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[Q] SD card question

I currently have a 16gb card in my phone. it is loaded to the bone right now. i'm going to a concert tonight and will probably record some stuff in HD. that takes alot of space. rather than delete my 12 gigs of music off to make room, i was going to use another card i have that is empty. i'm thinking it'll work just fine but is there anything on the sd card in my phone that would need to be copied over, for the system mainly, to work ok? all my apps are on the phone, but i'm wondering about some of the other files/folders that get loaded by the phone. any info would be great. thanks! (running liberty 1.5 btw)

I would love to know more about this as well...I recently "upgraded" to a class 6 16GB card (and by upgraded, I mean I grabbed the card out of my old HTC TouchPro 2, formatted it, and put it in my DX). I just copied everything from the old card to the new one.

brandon2x said:
I currently have a 16gb card in my phone. it is loaded to the bone right now. i'm going to a concert tonight and will probably record some stuff in HD. that takes alot of space. rather than delete my 12 gigs of music off to make room, i was going to use another card i have that is empty. i'm thinking it'll work just fine but is there anything on the sd card in my phone that would need to be copied over, for the system mainly, to work ok? all my apps are on the phone, but i'm wondering about some of the other files/folders that get loaded by the phone. any info would be great. thanks! (running liberty 1.5 btw)
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There is a liberty folder on the sdcard that im guessing the toolbox uses that you will want to copy. I would also look for any folders that resemble app names and copy them as well, as they may contain app data. Any other folders you need should be recreated by the OS or apps.
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[Q] gallery

I have always used "gallery" to view pictures that I have stored on my external micro SD card. This new ATT galaxyS4 doesn't allow it. It only displays pictures that are stored on the internal SD card.
I got root and use an app called "root explorer" is the only way to view the pictures I have stored, which is ok but there is no slide show function in root explorer.
I postponed the update that came in over the airwaves, but it processed last night while asleep. I don't see any difference except it's not rooted anymore. Gallery is still limited to viewing only the onboard chip that's full of bloatware.
Does anyone else notice gallery not seeing the external SD?

fukenbiker said:
I have always used "gallery" to view pictures that I have stored on my external micro SD card. This new ATT galaxyS4 doesn't allow it. It only displays pictures that are stored on the internal SD card.
I got root and use an app called "root explorer" is the only way to view the pictures I have stored, which is ok but there is no slide show function in root explorer.
I postponed the update that came in over the airwaves, but it processed last night while asleep. I don't see any difference except it's not rooted anymore. Gallery is still limited to viewing only the onboard chip that's full of bloatware.
Does anyone else notice gallery not seeing the external SD?
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All my pics are on my External SD card and I can see them all - never been anything otherwise.

gallery is so slow for me, sucks.

fukenbiker said:
Does anyone else notice gallery not seeing the external SD?
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External SD works fine for me also.

Works fine for me as well.

fukenbiker said:
I have always used "gallery" to view pictures that I have stored on my external micro SD card. This new ATT galaxyS4 doesn't allow it. It only displays pictures that are stored on the internal SD card.
I got root and use an app called "root explorer" is the only way to view the pictures I have stored, which is ok but there is no slide show function in root explorer.
I postponed the update that came in over the airwaves, but it processed last night while asleep. I don't see any difference except it's not rooted anymore. Gallery is still limited to viewing only the onboard chip that's full of bloatware.
Does anyone else notice gallery not seeing the external SD?
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Storage and reading of the external SD card for pictures works great for me.
One thing to note if you are having problems with the gallery, is to reformat the SDCard in the phone.
I was getting laggy gallery images, and a high battery drain from the Gallery.
Reformatting the SD card cleared up all my problems!

