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Casperf1

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So, I'm on ParanoidAndroid 3.15 (4.1.2) using a Galaxy S3 and have been playing around with it recently. After a bit of toying about and getting all of my apps back from the format. I've discovered that my sdcard doesn't work.

It's got two partitions on it, an NTFS one (29GB) and a FAT32 one (32MB), it's like this so I can download files to the NTFS partition bigger than 4GB. I've been mounting the NTFS partition using an app called Paragon. It worked fine on my stock rom, I could read files in it, create new folders etc.

But now, it's permanently mounted to "storage/sdcard1/". Whenever I go into there, there's no files...

I'd be really thankful if anybody had any tips that they could give me to sort this out.

P.S.
Originally, all of my storage was located in "mnt/" my sdcard and extsd. But now, there's like ten different sdcard (internal memory) locations, all storing the same stuff, there's:
"/sdcard"
"/storage/sdcard0"+"/storage/emulated/0"
and lastly, there's "mnt/sdcard/"

What gives? Before, there was just on location for my internal memory...

Again, thanks for any help that can be given.

Edit: I'm using ES File Explorer.
 
Yeah, I reformatted to Fat32 and it works fine now. Just a shame it doesn't support ntfs, also, thanks for moving it Slug.
 
Casperf1 said:
P.S.
Originally, all of my storage was located in "mnt/" my sdcard and extsd. But now, there's like ten different sdcard (internal memory) locations, all storing the same stuff, there's:
"/sdcard"
"/storage/sdcard0"+"/storage/emulated/0"
and lastly, there's "mnt/sdcard/"

What gives? Before, there was just on location for my internal memory...
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4.2 has support for multiple user accounts, which is why the file system has been changed around. So mnt/sdcard0 is the 'main' account, mnt/sdcard1 is your external sd card, mnt/sdcard2 I guess could be a guest account. Basically as there can be more than one user account on your phone, it has to take into consideration that there may be 2 or more people using the device, all with different information/apps and therefore needs to keep everything separate.

I don't like it personally, and it is a bit of a pain but you get used to it after a while. Apparently there is a recovery that stops this from happening but if it's been done already there's no going back as far as I know.
 
Casperf1 said:
Yeah, I reformatted to Fat32 and it works fine now. Just a shame it doesn't support ntfs, also, thanks for moving it Slug.
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Would it maybe read exFat? That is what a Stock S3 will format to. exFat is like NTFS and can go over the 4 gig limit.
 
GTWalling said:
Would it maybe read exFat? That is what a Stock S3 will format to. exFat is like NTFS and can go over the 4 gig limit.
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I thought that stock S3's formatted to FAT32? Or is that just me being a dummy? Because when I formatted to NTFS, I still had to have a tiny FAT32 partition for the phone to read, otherwise it just wouldn't work.

Nevertheless, I will still try formatting to exFAT, just as a quick question, will I still need to create a small FAT32 partition again?

Almost forgot, thanks for the help everybody.
 
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