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[Audio] [4/6/10] Audio Repository

This is a collection of audio files from several ROMs from several phones, including:
CDMA Hero - 1.5
CDMA Hero - AOSP 2.1
CDMA Hero - Sense 2.1
Motorola Stock
Samsung Stock
There are almost 200 different sounds in this collection! Tons of variety!
Also note that this frees up some space in your /system partition! Always a good thing!
Copy the .zip posted and flash it just like any other update.zip. This will delete your current system/media/audio folders (with the exception of ui) and place the repository on your sdcard. BE SURE YOU HAVE ENOUGH SPACE ON YOUR SDCARD BEFORE FLASHING THIS!
Updates:
Included additional sounds from here
Created an update.zip to automagically delete current system files
Download

Gregalous said:
IThe .zip posted contains a folder called media. To use the sounds, unzip the attached file to your tools folder and from ADB:
Code:
adb remount
adb push media /system/media/
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There is no need to put the files in /system/
You can make a /media folder on the SD card and it works the same... *AND* the files won't get hosed with every ROM reflash.

x99percent said:
There is no need to put the files in /system/
You can make a /media folder on the SD card and it works the same... *AND* the files won't get hosed with every ROM reflash.
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I tried that first but then all the files show up in your Music player. I also tried putting a .nomedia file in the folder but then they didn't show up at all.
This is the only way I've found that works completely.

Dont put it in your system folder. Create a /media/audio/notifications or /media/audio/ringtones folder on your sdcard. My ringtones and notifications are seen in these folders.

Gregalous said:
I have created a collection of notifications, ringtones, alarms, and general UI sounds from every ROM that I have ever used (1.5, 1.6 and 2.1 w/ & w/o Sense) all into one folder. This gives you a huge amount of choices for ringtones, notification sounds, etc.
The .zip posted contains a folder called media. To use the sounds, unzip the attached file to your tools folder and from ADB:
Code:
adb remount
adb push media /system/media/
Give it just a second (as there are quite a few of them) and when it's done copying it will tell you. Reboot once finished.
I did not do an update.zip because quite honestly it's much faster and easier to do it through ADB.
Enjoy
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There is no zip posted .......... if you want to email it to me I would be happy to host it for you.

david279 said:
Dont put it in your system folder. Create a /media/audio/notifications or /media/audio/ringtones folder on your sdcard. My ringtones and notifications are seen in these folders.
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Again, the reason I put those instructions up is because when I had tried putting it on my sdcard, the files would show up in the music player.
Besides, you can use the files however you want, I'm not forcing anyone to put them into /system, that was just my recommendation.
rockcrawler said:
There is no zip posted .......... if you want to email it to me I would be happy to host it for you.
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Woops! Fixed now, thatnks for pointing that out!

system has some limited space thats why i would recommend not putting it there.

Gregalous said:
I tried that first but then all the files show up in your Music player. I also tried putting a .nomedia file in the folder but then they didn't show up at all.
This is the only way I've found that works completely.
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Im sorry but i tried to do it your way and you're right they don't show in the music app but i cant find them anywhere on the phone.
PS: I know how to push files and it did

ktynchy1 said:
Im sorry but i tried to do it your way and you're right they don't show in the music app but i cant find them anywhere on the phone.
PS: I know how to push files and it did
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You went to phone ringtone/notification ringtone and there wasn't anything there? If done correctly there should be a very long list to choose from.
Did you reboot after pushing?

Ok so after further testing, it turns out that the only files that show up in the music player are the UI sounds. So I just deleted those (since they're all the same in all the ROMs I'm pretty sure, plus no one really cares about those) and now it works just perfectly when you put in your sdcard.
I humbly admit that I was wrong This should work better now, especially for those that were worried about using up /system space.
First post edited with new directions and .zip.

awesome! Thanks so much for making this! After RMing the media files from the system I gained like 20mb's that can be utilized in running apps and such. You're the man!

