I want to symlink my .android_secure folder on my SD Card to the one on the emmc. Does anyone know how to do this? And the reason for this is because skyraider is storing my apps on the emmc rather than the SD Card when I hit move to SD Card, and nandroid isn't backing them up properly.
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 seem to have a SD card directory (10gb) that is actually on my internal storage. It is accessible with or without an SD actually inserted. I have now got a 64gb card that I wish to use but when I try to move apps (using Link2SD) it thinks some are on the SD card already, then when I move them to my phone they stop working! Any ideas what's happening? I don't remember doing anything like emulating a SD card or something...
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I seem to have a SD card directory (10gb) that is actually on my internal storage. It is accessible with or without an SD actually inserted. I have now got a 64gb card that I wish to use but when I try to move apps (using Link2SD) it thinks some are on the SD card already, then when I move them to my phone they stop working! Any ideas what's happening? I don't remember doing anything like emulating a SD card or something...
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"Internal SD" is just how Samsung refer to the built-in storage. Any SD card you have to insert is referred to as an External SD. Confusing, I know, considering it's not outside the phone.
Hope this clears it up.
Ah right. That makes a bit more sense. Thanks. Just got to sort out where my apps are installed now... and also where they seem to THINK they are!
shockerty said:
Ah right. That makes a bit more sense. Thanks. Just got to sort out where my apps are installed now... and also where they seem to THINK they are!
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link2sd is not compatible or rather say it must be creating prob as note2 is having problem using the ext2sd script though you can try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2036796 and fat32 is recommended so format your card to fat32
Hi is anyone else having an issue with TB not showing external SD card or some features like convert system app to regular app?
See my post in the other threads regarding not being able to write to external SDCard...
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See my post in the other threads regarding not being able to write to external SDCard...
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HI, Thanks for responding I can write to the sd card. it just not showing up in titanium
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HI, Thanks for responding I can write to the sd card. it just not showing up in titanium
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OK, mine is working fine, try this...
From preferences, select Backup Folder Location, hit the back arrow twice until you get a listing of folders; "emulated", "sdcard0" and "sdcard1" (this is your external SD), select "sdcard1" then create new folder, create the new TitaniumBackup folder and you should be good.
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OK, mine is working fine, try this...
From preferences, select Backup Folder Location, hit the back arrow twice until you get a listing of folders; "emulated", "sdcard0" and "sdcard1" (this is your external SD), select "sdcard1" then create new folder, create the new TitaniumBackup folder and you should be good.
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Thanks again Ripper but I did that already, it did change my backups to sd card and shows that in titanium under backup directory however it does not show my sd card at the bottom of titanium. It should be system rom then internal& media and then ext sd card listed. ext sd card is not listed
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Thanks again Ripper but I did that already, it did change my backups to sd card and shows that in titanium under backup directory however it does not show my sd card at the bottom of titanium. It should be system rom then internal& media and then ext sd card listed. ext sd card is not listed
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The only time I saw this was when I could not write to the external SDCard, once I fixed that mine is showing correctly. If you can write to your external SD, you may have another issue.
Screenshot for reference showing both internal and external SDCard....
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Screenshot for reference showing both internal and external SDCard....
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yea weird and instead of saying sdcard1 mines says external_SD card..... it works fine just its weird it does'nt show at the bottom thanks again for your responses and help ripper
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yea weird and instead of saying sdcard1 mines says external_SD card..... it works fine just its weird it does'nt show at the bottom thanks again for your responses and help ripper
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also found out its not the sdcard the sdcard is a sandisk sdxc 64gb i switched it with the one in my phone which is a 32gb adata and it still doesnt show external sd card listing at bottom of titanium backup... well at least now i know its not the card
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also found out its not the sdcard the sdcard is a sandisk sdxc 64gb i switched it with the one in my phone which is a 32gb adata and it still doesnt show external sd card listing at bottom of titanium backup... well at least now i know its not the card
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TB is the same for my G Pad with a Samsung 64GB card. Sure you can specify the external card as a backup location, but presumably TB can't automatically identify it as the external card. I imagine TB needs an update for the G Pad memory architecture (path naming).
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TB is the same for my G Pad with a Samsung 64GB card. Sure you can specify the external card as a backup location, but presumably TB can't automatically identify it as the external card. I imagine TB needs an update for the G Pad memory architecture (path naming).
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tdodd may I ask what rom you are running I am on stock and I applied the fix and it didnt do anything still can't write to sd card
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tdodd may I ask what rom you are running I am on stock and I applied the fix and it didnt do anything still can't write to sd card
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I'm running the stock LG ROM. The card is formatted as exFAT, as supplied from Amazon.