When you open gallery, hit menu and content to display. Make sure all is selected.
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Is there anyway to save all downloaded pictures/screenshots to the SD card? I wiped my phone the other day and my downloaded pictures got deleted because it was in Internal Storage

Dallenn said:
gallery is so slow for me, sucks.
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You might have a corrupt photo.

ogxku5h said:
Is there anyway to save all downloaded pictures/screenshots to the SD card? I wiped my phone the other day and my downloaded pictures got deleted because it was in Internal Storage
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If you use stock browser anything downloaded will go to external sd. Camera also asks you to save pictures on external sd when inserted, if not it can be changed in camera settings.
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prking07 said:
If you use stock browser anything downloaded will go to external sd. Camera also asks you to save pictures on external sd when inserted, if not it can be changed in camera settings.
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If you save a picture that was texted to me, it saves internally rather than on the SD card. Is there is anyway to fix this?
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Grant H said:
Storage and reading of the external SD card for pictures works great for me.
One thing to note if you are having problems with the gallery, is to reformat the SDCard in the phone.
I was getting laggy gallery images, and a high battery drain from the Gallery.
Reformatting the SD card cleared up all my problems!
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I stuck a different 32 gb class 10 microSD chip in the external memory slot and gallery started working finally.
So I assume the chip I've always used needs formatting sounds like.
Thank you for the feedback.

I have a similar issue as OP. I have a 64gb Sandisk SDXC, and it came straight over from the S3 and the S4 gallery didn't see my pix from the card either nor the music player see all my music. I have to format the card in the phone then copy everything over from pc to phone via usb for the gallery and music player to see what's on my ext card. Then the phone restarted by itself, and it says the sd card is damaged, then the OTA update came just in time, updated, amd magically the Sd card was fixed, now it only see select videos and images and still none of my music. If it's in the inter sd then it's fine.
Do you guys think my sd card is shot?
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bacuy82 said:
I have a similar issue as OP. I have a 64gb Sandisk SDXC, and it came straight over from the S3 and the S4 gallery didn't see my pix from the card either nor the music player see all my music. I have to format the card in the phone then copy everything over from pc to phone via usb for the gallery and music player to see what's on my ext card. Then the phone restarted by itself, and it says the sd card is damaged, then the OTA update came just in time, updated, amd magically the Sd card was fixed, now it only see select videos and images and still none of my music. If it's in the inter sd then it's fine.
Do you guys think my sd card is shot?
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It sure sounds like it. My chip still works, all I did was use the computer to format it.
The only way to tell is get another chip and put some files on it for a test.
It ticks me off they don't even populate the external SD slot with a cheap chip like they used to. ATT phones used to come with a one or two gigabyte capacity bottom dollar chip for free but alas they got even more greedy!

prking07 said:
If you use stock browser anything downloaded will go to external sd. Camera also asks you to save pictures on external sd when inserted, if not it can be changed in camera settings.
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I used foldermount and moved the DCIM folder to the external sd, so all the setting have it looking at the mounted folder on the internal card, even the burst shots are stored right onto the external. the longer I've had foldermount, the happier i am with it. endless possibilities!

[Q] apps2sd does not transfer the data?

I been moving large apps like Gameloft games to the SD card but I see that not much has changed to my internal storage. I think it only moves the app but not the data, can anyone confirm this?
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Jason2k13 said:
I been moving large apps like Gameloft games to the SD card but I see that not much has changed to my internal storage. I think it only moves the app but not the data, can anyone confirm this?
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yes, only apps

You can use Link2Sd if your phone is rooted to move App Data to the external SD card.

lanka93 said:
You can use Link2Sd if your phone is rooted to move App Data to the external SD card.
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idk but link2sd usually fu** up device i used it and had to reset as phone wudnt install apps due to insufficient storage error
maybe use foldermount i knw its free version gives only 3 links but what to do try buying premium it only costs 1.99 dollars after all u payed a huge sum for the phone !!!!!

qazmed said:
idk but link2sd usually fu** up device i used it and had to reset as phone wudnt install apps due to insufficient storage error
maybe use foldermount i knw its free version gives only 3 links but what to do try buying premium it only costs 1.99 dollars after all u payed a huge sum for the phone !!!!!
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Sorry i meant foldermount. LOL I mixed up the 2 apps.
I actually bought the premium version about 4 weeks ago and it's worth it for the extra links imo.
I've used foldermount to put my data for Real Racing 3 onto my sd

So just moving the app itself and not the data, is still pretty much useless then? S4 will still have internal storage problems.

