How to use Memory Expansion Slot?

[milominderbinde]

I dunnno Milo. I think your responses and guides could use more detail. *tease*

As always, great job man. This community is lucky to have a guy like you around, and E4GT owners are even more lucky that you happen to be using this phone for now. It's like winning the lottery!

Thanks, Jay!

 

[MannyZ28]

I thought we agreed on that the Apps are being installed on the microSD card and not on the internal storage memory? I was concerned about this too, so I did some looking around on my card which had a bunch of stuff from my Evo 3d on it. Not wanting to waste any space for the same app on both the card or the internal storage, I started deleting everything from the microSD card. Last night I installed a game that is rather big, around 45 mb, Air Defense, or something like that. The icon for it disappeared after I deleted everything from my microSD card, clear evidence that the games do get stored on the microSD card.

Too bad you don't have a choice when installing it, but I am thrilled to see that this phone has 2 GB of app memory vs the measly 1.06 GB the Evo 3d had. Add to that the 11 we get for internal storage, and we're definitely getting more bang for the buck with this phone!

 

[milominderbinde]

The anchor part of the app code must remain in the Apps area of the internal memory.

Apps like Apps2SD can move parts of many apps to the microSD card. Some apps automatically install all the components they can to the microSD if a card can be found on installation. I am betting Air Defense is so large that it does this.

 

[MannyZ28]

The anchor part of the app code must remain in the Apps area of the internal memory.

Apps like Apps2SD can move parts of many apps to the microSD card. Some apps automatically install all the components they can to the microSD if a card can be found on installation. I am betting Air Defense is so large that it does this.

I looked it up...it's actually Air Attack...I think...lol. anyways, I understand the part of a small part of the app going into the small 2 GB internal partition, all apps have something sitting there, however, I understood what you said as meaning that the big apps which do install themselves onto a larger partition, land up in the 11 GB partition, however in my experience they really did land up on the microSD card. Apparently that was just a misunderstanding, a criss crossing of terminology.

 

[rlanza1054]

I understood what you said as meaning that the big apps which do install themselves onto a larger partition, land up in the 11 GB partition

That is exactly my point, that 11GB partition is not your external micro SD card. It's the built in 16 GB that Samsung gave you.

If everyone would look at /mnt/sdcard that is the 16 GB partition (or memory area) that Samsung supplied. It is not the micro SD card. It is not the external_SD card.

So now look here: /mnt/sdcard/external_sd that is your micro SD card, that is my 32GB card that I supplied and installed. In my case, it is a 32 GB Transcend Card.

Apps are not getting installed there. However, I did find one app that stored data there, it was BeyondPOD my podcast player. If it sees a card installed it will try and download the podcast files to the REAL external_sd card.

The main reason I am getting so crazy about this, is because I've actually run out of space on my 16GB partition (the sdcard partition, which is internal).

Everyone is getting confused on the terminology as you just stated. So when I am asking questions on the forums everyone is really supplying incorrect information and issues can't be solved unless everyone truly understands the differences in the two places, the two partitions and the two physical locations.

And don't know how to get the word out to everyone (especially newbies like myself, although I do have a tech background and consider myself a geek or techie).

Rob

PS I think realize why Samsung is using these confusing terms, it's because it's a pretty standard way of describing the physical locations in UNIX or LINUX. If you look at there is a location /mnt/usb and it's empty. I believe because we can hook up a hard drive to this phone via the USB port, it the data from a hard drive will show up when a USB hard drive is hooked up to the phone.

 

[hawaiijedi]

What class of micro sd and brand do you guys recommend? Class 4? Class 10? I jut wanted to get the general consensus.

 

[TheMacs]

Mine's a class 4, 32GB Sandisk. No problems so far.

Don't know for sure, but my sense in researching was 10 is overkill.

 

[TheMacs]

Also, thanks a bunch Milo. Coming from webOS (and PalmOS before that!), I've had to do quite a bit of learning. You're posts/threads should be required reading for for all rooks.

 

[MannyZ28]

I have a Sandisk Class 10 32GB card...no problems, and it's fast.

 

[onthehunt]

Am so glad I found this thread. I did not know photos were being stored on the internal sd card, not the external sd card. I checked my camera setting and the default storage setting is to save to the phone. I changed it to memory card. I bet a lot of people don't know this. Can I plug my phone into my PC and move pics from the internal sd card onto the external sd card?

 

[rlanza1054]

Am so glad I found this thread.

Yes, you can get your photos and other stuff hooked up with the USB cable.

Things stored on the internal SD card will show up in the Phone folder.

The stuff stored on the external SD card will show up on the CARD folder.

Better yet, just run the Kies app that comes with your phone and you can move stuff to your PC.wirelessly, with any browser on your PC.

And get the Kies software for your PC to get the backup function (you do have to hook up your phone with the USB cable with this software).

You can get the software for free from the Samsung website here:

https://forums.androidcentral.com/e...D710%26prd_mdl_name%3DSPH-D710&token=U0T6Uk8o

Rob




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