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Embed video fix.

I was not seeing embedded video links in my non stock browsers, or in Google reader. In fact if I clicked on a reader item that had one I was either immediatly taken to the stock browser saying link not found, or page cannot be opened, or was given the list of apps and browser choices. This was extremely annoying to say the least. I did not want to delete the stock browser so I just moved it to my SD.card for storage using root explorer. This cleared up the problem right away. Thought this might help a few people. Mods move this if its in the wrong place.
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Lmao. I swear its gotta be me, or something in the air but this is the second post where I have no clue what the hell people are saying....you weren't seeing embedded stuff in your browser. So, using root manager you moved the browser to the sd card. And this took care of the problem. Lol. Wtf did I just say? Wait wait wait. Do you mean by moving the stock browser grin the internal sd card to the external sd card you can now see embedded stuff? People choose your words carefully. Remember there are 2 types of sd cards on this phone, internal and external. Please be specific.

You have a question, or are you just being a smartass? Of course its the removable sd. why wouldnt I specify if it was internal, if its a stock app then its in system/apps.
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Xoom - Root Explorer

Hello all,
I have installed Root Explorer for the purposes of deleting all the unneeded apps that exist on my Xoom. Is there a document that explains where I should be looking for said apps, and how do I delete them successfully. I have varying degrees of success in this, and wanted to make sure I do it right the first time out.
Thanks,
Steve

stevefxp said:
Hello all,
I have installed Root Explorer for the purposes of deleting all the unneeded apps that exist on my Xoom. Is there a document that explains where I should be looking for said apps, and how do I delete them successfully. I have varying degrees of success in this, and wanted to make sure I do it right the first time out.
Thanks,
Steve
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All the apps are in system/app/. You have to have root and there is no backups so be careful.
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I've never seen a document. But it's not hard to figure out. 1st you have to be rooted. If so, then go to > system > apps. Touch the "R/O " button at the top so that it turns to "R/W". Then touch the Xoom "menu" button at the bottom of the screen (looks like a rectangular grid) and select "multi -select ". Touch/select the apps you want to delete. Then touch the delete button, which will appear at the bottom. Take care what you delete. Alternatively, you can create a new folder called "app.disabled " and just move the apps that you don't want until you are sure. Hope this helps.
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Be warned that if you delete apps, even the games, future updates will not work automatically. Rename the extension of the apps you don't like or make a backup before deleting.
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Thanks for all the helpful information. Once I delete the ones I dont want will the icons be removed too? If not how do you delete icons you dont want to see on the main screens?

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... you've got some 28GB of available space, and you're trying to save a meg or three?!

stevefxp said:
Thanks for all the helpful information. Once I delete the ones I dont want will the icons be removed too? If not how do you delete icons you dont want to see on the main screens?
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Yes, the icons will be gone too. I can't stress enough the precaution of making a disabled folder and just moving them first.
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kcrudup said:
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... you've got some 28GB of available space, and you're trying to save a meg or three?!
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Some people, myself included, don't like things on our systems we don't want.
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bwcorvus said:
Some people, myself included, don't like things on our systems we don't want.
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Amen brother!

bwcorvus said:
Some people, myself included, don't like things on our systems we don't want.
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If you had any idea how much "unwanted" stuff was in your ROMs, your OCD would really go into overdrive.

I have blown up ROMs BC of deleting supposedly unwanted stuff that I finally decided to put together my own ROM and only include what I want to include...still very much a work in progress.
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kcrudup said:
If you had any idea how much "unwanted" stuff was in your ROMs, your OCD would really go into overdrive.
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Haha trust me I do, and I get rid of it. My cm rom for me evo has 29 Apks in it
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I'm talking about in the OS. Little you can do about that.

kcrudup said:
I'm talking about in the OS. Little you can do about that.
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True...I do everything I can without killing my system.
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Same here, thus why I learned that Clockwork Recovery was my friend....lol!

living without a SD?

yes im asking this. im on a HTC Desire Z now with a sd card and i wanted to know if its a big difference to live with or without a SDcard. is it do-able? i cant choose bitween the s3 and nexus 4

The SD card doesn't make a difference, you just have to figure out if you can live with 8/16 GB of storage. The answer is probably yes, if you are willing to use streaming services (google music, netflix, etc.)

I personally would not be able to live with SD cards in my life. I will have to end myself soon because Dropbox and Google Drive are taking over.

