Samsung Galaxy S3 Canadian 747 Version and 64GB microSD cards.
New Information: It seems that the S3 on 4.1.1 has issues with both 32 and 64GB cards when you allow "mediaserver" to catalog a complex library. Any card you use for music with the S3 has to be formatted FAT32 and has to have a .nomedia file to prevent Mediaserver form cataloging it. This information comes from 2 independent Galaxy S3s on 2 networks. I currently have a Sandisk 64GB card in my S3 and have been using it for a month without the slightest issue since I formatted FAT32 and prevented cataloging with a .nomedia file.
Summary 1: 64GB cards are currently a bag of hurt ......IMO on Jelly Bean 4.1.1 the Samsung Galaxy S3 does not properly support many 64GB cards. Don't buy them unless you can return and don't waste your time trying to get them to work if they generate any errors(they will only get worse). There seems to be more than 1 problem also .... one is that hard use seems to corrupt some cards and mediaserver also corrupts the card.
Summary 2: Tried Kingston 64GB Class 10 card (SDCX10/64GB) card in may hands it was unstable in this phone either because I got a bad one or due to incompatibility. Wasn't about to try another one.
Summary 3: I tested a 64GB SanDisk microSD card formatted FAT32 and it passed all the stress tests and gave no errors even with the card full of music and repeated switching/manipulations of files on both the phone and the PC. No dismounts,no scandisk errors, no Android mount checking messages.
Hello All ...... Here is how I got a 64GB card to work in the Samsung Galaxy S3 747. It worked for me but may or may not work for you so make sure you can return any card you buy because it is common to have issues.
NOTE1: The S3 does not support exFAT, the format that both Windows 7 and the S3 defaults to when formatting. The exFAT format may appear to work but sooner or later your card won't mount properly on your phone. The card must be formatted FAT32 for Android 4.1.1 (Check other posts on how to do this)
NOTE2: The Samsung default player and the Mediaserver App are buggy pieces of crap for large libraries ... Use PowerAmp media player instead from the play store.
NOTE 3:If you have messed about with exFAT and syncing using a Media Player Program you need to format your card FAT32 on your computer AND remove the offending software and shut down your computer and restart it.
1) First you need to have a look at what you are using to read your microSD card on your PC and if it is more than a year old you should probably throw it out or remember to never put your 64GB card in it. With the right SD card reader you can also take the card out of the phone and transfer directly using the reader but it may not work.
2) If you have programs intercepting your USB mass storage connections on your PC, you need to disable them .... The program I use for music is Media Monkey 4 and if you have the MM4 mass storage sync addins active, not only will you not be able to sync with MM4, you will not be able to transfer files to your phone by any method until all the Mass Storage Hooks are removed. Other program like ITunes may or may not have similar issues. This is important because these programs and hooks can actually render the card inoperable. Media Monkey for example will try to sync the tag track name instead of the actual name to microSD and this can result in improper characters and path lengths in created files that can destroy the card.
3) It is best to just take the card out of the phone and copy all your tracks direct to the card using Windows 7. Make sure you have a current reader that supports 64GB. The sad take home message is that you won't be able to sync using a media file manager but with 64GB of storage you probably don't need to anyway, Just copy your whole library over and forget about it until you get new tracks.
4) Create a directory called Music on your SD card and create or copy a file called .nomedia to that directory. This is required because the Android program Mediaserver will try to catalog this directory if you don't and mediaserver is buggy with music files. This means the Samsung Music Player App won't see your tracks and you will have to use PowerAmp to play tracks (Samsung player is actually pretty good but PowerAmp is better anyway)
5) Copy all your tracks using Windows 7 and a card reader. It is way faster than MTP anyway. Check that the files are there then "Safely remove hardware" the card, remove, and re-insert. If you get errors just take the card back to the store.... don't waste your time (unless you aren't sure about your reader) Run chkdsk (without fix option). If you have errors just take the card back to the store.... don't waste any more time. "Safely remove hardware" and remove the card.
4) Put the card in the phone and carefully watch the status bar. If your card wont mount, or gives you a "checking the card" message the card will never work in your phone so just take it back to the store.. Dismount your card and remove it from the phone.
