Telling Difference Between Phone Storage and SD Storage

**MA2GA28** · 07-03-2010, 11:55 AM

This may be a dumb question, but my SD card is 8GB (same as the internal storage on the phone). When I plug into my PC, it shows two removable storage items. How do I know which one is the phone and which one is the SD card? Is the phone the one with all of the pre-loaded pics and such? Or does that info get moved to the SD card once its formated?

**makya53** · 07-03-2010, 12:01 PM

Yes the phone will have all ad the pre loaded stuff on it. I renamed them

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**SeeK** · 07-03-2010, 04:43 PM

Yeah, renaming them on your computer works. Find out which one's which, and name it Phone and SD Card or something like that.

My ROM is quite small, and so my phone and SD card both show up as one storage unit. I renamed it Desire and that's working so far.

**takeshi** · 07-05-2010, 11:54 AM

You can always use a file manager to stick an "indicator" file (doesn't matter what it is) in one of them. For example, if you put the file in \sdcard you'll know which is the sdcard when you mount to your PC and see the file in one of them.

**hobbyhut1973** · 07-06-2010, 02:38 PM

If i get a 16gb card to replace the 8gb card in my EVO, what is the easiest way to transfer over the the info to the 16gb card. I renamed them so i know what is on the SD card. Thx

**ElaineL** · 06-11-2012, 05:50 PM

what is the advantage of moving items from the phone to the media storage area and what apps can be moved to SD card

**Devinator** · 06-12-2012, 08:21 AM

Originally Posted by MA2GA28

This may be a dumb question, but my SD card is 8GB (same as the internal storage on the phone). When I plug into my PC, it shows two removable storage items. How do I know which one is the phone and which one is the SD card? Is the phone the one with all of the pre-loaded pics and such? Or does that info get moved to the SD card once its formated?

Your internal storage (at least mine does) should have a folder called Android on it. I keep all of my apps on my phone, so, it's pretty obvious which is internal storage for me.

Originally Posted by ElaineL

what is the advantage of moving items from the phone to the media storage area and what apps can be moved to SD card

I would assume the reason would be that if you need to factory reset or get a new phone, you can keep data related to the app, without having to transfer it elsewhere. I have had varying degrees of success having app data tranfer from one phone to another, but, it does work.

If an app can be moved to the SD card, there will be a non-grayed out button for the app under Manage Apps, saying something like, "move to media area."

The only advantage (that I can think of off the top of my head) to keeping the apps internally would be a nominal decrease in load times. Apps are small and shouldn't take long to load into memory. It would only really make a difference, most likely, if you were using your desktop/laptop and trying to load a large program off a USB drive, SD card, etc. But, on a phone, it shouldn't really matter.

If you swap out multiple SD cards, you'd probably want to keep them on the phone, if not, you should be fine keeping them on the SD card.