I tried installing this by putting them on the sdcard, and all of the sounds show up on the list, but everyone option I chose plays the same song on my sdcard :|
Ideas?

did you RM the system files? Mine works fine.

alexthearmo said:
did you RM the system files? Mine works fine.
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Ya I did, and then I my phone would freeze when anything tried to notify me, and it woudn't mount my sd card :| Good thing i have a sdcard slot in my computer, i had to remove the files and rewrite them to my sdcard. Then it started working. No idea why, but its working

I merged your folder with the original media folder and rebooted but they do not show up...??

in case anyone is having trouble with this, there is a very clear post on how to do this here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=5936137&postcount=3236

Updated, nearly 200 sounds in this package now

Now in update.zip format, super easy!

Cool thanks... Will give it a try...

Thanks for posting this.

[Q] Create folder shortcut from external SD card

What I want to do is create a short cut to a folder that is located on an external sd card and put it on my home screen.
I have tried alot of file managers and none I tried have this option. I did come across one fike manager which i could create a shortcut but it only had access to the internal memory.
Can anyone recommend a suitable app which i can install?

File manager HD works fine
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.rhmsoft.fm.hd

I cant access the external SD card using file manager hd

Did you try to navigate back in the directory tree by pressing parent? You might need root for that.

amateurandroid said:
I cant access the external SD card using file manager hd
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What rom are you running???
If you are on Thor's rom he calls the external sdcard something else and most file managers won't see it with out editing the name.

amateurandroid said:
I cant access the external SD card using file manager hd
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If you're still on File manager HD, press HOME, and then UP and you'll see your external_sd. Otherwise it is located in mnt/ folder. If you're running thor's ROM 14.2 it is under mnt/Removable/MicroSD

shortcut to external sd
lowsum said:
File manager HD works fine
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.rhmsoft.fm.hd
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Hi all, by the life of me I was not able to create a shortcut with FM HD. A bookmark in FM HD yes, no problem.
I run stock rom.

I am running Thor's ROM 14.2
found it through File Manager HD, had to press Home and Up Twice and then in the Removable Folder. Thanks for that.
Now, back to my original query, I still am unable to create a short cut to my home screen. The options that presents include, Details, Open, Copy, Delete, Move, Rename, Permissions (all boxes ticked), Bookmark and Compress

amateurandroid said:
What I want to do is create a short cut to a folder that is located on an external sd card and put it on my home screen.
I have tried alot of file managers and none I tried have this option. I did come across one fike manager which i could create a shortcut but it only had access to the internal memory.
Can anyone recommend a suitable app which i can install?
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Could be wrong here, but I don't think that's possible in Android. You can't put shortcuts (or linked files) on your Android desktop...at least the stock one (don't know if there's a launcher that has this capability). I have tried in many versions of Android with no success. You could, in a terminal, use Busybox to create a linked file/directory in /data/app or /data/app-private, but the link doesn't show up on the desktop (at least not for me).

With File Manager HD you can add a folder shortcut from the widget drawer, the far right tab (i'm on ICS so I can't check for the exact tab name). From there you can add a FMHD shortcut for a chosen folder.

Just installed File Browser Widget and I think it's a great little app you might want to try.
http://market.android.com/details?id=com.ceenic.filebrowserwidget&feature=search_result&hl=en

I know this might be too late but ES file Explorer can do sth like this. Simple long-press on a folred and choose "Shortcut" and you get one on your desktop.

Install File manager HD, go to the Widgets section on the apps drawer in the OS, and there is a widget for File Manager HD, add it to your home screen, it will then prompt you to create a shortcut to a folder of your choice, even one on the External SD

mrfenyx said:
I know this might be too late but ES file Explorer can do sth like this. Simple long-press on a folred and choose "Shortcut" and you get one on your desktop.
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I was going to mention ES as well. They made it remarkably simple. Something that's kinda neat is that you can choose folder color between yellow and blue. Then, when you shortcut a folder, it will be the color of the folder at the time you created the shortcut. And it holds even after a reboot. Could be useful to have different colored shortcuts for organizing.
Es goes way beyond shortcuts, you get a full featured file browser with root browsing (in settings) as well as a network browser, ftp, file editor, permission editor... So much more.

