A couple of days ago my phones free space got down to 1.5GB and I figured I should back it up to free some space. What a pain it turned out to be!
As most of you know we can only transfer as MTP and PTP and I presume this is where most of the problems come from..
1. File identification is slooooww.
2. transfer time literally freezes at the initial transfer to my HDD. making it impossible to drag and drop another set of files
3. I dont believe all of the files were discoverable (aka hidden)
Please post any and all methods/apps/MODS etc. that may help in this kind of process! Thank you.
p.s. I am using Windows 8
wudien said:
A couple of days ago my phones free space got down to 1.5GB and I figured I should back it up to free some space. What a pain it turned out to be!
As most of you know we can only transfer as MTP and PTP and I presume this is where most of the problems come from..
1. File identification is slooooww.
2. transfer time literally freezes at the initial transfer to my HDD. making it impossible to drag and drop another set of files
3. I dont believe all of the files were discoverable (aka hidden)
Please post any and all methods/apps/MODS etc. that may help in this kind of process! Thank you.
p.s. I am using Windows 8
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I've found it easiest to take out the MicroSD card and put it in an adapter and put it in my laptop or desktop and push files to and from it. Works a TON faster than using the USB cable to the phone.
Assuming everything is on the external SD card.
For anything internal, adb root, then adb pull everything you want. (Make sure the phone is plugged into the original AC charger - it's going to take a while if you pull a lot of files.)
1.5GB left? And I thought I was a software junkie. I still have 23GB free (internal), and there's still loads of stuff I installed to find out why someone was having a problem and haven't uninstalled yet.
For me i only use cabe conection to use odin. For transfearing files i use mmc card reader. Very easy.
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Maos_frias said:
For me i only use cabe conection to use odin. For transfearing files i use mmc card reader. Very easy.
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Okay. But what if I want to transfer directly from the internal memory? I only just put in an mSD card since the phone got full. Do you push everything from internal to SD then take the SD out and put it in a PC?
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Okay. But what if I want to transfer directly from the internal memory? I only just put in an mSD card since the phone got full. Do you push everything from internal to SD then take the SD out and put it in a PC?
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Yep
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I posted a similar question. I used an app called USB switcher on my original Note. I'm waiting to see if it's compatible with the Note 3.
Galaxy Note 3 "The Beast"
Agent said:
Yep
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So a jailbroken iDevice has better storage capabilities. Dumb. Hopefully usb switcher will update.
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wudien said:
So a jailbroken iDevice has better storage capabilities. Dumb. Hopefully usb switcher will update.
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I hate they got rid of USB mass storage after ICS.
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I was in class, pulled out my captivate, went to look at some pictures. They werent there. Got me curiois so I went into the file explorer to see what was up. My external sd no longer has any understandable files on it. All of my photos, music, videos ANYTHING are not there. It has all been replaced with gibberish, random letters, numbers and symbols. The only file still there is LOST.DIR, and it too is filled with nothing but numbers from 4 to 94xxx.
WHAT HAPPENED? Please offer some advice if you can. I had lots of very special pictures from deployment and my wedding on that card.
Im running Cog 2.2 beta 8.1, using oclf. The only two things really done to the phone.
Ive noticed over the last few days, recently installed apps would disappear, id download them again and the data/progress would still be there.
Please help of you can, can the files be recovered? What happened? How do I prevent it from happening again?
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Sounds like your card is bad. Did you leave it in while flashing your phone? That can cause an issue.
If your PC has a card reader and you have an adapter for it you may be able to recover some of your stuff.
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I was worried that may be the problem. Any suggestions on a good recovery program. Dont care if I have to pay, these files are priceless
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I wish I knew. Do you have a card reader on your PC? I think you should be able to just view what is on it when inserted into your PC with an adapter, it should be visable as a drive, just browse it. I am not 100% certain of the process for restoration.
