Hi there,
I've tried to follow other "tutorials" (for another Android phones) to format my internal SD Card to ext4, but with no success.
My method was:
- Connect phone to Linux PC
- Enable USB Storage on Phone (the drive appears in Linux)
- dmesg | tail (to see new device and partition name, for example, /dev/sdb1)
- mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb1
- Unmount partition in Linux
- Stop USB Storage on Phone
- Unplug Cable
And the result is.......... The phone formats the Internal SD again to vfat!!!
Why does this happen? Any ideas?
How can i surpass this? I have Latest stock rom (rooted).
Getting lost here... :\
Cheers,
Phk
1. Download Minitool Partition Wizard
2. Connect phone with USB mass storage
3. Open Minitool Partition en right click on the SD Card and choose format.
4. Choose file system EXT4 and 32KB cluster size
5. When you did all that, you click the "Apply" button in the top left corner.
6. Wait for it to finish and voila!
Hope this helps!
sorry for this question, but why do you want to do that? is it so that you can use the whole 16gb for apps and store media on your external SD only?
punshkin said:
sorry for this question, but why do you want to do that? is it so that you can use the whole 16gb for apps and store media on your external SD only?
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Obviously to use HD-Video on the phone.
Files often exceed 4 Gigabyte, and for that filesystems like ntfs, exfat or ext4 are needed.
Going to give it a try soon, thanks nerotix!
nerotix said:
1. Download Minitool Partition Wizard
2. Connect phone with USB mass storage
3. Open Minitool Partition en right click on the SD Card and choose format.
4. Choose file system EXT4 and 32KB cluster size
5. When you did all that, you click the "Apply" button in the top left corner.
6. Wait for it to finish and voila!
Is there a way of doing this through windows? Also would it be worth doing it to my 16gb external SD. Thanx in advance
Hope this helps!
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You will need to patch some files for that to work. It's not bothered me enough that I want to fix it. If you restart your phone, it will reformat your internal SD-card to vfat, even if it's already ext4-formatted.
I'm also interested in this.
Really, it will change back to the original file system?
Which files would we have to patch to prevent this?
dyallo said:
I'm also interested in this.
Really, it will change back to the original file system?
Which files would we have to patch to prevent this?
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It depends, I believe alot of ROMs are ext4 supported, for those that are ext4 supported you dont have to patch anything I believe.
Guys please post only after testing. This is important to avoid deadlocks.....
Facts:
#1 - Current SGS2 Stock roms have rootfs and datafs formatted in EXT4 so they do support it
#2 - they force sd format to vfat so that is probably what needs patching.
Question is :
A - WHICH system app do we need to patch
B - Does the SD mount correctly as ext4 ?
Cheers and thanks
Phk
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Phk said:
Guys please post only after testing. This is important to avoid deadlocks.....
Facts:
#1 - Current SGS2 Stock roms have rootfs and datafs formatted in EXT4 so they do support it
#2 - they force sd format to vfat so that is probably what needs patching.
Question is :
A - WHICH system app do we need to patch
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That is the million dollar question indeed.
Phk said:
B - Does the SD mount correctly as ext4 ?
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No, it does not.
Tried both a microSD inside and another SD external via USB-OTG.
The OS 'catches' the 'faulty' ext4 cards and prevents mounting, which should work perfectly allright seeing Fact #1.
PS: The minitool mentioned above does not allow cluster sizes of 32 KB, only 1, 2 and 4 (checked this with an 8 GB mSDHC and 16 GB SDHC).
As far as I can remember:
/init.rc:
Code:
exec apply_system_policy /dev/block/mmcblk0p11 vfat
and /init which only seems to support FAT mounted SD-cards.
So you can take a look here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=14642927#post14642927
I think it will support NTFS soon when the devs are really interested in
sgstwo said:
As far as I can remember:
/init.rc:
Code:
exec apply_system_policy /dev/block/mmcblk0p11 vfat
and /init which only seems to support FAT mounted SD-cards.
