Phone using SD card space - myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

So, i havent seen anything about this.
but my phone puts about 2gb of things on the SD card. i have about 2gb of music and photos but 4gb of the sd card is being used.
i pulled all my files off and formatted the SD card before and at first it was fine but 5 min later the card was about half full again, any reason why?

Swap file cache maybe?
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Is it possible the phone is just thinking backup files are still on the SD?
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Cache files usually. Is you file browser set to view system/hidden files? Lots of folders start with a period as file names.
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Use cache cleaner NG should hopefully resolve the issue.
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Got a vibrant and have a 4gb card full how do I move the data from the sd to internal 16gb storage?
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Alanrocks15 said:
Got a vibrant and have a 4gb card full how do I move the data from the sd to internal 16gb storage?
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Connect the phone to your computer and transfer it over...
When you connect your phone via USB, (2) drives will popup.
Is the avatar movie on the internal storage
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Alanrocks15 said:
Is the avatar movie on the internal storage
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No its on the 2gb card. Transfer that if ya want. I used phone to move it to internal, then put in my 8gb and moved it there from internal using astro file manager. ..

[Q] SD Card not being read?

I don't know if it's just my phone, but the standard medias players (music, gallery, videos) don't read my SD card. I'd tried CM7 and Iced Glacier. What is broke?
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WeOperatee said:
I don't know if it's just my phone, but the standard medias players (music, gallery, videos) don't read my SD card. I'd tried CM7 and Iced Glacier. What is broke?
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Stick the microSD in a card reader and copy the files to your PC. Reformatting the card and copy the files back in. The card might have been corrupted.
Can I just use my phone and do that? My comouter still reads it.
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WeOperatee said:
Can I just use my phone and do that? My comouter still reads it.
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Yeah you can do that too. Then you can figure out if you have a bad card or even corrupted files.

Force close on games

I am running hyperdroid gbx v10
I have tried to install speed forge 3d demo from market but the game FC all, the time..i do experience this was other random games aswell. Any suggestions for fix
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Try moving the app to the phone if its on the SD card.
I haven't moved any app s to sd card as I don't think theres any need as I have sd ext partition of 1gb. And the rom uses this automatically.
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hc97mg2000 said:
I haven't moved any app s to sd card as I don't think theres any need as I have sd ext partition of 1gb. And the rom uses this automatically.
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Well, some apps should be on phone, even if you've got SD-Ext. If it doesn't work, you're outta luck.
here's the thing.
sometimes the app installs to SD, even if you didn't tell it to, so check the app anyways and if it says "SD" move it to phone.
If it says "phone" and still FC, then move it to SD, then move it back to phone and try again, you should be good.
don't ask me why but it works.
Hi
I tried this..moved to sd then back to phone... But did not solve issue
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Music to SD

I'm trying to move my music that I download right to phone with gtunes. The app says it downloads to /storage/sdcard0/media/music/ but I cannot find it for the life of me when I plug it into the computer. Any ideas/suggestions that would help?
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jarzy00 said:
I'm trying to move my music that I download right to phone with gtunes. The app says it downloads to /storage/sdcard0/media/music/ but I cannot find it for the life of me when I plug it into the computer. Any ideas/suggestions that would help?
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Reboot phone and try again, it seems the phone doesn't update files or file locations it should find the files
tadgerloks said:
Reboot phone and try again, it seems the phone doesn't update files or file locations it should find the files
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/mnt/sdcard0 is your internal storage (emulated card)
/mnt/sdcard1 is your actual ext-storage
both are accessible via MTP (media mount) but your apps that store music ie spotify and google music will cache it on the internal storage aka sdcard0 and this creates a major problem that needs to be resolved.
samsung, moto have this problem.
only way to actually fix this is via unlocked bootloader to remove the internal partition that is not needed.
just my .02 on this. :cyclops:
@azzman said:
/mnt/sdcard0 is your internal storage (emulated card)
/mnt/sdcard1 is your actual ext-storage
both are accessible via MTP (media mount) but your apps that store music ie spotify and google music will cache it on the internal storage aka sdcard0 and this creates a major problem that needs to be resolved.
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I had read posts about trying to redirect google play music to cache on the external SD card by rooting and redirecting the internal mount point to the external card. This is over my head, but is that feasible with the RAZR M?
Any body been having this issue?? I've been trying to change my location foe downloading music to SD card instead of phone storage it used to be /storage/sdcard0/media/music but I changed it to storage/sdcard1/music and it keeps giving me that message in the little black box as shown in picture any suggestions as to why it does that?
Thanks
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Fantastic program called Directory Bind, this will solve this problem.
Cheers
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nathanalanlister said:
Fantastic program called Directory Bind, this will solve this problem.
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Does this app need to be side loaded? I don't see it in the play store.
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Side Loaded, I'll upload the newest compiled version to a drop and post a link this afternoon. Stay tuned
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nathanalanlister said:
Side Loaded, I'll upload the newest compiled version to a drop and post a link this afternoon. Stay tuned
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Does this require root?
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nathanalanlister said:
Fantastic program called Directory Bind, this will solve this problem.
Cheers
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OK how do you use this program to help me out??
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droidman89 said:
Any body been having this issue?? I've been trying to change my location foe downloading music to SD card instead of phone storage it used to be /storage/sdcard0/media/music but I changed it to storage/sdcard1/music and it keeps giving me that message in the little black box as shown in picture any suggestions as to why it does that?
Thanks
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Yes this is what happened when I tried to change it as well. Very annoying!!
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I was able to find the offline cache on my RAZR M using Storage Analyzer with root access. I found the files at /data/data/com.google.android.music.files/ which was a directory I could not find using other tools.
I was then successful setting up a link to my external SD card using directory bind.
WooHoo, 10+ GB of music on my phone.
No need for rooting. Download San disk memory zone for free. In my opinion the only memory manager app ever need for internal to SD transfers. Available on android play store
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sugalips124 said:
No need for rooting. Download San disk memory zone for free. In my opinion the only memory manager app ever need for internal to SD transfers. Available on android play store
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Hmmm, not sure how that app would have told me the location of the hidden Google Play music cache. I can see the cached MP3 files, but it doesn't tell me where the files are, which is what I needed to be able to create a link to the external SD card.
Look. DL root explorer. Go to mnt. Then SD card0 is internal. Find the file with the music. Then after verifying the music backup one time (or move it song by song) and long press the music download or MP3 download or whatever that file is called until the menu pops up. Either chose cut or move. You will only have one of these as they mean the same thing. Then scroll up to parent folder and click that and get Bach to mnt. Then go to SD card1. And you can either find a music file there and merge them (that would be an option when you clicked a file) or you could just move it to the root of your external sd card. Either way the files have been moved to off board storage. Done. Got it?
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PS. Don't give a thought to the cache. That's totally different and I can tell you need to just forget about it for the time being. Get that file moved and I will tell you all about that file. (You can just delete it later tho or now.
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Does anyone think we could switch three internal sd card with a entirely new sd card

Does anyone think we could switch three internal sd card with a entirely new sd card for android? Possible to do do or not?
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WHY???
cds894 said:
Does anyone think we could switch three internal sd card with a entirely new sd card for android? Possible to do do or not?
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