SDCards

I have 2 identically speced 1 TB SD Cards. When I put each one into an Android OS in same slot they show up with different paths. Why?

This is irritating cuz all paths in settings files on android drive have to be fixed.

Also this "seems" to be causing apps to just hang, because I think they keep looking for old paths.

This means I might have to re-install and re-config apps.

WTF Android.

Dolphin-emu\Config\Dolphin.ini in Android\Data has the following path in it.

ISOPath0 = content://com.android.externalstorage.documents/tree/3636-3939%3Agamecube

I think on my new SD Card that # 3636-3939 is 3761-3163. Why?

It appears there is something called a Volume ID or Serial Number.

Apparently they wanted a way to know when the drive was switched. BUT this breaks all APPS on Android. Nice.

It seems I should be able to duplicate the ID across SD Cards.

https://www.diskpart.com/articles/change-sd-card-serial-number-7201.html

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/volumeid

https://www.wintips.org/how-to-change-hard-disks-volume-serial-number-volume-id/

https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/change-volume-serial-number-of-a-new-micro-sd-card.3878805/

https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/189104/sd-card-gets-different-name-at-every-format

Displaying Volume Serial Number on windows is possible on Command Prompt.

Change to drive and issue a Dir Command

we will get

Volume Serial Number is 3761-3161 (OLD CARD)

OR

Volume Serial Number is 3636-3939 (NEW CARD)

This is one area where windows makes more sense. Different SD Cards put in same slot will get H Drive or something. Not on android.