So, I received my SD card and all that jazz. Was totally excited to use my brand new SD card. Can't write. I've tried on 5 different desktops, 5 different laptops, my phone, phone via usb, and external SD card reader. It will read, but I can't format it and can't write to the card as if it's on permanent lock.
Called LG support to see if they could send me a replacement. They basically told me to **** myself and buy another 200gb SD card.
Thanks, LG.... Thanks...
Edit: Should probably clarify that I've also called the promo number to find out It's now disconnected and tried emailing them. It's been a few weeks and still no response.
Use a desktop and use command prompt to format
Also did you encrypt the phone?
DJ_Upgrayedd said:
So, I received my SD card and all that jazz. Was totally excited to use my brand new SD card. Can't write. I've tried on 5 different desktops, 5 different laptops, my phone, phone via usb, and external SD card reader. It will read, but I can't format it and can't write to the card as if it's on permanent lock.
Called LG support to see if they could send me a replacement. They basically told me to **** myself and buy another 200gb SD card.
Thanks, LG.... Thanks...
Edit: Should probably clarify that I've also called the promo number to find out It's now disconnected and tried emailing them. It's been a few weeks and still no response.
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If it's a SanDisk brand card it's under a 10 year warranty Google SanDisk customer support and register it and then mail it in they will happily replace it at no cost.
Sent from my XPOSED V10
IamPro said:
Use a desktop and use command prompt to format
Also did you encrypt the phone?
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@IamPro Negative. No encryption. Also, I don't think a CMD format would work considering that on all of the PC's I used, they all recognized it, but 100% of them would instantly fail format via properties tab.
@666syco Thanks for that tip. I'll go ahead and do that right now.
Is the sdcard formatted exfat or NTFS? The V10 will not read NTFS but windows PCs can. If it is formatted in NTFS please reformat it exfat.
DJ_Upgrayedd said:
So, I received my SD card and all that jazz. Was totally excited to use my brand new SD card. Can't write. I've tried on 5 different desktops, 5 different laptops, my phone, phone via usb, and external SD card reader. It will read, but I can't format it and can't write to the card as if it's on permanent lock.
Called LG support to see if they could send me a replacement. They basically told me to **** myself and buy another 200gb SD card.
Thanks, LG.... Thanks...
Edit: Should probably clarify that I've also called the promo number to find out It's now disconnected and tried emailing them. It's been a few weeks and still no response.
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Same thing happened to me. I contacted sandisk and they sent me a new one in 3 days.
LG V10
DJ_Upgrayedd said:
@IamPro Negative. No encryption. Also, I don't think a CMD format would work considering that on all of the PC's I used, they all recognized it, but 100% of them would instantly fail format via properties tab.
@666syco Thanks for that tip. I'll go ahead and do that right now.
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formatting from windows and from command line are 2 entirely different things.
Put the card in the reader...
open a command prompt
Type diskpart
type list disk (locate the number of the flash card)
type select disk (number of the disk which is your flash card
type clean
type create part pri
type format fs=ntfs quick
type active
type exit
then type exit in the command prompt.
I have formatted many flash drives that were thought to be bad because windows would not flash them.
UPDATE: Contacted SanDisk. They are sending me a replacement card.
Thank you for all of your assistance.
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Hi,
I got my Optimus one not long ago and I bought kingston 8G for it though it would work fine. The phone read the card well and show the memory correct and I can use it pretty good on my phone. The thing later I found out is the phone itself restart after the idle time exceed 1hr which is crazy. The phone works really good until I upgrade my original sd card (samsung 2G which came in with) to Kingston microsd 8G. I don't know where exactly is wrong, and I couldn't return the sd card either since it work fine on both phone and on computer with card reader. If someone got same problem with me, please let me know or help me out!! Thanks in advance.
I think it is a firmware problem,Mine and others do the same with the standart 2G card...
