots.
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go through your apps in froyo... the sizes shown are what REMAINS on internal storage the amount stored in the /sdcard/.android_secure isnt show
i.e
flash 10.1 shows 8mb
if you move to phone it shows 12mb
only 4mb is moved from the phone to the sd...
this is pretty similar on most apps
which means
its near to usless
There are apps that simply cannot run entirely from sdcard, since their libraries and/or files must reside on non-removable memory in order to guarantee the OS integrity: Flash plugin is one of these.
The most apps left 100/200 kB on the internal memory while moving 2+ MB on the sdcard. I think it's working.
root apps cant run from sd .... but apart from that ...
all data is stored on internal memory too
ie
swype had 4m of data on internal memory
our hacked a2sd worked better lol
Yea worked better..NOT.
I mount sd card to trasnfer files on PC, and half of widgets or programs gets FC's, crashes, or starting to act weird..
Google made it safer.
ivicask said:
Yea worked better..NOT.
I mount sd card to trasnfer files on PC, and half of widgets or programs gets FC's, crashes, or starting to act weird..
Google made it safer.
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Ehm yeah...that what pretty much what JDouce said.
+1 Froyo's app2sd is much worse compared to app2sd+
If you mount sd card to pc via USB, it will take a long time for that to happen.
And after you disconnect USB mode, it will take a long time again to reregister all the apps in sd.
The original app2sd+ is a much better one IMO.
myth1001 said:
+1 Froyo's app2sd is much worse compared to app2sd+
If you mount sd card to pc via USB, it will take a long time for that to happen.
And after you disconnect USB mode, it will take a long time again to reregister all the apps in sd.
The original app2sd+ is a much better one IMO.
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+1. A complete waste of time. The apps dont fully install on the SD card like when using app2sd+, the OS seems to like "forgetting" about any apps installed on the SD after a reboot and after so many installs refuses to install any more apps despite there being plenty of space left. I'm going back to 2.1 until someone gets a proper app2sd solution working as I'm not impressed with the android one at all.
I think Google wanted to keep the option of physically unplugging the memory card 'on the fly'. It wont work in 'our' APPS2SD.
stingerpl said:
I think Google wanted to keep the option of physically unplugging the memory card 'on the fly'. It wont work in 'our' APPS2SD.
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which is stupid because you need to take out the battery before you can get complete access to the sdcard...
Btw, i've got a question : why when accessing the phone sdcard as an usb UMS device does the phone have to unmount the sdcard from the phone filesystem and remount it to USB in an odd invisible to the phone FS way ?
couldn't access to sdcard be available to both phone AND USB at the same time ?
evidently its possible because u can push and pull files from/to the sd with adb
and since froyo doesn't have ext partition support they just patched out "our" a2sd ... i guess this is intentional
ffs memory isnt expensive what is it with htc and 512mb .... whatswrong with 4gb... and make it 20$ more
phentex said:
which is stupid because you need to take out the battery before you can get complete access to the sdcard...
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Desire is not the only device with Android, you know that, right?
phentex said:
which is stupid because you need to take out the battery before you can get complete access to the sdcard...
Btw, i've got a question : why when accessing the phone sdcard as an usb UMS device does the phone have to unmount the sdcard from the phone filesystem and remount it to USB in an odd invisible to the phone FS way ?
couldn't access to sdcard be available to both phone AND USB at the same time ?
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Not really....ever tried hooking up en external HDD to two computers at the same time?
JDouce said:
evidently its possible because u can push and pull files from/to the sd with adb
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No, it is not possible to take out your memory card while your phone is running with APPS2SD or APPS2SD+ without making your system unstable.
Googles APPS2SD implementation seems to be a lot like Symbians (which is a good thing IMO).
ruleamsterdam said:
Not really....ever tried hooking up en external HDD to two computers at the same time?
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Actually you can, there is a widget for that. I believe it is called SD split. I use and recommend it.
I love how people are ragging on an implementation that, last I heard, was a quick and dirty port of a ROM that was accidentally leaked. Maybe it's not finished? Maybe the Desire's real implementation will be better?
Such impatience.
The Professor said:
I love how people are ragging on an implementation that, last I heard, was a quick and dirty port of a ROM that was accidentally leaked. Maybe it's not finished? Maybe the Desire's real implementation will be better?
Such impatience.
