When I use a 128 micro sd as internal storage there is extreme lag in evry app, which is not present with a 32 Gb micro sd. I think the internal storage might be using fat 32? I was promised lots of storage :crying:
This is very important to me and probably others
Ph9214 said:
When I use a 128 micro sd as internal storage there is extreme lag in evry app, which is not present with a 32 Gb micro sd. I think the internal storage might be using fat 32? I was promised lots of storage :crying:
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Getting error messages when trying to format it with anything
I have been using the adb console trying to format the card and I get these timeout errors
Error: java.lang.IllegalStateException: java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException: Thread Binder_7 gave up waiting for partitionMixed after 180000ms
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and I once even got an actual error code
Error: java.lang.IllegalStateException: command '32 volume partition disk:179,48 private' failed with 'null'
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and another error code that I lost hope this can help to find a solution :fingers-crossed:
Wait I finaly found a solution
Step One: Format SD to exfat.
Step Two: Set SD as Portable in Android
Step Three: Format SD as Internal in Android.
Step Four: THIS IS IMPORTANT. The process will eventually freeze and timeout. Do not cancel it. Let it timeout. When it does do not fret. Shutdown the phone by holding power and tapping Power Off. It will take a while to fully shut down. The time it takes for the process to freeze and the time it takes the phone to shut down seems to depend on the size of the SD Card. My 128GB card took about 6 minutes to timeout and about 12 minutes to shut down. DO NOT FORCE SHUTDOWN*. Let the phone shut down on its own. When it does, boot the phone back up and the SD will be set to Adopted Internal Storage.
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Wait I finaly found a solution
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If that solution works for you, great. Personally I would suspect that you have a bad Micro SD card.
Mabye...
koop1955 said:
If that solution works for you, great. Personally I would suspect that you have a bad Micro SD card.
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I scanned it with a checker and it it returned as good, so I think there is no corruption and I suspect android as the primary suspect
The same happened to me with a SanDisk 64 gb Class 10 card. Turns out I can't find a way to format my card back to normal, not even with a pc. Not even low level format or any commercial format tool.
Seems there is a bad batch of SanDisk cards or so I read online. Will return mine just in case.
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The only way I got it to work w/o xposed mods is to use fat32format windows program to format my 128gb card as fat32.
Rayan said:
The same happened to me with a SanDisk 64 gb Class 10 card. Turns out I can't find a way to format my card back to normal, not even with a pc. Not even low level format or any commercial format tool.
Seems there is a bad batch of SanDisk cards or so I read online. Will return mine just in case.
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Mine formats fine, but has problems with mobile devices (tested it on this tablet, and raspberry pi)
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The only way I got it to work w/o xposed mods is to use fat32format windows program to format my 128gb card as fat32.
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what program did you use
It's called exactly that, fat32format. I don't recall where I got the program exactly but download it from a reputable site like like cnet's download.com site or softsonic. Do know that since it's fat32, it will not support any single files above 2gb so no 1080p rips and the like.
I agree with the others sounds like you have a bad card that is on its way out... I had a early sandisk 64gb that one day just vanished nothing could be done to bring it back either... I avoid sandisk cards for now I want wd to have plenty of time to wash the crappy cards out of the market.
Fat32's file size limitation is 4gb!
If the SD card is inside the device better pick exFat.
there's no actual android app that has single files that big so you can use fat32 just fine, just won't be able to save big files on it like ripped movies
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Fat32's file size limitation is 4gb!
If the SD card is inside the device better pick exFat.
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exFAT has problems with this tablet. FAT32 works flawlessly.
exFat makes problems. Good to know. Well, Microsoft..
By the way, NTFS works too! Having one in my Shield right now.
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Anyone use one ?
I've got a Sandisk Class 10 "Ultra Android" one but it's been a bit .. flaky .. i suppose. I use winamp on my S2 and it occasionally hangs it to the point I need to reboot.
I'm wondering if it's just down to the number of tracks i've got on it - 8,500. Even though it's a class 10, I'm just wondering if selecting "Shuffle" when I start using it, it has a bit of a brain fart when faced with shuffling that many songs.
On the whole, when it's actually playing, it plays fine, but just wondering if anyone else has one and has had any issues ?
From what I have seen based on reviews of those cards just don't work well. I work in a store that sells them and I won't buy, but that's partially because I can't stand the thought of corrupting more than 16 GBs at one time.
