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[Q] making the external SD primary SD

I just got the OpX2 and 16 GB SD to use with it. I found out the hard way the phone can only uses the internal SD (5.5 GB). This makes the phone practically unusable! There is a setting to unmount the internal SD, but that also unmounts the external SD >:-(
I'm thinking: Root the device and mount the external SD as primary.
Has anybody tried this?
Update:
I started this thread because I was angry about my Spotify cache did not fit on the 5.5 GB internal SD. But Instead of mounting the cards differently, I figured well maintained Apps will gain support for this kind of internal/eternal storage so changing the mount points might disturb other apps, I hacked the Spotify apk to put the chache on the external SD card. The path to the eternal storage is hard-coded not a setting, anyways I changed it from /sdcard[/spoify2] to /sdcard/_ExternalSD[/spotify2].
Here is a link to the modified Spotify apk.

Yeah, I would like to know this too.

What exactly are the problem you think you have which makes it unusable ?

If you add a 32 gb SD card then it is seen as external SD card and you cannot use it to install applications on because the internal storage is mounted as "internal memory" and "SD card". That's the problem.

Well, it would need a kernel change first but it can be done:
First:
mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p9 to something other than /sdcard at boot
Then:
mount /<your mount point>/_ExternalSD at /sdcard
I think your SD card would have to have an EXT partition which is what would be used. And because of this there's little point.

ULJ said:
If you add a 32 gb SD card then it is seen as external SD card and you cannot use it to install applications on because the internal storage is mounted as "internal memory" and "SD card". That's the problem.
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No that is not really a problem. You can never install applications on the SD card - no matter if its internal or external (unless you hack the phone)
On android phones, theres a dedicated apps partition where apps get installed, on most phones this partition is only a few hundred mb big (the Desire for instance only has 145mb), on the LG it is 1.45gb - besides this internal apps partition Android 2.2 has a function called "move to sd" which you can select for individual applications. This function only moves some part of the application to the SD card but still leaves some part of the application in the apps partition. Hov much you can move and if you can move anything at all depends on every individual application - some apps dont support this function, others only move little to the SD card, and then others again move a larger part to the SD card.
Its true that when using this function you are limited to the internal SD card which is an extra 5.5 gb - but the point is that this is plenty space for apps, because Android apps dont take up GB's of space. They are mostly very small (few kb or mb) and hundreds of these will easily fit inside the 1.45gb apps partition, except for a few 3d games which make take up an additional 1-300mb of gametextures being stored on the SD card.
But overall you have easily around 6gb for apps storage which is plenty of space for this particular purpose for almost anyone, no matter what use they have. It would normally mean allowing for hundreds of varied apps to be installed. Just dont fill up the internal SD card with other things like mediafiles (music, video etc.) - instead place these kind of files on the external SD card.
Talking about the phone being unusable because it "only" has around 6gb of apps space is a little silly. Sure if the only apps you want to install are 3d games and we imagine each of them taking up 200mb for textures - then you are limited to 30 games, or 60 games if each take up 100mb (unless some of them would allow the textures to be installed on the external SD card) - but how likely is that scenario ? And even if, it doesnt really make the phone "unusable" - then you would just prioritize and install the 20-40 most important ones. Noone "needs" to have 30-60 3d games installed at the same time on a phone. You cant even get 30 3d games of that size currently.

I don't have any interest in storing apps on the SD, I want apps that store things on SD to have enough space.
I might want to use Spotify (a music player streaming music from a remote server). This app has the possibility to cache music so you do not have to wast your battery on constantly streaming over 3G/wifi and also have it available where connection speeds are low or no connection is available, or if you are abroad.
All in all the standard music cache I had on my Desire HD (before it was stolen in Cambodia) will nott fit on the 5.5GB of internal SD and if I cut it down to fit, I will still have problems with other apps like map applications that also need a lot of storage. The phone camera also stores it's pictures on the internal SD.
There are just so many reasons why what LG has done is stupid. It's a top of the line phone, why on earth limit the external SD used by applications to 5.5GB when you otherwise could put in 32GB SD-card??

