Hi guys,
I just bought this card from ebay. Can i format it in NTFS to copy large file size and read it from my phone?
fashion_live said:
Hi guys,
I just bought this card from ebay. Can i format it in NTFS to copy large file size and read it from my phone?
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I was able to Format a 64Gb on my Motorola Droid RAZR MAXX by using "SD Formatter", (this is the "SanDisk Formatter"). If you use Windows 7 Formatter, then you'll probably only see that the Memory Card can be Formatted to 8GB. Don't do this or you'll have an 8Gb Memory Card, instead of 64Gb, (you'll only get about 59.4Gb available if done the way that I did it). Use the "SD Formatter" instead.
https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_3/
https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_3/SDFormatter_3.1e.pdf/
I first Formatted it as exFAT, then as FAT, (may have been FAT32).
The Motorola Droid doesn't say that it will support the new Secure Digital Extreme Capacity, (SDXC), rather than Secure Digital Extreme Capacity, (SDHC), so the RAZR MAXX kept telling me there was no Memory Card, but I reformatted it using SD Formater as FAT, (may have been FAT32), and I now have 80 Gb of working Memory in my Droid, (64Gb + 16Gb Internal).
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I don't believe that you will won't to Format a Memory Card as NTFS.
Google "NTFS,FAT32,exFAT formatting?" to find out more information.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100320171239AAMvsxD
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http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/2801/exfat_versus_fat32_versus_ntfs/
I can only add that I bought one about week ago and it was like this. The card was preformated in exFat. Windows 7 have seen all of the 59,4GB. I've tried copying some mp3s. A few were copied and then suddenly froze. Copying forever... Tried once more - the same. Tried formating: exFat, NTFS, Fat32 nothing worked, only error that operation of formating couldn't be completed. SD formatter app throwed error about card being locked but I didn't use adapter so it was impossible. Tried even GParted to delete partitions of the card but only get an error. After a week of struggling with SanDisk consultant blaming me that it's my fault, that I don't have proper reader (it was reading SDHC card without issue and as far as I know they are compatible) I've bought SDXC compatible reader and still nothing. Then they let me do an RMA and said that it can take about 4 weeks until I see replacement. I don't recommend buying anything from them. So if something will go wrong you will wait foooooreeeevvvvvaaaa....
When I will get my replacement I will probably format to NTFS too as we oppose to SIII can't use exFat. But I've read somewhere that you need an app (or some skills ) to mount it properly. I don't remember exactly but I think it was something like NTFS Mount from Play.
JollyChollie said:
I don't believe that you will won't to Format a Memory Card as NTFS.
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squicky said:
I can only add that I bought one about week ago and it was like this. The card was preformated in exFat. Windows 7 have seen all of the 59,4GB. I've tried copying some mp3s. A few were copied and then suddenly froze. Copying forever... Tried once more - the same. Tried formating: exFat, NTFS, Fat32 nothing worked, only error that operation of formating couldn't be completed. SD formatter app throwed error about card being locked but I didn't use adapter so it was impossible. Tried even GParted to delete partitions of the card but only get an error. After a week of struggling with SanDisk consultant blaming me that it's my fault, that I don't have proper reader (it was reading SDHC card without issue and as far as I know they are compatible) I've bought SDXC compatible reader and still nothing. Then they let me do an RMA and said that it can take about 4 weeks until I see replacement. I don't recommend buying anything from them. So if something will go wrong you will wait foooooreeeevvvvvaaaa....
When I will get my replacement I will probably format to NTFS too as we oppose to SIII can't use exFat. But I've read somewhere that you need an app (or some skills ) to mount it properly. I don't remember exactly but I think it was something like NTFS Mount from Play.
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From what you advised here Squicky, the MicroSD Card you received was faulty. I had the exact same issue, sent it back and got the response that it was a faulty product, and they would replace it at no cost, none of the issues of saying it was my fault.
From other things that I have read around the forums such as here, formatting using your phone directly would be more beneficial. The phone can format to most File Systems, and even if your ROM Doesn't support the File system, you can use ntfssd to format to NTFS and mount in your phone =)
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From what you advised here Squicky, the MicroSD Card you received was faulty. I had the exact same issue, sent it back and got the response that it was a faulty product, and they would replace it at no cost, none of the issues of saying it was my fault.
