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device to sd card transfer issue

andymac1983 — Fri, 03 May 2013 14:23:26 GMT

Hi, i have recently bought a micro sd card for my phone. when i go to transfer data to sd card the photos option is ticked and the videos option is ticked but the music option is greyed out and it says i have no music files on my phone, but i ive loads. can anyone help please ? thanks

Andy

Re: device to sd card transfer issue

Samuel1 — Tue, 07 May 2013 09:25:37 GMT

And you are sure these music files are stored on the phone memory? What happens if you connect the phone to your computer and try to transfer the music files?

Re: device to sd card transfer issue

andymac1983 — Tue, 07 May 2013 09:36:17 GMT

Yes the music is definitely on my device however, I found that when I moved the music from my Amazon mp3 folder to music folder on the device when I connected to my pc it then allowed me to transfer to the sd card, so now my question is how to I get my device to recognise there is music in the Amazon mp3 folder as well as my music folder?

Re: device to sd card transfer issue

Zann_H — Tue, 07 May 2013 10:01:31 GMT

There is no way to move the Amazon MP3 folder to the SD Card or make it visible to connected devices. A lot of people are grieving about this and Amazon has not done anything about this at all. This their way of 'securing' mp3 downloads for normal users, to prevent piracy. I know, it's kinda lame, but that's the way it is.

If you are more adventures however, root your device and install a deodexed rom. Then go to the link below to swap your internal and external storage. That way, aAndroid will redcognise your extnal SD instead as internal SD, and vice versa.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2239289

Re: device to sd card transfer issue

andymac1983 — Tue, 07 May 2013 13:30:34 GMT

surely it should be up to sony to resolve this? after all i used amazon mp3 with my htc desire s and had no issues transferring to my sd card. ah well i guess every so often im going to have to connect to my pc and transfer from my amazon file to my music file. thanks for getting back to me guys