Intro
For anyone that uses WinAMP you may have previously enjoyed their Wireless Sync feature on your older phones, only to find on the GS3, this no longer works as you might like.
WinAMP likes to send files transferred wirelessly using the Wireless Sync to /data/media/Music. This is rather than letting you choose or it going to where the rest of the music is stored.
This is incredibly frustrating for people like myself who keep ALL their music on the external SD card. This would mean you had to transfer the music off the phone storage onto the external storage manually, or simply use the USB cable to send it instead (which wouldn't allow you to enjoy any of the transcoding benefits of WinAMP).
The guys at WinAMP probably do this to maintain compatibility across all models.
The Solution
However, it is possible to have WinAMP transfer the music directly to your external SD card (or where ever else you may like). This is done using DirectoryBind by slig.
What you need:
Root Access
DirectoryBind by slig
ES File Explorer
The Method:
Install DirectoryBind - At the time of writing, you should use DirectoryBind_0.2.0o.apk
Install ES File Explorer and navigate to the /mnt/extSdCard/ and rename your music folder to ".music" or whatever else you have named your music. Whatever you call it it is important to place the dot in front of the folder name so that the Media Scanner ignores this folder (I'll explain later).
Also, hit the Menu button and choose "Settings" and then choose "File Settings", check "Show Hidden Files". This is so ES File Explorer and see the .music folder later on whenever you may want to do that.
Open DirectoryBind. Press the Menu button and press "Preferences"
Check/tick:
Bind on Boot
Alternate dbase mgmt
Persistent service
Bypass path verification
Ensure these are checked! and press back to return to the main screen.
Now hit the Menu button and press "Add new entry".
Where it says "Enter Source (data) path" write this:
/mnt/extSdCard/.music/
Where it says "Enter mount (target) path" enter this:
/data/media/Music/
Do not bother checking to transfer files. There's no need.
It should look like this:
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Now press "Add"
New check/tick the check/tickbox next to the new entry and press the grey floppydisc icon to the left so that it goes green.
You're done! Reboot your phone. Give it a second or two and then head back to DirectoryBind and it should look like this:
Now open ES File Explorer again and head to /sdcard/ or /mnt/sdcard/ and check the Music folder in there. It should now be populated with your music
Why use the dot in the music folder name?
If you don't name the music folder on the external SD card with the dot, the Android Media Scanner helpfully scans both the sdcard and adds the tracks it finds there and also scans the external sd card and adds the tracks it finds there. It literally thinks there are two copies of each song despite all the songs only sitting in one place.
This way, we hide the files from the media scanner on the external sd card only, but they are still picked up on the sdcard. All the songs are only sitting in one place, on the external sd card, all the same!
Before doing this I was having two of each song show in WinAMP, until I remembered that Android ignores folders with a dot in front of the name (and also hides them)
Yay!
Now, when you use the Wireless Sync of WinAMP all files will be stored on your External SD card, even though WinAMP tries to send them to the internal! What actually happens is that /data/media/Music is mounted to /mnt/extSdCard/.music/ and when WinAMP sends a file to /data/media/Music/ it goes to the mnt/extSdCard/.music/ folder instead
another problem
Hi there
I appreciate your nice guide, but there is a problem. since winamp think it's coping the files to internal sdcard, it counts the available free space in this way
I have 2GB as internal sdcard and 16GB as external sdcard but web i just uploaded 1GB of musics, i thinks my internal sd is almost full and dont let me upload amymore
please help me what should I do with this prob
thanks again
You could simply unmount that folder once it's done and the mount a new folder "/mnt/extSdCard/Music" to "/mnt/extSdCard/.music/". That way you can still get to the music with WinAMP and yet the device won't think your phone is full.
So:
Unmount the "/data/media/Music" mount
Mount "/mnt/extSdCard/Music" to "/mnt/extSdCard/.music/"
When you want to copy music to the phone using Winamp Wi-fi, do the reverse. It's a little fiddly, but it's a workable solution for you.
Thanks a lot!
nice
I followed the steps to the best of my knowledge and I cant get the disk icon to go green. Is there something i'm missing? In the options for Directory Bind the Persistent service option was not available. That is the only thing that I could not find to check.
