yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[General Questions and Answers] sakishrist:
Hello all,

It seems that nowadays all vendors decide to go with the approach to have a virtual SD card that uses an emulated filesystem to make us feel happy in case we do not have a real SD card. I honestly do not understand the reasoning behind this so I am reaching out to you to let me know what you think the reason is.

For now I can see the following pros and cons of this approach:

Pros:

Have SD card support in case you do not have a real one and you have an app that requires it.

Cons:

You no longer can move applications to external SD card on most devices (all that I have tried).

The application data (obb) that is essentially the largest thing an app can offer goes directly to the internal SD card and you can not move it to the external SD card.

You are now even restricted by what you can write on the external SD card because if not there is a security issue. That's also a thing that I do not understand that is conveniently not explained and just implemented.

Your CPU cycles are used to process the data yet once more just so that you can have the luxury of an emulated file system.

The fuse filesystem in most devices lacks some basic features like links.

Essentially the internal SD card seems like a Huge hack to me. Why is that? Even just the name gives it all away. "Internal SD card". That is not an SD card. It's not even a separate flash chip. Not even a separate partition on most devices. There is times where this is just a folder in your userdata partition made to look like an SD card by the magic of fuse.

The only reason I could find for this monstrosity is that there is some kind of compatibility issue with some apps in case you do not have an SD card and so that's why they came up with this.

So please let me know what the big idea that I seem to be missing here is as to why this humongous hack is needed. Thanks in advance!

Cheers,

Sakis
[X 2014 Themes and Apps] BigDomTheFirst:
I have some old boot logo animations lying around on my computer from my days before buying the moto X 2nd gen from the moto G 2nd gen and I was wondering what it would take to make them work on the moto X 2nd gen? Thanks ahead of time XDA community :)
[Xperia Z5 Premium General] dude9946:
Has anyone actually had the issue stated in this article, IE soft bricked phones and troubles with the play store?

http://mobilesyrup.com/2016/03/28/sony-canada-pulls-xperia-z5-and-xperia-z5-premium-marshmallow-update-after-play-store-issues/
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hkarlh:
I recently got an s5 after having an s3 for the past few years. (not a power user, just a normal old fart user). Was having issues with s3 when I tried a hard reset. Realized all of my contacts added for past months had not synced with Google and were gone. Wound up with s5 because of a the original reception problem that I was experiencing was not a software thing but a hardware.

With the new s5 in hand I added a contact, Samsung S5, to the phone. I added "Google Contacts" via the Google contacts page. Neither of the items synced on my s5. The "Google Contacts" synced with my Nexus tablet just fine. I added a similar item onto the tablet, "Nexus 7" and it synced as well.

The issue seems to have something to do with Samsung devices not syncing with Google contacts. Solutions????
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] niccyk:
Hi guys, I am trying to buy a "SanDisk Mobile Premier 2GB Micro SD high speed", I believe it is fit for Kaiser, right?:confused:
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] mcwarre:
Yep that'll work fine; be wary of buying on eBay as many tend to be fakes. Buy from a trusted reseller. I have got a 6GB for less than £40 delivered.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] ekw:
If your in the US, you can get great deals @ newegg.com

I purchased my 2gb microsd for 19.99, and 3 day ups is standard shipping.(costs like 3-5 dollars, on some cases its free shipping)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Slade8525:
it supports cards over 2GB (Micro SDHC); i have a 2GB Micro SD for now, waiting for a 10-15GB model of the SDHC's to come out so i can dump all my music on it and ditch my iPod
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] fusi:
dunno where ive got this from but i think/heard/got the vibe that the kaiser can only support up to 8gb sdhc?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] niccyk:
that's great, I was think about a 2GB one but seems like it is not enough? Does Kaiser a good music/video player? :eek:
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] niccyk:
ditch iPod, you are so cool man:o
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Slade8525:
i get maybe 45 minutes out of a charge on the iPod anymore; it will permanently reside in my car soon enough. Dont get me wrong, the iPod is great and all, but pocket space is at a premium for me, and between wallet, cell/PPC, keys, iPod, ciggs, lighter, and PassCards my pockets are stuffed. If 8GB is the most the Kaiser will support, then so be it.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] niccyk:
Yes we all need a slim pocket...