5) Reinsert the card into your card reader on your PC . If you get errors just take the card back to the store.... don't waste your time Run chkdsk (without fix option). If you have errors just take the card back to the store.... don't waste any more time. "Safely remove hardware" and remove the card and put it back into your phone..
7) If your phone gets laggy when you put the card in it means that you didn't correctly put a .nomedia file into the music directory on your microSD. The buggy mediaserver program is trying to catalog your music and it may corrupt or destroy your card if you have a big collection.
8) Open PowerAMP and do a full rescan. If your card and music are intact a full rescan of 10,000 tracks shouldn't take more than 5 min. If it does your card is struggling or you still have mediaserver trying to catalog the tracks. After catloging is finished test your media library using the PowerAmp specifically looking for albums with unknown artists or album art that doesn't load. If you know that every track has uncorrupted tags and uncorrupted album art on your computer then missing art and unknown artists mean you have a problem with FAT32, the card or your phone. Back to the store with your card, but it is really easy to have corrupt tracks in your library so check that if you like.
9) Note that with a full 64 GB card of music the PowerAmp will take up to 5 minutes to catalog your tracks and your PowerAmp will not work properly during this time AND your battery will be sucked down at an incredible rate due to 100% CPU usage. If you make the mistake of cataloging tracks with PowerAMP with mediaserver active at the same time your phone will grind to a halt and neither PowerAmp or Stock may ever finish cataloging and your battery will be sucked dry for days on end.
10) Remember to never ever stick your microSD card into any reader older than 6 months to a year .... Actually I wouldn't stick it in any reader at all for a year or 2. Writing a single file with a unsupported reader can cause corruption or wipe the entire drive.
11) Enjoy your music collection on your phone and be glad you don't have to use any of the crappy on-line music storage solutions which are SLOW, UN-CATALOGED and WiFi/Carrier DEPENDENT, and which can take weeks to upload your tracks.
I simply formatted my 64GB card on my MacBook Pro and had no problems since.
Put in the card into phone, and format from within phone. Been using a 64 GB card formatted from within phone for the last couple months with no issues, recording huge videos in full HD with no issues.
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recording huge videos in full HD with no issues.
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Lies. The SGS3 will format it as FAT32 with a 4GB file size limit.
Did you do this on a stock ROM?
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Lies. The SGS3 will format it as FAT32 with a 4GB file size limit.
Did you do this on a stock ROM?
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I said huge, didn't say over 4GB. That's the limitation of FAT32
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I had a ton of issues getting my 64gb card to work. It would error out when trying to format from the phone. I ended up have to do a deep format that took forever and then it finally showed up as working on my phone.
Hi Guys, I'm having a slightly different problem with my 64gb micro SD in my Galaxy S3. I have tried formatting the SD card in various ways, fat32 exfat and formating it on the S3. It seems to format fine and I can create a folder on it called music. I can then copy as many songs as I like on there. It all seems to be fine until I put it back in my S3. When I then go to play the songs, it has deleted a bunch of my songs. No matter how many songs I put on the card, it seems to reduce it down to about 4gb of music.
If I then plug it back into the memory card reader, the music folder is still there as well as all of the artists folders, but the ones that have had the songs deleted have no tracks in the folders. They have just vanished?! I do not get any error messages at any point in the process.
Can anyone offer any explanation?
Cheers.
Jack
jackbatey said:
Hi Guys, I'm having a slightly different problem with my 64gb micro SD in my Galaxy S3. I have tried formatting the SD card in various ways, fat32 exfat and formating it on the S3. It seems to format fine and I can create a folder on it called music. I can then copy as many songs as I like on there. It all seems to be fine until I put it back in my S3. When I then go to play the songs, it has deleted a bunch of my songs. No matter how many songs I put on the card, it seems to reduce it down to about 4gb of music.
If I then plug it back into the memory card reader, the music folder is still there as well as all of the artists folders, but the ones that have had the songs deleted have no tracks in the folders. They have just vanished?! I do not get any error messages at any point in the process.
Can anyone offer any explanation?
Cheers.
