Recently been issued Lumia 520s at work but only had 2gig sdcards in..
Have played around with it and moved apps to sdcard etc.
Now I copied everything including the hidden folders to an 8gig sdcard and swapped over to in on the 520... Everything seems ok but all apps moved to sdcard now say they are unavailable!!!! Any ideas what am doing wrong and how to over come the issue?
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Lohtse
lohtse said:
Recently been issued Lumia 520s at work but only had 2gig sdcards in..
Have played around with it and moved apps to sdcard etc.
Now I copied everything including the hidden folders to an 8gig sdcard and swapped over to in on the 520... Everything seems ok but all apps moved to sdcard now say they are unavailable!!!! Any ideas what am doing wrong and how to over come the issue?
Regards
Lohtse
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you need to reinstall them again because you can't swap app's from one sd card to another. (its encrypted with the sd card ID )
so just reinstall your app's and all is ok.
ceesheim said:
you need to reinstall them again because you can't swap app's from one sd card to another. (its encrypted with the sd card ID )
so just reinstall your app's and all is ok.
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thats flippin stupid!!!!!!
and I can't even reinstall as there's no option as it says that is one the sdcard even though its unavailable..
any ideas how to over come this?
ceesheim said:
you need to reinstall them again because you can't swap app's from one sd card to another. (its encrypted with the sd card ID )
so just reinstall your app's and all is ok.
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thats flippin stupid!!!!!!
and I can't even reinstall as there's no option as it says that is on the sdcard even though its unavailable..
any ideas how to over come this?
lohtse said:
thats flippin stupid!!!!!!
and I can't even reinstall as there's no option as it says that is on the sdcard even though its unavailable..
any ideas how to over come this?
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just remove it from the sd card ( laptop is the more easy way)
doesn't work lumia still thinks they are installed !!!!!
It's to prevent cheating (or piracy) by copying/modifying the app data; it's not "flippin stupid" at all.
1) Put the old card back in your phone.
2) Move the apps from the card to the phone (if you have to, just uninstall the apps instead).
3) Eject the old card and put in the newer, larger one.
4) Move the apps back to the card (or re-install them to the card).
Yeah, it'll take a few minutes and it would be nice if there was an easier way to do it, but the solution shouldn't be difficult.
I have no issues with the locking down of swapping cards but should at least give us the option to reinstall or reinstall like they do after an update of the os! Thats why its flippin stupid!.
As to moving back to internal its not possible as have moved 60% of apps to cards tonsave space on phone...
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when i tried taking a picture using the main camera yesterday it said something like "camera failed to capture image" i finally got it to take a picture by selected the internal memory so it looks like its something to do with the external card. i can save other files (such as mp3s) and use them fine. is there a special folder that needs to be made on the external card or has someone heard of this problem before? ive got the R2A generic rom that recently came out. thanks
usually the phone creates a folder /Storage Card/DCIM/100XPRIA. Try to create it manually if it doesn't happen.
yeh ive got that folder. actually, ill try deleting it, possibly its got corrupted or something. ive never tried taking a picture before so dont know if its something thats happened after i put on the new rom
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lol that seemed to of done the trick! i deleted it and now it works.
have the same problem using the R2 rom .... could somebody help? tried the above
it's only happen to me after changing from 4gb to 16gb card. I think something to do with memory card.
i have a 16gb card too. i set the camera to save to the internal memory, then deleted the folder from the memory card, then set the camera to save to the memory card and let it create a new folder. it then worked fine.
anothadave said:
i have a 16gb card too. i set the camera to save to the internal memory, then deleted the folder from the memory card, then set the camera to save to the memory card and let it create a new folder. it then worked fine.
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Try to do the way you do it. Not working
is there any way to change the save-location for taken pictures ?
anothadave said:
i have a 16gb card too. i set the camera to save to the internal memory, then deleted the folder from the memory card, then set the camera to save to the memory card and let it create a new folder. it then worked fine.
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How can you change it to save to the memory card?
Kind regards
Just look in the settings of the camera itself. It is ajustable to storage card among other options.
I had the same problem - fixed it by formatting the card something must of got corrupt
This is the situation:
I had a message on my phone (G1) stating the SD Card was damaged and I may need to format. Long story short, I formatted the card. Before formatting I moved everything from my card to my desktop.
After formatting, I moved everything back to my card. I then partitioned my card. I tried to partition first but got fed up when I ran into problems attempting to do so. Now after rebooting I was able to see about 1/3 of the apps I downloaded (I had almost a hundred and change- 16g card).
So, the question is: Do I have to reformat the card, partition, then put the files back on the card? Basically do everything all over again. Or is there a way to "restore" all my apps somehow?
Thanks in advance.
wcdisciple said:
This is the situation:
I had a message on my phone (G1) stating the SD Card was damaged and I may need to format. Long story short, I formatted the card. Before formatting I moved everything from my card to my desktop.
After formatting, I moved everything back to my card. I then partitioned my card. I tried to partition first but got fed up when I ran into problems attempting to do so. Now after rebooting I was able to see about 1/3 of the apps I downloaded (I had almost a hundred and change- 16g card).
So, the question is: Do I have to reformat the card, partition, then put the files back on the card? Basically do everything all over again. Or is there a way to "restore" all my apps somehow?
Thanks in advance.
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Did you transfer you ext partition? If not then you are going to have to redownload and install everything cause you wiped your entire card losing your apps2sd links.
supremeteam256 said:
Did you transfer you ext partition? If not then you are going to have to redownload and install everything cause you wiped your entire card losing your apps2sd links.