Yes but the way I see it, I throw all my media files (photos and videos), backups (titanium and twrp) on the external SD card. So that frees up space on the internal SD just for games alone. And because of my scepticism with external SD cards, i tend to back it up both on the cloud and computer hard drive. So although this may not be the answer you are looking for, it's the only way besides apps like folder mount!

[Q] iPhone 4S switcher to Note 3 comments and questions

I just switched from the iPhone 4S 64 GB AT&T to the Note 3 32GB AT&T and put in a Sandisc extreme 64GB microSDXC.
I had problems with the iPhone freezing and crashing. Doing a factory reset, a lot of my programs disappeared from iTunes. It was getting to be really annoying.
On the Note 3 I love the screen (size and resolution) and many other things. Asphalt 8 and RealRacing 3 look and play great.
While I had to call AT&T to block my outgoing Caller ID, I could do that from the Note 3.
There is no sales tax on purchases from Google Play store in Texas, while Apple always charged me 7-7.5% (I know because there is no "retail presence" of the Google Play store in TX).
Bad annoyance: I did, for as many programs as I could, the "Move to SD Card" and now I have ugly default android gray icons with SD in the right lower corner. How do I get the original icons back without transferring back to "device memory".
I am trying to upload music files to the SD card.
When I use Samsung Kies 3, will it upload the files to the SD (did not see an option for that anywhere). If it does not install it to the SD card: where are those files uploaded and how do I transfer the files over to SD and how do I play the files/playlists? Is there a way to directly transfer the files from the computer to the phone bypassing Kies. How and where do I upload books (pdf and other formats)?
Anyone know if there will be a combination extended battery/wireless charging case in the future?
My 14 days return time frame is not over, but they would have to "pry it from my cold dead hands".

The way I would do it is to just take the SD card out of the phone, stick it in the computer, copy and paste. The music player should find the songs automatically. As for the icon thing with the "move apps to SD card".... I don't know about that one. I haven't seen any reason yet to do that.

Welcome to Android, where you can use any file explorer on any OS to copy any file you want to any location on your phone.
You don't need to use Kies for media. Just use the phone and SD like you would any usb storage. In the music app you can then either select the specific folder, or let it scan the entire device.
Also no need to convert files, it plays pretty much anything. (and if the stock player won't, another will. For video I suggest Diceplayer from the start.)
Kies is for backup and sync, everything else you can do the good oldfashioned way. Most of us have never even installed Kies.
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sgunes said:
I just switched from the iPhone 4S 64 GB AT&T to the Note 3 32GB AT&T and put in a Sandisc extreme 64GB microSDXC.
I had problems with the iPhone freezing and crashing. Doing a factory reset, a lot of my programs disappeared from iTunes. It was getting to be really annoying.
On the Note 3 I love the screen (size and resolution) and many other things. Asphalt 8 and RealRacing 3 look and play great.
While I had to call AT&T to block my outgoing Caller ID, I could do that from the Note 3.
There is no sales tax on purchases from Google Play store in Texas, while Apple always charged me 7-7.5% (I know because there is no "retail presence" of the Google Play store in TX).
Bad annoyance: I did, for as many programs as I could, the "Move to SD Card" and now I have ugly default android gray icons with SD in the right lower corner. How do I get the original icons back without transferring back to "device memory".
I am trying to upload music files to the SD card.
When I use Samsung Kies 3, will it upload the files to the SD (did not see an option for that anywhere). If it does not install it to the SD card: where are those files uploaded and how do I transfer the files over to SD and how do I play the files/playlists? Is there a way to directly transfer the files from the computer to the phone bypassing Kies. How and where do I upload books (pdf and other formats)?
Anyone know if there will be a combination extended battery/wireless charging case in the future?
My 14 days return time frame is not over, but they would have to "pry it from my cold dead hands".
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OK first you need to release the mindset of itunes for everything as in with Kies. DONT USE KIES lol
Just plug in your note 3, open up the folder you want, it will say phone or card
Drag the files you want. If thats not cool with you, there is an app called iSync that can copy your iTunes playlist over to your phone.
Also I think you should leave your Apps on the phone memory and not on the SD. Use the SD for media and your internal for apps and such. This way if you need to replace the sd or whatever you will be good.

