What 64GB Micro SD do you recommend to save photos and videos?
It supports up to a 1tb card. A Sandisk Extreme works well. You want a V30 rated card. I reccomend at least 256gb.
Simply format the card in the phone then leave it there. Do all data transfers through the phone.
Use the SD card as a data drive; all critical data, including music and vids goes here including everything you need to do a full reload. Redundantly backup your data drive to at least 2 hdds that are physically and electronically isolated from each other and the PC on a regular basis.
There can only be one folder with the name dcim in its name. If you create a second folder for your images to make a copy name it pics, master pics, whatever.
Only apps, the download and dcim folders go on internal memory. The left over space can be left empty or used for scratch files. If the dcim folder is here, back it up regularly to the SD card. Crashes are rare but they can happen (or damaged phones) , the SD card is almost never effected. Back it up nonetheless.
Congratulations, you now have a dual drive handheld PC.
I always suggest Samsung Pro sd cards. As for the dcim folder and the inability to change where to save the photos, i use foldersync from playstore and anything that appears in internal memory dcim folder, goes immediately to sdcard/dcim.
Also i use swiftbackup to backup daily differential every app to sd card and during the night foldersync again copies the swiftbackup backup folder from sdcard to my home nas.
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Just got my GS2 today and I must say this is the easiest phone I have rooted to date! I have been working my way around the OS and found that apps are not seeing my files on my External SD Card. Is there a way to sort of sync these? I guess I dont mean sync, but have apps search both internal and external storage for files? Take beautiful widgets, I have a ton of images on the ex sd card. When I launch the app to apply one of those images it looks in phone storage and gives no option to search the ex sd card.
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Just got my GS2 today and I must say this is the easiest phone I have rooted to date! I have been working my way around the OS and found that apps are not seeing my files on my External SD Card. Is there a way to sort of sync these? I guess I dont mean sync, but have apps search both internal and external storage for files? Take beautiful widgets, I have a ton of images on the ex sd card. When I launch the app to apply one of those images it looks in phone storage and gives no option to search the ex sd card.
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easiest thing would to move everything to the internal sd card. i dont like how the phone sees SD card (internal) then from there i have to navigate to the folder called 'external sd' to look at my microSD files.
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easiest thing would to move everything to the internal sd card. i dont like how the phone sees SD card (internal) then from there i have to navigate to the folder called 'external sd' to look at my microSD files.
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Exactly, but what good is it to have an external card if the apps dont use it? If I have to move everything to the internal card, what can I put on the external card and be able to use/access? None of my apps recognize the external card, lol.
i use my external sdcard for music & movie business and use the internal for everything else. i sync back & forth between pc & cell a lot so having a CLEAN (aka, none of those extra android folders) sdcard makes browsing and syncing much easier, cleaner, and organized. also, without that android bloat i can tell exactly how much goodies i have just by looking at the size of external sdcard
ps: external sdcard is more or less just a subdir on the internal sdcard.... its /sdcard/external_sd if i remember correctly.
i just slap my movie files onto thte internal sd since i delete them afterwards... didnt realize 16 gb is a lot of space lol
I removed some movies from the internal memory but when i go to storage, the available free space is the same as when the movies where there. I held the movie file down and selected delete when the pop up menu came up.
Any suggestions to clear the inetrnal memory or do i need to format the usb storage which will delete everything from internal memory?
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Ian B
I have my device set to save pictures to the SD card. I took a 20 burst shot to make some space be used.
I use FTP to access my SD card, the folder I access is /sdcard. That is also the folder I open in ES file explorer.
For pictures, they are saved in /sdcard/dcim
All makes sense, right?
Now, in the settings, I see:
http://i.imgur.com/W43Hg.png
http://i.imgur.com/uhQ0U.png
So really, my SD card is not used by anything, also, the internal storage seems to be 10GB.
So there is a fake SDcard 6GB big? Which is apparently the only one I can access?
How do I use my REAL SD card for pictures saving? And what is even the location of the actual SD card?
