Hi guys,
Is there a way to force the camera to save the pictures in the external SD? I'd be happy to even create a link between folders, if that was even possible. I've googled, and found modified aosp cameras for the galaxy s3, and even the AT&T galaxy s2. Is there one for our phone? Or how could it be done? I've just recorded (NOT) a beautiful sunset with time lapse. For two hours. When I pressed stop, it said it didn´t have enough space, crashed, and wasted the last two hours. And the sunset recording. It´s not the first time it bugs me about this. If I could record to the SD (32GB), all these problems would be gone.
Please please, does anybody know of any way to force to store the data straight to the SD?
Anybody?
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timonoj said:
Hi guys,
Is there a way to force the camera to save the pictures in the external SD? I'd be happy to even create a link between folders, if that was even possible. I've googled, and found modified aosp cameras for the galaxy s3, and even the AT&T galaxy s2. Is there one for our phone? Or how could it be done? I've just recorded (NOT) a beautiful sunset with time lapse. For two hours. When I pressed stop, it said it didn´t have enough space, crashed, and wasted the last two hours. And the sunset recording. It´s not the first time it bugs me about this. If I could record to the SD (32GB), all these problems would be gone.
Please please, does anybody know of any way to force to store the data straight to the SD?
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If you have root access, install a terminal emulator. Move your files inside your camera folder to your external sd. Open the terminal and type this:
ln -sf "path to you camera folder on external sd" "path to you camera folder on the internal sd"
Hope for you this will work
Thanks for your response, Christiaan91. Yup and yup, it's installed from some other stuff I needed done. But...the way I understood this, if the memory cards are not ext2-3-4 based (fat32), you can't create a filesystem link between them, right?
timonoj said:
Thanks for your response, Christiaan91. Yup and yup, it's installed from some other stuff I needed done. But...the way I understood this, if the memory cards are not ext2-3-4 based (fat32), you can't create a filesystem link between them, right?
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mm true, fat32 doesn't support symbolic links
Thanks anyway...Does anybody know of a way to make the camera to save the pics on the external SD?
EDIT: All working! There's a modified camera/gallery apk that allows saving into the external SD!
You can download it from this post
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Hello everyone, new to these forums, but have been reading here for a few years now
I have a couple of questions regarding JB 4.1.1 and Galaxy S3 i-9300
First of all, I can't seem to make my external SD card work with anything else but Recovery/Root Explorer.
Gallery doesn't show it, VLC doesn't show it, and I can't find any settings that will allow me to save pictures taken by the cam onto extSD, nor videos.I have tried both AOSP and PA 4.1.1, same issue.
Second, when I flashed AOSP/PA 4.1.1, whenever I go into Gallery, and choose Settings, I just get a blank screen, no options, no nothing.
Am I just stupid, or have I formatted the card wrong?
best regards, Tim :laugh:
Is is FAT32 ?
Are there any partitions (other than the primary) in the SD card? (or, have you repartitioned the sd card) ?
Thanks for the reply. I booted into CWM and formatted the card from there. It still doesn't show up. Will try to reflash JB again.
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I am in the same situation. It started when clockworkmod couldn't read some of the files in the download folders (mods i intended to apply) which were visible in es file explorer. After a few tries, sdcard (a trascend 64gb uhs-1 which i indeed recommended a few hours ago in another thread!!!) looks dead both in android AND pc. Had to format to access it. Currently letting diskdigger do his job, then for more invasive action (still yet to figure).
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I am in the same situation. It started when clockworkmod couldn't read some of the files in the download folders (mods i intended to apply) which were visible in es file explorer. After a few tries, sdcard (a trascend 64gb uhs-1 which i indeed recommended a few hours ago in another thread!!!) looks dead both in android AND pc. Had to format to access it. Currently letting diskdigger do his job, then for more invasive action (still yet to figure).
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The issue you are facing is what made me flash from AOKP to PA/AOSP in hope of improvement.
While I was running AOKP, I connected my Galaxy to my PC via USB, and in the external SD card, I found multiple copies of the same folder.