Update: Never mind. I think I got it to work after 4 tries.
I've followed everything to the letter in your guide but I can't get it to work. Once thing I've noticed is that winamp is sending the files to /storage/emulated/0/music instead of /data/media/Music. I've tried changing the target path to both and it still doesn't work. I noticed in your screen shot you have /mnt/extSdCard/Andorid and /sdcard/Android listed in directory bind as well. Do I need to set that up too?
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Is it possible to change the directory that HTC Album looks into for pictures?
HTC Album application only looks in My Pictures on the Device and the root DCIM Folder on the storage card. I dont know if you can change the registry or if there is any other solution? I have Windows Media player syncing my pictures taken in the last 30 day automatically but it will only put it in the "My Pictures" folder on the Storage card. It would be nice to have this process automated when I sync and changing the directory location for HTC Album should do the trick. Any body know a fix or is willing to help.
I have an HTC Touch Dual (Nike) but I imagine if the change is possible, it should work on all devices running this application.
On a side note, does any body know how to change the resolution of the images being synced through Windows Media Player? It copies over a low resolution image 320X240 or smaller, and I would like to resize it to something a little larger.
Thanks
Jcostanza4
I think when you start up your camera, it asks you where you want to store hte photos, and HTC Camera uses that same folder to explore the pictures.
elgreek84 said:
I think when you start up your camera, it asks you where you want to store hte photos, and HTC Camera uses that same folder to explore the pictures.
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It does; but unfortunately on the Touch Dual, when you first start up the camera your only options are Device or Storage Card and no other option to to choose a directory.
ok so when i first installed htc album it worked properly... i know have 2 issues with this prog... when i open htc album it is no longer in landscape mode and all my pics are turned 90 degrees.... the 2nd issue is when i use my camera and hit the pictures button it doesnt take me back to htc album... any help would be greatly appreciated.
For some reason it doesn't search my DCIM directory on my storage card. I have to rename the my pictures folder on my documents. But then it searches all folders and gives me too many pics. Any suggestions?
jv
Try this one guys
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=346872
Nadavi just posted this one in the HTC cab thread, haven't tried it
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1704152&postcount=189
The registry hack only changes to access all folders on the SD card
My problem is I need it to access the "My Pictures" folder only and I dont want to rename it to "_My Pictures". If I rename I lose Syncing capability with WMP and if I have it search the whole card it will grab a bunch of unwanted images and thumbs from music and my documents folder that I dont want associated with HTC Album.
The Cab for the HTC Album with Directory may work but I hesitate because HTC Album came factory on my phone and works flawlessly. Cooked apps may cause problems in opperation(who knows it varies between devices)
I really look forward to a Touch Dual forum (nike) to find out how it operates on the same device.
Thanks-
jcostanza4
what is the reg hack i would not mind it searching the whold sd card it's better that searching the whole device and have pics from web sites that i have visited
To have HTC Album search Storage Card open a registry editor and change the following
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\HTCAlbum]
"default_viewer"=dword:00000001 <<< change 0 to 1 and restart ur device.
From:grinminded
Found in link above and this post
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1630094&postcount=47
jcostanza4 said:
To have HTC Album search Storage Card open a registry editor and change the following
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\HTCAlbum]
"default_viewer"=dword:00000001 <<< change 0 to 1 and restart ur device.
From:grinminded
Found in link above and this post
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1630094&postcount=47
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I tried this and it doesn't work. Had to install the verions w/ the folder option fix....
jv
johnnyv5 said:
I tried this and it doesn't work. Had to install the verions w/ the folder option fix....
jv
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I didnt try it yet because its not what Im looking for and it may be specific to the Himalaya devices since it was int that thread.
It seams to be hit or miss on devices.
NEW htc album
here
new htc album v1.0.1030.720
with this version you can select folders
johnnyv5 said:
I tried this and it doesn't work. Had to install the verions w/ the folder option fix....
jv
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when i tried it on my htc x7500 it worked but i could not use the gestures to zoom in or out
It's working on my Qtek S200, but the menu's are unreadable.
Any suggestions ?
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It's working on my Qtek S200, but the menu's are unreadable.
Any suggestions ?
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Copy this file on Windows and SR.
