OK my problem is I have the tab 3 10.1 with a 64gb micro SD card in it and the only way to root is to put a smaller SD card in because for some reason it can't read the 64gb micro SD card and when I want to make a backup in cwm it says it can't mount the 64gb micro SD card but if I use anything smaller everything works fine so my question is, is there a work around or some way to Make my tab 3 mount the micro SD because I'd like to install other roms and stuff but I'm not going to I till I can make a backup first. Also with the 64gb card in my tab 3 everything else works like watching videos stored on the SD or music on the SD, anyways any help with this issue would be much appreciated.
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you MIGHT have better luck if you format the SD card in some other file system. Other than that I'm not sure
You could buy an 8 gig one and swap it too
DopeShow said:
OK my problem is I have the tab 3 10.1 with a 64gb micro SD card in it and the only way to root is to put a smaller SD card in because for some reason it can't read the 64gb micro SD card and when I want to make a backup in cwm it says it can't mount the 64gb micro SD card but if I use anything smaller everything works fine so my question is, is there a work around or some way to Make my tab 3 mount the micro SD because I'd like to install other roms and stuff but I'm not going to I till I can make a backup first. Also with the 64gb card in my tab 3 everything else works like watching videos stored on the SD or music on the SD, anyways any help with this issue would be much appreciated.
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Have you tried both recoveries? CWM and TWRP if neither work you may have to format to fat32.
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Yes I've tried every recovery out there and with cwm it does this count down from 10 that says connecting then after it gets to 1 it says aborted because it cannot mount the micro SD and yes its formated to fat32 and I've tried exfat and every other format nothing works, and in my first post when I said I couldn't root from the micro SD I mean by going into cwm and loading zip file from there it does the same thing and says it can't connect, that's why everytime I root my device this way I have to borrow a 32gb micro SD and everything works fine
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Same problem with my 64g card. MY 16g works great. Cant seem to get the 64g formatted in either my phone or the Tab3. I can sometimes get the Tab3 to recognize the card and it will show the files on the memory card but once I go into recovery there is nothing there.
My 64gb card is recognized while the device is in regular running mode like I can go into settings and then storage and see the card there and how much space is used and free the Only time the card doesn't work right is when I'm in recovery mode because for some reason in recovery mode the system says it can't mount it and that is my whole problem, I need a way to fix it so my 64gb card can be mounted and used while in recovery mode.
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It's either a recovery issue or a driver/kernel/bootloader issue, a case that the Tab 3 10.1 development is far from being active.
It looks like it can't allocate space that exceeds 32GiB.
Also wrong thread.
Trying formating your SD card on the computer to fat32 or extfat .
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I've already done that and the card works fine example in the device it only stops working in cwm recovery saying it can't be mounted
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Thread cleaned of off topic posting and unnecessary non-related junk.
(yes, we can do this)
Any more silly ridiculous junk posted, and this thread will be closed permanently.
If the OP wants to keep this in open forums, we cannot prevent this and welcome the debate, as it seems fitting.
Cheers
MD
My thoughts...
Running the tab in normal mode allows the 64gb card to be read. However, if you start in CWM or TWRP recovery, you are no longer in the "normal" mode and the tab does not recognize the 64gb card. In recovery mode, it is possible that the memory allocations are limited where as in normal mode, 64gb is OK.
In this case, for rooting, maybe you should load the root file on internal memory and not the memory card. I use 4gb cards and neither CWM or TWRP could work with them. I think the issue is in the recovery programs and not the Tab, save for memory limitations set by the base firmware.
Again, JMHO and I may be way out in left field here.
TWRP after 2.4 supports exfat. What version are you using? Many people have posted that TWRP 2.7.0.0 has hosed sd support and people have posted earlier versions like 2.6.*.* and now 2.7.0.1 work fine. I'm guessing you've were trying a broken version.