By the way here comes a new question, I found that all micro SDHC are come with CLASS 2, that means 9mb/s on reading and 5mb/s on writing... a little bit slow? It that necessay to buy a MicroSD Ultra II ?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] RacerX10:
up to 32 GB sd card in ATT Tilt

DLD
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Slade8525:
if you have a 1-2GB micro SD card now, i'd wait a while unless your dying for memory space; they are bound to up the read/write speeds and lower the prices. I teach digital photography, a few years back read/write speeds of memory cards mattered a LOT, nowadays most D-SLR's have a huge cache so a superfast memory card isnt such a big deal, and the prices are fairly decent. My bet is in 6 months an 8 gig Ultra II Micro SDHC shouldnt be more than $60.

thats great to hear RacerX10; even 10-15GB should effectively mean i dont need to drag my laptop and iPod everywhere; 32GB means pretty much ALL my media with me.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] RemE:
SDHC spec is up to 32gig, today the max you can actually buy is 6gig. By the time you can actually buy a 32gig, we'll be using different phones like TyTN III
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] niccyk:
yep, let's be normal to the speed

your really professional on this topic
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Slade8525:
lol im aware of that, i'll just be happy to see the day i dont have to drag 14 lbs of PDA/MP3/PC crap around.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] dwella:
And the ATT Tiltless.......:D

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[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] jomo25:
6GB Micro SDHCs are available - Sandisk seems to be th eonly real supplier at this moment. I'm sure others will have theirs out soon too. I just bought one from www.mydigitaldiscount.com in the US. Got it with no issues, and I've filled 4.5GB of it with music and video.

8GB MicroSDHCs are targeted for release probably around the end of the year. Again, Sandisk will be the first supplier.

No one has even announced an official "coming soon" statement for anything bigger than 8GB yet.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] mikeeey:
So you think by Christmas we'l be seeign 8gb micro SDHC cards? should i wait till then and put off geting a 6gb card?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] ekw:
Kaiser is a real good video player(Using TCPMP), but it also depends on the format.

My favorite, and In my opinion, the best format is .m4v (You may need a special convertor for that)

Other formats are either 2 big, or has really choppy playback.

Also you should increase your font and glyph cache to 32768 (makes things more responsive/ smoother)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Slade8525:
the SDA SD Card Association has never quite said the 'maximum' size of a Micro SD; there is a theoretical maximum of 32 GB, hence the 'limit' at the moment, which IMO means merely a new 'type' of SD card in a year or two. as for hardware that reads them, there likely is a maximum size they can read.

Currently Samsung has an 8GB Micro SD in development, Kingston and Sandisk are sure to be right behind anyways. besides, its just a memory card; i have piles of 128MB Memory Stick Pro Duo's that i bought for my Sony S710a when it first came out, and 128MB was still a fairly sizeable card for a cell phone; now we're talking 6-8+ gigs...
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] niccyk:
That's great advise, I used to play .AVI with TCPMP and it works fine but haven't try to increase the cache, due to my Vario I is limited by its memory:(
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] niccyk:
Finally I brought a 4gb SDHC card, with class 2 read/write speed.

I have noticed that the 6gb SDHC have a class 4 speed, which is rather good on file transport.

If the 8gb SDHC can reach a class 6 speed, I think it is worth to wait...:D
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Frans.:
but which 2 GB is the best?

2 GB fits to my actual needs.. beside phoning I mostly will use my Kaiser for navigation and some connection making to my laptob

What 2 GB is recommended?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] 3waygeek:
AFAIK, all 2GB cards should work, so go for the best price.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Frans.:
When using Tomtom can I expect any improvement by using Ultra II or Premier cards?
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iko84:
Do you guys know where can i find it? Im so sad beaucose i sold my perfect g2 to buy g4 and now im just sorry for that. Can tell you g2 is better than this phone in so many ways
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] touns_j:
Assuming you're using stock marshmallow , go to settings-->general-->about phone -->update center-->then app updates and install it from there
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kolembo:
The G2 was a.c. awesome phone. Absolutely.

The only thing is The Camera on the G4 is astonishing. Simple.

And external a sdCard
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] kentcheung92:
Hi all, today when i was using my s7 (hong kong), at one point it became sluggish out of no reason. And then I charged my phone as usual and it showed: 4 hours to fully charged. I've enabled fast charging and it has never happened before (usually it takes only 1 hour to fully charge it). Furthermore when i unplugged the cable there's still this 'usb options' notification popped up as if the phone was still connected to an usb cable.