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ok so this is a simple question i know but conflicting topics have made me post this
i have 1gb system memory
5gb phone memory
29gb of sdcard space
So in short.... WHY CANT I MOVE ANYTHING TO MY ext_SD(the removable one) CARD I HAVE A CLASS 10 32GB SD CARD IM NOT ABLE TO UTILIZE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*UPDATE EDIT=So looks like the culprit is yet again a phone company making mods to android
+1 to Close the open source!! and go back to google phones.. LG, MOTO, HTC, they all just bloat the sh** out of the phone and take away the modding capabilities
so if anyone has any advice on how or what i can move to my 32GB Ext_SD card... please let me know
I have no problem moving all as compatible apps to the as card. Some apps just don't have that option though.
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Some of the games and such are adapted to save on sdcard
Look through o3d forum
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OK, I have a quasi solution for you I just thought about. /sdcard is internal and /sdcard/_ExternalSD/ is the your transflash card. Most apps are made to save data to /sdcard which does become an issue when some of the kickass games like shadowgun download 250MB plus of data plus all of your roms and media. What you could do, I gather, is move the directories like those game data directories to /sdcard/_ExternalSD/ and then crate a symlink to it with the same name in sdcard. It's probably what I'LLC do when this last GB is gone, lol.
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That's a good idea just put them in the extra SD through the computer or if I can move it with astro maybe ill try that
Hopefully at least I can move my roms since they are the biggest space taker
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If you guys need help with updater script, just let me know
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lastdeadmouse said:
I have no problem moving all as compatible apps to the as card. Some apps just don't have that option though.
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No, he's talking about the external SD card...as in the card that you can pull out that stores your pictures and videos on. When you move an application on this phone to the SD card, it actually moves it to internal SD application storage. This is my second thrill and neither will move apps to the external SD card.
When you click on apps2sd app and move an app watch and see that your external SD card memory doesn't change at all.
You can edit vold.fstab to,switch how the cards are used
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Read on in the thread.
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You can edit vold.fstab to,switch how the cards are used
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Okay. Continue. I'm listening.
I have a 32 gig SD card I bought specifically to be able to move a ton of apps there. I haven't been able to do so and would love to rather than being limited to the 8 gigs on the phone.
Hope this helps
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1381688
[TWEAK][MOD][FIX][CM7] sdcard Switcharoo!
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Post your file and I can try edit if you want.
If you edit yourself do not use NotePad. Use NotePad ++
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Hope this helps
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1381688
[TWEAK][MOD][FIX][CM7] sdcard Switcharoo!
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That method did not work, did not even recognize my sd card ("internal" or "external")
I can post that file when I get home tonight and see if anyone can get them edited.
Okay. Just tell me if I'm wrong. What I'm referring to and what I think the OP was referring to was that external SD card that you buy at the store where you store your music and pictures on. The SanDisk.
The other storage is internal storage, then there's system memory.
Cm7 fixes this.
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Is anyone having issues with the SDcard becoming corrupt?
I'm running xbian with a couple other light projects running in the background. This is the original model B.
It's set up with the SDcard as only the boot partition, and everything else is on an external 128G USB hard drive. It will run for quite a while (from a couple weeks to a month), then I'll start seeing some slowing down, occasionally taking forever for ssh to connect. I'll sync then reboot. It starts to load and the last thing that pops up is loading initrd, then reboots. The card is unreadable with Windows, but an fsck done on it in linux shows no errors. If I re-format the card, then windows will see it. I then reload the boot partition, put the card back in and it boots and runs fine. I have used 3 different cards. Kodak 8g class 10, sandisk 8g class 4, and a memorex 1g class 4.
Pi is not overclocked, and my power supply for the pi and hard drive is a 600W PC power supply.
Thanks
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Yes, replace it with transcend or samsung 8G SD HC10,or bether option is to make It run from USB, becouse SD cards have limited read write... Will post how to do this. Icm running OpenELEC from USB and can even use theme like EonMQ 5!
http://rapidshare.com/share/26B41B1E81A0DE70522149E2E6E05357
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youtube how to here.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGFdQVwc8Q0
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Yes, replace it with transcend or samsung 8G SD HC10,or bether option is to make It run from USB, becouse SD cards have limited read write... Will post how to do this. Icm running OpenELEC from USB and can even use theme like EonMQ 5!
youtube how to here.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGFdQVwc8Q0
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It is only used as boot. System and root filesystem run on 136G USB hard drive.