Your phone is a computer running the linux operating system. Hardware works by way of software called drivers that allow the system to communicate with various devices like drives and radios. The drivers in linux are built into the kernel which is the heart of the system or they are loaded as modules. When building a kernel you can add or subtract any number of various drivers you may or may not need into the system. The stock Samsung kernel has the various file system (fat32, exfat, ext3, etc) drivers built into it and that's why your sd card is recognized and works fine within the Samsung custom Android operating system you're running. TWRP and other recovery systems are bare bones operating systems that you load in order to perform maintenance functions like loading firmware or running backups. When the devs for TWRP compiled their kernel (processed all the changes to their new kernel and made it ready to operate) for version 2.7.0.0 they screwed up by either leaving out support for cards of a certain size, file systems of a certain size, support for certain filesystems or used experimental buggy drivers. This is why your card doesnt work in recovery.
You should try a different version of the recovery you desire. You might also want to try formatting the sdcard as another filesystem like ext4. The CWM thread for your tablet forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2432467 says that 64gb support is very buggy and that CWM is not being worked on anymore for your device. Some people say it works for them though. Page 1 of the TWRP thread for your device (which is final on version 2.7 which may mean his last build killed 64gb support) mentions earlier versions working with 64gb cards. You may want to ask people posting early in the thread if they have an early version they could upload for you.
If you own a mac or linux system or burn a linux cd( ubuntu live cd) you could format your 64gb microsd as ext3 or ext4 and it should have no issue unless it's a problem with the capacity of the microsd in which case you could try to create one partition on the microsd card of say 25gb. That could work if partition size and not disk capacity is the problem.
Those seem to be your options along with just buying a 32gb, 16gb, 8gb, 4gb, 2gb card to root with. Memory is getting cheaper and images to flash ROMs and recoveries are generally small. You could probably buy one in your local drug store for $5. If money isn't tight, there's your easiest solution. You could borrow a smaller card from someone too if money is tight. They are pretty common in phones going back 6 years now. If you want to learn more about your phone and get hands on experience try another method above.
Good luck. Hope you get it going.
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TWRP after 2.4 supports exfat. What version are you using? Many people have posted that TWRP 2.7.0.0 has hosed sd support and people have posted earlier versions like 2.6.*.* and now 2.7.0.1 work fine. I'm guessing you've were trying a broken version.
Your phone is a computer running the linux operating system. Hardware works by way of software called drivers that allow the system to communicate with various devices like drives and radios. The drivers in linux are built into the kernel which is the heart of the system or they are loaded as modules. When building a kernel you can add or subtract any number of various drivers you may or may not need into the system. The stock Samsung kernel has the various file system (fat32, exfat, ext3, etc) drivers built into it and that's why your sd card is recognized and works fine within the Samsung custom Android operating system you're running. TWRP and other recovery systems are bare bones operating systems that you load in order to perform maintenance functions like loading firmware or running backups. When the devs for TWRP compiled their kernel (processed all the changes to their new kernel and made it ready to operate) for version 2.7.0.0 they screwed up by either leaving out support for cards of a certain size, file systems of a certain size, support for certain filesystems or used experimental buggy drivers. This is why your card doesnt work in recovery.
You should try a different version of the recovery you desire. You might also want to try formatting the sdcard as another filesystem like ext4. The CWM thread for your tablet forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2432467 says that 64gb support is very buggy and that CWM is not being worked on anymore for your device. Some people say it works for them though. Page 1 of the TWRP thread for your device (which is final on version 2.7 which may mean his last build killed 64gb support) mentions earlier versions working with 64gb cards. You may want to ask people posting early in the thread if they have an early version they could upload for you.
If you own a mac or linux system or burn a linux cd( ubuntu live cd) you could format your 64gb microsd as ext3 or ext4 and it should have no issue unless it's a problem with the capacity of the microsd in which case you could try to create one partition on the microsd card of say 25gb. That could work if partition size and not disk capacity is the problem.
Those seem to be your options along with just buying a 32gb, 16gb, 8gb, 4gb, 2gb card to root with. Memory is getting cheaper and images to flash ROMs and recoveries are generally small. You could probably buy one in your local drug store for $5. If money isn't tight, there's your easiest solution. You could borrow a smaller card from someone too if money is tight. They are pretty common in phones going back 6 years now. If you want to learn more about your phone and get hands on experience try another method above.