Jack
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I had a ton of trouble with random corrupt and missing files with my 64Gb card. Then I used guiformat on my windows PC and formatted it from exfat to fat32. Not one single problem from then on (about 6 months of heavy use). 2 cents aimed at you to hit or miss good luck.
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jivin_hipcat said:
I had a ton of trouble with random corrupt and missing files with my 64Gb card. Then I used guiformat on my windows PC and formatted it from exfat to fat32. Not one single problem from then on (about 6 months of heavy use). 2 cents aimed at you to hit or miss good luck.
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Thanks for this, I will give it a go tonight!
Jack
jivin_hipcat said:
I had a ton of trouble with random corrupt and missing files with my 64Gb card. Then I used guiformat on my windows PC and formatted it from exfat to fat32. Not one single problem from then on (about 6 months of heavy use). 2 cents aimed at you to hit or miss good luck.
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Tried this last night. I put 8.16gb of music on the SD card, put it in my phone and not all of the songs were there. I have put the SD card back in my PC and there is now only 3.94gb of music on there?!
not good
Reformatting to fat32 defeats one of the great features of xfat on the cards, namely you can put movies on over 4gig. I have used sandisk 64gb cards and they worked out of the box on 3 s3's. As a side note it sounds like media scanner is stopping on your phone and not finding all your music. If you move it back to pc are all files there.. If so check for some weird files that are breaking media scanner. If not you may have a bad or counterfit card. Did you get it from a reputable place. Also, you are not trying to put over 4g in one directory are you? You should have subdirectories under music in the normal format that windows media player writes... ie artist/album/songs. I have over 11gb of music on my daughters phone and 13.7gb on mine. How many songs does it show when you play a song under the "all songs" tab of music player? See below I have 1913 songs.
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jackbatey said:
Hi Guys, I'm having a slightly different problem with my 64gb micro SD in my Galaxy S3. I have tried formatting the SD card in various ways, fat32 exfat and formating it on the S3. It seems to format fine and I can create a folder on it called music. I can then copy as many songs as I like on there. It all seems to be fine until I put it back in my S3. When I then go to play the songs, it has deleted a bunch of my songs. No matter how many songs I put on the card, it seems to reduce it down to about 4gb of music.
If I then plug it back into the memory card reader, the music folder is still there as well as all of the artists folders, but the ones that have had the songs deleted have no tracks in the folders. They have just vanished?! I do not get any error messages at any point in the process.
Can anyone offer any explanation?
Cheers.
Jack
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Hey all, I'm also having this issue. I have formatted my card to Fat32, and was using it last night in poweramp with no issues, then suddenly it couldn't read files and was rescanning my library, this morning it worked but about half my music was gone. I put the sccard in the computer (I'm running mac) and I've attached the picture of what shows up, note the strange coded files...
I've tried creating a .nomedia however mac won't let me do that in house, and I've also run into problems renaming it on the phone..
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jackbatey said:
Tried this last night. I put 8.16gb of music on the SD card, put it in my phone and not all of the songs were there. I have put the SD card back in my PC and there is now only 3.94gb of music on there?!
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Hello: Did you ever figure your problem out? The exact same thing is happening to me. DWS
Read the first post
I am very sorry to say that there is no way to get this to work on Android 4.1.1 except formatting FAT32 AND putting a .nonmedia file in your top level music directory and using PowerAmp. Nothing else is stable in the long term.
I haven't had one issue in almost 8 months where previously they were almost daily.
Mediaserver is a very badly written Android sys app that can't handle complex music libraries .... it is that simple.
This may be fixed in Android 4.1.2 but Google has become so sloppy these days and there are no release notes .... I am simply to scared to even try upgrading a phone that works perfectly (with tweaks)
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Hello: Did you ever figure your problem out? The exact same thing is happening to me. DWS
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Ok, so I've followed all the steps, but now it seems like I'm going to have to find another workaround, or a better alarm clock app that doesn' reference the stock music player when looking for music to use as the alarm tone. So what is the workaround? Or is it safe for me to allow the stock music player to catalog the music? Kind pisses me off, because it took me half a day to fumble phuck around just getting all 9743 tunes onto this card, and to get gonemad music player to at least see the files(I still need to figure out how to get it to scan the folder with the .nomedia file in it)...
