I have installed Maverick on my Desire and I’m having problems copying files over to the SD card. I have made a map of my local area and there are over 200,000 files. When I copy the files from my hard disk to the 8gb microsd card I purchased the files inflate to a ridiculous size. I have listed the size the files take up on both the hard disk and microsd card. I know fat 32 and ntfs handle files differently, but surely the file size shouldn’t inflate that much.
Hard disk (NTFS)
Size 357 MB (374,469,968 bytes)
Size on disk 1.12 GB (1,213,493,248 bytes)
272,945 files 1,088 folders
8gb Microsd (FAT 32)
Size 308 MB (323,536,998 bytes)
Size on disk 6.94 GB (7,454,392,320 bytes)`
227,490 files 972 folders
I ran out of room on the microsd card by the way.
Any help would be appreciated.
Daryl
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I have the o2 xdaii and a 512mb sd memory card in it which in memory storage card properties reports it as 487.89mb. But even when i format the card put it in the xda ii, I still can not copy anything larger then aprox 200mb: where is the extra 312mb going?
Try transferring the files after formatting with a card reader/writer, there seems to be a problem with large files over activesync.
Just bought a 1 GB sd Card. However I always get a write failure when copying music (mp3 260 mb) files from my card reader to my sd card?????? (xp home edition) Active sync takes to long and I never had this problem with a 256 sd card. Any suggestions appreciated. Formatted the card..........no use......Please help Thx!!!!
I partitioned my 8gb card before so I could use apsd and I don't use it anymore so I formatted my card and it still only tells me there's 6700 mb available.. I know some of the card will be taken up with software to make the card work but I didn't think it would be a gig.. did I format the card wrong?
if not the whole reason, most of the reason is that when the manufacturer makes their claim of 8GB, they are using the formula of 1000B being 1KB, 1000KB being 1MB, 1000MB being 1 GB, then when systems read the card, 1024B is 1KB, 1024KB is 1MB, 1024MB is 1GB...
so if the card is 8000000 Bytes claimed by the manuf. then 8000000/1024/1024 should be 7.6 gigs
my 8gig card shows 7.39 in my phone, so maybe the OS reserved 200MB for something?
maddmatt02 said:
if not the whole reason, most of the reason is that when the manufacturer makes their claim of 8GB, they are using the formula of 1000B being 1KB, 1000KB being 1MB, 1000MB being 1 GB, then when systems read the card, 1024B is 1KB, 1024KB is 1MB, 1024MB is 1GB...
so if the card is 8000000 Bytes claimed by the manuf. then 8000000/1024/1024 should be 7.6 gigs
my 8gig card shows 7.39 in my phone, so maybe the OS reserved 200MB for something?
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If you partitioned your SD card for a2sd reformatting won't give you back the whole card. You need to repartition and select 0 for swap, 0 for ext and 'the rest' for FAT. That will repartition it into something your phone (and Windows/Mac/etc) can see and give you back the full available space.
I just formatted my card to FAT32 and i notice it has 58 GB out of the 64. Is this the default value or did i format wrong?
You can use all 64GB. Its just display as 58GB due to the difference in calculating memory size.
I have Samsung's 128GB SD card installed and during installation my HTC asked me if I want to merge the storages to be one storage and I've answered "Yes" so i have a combined internal 32GB and the external 128GB disks.
Yesterday suddenly after exiting the airport (not sure if it has anything todo with it like x-ray or so) the card stopped responding and everything on it including apps are inaccessible, as suggested I've rebooted it and everything was accessible again.
later on during the day the same thing happened and rebooting did not resolve the issue, so I tried to connect the phone to my ubuntu and windows OSes neither was able to detect it, took the SD Card and inserted it into a microSD adapter into my laptop directly windows did not feel it at all where ubuntu detects it correctly (dmesg output):
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[ 1973.117762] scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access SanDisk Ultra Fit 1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6
[ 1973.118265] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
[ 1973.118869] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] 242614272 512-byte logical blocks: (124 GB/116 GiB)
[ 1973.120737] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
[ 1973.120750] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00
[ 1973.121871] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 1973.137651] sdc: sdc1
[ 1973.141087] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk
fdisk -l output:
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Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 119.8 GiB, 128579534848 bytes, 251131904 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 0E47F670-C4DD-476D-BB0E-EB53A31FD907
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/mmcblk0p1 2048 34815 32768 16M unknown
/dev/mmcblk0p2 34816 251131870 251097055 119.7G unknown
on the phone, I get corrupted status and unable to mount it now (even after rebooting the phone) so I'm trying to rescue the data in any way possible.
Questions: 1- is there a way to mount the partition to copy the data? as you can see the filesystem type is unknown 2- if not any other tool to copy everything to a SanDisk one (seems more durable) while it was a merged storage with the internal storage of the phone? I'm thinking to use dd and see if it works
I'm currently running TestDesk from cgsecurity.org and will try Photorec later but that won't replicate other data and apps.
if you have any specific tools for Android storages especially the merged ones kindly advise to look into them.
Thanks in advance.
Lol, I have exactly the same combination.
Samsung too?
what is the sd card model?
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what is the sd card model?
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Samsung 128GB EVO+ microSD XC1 , attached a photo
Too bad, I have working with no problems the 64Gb Samsung PRO model
I've had this same thing happen with 3 different SD Cards (from both Samsung and Sandisk) all while using the merged storage option. There must be some critical hardware or firmware bug that is causing this but I've yet to hear anything about it.
Unfortunately you're SD card is ruined. Best thing to do now is a factory reset and get a new SD card but keep it mounted as external storage.
You guys can fix your SD cards, but it's going to wipe them
Get the SD Memory Card Formatter from here
Choose the Erase option and let it run
It takes quite some time (sometimes a couple of hours), but after running it you'll be able to use your cards again
Then, don't use it as internal storage anymore. That seems to be what's making them go bad from what I'm reading here