After literally days upon days of searching and multiple failed attempts with apps from the Google Play store, I have literally given up hope and burned out here to ask you, my fellow xda members, for some much needed help.
I am trying to mount my 32 GB sdcard to my LG Thrill 4G. I bought the card to replace my previous 16 BG card since I ran out of space. I know from experience with older Android devices that the main filesystem supported is FAT32. Sadly, FAT32 only supports smaller file sizes before it loses it's ability to adequately maintain its stability. I had over 16 GB of data backed up on my windows 8 PC that I transferred to my new 32 GB card (formatted to FAT32 at the time), and I then found out the results the hard way. Luckily I kept the data on my PC, because once I placed the sdcard into my phone it read only 4 GB used. It was as if over 12 GB of data transferred had never existed -_-
I then formatted the sdcard to NTFS. Since it's a much more stable filesystem it has no issues retaining all of my data, but the main problem is still the same: Android won't read NTFS by default.
I read online how some phones with the FUSE module (fuse.ko) built in could effectively read and/or write to NTFS drives with the use of some market apps such as Paragon NTFS or similar, with a rooted device of course. I checked the thread HERE for info on how to get NTFS to read and write successfully on Android, but the main kicker is still whether or not the phone possesses the FUSE module. And, of course, the LG Thrill 4G/Optimus 3D has no built in FUSE driver, which brings me to my main question in all of this:
How do you compile a fuse.ko driver from kernel source to work on an Android phone? More specifically, the LG Thrill 4G.
I've looked in Google Code, github, everywhere....nothing anywhere gives any clue as to how to create the module. There aren't even any kernels available with FUSE/NTFS support.
I'm stumped I've given up trying and failing time and time again. I need the full 32 GB of my sdcard for my data, and it even says in most specs for new smartphones anymore that up to a 32 GB card is supported.....so why hasn't Google made full NTFS or exFAT support for Android yet?
Anyone who can help is GREATLY appreciated. I believe I speak for other individuals including myself when I say a good tutorial on how to this would be worth it's weight in gold at this point. I spent over $30 on this card, and so far I've still not managed to get it to mount and read/write on my phone
Thanks in advance,
-MrDaggs
.....Nothing?
C'mon guys, I know it's probably not the easiest question out here right now, but surely SOMEONE can help me? Or perhaps direct me toward where I would need to go to learn how to do this myself? I've seen other users here on xda asking questions related to compiling the fuse.ko driver and they got an immediate answer, of course they weren'y exactly asking about how to go from step 1, but the point is the same...
ANY help on this will be greatly appreciated. Everyone here on XDA has helped me out a lot in the past, if anyone has anything to say let me know.
Thank you..
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MrDaggs said:
C'mon guys, I know it's probably not the easiest question out here right now, but surely SOMEONE can help me? Or perhaps direct me toward where I would need to go to learn how to do this myself? I've seen other users here on xda asking questions related to compiling the fuse.ko driver and they got an immediate answer, of course they weren'y exactly asking about how to go from step 1, but the point is the same...
ANY help on this will be greatly appreciated. Everyone here on XDA has helped me out a lot in the past, if anyone has anything to say let me know.
Thank you..
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I have a 32GB card and am using over half of it right now. I'd say you either have a bad card or bad data back-up.
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I have a 32GB card and am using over half of it right now. I'd say you either have a bad card or bad data back-up.
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I bought A Samsung Class 10 micro SD Card online for about $25....I plugged it into my computer first to transfer the data from my old card I had backed up onto the new card. It would reach about 20-30% finished and then tell me the drive was "corrupted and unreadable". That problem was when I at first left the filesystem unchanged (FAT32). I formatted the sd card to NTFS and tried the process again and it worked flawlessly, only now it won't read in my phone because of the NTFS filesystem :/
I gave my father a 32GB card for his Galaxy SIII a few months ago and his works fine. I don't know what might be wrong with the one I have, though....IF there is something wrong with it.
I'm beyond confused right now..
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not sure why you need to use ntfs but i think the fone should be able to mount ext2 drives ?
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not sure why you need to use ntfs but i think the fone should be able to mount ext2 drives ?
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External Hard drive
This post was from years ago, but I noticed I never posted my results. The seller I bought the card from on eBay was a fraud and was removed from the site, I received a refund. The card was corrupted out of the box, and as a result would not mount regardless of the filesystem I tried to implement. Though Android is mainly compatible with FAT32, so my efforts were in vain anyway. Thank you all for your help, this thread is now officially closed.