If the device is advertised as supporting a 64gb card from the factory why on earth does it take so much mental masturbation to make it work
jackbatey said:
Hi Guys, I'm having a slightly different problem with my 64gb micro SD in my Galaxy S3. I have tried formatting the SD card in various ways, fat32 exfat and formating it on the S3. It seems to format fine and I can create a folder on it called music. I can then copy as many songs as I like on there. It all seems to be fine until I put it back in my S3. When I then go to play the songs, it has deleted a bunch of my songs. No matter how many songs I put on the card, it seems to reduce it down to about 4gb of music.
If I then plug it back into the memory card reader, the music folder is still there as well as all of the artists folders, but the ones that have had the songs deleted have no tracks in the folders. They have just vanished?! I do not get any error messages at any point in the process.
Can anyone offer any explanation?
Cheers.
Jack
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I'm Having the same issues with my samsung 64gb card. My Sandisk 32gb held up like a champ but this new card keeps deleting my music. I can't figure out what I'm doing differently.
I will load up about 9gb's of songs and they go on ok, but when I go to play them on my NOTE 3 , some will play and others start showing up errors saying cant play that type of file . I will take the card out and look at those songs in that folder in DETAILS and notice about 100 songs now have 0's under the duration of the song but still show the size of the mp3 , however it wont even play now on the computer . Anyone know why this is happening? Is it because of the 4.4.2 KitKat update. Is there a work around ?
Also in the first part if this thread , he talks about making a .nomedia file . So how do you do that ? Is that a note file ? a renamed mp3 file ? How do I create this file and put in it my music folder?
Another suggestion was not to put over 4gb of music into one subfolder . Guess I will try that next .
I am on a Note 3 4.4.2 with a 64gb Samsung MicroSDXC UHS-I card .
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Also in the first part if this thread , he talks about making a .nomedia file . So how do you do that ? Is that a note file ? a renamed mp3 file ? How do I create this file and put in it my music folder?
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One way to do that is open a Windows folder and right click in the white-space of the folder to create a TXT file and name it something like test.txt. Don't add anything to the file, just save it. Then go up one directory (folder) level and on the folder where the TXT file is, right click on this subfolder while holding down the SHIFT key. Select "Open command Window here". Then key in at the Windows command prompt "rename test.txt .nomedia" (without the quotes). Now close the command prompt and open the same folder with Windows explorer and you'll see you now have the .nomedia file.
P.S. I am here because I just purchased a Blu Studio 5.5s which seems (as advertized) to support a 64GB card. I was having the same problems with long named MP3 files but my problem showed up while adding a large music directory to the card while it was plugged into a cardreader in Windows 7. Toward the end of an 11GB copy I started seeing the blank folders and zero byte music files while copying to the card outside of the Android device, so I may have a flakey card. While this card is in the phone, files are copied to the SD card as expected from the Android OS and I can successfully move applications to it through the Android interface, but I can't add very much of my music collection to it before the zero byte size files and blank folders start appearing. It starts showing problems when I copy much more than 8G to the Music directory. I removed the card, backed up the Android files, then ran chkdsk /F which some say don't run and that found some bad files and supposedly fixed the disk but the last group of MP3 folders at that point turned to ghosted icons. Knowing that wouldn't do, I then reformatted the 64G as exFAT, copied all the files this time without any problem, but unfortunately the Blu would not read the card at all then, apparently not supporting exFAT. I then removed the card again and used EasUS Partition Manager on Windows 7 to format to its original Fat32, copied all the Android system files to it from a backup and still had the issues once I started again trying toy copy files when the Music directory got a bit over 8G. I am going to try it again after I order a new memory card. Ironically the card I have in it now is a Samsung.
Have been trying with varying success to use my Galaxy Note II (Demo unit) as a media player. I bought it as I was sick of converting files from mkv that I use with my media players at home (Boxee) to .mp4 so that my iPad can play them back; so wanted a media player that could playback the same range of codecs as a PC / Boxee.
