Questions tagged [external-sd]
For questions related to the external micro-SD card used by most Android devices to increase the amount of available storage. For the internal SD card, use 'internal-sd'. See the 'storage' tag wiki for a full overview of available storage-related tags.
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Redirect local WhatsApp directory to second partition ext4 in microSD in Android 10
I have googled from a month ago about on how to reach my goal, and I have found only How to bind mount a folder inside /sdcard with correct permissions?
My goal is to link the WhatsApp directory in ...
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Link to external sd card without using volume id?
As it is rn, any link even to standard folders (say, Download) becomes invalid as soon as cards are swapped.
I'm looking for a solution similar to USB/Linux/Windows drives; a link to the device the ...
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External SD card write permission for an old app
I have a Samsung Galaxy A50 phone with Android 9 (I don't want to upgrade! Upgrade is not a matter of this question!) and an old file manager app of a great value (built not by me) that works just ...
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Can't view SD card used as internal storage
OK, I probably screwed myself here but here's hoping:
I was using an SD card as portable storage until I got fed up of my internal storage constantly filling up thanks to a game getting updates every ...
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Android 12 Settings Storage keeps crashing
Problem description & Background:
My phone suddenly stopped storing or retrieving files after I swapped the 64Gb SD for a bigger one - 1Tb.
I cannot access Settings/Storage to query, eject or ...
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Link2SD issue with linking data folders
I only use Link2SD to link my game files to external storage, a straightforward and short process, then I'm able to play these games with their data sitting on my SD card
Everything went to shit after ...
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Android 11 - Format SD as Adoptable storage
I use a device on Android 11, Xiaomi OEM, MIUI 12.5.7
I formatted my SD card as Adoptable storage, though I had to get that "Fix SD card" prompt to select "format as phone's storage&...
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Move app data to external memory
I'm on android 11 rooted with magisk, I downloaded and installed a large game, occupying most of my internal storage (64gb).
How can I link the app data to my external card (128gb) and play the game ...
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Link2SD - Game ignores binded data after link
I use Link2SD Plus mostly to link app data from my internal storage to my external memory, I don't do anything fancy like creating a second partition to link obb, I simply link the game DATA FOLDER (...
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Formatting Micro SD card issue
I'm trying to format a 64GB Micro SD card into 70% portable storage and 30% internal storage. My phone runs Android 6, it's rooted with Magisk and I installed TWRP. Unfortunately, I can't successfully ...
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Galaxy S9 ultra can’t read from exFAT SSD?
I’m new to Android tablets having previously used Apple exclusively, and I could use some advice getting an external WD 2tb SSD to work.
My SSD was formatted as exFAT on a Windows device and filled ...
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sd card becomes unrecognisable after large data transfers
i have a sandisk 64 gb sd card, recently it has been acting a bit weird. whenever i plug the sd card into my phone with around 20 gbs of data, my phone recognises it as corrupt while i can still use ...
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How to change Adobe Reader's working directory or move Android directories to SD card?
Maybe incorrect forum but gotta start somewhere...
I just got an old Samsung Galaxy Tab A running Android 7.1.1 for a PDF reader. As the internal storage is very limited, all the files are on an SD ...
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Files missing after data transfer between SD card connected as a USB OTG pen drive sending to an external SD card on a Samsung Galaxy A42
I just tried to move about 2 GB of files from an SD card --connected as a USB OTG Pen drive in the USB-C port-- to the "external/removable" SD card mounted inside of the phone.
(*first, I ...
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How to disable or eject virtual sdcard by adb on emulator memu player 7
I'm trying to unmount the sdcard or virtually eject it, because not allowing me to run an APK that is presenting an issue. After a deep research even with app developers, they told me that disabling ...
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Specific SD card not detected in a specific phone
So, I had an SD card (16GB). It works normally on my phone. I put it on PC to transfer some files, and now my phone doesn't detect it being inserted.
other phones detect this SD card normally
pc ...