sorech said:
I don't have any interest in storing apps on the SD, I want apps that store things on SD to have enough space.
I might want to use Spotify (a music player streaming music from a remote server). This app has the possibility to cache music so you do not have to wast your battery on constantly streaming over 3G/wifi and also have it available where connection speeds are low or no connection is available, or if you are abroad.
All in all the standard music cache I had on my Desire HD (before it was stolen in Cambodia) will nott fit on the 5.5GB of internal SD and if I cut it down to fit, I will still have problems with other apps like map applications that also need a lot of storage. The phone camera also stores it's pictures on the internal SD.
There are just so many reasons why what LG has done is stupid. It's a top of the line phone, why on earth limit the external SD used by applications to 5.5GB when you otherwise could put in 32GB SD-card??
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+1 I do agree. This phone is useless if you can't use its external SD like it works on HTC Desire etc.
It doesn't make sense that the phone support SD cards up to 32GB, but you can only use it as a backup space. Practically.
I also use Spotify with Offline function enabled. Then I have aprox 3000 songs stored, and my internal storage isn't big enough. Doh!
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spawndk said:
No that is not really a problem. You can never install applications on the SD card - no matter if its internal or external (unless you hack the phone)
On android phones, theres a dedicated apps partition where apps get installed, on most phones this partition is only a few hundred mb big (the Desire for instance only has 145mb), on the LG it is 1.45gb - besides this internal apps partition Android 2.2 has a function called "move to sd" which you can select for individual applications. This function only moves some part of the application to the SD card but still leaves some part of the application in the apps partition. Hov much you can move and if you can move anything at all depends on every individual application - some apps dont support this function, others only move little to the SD card, and then others again move a larger part to the SD card.
Its true that when using this function you are limited to the internal SD card which is an extra 5.5 gb - but the point is that this is plenty space for apps, because Android apps dont take up GB's of space. They are mostly very small (few kb or mb) and hundreds of these will easily fit inside the 1.45gb apps partition, except for a few 3d games which make take up an additional 1-300mb of gametextures being stored on the SD card.
But overall you have easily around 6gb for apps storage which is plenty of space for this particular purpose for almost anyone, no matter what use they have. It would normally mean allowing for hundreds of varied apps to be installed. Just dont fill up the internal SD card with other things like mediafiles (music, video etc.) - instead place these kind of files on the external SD card.
Talking about the phone being unusable because it "only" has around 6gb of apps space is a little silly. Sure if the only apps you want to install are 3d games and we imagine each of them taking up 200mb for textures - then you are limited to 30 games, or 60 games if each take up 100mb (unless some of them would allow the textures to be installed on the external SD card) - but how likely is that scenario ? And even if, it doesnt really make the phone "unusable" - then you would just prioritize and install the 20-40 most important ones. Noone "needs" to have 30-60 3d games installed at the same time on a phone. You cant even get 30 3d games of that size currently.
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You are correct in most of what you are saying. However, if one uses a GPS navigation application like the one from Sygic, then you cannot place the maps on the external sd card as they will not be viewable for the application. Only from the sd card (on 5.5 GB which is part of the internal built-on memory) is the maps viewable. Now, thats a problem!

Its not LG that is doing something wrong .
Its actually all the people that are making apps that are on the wrong end. When they made their apps they werent accounting for the fact that phones would have 2 SD cards and as such wrote their software rather "limited".
All you need to do is basically to get the app developers the notice that phones like the LG, and various other phones with both Internal and External SD are having storage issues with their app. And then hope your app will get adapted in such a way that it supports the option that you can select where to save your files .
Look at Titanium Backup for one, it fully supports the external SD. Astro does as well. Its all a matter of "proper" coding from the app developers. The second they adapt their code to support external SD the problem is solved.
SO as such this is not an LG related issue but more a app related issue

ah ok I understand
- the spotify and GPS navigation examples are certainly valid points, I agree in situations like that it is an issue.
But its an issue that wont be limited to the LG, several new models will be coming with some amount of limited internal SD storage.
Shouldent it be an issue that is delt with on application level by the app developers rather than on hardware level ? Like, isnt it just poor application development that the source placement of this cache, maps, textures or whatever isnt selectable by the user ?
A sollution might be to contact the developers of the apps in question and ask them to
make a selectable option in the App for where to store this - an option where the user can select either internal or external SD.
Edit: I see MeX_DK had the same thoughts as I did