Good luck. Hope you get it going.
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yes ive tried multiple recovery's and they all do the same thing and cannot read the 64gb micro sd and yes I have my sd formatted to fat32 and I am on windows on my laptop but I can format the micro sd to ext3 or 4 but my question is, if I do that and its formatted to ext3 will I still be able to access my tablets drive space through my laptop like I can now with it being on fat32, because if I cant then that would be pointless for me to do because then I wouldn't be able to add and take things off my sd while its in my tablet., also I said in my first post that this problem doesn't happen using a smaller micro sd like 32 or smaller it only happens with the 64gb, so it has to do with the size some how
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TWRP after 2.4 supports exfat. What version are you using? Many people have posted that TWRP 2.7.0.0 has hosed sd support and people have posted earlier versions like 2.6.*.* and now 2.7.0.1 work fine. I'm guessing you've were trying a broken version.
Your phone is a computer running the linux operating system. Hardware works by way of software called drivers that allow the system to communicate with various devices like drives and radios. The drivers in linux are built into the kernel which is the heart of the system or they are loaded as modules. When building a kernel you can add or subtract any number of various drivers you may or may not need into the system. The stock Samsung kernel has the various file system (fat32, exfat, ext3, etc) drivers built into it and that's why your sd card is recognized and works fine within the Samsung custom Android operating system you're running. TWRP and other recovery systems are bare bones operating systems that you load in order to perform maintenance functions like loading firmware or running backups. When the devs for TWRP compiled their kernel (processed all the changes to their new kernel and made it ready to operate) for version 2.7.0.0 they screwed up by either leaving out support for cards of a certain size, file systems of a certain size, support for certain filesystems or used experimental buggy drivers. This is why your card doesnt work in recovery.
You should try a different version of the recovery you desire. You might also want to try formatting the sdcard as another filesystem like ext4. The CWM thread for your tablet forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2432467 says that 64gb support is very buggy and that CWM is not being worked on anymore for your device. Some people say it works for them though. Page 1 of the TWRP thread for your device (which is final on version 2.7 which may mean his last build killed 64gb support) mentions earlier versions working with 64gb cards. You may want to ask people posting early in the thread if they have an early version they could upload for you.
If you own a mac or linux system or burn a linux cd( ubuntu live cd) you could format your 64gb microsd as ext3 or ext4 and it should have no issue unless it's a problem with the capacity of the microsd in which case you could try to create one partition on the microsd card of say 25gb. That could work if partition size and not disk capacity is the problem.
Those seem to be your options along with just buying a 32gb, 16gb, 8gb, 4gb, 2gb card to root with. Memory is getting cheaper and images to flash ROMs and recoveries are generally small. You could probably buy one in your local drug store for $5. If money isn't tight, there's your easiest solution. You could borrow a smaller card from someone too if money is tight. They are pretty common in phones going back 6 years now. If you want to learn more about your phone and get hands on experience try another method above.
Good luck. Hope you get it going.
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also IDK if you know this but there isn't many recovery's out there for the galaxy tab 3 10.1 the only one I use is bindroid_cwm_p5210_santos10wifi and even with this recovery it has a slight lag to it when using it.
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I seem to be having problems formatting my Sandisk 64GB MicroSDXC (Class 10) card in FAT32 & having it work in my AT&T Galaxy S3. The card comes preformatted in exFAT, and it works in the phone just fine that way. But, I heard it's best to format it in FAT32 due to some issues I saw about some people having some of their music files not show-up (if they have a rather large music collection, which I do - 85GB's worth!) in whatever music playing program they're using, so I'm attempting to format it with FAT32 to avoid that. Now, Windows 7 (x64) does NOT allow you to format drives via FAT32 (unless you go into DOS), so I've used a couple of different programs (Fast32Format, EASEUS PartiionMaster); I got a message on my Galaxy S3 saying my SD card was damaged or missing when I used Fast32Format); a bunch of services stopped working on the phone when I formatted it using EASEUS PartionMagic, and I even tried formatting it in NTFS (which I think that Android doesn't support) & got a message my SD card was blank and Android wouldn't even mount it!