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THANKS.
I'm going to comment the init.rc line and try manual procedure again.
Stay tuned
Phk said:
THANKS.
I'm going to comment the init.rc line and try manual procedure again.
Stay tuned
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Oh great.. Guess what.. /init.rc gets renewed at boot
rootfs is readonly, i've mounted it RW, edited init.rc, commented the vfat line, formatted the SD, and then reboot.
When the device booted, SD was clean and mounted with VFAT again
Suggestions?
MyrddinLXXIIX said:
That is the million dollar question indeed.
No, it does not.
Tried both a microSD inside and another SD external via USB-OTG.
The OS 'catches' the 'faulty' ext4 cards and prevents mounting, which should work perfectly allright seeing Fact #1.
PS: The minitool mentioned above does not allow cluster sizes of 32 KB, only 1, 2 and 4 (checked this with an 8 GB mSDHC and 16 GB SDHC).
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yes it does allow 32KB and even 64KB, either u got an old version of the program or a crappy SD card
Phk said:
Oh great.. Guess what.. /init.rc gets renewed at boot
rootfs is readonly, i've mounted it RW, edited init.rc, commented the vfat line, formatted the SD, and then reboot.
When the device booted, SD was clean and mounted with VFAT again
Suggestions?
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/init and /init.rc are part of zImage (the kernel). You must extract the initramfs, update the file, and write the changes back. You will probably get a yellow triangle (non-Samsung kernel message) if you manage to boot it.
sgstwo said:
/init and /init.rc are part of zImage (the kernel). You must extract the initramfs, update the file, and write the changes back. You will probably get a yellow triangle (non-Samsung kernel message) if you manage to boot it.
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Are you sure about that?
If so, how can i extract initramfs?
Thanks
Phk said:
Are you sure about that?
If so, how can i extract initramfs?
Thanks
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Did you get it working Phk? Keep us updated
Nope!
I PM'd Chainfire asking for help on rebuild initramfs, but he didn't care.
I saw on his CFRoot post that he built a toolchain for recompiling the initramfs, so his stuff would be pretty useful in this case....
.. come on chain, clear us out.. Or include this in your next kernel, whatever.. :\ SUCKS.
Phk said:
Nope!
I PM'd Chainfire asking for help on rebuild initramfs, but he didn't care.
I saw on his CFRoot post that he built a toolchain for recompiling the initramfs, so his stuff would be pretty useful in this case....
.. come on chain, clear us out.. Or include this in your next kernel, whatever.. :\ SUCKS.
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http://bit.ly/jRSCxJ
Was that hard? You know how many projects he's carrying on? Why he'd have to waste his time for such a simple thing that a Google search can do?
Please if you think I've been too rude re-read the forum rules prior to answer this post... if you've ever done it...
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Hi All,
I have asked this question a few days back and now i got a solution for this so posting the details here.
So here are tips and tricks on how to partition your SDCARD and still get it detected by the Phone.
Ohk so first off all credits
this method is not my own i have got tips from here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11687387&postcount=6
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=811548 <- check the first post right after the quoted portion. That also suggest that last partition is used by froyo.
Based on this i started on the experiments and this is what i found.
Note : I have 3 partition right now.
500 MB = vfat first partition
1.5 GB = ext2 - kept for linux dualbooting experiments
5.4 GB = vfat second partition.
Based on my experiments this is what i can see.
first and last partition should be vfat.
first partition is available in recovery mode.
last partition is detected by froyo.
So if you want to use multiple partition then you need to make sure of keeping the following things in mind..
Note to MOD : Mod i thought this is related to DEV hence posted in this if this sounds more like a Q&A or other forum material please move the post to correct forum.
And why would I need it or what's the advantage of doing this?
FabricioGS said:
And why would I need it or what's the advantage of doing this?
