[Q] Need help with External microSD Slot

[UltimateEnd]

Hello, i just purchased a xoom from a friend ,i am new to the tablet , and i know its been out for over a year now.
from what ive been reading on its release day the external micro SD slot wasnt working, then it got fix in time .

my xoom is Rooted running the folowing,
CynogenMOD V.9 -NAPSHOT- wingray

which i believe is the latest ROM of its kind .

somehow i still cant get the SD slot to work or appear using a file manager app.

Can anyone help please ?
much appreciate it

 

[Draxin]

Have you tried unmounting and remounting the sd card a couple times through settings>storage? Are you sure the sd card is formatted? I have had trouble with astro file manager recognizing ext sd card, well actually it never has, so i just usedsdcardxd if I need to move something to and from.

 

[UltimateEnd]

Have you tried unmounting and remounting the sd card a couple times through settings>storage? Are you sure the sd card is formatted? I have had trouble with astro file manager recognizing ext sd card, well actually it never has, so i just usedsdcardxd if I need to move something to and from.

well the same SD card i put in there i also would use on my phone (Galaxy Note) and all my movies and music shows up perfectly, so i doubt it has to do with formating it . ?? idk ..?

also when i go to Setting>Storage what i see is
Internal Storage total space(28GB) then the break down on how its being distributed and SD card with its total space (14GB) with 5GB available , which idk what that is if i really dont have anything inserted there..and it gives me the option to unmount ..

am i looking at all this wrong ? my music wont show on Play Music*

i'll try another file manager and see what happens .

 

[Draxin]

I would try unmounting it and remounting through settings storage, maybe reboot it and first thing you do is that.... when I first rooted and rommed my xoom, I had a couple goofy things like that happen with reading my sd card( I am on EOS), even had it show that I had four copies of the same song every song, which I didn't, persistently unmounting remounting, and rebooting seemed to fix it, and haven't had issues since... as for file managers, if you find one that looks at your external sd card, let me know, I haven't found any yet, but havent looked that hard... again I just use sdcardxd

 

[timrock]

after putting in the memory card, its a good idea to reboot. It should show up.

 

[UltimateEnd]

I would try unmounting it and remounting through settings storage, maybe reboot it and first thing you do is that.... when I first rooted and rommed my xoom, I had a couple goofy things like that happen with reading my sd card( I am on EOS), even had it show that I had four copies of the same song every song, which I didn't, persistently unmounting remounting, and rebooting seemed to fix it, and haven't had issues since... as for file managers, if you find one that looks at your external sd card, let me know, I haven't found any yet, but havent looked that hard... again I just use sdcardxd

holy crap! it worked !
a simple unmount and mount, just took my frustration away ! freaking weird, i guess im used to where on my phone it simply does a media scan when it know a microSD was inserted .

Play Music naturally recognized all my music now
Dice Player Ad - i simply just changed the directory and found my movies.

you are the man bro ! THANK YOU !

 

[Draxin]

holy crap! it worked !
a simple unmount and mount, just took my frustration away ! freaking weird, i guess im used to where on my phone it simply does a media scan when it know a microSD was inserted .

Play Music naturally recognized all my music now
Dice Player Ad - i simply just changed the directory and found my movies.

you are the man bro ! THANK YOU !

No prob man, ... been there, done that, glad it worked!

 

[Karzdan]

as for file managers, if you find one that looks at your external sd card, let me know, I haven't found any yet, but havent looked that hard... again I just use sdcardxd

I use ES File Explorer and it sees my external card without a problem. You just have to go to the /mnt/ folder and tap external1