I actually had that thought when I got my LG and looked up the issue at first, thinking I was supposed to have a choice and then found out it was an app issue and not a phone issue .
So just like you I thought it might be worthwhile to spread the word so that many people can open their mouths and let the world know of the problems to come

TB won't find my External..
MeX_DK said:
Its not LG that is doing something wrong .
Its actually all the people that are making apps that are on the wrong end. When they made their apps they werent accounting for the fact that phones would have 2 SD cards and as such wrote their software rather "limited".
All you need to do is basically to get the app developers the notice that phones like the LG, and various other phones with both Internal and External SD are having storage issues with their app. And then hope your app will get adapted in such a way that it supports the option that you can select where to save your files .
Look at Titanium Backup for one, it fully supports the external SD. Astro does as well. Its all a matter of "proper" coding from the app developers. The second they adapt their code to support external SD the problem is solved.
SO as such this is not an LG related issue but more a app related issue
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You wrote that Titanium Backup finds the external SD-card...does it ? It won't find my external....if you know why, please help
//K

See the following Image and you will see what I have done in order to get Titanium Backup to do to use my External.
Just a shame dropbox doesnt do the same >_<
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any usefull script plz? i have 1gb free.....TERRIBLE!

Go blame your app developers. ITS THEIR FAULT....
If you have an app that uses or is supposed to use a lot of space go bang on that developers door and ask him/her to please support external SD usage.

devel? it is way on long time....>D

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could any one tell me and write me a sript for boot?
mount -t vfat -r -w /dev/block/vold/179:17 /mnt/sdcard/
mount -t vfat -r -w /dev/block/vold/179:9 /mnt/sdcard/_ExternalSD

rulezzzor said:
could any one tell me and write me a sript for boot?
mount -t vfat -r -w /dev/block/vold/179:17 /mnt/sdcard/
mount -t vfat -r -w /dev/block/vold/179:9 /mnt/sdcard/_ExternalSD
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You'd have to do it in the kernel really. Swapping them after they've been mounted would be a bad idea.

yeah, any idea could anyone create a zip with update? it will be nice

SD card usage after updating to Windows Phone 8.1 dev preview

I have a small SD card (1.83 GB) inserted in my Lumia 525 that I'm using to store some music and images.
Before I updated my phone to Windows Phone 8.1 dev preview, I had roughly 100 MB of free space. Upon updating, it had suddenly gone down to 0 KB. Yet when I added up the data in the memory stick, it was only close to 1.7 GB, and thus should've had ~100 MB free.
I couldn't figure out what was happening, so I decided to format the memory stick. After formatting, I clearly had all of 1.83 GB free. Then I copied around 800 MB of music and around 600 MB of images. But after that, instead of having the expected ~400 MB of free space, I have just 12 MB. Just like before, the space had vanished magically. (Note that I did nothing other than just copy the files, though I did notice that copying the images took a long time unlike before.)
Even now, if I check the size of all the folders in the SD card, they add up to only 1.35 GB.
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Yet, only 12 MB is free.
What is happening here? And no, I haven't installed any apps onto the SD card, and new apps are set to be installed into the phone's internal memory.
I was planning on buying a large SD card now that apps can be installed onto it, but if the space is just going to be eaten up, I'm not so sure.

Do you have "Show Hidden and System files" enabled in Folder Options?

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Do you have "Show Hidden and System files" enabled in Folder Options?
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Yeah, I do. "Show hidden files and folders" option is selected, and "Hide protected operating system files" option is unchecked. These are all there is in the SD card.
And now not just the SD card, but it also happens in the phone memory. Had 1.9 GB free. Copied 600 MB of images. Suddenly only 900 MB free. Might have to reset the phone to get that space back now. This is a real annoyance.