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I think the SanDisk cards are faulty so many people have problems.
I use a Lexar and it's been great
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Obagleyfreer said:
I think the SanDisk cards are faulty so many people have problems.
I use a Lexar and it's been great
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I've always thought Sandisk was one of the more reliable brands. Interesting.
This says that my card is compatible with the S2
http://www.mobilefun.co.uk/sandisk-mobile-ultra-microsdxc-memory-card-64gb-p32149.htm#compatibility
but then i've also read that the S2 can only cope with no more than 32gb.
I'm using SanDisk ultra class 10 32gb and have no problems whatsoever.
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I'm using SanDisk ultra class 10 32gb and have no problems whatsoever.
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Same 32gb with no issues at all
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I was also using a Sandisk 32gb Class 10 as well before this - I still have it.
I did remove the primary partition on this 64gb card and re-create it as a FAT32 partition so it would work.
I also flashed a Jellybean ROM to see if the handling would be better and to be honest, I think ICS has actually been better overall at handling the larger capacity.
I have a 32GB SanDisk Class 2 MicroSD. Even though it is super slow, it has been really reliable. I have experienced zero crashes or hangups.
well the card now seems to have completely given up on me.
i decided to move back to ICS so prepared everything as I normally do. I repeated the procedure of removing the primary partition and re-creating a formatted FAT32 partition which completed successfully. i tried formatting it in CWM and it failed to mount. I flashed Rootbox ICS 1.8 which flashed fine. After booting, I chose "Erase SD Card" which ran through and seemed to complete without any errors but when i plugged the USB in, the card fails to mount again.
Rebooted and found that when i mount USB storage in CWM, the SD Card is properly recognised and checks out as properly formatted to FAT32 but the phone just point blank refuses to mount it under any circumstances.
Also, I select the USB Storage to copy files, it mounts the phone just fine but no SD Card. When i turn USB Storage off, it tells me i have a damaged SD Card and do I want to re-format - so I do. It completes without any obvious errors but then still won't mount ..
Just hugely frustrated at the moment ..
Is there a point where i should just give up ?
The card formats absolutely fine and checks out when formatted through the PC but the phone just doesn't want to know, under ANY circumstances ..
ok i give up. i just don't know or understand what's happened. i've deleted and re-created the partition a dozen times with a dozen different parameters. each time it completes successfully and each time the card shows up in windows as correctly formatted but the phone refuses to recognise it at all.
i've tried the format32 program, paragon partition manager and minitool partition manager and all of them successfully format the card without error and each time the phone DOES NOT SEE IT.
so i give up. i'll put my 32gb one back in and decide what i want to do - i imagine i won't be able to return the card because it formats correctly and works correctly in windows so i guess i can always try it on ebay
now you know when you do something completely random at the end of a few hours of puzzling over something ?
i literally just randomly selected "partition sd card" in CWM recovery, selected the maximum values on each and it ran ok and completed. rebooted and went to "storage" and .. IT SAW THE CARD ..
so i rebooted back to CWM and selected "format external storage" and it's done it .. formatted it without an issue .. i'm a bit stunned
it's only showing up as 59gb free mind, but i think i can cope with that .. and i think that's about average for the free space on any storage as well .. i can cope
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now you know when you do something completely random at the end of a few hours of puzzling over something ?
i literally just randomly selected "partition sd card" in CWM recovery, selected the maximum values on each and it ran ok and completed. rebooted and went to "storage" and .. IT SAW THE CARD ..
so i rebooted back to CWM and selected "format external storage" and it's done it .. formatted it without an issue .. i'm a bit stunned
it's only showing up as 59gb free mind, but i think i can cope with that .. and i think that's about average for the free space on any storage as well .. i can cope
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59GB is the right amout of storage.
