Help SD card issues with Motorola

[emburybrett]

So today I finally moved all my Music Movies and TV shows to this phone and learned that the phone wont save it to the 16GB card that came with this phone when i pluged it into the it looked fine but after moving all my files to this phone the phone told me i was low on space so i went into the setting and saw that nothing went to my SD card but really just the internal storage and would like to know why it didnt. In my file manager it is in Sdcard that it saved to but the 16GB sd care file name is sdcard-ext why dont it save any thing to the real sd card. The only thing that is on there are my photos that i wasnt able to find when it pluged into my computer and my backup from clockworkmod so why am i having move all my files with my file manager and why is it not bring up my real sd card when its pluged into my computer?

 

[emburybrett]

anyone...?

 

[Grendl]

I'm having the same problem. Tried putting vaulty on the SD card, but all the files went to the internal memory. Dragged them back across to the SD card, and the program "recovered" them on the internal card :-(

I'm quite frustrated. My 1st model Droid was still running like a champ even though the power button gave up the ghost months ago.

 

[Styrisvps]

Well until Moto provides a update you WILL continue to have the problems having the apps on your sd card. There is no way around it right now.

 

[euph_22]

Well until Moto provides a update you WILL continue to have the problems having the apps on your sd card. There is no way around it right now.

I'm 90% sure that the OP's issue is caused by Google and Motorola renaming the internal storage partition \mnt\sdcard and the sd card itself as \mnt\sdcard-ext. This is a feature, not a bug (makes it easier for phones that don't have Sd cards, and let's everyone actually use the internal space). I can assure you neither moto nor google have any intention of changing that, and its up to app developers to adapt to the change(although there its room for google to provide a single location to set the location setting for many apps in one place). Check the app in question, and see if there is an option to change where it saves stuff, and if so change it to the "-ext" folder.

 

[techno-update]

I ran into this same problem till i found out that Motorola has renamed the sd-card....

 

[shelland]

I noticed the same in regards to application backups. All the backups are being written to the phone storage - which defeats the purpose of the backup. If my phone was to die, my backups would be gone as well. In the apps I've checked, I have not found an option to change the backup location and the 'restore from backup' option appears to be looking on the phone storage as well.

 

[emburybrett]

I'm 90% sure that the OP's issue is caused by Google and Motorola renaming the internal storage partition \mnt\sdcard and the sd card itself as \mnt\sdcard-ext. This is a feature, not a bug (makes it easier for phones that don't have Sd cards, and let's everyone actually use the internal space). I can assure you neither moto nor google have any intention of changing that, and its up to app developers to adapt to the change(although there its room for google to provide a single location to set the location setting for many apps in one place). Check the app in question, and see if there is an option to change where it saves stuff, and if so change it to the "-ext" folder.

Why did it come with a 16 GB SD card then?

 

[inkdesigner]

I'm 90% sure that the OP's issue is caused by Google and Motorola renaming the internal storage partition \mnt\sdcard and the sd card itself as \mnt\sdcard-ext. This is a feature, not a bug (makes it easier for phones that don't have Sd cards, and let's everyone actually use the internal space). I can assure you neither moto nor google have any intention of changing that, and its up to app developers to adapt to the change(although there its room for google to provide a single location to set the location setting for many apps in one place). Check the app in question, and see if there is an option to change where it saves stuff, and if so change it to the "-ext" folder.

Here is the oddity on this. With the RAZR I first purchased, I was able to see partitions called both \mnt\sdcard and \mnt\sdcard-ext in Astro File Manager. With my MAXX, there is only a \mnt\sdcard. From my understanding, both phones run the same software, so why do we think this difference is there? Confusing to me, for sure.

 

[shelland]

Here is the oddity on this. With the RAZR I first purchased, I was able to see partitions called both \mnt\sdcard and \mnt\sdcard-ext in Astro File Manager. With my MAXX, there is only a \mnt\sdcard. From my understanding, both phones run the same software, so why do we think this difference is there? Confusing to me, for sure.

I see both using 'My Files' if I look at "Info" on a sub-directory - \mnt\sdcard is on the phone storage and \mnt\esdcard-ext is on the SD card.

 

[kayst]

When you connect your phone to your computer, does it mount both the internal (sdcard) storage and the external (sdcard-ext) as drives on the computer, or just one of them? I guess you could always just take out the physical sdcard and put it in your computer and copy the files that way.

I have to say, I'm getting a little frustrated over the way google/android is handling this. It seems every device does it differently. My incredible has /emmc and /sdcard, my toshiba thrive uses /sdcard and /sdcard2, and your Maxx uses /sdcard and /sdcard-ext. And many apps read/store only to /sdcard and don't let you change it.

 

[emburybrett]

this may be the fix... i havent had time to flash it but i will try it later

[MOD]External SD as Primary/Internal - xda-developers

 

[euph_22]

When you connect your phone to your computer, does it mount both the internal (sdcard) storage and the external (sdcard-ext) as drives on the computer, or just one of them? I guess you could always just take out the physical sdcard and put it in your computer and copy the files that way.

I have to say, I'm getting a little frustrated over the way google/android is handling this. It seems every device does it differently. My incredible has /emmc and /sdcard, my toshiba thrive uses /sdcard and /sdcard2, and your Maxx uses /sdcard and /sdcard-ext. And many apps read/store only to /sdcard and don't let you change it.

Then your beef isn't with google/Android, it's with the device manufacturers who didn't choose a consistant naming convention and the app developers who don't give you the option to change the location the app saves things to. And anyways, I believe google has gone to the \sdcard \sdcard-ext standard that's used on the razr.