Need help with understanding mount-points, folder structure and file system rights...

Hi everyone,
I need your help. I sometimes face strange issues with my Nexus 4 (Stock Room, Rooted, Matrix Kernel v5). Yesterday I wanted to copy a apk-file for installation on my phone from my home-server. I use ES File Explorer for that. I failed to copy the apk-file to /sdcard/folder-name (operation failed). then i navigated to /data/media/0/folder-name and tried it from there, also it didn't work.
i then copied the file to /sdcard/download and was able to copy it to that and to install it.
i don't really understand why it behaves that way, i was always able to go to /sdcard/folder-name and do what i want. i also noticed another strange thing. i connected my phone via USB (MTP-mode) to the PC and uploaded a few GB of MP3s to it (Folder: Music).
when browsing this folder with ES File Explorer, I cannot delete anything from that folder /sdcard/Music. THOUGH it reports "deletion successful" the files or folders do not get deleted but just remain on the internal SD-card. i could only delete the music successfully via "/data/media/0/Music".
who can explain briefly WTF is going on? i obviously do not really understand the concept and logic behind this. is there a maximum file/path length that must not be exceeded?
thanks in advance and best regards,
hallu

need to bump this, sorry...

does anyone have any idea as to why this phone is behaving the way it is?

I use root explorer and have ZERO issues. That includes pulling apk's.

Try a different file explorer to see if that makes a difference so at least you can determine if the issue is just app specific and not something else.
Check to see of ES isn't mounting certain folders with RW permissions.
Also the actual internal storage is /data/media/0/ so /sdcard/ is just a symlink to that folder. ES seems to be having problems with the symlinks.

Cannot find clockworkmod folder. Read all XDA threads already.

Hello guys,
I want to flash a custom ROM and I have made a Nandroid Backup using the latest clockworkmod.
I cannot seem to find the clockworkmod folder on my phone. Funny thing is that when I use restore option in the CWM, it shows the path of the backup as sdcard/clockworkmod/backup
Already tried checking data/media, but my data folder doesnt have a media subfolder.
Any suggestions?
PS: I use ES File Explorer and I did check the 'Hidden Files' option in it. Using CWM 6.0.2.3
PPS: I had flashed CWM 6.0.2.3 on 6.0.1.9
-Thanks!

try /mnt/shell/emulated/

croques said:
try /mnt/shell/emulated/
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emulated doesn't exist in /mnt/shell/
Should I try reflashing the CWM?
I have storage/emulated/. Even that doesn't contain cwm folder though.
So weird.

w1ndhawk said:
emulated doesn't exist in /mnt/shell/
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it does on mine? And clockworkmod is there as a directory.
w1ndhawk said:
Should I try reflashing the CWM?
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No; it'll be there somewhere. Poke around.
Are you sure ES file Explorer is set to allow / (root) exploration?

croques said:
it does on mine? And clockworkmod is there as a directory.
No; it'll be there somewhere. Poke around.
Are you sure ES file Explorer is set to allow / (root) exploration?
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Root Explorer wasn't enabled x_x. Sorry, first android ever! Haha!
Yes, now I can see clockworkmod/backups in the mnt/shell/emulated. Thanks a million.
Emulated folder contains almost all the folders/files that are present on my SD Card. Could you explain what is emulated folder though and why isn't the cwm folder just stored in sdcard/clockworkmod/backups? I have a nexus 4.
And off topic but: after I take a nandroid backup, I should probably save it on my computer right? And of course, that begs another question. How can I find this file through windows explorer?
Further, how do I manually explore paths (by typing it in) on the android. Or do I have to keep changing home directory in settings?
Sorry for so many question. I know what its like to having to answer to noobs