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as of now u wont...
but this brings up possibilities to have multiple OSes on SDCARD (without need of loop mounting)...
something like on mult OS ibooting HDDs...
FabricioGS said:
And why would I need it or what's the advantage of doing this?
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Right now nothing of use to normal user.
however as dev's are working on custom kernel and DooMLorD working on custom kernel manager and ROM manager scripts.
I thought having mutiple partitions can also help. So did an experiment .
However explicitly for me its basic usage is for Experiments on Linux dual booting on X10i
Nice find!
But we still can't use Link2SD, right?
My_Immortal said:
Nice find!
But we still can't use Link2SD, right?
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Didn't tried but we can i suppose after getting our partittions to properly mount.
also why Link2SD when you already have app2sd in froyo.
anantshri said:
Didn't tried but we can i suppose after getting our partittions to properly mount.
also why Link2SD when you already have app2sd in froyo.
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Links2SD moves much more data to SD than native Froyo.
And also, I can use the SD as storage without the apps becoming unavailable.
And I can move any app whether it supports it or not!
My_Immortal said:
Links2SD moves much more data to SD than native Froyo.
And also, I can use the SD as storage without the apps becoming unavailable.
And I can move any app whether it supports it or not!
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Alright so you added one more task for my testing.
1) check how to automount other partitions
2) check Link2SD working
give me some time and i will check and report back that.
This is good info mate. Good news (hopefully) for those of use that prefer Link2SD.
Just what I'm looking for for Dec my next rom
Thanks
Does it work for ext4 partitions
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rdannar said:
Just what I'm looking for for Dec my next rom
Thanks
Does it work for ext4 partitions
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Should work... we were also checking if we can have 3 to 4 logical partitions inside an extended partition...
Anantshri told me that the only requirement is that the last partition needs to be vfat
sent from FreeX10_beta4+CM6 settings
DooMLoRD said:
Should work... we were also checking if we can have 3 to 4 logical partitions inside an extended partition...
Anantshri told me that the only requirement is that the last partition needs to be vfat
sent from FreeX10_beta4+CM6 settings
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It should work with ext4 also however not tested yet
also i am a bit skeptical coz read a lot about journaling have bad effect on SD CARD's life.
hey BTW can somebuddy point me to a place where i can purchase good SDCARD say for 16GB or more size. I am currently stuck with 8GB stock card by SE.
and you can guess it gets preety small for testing these stuff.
anantshri said:
Alright so you added one more task for my testing.
1) check how to automount other partitions
2) check Link2SD working
give me some time and i will check and report back that.
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Link2SD i tried installing however it seems to have some issues detecting my partition.
I have
following layout right now
800MB - vfat - part1
1.6 GB - ext2 - part2
5 GB - vfat - part3
so we might need to look at the source code of the application
anantshri said:
Link2SD i tried installing however it seems to have some issues detecting my partition.
I have
following layout right now
800MB - vfat - part1
1.6 GB - ext2 - part2
5 GB - vfat - part3
so we might need to look at the source code of the application
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Yeah, Link2SD detects the second primary partition only,
so maybe we can talk to the developer to implement a workaround
for issues like ours!
My_Immortal said:
Yeah, Link2SD detects the second primary partition only,
so maybe we can talk to the developer to implement a workaround
for issues like ours!
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All 3 of my partitions are made primary i did took care on that part.....
there is still some kinkyness left .
I have PM'ed the dev to seek his guidence on that lets see what we can get as response from him.
anantshri said:
All 3 of my partitions are made primary i did took care on that part.....
there is still some kinkyness left .
I have PM'ed the dev to seek his guidence on that lets see what we can get as response from him.
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Thanks for all your efforts!
So, if I partition my SD like that to experiment,
will there be a problem with Froyo apps2SD and the vfat partition?
DooMLoRD said:
Should work... we were also checking if we can have 3 to 4 logical partitions inside an extended partition...