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Hi,
I am a HTC OneX user and I'm pretty knowledgeable on rooting/flashing/etc, but my girlfriend has a Galaxy Ace and she's already filled the SD card (not surprising as it's only 2GB!)
I have a spare Samsung 16GB microSD HC and I want to put that in her phone, but I'm unaware of how I should format it for the Galaxy Ace.
Some time in the future I will put a custom ROM in her phone, so should I format the new SD card as EXT4? Also, how do I ensure that everything from her old card will be copied to the new card. Do I simply copy the entire directory structure of her old card to my laptop and then copy that across to the new card? Or are there other steps I need to take first?
For the future, I also need to understand what ODIN is and KIES and all these other things that are particular to Samsung. Is there a decent guide on XDA anywhere that explains all this? My girlfriend is NOT very technical, and I work on a cruise ship and so I'm not always around. Can anyone recommend a STABLE custom ROM that I can put on her Ace (I will do this at some time in the future when I'm back in the UK)? Stability needs to be the strong point of the ROM, as she will panic if there are lots of random FC issues and she'll probably blame me for everything! Ideally with any version of JB but a stable ICS would also do the trick (well, anything has got to be better than the stock Android 2.3.5 that she's running now - I can't believe her phone company actually recommended this to her!)
As you can see, lots of different questions but I hope someone can take the time to answer them for me.
Regards,
miles_muso
Hi miles_muso !
You could read this guide http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1635108
Good luck.
Sent from my GT-S5830
miles_muso said:
Hi,
I am a HTC OneX user and I'm pretty knowledgeable on rooting/flashing/etc, but my girlfriend has a Galaxy Ace and she's already filled the SD card (not surprising as it's only 2GB!)
I have a spare Samsung 16GB microSD HC and I want to put that in her phone, but I'm unaware of how I should format it for the Galaxy Ace.
Some time in the future I will put a custom ROM in her phone, so should I format the new SD card as EXT4? Also, how do I ensure that everything from her old card will be copied to the new card. Do I simply copy the entire directory structure of her old card to my laptop and then copy that across to the new card? Or are there other steps I need to take first?
For the future, I also need to understand what ODIN is and KIES and all these other things that are particular to Samsung. Is there a decent guide on XDA anywhere that explains all this? My girlfriend is NOT very technical, and I work on a cruise ship and so I'm not always around. Can anyone recommend a STABLE custom ROM that I can put on her Ace (I will do this at some time in the future when I'm back in the UK)? Stability needs to be the strong point of the ROM, as she will panic if there are lots of random FC issues and she'll probably blame me for everything! Ideally with any version of JB but a stable ICS would also do the trick (well, anything has got to be better than the stock Android 2.3.5 that she's running now - I can't believe her phone company actually recommended this to her!)
As you can see, lots of different questions but I hope someone can take the time to answer them for me.
Regards,
miles_muso
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You can format your SDCard as a normal SDCard in FAT32 format using windows or whatever tool that you usually use, just copy the same structure form the 2gb SDCard to your formated 16 GB SDCard I recomend you not create an ext4 partition or similar things if your SDCard, This will give you problems and slowdowns in the future... and yes, unfortunately the best for the Galaxy Ace is Gingerbread's Android version and the STOCK custom roms , but you can try CM7/CM9/CM10.1 and other stuffs, they are really amazing!! :good:
Thanks!
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Thanks!
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You're welcome.
Good luck.
Just got the card for my i9305 and need advice from you guys formatting it. I'll usually put game files, music video, movies etc in it and I don't really see any file that could be larger than 4GB (if there are do give me an example). Now my question is what should I format it to? FAT32? NTFS? exFAT?. I'd probably go with exFAT cuz then you can put files larger than 4GB but I've heard that exFAT has issue getting the file corrupted and read many people complaining about it in this forum. NTFS can also consume files larger than 4GB but I've never heard anyone formatting it to NTFS. Now FAT32 is what most people are preferring. What do you guys think? Please explain this issue briefly so that I can take a decision.
Thank You!!
Ishan Sardar said:
Just got the card for my i9305 and need advice from you guys formatting it. I'll usually put game files, music video, movies etc in it and I don't really see any file that could be larger than 4GB (if there are do give me an example). Now my question is what should I format it to? FAT32? NTFS? exFAT?. I'd probably go with exFAT cuz then you can put files larger than 4GB but I've heard that exFAT has issue getting the file corrupted and read many people complaining about it in this forum. NTFS can also consume files larger than 4GB but I've never heard anyone formatting it to NTFS. Now FAT32 is what most people are preferring. What do you guys think? Please explain this issue briefly so that I can take a decision.