w1ndhawk said:
Could you explain what is emulated folder though and why isn't the cwm folder just stored in sdcard/clockworkmod/backups? I have a nexus 4.
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Someone more knowledgeable will be along in a minute.
w1ndhawk said:
And off topic but: after I take a nandroid backup, I should probably save it on my computer right? And of course, that begs another question. How can I find this file through windows explorer?
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You can't use Windoze explorer AFAIK.
I use adb. Since you've rooted your phone... adb must be set up. Open a command window in Windows (run cmd -w) (I don't use Windoze so you're on your own a bit here) and type
Code:
adb shell
You then can use 'ls' and 'cd <directory>' to see what's there and move around.
You'll probably want to use 'adb pull <foldername>' at some time to get the backup onto your PC. Google around for adb commands. I've spoon fed you enough to be getting on with.
w1ndhawk said:
Further, how do I manually explore paths (by typing it in) on the android. Or do I have to keep changing home directory in settings?
Sorry for so many question. I know what its like to having to answer to noobs
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Sorry; I don't understand the question. And knowledge it like a mosaic floor covered in sand... you've spent your time clearing sand and finding whats beneath a different part from me. No noob should need to apologize in a nice forum.

Get rid of CWM and use TWRP. It's much better and stores backups in the proper location (virtual SD) which you can browse with Windows

Your clockworkmod backups will be in /data/media/clockworkmod

Yep, time for me to research on my own. Enough spoon feeding.
Instead of using commands, I just copy pasted the backup created by CWM to my sdcard using ES Root Explorer so that I could see it using Windows Explorer.
Will give TWRP a try in the future though.
The question about ES file explorer was, how can I explore the file system by typing in the path manually. For example, in windows you can manually type in the path in windows explorer and it will take you there.
EDIT:
The copying thing doesn't work. I think I will have to flash TWRP.
EDIT 2:
Tried again and it DID WORK!!! (the copying thing) Using TWRP is obviously easier though.

w1ndhawk said:
Yep, time for me to research on my own. Enough spoon feeding.
Instead of using commands, I just copy pasted the backup created by CWM to my sdcard using ES Root Explorer so that I could see it using Windows Explorer.
Will give TWRP a try in the future though.
The question about ES file explorer was, how can I explore the file system by typing in the path manually. For example, in windows you can manually type in the path in windows explorer and it will take you there.
EDIT:
The copying thing doesn't work. I think I will have to flash TWRP.
EDIT 2:
Tried again and it DID WORK!!! (the copying thing) Using TWRP is obviously easier though.
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Oops. Missed the part about you already checking /data/.

w1ndhawk said:
The copying thing doesn't work. I think I will have to flash TWRP.
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With Nexus 4, Google have seen fit not to implement a USB browsable file system.
It seems to be the trend for Android. I don't think TWRP will help much.
The only way to 'easily' get stuff is to master adb. Although in linux there's this.
Perhaps someone else has a Windoze alternative.

croques said:
With Nexus 4, Google have seen fit not to implement a USB browsable file system.
It seems to be the trend for Android. I don't think TWRP will help much.
The only way to 'easily' get stuff is to master adb. Although in linux there's this.
Perhaps someone else has a Windoze alternative.
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The SD partition is perfectly accessible through MTP

Michealtbh said:
The SD partition is perfectly accessible through MTP
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And MTP is perfectly accessible through nothing.
(I swear, I just want to back hand smack the person who thought their creation called "MTP" was a good thing. MTP = Massive Trauma Protocol)

Run Kodi from an external share (not directly connected through USB)