This all seems really strange to me. In my previous phone (HTC EVO3D) there was just the root folder, which had an sdcard folder, which was the actual SDcard. I wonder why there is a fake SDcard in this device? Anyone that can explain this?
Also, it is possible to have it like this:?
Main storage: 16gb
SDcard storage: 32gb, location of this: /sdcard
That would make SO MUCH more sense.
Have you tried /storage/extSdCard ?
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Have you tried /storage/extSdCard ?
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That is correct, that is indeed the place of my external SD.
I did some testing, and found out:
Normal pictures are saved on the actual sd: /storage/extSdCard/DCIM
Burst shots are saved on the "fake" /sdcard/DCIM
I guess burst shots need more speed then my class10 sd? STUPID!
So again back to the other questions: why is this? And is there any way to combine this? THIS SUCKS for storage organization via FTP etc, also, downloaded game data is saved to the fake sd, which is again STUPID. Some games take 1gb or more. What if I need more then 6gb of apps/gamedata storage? WHY did they do it this way? This REALLY frustrates me already.
Somebody please tell me there is some way to make the actual SD the default SD.
On older (Gingerbread) Android devices there was internal storage, and the sd card that you plugged in was "sdcard". On almost all newer devices there are actually three or more places things are stored:
internal (~2gb depending on the device, holds the android system, "personal" which stores phone info like contacts. This is what you flash/odin stuff to)
sdcard (Looks like any sdcard to android. Usually mounted to /mnt/sdcard. This is the "internal" sd card, built into your device)
sdcard 2 (The external sd card you put into the sd card slot. Usually mounted to /mnt/extSdCard, as noted above)
There are a few ways this is implemented. The internal sd card might be partitioned, with "internal" being on the first partition and "sdcard" on the second. This way you can format the internal sdcard without bricking your device.
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On older (Gingerbread) Android devices there was internal storage, and the sd card that you plugged in was "sdcard". On almost all newer devices there are actually three or more places things are stored:
internal (~2gb depending on the device, holds the android system, "personal" which stores phone info like contacts. This is what you flash/odin stuff to)
sdcard (Looks like any sdcard to android. Usually mounted to /mnt/sdcard. This is the "internal" sd card, built into your device)
sdcard 2 (The external sd card you put into the sd card slot. Usually mounted to /mnt/extSdCard, as noted above)
There are a few ways this is implemented. The internal sd card might be partitioned, with "internal" being on the first partition and "sdcard" on the second. This way you can format the internal sdcard without bricking your device.
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But that sucks? I also just noticed moving apps to sd is no longer an option. But how about gamedata? GTA3 takes 1GB. Some games take 2GB, but the only place to put those apps is in the internal 10GB storage? And pictures are storable on external SD, but not burst shots, which are saved in the internal SD? Stupid.
I just can't imagine any way this is positive.
Apparently it's a jellybean limitation - it's really putting me off ATM - there are many threads complaining about this feature but most feel that it is not going to change.
This next bit is all from my reading (I do not use android yet because of this storage holdup):
Apparently Google either doesn't want us to, or can't, use SD cards to store apps etc (makes sense - too easy to pirate etc) but why codes encrypting them to your device can't be included I don't know. Due to something to do with the file structure, particularly of the SGS3 and SGNII, JB can't/won't link to them. There are work rounds - nearly all (if not all) of which require rooting - they do work (according to reports) - just search the xda SGNII forum to find many posts on this. Unfortunately, even App2SD can't move the apps due to this file structure (this bit is samsung design)
For me it's a real shame, I am a Bit of an app addict, and, although I don't have many games (use mostly productivity apps) the game I do get are the "console games" which have a large footprint and larger installation files - I'd fill 16GB in a day. So I'm having to make a choice - 16GB and root, wait for the 32GB (looks likely the 64GB will never make international release) or just not bother at all. Ill probably go 16GB and root as it would save me a fortune on contract (due to Tethering feature). Shame really, for me, 90% of the attraction of android was "unlimited" storage - it still is, but just a bit more difficult to get.
