I read somewhere in this forum yesterday someone mentioned that when he inserted a SD Card full of pictures, the built-in Picture Gallery in Honeycomb does not display the pictures in the SD Card. He can only open each picture one by one from the File Manager. Further comments from other folks clarified that Asus added/mounted the SD Card reader but Honeycomb native applications do not recognized them yet.
Is this the case for all media files stored in either microSD card or the full SD card? I mean, most people (especially the 16GB owner) surely plan to use the microSD or SD card to expand the storage of the device. But if those media files cannot be recognized by the Honeycomb application, that means we still need to copy to the internal storage for those files?
I do not have the transformer yet but want to know about it. Thanks!
lie_ui said:
I read somewhere in this forum yesterday someone mentioned that when he inserted a SD Card full of pictures, the built-in Picture Gallery in Honeycomb does not display the pictures in the SD Card. He can only open each picture one by one from the File Manager. Further comments from other folks clarified that Asus added/mounted the SD Card reader but Honeycomb native applications do not recognized them yet.
Is this the case for all media files stored in either microSD card or the full SD card? I mean, most people (especially the 16GB owner) surely plan to use the microSD or SD card to expand the storage of the device. But if those media files cannot be recognized by the Honeycomb application, that means we still need to copy to the internal storage for those files?
I do not have the transformer yet but want to know about it. Thanks!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Hopefully this will be addressed as honeycomb matures. You can however access the files using a file explorer app, far from ideal but it will do for now.
From the File Manager, can we copy a folder from the SD card to the internal storage?
Or from the SD Card to an extenal storage like HDD?
(I'm trying to ask if we can copy a bunch of pictures in a SD card (taken from a camera) and store them in the external storage for backup and internal storage for displaying in the tablet).
lie_ui said:
From the File Manager, can we copy a folder from the SD card to the internal storage?
Or from the SD Card to an extenal storage like HDD?
(I'm trying to ask if we can copy a bunch of pictures in a SD card (taken from a camera) and store them in the external storage for backup and internal storage for displaying in the tablet).
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yes, you can copy files and folders using the file manager.
I have no problems with any of the few thousand photos or few thousand songs i have on my micro SD. The transformer recognizes everything fine in gallery, music app etc...
16g transformer here.... Hope that helps.
Also, After the recent OTA a few days ago my sd card disappeared, but i just popped it out put back in and back to normal...
codehtmai said:
Yes, you can copy files and folders using the file manager.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
And hopefully with the 3.1 update in June can just plug the camera in and move the files across in the file explorer..
Gallery3D is a piece of crap. It doesn't refresh properly
tonyz3 said:
I have no problems with any of the few thousand photos or few thousand songs i have on my micro SD. The transformer recognizes everything fine in gallery, music app etc...
16g transformer here.... Hope that helps.
Also, After the recent OTA a few days ago my sd card disappeared, but i just popped it out put back in and back to normal...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
So, if I get it correctly, the issue I mentioned earlier is only with the full SD Card? (not affecting the microSD)?
At least, that's not that bad (as in our smartphone, the Android does recognize all music, pictures stored in the microSD card).
lie_ui said:
So, if I get it correctly, the issue I mentioned earlier is only with the full SD Card? (not affecting the microSD)?
At least, that's not that bad (as in our smartphone, the Android does recognize all music, pictures stored in the microSD card).
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I can only speak for myself but that is the case for me.
I am having the same problem. I tried putting a few cd's onto both the sd and mcsd and still nothing. I cannot get the songs to play in the music player. I can however access pictures but cannot find any of the songs. Anyone else have this problem?
Most people said as soon as they plug in the card the TF automatically recognizes the songs and plays. Mine does not and I cannot find them anywhere even with an explorer app installed? I am also a Android novice!
No problems with pictures..
Regarding music, Have you tried going into settings >manage Apps and delete/clear the cache for the music player? That worked for me.
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using XDA Premium App
I had the same problem, until I removed the Music from my internal storage.
Now the music app sees everything on the MicroSD.
I've not had much luck with them seeing stuff on the dock mounted SD cards though.
That did it!!!!!! WOoooohooooooo! Thanks man. Jeez why should that be so damn difficult?! Thanks a ton man,
IceColdCinco said:
No problems with pictures..
Regarding music, Have you tried going into settings >manage Apps and delete/clear the cache for the music player? That worked for me.
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using XDA Premium App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
No problem, glad it worked for you.
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using XDA Premium App
pictures work just fine. as people have said, music can be iffy, just clear the data and it'll work.
one thing though, anything plugged into the USB ports or SD slot on the dock WON'T load in any of the default apps. at least not on the 3 USB drives i've tried. you can still open everything from the file manager without any issues, but they won't show up.
Make sure your sdcard is formatted using fat32
You are welcome
How do you get the camera to save images to removable storage?
I have no issues with default music app and playerpro seeing all my music on my microsd card.
marhodges said:
How do you get the camera to save images to removable storage?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
At this point you don't :-(
Hopefully 3.1 or a subsequent update will work all this out.
Sent from my CM7 Supersonic
Make sure your sdcard is formatted using fat32
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I don't think that matters - Transformer can read/write external USB hard drives formatted to NTFS; there's no reason why it shouldn't read NTFS cards, either (not that I've tried, as it's kinda rare to have one).
hi - I have both internal SD card (2gb) and an external SD (8gb).