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I'm running the stock LG ROM. The card is formatted as exFAT, as supplied from Amazon.
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my titanium backup shows the same as you displayed but I still Cant move apps to sd card and titanium backup does not recognize ext sd card on opening screen but I noticed from a previous post that yours does
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my titanium backup shows the same as you displayed but I still Cant move apps to sd card and titanium backup does not recognize ext sd card on opening screen but I noticed from a previous post that yours does
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I do not move apps to the SD card. I have no need or reason to. My TB overview screen does not show the external card. Those things do not prevent me writing to the card - it is writeable. Maybe I do not understand the problem. For me there is no problem.
EDIT - OK, now I think I understand - TB does not see the external card so it cannot report on its status and cannot move apps to it. In all other respects the card works as one would expect. As I said in my first post, it seems like TB needs updating in order to discover the card as mounted by the G Pad. Either that or use some sort of folder mount app to mount the external card where TB can find it.
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I do not move apps to the SD card. I have no need or reason to. My TB overview screen does not show the external card. Those things do not prevent me writing to the card - it is writeable. Maybe I do not understand the problem. For me there is no problem.
EDIT - OK, now I think I understand - TB does not see the external card so it cannot report on its status and cannot move apps to it. In all other respects the card works as one would expect. As I said in my first post, it seems like TB needs updating in order to discover the card as mounted by the G Pad. Either that or use some sort of folder mount app to mount the external card where TB can find it.
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CORRECT.... thanks for answering my questions
I noticed this also yesterday when I was on Stock ROM with TiBU. I thought my device was bad but on CM11 TiBU works as normal with the external SD. LG ROM is wonky.
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I noticed this also yesterday when I was on Stock ROM with TiBU. I thought my device was bad but on CM11 TiBU works as normal with the external SD. LG ROM is wonky.
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Thanks for the info. I had a feeling it was LG's ROM
I've been looking more deeply into this, but I don't have the skills to come up with a solution. However, I have a feeling the problem stems from Android itself and while some manufacturers may have implemented their own workarounds it seems that LG has not. Here is an article which outlines the basis of the problem (if I am right).
http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/1...continues-to-shun-sd-cards-multiuser-support/
No help to offer other than to share my experience - I stuck my SD card in the G Pad to restore my app data and have no problems with it. TB restored them from the SD card. I've also been using TB repeatedly to back up and restore Injustice Gods Among Us on my SD card (30 times a day) with no problems.
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No help to offer other than to share my experience - I stuck my SD card in the G Pad to restore my app data and have no problems with it. TB restored them from the SD card. I've also been using TB repeatedly to back up and restore Injustice Gods Among Us on my SD card (30 times a day) with no problems.
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The problem has nothing to do with backups and restores. It is the inability to move apps to the external SD card. TB gives no clues to the problem - no helpful messages - but other app2sd type apps complain about the way storage is arranged, saying that external storage is emulated. Clearly that is nonsense, because the external SD card it's a very real physical storage device, but I think that multi user support has screwed thing up, as per the article I linked to earlier.
FWIW I have managed to get TB to show the external card on the overview screen by creating a folder in /mnt and using foldermount to point the folder to the external card, but it does not survive a reboot and does not overcome the problem with moving apps to external storage. Maybe foldermount could be used to move large data folders to the external card for apps such as offline navigation or games, which should free up some space from the internal storage. As I have no need to do that (yet) I have not tried.
When you check out an app's info, there is an option to "Move to SD card". When I do this, I see that the available internal storage space really does free up. I tried finding the app data in the external sd, but no new directories are made and the size of the "Android" folder in the external sd remains at 32 bytes. So, where is the app data in the external sd?
I don't mean to resurrect an old thread, but I felt compelled to answer this, since this issue bugged me for hours. I'll just leave it here in case anyone else stumbles on to this.
If you are able to move apps to the SD card in G3, android v.4.4 Kitkat, whether by default, or by applying the SD Fix ("media_rw"...), then doing so will only move certain files to your SD (the .apk, I think), but not inside the /external_SD/Android/data folder. The files will instead be moved to the /.android_secure folder, which is hidden and cannot be viewed using a file browser in Android, even with root (tried ES Explorer). You can view this folder if you insert the SD directly to your PC via a card slot. The files moved will have the .asec extension.
In order to move the actual files from the data or obb folder, and save space, one would have to use an app such as FolderMount, although I haven't tried this myself.