Firmware keeps updating itself when I go on WIFI connection. I don't know about these stuffs either. But now, the problems are ended..the phone doesn't read any card anymore whether 2G or 8G, it keeps saying that "sd card removed. Insert a new one". I've tried restart again & again but the message doesn't go away and my phone decide not to recognize the card.Both of the cards work fine on computer. I think I need to visit the shop where I bought to check on it. Btw, is that problem considered in the warranty case? I don't know.. It wasn't even a month with me. So sad!
winnie34 said:
Firmware keeps updating itself when I go on WIFI connection. I don't know about these stuffs either. But now, the problems are ended..the phone doesn't read any card anymore whether 2G or 8G, it keeps saying that "sd card removed. Insert a new one". I've tried restart again & again but the message doesn't go away and my phone decide not to recognize the card.Both of the cards work fine on computer. I think I need to visit the shop where I bought to check on it. Btw, is that problem considered in the warranty case? I don't know.. It wasn't even a month with me. So sad!
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Are you using any app2sd ? If yes, it could be a problem also if ur using an app storing data on your SD card. It makes you're cell restart.
I have the "mount / unmount" problem on my LG, I saw on a french forum that it was better to try with another file system, sometimes it was solving, sometimes not. I don't think it's really a card problem, I gave my LG GW620's sd to my girlfrend and her old samsung is using it without any problem's, but on mine it was crashing every 30mins....
killdashnine said:
Are you using any app2sd ? If yes, it could be a problem also if ur using an app storing data on your SD card. It makes you're cell restart.
I have the "mount / unmount" problem on my LG, I saw on a french forum that it was better to try with another file system, sometimes it was solving, sometimes not. I don't think it's really a card problem, I gave my LG GW620's sd to my girlfrend and her old samsung is using it without any problem's, but on mine it was crashing every 30mins....
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I have some problem with his original sd and with a new 4gb class 4 sd...
Do you solved the problem ?? how ?
My problem disappeared after I formatted the card directly on the phone.
i reAD sumwher ... a claSS 10 sd cARd is fully funcTional with lg o1 !!
allsalvati said:
My problem disappeared after I formatted the card directly on the phone.
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I have the same problem but more problem when my LG O1 didn't recognize the card and I couldn't mount or format the card on my phone.
This happened when I partitioned the card. My PC still sees the card well but my phone doesn't.
I read a lot of posts from a lot of forums and I did try every guides steps by steps but it seemed as the LG O1 doesn't have any button-press-combination as others. For ex: when I pressed Back + Power On, nothing happened as It was said that the phone might come to FastBoot.
As help on this issue will be in much appreciated.
I fixed it. If your PC still recognizes the sd card, it's ok. Go to Manage (right click on My Computer) -> Device Management -> Storage -> you should see your card there. Try to delete volumn or format the EXT2 and Linux Swap.
Put the card back to your phone. It should recognize the card and then, unmount and format card and mount it back. Done.
I have a small question. What is the best class for this phone? The class 10 is fully used by phone or does not reach that read/write speed? Some micro sd class 10 are declared between 20 and 30 MB/S. The p500 has these capabilities? Or a Class 6 card is enough?
Thanks
UP!
The price for 32GB class 6 is very different from class 10.
Lg Optimus One is able to full use write/read speed of class 10?
Thanks
Help! I inserted a sandisk 4gb class 4 and my phone didn't recognized it (i got the 'SD card removed. Insert a new one.' notification). Then, i inserted back the original 2gb sd card from the box, but that notification is still there and it can't be recognized. But both my PC and a another android device (a galaxy tab) can detect it. So, i tried formatting both the 4gb and the original 2gb with the galaxy tab and inserted it to my O1 but nothing has changed. I tried updating to the official V10E firmware but it makes no diffrences. Any help please?
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For future, don't remove SD card during phone is running because of app moved to SD card. Especially when you plan insert new one, and if you do that with custom ROM with app2sd its equivalent to suicide.
Is mass storage mode works? Is MS works in curstom recovery? Did you try format memory card in phone? Delete of caches?
The_ERROR said:
For future, don't remove SD card during phone is running because of app moved to SD card. Especially when you plan insert new one, and if you do that with custom ROM with app2sd its equivalent to suicide.
Is mass storage mode works? Is MS works in curstom recovery? Did you try format memory card in phone? Delete of caches?
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Thx for the reply,
I haven't install a custom ROM yet. All i did was enable JIT+HW accel from a thread here.
1. Mass storage didn't work. It just appears as a new drive which i can't access.
2. I updated my O1 to V10E... I lost root, custom recovery,etc. so i can't try that
3. I formated it with another android device (a galaxy tab)
4. How do you delete the caches???? Sorry, new here
You had got me. For now I have not idea how to proceed.