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lol....very true..we should be happy running this already in the first place
i didnt mean evidently its possible to take the sd out ... i meant evidently its possible for a pc and the phone to have acess to the sd together
Froyo gives 1/2 a2sd for now
-> very few apps on market actually support a2sd
lets hope so googles fixes this in gingerbread
The usb mass storage on my HD2 worked the same way, if you use it u cant rum apps which are installed on card (and have all files on sd card). So whats wrong here?
on the up side read/write to sd is much quicker now since a2sd+ isnt stealing a load of transfer speed
Ok, so here is my question, sorry if it was asked, i used the search and couldn't find something like me.
So whenever I install games, many uses about 200-300MB of space, it will use my USB storage which its coming to a fill very soon, if i keep downloading new games. My question is, how can i make use of my 16GB SD card to install game files. And, I just re-read the GS2 box, and it saids it has 16BGB-32GB, is there a way i can upgrade the internal USB Storage, or what exactly did that mean?
The 16-32 Gbs are like iPhones they come with 16orll or 32 gbs units. Have you tried pushing the data from tthe gamed to the sdcard?
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I know i can copy it from USB to SD, or move, but i know that wont do what i want to do. Since it will be move, whenever i load the game and looks for the files, it wont look in the SD card, but the USB storage.
I thought the GS2 only came as a 16GB model. It will accept up to a 32GB microSD card and Android seems to be pretty intelligent about being able to find stuff on the external SD card if it's not in USB storage (internal). It finds my ringtones and images on my external SD card without me having to do anything.
If the apps/games you're using aren't enabled for being moved to the SD card (Settings/Applications/Manage Applications/On SD Card) then you'll have to find some other way to make space, perhaps moving your images to the external SD and configuring the camera app to store images there, or uninstalling apps.
it can actually use larger than 64 GB microSD see my HowTo guide
I'm curious as well because some titles like Asphalt 6 and GTA 3 download much more data than the .apk was to download.
For instance GTA3 from the market is 12.93MB, and if you move to external SD Card, you're moving only 13MB, but the game data to download is around 450MB and where's that stored? I have an external 32 and I'd rather prefer to store everything on that primarily.
I was so seeing the same thing. I have 32gb SD card and I would to find a workaround for this silly issue. Any input would be awesome!
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On a regular linux system, it would be a simple matter of finding the folder where the data files were stored, copying them to a new drive and then configure /etc/fstab to mount the new drive on top of the data file folder.
not sure if this is possible with Android and would require root if it were possible.
mayhem204 said:
I was so seeing the same thing. I have 32gb SD card and I would to find a workaround for this silly issue. Any input would be awesome!
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imabug said:
On a regular linux system, it would be a simple matter of finding the folder where the data files were stored, copying them to a new drive and then configure /etc/fstab to mount the new drive on top of the data file folder.
not sure if this is possible with Android and would require root if it were possible.
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yes, it's that simple indeed
just check out my HOWTO guide, it's in the INDEX stickied
tried app2sd?
sorry for the delay respond to all.I was away from a computer for awhile. So, i see all this talk, and it has helped me understand a bit more. I actually decided to delete some already beaten games to make space.
In regards to the pics and music, they have always been in my SD card. But i will download app2sd and see if it works. The actual app itself does not bother me. Most of the time, they are very little. Is the download after what does bother me. Most games need from 300mb to nearly 1Gb of space. Now thats a lot, when a phone comes only wiht 11.5GB of 16GB and we know why that happens.
dragonfire665 said:
Ok, so here is my question, sorry if it was asked, i used the search and couldn't find something like me.
So whenever I install games, many uses about 200-300MB of space, it will use my USB storage which its coming to a fill very soon, if i keep downloading new games. My question is, how can i make use of my 16GB SD card to install game files. And, I just re-read the GS2 box, and it saids it has 16BGB-32GB, is there a way i can upgrade the internal USB Storage, or what exactly did that mean?
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you cant upgrade internal but u can always put an sd card in for extrernal
dragonfire665 said:
sorry for the delay respond to all.I was away from a computer for awhile. So, i see all this talk, and it has helped me understand a bit more. I actually decided to delete some already beaten games to make space.
In regards to the pics and music, they have always been in my SD card. But i will download app2sd and see if it works. The actual app itself does not bother me. Most of the time, they are very little. Is the download after what does bother me. Most games need from 300mb to nearly 1Gb of space. Now thats a lot, when a phone comes only wiht 11.5GB of 16GB and we know why that happens.
