How do I save to the micro sd? - Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Well each time I download something it downloads to the phone,s memory, not the external memory micro sc card. I dont even get the option to download it to the micro sd card, how do I go about this and im not rooted.
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durps said:
Well each time I download something it downloads to the phone,s memory, not the external memory micro sc card. I dont even get the option to download it to the micro sd card, how do I go about this and im not rooted.
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For stock browser I presume? menu-settings-advanced-default storage

No in general, really. Like I use dolphin browser and I dont get an option to leave the memory directory and I use a youtube video downloader app that saves youtube videos and it still doesnt give me tbe option to save on the external sd. Just mentions the phone, s memory.
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durps said:
No in general, really. Like I use dolphin browser and I dont get an option to leave the memory directory and I use a youtube video downloader app that saves youtube videos and it still doesnt give me tbe option to save on the external sd. Just mentions the phone, s memory.
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Well to the best of my knowledge, without a mod, this will be app specific. But perhaps a dev somewhere will no somewhere you can change the default download directory.

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Memory Card Does Not Exist

I have a Samsung Epic 4g and just recently while trying to download third party apps or anything outside of the Android Market I get the error: Memory Card Does Not Exist. Has anybody ever had this error? Please help!!!!
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I've got the sd card does this before just the restart your phone and see if your sd card is back using a file browser.
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Yea I tried to reboot but still its giving me errors
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Does file explorer find the sd card? Is the sd shown as mounted in the settings?
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Yes it finds it, its just every time I time I try to download something from one of those downloading sites, it just goes to memory card does not exist. Is my sd car corrupted or something?
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Well you might need to format your sd card, or not use third party markets...
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How do you reformat your card? Do I lose everything that is saved on my card when I do?
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Yes, a reformat wipes the sd. To reformat you can do it from recovery by mounting sd and formating or from the settings menu
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Please download another app from Android market and see if this error also appears.
Thats the weirdest part about this. I can download from the market just fine, its just gives me the memory card does not exist when I go to download a zip from one of those file sharing sites.
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Please download another app from Android market and see if this error also appears.
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Is it possible that the problem comes from the the app itself, maybe you can try another app from the same site or another one from the shared links. It happens to me sometime, and I will just let it go and try something else.
Thats what I thought too but thats not it. It gives me that error whenever I download from any of those file sharing sites. I tried to download Roms, Music, Etc with no luck... It just keeps saying Memory Card Does Not Exist.
Europa. said:
Is it possible that the problem comes from the the app itself, maybe you can try another app from the same site or another one from the shared links. It happens to me sometime, and I will just let it go and try something else.
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Epic Life, Epic Phone... It all makes sense to me.
my memory card is corrupt and does not show any respond and shows insert disk into dirve and did try the tricks still having the same problem .. so how can i make it use ful

Noob question

I want stuff like downloads and what not saves tto SD card... they all go on phone memory I hate that my phone memory is 4.Gb left and my internal SD is 11.4.. how do I get all saved stuff to SD card!?!?!
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If you mean things you are saving off from the browser, it is in the browser options.
Not just that how about apps also!?
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You have to move those manually I think. Under settings>apps>manage apps. After that go into a few of them. If they can be moved the move to sd card with be available. I don't think it can be done by default.
I use the app below myself. Every week or so, I'll load up the app and have it move whatever it can over to my SD card. You can set it to do it all in one shot or app by app, whichever you prefer. You can also enable a Notification to alert you when an app can be moved.
https://market.android.com/details?id=mobi.infolife.app2sd&feature=search_result

Help with moving and downloading music to SD card! Not USB storage.