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Well maybe Patriot treats their customers better than SanDisk
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I have a Sandisk Ultra SDXC 64GB Class 10 UHS-1 Micro SD card in my T999 T-Mobile Galaxy S III phone.
The card has become "damaged" (Samsung's term). 4 times now. Please note that the card works fine on my Window 7 PC. This last time I formatted the card in the phone, put the card in the PC, copied a bunch of files to it (about 3GB) and then put the card back into the phone. And the phone said that the card might be damaged. I was sure to unmount the card before removing it.
I called T-Mobile tech support and they know nothing about it.
I called Sandisk and they said "There are known problems with Samsung Phones and Tablets and Sandisk Class 10 cards. Samsung is aware of this and working on it. Would you like us to replace your Class 10 UHS-1 card with a Class 6 card?"
I called Samsung tech support and they know nothing about it and are not setup to tell their engineers about issues. The only way to report an issue to engineering is via email.
Let's make a loud stink about this so Samsung/T-Mobile will fix it.
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I went out and purchased the recommended Sandisk 64 GB SDXC Class 6 memory card and the problems are exactly the same as with the Class 10 card.
The problem seems to appear when there is more that 4GB (I'm not sure if it is exactly the 4GB barrier or not) on the card the Galaxy S III has a problem mounting the card. Note that once the card has gone greater than 4 GB even deleting files to reduce it below 4 GB does not allow the card to be mounted.
On the class ten card I was able to successfully run the fsck -t exfat command on the card that Android would not mount. fsck returned no errors or problems found.
My testing is rather limited but I can say: The T-Mobile Galaxy S III (T999) does not work correctly with SanDisk Ultra 64 GB SDXC memory cards (class 6 or Class 10)
Please, let's spread this around so that maybe Samsung, T-Mobile and SanDisk will learn how to work together and solve the problem for the sake of their customers.
I put the new card in the phone and formatted it in the phone.
I don't quite understand how you got 2 crap microsd card, I'm using a Samsung ultra 32gb class 10 just fine, never had one problem mounting it never seen one error message. Sorry
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achmedclaus said:
I don't quite understand how you got 2 crap microsd card, I'm using a Samsung ultra 32gb class 10 just fine, never had one problem mounting it never seen one error message. Sorry
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I think it is a software problem with the 64 GB Micro SDXC Card.
I have a Sandisk Ultra SDXC 64GB Class 10 UHS-1 in my Galaxy SIII and have never had an issue. I had problems formatting the card in my PC, So i just threw it in the phone and formatted it there. It was formatted and I have loaded about 25gb of music, 5gb of pictures through Cheetah Sync without issue.
picachux said:
I have a Sandisk Ultra SDXC 64GB Class 10 UHS-1 in my Galaxy SIII and have never had an issue. I had problems formatting the card in my PC, So i just threw it in the phone and formatted it there. It was formatted and I have loaded about 25gb of music, 5gb of pictures through Cheetah Sync without issue.
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Have you rebooted your phone or unmounted and remounted the card? That is when the problems occur.
I believe that there is a bug in the code the Samsung uses to check the card prior to mounting. They are doing more than just a simple
fsck -t exfat.
I tried a 32 GB SDHC Samsung Class 10 card with the exact same data that was on the 64GB SDXC card without any problems. It is my belief that there is a bug in exFAT code in the Galaxy S III.
Thanks for your comments.
I have only unmounted the card twice to kickstart the media scan after loading some music and I reboot my phone every 2 days or so.
ChitownWingMan said:
Have you rebooted your phone or unmounted and remounted the card? That is when the problems occur.
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I've reboot my phone all the time—I don't have any problems. I don't mount/unmount very often, but just tried it now and everything appears to be fine.
My card is a 64 GB class 5 SanDisk, formatted FAT32 (done on a Linux machine).
tamasrepus said:
I've reboot my phone all the time—I don't have any problems. I don't mount/unmount very often, but just tried it now and everything appears to be fine.
My card is a 64 GB class 5 SanDisk, formatted FAT32 (done on a Linux machine).
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I believe the bug is in the exFAT drivers in the S III.
I formatted the card in the S III under the mistaken assumption that the phone would know best.
The theoretical maximum size of FAT32 is 2TB. However, since Microsoft in their infinite wisdom decided only to support FAT32 up to 32GB (most likely to force people to use NTFS) support for FAT32 above 32GB is spotty and unreliable.