Harddrive and storage manufacturers calculate hard drive sizes using Base 10, where 1000 bytes is one kilobyte. Computers, however, do everything in binary, which is base 2, where it takes 1024 bytes to store a kilobyte of data. In addition, the computer’s OS uses part of the drive for a directory to keep track of the actual data. The result is, the usable capacity of a hard drive is typically 90 to 93% of the advertised capacity
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59GB is the right amout of storage
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Yeah, I did suspect that. I'm just relieved it's working - it wasn't cheap and I'd also bought it from China, so it would have been an immense amount of hassle to return it if i had to.
is it possible to swap mount points, make external sdcard the main mount point? as i have lots of large data i.e games i would like to install straight to sdcard....im on stock rom 4.0.4.........it was and is possible on CM9 rom but i like stock better, is the a way to edit vold.fstab in /system/etc to make this possible or is there another solution? thanks
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is it possible to swap mount points, make external sdcard the main mount point? as i have lots of large data i.e games i would like to install straight to sdcard....im on stock rom 4.0.4.........it was and is possible on CM9 rom but i like stock better, is the a way to edit vold.fstab in /system/etc to make this possible or is there another solution? thanks
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The games that have large amounts of data downloaded after installing the game, such as NFS Hot Pursuit, puts the extra 600MBs of data in the 12GB internal storage.
so is it not possible then?
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so is it not possible then?
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Not that I know. But I am a noob, so..
But maybe you should make a dedicated thread, so you can get more attention to your question
I use vk 5.4.4 with a 64gb Samsung class 10 and it works perfectly
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Primary or Logical?
Hi guys.
FYI - make sure the partition is primary and not logical, This solved my problem
Use EaseUS Partition Master (Home is free)
http://www.partition-tool.com/download.htm
Hi everyone, just wanted to confirm that 64GB MicroSDXC cards do work. I bought this one http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007WTAJTO/ref=pe_175190_21431760_M3T1_ST1_dp_1
At first it will not work, but you must format it with the phone and it will work well. Reports 59.6 GB
Saludos,
Gustavo
gusbeto37 said:
Hi everyone, just wanted to confirm that 64GB MicroSDXC cards do work. I bought this one
At first it will not work, but you must format it with the phone and it will work well. Reports 59.6 GB
Saludos,
Gustavo
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Same here, works perfectly! No problems since I got it 5 days ago... :good:
an21281 said:
Same here, works perfectly! No problems since I got it 5 days ago... :good:
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Same here.
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having tons of problems with mine; tried formatting in Windows (FAT32 with "guiformat.exe"), formatting in the device a few times...
Every time, when trying to copy stuff onto the card from my Windows machine, after a few GB the connection just drops...and then the card doesnt seem to work properly until re-format. Everything is *extremely* slow to respond, even to the point of screwing with explorer when I open "Computer" in Windows from the start menu...
Bad device? Bad card? PEBCAK?
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having tons of problems with mine; tried formatting in Windows (FAT32 with "guiformat.exe"), formatting in the device a few times...
Every time, when trying to copy stuff onto the card from my Windows machine, after a few GB the connection just drops...and then the card doesnt seem to work properly until re-format. Everything is *extremely* slow to respond, even to the point of screwing with explorer when I open "Computer" in Windows from the start menu...
Bad device? Bad card? PEBCAK?
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You probably got a dud. I would return it. Haven't had any problems like that here.
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SturmenE36 said:
having tons of problems with mine; tried formatting in Windows (FAT32 with "guiformat.exe"), formatting in the device a few times...
Every time, when trying to copy stuff onto the card from my Windows machine, after a few GB the connection just drops...and then the card doesnt seem to work properly until re-format. Everything is *extremely* slow to respond, even to the point of screwing with explorer when I open "Computer" in Windows from the start menu...
Bad device? Bad card? PEBCAK?
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Probably its a fake, do a google search about fake flash drives and memory cards and use the sugested program to test the card.
Warning, it will be slow.
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itsdubai said:
You probably got a dud. I would return it. Haven't had any problems like that here.
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believable- this is why I only buy Extreme Pro CF cards for my camera
alas...the Extreme Pro line stops at 16GB for the MicroSDXC line, (perhaps thats a hint at the difficulty of reliably making rad MicroSD cards?) and I'll be damned if I have an Android with less storage capacity than an iPhone.
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Probably its a fake, do a google search about fake flash drives and memory cards and use the sugested program to test the card.
Warning, it will be slow.
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Doubtful...sold by Amazon.com LLC. I don't buy eBay shiest unless I can't find it on amazon or somewhere that either accepts google wallet or is within driving/shouting distance. Still though, I took your advice and downloaded H2testw and will run the test tonight.
Thanks for all the ideas guys!
