What is the path to the external SD card? - Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II

My dumbass cant find it and I am trying to move music to it.
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/storage/ext sdcard

It shows as 4.35 gigs. I have a 64 gb sd card. I dont think thats it.
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kookahdoo said:
It shows as 4.35 gigs. I have a 64 gb sd card. I dont think thats it.
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format it to fat32 then it will be recognized....

kookahdoo said:
It shows as 4.35 gigs. I have a 64 gb sd card. I dont think thats it.
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Did you format your sd card as fast 32?

I got it to recognize now, but it the Play Music app doesnt see the music. I set it to On Device Only.
Halp?
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Mine came preset as exfat, I left it that way and it works fine.
Why is everyone suggesting fat32?

Mine is exfat and its fine. I figured it all I out. The problem was with Play music. I cleared data and it picked it up great.
Now how can I set everything to download to a specific folder on the sd?
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From what I've read (I could be off-base), exfat is fine for TouchWiz but CM and possibly other AOSP roms will only recognize fat32 (or at least will recognize fat32 but not exfat).
When I tried flashing CM on this phone to test it out, it could not recognize my sdcard which is formatted as exfat but Beans (which is TouchWiz based) reconizes it fine. This would appear to support what I have read but your milage may vary.
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just wanted to clear up a couple things...if you flash cwm recovery or a aosp rom then you will need to format the card to fat32...exfat is fine on stock. I was assuming the op was using a custom recovery, my mistake.

Cwm and aosp should get with the program and support exfat. Fat32 has a file size limit of 4gb and exfat does not.

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[Q] sd card files to keep?

I have a 32gb sd card and I only have 19 gigs of music on it but it says I have 4gb left. I rooted my phone and installed viper ROM also I have the clockwork recovery flashed. I want to format my memory card and put the music back on. Do I have to keep anything else to put back on to it?
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kr3wsk8er54 said:
I have a 32gb sd card and I only have 19 gigs of music on it but it says I have 4gb left. I rooted my phone and installed viper ROM also I have the clockwork recovery flashed. I want to format my memory card and put the music back on. Do I have to keep anything else to put back on to it?
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Thats more or less up to you. I'd say keep your most recent nandroid. If have games and you had to download the SD files, keep those so you don't have to download them again. Maybe keep the htcwatch portion of the .data folder if you want to keep the Green Hornet movie on your SD. Everything else is usually written to the SD as needed.
Thank you. Okay so I'm probably going to sound stupid here but will it screw up the root?
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kr3wsk8er54 said:
Thank you. Okay so I'm probably going to sound stupid here but will it screw up the root?
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Not at all.

Installing large files

I hv a 64 gb class 6 sd card which has been working fine. However sometimes when I try to install a large file, it won't install it right away. It takes several attempts to get it to install. Why is this happening? I seem to remember someone saying before that titanium back up may be causing it. Can someone please elaborate or could someone please put me on the right path. Thanks
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I dint know EVO 3D supported up to 64 Gigs
Yes sir.. Just put the sd card in unmount the sd card in the settings menu then remount the card and the phone automatically formats the card for u
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How big of a file are we talking? Most apps are kept below 100mb anyway.
sitlet said:
How big of a file are we talking? Most apps are kept below 100mb anyway.
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About 70 mb. Normally between 70 and 50 mb is where i run into problems
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Managing free space

I have around 3gb free of internal storage. How is everyone managing their storage? Are yall using any apps to delete cache files? Refer to the pic for what my storage looks like.
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I never even worry about space. I have an 8gb sdcard and I out downloads on that but beyond that I just let the phone do its thing
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I put everything I could on my external sdcard: Camera default directory, Titanium Backup, game data, and ubuntu image (complete linux installer).
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k3v0 said:
I put everything I could on my external sdcard: Camera default directory, Titanium Backup, game data, and ubuntu image (complete linux installer).
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How did you get your games to default save to ext SD?
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Gahh Its Lee said:
I never even worry about space. I have an 8gb sdcard and I out downloads on that but beyond that I just let the phone do its thing
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Not many big apps installed eh?
Install a couple big games and watch internal storage go bye-bye. So much for letting the OS do its thing.
I use DirectoryBind to redirect big apps to my sdcard. App isn't perfect, but it works.
adrynalyne said:
Not many big apps installed eh?
Install a couple big games and watch internal storage go bye-bye. So much for letting the OS do its thing.
I use DirectoryBind to redirect big apps to my sdcard. App isn't perfect, but it works.
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Actually I thought I had a decent amount of apps installed. I have 16 games but I dont play the big ones usually since I hate most on screen controls. Thanks for the app though.
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Storage analyser or grid size free are both great Apps to see what is taking up your space.
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speedfreak228 said:
How did you get your games to default save to ext SD?
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Some larger games have the option within the game itself; Bard's Tale for example. The option was offered when downloading the 1.8 GB datafile. The game still partly installs to the internal sdcard.
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k3v0 said:
Some larger games have the option within the game itself; Bard's Tale for example. The option was offered when downloading the 1.8 GB datafile. The game still partly installs to the internal sdcard.
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Most don't have that option though.
Anyway to move uccw to ext SD?
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k3v0 said:
I put everything I could on my external sdcard: Camera default directory, Titanium Backup, game data, and ubuntu image (complete linux installer).
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How'd you get Miscellaneous files so low? I have system memory in miscellaneous files. That can't be moved can it?
Not sure, but it may be because I am on Sprint and have android 4.1.1. If you notice, my 16 GB internal memory is reported as 10.95 GB. The other screenshots from VZW report the full 16 GB.
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Install Apps to SD card
Everything i install is put on the sd card i did this by following instructions on this link galaxynote2root .com/galaxy-note-2-tutorials/how-to-store-apps-on-sd-card-with-rooted-galaxy-note-2-app2sd-mod/
YOU MUST BE ROOTED for this to work
hope this helps
johnnyvol said:
How'd you get Miscellaneous files so low? I have system memory in miscellaneous files. That can't be moved can it?
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Mine is that low, if I remove my downloaded files.
LightCCB said:
Everything i install is put on the sd card i did this by following instructions on this link galaxynote2root .com/galaxy-note-2-tutorials/how-to-store-apps-on-sd-card-with-rooted-galaxy-note-2-app2sd-mod/
YOU MUST BE ROOTED for this to work
hope this helps
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So if you were to flash an aokp or cm rom will you still have sd swap or will it revert back to its original form.
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App 2 sd

Is there a way to move games to external sd?
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zombiej79 said:
Is there a way to move games to external sd?
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I use FolderMount. Note that part of the app still reside in internal memory but it allow the big game data etc to be stored to external sd.
Work great for me on my root SGP321 4.2.2. My newspaper data and games with large data now reside in the 64GB external sd.
You might want to check out whether this app work for you.
Ok tried it moved data for one game over tried the game it tries to download the data or it can't download not sure what the issue is
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Does the ad card have to be fat32 or exfat?
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Fat32
zombiej79 said:
Does the ad card have to be fat32 or exfat?
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The card needs to be fat32 and after you copy the data you need to go into the app and mount the folder, if you don't it won't find the data and it will try to download it again. /// this is due to the way sony has implemented the exfat drivers, something funny the way they did it, maybe some dev can explain it better.
etakarine said:
The card needs to be fat32 and after you copy the data you need to go into the app and mount the folder, if you don't it won't find the data and it will try to download it again. /// this is due to the way sony has implemented the exfat drivers, something funny the way they did it, maybe some dev can explain it better.
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I followed your step but its still telling me I need to download the game data?? (This is for Nova 3)?
Any ideas?
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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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decaturbob said:
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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