Thank You!!
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exFAT vs. FAT32; exFAT always wins. And you can't be sure that you can read NTFS in Android.
CalInTheZone said:
exFAT vs. FAT32; exFAT always wins. And you can't be sure that you can read NTFS in Android.
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okay..but what about the corrupting file issue? did u ever face that kind of problem??
Ishan Sardar said:
okay..but what about the corrupting file issue? did u ever face that kind of problem??
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Never ever had a problem with a SD card if you don't count the sh*tt* Sony cr*p that I had the "pleasure" to own...
Ishan Sardar said:
okay..but what about the corrupting file issue? did u ever face that kind of problem??
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I think what you're talking about is people switching from Samsung-based ROMs to AOSP-based ROMs. Microsoft is charging licensing fees for exFAT drivers, and while there are open source drivers available, none of them can be included in Linux or Linux-based projects (at least not in any official manner *hint* *hint*) due to patents that Microsoft have on the exFAT filesystem. The result of this is that people think their stuff is gone because Android reports it as uninitialised or corrupted, when in reality Android simply can't read it. Current CyanogenMod kernels (and I think Samsung-based as well) have FUSE support, which is a requirement of the current open source implementations *hint* *hint*.
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I think what you're talking about is people switching from Samsung-based ROMs to AOSP-based ROMs. Microsoft is charging licensing fees for exFAT drivers, and while there are open source drivers available, none of them can be included in Linux or Linux-based projects (at least not in any official manner *hint* *hint*) due to patents that Microsoft have on the exFAT filesystem. The result of this is that people think their stuff is gone because Android reports it as uninitialised or corrupted, when in reality Android simply can't read it. Current CyanogenMod kernels (and I think Samsung-based as well) have FUSE support, which is a requirement of the current open source implementations *hint* *hint*.
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that was really informative and useful thank you. I just didn't know that was the reason behind peoples complaining. Now I'm gonna have to ask you again...I know a very little or almost nothing about samsung's way of development, fuse support, microsoft charges etc etc cuz I've been a sony user for a very long time and this is my first change. so If I format my sd card to exFAT and install AOSP based rom then my file system is tend to be corrupted? is there any way to make my android read the data after I install AOSP based rom?
Ishan Sardar said:
that was really informative and useful thank you. I just didn't know that was the reason behind peoples complaining. Now I'm gonna have to ask you again...I know a very little or almost nothing about samsung's way of development, fuse support, microsoft charges etc etc cuz I've been a sony user for a very long time and this is my first change. so If I format my sd card to exFAT and install AOSP based rom then my file system is tend to be corrupted? is there any way to make my android read the data after I install AOSP based rom?
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Yes, definitely, but I personally do not know how, you will have to look around, it might be difficult. I would suggest looking at how PhilZ custom recovery works, it has exFAT support.
If you simply install an AOSP-based (like CyanogenMod) without modifications you will not be able to read an exFAT formatted card at all.
Rekoil said:
Yes, definitely, but I personally do not know how, you will have to look around, it might be difficult. I would suggest looking at how PhilZ custom recovery works, it has exFAT support.
If you simply install an AOSP-based (like CyanogenMod) without modifications you will not be able to read an exFAT formatted card at all.
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ah way too much hassle to find out how exFAT works on different roms besides I'll be changing roms quite a lot as I love to play around with my phone...I think I'll just go for FAT32 for now besides what could possibly be larger than 4GB if I'm only gonna put all the regular stuff like music, movie, games etc? anyway could you please tell me how to format it to FAT32? cuz mine is formatted to exFAT by default and I don't see any option in my pc to format it to FAT32, it's just NTFS and exFAT.
Ishan Sardar said:
ah way too much hassle to find out how exFAT works on different roms besides I'll be changing roms quite a lot as I love to play around with my phone...I think I'll just go for FAT32 for now besides what could possibly be larger than 4GB if I'm only gonna put all the regular stuff like music, movie, games etc? anyway could you please tell me how to format it to FAT32? cuz mine is formatted to exFAT by default and I don't see any option in my pc to format it to FAT32, it's just NTFS and exFAT.
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I am assuming you are using Windows as Linux and OS X do not hide the option to use FAT32. Open a command prompt (cmd) and type "format /FS:FAT32 X:", where X is the drive letter of your SD card.
