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Root Two SD card directories?

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Ok, so one thing I am absolutely hating about my Bionic is the whole 2 SD card mount points or whatever you want to call it. Everything that gets put on my phone from the computer. (Music) Is put into SDcard-ext and everything added from the phone is put in just2 SDcard now this isn't all that bad but I use DroidID3Tagger and that wont let me change the directory so I'm going to have to manually move all my music from my phone.

Why cant it all just be in the f****** sdcard!
 
There is only 1 sdcard. "sdcard-ext" is your sdcard and "sdcard" is your internal memory. Software developers that hardcoded sdcard will have to make adjustments
 
thatguy188 said:
There is only 1 sdcard. "sdcard-ext" is your sdcard and "sdcard" is your internal memory. Software developers that hardcoded sdcard will have to make adjustments
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Is there any way I can trick it? Like manually renaming the switching the names of the "sdcard" and "sdcard-ext" folders? Would that cause too many problems? I am rooted by the way.

Also why am I only showing 8GB of internal storage? I thought this thing had 16GB?
 
zhill29 said:
Is there any way I can trick it? Like manually renaming the switching the names of the "sdcard" and "sdcard-ext" folders? Would that cause too many problems? I am rooted by the way.

Also why am I only showing 8GB of internal storage? I thought this thing had 16GB?
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As for trying to rename the folders, I just tried 2 different root file explorers and couldn't edit the names. (Yes I enabled the root function, and allowed the apps root access.)

The only thing I can think of now is copy my music to the internal memory and retag the files then copy them back...
 
thatguy188 said:
No you can't rename them. Well you probably could somehow but then your phone won't work.
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Yeah I figured that out. I just have a s**t load of messed up music tags. And that DroidID3Tagger app works great. But I need to find a way to get it to find files in the "sdcard-ext" folder. Right now I'm copying files to my internal memory, tagging them, then moving them back but its taking forever! I don't have enough room on my internal memory for all my music.
 
zhill29 said:
Is there any way I can trick it? Like manually renaming the switching the names of the "sdcard" and "sdcard-ext" folders? Would that cause too many problems? I am rooted by the way.

Also why am I only showing 8GB of internal storage? I thought this thing had 16GB?
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your internal storage is 16GB, but it is split in two 8GBs. your OS uses 4GB of 8GB, the other 4GB is for apps.

the other 8GB is media/movable apps or whatever.

so in total you only have with exSD, 28GB not 32GB
 
silentjrhpg said:
your internal storage is 16GB, but it is split in two 8GBs. your OS uses 4GB of 8GB, the other 4GB is for apps.

the other 8GB is media/movable apps or whatever.

so in total you only have with exSD, 28GB not 32GB
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Any way I can modify that so the OS, apps, and everything is all on one partition on the internal storage? Because I'm not going to lie, this whole ordeal is kinda pissing me off.... I WANT CYANOGEN!
 
I have a question related to all of this 2 "SD Card" business. When I download songs from Amazon's MP3 app store, the songs are saved on the internal "SD" storage, but on the OG Droid it would save them on the external SD card.

When we start ROMing and doing wipes, is it going to erase all of my mp3's saved on my internal "SD card" storage or is that partition excluded from the wiping much like the real SD card was on the OG Droid during wiping procedures?
 
thatguy188 said:
There is only 1 sdcard. "sdcard-ext" is your sdcard and "sdcard" is your internal memory. Software developers that hardcoded sdcard will have to make adjustments
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I am a developer and I have not hardcoded /sdcard/ into my application.

I instead use the correct command Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory()

What seems to be happening on this phone and a few others.... That command is reporting the wrong directory... It actually reports /sdcard/ but the sd card is really /sdcard-ext/

This seems to be an issue with the way they coded the phones, and not so much an issue with the apps that were programmed (using the correct code) to return the directory.

As a result, any app you find that is using that command will more then likely have issues trying to move files to the SD.
 
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