That used to happen to me, got very frustrated because I could never copy things to my flash cards. Turns out the problem was my card reader. Try getting one of the USB ones that can actually read SDXC. I don't have one, so what I did is put it in the phone, then connect via USB to the computer in mass storage mode and it worked great.
I had the 64GB SDXC as well, it at first seemed to work, but don't be surprised if it stops working. Motorola, and I believe stock Android do not support SDXC yet. I have a somewhat detailed thread here: http://www.droidforums.net/forum/dr...d-cards-hd-maxx-hd-class-10-32gb-vs-64gb.html
When I got my card, popped it in, it formatted correctly, and seemed to work fine. As I started to put it through its paces it started to just not work. On ICS when you used the Storage option to transfer media to the SD card, it would stop halfway through and throw out errors. Eventually certain apps would stop writing/seeing the card like backup apps etc..
Be careful going forward, and test it hardcore. Transfer files back and forth, I always had issues with movie files. See if Root Explorer or other explorer apps can see it, see if Titanium Backup or My Backup Pro/SMS Backup can see and write to the card.
And yes, I did not get a dud, its works in other non-Android devices and works and tests perfectly in multiple computers. Just be cautious.
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I had the 64GB SDXC as well, it at first seemed to work, but don't be surprised if it stops working. Motorola, and I believe stock Android do not support SDXC yet. I have a somewhat detailed thread here
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These are all the same symptoms I'm having. Well, it looks like Motorola actually had testing and reasoning behind "supports up to 32GB" :-| That'll teach us to think we're smarter than the factory QA guys...
Still though, it's a little disappointing.
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These are all the same symptoms I'm having. Well, it looks like Motorola actually had testing and reasoning behind "supports up to 32GB" :-| That'll teach us to think we're smarter than the factory QA guys...
Still though, it's a little disappointing.
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Indeed, some of the Sammy devices support the SDXC 64GB card, but I think that's baked into TouchWiz. Hopefully as SDXC gets more popular it will become supported by Android all together. It would be nice to have at least half of my music library on my car so I don't have to stream all the time lol.
Confirmed working with a 64GB SDXC, works pretty well actually, now I'll never run out of space.
I bought 2 64GB micro SDXC cards. One for my Xoom and the other for my upcoming XT925. My Xoom was unable to format it so I used EaseUS Partition Master to format my 64GB cards as FAT32 partitions. So far so good...
I tried my sandisk SDXC 64Gb yesterday with no luck. It was formated to exFat though. I will try EaseUS tonight and try formatting it to Fat32.
Cheers
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I tried my sandisk SDXC 64Gb yesterday with no luck. It was formated to exFat though. I will try EaseUS tonight and try formatting it to Fat32.
Cheers
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I just got a 64gb micro sdcard, when I first put it in my phone it was exfat formatted, so my phone couldn't read it. Once I formatted the card with the fat32formatter (found online), it worked great. Good luck.
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I have a 64GB card. No issues.Took the card out of my Maxx.
I bought a 64 sandisk sdxc class 10 and tried it in the phone. Didn't work. Formatted to fat32 with a partition program, still wouldn't work. Got fed up, deleted all the partitions, threw it in the phone and itr was recognized, but blank. Had the phone format it, and it works. Phenomenally actually. Haven't tested read/write, but I've filled it a few times over looking for problems and had none. Without looking I think I have just shy of 40 used on it right now.
You'd think Motorola would say something about that.
Got a 64gb sandisk class 10 and it's really buggy.
Forceclose/card disabled automaticly/cant see my files/Many lags.
So for me the xt925 is not compatible with it.
I've been using mine for about a year now, it's been working flawlessly. I had to format in my phone the initial time I first used it.
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I just got a samsung sdxc 64 GB card and I cant seem to figure out how to remove the write disk protection from it. The max file size i can transfer is like 2 GB. Can someone tell me how to make it so i can transfer larger files than this?
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I just got a samsung sdxc 64 GB card and I cant seem to figure out how to remove the write disk protection from it. The max file size i can transfer is like 2 GB. Can someone tell me how to make it so i can transfer larger files than this?
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The sd card needs to be reformatted to exfat. I'm not 100% on this so hopefully others can chime in to help, but I think there is a 2gb file size limit for cards formatted to fat32.
JBeXX said:
The sd card needs to be reformatted to exfat. I'm not 100% on this so hopefully others can chime in to help, but I think there is a 2gb file size limit for cards formatted to fat32.