Anyway, remove battery, remove SD card, clean sd card with some soft cloth, check if metal contacts looks fine (try clean that if not), insert SD card, insert battery and try it again.
If this not help, you can try some shaking and so on. It's sounds crazy, but I know one guy whose shaking helped him to flash firmware to phone, which not works at all. Maybe it's some cheats for all these issues.
ad 4) You can delete caches via custom recovery, but related to 2) you can't so, this hint is useless.
I did everything u said. I checked the SD card & the slot and they seem ok.
This might sound dumb, but what do you mean by 'shaking'? Which part are you suppose to shake?? Sorry, im still new to androids
BTW, i went to the LG customer care. The technician checked it and said that they are going to replace the SD card slot. She said that sparepart (the SD card slot) is going to arrive sometime in mid-January due to the holidays.
By the shake I mean grab phone and do quick movements with phone from left to right and back.
But it seems, that you have some trouble with hardware part(s) of phone.
Hi, I have a Samsung Fascinate with Cyanogen 7
I have a 32GB microSD card but it only shows up as 14GB.
anyone has an idea on how to fix this?
Thanks
XblackdemonX said:
Hi, I have a Samsung Fascinate with Cyanogen 7
I have a 32GB microSD card but it only shows up as 14GB.
anyone has an idea on how to fix this?
Thanks
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format ur SD card..
if that doesnt fix.. i need to know brand name.. and what class card it is..
does it show up as the correct size in the stock rom?
Try just attaching it to your computer via reader. If it still shows 14GB, try and format. If it still shows 14GB, it's defective (or fake. Did you buy it from Hong Kong via eBay?).
AlexDeGruven said:
Try just attaching it to your computer via reader. If it still shows 14GB, try and format. If it still shows 14GB, it's defective (or fake. Did you buy it from Hong Kong via eBay?).
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could also be one of those fancy like class 10 speed read cards or wtever.. they wont work on phones
ace5198 said:
could also be one of those fancy like class 10 speed read cards or wtever.. they wont work on phones
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My class 10 card is working just fine...
My class 10 works fine too. It is a 32g Sandisk, it reads 29.81g of total space on my phone and my computer. It seems like the photo galley loads faster and scrolls through the fullscreen view pretty fast. The read_ahead_kb file reads only 512. I haven't tried any other values because i am very happy with the card.
Well to be honest i'm not sure what class it is.
It was in another phone that my dad gave me to sell on ebay. I just kept the card that was inside.
It's a 32GB Sandisk.
I'll try a partition program tonight on my computer si if it fixes it.
If I try to partition it via the Clockworkmod, the lowest I got was 10GB and the max I got was 14.77GB depending on the settings i choose
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Well to be honest i'm not sure what class it is.
It was in another phone that my dad gave me to sell on ebay. I just kept the card that was inside.
It's a 32GB Sandisk.
I'll try a partition program tonight on my computer si if it fixes it.
If I try to partition it via the Clockworkmod, the lowest I got was 10GB and the max I got was 14.77GB depending on the settings i choose
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Use a formatting tool, like the one HP has (see here) to format the disk. It can wipe the full disk and create a single partition. It could be that it was split previously for some reason, causing the issue you have.
If I put back the microSD in the Samsung Focus and format it, it shows the 32GB on the card (37GB with internal memory)
and then I take the card out and put it in my Fascinate and it shows 13.94GB
If that makes a difference i'm on Cyanogenmod 7. Maybe it's the OS limiting the space?
Any idea about this issue?
Format the card with a low-level formatting tool, like the HP Format tool. It's likely that it could be partitioned, or has a partition table that isn't setup in a format compatible with Android.
Just thought I would throw my fix out there since I had trouble trying to run the instructions from the S-off thread using busybox.
I just used the Gparted live cd . It showed my card up as the correct size, just didn't have a partition any longer. So I just made a new partition then formatted it to Fat 32 with the full size of my card.
Now, my SD card is back to working condition.
Probably , alot of common sense just wasn't sure how many people thought of using Gparted. Windows wasn't properly reformatting it since the partition was gone.
Thanks for posting this. I figured this would fix it and I am glad to here there is a confirmation. That process really does a number on the SD card.
