I did not come up with this, MikesTooLz did. i am simply just sharing it BUT there is a problem that i have run into thanks to this. I'll explain at the end.
I hate how the LG Esteem has a fake internal 4GB SD card. Its a small amount of storage and not all apps can find the external SD card storage located in /sdcard/_ExternalSD/
The last update to the Google Plus app also broke auto upload of photos stored on my external SD card. I have figured out how to make my 16GB SD card show up as the internal memory (or as the Main /sdcard/ directory) and the internal fake SD card storage shows up as external storage.
To do this your phone must already be rooted.
Once the phone is rooted its just a matter of replacing a file on the phone with the modified file.
Download the following file, unzip it on your computer and transfer the vold.fstab to your SD Card. After you have the file on your SD card, use a program like Root Explorer to copy the file to /system/etc/
When it asks if you want to replace the existing file with this new one, select yes to replace the file.
Reboot the phone and start enjoying your new increased internal memory.
http://androidinvasion.us/downloads/vold.zip
My problem is when i plug into a pc to get to my both memory cards, it wont connect. It says it has dismounted the external SD card but that's all. I then downloaded muti-Mount sd app. it kinda works but i have to enable the original Mass storage and then the muti-mount SD. sadly this will only give me access to the internal memory and not my external. i was thinking that when the original maker of this file was creating or editing it that he left out or deleted some important line of code to make this properly work. Any clues or ideas?
The last update to the Google Plus app also broke auto upload of photos stored on my external SD card. I have figured out how to make my 16GB SD card show up as the internal memory (or as the Main /sdcard/ directory) and the internal fake SD card storage shows up as external storage.
To do this your phone must already be rooted.
Once the phone is rooted its just a matter of replacing a file on the phone with the modified file.
Download the following file, unzip it on your computer and transfer the vold.fstab to your SD Card. After you have the file on your SD card, use a program like Root Explorer to copy the file to /system/etc/
When it asks if you want to replace the existing file with this new one, select yes to replace the file.
Reboot the phone and start enjoying your new increased internal memory.
http://androidinvasion.us/downloads/vold.zip
My problem is when i plug into a pc to get to my both memory cards, it wont connect. It says it has dismounted the external SD card but that's all. I then downloaded muti-Mount sd app. it kinda works but i have to enable the original Mass storage and then the muti-mount SD. sadly this will only give me access to the internal memory and not my external. i was thinking that when the original maker of this file was creating or editing it that he left out or deleted some important line of code to make this properly work. Any clues or ideas?