For example, I made a folder called PICS inside my SD card when I got it a couple of weeks back and everything was running smoothly. Then just a couple of days ago, I wanted to copy some of my pics, and now I had 5 folders called PICS on my SD, and none of them contained actual pictures, the files had no extensions whatsoever, just blank fileicons.
I'm considering moving back to a stock Sammy ROM, these external SD card issues are getting really frustrating.
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Thanks for the reply. I booted into CWM and formatted the card from there. It still doesn't show up. Will try to reflash JB again.
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i've got the same problem..i read somewhere it was to do with CWM recovery being used? i havent had time to investigate and cant mess with my phone as i'm going away tomorrow....i hope someone points out the solution as this has plagued me since day 1 with jelly bean..
So, formatting the card on pc as NTFS/standard allocation/FULL format (took about one hour and a half) worked for me. Cwm reads it and i made a couple of format to be sure. Weird thing is in settings/memory the ext-sdcard capacity/free space is correct, but there is no visual bar (it is there for internal sd). I'm pretty sure at this point the problem was probably caused by some action i took with mobileodin using files from the sdcard.
I have an issue that may be caused by an upgrade that occurred before I bought the phone on ebay.
When I got the phone I think it was on the latest RUU and stock ICS rom.
I've flashed a lot of roms however I almost never took out the mini SD card, and since I have taken it out before several roms ago I've noticed this problem: I can't save screenshots or cam shots unless I have the external mini SD in!
If it matters I'm on 4.2.1/wildstang kernal 3.0.16
You need to change where the camera stores pictures. The setting should be in the camera app.
But, storing pictures on the internal memory can be risky. Flashing can wipe your memory.
yeah just change where the camera stores pictures, it should be on the camera settings
i don't see where this location setting is. This also doesn't solve my problem: I can't function without having a mini SD card in the phone at all times? Seriously? What if I downloaded an app?
I'm gonna try a few tests actually and see what happens.
Well your OP just mentioned pictures and screenshots.
Please tell us the ROM you are running.
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i don't see where this location setting is. This also doesn't solve my problem: I can't function without having a mini SD card in the phone at all times? Seriously? What if I downloaded an app?
I'm gonna try a few tests actually and see what happens.
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What exactly is your issue.
What if you downloaded an app? What does that mean? It would go to your internal SD, mine don't go on my external when downloaded. Aren't you trying to use the phone without an external SD?
Why would you not have an sd card anyway? If you're running any AOSP based rom, it becomes the default storage.
You can swap the storage around in /etc/vold.fstab so that the internal storage is marked /sdcard if you're using an AOSP rom.
Hello all, i have a small (big) problem with my camera on my phone (S2 obviously) but what happens is when i go to use the camera it says "your SD card is running out of space. Change quality setting or delete some images or other files." but it is storing on the SD card (obviously) which has about 15GB left and has never had any problems, and i don't think it is the rom as it does it with all of the JB roms i have tried. i have no idea why it is doing this but if anyone does could you please help. Many thanks in advanced. Yours MBrown
blazingmatty said:
Hello all, i have a small (big) problem with my camera on my phone (S2 obviously) but what happens is when i go to use the camera it says "your SD card is running out of space. Change quality setting or delete some images or other files." but it is storing on the SD card (obviously) which has about 15GB left and has never had any problems, and i don't think it is the rom as it does it with all of the JB roms i have tried. i have no idea why it is doing this but if anyone does could you please help. Many thanks in advanced. Yours MBrown
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Is it trying to store it on the internal SD card? I think your ROM might be bad, what ROM are you using?
There is not enough infomation in there.
hello
androidlover287 said:
Is it trying to store it on the internal SD card? I think your ROM might be bad, what ROM are you using?
There is not enough infomation in there.
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i am not sure exactly what more info i could include but i am running resurrection remix. and i am not sure weather or not it is trying to save to the SD card but it states that the SD card is full
First of all, one of our relatives gave my mom a Samsung Galaxy tab 7.0 Korean clone tablet, but the real device name is Softwinners V706, which runs on android 4.0.4. and has 5.05gb of sd or internal storage. First it was very descent, easy to use. But then, When I install apps on google play like Hungry Shark Evo, Dead Trigger, apps with very large files, an error pop up and said "Couldn't install on USB storage or SD card". The solution was unmount the External memory card then mount it back again. But the tablet we were using didn't have an External memory card yet. And here's another problem. I tried to move apps to INTERNAL memory of the tablet, an example was the game "pou", It won't save. what I mean about it wont save, it becomes some thing like this, "me.pou.app", and becomes missing on the app drawer. another is the pictures and even screenshots, it won't save on the Internal memory of the tablet. We are new to this android thing. Please help us! I used the camera of my phone because the tablet won't save pictures for the screenshots.