What am I doing wrong? How can I format it in FAT32 and have it work in my Galaxy S3?!! Do I even really need to use FAT32 instead of exFAT?
Thanks,
Dennis
dmw_4814 said:
I seem to be having problems formatting my Sandisk 64GB MicroSDXC (Class 10) card in FAT32 & having it work in my AT&T Galaxy S3. The card comes preformatted in exFAT, and it works in the phone just fine that way. But, I heard it's best to format it in FAT32 due to some issues I saw about some people having some of their music files not show-up (if they have a rather large music collection, which I do - 85GB's worth!) in whatever music playing program they're using, so I'm attempting to format it with FAT32 to avoid that. Now, Windows 7 (x64) does NOT allow you to format drives via FAT32 (unless you go into DOS), so I've used a couple of different programs (Fast32Format, EASEUS PartiionMaster); I got a message on my Galaxy S3 saying my SD card was damaged or missing when I used Fast32Format); a bunch of services stopped working on the phone when I formatted it using EASEUS PartionMagic, and I even tried formatting it in NTFS (which I think that Android doesn't support) & got a message my SD card was blank and Android wouldn't even mount it!
What am I doing wrong? How can I format it in FAT32 and have it work in my Galaxy S3?!! Do I even really need to use FAT32 instead of exFAT?
Thanks,
Dennis
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EaseUS worked fine for me - the one thing that screwed me up the first time is when you tell it to format it, you also have to tell it to apply it. And hopefully the "Fast32" was autocorrect - you should just be using FAT32 - and I don't think I changed the block size. HTH
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EaseUS worked fine for me - the one thing that screwed me up the first time is when you tell it to format it, you also have to tell it to apply it. And hopefully the "Fast32" was autocorrect - you should just be using FAT32 - and I don't think I changed the block size. HTH
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I apologize for bringing up this old-ish thread, but I always see that every time someone makes a new thread, they get bombarded with "use the search feature", so uhh, I did .
I've got a Class 10 SanDisk Ultra 64GB MicroSD XC card, that refuses to work with my Galaxy S3. I've got CM10 on it, do you think that might be the issue? If so, how do you think I can rectify it (what format would work?)
I've used EaseUS to delete the partition, and recreate using FAT32, but no dice, still getting a "damaged card" notification. I can seemingly use the card fine on my PC and my Mac, but nothing on the phone.
Any help would be greatly greatly appreciated
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I apologize for bringing up this old-ish thread, but I always see that every time someone makes a new thread, they get bombarded with "use the search feature", so uhh, I did .
I've got a Class 10 SanDisk Ultra 64GB MicroSD XC card, that refuses to work with my Galaxy S3. I've got CM10 on it, do you think that might be the issue? If so, how do you think I can rectify it (what format would work?)
I've used EaseUS to delete the partition, and recreate using FAT32, but no dice, still getting a "damaged card" notification. I can seemingly use the card fine on my PC and my Mac, but nothing on the phone.
Any help would be greatly greatly appreciated
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Well, this is ominous given that I ordered this micoSD and it just shipped. I read lots of reviews on Amazon and those with S3 phones seemed to have no issues using card as is, although they didn't specify precisely which version of S3 they had. The S3 natively supports 64 GB, so I would think it would work out of the box, so to speak. A number of reviewers said they used this microSD in older phones that supposedly supported only up to 32 GB. They formatted in phone, getting something like 59 GB of usable space.
I'm using stock ROM with CWM on I747.
cm10
it is an cm10 issue
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it is an cm10 issue
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A more complete response...its a known issue with AOSP based JB ROM's. This is pulled from the AOKP FAQ, since it is an AOSP based ROM as well this should help you out.
