Help Using an SD card on Xoom

[eltee]

Hi. I recently acquired a Xoom with the 4G upgrade. I use VPlayer for playing movies, which I transferred via cable from my PC. I just bought a new, from a store, 32 gig SD. Formatted it on my Android phone, mounted it into my Xoom.

Under settings / storage /SDCARD I see it. It has a gray bar, text reads: SD Card 29.71 GB

Under settings / internal storage / Movies I see the movies I downloaded.

On my PC under my computer / xoom / sd card I see the following folders:
- Android secure
- DCIM
- Lost.Dir
- slacker

When I tried to download movies to the SD card, its shows up on the above. I made a subfolder within DCIM called Movies. It downloaded fine.

My Xoom sees the SD card under storage, but only gives the size. No files, no movie, etc.

I downloaded using a cable which worked fine with the movies going to the internal storage.

I searched throughout this forum without much luck. Any help appreciated. Looking forward to using my Xoom for movie watching. THANK YOU>

 

[zardoz]

I haven't used vPlayer in a while so I don't remember if you have to do this, but have you tried telling it to refresh its listing of movies?

Try a different video player?

Are you sure the video files are playable on a Xoom? MPlayer, what I use, is generally very good at playing different file formats, but any time I've had problems I use Handbrake to convert to Android.

You might try installing a file manager (Astro for example) and to see if you can see the files and then long press on them there to open. Make sure you're in the right directory because if I remember correctly the terminology is counter intuitive- "mnt/sdcard" is actually internal storage, and /mnt/external1 is your add-on card.

GOod luck.

 

[eltee]

I installed SDCARDXD, an awesome app. Everything works. All my AVI movies transferred to the SD card from internal, etc. You can open the AVI movies from SDCARDXD. I also got the Vplayer app, works well for playing movies.