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
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I am sorry if this question has been asked earlier.
But, can you store the applications, pictures, videos and music in the MicroSD card?
I heard some people say, that you can only save applications on the built in Flash Memory.
Pictures, videos and music, you can put on the microSDHC card, but apps you can so far only install on the internal memory.
But this might soon change: http://mobiputing.com/2010/04/google-to-let-you-install-android-apps-on-the-sd-card- soon/
If you have something like TomTom (not sure if it's available on Android but for the sake of an example it will do ) are you able to install maps to the sd card?
Most applications do use the SD card for application specific data.
So, for example, Spotify saves the tracks for offline playlists to the SD card, and Copilot installs its maps to SD card.
Regards,
Dave
Yes.
For example: CoPilot (this is exist in the Android Market).
CoPilot will put the maps in the sd-card (You can download the maps directly using CoPilot app itself). This is working nicely!
I read that other navigation software like SyGic also put the maps in the sd-card.
Bilbo Fraggins said:
If you have something like TomTom (not sure if it's available on Android but for the sake of an example it will do ) are you able to install maps to the sd card?
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Thanks all, think I'll go and order it then
Thanks
Thank You for the information.
for my old iPhone, i can have albums/folders called
Family
Friends
Pets
etc....
but in my DZ now, i only have
camera shots, all photos, and all downloads,
is there are way i can config my photos into different albums/folders?
right now i copied all my photos in folders and dumped into the micro SD, DCIM folder, and now it only shows me that i have +1000pics in "camera shots"
is there a free app or widget i can config my photos?
please advise~
All photo's you put in the DCIM folder show up as camera shots. If you want them to appear as albums you have to put the folders in the root of your SD card.
Sucks? not really i think, Android already makes an unbelievable clutter of your SD card.
For example if you put all your family photos in a folder called 'Family', there should be a Family folder displayed in the Gallery with those photos you put in.
It doesn't matter where those images are stored in the sd card - Gallery will scan the whole sd card.
Thx for the quick responds!
it works!!!
I recently flashed my EVO from CM6 over to the alpha Gingerbread Rom. No issues there, love the new ROM but one thing I noticed was that anytime I scroll over to my Gallery, it says I do not have any pics or vids to view. Same issue when i go to my music app, no music. But I can open up Linda Manager or File Manager and all my pics, vids, and music is there. Any help would be greatly appreciated because I am lost!
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I recently flashed my EVO from CM6 over to the alpha Gingerbread Rom. No issues there, love the new ROM but one thing I noticed was that anytime I scroll over to my Gallery, it says I do not have any pics or vids to view. Same issue when i go to my music app, no music. But I can open up Linda Manager or File Manager and all my pics, vids, and music is there. Any help would be greatly appreciated because I am lost!
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What folder are they are in on your SD card? And when you take new pictures do they show up in the gallery or not their either? It may be that the Gallery is somehow not detecting pictures, or the old pictures are just not in a place where it can.
HELP!!
I am having this same problem with my phone. I am rooted with unrevoked 3 and now when I take a pic it will show up in my gallery until i reboot my phone then they dont. I can plug my phone up to my computer and they are in the DCMI folder on my sd card. When I unplug my phone from the computer and go back in to my phone they are not there. What would be causing this? I have not put any roms on my phone or changed any kernels.
It's probably a really odd SD card issue. Try going into settings & unmounting then mounting the sd card again. If that doesn't work it could be an issue with the media scanner. Download an app that lets you manually run the media scanner. I know Widgetsoid 2.x has a media scanner toggle. If you can't find another way, download the app & make a 1x1 toggle widget with the media scanner, apply, and tap it.
If that doesn't work, I'm stumped.
I tried that but I couldnt get the widget to actually do anything. Thank you though
I believe the sdcard is the cause, because I've had a similar issue myself and fixed it. I would suggest either re-flashing the rom, or backing up your sdcard and then formatting it, and copy it back over. Also, if you have, in particular, a folder with a lot of pictures in it, I had one with like 300+ because it was an animation, that too slowed it down.
Did you check the folders to make sure there aren't .nomedia files in them? I'm not quite sure how they would get there unless an app put them there.
Have you removed any system files? If so, you could've removed something that keeps the media scanner from running, or possibly removed the media scanner altogether.
Last idea - have you tried opening the files from the sd card to their respective apps? Open the images with the gallery & maybe they'll show up?
Last, last idea - if you're using stock apps, try downloading a third party gallery and/or music player. I use QuickPic, it's fast & caches images so if you can get them to show up in app, they should remain after a reboot.
I'm tapped out of ideas :/
Hello.
After restarting phone i can not see pictures and videos in the Gallery. it's empty. I have seen there is no .nomedia file. Then i have captured some pictures and they are appear in the Gallery but old pictures not. i can see they from file manager. how can i return my old gallery??
p.s. i have no memory card
p.s.2 my phone is Motorola Droid Razr M - android 4.4.2
I'm hoping someone can figure out where I'm screwing up here. I'm going a little banaynay. Music on my extsd will not appear in any music player.
Galaxy S3, new CM-based ROM installed (Synergy-S3_19Apr13_1622_r484_s). Everything is stock image at the moment, aside from inserting an SD card. To note: I saw this problem on the 5/1 CM 10.1 nightly, as well as on CM 10.1 M3.
The system mounts the SD card (formatted) as /mnt/extsd/ with no errors. I have a few directories on there, one with my Carbon Helium backup data, a /DCIM with photos, and /Music. Album app finds photos and indexes them with no issue. Carbon Helium found the back up data, ESFile Explorer reads/writes to the card with no issue.
So why won't any frigging music apps index the mp3s on this drive? It couldn't be more annoying. I've ensured I don't have any .nomedia files on there, I've killed the Media Storage service, cleared its data, and rebooted the phone to initiate a re-indexing. But it simply isn't reading that directory. Hell, the gallery apps are indexing the album art, but the music apps are blowing it.
The music apps read from the SD just fine on previous ROMS before I tried CM 10.1 M3. For some reason, after that ROM, any subsequent ROMs are evidencing this problem. Did something change with the way music data is cached?
Additionally, I thought the Media Storage service was used for all media, not just music. So why would it properly index the photos and not the music? Do have to symlink this bastard? Can you even do a symlink on a fat32 filesystem (I didn't think you could)...
Any help would be awesome.
Poweramp?
Aerowinder said:
Poweramp?
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Poweramp works. I just installed it, and it nicely asked for me to specify the directories I wanted it to scan. How thoughtful, considering these other apps simply don't . Thanks for that Aerowinder.
I still don't have an explanation for the other apps not seeing the mp3s, which makes this fix a little bittersweet, frankly. But at least I have tunes for the drive later today. Thanks my man.
I HAVE NOT GIVEN UP THE FIGHT heh
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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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.