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Apps no longer download data to sd card.

Hello,
I recentply purchased a Galaxy Note 2, it's the GT-N7100 model. I got a 32GB SD card for it, and ever since I inserted that memory card for the frist time, it would always download game data in the card, not in the phone memory. Examples: Modern Combat 3, N.O.V.A. 3, NFS Most Wanted. I had about 10 gigs of "data" and "obb" folders in my memory card. This was all fine, as it kept the phone memory almoust empty.
However, since this morning, when I lauched any of those games they would ask me to download data again, and this time it all goes to the phone memory! I tried formatting the SD Card, Rebooted the phone, deleted app data for those games, reinstalled them, but this didn't fix it. I did a factory setting reset (completely wiping the phone) - still no luck. What might have happened to my phone?

For me I was never able to dl game data to sdcard some day one using gn2..
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I was never able to download any app data to sd card since day one. I've been manually transferring downloads (sadly) ) to my sd card. And I ended up only transferring media files and left app files alone
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Fleonar said:
Hello,
I recentply purchased a Galaxy Note 2, it's the GT-N7100 model. I got a 32GB SD card for it, and ever since I inserted that memory card for the frist time, it would always download game data in the card, not in the phone memory. Examples: Modern Combat 3, N.O.V.A. 3, NFS Most Wanted. I had about 10 gigs of "data" and "obb" folders in my memory card. This was all fine, as it kept the phone memory almoust empty.
However, since this morning, when I lauched any of those games they would ask me to download data again, and this time it all goes to the phone memory! I tried formatting the SD Card, Rebooted the phone, deleted app data for those games, reinstalled them, but this didn't fix it. I did a factory setting reset (completely wiping the phone) - still no luck. What might have happened to my phone?
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This is so strange, never heard of someone reporting games data dowloading directly onto an external memory. Did you initially install a mod to make your phone see the SD card as an internal memory?
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Never heard of such a thing. Data is always saved inside the internal SD, not to the external SD, not unless you rooted and performed the apps2sd mod.

I do not remember what I did... I was playing around with apps that were supposed to transfer apps to the sd card, but with no success. Then it just started doing it on it's own. I am rooted and using stock ROM, if this matters. If I had installed a mod, I must have done so without even knowing about it (lol). It's just really weird, as all over the internet people say that you can't do this, and I have seen my phone doing it.
Anyway, since I can't figure out how to make that work, can you suggest a good app for transferring games to the SD card. I tries GL 2 SD, which works(!) but I can only play the games if I start them from within this app. And since I am kind of OCD, this doesn't work for me, I need to be able to start them from the normal icon on the home screen.
Thank you all for replying.

Not planning on a root yet.
Will the next Android OS update be able to support app transfer to SD card?

Phone storage to SD

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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One8e7 said:
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.

couldn't install on usb storage or sd card

I tried doing the unmount trick, the one with the terminal. Still nothing
The "funny" thing is that I can install free apps without problem, but when I download Swype and Poweramp unlocker (which I bought) i keep getting this error
solutions?

Did you try a Link2SD?

More details please buddy, want to help but need to know as much as you can tell. Rom, flash details, when it first happened, etc.

EmptyArea said:
More details please buddy, want to help but need to know as much as you can tell. Rom, flash details, when it first happened, etc.
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Hello, I have flashed the JellyKat ROM v5 on my NoteII and got a new sd card (ADATA 32GB) from ebay, the card was sealed so I hope I wasn't cheated, but randomly I see these things in my DCIM folder and I can't write to the card and the phone seems to not read the media on it music photos everything, and I can't install any apps on it or update existing app or even create a folder through the default touchwiz My Files.
I tried to format the card on the PC but can only do quick format because it loads and loads and then say windows can't format this, I also formated it via the phone it worked for a while and then stopped working again, now I don't put a card in the phone.

Doomstemplar said:
Hello, I have flashed the JellyKat ROM v5 on my NoteII and got a new sd card (ADATA 32GB) from ebay, the card was sealed so I hope I wasn't cheated, but randomly I see these things in my DCIM folder and I can't write to the card and the phone seems to not read the media on it music photos everything, and I can't install any apps on it or update existing app or even create a folder through the default touchwiz My Files.
I tried to format the card on the PC but can only do quick format because it loads and loads and then say windows can't format this, I also formated it via the phone it worked for a while and then stopped working again, now I don't put a card in the phone.
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Seems like sdcard's memory partitions corrupted.
Try different Sdcard & update info
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optimusPRIME said:
Seems like sdcard's memory partitions corrupted.
Try different Sdcard & update info
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I have been using my old card from my tablet all day now and it is working fine I created a new folder and copied some files from internal storage to it to test it and it worked.
Is there a way to fix the corrupted partitions on the other card?