Will my 64 gb sd card work? Except it works fine with a 64GB card. http://rootzwiki.com/topic/28124-doe...card-standard/ The SGSIII is the first phone to support exfatl, but the support is Kernel based, some people are having trouble with the replacement kernels and exfat support. The solution is to force it to format in FAT32. http://www.online-tech-tips.com/comp...ive-to-fat-32/ I know, because I've done it. --- Don't respond without actually doing research. I have no problem spoon feeding information, especially when the information you put out there can increase misinformation. The SGSII also supports a 64GB card as well. http://androidforums.com/samsung-gal...ing-sgsii.html naturefreak85l;
EDIT - Apparently the links are dead, but there a many methods to choose from to format and SD in FAT32.
Hi guys
Upgraded to Note 2 N7105 International version 4 weeks ago, great phone and really loving all the features.
Trouble is I bought this because I wanted a more powerful phone than my previous Nexus S, so It could handle more powerful apps and games.
So on top of the internal 16gb of internal memory, I installed a Sandisk 64gb external card to store my apps and games, not realizing the phone does not support moving Apps to SD in standard form.
After investigating, found i could do it with a third party app with root access. So I rooted with Chainfires CF Auto Root, and installed link2sd App. My phone is definitely rooted as I have Titanium Backup working, but when i try to move any Apps to SD it says no free memory, and also to check SD card has been formatted with 2 partitions and they are both set to primary, and on the info page for link2sd its says the same about partitioning
I assume this formatting is my problem as the SD card is virtually empty, just 3 pics and 2 short videos on it, and still showing 59gb free when i go to settings/storage.
If this is my problem, how do I get it formatted correctly, I tried to do it through my computer running XP but only get format command, with no option for Partitions or any thing, are there any programs or procedures you can recommend
Thanks in advance
Gary
GaryFromLondon said:
Hi guys
Upgraded to Note 2 N7105 International version 4 weeks ago, great phone and really loving all the features.
Trouble is I bought this because I wanted a more powerful phone than my previous Nexus S, so It could handle more powerful apps and games.
So on top of the internal 16gb of internal memory, I installed a Sandisk 64gb external card to store my apps and games, not realizing the phone does not support moving Apps to SD in standard form.
After investigating, found i could do it with a third party app with root access. So I rooted with Chainfires CF Auto Root, and installed link2sd App. My phone is definitely rooted as I have Titanium Backup working, but when i try to move any Apps to SD it says no free memory, and also to check SD card has been formatted with 2 partitions and they are both set to primary, and on the info page for link2sd its says the same about partitioning
I assume this formatting is my problem as the SD card is virtually empty, just 3 pics and 2 short videos on it, and still showing 59gb free when i go to settings/storage.
If this is my problem, how do I get it formatted correctly, I tried to do it through my computer running XP but only get format command, with no option for Partitions or any thing, are there any programs or procedures you can recommend
Thanks in advance
Gary
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There is a mod that lets you swap internal memory with sd card. Have a look in this threat.
If you only need to format your sd card to FAT 32 then you should get the GUI version of this app here
SD card format
Thanks for the info Retrorom
Have decided not to go down the internal external memory swap route, for various operational reasons, plus quite a few people seem to be getting issues with it. And the other one didn't seem to have a facility to make your own partitions, which is what i need.
After reading up a bit, From recommendations I have installed a program called Minitool Partition Wizard on my computer.
The only problem now is when i attach the card to the computer, it is showing as only having 27gb of usable memory, whereas in the phone it was showing 59gb. I thought this may be because it needed reformatting, so I formatted on the computer, and it was then only showing 27gb i when inserted in the phone, so i have again reformatted the card in the phone, and again now showing 59gb as it was originally. But i still still only have1 partition, and need 2 for the link2sd program to work
The trouble is when i put the SD back in the the computer it still only shows 27gb that is 32gb short of the 59gb what it shows while in the phone.
Was wondering why this should be, I'm running an old Pentium 4 system with XP on it, would it be that this can not handle or recognise 64 gb cards.
