I have a 64 GB card I swapped in to the G7 from an Optimus G Pro, and everything seemed good. Now, I'm finding that when looking in the camera roll I"m seeing a lot of black squares, where it seems that the images are lost. Going into Google Photos, they are missing from there as well. I'm seeing a lot of black squares with no photos. Sounds like the card is failing. I'll see about sending it back to Sandisk...
So, I ended up buying a Sandisk SDXC Ultra 128 GB card to replace the failing card. Do I just put it into the phone when it arrives, or do I need to format it in a PC first? Does it need to be formatted in the phone. Do I need to set cluster size, format it as Fat32 or NTFS, etc... I did notice that there were no formatting tools on the phone itself...the only switch I could find was to mount/unmount the card.
Also, is there some way to direct the phone to send all photos that I take to the card and not to internal memory? Same question with downloaded music. I think (but I'm not sure) that I want to keep the phone's internal memory mostly for apps.
Do I want or need multiple partitions or anything else???
Any suggestions?
Put the card in the phone, I'll do the rest. If not, go to storage in the phones menu and select to format the card. The camera should also ask if you want to save to the memory card.
You'll do the rest?
From doing some reading on the subject, I think I'm going to set it up as Portable Storage, and not Internal Storage. I'm hoping that 64 gigs of built in storage should be enough for apps and whatever resides in the phone and not on the external storage.
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Since getting my incredible I've struggled with how to best use the 8 gigs of internal storage on the phone... especially since many apps still don't recognize/use it.
Currently I only use the internal storage for pictures taken by the phone and manually copied videos (I found mVideoPlayer can be setup to index files within /emmc).
My question is really one of personal preference... how do you use those 8 gigs? What apps have you found that make use of that storage? Have you found any work arounds to trick a program that doesn't support the internal storage to store files there anyhow?
I don't use it for a thing. Lol, I have a 16GB SD card. and three 2GB SD cards haha.
just put some music on it today, mostly that and pictures
5GB of Music/pictures. SDCard is mostly for nandroid backups
I only put custom ringtones and apps on Internal.. Everything else i.e. movies, mp3's, etc go on the 16 Gb SD Card.
For those of you that put music on the internal storage do you use an app to sync the music? Manually copy the music?
I currently use TuneSync because I love the wireless sync, but it only syncs to the sdcard.
How safe is it to use the internal memory for pics? (I know this area is untouched if I wipe and flash a new ROM). But should I be worried about losing my pics?
I don't use my internal storage just so I can see my incredible complain that there is no space left...
Issemann said:
How safe is it to use the internal memory for pics? (I know this area is untouched if I wipe and flash a new ROM). But should I be worried about losing my pics?
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I wouldn't be I use my internal storage for videos and my camera pics and have had no problems
Our phone is stupid. The file system has /sdcard as the main directory, and so everything on the phone thinks it's working off of an external sd card. Therefore my 32 GB external card goes mostly unused. Very sad. There's this though:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1088474
People are able to swap the internal and external sd cards. Can this work on our phone? Thanks.
JoeBruin32 said:
Our phone is stupid. The file system has /sdcard as the main directory, and so everything on the phone thinks it's working off of an external sd card. Therefore my 32 GB external card goes mostly unused. Very sad. There's this though:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1088474
People are able to swap the internal and external sd cards. Can this work on our phone? Thanks.
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this would be awesome if it would work.
I found overall with 16GB I am happy with it as is. I can store my music on my true external SD card and I doubt I will run out of room /w 16GB for apps etc... However, I do see the point and it is one design flaw I have noticed.
If that method works hell yes. I guess I may try it.
Dulanic said:
I found overall with 16GB I am happy with it as is. I can store my music on my true external SD card and I doubt I will run out of room /w 16GB for apps etc... However, I do see the point and it is one design flaw I have noticed.