DAVIMON said:
Copy this file on Windows and SR.
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That did the trick, thnx
Copy
I have a S200 too and want to use the same trick. I tried to copy with file explorer and with Resco explorer, but it refused to copy. I got a "access denied" message in file explorer and the message that the file is blocked because it is in use with Resco.
How dit you copy it?
OK. I solved the problem. I had the wrong installation file, after uninstall and the correct installation, it works! Thx, good solution
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I'm trying to use this app with the iPhone skin. The folders option version doesn't work with the iPhone skin (it seems that the folder select menu isn't a proper 'window' and fails to show up in front of the iPhone skin). So I need a workaround...
You guys suggested renaming _My Pictures which works but finds too many pictures and is slow (as you know), and the registry hack did nothing for me (except get rid of the gestures).
I found this in another thread - apparently you can add this into the lnk to specify a directory. Has anyone got this to work? I don't know the correct syntax or maybe it just doesn't work?
-directory:
-type:image
-type:video
-mode:camera
Obviously the mode:camera/picture and type: syntaxes work... But I can't seem to get the -directory thing to work
Maybe there has been one you want
In some bbs of China, there is a verson.
You can choose the folder when you start and the pictures of the app are moved from \windows to "\HTCAlbum" in order to speed the HTCAlbum.
Hi all,
i have search in many threads and didn't find it:
where must i stock or save my own ringtones to be able to choose, for example, an mp3 song as my default ringtone ?
i have a micro sd kingston 8 go class 4 installed.....
the other problem i have is that i can't choose one of my own ringtone ( i have one with CTU ringtone like in 24h, i mean a short mp3 file) for the text message notification ...there are only the stock ringtones available ....
if anybody knows how i have to archive and save all files like ringtones, mp3, photos, videos on the storage card , let me know ....
Charles
Think you need to put them in \My Documents\My Ringtones, at least for TF3D to recognise them.
thanks ...i already tried and it works for the default incoming call ringtone but my big problem is the text message ringtone .....
( i have one with CTU ringtone like in 24h, i mean a short mp3 file)
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Lol, i use the same ringtone for text messages
.... can you tell me where you saved the file if you have the same as me ...it will help me ... ^-^ ...or may be you can send me your file ( because yours works !!)
Charles
still havent figured out how to use mp3 for txt.msg sound. does anyone know?
bhines said:
still havent figured out how to use mp3 for txt.msg sound. does anyone know?
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First copy what ever mp3 you want to use with txt.msg to windows folder then
Go Start -> Settings -> Sounds & notifications -> Notifications tab -> from event: select Messaging: New text message and below make sure you have flag on with play sound box and then go ahead and from dropdown menu select mp3 you want to use and then ok
you can assign the ringtones on storage card to individual contacts ...
all - and i mean all - of my sound/notification tones are stored in the My Documents folder on my storage card (e.g., \Storage Card\My Documents). i can select them as ringtones, msg tones, contact-specific tones, etc.
hey, i used the 24 ringtone toolol. but i tried saving it into windows/ folder, the sounds and ringtone setting does not regonise it. on my former devices like touch pro, s1, they all work. but for HD. never work.
ringtone format problem???
The solution is to create a folder on your Storage Card (e.g., \Storage Card\My Documents). Then put all your sounds (mp3, wav, midi, wma etc) there.
Go Start -> Settings -> Sounds & notifications -> Notifications tab -> from event: select Messaging: New text message, or Incomming Call, or any other event you want and below make sure you have flag on with play sound box and then go ahead and from dropdown menu select the sound you want to use and then ok.
This is the way you can select the sound you want for , msg tones, contact-specific tones, etc. without using memory of your device.
Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year
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ringtone format problem???
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That would be my first thought.
Try converting to different supported format
I have the ones I'm currently using in My Documents (you can use either My Documents on the device itself or on the storage card). Works fine for ringtones and messages.
ringtone
I hope that someone can help me with this.
I have already tried the options that were given above to set a ringtone of my own. The ringtone I tried was in .wma format, which, to my knowledge, should work on the touch hd.