Not meaning to thread jack
I'm having trouble with the external storage fix
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Not meaning to thread jack
I'm having trouble with the external storage fix
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What type of trouble ? I did as well that's why I used Gparted. Gparted is easy to use and free download.
So I should use a throwaway SD card for this obviously and then put in my original after?
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So I should use a throwaway SD card for this obviously and then put in my original after?
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definately !
Wish I had used my old 8gb card. I jumped the gun and now my 32gb is screwed. Don't have a cd drive on my ultraportable pc or a flash drive even. So I'm out of luck for the time being. Won't have access to my main pc until Tuesday. This is the messiest s-off I've ever dealt with! Ah well..
How I fixed mine was after I got s-off I reformatted the card. Would not work at all until I got s-off working.
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i had the same issue, it was showing up as 108kb, put it in your comupter if your running windows, it will say it needs to format it, let it format even tho it only shows 108kb, take it out when its done, put it back in and repeat the format, when you insert it the 3rd time 14.4 gb, worked for me, i had to do that process 4 times before i got s-off, cheers
Even better with this tool and works for everybody just in 2 minutes
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Hi guys-
So I'm loving my new Note 2, and hating my formerly loved Macbook Pro. The latest in a series of fails is this: I have a 64gb sandisk sdhc card that was working in the Note just perfectly, but the macbook could not read it via its card reader (or any other way, really). Like a fool, I tried reformatting it in the mac's disk utility. That failed halfway through, and the card will no longer mount in my Note 2. Thus, I can't format it there, at least in any way I know of.
If anyone has ideas on how I might be able to reformat the card, it would be lovely. I heard about a windows app called bootlce, but I don't have bootcamp set up right now (and my only windows copy is xp, not sure if that would see the card either). Anyway, thanks for any advice.
J Case said:
Hi guys-
So I'm loving my new Note 2, and hating my formerly loved Macbook Pro. The latest in a series of fails is this: I have a 64gb sandisk sdhc card that was working in the Note just perfectly, but the macbook could not read it via its card reader (or any other way, really). Like a fool, I tried reformatting it in the mac's disk utility. That failed halfway through, and the card will no longer mount in my Note 2. Thus, I can't format it there, at least in any way I know of.
If anyone has ideas on how I might be able to reformat the card, it would be lovely. I heard about a windows app called bootlce, but I don't have bootcamp set up right now (and my only windows copy is xp, not sure if that would see the card either). Anyway, thanks for any advice.
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Bootice is one possibility, otherwise search Google for partition managers. If you have a custom recovery (Ext4 or CWM) on your Note then you can, possibly, use that to reformat the card, otherwise you will need to borrow a PC/Laptop with Windows or Linux and use that instead. Apple products do things their own way and you can never guarantee that they won't screw up if you need compatibility for another non-iOS device.
SimonTS said:
Bootice is one possibility, otherwise search Google for partition managers. If you have a custom recovery (Ext4 or CWM) on your Note then you can, possibly, use that to reformat the card, otherwise you will need to borrow a PC/Laptop with Windows or Linux and use that instead. Apple products do things their own way and you can never guarantee that they won't screw up if you need compatibility for another non-iOS device.
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Thanks, I'll have a look around for those. I wonder too if AT&T can reformat them... probably wishful thinking.
J Case said:
Thanks, I'll have a look around for those. I wonder too if AT&T can reformat them... probably wishful thinking.
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Uhhhhhhhhg. I went through the process of installing Windows XP on my Macbook Pro, got all the updates, drivers, etc. that might be associated with the SDHC standard, and ran Bootice, and formatted the card. The best I get now is the card coming up as being 1 megabyte in size. Formatting to exFAT doesn't work either. I think my laptop may have just ruined this card.
Unless anyone has any other ideas, I'll probably be taking advantage of my warranty.
J Case said:
Uhhhhhhhhg. I went through the process of installing Windows XP on my Macbook Pro, got all the updates, drivers, etc. that might be associated with the SDHC standard, and ran Bootice, and formatted the card. The best I get now is the card coming up as being 1 megabyte in size. Formatting to exFAT doesn't work either. I think my laptop may have just ruined this card.
Unless anyone has any other ideas, I'll probably be taking advantage of my warranty.
