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Samsung Galaxy Tablet and storage

jaymar — Tue, 13 May 2014 00:06:32 GMT

I have a Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 7" 8GB tablet. I have purchased a few movies for it. A couple have downloaded directly to the tablet and have used most of the device memory, despite the fact that I have installed a 64GB micro SD card. Anytime I attempt to watch a movie, it tells me that I won't be able to unless I am online, and the space available on the card never goes down. Does anyone know how to download the movies to the SD card and bypass the device memory? Any comments will be appreciated. Samsung customer service was not very helpful. Just told me to go to "My Files" and that was it. The ability to install a micro SD card was a big selling point, but what good is it if you can't access it.

Re: Samsung Galaxy Tablet and storage

mima — Tue, 13 May 2014 01:42:55 GMT

I found this answer on the internet. I hope it helps.

Go to settings, storage, then select default video storage to sd card. I might also add that you should pick sd versions over hd versions of video because sd takes up less storage.

Re: Samsung Galaxy Tablet and storage

Nuttmeg — Tue, 13 May 2014 06:33:43 GMT

A YouTube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sVKxzh4p8Y

There are other videos that might help you with your tablet.

Re: Samsung Galaxy Tablet and storage

jaymar — Wed, 14 May 2014 01:13:45 GMT

mima, believe me, I have tried that. When I go to storage, it does not give me the option to select default video storage to sd card. And, when I have purchased movies, I haven't bought the hd version because it says my device isn't compatible.

nutmeg 3, I watched that video. It's for the Galaxy Tab 2. I don't find the scissors, etc., that he's talking about on my device.

Re: Samsung Galaxy Tablet and storage

Nuttmeg — Wed, 14 May 2014 01:48:59 GMT

On 5/13/2014 jaymar said:
mima, believe me, I have tried that. When I go to storage, it does not give me the option to select default video storage to sd card. And, when I have purchased movies, I haven't bought the hd version because it says my device isn't compatible.

nutmeg 3, I watched that video. It's for the Galaxy Tab 2. I don't find the scissors, etc., that he's talking about on my device.

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/faq/id-1772970/set-default-download-location-card.html

There are other links below that might help. You can always find a service manual for your tablet at Samsung support. This company has some of the best written manuals.

Re: Samsung Galaxy Tablet and storage

Caffeina — Wed, 14 May 2014 02:35:08 GMT

If you go to My Files, you can select the files for the movies and move them to the SD card from there. What app did you use to download the movies? That's where you should be choosing the download location.

Re: Samsung Galaxy Tablet and storage

jaymar — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 02:23:32 GMT

This is a follow up to my downloading problems to the microSD card. I watched videos on You Tube and the Samsung website but was never able to download movies to the external card. I took the tablet to Best Buy where their Samsung expert tried unsuccessfully to download the movies I have from the tablet to the card. I bought these movies from the Google Play Store. He said they weren't allowing me to download to the card for copyright reasons. I may loan or copy them illegally. This is really disappointing. I wasn't concerned about buying an 8gb tablet because it was expandable with a miscroSD card up to 64gb, which I did. Now, it's just an 8gb tablet. I am very unhappy with the misrepresentations that were given about expanding the memory. I'm not wanting to download any word documents, books, or whatever. I wanted to be able to download movies so they could be watched anywhere. The 8gb of the tablet are taken up quickly by all the preloaded programs, etc., that came with the tablet. Guess this was an expensive mistake on my part, $200 plus the cost of the 64gb microSD card. I won't buy another Samsung, and any other tablet I might buy will have bigger storage to begin with, at least 32gb. Now I'm stuck with a tablet that is not very useful.

Re: Samsung Galaxy Tablet and storage

Lynnj — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 06:20:31 GMT

I don't have a samsung tablet, but don't you have some sort of cloud storage with this? Maybe it's a cloud through google, where you downloaded the movies from? If so, why can't you send the movies to the cloud to get them off of your tablet and get your space back? If and when you want to watch them, you download them from the cloud again. You won't need to pay for them again, just download from the cloud. Also, the cloud should let you watch the movies from the cloud without downloading them, provided you are connected to the internet.

Re: Samsung Galaxy Tablet and storage

adoreqvc — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 07:16:04 GMT

Perhaps contacting the manufacturer directly and inquiring, would be the best way to try and have these concerns properly addressed.

Good Luck!

Re: Samsung Galaxy Tablet and storage

glb613 — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 10:53:39 GMT

On 7/31/2014 adoreqvc said:
Perhaps contacting the manufacturer directly and inquiring, would be the best way to try and have these concerns properly addressed.

Good Luck!

There is nothing to address. The reason for the block to a SD card is copyright laws. Samsung can't do anything to change that.

I downloaded an audiobook through iTunes to my iMac and found I couldn't download it to another device without buying it again. I also couldn't make a CD/DVD of the file. Just like a movie, it's to protect it from illegal sharing.