Hello, I was playing with Kodi over the weekend to run it from my Western Digital MyCloud (WD). I had initially moved my Thumbnails folders to WD and was using advancedsettings.xml to redirect the thumbnails folders to WD.
Recently I ran into a way to move the whole Kodi folder to WD (or any network storage). If this has been mentioned before, my apologies for the redundant post. Anyways...
For background, when you start Kodi, the app reads a file (if present) to find where its files are located. If this file is not present, Kodi uses the default location to find its files. Through this file, you can redirect your Kodi to look at alternate location to run. The name of the file is "xbmc_env.properties" and it has a single line listing your desired location. I have attached it to this post. More info here:
http://kodi.wiki/view/HOW-TO:Change settings folder for Android
The steps to make this happen are:
-- Create your network share on WD. I went with a public share and using CIFS to access the share.
Say, my share is "\\192.168.1.2\MyKodi"
-- Create a mount on FTV to that share. For mounting help, see http://forum.xda-developers.com/fire-tv/help/run-script-firetv-boot-t2986158
Say, my mount is "/mnt/obb/KodiShare"
-- Make sure you can read/write to this mount by testing it with an app like ES File Explorer.
-- Now, you will need to start with a clean install of Kodi.
-- Do not install any addons or do any restores of your Kodi backup at this point.
-- Once Kodi is installed, open it once so that your folders are created for you. Then shut down Kodi.
-- Create a file named "xbmc_env.properties" and put it in /sdcard. The file has to be named exactly that and it has to be located at /sdcard.
-- Now, open Kodi. Let it stay up for a min or so. In the background, Kodi will make a ".kodi" folder in your mount and will create a skeleton structure of all folders/files. Basically, you will see "/mnt/obb/KodiShare/.kodi"
-- CAUTION: If you are starting with a fully customized Kodi with your addons, Kodi WILL NOT MOVE your addons/etc. during the previous step!
You will need to do that manually.... (move the userdata and addons folder manually from /sdcard as if you are restoring a backup)
-- The folder ".kodi" on your mount will have identical structure as is for a default install. You can verify it by drilling down into your mount.
-- Now shut down Kodi.
-- At this point, you will have 2 ".kodi" folders. One will be in your mount and the other at /sdcard/Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files/.
-- You are now ready to restore your backup (if you have one). If you do not have any backups, you can skip this step.
You will copy your "userdata" and "addons" folder to /mnt/obb/KodiShare/.kodi.
You will be over-writing those 2 existing folders already present there.
-- Now, go to "/sdcard/Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files/.kodi". Delete everything in the ".kodi" folder, all 6 subfolders. (this is where the space savings are realized)
You can delete all this because the data within ".kodi" has been moved to your mount (or WD).
Keep the empty ".kodi" folder though.
-- Start Kodi. You should see it functioning normally.
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So, what happens if you shut down FTV, restart your FTV but your share is not mounted correctly and you start Kodi? On my FTV, when I do that, my Kodi at start will show a hazy blank screen. It will stay like that for a few seconds (If you hit the back button on FTV remote while the Kodi screen is still hazy, Kodi will exit out without creating your base folders in /.kodi. This saves you the hassle of deleting them again after you have restored your mount) and then Kodi will start. But you will not see any addons/customizations etc. Kodi will start as if its a default clean install. Its a fail safe play by Kodi so that it does not crash. If you look at "/sdcard/Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files/.kodi", you will find that it is not empty and you will see the 6 subfolders in there. To fix this, once you can properly mount again, just shut down Kodi and restart it and it will start with all your stuff intact. You can either leave the ".kodi" folder in your /sdcard as is or you can delete them again, it makes no difference.
I have been testing this for last couple of days, and the performance is just fine (just a tad slow but not a killer). The exit of Kodi (from its home page) is slow though, it takes around 7 seconds for it to shut down on my FTV. I would imagine that NFS should be faster than CIFS, but I have not tested that yet.

