[Q] Getting Internal & External Storage to work together

[Bek]

Coming from the Evo, I'm not used to having both Internal storage (8gb on the phone) and External storage (my microsd card) available to me. As I'm restoring files and data, I'm finding that numerous apps are hardcoded to only look to one filepath: /mnt/sdcard. That was fine on the Evo, as that pointed to the actual SD Card, but on the P4G, it points to the Internal storage.

Being rooted, I tried just making a simple symlink in /mnt/sdcard to /mnt/sdcard-ext but that didn't fly. And I don't want to necessarily "swap" the two by hacking whatever is the equivalent of fstab.

Thoughts on how to better manage having two data stores? Am I just going to have to get used to a new way of doing things?

 

[AndroidSPCS]

Yes I believe you will have to get used to the new way of doing things. Having a Captivate with 16GB internal, as well as my ViewSonic G-tablet with 16GB internal, and both having external microSD cards, this is exactly how it works - the phone will refer to the internal storage first.

 

[wynand32]

The system seems to be setup at least somewhat to accomodate both storage types, such as asking if photos and videos should be stored on the internal drive or SD card. Seems to make sense to me.

I will add that there's an instability whereby apps that are stored on the media drive (equivalent to the previous store on SD card functionality) sometimes disappear from the home screen. So, it's not all rosy yet.