[Q] Google Play Music Offline Storage Location - Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hello, I need help regarding Google Play Music's offline storage. On my SGS2 (and Captivate before it), it saves the offline files in /sdcard/Android/com.google.android.music which is great. But on my Nexus 7, it keeps them in /data/data/com.google.android.music. This is fine for the average user, but things get messy when I need to do backups. Both Titanium Backup and CWM backup my offline music, which is 4GB, and there is no way around it since the songs are simply located where application data is. I have attempted to symlink this music directory to the empty one on the sdcard, but I only succeeded in screwing up the application. That issue aside, how can I get the music to download to /sdcard rather than /data/data?

Really, nobody else has encountered this issue?

korockinout13 said:
Really, nobody else has encountered this issue?
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dunno if you found a solution yet, but this thread has a sol'n. haven't tried it
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1785245

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Move all my nexus one data/information to nexus s

Hello
I am receiving my nexus s tomorrow and I have one question?
Without SD card, how do I move all the things like music, apps and other stuff from the N1 to the NS?
I suppose I can't use the mybackup app...
Any help please...
Thanks
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HcMAX said:
Hello
I am receiving my nexus s tomorrow and I have one question?
Without SD card, how do I move all the things like music, apps and other stuff from the N1 to the NS?
I suppose I can't use the mybackup app...
Any help please...
Thanks
Sent from my Nexus One using XDA App
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The Nexus S will mount USB storage to your laptop the exact same way that the Nexus 1 does.
You can plug both into USB, mount the storage, then drag and drop what's on your external SD card that you want to copy over from the N1 to the NS. Quick and easy. It's what I did with my NS; and allowed me to hand pick what I wanted to transfer over rather than bring along all the clutter and garbage from my SD card that was left behind from old programs I don't use any more.
Apps and settings are just showing up for some people because of the sync restore option with Google server if you enable it on both devices. Didn't for me, though.
appbrain is a good way to get all your apps over, but it won't get your settings and app data.
If you're N1 is rooted and you're happy rooting the NS then titanium backup is a quick and easy way to move over your apps whilst retaining all the user data. (Rooting both phones is cake and can be fully reversed)
In addition, something like sms backup and restore works nicely for SMS messages.
Any other settings will have to be re-applied manually but contacts etc will sync down no problems.
If you're not rooted then your new apps should sync back from market anyway (you may need to ensure data backup is checked on your N1 - can't remember)
As the chap above mentioned though, the NS internal storage mounts as a USB mass storage device anyway so music/any other data can be copied over easily.
I did it via TITANIUM BACKUP
1 click of a button and everything was there
the only thing i had to copy & paste manually were the MP3 and Videos
having both phones connected via USB (through a PC)
just drag and drop the stuff from one phone to another phone
I did this drag and paste but for some things did not work. For music and pictures it worked well but for an example I have Color Note which I was able to drag over. Color Note is an application that allows you to take notes. After dragging and pasting it I went into my Nexus S and was unable to find Color Note. I also was unable to find Astro. I bought Astro Pro and downloaded that as well. After downloading it I was unable to find Astro Pro on my Nexus S In Market it tells me it is installed and it does so under applications as well when I go to settings and then applications but I can not find it nor open it
for Apps/Games & settings you need to use backup software like Titanium Backup
AllGamer said:
for Apps/Games & settings you need to use backup software like Titanium Backup
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Titanium's great if rooted. I would be cautious with Titanium, though. Make sure to only restore APPS data/settings. Not sure you want to be restoring SYSTEM settings from one device to another, let alone one version of Android or another. I've seen people report issues restoring settings from just one ROM version to another.
As long as he doesn't restore EVERYTHING then it is safe
just make sure to select ONLY
Restore User Apps & Data
Thanks for your help
Hello to all!!!
Many thanks for your help..
I've already receive the phone and transfered all the stuff
first impressions.....
It's an amazing phone....fast fast and even more faster that the n1....
Thanks

[Q] Google music and CM11

The problem is that google music is always telling me that I have no space left to download music, nevertheless I still have over 20GB of storage free.
I guess that is due to the fact that xiaomi phones have three partitions two for os and one for data, and google music maybe using the data partition, but I don't know where else to look for the solution.
Anyone have any suggestion what maybe causing this issue?
Cheers

SM-T23ONU Google play services accidentally deleted.