Historically Google removed that option from android because it causes issues like for example the corrupted icons you've experienced. Samsung only added it back in with the 16 gb s4 because the system rom got so big it left users with less than 9 gb available space.
As the poster above said chuck all your media files on the external card. The 25 gb you will have initially available internally is more than enough for all of your apps unless you install a dozen or more high end games. Likely you'll only ever play a few at a time and then remove them when you get bored, at least I do.
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Thanks for all the tips. I will try it tonight.

Welcome to Android, enjoy the coming months of playing around and finding out what you've been missing out on! I was an apple user until the Galaxy S2, since then I've never looked back! One little warning though, customisation becomes addictive... Flashing Roms, kernels, rooted apps/services.
Xda has some amazing devs contributing and as always they are happy to help a friendly fellow androider.
Back on topic though, I wouldn't even bother moving your apps the SD card? 32GB is loads of internal storage! Even tho we only see 25(ish)of that, below is my games folder and I have 8GB of internal memory left! But if I feel like freeing up space I'll simply use Es file Explorer and copy the game files from Android /data to my SD card (if rooted, use titanium backup app to backup the apk of the game) and swap back in at a later date if I wanted to play again
Hope this helps :thumbup:
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jetbruceli said:
OK first you need to release the mindset of itunes for everything as in with Kies. DONT USE KIES lol
Just plug in your note 3, open up the folder you want, it will say phone or card
Drag the files you want. If thats not cool with you, there is an app called iSync that can copy your iTunes playlist over to your phone.
Also I think you should leave your Apps on the phone memory and not on the SD. Use the SD for media and your internal for apps and such. This way if you need to replace the sd or whatever you will be good.
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I saw iSyncr in the app store for $3.99 but there were a lot of 1 star ratings.
I will do the direct copy via Windows.

[Q] moving storage

I'm planning on trying out a few of these Roms (SS method). My issue so, I'd like to move my internal to my sdcard but I have a tiny 2 GB sdcard. I plan to buy a larger one first.
Basically, I'd like to move sdcard to phone, insert new larger sdcard, than move everything to my sdcard that doesnt need to be on my phone.I'm not really sure how to go about this. I'm playing with an app called link2sd but its not working.
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specifically what files are you wanting to move to your sd card? the standard pics, videos, backups? or are you talking about apps, app data, etc?

xBeerdroiDx said:
specifically what files are you wanting to move to your sd card? the standard pics, videos, backups? or are you talking about apps, app data, etc?
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Well, for what I understand the Roms can take up several gbs on the phones storage possibly only allowing me to have 2 on my phone at any given time. I have the 16 GB gs4 but I only have 3 GB available. My phone has several gbs wrapped up in stuff that I'm not sure what it is, so instead of deleting stuff that I'm non sure of I figured I'd just move stuff to a sdcard. Maybe it doesn't make sense...
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The only working app out there that can link your internal to your external is called Foldermount. In in playstore. Free version will only let you mount up to max of 5 folders. paid version which is like 2 or 3 bucks lets you mount as many folder as you want making your phone think that your extrnal is its internal memory. The only issue is if you lose the sd you lose phone so think carefully what you decide to move to sd. If its phone critical leave it on phone memory.
If your just talking pictures, movies, music as well as document, crap like that you can copy to a folder on your computer and when you mount the new card then just copy it all back to sd.

definitely get a larger micro sd card. they're so affordable. a 32gb would last you forever. after you have it, move everything you know how to move to the new card. i keep my roms, backups, photos, videos and misc files on my sd card. if you want to store more than that, give it some research. as i said above, though, for sure get a larger card. its worth it.