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app2sd is not going to help you, if you already have the stuff installed to SD card
those cheesy App2SD apps only shows you which Apps can be moved to SD
you need Link2SD the real deal, the one that actually convert stuff over to the hidden partition in your SD card to use as Internal memory, which you are short on
just look up my HOWTO guide, it's stickied in the INDEX topic
HELP!
I have a GPE and I am unable to write to the SD card. Copying files doesn't work and I cannot create a folder. I have formatted the card as fat32 in my PC and "erased" the card through settings. I have the same problem with both cards I tried. A 32 GB and 16gb. Both work fine in the PC but cannot create a folder using es explorer or root file explorer. When I tried to copy a folder on it says "copy failed"
It gets even weirder...
If I try to write anything to it from the tablet, no matter how big or small, it refuses. I cannot create a folder on the sd card from the tablet. But when I connect the tablet to my PC I can write to and create folders on the sd card... I tried using DS file (a file explorer from synology) and tried to create a folder and was told "you don't have privilege"
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank You
RevJonG said:
HELP!
I have a GPE and I am unable to write to the SD card. Copying files doesn't work and I cannot create a folder. I have formatted the card as fat32 in my PC and "erased" the card through settings. I have the same problem with both cards I tried. A 32 GB and 16gb. Both work fine in the PC but cannot create a folder using es explorer or root file explorer. When I tried to copy a folder on it says "copy failed"
It gets even weirder...
If I try to write anything to it from the tablet, no matter how big or small, it refuses. I cannot create a folder on the sd card from the tablet. But when I connect the tablet to my PC I can write to and create folders on the sd card... I tried using DS file (a file explorer from synology) and tried to create a folder and was told "you don't have privilege"
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank You
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Kitkat does not allow write to external SD if i remember rightly, kinda crappy and makes the SD card kinda useless, i think CM11 allows you to, not tried it to be honest but sadly you cannot put that on your GPe version neither
Actually there is a fix. See this link. Left you the same response on Android Central. It took longer to reveal as you never mentioned over there that you were running the GPE edition. You posted the issue in the standard G Pad forums. In any case this should fix your issue.
http://www.androidauthority.com/galaxy-s4-gpe-android-4-3-sd-card-fix-254960/
Thank you!
Worked like a charm!
So the GPE will not recognize an SD card at all under stock settings?
angry english said:
Kitkat does not allow write to external SD if i remember rightly, kinda crappy and makes the SD card kinda useless, i think CM11 allows you to, not tried it to be honest but sadly you cannot put that on your GPe version neither
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Wait whut? This means there is absolutely no point in have a microsd card?
How ridiculous does this sound? I can't even believe this
Mindspin_311 said:
So the GPE will not recognize an SD card at all under stock settings?
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Remember that a GPE device is sort of a baby Nexus, and Google refuses to put SD cards on the Nexus devices. You should be able to get the SD card slot working on the GPE version, though, just takes extra effort.
woody1 said:
Remember that a GPE device is sort of a baby Nexus, and Google refuses to put SD cards on the Nexus devices. You should be able to get the SD card slot working on the GPE version, though, just takes extra effort.
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Right, as long as I can get it to the point where I can save some music and movies, then Im happy.
I know...stupid question but i never owned an android device with a micro SD slot before so dont judge me too harshly :
i bought a micro SD (Transendent) 32 GB, formated it with NTSC and put a 6gb 720p x264 movie on it. How can i see the microSD card in the G pad?? I use Astro file manager...but i cant seem to find the microSD...i tryed several folders (mnt/microsd...) but it always just shows the content from the internal memory of the Gpad instead of the micro SD.
So how can i see and access the files? Should i try a different file explorer?
Thanks.
DrDeeJay said:
I know...stupid question but i never owned an android device with a micro SD slot before so dont judge me too harshly :
i bought a micro SD (Transendent) 32 GB, formated it with NTSC and put a 6gb 720p x264 movie on it. How can i see the microSD card in the G pad?? I use Astro file manager...but i cant seem to find the microSD...i tryed several folders (mnt/microsd...) but it always just shows the content from the internal memory of the Gpad instead of the micro SD.
So how can i see and access the files? Should i try a different file explorer?
Thanks.
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You might need to reformat to exFAT. Seems to be the trick to getting the G Pad to recognize.