Anantshri told me that the only requirement is that the last partition needs to be vfat
sent from FreeX10_beta4+CM6 settings
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cool will try it with my class 10 sd card
zabihjan said:
cool will try it with my class 10 sd card
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Hey buddy just my thought out loud....Please don't flame me if that doesn't work for you. its working for me and that's why i posted. I think this a common rule for dev threads however just stating it again here.
My_Immortal said:
Thanks for all your efforts!
So, if I partition my SD like that to experiment,
will there be a problem with Froyo apps2SD and the vfat partition?
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(from wht i gather) froyo+ android versions use /sdcard/.android_secure for native app2sd
there is a A2SD implementation which uses ext2/4 filesystem on sdcard to move apps to
Sorry if a question is repeated, but found nothing that was clear about this, how I wish. I would use hardlinks or softlinks in my sdcard, but the vfat does not support this, as I am linux user, I want to format my sd for a standard ext2 / 3 or 4 that the best fit, you can format the entire card for this format ? Because I found many people talking about the need for a vfat partition, but it is really necessary or changing the fstab I can use a card purely ext2/3/4??
thanks
Did it work? Because I am also a linux user and also want to get rid of vfat on sdcard. Stupid vfat does not allow my to even sync with dropbox since I have filenames which would blow the brains of microsoft out
Yes, according to a thread in nexus s, you can do it. The writing speed is faster that vfat too.
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Actually that thread looks at internal sd card. I do not care much about that but would like to have external sd as ext2. I tried to plug it in but the system that that it is not recognized and asked for formatting.
snovik said:
Actually that thread looks at internal sd card. I do not care much about that but would like to have external sd as ext2. I tried to plug it in but the system that that it is not recognized and asked for formatting.
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Use "gparted"
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melvinchng said:
Use "gparted"
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use it for what?
my problem is that I have an exf2-formated sdcard which android spits out saying that it can eat it only in vfat way. And I can not use vfat because I have filesnames with : and ? and so on. gparted is not going to solve my problem
snovik said:
Actually that thread looks at internal sd card. I do not care much about that but would like to have external sd as ext2. I tried to plug it in but the system that that it is not recognized and asked for formatting.
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snovik said:
use it for what?
my problem is that I have an exf2-formated sdcard which android spits out saying that it can eat it only in vfat way. And I can not use vfat because I have filesnames with : and ? and so on. gparted is not going to solve my problem
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You said your system asked you to format, so I recommended gparted.
And I Don't understand >>> And now what is android can "eat"it in vfat?
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I think they changed the partition to slow us to have full access to the memory. I think I asked the question elsewhere but I can't find it. My question is which folder is it?
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if I remembered correctly I think they wanted to give it an obscure name like /void..somethingsomething. Beyond that I'm not sure. The download links were pulled when I got around to downloading the alpha so I can't say for sure. Hope this helped even a little bit.
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if I remembered correctly I think they wanted to give it an obscure name like /void..somethingsomething. Beyond that I'm not sure. The download links were pulled when I got around to downloading the alpha so I can't say for sure. Hope this helped even a little bit.
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the SD card is by default mounted on /ext-sd (or something like that) we are in the process of allowing full memory access.
Internal memory partition /media
hersh40 said:
I think they changed the partition to slow us to have full access to the memory. I think I asked the question elsewhere but I can't find it. My question is which folder is it?
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Who is "they" ? B&N ? The problem is the internal memory is not mounted to the proper folder /mnt/media . Goneczilla is aware of the problem and already has it figured.
myl0h said:
if I remembered correctly I think they wanted to give it an obscure name like /void..somethingsomething. Beyond that I'm not sure. The download links were pulled when I got around to downloading the alpha so I can't say for sure. Hope this helped even a little bit.
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I think you mean /vold thats the VOLume Daemon of linux .
If you want to have access to the internal memory in the CM7 alpha, then :
1. mount root as rw and create a folder called " media " in the /mnt folder .