Jerry69 said:
I tried doing the unmount trick, the one with the terminal. Still nothing
The "funny" thing is that I can install free apps without problem, but when I download Swype and Poweramp unlocker (which I bought) i keep getting this error
solutions?
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Yup, I also faced that kind of problem before, simply run KitKat SD fix, grant root and let the app patch the platform.xml. Reboot and try again. It worked for me. :good:

External SD stopped working

My Note8 is about 3mos old and is rooted running on CM11. My 64gig Kignston was inserted on day 1 and left in, working fine. Yesterday the external SD stopped. My file manger, Xplorer, started running very slowly so I shutdown, took out the card and replaced it and restarted. It came back up slowly, 1.5min instead of 1.05. The SD card is NOT recognized when I look in Stettings:Storage but when I removed the card I received the warning about removing it without stopping it. My Galaxy 8 phone has the same type card in it so I swapped them. I can see and use the card in the phone but the Note 8 does not recognize the phones card.
Any suggestions?
Cen5

CenturionFive said:
My Note8 is about 3mos old and is rooted running on CM11. My 64gig Kignston was inserted on day 1 and left in, working fine. Yesterday the external SD stopped. My file manger, Xplorer, started running very slowly so I shutdown, took out the card and replaced it and restarted. It came back up slowly, 1.5min instead of 1.05. The SD card is NOT recognized when I look in Stettings:Storage but when I removed the card I received the warning about removing it without stopping it. My Galaxy 8 phone has the same type card in it so I swapped them. I can see and use the card in the phone but the Note 8 does not recognize the phones card.
Any suggestions?
Cen5
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Do a factory wipe and see if things go back to normal with the SD... if it does not, it could be hardware or a bug in CM11 version you are running.

gooberdude said:
Do a factory wipe and see if things go back to normal with the SD... if it does not, it could be hardware or a bug in CM11 version you are running.
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By "Factory wipe," do you mean re-install stock firmware or just wipe it an re-install the latest cm-11?
Cen5

CenturionFive said:
By "Factory wipe," do you mean re-install stock firmware or just wipe it an re-install the latest cm-11?
Cen5
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For a soft reset... http://beforebuyit.com/hard-reset/samsung-galaxy-note-8-0-gt-n5110-factory-data-reset.html
For a hard reset... http://www.tsar3000.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1026:how-to-hard-reset-factory-reset-samsung-sgh-i467-galaxy-note-8-for-att&catid=57:how-to&Itemid=104

overheating sd card
I had the same problem.
The solution was that the card overheaded by use it.
I can read them in a card reader but not in the Notes 8.
I have exchanged the card and now this card is not so hot in use.

Not sure what solved it but I did a factory reset anf flashed the latest CM11 snapsot. Mine was a couple months old
Cen5

Went through 3 16gb Lexar cards - all failed
CenturionFive said:
Not sure what solved it but I did a factory reset anf flashed the latest CM11 snapsot. Mine was a couple months old
Cen5
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I went through 3 Lexar Micro SD cards (600x class 10) all failed and sent back to Lexar. They kept replacing them but I stopped trying after 3rd card failed. At first I thought it was the cards, but now I think it must have been the Note 8. Once they failed they wouldn't work in any device and they couldn't be reformatted.

SD Card Problems - Solved mine today
Today I had the issue with a 64MB Ultra - Card Corrupt, and it would reformat it appeared and not recognize - saying file system invalid.
I took it out of the Note 8 and tried it in the Note 3, and it worked fine, with all my original files seen, (though teh Note 8 had run through 3 versions of Format Card.
Then I put it back in the Note 8, and it was recognized again, but in "My Files" nothing was showing. I used a program I use called simply ES File Manager, from the Play Store, and it saw my original files on the card (photos, music, videos) Once I opened one of each from within the ES file Manager, the system then saw the card and worked with the files again.
Not sure what trick worked, putting the card in the Note 3, or opening within ES File Manager, but I am back in business after being upset about losing my files. They were all there.

Can't write to internal SD or something...

I have a Dev Edition Note 4, with a rooted stock ROM and for some reason I can't write to the internal memory. I can install apps all day long, but some apps won't write to storage. Examples:
1)Waze - Waze can't access your SD card. Make sure it isn't mounted
2)Dropbox- Storage full or Unavailable (when I try to download anything)
3)Xposed- when trying to install/update from within the app
"SD card:/storage/emulated/Android/data/de.robv.android.xposed.installer/files
Copying Xposed-Disabler-Recovery.zip...
Could not extract Xposed-Disabler-Recovery/zip"​
I've tried flashing back to my original backup, running the KK SD card fix, formatting the SD card, trying a new and formatted SD card, and tried flashing the one ROM that is out for DE Note 4, and not matter what I do I'm getting the same error.
any ideas?
Thanks!

johnboy693 said:
I have a Dev Edition Note 4, with a rooted stock ROM and for some reason I can't write to the internal memory. I can install apps all day long, but some apps won't write to storage. Examples:
1)Waze - Waze can't access your SD card. Make sure it isn't mounted
2)Dropbox- Storage full or Unavailable (when I try to download anything)
3)Xposed- when trying to install/update from within the app
"SD card:/storage/emulated/Android/data/de.robv.android.xposed.installer/files
Copying Xposed-Disabler-Recovery.zip...
Could not extract Xposed-Disabler-Recovery/zip"​
I've tried flashing back to my original backup, running the KK SD card fix, formatting the SD card, trying a new and formatted SD card, and tried flashing the one ROM that is out for DE Note 4, and not matter what I do I'm getting the same error.
any ideas?
Thanks!
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Ok after much wailing and gnashing of teeth i found the fix here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2684384
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