Just to mention i will be upgrading this computer 2 Windows 7 within the next week or so, and also going to build a brand new one in a couple of weeks which will have Windows 7 also , so should be a lot more compatible and flexible if that is the problem
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I've been reading up, and it seems, Windows, especially earlier versions cannot recognize or format SD Cards over 32 gb, something to do with errors in the architecture, which wasn't originally designed for cards of this size.
There is a driver update, to get over this, but negotiating the Microsoft site to download it is proving to be a bit of a mission, It's ridiculously complicated, just sending me round and around in circles to try and find the download.
So if anyone can point me to the download, or a download that will do the job it will be much appreciated
Download exfat support for old XP machine
Download and use file according your XP system 32/64bit
you will get format with exfat format. which support larger size.
Another thing i recommend is 'directory bind' for moving data to ext SD card, this also make hassle free factory reset, Here is guide.
Thanks Ketan
I've already got the exFat support loaded, though it still only shows 27 gb on card
Now looking at the directory bind, and may give that a try later, once I've given it a good read and know i'm not going to do anything wrong .
Will let you know later how it goes
I'm actually surprised the phone supports higher than Windows. Most phones are limited to 32 gb cards are they not?
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Thanks Ketan
I've already got the exFat support loaded, though it still only shows 27 gb on card
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have you try formating it on PC with exfat support?
UnL33t My Galaxy Note 2 Automatically recognises the higher capacity
Ketan yes I've tried to format on computer with exfat support, but still only shows 27gb, and when i put back in phone it showed 27gb in there too, so had to reformat it in the phone and now showing 59gb as it was originally,
But still showing 27gb when put in computer
I am going to upgrade my XP up to windows 7 in a couple of weeks, and also going to build a new games machine with Windows 7 on in a few weeks too, do you reckon they will have better support for the higher capacity card built in
I'm having the worst time finding a solution to this, and it's backwards from everyone else's problems that I'm finding.
For the first time, I decided to Root/Flash my phone to a custom ROM via CWM and Beanstalk. Everything went smooth. But now while in the Android OS I am completely unable to mount my 64GB External SD which was fully functional in Stock.
To clarify (and what's backwards from everyone else's problems apparently) is that in CWM I CAN see/mount the External drive and browse files on it. It's only once Android boots that the External SD fails to mount. I've Reset/Reloaded the ROM, as well as CWM, and the result is always the same. I've even tried a different version of CWM (Philz Touch: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=38298833). Works great, but the Recovery loader isn't the problem...it's always within Android itself that it vanishes.
I've also, via CWM, wiped every cache there was. The two things I have not done are formatting the Internal and External SD's.
The only solutions I have found in the forums/online are people who have reformatted their external SD's to Fat32 instead of extFAT, and I'm willing to give it a shot, but thought I'd check here first.
I scoured through all 110+ pages of the Beanstalk ROM forum (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=38298833) and no one apparently is having this problem, so I'm not about to blame the dev.
Any thoughts/help is greatly appreciated!
fat32 is the way to go; all problems solved..
wase4711 said:
fat32 is the way to go; all problems solved..
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This^^^^^^^^^^......
Format the card ....to FAT32....
And wase deserves a thanks...g
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Does the FAT32 let you keep files bigger than 4gb? I have a 64gb, and use most of it for HD movies for my kids. (Brave, Nemo, etc.)
nope it doesnt...but most of us just use a program that takes those files and converts them to a smaller size type...handbrake is what I use, and it takes a 8 gig mkv file and knocks it down to under a gig...much smarter idea...and, on a 5 inch screen, you cant tell any difference in quality..
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I could swear I saw an EXFAT fix for Beanstalk a few days ago, somewhere on here....run a search. I will check my history.
some kernels allow for exfat use, but, not all of them do, so why bother with it; just go fat 32, make those movies smaller, and this problem is no longer a problem, no matter what rom/kernel you decide to use..
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some kernels allow for exfat use, but, not all of them do, so why bother with it; just go fat 32, make those movies smaller, and this problem is no longer a problem, no matter what rom/kernel you decide to use..
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I guess I'm annoyed that if have to move everything to my computer... Then back to the SD to format it. Its the only thing keeping me from dual booting.