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TWRP - Backup Failed with Error Code 255 - CreateTarFork () - Samsung Galaxy S20+ Ultra
I have a fresh Nov/Dec updated ROM Build for my Samsung Galaxy S20+ (SM-G986B). Since it's a fresh clean ROM with all necessary apps and the performance of my phone is seamless, I want to create a ...
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On a not rooted smartphone, how do I format my SD Card to a file system of my choosing?
On a not rooted smartphone, how do I format my SD Card to a file system of my choosing?
Note that I have ordered an SD card reader so I can put my SD card into my laptop and try formatting it from ...
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How can I view what file system my SD card has been formatted to? [duplicate]
How can I view what file system my SD card has been formatted to?
e.g. if it has been formatted as FAT12 or FAT16 or FAT32 or NTFS or exFAT
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Use USB attached SD card in gallery
When traveling I usually only have my tablet (Samsung Galaxy Tab S8+) with me but not a real PC. So to have a quick check of the pictures I took during the day with my DSLR camera I'd love to use the ...
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SD Card crashing settings but being detected
I ran out of storage on my:
Oukitel WP20 running Android 12
and so I decided to get a 512GB Micro SD Card from SanDisk.
My previous one was a 128GB from SanDisk aswell.
So I backed everything up, ...
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Is there a way to specify a default download path for Google Drive/Chrome to an external microSD card?
I have a 512 GB external microSD card that's connected to a smart phone.
For speed reasons, I would like some functions like the camera to still use the on-board phone memory, but would like files ...
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How to replace the adopted SD card without reformatting the entire phone?
I currently have a Fairphone 4 and a 1 TB SD card. It was set up as shared internal storage. Over the past few weeks, I've been having random crashes on the phone which I think may be down to the SD ...
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Mounting an extra partition as a fake external SD card
Nowadays phones don't have SD cards anymore, but some have a ton of storage. So, I was thinking of creating a fake external SD card using an extra partition to be able to store all of your zip ...
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"Corrupt" SD card after power off?
I have a BQ-7082G ARMOR Android 7 device, with a SD card formatted as internal storage. One day it run out of battery, shut down, and afterwards it reported the SD card is corrupt and refuses to mount ...
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PNG Image Files Become Corrupt Shortly After Transferring From Computer
I am running Android 12 on a Galaxy A12 phone. Recently, out of the blue, image files that I transfer to my phone from my computer have been having the following problem:
At first, right after I ...
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Shrinking encrypted ext4 partition
I have a micro SD card adopted by an Android phone as internal storage extension. While being adopted it was partitioned/formatted by the phone with two ext4 partitions: android_meta and ...
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sd card ejects after formating as internal via google files app
I am trying to increase the internal storage of my realme narzo 30a phone. but it doesnt support format as internal. so i enabled usb debugging and used sm set-force-adoptabe true via adb. Then i ...
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How to notify Android that MicroSD is mounted?
I manually mount MicroSD like this:
nsenter -t 104 -m mount -t sdfat -o rw,gid=9997,noatime /dev/block/mmcblk0p4 /storage/extSD
As a result, file managers can work with it. But Android still thinks ...
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Stop Android from creating folders on a media player external USB drive
I have an X96 media player running Android 11. Whenever I attach an external USB drive or SD card, Android will create a bunch of directories, an "Android" one (this I know about), but also &...
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Apps suddenly unable to access SD card for seemingly no reason
SOLVED (see accepted answer)
So this one is weird.
Everything was working fine untill I rebooted my phone earlier today.
For some reason, since this reboot, apps are unable to access my SD card ...
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Moving andorid secure folder between sd cards
I needed to upgrade my sd card size for my phone and have ~4-5k files in my android secure folder. I backed everything up to my laptop and then pushed it onto my new sd card. The copying got ...
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How to recover files from a healthy microSD card in Android?
I accidentally deleted important documents (about 100 PDFs) that weren't backed up yet from a 64 GB microSD card, which is used as the primary storage in my unrooted Android 9.0 smartphone. The ...