Didn't know about burst shot storage (annoying but can see why) - presumably you can transfer them to external SD afterward if needed?
Snote only saves on the internal SD too!
Hey I just put in a 64gb microsd and formated it. It shows up mounted and avaliable space but I cant view the photos I had on it on my phone. When I connect it I get to see them on my computer. So how do I access extsdcard
A few weeks back I connected my Note II to a laptop, created a folder on the SD card and copied some photographs and a short film from the laptop to the phone. I viewed these shortly afterwards on my phone. The next day they were gone. No trace. No folder. No nothing. I connected again to the laptop but the folder did not appear. I started over and then moved the photographs from the sd card to the internal storage of the phone. The folder on the sd card disappeared again after a few days!
Now I have noticed that if i choose the sd card as the place to store pictures taken with the camera it will only be set like this for a short time and then say that it can not save to Sd!
Can anyone help. This is very annoying as my internal memory runs out every weekend after taking lots of photographs.
I would try to format the SDCard.
If you have a 64GB Card - by me I have to format into fat32 on my PC. Maybe you try this.
Durango
A weird one. I have looked around and can't see anything similar.
I have 10gb music on external sd. If I use FX file manager it reports them (Samsung 32gb class 10)
10gb
71 folders
1139 files.
PowerAmp sees them all and plays them all - no problem. There is a mixture of MP3 and FLAC.
Then I plug the phone into the laptop.
If I look at the properties of the music folder (Ext SD) where they are all stored windows reports
1.52gb
25 folders
68 files.
If I then click on one of the albums - the folder is completely empty.
So I immediately think SD corruption. Bit of a bummer as it is a brand new card.
But then I take the sd card out, pop it into an sd adaptor and plug into card slot on the same laptop
Windows now decides to completely agree with FX file manager??????
If I try to copy one of the folders from the phone to the desktop it just copies an 'empty' folder.
Yet if I delete it on the phone (through windows) it removes the album and amends the storage available.
Anyone?
If recommend formatting the sd card and copying it over again.
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grentuu said:
A weird one. I have looked around and can't see anything similar.
I have 10gb music on external sd. If I use FX file manager it reports them (Samsung 32gb class 10)
10gb
71 folders
1139 files.
PowerAmp sees them all and plays them all - no problem. There is a mixture of MP3 and FLAC.
Then I plug the phone into the laptop.
If I look at the properties of the music folder (Ext SD) where they are all stored windows reports
1.52gb
25 folders
68 files.
If I then click on one of the albums - the folder is completely empty.
So I immediately think SD corruption. Bit of a bummer as it is a brand new card.
But then I take the sd card out, pop it into an sd adaptor and plug into card slot on the same laptop
Windows now decides to completely agree with FX file manager??????
If I try to copy one of the folders from the phone to the desktop it just copies an 'empty' folder.
Yet if I delete it on the phone (through windows) it removes the album and amends the storage available.
Anyone?
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Best idea to avoid any issues is to insert SD card to phone, format, then transfer files. Let the phone decide what format it likes. FAT, FAT32, etc....
Brava27 said:
Best idea to avoid any issues is to insert SD card to phone, format, then transfer files. Let the phone decide what format it likes. FAT, FAT32, etc....
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I always do. The card was delivered and went straight into the phone.
In the end I had to format and recopy and for the moment all seems good.
I recently formatted an SD card as internal storage for my Oneplus X running on Lineage OS. I made a manual backup of all my photos previously on the SD card onto my PC, and now I wish to transfer them back to my phone. Problem is, I can only access the phone's 'internal shared storage', and not the SD card, via Windows file explorer. There is a DCIM folder within internal storage; however, it has only 4GB of free space, not enough for my photos.
Because I enabled Google Photos cloud backup, I can currently view the photos on my phone but they are of much lower quality and requires an internet connection to download them. What I wish to do is to gain access to the formatted SD card, so I can move my photos back in and view them in original quality on my phone. Thanks.