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What exactly do you mean "transfer you ext partition"?
After messing around some more.......
I connected the usb to my computer, copied the "whole sd card" to my desktop, transferred everything back to my card after after wipe, format and everything.
Now when I go into a file manager, which I had to download again, I can see all the apps are on my card.
How do I get them in the "app tray or app launcher", I think it's called.
And when I go to settings, application whatchamacallit, I see my card is partitioned. I use Amon-Ra partitioning thing.
samsung galaxy SL-GT-I9003, running froyo 2.2.1
Since froyo allows moving apps2sd I have got a sandisk 32gb class 4 micro sd card & wonder if there is any downside to run an app from the sd card?
Should I partition the sd card for my data & apps separately?
If we update to a new ROM or firmware, and the APPs are on the SD Card do we have need to back up APPs ever again?
all my apps are on my sd card, there isnt really a downside, you dont need to make a partition.
The only thing is. if you accidently format your sd card, your apps will go. it saves memory on the phones internal card, allowing for a quicker response.
Just be sure to make a backup with titanium backup.
I do a backup every week, because im a constant flasher, but you can just make a backup and store it on your pc, just to be safe.
Flashing a new rom wont delete your apps unless you do a WIPE version or do it thru Odin. but if you do flash a new rom just make a backup anyway it only takes 5 mins.
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it saves memory on the phones internal card, allowing for a quicker response.
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so you mean to say the apps are on the external card but each application save its cache on internal phone sd card.
There are some apps that although you can move them to SD do not work properly when you do. Among these are many home screen widgets and some live wallpapers.
Oh I didnt know that, good I will keep that in mind.
Tehpriest said:
There are some apps that although you can move them to SD do not work properly when you do. Among these are many home screen widgets and some live wallpapers.
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Yes i forgot to mention that, but the ones you want on your homescreen like live wallpapers, music player whatever just leave on internal.
And yes i think the cache (or something like that) is saved to the internal, because when i remove my sd card, my apps still show but just wont launch....
Read many other post & checked my external sd card it does not have any of the moved apps, instead apps2sd moves the files to internal sd only.
So wondering whats the real use of apps2sd when you have limited internal sd space in my case only 1.51gb, I thought it is moving the apps to external sd which is 32 gb card I bought for this purpose only.
My phone shows 181mb left only.
Memory had my card data is really important but now I can not see this data.Shedding can be so much rom?Waiting for your suggestions.How do I bring this data back?Especially bring pictures back.Thank you in advance.
CriminaL / AllegrO said:
Memory had my card data is really important but now I can not see this data.Shedding can be so much rom?Waiting for your suggestions.How do I bring this data back?Especially bring pictures back.Thank you in advance.
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you mean that, your sd card has some data (images/music/etc) and you cant see them ON THE PHONE? Mounting the SD card should be a good idea but its just to simple to be an error. maybe giving more deatils could help...
As I said before, I can see no pictures on the SD card now.I tried several data recovery program, but did not succeed.
Mmm it seems like your sd card is broken, can you see any other files in it? Because it happened to me with a 2008 4GB SD card that had just a few months ago, it simply stopped working and that's it... But if in your case your sd card WORKS then ive got no idea how to restore data. Anyway I dont find it quite possible if it was erased, then for me its gone forever (except for the recycle bin maybe)
a PRO is needed.. lol
can see other files that I need some pictures, but I can not see in pictures.Do not have a way to it?
Not really idk ANYTHING in this matter, i'm sorry bcz I know why they break, but your case is different. So, you got some pics which were stored in you SD card and somehow got deleted and now you cannot see them in the phone nor the pc. I'm going to search for your problem from friday onwards, not so much time to help you now, sorry, I'll come back as soon as possible
Use SDCARD to USB Adapter then. You can backup all the SDCARD files to your computer
Then reboot to recovery mode, try to wipe all data
Just a quick question. I've followed tutorials and I believe i've rooted the phone (EE UK S3LT3) I've got a 16GB memory card included. Do I need to partition/format the card so I can get things moved to the SD card as much as possible?
john_semple said:
Just a quick question. I've followed tutorials and I believe i've rooted the phone (EE UK S3LT3) I've got a 16GB memory card included. Do I need to partition/format the card so I can get things moved to the SD card as much as possible?
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If it was included then it should be ready to go, you can store all kinds of media on your SD card but apps require a 3rd party application such as Titanium Backup to be moved to the SD card or you could install a mod that makes your phone think your SD card is your internal so all apps install there default
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If it was included then it should be ready to go, you can store all kinds of media on your SD card but apps require a 3rd party application such as Titanium Backup to be moved to the SD card or you could install a mod that makes your phone think your SD card is your internal so all apps install there default
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What mod would that be? (if you don't mind me asking)
Also I'll be more specific about my original post. I had the xperia play before. I folowed this tutorial for that:
http://www.xperiablog.net/2011/12/12/link2sd-guide-never-worry-about-internal-memory-limits-again/
That worked fine and everything moved to the SD card as far as I know. What I mean is should I format my card like that? I know it's not formatted or anything it's just sitting there full of space unused
The mod is called directory bind (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1889550)
It's needed if you want to move files to your SD. Unlike other phones, the s3 doesn't offer an option to move whatever you want to your Sd card. Formatting won't change anything. You have to use the above tool to trick your phone into thinking your extSD is the internal memory and vice versa.
There is no simple way of just moving all your data/apps to the SD card, unfortunately
I think i'm doing it with the mod now. I tried to move data with link2sd but that was a no no. That the only thing with this phone it's not easy to move things and what not.