I don't really understand the DInc's 8GB of Internal Memory, the one mounted as /mnt/emmc.
For one thing, apps can't install to it. Apps can only install to the 748MB internal memory or SDCARD.
I can't put videos there, the Gallery won't see them. Videos have to go to /mnt/sdcard. I can, however, put photos and MP3s there. However, when I run an app, like MultiLiveWallpaper, it can't see the photos in order to randomly change them unless I put them in SDCARD.
If I install a big app, like a 3D game, one that needs to phone home to download an additional 100MB or so of data, it will only download to the 748MB internal memory or SDCARD. It won't use EMMC.
So pretty much, that whole 8GB of Internal Memory seems rather worthless. I need an SD card to do anything. Is there any way I can trick android into seeing the 8GB of internal memory as an SDCARD, and then not need an SDCARD?
My pictures stored there are seen by the gallery but I'm running CM7 RC2. I had a problem a while back with the Sense Music Player not seeing my mp3's there but I just bought MixZing instead.
Yeah, the gallery in the stock ROM can see pictures stored there too, but apps can't seem to so I have to keep those in SDCARD as well. Sense music player in the stock ROM seems to have no trouble finding MP3s there. I wish I could just use that 8GB emmc as if it were an 8GB SD card. I don't have that much music on mine, so all that space pretty much goes to waste. The emmc in general, seems pretty much worthless so far as I can tell.
I think he was talking about some problem with Z roms where the internal storage can't be seen. I use it to store my ~4 GBs of music which is useful.
Yeah, storing music seems to be all it's good for. I wish there was a way to use it as an SD card. Oh well, I guess I will fill it full of music since there's not much else I can do with it. It's weird that pictures that I put there show up in the gallery, but not videos.
Now that I think of it the Stock Sense ROM could see the music but I couldn't get any artwork for it to show up. All the apps I found for downloading artwork couldn't read the internal memory only the sdcard. I've had to redo my entire music library, all 7000+ mp3s to imbed the artwork into the file to get around this. Then I went and bought a 32 GB sdcard and resized all my mp3s to fit on it and only use the internal storage to hold pictures and all my backups.
Don't know why I even thought to search for a solution for this, but I'm glad I did as I found this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1030613
It worked perfectly! Now the phone thinks my internal storage is an 8GB SD card and I don't even have a need for the MicroSD card at all.
Expand the 16gb Nexus 7 Universe without Rooting—Nexus Media Importer $2.99
Nexus Media Importer 4.0
Nexus Media Importer allows copying and/or streaming from a usb connected device via an otg cable without rooting. The developer started out with only Fat16 and Fat32 support and now has added NTSF, a smaller footprint and faster streaming.
I started out with a Palm TX, with a SD Card, a device I still use. I also have an Asus Transformer 101 tablet and dock, both with sd card slots, again a device I still use. I bought the Nexus 7 with great trepidation as an intentionally crippled device lacking expandability. It had most everything right: size, speed and portability. I'm not a cloud guy and don't believe we're at the point where streaming wifi speeds are ubiquitous enough to support streaming wifi media. I have a large ebook, image, music and video collection, a data hog, Fortunately, early on, I stumbled across Nexus Media Importer. It's made the Nexus 7 the portable tablet I take with me most places. I can access all of my data with or without a wifi signal. For me, Nexus Media Importer is one of the most important apps, making the Nexus 7 so much more than a toy.
You will need this App, Nexus Media Importer: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.homeysoft.nexususb.importer
Refer to the Nexus Media Importer FAQ:
Nexus Media Importer: FAQ
An Oga Cable: There are a dizzying variety of vendors both domestic and foreign with a certain amount of controversy as to which types fit the best etc. Most all are made in China and they'll work or they won't.
USB OTG Adapter
http://www.nexustablets.net/forum/nexus-tablet-accessories/1504-usb-otg-adapter-search.html
[app]Nexus 7 External Flash Picture Viewer & Media Streamer
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I use:
SANOXY Micro USB Host Mode OTG Cable Flash Drive SD T-Flash Card Adapter 82 cents .Free shipping. Ships from Hong Kong and takes a couple of weeks. Fit's dead on.
Amazon.com: SANOXY Micro USB Host Mode OTG Cable Flash Drive SD T-Flash Card Adapter FOR Samsung GT-i9100 i9100 Galaxy S II 2 GT-N7000 Galaxy Note: Cell Phones & Accessories
If you need instant gratification, check out the following threads:
USB OTG adapter search
http://www.nexustablets.net/forum/nexus-7-accessories/1504-usb-otg-adapter-search.html
The USB OTG that Do and DO NOT work with Nexus 7 Thread
The USB OTG that Do and DO NOT work with Nexus 7 Thread - xda-developers
You can find other opinions and feedback on Nexis Media Importer and many other topics by browsing the following forums:
Nexus Tablet Forum
http://www.nexustablets.net/forum/forum.php
XDA Nexus 7
Nexus 7 - xda-developers
A flash drive, card reader or connected device formatted with Fat16 , Fat32 or NTSF:
I've connected full size flash drives, micro flash drives and sd card readers without a problem in a variety of sizes and formats. I'm able to swap my NTSF formatted 64gb Class 6 MicroSd card between my Transformer 101 and my Nexus 7.
