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[Q] hd7 on Western Digital TV box

ok so I got my HD7 today. when I plug my hd2 into my wdtv box the connect as disk driver pops up & the hd2 is seen as usb drive.
on the hd7 nothing happens, any way for my hd7 too bee seen as a drive?
I have to guess its because the sd card is internal and not removable.
thanks!

Nope, no way to do that :/
There is no option to use any WP7 devices as an external drive as the internal memory (for the OS) and any external, but internal, memory (SD cards or NAND flash) are treated as one contiguous storage area. I.e. it cannot give access to the storage as the Operating System needs it to work on.
The memory is formatted in a special way as well which means that no data would be readable by our computers. At least until someone figures it all out

[Q] External SD as SOLE mass storage device?

Hello.
Got an external SD card today (32gb). Now when the device gets plugged into the computer it mounts it as two separate drives (internal SD and external SD). Is there anyway to either change the priority so the external SD is number 1 or prevent the internal SD from mounting or have them treated as one drive?
I ask because since getting the external SD and filling it up with music my car headunit only detects the internal SD, because it doesn't have the capability of detecting 2 storage drives.
Preventing/being able to control the internal sd from being used as a mass storage device would be the ideal outcome. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Using JPU 2.2.1.
Cheers,
Mike.

I need this as well. Otherwise my car cannot play music stored on the external_sd.
All help is appreciated.

Internal memory

Everybody is complaining about the choice of 8GB and 16GB internal memory and lack of external SD support for Nexus 7. Looking at the specs for Nexus 7 and also at tear-down pictures, it is clear that the internal memory is not an SD card. In other words, in the older cheaper tablets, you can replace the 1,2 or 4 GB microSDs with higher memory easily. What kind of memory chip/card is used for the 8/16 GB memory. Has anybody looked into replacing OEM memory with alternate higher memory options?
Best Regards,
RALIR

arlingam48 said:
Everybody is complaining about the choice of 8GB and 16GB internal memory and lack of external SD support for Nexus 7. Looking at the specs for Nexus 7 and also at tear-down pictures, it is clear that the internal memory is not an SD card. In other words, in the older cheaper tablets, you can replace the 1,2 or 4 GB microSDs with higher memory easily. What kind of memory chip/card is used for the 8/16 GB memory. Has anybody looked into replacing OEM memory with alternate higher memory options?
Best Regards,
RALIR
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The NAND chips are soldered onto the PCB. They are non-replaceable without industrial equipment, and possibly some software patches.
Its not going to happen.
Alternatively, Google USB-OTG. Less convenient, but more realistic.

As Mike mentions, USB OTG is the alternadtive. Unlock the bootloader for your nexus 7 and root it and u can just hook up any usb using a OTG cable. I use the internal memory just for installing apps and i use a 8GB Sandisk USB to store things like pictures, music, movies. Streaming media through USB OTG works great on the Nexus 7. I had no problem streaming a full HD 1080p movie from the USB!

endingcolt007 said:
As Mike mentions, USB OTG is the alternadtive. Unlock the bootloader for your nexus 7 and root it and u can just hook up any usb using a OTG cable. I use the internal memory just for installing apps and i use a 8GB Sandisk USB to store things like pictures, music, movies. Streaming media through USB OTG works great on the Nexus 7. I had no problem streaming a full HD 1080p movie from the USB!
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I do the same thing' but play music won't pick up the songs from the USB stick. How do u do it?

Nikguy said:
I do the same thing' but play music won't pick up the songs from the USB stick. How do u do it?
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Use this If your rooted. It mounts to a folder in the sdcard directory. which the media scanner will pick up. (takes a while to show up if you have a large library)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.stickmount&hl=en
or this if your not rooted. Your can stream the media or copy it to your internal memory.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.homeysoft.nexususb.importer&hl=en

Adaptable Storage

Hi anyone knows if adaptable storage is supported or at least works by some tricks?

From what I remember, adaptable storage back in the day was not as reliable or as fast as just keeping them separate. Meaning that the internal storage that Sammy uses was typically faster on its own than with adaptable storage.
Personally, I find that keeping all my media (videos, music, pictures) on the Micro SD card is best. Recording video and taking pictures and saving them onto my internal storage is faster. Then I'd simply transfer the shot footage onto the Micro SD card after. Saving space in my internal storage for future video recording and picture taking. Also, saving more internal storage for games and apps.

Moving sd card from an older phone

Ok, maybe this is a stupid question, but can I plug in an SD from Z5c or Z1c, with data (pics and music)?

Yes, it will work. When first plugging it in it might give an option to use it as internal storage or external / removable storage. Select it as removable storage as using it as internal sometimes requires a full format of the SD card.

Thank you. I used the SD card from my Z1c, no problem. My new 256gSD is coming in the next couple of days. I'll wait to transfer all pics and music from previous devices. Might need the laptop for that...