Then goto terminal . get root by using su command . then use the following command :
Code:
mount -t vfat /dev/block/vold/179:10 /mnt/media
then create a symlink to /media using :
Code:
ln -s /mnt/media /media
However this only lasts until reboot and does not mount in windows .But apps can use this space unlike the /data .
Alternatively wait for the revised build of CM7
Daedricgeek
what if we add those commands to /system/bin/clrbootcount.sh?
upd: no such a file in cm7, so init.rc maybe
daedricgeek said:
Who is "they" ? B&N ? The problem is the internal memory is not mounted to the proper folder /mnt/media . Goneczilla is aware of the problem and already has it figured.
I think you mean /vold thats the VOLume Daemon of linux .
If you want to have access to the internal memory in the CM7 alpha, then :
1. mount root as rw and create a folder called " media " in the /mnt folder .
Then goto terminal . get root by using su command . then use the following command :
Code:
mount -t vfat /dev/block/vold/179:10 /mnt/media
then create a symlink to /media using :
Code:
ln -s /mnt/media /media
However this only lasts until reboot and does not mount in windows .But apps can use this space unlike the /data .
Alternatively wait for the revised build of CM7
Daedricgeek
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Thanks, that worked and I see that it mounted. However, apps still refuse to use it, and complain that sdcard has insufficient space (which is true).
Before a fixed release is out, is there any way to increase the size of SD partition?
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REALLY REALLY need this so I can try to get my 64gb micro SDXC card to work on my CM9.... Can't find it anywhere on the Net either... Thanks in advance!!!
Anyone?
Afaik the Siyah-Kernel includes the driver in the newer versions.
You may need to manually mount the partition though, perhaps replacing vold by the Samsung-one is enough, perhaps not.
d4fseeker said:
Afaik the Siyah-Kernel includes the driver in the newer versions.
You may need to manually mount the partition though, perhaps replacing vold by the Samsung-one is enough, perhaps not.
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Yes, I have tried the new Siyah kernel, but I was still unable to use my 64gb SDXC card formatted via exFAT on it... Thus, I wanted to try the vold-exfat.zip file. Thanks!
Use a root explorer (eg the free 'ES Explorer'), make /system mounted read-write and go to /system/bin
Then rename the file 'vold' in 'vold.bak' and copy the attached one over. When done, reboot the phone.
It _SHOULD_ work, afaik replacing the vold is all the CWP-flashable ZIP did.
This one has been extracted from Omega 8.1 which is BLFB firmware.
Note that this file is NOT cwm-flashable, but it needs to be zipped so I can attach it!
d4fseeker said:
Use a root explorer (eg the free 'ES Explorer'), make /system mounted read-write and go to /system/bin
Then rename the file 'vold' in 'vold.bak' and copy the attached one over. When done, reboot the phone.
It _SHOULD_ work, afaik replacing the vold is all the CWP-flashable ZIP did.
This one has been extracted from Omega 8.1 which is BLFB firmware.
Note that this file is NOT cwm-flashable, but it needs to be zipped so I can attach it!
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Thank you much!
I will report back, hopefully with good results!
Doh! Still crashes and the card doesn't appear. Thanks for the file, though!
Likewise, didn't work for me. The damaged sd card symbol disappeared. FC when tried to go into settings storage and wouldn't detect when hooked up by usb to computer. Running CM9 nightly.
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I'm trying to use the resurrection remix rom and have the same issue. How to format card to ext4? Anyone know?
mgf8384 said:
I'm trying to use the resurrection remix rom and have the same issue. How to format card to ext4? Anyone know?
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I've used that vold file and attempted to flash after aokp flash but i'm getting 'installation aborted'.
Just about at the end of my tether with this :crying:
there must be some way to get a non-fat32 file system to work on this. Without that I might as well be back on my nokia n97!
I've used that vold file and attempted to flash after aokp flash but i'm getting 'installation aborted'.
