I have a fat32 formatted xd in my galaxy as well as the internal storage and whenever i plug in my phone into my headunit the storage card mount order is almost ramdom and therefore most of the time I can't access music on my fat32 storage.
Question is:
Any way to tell phone NOT to mount the internal storage and only mount external?
I searches around on forum and google and found some people describe the sane symptoms but no solution.
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I've found a thread at android-developers with some related info
Android-Dev
Something like this but to mount only the available external storage rather than internal+external. That would solve my issue hopefully where there's race between internal and external storage being mounted.
Can someone please explain how an external uSDCard and the internal /sdcard storage is managed by Android. If I insert a card, does it automatically usurp the internal storage for music etc?
I'm using Nookie Froyo.
I too would be interested in getting an answer to this question.
Hi guys,
I installed CM7 and now if i goto download something from the internet or fourshared or take a picture it says no SD card. I don't have an external SD card but i do have the standard interal 8gb which it will not recognise any ideas?
Your phone is looking for sdcard in /mnt/sdcard
The problem is that internal are mounted in /mnt/emmc
There is another "mountpoint file" in our dev section. Look there and i am sure you will fix it
Edit: flash vorkkernel with -internal flag
You can find it in market, search for vorkkernel...
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Hi there.
Is there any way to use all of the internal 8GB as a single partition, so it will be all recognized as "internal memory", and then mount my 32GB microSDHC card as /sdcard?
Right now i have:
External microSDHC Card mounted as /mnt/sdcard/external_sd
"USB Storage", which is a 6GB partition of the internal 8GB, mounted as /sdcard
"Device memory", which is a 2GB partition of the internal 8GB
What i want is:
"Device memory", with the whole internal 8GB
External microSDHC Card mounted as /mnt/sdcard
Is this possible?
I've been searching for this the whole week and couldn't find anything about it, only got some tips that Cyanogen Mod can partition the internal storage or something.
I'm currently using the stock 2.3.3 ROM and Semaphore Kernel.
Thanks in advance.
Nobody knows how can i do it?
(aka bump)
Nobody knows how can i do it?
(aka bump)
Anyone knows at least if it is possible to do with Cyanogen? Or any other custom rom?
Thanks.
Really funny that the internal storage of the Note is called SDCard.
It´s definitly not an SDCard, it´s a chip. The only SDCard in a phone is always an external. Is there any possibility to change this stupid name (whatever you want:
harddisc, storage or just a letter like C:, everybody would understand)?
Thanks in advance
Are you on CM9-based ROM or Stock? Is this issue on both.
sam.wilder said:
Are you on CM9-based ROM or Stock? Is this issue on both.
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You might be able to change the name by editing the file ect/vold.fstab in the system folder. You should read the following thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1454753
I´m using ICS TheMidTeam 1.61 with Kernel LQ3.
Thanks for the tip changing the two storages. I´ve read it already.
My question was only if it´s possible to change the stupid name of the internal storage ´cause my GS Note (and I think all Note users all over the world)
has an internal storage. The SDcard is always external. Just SDcard or external would be enough, double name is not necessary.
No other producer for example Motorola or HTC is using such a stupid name.
That´s why i´m asking if it´s possible only to change the name of the internal
storage.
Perhaps somebody has an idea.
Thanks in advance.
This is the standard for all Android devices the first storage that is mountable is always mounted to sdcard so that apps that require space to save files to can be sure there is somewhere to save it to.
Trust me its a very good reason to have it this way. Its been like this from the start as devices did used to only have external sdcards so to save every app dev changing there app it was just kept as the sdcard mount point
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Does anyone have the mount points of the internal memory and external SD swapped ?
When I installed the aokp from external SD this happened. With paranoid android I took care of install from the internal memory.
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bitFault said:
Does anyone have the mount points of the internal memory and external SD swapped ?
When I installed the aokp from external SD this happened. With paranoid android I took care of install from the internal memory.
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The followings give the internal memory to be the sd card and the external sd card to be mnt/emmc
# internal sdcard
dev_mount sdcard /mnt/sdcard 11 /devices/platform/dw_mmc/mmc_host/mmc0/mmc0 encryptable_nonremovable
# external sdcard
dev_mount emmc /mnt/emmc auto /devices/platform/s3c-sdhci.2/mmc_host/mmc1
The followings give the external sd card to be the sd card and the internal memory to be mnt/emmc
# internal sdcard
dev_mount emmc /mnt/emmc 11 /devices/platform/dw_mmc/mmc_host/mmc0/mmc0 nonremovable,encryptable
# external sdcard
dev_mount sdcard /mnt/sdcard auto /devices/platform/s3c-sdhci.2/mmc_host/mmc1
Remember this is only for ro ms like liquid, paranoid, or cm9. For other ICS or GB rom the mount points will be different.
I'm curious how do I mount the sdcard as external_sd by some configuration. Now i'm using ics sd binder.
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bitFault said:
I'm curious how do I mount the sdcard as external_sd by some configuration. Now i'm using ics sd binder.
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You should read the following thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1454753
This thread also provide the appropriate vold.fstab file for ICS rom if you want to mount the external sd card as the internal sd card. I use the file for both Rocket Rom and Kingdroid rom without problem.
It must have something more
Because in the file vold.fstab the internal memory is as /mnt/emmc and the external is as /mnt/sdcard. But they have the mount ponta swapped.:what:
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# internal sdcard
dev_mount emmc /mnt/emmc 11 /devices/platform/dw_mmc/mmc_host/mmc0/mmc0 nonremovable,encryptable
# external sdcard
dev_mount sdcard /mnt/sdcard auto /devices/platform/s3c-sdhci.2/mmc_host/mmc1
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Sorry, it's mount points.