Mtp could hide a hold file system. Some of the elic hidden folders can be watched with mediaajdio2 plugin, but the best ghing you can do for investigate is to pu off the card and check the fs with a card reader. But there might be some morereally fs hodden folder, but 99% therd wont be

GoodDayToDie said:
Do you have "Show Hidden and System files" enabled in Folder Options?
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kiss.adam.pacman said:
Mtp could hide a hold file system. Some of the elic hidden folders can be watched with mediaajdio2 plugin, but the best ghing you can do for investigate is to pu off the card and check the fs with a card reader. But there might be some morereally fs hodden folder, but 99% therd wont be
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Thanks for the idea of using a card reader. That helped me get to the root of the mystery, though I don't know how to fix it yet.
Alright, so I formatted the SD card again, copied my music into it again, and checked the free space. No problems.
Next, I copied ~100 MB of images. Again, ~160 MB space was lost instead of ~100 MB.
And then, I put the SD card into the card reader. Here, it showed a hidden folder WPSystem. Inside, as shown below, it's as if it's keeping a slightly downscaled copy of every single image I copy into it.
This is where the space is going. And this is extremely irritating. I read comics and manga a lot on this phone, and they're most of the time in the format of seperate images, totalling upto several hundereds of MB. When each 100 MB means I lose like an additional 60 MB, it becomes a huge waste of space.
Does anyone know why this might be happening and what I could do to stop this? This wasn't happening until I updated to 8.1. If someone here has some time to kill, I'd be glad if they could copy a few hundred MB of images to their phone and see whether this occurs. Copying this much of image files into their phones is not something most people do, so this bug might be overlooked.

Indexservice? Causing severe battery drain.

What is Indexservice and why is it killing my battery? Anyone else having this problem?
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Idk, I'm gonna freeze it in Titanium and see if anything fun happens.

Post back with what you discover.

Been frozen since I posted. Haven't noticed any difference.

busab said:
What is Indexservice and why is it killing my battery? Anyone else having this problem?
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This looks like it was an issue with some Note 3s and trouble with PDF files, causing the indexservice to run constantly. Google "android indexservice" and read to your heart's content about the frustration.
Seems to be related to pdf files or 64 Gb microSD cards or trying to index large Dropboxes. Or maybe something else. You may have to try several things that seemed to help others.

Unless you're searching your files for particular text strings often, indexing is not really required (it speeds up searches of your files). I have it disabled on all my computers ( computers have it also) and phones since it uses battery, cpu cycles and space. On brand new phone it could take a while to index all files from scratch, so it doesn't have to be that infamous pdf indexing bug, but very well it could be. You need root to freeze it, or you could force stop it without root, but it will restart later. unfortunately I don't think you can turn it off, like some other apps in apps manager.

Well it's still frozen on mine and nothing has changed lol.

devynbf said:
Well it's still frozen on mine and nothing has changed lol.
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Kill the process. That should last until you next boot (or run certain apps that trigger the indexing service).

I only had the problem on the first night. Since then it's been fine. Also you can put it in power saving mode. Just use the minimum setting so you won't notice that much different.

On my Note 4 I deleted all pdf's from my sd card and the indexservice battery drain has stopped. I opened the My Files app, opened Documents and deleted the pdf's from there. I backed them up first to Dropbox so no worries there.

Hi guys , same is happening to me . I think it starts after last update couple days ago . Which version of Note 4 you got ? My si Snapdragon version . I try pull out micro sd card but no change index service is still running and eating my nattery. I also try stopped the proces it helps but only for some time after some time it starts automaticaly . Have you tried factory reset ? Any help ? "sorry for my poor english"

Bad PDF files on your card will cause this, just like corrupted music/videos will cause the media scanner to run out of control. Delete the PDFs, restart the phone, and you should be fine.
i would freeze the indexing service too though. It's not a critical function.

