Hello to everyone. I'm running Lineage OS 14.1 on my Moto X Play. I will describe the issue step by step as it happens:
1-Record video with my phone. This video gets saved on the phone's internal memory
2-I copy the video from the internal memory to the SD card using the phone's gallery app
3-When I access the phone memory from the computer via USB Cable, the video I copied from the internal memory to the SD Card will be 0 bytes of size. No matter if I open it from the SD Card or copy it to the PC, it will still be 0 bytes
4-If, instead of copying the video using the gallery app I use a file manager, when connecting the phone to the PC, the video will not appear (but I will be able to access it from the phone)
If I access the phone via AirDroid or taking off the SD Card from the phone and using a reader, the video will show and play as normal.
If I record a video and leave it in the phone's internal memory, I'm able to access it from both the phone and PC with no problems
I've formatted the SD card and the issue persists. I want to access videos located in the SD Card from the computer but I can't, I don't know what to do anymore. Help will be apreciated!
Edit: The video is shown if I connect the phone to the PC while in TWRP recovery
Thanks!
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Hey,
I was wondering if someone could help me out. I just got an HD2 today and am trying to transfer some cab files from my computer to the phone.
I hook up them up and when I open browse the memory card from my computer all the files don't show up.
Then when I put the cab files under my documents on the SD card and unplug the phone from computer..the files don't show up under the file manager..
What do I do?
Edit:
I also formatted the SD card...to no avail
When you connect your phone it should ask you active sync or disk drive. Click it to disk drive and that should let you get files on to your storage. Why did you have to format your sd card to begin with?!
Whenever I want to put some audio file like mp3 into my memory card and return back to my device, i can't find any of it in the memory card.
I tried unmounted the SD Card and mount back also cannot solve it.
It just won't show up in explorer and music application. So i plug it back to the PC and found that all the songs are gone from the memory card
Anyone mind to help? Thanks.
Hey,
try this procedure:
1. go into harddrive mode to move your files on your device
2. When done with transfer, go to your win (pc) task bar and unmount android device safely (not unplug the cable, only chose the option)
3. On your device change mode from harddrive to load only. Wait a few seconds until sd card is mounted again. then unplug cable and you should be ready...
this at least helped me...
Greetz ricola
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ricola7 said:
Hey,
try this procedure:
1. go into harddrive mode to move your files on your device
2. When done with transfer, go to your win (pc) task bar and unmount android device safely (not unplug the cable, only chose the option)
3. On your device change mode from harddrive to load only. Wait a few seconds until sd card is mounted again. then unplug cable and you should be ready...
this at least helped me...
Greetz ricola
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I tried your method but no success.....
I am sure I have removed the device safely in PC, change mode to charge only and wait until SD card finishes remount
Problem solved using Droid Explorer to transfer files and then let SD card prepare itself
What I have always done is put all the Music into "Music" folder on the SD card and the albums in folders within the Music folder. I know it sounds simple but if you are putting audio directly on the SD card, then it might dismiss the audio files as not needed for Android.
Also make sure your SD card has had a full format before putting the Music onto your card. Make sure to backup your data first of course. Then once formatted and files have been transferred to your SD card, go to computer and right click and eject to make sure it is safe to remove. This is what I always do and I have never had any problems.
pspknightx said:
Whenever I want to put some audio file like mp3 into my memory card and return back to my device, i can't find any of it in the memory card.
I tried unmounted the SD Card and mount back also cannot solve it.
It just won't show up in explorer and music application. So i plug it back to the PC and found that all the songs are gone from the memory card
Anyone mind to help? Thanks.
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why are you making this so complicated? if you're having issues why not boot into windows, sync your phone with the pc, transfer all the mp3's you want into a music folder in your sd card, boot back into android and they'll be there.
I wanted to use the micro SD card for storing my application in Moto X Pure. But it looks like if I use the micro SD card as internal storage (which looks like is the only way I can move apps to SD card if it is mounted as Internal Storage) I cannot copy files to it from PC. When I connect it via USB to PC (formatted as internal storage) and use File Transfer option I can only see the internal phone storage and not the SD card internal storage. If I format it as internal storage I cannot access it outside of the phone since it is encrypted so that also does not work. I wanted to copy files to the SD card and also use it for my larger apps location but looks like I cannot have both Anyone has resolved this or is there another way? I do not want to use the SD card as portable drive since then I cannot move apps to the SD card i.e. do not get the option to manage storage on the apps. This is with MM.
obb to sd module, maybe its working with large obb on sd card
How do I browse the SD Card?