For a small footprint, you might consider a MicroSD card reader or a micro usb drive. I use the following MicroSD adapter, smaller than your thumbnail, $4.98, free shipping, it took five days to get from Hong Kong:
MR Micro SD SDHC TF Nano Mini USB Reader Adapter MR1 Netbook Mobile Car Black $4.98 Free Shipping
MR Micro SD SDHC TF Nano Mini USB Reader Adapter MR1 Netbook Mobile Car Black | eBay
An Amazon Prime eligible one:
elago Mobile Nano II USB 2.0 microSDHC Flash Memory Card Reader (Black) $9.52
Amazon.com: elago Mobile Nano II USB 2.0 microSDHC Flash Memory Card Reader (Black): Electronics
For me, I already have several inches of OTG cable dangling from my Nexus 7 so smaller is better for the flash drive or adapter. Here's an example of a MicroUSB Flash Drive.
SanDisk Cruzer Fit CZ33 32GB USB Flash Drive (SDCZ33-032G-B35) $15.99
Amazon.com: SanDisk Cruzer Fit CZ33 32GB USB Flash Drive (SDCZ33-032G-B35): Electronics
Larger flash drives both in size and storage capacity work as well—a have a 64gb flash drive. They just pull the cable down a little further.
Keep in mind that the Nexus 7 complains about most every file format, scolding that it might not be compatible. Just ignore the warnings and copy your data.
MicroSD Card IssuesNexus Media Importer supports Fat16, Fat32 and NTSF—not exfat. Personally I use the SanDisk 64GB Mobile Ultra MicroSDXC Class 6 Memory Card. It can be formatted from ex-fat to Fat32 or NTSF. I can confirm that the following ebay vendor carries the card:
NEW SanDisk - Mobile Ultra 64GB microSDXC Class 6 Memory Card SDSDQY-064G-A11A $59.99
NEW SanDisk - Mobile Ultra 64GB microSDXC Class 6 Memory Card SDSDQY-064G-A11A | eBay
The new class 10 64gb MicroSD cards come with ex-fat and cannot be formatted to any other format on a computer. To the best of my knowledge they cannot be converted to NTSF. I successfully converted one to Fat32 with the following free utility from a Russian Site. I didn't get a virus or spyware:
ftp://dmitrykhn.homedns.org/For PC/soft/utils/HPUSBDisk.exe
Amazon Woes:I ordered and returned 6 64 Class 6 MicroSd cards from Amazon when I received Class 10 cards instead. Amazon lists vendors having Class 10 cards when they do not. Amazon sells none and of the third party vendors only BlueProton has the cards. Make sure you contact the vendor before you order. I have written confirmation that the following vendors don't carry the class 6 64gbcards: Jazzer Shack, USEcoZone, Digital Media, Ace. Stromboli and Mactechy. I complained to the Better Business Bureau but if you're Amazon you can do whatever you want.
What data does Nexus Media Importer support?
Pictures: NMI currently only supports jpg anf png images and can stream them from your usb device.
Videos: NMI can stream videos in the following formats: mp4, mkv, avi, wmv, mov, ts, m2ts, m2t, mts, m4v, ogv, asf, srt, f4v, flv, rmvb. It currently cannot see mpg videos. NMI streamed videos will play in landscape or portrait.
Music: NMI can stream: .mp3, m4a, wav, oga, ogg and flac. Wma files are only supported currently in the classic player, see options, not in the current player. The developer hopes to have support for wma soon in the new player, a format that the Nexus does not support natively.
Docs: NMI can stream text files through the browser of your choice.
Nexus Media Importer can see and copy and share many other file types from the usb device of your choice to the tablet. The following file types do not support streaming but can be copied to a temporary location and streamed or shared: pdf, doc, xls, docx, xlsx,. Epub and Mobi ebook files can be copies to the Nexus 7 but not streamed. I have not tested cbr and cbz files.
**The above file types were tested with Dice Media Player, VLC, Quickpic, OfficeSuite, Adobe Reader, Cool Reader and FB Reader. There are as many choices as apps available but they are confirmed to work using the above apps.
How does it work?
Connect your usb flash drive or SD/MicroSD reader to your OGA cable, plug the cable into your Nexus 7 and launch Nexus Media Importer if it does not open immediately.
Nexus Media Importer will display the following choices horizontally in landscape or vertically in a pull down menu in landscape: Photos, Videos, Music, Docs, Folders and Advanced.
