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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sirandar:
Opinion: I have noticed that a few Android phones like the HTC One S are designed without a microSD slot. I think this is a really bad idea for both the microSD slotless phones themselves and Android as a whole. I would suggest that consider this when buying any phone without a microSD slot because every phone bought without one is a vote that says microSD is dispensable. Obviously the ultimate choice is yours.

In the future if unlimited plans become the norm and Android develops enough that on-line files can be cataloged and accessible just like they were on a microSD card, then microSD may become obsolete ....... those days are not here yet. I would gladly pay Dropbox to store all my music files on line, but playing them from on-line is rudimentary at best. PowerAMP or the Stock Android player can't catalog the files so finding and playing them is a mess. There is also no cover art or lyric support either. Also if every file must be cataloged and that means downloading the whole music collection one, at a time which would take weeks.

In my opinion, the direction Android should be going in is providing a decent sized non-removable memory block built into the phone to run the OS and store Apps, at least 16GB. This way the memory access in uniform, quick and direct with none of the quirks that SD cards exhibit. The microSD card should be completely isolated from the operating system except to provide simple removable storage like a flash drive. The micoSD card slot should also be on the outside of the phone so it could be swapped out live.

I think that at least with Froyo, moving apps to the SD card didn't work well. Some Apps worked OK, but eventually almost every app had some problem or another. Some apps also caused errors that resulted in read only access or worse.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spunker88:
Unlimited plans are going away, I doubt they will make a comeback. With data becoming more and more expensive now, the cloud is becoming a more impractical storage model. I hope Android phone makers keep microSD slots around as I will not buy a phone without a microSD slot. Unfortunately this means passing on the last generation of Nexus devices.

On phones with enough internal space the external SD card is mounted separately and some internal memory is mounted as a virtual SD card. This allows apps to be installed on the phone's virtual SD card so you can remove the external.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raze599:
For me personally as long as there's 16GB on the phone, I have no need for more. I suspect the majority (60-65%) are also the same as they dont use much space at all. There should really be a poll on this.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Umi_R98:
I've done without the microSD slot for 2 years on my Nexus S and I don't really miss it. Music Storage? with Google Music's 20,000 song storage, how can you not use it in some way? Half my music is on Google Music and my hot playlist/albums are on my phone. The only thing i find that's really taking up all the space are the games.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eatmepls7:
16gb is enough for me. I find 32gb and above too much.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xxkid123:
I need more than 16. With my current phone I have a single gb of internal storage for my apps, 10gb on my sd card, another 3gb for root stuff (ROMs, backups, titanium backups), and then another gigabyte of pictures and app data. Since I don't get to access all of my SDcard, I've only got 400mb left

I would keep SD cards. Sure solid block memory is nice, but I think SD would be more handy, and much cheaper.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] masondoctorjt:
I have 16gb internal , and a 16 gb sd, and I need more. Having no sd card slot is not acceptable, and the reason I don't buy nexus devices, or the one series HTC devices.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] khoikn:
I was in your position as well.

Love the design of the One S, but the lack of an SD card made me chose the GSIII.

I bought the 16GB version and threw a 16GB SD card in.

This is what I have used in terms of memory.

Internal:

- 8.44GB available, 520MB to apps, 502MB to pictures

External:

- 6.25GB available, 7.02GB songs (1700 songs), 243.2MB Backups

I think you should gage what kind of things that you keep on your devices.

For me, it's clear that I needed an external card, you might not.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drew96dawg:
i would be okay without an sd slot if the phone had 32 or 64 gigs of internal storage.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Neverendingxsin:
an sd card slot is needed now a days. Even with cloud based music and such, what about the times when you can't grab stuff from the cloud? Like flights, areas with very poor signal (the gym for me) or other such things. I don't see why they can't give that option as a standard or given. I'd be happy with 16gig internal and an SD card slot, but without the slot i can't keep all my music on the phone itself. I don't want to have to rely on streaming with the cloud to listen to music, and with games and apps these days requiring more space where is that all going to go? Some games download an extra few gigs, so 8gigs will fill up really quick.