Thank you . You was right , it was corrupted downloaded apk instalation file. After I deleted that file there is no more indexing battery drain.

bluepeter said:
Thank you . You was right , it was corrupted downloaded apk instalation file. After I deleted that file there is no more indexing battery drain.
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before the most recent update received Monday, everything was fine.. now its eating my battery alive with or without the memory card. havent done a factory reset as of yet, because well.. factory reset. completely stock & unmodded as well. now what?

i ran into this problem after i moved my SanDisk Micro SD (32gb) card from my T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3 to my new T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 4 and about an hour later noticed that the battery was down from 100% to 88%. i checked the batter usage and showed that the IndexService process was running constantly.
i talked to T-Mobile Customer Care and Sumsung Technical support but could not resolve the problem. both recommended to just remove the card and not use it - defeats the purpose of expanded memory. i also purchased a new Samsung EVO micro SD (32gb) card, formatted on the phone, transferred my folders and files, and had the same result.
after countless time talking to T-Mobile, chats with Samsung, and searching Note 4 and Android forums, i found a member (worwig) who said he resolved the issue by renaming his directories by putting a period in front of the name (ie: MyMusic became .MyMusic).
i decided to try this. after i renamed my folders to start with a period, i noticed that they were hidden to the Android system, so i had to change the MyFile setting to show hidden files. i powered off my phone, charged to 100%, and started it up again, and the IndexService process was gone. i think that the Android system (4.4.4) does not like non-system folders on the micro SD card.
people who just use the micro SD card to store the pictures and video taken by the phone should not have this issue unless they create their own folders and place files in them. for me i like to have folders to organize my files (t does not matter the type of files on the card: .doc, .xls, .pdf, .mp3, .wmv, etc).
so if you do put a micro SD card in your phone and have non-system folders to organize your content, you will need to rename them to start with a period (ie: MyMusic becomes .MyMusic) so the Android system does not see them and the IndexService process will not run. you will also need to change MyFiles setting to show hidden files.
my Note 4 is working the way it should and the battery life is awesome.

bottomfisher said:
i ran into this problem after i moved my SanDisk Micro SD (32gb) card from my T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3 to my new T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 4 and about an hour later noticed that the battery was down from 100% to 88%. i checked the batter usage and showed that the IndexService process was running constantly.
i talked to T-Mobile Customer Care and Sumsung Technical support but could not resolve the problem. both recommended to just remove the card and not use it - defeats the purpose of expanded memory. i also purchased a new Samsung EVO micro SD (32gb) card, formatted on the phone, transferred my folders and files, and had the same result.
after countless time talking to T-Mobile, chats with Samsung, and searching Note 4 and Android forums, i found a member (worwig) who said he resolved the issue by renaming his directories by putting a period in front of the name (ie: MyMusic became .MyMusic).
i decided to try this. after i renamed my folders to start with a period, i noticed that they were hidden to the Android system, so i had to change the MyFile setting to show hidden files. i powered off my phone, charged to 100%, and started it up again, and the IndexService process was gone. i think that the Android system (4.4.4) does not like non-system folders on the micro SD card.
people who just use the micro SD card to store the pictures and video taken by the phone should not have this issue unless they create their own folders and place files in them. for me i like to have folders to organize my files (t does not matter the type of files on the card: .doc, .xls, .pdf, .mp3, .wmv, etc).
so if you do put a micro SD card in your phone and have non-system folders to organize your content, you will need to rename them to start with a period (ie: MyMusic becomes .MyMusic) so the Android system does not see them and the IndexService process will not run. you will also need to change MyFiles setting to show hidden files.
my Note 4 is working the way it should and the battery life is awesome.
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THANK YOU! One question to clarify tho, just the cards root directory folders get renamed or every subfolder as well?