My 64gb Sandisk is formatted exFAT and I was able to use MX Player on my GPE to play a vide just fine.
Mindspin_311 said:
You might need to reformat to exFAT. Seems to be the trick to getting the G Pad to recognize.
My 64gb Sandisk is formatted exFAT and I was able to use MX Player on my GPE to play a vide just fine.
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Thanks, ill give it a try. Which allocation unit size should i choose as there are many different to choose from?
I used whatever it defaulted to.
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I used whatever it defaulted to.
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thx, its working
I know there are many devices out there which don't allow this, but is there a workaround to get this working on my LG G Pad 8.3?
My device is rooted.
16gb is just not enough memory these days to have all the apps and games you want on the device at the same time. i have a 64gb external card and would love to use this space for app data.
I know there is a workaround where you can move the data you need to the external card and move it back when you want to use the app but in this day and age it seems ridiculous to have to do that!
any help would be greatly appreciated
nk33 said:
I know there are many devices out there which don't allow this, but is there a workaround to get this working on my LG G Pad 8.3?
My device is rooted.
16gb is just not enough memory these days to have all the apps and games you want on the device at the same time. i have a 64gb external card and would love to use this space for app data.
I know there is a workaround where you can move the data you need to the external card and move it back when you want to use the app but in this day and age it seems ridiculous to have to do that!
any help would be greatly appreciated
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Check out Link2SD. Works like a champ on mine.
clemson77on said:
Check out Link2SD. Works like a champ on mine.
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ok, I just installed that.
It shows NFS Most Wanted (for example) as movable. When I click "move to sd card" i get the message "App2SD is not supported by your device. Because your device has a primary external storage whcih is emulated from the internal storage. You can link the app in order to move its files to your sd card."
so i click ok to that, go back to my list of apps, long press on the app and click "create link" and it gives me the following message "secondary partition not found. make sure you have 2 partitions on your sd card and both are primary"
...now i dont know what to do...sorry
nk33 said:
ok, I just installed that.
It shows NFS Most Wanted (for example) as movable. When I click "move to sd card" i get the message "App2SD is not supported by your device. Because your device has a primary external storage whcih is emulated from the internal storage. You can link the app in order to move its files to your sd card."
so i click ok to that, go back to my list of apps, long press on the app and click "create link" and it gives me the following message "secondary partition not found. make sure you have 2 partitions on your sd card and both are primary"
...now i dont know what to do...sorry
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I had to format my SD card using MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition. I tried making the 2nd primary partition EXT2 format and it didn't work. I ended up having to use FAT32 format instead. Here's the guide I used:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1432459
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I had to format my SD card using MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition. I tried making the 2nd primary partition EXT2 format and it didn't work. I ended up having to use FAT32 format instead. Here's the guide I used:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1432459
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ok, looks like I am gonna have to find some spare time to do this.
Not sure why anyone would want to restrict you to use Internal memory only on their device as it only makes it worth less....
Will this change naturally when an official 4.4.2 is released for this device?
Thanks for all your help
nk33 said:
ok, looks like I am gonna have to find some spare time to do this.
Not sure why anyone would want to restrict you to use Internal memory only on their device as it only makes it worth less....
Will this change naturally when an official 4.4.2 is released for this device?
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I have no idea. From what I hear, apps won't perform quite as good if they're on the external storage. If that's the case, they may be afraid that it will ruin the user experience. I just put apps that don't demand a ton of performance on my SD card so I can't verify if that's true.
But I like choices, so I wish they'd make it easier with a notice that performance may suffer or something. Also, Google is behind Android, and they want you storing data in the cloud, not on your device. That's why none of the Nexus devices have external storage.
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I have no idea. From what I hear, apps won't perform quite as good if they're on the external storage. If that's the case, they may be afraid that it will ruin the user experience. I just put apps that don't demand a ton of performance on my SD card so I can't verify if that's true.
But I like choices, so I wish they'd make it easier with a notice that performance may suffer or something. Also, Google is behind Android, and they want you storing data in the cloud, not on your device. That's why none of the Nexus devices have external storage.
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well storing data in the cloud is fine as long as its not data thats needed to run apps. one step forward 2 steps back!
this device is perfect (and IMO the best in its size at the moment) apart from 2 things
1) this sd issue right here
2) they should have given it an AMOLED screed instead of LCD
clemson77on said:
Check out Link2SD. Works like a champ on mine.