This being said if you format a 32GB card or smaller in the Galaxy S III, it will be formatted FAT32. If you format a 64GB (or greater I presume) in the Galaxy S III, it will be formatted exFAT.
I will try formatting the card as a 64GB FAT32 partition. However, this will mess up my using a USB 3.0 card reader (at 5Gb/S transfer rate) to write to the card. Writing to the card via WiFi is interminably slow by comparison.
Sounds like windows is damaging the exFAT partition when you plug it in to your computer to transfer stuff. I've never done that because I just use Cheetah Sync to sync my iTunes(25gb) folder to my sdxc card and to sync my pictures/videos from the sdxc to my pc.
ChitownWingMan said:
I believe the bug is in the exFAT drivers in the S III.
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Seems that way to me too. exFAT is not in Linux upstream, so I imagine Samsung just bought a binary driver from someone. Who knows the quality.
I will try formatting the card as a 64GB FAT32 partition. However, this will mess up my using a USB 3.0 card reader (at 5Gb/S transfer rate) to write to the card. Writing to the card via WiFi is interminably slow by comparison.
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What does the card reader have to do with it? I've a USB 3.0 card reader, and my 64 GB FAT32-formatted fine.
As I recommended in the other thread, use a Linux Live CD to format your SD card.
tamasrepus said:
Seems that way to me too. exFAT is not in Linux upstream, so I imagine Samsung just bought a binary driver from someone. Who knows the quality.
What does the card reader have to do with it? I've a USB 3.0 card reader, and my 64 GB FAT32-formatted fine.
As I recommended in the other thread, use a Linux Live CD to format your SD card.
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or use Partition Wizard Home Edition (free)(windows) for large fat32 format jobs works perfectly and the price is right http://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html
picachux said:
Sounds like windows is damaging the exFAT partition when you plug it in to your computer to transfer stuff. I've never done that because I just use Cheetah Sync to sync my iTunes(25gb) folder to my sdxc card and to sync my pictures/videos from the sdxc to my pc.
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Because I thought the same thing one of the tests that I performed was to never remove the card from the phone. I did all of my copying to and from the card via File Expert Web Sharing. One day I ran the phone battery down and the phone rebooted. When it came back up it was unable to verify the card. However, fsck -t exfat found no problems with the card.
One interesting point, I was using Cheetah Sync (a great program) last night to copy a TitaniumBackup directory to the phone and it failed. Here is a copy of the email I sent to the developer:
The destination directory contains 11,841 files totaling 2.93GB and Cheetah needs to download 1917 files and is failing on the 1st file with the error "Sync Error - I/O error downloading files.".
Note: Cheetah Sync had already copied almost 7,000 files. It originally failed during a copy of almost 9,000 files. I restarted
the sync and that is why it failed on 1 of 1,917 files.
I am using a T-Mobile Galaxy S III (Model SGH-T999) with 32 GB internal memory and a 32 GB external SD Card (Samsung Class 10).
The source directory is c:\phone\card_backup\TitaniumBackup and the destination directory is /mnt/extSdCard/TitaniumBackup.
I am able to manually create a file in that directory using a file explorer.
tamasrepus said:
Seems that way to me too. exFAT is not in Linux upstream, so I imagine Samsung just bought a binary driver from someone. Who knows the quality.
What does the card reader have to do with it? I've a USB 3.0 card reader, and my 64 GB FAT32-formatted fine.
As I recommended in the other thread, use a Linux Live CD to format your SD card.
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The card reader is not the issue just the mechanism to allow me to copy files quickly from/to the card.
How Windows will handle a FAT32 partition greater than 32GB is my concern. In the past I have always used NTFS for drives/cards greater than 32GB because FAT32 has a 4GB - 1 file size limit and I have many video files that are larger then that.
MiniTool Partition Wizard and Easeus Partition Master can both also make a 64GB FAT32 partition.
Thanks...
Update
There is an update to this thread here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=29904990&postcount=10
Found this really nice deal on Amazon.
Just ordered one
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B007WTAJTO/ref=redir_mdp_mobile?redirect=true
I'd say be careful. If you check some reviews, I heard when they sell out, they replace it with Class 6.
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You don't have to worry if you buy from Amazon. If you buy from a third party make sure it says "fulfilled by Amazon", you'll get super saver shipping and it will be exactly as described.
It's Sold by Amazon and
Fulfilled by Amazon,
so I'm not too worried about it.