Oh well...

yumcax said:
The SD card doesn't make a difference, you just have to figure out if you can live with 8/16 GB of storage. The answer is probably yes, if you are willing to use streaming services (google music, netflix, etc.)
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i have 32 GB now so and i have 9GB free. but google music is not available in my country (yet). does it stream your music or is it like itunes?

more threads of sdcard complaints... will it ever end?

Will u be able to transfer stuff from phone to a computer, even if u don't have a SD card
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mohnim said:
Will u be able to transfer stuff from phone to a computer, even if u don't have a SD card
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of course you can, just plug the phone into your computer and it gets recognized as a mass storage device...

I think 16GB will be more than sufficient for me. If it isn't than I will just get a USB OTG cable and use the current Micro SD card that I have. I have an adapter that I can plug the SD card into that allows it to be plugged into a USB port. So effectively giving myself access to expandable SD storage
Probably won't need it, but that's my plan.

DonDizzurp said:
more threads of sdcard complaints... will it ever end?
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eh man i am not complaining

Came from a G2 (with microSD card slot) to a Gnex, I have to say I didn't miss the card even a bit. 16GB is fine since I use Google music for streaming, and that's the majority part of storage. I don't use GNex's camera that much. I have a Canon D550 and there isn't a phone camera that could produce pictures even similar in quality.
You might want to mange your space a little, like deleting unwanted backups, not having a million Titanium backups, but it's manageable.

I must admit, although I would rather have a micro-SD slot, its really not a feature I'm over worried about in terms of storage. What concerns me is whether it increases the risk of flashing roms etc to the phone. I you brick you phone, is it not going to make it more difficult to unbrick it? Or can adb always push stuff to the phone one way or another?
Also, just to confirm, you personal data stored internally (in what I assume will be called the sdcard folder) is retained each time you wipe your phone, right?

mazdarati2 said:
eh man i am not complaining
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what do you want to hear, then?
did you not see the other 25 threads on the same damn topic?
no, living without an SDcard is not doable, it is like burning in hell. dont do it or you will hang yourself within a week. okay? okay. now stfu and gtfo

DonDizzurp said:
what do you want to hear, then?
did you not see the other 25 threads on the same damn topic?
no, living without an SDcard is not doable, it is like burning in hell. dont do it or you will hang yourself within a week. okay? okay. now stfu and gtfo
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wtf man what is your problem. You cant stand it that im not as smart as you so you are going to flame on me? dude please, grow up

G405T said:
I must admit, although I would rather have a micro-SD slot, its really not a feature I'm over worried about in terms of storage. What concerns me is whether it increases the risk of flashing roms etc to the phone. I you brick you phone, is it not going to make it more difficult to unbrick it? Or can adb always push stuff to the phone one way or another?
Also, just to confirm, you personal data stored internally (in what I assume will be called the sdcard folder) is retained each time you wipe your phone, right?
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intern is not your SD

I've got a GS3 with a 32gb SD Card (as well as the internal at 16gb) and now a 16gb Nexus 7. I have to be honest and say it does bug me. If you download nightlies and make a lot of Nandroids then your going to suffer to get used to it. There is no way I would recommend an 8gb. I travel a lot on flights and that is when I really miss the storage for music and films, but I do have the phone to fall back on. That said, there are plenty of iSheep out there that don't seem to struggle and Google Drive and Google Music are awesome services. Perhaps I'm the one that should be more tolerant.
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mazdarati2 said:
yes im asking this. im on a HTC Desire Z now with a sd card and i wanted to know if its a big difference to live with or without a SDcard. is it do-able? i cant choose bitween the s3 and nexus 4
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Hey mazdarati2,
I came from the Droid Incredible to the Galaxy Nexus and I can tell you that having a large internal memory rather than the SD card slot is really not a big deal. At first, I thought I would miss it also, but I really wanted the Nexus. The only downside comes if you have a tendency to work with experimental/unstable ROMs, which can corrupt the filesystem on the memory and you will have to reformat and push the factory image with fastboot. When you do this, the SD memory partition gets formatted as well, which is a bummer and if you ever had any problems like that on phones with a physical SD card, you wouldn't have that problem. For the average user that doesn't use more than 8-16GB of space, it will cause no problems, in fact, it will be better because it gets rid of system confusion when saving pictures/videos/other files and then finding them when you connect to your PC. I hope this helps and sways your decision towards getting a nexus 4. It's a great phone and if you're on pre-paid, it will save you a lot of money in the long run! Good Luck!

mazdarati2 said:
intern is not your SD
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The reason I assumed 'sdcard' folder, is because the LG 4X HD, which has both sd and 16GB internal storage places all of your user files in the sdcard directory independent of whether you are using an sdcard. The actual sdcard files are stored in '/sdcard/external_sdcard' which I must admit I found slightly odd.

