I'm trying to backup my messages with SMSBackup and I keep getting this error that it can't write to the external SD card. This is even after having it create it's own folder on the external SD. Is this normal?
Yes it's been what Google call a feature; most others consider it a pain.
It can be bypassed if you want to be able to write to any folder on ext sd card.
Method I used is to edit platform.xml (system/etc/permissions) to add another line (apologies to original author of this method, been around so long can't remember where on xda I came across it)
Search for ext sd card write issues
http://technofaq.org/posts/2014/04/fixing-external-sd-card-write-issue-on-android-kitkat/
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What if I don't have or don't want to have my phone rooted?
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I have been looking for the last week trying to locate instructions (assuming there are instructions) for swapping out an sd card in the G2. My phone is rooted. Has clockwork recovery, has the CyanongenMod 6.4 Rom.
Can someone give me a brief run down on this? Do I have to re-root and reinstall ROM for sd card swap?
OR, can someone please just post a link to the page (if there is one) that will describe the Rooted, ROM mod'ed, overclocked, and whatever..., HTC G2 SD card swap?
Thank you! This will be really appreciated! Mainly because I am a full time criminal justice student about to graduate with not much time to spend 50 hours a day looking for this anymore!
Sincerely,
Paul
Do you just want to use a different sd card in your phone?
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No. Or I guess, yes. Im bumping the gigs from the stock 8 to 32
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mount the sd via flash reader or usb and copy all of it over to the new sd card then pop the new one in the phone and presto!
that simple really??? what about hidden files or roots????
Sorry I'm about to do the same thing and was wondering...
Any root and or system files are on your phone. You can swap sd cards freely. Just copy everything to your new on on a computer and your good togo.
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Root and all that is done internally on the phone, the sd card just has things on it like application data, or pictures or music. So as long as you transfer everything from the old sd card to the new one, you will be good
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Ok.
Another question in result of this answer, I already have everything backed up with titanium (I think that is what it is called) backup. Same with in clock work recovery. And now after all of these procedures, I copied the whole sd card top my hard drive. Can I put the new card into the phone and use the phone to format the new card so I can do away with a lot of junk that I would not necessarily know about.?Then copy the files I want back onto the new card?
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Correction. When I day junk, I mean not transferring the un necessary junk from the old card to the me card. And just format thee new one with nothing on it so it will work inthe phone.
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Really its an sd card just switch it out transfer any music or anything to the new one it don't need an entire thread
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What you need to do, is copy all the files from the old card into a file on your pc somewhere, unless you have a desktop that has a card reader on it.
Take the old card out.
Put the new card in the phone, format it. (menu/settings/sdcard/format)
Then open the files and transfer them into the new card that is mounted in your phone through usb. Or if you have a card reader on your desktop just drop and drag to the new card.
My question is, what class of a card do you need to purchase?
Dunno. It is a class 4, though. I don't think a class 4 will be a bad choice, given the card is rated at 4 mb/s. Something like that. I would think the C4 would be a relevantly fast enough card.
I wanted to let y'all know, I just transfered all over to the new card. Sorry for a dumb thread. I really didn't think it would that simple.But I guess some things are!
I've had this card in my rooted Droid 1 as well as a Archos 101 tablet and in both of those instances I've moved apps to SD as the internal storage on those is too small. Now that I'm going to be using this 16gb card exclusively on my rooted Evo 4G I have no reason to have space taken up by apps that won't be used or are on internal storage on this device. I want to find the folder and delete the contents to free up some space. I see one called /Android/data and another that is just /data both on the SD card. Either of these what I'm looking for? The former appears to have some older apps that I'm not using any longer but it also seems to have a couple that I'm currently using but haven't knowingly moved to SD card.
Thanks!
With a system level file manager like Root Explorer, navigate to the /data/app folder and the /system/app folder.
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With a system level file manager like Root Explorer, navigate to the /data/app folder and the /system/app folder.
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I'm not talking about the current location of all my current installed apps. I'm talking about the location of apps when we move them to the sd card. I wish to locate those folders from my previous devices and delete them as all of my current apps on this device are on the device and not moved to the SD card so anything on my SD card in the way of apps should be from previous devices.
/mnt/asec and /mnt/secure/asec
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I'm not talking about the current location of all my current installed apps. I'm talking about the location of apps when we move them to the sd card. I wish to locate those folders from my previous devices and delete them as all of my current apps on this device are on the device and not moved to the SD card so anything on my SD card in the way of apps should be from previous devices.
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android 2.2 uses the .android_secure folder on your sdcard. for the native apps2sd. if you are using some other kind they use a ext2 or ext3 partition on your sdcard. you will need gparted or linux to see this type.
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android 2.2 uses the .android_secure folder on your sdcard. for the native apps2sd. if you are using some other kind they use a ext2 or ext3 partition on your sdcard. you will need gparted or linux to see this type.
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So basically if I have 3rd party apps that were installed to SD card from another device I basically need to backup the files I need to keep and format the SD card in order to delete them?
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So basically if I have 3rd party apps that were installed to SD card from another device I basically need to backup the files I need to keep and format the SD card in order to delete them?
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You could do that, but first, were you using some other type of apps2sd? Not the android native one that started in version 2.2? Dark tremor or any other flashable or aftermarket apps2sd that uses a ext partition on your sdcard?
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You could do that, but first, were you using some other type of apps2sd? Not the android native one that started in version 2.2? Dark tremor or any other flashable or aftermarket apps2sd that uses a ext partition on your sdcard?