By Menu
Photos
Selecting Photos will give you two choices, All or Folders.
If you have a lot of files, I have 17,000 jpgs in my screen saver, and ask Nexis Media Importer to scan them all, it's going to tilt. Selecting Photo Folders will allow you to navigate to the Folder of your choice. Entering the Folder will display a list of thumbnails.
Selecting a thumbnail and then hitting the arrow in the upper left will allow you to scroll through all of the photos with a full-screen view of each. Alternately selecting the arrow in the box in the upper right enables the slide-show in full-screen mode. The Menu (three boxes) has an option for setting the time delay in seconds between each slide.
Videos
Selecting Videos will display all of the videos on the drive in Alphabetical order. Select the Video of your choice and then the app you prefer to run it. Given the size of most videos, Alternately you can select folder view and select your videos via folders.
Music
Selecting Music gives the user sort by Albums, Artists, Albums or Folders. Once again, if you have a lot of music you might overwhelm NMI and should use folders to go to the music of your choice. You should experiment and see which choice works best for you. Whether you choose folders or Artists, once you choose the artist, album or Artist you can multiple select songs to make a play list.
Docs
Docs, pdfs, ebooks, spreadsheets etc., all fall into the Docs menu. With a large ebook library, pdfs etc., I access all these file types through the Folder menu. If you connect a flash drive with fewer doc files, then the Docs menu is for you. You can stream txt files through your browser, open a temporary copy of .doc, pdf, xls files by pressing the arrow, triangle on its side. Epub, Mobi and other files that do not support streaming can be downloaded to the Nexus 7
Pressing Share, the three point open triangle prompts the user to upload the selected file to the cloud app of your choice. Choices include Bluetooth, Box, Dropbox, Email, and Gmail.
Folders
You'll need to access the Photo Menu button and the choose folders to access the full screen photos or the slide show. Likewise you'll need to access the Music button and choose folders to multi-select mp3s for a playlist. Anything else can be opened with the Folder icon. Navigate to the folder of your choice and open your file with the app of your choice. It's a must if you have hundreds of a particular file type.
Advanced
The Advanced Menu provides a split-screen view of your external flash drive and internal memory on the Nexus 7. You have the option to delete files in internal memory.
What Apps are available for Streaming?
As the developer points out in his FAQ: Nexus Media Importer: FAQ , only apps registered with Android to handle the specific file type will work. I read all of my ebooks with either Cool Reader or FB Reader but neither are registered to handle epub or mobi files. As such, I can't stream any of my ebooks. I can copy them from the flash drive to my Nexus and then open them with Cool Reader. If you don't see the app of your choice when you press stream, you'll have to write to the developer of the app and request they register the file types.
Rooted Nexus 7 devices can read/write to USB devices with StickMount. Why can't Nexus Media Importer?
Keep in mind that rooting voids your warranty. The developer really wants to support write, but it is a really dangerous proposition. *There are many comparisons to Nexis Media Importer with applications like StickMount, requires root. *These kind of applications use code already embedded in the Android kernel. Nexis Media Importer is completely different. *The developer has written code similar to what is in the kernel into an application. *This is how he can get around the "root" restriction. *This also means he can't use the tried and true Android file system code. *One miscalculation and it could wipe all your data. *Further, this implies a different write mechanism for each file system type. *Lots and lots of work. *If this does happen FAT16/32 would come first, then exFAT, then NTFS. Please be patient.
real good app,but no exfat support
Thanks for the comprehensive review, thenrik.
Thanks for this review!! I think I'm going to buy it shortly.
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Thanks for the review! This looks good!
No ability to write nor exfat support, worthless, how about one that does have those two capabilities?!? Is there such a beast at all?!?
Ray.Marx said:
No ability to write nor exfat support, worthless, how about one that does have those two capabilities?!? Is there such a beast at all?!?
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I don't think you'll get that without root access.
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I love this app. The only thing i wish they would fix, is the ability to choose a 3rd party app when viewing pics. I emailed them about this and they said that the other apps need to allow the feature. I forwarded that response to Quickpic, and no response from them yet.
Write to flash drive
Does media importer allow writing from the Nexus 7 to the external memory?
No ...but it can read very well .
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I have used this app very much and in the end I was frustrated with it so I rooted and installed stickmount which works very well
This app does not write USB,and even does not read large files normally, when saving some large files from USB to device,it corrupts the file,if you want to really make use of USB otg support,root your android and install stockmount
BTW it is good for non-rooted device, as any other app does not do what it can do for non rooted devices
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I'm having some weird issues with this program.My N7 can recognize all the files from my usb 8GB stick,but I can not open nor any single of them....what could be the problem?
Hi, all. I'm having a weird problem.