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5ft24 said:
It is only used as boot. System and root filesystem run on 136G USB hard drive.
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Is your RaspberryPi Overclocked?
I had many issues with overclock is I slowed my pi down to 800 MHz in this setting it run smooth.
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It is only used as boot. System and root filesystem run on 136G USB hard drive.
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I'll have to see if default Xbian is overclocked, but I haven't changed any OC settings
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I prefer OpenELEC over Xbian because I'm pretty sure the guide is for OpenELEC anyway so it just made it easier for me.
Hello all,
I want to format Windows 7 and install Windows 8. I booted from the USB and went to the page where I can select which drives to format. I have 2 1 TB drives. The C drive which has windows and I want to format it and the D drive which has all my back up photos, music and videos. I deleted the system cache which is 100 mb and I don't know which of the two drives is the one that has windows. Is it in an alphabetic order. C drive is first and then D drive is below it?
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Yup.
The "C drive" contains the Windows operating system.
I know that. But on the installation screen it says Disk 1 and Disk 2. I want to know which of these is Disk C
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I believe it should say more than that.
Does it say the amount of storage after selecting the disk or anything like that?
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I believe it should say more than that.
Does it say the amount of storage after selecting the disk or anything like that?
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Yes it does say but they are exactly the same size and have the same free space.
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Anyone
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I would unplug your external(?) storage device (drive D) to see if the first one is the C drive.
Personally, I think the C drive should be on top as it could be in the order by drives.
CoolApps said:
I would unplug your external(?) storage device (drive D) to see if the first one is the C drive.
Personally, I think the C drive should be on top as it could be in the order by drives.
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Well it isn't external. Yeah that's what I am thinking.
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Uh, the Windows install always displays the drive letter. (Even the pirated ones.) And usually even the name of the drive.
Can you still get to the device manager? If so, it has a partition manager which'll list which drive is which.
If not, boot into BIOS. Check which one is set as the boot device, that one's C:/.
Also, you can disconnect an internal harddrive.. Just open the door and pull out the cable... (I always do that on a Windows install to prevent conflicts and potential data loss. (even on my laptop. My Asus grants full hardware access.).)
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ShadowLea said:
Uh, the Windows install always displays the drive letter. (Even the pirated ones.) And usually even the name of the drive.
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It is not my computer. The menu is like this.
And when I try to go to BIOS is requires a password and my friend says he doesn't know it.
We can't boot the current windows because we deleted the first small partition.
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Thin_Bezel said:
It is not my computer. The menu is like this.
And when I try to go to BIOS is requires a password and my friend says he doesn't know it.
We can't boot the current windows because we deleted the first small partition.
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Make sure you´ve backed up any data you need and delete both partitions. Then click on the unassociated space and select "new". Proceed with the installation.
OH THE SCREEN IS NOT FROM YOUR INSTALLATION? Thought that were you´r partitions -.- Don´t proceed please post a pic of YOUR screen.
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Thought that were you´r partitions -.- Don´t proceed please post a pic of YOUR screen.
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It is the same like that. I just want to know which of these is drive C. I want only to format drive c and let drive d.
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Thin_Bezel said:
It is the same like that. I just want to know which of these is drive C. I want only to format drive c and let drive d.
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No it's not the same. It depends in which sata plug the harddrive is plugged on your motherboard. It's not alphabetical. Just look at the free space and think how much data you've got on your d:/ that's the only way.
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No it's not the same. It depends in which sata plug the harddrive is plugged on your motherboard. It's not alphabetical. Just look at the free space and think how much data you've got on your d:/ that's the only way.
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Looks like I am out of luck. I've already deleted the small partition which boots up windows so I can't see how much memory each drive has. Thanks anyways
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Thin_Bezel said:
Looks like I am out of luck. I've already deleted the small partition which boots up windows so I can't see how much memory each drive has. Thanks anyways
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You can see it in the install screen!