There is no reason not to give phones an sd card slot, its a big con in my book. Unless the phone has 32 gig or better yet 64 gig internal storage.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dethrat:
I don't see a problem with not having an SD card.

I've easily got by with my HTC desire with an 8GB SD card.

Sometimes I think people keep things for the sake of it.

For example I was keeping nandroid backups from 6-8months ago

I keep about 500 songs a load of apps/games.

If I want any more music I've got cloud. I've never got the notion of carrying around 1500+ songs.

At 3.5 minutes a song that's 87+ hours worth of music. Who the hell has the time.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mattix724:
Until smartphones start coming out with 64GB and 128GB options, I will continue buying phones that have removable SD.

Even then, I still like the idea of a removable storage device for things like backups, sharing music, photos, etc...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sirandar:
From the OP ..... It seems like a number of people are happy with storing their music on-line. As an avid DropBox user I can see the charms of on-line storage for some type of files, like documents.

However music files just do not currently lend themselves to on-line storage primarily because it doesn't really matter how many files you can store on-line if they are slow to get to and are un-cataloged.

When music is on a microSD card, the default Android music player or PowerAmp does a very good job of cataloging them, and you have album art and for PowerAmp lyrics too. Both are very slick and it is very easy to generate playlists or find exactly the file you want. No on-line service can play files ever close to as easily and elegantly as default Android music player or PowerAmp can when files are on micro SD.

If on-line playing of tracks were as good an experience as microSD, I would be the first to use it as there are some limited advantages.

microSD for music provides the very best music experience AND it is 2 year old technology. This elegant working technology is being removed from new phones and being replaced with something much more complicated, slower, more inaccessible with greatly reduced functionality.

It is not a good direction for Android

Just remember that a few short years ago almost every single phone was completely locked down and most wouldn't ever turn on unless a activated carrier SIM card was present. My HTC Desire Z worked quite well without any SIM card except for making calls. Android was the biggest breath of fresh air I have seen in the phone industry, and I see the premature removal of microSD and nonremovable battery as the 1st step towards Apple's model and the bad old days when your phone so clearly belonged to the carrier and not you.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spunker88:
Don't worry, with the amount of OEMs out there that make android devices, there will always be somebody willing to add microSD slots to their phones to get sales. Most OEMs still do include them, its really only the Nexus devices that don't include them.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hreidmar:
To throw my 2 cents in here.

The mobile phones developed fast these few years but people still think that they should trade music player, PC, and a game console for 1 phone.

I don't think phones were made for constant use of music games and other things because the battery inside of them are still weak and the Android phones were made just for CASUAL listening to music and gaming it SHOULDN'T replace your MP3 player or gaming console.

I myself have a 16 GB MP3 player with me that can endure playing for over 25 hours (more than enough for 2 days)

As for the photos i have a Dropbox (18 GB), Sugarsync (over 24 GB) and Box (50 GB) and 2 of them (Dropbox and Sugarsync) have a automatic upload for pictures so whenever i snap a picture its automatically uploaded to the cloud and in settings you can change if you would only like to uplodad trough Wi-Fi and Data or Wi-Fi alone and if you don't trust cloud (for privacy) you can buy an app called FolderSync that can sync your photos to your NAS, FTP server and even to the clouds (Box) on a schedule like every hour or at specific time (at 3 AM while you are asleep).

And the app also support for 1 way or 2 way Sync so if you just do 1 way you can delete all the pictures on your phone but they won't be deleted on your server/cloud.

So i'm pretty good with my HTC Evo 3D with ONLY 8GB storage and i have 3 GB of data per month and as technology grows so do Wi-Fi hotspots and almost everywhere there is a Wi-Fi Hotspot near you.