If they ship something other than what I ordered, I'll just return the item
I've always had good experiences with Amazon, as long as the Items are Sold by Amazon directly, or if the Seller's Return Policy is the same as Amazon's.
I read through All 12 pages of Amazon reviews.
This Is a Class 10 Card.
The 4th reviewer was only stating his opinion. Every Reviewer (111 of 112) received a Class 10.
And the 4th reviewer most likely also received a Class 10.
I'm actually using this card right now. Ordered it Saturday, got it Wednesday. Works like a champ.
From Amazon, of course. The price was cheaper than ebay, with none of the risk.
Bought this card last night...hope it works in a 16 GB verizon s3...
I would live to get one of these but I'm in Canada. Anyone want to order one for me?
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got this card today and it does not work...does anyone know if you need to do anything special?
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got this card today and it does not work...does anyone know if you need to do anything special?
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What ROM are you using? Did you format the card?
senergy rom, and yes i formated it. i also transferd from old card to new card and still a no go.
went into setting /then to storage and tried to mount it that way also. it might be bad.
bearklaws said:
senergy rom, and yes i formated it. i also transferd from old card to new card and still a no go.
went into setting /then to storage and tried to mount it that way also. it might be bad.
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I can't see pics at work if you uploaded a pic with that, but does your computer read it? Does your phone say its corrupt? If everything says it's corrupt you can probably go to control panel -> hardware and do a full format (25/30 minutes). If nothing recognizes it at all, it's bad and you should request a replacement/refund.
had a hard time formatting the very first time. I am going to do a full format now, if that doesnt work, its going back. Thanks for the help.
Tried everything i know how...i am sending it back...thanks
Just received mine, and installed it in my S3.
Working Perfectly
This is what I did:
- I removed my SanDisk 32GB Class 6 card from my S3 after 'Unmounting' it.
- I saved All data on the card to a Folder on my pc
*the 32GB card is FAT32
- I installed the 64GB card into my S3, Formatted it, and Removed it after 'Unmounting' the card.
I transferrerd All data onto my New 64GB Card via my pc
- I installed the 64GB card into my S3 and Everything is Working Fine
*the 64GB card is exFAT
The 64GB card had 59.47GB Usable memory beforing transferring my folders over to it.
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Just received mine, and installed it in my S3.
Working Perfectly
This is what I did:
- I removed my SanDisk 32GB Class 6 card from my S3 after 'Unmounting' it.
- I saved All data on the card to a Folder on my pc
*the 32GB card is FAT32
- I installed the 64GB card into my S3, Formatted it, and Removed it after 'Unmounting' the card.
I transferrerd All data onto my New 64GB Card via my pc
- I installed the 64GB card into my S3 and Everything is Working Fine
*the 64GB card is exFAT
The 64GB card had 59.47GB Usable memory beforing transferring my folders over to it.
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Nice...I could not even get my phone to see it...I did the same thing you did also...just a bad card,waiting for another.(thanks for the write up.)
bearklaws said:
Nice...I could not even get my phone to see it...I did the same thing you did also...just a bad card,waiting for another.(thanks for the write up.)
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Your card arrived in the cardboard/blister packaging?
Don't know what the odds are of getting a defective card, taking into consideration the Seller, packaging, etc. But hopefully your replacement card will have no issue.
Have you tried to install the card into another device, if one is available?
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Just received mine, and installed it in my S3.
Working Perfectly
This is what I did:
- I removed my SanDisk 32GB Class 6 card from my S3 after 'Unmounting' it.
- I saved All data on the card to a Folder on my pc
*the 32GB card is FAT32
- I installed the 64GB card into my S3, Formatted it, and Removed it after 'Unmounting' the card.
I transferrerd All data onto my New 64GB Card via my pc
- I installed the 64GB card into my S3 and Everything is Working Fine
*the 64GB card is exFAT
The 64GB card had 59.47GB Usable memory beforing transferring my folders over to it.
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I did exactly the same (my old 32GB FAT32 card to new 64GB exFAT one).
And everything is going fine...
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key_r said:
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I did exactly the same (my old 32GB FAT32 card to new 64GB exFAT one).
And everything is going fine...
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Sounds good to me
My S3 now has a capacity for 96GB of frigg'n
memory
That's a lot of memory!
does a 64gb card HAVE to be exfat? or can i make it fat32?
diz_dizane said:
does a 64gb card HAVE to be exfat? or can i make it fat32?