My external card is full with music, whenever I try to take video or photos from the camera, it says there isn't enough space.
How can I use the internal SD card for saving photos / video from the camera. In fact, I can't see a way to use the internal SD cards 2gb at all?? surely it is usable??
Thanks
I think that default camera app doesn't save data to internal storage if there is an external, but in market there are some camera apps which have this option(I think lg camera is one of them)
You can just move some of music, video or photos to internal storage, to make room on external sd.
Cheers, I'll try moving some of my music to the internal SD card
Sent from my IDEOS X5 using XDA App
Hi all, noob to the s4. Was surprised when it didn't come with sd card. Read about the storage issues a bit. Wanted to put my music library in phone. Installed sd card- success. Camera recognized it, all pics go to the card. Loaded a metric ton of music on the card. Phone works great, all songs play just fine.
Now for the question- plugged the device to the pc for the first since installing the sd card. PC reads "phone" and "card" or something like that. Browse the card for the music files and only a fraction of the songs appear. More detail: My existing music library was mostly organized into artist folders, with a handful of song files not being in a folder. Well it is those songs that show up and only those songs, none of the couple hundred "folders" that have all the music. Weird or....
One last thing, and thanks in advance for your responses!
I am a picasa type of guy and that has always been my preferred viewer. When browsing existing phone camera photos on the pc, the thumbnails are really low res and the files only open with windows picture viewer. Any ideas why? Thanks again, I'm all ears.
I have a Nexus 5 and just looking at my storage, it's:
Apps + Data - 5.62Gb
Pictures, Videos - 9.79Gb
Audio - 3Gb
Downloads - 1.62Gb
Misc - 5.32Gb (mainly whatsapp and Titanium Backup)
My question is, what are you going to put on your external SD. My music will go straight there, as will my TitaniumBackup files, but I'm curious about pictures. If i store them on the external SD card, will they take ages to render in a gallery app? I'm getting a Samsung Pro+ sd card fyi
It still seems like there'll be a storage problem on the internal memory if I leave pics there
Pictures, Videos, Music, offline mapping data (for Locus Pro - I wish Garmin Viago would put it there too), reference documents (word, pdf, et al), offline backups for pretty much anything that can backup it's data/settings, other misc data.
Hopefully the games I end up getting will put their data there, instead of on internal memory (or at least let me move it).
I have a Lexar 1000x and have no issues with Gallery, etc. I'm prety sure that once a directory/image has been hit that a cached thumbnail is stored internally - regardless of where the actual images and videos reside.
So when you actually click on a pic that's stored on your sd card it shows instantly without any slow rendering?
Also, do the gallery and music apps show both pics/music stored on the sd card and internal memory?
relax24 said:
So when you actually click on a pic that's stored on your sd card it shows instantly without any slow rendering?
Also, do the gallery and music apps show both pics/music stored on the sd card and internal memory?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Define "instantly" ... on the order of 1 second, yes. Absolutely identical to an image stored on internal memory? Doubt it. Hard to believe that would be possible when comparing a storage device reading 300Mb/s vs one reading 65Mb/s. The latter is only 20% the capability of the former after all.
Gallery and Music are both pleasantly and smoothly interactive. Again, are they as absolutely as fast as with media stored only on internal memory? Doubt it. Fast enough that I never think about it? Yes.
Would I want a SQL database image stored on the SD card? Probably not, but it would depend upon the usage pattern. If it was 95% read-only it may still be fast enough though.
Thanks! As I'm coming from the N5, I've got all these considerations! I guess I'm used to a certain speed on my N5 when viewing pics in the gallery, and want to know if it's going to be a noticeable loss in performance if I store stuff on the SD Card instead.
I store my music cached from Google Play Music, about 10 GB, and my pictures. I have always stored pictures on the external sd and I have not noticed any difference between this phone and my previous LG G3 or Galaxy S3 in terms of how fast the gallery loads. There is no noticeable lag. I also back up my Tasker profiles, Zooper Widget files, and other settings to the external sd.
be transferred to a micro SD card?
Personally, I transferred Facebook & Facebook Messenger to my SanDisk 200gig micro SD card and after doing so I clicked on my Facebook icon and my S7 Edge glitched & stuttered for a second and then went directly into boot loop. Even though I read online these two apps can be migrated to the SD card with the S7, and my phone easily made & recognized the transfer, something wasn't happy afterward.
Anyone else have similar experiences?
-Scott
I personally don't transfer anything to SD card. It is slower than the internal memory. My SD card is for storage purposes only
Galactus said:
I personally don't transfer anything to SD card. It is slower than the internal memory. My SD card is for storage purposes only
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
So when you say Storage, you would be talking strictly photos, videos, music?
I ask because I am totally new to Android as well as having a SD card in a phone (having come from the iPhone world).
Thanks.
SCutshall said:
So when you say Storage, you would be talking strictly photos, videos, music?
I ask because I am totally new to Android as well as having a SD card in a phone (having come from the iPhone world).
Thanks.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yeah when I mean storage, literally EVERYTHING ELSE that isn't an app. Music, videos, pictures, documents, file back ups, pdfs, zip files to flash. It all goes on my SD card. Built in phone storage is for apps I download and whatever it stores in cache etc. I do have Spotify download offline playlist to my SD card as well. Any app that has it's own built in option to store downloaded data to the SD card, I'll do. There aren't many and it is normally just backups (SMS Backup Restore for example can back up all your texts and call log to external sd card).