I bought a new 16gb sd card to replace my 2gb one. My phone now wont mount the new sd card. Everytime I hit mount sd card it says "SD card safe to remove". I've tried reformatting the card in the settings and mounting and reformatting the card in Clockwork with no success. I rooted my phone on the old 2gb card. I tried another new 2gb card and it mounted fine. The 16gb is a sandisk class 2. The card I rooted on is a Lexar and the other 2gb card is a sandisk. Could it be that 16gb is bad?
Copy the contents of the 2 gb card to your PC. Then try formatting the 16 on your PC- don't forget it must be FAT 32 - then copy contents from 2 to the 16, that should work. If it doesn't, it's the card.
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smtom said:
Copy the contents of the 2 gb card to your PC. Then try formatting the 16 on your PC- don't forget it must be FAT 32 - then copy contents from 2 to the 16, that should work. If it doesn't, it's the card.
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Just tried that and PC wouldnt even read the 16gb card. Looks like the card is **** oh well. Time to buy another.
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?
bearklaws said:
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.
Biker1 said:
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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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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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 am trying to convert my 64gb micro SDHC card to FAT32 but i really dont wanna mess it up. when i go to format it, it asks for a cluster size, what is that??
Mine came formatted as exFAT and I decided to use it that way. It works in the phone but the recoveries will not read it.
You might try SD Formatter. It is specifically designed to format SD cards and others have reported using it to format 64GB cards.
I have a 64GB sdcard that TWRP won't recognize. What is the easiest way to transition to CWM?
Same here. ..I was wondering the same thing
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Just format the card to Fat32. I used a program called fat32format. Took 2 minutes and was very easy. My card is still super fast and I havent had any issues. I used CWM on my evo, but TWRP is now my preferred recovery.
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I am still curious why there is no CWM thread for the sprint note II? anyone know why?
JD
I think this will delete all of your data on your card if you reformat to fat32. My 64gb sd card was already formatted to fat32 and I changed it to exfat because I thought it is supposed to be better for 64gb cards. So I copied all 48gb of info on my computer, formatted to exfat then copied my data back on my card. This took almost 3 hours to transfer all of the data back to my card. It was a slooooow process. Now I have TWRP recovery and now I find out that you cant even flash roms from your extsdcard! So if I reformat back to fat32, will it delete everything, and will I have to go through that slow process again?
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I think this will delete all of your data on your card if you reformat to fat32. My 64gb sd card was already formatted to fat32 and I changed it to exfat because I thought it is supposed to be better for 64gb cards. So I copied all 48gb of info on my computer, formatted to exfat then copied my data back on my card. This took almost 3 hours to transfer all of the data back to my card. It was a slooooow process. Now I have TWRP recovery and now I find out that you cant even flash roms from your extsdcard! So if I reformat back to fat32, will it delete everything, and will I have to go through that slow process again?
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Yes. Sorry.
i used fat32gui (google it)..and formatted my 64gb sdxc card to fat32..and now twrp DOES see my card...it only took 10 seconds...
I recently bought a brand new sandisk 64gb micro sdxc card for use with my e4gt. When I put it into the phone the phone reads it, but will not give me the option to format it. The only option I have is to mount it, but when doing so it just says it is safe to remove which shows that it is not mounting properly. Should I try buying an sd card reader and formatting it on my computer? Or what else could I do to get it to work? Also, it is running stock leaked GA10 rooted.
I have the same micro sd. For it to work on the phone (for me), I formatted it to fat32 and it worked. Most recently I lost my old card on a trip, bought a new one, I formatted it again to fat32, tossed it in the phone but the phone didn't recognize it, but gave me an option to format it which I did. Then it worked. It might have a bit to do with roms too (I was on stock, then moved to a CM rom)
So you formatted in on your computer? If so which sd card reader did you buy? Could you post a link if possible? And thank you.
Just use any sd adapter and use the format32 gui from Ridgecrop. Roms or builds shouldn't matter once it's properly formatted and mounts.
I have the same Sd card. Sniper and Avatar turned me on to that utility.
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Thanks