[Asus Transformer TF700] mrbillishere:
Hi guys, need your help/advice.

I have a week-old TF700T. I am experienced with flashing custom ROMs (and everything that leads up to that point) but up until now, my work has been strictly as it relates to phones which only use internal storage, so the concept of the external SD and mount points is new to me.

I am on CROMI DEODEXED, v3.4.4 using _that's v4 kernel, stock settings. Right away I saw a noticeable improvement in my quadrant scores and everything was working just swimmingly.

I suppose this is a case of 'should have left well-enough alone'... but I didn't.

I went ahead and got me a 64GB Sandisk class 10 microSD card, followed the instructions in the enhanced data2sd thread, and used gParted to partition and format it. The details of that process are, I created a 256MB partition formatted using FAT, and then I allocated the remaining 60GB (approx) to a ext4 partition, and marked it bootable. I installed the microSD and got my data restored to the new volume. At that point I thought everything was great. That was two nights ago.

Well, now I'm confused. It seems to me that the way the \sdcard mount point is configured doesn't make sense, or isn't acting as expected.

Let me give you an example. When I take a picture with the camera, it doesn't seem to be getting saved, and the Gallery app cannot find my pictures.

Using ES File Explorer, I see the following:

\data\media\DCIM\Camera

In the above folder, my files in the Camera directory exist, and were created prior to the data2SD mod. I copied them here from the internal data storage.

Next folder:

\data2\media\DCIM\Camera-internal-storage

In the above folder, which I renamed using the file explorer in TWRP (to help me keep straight which storage I was viewing) I see that my old files still exist.

Next folder:

\sdcard\DCIM\Camera

In the above folder, no objects are found. This is part of why I'm confused. It's also probably why the Gallery and other apps can't find my pictures.

And finally,

\sdcardi

In the above folder, no objects are found. I'm really confused as to what I'm inspecting here. It doesn't appear to be the first partition on the external microSD because I dropped one text file into it to help me if/when I happened to browse that partition/volume. (and fwiw, later, I did find my text file in this folder: \Removable\MicroSD)

Also, I *think* I took a hit in terms of my Quadrant scores after implementing data2SD. When I flashed CROMI initially, I saw a big jump in the scores, taking me from somewhere in the 5K range, to approx 7K. However now, my results seem lower (like, upper 5's).

I'm wondering if I messed up the permissions on the camera/pictures directory somehow, but I'm really unclear how that would only affect the \sdcard mount point.

I'm also wondering if the mod isn't working as designed, or if it's working like the original data2SD mod works, as opposed to the enhanced version of that mod. Or, am I just really confused!?!

Since the tablet is so new I'm not really worried about having to rebuild it, if I can't get my head around this. Worst case I format the external SD as exFAT and just use it for storage, right? I know I have a nandroid backup of my data as it existed two days ago, so I should be OK.

What are others experiencing? And does anyone have any idea why the file structure on \sdcard doesn't seem to match what I see if I navigate there via \data\media?

Thanks!!

Bill