What happens is that when I put the ringtone in the my documents folder on the storage card or the my documents folder on the device, I can see it when I go to settings>sounds¬ifications>notifications, however, it automatically changes back to the original ringtone (Ring01-WindowsPhone).
Also, the settings windows does not close, so I have to tap the home button to get out of this menu.
BTW, I'm using the windows mobile 6.5 ROM.
Thanks for any ideas!
Ringtone
For some reason, going through the same steps for the umptieth time, I managed to get it working. Don't ask me how. Cheers.
Just edit the sound in MP3 trimmer,save to ringtones folder!
Message tones go in the windows/rings folder
All you need to do is copy the mp3 file into windows \ sounds folder then they will appear for ringtone, txt and email alerts .
I've had my Nexus One since May, and I've just today learned something that has alleviated so much frustration. This might be something that most users already know, but I consider myself pretty knowledgeable and I didn't ever think about this until today.
PROBLEM: Downloaded images, or other media put on the phone then moved to another folder don't open.
For example, if I download an image from the browser onto the phone, it saves it and Gallery tags it into the "downloads" folder. If you go into Gallery and check the file, it's fine, but it's in the "downloads" folder. If you're like me, you want to organize, so you use a file manager to move it into a "Wallpapers" folder.
Problem: when you go into Gallery after moving it and try to open it, it won't open. Same issue when trying to set it as Wallpaper.
Solution: Use a "media scanner" to correct this. I use the one that comes with "Extended Controls Widget" and you can just add it to a row of switches or put it by itself somewhere. This scans and re-indexes all of your images/music/movies and corrects the gallery.
Rebooting the phone usually works, too, however this is much more painless.
If anyone else has an easier way to do this, please feel free to add it to this thread.
This thread could use a QR code link to the app you use
Here is the one I am using, its simple and quick
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Spare parts does this too
Yeah, theres a bunch of them, it all depends on which you personally prefer, its a shame that we need these to begin with...
Blueman101 said:
Yeah, theres a bunch of them, it all depends on which you personally prefer, its a shame that we need these to begin with...
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If you manipulate files on-phone, it doesn't see it because it doesn't re-scan the SD card constantly.. It'd be a resource waste. Or every app using such things would have to scan the SD card every time they launched.
I think Google made the right choice, given the filesystem in use. If it were EXT3 or EXT4 there are things that could be done better. However, it should be somewhere to re-scan, of course you can always unmount/mount the card and that works too.
Dev Tools does this as well.
"sdrescan"
khaytsus said:
If you manipulate files on-phone, it doesn't see it because it doesn't re-scan the SD card constantly.. It'd be a resource waste. Or every app using such things would have to scan the SD card every time they launched.
I think Google made the right choice, given the filesystem in use. If it were EXT3 or EXT4 there are things that could be done better. However, it should be somewhere to re-scan, of course you can always unmount/mount the card and that works too.
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Yeah but why not have the phone auto rescan every time you open a media player or photo reader?
Blueman101 said:
Yeah but why not have the phone auto rescan every time you open a media player or photo reader?
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Because it's slow?
khaytsus said:
Because it's slow?
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Slow? How? How are these rescan apps different then if the photo viewer or media player automatically scanned for them when they opened?
I wonder why they don't use ionotify. Only moved file or file changes can be sent as events to a media scanner app so it doesn't have to scan the whole card.
jmacdonald801 said:
I wonder why they don't use ionotify. Only moved file or file changes can be sent as events to a media scanner app so it doesn't have to scan the whole card.
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Because it's FAT32?
khaytsus said:
Because it's FAT32?
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Shouldn't make a difference.
Am I missing something? I used Dolphin to open picasa and downloaded a pic. Viewed it from gallery, no issues. Then used Astro to move it to another folder. Tried to open again, still no issues.
What's the problem again?
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Ok...I guess my search skills just suck. I'm a noob with android having just left the darkside of WM 6.5, and I know there are others that have had this problem, but I can't seem to find the exact answer I need. So I'm going to have to ask a noob question...please be gentle
I'm having the same problem others have had with phones like the Nexus and with my ringtones. I use the USB mass storage setting for my connection to my computer, which I generally do at least once a day to move data round.