Restarting the phone twice and it was all okay again.

Anyone experienced this before? Thoughts?:confused:
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] dangerousjenny:
I had it charging slow and realized the cable wasn't plugged into the wall thing all the way, somehow it pulled out a bit.
[Moto E Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] haribalaji:
When i start folder mount app i receive an error "I was unable to write into the external sdcard." Help needed !
[Moto E Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cheez2553:
Why not use adopt SD?

Inviato dal mio Moto E utilizzando Tapatalk
[Moto E Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Abhimanyu Shekhawat 121:
Use app2sd it has a separate folder mount option and it works well on mm
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] speaknice:
Hi All

Could do with some advice Guys !!

I've recently swapped the ROM on my S5 (SM-G900F on Vodafone) from the Alliance (Lollipop) which was working Ok to the CM (Marshmallow 6.0.1).

My issues are thus: Whilst both ROM's have given me no problems with regard to 'Signal/Calls' I have found the 'CM' Rom does created issues for me e.g. 'Black Screen' on Calls (once call is placed or connected) another 'Modder' with similar problems solved this by loading Xposed program and doing something from there but I'm reluctant to try this considering I could end up in another 'Boot Loop' at startup according to 'feedback'.

'CM' ROM also wont recognise my Micro SD card, suggesting I let it 'Format' it, this I'm reluctant to do as I can 'access' it no problem from 'Philz Recovery' , where I have Roms, Photos etc I'm reluctant to give up.

The 'killer' for me for 'CM' is 'Titanium Backup' doesnt work on it either.

So, I tried Recovery and reloading the 'backup' I'd made from the (was working ok inc 'signal strength !!) AllianceRom v 9 (Android 5.0 based on TouchWiz) only to end up in 'Bootloops' I did clean for 'new rom' from within 'Recovery initially before 'Restoring'.

'Several attempts later' and following a 'Tip' to 'Mounts & Storage' , 'Format / System I did manage to get the Backup 'Alliance' back on 'BUT' signal was none existant !!

I've since tried re-installing the Alliance Rom from scratch but had the same problem !!

Question. Would the Rom upgrade to 'CM' (Marshmallow 6.0.1) have affected the 'Modem/Settings' in some way and maybe the 'BootLoader' ?? which might be causing the 'backup Bootloop' ??

Apologies to All for the 'Lengthy Description and fragmented knowledge but if anyone can offer me guidance, tips, links for info on 'Bootloaders' (should I change/downgrade this, if so ,how ??)

I've taken most of my initial learning/Rom advice from .galaxy5root.com ,a site i used a lot for my old Sll too !!

And now XDA !!!!

Thanks for your help in Advance.....
[Moto E Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] @pulkit:
Hello all,

Can anyone tell me How can I Force move, the apps to Adopted Sd card storage.

Some apps do move to the Adopted Sd card storage but some apps do not support it like Google Chrome, Inbox etc.

How can I move those apps to the Adopted Sd card. ?

Any help would be Highly Appreciable.

Thanks. :)
[Moto E Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sikoo1996:
To force move apps, flash temasek ROM..it has that awesome feature..
[Moto E Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] @pulkit:
I was using Temasek till yesterday only. Had to install another ROM as Temasek was Hanging and Slowing down, No smoothness also the Battery backup was not so Good.

Anyway, are there any adb commands that would do the good. ?
[Moto E Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Abhimanyu Shekhawat 121:
Use orion....it's smooth and has this feature

Other ROMs which has this feature are cyanpop,RR,vrtoxin
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frorgaba:
Hello,

I have seen that in some CM13 ROMs for N910F there is a possibilty to have an battery bar over the status bar on all the withd of the N4

Is there any possibility to install this on an Samsung ROM ?

thank you
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] noob4598:
Team Battery Bar app is what I use. Works great
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frorgaba:
thanks a lot; it's what I was loocking for
[Xiaomi Redmi 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] syl0n:
What's new from Standard Redmi 3?

3GB RAM

32GB Storage

Fingerprint reader

Source: http://www.gsmarena.com/xiaomis_new...ingerprint_scanner_and_3gb_ram-news-17488.php
[Xiaomi Redmi 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] usblaidas:
Soooooo annoying.... And I got my redmi 3 like few weeks back....