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I agree, I just stuff all my music and movies on my micro sd and not worry about using that internal for it.
going to go buy this phone today. ran into the same problem on the photon but i was able to edit some lines in the void file and switched the "cards" around so my actual 32gb sd card was read as the sd card and not external sd card. will let you know what i find
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going to go buy this phone today. ran into the same problem on the photon but i was able to edit some lines in the void file and switched the "cards" around so my actual 32gb sd card was read as the sd card and not external sd card. will let you know what i find
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It does this for a reason ....ROM is much faster than a Sd if you switch it may screw up the video cam being able to record 720 & 1080....
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well i was able to swap them but then i was unable to move any of my apps to the sd card so i reverted back to factory. sorry guys
JoeBruin32 said:
Our phone is stupid. The file system has /sdcard as the main directory, and so everything on the phone thinks it's working off of an external sd card. Therefore my 32 GB external card goes mostly unused. Very sad. There's this though:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1088474
People are able to swap the internal and external sd cards. Can this work on our phone? Thanks.
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Wow. After reading that entire thread, I gotta say that the OP over there, trip007n, must have the patience of a saint.
He's continuously, repeatedly, answered the same questions OVER and OVER again...(like "How do I use Root Explorer?" (seriously?), or "how should the card be formatted?", or "Why won't it work with MAH phone?"). Seriously, those people need read the dang OP first, then read the thread, then learn how to properly reformat an SD card before wasting anymore of that guy's valuable time. Sheesh.
(Anyone that's tried this, did you make sure that the SD was COMPLETELY formatted to FAT32, down to the first zerobit of data? I've found in the past, if you miss that crucial part, NO device in the world is gonna recognize it: best done with Linux, but there are ways to do it properly thru windows as well.)
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I want my extra sd card to only have my media...no and secure or data or any other app crap placed on it
I try and keep everything on the internal 16 GB storage. This way my 64 GB sd card only has my games and movies.
What I have noticed is I can delete them off my sd card...remove it...and restore the app data with titanium back up and I am all good. But after a few days they sneak onto my SD card and take up about 1 GB of space. In effect the files are duplicated on my internal memory and my sd card.
This is inefficient...does anyone know how to prevent this ?
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If I understand you correctly and I believe I do, you want to maintain all of your External SD cards space for your media, and if its a 64gig card you want ALL 64gigs free for the media of your choice.
The simple fact that your phone formats that card so it can use it sould tell you that your phone placed data on your SD so not all 64gigs are free. Formatting in general takes some space away from the media for the format to reside. So on a 64gig card, you may end up with like, 62.3gigs or a bit less after format.
I use a 32gig but only 29.8gigs are useable due to format. just saying...hope I'm correct and that I helped you.
rdisanza said:
If I understand you correctly and I believe I do, you want to maintain all of your External SD cards space for your media, and if its a 64gig card you want ALL 64gigs free for the media of your choice.
The simple fact that your phone formats that card so it can use it sould tell you that your phone placed data on your SD so not all 64gigs are free. Formatting in general takes some space away from the media for the format to reside. So on a 64gig card, you may end up with like, 62.3gigs or a bit less after format.
I use a 32gig but only 29.8gigs are useable due to format. just saying...hope I'm correct and that I helped you.
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Not what I meat.
What bothers me is my phone sees two sd cards ...one is the 16 GB internal memory and the other is the ext sd card.
When downloading an app that installs to sd by default the phone will randomly throw it on my ext sd card if It is plugged in...but if I take the card out it will put it on the 16 GB memory
What bothers me most is all the extra folders and the fact that somethings are in one place and not the other or both.
There needs t be a way for the phone to leave my sd card alone
It gets confusing because the so called 16 GB internal memory on the phone is treated like a sd card by the system and is not part of the system rom....the system rom where most apps is installed is seperate
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Trev186 said:
I try and keep everything on the internal 16 GB storage. This way my 64 GB sd card only has my games and movies.
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WTF, I thought these phones were only 32GB capable..........?
AVAH0LIC said:
WTF, I thought these phones were only 32GB capable..........?
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SanDisk and KingMax have new 64GB MicroSD cards out that the Galaxy and others work on. The problem for me is the price......like ~$150.