OK guys! Now don't hate me. I know this has probably been asked many times before. So don't hate me, just looking for help. I download a lot of my music from the app called " mp3 music downloader". My question is " all my songs are being put into my USB storage not my external SD card. I have a 32 gig SD card that I want all my music to download too. Well one is how do I move all my music files from my USB to SD storage? and 2 how do I set it up that whenever I download music it automatically goes on my external SD card? Thank you to anyone that is willing to help a newbie.
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I believe in the USB settings you must select, "mass storage mode" when connected
When you plug your note into your computer- if you run windows autoplay should recognise 2 seperate forms of storage. Usueally drive," I: " is your external SD
You can open both and simply recognise the difference between the two and your computer will recognise the amount of storage on both there is. So it should be easy to identify your external SD
For your sake, if your transferring music or anything for that matter organize it on your computer into folders- although generally the note recognizes the entire card with or without orginization; I just prefer not to mix my music with my backups in the same place
If you have any further questions feel free to PM me!
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Wait nvm there's an easier way. Go to the ssettings of the app and change the directory to your external SD
From your phone download an app called astro file manager
Fine where your music is, cut and paste it to your external SD
What I described above is for the transfer of files through a computer but you can use your phone! Ignore my first post
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Ray_Banci said:
Wait nvm there's an easier way. Go to the ssettings of the app and change the directory to your external SD
From your phone download an app called astro file manager
Fine where your music is, cut and paste it to your external SD
What I described above is for the transfer of files through a computer but you can use your phone! Ignore my first post
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Thank you so much for the quick reply. I did want to know how to do this from the phone only. I also went into setting under my music app mp3 music downloaded. There is no selection. Probably a ****ty app. But works great. I will try astro file manager. But does this mean every time I download a song I will basically have to do a copy and paste deal?
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Mondingo said:
Thank you so much for the quick reply. I did want to know how to do this from the phone only. I also went into setting under my music app mp3 music downloaded. There is no selection. Probably a ****ty app. But works great. I will try astro file manager. But does this mean every time I download a song I will basically have to do a copy and paste deal?
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No no! Well, I'm sure the music app supports different completed download directories. Otherwise that's gonna be your best bet but ill look into it!
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No no! Well, I'm sure the music app supports different completed download directories. Otherwise that's gonna be your best bet but ill look into it!
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Well I checked the music app I use. Under settings there's no selection for where the music fies are downloaded. It automatically puts it in usb storage. I'm going to have to try another music app. Thanks for the help. But I did move all the files to the external SD card. Using Astro file manager. I'd like using this music app because it has the american billboard chart I can just pick the songs rather than typing and thinking of the song or searching.
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I use that app and Your right there's no way to change the file location. Once a month I just do a cut and paste to my SD card. Its the only solution I've found.
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The point of an SD card ?

I bought an SD card a couple weeks ago and its pretty much useless since everything I download always goes into my internal storage. Maybe I am doing something wrong here? So what's the point of having one
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420haxr said:
I bought an SD card a couple weeks ago and its pretty much useless since everything I download always goes into my internal storage. Maybe I am doing something wrong here? So what's the point of having one
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Picture, videos, music and transfer some apps.
riker147 said:
Picture, videos, music and transfer some apps.
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Yet none of those things actually download to my SD card. My SD card has like 9 gigs free space and internal only has 500mb left .
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Go into your camera settings and tell it to save to SD card and free up some of your phones space
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420haxr said:
Yet none of those things actually download to my SD card. My SD card has like 9 gigs free space and internal only has 500mb left .
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Copy the folders from internal card to extsd...
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Copy the folders from internal card to extsd...
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The specific media folders..then delete the contents on internal memory....
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Or use something like ES File Explorer File Manager from the Play Store or am alternative browser like Dolphin. ES has a downloader that is one of the choices when downloading a file from the web. In the ES settings you can set its default download location to the external card. Dolphin lets you pick the download location at each download. The TouchWiz camera and some others let you specify where to store photos.
Also, Titanium backup and other backup apps let you back up to the external card.
And most important of all, especially if you are crack flashing TouchWiz ROMs, keep your TWRP or CWM backups on the external card. They can be 2 GB+ each if you don't use compression, and not much better if you do. I have a 16 GB Nexus 7 and its a constant battle with backup space. I usually keep one solid reference backup and my latest only. I would love to be able to throw a 64GB card in it.
420haxr said:
I bought an SD card a couple weeks ago and its pretty much useless since everything I download always goes into my internal storage. Maybe I am doing something wrong here? So what's the point of having one
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Also you can use Folder Mount app to move pretty much whatever you want to you're external SD card
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420haxr said:
I bought an SD card a couple weeks ago and its pretty much useless since everything I download always goes into my internal storage. Maybe I am doing something wrong here? So what's the point of having one
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Best thing for you to do is educate yourself. ...As the extsd card is invaluable and something many other phone manufacturers don't even offer any more..
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Storage Question