Hello tb21666,
because i changed the storage location of the pictures and videos taken by the phone camera to the memory card, the Android System added these system folders that i did not rename: Android, Camera, DCIM, and LOST.DIR. i only renamed my person folders but not any sub-folder within them.
for example, i have a main folder called Music with many sub-folders for each artist - i only renamed the main folder (Music to .Music) and did not rename the sub-folders. just remember to change the File settings to show hidden files.
another thing that i noticed was that these renamed folders are invisible to Windows when you connect your phone via the usb cable. changing the view settings does not show them either.
hope this helps and makes sense.

bottomfisher said:
Hello tb21666,
because i changed the storage location of the pictures and videos taken by the phone camera to the memory card, the Android System added these system folders that i did not rename: Android, Camera, DCIM, and LOST.DIR. i only renamed my person folders but not any sub-folder within them.
for example, i have a main folder called Music with many sub-folders for each artist - i only renamed the main folder (Music to .Music) and did not rename the sub-folders. just remember to change the File settings to show hidden files.
another thing that i noticed was that these renamed folders are invisible to Windows when you connect your phone via the usb cable. changing the view settings does not show them either.
hope this helps and makes sense.
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Yeah, I figured all that out myself last night via trial & error waiting for a reply. Thanks tho! You don't know how much the initial solution has helped not only myself but countless others. Cheers!

[Q]

First off, let me apologize if this isn't in the right forum. I come on here every once in a blue moon.
I've reloaded 4.4.2 on my at&t s4 active i537. The first couple times because I've tried different safestrap ROM's and they've all failed. Most recently due to the 5.0.1 lollipop update. I hate it with a burning passion. I feel like if Windows 8 and Apple IOS had a baby, it's name would be lollipop. But I digress.
So anyway, during this process of reloading my stock NE3 rom, I didn't save my pictures to my desktop therfore after a factory reset, they were gone.(thanks TTB for not backing up the sole purpose of the app). So I grabbed an app off the play store called "disk digger". It really an amazing app. It searched through my phone and got every single PNG and JPEG photo I have on my phone, even the ones from my Samsung infuse (I'm using the same SD card). But the only issue is that theyre all squares. They're not the full ratio pictures that they were originally in, but they're the safe 1080p pictures that were taken.
For example, I had used snapsave and had hundreds of automatically saved photos wich I thought were gone. But lone behold, they appeared in this disk digger app. But they were square photos and not the original rectangular ones. It's almost like they're just thumbnails.
So my question here is, if they're somehow still on my phone, how do I get them In there original form?
Thank you in advance.

ZERT_TITAN said:
First off, let me apologize if this isn't in the right forum. I come on here every once in a blue moon.
I've reloaded 4.4.2 on my at&t s4 active i537. The first couple times because I've tried different safestrap ROM's and they've all failed. Most recently due to the 5.0.1 lollipop update. I hate it with a burning passion. I feel like if Windows 8 and Apple IOS had a baby, it's name would be lollipop. But I digress.
So anyway, during this process of reloading my stock NE3 rom, I didn't save my pictures to my desktop therfore after a factory reset, they were gone.(thanks TTB for not backing up the sole purpose of the app). So I grabbed an app off the play store called "disk digger". It really an amazing app. It searched through my phone and got every single PNG and JPEG photo I have on my phone, even the ones from my Samsung infuse (I'm using the same SD card). But the only issue is that theyre all squares. They're not the full ratio pictures that they were originally in, but they're the safe 1080p pictures that were taken.
For example, I had used snapsave and had hundreds of automatically saved photos wich I thought were gone. But lone behold, they appeared in this disk digger app. But they were square photos and not the original rectangular ones. It's almost like they're just thumbnails.
So my question here is, if they're somehow still on my phone, how do I get them In there original form?
Thank you in advance.
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First of all your on the wrong section. Try to post in correct section so that you'll get appropriate help.
So, Were those photos on external SD card?

They are "remrants" of the photos. The thumbnails saved in temp maybe?
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Americanu93 said:
They are "remrants" of the photos. The thumbnails saved in temp maybe?
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When you formated original copies, were they in internal memory or external?
If they were in external, then there's a software that can help you recover photos in original size.

hitman-xda said:
First of all your on the wrong section. Try to post in correct section so that you'll get appropriate help.
So, Were those photos on external SD card?
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They are "remrants" of the photos. The thumbnails saved in temp maybe?
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When you formated original copies, were they in internal memory or external?
If they were in external, then there's a software that can help you recover photos in original size.
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I had original posted this in XD player forum or something like that. I don't know how it got there but long story short, I reported it and the admin sent it here.
Otherwise I have no clue where they were put originally . I do know that the photos on my SD card that are in DCIM are in the results that are generated by the app and are full. Pictures. I also know that there are stock pictures that from the apps. (like arrows and logos that are put in the app code or whatever by the app creator). I don't understand how these can be there if I had factory reset the phone.
I know disk digger gives the option to select internal and external. When I select external., it came up with over 7000 photos, most of them are the ones I want but are in the format I explained in the original post.