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I would have used a combination of individually clicking 'Move to SD card' within some of the apps as well as SDMove (which I believe actually uses the same location as moving them within the apps themselves). I don't think I used anything else but I had that phone for 18mos so it's hard for me to remember for sure. On my current Evo I haven't moved any apps to the SD Card because there's much more room on the phone than my Droid 1 and I'm actually running into problems w/capacity on my external 16gb SD card. Hence the reason I'm trying to free up some more space from objects that are unnecessary.
Ok, so what you can do is just backup your music and pictures and whatever else that you know what it is and format the card. Then move everything back afterwards.
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Ok, so what you can do is just backup your music and pictures and whatever else that you know what it is and format the card. Then move everything back afterwards.
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I was hoping to avoid a format but sounds like I may not have much of a choice. I need to back up pictures, Mp3's, Titanium backup, Clockwordmod and a couple other folders and reformat. I was hoping it would be easier to track down all the loose ends though.
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I was hoping to avoid a format but sounds like I may not have much of a choice. I need to back up pictures, Mp3's, Titanium backup, Clockwordmod and a couple other folders and reformat. I was hoping it would be easier to track down all the loose ends though.
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Yea, what you could do is delete every folder on the root of the sdcard that you don't know what it is.
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I would have used a combination of individually clicking 'Move to SD card' within some of the apps as well as SDMove (which I believe actually uses the same location as moving them within the apps themselves). I don't think I used anything else but I had that phone for 18mos so it's hard for me to remember for sure. On my current Evo I haven't moved any apps to the SD Card because there's much more room on the phone than my Droid 1 and I'm actually running into problems w/capacity on my external 16gb SD card. Hence the reason I'm trying to free up some more space from objects that are unnecessary.
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If you moved them just using the Move to SD card built into Froyo (including apps like SDMove that just help you do that), you shouldn't need to reformat. That's only if you set up an ext3 partition.
Mount the card and view it from the computer (or use a card reader) and delete .android_secure. The real folder is hidden when the card is mounted on the phone.
Is it possible to switch sd and usb storage? All of my apps that save stuff to "sd" actually save it to the usb storage.
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ajt1995 said:
Is it possible to switch sd and usb storage? All of my apps that save stuff to "sd" actually save it to the usb storage.
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Would recommend making it a suggestion to ROM Developers - need to swap "SD" and "SD-EXT", not sure where in the manifest that is, but the good chefs should be able to hack up a solution pretty quick. Would likely require a re-flash, though...
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I would love this as well. This would solve so many issues of things not fitting. Games and GPS programs.etc. I have switched my Camera to save to EXT and as well my Titanium Backups but in general everything wants to go to SDCARD by Default.
So here solution swap sd memories
To do this please backup your phone files first. This is info how to use external sd card as main sd card so all apps gonna be saved to your external memory card!!!
Need to root i927
Download Root explorer from market
Download this file :
hxxps://rapidshare.com/files/1609601636/vold.fstab
change x to t
copy that file from computer to the sd card of your phone
Open Root explorer
go to sdcard and copy file vold.fstab
go back to root of your phone
And go to system/etc and "upper" mount drive paste and rewrite original file
Restart phone
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So I'm coming from note 3. Is it just me or can you not move files from phone storage to SD card. ? I torrent my movies and music like a lot I'm sure do. But can't get anything I download to move to my SD card. ?
I also came from a Note 3, and when it had 4.3 on it, you could transfer apps to SD, but 4.4.2 stopped that. Its not a Samsung or HTC thing, its a 4.4.2 thing.
Just tested it and I can use Root Explorer to make a transfer between internal SD and external SD.
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I just traded my note3 for the HTC and I inserted my SD card and deleted all my picture that I took from my note3
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So I'm coming from note 3. Is it just me or can you not move files from phone storage to SD card. ? I torrent my movies and music like a lot I'm sure do. But can't get anything I download to move to my SD card. ?
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Hey,
I believe there was something reported about 4.4.2 not allowing this process. I went to Playstore and downloaded an app called "NextApp SDFix". It's supposed to restore your permissions to write files to the MicroSD cards. Check it out!!
You should be able to use HTC File Manager, which allows you to copy files to the SD card, without root access. Hope this helps.
Just received the Galaxy Pro S 10.5 and would like to know how to get to use the ExtSD for Storage?
Is there a way to accomplish this and what is necessary to get this done?
I have the 16Gb model and a 32gb bit external Sd card installed which is needed to be used.
Help?
Hi,
you can only use the samsung built in file manager (myfiles) to write on your ext SD.
also your programs will have limited access to SD.
you'll have to root if you're using other file managers.
blame google.
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Issued Solved
My Galaxy S5, Nexus 7 (2013), and now finally my Samsung Tab S 10.1 have full access to the External SD.
This Tab S was the most difficult to make the External SD, ExtSD, join the group.
First I rooted and installed ThunderRom800 version 2.1 which did allow some access to the ExtSD. But then I needed to get from the Play Store, SDFix and Kitkat External SD to get this to work as I would have expected. With the additional install of App2SD, I was in business.
I do not like to save my stuff to Goggle, so I use TB for backup and App Backup & Restore and save all to the extSD card. App2SD allowed the moving of any file of choice to me sent to the SD card.
If what I want to backup is not allowed to get to the extSD card I would be always unable to download anything.