Seems that I have no room left on my phone storage & tons of space left on my SD card. How can I get my phone to put everything on the card, by default??
Would this work: if I hook my phone up to my PC, then just took all the folders on my phone storage, and moved them to the Card. Would my apps & stuff still work or would doing that not be good??
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I am rooted also
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MissLaniS said:
Seems that I have no room left on my phone storage & tons of space left on my SD card. How can I get my phone to put everything on the card, by default??
Would this work: if I hook my phone up to my PC, then just took all the folders on my phone storage, and moved them to the Card. Would my apps & stuff still work or would doing that not be good??
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I don't think just copying the apps will allow them to work. You can use Application Manager to move some apps to the sd card.
I went thru all my apps & moved whichever ones I was able to move. But I did that a long time ago. So I still have no room on my phone storage.
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MissLaniS said:
I went thru all my apps & moved whichever ones I was able to move. But I did that a long time ago. So I still have no room on my phone storage.
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Move photos, downloads and any music on your phone to your SD card too. Then in your camera app go to settings and change the SD card as default.
Download the free version of SD Maid and use it to clean up old thumbnails and program files still on your phone from before you moved them.
I once deleted 2gb of photo gallery thumbnails from my phone with this app. You can also see which files are the largest on your phone and SD card to see if you can move or delete anything.
I have this app on my phone, tab, and my kids tabs to keep up with their memory and storage usage.
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Move photos, downloads and any music on your phone to your SD card too. Then in your camera app go to settings and change the SD card as default.
Download the free version of SD Maid and use it to clean up old thumbnails and program files still on your phone from before you moved them.
I once deleted 2gb of photo gallery thumbnails from my phone with this app. You can also see which files are the largest on your phone and SD card to see if you can move or delete anything.
I have this app on my phone, tab, and my kids tabs to keep up with their memory and storage usage.
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Thanks, I'm also running out of space, I'll give this a shot.
Tonight I was gonna try to just backup all my.stuff and then start over. I use GO launcher and I saw that I have GO backup on my phone, so I was gonna try to.use that. I started the app & it said my SD card is corrupted or damaged. I included a screenshot of what it said:
So would this be the reason why everything is on my internal storage instead of my card? Or is that message just something I.should ignore??
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Tonight I was gonna try to just backup all my.stuff and then start over. I use GO launcher and I saw that I have GO backup on my phone, so I was gonna try to.use that. I started the app & it said my SD card is corrupted or damaged. I included a screenshot of what it said:
So would this be the reason why everything is on my internal storage instead of my card? Or is that message just something I.should ignore??
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If you have a card reader unmount your SD card, take it out and try reading it on a computer. If you can read it I would copy everything off and put in a temporary folder on your desktop. Then format the card with the computer and put it back in the phone, format it using the phone and try your back-up again.
If it works put the card back in your computer and copy your files back. Be sure to unmount the card each time. Mine went corrupt once because I didn't.
How do I make the SD card, the default storage for everything? Or is that not possible...
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MissLaniS said:
How do I make the SD card, the default storage for everything? Or is that not possible...
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You would have to change defaults on all your apps, camera is a big one.

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