Rekoil said:
I am assuming you are using Windows as Linux and OS X do not hide the option to use FAT32. Open a command prompt (cmd) and type "format /FS:FAT32 X:", where X is the drive letter of your SD card.
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damn man it took a good 3 hours....its so damn slow and after all that time now its saying the volume is too big for FAT32
any other way to format it to FAT32 safely?
Ishan Sardar said:
damn man it took a good 3 hours....its so damn slow and after all that time now its saying the volume is too big for FAT32
any other way to format it to FAT32 safely?
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Your problem is your allocation size that is the problem with FAT32 when larger than 32GB, that is a big problem with MS standart software; it can't do it.
http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?fat32format.htm is what you need and remember with large allocation sizes you don't want to but small files on the drive.
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Your problem is your allocation size that is the problem with FAT32 when larger than 32GB, that is a big problem with MS standart software; it can't do it.
http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?fat32format.htm is what you need and remember with large allocation sizes you don't want to but small files on the drive.
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I tried the GUI app once before and it formatted my sd card to FAT32 instantly then I put it in my s3 and it recognized the card too then I formatted the card using my s3 again just to make sure it stays at FAT32 and lol it's gone back to exFAT again. Is this normal?
One more question when I start the gui it gives me several allocation unit size 512 to 65536 what should I select? Also after I format my sd to FAT32 will it behave normally? (I mean this was ridiculously fast while I mentioned the windows one took 3 hours lol) can I fill it up till the last bit? If the phone recognize the SD it means I won't have any problem with installing and rom or anything right?
Ishan Sardar said:
damn man it took a good 3 hours....its so damn slow and after all that time now its saying the volume is too big for FAT32
any other way to format it to FAT32 safely?
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Look at "format /?" in a command prompt. It will tell you all the flags you can use, there should be one for quick format. And there are numerous programs which do this, just Google it.
Try EASEUS Partition Master 9.1.1 Home Edition
There's a newer version but I used 9.1.1, you can get it from filehippo.com.
If you delete the partition in a partition manager software, do not try to format with Microsoft Windows Disk Management.
This can damage the drive!
Default cluster size is 32kB for 32GB to 2TB
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/140365
IrfanCore said:
Try EASEUS Partition Master 9.1.1 Home Edition
There's a newer version but I used 9.1.1, you can get it from filehippo.com.
If you delete the partition in a partition manager software, do not try to format with Microsoft Windows Disk Management.
This can damage the drive!
Default cluster size is 32kB for 32GB to 2TB
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/140365
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Yeah... do not use EASEUS Partition Master. There are, as I said, numerous much much simpler softwares that can do this, not to mention the fact that "format" can do everything you want, given the correct arguments.
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Yeah... do not use EASEUS Partition Master. There are, as I said, numerous much much simpler softwares that can do this, not to mention the fact that "format" can do everything you want, given the correct arguments.
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i suggest try using HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool to format it. remember to use usb card reader if not format tool cannot detect your SD card.
Hello!
I can not believe this: My brand new Xperia Z with 4.2.2 has no option to put apps to sd card!!!
Where did this button go?
The only thing I can move are photos, music and videos! This is CRAP!
What did happen?
My phone is rooted but not on unlocked bootloader.
How can I get this option back?
I tried "Foldermount", but despite this app will cost money it is sending my phone into bootloops!
Could please tell me someone how I can get this crucial option back??
WHY DID THEY DO THIS?
Looking at this thread, I feel we should just stop with the arguing and actually try to answer the question.
OP asked why?
So, to answer your question, as of 4.2, external storage is emulated in order to support the multi-user feature.
Read here & here.
4.2 has changed the way storage is treated by the Android OS.
This is why it is no longer possible to move applications to the external SD Card.
Further, as to how you can try to build up some extra space, it would be nice to copy your Android folder (This is usually where the big games store their files) from the root of your internal sdcard to your external storage.
Then create a soft link like this:
Code:
ln -s /storage/sdcard0/Android /storage/sdcard1/Android
Similarly, you can manually create softlinks for other large folders and move them to external storage. (Should be no problem for a power user!)
I choose to stay above the arguments in the thread & stick to the topic. If you do reply to me, please try and stay on topic if you want me to respond.
Rants, discussions and arguments can be taken over to the general section. Everyone is entitled to an opinion, just find the right place for it, that's all.
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@kgs1992; This is so far the best response I got. Thank you very much, Sir!
Unfortunately your links are worthless, because it is all related to TWRP. The only "hack" I did so far with this phone is rooting it. I am really not interested in using TWRP/CWM or ROMs the next weeks and/or months. I am really looking for an option to solve this irritating problem.