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# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdcard
This will blank the card totally, MBR and all partitions inclusive. After this, you can recreate the partitions using you Android device, I'd guess. Note that you have to find out the device "/dev/sdcard", it's most likely named something else. After insert, the "dmesg" command will probobly tell you. Using the wrong device, and you'll blank some other disk in you Mac, so be warned.
All this done command line in the terminal window in MacOS.
Edit: You may see devices such as "/dev/sdcard, /dev/sdcard1" etc, and in this case you should use the shortest name, i.e. the one without the number. Else you'll only blank the partition, not the entire card.
kuisma said:
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdcard
This will blank the card totally, MBR and all partitions inclusive. After this, you can recreate the partitions using you Android device, I'd guess. Note that you have to find out the device "/dev/sdcard", it's most likely named something else. After insert, the "dmesg" command will probobly tell you. Using the wrong device, and you'll blank some other disk in you Mac, so be warned.
All this done command line in the terminal window in MacOS.
Edit: You may see devices such as "/dev/sdcard, /dev/sdcard1" etc, and in this case you should use the shortest name, i.e. the one without the number. Else you'll only blank the partition, not the entire card.
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Thanks for the idea. I will try that in the future if I have trouble again, but this time I ended up just returning the card. I probably tried 10 different formatting programs, including the official one from the sdcard website. Onward and upward!
Hi,
Anyone having SD card issues?
This phone for some reason does not like my SD cards and I finally had to format it as NTFS then insert it in the phone and let the phone erase/reformat the card.
No card that I have that was already formatted with data will work in the phone.
I haven't had this issue with any other Android phone.
When I first got the phone, not thinking I put my half full 128GB card in the phone from my GS4.
Needless to say, I had some backups but the latest pictures and movies from two weeks prior are possiblly toast.
I'm running a recovery program now.
Note to all: DO NOT PUT A CARD IN THE LG G3 THAT HAS DATA ON IT!!!!!!
You do not want to be like me.
This might help:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/xposed/modules/kitkat-sd-card-access-t2790992
ylexot said:
This might help:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/xposed/modules/kitkat-sd-card-access-t2790992
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Nope enabled full access.
It's not an access issue.
Enabled access on this phone and my GS4 was also rooted and I was using Xposed.
In my case the card is unrecognized or if it is, it is considered damaged or blank.
I put in a Sandisk 128GB FAT32 formatted (in Win 7) card that I was using in a Galaxy S3 into the LG G3 and it recognized the card and all the existing data that was on it. I am able to at least read from it without problem. I have not tried writing to the card yet.
I use a tool on Windows pc to format the sd card as fat32 since exFat is proprietary to Microsoft which causes different devices to have different standards. No problem at all with Fat32 unless you want to copy a file larger than 4gb over.
Hello. I'm new here and this is my first reply.
But anyway, yes I put my sd card in my brand new Verizon LG G3 and all of a sudden it's wiped. I had to find some way to try to restore my files so I searched xda and found something about Zar recovery from 2011 I think it was. I should look it up again so can send a thanks. I'm copying files to my computer as I'm typing this. Hope I can retrieve everything. If I do I will defiantly look up that post and thank the OP. It's the free version and it's taking a very long time but hey. I started this process yesterday at about 9pm after a couple of failed attempts.
manaox2 said:
I use a tool on Windows pc to format the sd card as fat32 since exFat is proprietary to Microsoft which causes different devices to have different standards. No problem at all with Fat32 unless you want to copy a file larger than 4gb over.
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I think my issue was with exFat. The phone didn't recognize it and threw up a fur ball.
My Galaxy S4 was just fine with it.
Note to self -. exFAT is bad on LG phones.
tech_head said:
Hi,
Anyone having SD card issues?
This phone for some reason does not like my SD cards and I finally had to format it as NTFS then insert it in the phone and let the phone erase/reformat the card.
No card that I have that was already formatted with data will work in the phone.
I haven't had this issue with any other Android phone.
When I first got the phone, not thinking I put my half full 128GB card in the phone from my GS4.
Needless to say, I had some backups but the latest pictures and movies from two weeks prior are possiblly toast.
I'm running a recovery program now.
Note to all: DO NOT PUT A CARD IN THE LG G3 THAT HAS DATA ON IT!!!!!!
