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EMMC, what's it good for? Can it be mounted as SDCARD?

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.

[Q] Google Music, ExtSD, and Media Storage Service issue

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

Operating without and SD card?

I'm running a couple of hand-me-down One Vs for lightweight duty (one is a music streamer, one is a 2nd phone line just for kicks) and neither have much installed, so there is plenty of room on "Internal Storage" (184MB used/747MB available). But without an SD card, it refuses to let me take a picture, save a playlist, download an APK, add a new ringtone, etc.
Is there anyway I can get it to just use the Internal Storage for that sort of thing? Can I "repartition" that internal gigabyte somehow? Maybe some creative symlinks? I really don't want to get SD cards just to add a ringtone!
The both run SlimBean (4.1) if that makes any difference.
Thanks!

hellfroze said:
I'm running a couple of hand-me-down One Vs for lightweight duty (one is a music streamer, one is a 2nd phone line just for kicks) and neither have much installed, so there is plenty of room on "Internal Storage" (184MB used/747MB available). But without an SD card, it refuses to let me take a picture, save a playlist, download an APK, add a new ringtone, etc.
Is there anyway I can get it to just use the Internal Storage for that sort of thing? Can I "repartition" that internal gigabyte somehow? Maybe some creative symlinks? I really don't want to get SD cards just to add a ringtone!
The both run SlimBean (4.1) if that makes any difference.
Thanks!
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That depends, with root access you can copy ringtones from an sdcard to the root storage, and then move them to the default ringtone folder in the system. They may need to be the same file type which is probably .ogg but its worth a try as far a music is concerned you could make a folder in the root storage called music and place them all on there without issue, only trouble will be finding a music player that will look for them there. The default android player probably won't so it will need to be 3rd party if you need help change the ringtones to .ogg just ask
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[Q] Poweramp for Intel on ZF2?

Has anyone used the Poweramp "for Intel only" app on their ZF2?
I was pretty disappointed to discover that Android 5.0 hasn't actually fully resolved the external SD edit permissions that was promissed after the fuss around KitKat.
I transfered a load of albums onto my phone last night, storing them on the ext SD card, only to find that no album art was shown and that iTag cannot edit the tags
According to Poweramp, the app does give edit permissions to enable Mp3 tags to be edited on the ext SD card on Lollipop, but only if the sd card has a volume label.
I'm currently formatting the sd card with a volume label to see if this will work, but I was wondering if I should go for the "standard" Poweramp or the Intel version.
Any advice?

Update:
The "Intel" version of the app runs well, not sure if any better than the "standard", but Poweramp claim that it is beneficial for battery consumption and performance to use the specific app.
But the edit permission of sd card stored files is not solved. Poweramp are working on the problem. Some people have been able to get the required access permission through the app's facility, but for many, it is not working. Including me....

This issue has already been resolved by poweramp...
Go to poweramp settings.--> folder and librery -->
go to Music folder and and check the folders you want poweramp to scan...
its done!!!! enjoy...
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Update:
The "Intel" version of the app runs well, not sure if any better than the "standard", but Poweramp claim that it is beneficial for battery consumption and performance to use the specific app.
But the edit permission of sd card stored files is not solved. Poweramp are working on the problem. Some people have been able to get the required access permission through the app's facility, but for many, it is not working. Including me....
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[OS 16][Galaxy S5] Camera folder default location

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