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Mobile has a partition and can't use an SD

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When I first bought my mobile phone, a Haipai I9389, yes it's chinese, I found out that it had a partition inside the the main phone that acted as an SD card and so if I put in my SD card I can't put apps on it.

Here is an image of the partitions:
imgur: the simple image sharer

sdcard0 is inside the phone storage.
imgur: the simple image sharer

Here you can see that sdcard 1 is my main SD card but I can't use it to put applications in it.
imgur: the simple image sharer
imgur: the simple image sharer

Here you can see that Android detects them as Downladed (in Catalan: "Baixades") and where normaly there is the SD card apps you can see it puts phone storage.

I thought that with the partition table app in the first screenshot I could delete the partition and then the phone would detect the SD card.
If anyone knows how to solve this please help.
Thanks in advanced.
Marc :)
 
Android now has an "internal SD card" (I wonder if that sounds as ridiculous in Catalan as it does in English - something external by definition that's internal). The phone should still recognize the external SD card, but most applications aren't written to run from the SD card (internal or external) and those that are have to me moved properly (with an application like Link2SD). If you remove the internal "SD card" partition, at least a few apps will stop functioning. They're designed to use the device named sd0, which is the internal "card".

Google seems to be moving us away from using ANY external storage. It's to satisfy some large cellphone users who want added "security" in phones, and think that removable cards pose a security risk (which they don't). It seems to be a case of being seen to be doing something, even if all you're doing is marching in a circle. Some people only see the "marching" part.
 
It's not as ridiculous as the old Motorola Milestone I still have that has a real, physical micro SD card slot - but it's internal. You have to remove the back to get at it.
 
John Bean said:
It's not as ridiculous as the old Motorola Milestone I still have that has a real, physical micro SD card slot - but it's internal. You have to remove the back to get at it.
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So you're saying that there is a physical SD card slot where you can't reach to it?

Rukbat said:
Android now has an "internal SD card" (I wonder if that sounds as ridiculous in Catalan as it does in English - something external by definition that's internal). The phone should still recognize the external SD card, but most applications aren't written to run from the SD card (internal or external) and those that are have to me moved properly (with an application like Link2SD). If you remove the internal "SD card" partition, at least a few apps will stop functioning. They're designed to use the device named sd0, which is the internal "card".

Google seems to be moving us away from using ANY external storage. It's to satisfy some large cellphone users who want added "security" in phones, and think that removable cards pose a security risk (which they don't). It seems to be a case of being seen to be doing something, even if all you're doing is marching in a circle. Some people only see the "marching" part.
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So if I deletet the partition "sdcard0" and rename "sdcard1" to "sdcard0" theoretically it should work no?

Thanks anyway to the two.
 
So you're saying that there is a physical SD card slot where you can't reach to it?
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Not from the outside. To get at it you have to turn off the phone and remove the back and battery.

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John Bean said:
It's not as ridiculous as the old Motorola Milestone I still have that has a real, physical micro SD card slot - but it's internal. You have to remove the back to get at it.
Click to expand...

Isn't that normal? That's how some Samsung phones treat the external SD card. The one on the S3 mini is under the battery for example.

To the OP, what Android version are you on? What you are describing is sort of normal for Gingerbread devices.
 
I think you're getting it the wrong way.
What happens is that even without my external SD card which I bought and putted in, my phone detects as if there was an SD card and so when I try to put apps to my SD card it goes to a partition that the mobile phone already had.
Although it isn't a big problem I would love to have some more space than I currently have.
Hope it helped you understand it.
Thanks
Marc
 
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