nschiwy said:
Hey mazdarati2,
I came from the Droid Incredible to the Galaxy Nexus and I can tell you that having a large internal memory rather than the SD card slot is really not a big deal. At first, I thought I would miss it also, but I really wanted the Nexus. The only downside comes if you have a tendency to work with experimental/unstable ROMs, which can corrupt the filesystem on the memory and you will have to reformat and push the factory image with fastboot. When you do this, the SD memory partition gets formatted as well, which is a bummer and if you ever had any problems like that on phones with a physical SD card, you wouldn't have that problem. For the average user that doesn't use more than 8-16GB of space, it will cause no problems, in fact, it will be better because it gets rid of system confusion when saving pictures/videos/other files and then finding them when you connect to your PC. I hope this helps and sways your decision towards getting a nexus 4. It's a great phone and if you're on pre-paid, it will save you a lot of money in the long run! Good Luck!
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i dont think im gonna try out new ROMS. maybe only Pimp My ROM, but thats it

SUer said:
I've got a GS3 with a 32gb SD Card (as well as the internal at 16gb) and now a 16gb Nexus 7. I have to be honest and say it does bug me. If you download nightlies and make a lot of Nandroids then your going to suffer to get used to it. There is no way I would recommend an 8gb. I travel a lot on flights and that is when I really miss the storage for music and films, but I do have the phone to fall back on. That said, there are plenty of iSheep out there that don't seem to struggle and Google Drive and Google Music are awesome services. Perhaps I'm the one that should be more tolerant.
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yes i need to know to use Google Drive and stream apps like that. never used it

How to enable more Ram

I need more ram for the phone because it is sooooo slow I only have just 4 apps aside frim the original apps
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Unfortunately there is no way to get more RAM for your phone, as it is a piece of the phone's hardware. I have this phone as well, and yes, it is very slow. All you can do is try to make sure you have as few apps running in the background as possible.

iNTRCPT4lyfe said:
Unfortunately there is no way to get more RAM for your phone, as it is a piece of the phone's hardware. I have this phone as well, and yes, it is very slow. All you can do is try to make sure you have as few apps running in the background as possible.
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The intercept is a piece of trash. I cant believe people still have this phone. The intercept was my first smartphone. I hated it! But that was 3 + years ago. I have a Nexus 4 now.

I had the transform. The sexier version, try a different ROM/kernel. Mine got to an acceptabal speed with my personal ROM. I took out a lot of stuff, kept data and WiFi off. It was usable. Didn't play any games and I never did anything crazy.
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Weekly citvehb
Yep, might tight behind, has kept it. I pay less than half of any other plan in my area, so, for now, i will keep it, and smile every month when i have to pay the bill !!!!!!
In short, I would recommend the App " Link2SD". partition your SD card with and Extension. In Recovery, format system to the same as your Extension. Boot. Run the app.
In short, this takes your apps, only placeing a fragemnt in th esytem, as to where it can find the App, and Places them on the SD card Extension, even Widgets, but it tricks the system, into thinking it has more space than it does. Widgets, they still work as they should, if they were in the phone it self, as a posed to just putting them onto the SD card, cause ya know they won't work that way.
FYI > get Titanium Back Up app, keep it on the SD card. move everything through Links2SD, and you should be fine. If something happens to you card, you really cant get the info back out of the extention...just an FYI.......LMAO

Apps to SD from Sony

Wasn't too sure if this was old hat or a new development as I've been using Foldermount for my apps 2 SD solutions.
GSM arena are reporting that a recent update will allow movement of apps to the SD card, they've also stated that this update is for the T2 variant and isn't available for the Z series but if a mod could take this and make it available for the Z series then it'd be a nice addition to our phones.
Source: http://www.gsmarena.com/sony_xperia_phones_getting_move_to_sd_card_via_latest_update-news-9058.php

Why do you need it on Z series?
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And why not?!
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Why do you need it.
Pictures, music and videos are on SD card.
If you instal Huge games it will instal around 50-100mb on phone, and everything else on sd card (knows as SD Data).
You want about half of google play on your phone?