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Please read the damn post! The file is NOT CWM-flashable but needs to be extracted and manually inserted.
According to OP it won't work anyway.
there must be some way to get a non-fat32 file system to work on this.
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NTFS works fine, as do FAT16, FAT32, EXT2, EXT3, EXT4
ExFAT (FAT64) filesystem support is flaky on all linux devices, don't bother with it.
d4fseeker said:
Please read the damn post! The file is NOT CWM-flashable but needs to be extracted and manually inserted.
According to OP it won't work anyway.
NTFS works fine, as do FAT16, FAT32, EXT2, EXT3, EXT4
ExFAT (FAT64) filesystem support is flaky on all linux devices, don't bother with it.
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Ok sorry for misunderstanding.
NTFS would be my preferred fs, but what im using (sgs3 aokp + siyah) will not read ntfs microsd. I will now google how to format it to the EXTs you mentioned.
It's supposed to work, but the automount may fail, in that case you'll have to manually mount the partition or create a script that does it for you.
Gidday
I was real tired today when I got home and found a package containing a Samsung 256 Gig SD Card had arrived so I promptly put it in the phone and formatted it and then I must have done something wrong as the phone wouldn't read it...I was able to remove the card and find that Windows would read it no problems...
I know that this phone accepts 256 Gig cards so that isn't a problem so what else could it be??? Anyone have any tips to allow me to get back the use of the card?? What format should the card be formatted as and can it be formatted in Windows and then placed in the phone??
cheers
col
Spacs gives SD Card support : up to 256 Go.
What SD tech is yours?
Didi you tried to format it via the computer and re insert it in the phone ?
Kéno40 said:
Spacs gives SD Card support : up to 256 Go.
What SD tech is yours?
Didi you tried to format it via the computer and re insert it in the phone ?
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I have formatted the card Ex-Fat on the computer and when I insert it into the phone it doesn't find it...I go to settings and when I click on storage the settings app crashes...
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col
brokey said:
I have formatted the card Ex-Fat on the computer and when I insert it into the phone it doesn't find it...I go to settings and when I click on storage the settings app crashes...
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col
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Not all roms/kernels support ex-fat. What rom are you using?
cidxtc said:
Not all roms/kernels support ex-fat. What rom are you using?
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Pixel Experience
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col
Gidday
Just an update, I have been trying everything to get the card working in the phone but nothing so far...I am able to see it in Windows and I can format it and reformat it to different file systems...ex-fat being the format of choice for Android phones...
One interesting thing I have noticed is that there is a 16mb partition on the card that I can't get rid of...this I think may be the problem...does anyone have any idea as to how to get rid of this partition and merge it with the rest of the card? I have tried using MiniTool Partition Wizard Professional Edition but feel it might be something to do with Linux...am I close?
cheers
col
brokey said:
Gidday
Just an update, I have been trying everything to get the card working in the phone but nothing so far...I am able to see it in Windows and I can format it and reformat it to different file systems...ex-fat being the format of choice for Android phones...
One interesting thing I have noticed is that there is a 16mb partition on the card that I can't get rid of...this I think may be the problem...does anyone have any idea as to how to get rid of this partition and merge it with the rest of the card? I have tried using MiniTool Partition Wizard Professional Edition but feel it might be something to do with Linux...am I close?
cheers
col
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Did you partition the sdcard in twrp? If so it would be an ext3 or ext4 file system which windows normally doesnt read. Although a decent partition tool should be able to see and delete the partitions. I also double checked and your rom should support exfat.
Have you tried copying multiple large files to sdcard? Could be a format issue. I normally format my sdcards on my pc although I use linux (windows only for special uses). Could try creating a live boot copy of linux on a cd or usb drive and see if that helps. Just use Ubuntu which is one of the easiest. Gparted is the tool you will use. It will already be included with the OS.
cidxtc said:
Did you partition the sdcard in twrp? If so it would be an ext3 or ext4 file system which windows normally doesnt read. Although a decent partition tool should be able to see and delete the partitions. I also double checked and your rom should support exfat.