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well, you should back up the contents of your sd card to your computer anyways, so this is a good time to do that..
Thanks for the feedback - greatly appreciated.
I formatted my SD card to FAT32, but did it in recovery mode on the phone, turning on "Mount USB" mode - and did it through the phone via my PC and a USB cable.
After I did this, now CWM/Touch can no longer mount the card, and Beanstalk ROM still can't see it. However, I'm getting a different message now - something about the SD card "being empty". If I try to formatted it via Beanstalk while booted into android, nothing happens.
After some reading, people have advised using an SD Reader - and formatting the SD card via the Reader connected to a PC. I don't have a reader yet (I'll grab one shortly) but thought I'd ask first - whether the SD card is formatted FAT32 while in the phone, or done via an SD Reader, does it matter? Is there a real difference in how the SD card is formatted between these two scenario's?
I saw this on Phiz Touch CWM recovery loader: "All external sdcard issues: first format in PC with primary partition, tons of people are formatting as logical and come cry". So what I'm assuming is that somehow the SD Reader via the PC creates a "Primary" partition whereas if it's formatted via the phone and a USB cable, maybe it formats it as a Logical?
Thanks again for the help - once I get this all sorted out I'll be sure to post back with my solution for anyone else struggling.
format it in your computer for fat 32, then throw it in the phone.
when you bought it, it should have had a larger sd "holder" that you can use to format it on your computer, assuming you have one, or a sd card reader is built into your computer.
Sometimes I have had issues formatting my cards in my phone; I have used my camera, and my computer successfully, but the phone formatting can be iffy, so do it on a pc, and you wont have any issues. Format it as fat32, and use the default allocation size, if that comes up in the formatting dialog on your pc
You're the man - I feel like I at least owe you a coke for your timely responses.
Oddly enough, I think I cleaned house a while back and chucked every single adapter card I had - trust me...I just went through every box/bin/desk I owned trying to find one. So yeah, learned myself a lesson right there.
I do have a camera - maybe I'll give that a shot in the meantime and see if that does any better.
I wanted to post a follow-up with my status.
I grabbed a USB card reader (the kind you can put Micro SD's or standard SD's into, then plug them into the PC like a USB stick), used one of the recommended FAT32 formatting programs, and viola! Everything is fixed and the SD is working as designed.
Big thanks to wase4711 for the insight and help! I'm totally excited about trying other ROM's, now that I have that issue ironed out.
Kudos!
glad to see it worked for u..
okay, i've tried and looked for a similar issue but so far i can't find anything related.
I have a sandisk microsd ultrahc card 16gb.
the card itself works extremely well, both in my device when using the stock / custom samsung based roms,
Didn't really notice this untill i tried out android 4.3, at wich i thought first could be a bug in the rom, the settings kept fc'ing the moment i opened up the storage part, and a com.android.media kept fc'ing the moment i attached the usb cable.
as i thought 4.3 was the culprit i flashed 4.2.2 wich also had similar issues up until the moment i removed the card from my device and restarted, everything worked smoothly afterwards.
I've tried using exfat / fat32 both with cluster of 4096 and 8192 and neither of those helped in any way. Turns out that both TWRP and CWM (yes i tried it in both) also can't seem to mount the sd-card.
Is there any workaround for this issue? or do i have to get myself another sd-card?
I think it's the ROMs man messing things up...i tried android 4.3 yesterday and my whole android directory changed like I had to go into a folder called 0/0/0/my android files. to reach my files etc couldn't mount from sdcard couldn't copy things across from pc...I just flashed back my original stock firmware and everything is good..... android 4.3 is pretty messed up..give it time to mature still very buggy
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The messed up folder i should get used to thoug its because of the multiple user profiles things are getting a bit messy.
Its something they added in 4.2.2 i believe
Best way to do it is to flash the rom and afterwards copy back everything to the sdcard.
Didn't have any issues with another sd card i still had laying around but that thing even thoug class 4 doesn't get more than 1mbps transfer speed.