I reinstalled the ics sd binder. And maybe it's only swapped descriptions. Can someone confirm this?
Sd card is also a chip. It's just that the other is internal and the other is external.
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I think what zacthespack said is the half of the truth.
My Motorola Milestone with Gingerbread is showing with root explorer the internal storage. There is one folder named "SDcard" and what´s behind: exactly how it should be: the EXTERNAL storage.
A SDcard is by definition a movable chip with a little bit of plastic around.
The internal storage never can be a SDcard because you cannot remove it of the device without damaging ist.
Since nearly 30 years I´m working with a PC. It´s soooooo!!! simple: in C:\ you find the system. If you have well programmed software you have the choice to install it where you want (d:\ for example), bad programmed software goes directly to C:\programs\???. Well done software offers you usually the possibility to put your data whereever you want.
Android stores the apps on the internal storage. With App2SD you can move them to the reel SDcard (external storage), with ICS they are moved to the root directory of the internal storage. Perhaps App2SD moves the apps there because of the stupid name SDcard for the internal storage.
Well done apps like Office Suite Pro giving you the choice to put your data wherever you want.-
I don´t want to change internal to externel (maybe also a matter of speed).
I ONLY want to change the WRONG name SDcard for internal storage to one which makes sense.
Sometimes I think there are engeneers tryin´to invent the wheel again by changing the round form to a triangle.
Poly0709 said:
I´m using ICS TheMidTeam 1.61 with Kernel LQ3.
Thanks for the tip changing the two storages. I´ve read it already.
My question was only if it´s possible to change the stupid name of the internal storage ´cause my GS Note (and I think all Note users all over the world)
has an internal storage. The SDcard is always external. Just SDcard or external would be enough, double name is not necessary.
No other producer for example Motorola or HTC is using such a stupid name.
That´s why i´m asking if it´s possible only to change the name of the internal
storage.
Perhaps somebody has an idea.
Thanks in advance.
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HAHA. I've noticed this since the day I bought my Note. Haven't done anything about it ever since. Share your solution when you find one, okay? Thanks!
Poly0709 said:
I think what zacthespack said is the half of the truth.
My Motorola Milestone with Gingerbread is showing with root explorer the internal storage. There is one folder named "SDcard" and what´s behind: exactly how it should be: the EXTERNAL storage.
A SDcard is by definition a movable chip with a little bit of plastic around.
The internal storage never can be a SDcard because you cannot remove it of the device without damaging ist.
Since nearly 30 years I´m working with a PC. It´s soooooo!!! simple: in C:\ you find the system. If you have well programmed software you have the choice to install it where you want (d:\ for example), bad programmed software goes directly to C:\programs\???. Well done software offers you usually the possibility to put your data whereever you want.
Android stores the apps on the internal storage. With App2SD you can move them to the reel SDcard (external storage), with ICS they are moved to the root directory of the internal storage. Perhaps App2SD moves the apps there because of the stupid name SDcard for the internal storage.
Well done apps like Office Suite Pro giving you the choice to put your data wherever you want.-
I don´t want to change internal to externel (maybe also a matter of speed).
I ONLY want to change the WRONG name SDcard for internal storage to one which makes sense.
Sometimes I think there are engeneers tryin´to invent the wheel again by changing the round form to a triangle.
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Would like to point out that the milestone doesn't haven't any internal useable storage it only has the sdcard other than what's used by the system which is completely different . This is my point the first mountable storage is called sdcard to save apps the trouble of asking the user.
And as android is based from Linux it would not use the drive lettering like windows.
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Hi zacthespack,
I didn´t opened this thread for talking about the milestone which I have since 2,5 years. Also I´m not talking about its 512mb internal space, which is of course not complete usable (I have 142mb left and this space is ubable!).
I know since years that Android is based on Linux, you don´t have to tell me.
My simple question was: Is it possible to give the internal space another name?
SDcard is definitly wrong!!
If this name is a convention it will be difficult to change it.
If somebody is able to change it the internal storage should be named in future
perhaps "zacthespack".
thanks
bitFault said:
It must have something more
Because in the file vold.fstab the internal memory is as /mnt/emmc and the external is as /mnt/sdcard. But they have the mount ponta swapped.:what:
"
# internal sdcard
dev_mount emmc /mnt/emmc 11 /devices/platform/dw_mmc/mmc_host/mmc0/mmc0 nonremovable,encryptable
# external sdcard
dev_mount sdcard /mnt/sdcard auto /devices/platform/s3c-sdhci.2/mmc_host/mmc1
"
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Sorry, it's mount points.
I reinstalled the ics sd binder. And maybe it's only swapped descriptions. Can someone confirm this?
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This is only for rom like liquid, cm9, or paranoid. For regular ICS rom you need to download the vold.fstab from
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1454753
Poly0709 said:
Hi zacthespack,
I didn´t opened this thread for talking about the milestone which I have since 2,5 years. Also I´m not talking about its 512mb internal space, which is of course not complete usable (I have 142mb left and this space is ubable!).
I know since years that Android is based on Linux, you don´t have to tell me.
My simple question was: Is it possible to give the internal space another name?
SDcard is definitly wrong!!
If this name is a convention it will be difficult to change it.
If somebody is able to change it the internal storage should be named in future
perhaps "zacthespack".
thanks
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Its likely possible to do but I have said it will cause issues with apps if there is no sdcard mount point and as you don't need to have a external sdcard then the internel memory must be mounted to /sdcard
Is it really that big a issue? Yes really android should have changed this by now but its already far to much a issue with the fact the external SD gets mounted where ever the phone company wants it to be.
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