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You can see it in the install screen!
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Yes I know. But they are both 1 TB and I don't know how much free space Disk C has because I can't boot windows.
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Thin_Bezel said:
It is not my computer. The menu is like this.
And when I try to go to BIOS is requires a password and my friend says he doesn't know it.
We can't boot the current windows because we deleted the first small partition.
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The "system reserved" partition is the backup one. I have a very similar configuration to that. The partition you want to format is the second, the one that says "primary". Also, windows couldn't be installed in a ~300-400mb partition.
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Yes I know. But they are both 1 TB and I don't know how much free space Disk C has because I can't boot windows.
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You didn´t notice the "free space" tab?
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The "system reserved" partition is the backup one. I have a very similar configuration to that. The partition you want to format is the second, the one that says "primary". Also, windows couldn't be installed in a ~300-400mb partition.
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Nah that´s not his setup that´s only a pic to show what screen he is in.
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Nah that´s not his setup that´s only a pic to show what screen he is in.
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I'm sorry you are not understanding it. I of course see that free space. But I don't know which of these disks is C. Because when I started to install windows, I didn't go to Computer to see how much free space Disk C has so I can easily recognize it on the installation screen. And I can't check it because I can't boot windows anymore.
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Just curious, is there a way or an app, or a script or something to have the ability to just have screen shots, downloaded pics and what not to save to your external SD card by default? I usually have about 100+ that I have to manually move every time I flash a rom..
pestilencec11 said:
Just curious, is there a way or an app, or a script or something to have the ability to just have screen shots, downloaded pics and what not to save to your external SD card by default? I usually have about 100+ that I have to manually move every time I flash a rom..
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Just curious as to why you move them. Are you wiping internal storage when you flash?
Check out the Xposed module Downloads2SD.
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Just curious as to why you move them. Are you wiping internal storage when you flash?
Check out the Xposed module Downloads2SD.
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No I don't wipe that, but it's my fearful OCD that my phone will just up and die and I will lose my SS's. I really hate using the "cloud". Don't trust that crap that much.
So use two clouds. It is very unlikely they will fail at the same time plus it will automatically synchronize with your pc. Dropbox gives 50 gig for new note users, google drive another couple gigs, same microsoft, Amazon, box, samsung cloud. SD card can fail too.
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darekz said:
So use two clouds. It is very unlikely they will fail at the same time plus it will automatically synchronize with your pc. Dropbox gives 50 gig for new note users, google drive another couple gigs, same microsoft, Amazon, box, samsung cloud. SD card can fail too.
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not really a huge fan of the cloud for pics and screen shots. Maybe small apps that can be redownloaded..
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not really a huge fan of the cloud for pics and screen shots. Maybe small apps that can be redownloaded..
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I have no problem using it. My dropbox is set up to synchronize my camera folder, screenshot folder and fb saved pictures folder.
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I have no problem using it. My dropbox is set up to synchronize my camera folder, screenshot folder and fb saved pictures folder.
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that's great my friend My guess there isn't anything out there..
Hehe. Anything shouldn't be there goes straight to my usb drive (sandisk with microusb connector). Sandisk software allow for quick folder backup
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darekz said:
So use two clouds. It is very unlikely they will fail at the same time plus it will automatically synchronize with your pc. Dropbox gives 50 gig for new note users, google drive another couple gigs, same microsoft, Amazon, box, samsung cloud. SD card can fail too.
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SD cards and internal will fail before the cloud does. You can't make the horse drink the water lol.
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SD cards and internal will fail before the cloud does. You can't make the horse drink the water lol.
BAD ASS NOTE 4
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meh, it's not about the "horse" drinking water. It's is simply about seeing if there was something out there that would allow me to just have my screen shots and downloaded pics go directly to my SD card. It's my choice not to use the cloud. Personal reasons. Hence why I am here asking for some app or something.
Screw the cloud. I'm old Skool too. Now where's mg 5.25 inch floppy.
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