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Why is my internal storage space constantly so low on my Samsung Galaxy A12 phone when I use an SD card?
My Galaxy A12 is always notifying me to delete unused files to avoid running slowly\apps not working correctly due to low internal storage space. I've moved any\every thing that's able to move to my ...
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Apps not writing to SD Card
I use a Motorola X4, Android 9. I have been storing app data on my SD card for over 2 years. Several months ago, this capability vanished, and I started getting storage full warnings from Files. The ...
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can't give permissions to apps to access sdcard, I got the message "To protect your privacy, choose another folder"
I'm trying to give access to the sdcard (like the stock file explorer), but if I try to select the root of the sdcard I get the message "To protect your privacy, choose another folder", and ...
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ADB file transfer works on internal storage but not SD card
I am trying to transfer a large amount of files (>40k images and videos). I've had trouble transferring it by dragging and dropping in Windows File Explorer so I used the adb push command. It works ...
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Which filesystem should I use on my SD Card?
I have a 1 TB SD Card in a Fairphone 3 running the latest Lineage.
Recently I had issues with random reboots and now found out that my SD Card is formatted with FAT32, which might cause troubles on ...
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Moving apps to SD Card on Samsung Galaxy S20 FE Android 12
I purchased 6 months before, Samsung Galaxy s20 Fe with android 12 with 128 GB internal memory and a 256 GB external Micro SD card. I am an IT freelancer professional, so I have a job is for testing ...
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"Mount" a loopback device from SD card without root
I'd like to move Termux/Nix-on-droid on my SD card as I lack space on internal storage. Unfortunately, SD cards are formatted in extFat so they can't deal with stuff that are common on ext4 systems, ...
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How to secure files in SD card by using adoptable storage?
I asked this question before, and this is a follow-up.
I am trying to encrypt my SD card for data security (I don't want some random guy to be able to access my photos/documents/downloads by just ...
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How can I Simulate External Drives on Android Studio?
I'm currently working on a small internal application for my company. (non-commercial, just a QoL app) The plan is to connect several hard drives to one mobile device and simultaneously flash them all ...
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How to change permissions for SD card directory under /storage
I have symlinked /data/media/0/Download to /storage/15B3-16E4/Download so that files will save to my SD card, but apps can't write to it because the owner/permissions are wrong.
adb shell su -c ls -ld ...
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How can I remount an external storage SD card?
My external sdcard1 has disappeared leaving only sdcard0 emulated. I have looked in device/storage, and the folder is indeed gone. How can I mount or remount my external storage sdcard1?
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Can apps read all files in sd card (external removeable micro sd card) without the storage permission?
As far as i know. The way Android storage works is as follows. There is internal storage and external storage.
Internal storage is for the apps data only and apps can only access their particular data....
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Is it possible to limit read permissions for some folders on external SD card to certain apps on Android 10?
My device has 64 GB of internal storage and it's nearly full. I can expand storage with a 256 GB microSD card. However, I don't like that everything stored on the SD card is freely accessible to every ...
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How can I move back data from external SD card to internal memory?
Today I added an sd card to my smartphone (Fairphone 3+, Android 10), I selected to use it as internal storage, and moved the photos and some apps (don't know which ones) to it automatically. After ...
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How do I format my SD card via terminal/Termux?
I'm running a MIUI 12.5.5 xiaomi.eu ROM on a rooted Redmi Note 9 Pro. I'm trying to format my 128GB micro SD Card via Settings > Storage > Format SD Card, but this causes the device to reboot. I ...
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Some music metadata/tags dissapeared after copying to micro sd
I tried copying my large music library from my internal storage to my external micro sd card, only to find 50% of my album art went missing, some artist and album info is gone, while the songs ...
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How to remotely access full file system on Android for backup?
I have always used SFTP servers on my Android devices, with sync scripts run on my server daily to perform backups. I also transfer files to and from the devices this way.
With each version of Android,...
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