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ZERT_TITAN said:
I had original posted this in XD player forum or something like that. I don't know how it got there but long story short, I reported it and the admin sent it here.
Otherwise I have no clue where they were put originally . I do know that the photos on my SD card that are in DCIM are in the results that are generated by the app and are full. Pictures. I also know that there are stock pictures that from the apps. (like arrows and logos that are put in the app code or whatever by the app creator). I don't understand how these can be there if I had factory reset the phone.
I know disk digger gives the option to select internal and external. When I select external., it came up with over 7000 photos, most of them are the ones I want but are in the format I explained in the original post.
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Usually apps create its directories into internal storage. DiskDigger and other android apps doesn't extract images into it's original form.
I know a computer software that can extract your images in its original form.
You should check this once.
It works on windows.
You have to connect your SD card with the help of card reader.
Scan and recover.
Below is the direct link to download software.
fs37.filehippo.com/5406/cb2c01f67d5b4f9096af0dfd91d5e4cb/pci_filerecovery.exe
(Just copy above and paste it in your browser)
Hope this would help you.

Make the new S10 save everything on the SDCARD ?

Hey guys,
I just received the galaxy S10+ i went from S8+.
this is how My s8 memory looks like :
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How i prevent this on my S10 ?
How to make all things to go to the SD card ?
Apps Pictures videos and etc.
Many thanks for the assist.

Maybe in the developer options of the phone.

Outbreak444 said:
Maybe in the developer options of the phone.
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What i should look for there ?

Serie said:
What i should look for there ?
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You can't absolutely make everything go to the SD card. System apps won't go and even if you go to the individual app settings and if offers you a "move to SD" option, many times it's only moving some data and often very little of that. In the camera, you do go to settings and change your storage location to SD card don't you?

Tel864 said:
You can't absolutely make everything go to the SD card. System apps won't go and even if you go to the individual app settings and if offers you a "move to SD" option, many times it's only moving some data and often very little of that. In the camera, you do go to settings and change your storage location to SD card don't you?
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Yea with the camera I'm good.
but i don't really understand how always my phone get to full storage.
i think maybe its the whatsapp.
There is something to do something with the whatsapp ?

Serie said:
Yea with the camera I'm good.
but i don't really understand how always my phone get to full storage.
i think maybe its the whatsapp.
There is something to do something with the whatsapp ?
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Go into settings>Apps and on the 3 dots at the top right choose "sort by size". You'll see what apps are killing your storage. Facebook can be a storage killer also, mainly the reason I don't use the official app. Use the Samsung+ app and look at the storage also. You can delete all your apps cache there and maybe see what else is using a lot of storage.

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On the very bottom there should be a setting to force allow apps on external. Then you could just move them from there.
But I would agree with the other users in this thread. Check which apps are using the most, clear all cache, and sometimes I'll uninstall and reinstall an app to reset the amount of storage it uses. For example, after clearing cache and data for Facebook, the app can still take up 200mb in storage when a fresh install would only be about 50mb.

Serie said:
How i prevent this on my S10 ?
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You already did, you bought a phone with double the storage.

In my experience, it's best just to connect to your PC and see everything easier. Decide what to move onto the Micro SD card from there. That's how I like to organize stuff between Micro SD storage and internal storage. Most of my media (music, videos, pictures) is kept on my Micro SD card. When I shoot new video or take a bulk of new photos I just transfer to the appropriate folders on my Micro SD card through the phone's stock file app.
So once you've established the folders on both the Micro SD card and Internal storage, it makes transferring files between much more organized and efficient.