Can't use external SD card for video

[Arcteryx]

I just bought Harry's Lap Timer and tried it recently during a lapping event.

I have a 16GB external SD card installed, and my Samsung Galaxy Ace IIX recognizes it and reports it as having 14GB+ of free space. However, even though I configured Harry's Lap Timer to save video to the external SD card, it didn't work and stopped recording because there wasn't enough internal storage space. I'm also having this problem with other apps, such as Track Recorder.

Any ideas?

EDIT - After a bit of searching, it seems like this might be a limitation of Android?
http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/04/06 ... -how-long/

[Harry]

Please check Video List. You will find a number of sections - one for each storage location LapTimer will use to *read* videos. Videos are always written to the top-most section location - which is usually the external SD card. LapTimer decides on the section / location order during startup - it will always choose the location with most space available. So in case you insert the card while LapTimer is active, or after you deleted files from the SD card - making it the place with most space available again, please kill and restart the app to trigger a new selection.

There is no option to manually select the active folder.

- Harry

[Harry]

Yes, there is indeed a problem introduced by Google starting with KitKat (4.4). In case LapTimer cannot access the /Movies folder on the SD card, it will usually fall back t the app-private location somewhere in */Android/data/com.harrys.laptimer/* Please check the section and post the list of location you see. You may use the Contact button in LapTimer to get the list as text you can copy.

- Harry

[Arcteryx]

Yes, there is indeed a problem introduced by Google starting with KitKat (4.4). In case LapTimer cannot access the /Movies folder on the SD card, it will usually fall back t the app-private location somewhere in */Android/data/com.harrys.laptimer/* Please check the section and post the list of location you see. You may use the Contact button in LapTimer to get the list as text you can copy.

- Harry

OK, it has the following, in this order:
1. SD card (external) (/mnt/extSdCard/Movies)
2. SD card (emulated) (/mnt/sdcard/Movies)
3. SD card (emulated) (/mnt/sdcard/Android/data/com.harrys.laptimerpro/files/Movies)

The other weird thing is that my phone is running Android 4.0.4, so it's not a KitKat problem.

[Harry]

That's fine, the first one is your SD card. Record a video please and check where it is stored. To do this, goto Timer and follow Video. Press the small red button to start a manual recording, wait some seconds, press the green Stop button. Return to Video List - the test vid should appear here.

Harry

[Arcteryx]

That's fine, the first one is your SD card. Record a video please and check where it is stored. To do this, goto Timer and follow Video. Press the small red button to start a manual recording, wait some seconds, press the green Stop button. Return to Video List - the test vid should appear here.

Harry

OK, when I try that I get the error message "Saving the video failed. Either operation has been interrupted, or memory is low"

Yet in the system status, it shows Media Storage as 15GB and Storage as 397MB.

[Harry]

This error message is a generic one and means the Android media recorder reported some kind of issue during recording. This can be a problem writing to the file, but might be a different issue too. The current version has not a lot if logging included in this area, so generating and sending a trace log does not make too much sense for the current 18.1.1 release. Once 18.1.2 is available, please check viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1933 and create a trace log with the "Video" trace class enabled (see the link). Till then, please check if the SD card is writeable: using a file explorer like ES File Manager, try to copy something to /Movies on the SD card.

- Harry