Re: Samsung Galaxy Tablet and storage

Nuttmeg — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 20:56:20 GMT

On 7/31/2014 glb613 said:
On 7/31/2014 adoreqvc said:
Perhaps contacting the manufacturer directly and inquiring, would be the best way to try and have these concerns properly addressed.

Good Luck!

There is nothing to address. The reason for the block to a SD card is copyright laws. Samsung can't do anything to change that.

I downloaded an audiobook through iTunes to my iMac and found I couldn't download it to another device without buying it again. I also couldn't make a CD/DVD of the file. Just like a movie, it's to protect it from illegal sharing.

If Apple or Google did not restrict sharing, the cost of the movies would be much higher.

Re: Samsung Galaxy Tablet and storage

Cha1k — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 21:34:17 GMT

On 7/31/2014 glb613 said:
On 7/31/2014 adoreqvc said:
Perhaps contacting the manufacturer directly and inquiring, would be the best way to try and have these concerns properly addressed.

Good Luck!

There is nothing to address. The reason for the block to a SD card is copyright laws. Samsung can't do anything to change that.

I downloaded an audiobook through iTunes to my iMac and found I couldn't download it to another device without buying it again. I also couldn't make a CD/DVD of the file. Just like a movie, it's to protect it from illegal sharing.

Gail,

I have bought many audiobooks through iTunes and Audible.com. These are in my iTunes account and can be used/listened to on all my devices.

Re: Samsung Galaxy Tablet and storage

glb613 — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 22:41:07 GMT

On 7/31/2014 Cha1k said:
On 7/31/2014 glb613 said:
On 7/31/2014 adoreqvc said:
Perhaps contacting the manufacturer directly and inquiring, would be the best way to try and have these concerns properly addressed.

Good Luck!

There is nothing to address. The reason for the block to a SD card is copyright laws. Samsung can't do anything to change that.

I downloaded an audiobook through iTunes to my iMac and found I couldn't download it to another device without buying it again. I also couldn't make a CD/DVD of the file. Just like a movie, it's to protect it from illegal sharing.

Gail,

I have bought many audiobooks through iTunes and Audible.com. These are in my iTunes account and can be used/listened to on all my devices.

Not mine. After I posted this, I checked and it isn't available for download unless I buy it again. If you have any suggestions, I'm all ears.

Re: Samsung Galaxy Tablet and storage

Cha1k — Fri, 01 Aug 2014 01:11:46 GMT

Connect your iPad to the computer, open iTunes on your Mac and look in the Library (left side of window) for Audiobooks. Make sure your purchased audiobook appears there.

When you sync your iPad to iTunes on the Mac, your audiobook will appear in the Music app on the iPad, under Audiobooks.

You can load your audiobooks on multiple devices this way. I have my books on my 2 iPads, my iPhone and an iPod shuffle.

The same with TV shows and movies....all on multiple devices.

Re: Samsung Galaxy Tablet and storage

glb613 — Fri, 01 Aug 2014 12:18:23 GMT

On 7/31/2014 Cha1k said:
Connect your iPad to the computer, open iTunes on your Mac and look in the Library (left side of window) for Audiobooks. Make sure your purchased audiobook appears there.

When you sync your iPad to iTunes on the Mac, your audiobook will appear in the Music app on the iPad, under Audiobooks.

You can load your audiobooks on multiple devices this way. I have my books on my 2 iPads, my iPhone and an iPod shuffle.

The same with TV shows and movies....all on multiple devices.

Thanks. I found it and will do a synch, make sure it's included and see what happens. I doubt that helps with getting it on my MacBook Pro.

I like a British TV series called Midsomer Murders and have purchased 13 seasons. I can access them from any device by going to purchased in iTunes. I can also access music that way as well. What I can't find is the audiobook. That's why I thought you had to listen to it on the device where it was purchased. Any suggestions?

Re: Samsung Galaxy Tablet and storage

Cha1k — Fri, 01 Aug 2014 17:13:56 GMT

On 8/1/2014 glb613 said:
On 7/31/2014 Cha1k said:
Connect your iPad to the computer, open iTunes on your Mac and look in the Library (left side of window) for Audiobooks. Make sure your purchased audiobook appears there.

When you sync your iPad to iTunes on the Mac, your audiobook will appear in the Music app on the iPad, under Audiobooks.

You can load your audiobooks on multiple devices this way. I have my books on my 2 iPads, my iPhone and an iPod shuffle.

The same with TV shows and movies....all on multiple devices.

Thanks. I found it and will do a synch, make sure it's included and see what happens. I doubt that helps with getting it on my MacBook Pro.

I like a British TV series called Midsomer Murders and have purchased 13 seasons. I can access them from any device by going to purchased in iTunes. I can also access music that way as well. What I can't find is the audiobook. That's why I thought you had to listen to it on the device where it was purchased. Any suggestions?

I always purchase things from the iTunes store while on my Mac so that they will sync across all my devices because I ran into this problem several years ago -- purchasing something on my iPad and then trying to get it to iTunes on my Mac. I think they have changed how this all works because of earlier problems.

I located this thread on the Apple Support discussion board that might help:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5355847

Let me know if any of these suggestions work.