To the OP .....Maybe it is the card as I have a couple of Samsung 32gb class 10 and don't have that problem. Whatever I put on my ext. SD card stays there.
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SanDisk and KingMax have new 64GB MicroSD cards out that the Galaxy and others work on. The problem for me is the price......like ~$150.
To the OP .....Maybe it is the card as I have a couple of Samsung 32gb class 10 and don't have that problem. Whatever I put on my ext. SD card stays there.
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I have no problem with what I put staying on my card..it is the app folders and android secure data that my phone seems to duplicate onto my sd card as well as the included internal card.
Check you app directory you will see an android secure folder on your internal and ext sd card...chances are you have duplicate data in each...
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WTF, I thought these phones were only 32GB capable..........?
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There is nothing limiting phones to 32 GBs ...that is just sales material.
I put this sd card in an og droid and n1 and it worked.
Fat 32 can read large drives on a pc so nothing stops iron android either. I have a 2 TB hardrive formatted as fat 32 at home.
Fyi SDXC will allow for up to 2 TBs on your cell phone within 5 years. Prototypes of the micro sdxc @ 2 tb have already been developed.
Hence why the whole nexus internal memory only is bs
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Trev186 said:
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I want my extra sd card to only have my media...no and secure or data or any other app crap placed on it
I try and keep everything on the internal 16 GB storage. This way my 64 GB sd card only has my games and movies.
What I have noticed is I can delete them off my sd card...remove it...and restore the app data with titanium back up and I am all good. But after a few days they sneak onto my SD card and take up about 1 GB of space. In effect the files are duplicated on my internal memory and my sd card.
This is inefficient...does anyone know how to prevent this ?
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Did you ever figure out a way to keep data on the phone only? I have a BIG problem with Evernote (free). I love the program as it holds small bits of data that I cannot remember (e.g. license plate numbers, birthdays, drivers license numbers, etc) but are too personal to not worry about. I only use 1/2 MB (yes, that is right, 1/2 MB) so paying for the premium version is much too expensive for what I store.
What I recently found however, has me ready to stop using it. The program stores all the 'cards' on the SD card of my Samsung S3 phone. And if you pull out the card, pop it into a computer and go to the Evernote folder, they store the data IN PLAIN ENGLISH! So even if I lock my phone anyone who can get the card out can read all this information. I even told the program not to store the data for offline access and cleared the cache/history but it still remains on the SD card if the program is running. I need a way to prevent the program from storing the data on the SD card. I thought I had it fixed - completely remove the program, delete all stored data and folders, pull out the SD Card, reinstall and download my 1/2 MB of data from the cloud (forcing it to phone storage), then rebooting with the SD back in. IT PUT THE DATA BACK ON THE SD CARD! This is a BIG security risk and now I am looking for a way to prevent it.
So, back to your original thread, any luck?
Frank
Trev186 said:
Not what I meat.
What bothers me is my phone sees two sd cards ...one is the 16 GB internal memory and the other is the ext sd card.
When downloading an app that installs to sd by default the phone will randomly throw it on my ext sd card if It is plugged in...but if I take the card out it will put it on the 16 GB memory
What bothers me most is all the extra folders and the fact that somethings are in one place and not the other or both.
There needs t be a way for the phone to leave my sd card alone
It gets confusing because the so called 16 GB internal memory on the phone is treated like a sd card by the system and is not part of the system rom....the system rom where most apps is installed is seperate
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I am having this issue too, I think it had something to do with going from Blazer ROM (GB) to Paranoid Android (JB), and the difference in the way they handle partitioning the ext SD card
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I have a Samsung 64 gb evo uhs micro sd card. What exactly are the benefits beside storing music, photos and etc?
I tried moving a game(hearthstone) which requires a lot of power to the sd card. What would be the difference if you were to run it off from the sd card than from internal memory?
I have so much space on my sd card(60gb), I only have 1 game, don't have music nor movies and barely any apps. Are there anything else I can implement to the sd card?