Every time I do it, it unmounts the sdcard and sdcard-ext and when it does, it forgets my ringtones, as you'd expect. But when I disconnect the USB, they stay forgotten and I end up with a random ringtone on my contacts and the default. So I have to go back and reset them all. Big pain.
After doing some reading, I saw several suggestions about either creating folders within the media folder on the root, or dropping the ringtones in the system\media\audio\ringtones folder.
The problem I am having is I can't seem to make anything see the ringtones in the media folder on the root, and even after rooting the phone, I can't write to the system folder.
So...my question is, does anyone have an answer on an ap that will see the ringtones in \media so that I can assign them to contacts and the default, a procedure I can do with any root tools to make what's already there see the folder, or a link to something I missed here on the forums?
Thanks in advance.
I dunno... i was able to get a custom ringtone for text messages by adding to a media\audio\notifications folder. I'm assuming by "system" in your pseudo-folder tree, you mean the root folder where you also see the downloads folder and such? If you're actually navigating to a "System" folder... then you're probably in the wrong place.
figured i'd post a screenshot of where my "alarms", "notifications", and "ringtones" folders are.
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I dunno... i was able to get a custom ringtone for text messages by adding to a media\audio\notifications folder. I'm assuming by "system" in your pseudo-folder tree, you mean the root folder where you also see the downloads folder and such? If you're actually navigating to a "System" folder... then you're probably in the wrong place.
figured i'd post a screenshot of where my "alarms", "notifications", and "ringtones" folders are.
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No...that's the default storage. It's in \mnt\sdcard...and it unmounts when you connect with the USB, which seems to make it "forget" ringtone assignments. That's where I had stuff, but it still causes problems.
NM...I'm a bonehead. It helps if you set system to read/write from read/only before you try to paste into it. Must have missed that button on root explorer the first couple times around.
None of the above or what I've seen in other threads were able to help me with my ringtones.
I came from the Captivate (rooted and voodoo lag fixed), and have taught myself a little about androids through helpful forums like this, so I thought that this would be easy.
I put all my ringtones in EVERY folder imaginable, but the Ringdroid, Ringtones, stock media player and MixZing apps could not "see" all my files. Even though they all "saw" my mp3 audiobook and song files just fine.
All the ringtone files were present in Astro file manager, Andro Zip, and the stock file manager; however if I tried to play them through the file managers, a "No Player for this file type" error came up and the add as ringtone options were greyed out. I even reformatted all my tones to ogg with no luck. I played them on my laptop to make sure they weren't corrupted.
Finally after HOURS, I noticed on the new MixZing app home screen (that previously annoyed me BTW) the new "Folders" option to find files. Low an behold there They ALL are!! And I mean all, in every folder I put them in on the internal and external cards. I could then use MixZing to "use as phone ringtone" by pressing and holding over the file name.
Can anyone help me understand this (Why the files were present and in the right location, but not visible to certain apps) and maybe add things from my experience to the various how to threads?
I feel like such a Dork since my friends consider me an untrained techno geek. But I swallowed my pride and posted here even if it makes me look stupid to help others. There has to be someone else that this happened to.
I still have a problem with other aps seeing the ringtones I moved, but the important part is that core system sees them, and I can assign them to contacts or just the default without the system forgetting them every time the internal and sdcard storage are unmounted when I connect with USB to the PC. That was the important part for me as I was missing calls when the phone assigned a random short tone or notification to my default ring and those of my wife and kids.
After some advice I found here on XDA, I moved them to the \system\media\audio\ringtones folder and did the same for the notifications I wanted. The problem I had was I wasn't familiar with root explorer and didn't notice the button to set to read/write. Once I moved the tones there, everything works, although they are now not available to some other applications.
I spoke too soon. It is "forgetting them even on the phone root. (/media/audio/ringtones) not on the internal or external card.
I have no clue why this keeps happening when I reboot my phone or unmount my card. How does un/remounting the card effect files on the root of the phone????
ANY SUGGESTIONS
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My files are still on the card and internal memory, but the contacts, alarms, messaging, calendar, etc apps can't remember the tones I set.