This might sound like a stupid question lol but I deleted play services and have no idea how to get it back can someone please help for anyone wondering yes I'm rooted.
xRhode said:
This might sound like a stupid question lol but I deleted play services and have no idea how to get it back can someone please help for anyone wondering yes I'm rooted.
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Settings > security > allow app installation from unknown sources. Go to this website and download the .apk file to your tablet. Open and run the file
thisisapoorusernamechoice said:
Settings > security > allow app installation from unknown sources. Go to this website and download the .apk file to your tablet. Open and run the file
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I have the exact same problem as OP, on the exact same model, and I had already tried that site, but I can't figure out how to know which variant I need? Also, I will probably need tips on HOW to install it properly (I'm rooted, if that matters, but am still at a fairly basic knowledge level and try to touch as little as possible). TIA
Still really needing help/guidance on the specifics here... poor kid's tablet has been useless for months and I'm terrified to do something wrong again.
i dont think that when u download .apk variant means much..... if you install as .zip then yes but nit as .apk i guess.... i mean you cant brick or anything when you install regular .apk
Okay, spent HOURS on this thing, and still can't get it installed... whether I download/install from chrome on the tablet, or download/sideload on the pc, or download from MoboMarket on the tablet, or from the app on the PC, every time the installation fails because apparently I'm "out of space", even though I have deleted EVERYTHING possible (safe) from the system memory and have over 2.5gb free, and the apk is around 45mb... really wishing I could afford to just buy the poor kid an iPad, so the amount of space we have is almost actual, and I wouldn't have to spend hours upon hours rooting, mounting folders, moving apps to SD card, every single time, and STILL always having no space to install due to internal memory, while the SD card has loads of nearly useless space. He just wants to play games, lol!!! (sorry for the ramble, just seriously frustrated, more than I've ever been with our iphones/pods, and I still have the fun of figuring out how to do all of this on my other kid's Neutab... not feeling the Android love, since it made external storage useless for apps).

Internal storage issues showing space used that isnt

Basically when i use ES file explorer i have roughly 4gb of apps , system file, and other stuff but its showing an additional 14gb or so used. Is this a common problem? I didnt see anyone else ask about it and googled for an answer and found nothing. Im hoping its not damaged storage and a simple fix. Was planning on giving the new rom a spin as soon as enough folks were running it to know a baseline on fuctionality and common issues as i miss having a clean rom with root.
Isn't that the storage used by the OS?
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Isn't that the storage used by the OS?
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I believe that is 8.68gb atleast on my phone and is accounted for. I dont have much in the way of apps and push most of my files, music, vids, pics and such to my external.

Google Cardboard Crashes /w Storage Access Permission

I got tired of waiting for the never arriving Nougat update for Daydream support so I just ordered some 3rd party junk VR headset from Amazon. One of the first things I installed is Google Cardboard and at first it was working but now no matter what I do it crashes as long as it has permission to access storage which it needs to play back any of my files. I have no idea what changed, I've tried everything I can think of and the only thing that stops it from crashing is removing it's access to storage which renders it useless to me anyway.
For that matter I haven't even been able to find a single VR video player that is anything more than bare-bones, I want a repeat option for example, and none of them seem to have it.
Any advice/suggestions?
I had the same problem. I just deleted the /cardboard folder in the internal storage. After deleting the folder clear the app cache & data just to make sure
raffnix2 said:
I had the same problem. I just deleted the /cardboard folder in the internal storage. After deleting the folder clear the app cache & data just to make sure
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That did the trick! I don't understand how this happened considering my phone was completely, and I mean completely wiped, and it happened again. But either way now it works, including any apps that were crashing before.

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