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Yeah i wanted to know how to get around that. There has to be a way!
i read somewhere some guy did it but he doesnt explain how to reformat it. Ive been googling for the past hour trying to figure it out.
bigdade said:
i read somewhere some guy did it but he doesnt explain how to reformat it. Ive been googling for the past hour trying to figure it out.
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Yeah, good luck. Wish I new more about it to help ya out.
Just out of pure curiosity, what do you have that is more than 2gb lol? I have mine loaded up pretty good but even any movies or roms I have aren't anymore than a 1gb.
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Yeah, good luck. Wish I new more about it to help ya out.
Just out of pure curiosity, what do you have that is more than 2gb lol? I have mine loaded up pretty good but even any movies or roms I have aren't anymore than a 1gb.
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Most of the HD movies i have are over 7 GB. ALso i wanted to download and watch game of thrones season 2 and that is about 5GB.
I have a lot of free time at work lol
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I have a lot of free time at work lol
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Damn, 7 gigs??? Are the game of thrones separated files per episode?
Lol, I hear ya on the free time at work. I do 12 hour nights with maybe an hour of actual work that isn't monitoring a screen. I thank android every night for speeding the shift up
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Damn, 7 gigs??? Are the game of thrones separated files per episode?
Lol, I hear ya on the free time at work. I do 12 hour nights with maybe an hour of actual work that isn't monitoring a screen. I thank android every night for speeding the shift up
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they can be i just have to manually do it since the file size is big. I have to download it to my laptop and then transfer it to my phone, which sux. I actually have some remux movies that are about 30 GB
You might get more help if you would change your thread title to something more informative...
Like was said, it needs to be reformatted to exfat. The fat32 architecture is actually 4 though.
If you don't have a computer you can do it under settings, and storage. I don't have a spare card to try at moment but I'll try when I get home.
How do you format it to exFAT though is my question.
Fat32 has a 4gb file limit, not 2gb, so that doesn't make a lot of sense that you can't go over 2gb. Also, most AOSP builds aren't going to support exFat, so that may not be the answer. Touchwiz does though, so if you stick with TW based roms, you should be alright.
From what I understood, the samsung micro SDXC cards were already coming formatted in exFat, so it seems odd you ended up with a Fat32 one. Anyhow, a while back microsoft put some limits on what formats you were natively allowed to format an external drive in. If memory serves, for USB memory you are only able to format in the file format that the drive is already formatted in. Gparted in linux will allow you to format in nearly any format, but I don't think exFat, as it is microsoft proprietary. I have seen windows utilities that allow you to format USB memory how you like, but I can't recall any names off hand.
Good Luck,
Jason
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Fat32 has a 4gb file limit, not 2gb, so that doesn't make a lot of sense that you can't go over 2gb. Also, most AOSP builds aren't going to support exFat, so that may not be the answer. Touchwiz does though, so if you stick with TW based roms, you should be alright.
From what I understood, the samsung micro SDXC cards were already coming formatted in exFat, so it seems odd you ended up with a Fat32 one. Anyhow, a while back microsoft put some limits on what formats you were natively allowed to format an external drive in. If memory serves, for USB memory you are only able to format in the file format that the drive is already formatted in. Gparted in linux will allow you to format in nearly any format, but I don't think exFat, as it is microsoft proprietary. I have seen windows utilities that allow you to format USB memory how you like, but I can't recall any names off hand.
Good Luck,
Jason
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Thanks Jason. I'll keep looking into it.
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Thanks Jason. I'll keep looking into it.
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Not having tried, are you sending the files to your phone through MTP? As in the microsd card in the phone connected to the computer? Might be a file size restriction over MTP and you'll need a card reader.
I haven't tried a file that size so not sure.
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You might find this useful, I found it at: Link--Clicky
You can use the Format command on Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 to format removable flash media using exFAT. For example, if K: is a USB flash device plugged into your computer, you can type format k: /fs:exfat to format the device using exFAT.
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I have never tried it. I went the opposite way, spent the time figuring out how to format my 64gb drives as Fat32. There are many times I have run into the 4gb limit as well though, and wished for something better.
Later,
Jason
yeah i havent tried it through a memory card reader. I was attempting to move the files through MTP.
Formatting into exFAT
If you have a 64gb card and you format it with your Note 2 it should automatically put it in an exFAT format, at least thats what it did for me so I am not sure if this happens everytime.
