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I just found out that the S 4 did not have an SD card built into the slot. So I recently added one. From adding this, I found out that it didn't do much but add SD space. I'm a bit confused coming from the Xperia Play, which was using the SD card a lot more. Could someone explain what the SD Card can do? Thanks in advanced.
Hold movies, music, pictures, and other files.
There are work arounds to load your apps onto it if you really needed to.
But it already held my photos
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HwaA18 said:
But it already held my photos
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What are you expecting it to do?
Good point. So, before, all my info like photos was on internal or the built in?
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HwaA18 said:
Hi.
I just found out that the S 4 did not have an SD card built into the slot.
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HwaA18 said:
But it already held my photos
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How did it hold photos if you didn't have one?
The reason they give you a slot for an SD card, is to give you the option for more storage. I'm not sure I understand what you're asking.
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HwaA18 said:
Good point. So, before, all my info like photos was on internal or the built in?
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Yes. You can now store your photos on the external, and leave room on your internal for apps.
So, there already is a SD card built-in? That's all I want to know
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Your phone came from the factory with 16gb. Roughly 9 is available to you with no external sdcard in the external sd slot. You'll see a folder named /sdcard, even though its your available internal memory. When you "add" your external sdcard, your folder in your filesystem where it mounts will be something like /sdcardext or similar.
So, there is technically no "built in" sdcard, just an internal memory chip, depending on how you look at it....
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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.
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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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.
Hello, apps to sd would be an option for people who don't want to do an sd swap but still want to save space on their internal memory. My question is, has anyone used Titanium Backup to put all their huge apps onto their external sd card? If so, how's it going, is it working ok?
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Hello, apps to sd would be an option for people who don't want to do an sd swap but still want to save space on their internal memory. My question is, has anyone used Titanium Backup to put all their huge apps onto their external sd card? If so, how's it going, is it working ok?
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Doesn't work even though it says it works.
Only option would be to backup to SD, delete app, and restore when needed.
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Doesn't work even though it says it works.
Only option would be to backup to SD, delete app, and restore when needed.
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Cool, thanks. Glad to know is not working for someone else than me.
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Hah. I've been wrestling with this for the last hour. Glad to see that I'm not crazy.
Is there a reason my phone doesnt give me the option to move an app to the Sd card?
I dont wanna fill up my internal space again, like I did on my last phone. But no apps have the "move to sd card" option.
How do I put apps on the external sd card??
Just got the phone two days ago. Im not rooted.
Verizon phone.
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Is there a reason my phone doesnt give me the option to move an app to the Sd card?
I dont wanna fill up my internal space again, like I did on my last phone. But no apps have the "move to sd card" option.
How do I put apps on the external sd card??
Just got the phone two days ago. Im not rooted.
Verizon phone.
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The ability to move apps to SD was removed in Jelly Bean by Google. Samsung has recognized this limitation and has developed a way to do just that. The Samsung fix is rolling out to the international variants first and hopefully soon to the various US ones.
Really? Thats lame. So there is no way to put my apps on the sd card? I have a lot of apps & have taken up almost half of the internal memory already.
So no way to do this at all?
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The ability to move apps to SD was removed in Jelly Bean by Google. Samsung has recognized this limitation and has developed a way to do just that. The Samsung fix is rolling out to the international variants first and hopefully soon to the various US ones.
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The Samsung fix only moves the apk. App data is still internal.
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MissLaniS said:
Really? Thats lame. So there is no way to put my apps on the sd card? I have a lot of apps & have taken up almost half of the internal memory already.
So no way to do this at all?
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Use the Folder Mount app to move data to your external SD card and create symlinks to the internal storage.
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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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