First tried a Nexus 7, worked fine with MX Player was a bit too bulky, but had no problems transferring files to the internal memory and then playing them back so I decided to try another Android device, with the Galaxy Note II seeming perfect at 5.5" with a great screen.
Have inserted an SD card and tried copying files from my PC to the SD Card while it is in the device; some work and some don't giving me an error that the file can't be played back (they are all the same codec). With a few attempts at copying I can get the files over and to work. I just put two files onto the internal memory (that I had previously tried to put on the external SD card and had issues with) and they appear to work!
So it can't be an issue with MX Player not playing those files, has to be something to do with how the files are getting transferred on to the SD Card (or the SD Card itself!).
Have also tried taking the SD card out and putting it into a card reader and copying files over - but similar issues, in fact half the time the files play back fine from the SD card while it is still in the card reader, but after I eject and plug in to the PC they either don't work, or don't appear!
Hi this may have already been answered but I'm having trouble locating any information on it.
When transferring from my laptop to my tablet, some of the time my files transfer fine while others won't.
Now before someone says the formats are different. I have made sure the file formats are the same.
I have included a picture of what is happening.
I have reformatted the sd and managed to get a few files on, then the same thing happens. Even previous files which have worked before come out the same way.
Please help me its doing my head in.
Can you explain what the photo is showing, It looks like you are trying to play a movie in some strange multi-windows player that i do not recognise, maybe even a streaming movie service, not copying a file from your notebook to your tab.
The only problem i have see is transfer times can me quite long, though windows transfer optimizations may be off by a bit, my brother-in law was copying a load of movies to his new 128gb, and he was getting estimates of 14 days copy time, for big transfers i take out the microsd card and use an adaptor and plug it in my notebook.
John.
Hi. I’ve recently become an owner of Galaxy Tab S 8,4 LTE. Model SM-T705 Android 5.0.2
I have e problem playing videos. Only videos which are recorded on the device are playing correctly. Regardless of file tape (MP4. flv, AVI) I’m getting message that files can’t be played. Installing MX Player doesn’t help either and VLC even don’t like to start constantly hanging out.
Actually sometimes some files (MP4) can be played using MX Player but then next time it’s not possible
On my Honor 6 I’m just drag and drop video files and they are all playing
Could you please advise what should I do in order to play videos transferred from PC?
Do I need convert files before transfer with specific program? Samsung support advice to: reset the unit back to factory state totally isolate the problem.
Do you think that that will help?
Regards, Adam
First of all remove that imei number.
Dont let windows convert them if it offers. Just copy them as is.
Make sure you install the armv7-neon codec and enable hw+ decoding.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2156254
IMEI has been removed.
@adamer04, never post your IMEI publicly.
Ups, sorry for this IMEI and thanks for removing it. To be honest I’ve copy/paste mail to Samsung support and then edit it for post
I think that problem is related to Micro SD card which I’ve got with device. It’s 128GB Micro SD HC Class 10 card made in Thailand (I can’t read the brand). Tab is second handed and I’ve got card together with tablet.
For the test I did copy few file also in AVI format to device memory and they are playing nice.
I’m offshore now so no chance to get new card to make sure that card is a problem not a connection between cards slot and device.
On the specs stays that Tab S will take cards up to 128 GB. Do you think that should buy smaller size to make it work better? Should I format existing one? If I have to buy new one which type/brand will you reconend?
Just copy to the internal storage to test.
Dont let windows convert if complains about the format.
Maybe the card is suspect, unbranded 128gb is probably fake.
I haven't gotten to play with one of these before. Just curious about this very important detail.
Streaming is bad, mmkay?
i guess only streaming unfortunately
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Correct forum is here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/android-auto/android-auto-general
Local should work, but I've never tried it.
A few other music players are AA compatible and can do local or streaming.
The units will only store the downloaded media to the 'flash' drive. So you will be limited to 1gb or less of storage. I have tried to switch it to the SD card or a usb stick and I have not found a way to get it to work. My Samsung S5 has the ability to choose the storage location. However I can't get this function to show on the head unit. Or transfer the app to the SD card or USB stick to store the files there.