Don't know how I can copy files to SD card. Is there a file explorer that I can use to browse the SD card if I have formatted it to act as internal storage?
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Also, my laptop does not detect my phone when connected via USB Debugging. Please help! I am not able to browse my SD card on my phone and internal storage on my laptop.
punjabi.dhiren said:
Don't know how I can copy files to SD card. Is there a file explorer that I can use to browse the SD card if I have formatted it to act as internal storage?
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punjabi.dhiren said:
Don't know how I can copy files to SD card. Is there a file explorer that I can use to browse the SD card if I have formatted it to act as internal storage?
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Also, my laptop does not detect my phone when connected via USB Debugging. Please help! I am not able to browse my SD card on my phone and internal storage on my laptop.
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Use something like ES File Explorer App to browse the content of the SD card in the phone. When you connect the phone to your laptop, you need to look at the notifications and change the "USB For File Transfer" from "Charging only" to "Transfer Files (MTP)".
for transferring media files there is an option under Settings>Storage to move to SD Card.
I experience the same problem... It appears the microsd card is not visible to the PC for file transfer after selecting to use the sdcard as internal storage.
This means if your internal memory is full you can not copy the files over (as it stores it only in the internal memory space and it isnt smart enough to spill into the sdcard).
This is a big pain in the ass. So essentially microsd as internal memory means you cant get your pictures etc from the phone or store extra music to the phone. You are still limited to the 10gigs on the 16gig model etc.
This is a super let down...
Could you use gparted and split sd card into two partitions? Use partition1 for internal and partition2 for files/media.
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Ptikjp said:
I experience the same problem... It appears the microsd card is not visible to the PC for file transfer after selecting to use the sdcard as internal storage.
This means if your internal memory is full you can not copy the files over (as it stores it only in the internal memory space and it isnt smart enough to spill into the sdcard).
This is a big pain in the ass. So essentially microsd as internal memory means you cant get your pictures etc from the phone or store extra music to the phone. You are still limited to the 10gigs on the 16gig model etc.
This is a super let down...
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Actually I just struggled figuring out how to put media on my SD card via micro USB, after combining the SD with the phone's internal memory.
Now I used the Android manager that's available for Mac. And it worked flawlessly. It doesn't show the SD card content only the entirety of storage. But I tested this buy making a folder on the internal. (Via Android manager)
Then I called it *Google play music*
I put about 14 gigs of music on the phone and went to view and monitor my storage change on the phone under settings and low and behold!
Only the SD card memory increased not the internal
So it's not a let down par se. If it works for music it'll work for anything bro.
And that's after I finished.
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And that's after I finished.
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Ill try to use Android Manager to manage this and i iwll let you know if it works. Its crappy that i need a third party software to manage what worked without issue before, but it is better than nothing. Thank you.
Hi all I have a Samsung s8 sm-G950f and manually copied all folders from the phone storage and sd card storage directories. Fully reboot the phone as its going in for repair at a Samsung shop tomorrow. However when accessing either the jpeg and mp4 files so photos and videos that were stored on phone and now backed up to pc the media wont open either saying corrupt, damaged or not supported. But its said the same to all media from phone storage backup and sd card backup.
To rule out it wasn't a bad transfer I didn't format the sd card and tried viewing them from the sd card on the pc and inserting it into a Samsung tablet but the same thing happens. But when the sd card was in the phone only 15mins prior to that they were all fine.
Now im massively freaking out as I wont have a backup of all my photos and videos!!!!!
Please help
Thanks
I have installed Lineage 18.1 on my Galaxy S10+ SM-G975F (Exynos). I have a 128GB SD card that I can save files and apps to but when I connect the phone to my linux desktop I can see the SD card but no internal storage. The label on the SD card is "android" not "SD Card"
I have the Brave browser app that I have given storage permission to the SD card but when I download an app it appears to have been downloaded but it wont install.
I also have music files on the SD card but the music app cannot find them
I can download an app on my computer and then transfer it to the phone and install it but I cannot do it via the phone.
I suspect it has something to do with permissions but I am at a loss to how to fix it.
Any help would be most appreciated.
Other issues (may be related?). The music and camera app that come with Lineage do not load and the phone app cannot find my contacts .vcf card that is on the SD card.
The issue is solved as I reinstalled Lineage and now both the internal and SD storage is available!
Thanks, still a nice basic lesson.