However, I do know how to format it into exFAT for sure using a free program available through CNET, let me find you a link.... *cue jeopardy music*
OK found it Its called the Mini Tool Partition Wizard - Home Edition
EDIT: Oh dammit. Sorry I cannot post the link as I have under 10 posts still. Just Google this "Mini Tool Partition Wizard Home Edition" without the parenthesis and usually the first result will be from download.com or CNET. Just use that
Have fun!
I bought a no name 64GB Class 10 MicroSD card to replace my 32GB but I can't seem to get my data transferred over cleanly. I've formatted it numerous times (exFAT) both on my PC and my GNote. I have the 32GB card backed up to my PC. I've tried copying from my phone (32GB) to the PC (64GB) and vice versa. Sometimes it will go all the way through without a problem but always only some of the files and folders are copied correctly. Other times, it will throw one of several different errors and the stuff that looked had been copied will vanish. For example, this morning I was copying certain files, essentially one by one and checking in ES File manager to see if they were on the phone's external SD card (64GB) and they were. Then after doing this for a bout an hour it would hiccup and everything I'd copied over and verified with ES File Manager would be gone!?
If it matters, I'm running Windows 8 PC with 4GB ram and 1.31 TB of HD storage. On my Gnote i've tried it with both a stock ICS TW ROM and JellyBeer 4.1.0 with no joy. I've done a bunch of searches here and on Google but nothing seems on point. If it's a bad SD Card, how do I test for that?
When I had a weird problem like that it turned out the SD card was fake. This program determines your actual SD card size.
http://fightflashfraud.wordpress.co...ld-standard-in-detecting-fake-capacity-flash/
Other then that, fat32 is what you should use in Android. Maybe even try letting the phone format the card through settings/ storage. Be advised there will be data loss so backup anything beforehand.
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When I had a weird problem like that it turned out the SD card was fake. This program determines your actual SD card size.
http://fightflashfraud.wordpress.co...ld-standard-in-detecting-fake-capacity-flash/
Other then that, fat32 is what you should use in Android. Maybe even try letting the phone format the card through settings/ storage. Be advised there will be data loss so backup anything beforehand.
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Thanx! I'll check it out and report back.
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Thanx! I'll check it out and report back.
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Thanx Scariola! You were right. It was a 4GB card masquerading as a 64GB card.
DaElderGeek said:
Thanx Scariola! You were right. It was a 4GB card masquerading as a 64GB card.
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sorry that this was the way to find out. No name high capacity SD cards would be a red flag.
I even had a couple that said Kingston 32gb which were actually 2gb. Flea bay and craigslist at its worst.
Thanks for reporting back. Hopefully more people are aware of the SD card validator link I posted now.
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sorry that this was the way to find out. No name high capacity SD cards would be a red flag.
I even had a couple that said Kingston 32gb which were actually 2gb. Flea bay and craigslist at its worst.
Thanks for reporting back. Hopefully more people are aware of the SD card validator link I posted now.
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The validator is certainly in my toolbox now. Thanx again. It takes forever to run on the large capacity drive but it was definitely worth. The white lettering is beginning to smudge. Really low class work. I'm getting my money back . . . I think. I think the poor schlub who sold it to me bought and is selling a bunch of them. I think he now knows how exposed he is.
Formatted ext sd via recovery...now I can't install, add or even format. I tried on pc and with twrp again by even using repair and changing file system. Anyone know how I can format this card? It's a 64 gb SanDisk. I can't find any solid solutions online. Thanks.
Tmobilefan906 said:
Formatted ext sd via recovery...now I can't install, add or even format. I tried on pc and with twrp again by even using repair and changing file system. Anyone know how I can format this card? It's a 64 gb SanDisk. I can't find any solid solutions online. Thanks.
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I have no idea of your hardware, but 64gb is where the switch from SD-HC changed to SD-HC (technically 32 can be either, but generally 32 are HC) and older hardware that didn't explicitly support XC wouldn't work... It either doesn't see it at all or sometimes it will work until you get to 32gb, then you can't write any more data.. I have older SD readers that so both.
But any phone or reader for the last 3-5 yrs handle XC, which has a theoretical 2tb limit, SanDisk has a 400gb microSD.. Insane.