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You can but you can't format it using the Windows formatter. I used easeus software to format mine so that the card would be visible in clockwork recovery. exFAT is not supported there. Had a bit of a scare after formatting with the HP utility. Repartitioned in easeus but it would only read on the computer and it would FC system apps on my phone. Figured out that the partition needs to be primary not logical (what easus defaults to for new partitions) to work on the phone. All you have to do is pop the card in the computer, open easeus and format fat32. Don't mess with partitions
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nacron said:
You can but you can't format it using the Windows formatter. I used easeus software to format mine so that the card would be visible in clockwork recovery. exFAT is not supported there. Had a bit of a scare after formatting with the HP utility. Repartitioned in easeus but it would only read on the computer and it would FC system apps on my phone. Figured out that the partition needs to be primary not logical (what easus defaults to for new partitions) to work on the phone. All you have to do is pop the card in the computer, open easeus and format fat32. Don't mess with partitions
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I didn't realize that Clockwork didn't read exFAT.
I just did a backup to my Internal storage cause as you say, CWM didn't see the ext. SD card.
I'm gonna reformat the card now.
Thanks.
Is this what I need to use to convert to FAT32?
http://en.kioskea.net/download/download-380-easeus-partition-master
I'm going to do the following:
- format 64GB card in my S3, which will delete all data
- install Easeus onto my pc
- put 64GB card into my pc
- open Easeus Utility, and format 64GB card to FAT32.
- reinstall Folders previously saved on my pc from my 32GB FAT32 card to the newly formatted 64GB card
- install card into my S3, and I should be good to go?
UPDATE:
- Formatted 64GB card to FAT32
- CWM recognizes card
All is well in the neighborhood
i formatted my 64 gb to exfat and i connected my phone to my pc...it reads the card and everything but i am still limited...it seems that the file size limitation of fat32 is still present..
when i go to properties (when the sd card is in my phone) it says file system: generic hierarchical instead of exfat..is that why?
thanks in advance
For what it's worth, I tossed my card in the phone from SanDisk and it was formatted exFat already. Sounds like you might need another format. I don't know why there have been so many problems with these cards. I've read a lot about people frying them while formatting also.
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For what it's worth, I tossed my card in the phone from SanDisk and it was formatted exFat already. Sounds like you might need another format. I don't know why there have been so many problems with these cards. I've read a lot about people frying them while formatting also.
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yeah i noticed it was already exfat..i just formatted it again anyway to be safe..i also read about being messing up their cards while formatting
when you plug your phone in a pc does it still show as exfat?
I formatted my 64gb card to exFat back when I had my S3, and it's worked perfectly. Now I just got the S4 and before I root my phones I run through a quick little checklist to make sure I'm good to go; when I checked, though, my computer, too, reads it as "generic hierarchical". I know I formatter it to exFat - that's the only way I was able to make it work in the first place. It doesn't appear to have any file size limitations, but I'll transfer something massive onto it just to check. Unless someone knows this doesn't matter, I'll back it up, reformat it, then refill it and root. I'm kinda lost as to how the computer won't read it as exFat, though.
I just got a 64GB Class 10 SDXC card from Sandisk(the sale on Amazon). My GS3 running CM10 reports it as damaged or corrupted. Trying to format it on the phone eds up with a perpetual unmounting notification. My printer says the card is corrupt and two computers (Linux Mint and Mac OS X) will not recognize it at all using a USB adapter. The most success I have had is when I put it in my Atrix 4G(even though it only supports SDHC cards). It got through formatting but the phone locked up immediately after and the card was corrupt upon rebooting. Does anybody know of a solution or should I request a return through Amazon? Thanks in advance!
Gotta format it FAT32 on computer. Windows won't do it. Gotta use a program. I forgot what it's called. Just Google it.
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I just got a 64GB Class 10 SDXC card from Sandisk(the sale on Amazon). My GS3 running CM10 reports it as damaged or corrupted. Trying to format it on the phone eds up with a perpetual unmounting notification. My printer says the card is corrupt and two computers (Linux Mint and Mac OS X) will not recognize it at all using a USB adapter. The most success I have had is when I put it in my Atrix 4G(even though it only supports SDHC cards). It got through formatting but the phone locked up immediately after and the card was corrupt upon rebooting. Does anybody know of a solution or should I request a return through Amazon? Thanks in advance!