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Do you have to be rooted for this app to work?
allbroncos said:
Do you have to be rooted for this app to work?
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Yes
clemson77on said:
I had to format my SD card using MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition. I tried making the 2nd primary partition EXT2 format and it didn't work. I ended up having to use FAT32 format instead. Here's the guide I used:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1432459
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ok, I found some time to sit down and do this, but before I got started I had a quick read of the instructions.
Am I correct in saying that the maximum I can make this partition to install apps on is 2gb? If that is the case then its not even worth doing as my card is 64gb...
......Ooooor is it the case that the 1st partition has to be 2gb but i can use the rest of the card to install apps??
thanks in advance
nk33 said:
ok, I found some time to sit down and do this, but before I got started I had a quick read of the instructions.
Am I correct in saying that the maximum I can make this partition to install apps on is 2gb? If that is the case then its not even worth doing as my card is 64gb...
......Ooooor is it the case that the 1st partition has to be 2gb but i can use the rest of the card to install apps??
thanks in advance
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That's not the case on mine.
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That's not the case on mine.
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i am referring to the link you gave me. the instructions state not to make the partition larger than 2gb.
FolderMount is more what you want. It does not require a special format, and it moves the data which is what really takes up the space. For example Bards Tale has over 3.5GB of data, and it moves ALL of that. The applications themselves hardly take up any space. It even survives rom updates like updating CM11 nightlies for example. I uninstalled Link2SD. It didn't move much, and caused problems when I did ROM updates.
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FolderMount is more what you want. It does not require a special format, and it moves the data which is what really takes up the space. For example Bards Tale has over 3.5GB of data, and it moves ALL of that. The applications themselves hardly take up any space. It even survives rom updates like updating CM11 nightlies for example. I uninstalled Link2SD. It didn't move much, and caused problems when I did ROM updates.
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C0BRA01 you are a legend!!
Tried, tested and confirm working on my V500 with NFS Most Wanted!!
One thing i noticed though is that the program "Disk Usage" still picks it up as data on device even though it is not there. Used SD card analyst in ES File explorer with root permissions and data is not on device.
This is fantastic!! i now have a potential 64gb of space!!
Curious if anyone has modified the partition table on the device? With the System taking up 4 some gigs... seems silly not to shrink it down a bit for more app usage. Any thoughts on this one or am I just thinking silly on it?
I think the same but i found nothing. I flashed a debloated rom for the 10.1 and now have 1.2GB free on system parts. I used titanium backup to transfer some app from data to system but it's boring. But it's nothing compared to my MicroSD card memory
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I think the same but i found nothing. I flashed a debloated rom for the 10.1 and now have 1.2GB free on system parts. I used titanium backup to transfer some app from data to system but it's boring. But it's nothing compared to my MicroSD card memory
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I did transfer some apps over as well, or in reality can remove them because they sit on the SD partition because of updates (really wish it would just update to system by default). I know moving some updates over just screws it up, let alone just moving screws up the icons on the desktop portion.
I don't have a de-bloated rom right now. The way I see it, its being used or wasted at this point. Apps don't seem to be slowing it down, though im sure a few are running in the background, but nothing that has hampered battery life like my previous Nexus 7 (2013). This seems to do much better at not wasting power. Guess im not being as picky as I use to with random apps chewing up space.
I would of jumped all over a 32GB edition from the get go. Paired with a 64GB SD card, its win win. Even now it is, just can't install everything I want to in 1 go since most apps still are stored locally on the main internal SD Partition and can't be transferred over. I can live with it, and im sure someone will figure it out. I know I use to do it with an old phone that had, next to no internal memory (a loong time ago). PITA to update, but well worth being able to use the phone.
You can use FolderMount [ROOT] to create a symbolic link between internal SD card and external to move your application.
For example if you want your google offline music on sdcard you can mount /sdcard/android/data/com.google.android.music on external sdcard.
It is possible to do it for every folder so it solves the problem :highfive:
eowindel said:
You can use FolderMount [ROOT] to create a symbolic link between internal SD card and external to move your application.
For example if you want your google offline music on sdcard you can mount /sdcard/android/data/com.google.android.music on external sdcard.
It is possible to do it for every folder so it solves the problem :highfive:
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Yeah just read into that. Thanks for the link so it reminds me.
Course, internal storage is always faster But for music/movies obviously SD Card just works fine with that.