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First of all, one of our relatives gave my mom a Samsung Galaxy tab 7.0 Korean clone tablet, but the real device name is Softwinners V706, which runs on android 4.0.4. and has 5.05gb of sd or internal storage. First it was very descent, easy to use. But then, When I install apps on google play like Hungry Shark Evo, Dead Trigger, apps with very large files, an error pop up and said "Couldn't install on USB storage or SD card". The solution was unmount the External memory card then mount it back again. But the tablet we were using didn't have an External memory card yet. And here's another problem. I tried to move apps to INTERNAL memory of the tablet, an example was the game "pou", It won't save. what I mean about it wont save, it becomes some thing like this, "me.pou.app", and becomes missing on the app drawer. another is the pictures and even screenshots, it won't save on the Internal memory of the tablet. We are new to this android thing. Please help us! I used the camera of my phone because the tablet won't save pictures for the screenshots.
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do the factory reset
but it will delete all your app & data
if you want to do that
open setting, and search it on there, i forgot the location
nasheich said:
do the factory reset
but it will delete all your app & data
if you want to do that
open setting, and search it on there, i forgot the location
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okay, I'm done trying it, and still I can't use the Internal SD card when saving apps. I tried it again with "pou", together with the other apps, it still won't save. any more suggestions?
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okay, I'm done trying it, and still I can't use the Internal SD card when saving apps. I tried it again with "pou", together with the other apps, it still won't save. any more suggestions?
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sorry, i don't have more suggestion
or maybe you can go to the service center and asking about that
nasheich said:
sorry, i don't have more suggestion
or maybe you can go to the service center and asking about that
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oh, Thanks for your response, really appreciate it. Hope someone really helps me. hehe thanks again :good:
Hello, im new to the community and ill like to say, this site helped me a lot with my first android phone which is a gift from my father and its a pleasure to be a part of it, but besides that theres a question i was meaning to ask ill look over the forums and i couldn't find an answer to my problem and it comes in 2 parts.
1. Is there a way to repartion the Samsung vibrant so it occupy all 16gb or something close to it.
2. is there a way to expand /data/data folder to more than 500mb because an application requires to be installed there for some odd reason it keeps failing and saying it ran out of space
if you can help me ill be forever in your debit, thank you.
Yukisee said:
Hello, im new to the community and ill like to say, this site helped me a lot with my first android phone which is a gift from my father and its a pleasure to be a part of it, but besides that theres a question i was meaning to ask ill look over the forums and i couldn't find an answer to my problem and it comes in 2 parts.
1. Is there a way to repartion the Samsung vibrant so it occupy all 16gb or something close to it.
2. is there a way to expand /data/data folder to more than 500mb because an application requires to be installed there for some odd reason it keeps failing and saying it ran out of space
if you can help me ill be forever in your debit, thank you.
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I don't know how to change the partition sizes, but I do know that it must be done before the Rom is built. As for the data data partition. Maybe you can try using the app link2sd to help you move some apps data out of internal and into an sd card partition.
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Thanks for the Suggestion for using Link2SD but it didnt work but looking into CM Rom file browser i can make symbolic links to another folder to manually so i can redirect the app main data to my sd card on another partion so i got it to work it solved both of my probs at the same time it took a while though
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Thanks for the Suggestion for using Link2SD but it didnt work but looking into CM Rom file browser i can make symbolic links to another folder to manually so i can redirect the app main data to my sd card on another partion so i got it to work it solved both of my probs at the same time it took a while though
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That's what link2sd does. Links the app data and stuff to sd card. Maybe because you have free version?
you might want to look at this guide about a workaround for the tiny datadata partition http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1541942
obviously read it carefully before you flash anything