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The 64GB microSDXC card comes formatted as exFAT, which isn't supported by AOSP kernels. Using a 3rd party Windows program or a phone that supports exFAT (ie. your Galaxy S3 running a stock/custom Samsung ROM), format the card to FAT32 and it should work properly. You can also try formatting the card to NTFS and using ktoon's test kernel, which has NTFS support.
So I bought a 64gb sandisk microSD card but when I tried to format it using GUI format it only formatted to 32gb. I formatted it on an old vista laptop since I don't have an sd card reader. Any idea why it wouldn't show as 64gb?
Where did you buy it from? There are a lot of counterfeit cards for sale.
metalfan78 said:
Where did you buy it from? There are a lot of counterfeit cards for sale.
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This listing
http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Ultra...8&qid=1357260564&sr=8-8&keywords=64gb+sd+card
bestdayever said:
This listing
http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Ultra...8&qid=1357260564&sr=8-8&keywords=64gb+sd+card
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That's not a MicroSD card, you have the wrong listing.
Jereso said:
That's not a MicroSD card, you have the wrong listing.
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Woops, you're right. This one
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009QZH6JS/ref=twister_B009QZH7BU?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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Woops, you're right. This one
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009QZH6JS/ref=twister_B009QZH7BU?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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That looks like the right one...but wasn't Amazon as well as Ebay, rumored to be selling fakes?
So it's a SanDisk? It should work just fine.
Our phones unofficially support 64GB cards as do most phones. I remember even asking the question when 64GB cards just started to come it whether I could use them. You may need to format the card into another format then your phone will recognize every GB of it.
You will not be able to do this with your phone but formatting it on your computer. I'll try finding that form link for you which has a tutorial.
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ndh777 said:
So it's a SanDisk? It should work just fine.
Our phones unofficially support 64GB cards as do most phones. I remember even asking the question when 64GB cards just started to come it whether I could use them. You may need to format the card into another format then your phone will recognize every GB of it.
You will not be able to do this with your phone but formatting it on your computer. I'll try finding that form link for you which has a tutorial.
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I used the GUI format which is a version of FAT32 format for windows to format the card. When I formatted it I ended up with 32gb instead of 64gb and wondering if it is just a problem with the laptop or the card. If the laptop micro sd card reader didn't support 64gb would it see the card as 32 or just not see it at all?
EDIT: I had my friend format my card with his stock S3 and it recognized all 64gb (although its in exFAT so my phone won't read it DOH) so it appears the laptop I used doesn't support SDXC and that was the issue. Gonna buy a media card reader for my pc to format the card. Thanks for the replys.
Glad you got it going. Here's the thread I started about it, if you're still interested http://androidforums.com/evo-4g-accessories/384806-64gb-micro-sdxc-card.html
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Glad you got it going. Here's the thread I started about it, if you're still interested http://androidforums.com/evo-4g-accessories/384806-64gb-micro-sdxc-card.html
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Thanks for the link, but for me the issue was my microSD --> USB dongle converter which wasn't compatible with the SDXC. Not sure how the converter could limit this but obviously it did. Will try to find another usb dongle since its more convenient to have that than a SD card. i dont have a SD reader in my big PC either.
Next time you need to Format an SD Card, and want to do it on the PC / Laptop. Use SD Formatter. It has never failed me once. It has even saved a few SD Cards that were allegedly done. I've used the program on several older PC's and Laptops. With nothing more than the SD Card Adapter. But it does require the card to be out of the Device. So not having an SD Card Reader port on the PC /Laptop is an issue .
i had the same but solved
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bestdayever said:
So I bought a 64gb sandisk microSD card but when I tried to format it using GUI format it only formatted to 32gb. I formatted it on an old vista laptop since I don't have an sd card reader. Any idea why it wouldn't show as 64gb?
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try using some other card reader or leptop with in built card reader and this time use "MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition" google and download
and just run it then unmount ur card and then mount manually u will see 2 partitions on ur SD card reader just delete 2nd partition and click apply and then after format it to exfat by using stock windows tool built in windows ....
Think used Mac or other os format it .???
I have a SanDisk ultra 64 gig micro sd card from walmart I bought for 59 dollars and everything I use it with see 64 gigs. Don't buy the cards online there cons and if you can get a refund. I paid 100 for a 32 gig micro sd card a few years ago, so 59 for 64 gig is a steal. I have the sprint gs3 also.
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