So i don't see any problem with 16/32 GB storage without SD card slot and will probably get myself a Nexus 4 soon (after i save some money lol).
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sirandar:
From the OP to Hreidmar

I can agree that PCs and Laptops are not going to be replaced by smartphones for a long time yet. Quite simply PCs and laptops can do things that are inconvenient or impossible on a smartphone. Games on the phone are cute and have their charms but phones dont have the power, depth or screen space to run a game like Skyrim (Sadly the plot of that game could fit into a small corner of a smartphone ;) )

However, for anyone who carries a decent smartphone, MP3 players are obsolete. They were obsolete the second Froyo Phones (or Iphones) hit the market and microSD hit 32Gb.

My deceased HTC Desire Z and a 32Gb microSD card together made an astoundingly good MP3 player that was always there because my phone was always with me. All I needed to carry was a small pair of decent earbuds.

32 GB of storage was just enough storage to cover a good sized music collection at 96kps Ogg. You may ask " Why would you want to carry around your entire music collection?" I would reply, "Why wouldn't you want to, do you really like syncing and leaving half your music at home"

The standard augment is that you couldn't possibly listen to 32Gb of music on the road. This isn't about the number of tracks. It is about playing the exact track you want, when you want it, spontaneously and easily. It is also about never ever having to sync tracks again except when you buy some new ones. It is about freedom of choice and freedom from syncing. This freedom was already here 2 years ago.

The combination of Android ICS or JB with a 32, 64 or 128Gb microSD card is a perfect MP3 player. The Android Stock player is great and you can search through and make playlists effortlessly. The audio system on the HTC One S is also great AND your phone is always with you. It is a WIN WIN WIN except that the big phone makers are crippling their phone with no microSD slot and puny 10Gb of storage.

To put it in perspective, I bought a 32Gb flash drive for 10$ and the actual chip is even less expensive. Apple is gouging end users for storage to subsidize the rest of the phone. micro SD lets the cost per GB float closer to reality.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sirandar:
From the OP => Google Music

When I complained about the lack of microSD and tiny amounts of storage space on my HTC One S,a number of people pointed me to Google Music

As a Canadian I can't use the service to upload music. It isn't going to come to Canada in the foreseeable future either IMO, or Amazon MP3 would be already available.

Looking at it trying out the parts I could I think that Google Music may be a viable solution to accessing decent size music collections on a smartphone on the go.

Advantages: It seems to be able to catalog the tracks and give the end used an experience similar to having local music files on a SD card.

Disadvantages:

1) No data connect no music. Google tries to fix this by caching frequently used music, but chance are the track you want to play won't be available when the is no signal or you are forced to turn data off.

2) Data charges: An MP3 is fairly big and constantly playing tracks will add up to significant usage. A 2GB plan would probably make this irrelevant.

3) The music data is streamed. Streamed data means there may be dropouts and stutter if there high internet traffic volume. Downloading the whole track at once may be better.

4) Google is giving end users a large cloud space to upload tracks for free. However it is quite obvious that Google is only doing this to mine metrics about what type of music serious appreciators of music listen too so they can populate their music store with music. Once Google gets its data the free storage

will probably end or be replaced by paid storage. I personally wouldn't mind paying for the convenience of accessing files on-line as long as it is cheap and the data transfer rates are high.

Lastly, I would still much much more prefer to store all my music locally on a microSD. It is so much simpler, robust and fast.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ssayer:
Heck... Pics, vids, tunes... I have to have an SD to keep me going. Currently have 16g on the phone and a 32g SD card. There is no way I'd buy a phone without a SD slot!
[Motorola Atrix HD] Av8tor86:
I was having some issues with my phone shutting down so I attempted to wipe and use rds to install the stock firmware. Now I am stuck in this sticky bit fastboot. Am I screwed or is there an option to fix this? Thanks.

Joe
[Motorola Atrix HD] Av8tor86:
SUCCESS

re downloaded files and tried again, SUCCESS!!!
[Motorola Atrix HD] darknessrise1234:
I've redownloaded many times and still boots into sticky bit :s
[Motorola Atrix HD] truaswild:
can you upload your correct firmware file dude.

i try the everything. we need to unlocked bootloader
[Motorola Atrix HD] Av8tor86:
Download from here.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1885561

Hold power and volume down to boot into bootloader and use rds lite. I also did a factory reset. Kept trying till it worked.
[Motorola Atrix HD] valcazar:
I also have this problem now on my AHD. im also desperate and suicidal...lol..

ill try your test procedures. thanks
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] damitch300:
Hello there.