You tell me to symlink this Android folder and you "guess" that there are games. What about other files? I will read this up as I think this is the only solution I can think of right now.
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The links were meant to be informative, just to give you some info & provide a reference on which my answer is based.
Symbolic links is (currently) the only possible solution unless you plan to swap the internal and external sdcard mount points.
I don't recommend the latter though, nor can I help you with it because I haven't tried it myself.
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@thalada: Yeah, you are definitley VERY helpful. Better stick with your Real Slim Shady, maybe you will marry him one day.
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Glad i could be of help :silly:
@kingvortex: I really appreciate your efforts! But after I saw this strange "Folder Mount" app I don't think this is the right solution for me. It also needs to be unlocked for money. If my efforts with symlinking fail, I will come back for more. But your advice could be useful for users with very very much spare time. And there is no guarantee that it will work...
@kgs1992: The links are informative, no doubt about that. But I realize that even the hackers from TWRP have problems with this new behavior. This should make us think.
The ExtSD2IntSD switch thing is no option for me either. I totally agree with you!
Just give me time to read this symlink option up. I also need to know where other files than games files are stored. But I also see a problem here that different manufacturers of games store their files in different places. Some ask where they should put the data to, which is good, others (like EA) just use your internal memory without asking.
So, you see: What I need to do know is reading, reading, reading and trying, trying, trying. And maybe one day I will find a solution. But this problem was not there in 4.1.2. Time is a precious ressource nowadays. We should save it and not waste it.
All the best
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@kingvortex: I really appreciate your efforts! But after I saw this strange "Folder Mount" app I don't think this is the right solution for me. It also needs to be unlocked for money. If my efforts with symlinking fail, I will come back for more. But your advice could be useful for users with very very much spare time. And there is no guarantee that it will work...
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@kingvortex is absolutely right.
I gave you the method, i.e. symlinking.
But he, it seems, gave you an app that does the symlinking for you without you having to do much of the work.
I would say his solution is far better than mine, although both effectively do the exact same thing.
Try use GL to SD app from play store. Is worked for me.
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Try use GL to SD app from play store. Is worked for me.
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Does the same as "Folder Mount": Phone reboots when I try to link with the symbol.
But thanks anyway, was worth a try.
Has anyone tried if link2sd does the trick like it did on my previous phone (neo)
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Has anyone tried if link2sd does the trick like it did on my previous phone (neo)
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You mean the app, right? No, that is the point, it does not work.
All these apps either say:
a) your device is not supported (sic!)
b) your external SD card is emulated (sic!)
These kinds of apps are obsolete now. Thanks to, well, you know already.
Symlinking does not work.
After moving a game directory to external SD card and symlinking it via "Terminal Emulator" I get the following message:
Code:
link failed: function not implemented
I also heard that symlinking is _not_ possible with FAT32 which drives my SD card.
And now?? Great.
P.S.: I have three different places to search for files before moving, btw: storage, sdcard0 and sdcard1. Veeery intelligent.
c1ph4 said:
Symlinking does not work.
After moving a game directory to external SD card and symlinking it via "Terminal Emulator" I get the following message:
Code:
link failed: function not implemented
I also heard that symlinking is _not_ possible with FAT32 which drives my SD card.
And now?? Great.
P.S.: I have three different places to search for files before moving, btw: storage, sdcard0 and sdcard1. Veeery intelligent.
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Make an ext3 partition on your external sdcard.
kgs1992 said:
Make an ext3 partition on your external sdcard.
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Did convert the file system from FAT32 to ext3. All my files are still there.
However, now Android says "SD card empty".
Perfect.
I give up. It is not possible anymore.
What I did:
1) made one partition FAT32, so that this poor little Droid can have his supreme SD card primary deluxe file system
2) made another one, ext3
I ended up with two partitions on the same SD card.
3) downloaded "Link2SD" and started it
4) first it lets you choose which file system is present on your second partition (in my case ext3). Then
5) "Link2SD" said: "Could not create mount script. Mount: invalid argument."