And what if I do? Is it better to have that option or not to? If I wanted limited Iphone or WP i would buy it at the first place!?
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isn't sd data is when you could install app to sd?? given that now we don't have install app to sd, we don't have sd data?? so in that regards.... i think most games now are 1+ gb, so all that takes up storage on your internal. doesn't it? and we start off with.... 11gbs left? so assuming not everybody but some ppl that owns large games they could install about 10 games at most?

electrash said:
Why do you need it on Z series?
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Correction, why do YOU need it, and who are you to tell others what they personally need or don't need

crixley said:
Correction, why do YOU need it, and who are you to tell others what they personally need or don't need
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First of all, dont be so arogant on forum.
I didnt tell him that "he dont need it" i asked why he need it.
So many users come to play backsit modding of forum.
After you read it, ask your self "who are you to STOP me from asking simple question". If you dont like it, dont answer it and report of you mean that offended you.
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electrash said:
First of all, dont be so arogant on forum.
I didnt tell him that "he dont need it" i asked why he need it.
So many users come to play backsit modding of forum.
After you read it, ask your self "who are you to STOP me from asking simple question". If you dont like it, dont answer it and report of you mean that offended you.
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He is offering a solution for people...
You ate being rude "you want half of Google play on your phone"
If you aren't interested why even bother commenting aside from being snide?
Report me all you like, I'm not playing mod at all I just think you're being ridiculous considering the person is just trying to help others.
I have data I would like to free up. Dead trigger alone takes up 1/2 a GB.

electrash said:
Why do you need it.
Pictures, music and videos are on SD card.
If you instal Huge games it will instal around 50-100mb on phone, and everything else on sd card (knows as SD Data).
You want about half of google play on your phone?
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That's wrong, huge games like san andreas, MC4 or Real racing 3 (in fact every game and application) install data on Memory, since on the Z serie there's 2 Sd cards, being main the phone memory
so you have Sd/0 and Sd/1, SD/0 is your phone memory and the one the apps/games use for data install, take out your SD memory and your apps will work fine since there's no data on it

Gemc666 said:
That's wrong, huge games like san andreas, MC4 or Real racing 3 (in fact every game and application) install data on Memory, since on the Z serie there's 2 Sd cards, being main the phone memory
so you have Sd/0 and Sd/1, SD/0 is your phone memory and the one the apps/games use for data install, take out your SD memory and your apps will work fine since there's no data on it
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Exactly...
It hasn't been the other way for a long time now.

electrash said:
Why do you need it.
Pictures, music and videos are on SD card.
If you instal Huge games it will instal around 50-100mb on phone, and everything else on sd card (knows as SD Data).
You want about half of google play on your phone?
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Thats absolutely not true, when you install the likes of a gameloft game or an EA game, they're in sdcard0/Android/obb or android/data, these are both on internal memory, people who are rooted have relied heavily on apps such as folder mount for their gaming needs and the want to take the brunt of large install away from their internal memory, being at 16GB or less as it appears on android if you install 5 large games you'll see that your memory is very very low, using foldemount eradicates the need for your internal memory to be used up.
The reason I mentioned this features is because using foldermount and the like are all third party apps which people would go without if it were possible.
I don't need half of google on my phone no, not at all, i'll repeat what i said first so you understand, If you install five, (not fifty) just five large games then your internal memory is nearly full.
My install of GT Racing 2 900MB, my Real Racing 3 installation was over 1GB for certain, fifa i've seen go to over 1.5GB, it soon racks up. 100MB would be candy crush, i personally don't bother with the likes of them.

Thanks to everyone else with a positive reply Hopefully a dev will see this, it'll be nice if it were baked into a rom.

Apps to sd is very important to gamers
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I use this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.devasque.fmount

" I use this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.devasque.fmount "
Yes, but root is needed.
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atomskasarma said:
" I use this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.devasque.fmount "
Yes, but root is needed.
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Yes
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What a bag of turd some people are. Although its of no surprise. Its us, the bright human race at all. Ofcourse we need to ne able move or straight up install apps to SD. For the people who have reasons of their own against it, there's a new flash for you: dont use ot

@mneu777 I wrote that in the OP m8 But wouldn't it be nice if you didn't need a third party app? I use folder mount myself too, but would be nice if a third party app wasn't needed, eventually companies like Sony may actually notice that their high end phones have nowhere near enough memory in them for the apps that are available today, personally I think 32GB is a perfect allocation of internal memory, all flagships should give this much. Sony, Samsung and now HTC are all 16GB ( the models that I have to buy from here in the UK anyway)

That mod will be very nice !
I have a 2 gps programs ( i know there will be questons why 2 ? answer: becouse i need it !! ) and i use folder mount. It's working on games and other programs but not on my gps...i don't know why so 2 gps = 7 Gigs on internal and this mod for me will life save...
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