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if the sdcard works on your pc with directly like by using an mmc adapter or sdcard to USB converter then your card is ok if it just didn't work on the phone it has to be a software issue our maybe the hardware mmc port is faulty??!
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thats just it, the sd card works like a charm untill i upgrade to 4.2.2 or 4.3. however both recoveries can't mount the sd-card either.
its not one of those black ones that goes to class 10, but an ultra hdsc class 1 so might be something related to not being able to work properly with anything higher than class 10
nope....the class issue has nothing to do with software.....that's purely the job off the chip electronics/hardware.... I would say a combination of your recoveries and ROMs like I had the same issue once the custom recoveries maybe can't point to the location/ section of the memory card...try changing to different version of the recovery...maybe that could help but be sure the recovery is supported on your device...these are risky issues...so only do it at your own risk
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i've tried several versions of CWM both touch and normal, also philz (yesterday but touch didn't work as it should so won't stick with that one) and TWRP but none of them could mount/find the external_sd, the only think properly working with that sd card is the stock samsung and custom roms based on stock.
(not particulary fond of TWRP, i like the layout and how it works, i just don't like the backups of that recovery, can't copy them to my computer, the extensions keep giving me an error and they are located on the phone's storage)
the sd card couldn't be found in my sensation xe neither i remembered just now after i stopped using the 4.0 stock rom and switched to custom roms, at the time i didn't really see a connection and thought my sd card just didn't want to work properly in my sensation anymore, But having the same issues, and using another sd-card in the phone worked again. Used the ultra sd card in my tabled and because i didn't use that one anymore and someone in my family needed a 16gb one for tomtom europe i gave my good one away )
gonna get myself a new sd-card this afternoon as the 8gb i had laying around isn't getting higher transfer speeds then 1mbps at most even if its a class 4. a shop nearby has a class 10, 16gb for 13 euro's so reckon thats not a bad deal, might even go for the class 10 32gb for 26 euro's if they have it in stock.
I have a 64gig card and had similar problems. With phils recovery it only works when formatted fat32. Think that exfat is not supported. With stock kernel it mounts exfat with any other kernel i tried it would only mount fat32. I think samsung kernel has support for exfat and others dont. So it might not be adroid related but kernel related.
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I have a 64gig card and had similar problems. With phils recovery it only works when formatted fat32. Think that exfat is not supported. With stock kernel it mounts exfat with any other kernel i tried it would only mount fat32. I think samsung kernel has support for exfat and others dont. So it might not be adroid related but kernel related.
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weird thing is though, even when formatted to fat32 and not exfat, android 4.2 and 4.3 will not recognise my card, also the recoveries i only get an error when i want to mount my sd-card
my tablet which is running an aosp version of android 4.0 or 4.1 (can't quite remember) could handle the sd-card just fine, while both my phones have issues with it.
solved it by buying myself a new sd card, ^^ now i can at least safely backup to my external card instead of the internal memory.
I just got this microsd yesterday. It shipped with the exfat filesystem. The gpad is giving me damged sd card errors every time I copy large files onto the sd card. Im on stock rooted 4.4.2. How do I get better results with the card? Will formatting it differently help?
On my 32gb sdcard I had trouble with the GPad V500 until I changed the cards format to ext4. If you have a linux system or if you have a recent recovery installed (I have 2.8.0) you can format the card with this format. However this does come with some tradeoffs. You will need to at least have root on the G-Pad since you do need to modify some system files also Windows will not directly mount the sdcard without using the tablet since it does not natively understand the ext4 filesystem. I happen to have several linux machines at home and therefore do not have a problem with this format on the card and I almost never take the card out and plug it into my windows computers directly. See the end of this thread for my investigations:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g-pad-83/help/external-sd-card-g-pad-try-to-clarify-t2794258
If you are interested and need step by step instructions I'll see what I can write up for you, however I won't be able to do this until tonight at the earliest...
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I just got this microsd yesterday. It shipped with the exfat filesystem. The gpad is giving me damged sd card errors every time I copy large files onto the sd card. Im on stock rooted 4.4.2. How do I get better results with the card? Will formatting it differently help?
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