Anyway that's all moot if it used to work in your phone and reader, but just doesn't anymore. Mostly if they're pre-formatted is exFat. If you formatted in TWRP I think it probably defaults to ext4, but TWRP can do a variety of formats.
I got to say though, if you can't reformat it again and TWRP that doesn't sound promising. Perhaps there is an Android app that will let you format with more control than the default tool (I have no idea since the last phone I had with SD was a Droid running GB)
Sorry I didn't really offer a solution, I have had problems with micro SD cards in general with generic brands... But I generally format them in the device I'm using them with and then I have a small USB thumb drive size thing that the micro SD card goes completely inside of and windows generally mounts whatever format it might be, provided drivers are installed.
Also sorry this is so long-winded I tend to do that when I'm voice dictating...
If you have more info that might be helpful drop a line. It doesn't take much to bugger up a microSD card though. Could be as simple as damage (static or physical) when removing it from the phone and putting it in the computer. But the proximity of time when formatted to not working makes that unlikely.
And I'm rambling again.
Cheers.
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Garbonzo17 said:
I have no idea of your hardware, but 64gb is where the switch from SD-HC changed to SD-HC (technically 32 can be either, but generally 32 are HC) and older hardware that didn't explicitly support XC wouldn't work... It either doesn't see it at all or sometimes it will work until you get to 32gb, then you can't write any more data.. I have older SD readers that so both.
But any phone or reader for the last 3-5 yrs handle XC, which has a theoretical 2tb limit, SanDisk has a 400gb microSD.. Insane.
Anyway that's all moot if it used to work in your phone and reader, but just doesn't anymore. Mostly if they're pre-formatted is exFat. If you formatted in TWRP I think it probably defaults to ext4, but TWRP can do a variety of formats.
I got to say though, if you can't reformat it again and TWRP that doesn't sound promising. Perhaps there is an Android app that will let you format with more control than the default tool (I have no idea since the last phone I had with SD was a Droid running GB)
Sorry I didn't really offer a solution, I have had problems with micro SD cards in general with generic brands... But I generally format them in the device I'm using them with and then I have a small USB thumb drive size thing that the micro SD card goes completely inside of and windows generally mounts whatever format it might be, provided drivers are installed.
Also sorry this is so long-winded I tend to do that when I'm voice dictating...
If you have more info that might be helpful drop a line. It doesn't take much to bugger up a microSD card though. Could be as simple as damage (static or physical) when removing it from the phone and putting it in the computer. But the proximity of time when formatted to not working makes that unlikely.
And I'm rambling again.
Cheers.
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Yes. It formatted to ext4.
Garbonzo17 said:
I have no idea of your hardware, but 64gb is where the switch from SD-HC changed to SD-HC (technically 32 can be either, but generally 32 are HC) and older hardware that didn't explicitly support XC wouldn't work... It either doesn't see it at all or sometimes it will work until you get to 32gb, then you can't write any more data.. I have older SD readers that so both.
But any phone or reader for the last 3-5 yrs handle XC, which has a theoretical 2tb limit, SanDisk has a 400gb microSD.. Insane.
Anyway that's all moot if it used to work in your phone and reader, but just doesn't anymore. Mostly if they're pre-formatted is exFat. If you formatted in TWRP I think it probably defaults to ext4, but TWRP can do a variety of formats.
I got to say though, if you can't reformat it again and TWRP that doesn't sound promising. Perhaps there is an Android app that will let you format with more control than the default tool (I have no idea since the last phone I had with SD was a Droid running GB)
Sorry I didn't really offer a solution, I have had problems with micro SD cards in general with generic brands... But I generally format them in the device I'm using them with and then I have a small USB thumb drive size thing that the micro SD card goes completely inside of and windows generally mounts whatever format it might be, provided drivers are installed.
Also sorry this is so long-winded I tend to do that when I'm voice dictating...
If you have more info that might be helpful drop a line. It doesn't take much to bugger up a microSD card though. Could be as simple as damage (static or physical) when removing it from the phone and putting it in the computer. But the proximity of time when formatted to not working makes that unlikely.
And I'm rambling again.
Cheers.
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It even displays error in twrp
Tmobilefan906 said:
It even displays error in twrp
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And this is when I load it default on a pc
Tmobilefan906 said:
And this is when I load it default on a pc
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Well the Windows machine won't read ext4 without third-party software... But I don't see why that would keep you from formatting again. And if TWRP does the same thing, errors out, then I got think the card's had it.