You do not want to be like me.
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I pulled the 32GB SD card I had in my GPad and put it right into my Verizon G3....read the few pics and videos I had on it, and shows about 28GB of free space. So...I surely didn't have this issue (and it was pics of my niece so if I had lost them I would have been cheesed)
I think the Verizon version of the G3 has a bug with 128GB sdcards. When I pulled my card from the S5 and put it in the G3, it damaged the file structure and needed to format the card. I tried putting it back in the S5 before I formatted it and the S5 couldn't read it anymore. This scenario has happened on more than one occasion too when going back and forth between the S5 and the G3. It never happened with the AT&T version.
_ranch said:
I think the Verizon version of the G3 has a bug with 128GB sdcards. When I pulled my card from the S5 and put it in the G3, it damaged the file structure and needed to format the card. I tried putting it back in the S5 before I formatted it and the S5 couldn't read it anymore. This scenario has happened on more than one occasion too when going back and forth between the S5 and the G3. It never happened with the AT&T version.
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Okay, so it wasn't just me.
This is *EXACTLY* what I experienced.
I had to use recovery software to get my pictures back.
I need to manually go the the recovered files before I wipe the card.
tech_head said:
Okay, so it wasn't just me.
This is *EXACTLY* what I experienced.
I had to use recovery software to get my pictures back.
I need to manually go the the recovered files before I wipe the card.
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My 64GB card has no problems. I can move it between the two with no issues.
_ranch said:
My 64GB card has no problems. I can move it between the two with no issues.
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My experience was with a 128GB card.
tech_head said:
My experience was with a 128GB card.
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Right. 128GB card has problems; 64GB card has no problem. I have tried both.
Zar took a total of 41 hours
And only recovered one song and one picture. Oh my god I should have backed up before I messed with that sd card.
foundingfathersfan2 said:
And only recovered one song and one picture. Oh my god I should have backed up before I messed with that sd card.
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I was able to get quite a bit off, several thousand.
What software are you using?
I'm using photorec -< http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
Update: It has nothing to do with exFAT.
I formatted the 128GB card on my Mac with exFAT and it works fine. I've been back and forth between the Mac and my G3 with the newly formatted 128GB card.
I think it had issues from the GS4. I went directly from GS4 to G3 and that is when things went south.
I have transferred more than 75GB onto the card both through the G3 and stand alone with an adapter with no issues.
So I was able to recover most stuff and now using the card after formatting on the Mac with no issues. YMMV, but if moving from one phone to another I would put the card in a PC/Mac whatever, backup and repair any file system issues *BEFORE* using the card in a G3.
Which is good advise anyway.
tech_head said:
...backup and repair any file system issues *BEFORE* using the card in a G3.
Which is good advise anyway.
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Anyone wandering around with 32GB-64GB-128GB of data in their pocket without it being backed up is just asking for trouble. Historically, microSD cards are not that reliable.
My g3 had no issues reading my 64gb card, it does however have issues with saving data on to it, anytime I try to dl something and save it to my sd card is says failed no space available, which is not the case as I have around 8gb of free space, its weird because I can dl to internal memory and then transfer it to my sd card without a problem
tech_head said:
Update: It has nothing to do with exFAT.
I formatted the 128GB card on my Mac with exFAT and it works fine. I've been back and forth between the Mac and my G3 with the newly formatted 128GB card.
I think it had issues from the GS4. I went directly from GS4 to G3 and that is when things went south.
I have transferred more than 75GB onto the card both through the G3 and stand alone with an adapter with no issues.
So I was able to recover most stuff and now using the card after formatting on the Mac with no issues. YMMV, but if moving from one phone to another I would put the card in a PC/Mac whatever, backup and repair any file system issues *BEFORE* using the card in a G3.
Which is good advise anyway.
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So it has something to do with Samsung's implementation of exFat. The GS3's exFat was already corrupting and losing files when I first got my sd card which is why I formatted it to FAT32 in the first place. Wouldn't surprise me that the GS4 wasn't perfect either.
foundingfathersfan2 said:
And only recovered one song and one picture. Oh my god I should have backed up before I messed with that sd card.
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I've had the most luck recovering a corrupt sd card with a program called Recuva. Depending on the extent of the corruption there may not be much left to recover, but a second option never hurts.