I have copied the files to the following locations with the same issue recurring:
/media/audio/(alarms, notifications and ringtones)
/system/media/audio/(alarms, notifications and ringtones)
/sdcard/media/audio/(alarms, notifications and ringtones)
/sdcard/(alarms, notifications and ringtones)
/sdcard-ext/(alarms, notifications and ringtones)
/sdcard-ext/media/audio/(alarms, notifications and ringtones)
Even after moving them with ROMmanager to the "non-mountable" storage (/system) they are still reassigning and setting to "unknown".
Possibly related issue. The playlists I create with MixZing, winAmp, and astro are empty are the phone reboots.
Occasionally I get the "no files" error when I check the mounted card in file manager, but if I manualy unmount and remount the card, they are still there.
I keep missing calls, texts and having my alarms "silent". This is getting frustrating. I bought the Atrix on launch day so I need to exchange NOW if that is what is needed.
Other than the above and the losing data connection issue, I LOVE THIS PHONE
Hi everybody, i'm having same issue in my SE Xperia Arc 2.3.4 with original rom, when i conect to PC if i select the conection to massive storage MSC instead MTP mode, the configured sounds does not work, i copyed all the ringtones to /system/media/... and have the same issue, and if i extract the memori card outside the phone the issue persists, so, is there any way to set the sounds stored on the phone memory as the contacts, phone or alarm sounds???
i am in love with the Galaxy note 3 till now ... my issue is whatsapp saves the media to the internal memory instead of the External SD card ... this is causing it to fill up the phone quite quickly ...
i also cant find a disabling media saving option so i can only save media that i am interested in keeping manually ...
thanks guy i really wish that you can help .. i am also not planning to root anytime soon
go in whatsapp settings and go to chat settings.. and for media change it.. you can decide what you want to save auto or not etc..
The OP was probably wanting the option to save the data/pics/chats to the microsd rather than the internal memory. I'm pretty sure he would have already found the on/off option and also discovered that WhatsApp cannot be moved to externalsd unlike apps like Beyondpod, Titanium etc. which default to internal memory but have the option to change the storage location.
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You're going to have to complain to the Whatsapp devs, it's their doing not Samsung's or Google's.
Though I wish you luck with that, I've been lobbying for an offline option for nearly two years now, and the iOS version has had 'hide last seen' option since day one, whereas we don't.
You can't even disable auto-download voice-message. So I have to turn off 3G at night just to get the bloody thing to shut up a 0300, as half my contacts live in other timezones.
The Whatsapp settings are a joke, even iOS has more options than the Android version...
Move WhatsApp Media To External SD Card
jpython said:
i am in love with the Galaxy note 3 till now ... my issue is whatsapp saves the media to the internal memory instead of the External SD card ... this is causing it to fill up the phone quite quickly ...
i also cant find a disabling media saving option so i can only save media that i am interested in keeping manually ...
thanks guy i really wish that you can help .. i am also not planning to root anytime soon
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This App automatically redirects WhatsApp media to the External SD Card in order to save memory: On google Play digit Nicola Rosada and find Photos & File Redirect.
Niky20000 said:
This App automatically redirects WhatsApp media to the External SD Card in order to save memory: On google Play digit Nicola Rosada and find Photos & File Redirect.
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Or just use Tasker.
or FolderMount
Niky20000 said:
This App automatically redirects WhatsApp media to the External SD Card in order to save memory: On google Play digit Nicola Rosada and find Photos & File Redirect.
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Killberty said:
or FolderMount
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That app doesn't support Android 4.4 Kitkat.
So FolderMount was the path I followed. Needed a reboot to work though.
Jp
Niky20000 said:
This App automatically redirects WhatsApp media to the External SD Card in order to save memory: On google Play digit Nicola Rosada and find Photos & File Redirect.
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Turns out this app is not compatible with my xperia ZR.
Killberty said:
or FolderMount
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So I opened foldermount and mounted a lot of apps' data/obb folders to my sd card
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
. But then this is what i got for whatsapp. There seems to be nothing i can mount...
Folder mount did move my old posts to a new location in ext SD card and the old posts were displayed in whatsapp fine -
but the problem was elsewhere, all the new posts were grayed out in whatsapp and on clicking got the message ''sorry, this media does not exist on your memory card''.
Don't know where the new media files went - did not show up in old folder and neither in the new folder location.
Now what?