If you're trying to use it in the phone you should leave it in ext4, but if you're trying to use it and windows you could try to format it exFat in TWRP.
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Well the Windows machine won't read ext4 without third-party software... But I don't see why that would keep you from formatting again. And if TWRP does the same thing, errors out, then I got think the card's had it.
If you're trying to use it in the phone you should leave it in ext4, but if you're trying to use it and windows you could try to format it exFat in TWRP.
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I tried changing file system to a different type so that I could wipe it in twrp. But even after I do that, it still says it's ext4 on the pc
Garbonzo17 said:
Well the Windows machine won't read ext4 without third-party software... But I don't see why that would keep you from formatting again. And if TWRP does the same thing, errors out, then I got think the card's had it.
If you're trying to use it in the phone you should leave it in ext4, but if you're trying to use it and windows you could try to format it exFat in TWRP.
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I tried eaus partition tool...didnt work. Any suggestions? Thanks.
Tmobilefan906 said:
I tried eaus partition tool...didnt work. Any suggestions? Thanks.
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Nothing really.
I am curious though. Can you give me specs on the card brand/model/serial?
Also, I have had good results with UFS Explorer Recovery pulling data when nothing else will. I think there's a free trial, but you plobably have to pay for it to do anything other than verify it 'can' successfully recover, not sure, but if it is data that you need, it is good.
I only ask about the card because I found in the past I bought like three identical adata brand SD cards and one appeared to be DOA and I couldn't do anything with it and lo and behold adata had found a firmware thing that they could actually fix and they had a tool that did it.
If you want to go down a rabbit hole there is a sticky XDA thread https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1355528&page=2 with various degrees of helpfulness. Its a little dated, but the ideas are sound for most of it.
Really i just googled "sd card bad after formatting twrp" and lost 2 hrs...
Let me know if you have any success, I realize this is either about data or just personal curiosity like mine... Because a probably sub $20 card is not worth this kind of investment... And if its a high end part, probably has lifetime warranty..
-g
Garbonzo17 said:
Nothing really.
I am curious though. Can you give me specs on the card brand/model/serial?
Also, I have had good results with UFS Explorer Recovery pulling data when nothing else will. I think there's a free trial, but you plobably have to pay for it to do anything other than verify it 'can' successfully recover, not sure, but if it is data that you need, it is good.
I only ask about the card because I found in the past I bought like three identical adata brand SD cards and one appeared to be DOA and I couldn't do anything with it and lo and behold adata had found a firmware thing that they could actually fix and they had a tool that did it.
If you want to go down a rabbit hole there is a sticky XDA thread https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1355528&page=2 with various degrees of helpfulness. Its a little dated, but the ideas are sound for most of it.
Really i just googled "sd card bad after formatting twrp" and lost 2 hrs...
Let me know if you have any success, I realize this is either about data or just personal curiosity like mine... Because a probably sub $20 card is not worth this kind of investment... And if its a high end part, probably has lifetime warranty..
-g
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Don't want data off of it, just want to format it. Its a SanDisk plus 64 gb card
Tmobilefan906 said:
Don't want data off of it, just want to format it. Its a SanDisk plus 64 gb card
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Did you request RMA?
https://kb.sandisk.com
I'm not sure if they are lifetime warranty or not, i have a couple ultra plus cards from Costco that were lifetime warranty.
Now on the less ethical side, if it's a current model, plckup a new one then swap/return. But obviously thats evil.
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Did you request RMA?
https://kb.sandisk.com
I'm not sure if they are lifetime warranty or not, i have a couple ultra plus cards from Costco that were lifetime warranty.
Now on the less ethical side, if it's a current model, plckup a new one then swap/return. But obviously thats evil.
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I would swap....but my data is on it. Lol. I can't delete ANYTHING on the card. Can't format, or right click a file and chose delete. It somehow got from ntfs to ext4
Tmobilefan906 said:
I would swap....but my data is on it. Lol. I can't delete ANYTHING on the card. Can't format, or right click a file and chose delete. It somehow got from ntfs to ext4
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For whatever reason your account is disabled, but i saw today (and for next 8hs till Sunday at 6am est 11/26/2017) there are 64gb SanDisk hdxc cards... $14.99.