I got a note 2 since a day.

But i have a hard time to find how to retreive all game data from games like angry birds, bad piggies and drag race.

I only find solutions for rooted devices.

I really want my progress on the games back.

Thanks in advance.

Mitchell
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jamal Ahmed:
try the app

App2SD

and transfer yur apps to sd card? then move the sd card from phone to phone :) hope it works
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] damitch300:
Sorry but it didnt work.

All the apps went to my Micro SD card.

But the Galaxy Note 2 app2sd doesnt see any app on the SD card.

And now the Galaxy Note 1 doesnt to with the same app.

Help?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] damitch300:
Help please. I want to sell my note1 so i got to have this working...
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CreepyDroid:
Some games like angry birds has unofficial backup and restore apps. For the rest of apps you need to root I guess.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] YakirOz:
Just use Titanium backup on the first note, move the files, using a computer, to the note 2 and use TB again to retrive them.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iskoyistem:
can i just upgrade my Note II n7100's FW to make it N7105 (LTE)? is the HW ready for that?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rockin_Zombie:
nope
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jujuburi:
Can't resist myself.

You wanna convert your Corolla to Lexus with a new colour?

Sorry again, kidding.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] XenomorphXx121:
Forget about my other topic It made no sense.

If you had a cable with a micro usb connector at one end and two micro usb plugs at the other that is how you would get a hdtv adaptor and usb to work simultaneously.

There are none of these anywhere and nobody has built one so someone with skills in electronics they could make one.

Seems simple to me.

Maybe Samsung will come up with an adaptor like this.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] XenomorphXx121:
Why?

It seems plausible to me as the two micro usb plugs would join to the connector going into your phone, the hdtv adaptor would still have a charge as you would be charging it through the adaptor and the otg cable would connect up to the other micro usb plug.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] scarrmrcc:
read the other threads about OTG, and MHL, and you will see why it wont work.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] bapsack:
if so how can this work!?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1939900
[Galaxy S III Accessories] scarrmrcc:
READ THE OTHER THREADS. so a search for MHL+OTG.

I didn't say that MHL+OTG would not work, i said his way of doing won't work, as is outlined in the other threads.

there are MANY threads where the exact same idea comes up, and in the end: nope the hardware each of you want to use doesn't do what you are assuming it does.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] xblackvalorx:
What is the difference between the two forums? I just bought a sprint sgs3, from the 3d and im kinda confused on this..
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] ChrisM0678:
Think of it as AD being TouchWiz ROMs and such whereas OAD is more AOSP based.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] KidCarter93:
Original development is for things that have been built from scratch.

So any port overs or ROMs based on other ROMs don't belong in Original development section.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] billard412:
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/introducing-original-development-forums-for-more-devices/
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] kyhassen:
Now I actually understand this better. It confused me too.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] perezjes:
Hi guys,

I am gathering some info here about different ways to play witha brocked Hero and it seems that JTAG is the only option for hard bricks.

It seems people from RIFF JTAG have already develloped a special script for this phone, so it is possible to do.

Now my questions... I'm quite new to Jtag. It seems you need the pinout (already found in this site) an adapter and some soft to do the trick. Added to this a new hboot to replace the old, I guess.

Does any one know if there are some home made solutions for the adapter and open soft to do the changes on the hardware?