I was considering getting note 3 only because of fingerprint sensor, but it is way too large for my liking. And now they release this.
[Xiaomi Redmi 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Suo.Eno:
Don't be. Plus it's to be expected that they'd get either an Enhanced or Prime (well except now obviously it's a Pro so) out. Not that I defend Xiaomi but they're not the only ones struggling to balance out price points.

Subject to individual preference of course, sure both 3GB RAM and 32GB internal storage are more than welcome but are you sure you don't want to pair those to a slightly more capable SoC with better GPU OR at least with an FHD screen instead?

As for me being Malaysian when Mi are lagging their ass in their own sweet time to even bring in proper official Redmi 3/ido sets on time let alone this Pro I can't be arsed to wait and definitely are happy with how much I've paid for my imported set so yeah.
[Xiaomi Redmi 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Sahbazda:
Hello everyone, does someone know, will the PRO version have capacity buttons light?
[Xiaomi Redmi 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] daize:
Any news here yet? It says 4th of April, but I can't really find anything yet.
[Xiaomi Redmi 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] YUxDI:
It will be more great if :

Super AMOLED 2560 x 1440 pixels or QHD+ with Gorilla Glass 5 with 3D or Force Touch too

SD652 or SD825 in it

USB Type-C

QC 3.0 or Super VOOC

24 UltraPixel with f/1.2 main camera & 24 UltraPixel front camera with f/1.2 (Best lowlight) dual-pixel + iSight technology

Micro SD Card (up to 512Gb) slot separetly from SIM 2nd Slot

10.000 mAh battery capacity

What do you think?
[Xiaomi Redmi 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] sui785:
Spemall is selling it already, they have posted a photo showing their stock.
[Xiaomi Redmi 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] cliche guevara:
I've just purchased from Spemall. Never used them before, but I guess Paypal has my back if anything dodgy happens. £144 delivered to the UK by DHL, with the promise that they'll "lower the invoice price" so that I get charged less tax at import... We'll see. Should be here by the end of next week.
[Xiaomi Redmi 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] mladjo:
Just ordered one Redmi 3 Pro yesterday, hope to reicive it as soon as possible.
[Xiaomi Redmi 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] sui785:
You should have chosen EU Direct. I have done that when ordering from Spemall and the item arrived within a week and no customs tax.
[Xiaomi Redmi 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] cliche guevara:
Ah that's a shame, live and learn I guess. DHL was a pound more but showing as 60% discount, so I assumed that it was the better value option.

This handset is now on hotukdeals.co.uk under an AliExpress seller for the bargain price of £120.
[Xiaomi Redmi 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] VulcanX:
Hey guys,

Is spemall.com a reliable/trustworthy site? I am currently in Cyprus (EU) and its basically between ibuygou.com and spemall.com. Which handles returns friendlier and you guys have had better experiences with?

Thanks!
[Xiaomi Redmi 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] AndresRvs:
Hello I just get my redmi 3 Pro. I am installing some apps and noticed that heats up very fast. Does anyone feel the same?

Also sorry if my english is bad im spanish speaker. :good:
[Xiaomi Redmi 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Try it or die:
I'm not sure whether I should buy the pro version or the non-pro version, if I'm buying the pro version, can I use the ROMs from the non-pro version?
[Xiaomi Redmi 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] evgeny_t:
Some one can help me, where is price cheapest?

i'm want to buy PRO version
[Xiaomi Redmi 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] cliche guevara:
I've now received my Redmi 3 Pro and after a week of use I am very happy with it. I'm getting 6-7 hours of screen on time, the camera is much better than the reviews led me to believe, and it's been an all round decent experience. The only thing that is bugging me is that I'm on the Chinese ROM and don't seem to have a clear answer on whether the Redmi 3 ROMs will work or will brick my device. Ideally I'd run CM12, but even the Global Miui would be better than the Chinese one.
[Xiaomi Redmi 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] momentilly:
Redmi 3 Roms seem yet not to work with pro version. Fingerprint and network seem not to work.