While images are saved to the SD card using the stock camera app, videos will not. I checked both internal and external SD cards using ES explorer in the DCIM folder and the videos doesn't exist. The camera app will show that the video is being recorded but after hitting stop, the video isn't there. I switched the option to save to internal storage and it works, switch back to external SD card and no go. I repeat, photos will save to SD, but not videos, so it doesn't look like a permissions problem.
I have a HTC One M8 with Lineage OS version 14.1-20170928-NIGHTLY, but this problem existed also in previous versions (can't tell since when exactly). This happens also to this guy, so it's not a device-specific problem.
Thank you for your answers.
adrax said:
Hi, all. I'm having a weird problem. While images are saved to the SD card using the stock camera app, videos will not. I checked both internal and external SD cards using ES explorer in the DCIM folder and the videos doesn't exist. The camera app will show that the video is being recorded but after hitting stop, the video isn't there. I switched the option to save to internal storage and it works, switch back to external SD card and no go. I repeat, photos will save to SD, but not videos, so it doesn't look like a permissions problem. I have a HTC One M8 with Lineage OS version 14.1-20170928-NIGHTLY, but this problem existed also in previous versions (can't tell since when exactly). This happens also to this guy, so it's not a device-specific problem. Thank you for your answers.
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Your best bet is to post this question within the following Official LineageOS thread for your device.
Since you didn't specify if you had the Single or Dual SIM device, i provided both the thread links.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3632018
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3507192
Good Luck!
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Sounds like you guys have quite high end devices. Can it be, the data rate is to high for your SD cards? My low end moto e has may be lower video resolution. No problem in recording to SD.
When I was using the old phone, Google Photos automatically sort photos into different categories. I can browse photos of specific area like Osaka, Tokyo, Singapore, etc, and I can also browse photos of contains specific contents like foods, animals, etc.
Now it seems that the Google Photos is not doing this on Nokia phone!
Is it that Google Photos needs time or is there any option I need to tick for the new phone?
Thanks...
I am using a new Google account on this phone, and the photos taken already includes vegetables, selfies, and statues, but Google Photos don't classify them.
When I add my old Google account, I do can see the old classifications of the photos backuped on the other phone.
Another thing is... When I search for "vegetable", it does come up with a few photos...
So Google Photos is still doing auto tagging, maybe it just needs more time and more inputs to do classification? Actually many of the tasks are done in server side on Google server?
It seems it really needs time. The photos are classified now. :good:
Long story:
First timer with custom rom OSs.
I can't format my SD card as internal storage. It's 32 GB and formats this way as 64 GB. I'm not even sure it was formatted this way in original Galaxy S5 OS.
Tools, info etc.:
Galaxy S5
Lineage OS 16 (latest), Gapps full (latest), SuperSU (latest - doesn't work though).
Google Photos, Dropbox, Onedrive, Camera FV-5 & Cinema FV-5.
Phone is not rooted.
I seem to remember when installing LineageOS first time a few days ago, that everything worked properly, besides my SD card being the wrong size, when formatting it as external storage.
Goal:
To be able to shoot AND screenshots (latter if possible) and saved instantly on SD card.
To be able to view all photos with best photo viewer (Google Photos for now).
To be able to have *any* "sync aut. to cloud" app see and perform automatic sync of photos. E.g., when taking photos, they instantly are saved to cloud via Dropbox or preferable OneDrive.
To be able to use *any* camera app for the above. Preferable Camera FV-5 & Cinema FV-5.
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So here we go!
First goal was to get the default camera app to work, by selecting external SD card as storage. Choosing this in the app, option is saved, but photos still end up on internal card. Screenshots the same.
Solution: Use Camera FV-5, as it allows any path.
Problem: No photo viewer app takes that folder into account, which means that I *can't* swipe through recent photos easily. Photos aren't backed up by cloud apps.
Second goal to get the default path moved in any way and recognized properly. Boy, did I spend a lot of time on this!
Solution: Finally this thread gave me a solution.
Problem: Same as the above - no viewer or cloud app gives a s**t about this new location.
I tried other solutions like auto move files apps, but doesn't work because folders are still not recognized by viewer apps.
Another issue is, that my SD card seems to "come and go", meaning that sometimes when I connect my phone to Windows 10 and enable USB for file transfer, the SD card doesn't show up in Explorer. However, the card is still present in "Files" app on the phone.
Some apps I've tried, sometimes see the SD card, sometimes they don't. FolderSync and other apps needs to get permissions to SD card every time I open these apps. They still work though and do their jobs.
Camera FV-5 seems to use the full path and not a linked folder, which is probably why this camera app always works.
There are no issues with my SD card, as I've tried to reinstall default OS and everything is working as usual there.
My S5 is incredible laggy with default OS, but runs exceptionally great with LineageOS, but it's a complete deal breaker, if I can't get something as simple as the above to work!
I hope this wasn't to long a thread