Finish! Nothing worked. I'm out of this. Good luck.
so lost!! please help!
hello there
i have the galaxy s3mini GT- 18190N
uk resident
carrier T-Mobile
android version 4.1.2
kernel version 3.0.31-1436784
ive had the phone for some time now and obviously internal space has became a problem so i looked around the net and it seemed that the first thing i must do was to root the phone....
i rooted with the main intention of being able to put my apps into my 32gb extsd card
secondly to perhaps upgrade the OS to say lollipop
thirdly to maybe try out some of these custom roms ive read so much about.
so i did root the phone using kingroot app, this seemed to help with the speed of the phone/reduced lagging and such but not with internal memory.
i then looked around for a solution and the general answer was to install link2sd and app2sd.
i installed both but had no joy due to no 2nd partition on sd card.
this led me to downloading rommanager (which apparently can create a 2nd partition on the etxSD) well this is when i realised my noobness knew no bounds, because for the life of me i cant seem to be able to do it lol
i looked around again and read as much as i could in regards to creating a 2nd partition on the extSD but again have not found a clear (complete and utter noob proof) guide to do this so am now stuck in limbo
ive read so much this last few days about flash/roms/internal sd/internal phone memory/external sd/nands/backups/backdowns/backflips ect. that i feel completely lost.
i understand this is probably a very tedious request to you more educated folk but what i would like to know is:
1 - can i return my phone to stock settings? (what it was like before i rooted) will this delete all the changes ive made and apps ive downloaded? and is this the best idea? to start all over again from scratch? if so how?
or can i download a custom rom that already has these settings? by settings i mean the ability to move my apps to the external SD? if so, how?
im really sorry for being a pain but my brains gonna explode.
please help
thank you
anyone that can help me please
I had your same problem twice. I just forgot to set the new partition "active".. Did you already check if the partition is primary and active?
Stefano Cappelletti said:
I had your same problem twice. I just forgot to set the new partition "active".. Did you already check if the partition is primary and active?
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hey thanks for the reply!
erm.... how would i do that exactly?
ive downloaded rom manager and tried to create a second partition using that, but that doesnt seem to work either?
i am close to just giving up to be honest, got a 32gb sd card and it just sitting there gathering dust while my internal memory is sucked dry of any space.
paddroid said:
hey thanks for the reply!
erm.... how would i do that exactly?
ive downloaded rom manager and tried to create a second partition using that, but that doesnt seem to work either?
i am close to just giving up to be honest, got a 32gb sd card and it just sitting there gathering dust while my internal memory is sucked dry of any space.
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You can create and manage partitions with your pc, you just need an adaptor and than you can use "MiniTool Partition Wizard Free" that is a free partition manager tool! :good: Right click on the partition and then "set active" (both partition are primary, but one fs is EXT4 and the other one is Fat32, set active the ETX4 one) :good:
So I'm kinda new to this rooting thing. Currently on my first rooted phone, and have been loving the experience.
But I've run into an issue that I'm not sure how to solve. My phone doesn't support exfat or NTFS for portable storage SD cards. And the files I keep are too big for fat32 to handle.
I know I can format as internal shared storage and use ext4 that way, but I really hate how internal shared storage encrypts everything on the SD. I don't want to tie the data on my SD card to the lifespan of my phone, or to the lifespan of however long before I do a factory reset.
Is there a way to change what os my phone runs in order to move to something that supports exfat? And if so, can you please give me a noob friendly way of how to do that?
Supposedly this Kernel is supposed to give exFAT support when used with a Magisk module.
P.S., where this is your first time ROMming and such, some quick tips: Make sure you flash everything on a high charge (80% or higher), and through a USB you're not worried about having any frays or anything. I'll always use the nicest, newest USB I have just to play it safe. Razer specifically states on their site that the cable included with the phone 2 is NOT intended for flashing any files -- only for massive power passthrough. It's also always a good idea to keep a backup / original image somewhere handy in case **** hits the fan... because believe me, you'll brick your OS one day, and it'll be nice to have a quick fix so you're not out a phone. Feel free to PM if you've got any other general Root/ROM questions!
Zalgus said:
So I'm kinda new to this rooting thing. Currently on my first rooted phone, and have been loving the experience.
But I've run into an issue that I'm not sure how to solve. My phone doesn't support exfat or NTFS for portable storage SD cards. And the files I keep are too big for fat32 to handle.
I know I can format as internal shared storage and use ext4 that way, but I really hate how internal shared storage encrypts everything on the SD. I don't want to tie the data on my SD card to the lifespan of my phone, or to the lifespan of however long before I do a factory reset.
Is there a way to change what os my phone runs in order to move to something that supports exfat? And if so, can you please give me a noob friendly way of how to do that?
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Ill try and type something up as soon as I get it working been running into issues when trying to get arter97 kernel working with exfat.
I got it working and the steps I took are in the link here
I posted it in the kernel thread since I was having issues with that.