Waiting for a fixed release of EU rom.

xiaomi.eu/community/threads/rom-for-redmi-3-pro-is-ido.31083/page-2
[Xiaomi Redmi 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] daize:
Wow, nuts how the prices change. I'm waiting for my Redmi 3 still that I ordered in the beginning of April. Paid 170 USD for it.
[Xiaomi Redmi 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Aakash™:
Really

---------- Post added at 05:06 AM ---------- Previous post was at 05:06 AM ----------

I will buy it
[Xiaomi Redmi 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] daize:
Well, ain't I lucky. http://es.aliexpress.com/store/1986585 <-- may NOT want to get something there. I ordered a Xiaomi Redmi3, but I got a 2nd hand Samsung E7, packaged in their own unique tape and all. Had to escalate the dispute with Aliexpress, luckily they helped me out.

I guess I may be trying again for the pro version. Any other reviewers? :)
[Android Apps and Games] usman farhat:
This app is used for two purposes:

1. You open a file and when you select an app it is automatically selected as the default app. You want that you must be presented with an app chooser every time you open that file. (This happens in Samsung S6 Marshmallow and might happen in other devices and ROMS).

2. You want the app chooser to pop up but you don't want to press the JUST ONCE button every time i.e you want to open desired app with single tap.

The solution to this is that you need to go and open the file as before, but instead of selecting the desired app you should select APP PICKER.

Then you will again be presented with a list of apps which can open that file. Now you can open that file with your desired app.

Next time you open the file, you will be presented with a list of apps which will also include the App Picker. Now you would not need to select app picker again.

Your problem should now be resolved, that (1) you will always be shown an app picker, and (2) you will not need to press JUST ONCE button.

I have tested this on various apps and 2 devices, but I will be happy to bring more updates if they are required.

Currently the app should work on following:

Text files

Images

Videos

Audio files

Other file types such as pdf, xlsx etc. (all types are impossible to test so please give feedback if something is not working)

Internet Browsers

Email Apps

LINK to play store:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appsbyusman.alternativeapppicker
[Android Apps and Games] Primokorn:
It would be great to be able to select the apps that are suggested in the resolver list.

In addition, being able to do the same for the Share feature would be awesome! I know that several users (including myself) miss a xposed module that we used on KK.
[Android Apps and Games] usman farhat:
In the custom Rom I'm using, the share feature already shows single tappable chooser so my app would essentially do the same thing. In fact I'm creating a chooser in this app in the way an app invokes its share function.

I didn't understand the first part of your comment though.
[Android Apps and Games] usman farhat:
Does the share dialog give ALWAYS and JUST ONCE buttons?
[Android Apps and Games] ViolentR:
Hey I was looking for something like this thanks.

The problem I am having is that is does not show up for whatsapp Gallery.

Could you help me out?
[Android Apps and Games] usman farhat:
Whatsapp views images within its own app and my app works for opening videos
[Android Apps and Games] ViolentR:
Oh i see, would it be possible to implement this, so it gives options for image selecting as there's a few image apps that I like to select images from sometimes. Annoying how the force the app you select to be the default one after. :(

https://gyazo.com/94295946039e1564c81d79bb6e284c63
[Android Apps and Games] usman farhat:
Well, in the version I am using it doesn't even show the picker as shown in your image. It shows its own internal gallery for image selection.
[Android Apps and Games] Primokorn:
Nope.

Imagine you have 10 suggested apps to open a link/file or to share a link/file, it would be great to be able to remove some suggested (useless) apps, to only keep 4 apps for instance.
[Android Apps and Games] ViolentR:
Oh, If you hold down the Gallery button instead of clicking it should show the picker. Unless you've already picked one and it's defaulted to it.
[Android Apps and Games] usman farhat:
define "Gallery button"
[Android Apps and Games] usman farhat:
[MENTION=4958579]Primokorn[/MENTION]

Good idea! I will look into this.
[Android Apps and Games] ViolentR:
The Gallery button on whatsapp

https://i.gyazo.com/ac1cc1ad0f9b167e7beef140b65eab41.png
[Android Apps and Games] usman farhat:
I think i can do this. But can't promise though. I'll try to implement it.
[Android Apps and Games] ViolentR:
Thank you!

:fingers-crossed:
[Android Apps and Games] usman farhat:
Just uploaded the update including your request :)

It will take some time to reach you. It should theoretically work for all file types but I can only test it on the gallery app.
[Android Apps and Games] ViolentR:
Hi, thank you for updating it. I gave it a try and it doesn't seem to select the App Picker when I try select it.

When I select App Picker it'll just open up the menu again to select a default app.

I uploaded a gif of it - https://i.imgur.com/79aABtu.gifv