Hi,
http://www.tomsguide.com/faq/id-2333937/moving-installed-apps-card-galaxy-tab.html
This is a similar link to how to do it. The SD card wont use a lot of power and there is only part of Applications you can store one the SD card. You will notice when you move things a certain amount of space remains on the internal SD.
The internal storage is faster than the SD cards (in general), and is always powered where the SD card can be put to low power when the device is sleeping. You may notice no difference or possible the game run a tad slower on the SD card but I would imagine not a noticeable difference. I have a lot of space (exactly the same SD card) so I have started filling it up with movies and music. You could get a lot of stuff on there for when you need to watch something but do not have WiFi.
I have the T805 ~(so LTE) and actually find because of having my data and Netflix I do not use nearly enough of my SD card. To make things worse Kitkat ruined SD cards so you can't use them properly within apps such as utorrent.
lynxblaine said:
Hi,
http://www.tomsguide.com/faq/id-2333937/moving-installed-apps-card-galaxy-tab.html
This is a similar link to how to do it. The SD card wont use a lot of power and there is only part of Applications you can store one the SD card. You will notice when you move things a certain amount of space remains on the internal SD.
The internal storage is faster than the SD cards (in general), and is always powered where the SD card can be put to low power when the device is sleeping. You may notice no difference or possible the game run a tad slower on the SD card but I would imagine not a noticeable difference. I have a lot of space (exactly the same SD card) so I have started filling it up with movies and music. You could get a lot of stuff on there for when you need to watch something but do not have WiFi.
I have the T805 ~(so LTE) and actually find because of having my data and Netflix I do not use nearly enough of my SD card. To make things worse Kitkat ruined SD cards so you can't use them properly within apps such as utorrent.
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Hey thanks for posting, this information is great! That sucks how KitKat doesn't really utilize the sd card well then. I guess we'd have to wait for the official release of Lollipop hah. So we can actually run games off of the sd card? Obviously this will be run on a lesser performance but will it save battery since it doesn't use as much power from running on the sd card? I'd rather have less performance on a game than running out of battery faster and heating the device(which happens when I play from internal memory).
The only Heat you will get when playing games will be the CPU and possibly the display. The internal memory shouldn't get particularly hot.
There is no clear consensus if the SD card or internal save battery but if your device runs faster by having the Apps running off the SD card rather than clogging the internal memory that would be a bonus. Try it and see I would say.
I'm a tad confused as to why we would want the largest SDXC cards in our Note 8 (any Smartphone actually).
When so many apps tend to go the Internal memory. I know I've only used a couple GBs of my 128gb card ( while currently using 100s of apps:laugh And my son gave me a 256gb card for my B-day. What would be the advantage of using the larger card? And yes both are SDXC cards.
Sincerely, Senior lover of tech...and apps;
More pictures, music, and/or files is all I can think of. I store all of that on my SD card.
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I'm a tad confused as to why we would want the largest SDXC cards in our Note 8 (any Smartphone actually).
When so many apps tend to go the Internal memory. I know I've only used a couple GBs of my 128gb card ( while currently using 100s of apps:laugh And my son gave me a 256gb card for my B-day. What would be the advantage of using the larger card? And yes both are SDXC cards.
Sincerely, Senior lover of tech...and apps;
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You do know that there's actually a way for the apps to run from the SD card right? Go to settings, apps and then go through all the apps you want one by one (tap on calculator for instance and then tap storage and you'll see "Storage used" tap it and choose SD card.) You do have to go through the apps one by one though in order to see which can be moved because some (most) system apps can't be moved to the SD card and also the apps you do move to the SD card do require a little extra time to start after a reboot since the phone needs to first mount the SD card and then run the apps.. I would suggest you do what I do and that's leave the apps you use constantly on the phones memory and the ones you use sparingly put them on the SD card.. Also, an SD card that can transfer quickly is best for this not the cheap SD cards!
Another thing to mention... If you turned on Developer Options, if you scroll all the way to the bottom, you can activate "Force allow apps to external" which will then allow virtually ever app to be transferred over to the external SD card...