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How to xfer files when upgrading ext SD card?

I am going to swap my 2gb sd for a 16gb and want to know how to transfer the files correctly. It seems that the files I can see on my PC when mounted via usb, are only a fraction of the files I see via Root Explorer on the phone.
Whats the correct way prepare the new card, and transfer the files?
Thanks

mount the phone. Open the appropriate drive (2 should show). One us the internal for the os. The other is the 2 gig with avatar (sdcard/sd).
Copy to your desktop.
Get the new card with adapter mounted to pc now. Right click and format fat.
power off the phone after properly unmounting.
Swap cards in phone. Mount it again to pc. Move the avatar folder to new sd.
unmount. I would reboot. Make sure avatar works. if it didn't, you did not listen.

Thanks for the info

The way I did it is:
-put the new card in the phone
-format it using the phone (settings, SD Card and phone storage, format SD card)
-put the old sd card with adapter into PC
-mount the phone
-transfer files from old to new

So the only files that need to be transferred are the ones that show up when mounted/viewed on the PC? Are the files that I see on the card via Root Explorer when it is in the phone not needed? Are they just links or something?

Avatar is on the sd card (sdcard/sd)
Sdcard is the internal memory. Do NOT mess with that!

ah, so the sd card is actually the sd directory inside of sdcard...got it, thanks

Galaxy tab fail to detect the internal sd card and the external sd card suddenly!

My galaxy tab fail to detect the internal sd and external sd card today. Don't know why.
The case is that:
if I use the application "my files" I have the following message
No SD card is inserted in your phone
in the the menu card and SD memory:
I have
Internal SD card
Total space not available
Space available not available
any possible action on:
Disassemble the SD card
Mount Sd Card
Format SD card
menus are dimmed
External SD card
Total space not available
Space available not available
any possible action on:
Disassemble the SD card
Format SD card
menus are dimmed
phone's internal storage can be shown as usual.
The above problem happened after backup all the apps (about 90 apps) into sd card (I am not sure which one) and then I shut down galaxy tab and put out the external sd card for copying some files. I returned the external sd card to the galaxy tab and switched it on. Then I found that it cannot detect the internal sd card and external sd card.
I had tried to hard reset it and still fail to solve the problem.
Help!
Anyone can help me?
I just got the phone for half day.
Panda2020

Weird thing, I got that same message today on my tab, but it was for a sec and disappeared.
However when i went inside the my files, all content and everything was ok.
Don't know why it gave that message.
Also i got the message for external sd card - not internal. (have a 32 gb one added).

I have exactly the same issue. I just got my today and have being going crazy on internet all day to try and find a solution to it...anybody has any idea on how to fix this...this is driving me crazy...

My external sd did that to me yesterday, had to format it on pc

leetut said:
My external sd did that to me yesterday, had to format it on pc
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how to reformat internal sd card ?

Im also facing the same issue. Cant mount both my Internal Sd and External SD.

I had a related problem. My tab originally had no external SD card, but there was a folder in storage called "external_sd". This is where I've been putting my music etc.
Today I went to add and actual external SD card. Upon doing so, the file explorer on the device now shows the new external card as "external_sd", and its icon portrays an SD card rather than merely a folder.
Problem was, my original "external_sd" folder was now nowhere to be found.
However, upon mounting via USB, my PC detects both storage devices - the internal memory containing the "external_sd" folder, and the actual external SD card.
So on a hunch I renamed the "external_sd" folder on my internal memory to "internal_sd", unmounted, and low-and-behold, I can now see my "external_sd" card, and my "internal_sd" folder.
It seems like Samsung mistakenly named a folder "external_sd" and this name collides with the name of an actual external SD. I never questioned the name, I just assumed they included memory that was logically external, but physically internal. Seems instead they just had a dumb name for a folder.
...or something else I don't understand.

Gpsrisk said:
how to reformat internal sd card ?
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Settings/ storage then format sd
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[Q] New SD card help

I just ordered a larger SD card for my G2 (16GB, currently 8GB) and was wondering how I would back up everything on the current card and then transfer to the new card. Would I just connect the phone to my computer and attach as USB storage and copy the contents of the SD card to a folder? Then put the new SD card in the phone and connect to computer as USB storage and copy the backed up content to the new card? Should I consider formatting the new SD card as EXT through CWM before copying back over the data?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I have just done this today, I put my old sdcard in a sdcard adapter and new sdcard in a usb micro adapter the copied and pasted all my files from the old card to the new card. you could of course keep the old card in the phone plug in to PC and just put the new card in adapter and transfer that way.
With regards to EXT partition, I don't Really think it is necessary because our phones have a decent internal memory so unless you have hundreds and hundreds of apps stored on your phone I would leave it as it is. Unless there are any benefits to EXT partition that I'm unaware of.

I am guessing if I use the EXT partition type, then it wouldn't be readable on my windows 7 box (is there a device driver for windows 7 that reads ext)? Personally I like being able to take the SD card out and slip it into my laptop with an adapter.

bradley_e_smith said:
I am guessing if I use the EXT partition type, then it wouldn't be readable on my windows 7 box (is there a device driver for windows 7 that reads ext)? Personally I like being able to take the SD card out and slip it into my laptop with an adapter.
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If you partition your sdcard you will still be able to put it in to you pc and read the contents.
I think I'm correct in saying (please correct me if I'm not) when you partition your sdcard only part of it becomes and EXT partition and the rest remains FAT32. for example if you had a 4gb card and you make 1gb EXT partition when you plug the sdcard in to your PC the remaining 3gb would be accessible.

Thanks everyone. I was a little unclear about the EXT partition stuff (and quite frankly, still am) but it sounds like its really not necessary.

[Q] Help a noob with micro sd problem

I installed a new 32gb class 10 sd. It shows up in Astro file manager as being available. However, none of the many APP2SD programs I have tried allow me to move my apps to the card. What am I missing here? Do I need to format the card first and if so, how do I do that?

Apps2Sd will put apps in the "SdCard" directory which in the Iconia is actual internal memory.
You can only use your card for extra storage (like music/videos)

baldbear said:
Apps2Sd will put apps in the "SdCard" directory which in the Iconia is actual internal memory.
You can only use your card for extra storage (like music/videos)
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So, where in the file system is the actual SD card?

It's under /mnt/external_sd
the USB is under /mnt/usb_storage
They will not show up with the USB connector cable attached, but can be accessed through ADB on the host computer.
I think you are meant to actually pull the card and put stuff on it then put it back in the tablet.
Not all media players will see the card because of this name change in Honeycomb.

baldbear said:
I think you are meant to actually pull the card and put stuff on it then put it back in the tablet.
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In the "First start information" document that came with my Acer, it states:
Transferring files from a microSD card (optional) to your PC
Remove the card from the tablet and use a card reader or USB adapter to access the card as an external storage device.

[Q] copy SD card

Is there a way to copy sd card files to a new sd card? I got a new larger SD card and can't copy all files to it. TB, TWRP and some other files will not copy. I hate to start completely anew because there are some backups that I would like to retain. It's probably a Windows issue. Would a bit copier accomplish the task? Any advice would be appreciated.

if you have enough internal memory you can copy them to the phone using something like ES file explorer on the play store and then copy them back to the new memory card, or if you have one of those inexpensive dongle memory card adapters you can copy them to your computer then copy them back to the card.

Plug your phone into your computer and switch the usb mode so it shows up as a drive. Copy sd card to computer. Swap sd cards in phone. Format sd card through phone. Copy the backup off the computer to new sd card
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otg cable + memory card reader is also a great option. everyone should invest 5$ in a good otg cable