Any help is welcome!
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Pons:
AOKP JB Pons

Goo.Im Download for Kangs

Dev-Host Mirror

(updated only on request)

MediaFire Mirror

(updated only on request)

Evervolv Gapps

(recommended due to their smaller size)

Goo.Im Gapps

Merged Commits for Jellybean

(aka Changelog)​

What this ROM is:

Full version of AOKP JB using tiny's/chad's incredikernel synced and compiled from source

Uses only AOKP, and...

missing components from Evervolv

incredikernel source from tiny4579

and my HTC Incredible device tree

Now supports OTA updating via the Goo Manager app

Removed (with my suggested replacements, if any)

SuperSU (I use Superuser compiled from source instead)

Known issues:

PREFACE: I haven't tested this as extensively as CM10, so there may be hidden bugs. It's early, and I'm going for coffee.

Currently doesn't boot. Working on it to get it fixed.

Performance settings, particularly CPU, don't stick

Watching YouTube videos causes the phone to reboot flickers occasionally

Video camera has a very low fps (it stutters)

USB Tether (and the toggle for it) FC's

anymore, let me know

Source/Sauce (in case you missed it)

AOKP (I use their manifest.xml)

Evervolv (I use parts of their frameworks and other repositories to fix qsd8k specific issues)

My device tree for the Inc

Incredikernel by tiny

FAQ:

[Q] Gee, Pons, this here looks fun. How do I compile it myself?

[A]Here ya go, lil guy. Just follow these instructions: How to Compile AOKP JB for the Inc (if you encounter any issues using this to compile, please report here so I can troubleshoot and update if need be)

Why a thread? Basically, a couple of users have asked me to do this, and jellybellys hasn't pushed one out in almost two months, nor responded to his thread in even longer. I did ask him if he plans to continue support via PM, and he said yes (but is busy with a thing called life), so this is only to tide those over who like AOKP over CM10. I'll quit building them when he starts up again.

Credits/Thanks​

All credit goes to Cyanogen and the rest of the CM team (who's work Team Kang borrows heavily from), and especially our HTC Incredible maintainers, as listed by the CyanogenMod site: jistone (aka CUViper/This Guy), slayher, and of course, koush. Of course, don't forget about the Evervolv team, who has given our qsd8k device a lot of love. And how could we forget Team Kang, since this is AOKP, after all

In addition, I'd like to thank Albinoman for bringing AOSP JB to the Inc first, Zimeron for bringing CM10 to the Inc first, tiny4579 for his incredikernel, and JellyBellys for bringing AOKP to the Inc first.

For some reason, I have received several requests to put a donation link in my profile. You can always donate to the CyanogenMod project or the Evervolv project or Team Kang, but if you feel you HAVE to donate to me, I've put a link in my profile, and all donations will go towards upgrading my computer, so I can stay on top of this for CM10/11/and beyond.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] rickyg946:
Lol, saw this in goo when I was seeing if you had put up a new build of CM10 before I found this thread. Nice surprise to say the least :)
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Pons:
Quit cheating and use the Goo Manager app. :P
[Droid Incredible Android Development] 7he Messiah:
I switched from your CM10 to this and so far so good. Having choice is great, and this seems to be a good ROM thus far.

Thanks Pons!
[Droid Incredible Android Development] zachf714:
Ive been testing since the 15th .... It runs great..... He sent me a preview build

Sent from my Transformer using Xparent Red Tapatalk 2
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Pons:
If anyone runs into bugs that aren't listed in the OP, (especially big ones), please let me know. If I get enough confirmations or if I can replicate it myself, I'll add it to the OP.

Also these probably won't be nightly. I'll look at how AOKP does their releases and their merges, but a tentative schedule will be I'll release when AOKP releases or if there's a lot of merges or if I fix a groundbreaking bug.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] 7he Messiah:
It has been running great for me; nice and responsive, stable in what I've done.

One thing that I've noticed is that for some reason, it seems that switching activities holds the possibility to cause some graphical glitches (visually similar to what we see with the camera, but on the UI). Not a big thing, and it doesn't happen every time, but I figured I'd mention it.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] zachf714:
Alright well it can be unofficial builds like their Sunday releases but UNOFFICIAL and my battery is better on AOKP than cm10

Sent from my ADR6300 using Xparent Red Tapatalk 2
[Droid Incredible Android Development] zimlokks:
I love this! Thanks Pon!