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No, I initially formatted the card in the phone as per normal...for some reason I then took it out and musta done something to it for it to be unreadable in the phone....
Have you tried copying multiple large files to sdcard? Could be a format issue. I normally format my sdcards on my pc although I use linux (windows only for special uses). Could try creating a live boot copy of linux on a cd or usb drive and see if that helps. Just use Ubuntu which is one of the easiest. Gparted is the tool you will use. It will already be included with the OS.
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I downloaded Gparted for Windows and was able to boot into it and read the SDCard but couldn't do anything with it except format the area that were partitioned...
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brokey said:
No, I initially formatted the card in the phone as per normal...for some reason I then took it out and musta done something to it for it to be unreadable in the phone....
I downloaded Gparted for Windows and was able to boot into it and read the SDCard but couldn't do anything with it except format the area that were partitioned...
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Did the card ever work? Where did the card come from? Could it be a fake? They take this small card partition it and run a compression tool to make it appear larger than it actually is. Which is part of why I mentioned coping a few large files (2-3 gig vids). Video cant be compressed much more than it already is so the card would look almost full with only a few gigs being used.
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Did the card ever work? Where did the card come from? Could it be a fake?
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Yeah, it worked...and it was bought from Amazon...don't think it's a fake...
They take this small card partition it and run a compression tool to make it appear larger than it actually is. Which is part of why I mentioned coping a few large files (2-3 gig vids). Video cant be compressed much more than it already is so the card would look almost full with only a few gigs being used.
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I did transfer a small file (5mb mp3) to the first small partition (15mb) and my phone recognised it so if only I could get rid of that partition or merge it somehow with the remaining partition I think it would clear up this problem...
I transferred a file to the other partition but it wasn't recognised by the phone...
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brokey said:
Yeah, it worked...and it was bought from Amazon...don't think it's a fake...
I did transfer a small file (5mb mp3) to the first small partition (15mb) and my phone recognised it so if only I could get rid of that partition or merge it somehow with the remaining partition I think it would clear up this problem...
I transferred a file to the other partition but it wasn't recognised by the phone...
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Have you tried using custom recover and doing a repartition? Read the question carefully. I have not repartitioned in recovery in a long time. I believe there are 3 options as you go through the process. If the first is like a cache partition set to zero. If second is an ext partition also set to zero. The third should be external storage I believe it will automatically set to max size but if not then set to max. Again it has been years so things might have changed but willing to bet they have not.
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Have you tried using custom recover and doing a repartition? Read the question carefully. I have not repartitioned in recovery in a long time. I believe there are 3 options as you go through the process. If the first is like a cache partition set to zero. If second is an ext partition also set to zero. The third should be external storage I believe it will automatically set to max size but if not then set to max. Again it has been years so things might have changed but willing to bet they have not.
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Just to let you know, I have been able to solve the problem in WIndows, using a more up to date version of Minitool Partition wizard...I was able to format both partitions and then resize and the merge them...Windows wouldnt recognise it but when I put it into the phone it was there so am happy again...
Thanks for your help and suggestions...
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brokey said:
Just to let you know, I have been able to solve the problem in WIndows, using a more up to date version of Minitool Partition wizard...I was able to format both partitions and then resize and the merge them...Windows wouldnt recognise it but when I put it into the phone it was there so am happy again...
Thanks for your help and suggestions...
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Awesome! Now I have one more suggestion. Edit the title to state solved.
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cidxtc said:
Awesome! Now I have one more suggestion. Edit the title to state solved.
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How do I edit the title?
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brokey said:
How do I edit the title?
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Open in a browser and edit. Then there is and advanced edit option.
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Open in a browser and edit. Then there is and advanced edit option.
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I know how to edit a post and add a title but I thought you meant the title of the thread...I don't know how to do that and I supposed it was up to an admin...
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