Great Guide
If you want to use the usb stick follow the guide above and just change the follow
Using ES File Manager
Select extUsb
Add folder call it kodi_data
then download this attachment xbmc_env.properties.txt
rename it so its called xbmc_env.properties
copy or push file to sdcard directory
Now Install Kodi

It does seem that once you have used Kodi enough (lke your addons and whatnot), I notice "almost" no degradation in performance. Of course, even this minute slowness is not applicable to actual streaming as this is using your FTV hardware and not your external share.
One note though, I did notice a gradual slowness if you are using subtitles for your movie/show. Because by default, the subtitles are saved to the "temp" directory which is now on the external share. And subtitles are sensitive to the timings. I saw a gradual slowness, around a 3 second delay at the end for around a 2 hour movie (Subtitles are completely in sync at the start, but lag around 3 seconds by the end of the movie). You can always, in Kodi, go to Settings, Video, Subtitles. On the right, scroll down to "Subtitle storage location" and change it to "Custom location". On the next line for "Custom subtitle folder", you can navigate to "Root Filesystem" and select a folder in /sdcard. Select a folder that you can regularly clean out.

ISMADDER said:
Great Guide
If you want to use the usb stick follow the guide above and just change the follow
Using ES File Manager
Select extUsb
Add folder call it kodi_data
then download this attachment xbmc_env.properties.txt
rename it so its called xbmc_env.properties
copy or push file to sdcard directory
Now Install Kodi
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So overall what does this mean? Kodi data will be stored on my thumb drive instead of Ftv internal storage?....I've installed rbox pre-rooted latest rom last night and moved Kodi over to my flashdrive but I haven't backed up as yet,normally my Kodi data reads over 1gb and will like to have it installed ob my thumb drive if it won't drastically slow it down

nickyb003 said:
So overall what does this mean? Kodi data will be stored on my thumb drive instead of Ftv internal storage?....I've installed rbox pre-rooted latest rom last night and moved Kodi over to my flashdrive but I haven't backed up as yet,normally my Kodi data reads over 1gb and will like to have it installed ob my thumb drive if it won't drastically slow it down
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Yes tested it last night no issues yet

ISMADDER said:
Yes tested it last night no issues yet
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Thanks will try when I get home
one question I pushed kodi over to my usb will it make any difference or should I send it back to internal storage then proceed?

nickyb003 said:
Thanks will try when I get home
one question I pushed kodi over to my usb will it make any difference or should I send it back to internal storage then proceed?
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I would leave Kodi on FTV. It really does not take too much space. If you move your data using this method, all your FTV will use is around 60 MB for the app and some for cache (which can be cleaned out). My FTV tops out with cache around 130 MB on storage space for Kodi.
As a tip, for taking good backup, I will install Kodi. I will add all my addons and customizations (like keyboard, advanced settings, ACE stream setup, etc) and Kodi core settings and do a backup. I don't go into any addons or stream stuff. I then do a backup, this will keep your backup size to a minimum (the goal is to reduce the Thumbnails folder size in your backup). Also, in your backup, you can go into /addons/packages and delete all the files from there (just the contents in that folder, not the folder itself). The folder stores the older versions of addons you have installed. That usually saves around 50 MB depending on your installed addons. This gives you a good compact backup.
I am not sure how the performance will be with a USB... I had tried moving Thumbnails to USB a while back and Kodi did slow down (usually when I am pulling any page with icons). If you have a good backup, you can check it out with different scenarios pretty quickly.

makes no differents ive got mine on the usb

I see AFTVNews has posted an excellent guide covering this:
http://www.aftvnews.com/how-to-partially-or-entirely-move-kodi-data-to-external-usb-storage/
And I can confirm, I changed the subtitle location to a folder in /sdcard and the same movie with the same subtitle source/file does not lag.

I did this on my 16gb flashdrive and noticed a slight lag in opening addons nothing major but streams work flawlessly and my AFTV has been on 4gbs+ compared to the 2gbs+ before this update

Thanks
Geat guide.:good: